*laughs* I have a broadsword/invulnerability scrapper and the psychic clockwork king took me down in two hits. And that's only because my healer (empathy/rad defender) actually got Absorb Pain and Heal Other off on me.
But then..Invuln has no defense/resistances to psychic attacks. Which honestly sucks because every other mob above 40 has a psychic attack. Ah well!
I routinely jump into large mobs of +3 and live too. *kisses invincibility*
There's no purpose other than to tell you the psychic clockwork king took out my scrapper without adding another wrinkle to that brain of his.
Say a level 20 'hero' comes through and provokes several groups of lvl 10 mobs and keeps provoking them untill our level 20 'hero' finds a nice group of level 7's then stops provoking and leaves. Now you have twelve to thirty level 10 badguys overrunning a group level 7's who are already in a fight, resulting in the death of that group.
What your saying is that the unfortunate victems should not beable to earn XP for X amount of time, or not beable to log in with that character for X amount of time, as punishment for being in a zone their suposed to be in and playing how their suposed to be playing?
What can the devs do about this? Not much, the unfortunate players are with in three levels so it's not like the mobs are attacking things out of their range. If the devs say 'hey your powers don't work on any mob X number of levels beneath you, then that upsets a large percentage of your playerbase, because now they can't go back and work on those kill X ammount of whatever badges back from their low level days.
In case your wondering, I've been victem to this before, in which case, I just pick myself up, send a polite tell to the person asking them not to do it again, and work my debt off. If it happens to me again, or I see them do it to another group, I petition the name. I have also prevented it from happening to many groups as well, sending a polite tell to the aggressor asking them not to do it anymore. If I see them continue, their name gets petitioned.
And Yes, I do attack grey mobs when I'm hunting for a badge. I also make sure I'm not interfearing with any low level teams that are in the area when I do it as well. I like to play polite 'cuz that makes it fun for everyone, but I will not be a pushover, and I will not be punished for someone elses abuse.
I had a contact in Skyway once that was on some urban devlopement council or something like that. I love reading the Ask About This Contact Screens. Anyway, she made a comment in there about how the city code ordinaces had to be changed so that buildings could withstand a flying hero getting smashed into them. I wish I could remember her name, but she's at the top of the zone. I found it rather cool and interesting that they thought of this kind of stuff for a contact.
Here's a reason why this won't work. There's always somebody going around, making live miserable for somebody else. IE: gathering large amounts of mobs and sicing them on a group of lower levels. Your now punishing a group of people for dieing through no fault of their own. Then there's the lag or server glitch issues as well. Then there's higher level charcters not taking care of their ambushes in lower level zones. Also which each new level there is a slight learning curve as you push your limits to see if that new power or those new enahancements helped.
Death always sucks. Death from uncontrollable circumstanses is just plain rotten. Punishing people for things they can't control drives players away as well. I don't believe people should be punished for striving and testing their limits.
Debt is fine with me. It's not hard to work off and no matter what archtype I play, I rarely have permadebt.
At levels 20, 30, and 40 you get an extra costume slot. In essence you can your initial costume plus three different costumes. The only thing you cant change is your sex and character build, other than that as long as you have the influence your set. At level 20 you can add a cape to any of the costume slots and at level 30 you can add auras to all of the costume slots.
I really don't see how that's at all limiting. I've been playing since the beta and unless it's a super group policy to have the same costume, I haven't seen two costumes the same.
Thats more of an insiteful comment than funny one.
An average family doesn't need half the stuff they were given to become a digital family. Why were they given a full multimedia center? The Geeks themselves didn't really do enough research into what they were giving the family.
Would a family really need a GPS system? YahYahYah I know trips. Was that much of a home theatre necessary? Especially with the 4 year old and 2 year old, I have visions of sandwiches and peanut butter in the DVD player, kid prints on the plasma TV. Perhaps all that was needed was to run the current TV through a Stereo and add a DVD player, if one wasn't already there.
All the devices should have been working with a universal remote. It's not that hard to do a quick look to see what devices have compatibility issues with other devices.
To get this family to the digital age all that really needed to be done was install a new computer, a digital camera, DSL, and a photo quality printer. They were right on regulating a separate computer for the kids' games. Wireless is good, very good, but there can be signal crosses from fun things like cordless phones.
New Technologies are great and wonderful...for geeks. For the average user who just wants it to work, waiting for the second or third revision of a new product is probably the best bet.
Now if I recall properly around Media Player 7 there was a huge conflict with an Adaptec CD Burning Plug in. In other words you had a choice. Uninstall the plug in or Update your EZ CD Creator. Updating your EZ CD Creator usually didn't resolve the instability issues, but uninstalling the plug in did. (Side Note: Adaptec sold EZ CD Creator and Direct CD to Roxio) Seems to me that instability issue never really got resolved, and now we're seeing another side affect of it
Example:
In 1989 a major earthquake struck the Bay Area. Most remember it for four reasons, the Cypress freeway collapsed, it was pseudo televised on the World Series, a section of the bay bridge collapsed, and the Marina District fell down and burned.
If I remember correctly, the Marina District was built on unstable ground, and that just amplified the quake waves. I want to say it was built on silt, sand, garbage, or just man filled in for more property.
So, giving what happened here, I would sure like to make sure the ground I'm building on is geologically stable.
I'm not a geologist, but I think I'm heading that way given the current state of the tech industry.
When I post, I don't state what company I work for. It doesn't bare any relevance to the post. Besides my views will not always correspond with my companies views.
To avoid possible censure and fun stuff like corrective action, it's best to not associate yourself with any company. I believe it's perfectly acceptable to not state who you work for in this case.
As far as RTS goes, It's not my thing, and I tend to avoid them, yet everybody else I know seems utterly jazzed about things like this, especially as the letters LOTR are attached to it. I'm sure people will buy it just because the letters LOTR are attached to it.
I used to provide support for that system. John Deere isn't the only company to provide GPS and Data recording for farmers though.
Theoretically the satellite could drive your tractor for you. Once you did a pass of the field that information was stored in a type of flash card, the system would beep at you, or let you know when you were not driveling in a row. It would also record things like moisture, elevation, and yields.
This type of system is pretty slick for farmers, but it's still in the really expensive mom & pop farmer can't afford it just yet stage.
There's more but it's been a while since I've done this so I don't remember the specifics.
Some cat fur is lighter or darker depending upon then environment that they grow up in. Darker for colder climates, and lighter for warmer climates. I'm not sure if it works that way with Calicos though.
Calico is mostly a female only gene, the odd male that is born a Calico is usual sterile.
I'm surprised they chose a Calico to clone. It's possible because a Calico needs a certain set of genes, most recessive, and they might have been easier to isolate.
I see.
I know nothing about Eva. Just going off basic theology, and I should have included Adam as well.
My only excuse is, I was tired and just getting off work.
Um..I wasn't aware that Lilith was an angel. I've see her called many things from the mother of Demons to the first woman, but never an angel.
My personal favorite Angel is Arariel, the Curer of Stupidity.
Intel has a nice tutorial on the subject. I know that of the Microsoft OS's, only the XP family supports the Hyper-Threading. I couldn't tell you if any other OS's support it. Distilled down, the processor creates a virtual or logical second processor which assists it in using underutilized resources. A lot of multimedia vendors would be interested in this, a lot of gaming vendors will jump at this.
If there were a MMORPG of Shadowrun, I'd actually think about entering the monthly pay to play world. So far I don't see the point of paying for the game initially and then paying to play monthly. Then again nothing had jumped out and snagged my attention. Yet. Shadowrun manages to feed my techno lust and my fantasy cravings as well. The rolling handfuls of six sided dice did get kind of annoying though. I wonder if Whiz Kids would license a company to produce a Shadowrun MMORPG. A decent one.
The last time I asked a Telemarketer to do this, they told me that it was only good for 6 months, and then I would have to ask them to remove me from the list again.
I think telemarketing should be considered harassment and treated as such. It is not pleasant being woken up four or more times a day. Especially when one works overnights.
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*laughs*
I have a broadsword/invulnerability scrapper and the psychic clockwork king took me down in two hits. And that's only because my healer (empathy/rad defender) actually got Absorb Pain and Heal Other off on me.
But then..Invuln has no defense/resistances to psychic attacks. Which honestly sucks because every other mob above 40 has a psychic attack. Ah well!
I routinely jump into large mobs of +3 and live too. *kisses invincibility*
There's no purpose other than to tell you the psychic clockwork king took out my scrapper without adding another wrinkle to that brain of his.
I don't think your following me.
Say a level 20 'hero' comes through and provokes several groups of lvl 10 mobs and keeps provoking them untill our level 20 'hero' finds a nice group of level 7's then stops provoking and leaves. Now you have twelve to thirty level 10 badguys overrunning a group level 7's who are already in a fight, resulting in the death of that group.
What your saying is that the unfortunate victems should not beable to earn XP for X amount of time, or not beable to log in with that character for X amount of time, as punishment for being in a zone their suposed to be in and playing how their suposed to be playing?
What can the devs do about this? Not much, the unfortunate players are with in three levels so it's not like the mobs are attacking things out of their range. If the devs say 'hey your powers don't work on any mob X number of levels beneath you, then that upsets a large percentage of your playerbase, because now they can't go back and work on those kill X ammount of whatever badges back from their low level days.
In case your wondering, I've been victem to this before, in which case, I just pick myself up, send a polite tell to the person asking them not to do it again, and work my debt off. If it happens to me again, or I see them do it to another group, I petition the name. I have also prevented it from happening to many groups as well, sending a polite tell to the aggressor asking them not to do it anymore. If I see them continue, their name gets petitioned.
And Yes, I do attack grey mobs when I'm hunting for a badge. I also make sure I'm not interfearing with any low level teams that are in the area when I do it as well. I like to play polite 'cuz that makes it fun for everyone, but I will not be a pushover, and I will not be punished for someone elses abuse.
I had a contact in Skyway once that was on some urban devlopement council or something like that. I love reading the Ask About This Contact Screens. Anyway, she made a comment in there about how the city code ordinaces had to be changed so that buildings could withstand a flying hero getting smashed into them. I wish I could remember her name, but she's at the top of the zone. I found it rather cool and interesting that they thought of this kind of stuff for a contact.
Here's a reason why this won't work. There's always somebody going around, making live miserable for somebody else. IE: gathering large amounts of mobs and sicing them on a group of lower levels. Your now punishing a group of people for dieing through no fault of their own. Then there's the lag or server glitch issues as well. Then there's higher level charcters not taking care of their ambushes in lower level zones.
Also which each new level there is a slight learning curve as you push your limits to see if that new power or those new enahancements helped.
Death always sucks. Death from uncontrollable circumstanses is just plain rotten. Punishing people for things they can't control drives players away as well. I don't believe people should be punished for striving and testing their limits.
Debt is fine with me. It's not hard to work off and no matter what archtype I play, I rarely have permadebt.
There are a few more options than that.
At levels 20, 30, and 40 you get an extra costume slot. In essence you can your initial costume plus three different costumes. The only thing you cant change is your sex and character build, other than that as long as you have the influence your set.
At level 20 you can add a cape to any of the costume slots and at level 30 you can add auras to all of the costume slots.
I really don't see how that's at all limiting. I've been playing since the beta and unless it's a super group policy to have the same costume, I haven't seen two costumes the same.
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Thats more of an insiteful comment than funny one.
An average family doesn't need half the stuff they were given to become a digital family.
Why were they given a full multimedia center? The Geeks themselves didn't really do enough research into what they were giving the family.
Would a family really need a GPS system? YahYahYah I know trips. Was that much of a home theatre necessary? Especially with the 4 year old and 2 year old, I have visions of sandwiches and peanut butter in the DVD player, kid prints on the plasma TV. Perhaps all that was needed was to run the current TV through a Stereo and add a DVD player, if one wasn't already there.
All the devices should have been working with a universal remote. It's not that hard to do a quick look to see what devices have compatibility issues with other devices.
To get this family to the digital age all that really needed to be done was install a new computer, a digital camera, DSL, and a photo quality printer. They were right on regulating a separate computer for the kids' games. Wireless is good, very good, but there can be signal crosses from fun things like cordless phones.
New Technologies are great and wonderful...for geeks. For the average user who just wants it to work, waiting for the second or third revision of a new product is probably the best bet.
Now if I recall properly around Media Player 7 there was a huge conflict with an Adaptec CD Burning Plug in. In other words you had a choice. Uninstall the plug in or Update your EZ CD Creator. Updating your EZ CD Creator usually didn't resolve the instability issues, but uninstalling the plug in did. (Side Note: Adaptec sold EZ CD Creator and Direct CD to Roxio) Seems to me that instability issue never really got resolved, and now we're seeing another side affect of it
My 4 year old loves this site. She's always wanting to go to pbskids.org
Example:
In 1989 a major earthquake struck the Bay Area. Most remember it for four reasons, the Cypress freeway collapsed, it was pseudo televised on the World Series, a section of the bay bridge collapsed, and the Marina District fell down and burned.
If I remember correctly, the Marina District was built on unstable ground, and that just amplified the quake waves. I want to say it was built on silt, sand, garbage, or just man filled in for more property.
So, giving what happened here, I would sure like to make sure the ground I'm building on is geologically stable.
I'm not a geologist, but I think I'm heading that way given the current state of the tech industry.
Not the earthquake bit. But I understand there's oil to be had in Texas.
When I post, I don't state what company I work for. It doesn't bare any relevance to the post. Besides my views will not always correspond with my companies views. To avoid possible censure and fun stuff like corrective action, it's best to not associate yourself with any company. I believe it's perfectly acceptable to not state who you work for in this case.
As far as RTS goes, It's not my thing, and I tend to avoid them, yet everybody else I know seems utterly jazzed about things like this, especially as the letters LOTR are attached to it. I'm sure people will buy it just because the letters LOTR are attached to it.
I used to provide support for that system. John Deere isn't the only company to provide GPS and Data recording for farmers though.
Theoretically the satellite could drive your tractor for you. Once you did a pass of the field that information was stored in a type of flash card, the system would beep at you, or let you know when you were not driveling in a row. It would also record things like moisture, elevation, and yields.
This type of system is pretty slick for farmers, but it's still in the really expensive mom & pop farmer can't afford it just yet stage.
There's more but it's been a while since I've done this so I don't remember the specifics.
Some cat fur is lighter or darker depending upon then environment that they grow up in. Darker for colder climates, and lighter for warmer climates. I'm not sure if it works that way with Calicos though.
Calico is mostly a female only gene, the odd male that is born a Calico is usual sterile.
I'm surprised they chose a Calico to clone. It's possible because a Calico needs a certain set of genes, most recessive, and they might have been easier to isolate.
I'm somewhere in the Central Time Zone. Now isn't that nice and vague?
*innocent look*
*grin*
;)
Well its *checks the clock* 1:34 AM on Saturday morning and this woman is at work.
*cough*
Ignore the fact that I work overnights please.
I see. I know nothing about Eva. Just going off basic theology, and I should have included Adam as well. My only excuse is, I was tired and just getting off work.
Um..I wasn't aware that Lilith was an angel. I've see her called many things from the mother of Demons to the first woman, but never an angel. My personal favorite Angel is Arariel, the Curer of Stupidity.
Intel has a nice tutorial on the subject.
I know that of the Microsoft OS's, only the XP family supports the Hyper-Threading. I couldn't tell you if any other OS's support it.
Distilled down, the processor creates a virtual or logical second processor which assists it in using underutilized resources.
A lot of multimedia vendors would be interested in this, a lot of gaming vendors will jump at this.
If there were a MMORPG of Shadowrun, I'd actually think about entering the monthly pay to play world. So far I don't see the point of paying for the game initially and then paying to play monthly. Then again nothing had jumped out and snagged my attention. Yet. Shadowrun manages to feed my techno lust and my fantasy cravings as well. The rolling handfuls of six sided dice did get kind of annoying though. I wonder if Whiz Kids would license a company to produce a Shadowrun MMORPG. A decent one.
The last time I asked a Telemarketer to do this, they told me that it was only good for 6 months, and then I would have to ask them to remove me from the list again. I think telemarketing should be considered harassment and treated as such. It is not pleasant being woken up four or more times a day. Especially when one works overnights.