Well... I read it back in 94... when I was all of 12. I think it was pretty impressive stuff for a world that had yet to see a net explosion, among other things.
I loved it back then, I still think fairly highly of it now. His other writings are even better...
Blows me away how many CS:S servers are run by total toolbags. I've been K/Bed for some of the stupidest reasons.
One of my favs was on a server that used a language filter. I got kicked even though all that outputted was ****. Then I typed literally **** and had a guy who said "Hey, we don't allow swearing here." I responded by saying four asterisks didn't constitute a swear by my knowledge...
I made 165g yesterday in around 3-4 hrs by farming ZG trash with a group of 5 people.
4 (~30g per) Bijous, 6 (5g per) coins, a handful of trash greens that I D/Ed into 4 GEEs and 7 Illusion Dust.
Last week I did a 4man Strath Scarlet run where I got 2 (70g per) Righteous orbs (4 total dropped, one person just took all the green trash in the instance, another took the blues) in roughly 2.5 hrs.
All depends on what you feel like farming and when you post your auctions. Silithus drops (Text, Crests/etc from the windstone guys) are on fire right now because of all the new CC rep rewards since AQ is open. Just find what is in demand, farm it, profit.
BOE (Tradeable) items become more common in the AH leading to a huge drop in prices. Dire Maul class books went for 75-150g depending on class. After chinese new year there was a flood of books that resulted in them selling for a little as 5g. Needless to say I bought up an armful in hopes of turning a profit once the supply isn't as great.
There are some things that end up with an inflated price, but for the most part I think the economy is no worse due to gold farmers. They offer a solution to grinding for gold to pay for various things and act to provide more supply of any given item.
WoW did a great job at insulating itself from farmers, especially on PVP servers.
If your arguement is time consumption - saved instances are a counterpoint If your arguement is size constraints - join a large guild. The best things in WoW will require the efforts of many people. If your arguement is that there aren't solo alternatives - What are craftable epics? I admit they need to work on improving craftables, but you can make epic level gear, get high end enchants on items... what about that doesn't equate to phatlewts? Sorry if it takes you a long time to farm the arcanite - you want something good then you need to put in the effort.
My guild MC + BWL runs take less time than maraudon did originally. 4-5 hr runs aren't quite marathon sessions of gaming. In addition end game raid content is intentionally designed to allow it to be broken up into segments. You could do 3 sessions to complete MC if you wished.
Personally MC bored me to tears after Ragnaros was on farm status. Same with BWL. Once everything has been done, it's boring. The reason we farm those instances is because a) it's something to do b) the gear is nice.
Casuals can play ZG. Soon there will be tier 0.5 epics to earn.
The primary fault of Blizzard is not releasing enough content and not releasing it fast enough. It's improving slowly but
Epic drops from MC are a tricky beast. First you need to assume you have all of MC on farm status... which takes most guilds a few months to accomplish (well, now 1-2 months due to nerfs, ZG gearing, etc). Then you need to assume you actually get 100% use out of the drops that occur. My guild has been disenchanting epics from MC for a *long* time now. We are still farming MC because people need specific drops with low drop rates (Sulfron ingots, Eye of Sulfuras, neck/ring/trinkets, BoE Tier 1 pieces) even though we've had BWL on farm status for quite a while now. Gearing up a guild takes a *very* long time especially if the numbers are against you.
If you want to make 5man content with an epic or two as the end reward then you'd need to make the difficulty of it on par with 5-manning UBRS if you wanted to keep difficulty-reward in line. There is going to be a new batch of class sets, think of them as tier 0.5, that are going to be available to smaller groups (think 5-10 man I believe, much like the tier 0 sets). I think it's a good idea.
It's difficult to insert things in-between BRS/BRD/Strath/Scholo loot and MC loot.
I think having more BOE epics helps out casual players in a big way. Being able to purchase tier 1 epics, albeit at a fairly high price, allows people to get good loot without having to step foot into MC. Basically if WoW made crafted epics as good as tier 2 epics (and give them high mat requirements of course) and offered more BOE drops in end-game instances it would allow more epic gear to circulate to casual players.
All depends on how lvls 60-70 scale. If max skills all increase by +5 per level, we get new ranks of abils, and etc... then you might see MC turn into UBRS. As it stands now I'd say that a lot of BWL is designed in such a manner that you'll still need a large number of people to play it. Some encounters by their nature require a lot of players in certain roles.
Well, Fox debuts great shows then cuts them off (Family Guy, Firefly, Starved, and both Kitchen Condfidential and Arrested Development are iffy for the future)
It is pretty pathetic how unwilling they are to stick with something that takes a while to draw a following when they produce such garbage in mass quantities (Trading Spouses, Skating With Celebrities, So You Think You Can Dance etcetcetc)
Network TV goes for mass appeal garbage. Cable/Premium channels can afford to aim for a smaller group. Personally I'm suprised HBO didn't dominate the list (Rome, Deadwood, Entourage, The Sopranos... cmon)
that promo was taken up by perhaps every other person who had an NES. It's why I got into RPGs. It's why most people got into RPGs. Brilliant marketing.
I did something very similar. Picked up some SATA drives to replace a pair of 120GBs. Put them in a old p4 system that I turned into a media/m.a.m.e machine. Ran two sessions of cdex and I cooked through my collection.
*shrug* I bought a PSP over an ipod. It has a screen large enough that it works well as a portable vid player. Once 4gb Memsticks become cheaper then I'll go buy one... for now a 1gb does the job for me. I've got an old 256 loaded with nothing but mp3s, the 1gb holds a movie and a TV show or two at solid quality.
PSP is what I bring to and from work (I ride the Subway)
My ipod mini is what I take for situations where I won't have my messenger bag or such to throw it in. (The PSP + case fits in my back pocket... but I have it take it out whenever I sit down.)
I see them as two different products, each with their own benefits.
The best part about this is that the technicians/engineers/etc are the people that would actually benefit from faster computers ( well, in most cases anyway ) whereas a plain old Dell bargin box will give a CEO his email in nearly the exact same time as a top of the line rig.
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Well ... I read it back in 94 ... when I was all of 12. I think it was pretty impressive stuff for a world that had yet to see a net explosion, among other things.
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I loved it back then, I still think fairly highly of it now. His other writings are even better
mod parent up.
Mod parent up. The truth has been spoken.
nice summation ;)
hey, you forgot that the xbox 360 version is $10 more than the PC version :D
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Blows me away how many CS:S servers are run by total toolbags. I've been K/Bed for some of the stupidest reasons.
...
One of my favs was on a server that used a language filter. I got kicked even though all that outputted was ****. Then I typed literally **** and had a guy who said "Hey, we don't allow swearing here." I responded by saying four asterisks didn't constitute a swear by my knowledge
go post in the 50+page thread in general about Shadow Moon being gimpy :(
:D
What's your character name/guild?
Khaotix/Destiny
I made 165g yesterday in around 3-4 hrs by farming ZG trash with a group of 5 people.
4 (~30g per) Bijous, 6 (5g per) coins, a handful of trash greens that I D/Ed into 4 GEEs and 7 Illusion Dust.
Last week I did a 4man Strath Scarlet run where I got 2 (70g per) Righteous orbs (4 total dropped, one person just took all the green trash in the instance, another took the blues) in roughly 2.5 hrs.
All depends on what you feel like farming and when you post your auctions. Silithus drops (Text, Crests/etc from the windstone guys) are on fire right now because of all the new CC rep rewards since AQ is open. Just find what is in demand, farm it, profit.
I wonder what the wiccan, satanist, and atheist religious medals require
qft
BOE (Tradeable) items become more common in the AH leading to a huge drop in prices. Dire Maul class books went for 75-150g depending on class. After chinese new year there was a flood of books that resulted in them selling for a little as 5g. Needless to say I bought up an armful in hopes of turning a profit once the supply isn't as great.
There are some things that end up with an inflated price, but for the most part I think the economy is no worse due to gold farmers. They offer a solution to grinding for gold to pay for various things and act to provide more supply of any given item.
WoW did a great job at insulating itself from farmers, especially on PVP servers.
If your arguement is time consumption - saved instances are a counterpoint ... what about that doesn't equate to phatlewts? Sorry if it takes you a long time to farm the arcanite - you want something good then you need to put in the effort.
If your arguement is size constraints - join a large guild. The best things in WoW will require the efforts of many people.
If your arguement is that there aren't solo alternatives - What are craftable epics? I admit they need to work on improving craftables, but you can make epic level gear, get high end enchants on items
My guild MC + BWL runs take less time than maraudon did originally.
4-5 hr runs aren't quite marathon sessions of gaming. In addition end game raid content is intentionally designed to allow it to be broken up into segments. You could do 3 sessions to complete MC if you wished.
Personally MC bored me to tears after Ragnaros was on farm status. Same with BWL. Once everything has been done, it's boring. The reason we farm those instances is because a) it's something to do b) the gear is nice.
Casuals can play ZG. Soon there will be tier 0.5 epics to earn.
The primary fault of Blizzard is not releasing enough content and not releasing it fast enough. It's improving slowly but
Well, your math is way off for one thing ...
... which takes most guilds a few months to accomplish (well, now 1-2 months due to nerfs, ZG gearing, etc). Then you need to assume you actually get 100% use out of the drops that occur. My guild has been disenchanting epics from MC for a *long* time now. We are still farming MC because people need specific drops with low drop rates (Sulfron ingots, Eye of Sulfuras, neck/ring/trinkets, BoE Tier 1 pieces) even though we've had BWL on farm status for quite a while now. Gearing up a guild takes a *very* long time especially if the numbers are against you.
Epic drops from MC are a tricky beast. First you need to assume you have all of MC on farm status
If you want to make 5man content with an epic or two as the end reward then you'd need to make the difficulty of it on par with 5-manning UBRS if you wanted to keep difficulty-reward in line. There is going to be a new batch of class sets, think of them as tier 0.5, that are going to be available to smaller groups (think 5-10 man I believe, much like the tier 0 sets). I think it's a good idea.
It's difficult to insert things in-between BRS/BRD/Strath/Scholo loot and MC loot.
I think having more BOE epics helps out casual players in a big way. Being able to purchase tier 1 epics, albeit at a fairly high price, allows people to get good loot without having to step foot into MC. Basically if WoW made crafted epics as good as tier 2 epics (and give them high mat requirements of course) and offered more BOE drops in end-game instances it would allow more epic gear to circulate to casual players.
All depends on how lvls 60-70 scale. If max skills all increase by +5 per level, we get new ranks of abils, and etc ... then you might see MC turn into UBRS. As it stands now I'd say that a lot of BWL is designed in such a manner that you'll still need a large number of people to play it. Some encounters by their nature require a lot of players in certain roles.
It's called farming for mats/drops.
You do it solo. You can get phatlewtz. You can do it for a minute or a month.
Well, Fox debuts great shows then cuts them off (Family Guy, Firefly, Starved, and both Kitchen Condfidential and Arrested Development are iffy for the future)
... cmon)
It is pretty pathetic how unwilling they are to stick with something that takes a while to draw a following when they produce such garbage in mass quantities (Trading Spouses, Skating With Celebrities, So You Think You Can Dance etcetcetc)
Network TV goes for mass appeal garbage. Cable/Premium channels can afford to aim for a smaller group. Personally I'm suprised HBO didn't dominate the list (Rome, Deadwood, Entourage, The Sopranos
that promo was taken up by perhaps every other person who had an NES. It's why I got into RPGs. It's why most people got into RPGs. Brilliant marketing.
heh, it's all cool, only a movie after all. Thanks for being apoligetic - fans don't tend to want to spoil things for other fans.
The movie is still in theaters in some places ... If the movie wasn't less than 3 months old I could see the arguement.
thx for the spoilers 3
I've got 3 episodes left to watch before I sit down and watch the movie. *sigh*
I did something very similar. Picked up some SATA drives to replace a pair of 120GBs. Put them in a old p4 system that I turned into a media/m.a.m.e machine. Ran two sessions of cdex and I cooked through my collection.
apparently the mod didn't understand irony ... oh well :\
Kind of like those republicans that try to take away our abortions, free speech, religious freedom, and gay marriage. Bunch of nancy-girls.
I'll take some of that there shitty economy.
Massachusetts is slightly behind Cali in the States Receiving Least in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid
I'm so glad that I can support the southern zealots with my federal taxes. *cough*
*shrug* I bought a PSP over an ipod. It has a screen large enough that it works well as a portable vid player. Once 4gb Memsticks become cheaper then I'll go buy one ... for now a 1gb does the job for me. I've got an old 256 loaded with nothing but mp3s, the 1gb holds a movie and a TV show or two at solid quality.
... but I have it take it out whenever I sit down.)
PSP is what I bring to and from work (I ride the Subway)
My ipod mini is what I take for situations where I won't have my messenger bag or such to throw it in. (The PSP + case fits in my back pocket
I see them as two different products, each with their own benefits.
The best part about this is that the technicians/engineers/etc are the people that would actually benefit from faster computers ( well, in most cases anyway ) whereas a plain old Dell bargin box will give a CEO his email in nearly the exact same time as a top of the line rig.
...
Silly