I think you have a one sided view to what exactly some people really loved. You have taken the one view that you have and exptrapolated it out to everyone.
What I personally liked about UO and personally believe killed it had to do with the introduction of portals and instant anywhere travel. When OU was big, open, and took a good bit of time to get from one corner of the world to the other it had a vastly different feel. In the beta and the first year it was the wild fucking west. I could stay out in the woods in the far north east corner of the map and not see someone for days.
It also at later levels became very interesting to battle. You talk of griefers and I would suggest that you did not fully understand how to deal with them. I would say stealing was a problem only if you did not have the understanding that the best gear was easy to get and made it very easy to have a level playing field.
I would also point out that a grandmaster with a dex of 100 and a str of 100 could kill a fully armored plate master with a barduchie(spelling?) with little to no problem ass naked with a dagger. The skill was more important than the gear! I could hit you 100 times before you could get a swing off because of the fighting mech would make you start your swing over every time you got hit.
Just because you did did not understand the mech of the game well enough to hand yourself does not make the game bad. I found that not having forced policies onto your game style to control the wild west part of the world does not mean that it was not fun as shit to have your ass handed to you every now and then.
People liked the idea of loosing things if you got to far away from the city without protection.
People in that game where stupid, if you carried more than you needed and die you lost it. Who carries eveyrthing they own. It was stupid people being stupid.
People liked the danger of running from town to town alone and the smartest mob out there was someone else.
People liked to hunt others down for being ass hats.
People liked playing in a group of five guys that knew how to handle the game, did not get griefed by anyone because they got there asses handed to them.
People disliked the game because it did not coddle the idea of the less common denominator. It was, dare I say it, a little more difficult.
You see, the people that did not like OU just did not like the game play. They wanted to be protected from the harshness. They wanted to be able to die without loosing anything. They wanted to play solo and not actually act like they where all alone.
I call bullshit on anyone that says UO was not fun and point to thier own lack of knowledge toward how they should have been playing instead of how they figured it should have been played.
I loved the game when it was in the first 2 years. I was not a griefer, I was the anti griefer. I was the guy that stood at the Fork glowing Red and never starting a fight. Just waiting and giving you the chance for glory.
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The only questions you have here is how bad you want the job?
If you did not want it pretty bad you would be barking at them about the very thing you asked. I mean, be honest with yourself do you want the job bad enough to forgo the relocation money or not? If you want the job that bad, they will give the you howdy HIHO when ever they want because they know they have you bent over the couch. If you stick to your guns you might get labeled as a trouble maker, but at least you are not taking it on the chin.
I would, in your case would simply write back what you are will to accept as an offer and see what they say. Just be willing to walk away.
Ok so for all your work, you have used maybe what 5 cents of power. Your firebricks(2 bucks each approx), your high alumina crucible(guess at 40 bucks), your microwave 50 bucks. So we are at about 100 bucks give or take a couple. 20 bucks worth of nickles because they have the highest delta for payout.
So we will have 400 nickles that fill our crucible. Makeing a grand total of 400 x 2 cents or 8 bucks per run. Subtrace the power, wear and tear on the equipment, I think your kind of fighting a loosing battle unless you have nothing else to do. Don't forget your going to have to seperate the alloy from the melt as well, and I honestly have no idea how to do that. Net 8 dollar gain before you start factoring in ancillary issues.
Anyway, point being it is not really worth your time. You could do it, but I would rather spend my time playing guitar hero or something...then again I guess I could be doing both....
I work with melting glass in 300 pound furnaces as a hobby. Now that I have let you in my my sorid secret what everyone is thinking about is the amount of money that it will cost to bring these coins to a molten state. Energy around the globe is costing more, it is honestly not worth you time just from a cost perspective to even start melting them.
You will need a furnace big enough to overcome the heating costs. Wire melter, gas combustion, Moly, of SiC Starbars. Any of these in a 300 pound range once you factor in the Firebricks, controller, and crucible will run well ove 18k just to build out. Lets not get into the amount of money it will take to fire one.
Just guessing you looking at around 50 bucks to fire one up to melt heat, hold it long enough to melt them, pour them into ingots, time to let it cool. You are really talking about a shit load of work for very very little profit. Just my 2cents...A PUN! RUN!
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Did you get your digs on those little cameras?! That is the best thing about that move in a nut shell, I should write a book. How to deploy cameras for personal gain in a Nut Shell. I have put them up all over the place. I know how full motion pictures of my cat humping the jello mold in the kitchen, my male Landlord waxing his jetski in the backyard dress like Minnie Pearl, and the garbage man licking the inside of my girl friends shoes she threw away. In all a very positive outcome from a piss poor movie. TheNeck
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I think you have a one sided view to what exactly some people really loved. You have taken the one view that you have and exptrapolated it out to everyone.
What I personally liked about UO and personally believe killed it had to do with the introduction of portals and instant anywhere travel. When OU was big, open, and took a good bit of time to get from one corner of the world to the other it had a vastly different feel. In the beta and the first year it was the wild fucking west. I could stay out in the woods in the far north east corner of the map and not see someone for days.
It also at later levels became very interesting to battle. You talk of griefers and I would suggest that you did not fully understand how to deal with them. I would say stealing was a problem only if you did not have the understanding that the best gear was easy to get and made it very easy to have a level playing field.
I would also point out that a grandmaster with a dex of 100 and a str of 100 could kill a fully armored plate master with a barduchie(spelling?) with little to no problem ass naked with a dagger. The skill was more important than the gear! I could hit you 100 times before you could get a swing off because of the fighting mech would make you start your swing over every time you got hit.
Just because you did did not understand the mech of the game well enough to hand yourself does not make the game bad. I found that not having forced policies onto your game style to control the wild west part of the world does not mean that it was not fun as shit to have your ass handed to you every now and then.
People liked the idea of loosing things if you got to far away from the city without protection.
People in that game where stupid, if you carried more than you needed and die you lost it. Who carries eveyrthing they own. It was stupid people being stupid.
People liked the danger of running from town to town alone and the smartest mob out there was someone else.
People liked to hunt others down for being ass hats.
People liked playing in a group of five guys that knew how to handle the game, did not get griefed by anyone because they got there asses handed to them.
People disliked the game because it did not coddle the idea of the less common denominator. It was, dare I say it, a little more difficult.
You see, the people that did not like OU just did not like the game play. They wanted to be protected from the harshness. They wanted to be able to die without loosing anything. They wanted to play solo and not actually act like they where all alone.
I call bullshit on anyone that says UO was not fun and point to thier own lack of knowledge toward how they should have been playing instead of how they figured it should have been played.
I loved the game when it was in the first 2 years. I was not a griefer, I was the anti griefer. I was the guy that stood at the Fork glowing Red and never starting a fight. Just waiting and giving you the chance for glory.
What you do not smell is called Iocanesoline. It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more vaporious gasses known to man.
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My Anaconda don't want none unless you got funds hun!
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Ok I only have one thing to say here.
"BEAN" got 3 out of 4 stars....BEAN!
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Sometimes you just can't come up, even if you try, with a better way to show how much something suck than to tell the public how you can fix it.
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The only questions you have here is how bad you want the job?
If you did not want it pretty bad you would be barking at them about the very thing you asked. I mean, be honest with yourself do you want the job bad enough to forgo the relocation money or not? If you want the job that bad, they will give the you howdy HIHO when ever they want because they know they have you bent over the couch. If you stick to your guns you might get labeled as a trouble maker, but at least you are not taking it on the chin.
I would, in your case would simply write back what you are will to accept as an offer and see what they say. Just be willing to walk away.
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Why do all of you assume that the "spin off" would be in the time of young Solo? Does it not make sence that he would be his current age?
IE> the empire or some sith or so other big evil thing is causing Solo problems some 25 years after his glory?
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It's not like they are Nortel.....
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Wikicop you say?
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Judging by what you have just said, honestly I don't think you have much to worry about champ.
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Ok so for all your work, you have used maybe what 5 cents of power. Your firebricks(2 bucks each approx), your high alumina crucible(guess at 40 bucks), your microwave 50 bucks. So we are at about 100 bucks give or take a couple. 20 bucks worth of nickles because they have the highest delta for payout.
So we will have 400 nickles that fill our crucible. Makeing a grand total of 400 x 2 cents or 8 bucks per run. Subtrace the power, wear and tear on the equipment, I think your kind of fighting a loosing battle unless you have nothing else to do. Don't forget your going to have to seperate the alloy from the melt as well, and I honestly have no idea how to do that. Net 8 dollar gain before you start factoring in ancillary issues.
Anyway, point being it is not really worth your time. You could do it, but I would rather spend my time playing guitar hero or something...then again I guess I could be doing both....
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I work with melting glass in 300 pound furnaces as a hobby. Now that I have let you in my my sorid secret what everyone is thinking about is the amount of money that it will cost to bring these coins to a molten state. Energy around the globe is costing more, it is honestly not worth you time just from a cost perspective to even start melting them.
You will need a furnace big enough to overcome the heating costs. Wire melter, gas combustion, Moly, of SiC Starbars. Any of these in a 300 pound range once you factor in the Firebricks, controller, and crucible will run well ove 18k just to build out. Lets not get into the amount of money it will take to fire one.
Just guessing you looking at around 50 bucks to fire one up to melt heat, hold it long enough to melt them, pour them into ingots, time to let it cool. You are really talking about a shit load of work for very very little profit. Just my 2cents...A PUN! RUN!
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I hear they found the SCO code that is in linux.
The_Neck
Just figure out how to live forever and this will not be and issue.
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Did you get your digs on those little cameras?! That is the best thing about that move in a nut shell, I should write a book. How to deploy cameras for personal gain in a Nut Shell. I have put them up all over the place. I know how full motion pictures of my cat humping the jello mold in the kitchen, my male Landlord waxing his jetski in the backyard dress like Minnie Pearl, and the garbage man licking the inside of my girl friends shoes she threw away. In all a very positive outcome from a piss poor movie. TheNeck