DDO seems to have dropped crafting altogether. Bad news for those who like a player run economy but at least it saves them a lot of problems. Since no game has ever gotten it right before.
Despite having a _steep_ learning curve, Eve does seem to have gotten the player run economy right.
The problem is not with the game, it is with how you want to play a game.
Your criticism is Useless and meaningless. You cannot criticize an SUV for not going really really fast, and you should not critizice an MMO for not playing like a single-player RPG.
It almost seems incomplete without a similar line about "whaaaa - I paid for the game at the store why do I have to keep paying each month - whaaaaa" (though there are doubtlessly a few dozen of those posted below, no doubt)
Unfortunately, this moronic ejaculation by all three of you completely qualifies you to write game reviews for a living. Congratulations.
It is nearly impossible to get an objective or head-to-head review of triathlon gear from either of the two major publications - Inside Triathlon or Triathlete Magazine.
The latest example was a review of the latest wetsuits. No word on what they thought was best - nor were there any negative words about ANY of them. Absolutly useless.
And as you flip through the magazines - over half advertising - you never find a negative word about any equipment.
There are a lot of debates between the lower-weight versus better aerodynamics for bikes - but they NEVER do a head to head to show which bike is tops. Does that have something to do with not ever wanting to say something bad about the people paying for three of the four covers on the magazine?
This is probably less of an issue for the gaming zines in question. Do GOOD reviews with GOOD articles and snappy writing and people will go to you - and let the adword-types pay your bills. The more savage a reviewer is known to be, the more readers he tends to have, and the advertising services of Google/Yahoo/MS don't care what you say about them or their games (in the case of MS - hell, they even advertise here on hashpot, home of the MS Haters).
It's not the nature of capitalism so much as the nature of economies of scale.
It is the incentive for growth - Walmart, Starbucks, everyone, all started with one store and grew to leverage economies of scale. The only place you DON'T see it is where there is no need to succeed to remain in existence - namely the government (with the exception of the military, which does have a genuine survival instinct and much in common with the business world in that way).
One difference - and the difference that is at the heart of the initial complaint, is that there is no upfront expense of using Janus/PlayforSure. Another big difference is that when you decide to start paying again, it is still there for you. (And if you REALLY want to own it, you can actually buy it FOREVER at 80% of what you would pay for on Itunes.)
Maybe you should compare Europeans to white Americans alone.
62 mill is another lie. If you are poor, you have medicaid, particularly children. And really, if you are an adult without healthcare, either you don't want it or you need to get a job that offers it and stop whining.
AAHH. I made a mistake. Your name - I should have known nothing you would say would be anything other than lies. Not replying anymore. Your typical tactic is to just bury people under your excrement of deceptions.
You had to cast (IIRC) about 8 spells on each of those ten pieces of armor. Then you had to cast about another 20 spells on yourself, then maybe another couple on your casting implement, plus a bunch of mana management spells to make all of that possible.
Yes, there was an offset, but Turbine could have easily accomdated by making Decal PART of the game or better incorporating it. They didn't realize that the decal was what made their game playable.
I created a CMS from scratch almost a year ago as I needed it for a client's website I was developing (new to the business, you see). Since then it has seen seven implementations for different website and all seem pretty happy with it. It is fairly *ugly* to look at but very quick and capable. There are some upgrades I am going to make to it, but essentially it is a php/Mysql combo.
It is multi-user with different priviledges for each user environment and has unlimited depth/breadth functionality as it relies on a recursive database for content. I also throw in FCKEditor as a WYSIWIG so you don't need to know HTML at all to use the thing.
It seems to me it was easier to create my own than try to master 'Mambo' or whatever else is out there. I would figure the OSS types would be competent enough to design their own system.
Not sure I'd call that an interview, but rather a fishing expedition for dirt and blame.
But that's what made it such an interesting read. It almost reads well enough to be fiction. You come away from it with a good sense of the main players (Dave, Ego, Ado) and can identify those people with others you may know. And Ado getting punched in the face.... he so had that coming.
Questions seemeed to go in circles, but it was an amusing read, especially for those with appreciation for software and especially game development.
Actually, no, it's not well conducted. It was a poorly conducted interview with a lot of repeating of the same question. Fortunately the subject (the person) being interviewed made up for it.
Whell, SOE sure learned a lot from EQ2 and SWG - are you looking forward to signing up to their next learning experience?
Look, just saying, if you are a hard core DND guy you are probably going to at least try the demo. Everyone else should probably find something else.
Sounds great, excpt for the Turbine part
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Turbine's involvement with this project is problematic. While AC was very revolutionary for it's day and had a tremendous amount of creativity (and creative use of an extremely limited game engine), Turbine did not do a good job of avoiding pain in the rear issues for players.
There are a lot of routine tasks that outside third parties made applications to help with. I'm not talking about gold farming, but more like efficient self-spell casting. For every thirty minutes to hour of play in AC, you had to spend approximately 5 or more minutes 'buffing' yourself with spells - at least, when done efficiently with the third party app, the buffing was done very efficiently. Doing it manually could take up to twice as long and could also require you to waste spell slots on your casting bar. When the app was buffing you, you could take that as an opportunity to chat with your party - doing it manually? no chatting.
So every month Turbine would BREAK this app with their update. Finally the developer got tired of fixing it every month and quit. This also blew other apps for quickly sizing up what treasure is valuable (Turbine would often dump 200+ pieces of treasure in front of you and expect you to take 1 minute to sort through all of it - 95% trash - before it decomposed on you).
If I ever was going to go back to AC, the lack of Decal (and Turbine's decision not just not to incorporate these applications into the game but to permanently break the third party apps) means I definitly can't go back and I am not alone.
Actually, the example you give is not of Evolution but of Natural Selection. Were it actually Evolution it would constitute 'proof' and of that there is none.
For the people that universal health care would have helped, $70 is a week's groceries- or a week's heating bill. When you're too poor to invest, you're too poor to lobby.
I scraped the money up I got from mowing lawns. I was 14 at the time and it was important and educational to me.
You really can't lecture me or anyone else about humanity. Socialist medicine is ruinous to a nation's healthcare system and it's medical research and the economy. Everyone in Europe is realizing this and also in Australia where they are pushing for more private inscentives. But I'm not going to get in the dumpster with you and debate Marxist medicine with you. You already lost that debate and I won - way back in 1993. And you got a Republican House and Senate, now in it's tenth year, all for your troubles.
Besides, if you dislike it so much, why don't you move somewhere else... PLEASE. And no, you don't work for a living. I'm not falling for that.
Both of which probably required more money than the average citizen can lay his hands on. But what a selfish prick you are- destroying the health of millions so that your socio-economic class can be taxed less.
Actually, the first one didn't cost me anything and the second thing cost me $70 for 1500 fliers.
Technically, we weren't lobbying against 'a plan' but we were lobbying against provisions in the plan that would kill unborn children and euthanize (a pretty European word for kill) elderly people at taxpayer expense.
Further, my family was so poor at the time that I think the socio-economic class I was in at the time was paying almost no taxes - and the Church's who distributed them (including several all-black congregations) were in the same boat as us - but we didn't think those in higher socio-economic classes should have their earned wealth looted from them, especially to pay to kill off other people.
So was Cartman right? Are you a 'college educated hippie?' - the worse kind? Don't you have a drum circle to attend? You really know nothing, and you don't know that you know nothing about nothing, which would make you dangerous, but you don't do anything but rant on/., which makes you impotent (thankfully).
I would be in the same boat as you but it is irrelevant because I couldn't buy a 360 if I wanted one. If people who want to buy one cannot, and it is selling for 2x retail on Ebay, the launch has to be catagorized as a disaster.
The other games for me would be Oblivion and possibly Gears of War. I'm not sure where it is going though- whether it would be the next Halo or the next Brute Force (a good game, but not a great one).
The problem for this Rent cast member, living in SOHO of all places and complaining about 'corporate billboards', is that someone actually got paid to put this up, rather than being your typical crack head putting it up, which would be A-OK with him.
Most Senators/Representatives view their election as a mandate to carry out their predispotions as they wish- after all the educated electorate knew all about their opinions when they were elected, right?
Sounds fine to me. And it sounds like you don't have a very good Senator. I was in a seminar with a guy who did a study on how Congress handles constituent contact and they normally keep tallies on issues and they can be influential. They also almost always give a reply. But one letter is just one letter - if you want influence, you need to organize your precinct and run for precinct president, be a delegate to your county and state convention, and really learn how to fight for your issues.
I (US Citizen) live in a Democratic Republic, not a Democracy. The point is- Corporations tend to have easier ways for and individual shareholder to get an issue on a proxy ballot than you or I have of actually affecting the way the US government is run.
Not really. Even before I was old enough to vote I organized a group of fellow students, also not old enough to vote, and petitioned our city council to pass an ordinance banning public display of obscenity on clothing. Also, before I could vote, I circulated pamplets on defeating the Clinton healthcare plan throughout my town and got hundreds of letters (which actually do count) into federal representatives urging them to oppose the plan. That battle was won, too.
In college I did a study of comments submitted to a regulatory agency (they all have public comment periods) and saw exactly how they did influence rule making.
Ultimately, if a public policy issue IS important enough to you, you will be heard and can have an effect. But that takes effort, and most who whine about it on message boards rarely have any interest in putting in that effort. You know, Bush is Hitler, no war for oil, but Lost is on tonight....
When was the last time that a political representative asked all (or even a modest percentage) of his constituants on a particular issue?
Yeah, just as dumb as I thought you were.
They do this every two/four/six years depending on what office they are in. They ask all of their constituents 'Do you like the job I am doing?'
And anyone is welcome to tell their representative what they think. When was the last time you wrote your representative knew what you think? I doubt you can even name all three of them, much less those for your state gov. I don't even think you are registered to vote.
You are so out of touch that letting you vote would be dangerous. You had to go look up what a corporation was? Yet you wrote a lot of crap about how you are the expert on them and whatever? You're like the guy from the Southpark episode - 'college educated hippy.' The WORSE kind.
The way the parent posted, you would have thought that corporations had political power - when all political power is in the hands, for better or worse, of citizens. Corporations cannot vote _at all_.
I doubt most people here even realy know what a corp is.
This stuff is cool, but I think that the reason it works is because the virtual corporations still require player support. In the real world, corporations have managed to turn the tables on citizens, so that now the corporations interests supercepe that of citizens.
Sounds like you don't exactly exist in the real world either - maybe Michael Moore's fantasy world.
All public corporations in the US are owned by citizens. Everything from Wal-Mart to Haliburton (in which Moore owns stock) to MS to whatever boogie man you fantasize about.
If you feel alianated and out of control of your own life, it's not some corp's fault, it's your own.
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Despite having a _steep_ learning curve, Eve does seem to have gotten the player run economy right.
The problem is not with the game, it is with how you want to play a game.
Your criticism is Useless and meaningless. You cannot criticize an SUV for not going really really fast, and you should not critizice an MMO for not playing like a single-player RPG.
It almost seems incomplete without a similar line about "whaaaa - I paid for the game at the store why do I have to keep paying each month - whaaaaa" (though there are doubtlessly a few dozen of those posted below, no doubt)
Unfortunately, this moronic ejaculation by all three of you completely qualifies you to write game reviews for a living. Congratulations.
But sadly, it's not. It has a BALL in it you need to CLEAN because it picks up DUST?
I can understand not being wireless - there is often a slight delay in wirelss mice that can be, well, fat1l.
But an old fashion dirty ball mouse is unexcusable for what this is suppose to be.
The latest example was a review of the latest wetsuits. No word on what they thought was best - nor were there any negative words about ANY of them. Absolutly useless.
And as you flip through the magazines - over half advertising - you never find a negative word about any equipment.
There are a lot of debates between the lower-weight versus better aerodynamics for bikes - but they NEVER do a head to head to show which bike is tops. Does that have something to do with not ever wanting to say something bad about the people paying for three of the four covers on the magazine?
This is probably less of an issue for the gaming zines in question. Do GOOD reviews with GOOD articles and snappy writing and people will go to you - and let the adword-types pay your bills. The more savage a reviewer is known to be, the more readers he tends to have, and the advertising services of Google/Yahoo/MS don't care what you say about them or their games (in the case of MS - hell, they even advertise here on hashpot, home of the MS Haters).
It is the incentive for growth - Walmart, Starbucks, everyone, all started with one store and grew to leverage economies of scale. The only place you DON'T see it is where there is no need to succeed to remain in existence - namely the government (with the exception of the military, which does have a genuine survival instinct and much in common with the business world in that way).
That was quiet good. You have some talent. Have you tried standup?
That programming time for them is probably better invested in D&D - or even the original AC.
You seem to assume there was a server population available to observe this?
One difference - and the difference that is at the heart of the initial complaint, is that there is no upfront expense of using Janus/PlayforSure. Another big difference is that when you decide to start paying again, it is still there for you. (And if you REALLY want to own it, you can actually buy it FOREVER at 80% of what you would pay for on Itunes.)
62 mill is another lie. If you are poor, you have medicaid, particularly children. And really, if you are an adult without healthcare, either you don't want it or you need to get a job that offers it and stop whining.
AAHH. I made a mistake. Your name - I should have known nothing you would say would be anything other than lies. Not replying anymore. Your typical tactic is to just bury people under your excrement of deceptions.
Yes, there was an offset, but Turbine could have easily accomdated by making Decal PART of the game or better incorporating it. They didn't realize that the decal was what made their game playable.
I created a CMS from scratch almost a year ago as I needed it for a client's website I was developing (new to the business, you see). Since then it has seen seven implementations for different website and all seem pretty happy with it. It is fairly *ugly* to look at but very quick and capable. There are some upgrades I am going to make to it, but essentially it is a php/Mysql combo.
It is multi-user with different priviledges for each user environment and has unlimited depth/breadth functionality as it relies on a recursive database for content. I also throw in FCKEditor as a WYSIWIG so you don't need to know HTML at all to use the thing.
It seems to me it was easier to create my own than try to master 'Mambo' or whatever else is out there. I would figure the OSS types would be competent enough to design their own system.
But that's what made it such an interesting read. It almost reads well enough to be fiction. You come away from it with a good sense of the main players (Dave, Ego, Ado) and can identify those people with others you may know. And Ado getting punched in the face.... he so had that coming.
Questions seemeed to go in circles, but it was an amusing read, especially for those with appreciation for software and especially game development.
Actually, no, it's not well conducted. It was a poorly conducted interview with a lot of repeating of the same question. Fortunately the subject (the person) being interviewed made up for it.
Look, just saying, if you are a hard core DND guy you are probably going to at least try the demo. Everyone else should probably find something else.
There are a lot of routine tasks that outside third parties made applications to help with. I'm not talking about gold farming, but more like efficient self-spell casting. For every thirty minutes to hour of play in AC, you had to spend approximately 5 or more minutes 'buffing' yourself with spells - at least, when done efficiently with the third party app, the buffing was done very efficiently. Doing it manually could take up to twice as long and could also require you to waste spell slots on your casting bar. When the app was buffing you, you could take that as an opportunity to chat with your party - doing it manually? no chatting.
So every month Turbine would BREAK this app with their update. Finally the developer got tired of fixing it every month and quit. This also blew other apps for quickly sizing up what treasure is valuable (Turbine would often dump 200+ pieces of treasure in front of you and expect you to take 1 minute to sort through all of it - 95% trash - before it decomposed on you).
If I ever was going to go back to AC, the lack of Decal (and Turbine's decision not just not to incorporate these applications into the game but to permanently break the third party apps) means I definitly can't go back and I am not alone.
Actually, the example you give is not of Evolution but of Natural Selection. Were it actually Evolution it would constitute 'proof' and of that there is none.
I scraped the money up I got from mowing lawns. I was 14 at the time and it was important and educational to me.
You really can't lecture me or anyone else about humanity. Socialist medicine is ruinous to a nation's healthcare system and it's medical research and the economy. Everyone in Europe is realizing this and also in Australia where they are pushing for more private inscentives. But I'm not going to get in the dumpster with you and debate Marxist medicine with you. You already lost that debate and I won - way back in 1993. And you got a Republican House and Senate, now in it's tenth year, all for your troubles.
Besides, if you dislike it so much, why don't you move somewhere else ... PLEASE. And no, you don't work for a living. I'm not falling for that.
Actually, the first one didn't cost me anything and the second thing cost me $70 for 1500 fliers.
Technically, we weren't lobbying against 'a plan' but we were lobbying against provisions in the plan that would kill unborn children and euthanize (a pretty European word for kill) elderly people at taxpayer expense.
Further, my family was so poor at the time that I think the socio-economic class I was in at the time was paying almost no taxes - and the Church's who distributed them (including several all-black congregations) were in the same boat as us - but we didn't think those in higher socio-economic classes should have their earned wealth looted from them, especially to pay to kill off other people.
So was Cartman right? Are you a 'college educated hippie?' - the worse kind? Don't you have a drum circle to attend? You really know nothing, and you don't know that you know nothing about nothing, which would make you dangerous, but you don't do anything but rant on /., which makes you impotent (thankfully).
The other games for me would be Oblivion and possibly Gears of War. I'm not sure where it is going though- whether it would be the next Halo or the next Brute Force (a good game, but not a great one).
The problem for this Rent cast member, living in SOHO of all places and complaining about 'corporate billboards', is that someone actually got paid to put this up, rather than being your typical crack head putting it up, which would be A-OK with him.
Sounds fine to me. And it sounds like you don't have a very good Senator. I was in a seminar with a guy who did a study on how Congress handles constituent contact and they normally keep tallies on issues and they can be influential. They also almost always give a reply. But one letter is just one letter - if you want influence, you need to organize your precinct and run for precinct president, be a delegate to your county and state convention, and really learn how to fight for your issues.
I (US Citizen) live in a Democratic Republic, not a Democracy. The point is- Corporations tend to have easier ways for and individual shareholder to get an issue on a proxy ballot than you or I have of actually affecting the way the US government is run.
Not really. Even before I was old enough to vote I organized a group of fellow students, also not old enough to vote, and petitioned our city council to pass an ordinance banning public display of obscenity on clothing. Also, before I could vote, I circulated pamplets on defeating the Clinton healthcare plan throughout my town and got hundreds of letters (which actually do count) into federal representatives urging them to oppose the plan. That battle was won, too.
In college I did a study of comments submitted to a regulatory agency (they all have public comment periods) and saw exactly how they did influence rule making.
Ultimately, if a public policy issue IS important enough to you, you will be heard and can have an effect. But that takes effort, and most who whine about it on message boards rarely have any interest in putting in that effort. You know, Bush is Hitler, no war for oil, but Lost is on tonight....
Yeah, just as dumb as I thought you were.
They do this every two/four/six years depending on what office they are in. They ask all of their constituents 'Do you like the job I am doing?'
And anyone is welcome to tell their representative what they think. When was the last time you wrote your representative knew what you think? I doubt you can even name all three of them, much less those for your state gov. I don't even think you are registered to vote.
You are so out of touch that letting you vote would be dangerous. You had to go look up what a corporation was? Yet you wrote a lot of crap about how you are the expert on them and whatever? You're like the guy from the Southpark episode - 'college educated hippy.' The WORSE kind.
I doubt most people here even realy know what a corp is.
Sounds like you don't exactly exist in the real world either - maybe Michael Moore's fantasy world.
All public corporations in the US are owned by citizens. Everything from Wal-Mart to Haliburton (in which Moore owns stock) to MS to whatever boogie man you fantasize about.
If you feel alianated and out of control of your own life, it's not some corp's fault, it's your own.