Lack of direction is exactly the issue - I have actually gone back to previous towns to get quests despite what the AC is suggesting. This happened by chance however, happened to be travelling through a village on my way to something else and saw there were new quests, so I've made it a habit since then. And the quests still dry up.
Not sure what the AC is thinking since this is not a unique opinion that I've shared.
It's all fun until around level 17, then the game becomes a grind fest. I'm not at all surprised that their queue issues are going away.. I haven't bothered to log in for a week and I wont be renewing my account. (And yes, I realize the game is already successful in Korea etc. - but they are now selling it to western ex-WoW players and they have screwed up the balance and don't understand their new target audience, imo of course.)
For clarity, by "grind fest", I mean - quests dry up.. even quests like "collect/kill X for [decent amount of XP]" become scarce.
It's amazing to me that all these MMOs that get released have failed so badly. So many WoW players want to leave that game for something different - doesn't even have to be better, but it can't be a steaming pile of shit either. So far WoW is still the only real option for those people. Of course, if I'm wrong feel free to point me at the appropriate game.
None of the advances made by Chrome matter to me until it has Adblock or something as capable (and which doesn't require more effort to set up than firefox+adblock). It looks very interesting and when I tried it, seemed to be a nice browser, but as soon as I noticed all the ads again I closed it and went back to firefox.
And yes I realize Google are an ad company - but no amount of shiny features will make me browse the web without an ad blocker.
Agreed. A Mac port is important to me for any game that requires a large investment of time and money (monthly fee), because while I currently only run Linux and Windows, the Macintelosh has become an interesting beast and I'm probably going to get one in the near to not-so-near future, and whatever MMOCRACK I'm on at the time should be able to move to that (increasingly popular) platform with me. Given the Mac's growing popularity with public figures, I'd say the adoption rate is only going to increase, so any companies ignoring the Mac as a gaming platform would be wise to reconsider their positions.
No this is to do with kernel threads. The userland threading is the same as in FreeBSD 4.x atm, AFAIK. The idea is to keep the model simple, unlike in FreeBSD 5.x where they are having trouble keeping it all sane with their fine-grained mutex model. Have a look at the dragonfly.kernel newsgroup, in nntp.dragonflybsd.org for more details on the SMP model, Matt talks about it regularly earlier on.
This is also my client of choice - it stays out of your way (looks like telnet to the onlooker) and provides good scripting facilities. There is also a port to Windows (which thankfully looks NOTHING like Windows Telnet;), Wintin.
2.6.0-test5-mm3 apparently has a bad snapshot of the XFS code in it. Here's the post from linux-kernel:
From: Steve Lord <lord at sgi dot com> To: Walt H <waltabbyh at comcast dot net> Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, Linux XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs at oss dot sgi dot com>
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 13:08, Walt H wrote: >> Just a follow-up to my earlier post: >> >> I've put in the xfs code from mm2 into the mm3 tree and all files get >> copied and I can manually copy the fstab.backup file afterward. I >> realized that the "rebuilding directory inode 256" was the lost+found >> directory, which contained 4 old zero length files. That was the key. >> XFS under -mm2 doesn't care about old lost+found directories, while -mm3 >> does. If I removed the source lost+found/ and retried rsync's with -mm3, >> it finishes fine and I can copy fstab files. Adding a bogus lost+found >> dir with any file in it at the source, and retrying the rsync will lead >> to a state where I can't overwrite the existing/etc/fstab file at the >> end. So it doesn't look like there's actually any filesystem corruption, >> just a strange bug. Hope that helps, >> >> -Walt >>
If I am correct, test5-mm3 contains a bad version of the xfs code, there was a bug where the i_flags field was setup from an uninitialized stack variable. mm3 came out during the two days this was in Linus's tree. I had some very odd behavior with this code base, rm -r -f would try and cd into files and other bizzare things, files could appear to be immutable or append only or things they were not. This sounds like similar behavior you that you saw. It is fixed in the latest code Linus has.
Steve
So XFS users should probably go with -mm2 for now.
Yes, most of his stuff will make it into mainline, and in fact most of the things which have been tested out in -mm have already made it into mainline (hence why the -mm patchset doesn't increase in size constantly). The more experimental things stay behind until they are acceptable, and then he pushes them to Linus. Works well:-)
I've been using the -mm patchset since 2.5.4x and have been very happy with it. Since it includes the Interactivity patches from Con Kolivas it kicks ass on your desktop, too. Even moreso than the 2.4.x-ck series of patches, which are intended for desktop use. Do note however that it is sometimes more experimental in nature than the mainline kernel, since new functionality is often tested out there first.
None that I know of. However if you're just looking for a journalled filesystem for BSD, there is an effort to port JFS to FreeBSD, however their page has "moved". Used to be here.
While great, this announcement/benchmark/statement does not mean that ReiserFS V4 is ready for production use, just that it is fast. It needs a lot more bug testing before then, so don't rush out and mass-convert to V4 just yet! See here for the full thread, rather than just the first post...
You asked if I have used Portage. I answered your question. Perhaps from the brevity of my response you should have inferred my level of enthusiasm about it...
Enthusiasm isn't the issue here. You detailed a long way to do something which Gentoo does with great ease, which you claimed to be "quite nice" ("I dunno, I think cvsup and portupgrade do the deed quite nicely.").
Then why did you tell me about your own...?
Well if you don't take it out of context:
(And yes I was a FreeBSD user for about a year, and it was great:-) switched back to Linux
because of the Nvidia driver situation back then (I NEED GAMES!), but now that drivers are available I might give it another try soon)
I (obviously) did not want to seem like a hypocrite.
Slashdot Mirror
I love that (currently, at least) the parent is modded Informative.
Seems to be slashdotted, cached version: http://www.skytopia.com.nyud.net:8090/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html
Lack of direction is exactly the issue - I have actually gone back to previous towns to get quests despite what the AC is suggesting. This happened by chance however, happened to be travelling through a village on my way to something else and saw there were new quests, so I've made it a habit since then. And the quests still dry up.
Not sure what the AC is thinking since this is not a unique opinion that I've shared.
This is exactly what Aion did.
It's all fun until around level 17, then the game becomes a grind fest. I'm not at all surprised that their queue issues are going away.. I haven't bothered to log in for a week and I wont be renewing my account. (And yes, I realize the game is already successful in Korea etc. - but they are now selling it to western ex-WoW players and they have screwed up the balance and don't understand their new target audience, imo of course.)
For clarity, by "grind fest", I mean - quests dry up.. even quests like "collect/kill X for [decent amount of XP]" become scarce.
It's amazing to me that all these MMOs that get released have failed so badly. So many WoW players want to leave that game for something different - doesn't even have to be better, but it can't be a steaming pile of shit either. So far WoW is still the only real option for those people. Of course, if I'm wrong feel free to point me at the appropriate game.
None of the advances made by Chrome matter to me until it has Adblock or something as capable (and which doesn't require more effort to set up than firefox+adblock). It looks very interesting and when I tried it, seemed to be a nice browser, but as soon as I noticed all the ads again I closed it and went back to firefox.
And yes I realize Google are an ad company - but no amount of shiny features will make me browse the web without an ad blocker.
Agreed. A Mac port is important to me for any game that requires a large investment of time and money (monthly fee), because while I currently only run Linux and Windows, the Macintelosh has become an interesting beast and I'm probably going to get one in the near to not-so-near future, and whatever MMOCRACK I'm on at the time should be able to move to that (increasingly popular) platform with me. Given the Mac's growing popularity with public figures, I'd say the adoption rate is only going to increase, so any companies ignoring the Mac as a gaming platform would be wise to reconsider their positions.
Cheesus christ man, stop saying ramping up, *please*.
That would be equivalent to the advertising clause in the old BSD license.
Does anyone have a working mirror? None of the sourceforge mirrors seems to be carrying it, or they're just plain slashdotted.
If you read the article, Matt says (about SSI): "It is something that no non-commercial system today can do"...
No this is to do with kernel threads. The userland threading is the same as in FreeBSD 4.x atm, AFAIK. The idea is to keep the model simple, unlike in FreeBSD 5.x where they are having trouble keeping it all sane with their fine-grained mutex model. Have a look at the dragonfly.kernel newsgroup, in nntp.dragonflybsd.org for more details on the SMP model, Matt talks about it regularly earlier on.
This is also my client of choice - it stays out of your way (looks like telnet to the onlooker) and provides good scripting facilities. There is also a port to Windows (which thankfully looks NOTHING like Windows Telnet ;), Wintin.
Could someone set up a Bittorrent repo before it gets utterly slashdotted?
Got a link to these patches?
There is no way currently, but Larry McVoy is working on it, apparently. He's the bitkeeper owner.
Excellent! This has been a long time coming. (btw the link doesn't work - bitkeeper doesn't keep any links the same for very long)
So XFS users should probably go with -mm2 for now.
Sorry, the Con Kolivas link should be kernel.kolivas.org, but you can find the patches on the other one ;-)
Yes, most of his stuff will make it into mainline, and in fact most of the things which have been tested out in -mm have already made it into mainline (hence why the -mm patchset doesn't increase in size constantly). The more experimental things stay behind until they are acceptable, and then he pushes them to Linus. Works well :-)
I've been using the -mm patchset since 2.5.4x and have been very happy with it. Since it includes the Interactivity patches from Con Kolivas it kicks ass on your desktop, too. Even moreso than the 2.4.x-ck series of patches, which are intended for desktop use. Do note however that it is sometimes more experimental in nature than the mainline kernel, since new functionality is often tested out there first.
m /patches/2.6/
If you know how to patch your kernel already, you don't need to read the article, get the patch for your kernel here: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akp
None that I know of. However if you're just looking for a journalled filesystem for BSD, there is an effort to port JFS to FreeBSD, however their page has "moved". Used to be here.
While great, this announcement/benchmark/statement does not mean that ReiserFS V4 is ready for production use, just that it is fast. It needs a lot more bug testing before then, so don't rush out and mass-convert to V4 just yet! See here for the full thread, rather than just the first post...
So what does does the ports collection do that Portage doesn't?
Enthusiasm isn't the issue here. You detailed a long way to do something which Gentoo does with great ease, which you claimed to be "quite nice" ("I dunno, I think cvsup and portupgrade do the deed quite nicely.").
Well if you don't take it out of context:
I (obviously) did not want to seem like a hypocrite.
The parent is _not_ flamebait, I'm serious.