It is interesting to see how kids and adults with ADHD who normally can't focus on anything can hyper-focus on a game.
Perhaps it is because ADHD is overdiagnosed. ADHD is not "Hey, there's a bunch of things i don't care about, I cannot concentrate on them!." But saddly it seems so, by most comments.
The "problem" with most MMORPGs is that either you are in there almost all of your free time or you fall away from the levels required by your online friends, and you can no longer play much with them. It makes gaming seem a work. But, even with this "restriction" it's more freedom than some people are used to get, so I guess that's the problem for the chinese goverment, as people would stop looking at themselves as a machine piece and start looking at themselves as persons.
You are in a not-secured zone, it's security rating probably going from 0.1 to 0.4. In a secured zone (security from 0.5 to 1.0) if a player attacked another police would come and kill the griefer (avoiding destruction from police attack is cheating). This does not mean that secure zones are secure, simply that you have lots to lose if you attack.
The pirate loses security rating attacking you, that means he is not able to enter secure zones. There are ways to improve it, though. Zone security 0.0 would mean that no security rating is lost, but these zones are usualy home of aliances.
A three year old character, even if it's the only one trained in that account, does not have all the skills he wants to max, but probably he has enough to fly that ship perfectly, it it's requirements are not much, and for what you say it seems an interceptor, a ship that you can more than confortably fly in 6 months if you are focused. Training for all the skills to the max would mean more than 10 years, in real time, training.
Tech 2 ships are expensive, much more than what they give you when they blow your ship (yes, in EvE you can insure ships). And that is not counting the tech 2 equipment they may have, as equipment is not insured.
So now we have some competent players, with expensive to replace gear, attacking in a PvP zone, easy kills. Why? because a hard kill could mean their destruction, and that's a good reason not to engage what you can't win. But if they got near you you could jam them (ensnare them) so they could not flee, all you need is some basic equipment. Web (slow) them too, unless you want them to go out of your jamming range and flee. So you have options.
What can they win? A miner can leave equipment worth as much as a ship of these they are flying, people in shuttles and frigates could be transporting great treasures that don't use much cargo space.
And they teach you to be alert in a PvP zone, and everywhere too, just in case.
I am a person who spends all his time in secure zones, because I don't like many risks, but I accept them, and learn from my errors. The most exciting time I had in a game was being pursued by a pirate across a system, he in a big but surprisingly fast ship, me in a small but not so fast one. I barely managed to escape, but that adrenaline rush was so great...
A last explanation for non-EvErs, a three year old player can lose to a determined small group of newbies. So it's not like those other games were a level 60 can kill hundreds of level 5. Use what the system offers to you and have fun.
Theoretically Star Trek could not sue you because it was thougth by them before. The patent should not be "A mean of moving a spatial vessel, with its cargo and crew from one point in space to another in a way that the time spent by the light travelling would be more than the time spent by the vessel." without giving an implementation. It's not the idea of a warp drive that is patentable, but the drive per se.
This also means that if you invent a warp drive based on a principle of science (for example quantum physics) and I invent another one based on another principle (improbability drive) you can not sue me, because those are diferent things, even if the final result is the same.
I guess this new way of regarding patents will serve for the chaos we have, mostly, in the computer world, where ideas are patented just for having a big porfolio of them.
You can do the reverse too. Place your mobile phone next to your CRT while in silence mode, and you'll know they are calling you even before the phone starts signaling it. All this without bothering the coworkers!
I guess I'd like the person to my left did this GRRR
Completely true. I've hit 30 and I'm as creative (if not more) as I was when younger (*). Not only that, but I have the experience that helps me to notice the difficulties that can be encountered and generaly bad ideas. Only that I'm not working in the game industry.
(*) Well, I'm mostly as creative as I was, except that I'm burnt out with my job and I try not spent a single second thinking about it in creative ways. I just try to solve what I have before me and keep going. So I'd say that I agree with the FA.
Gosh! I'm saved! Not only I do fall ill about once a year (one day in bed and I'm 90% good to keep on) but my room is so untidy that any infectious agent here must have gone lazy.
Wooohooo!
But I don't understand why girls won't come in... may it be for my pet giant cockroach?
3 short comments, albeit hastily written. The three of them are true (well, I think so). Yet people considered that as a flamebait. Why? I don't know, and I've learned not to care.
People will, and sometimes want to, misunderstand you, if they feel you are "against" them (or what they believe).
I've found (well, two recent times, counting that one) that short comments, with bare facts or thoughts and no nice text to read will wake a worse reaction than a nice text with nonsense or real flamebaits. Any similar or different experiences out there?
The font problem was introduced with the last expansion patch, previously it was crystal clear (this new font ha multilingual support or something similar, that's the reason of the change). Some people seem not to notice any problem with the font (and rudely tell the ones with problems to go to have their eyes checked). Other have headaches. And others agree that it's really difficult to read. I can hardly notice the decimal points. For what I know CCP is already looking into this.
At least the company seems quite responsive when players agree that there is a problem with something, and looks into the problems. Not as fast as some might like, but better than most (from what I've heard).
If only there was a similar game but fantasy, for when you want to kill things with your bare hands... it's hard to get without a fantasy fix.
As far as being MMORPG of the year in every way you can think of, I guess # of subcriptions isn't one of those ways.
The oscars are not given to the films that get more money (not allways at least).
EVE really is a great game, but perhaps it's also true that has a very active fan base. Graphic wise I found WoW, CoH and Guildwars somewhat better and more varied. But at least in EvE the only grind that affects us is the Isk (gold) grind, and social grind if you pretend to do anything worthwile, of course. For the casual player it's great to connect for five minutes a day to change the skill being trained and then once or twice a week play with your friends, who will be allways able to play with you, no matter what the SP (skill points) differences you have.
The MMORPG of the year? I don't know, I only play one, but decidedly one of the best games out there.
Are there really that many people, even on Slashdot, that think stealing intellectual property is not wrong?
1) it's not stealing, it can be copywright infridgement 2) sometimes, in some countries, it's legal 3) "Right" and "Wrong" depen on your point of view.
I don't mind the breats, I despise the bouncing. I played this game several years ago. But after playing once I had to stop, the bouncing was so surreal that was making me nervous (not excited, but as if you're feeling something is out of normality).
So it's tekken for me. The 5th when my flatmate'll recieve his import (damn, those pesky non world releases).
I was going to say it can't be the worst day of the year, but I have remembered that next week will have really long work hours (for me) and I'll be getting lots of calls on Monday (for my birthday).
We also call them "Tejanos" o "Pantalones tejanos". Yep, that'd be like "Texans" or "Texan trousers".
But probably "buyins" is used (as another poster pointed) in the spanish speaking parts of America (the continent). Just like they get other words from English.
Because it's more funnys (for me) this way. And seems that/. likes it too.
Re:Regarding that brandname... (Score:1)
by Narchie Troll (581273) Alter Relationship on Saturday October 16, @02:17AM (#10543027) 'encule' is French for 'fuck up the ass'. 'Enculator' would thus mean 'one who fucks up the ass'. I imagine it's the same for other Romance languages like Spanish.
Uses your direct approach and is worth 1 point. I'm convoluted and worth 5 points. There's nothing better than knowing/.-fu.
"Geek References! Geek References! Geek References!", luckily this is not a quantum race, so we can know the winner.
inkulator looks like enculador, that is a person (usually a man) who places something (usually something residing between his legs) into some very dark output opening all humans have and that you can see very clearly in a much known webpage that starts with go and finishes with atse;)
Having said that, I must remark I have to be very sleepy, because I had not noticed this similarity until it has been noted.
The HD used are different on both units. That accounts for the diferent form factor.
I have a Karma since January this year and has worked almost flawlessly. Just stopping to reproduce music once a fortnight using it every day (having to restart it using the power button) and sometimes you hear a tiny pause in or between songs.
I suppose this used sparingly could become useful for those that find it hard to concentrate on work.
At least until your company makes you take one of this before going to work. Or you find yourself "forced" to do so in order to remain competitive with the rest of the workforce.
(I didn't RTFA) I hope there are no ugly secondary effects for long time users of this drug. Otherwise you'll find people that shine at work but then arribe home and hardly do anything but sit there staring the walls.
I remember those old days at university, telneting to do some work on some Sun WorkStations and telling them to eject the floppy just to annoy whoever was there working on them in person (if there was a floppy, of course).
This could be the next logical step. And if correctly filtered information comes to your desktop there'll be not much incentive to go to other information services.
You'll be able to see the headlines of selected (in the bad sense) newspapers, and the newsfeeds of your favourite webpages. No incentive to go to the webpages, no incentive to go similar services (news.google.com), everybody plummeting (no ads revenue), but microsoft and friends. And then their friends will start to require subscription, after all you'll be already registered with passport.
Of course it can also be good, but we are trained to distrust monopolies. So, if bad times come, we'll be able to say "I told ya!". Or at best we can fight to avoid the nastier effects.
Dating is not a game. But "Just being yourself" is stupid answer to a complex question. If "just being yourself" gets you wat you want, then perfect, if it doesn't work then what? "It'll happen when it time is due"?
No, that is completely unhelpful.
I'd rather follow bad advice that makes me do something to improve myself than to keep "being myself" and botch good chances because I'm too shy/coward/stupid to notice/use them. At least if I fail I could try to rationalise why, if I succeed I could try to rationalise why. Perhaps it doesn't bother you not knowing how things work, but the social mechanism is an interesting one, and very misterious too.
BTW, to game sometimes wants to mean "hunt wild animals", but I suppose you'll dislike this analogy even more.
It's not to be taken as a ruleset, it's like shaking your social world's knowledge and take a new view that not only conforms with what you think is right but also with can work for you.
But whatever you do don't say "Just be yourself", it's the lamest thing I've heard and I'm glad I'm past that thing. Hey, it doesn't mean I'm not myself, it simply means that there was a game I didn't know how to play and I know how to play now. Just being yourself does not explain those rules.
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The "problem" with most MMORPGs is that either you are in there almost all of your free time or you fall away from the levels required by your online friends, and you can no longer play much with them. It makes gaming seem a work. But, even with this "restriction" it's more freedom than some people are used to get, so I guess that's the problem for the chinese goverment, as people would stop looking at themselves as a machine piece and start looking at themselves as persons.
Ok, lets explain this for non-EvE players.
You are in a not-secured zone, it's security rating probably going from 0.1 to 0.4. In a secured zone (security from 0.5 to 1.0) if a player attacked another police would come and kill the griefer (avoiding destruction from police attack is cheating). This does not mean that secure zones are secure, simply that you have lots to lose if you attack.
The pirate loses security rating attacking you, that means he is not able to enter secure zones. There are ways to improve it, though. Zone security 0.0 would mean that no security rating is lost, but these zones are usualy home of aliances.
A three year old character, even if it's the only one trained in that account, does not have all the skills he wants to max, but probably he has enough to fly that ship perfectly, it it's requirements are not much, and for what you say it seems an interceptor, a ship that you can more than confortably fly in 6 months if you are focused. Training for all the skills to the max would mean more than 10 years, in real time, training.
Tech 2 ships are expensive, much more than what they give you when they blow your ship (yes, in EvE you can insure ships). And that is not counting the tech 2 equipment they may have, as equipment is not insured.
So now we have some competent players, with expensive to replace gear, attacking in a PvP zone, easy kills. Why? because a hard kill could mean their destruction, and that's a good reason not to engage what you can't win. But if they got near you you could jam them (ensnare them) so they could not flee, all you need is some basic equipment. Web (slow) them too, unless you want them to go out of your jamming range and flee. So you have options.
What can they win? A miner can leave equipment worth as much as a ship of these they are flying, people in shuttles and frigates could be transporting great treasures that don't use much cargo space.
And they teach you to be alert in a PvP zone, and everywhere too, just in case.
I am a person who spends all his time in secure zones, because I don't like many risks, but I accept them, and learn from my errors. The most exciting time I had in a game was being pursued by a pirate across a system, he in a big but surprisingly fast ship, me in a small but not so fast one. I barely managed to escape, but that adrenaline rush was so great...
A last explanation for non-EvErs, a three year old player can lose to a determined small group of newbies. So it's not like those other games were a level 60 can kill hundreds of level 5. Use what the system offers to you and have fun.
Hey! Thanks!
I love prizes. Is a cake included?
Theoretically Star Trek could not sue you because it was thougth by them before. The patent should not be "A mean of moving a spatial vessel, with its cargo and crew from one point in space to another in a way that the time spent by the light travelling would be more than the time spent by the vessel." without giving an implementation. It's not the idea of a warp drive that is patentable, but the drive per se.
This also means that if you invent a warp drive based on a principle of science (for example quantum physics) and I invent another one based on another principle (improbability drive) you can not sue me, because those are diferent things, even if the final result is the same.
I guess this new way of regarding patents will serve for the chaos we have, mostly, in the computer world, where ideas are patented just for having a big porfolio of them.
You can do the reverse too. Place your mobile phone next to your CRT while in silence mode, and you'll know they are calling you even before the phone starts signaling it. All this without bothering the coworkers!
I guess I'd like the person to my left did this GRRR
Completely true. I've hit 30 and I'm as creative (if not more) as I was when younger (*). Not only that, but I have the experience that helps me to notice the difficulties that can be encountered and generaly bad ideas. Only that I'm not working in the game industry.
(*) Well, I'm mostly as creative as I was, except that I'm burnt out with my job and I try not spent a single second thinking about it in creative ways. I just try to solve what I have before me and keep going. So I'd say that I agree with the FA.
Gosh! I'm saved! Not only I do fall ill about once a year (one day in bed and I'm 90% good to keep on) but my room is so untidy that any infectious agent here must have gone lazy.
Wooohooo!
But I don't understand why girls won't come in... may it be for my pet giant cockroach?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172833&cid=143 85311
3 short comments, albeit hastily written. The three of them are true (well, I think so). Yet people considered that as a flamebait. Why? I don't know, and I've learned not to care.
People will, and sometimes want to, misunderstand you, if they feel you are "against" them (or what they believe).
I've found (well, two recent times, counting that one) that short comments, with bare facts or thoughts and no nice text to read will wake a worse reaction than a nice text with nonsense or real flamebaits. Any similar or different experiences out there?
The font problem was introduced with the last expansion patch, previously it was crystal clear (this new font ha multilingual support or something similar, that's the reason of the change). Some people seem not to notice any problem with the font (and rudely tell the ones with problems to go to have their eyes checked). Other have headaches. And others agree that it's really difficult to read. I can hardly notice the decimal points. For what I know CCP is already looking into this.
At least the company seems quite responsive when players agree that there is a problem with something, and looks into the problems. Not as fast as some might like, but better than most (from what I've heard).
If only there was a similar game but fantasy, for when you want to kill things with your bare hands... it's hard to get without a fantasy fix.
The oscars are not given to the films that get more money (not allways at least).
EVE really is a great game, but perhaps it's also true that has a very active fan base. Graphic wise I found WoW, CoH and Guildwars somewhat better and more varied. But at least in EvE the only grind that affects us is the Isk (gold) grind, and social grind if you pretend to do anything worthwile, of course. For the casual player it's great to connect for five minutes a day to change the skill being trained and then once or twice a week play with your friends, who will be allways able to play with you, no matter what the SP (skill points) differences you have.
The MMORPG of the year? I don't know, I only play one, but decidedly one of the best games out there.
1) it's not stealing, it can be copywright infridgement
2) sometimes, in some countries, it's legal
3) "Right" and "Wrong" depen on your point of view.
Small addons is what I was thinking of dressing the female fighters with ;)
Either that or sell their clothes.
No, I don't have a girlfriend, why do you ask?
I don't mind the breats, I despise the bouncing. I played this game several years ago. But after playing once I had to stop, the bouncing was so surreal that was making me nervous (not excited, but as if you're feeling something is out of normality).
So it's tekken for me. The 5th when my flatmate'll recieve his import (damn, those pesky non world releases).
There is a birth missing you insentivive clod!
1976 DarkGreenNight, undecided
I was going to say it can't be the worst day of the year, but I have remembered that next week will have really long work hours (for me) and I'll be getting lots of calls on Monday (for my birthday).
We also call them "Tejanos" o "Pantalones tejanos". Yep, that'd be like "Texans" or "Texan trousers".
But probably "buyins" is used (as another poster pointed) in the spanish speaking parts of America (the continent). Just like they get other words from English.
Uses your direct approach and is worth 1 point. I'm convoluted and worth 5 points. There's nothing better than knowing
"Geek References! Geek References! Geek References!", luckily this is not a quantum race, so we can know the winner.
inkulator looks like enculador, that is a person (usually a man) who places something (usually something residing between his legs) into some very dark output opening all humans have and that you can see very clearly in a much known webpage that starts with go and finishes with atse ;)
Having said that, I must remark I have to be very sleepy, because I had not noticed this similarity until it has been noted.
The HD used are different on both units. That accounts for the diferent form factor.
I have a Karma since January this year and has worked almost flawlessly. Just stopping to reproduce music once a fortnight using it every day (having to restart it using the power button) and sometimes you hear a tiny pause in or between songs.
Ahhh... gapless pleasure.
Haven't you heard about Beteshda (well, the makers of Morrowind, whatever their name is) and how they bought the rights to do Fallout 3?
;)
Get out from under that rock
I suppose this used sparingly could become useful for those that find it hard to concentrate on work.
At least until your company makes you take one of this before going to work. Or you find yourself "forced" to do so in order to remain competitive with the rest of the workforce.
(I didn't RTFA) I hope there are no ugly secondary effects for long time users of this drug. Otherwise you'll find people that shine at work but then arribe home and hardly do anything but sit there staring the walls.
So tey'll do #hibernate instead of #halt ?
I remember those old days at university, telneting to do some work on some Sun WorkStations and telling them to eject the floppy just to annoy whoever was there working on them in person (if there was a floppy, of course).
What an impressive game! I wish there were more games like this one!
;)
Game developers, listen to this dude, he's got the keys of the kingdom of fun!
P.S. What about clicking the preview button before submitting
This could be the next logical step. And if correctly filtered information comes to your desktop there'll be not much incentive to go to other information services.
You'll be able to see the headlines of selected (in the bad sense) newspapers, and the newsfeeds of your favourite webpages. No incentive to go to the webpages, no incentive to go similar services (news.google.com), everybody plummeting (no ads revenue), but microsoft and friends. And then their friends will start to require subscription, after all you'll be already registered with passport.
Of course it can also be good, but we are trained to distrust monopolies. So, if bad times come, we'll be able to say "I told ya!". Or at best we can fight to avoid the nastier effects.
Any ideas?
Dating is not a game. But "Just being yourself" is stupid answer to a complex question. If "just being yourself" gets you wat you want, then perfect, if it doesn't work then what? "It'll happen when it time is due"?
No, that is completely unhelpful.
I'd rather follow bad advice that makes me do something to improve myself than to keep "being myself" and botch good chances because I'm too shy/coward/stupid to notice/use them. At least if I fail I could try to rationalise why, if I succeed I could try to rationalise why. Perhaps it doesn't bother you not knowing how things work, but the social mechanism is an interesting one, and very misterious too.
BTW, to game sometimes wants to mean "hunt wild animals", but I suppose you'll dislike this analogy even more.
Why Not "Just Be Yourself"
And apart from navigating that site there's also "Fast Seduction 101: Art of Pick-up and Seduction" that could also help you get laid.
It's not to be taken as a ruleset, it's like shaking your social world's knowledge and take a new view that not only conforms with what you think is right but also with can work for you.
But whatever you do don't say "Just be yourself", it's the lamest thing I've heard and I'm glad I'm past that thing. Hey, it doesn't mean I'm not myself, it simply means that there was a game I didn't know how to play and I know how to play now. Just being yourself does not explain those rules.
Now go out and game som women!