When I was in primary school, that was after I walked 30 miles through the snow to get there, we had these old Acorn/BBC computers to play games on when we were good in class.
If you were bad in class, like some people did, they had to sit there copying logo discs for the next half hour. I think our evil German teacher was PIRATING the public domain logo for his own EVIL GERMAN schemes.
Actually no, that's a lie. And level 50 isn't even the endgame, it's level 60 in EverQuest. It takes a month or so to do that. In UO, there's minimal risk for time wasted (No skill loss upon death unless you're a PK, walking back to corpses isn't as much of a bother due to instant teleportation spells, horses and a small landmass). UO is probably the least time consuming of MMORPGs available at the moment.
I've played UO for around, oh, nearly 5 years now. So I feel I'm justified to "speak on this".
The characters these people are buying....are crap. I'm sorry, but give someone who read UO Stratics under a week and their characters will be up to that par. However, recent modifications to the stat" system (strength/dexterity/intelligence) make it so you can gain a maximum of 6 points a day. So, to theoretically reach your maximum of 225, you would have to play for over 30 days, while spending 2-3 hours of those days working on your statistics. That's what players will be paying for.
Of more interest to me is that name changes, which players have begged for throughout UO's entire existance, are now being offered at a pay cost.
Furthermore, in response to your "UO is dying" tirade. Please, save it. UO2's development was ceased because it would have resulted in the desertion of the original Ultima's servers, which Origin would no doubt continue paying for until the numbers had dwindled enough. Take one look at Meridian 59 and realise that for the entire crowd to dissipate, it may take awhile.
What's been happening to UO recently is the idea of changing the game to a stage where it can become a new game entirely. The extremely flawed 3D adaption of the game was first, that failed due to the fact it was buggy, slow and ugly. Rumoured on the horizon is a first person (ala EverQuest) 3D adaption of Ultima with a new landmass designed especially for it. Currently there have been 2 expansion landmasses, with a third on it's way around Christmas. UO isn't going down anytime soon.
Oh, and Lord British is working on that horrible "Lineage" game with the girl who made the female "UNGH" noises in Quake 2 (Who is also responsible for many of the problems UO has today, as the former head of design).
Seriously, I've heard 1ghz AMDs clank on OfficeXP and XP Home. And my point is, can you run XP on a Celeron 300? A computer that was bought 2 years ago? No, no you can't. And what about whatever next revision there is? No, no you still can't, it gets slower and slower, there's a reason why I have a P42GHz and I run Word 2000 instead of OfficeXP.
From the people who brought us World Championship Wrestling, I would expect no less [/troll]
But the higher-end processors required for world processing IS still getting higher, running OfficeXP and XP Home is a demanding job for most computers. When you get into multiple documents, RAM becomes a problem also. So maybe this is a sign people also aren't upgrading their software? Or maybe this is CNN creating a pithy tech story for the masses again, albeit an incorrect one.
the minidisc? Or you could use the pocket to save up the radioactive energy so you could put a Spinal Tap endorsed "Hot Pocket" (tm) in there. THINK OF THE IRONY!
A bunch of those are probably quotation and extra fields that the w3c don't yet recognise, despite the fact that for modern browsers these fields may be required. So compatibility wins out again.
By today's standards I guess it comes down to whether you want an attractive site or a compatible site. Guess which one Slashdot chose.
I'm a devout CSS advocate in that it's taking web designer down a simpler route that hopefully won't get as convoluted as mainstream HTML has (So long and thanks for all the iFrames, Microsoft).
I thought maybe my grammar wasn't up to the high slashdot standards. So I re-wrote it, gave reference to where it was originally found etc.. Still got rejected, then I tried it again today and it got rejected again. I think they have a Shockwave vendetta.
Rick Dangerous 2 was the ultimate frustration for me. I'm also extremely surprised that anyone else shares this sort of enthusiasm for the old game. Now, if you liked/had a ROM of Switchblade 2, you would be my new messiah.
This isn't the first time this happened. A player in Ultima Online passed away a couple of years ago and a Gamemaster created an invulnerable dolphin with his name on his home server.
Interesting in that the focus is on the return to human interactivity, but they're looking at other ways, such as Internet and SMS to mediate that human contact. Is "talking" to a human via SMS any better than "talking" to a machine?
Well, I guess X10 just got made irrelevant. Watch those celebrities run in terror as their sex lives are captured by Lewis the Robot. At least I won't have to see the annoying popups anymore.
The $27,000 dollar/free t-shirt issue is just a further slap in the face to the true non-profits who "bid". It's further evidence of the current corporate "non-profit" (except for the board members, they get profit!) domain structure being entirely corrupt and disfunctional. I hope people get used to typing IPs in the future, because eventually it's going to come tumbling down... But IPs are another problem entirely. Viva La Gopher!
I used to wear those and pretend I was the chameleon from Spiderman. Didn't matter that Chameleon changed face, not just colour, but then again, I was young!
Then I realised the Chameleon got his ass kicked a lot so I stopped. The shirts also directly correlated to the wedgie ratio graph that I began drawing up on my Amiga. I believe the same is true for those who wear these things.
Actually they aren't US made, I believe all of them are made by Japanese studios. There's a lot of information about it available at whatisthematrix.com. Sure the language is in English, which is most likely their key market, but I'm sure even for some of the purists (read: Ignorant people so tied up in their own little worlds that they can't for the life of them realise why people like things in their own language) there'll even be a Japanese dub.
I can't wait to get my Wardriving degree, with a chalk marking hieroglyphics major. Let's not even get into the possibilities of fly-by wireless haxoring exams. Ooo, watch out for that tree little Jimmy!
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When I was in primary school, that was after I walked 30 miles through the snow to get there, we had these old Acorn/BBC computers to play games on when we were good in class.
If you were bad in class, like some people did, they had to sit there copying logo discs for the next half hour. I think our evil German teacher was PIRATING the public domain logo for his own EVIL GERMAN schemes.
Actually no, that's a lie. And level 50 isn't even the endgame, it's level 60 in EverQuest. It takes a month or so to do that. In UO, there's minimal risk for time wasted (No skill loss upon death unless you're a PK, walking back to corpses isn't as much of a bother due to instant teleportation spells, horses and a small landmass). UO is probably the least time consuming of MMORPGs available at the moment.
I've played UO for around, oh, nearly 5 years now. So I feel I'm justified to "speak on this".
The characters these people are buying....are crap. I'm sorry, but give someone who read UO Stratics under a week and their characters will be up to that par. However, recent modifications to the stat" system (strength/dexterity/intelligence) make it so you can gain a maximum of 6 points a day. So, to theoretically reach your maximum of 225, you would have to play for over 30 days, while spending 2-3 hours of those days working on your statistics. That's what players will be paying for.
Of more interest to me is that name changes, which players have begged for throughout UO's entire existance, are now being offered at a pay cost.
Furthermore, in response to your "UO is dying" tirade. Please, save it. UO2's development was ceased because it would have resulted in the desertion of the original Ultima's servers, which Origin would no doubt continue paying for until the numbers had dwindled enough. Take one look at Meridian 59 and realise that for the entire crowd to dissipate, it may take awhile.
What's been happening to UO recently is the idea of changing the game to a stage where it can become a new game entirely. The extremely flawed 3D adaption of the game was first, that failed due to the fact it was buggy, slow and ugly. Rumoured on the horizon is a first person (ala EverQuest) 3D adaption of Ultima with a new landmass designed especially for it. Currently there have been 2 expansion landmasses, with a third on it's way around Christmas. UO isn't going down anytime soon.
Oh, and Lord British is working on that horrible "Lineage" game with the girl who made the female "UNGH" noises in Quake 2 (Who is also responsible for many of the problems UO has today, as the former head of design).
Seriously, I've heard 1ghz AMDs clank on OfficeXP and XP Home. And my point is, can you run XP on a Celeron 300? A computer that was bought 2 years ago? No, no you can't. And what about whatever next revision there is? No, no you still can't, it gets slower and slower, there's a reason why I have a P42GHz and I run Word 2000 instead of OfficeXP.
From the people who brought us World Championship Wrestling, I would expect no less [/troll]
But the higher-end processors required for world processing IS still getting higher, running OfficeXP and XP Home is a demanding job for most computers. When you get into multiple documents, RAM becomes a problem also. So maybe this is a sign people also aren't upgrading their software? Or maybe this is CNN creating a pithy tech story for the masses again, albeit an incorrect one.
No wonder the gangsters always say they put someone on "ice[.bx]" when they kill them. I'm sorry that was bad :)
Oh no! It's dead! Sky is falling and so forth... Shut up.
...got rejected AGAIN. For those who actually read things of value, visit the crazy bastards who made this thing here. Be warned that it is in alpha.
...and it is known only as "Rocky and Bullwinkle". God bless Piper Perabo.
the minidisc? Or you could use the pocket to save up the radioactive energy so you could put a Spinal Tap endorsed "Hot Pocket" (tm) in there. THINK OF THE IRONY!
A bunch of those are probably quotation and extra fields that the w3c don't yet recognise, despite the fact that for modern browsers these fields may be required. So compatibility wins out again.
By today's standards I guess it comes down to whether you want an attractive site or a compatible site. Guess which one Slashdot chose.
I'm a devout CSS advocate in that it's taking web designer down a simpler route that hopefully won't get as convoluted as mainstream HTML has (So long and thanks for all the iFrames, Microsoft).
I thought maybe my grammar wasn't up to the high slashdot standards. So I re-wrote it, gave reference to where it was originally found etc.. Still got rejected, then I tried it again today and it got rejected again. I think they have a Shockwave vendetta.
Rick Dangerous 2 was the ultimate frustration for me. I'm also extremely surprised that anyone else shares this sort of enthusiasm for the old game. Now, if you liked/had a ROM of Switchblade 2, you would be my new messiah.
The faux Indiana Jones themesong from the Amiga 500 classic still haunts me late at night...
Not mine actually, I just thought it was REALLY funky. Phosphor official mirror.
Posted on the same day a "Quake 3 ported to Shockwave" story was rejected _3 times_. Gotta love it.
This isn't the first time this happened. A player in Ultima Online passed away a couple of years ago and a Gamemaster created an invulnerable dolphin with his name on his home server.
And that's why you, sir, are an anonymous coward!
Interesting in that the focus is on the return to human interactivity, but they're looking at other ways, such as Internet and SMS to mediate that human contact. Is "talking" to a human via SMS any better than "talking" to a machine?
Well, I guess X10 just got made irrelevant. Watch those celebrities run in terror as their sex lives are captured by Lewis the Robot. At least I won't have to see the annoying popups anymore.
The $27,000 dollar/free t-shirt issue is just a further slap in the face to the true non-profits who "bid". It's further evidence of the current corporate "non-profit" (except for the board members, they get profit!) domain structure being entirely corrupt and disfunctional. I hope people get used to typing IPs in the future, because eventually it's going to come tumbling down... But IPs are another problem entirely. Viva La Gopher!
I used to wear those and pretend I was the chameleon from Spiderman. Didn't matter that Chameleon changed face, not just colour, but then again, I was young!
Then I realised the Chameleon got his ass kicked a lot so I stopped. The shirts also directly correlated to the wedgie ratio graph that I began drawing up on my Amiga. I believe the same is true for those who wear these things.
Actually they aren't US made, I believe all of them are made by Japanese studios. There's a lot of information about it available at whatisthematrix.com. Sure the language is in English, which is most likely their key market, but I'm sure even for some of the purists (read: Ignorant people so tied up in their own little worlds that they can't for the life of them realise why people like things in their own language) there'll even be a Japanese dub.
I can't wait to get my Wardriving degree, with a chalk marking hieroglyphics major. Let's not even get into the possibilities of fly-by wireless haxoring exams. Ooo, watch out for that tree little Jimmy!