If this is such a small percentage of consoles experiencing these problems. Why is there an ad taken out by Wal-Mart in my local paper requesting that people not play certain games on the demo units because it causes them to lock up? I am not joking this actually has happened. Everytime I've been to either of the Wal-Marts here the XBox360 displays have been locked up or crashed. What amazes me is people saw this and still bought the things and now act surprised that they are buggy as all hell.
My fiance and her little brothers went to the local Wal-Mart yesterday to see the line for the xbox360. There were a couple of dozen people there, maybe 30 tops. The funny part is that there were 14 occupied chairs. Crystal then noticed a sign that there were 14 xbox360s available and that if you were sitting in a chair you would get one otherwise you were out of luck. I guess the other people were just sitting there hoping others would drop dead or something.
That evening I mentioned to her profit opportunity presented by supply and demand. She didn't believe me until I showed her the xbox360 auctions today. Now she is asking me why I didn't make her by 10 or 11 xbox360s to resale.
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I hate to say this but speaking from personal experience. Yes the import workers are great as long as you feed them a steady diet of work that is the exact same as their professors taught them to do in college. Ask them to do something that they haven't been told how to do and they suddenly stop like they hit a brick wall. It is almost as if they are unable to go out and research to learn new skills on their own or for them to figure things out without someone spelling it out for them.
I can see how, I'm in my last year of business school and what he is making makes even the worst marketing drones sound like a mastermind. Oh, and yes in business we still make fun of management and marketing majors. (I'm finance btw)
I know what you mean. Between me and four friends that played at retail we achieved several lvl 60 characters. Once we realized that the endgame involved incredibly massive sinks of time we had to balance that against us going out and doing things, spending time with wife/gf/family etc. Ultimately we all ended up quitting because we did not have time for the endgame in our life. It is a fun game but the endgame is pretty much only for hardcore players. Now I still know a couple of people that play and the only time I see them is at class or work. The funny thing is they all describe themselves as "casual" gamers. Then follow it up by saying that they "only" spend 6-8 hours a day playing WoW.
I remember seeing these at a overnight b-day party I attended of a friends. I really don't remember them being any worse than anything else but we spent most of our time playing Blades of Steel so we could get in hockey fights.
I gotta agree with you on this. The augmentation gems evidently will take huge amounts of xp to get which definitely awards the combat macros. Of the people that I know that still play AC1 only one of them actually physically plays. AC2 they should just let die peacefully. Nothing they can do will save that game. I will say I don't think Turbine is neccessarily going under. They still have LOTR MMORPG and DNDOnline of which either could be a blockbuster. I like DNDOnline because it looks like it will make it easy for me and my far flung friends to have set times each week to meet together and play like we used to when we lived in the same town.
As someone who has a tendency to blare my radio with the windows down I can attest that I to find ringtones incredibly annoying and leave my phone on silent/vibrate.
They (IGE) sell items, accounts, and gold for various games including World of Warcraft. This is expressly against the ToS Blizzard makes you sign. Blizzard has cancelled several auctions and sales through ebay and other sources but have done nothing about IGE's business. IGE's owner at one point in an interview mistakenly admits to having contact with the developers and producers of several of the games they deal with. To me this makes me think maybe there is collusion between IGE and some game publishers. The reason is because well before anyone was high enough to farm gold IGE was selling lots of 100 gold off their website.
As far as thottbot goes, that site has data provided by the community. This data is uploaded by a program that you use from your computer. We don't know exactly what information it sends but the fact that IGE has went through great lengths to hide their ownership of thottbot makes me very suspicious of their motives.
Ogaming ownd Thottbot for world of warcraft also btw. So IGE owns Thottbot which has information on almost every player ingame. To go even farther Thott setup Thottbot and worked on Cosmos in closed beta which means IGE has been in closed beta.
Frankly this looks very disturbing to me. I'm not saying IGE is going to break into accounts. I'm saying they are getting lots of information they can sort to find the best spots to farm various items and then use that to flood the market. I for one will not be using thottbot any longer.
Most likely this will have massive effects on oceanlife and beachlife in the areas they are installed. I view it as a technology with its uses but the greenies have yet again started blabbing about how ecofriendly it is without thinking about the true long term consequences.
It has got much less to do with bandwith available then it does with the processing power available on the server side. When a large group gathers in one area it drastically increases the server load. I think it has to do with the way the load balancing works. In AC1 I know it was because the load balancing was in vertical "strips" along the map. If there was more than the expected amount in one strip the whole strip could experience server-side lag. It really sucked when you were hunting on the same strip as old arwic or ayan baqur where tons of people gathered because sometimes you would get caught in the lag and die to monsters even though you were on the other side of the continent.
At first I thought that you were incorrect but then I thought about it. Right now we have Monopolistic Competition which is few baseball game developers but the market is fairly easy to enter and leave. This promotes innovation. What they are moving to looks like a form of oligopoly where you have a limited number of developers (1st party and take2) who dominate the market and it is nearly impossible to enter the market. Oligopoly's are generally not a good thing because they stifle innovation and lead to stagnation (think the US auto makers back when they were the big 3 and completely dominated domestic markets).
I didn't have one crash while playing and got a constant 40fps with decent graphics settings on a athlon xp 2800 and geforce 4600. The audio stuttering was there but it was only during autosaves and was not a gamebreaker at all. I heard that on winxp if you setup a shortcut that runs the.exe at high priority it gets rid of the stuttering almost completely.
You can not only automate everything but decal makes it very easy to do all sorts of stuff with the datastream. Basically it extends the capabilities of the UI FARFARFAR beyond what the developers of the game anticipated. Add to that UCM programs (WarBot) that have "stealth" modes that detect players well before they show up on radar and log you out, then wait a specified amount of time before logging back in. Plus they have alarm sounds in case an +admin actually shows up.
The only people that play the game now are those with nothing better to do and the ones that let their computers play for them. One prominent ebay seller (Killean) has 5 computers running Unnattended Combat Macros and Tradebots. The only time he touches them is when one crashes or when he actually has to make deliveries. It is utterly ridiculous and because of it I doubt I'll ever play another Turdbine game again.
I've been attending a small school in south arkansas. I took a break and tried to finish my degree up a year ago. Didn't work and this is why... When I was there previously we only had two CS professors but both were old school in the sense that they wanted us to learn about how to solve problems, not just sit there and tell us "their" way of doing it. I loved this approach and hated leaving school. Last year I returned and the two profs were gone and replaced by two profs that were from the "new" school of thought. Neither one of them wanted us to learn anything on our own. When I would use a method I came up with instead of the crap that my teacher tried to shove down my throat I would get griped out. That seems to be a trend I've encountered at a couple of different universities. The teachers have stopped teaching how to think and solve problems and now just tell the students what they want done. I hate it.
If they go through with 1GB of searchable, indexable e-mail that would really be nice for those of us who are constantly changing ISPs and don't want to have to bother with telling everyone our e-mail address has changed.
Yahoo and Hotmail are useful but if you recieve and save attachments very much that space goes away quick.
With storage being as cheap as it is I still think it will be fairly expensive to support hundreds of thousands (millions?!?) of users each with a gig of space. Also the indexing and searching could become a bit of a resource hog in itself.
Oh well, I guess that is why they are doing this little test here to see how the resources pan out. Will be nice if it becomes a usable service.
I used to make a big deal out of having an awesome computer. I think I grew up. The only problem is now I am 24 years old and having to go back into college. I wish so much that back when I started college I had paid more attention to attending class. I always did very well in CSCI courses but unfortunately did rather poorly in the math side of things. Oh well, in a couple of years when my fianc ee finishes her graduate work I will go back and do things the right way.
I've been around since beta. Jesse is no longer on the team and the current devs such as Todd (just look up his posts on acvault.com) have repeatedly stated they want to get rid of combat macroing period. Todd was one of the original developers of the mapping and the portal.dat stuff before he got hired on at Turbine. Most if not all of the original devs are gone and anyone who has kept up with the current ones on the live team knows they want to get rid of a lot of the stuff Microsoft allows. For one thing they want to be much harsher on exploiters.
Total lack of content eh? There were arount one hundred quests ingame at the time of ship. Along with a fully functioning loot system DAoC. There were about two dozen towns fully populated with NPCs. On top of the fact that there was a ton of content the game came online on the first day of retail without a hitch! How many MMORPGs can say that? Not very many.
Since then the amount of content added has been absolutely tremendous. For a good idea of how much content is in the game check http://www.thejackcat.com/AC/Hobbies/Quests.htm
Macroers and exploiters will begone once Turbine gets full control. They never wanted them in the game and MS refused to do anything real about it. Also I have heard numerous rumblings that there will be a much needed graphical update for the aging client.
I agree that it is a good move to separate the game from MS. There is some talk now that the reason they haven't marketed the game is because MS is now producing an inhouse MMORPH called Mythica that they didn't want to have to compete against Asheron's Call.
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If this is such a small percentage of consoles experiencing these problems. Why is there an ad taken out by Wal-Mart in my local paper requesting that people not play certain games on the demo units because it causes them to lock up? I am not joking this actually has happened. Everytime I've been to either of the Wal-Marts here the XBox360 displays have been locked up or crashed. What amazes me is people saw this and still bought the things and now act surprised that they are buggy as all hell.
My fiance and her little brothers went to the local Wal-Mart yesterday to see the line for the xbox360. There were a couple of dozen people there, maybe 30 tops. The funny part is that there were 14 occupied chairs. Crystal then noticed a sign that there were 14 xbox360s available and that if you were sitting in a chair you would get one otherwise you were out of luck. I guess the other people were just sitting there hoping others would drop dead or something.
That evening I mentioned to her profit opportunity presented by supply and demand. She didn't believe me until I showed her the xbox360 auctions today. Now she is asking me why I didn't make her by 10 or 11 xbox360s to resale.
I hate to say this but speaking from personal experience. Yes the import workers are great as long as you feed them a steady diet of work that is the exact same as their professors taught them to do in college. Ask them to do something that they haven't been told how to do and they suddenly stop like they hit a brick wall. It is almost as if they are unable to go out and research to learn new skills on their own or for them to figure things out without someone spelling it out for them.
I can see how, I'm in my last year of business school and what he is making makes even the worst marketing drones sound like a mastermind. Oh, and yes in business we still make fun of management and marketing majors. (I'm finance btw)
I know what you mean. Between me and four friends that played at retail we achieved several lvl 60 characters. Once we realized that the endgame involved incredibly massive sinks of time we had to balance that against us going out and doing things, spending time with wife/gf/family etc. Ultimately we all ended up quitting because we did not have time for the endgame in our life. It is a fun game but the endgame is pretty much only for hardcore players. Now I still know a couple of people that play and the only time I see them is at class or work. The funny thing is they all describe themselves as "casual" gamers. Then follow it up by saying that they "only" spend 6-8 hours a day playing WoW.
Hats go off this is a pretty cool adaptation. I know I don't have what it takes to pull this off. My hat goes off to a job well done.
I remember seeing these at a overnight b-day party I attended of a friends. I really don't remember them being any worse than anything else but we spent most of our time playing Blades of Steel so we could get in hockey fights.
I gotta agree with you on this. The augmentation gems evidently will take huge amounts of xp to get which definitely awards the combat macros. Of the people that I know that still play AC1 only one of them actually physically plays. AC2 they should just let die peacefully. Nothing they can do will save that game. I will say I don't think Turbine is neccessarily going under. They still have LOTR MMORPG and DNDOnline of which either could be a blockbuster. I like DNDOnline because it looks like it will make it easy for me and my far flung friends to have set times each week to meet together and play like we used to when we lived in the same town.
As someone who has a tendency to blare my radio with the windows down I can attest that I to find ringtones incredibly annoying and leave my phone on silent/vibrate.
As far as thottbot goes, that site has data provided by the community. This data is uploaded by a program that you use from your computer. We don't know exactly what information it sends but the fact that IGE has went through great lengths to hide their ownership of thottbot makes me very suspicious of their motives.
Frankly this looks very disturbing to me. I'm not saying IGE is going to break into accounts. I'm saying they are getting lots of information they can sort to find the best spots to farm various items and then use that to flood the market. I for one will not be using thottbot any longer.
Most likely this will have massive effects on oceanlife and beachlife in the areas they are installed. I view it as a technology with its uses but the greenies have yet again started blabbing about how ecofriendly it is without thinking about the true long term consequences.
It has got much less to do with bandwith available then it does with the processing power available on the server side. When a large group gathers in one area it drastically increases the server load. I think it has to do with the way the load balancing works. In AC1 I know it was because the load balancing was in vertical "strips" along the map. If there was more than the expected amount in one strip the whole strip could experience server-side lag. It really sucked when you were hunting on the same strip as old arwic or ayan baqur where tons of people gathered because sometimes you would get caught in the lag and die to monsters even though you were on the other side of the continent.
At first I thought that you were incorrect but then I thought about it. Right now we have Monopolistic Competition which is few baseball game developers but the market is fairly easy to enter and leave. This promotes innovation. What they are moving to looks like a form of oligopoly where you have a limited number of developers (1st party and take2) who dominate the market and it is nearly impossible to enter the market. Oligopoly's are generally not a good thing because they stifle innovation and lead to stagnation (think the US auto makers back when they were the big 3 and completely dominated domestic markets).
I didn't have one crash while playing and got a constant 40fps with decent graphics settings on a athlon xp 2800 and geforce 4600. The audio stuttering was there but it was only during autosaves and was not a gamebreaker at all. I heard that on winxp if you setup a shortcut that runs the .exe at high priority it gets rid of the stuttering almost completely.
You can not only automate everything but decal makes it very easy to do all sorts of stuff with the datastream. Basically it extends the capabilities of the UI FARFARFAR beyond what the developers of the game anticipated. Add to that UCM programs (WarBot) that have "stealth" modes that detect players well before they show up on radar and log you out, then wait a specified amount of time before logging back in. Plus they have alarm sounds in case an +admin actually shows up.
The only people that play the game now are those with nothing better to do and the ones that let their computers play for them. One prominent ebay seller (Killean) has 5 computers running Unnattended Combat Macros and Tradebots. The only time he touches them is when one crashes or when he actually has to make deliveries. It is utterly ridiculous and because of it I doubt I'll ever play another Turdbine game again.
Thanks, I'm fixing to move up to that area anyways and was considering attending UALR. It's good to hear that about the school.
I've been attending a small school in south arkansas. I took a break and tried to finish my degree up a year ago. Didn't work and this is why...
When I was there previously we only had two CS professors but both were old school in the sense that they wanted us to learn about how to solve problems, not just sit there and tell us "their" way of doing it. I loved this approach and hated leaving school. Last year I returned and the two profs were gone and replaced by two profs that were from the "new" school of thought. Neither one of them wanted us to learn anything on our own. When I would use a method I came up with instead of the crap that my teacher tried to shove down my throat I would get griped out. That seems to be a trend I've encountered at a couple of different universities. The teachers have stopped teaching how to think and solve problems and now just tell the students what they want done. I hate it.
If they go through with 1GB of searchable, indexable e-mail that would really be nice for those of us who are constantly changing ISPs and don't want to have to bother with telling everyone our e-mail address has changed.
Yahoo and Hotmail are useful but if you recieve and save attachments very much that space goes away quick.
With storage being as cheap as it is I still think it will be fairly expensive to support hundreds of thousands (millions?!?) of users each with a gig of space. Also the indexing and searching could become a bit of a resource hog in itself.
Oh well, I guess that is why they are doing this little test here to see how the resources pan out. Will be nice if it becomes a usable service.
There have been cracks out that defeat punkbuster since a few days after it was released on bf1942. A few of the hacks include:
Maphack: see everyone on both sides
Aimhack: get rid of recoil
Little arrows that float in the air 10 ft over everyone's head.
etcetc
Hacks are the major reason I don't play bf1942 and desertcombat more often.
I used to make a big deal out of having an awesome computer. I think I grew up. The only problem is now I am 24 years old and having to go back into college. I wish so much that back when I started college I had paid more attention to attending class. I always did very well in CSCI courses but unfortunately did rather poorly in the math side of things. Oh well, in a couple of years when my fianc ee finishes her graduate work I will go back and do things the right way.
I've been around since beta. Jesse is no longer on the team and the current devs such as Todd (just look up his posts on acvault.com) have repeatedly stated they want to get rid of combat macroing period. Todd was one of the original developers of the mapping and the portal.dat stuff before he got hired on at Turbine. Most if not all of the original devs are gone and anyone who has kept up with the current ones on the live team knows they want to get rid of a lot of the stuff Microsoft allows. For one thing they want to be much harsher on exploiters.
Total lack of content eh? There were arount one hundred quests ingame at the time of ship. Along with a fully functioning loot system DAoC. There were about two dozen towns fully populated with NPCs. On top of the fact that there was a ton of content the game came online on the first day of retail without a hitch! How many MMORPGs can say that? Not very many. Since then the amount of content added has been absolutely tremendous. For a good idea of how much content is in the game check http://www.thejackcat.com/AC/Hobbies/Quests.htm
Macroers and exploiters will begone once Turbine gets full control. They never wanted them in the game and MS refused to do anything real about it. Also I have heard numerous rumblings that there will be a much needed graphical update for the aging client.
I agree that it is a good move to separate the game from MS. There is some talk now that the reason they haven't marketed the game is because MS is now producing an inhouse MMORPH called Mythica that they didn't want to have to compete against Asheron's Call.