Played the beta, played the 3 day head start, and got to say, I'm enjoying it so far. Compared to existing MMO's, this is/really/ quick to get into. My main game is EQ, and it's true, can spend hours getting things sorted, farming to prepare for playing 'for real'. This is 'log in, select character, go'. Never stop killing stuff, the grind for xp is very well hidden away. Graphics look great, sound is good enough to make me want to keep it on and not turn it off instantly like most mmo's. Now, it/does/ feel like it's a single player game sometimes that other people just happen to also be in running around, but that's probably why it's quick to get into, there's alot you can do without a group. I tried City of Heroes for a bit, that knocked me out for presentation, ease of use, but had little to keep me interested after early teens. I was worried at first in TR as I had that same feeling of 'this is fun, quick to play, great!' and worried that I'd hit the wall of grind/repetitiveness any second, but so far, so good. Plenty of missions/scenery to look at, and the lore of the portals between worlds offers them the chance to spice it up a bit. Seeing big Bots walking around with Chain guns for arms is also giving me incentive to hope that I'll get to drive one soon.
So, yeah, give it a bash, we'll see how it lasts at the mid-high game, but so far, it's had a pretty good start.
Just the memory leaks/crashes after a few hours of play that's the downer atm, sure to be patched soon, but considering some MMO releases (even after 8years), it seems a highly tuned and working game. Most of all, Fun!
Nukers are too risky to use to get it down quicker. They'd be fine if aggro issues weren't a problem. But for a safer/steady kill rate, the holy trinity is definately Tank/Slower/Healer.
All that I can imagine is not that things will be put right, but yet more draconian laws will be put into place to hide the wrongdoings being commited. Honestly, what's more likely; Scenario 1. "Gosh, your right, this is terrible, quick, lets punish those responsible, peel back these awful laws, and put something in place so this can never happen again" Scenario 2. "Quick, enact laws so no-one will ever know about these actions again. Enact laws to punish anyone who leaks this information. Create more layers so that no-one will ever find out what we're doing. And the excuse? Terrorism"
Just made sure I've updated all the machines around here and something struck me; How come every few months of updates, there's another print spooler fix needed? Am I just remembering things wrong? But it seems that every 6 months or so, there's another print spooler security fix needed. Thing is, I don't actually have any printers, made sure the spooler service is turned off (if I could remove it once and for all I'd be happy), and yet I'm still needing fixes for it. Well, I guess it makes sense to patch it just in case, but sheesh, how many times does it need fixing? You'd of thought that they'd of worked it out by now, or is the way Windows prints naturally open to more attacks than most?
I got some glow in the dark paint and painted all the vertex's in my house from the Bedroom to the Bathroom (as well as all the lighswitches around the house). I had a perfect run to the toilet without having to turn the lights back on and be dazed by the light. Worked well, seeing all the edges of the walls, the skirting board, edges of the 2 steps down, one step up. Last remaining problem I had was the toilet itself. In my half awake state, I needed a way to tell if the toilet seat was up or down. Quick writing of 'DOWN' on the lid sorted that out. Was originally going to paint the toilet seat, but ended up paiting a thin line around the porcelain, as it gave a usefull target to aim for, if the glowing line was broken, then I was missing the spot, easy and quick to adjust so the noise of water being hit was heard. Must admit, I did think a nightlight might of been a tag brighter, but I was trying to make it work without using any electricity at all.
Yup, on a recentish contract, we had 7000 drives to clear down. We looked at all the options, and chucking the drives in a waste skip with a load of thermite wasn't THAT much more expensive that the time to wipe the machines down with some LinuxBootdisk that had the option to write 7 times with 00 FF and then random amounts. If you think about the amount of time/energy/manpower to get the machines running the software (took around 80 mins to clear the drives), you can see how the thermite solution isn't as bad as it initially sounds. Assured data destruction. Alas, that plan wasn't finalised (getting hold of enough thermite and the time of taking 7000 drives out meant that there was a slight chance one of the drives wouldn't of made it, so we took the other route, much to my dismay.
Some sort of filtering is going to be needed, and I'm sure the telco's will be happy to sell stuff that needs upgrading every few months. Some sort of enforced Caller ID that tracks IP/no. to the originating country might help a little bit. Definately going to be a problem in the future.
I've not read the book, but how would anyone ever create a program todo this? Surely it would be a bugger to debug... "Send in more programmers, and someone clean up that gray goo leaking onto the keyboards. oh, and train the new batch to use F5* to step through the brain crash code"
*(this is of course assuming that any code able to crash people's brains is written in VB. Too far a stretch of the imagination one hopes)
Nice, lots of sites carrying the news and a link to Google news with the title put in. For a news sites, isn't it a bit too easy to just do this? I read/. to have a bit more of an insight into whats going on, and having links to actual sites carrying the news isn't expecting too much I think. If I wanted to see EVERYTHING related to the news, I'd be quiet capable of doing the search myself. What next, every news item with a link to GNews for more info? If that continues too much, I may as well set my home-page to; http://news.google.com/news?q=news%20for%20ne rds myself and never have to worry abour checking/.
. Bit too lazy guys, at least do a teeny weeny bit of effort, eh?
Aren't they just after the location the pictures/videos were taken to start tracing people? If so, a video would probably be better in many wayas, more frames to take a still image from to start editing.
Ok, who told the Studio execs that there's other ways to make money than just produce a cartoon show? Guess it was downhill from the first DVD, see how long it takes for the Stewey branded Diapers.
Sites down atm (cue Nuke jokes here), but it's gotta be their one button mouse, shorty followed by their excuses that it's all people really need. Really, JUST one button?
The point I'm making is it's been amusing to see how everyone slagged off Everquest (or rather SoE) all the time, with last cries off 'I'm off to play a proper game, WoW for me!', only to discover that all games have these sorts of problems, and that it wasn't as bad as they thought in EQ. Last few expansions have actually gone pretty smooth (always a few patches after, but on the whole it's not too bad recently). As for patches breaking bards, isn't that every single patch? (though we've been promised that we'll be getting fixed in the next patch, honest, chant aggro back how it used to be, weeeee!) At least they never turned away people from the game when it started getting popular and filled up, just opened up a new server, game on!
It's funny to see the bitching going on the WoW boards, probably all the whiners who left EQ are coming back with tails between their legs going 'hey, eq wasn't as bad as we thought it was' People forget how well eq actually holds up, apart from the collision/gfx issues mid last year, the servers are up alot, downtime is incredibly rare.
This really isn't that new. The form asks where you're going to be staying, have you been on any farms recently, have you commited any warcrimes under the Geneva convention (I kid you not). Pretty standard stuff really. Been quizzed quite intently at immigration in Dulles a few times by on the ball officers who noticed I'd put the wrong zip code on once, and actually put the correct street name on another (the officer lived close by and commented that even locals spell the name wrong, thus it was suspicious that I, as a visitor, got it right!). I have to have my piccy taken, and fingerprints too. Nothing to see here, move along...
Wish I was witty enought to come up with a pun using the ISP name of Panix, and something in a calamity, like, being in a Panic or something. Anyone got a good pun?
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Played the beta, played the 3 day head start, and got to say, I'm enjoying it so far. /really/ quick to get into. /does/ feel like it's a single player game sometimes that other people just happen to also be in running around, but that's probably why it's quick to get into, there's alot you can do without a group.
Compared to existing MMO's, this is
My main game is EQ, and it's true, can spend hours getting things sorted, farming to prepare for playing 'for real'. This is 'log in, select character, go'. Never stop killing stuff, the grind for xp is very well hidden away.
Graphics look great, sound is good enough to make me want to keep it on and not turn it off instantly like most mmo's.
Now, it
I tried City of Heroes for a bit, that knocked me out for presentation, ease of use, but had little to keep me interested after early teens. I was worried at first in TR as I had that same feeling of 'this is fun, quick to play, great!' and worried that I'd hit the wall of grind/repetitiveness any second, but so far, so good. Plenty of missions/scenery to look at, and the lore of the portals between worlds offers them the chance to spice it up a bit. Seeing big Bots walking around with Chain guns for arms is also giving me incentive to hope that I'll get to drive one soon.
So, yeah, give it a bash, we'll see how it lasts at the mid-high game, but so far, it's had a pretty good start.
Just the memory leaks/crashes after a few hours of play that's the downer atm, sure to be patched soon, but considering some MMO releases (even after 8years), it seems a highly tuned and working game.
Most of all,
Fun!
That'll be the ones Rumsfeld sold him, yes?
only 70+ days played and 30 hours a week?
Bah, noob. Whatever you can say about WoW, EQ does it bigger(better/worse, cross off accordingly).
"Seagate's Barracuda-7200.10" Would that be Babararacucudada
Tank/Slower/Healer
Nukers are too risky to use to get it down quicker. They'd be fine if aggro issues weren't a problem. But for a safer/steady kill rate, the holy trinity is definately Tank/Slower/Healer.
All that I can imagine is not that things will be put right, but yet more draconian laws will be put into place to hide the wrongdoings being commited.
Honestly, what's more likely;
Scenario 1.
"Gosh, your right, this is terrible, quick, lets punish those responsible, peel back these awful laws, and put something in place so this can never happen again"
Scenario 2.
"Quick, enact laws so no-one will ever know about these actions again. Enact laws to punish anyone who leaks this information. Create more layers so that no-one will ever find out what we're doing. And the excuse? Terrorism"
Mauve? You do realise this means changing the bulb
Just made sure I've updated all the machines around here and something struck me; How come every few months of updates, there's another print spooler fix needed? Am I just remembering things wrong? But it seems that every 6 months or so, there's another print spooler security fix needed.
Thing is, I don't actually have any printers, made sure the spooler service is turned off (if I could remove it once and for all I'd be happy), and yet I'm still needing fixes for it. Well, I guess it makes sense to patch it just in case, but sheesh, how many times does it need fixing? You'd of thought that they'd of worked it out by now, or is the way Windows prints naturally open to more attacks than most?
Ah, you must be new here.
(sorry)
I'm just waiting for when it comes back as a near omnipotent being and starts demanding to see it's creator.
Oh dear. You lot are arguing syntax over something that was just to make a point.
that ISN'T sexy to the opposite sex, no, really.
Any chance of a re-compile of Win3.1?
Wouldn't mind seeing it run off a ramdisk, on a 2 gb ram machine, and a 4Ghz processor.
I got some glow in the dark paint and painted all the vertex's in my house from the Bedroom to the Bathroom (as well as all the lighswitches around the house). I had a perfect run to the toilet without having to turn the lights back on and be dazed by the light. Worked well, seeing all the edges of the walls, the skirting board, edges of the 2 steps down, one step up. Last remaining problem I had was the toilet itself. In my half awake state, I needed a way to tell if the toilet seat was up or down. Quick writing of 'DOWN' on the lid sorted that out. Was originally going to paint the toilet seat, but ended up paiting a thin line around the porcelain, as it gave a usefull target to aim for, if the glowing line was broken, then I was missing the spot, easy and quick to adjust so the noise of water being hit was heard.
Must admit, I did think a nightlight might of been a tag brighter, but I was trying to make it work without using any electricity at all.
Not sure this plan will hold water. I hope they've weighed all the options.
Yup, on a recentish contract, we had 7000 drives to clear down. We looked at all the options, and chucking the drives in a waste skip with a load of thermite wasn't THAT much more expensive that the time to wipe the machines down with some LinuxBootdisk that had the option to write 7 times with 00 FF and then random amounts. If you think about the amount of time/energy/manpower to get the machines running the software (took around 80 mins to clear the drives), you can see how the thermite solution isn't as bad as it initially sounds. Assured data destruction.
Alas, that plan wasn't finalised (getting hold of enough thermite and the time of taking 7000 drives out meant that there was a slight chance one of the drives wouldn't of made it, so we took the other route, much to my dismay.
Thermite, only way to be sure.
Some sort of filtering is going to be needed, and I'm sure the telco's will be happy to sell stuff that needs upgrading every few months. Some sort of enforced Caller ID that tracks IP/no. to the originating country might help a little bit. Definately going to be a problem in the future.
I've not read the book, but how would anyone ever create a program todo this? Surely it would be a bugger to debug...
"Send in more programmers, and someone clean up that gray goo leaking onto the keyboards. oh, and train the new batch to use F5* to step through the brain crash code"
*(this is of course assuming that any code able to crash people's brains is written in VB. Too far a stretch of the imagination one hopes)
Nice, lots of sites carrying the news and a link to Google news with the title put in. For a news sites, isn't it a bit too easy to just do this? I read /. to have a bit more of an insight into whats going on, and having links to actual sites carrying the news isn't expecting too much I think. If I wanted to see EVERYTHING related to the news, I'd be quiet capable of doing the search myself. What next, every news item with a link to GNews for more info? If that continues too much, I may as well set my home-page to;e rds /.
http://news.google.com/news?q=news%20for%20n
myself and never have to worry abour checking
. Bit too lazy guys, at least do a teeny weeny bit of effort, eh?
Aren't they just after the location the pictures/videos were taken to start tracing people? If so, a video would probably be better in many wayas, more frames to take a still image from to start editing.
Ok, who told the Studio execs that there's other ways to make money than just produce a cartoon show?
Guess it was downhill from the first DVD, see how long it takes for the Stewey branded Diapers.
Sites down atm (cue Nuke jokes here), but it's gotta be their one button mouse, shorty followed by their excuses that it's all people really need.
Really, JUST one button?
The point I'm making is it's been amusing to see how everyone slagged off Everquest (or rather SoE) all the time, with last cries off 'I'm off to play a proper game, WoW for me!', only to discover that all games have these sorts of problems, and that it wasn't as bad as they thought in EQ. Last few expansions have actually gone pretty smooth (always a few patches after, but on the whole it's not too bad recently). As for patches breaking bards, isn't that every single patch? (though we've been promised that we'll be getting fixed in the next patch, honest, chant aggro back how it used to be, weeeee!)
At least they never turned away people from the game when it started getting popular and filled up, just opened up a new server, game on!
It's funny to see the bitching going on the WoW boards, probably all the whiners who left EQ are coming back with tails between their legs going 'hey, eq wasn't as bad as we thought it was'
People forget how well eq actually holds up, apart from the collision/gfx issues mid last year, the servers are up alot, downtime is incredibly rare.
This really isn't that new. The form asks where you're going to be staying, have you been on any farms recently, have you commited any warcrimes under the Geneva convention (I kid you not). Pretty standard stuff really. Been quizzed quite intently at immigration in Dulles a few times by on the ball officers who noticed I'd put the wrong zip code on once, and actually put the correct street name on another (the officer lived close by and commented that even locals spell the name wrong, thus it was suspicious that I, as a visitor, got it right!).
I have to have my piccy taken, and fingerprints too. Nothing to see here, move along...
Wish I was witty enought to come up with a pun using the ISP name of Panix, and something in a calamity, like, being in a Panic or something.
Anyone got a good pun?