Well they won't be cheap of course, nor should they be. I just don't think they'll be priced at a point where the average player can't afford them. The dev team will be doing everything they can to make space accessible for a wide variety of players, since the SE is really a make-or-break deal for them. I'm sure there will be quick-and-dirty little ships to go along with the high-end. Personally, I'm waiting impatiently for my X-Wing. Maybe I'll grind out some faction tonight (which, as a side note, I can solo at about 9K a pop out of the right player city).
I'm not so sure. The same thing happened with mounts and then vehicles, with sky-high prices for a few days after launch followed by a sharp drop-off as the creature handlers/artisans reaslised they had sold all they were going to sell to the rich folk. While the economies in SWG are inflated right now, it's not to the point where the average player can't afford to get things done. There's always someone undercutting the competition if you just take the time to look more than five feet away from the Coronet starport, or settle for the second-best weapon or armour.
You're wrong about missions though. Once you've prgressed beyond newbie skills, it's very easy to pull 8K solo missions. If you group with some other people and run solo missions, you can be making 20-40K per mission. At that rate, you can make a lot of money very quickly even as a casual gamer. Plus, faction ships will be purchased with faction points which will be at a set rate determined by the dev team.
Comparing something installed in your car by the manufacturer (a private company) to forced government surveilance is a little bit ridiculous. I know, I know - someday the government boogeymen might legislate them in. The point is they haven't, so this isn't the issue we're dealing with. This is a case of police seizing a data recorder and using the evidence to support the case against an accused criminal. Given the circumstances they had every right to do so.
The right to privacy doesn't cover driving at criminal speeds through city streets and smacking into people.
The difference, which you conveniently neglect to mention, is that by travelling at the determined rate of speed in the area in which he was driving, he was committing a criminal act which resulted in someone's death.
Shrike capping, loved it. The real genius was having your own shrike to jump out of, grabbing the flag, and then meeting up with your shrike on the other side.
It started two summers ago, me and some friends decided to make a short kung fu film, just for some laughs. We had a budget of 50 pounds. We had some really bad fake bald heads, and the stunt man was a floppy blow up doll. It seemed natural to make a game to go with it.
It's a movie license, so it's obviously going to be a disappointment.
Just completed a roll-out of Netware 6 along with GroupWise 6.5 a month ago. It was an absolute dream, and by far the easiest network migration I've ever performed (and I've performed a few). 100% uptime so far (yeah, I know a month doesn't count), and file transfer speeds in the range of 3.5 times the speed to and from our Windows servers.
In addition, our wonderful blinders-always-on executive team recently bought two MS-SQL only apps. Both of those companies have recently completed migrations to NetWare 6 with results similar to mine.
It's out there, and in a lot more places doing a lot more things than most people know.
Crappy testing is one thing, but most of the patch gameplay problems (aside from the downtime issues, obviously) were reported by the Test Center users.
A note to the parent poster - if you're working with Novell on an academic license and no one has upgraded your products, someone has really dropped the ball. Novell has terrific academic licensing programs. We pay roughly $1100 per year in upgrade protection fees, which covers NetWare, GroupWise, ZEN, and BorderManager. NW and GW are both unlimited licensing.
Anyone know how badly this breaks terminal services? Damned MS, they never could make a service pack that didn't break terminal servers in some way or other.
The good old phasers sound (midi?) has been replaced by phasers.wav, which can be found on your friendly neighborhood NetWare server in/public/client/win95/ibm_enu.
Depends. There won't be a "real" GroupWise client for Linux until later this year. Depending on how they've configured GroupWise, you may be able to access it via a standard POP client.
As for printing, NDPS supports LPR, and setting it up is trivial. Whether or not your admins have checked that particular box, well, good luck.
A turkey and a request for a donation (I work for a non-profit). Last year I told them to donate the turkey to a needy family, since I was going for a vacation for two weeks over xmas. Instead, they left it in my office. Luckily my underling had to get something from my desk and had the presence of mind to remove the bird.
I'd prefer it if they'd keep the turkey and stuff it with the donation request.
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Canadians still make up a majority of NHL players.
Raph is talking about SWG here, in which most items are player crafted - premium items or not.
Well they won't be cheap of course, nor should they be. I just don't think they'll be priced at a point where the average player can't afford them. The dev team will be doing everything they can to make space accessible for a wide variety of players, since the SE is really a make-or-break deal for them. I'm sure there will be quick-and-dirty little ships to go along with the high-end. Personally, I'm waiting impatiently for my X-Wing. Maybe I'll grind out some faction tonight (which, as a side note, I can solo at about 9K a pop out of the right player city).
I'm not so sure. The same thing happened with mounts and then vehicles, with sky-high prices for a few days after launch followed by a sharp drop-off as the creature handlers/artisans reaslised they had sold all they were going to sell to the rich folk. While the economies in SWG are inflated right now, it's not to the point where the average player can't afford to get things done. There's always someone undercutting the competition if you just take the time to look more than five feet away from the Coronet starport, or settle for the second-best weapon or armour.
You're wrong about missions though. Once you've prgressed beyond newbie skills, it's very easy to pull 8K solo missions. If you group with some other people and run solo missions, you can be making 20-40K per mission. At that rate, you can make a lot of money very quickly even as a casual gamer. Plus, faction ships will be purchased with faction points which will be at a set rate determined by the dev team.
Been a lot longer than two decades where I live.
Comparing something installed in your car by the manufacturer (a private company) to forced government surveilance is a little bit ridiculous. I know, I know - someday the government boogeymen might legislate them in. The point is they haven't, so this isn't the issue we're dealing with. This is a case of police seizing a data recorder and using the evidence to support the case against an accused criminal. Given the circumstances they had every right to do so.
The right to privacy doesn't cover driving at criminal speeds through city streets and smacking into people.
You do not have a right to privacy when committing acts (legal or not) on public roadways.
The difference, which you conveniently neglect to mention, is that by travelling at the determined rate of speed in the area in which he was driving, he was committing a criminal act which resulted in someone's death.
This does not raise a privacy issue. Things you do on public roadways are not private.
Shrike capping, loved it. The real genius was having your own shrike to jump out of, grabbing the flag, and then meeting up with your shrike on the other side.
Victory is mine!
I'll add my voice to the choir.
Just completed a roll-out of Netware 6 along with GroupWise 6.5 a month ago. It was an absolute dream, and by far the easiest network migration I've ever performed (and I've performed a few). 100% uptime so far (yeah, I know a month doesn't count), and file transfer speeds in the range of 3.5 times the speed to and from our Windows servers.
In addition, our wonderful blinders-always-on executive team recently bought two MS-SQL only apps. Both of those companies have recently completed migrations to NetWare 6 with results similar to mine.
It's out there, and in a lot more places doing a lot more things than most people know.
Crappy testing is one thing, but most of the patch gameplay problems (aside from the downtime issues, obviously) were reported by the Test Center users.
Yes, exactly.
A note to the parent poster - if you're working with Novell on an academic license and no one has upgraded your products, someone has really dropped the ball. Novell has terrific academic licensing programs. We pay roughly $1100 per year in upgrade protection fees, which covers NetWare, GroupWise, ZEN, and BorderManager. NW and GW are both unlimited licensing.
GroupWise 6.5 can also be accessed from Outlook.
Anyone know how badly this breaks terminal services? Damned MS, they never could make a service pack that didn't break terminal servers in some way or other.
The good old phasers sound (midi?) has been replaced by phasers.wav, which can be found on your friendly neighborhood NetWare server in /public/client/win95/ibm_enu.
Depends. There won't be a "real" GroupWise client for Linux until later this year. Depending on how they've configured GroupWise, you may be able to access it via a standard POP client.
As for printing, NDPS supports LPR, and setting it up is trivial. Whether or not your admins have checked that particular box, well, good luck.
Ah, that takes me back. The joy of rigging someone's login script with an infinite loop of phasers...
So, what, Windows doesn't required Windows to be utilized completely?
Local problem. My GroupWise server hasn't been restarted in about a year.
The case in question has not yet gone to trial - it is a preliminary hearing. There is no jury to sequester.
Me have brain fixed by MS robot. Me no see what so funny.
"We have enough rope to hang ourselves with, but we're still arguing over which knot to use."
I'd prefer it if they'd keep the turkey and stuff it with the donation request.