I disagree. If you went by the forums to decide whether start playing EQ or DAOC you'd be very put off by those games. The rant/content number is very high. Let's put it this way, the people that like the game are playing, not griping online.
Ok, lets say we get robots that'll do just about everything, unless it absolutely needs a human face. What are we going to do then? Live some Star Trek utopia where are all our troubles are magically swept away and people live in social harmony with each other? Get real.
I have been thinking about this for a while. If we go to a time where employment is truly voluntary, how are we going to prevent ourselves from becoming self-indulgent slugs? How will our society, fueled by greed, handle the idea of all things being free to those who need it. Or if not free, darn cheap.
If on the other hand we don't use the robots for making things cheap or free, what the hell are 90% of the planet going to do for jobs? Can we ALL be designers? Explorers? Therapists? Novelists? If the robots have human like brains, and I assume that means they have some creativity, then there would be very little that would require us humans.
On top of this, what about the serious techical paranoia that we seem to have? Would we get passed that?
I know, robots would be slow in circulating through-out the world, but I am blue-skying the far future here.
I know I am not the first one to bring this all up, but I haven't read much about this.
Hmm, that's odd.
While I did get kicked out a couple times, it was only for a moment. Maybe five minutes max. I played the whole weekend, pretty much. Made it to Droid Engineer, got 200 Rebel faction, made enough credits to support my extractor habit over the week. All in all, I have not had very many technical probs, other than those "SWG Lost Connection" incidents. Annoying, but definitely not a big deal.
I think whatever video you saw must have been badly done. Just ranged combat alone, you can aim, kneel, stand, go prone, roll into a kneel, roll to prone, roll to standing, dive for cover and something else I can't remember, and that's not including any specials you get for a particular weapon. (Like Head Shot for Rifle, Point Blank Area for Carbine etc etc). Just letting you know.
Geeez, you'd think from the talk on this message board that this game was worst thing since Ebola.
Well I was there with the rest of them, and yes its a bit rough right now. But NO MMORPG ever released without issues, I guess the closest would be DAOC and still people bitch. This game is about a magnitude more complex than DAOC. If you wanna go through the level tread mill, camp the friggin Fins for too freakin' long and fight over the same piece of golf course in Emain, be my guest.
There are so many cool things in SWG that it would be difficult to actually go through them all. Design your own creatures, make your own droids, build your own structures, houses, mines, gardens, factories etc, travel to other planets, meet exciting new fauna and kill them or hell, go get a baby one and tame it and make it a pet, cool weather effects, neat things to build (examples: fireworks, weapons upgrades), join a faction, get troops to command, buy/sell with the bazaar. I could go on, but I really need to actually get some work done.
So, sure bide your time, wait till they sand down the sharp edges. Right now it IS rough, but the potential is immense. I will hopefully be on for the first time in retail, tonight.
Yes, it is horrible! Stay away, far away from this game! I too was a Beta Tester. It was horrible the way they made you have to all become hairstylists, and dance in a less than manly manner! It's like the San Francisco version of the SIMs.
(Maybe less people will join so I can log in in peace. Damn Congestion!)
You need to read your sources better.
They are only speculating that it is a battery because they don't know what else it could be. According to your source the Greeks used live electric eels for medicine, AND the article admits that it would take ALOT more juice than the couple volts a battery like this would contain to do electroplating. (Also there have been no elctroplated items found) The only thing credible is that the then Iraqis were using these as substitute medicinal electic eels, but again wouldn't that take more juice than a couple volts?
So maybe it was a battery, but it currently has no known use.
that so many inventions are undisputed, at least publicly, for so long then suddenly many claimants cry that they know who the TRUE inventor is? I have seen this same cycle for airplane, telescope, radio, telephone, baseball, the computer, and coincidentally for the morse code itself. I am not suggesting that they are all lying, but should I now think when something new comes out, "I wonder who really invented this?".
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I disagree. If you went by the forums to decide whether start playing EQ or DAOC you'd be very put off by those games. The rant/content number is very high. Let's put it this way, the people that like the game are playing, not griping online.
Ok, lets say we get robots that'll do just about everything, unless it absolutely needs a human face. What are we going to do then? Live some Star Trek utopia where are all our troubles are magically swept away and people live in social harmony with each other? Get real. I have been thinking about this for a while. If we go to a time where employment is truly voluntary, how are we going to prevent ourselves from becoming self-indulgent slugs? How will our society, fueled by greed, handle the idea of all things being free to those who need it. Or if not free, darn cheap. If on the other hand we don't use the robots for making things cheap or free, what the hell are 90% of the planet going to do for jobs? Can we ALL be designers? Explorers? Therapists? Novelists? If the robots have human like brains, and I assume that means they have some creativity, then there would be very little that would require us humans. On top of this, what about the serious techical paranoia that we seem to have? Would we get passed that? I know, robots would be slow in circulating through-out the world, but I am blue-skying the far future here. I know I am not the first one to bring this all up, but I haven't read much about this.
Hmm, that's odd. While I did get kicked out a couple times, it was only for a moment. Maybe five minutes max. I played the whole weekend, pretty much. Made it to Droid Engineer, got 200 Rebel faction, made enough credits to support my extractor habit over the week. All in all, I have not had very many technical probs, other than those "SWG Lost Connection" incidents. Annoying, but definitely not a big deal.
I think whatever video you saw must have been badly done. Just ranged combat alone, you can aim, kneel, stand, go prone, roll into a kneel, roll to prone, roll to standing, dive for cover and something else I can't remember, and that's not including any specials you get for a particular weapon. (Like Head Shot for Rifle, Point Blank Area for Carbine etc etc). Just letting you know.
Geeez, you'd think from the talk on this message board that this game was worst thing since Ebola. Well I was there with the rest of them, and yes its a bit rough right now. But NO MMORPG ever released without issues, I guess the closest would be DAOC and still people bitch. This game is about a magnitude more complex than DAOC. If you wanna go through the level tread mill, camp the friggin Fins for too freakin' long and fight over the same piece of golf course in Emain, be my guest. There are so many cool things in SWG that it would be difficult to actually go through them all. Design your own creatures, make your own droids, build your own structures, houses, mines, gardens, factories etc, travel to other planets, meet exciting new fauna and kill them or hell, go get a baby one and tame it and make it a pet, cool weather effects, neat things to build (examples: fireworks, weapons upgrades), join a faction, get troops to command, buy/sell with the bazaar. I could go on, but I really need to actually get some work done. So, sure bide your time, wait till they sand down the sharp edges. Right now it IS rough, but the potential is immense. I will hopefully be on for the first time in retail, tonight.
Yes, it is horrible! Stay away, far away from this game! I too was a Beta Tester. It was horrible the way they made you have to all become hairstylists, and dance in a less than manly manner! It's like the San Francisco version of the SIMs.
(Maybe less people will join so I can log in in peace. Damn Congestion!)
You need to read your sources better. They are only speculating that it is a battery because they don't know what else it could be. According to your source the Greeks used live electric eels for medicine, AND the article admits that it would take ALOT more juice than the couple volts a battery like this would contain to do electroplating. (Also there have been no elctroplated items found) The only thing credible is that the then Iraqis were using these as substitute medicinal electic eels, but again wouldn't that take more juice than a couple volts? So maybe it was a battery, but it currently has no known use.
that so many inventions are undisputed, at least publicly, for so long then suddenly many claimants cry that they know who the TRUE inventor is? I have seen this same cycle for airplane, telescope, radio, telephone, baseball, the computer, and coincidentally for the morse code itself. I am not suggesting that they are all lying, but should I now think when something new comes out, "I wonder who really invented this?".
Sure you might confuse the cops with a jammer, but then you'd get fined by the FCC.