I am also an Elder and I have got to say that this game has all of the magic that WOW had when I was playing the WOW beta.
The real significant difference is the ability of RVRing no matter what level you are. In the scenerios and some of the RVR areas your character is brought up to what is concidered the minimum level for that zone. So in a tier 2 zone I would be brough up to level 16 (from 11) so I would be an equal opponet on the battlefield. Also there are safe guards in place to deture higher level players from killing lowbies in a lowbie area. Players that try to join in RVR in areas below there level are warned and given 10 seconds to leave, if they do not they are turned into chickens.
Over all I love this game, will it be a WOW killer? Maybe, maybe not. But when WOW first came out there were plenty of people that swore that WOW was not better that EQ.
"Anyway, we the people power the government (through taxes) that enables these corporations to even exist. Why should the government (ostensibly though usually not literally the voice of the people) permit them to pollute, harming us all?
Germany is amusingly one of the few countries who have their act together on this, because their political process apparently actually works and allowed their Green party to gain power. Now, many industries there (and eventually, all of them) are being held responsible for their output, as should we all."
Your right! We should immediately hold all companies responsible for the products they create. This includes their product and pollution. And since just about every person in the US either works for, buys from (which means they are contributing to the problem) or uses (which also means they are contributing to the problem) everyone should be sued also....
Maybe California should look at this in another light. Perhaps they should sue their own citizens for driving cars, after all the cars usually do not produce Co2 when they aren't in use. So is the manufacturer of the car the problem or the person that turns it on?
Maybe California should also sue people that sell gas!!! Yea all of those people that work at gas stations are just like drug dealers!! Peddling their toxic substance to addicted users (and America is addicted to oil) while generating a profit.
Ohh lets not forget to sue the power companies and people that use commercial power!
Wait a second maybe this is just a political ruse by some lawyer to get publicity before an upcoming election...
"Lockyer -- a Democratic candidate for state treasurer in the November election -- said the lawsuit states that under federal and state common law the automakers have created a public nuisance by producing "millions of vehicles that collectively emit massive quantities of carbon dioxide."
Telco's and ISPs essentially run the internet on their routers and switches. They pay engineers to maintain, repair and upgrade the system 24/7 365. The ISPs and Telco's are also shelling out billions of dollars for these infrastructures just for the WAN equipment alone. Does Frankston think that Cisco makes products for free? or that all of the CO techs are just willing to work with out pay to replace the (obviously free repeaters, MUXes and fiber nodes) at all times of the day and night for no pay? His suggestion that $17.42 a month is just unrealistic and does not account for everything that happens to an ISP or a telco durring even an average year.
Think about all of the phone lines that have to be restrung after Katrenia or after any hurricane. Now imagine the damage that ice storms, tornados, earth quakes, farmers and builders back hoes (fiber cuts happen way to often because some idiot digs with out calling the telco first), train derailments (since alot of fiber runs next to rail lines), floods, fires, car accidents (that take out telephone poles), urban mining (where someone decides to pull down some phone line to sell it for the copper) and a dozen other problems that causes the need for very costly repairs. $17.42 a month isn't going to be able to pay for that. Or to get fiber to the middle of no where West Virgina or the millions of other homes that cannot get high speed access even today.
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I am also an Elder and I have got to say that this game has all of the magic that WOW had when I was playing the WOW beta.
The real significant difference is the ability of RVRing no matter what level you are. In the scenerios and some of the RVR areas your character is brought up to what is concidered the minimum level for that zone. So in a tier 2 zone I would be brough up to level 16 (from 11) so I would be an equal opponet on the battlefield. Also there are safe guards in place to deture higher level players from killing lowbies in a lowbie area. Players that try to join in RVR in areas below there level are warned and given 10 seconds to leave, if they do not they are turned into chickens.
Over all I love this game, will it be a WOW killer? Maybe, maybe not. But when WOW first came out there were plenty of people that swore that WOW was not better that EQ.
I think it is definatly worth a try.
This will really help in the war against childhood obesity.
"Anyway, we the people power the government (through taxes) that enables these corporations to even exist. Why should the government (ostensibly though usually not literally the voice of the people) permit them to pollute, harming us all?
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Germany is amusingly one of the few countries who have their act together on this, because their political process apparently actually works and allowed their Green party to gain power. Now, many industries there (and eventually, all of them) are being held responsible for their output, as should we all."
Your right! We should immediately hold all companies responsible for the products they create. This includes their product and pollution. And since just about every person in the US either works for, buys from (which means they are contributing to the problem) or uses (which also means they are contributing to the problem) everyone should be sued also....
Maybe California should look at this in another light. Perhaps they should sue their own citizens for driving cars, after all the cars usually do not produce Co2 when they aren't in use. So is the manufacturer of the car the problem or the person that turns it on?
Maybe California should also sue people that sell gas!!! Yea all of those people that work at gas stations are just like drug dealers!! Peddling their toxic substance to addicted users (and America is addicted to oil) while generating a profit.
Ohh lets not forget to sue the power companies and people that use commercial power!
Wait a second maybe this is just a political ruse by some lawyer to get publicity before an upcoming election...
"Lockyer -- a Democratic candidate for state treasurer in the November election -- said the lawsuit states that under federal and state common law the automakers have created a public nuisance by producing "millions of vehicles that collectively emit massive quantities of carbon dioxide."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060920/ts_nm/environ
Naw that can't be it...
Telco's and ISPs essentially run the internet on their routers and switches. They pay engineers to maintain, repair and upgrade the system 24/7 365. The ISPs and Telco's are also shelling out billions of dollars for these infrastructures just for the WAN equipment alone. Does Frankston think that Cisco makes products for free? or that all of the CO techs are just willing to work with out pay to replace the (obviously free repeaters, MUXes and fiber nodes) at all times of the day and night for no pay? His suggestion that $17.42 a month is just unrealistic and does not account for everything that happens to an ISP or a telco durring even an average year.
Think about all of the phone lines that have to be restrung after Katrenia or after any hurricane. Now imagine the damage that ice storms, tornados, earth quakes, farmers and builders back hoes (fiber cuts happen way to often because some idiot digs with out calling the telco first), train derailments (since alot of fiber runs next to rail lines), floods, fires, car accidents (that take out telephone poles), urban mining (where someone decides to pull down some phone line to sell it for the copper) and a dozen other problems that causes the need for very costly repairs. $17.42 a month isn't going to be able to pay for that. Or to get fiber to the middle of no where West Virgina or the millions of other homes that cannot get high speed access even today.
Kollin