How do you mod an MMO? The clients are not made to be user-modifiable, for obvious reasons.
- Alt-tab to a helpful wiki-based site for game help? Can it be done on consoles?
You can't have a computer? The wiki-sites will still be there, you'll just need another box to access them.
- I assume communication will be done via voice? I shudder at the thought of hearing 11 year old immature idiots on the/trade channels. Keyboards and text chat had better be an option or I/quit.
Every console in general use today supports the standard USB keyboard. That's how I chat when I play FFXI on my PS2.
- Can the consoles handle 50 people in the same scene at once all casting spells and generally being insane fucks? If not, give up until they can, because I don't want to see my FPS drop right when I get into the thick of things.
FFXI already does this on a PS2. Although there is some drop in FPS, it's not unmanageable and people do successfully play such battles on PS2s. Presumably present-generation consoles would do better.
- My PS3 controller has ten buttons. That should be plenty to create a deep control scheme, if done right. That's the hurdle here: doing it right.
FFXI's controller scheme is so natural that a lot of people (including me) who play it on the PC get a USB game pad so they can use it the same way a PS2 controller is used on the PS2 version.
if they address this stuff I think it could be pretty sweet to be able to sit on my comfortable couch and play a MMO on my PS3. (yea yea I know, I can play an mmo on my big screen right now by using a computer anyway, but shush, we're not talking to you computer owning types here;P)
FFXI on the PS2, although it's now an obsolescent platform, is pretty good guide to doing it right.
Whisky ages by evaporating bad alcohols while retaining tasty ones.
This statement is nonsensical. Whisky, and any other alcoholic drink for that matter, has one and only one alcohol, ethanol, C2H5OH. At least, it better, since any other form of alcohol is quite poisonous.
That's not a problem, that's a feature. It forces your users to save their stuff to the network drives, where it can be managed and backed up. Users should not be saving stuff to their local hard drives.
Actually it is rather specific. They want you to build a working brain simulator
Define "working brain simulator". Include a complete and definitive set of criteria by which it can be determined whether something is a working brain simulator or not.
Without that definition and those criteria, it's not specific at all.
The problem is there is that, frankly, it's not a decision to be left to the user. You don't invite the user to play russian roulette with the system, because he'll decide every time, "Hell, yes, I want to try to save my data!" right up to the day where it shoots him through the head. And when it does, he won't blame himself for the disaster.
No, they really do mean that. As in, "The system is now so borked that if we try to continue there's a possibility that we will scramble your entire hard drive."
With digital, poor reception will give you choppy video and pixelation.
Actually, no, it doesn't. That's the problem. The way broadcast Digital TV is designed, if you have poor reception, you get nothing. Blank screen. People who had poor reception before will now get NO reception.
That would be unconstitutional. You use the term "federal government" without remembering what "federal" means, although I grant you the concept of the US as a federation of largely independent states has been mostly lost.
a guy invents a device to tell deaf people when the phone is ringing...
They have those, because deaf people can use the telephone. Sometimes because the deafness isn't total and they can hear you with the earpiece turned up (but a ring they could hear across the room would wake up the whole neighborhood), and those who are totally deaf can still use TDD.
Unfortunately, writable DVDs are not an acceptable archive medium, and a stack of disks with written labels is not an indexing solution that will scale beyond one person.
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So have a keyboard and mouse. Your console supports a standard USB keyboard and mouse. What's the problem?
How do you mod an MMO? The clients are not made to be user-modifiable, for obvious reasons.
You can't have a computer? The wiki-sites will still be there, you'll just need another box to access them.
Every console in general use today supports the standard USB keyboard. That's how I chat when I play FFXI on my PS2.
FFXI already does this on a PS2. Although there is some drop in FPS, it's not unmanageable and people do successfully play such battles on PS2s. Presumably present-generation consoles would do better.
FFXI's controller scheme is so natural that a lot of people (including me) who play it on the PC get a USB game pad so they can use it the same way a PS2 controller is used on the PS2 version.
FFXI on the PS2, although it's now an obsolescent platform, is pretty good guide to doing it right.
Exactly.
This statement is nonsensical. Whisky, and any other alcoholic drink for that matter, has one and only one alcohol, ethanol, C2H5OH. At least, it better, since any other form of alcohol is quite poisonous.
A man who has pills that turn water into gasoline!
Y'know, the Preview button is there for a reason...
#include <rock-n-roll.h>
Geez, some people just have an inborn "It's a hoax/conspiracy/plot" reflex, don't they? They've *found* your 1000 pounds of steel, guy.
That's how I read it. The complete blurb reads "Mii ga DS ni", which could be translated as "It's a Mii with a DS".
...a little late to be cancelling Renegade? I mean, yeah, it pretty much deserves it, but still...
That's not a problem, that's a feature. It forces your users to save their stuff to the network drives, where it can be managed and backed up. Users should not be saving stuff to their local hard drives.
Define "working brain simulator". Include a complete and definitive set of criteria by which it can be determined whether something is a working brain simulator or not.
Without that definition and those criteria, it's not specific at all.
So, you're advocating putting flak vests on our kids, so we can improve their odds? After all, anything to keep them safe!
By that logic, there is no such thing as *effective* DRM. And there isn't.
The problem is there is that, frankly, it's not a decision to be left to the user. You don't invite the user to play russian roulette with the system, because he'll decide every time, "Hell, yes, I want to try to save my data!" right up to the day where it shoots him through the head. And when it does, he won't blame himself for the disaster.
No, they really do mean that. As in, "The system is now so borked that if we try to continue there's a possibility that we will scramble your entire hard drive."
Some editions of make actually turned that into an easter egg:
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Actually, the world ended when the Red Sox won it all, it's just that nobody noticed.
Fortunately, they started out at such a low temperature that the components did not become KFC as a result.
Actually, no, it doesn't. That's the problem. The way broadcast Digital TV is designed, if you have poor reception, you get nothing. Blank screen. People who had poor reception before will now get NO reception.
If there's any need to purchase gold in FFXI, I have yet to notice it, and I've been playing for years.
That would be unconstitutional. You use the term "federal government" without remembering what "federal" means, although I grant you the concept of the US as a federation of largely independent states has been mostly lost.
They have those, because deaf people can use the telephone. Sometimes because the deafness isn't total and they can hear you with the earpiece turned up (but a ring they could hear across the room would wake up the whole neighborhood), and those who are totally deaf can still use TDD.
That depends on what state you're in, although they are elected in most. I've never had the opportunity to vote in a election for judge, myself.
Unfortunately, writable DVDs are not an acceptable archive medium, and a stack of disks with written labels is not an indexing solution that will scale beyond one person.