No, you're not right. Not on any of it. And I was pointing out the current rumor, and that I was not surprised by what it claimed.
I also did not claim or say that the 'entire horde side was overpowered'. Just that you go up levels faster in horde than in alliance.
GM's (or DM's, whatever) historically in RPGs are not supposed to only handle social issues. They are to help solve issues with game mechanics as well. I can see you have not had much experience with RPGs. In WOW they only deal with some social issues (they don't deal with anything else, even though they have the power to, they used to but now are either not allowed to or just refuse. At this point they serve no purpose in the game).
I find it funny that you talk about how you regularly kill Paladins if you get them one on one with 'all of your horde characters' and they will only survive if some 'lvl60 comes along to help.' If that isn't an indictment of Paladins being underpowered (they are supposed to be the alliance's equivilent of a Shaman) I don't know what is.
I've never said shaman's should be nerfed btw, just that the other classes should be fixed.
And yes, the Hunter class has been royally screwed since the begining and will remain so.
And good Rogues travel in packs and never ever go one on one with anybody.
Beats me, they predate the internet by at least a decade. Someone may have put them online, try doing a title search. That or look for the old C&S source books. They only had a few.
Noob? No, but I think I know what you are. I've been playing the game since it came out. Shaman's are the most powerful class there is. And for every whine in your WOW post, I can think of several matching ones (and then some) for each of the other classes.
Blizzard's attempts at fixing the inequalities haven't been the best IMHO.
And I brought up Blizzard cause that is the game that most people these days are most familar with, because it's new.
Having played both, I have found that as Horde you advance through the levels about twice as fast as alliance does. So I find your 'twice the content' quote to be at odds with my playing.
Really? The FEC is trying to control blogs and poltical speech on them. (So much for the 1st Amaendment, thank you senators McCain and Feingold). In a few years statements like the previous will probably get me fined or jailed!
Remember, politicians don't try to suppress that which is dying all by itself!
A long long time ago there was a game system called Chivalry and Sorcery, whose greatest contribution to the gaming world was an essay called 'The Ecology of Monsters'. This is required reading for anyone who is going to do game design (along with 'Drop the Rock').
What it comes down to is this: If your creature/character is all powerful, then why hasn't it taken over the eco-system/world and killed off everything else? All Monsters/Races/Classes MUST have an Achillies heel. They MUST have weak spots, they MUST be able to be killed. They must have some natural enemy.
In WOW we have Shamans who are really over powered. Compared to the Alliance side actually, all of the Horde is more powerful (which according to rumor is because all the dev's play Horde and not Alliance - why am I not surprised?). The way to have really balanced the game out would be to make Shamans and Paladins equally powerful as group leaders (but in subtlely different ways) and then make one of the weaker classes the bane of these more powerful characters. That would of course encourage folks to play those less powerful classes.
And of course the REAL answer to these problems is to make your DM's actually DM!! That's what they're being paid for right? TO WORK? The DM's in WOW are spectators and stink. When there is a terrible imbalance in the game the DM's are supposed to go out there and deal with it in real time. That's their job! Every good gamer knows that. A multitude of game mechanic sins can easily be handled by a good DM who gets out there and 'Deus Ex Machina's a little balance into the game.
There will probably never be a perfect MMORPG, but that doesn't bother me. I'm there for the game, to have fun, not to rape the rules. Adults have all learned that life isn't fair so they don't mind games that aren't exactly 'balanced', as long as the games are fun!. And that is far more important than 'Balance' will ever be.
I know a lot of people want to think it won't have an effect on their salary, promotions, or treatment, but the fact is 99 out of 100 times it will. Yes there is a lot more of that going around now than there used to be.
However, the people who sign your paychecks very rarely have tat's, peircings, or any bizzarre hair cuts. They think you're a freak, and they're going to treat you like that. Really bizzarre (and visible) body modifications show that you have a lack of common sense, or just don't live in the real world. Do you think people with money are going to trust you with a decision? Of course not, your mods are a walking advertisement to just how lacking in sense you are.
Like it or not, that's how they think, so don't flame me for these comments. I've been dealing with it for decades and have learned to keep my private life -private- and out of their sight.
You know, the stuff that WORKS? The stuff that was pulled out of service for some ridiculous and unproven green PC Bullshirt?
NASA became a worthless joke when they started practicing junk science and let the middle managers rule the roost. Time to shut it down and just fire everyone.
Mice are passe and hard to use, but those logitech marbles are fantastic! A friend talked me into trying one over 6 years ago and I'll never go back to a mouse!
On just how secure I want to be. If I'm on a system where some security nimrod has decided that I must use a bizzarre password that follows his rules and then change it every few weeks. I write it down and post it on the monitor.
On the other hand if it is something important I have Mnemonics that I use. I try to not have a lot of memorized passwords, and I will only memorize a password for a system where it will never change.
Considering the large number of passwords we have to use in today's world, I use the same password on all the non-security things in my life (like I really care if you can read my voice mail). I keep the number of truely secure accounts to as small a number as possible.
One gripe: Forcing someone to change their password every so many weeks shows that you know nothing of security. Brute force cracks will work before the password rolls over, so social engineering is your biggest fear. Constantly changing passwords are easier to socially engineer because users have a harder time remembering them, and just get annoyed by it. If you want a user to truely 'own' his/her password and not share it, you have to make it special to them so they keep it private.
2,500 rpm? My bike turns to 11,000 rpm! And has 6 forward gears, will go 250 miles on a tank of gas and do over 180 MPH. All this for under 10 grand, and using a power source that consists of 5 gallons of gasoline (15 bucks to fill it, max). If their engine can do that, and the battery to drive it fits in the space of my gas tank, I'll consider it. But somehow I doubt that they can meet even 50 percent of these specifications.
The deal is best that satisfies both (or something to that effect!) we often spend way too much time worrying about what the other guy got when it has no effect on us at all. Grass is greener effect I guess.
I've known some very attractive 48 year old, and even 50 year old women. Wait till you're that old, and suddenly you'll note that it's not age that makes the difference, it's how well they take care of themselves (And you yourself).
Unless of course you're planning on not having sex after 40? (of course that assumes you're having sex now;-)
As I understand it from a former collegue who had written several technical book, US copyright laws are ignored in India. He was forced to sell his books there at an almost non-existant profit, because if the didn't agree, they'd print them anyway and not pay him anything!
So excuse me if I don't care about India's licensing schemes. They sure don't seem to care about ours!
After 6 months google has the ability to read and use your mail. Anything you delete also does not go away. Not unless they suddenly modified their Terms of Usage in the last month.
The purpose of unit testing is to make sure that the unit works (and to characterize unit failures). It's the sanity check before you throw it 'over the wall' to the test and quality organization.
You want to do path coverage, statement coverage, bounds checking on the inputs, error conditions, that kind of stuff.
Pick up a book by Boris Beizer, read his stuff and ignore everyone else. I've been in QA and Test for almost twenty years now, Beizer is -the man- to read about testing. If you're really desperate send me a message here and I'll send you a template to work from.
I'm not quoting acedotal evidence. I've worked on these systems. I've seen what stray RF can do.
There have also been several published studies that support me, one was even posted here on Slashdot about 9 months ago.
You do know that an aircraft is basically a faraday cage, right? So that charges and signals outside the aircraft have much less of a chance of effecting anything inside it, then say a much weaker signal being generated inside it.
As for planes being affected by cellphones: http://www.listener.co.nz/default,180.sm
Last of all, lightning strikes against airplanes are common. If you fly a lot, odds are you've been through at least 2, probably more.
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In WOW they never delete a character or an account. So is that current paying subscribers? Or all subscribers ever?
I'm just curious
No, you're not right. Not on any of it. And I was pointing out the current rumor, and that I was not surprised by what it claimed.
I also did not claim or say that the 'entire horde side was overpowered'. Just that you go up levels faster in horde than in alliance.
GM's (or DM's, whatever) historically in RPGs are not supposed to only handle social issues. They are to help solve issues with game mechanics as well. I can see you have not had much experience with RPGs. In WOW they only deal with some social issues (they don't deal with anything else, even though they have the power to, they used to but now are either not allowed to or just refuse. At this point they serve no purpose in the game).
I find it funny that you talk about how you regularly kill Paladins if you get them one on one with 'all of your horde characters' and they will only survive if some 'lvl60 comes along to help.' If that isn't an indictment of Paladins being underpowered (they are supposed to be the alliance's equivilent of a Shaman) I don't know what is.
I've never said shaman's should be nerfed btw, just that the other classes should be fixed.
And yes, the Hunter class has been royally screwed since the begining and will remain so.
And good Rogues travel in packs and never ever go one on one with anybody.
Beats me, they predate the internet by at least a decade. Someone may have put them online, try doing a title search. That or look for the old C&S source books. They only had a few.
Noob? No, but I think I know what you are. I've been playing the game since it came out. Shaman's are the most powerful class there is. And for every whine in your WOW post, I can think of several matching ones (and then some) for each of the other classes.
Blizzard's attempts at fixing the inequalities haven't been the best IMHO.
And I brought up Blizzard cause that is the game that most people these days are most familar with, because it's new.
Having played both, I have found that as Horde you advance through the levels about twice as fast as alliance does. So I find your 'twice the content' quote to be at odds with my playing.
Really? The FEC is trying to control blogs and poltical speech on them. (So much for the 1st Amaendment, thank you senators McCain and Feingold). In a few years statements like the previous will probably get me fined or jailed!
Remember, politicians don't try to suppress that which is dying all by itself!
It's that simple.
A long long time ago there was a game system called Chivalry and Sorcery, whose greatest contribution to the gaming world was an essay called 'The Ecology of Monsters'. This is required reading for anyone who is going to do game design (along with 'Drop the Rock').
What it comes down to is this: If your creature/character is all powerful, then why hasn't it taken over the eco-system/world and killed off everything else? All Monsters/Races/Classes MUST have an Achillies heel. They MUST have weak spots, they MUST be able to be killed. They must have some natural enemy.
In WOW we have Shamans who are really over powered. Compared to the Alliance side actually, all of the Horde is more powerful (which according to rumor is because all the dev's play Horde and not Alliance - why am I not surprised?). The way to have really balanced the game out would be to make Shamans and Paladins equally powerful as group leaders (but in subtlely different ways) and then make one of the weaker classes the bane of these more powerful characters. That would of course encourage folks to play those less powerful classes.
And of course the REAL answer to these problems is to make your DM's actually DM!! That's what they're being paid for right? TO WORK? The DM's in WOW are spectators and stink. When there is a terrible imbalance in the game the DM's are supposed to go out there and deal with it in real time. That's their job! Every good gamer knows that. A multitude of game mechanic sins can easily be handled by a good DM who gets out there and 'Deus Ex Machina's a little balance into the game.
There will probably never be a perfect MMORPG, but that doesn't bother me. I'm there for the game, to have fun, not to rape the rules. Adults have all learned that life isn't fair so they don't mind games that aren't exactly 'balanced', as long as the games are fun!. And that is far more important than 'Balance' will ever be.
Wow, hadn't thought of that. That's cool!
I know a lot of people want to think it won't have an effect on their salary, promotions, or treatment, but the fact is 99 out of 100 times it will. Yes there is a lot more of that going around now than there used to be.
However, the people who sign your paychecks very rarely have tat's, peircings, or any bizzarre hair cuts. They think you're a freak, and they're going to treat you like that. Really bizzarre (and visible) body modifications show that you have a lack of common sense, or just don't live in the real world. Do you think people with money are going to trust you with a decision? Of course not, your mods are a walking advertisement to just how lacking in sense you are.
Like it or not, that's how they think, so don't flame me for these comments. I've been dealing with it for decades and have learned to keep my private life -private- and out of their sight.
You know, the stuff that WORKS? The stuff that was pulled out of service for some ridiculous and unproven green PC Bullshirt?
NASA became a worthless joke when they started practicing junk science and let the middle managers rule the roost. Time to shut it down and just fire everyone.
Mice are passe and hard to use, but those logitech marbles are fantastic! A friend talked me into trying one over 6 years ago and I'll never go back to a mouse!
On just how secure I want to be. If I'm on a system where some security nimrod has decided that I must use a bizzarre password that follows his rules and then change it every few weeks. I write it down and post it on the monitor.
On the other hand if it is something important I have Mnemonics that I use. I try to not have a lot of memorized passwords, and I will only memorize a password for a system where it will never change.
Considering the large number of passwords we have to use in today's world, I use the same password on all the non-security things in my life (like I really care if you can read my voice mail). I keep the number of truely secure accounts to as small a number as possible.
One gripe: Forcing someone to change their password every so many weeks shows that you know nothing of security. Brute force cracks will work before the password rolls over, so social engineering is your biggest fear. Constantly changing passwords are easier to socially engineer because users have a harder time remembering them, and just get annoyed by it. If you want a user to truely 'own' his/her password and not share it, you have to make it special to them so they keep it private.
Or better yet, make it embarressing.
2,500 rpm? My bike turns to 11,000 rpm! And has 6 forward gears, will go 250 miles on a tank of gas and do over 180 MPH. All this for under 10 grand, and using a power source that consists of 5 gallons of gasoline (15 bucks to fill it, max). If their engine can do that, and the battery to drive it fits in the space of my gas tank, I'll consider it. But somehow I doubt that they can meet even 50 percent of these specifications.
Very Wise. Very.
The deal is best that satisfies both (or something to that effect!) we often spend way too much time worrying about what the other guy got when it has no effect on us at all. Grass is greener effect I guess.
I don't know, sure seems to have. No one has posted the pics yet.
I've known some very attractive 48 year old, and even 50 year old women. Wait till you're that old, and suddenly you'll note that it's not age that makes the difference, it's how well they take care of themselves (And you yourself).
;-)
Unless of course you're planning on not having sex after 40? (of course that assumes you're having sex now
A MicroSoft distro of Linux!!
People here on Slashdot wouldn't know who to hate!!
This is just the sort of theing MS would do to drive everyone here (and in the Open Source Community) crazy....
As I understand it from a former collegue who had written several technical book, US copyright laws are ignored in India. He was forced to sell his books there at an almost non-existant profit, because if the didn't agree, they'd print them anyway and not pay him anything!
So excuse me if I don't care about India's licensing schemes. They sure don't seem to care about ours!
Good advice.
After 6 months google has the ability to read and use your mail. Anything you delete also does not go away. Not unless they suddenly modified their Terms of Usage in the last month.
They already have. Look at Google Mail. You can't delete anything and after 6 months it becomes their property.
Nice huh?
Sorry, but that would make SENSE.
With all those PhD's over there, you'd think they would have figured that one out already.
The purpose of unit testing is to make sure that the unit works (and to characterize unit failures). It's the sanity check before you throw it 'over the wall' to the test and quality organization.
You want to do path coverage, statement coverage, bounds checking on the inputs, error conditions, that kind of stuff.
Pick up a book by Boris Beizer, read his stuff and ignore everyone else. I've been in QA and Test for almost twenty years now, Beizer is -the man- to read about testing. If you're really desperate send me a message here and I'll send you a template to work from.
Amazing. For someone who works for the industry to have no idea what he's talking about.
http://www.listener.co.nz/default,180.sm
I'm not quoting acedotal evidence. I've worked on these systems. I've seen what stray RF can do.
There have also been several published studies that support me, one was even posted here on Slashdot about 9 months ago.
You do know that an aircraft is basically a faraday cage, right? So that charges and signals outside the aircraft have much less of a chance of effecting anything inside it, then say a much weaker signal being generated inside it.
As for planes being affected by cellphones: http://www.listener.co.nz/default,180.sm
Last of all, lightning strikes against airplanes are common. If you fly a lot, odds are you've been through at least 2, probably more.