Re:$25 a month, isn't a bit stiff for a MMORPG?
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The game without land is free. You can get an account with a small amount of land (512sm) for $9.95 a month ($7.50/mo quarterly, $6/mo. if you pay a year at a time). That small bit of land is essentially free, as you can buy it with your "starter money."
If you want more land, there is a tiered monthly fee structure beyong the normal fee. Land can cost you anywhere between $L3-$L5/sm. The $L is currently trading around $US3.50 per $L1000.
I think since 2002, only a handful of people have been banned. You have to do some horrible things over and over again to have that happen. They cover themselves in the TOS, but are reluctant to pull the trigger.
No, they aren't liable per their TOS. All of us in SL have lost something at one time or another and nothing has ever been returned. However, this doesn't happen often. Most of us keep copies of anything really important.
I dislike it when big companies take credit for something that smaller companies have been doing for years. SL allows you to sell the items you build, then trade that game money for real currency. SL and PE allow you to own property that you can resell.
As far as I can tell, all SOE is doing is legitimizing the unofficial trading that has been going on for years in MMO's.
It is not just the costs of the raw disk space, but the enormous time and expense required to maintain/backup/restore a large database. Your 25 cents will not go very far.
Also, the access times would increase with more data to churn through, causing complaints about lag. These raise their CS costs and also cause bad word of mouth on the boards.
And, from my reading of the entire article (not just the bullet points), muling is a major reason for the change to SCS. Even more so than the storage costs.
They are trying to attract mainstream folks who have never tried evercrack and want something more than Sims Online. This means not catering to the muling that the average person would find unfair.
Mad Magazine predicted this in 1957
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In issue 33, June 1957, Mad Magazine has an article called "Vending Machines of the Future." Including are such oversize machines as the Auto-Vend, which dispensed new cars for only 10,000 half dollars and the wife-o-mat, which seems like a great deal at only 20 half dollars.
Finally, there is the vend-o-vend, which is the ultimate in future vending machines which dispenses a vending machine. This will in turn dispense a vending machine and so on. The final vending machine will dispense a dime for the first vending machine and the whole mess starts again...
I haven't seen this mentioned yet. I use this to check sites I have hosted all over the US. The eventual distributed nature of this should make this an unbiased service, free of corporate spin about a farmer in Iowa cutting a line.
I don't know if they monitor anything besides http. That's all I use it for.
Back in the late 70's/early 80's I started programming using "Bally Basic" and a calculator keyboard (Red + 1 = a, Blue + 1 = b, Green + 1 = c, Red + 2 = d, etc)
It had great graphics commands and allowed you to make games for that platform that could be saved on cassette. My first business was selling custom games for the Bally. There were only a few thousand of us with the basic cartridge, but it was a very fanatic base.
There could be a whole new generation of programmers starting due to the PS2 at 8 or 9 years old.
A nice intro would be to expand beyond the cheats present in every game and to allow people to program their own MODS ala UT/HL/Quake.
BTW, when I finally got a Vic 20 I was so happy to have 4k of RAM instead of the 2k the Bally had.
For those that scream how lame, etc basic is, it did teach me how to make something very cool with very little code.
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The game without land is free. You can get an account with a small amount of land (512sm) for $9.95 a month ($7.50/mo quarterly, $6/mo. if you pay a year at a time). That small bit of land is essentially free, as you can buy it with your "starter money."
If you want more land, there is a tiered monthly fee structure beyong the normal fee. Land can cost you anywhere between $L3-$L5/sm. The $L is currently trading around $US3.50 per $L1000.
Alan Palmerstone - SL resident since June 2004.
I agree. Excellent job.
I think since 2002, only a handful of people have been banned. You have to do some horrible things over and over again to have that happen. They cover themselves in the TOS, but are reluctant to pull the trigger.
No, they aren't liable per their TOS. All of us in SL have lost something at one time or another and nothing has ever been returned. However, this doesn't happen often. Most of us keep copies of anything really important.
I dislike it when big companies take credit for something that smaller companies have been doing for years. SL allows you to sell the items you build, then trade that game money for real currency. SL and PE allow you to own property that you can resell.
As far as I can tell, all SOE is doing is legitimizing the unofficial trading that has been going on for years in MMO's.
I can't tell if you are being funny or not.
If there is a place to discuss a EULA, that appeared to be it.
It is not just the costs of the raw disk space,
but the enormous time and expense required to maintain/backup/restore a large database. Your 25 cents will not go very far.
Also, the access times would increase with more data to churn through, causing complaints about lag. These raise their CS costs and also cause bad word of mouth on the boards.
And, from my reading of the entire article (not just the bullet points), muling is a major reason for the change to SCS. Even more so than the storage costs.
They are trying to attract mainstream folks who have never tried evercrack and want something more than Sims Online. This means not catering to the muling that the average person would find unfair.
In issue 33, June 1957, Mad Magazine has an article called "Vending Machines of the Future." Including are such oversize machines as the Auto-Vend, which dispensed new cars for only 10,000 half dollars and the wife-o-mat, which seems like a great deal at only 20 half dollars.
Finally, there is the vend-o-vend, which is the ultimate in future vending machines which dispenses a vending machine. This will in turn dispense a vending machine and so on. The final vending machine will dispense a dime for the first vending machine and the whole mess starts again...
once again, people post a new topic instead of noticing this has already been mentioned in a previous comment.
I haven't seen this mentioned yet. I use this to check sites I have hosted all over the US. The eventual distributed nature of this should make this an unbiased service, free of corporate spin about a farmer in Iowa cutting a line.
I don't know if they monitor anything besides http. That's all I use it for.
http://webperf.org/
Back in the late 70's/early 80's I started programming using "Bally Basic" and a calculator keyboard (Red + 1 = a, Blue + 1 = b, Green + 1 = c, Red + 2 = d, etc)
It had great graphics commands and allowed you to make games for that platform that could be saved on cassette. My first business was selling custom games for the Bally. There were only a few thousand of us with the basic cartridge, but it was a very fanatic base.
There could be a whole new generation of programmers starting due to the PS2 at 8 or 9 years old.
A nice intro would be to expand beyond the cheats present in every game and to allow people to program their own MODS ala UT/HL/Quake.
BTW, when I finally got a Vic 20 I was so happy to have 4k of RAM instead of the 2k the Bally had.
For those that scream how lame, etc basic is, it did teach me how to make something very cool with very little code.
joe chip
Cheater! You had to buy the 16k cartridge to do that. Try making a game in 4K!
I miss my vic...