Also please explain to me how, with all the choices you could make in say Baulders Gate, you got to not fight the boss at the end? These are the two quickest examples I can think of. Another would be FFX-2, where if you screw up in like the first 5 minutes (or anywhere, really) you get a different ending?
I guess I just suck but the end fight for ToB is FREAKING IMPOSSIBLE. By the time I get to the end I've used up all my spells and practically get one shotted. It's been over a year since I've fired it up to get owned again but good grief that's a nasty fight. Myeh, maybe I should just give in, reinstall, and use Gamefaqs.com
Further to add, for tank and pull there's {Shield}{Party}, or just {provoke}{Can I have it?} and {Fishing}{Monster}, I've seen both English and JP's use those terms. perfect? no, usable? hell yes. Have fun talking with your Japanese / French co-players in WoW. Oh wait, don't they have seperate servers for different countries?
Eh? Crappy? I just organized an Optical Hat run with French, English, and Japanese players, and was quite succesful. How'd I do it?
{Optical hat} {Do You Need It?} 14/18 {White Mage} {Can I have It}
Wow, that is such a crappy setup, I mean, how can ANYONE understand that, when each of those words is translated into the language of the player.
Sorry, but from someone that's actually played this game quite well, the Auto Translator while not perfect does the job, does the job better then any other game out there that I've seen, INCLUDING WoW.
Each to their own, can't argue with the success of WoW, but I hardly consider FFXI a dismail experimental failure you seem to feel it is. I rather enjoy the fact that I can talk to someone in japan and actually COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. Unlike WoW, where all you can do is/spit or whatever the command is (that's considered global how?). I can log into my FFXI server at pretty much anytime of day and instead of finding a population 1/2 what it normally is, it's always roughly the same level.
This is a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario... what's the biggest complaint about games with multiple endings? People feel cheated if they don't have the time to invest in seeing every ending or complain that a choice they made in hour 1 affects the outcome in hour 20. If you make it linear, you make THOSE people happy, but you also make the camp your sitting in unhappy because it's so linear. Who's right? Both are. The answer? There is none. There will always be games with multiple endings and there will always be games with single endings because both feed a specific group. Games industry will die as soon as the movie industry or music industry will die. Never. Change yes, shrink sure, die no.
To be perfectly honest, next time my parents need to upgrade, which won't be for awhile, if things don't change it's going to be Apple products... tired of providing tech support for stupid things, while Apple's seem to just work, and just work right. Even simple stuff like sharing a printer seems to be nothing but a headache in Windows. Who knows, my dad need's Office for compatability with his clients, but maybe I should look at CrossOver or whatever the Wine port for Office is and have them run a locked down version of Linux.
I'll second that! When I saw Genesis I nearly drooled... I grew up on the sega side, started with the SMS, moved to Genesis, then nothing until PS2 many years later. I wonder if any SMS games will be on (and I'm probably one of two people that would actually care to see that but oh well:D)
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Ya, but this is one less barrier... and I don't see how PAL vs NTSC is Sony's fault.
I tried this out last night, and it's amazing. Some of the effects I've kinda hacked with fvwm, but this is a whole new playing field. Unlike other software I've tried that does some of what XGL does, this actually does it fast and well. I'm really tempted to try this on my gentoo box, but i'm unsure about the stability, anyone use XGL day to day? I know it's not ready for public release but I want it NOW:-)
I typed in FFXI, about half of the top 10 results returned involved selling gil (gold), in google I got no gil selling on the first page (other then the ad's, which are both full of gil sellers)
I do like the infinite scroll idea instead of paging tho.
Man wish I knew about that, that sounds like it would have been fun. Nothing like listening to the tape recorder go on for like 20 minutes loading up the data for this tho!
We never had that joystick, instead we had some black and red unit that worked really well. We also had two blue white and black ones, that never worked... I'm thinking it was designed for another computer system but was way too young at the time to figure that out. No idea the make of those.
Explain that to someone that needs a database built in a day or two, and plan to use it on a standalone Laptop. Access is much better then a "real" database when it comes to Rapid Application Development. Sometimes all you want is something quick and dirty, and not to mention "pretty" I'd rather go that route then a full blown SQL database. Yes you may not follow all the database rules with an Access database, but sometimes it doesn't really matter for very small instances.
No I totally get it. 100%. Even if your logic was correct, What's left? a destroyed economy. Observe:
Pre official sanctioned selling of gil:
Little Johnny, an mmo noob, creates a character, starts with 100 gil. Knows nothing about gil selling.
Squareenix sells gil:
Little Johnny, an mmo noob, creates a character. He chooses the "start me with 5 million gil for $20!" option. Now instead of having money as a limited option, he hsa 5 million gil. Does that actually make him richer? No. Because almost everyone else has 5 million gil to start with, because it's so cheap. So what used to sell for 50 gil, now sells for 2.5mil. The crystals he farms, that would have gone for 1000 gil... well.. 1000 gil is worth a fraction of a penny, so now he sells it for 50million gil. What have we created? A worthless gil. Yeah, no more gil farmers, but no more economy either. GOOD JOB!!!
However, the POINT YOUR MISSING, is this. Why do people sell gil? to make a profit. So Little Johnny, now a vertern, decides to "sell his account" does Squareenix buy it? Or does he sell it to IGE? Should Squareenix get into the business of buying gil and characters and items then? If so all we've done is turned SE into IGE, except stuff is even CHEAPER then IGE (and lately the problem is that IGE prices have been dropping) and not removed the problem with inflation.
I don't major in ecomomics, but I think i "get it" better then you do.
I believe I could stop gold farming today, right this minute
No problem that's existed for over 10 years can be solved in under a minute. Let's go deeper tho.
Perhaps the reason this hasn't been implemented is not that there's a secret agreement between gold sellers and the game makers, but because things are in fact more complex then your making it?
Here it is:
don't allow large sums to be received through the mail from sources that don't receive anything in return
Sooo. Last night, because my friend is on dialup, I agreed to bazaar (sell off my character by leaving him logged in, a fully legal thing to do) an item that takes a long time to sell. So she gave me an item, with nothing in return, to my level 1 mule that I tried to sell with. It did'nt sell, I gave it back to her, and she ended up selling it anyways. She then decided to be nice and give me a small percentage of the sale. So she again gave me something "for nothing" In your world her kindness and mine would be returned with a ban or something like that. Wow, great idea.
Or let's make it even simpler. Two friends play. Friend A has a birthday, friend be buys the sword of l33t+4 for them as a gift. Friend B is 30 levels higher then friend b. BZZT BAN!
Or, your "but low level's should'nt have a sword of l33t" argument.. what about Guild banks? My level 1 mule stores the gold / items for my group. Is that wrong? What if I start a new character. I sell all my stuff, give it to a friend, create a character, and get the gold back. Is that wrong? And what if a level 30 gets 30 gold by farming for 3 months? Or do you set an "allowable" limit, where anyone going over that will be denied trade rights for a certain time, or banned? Who sets the ban? What if there's a legal excepetion? What if inflation makes the ban level too low? too high? Who monitors? What if they start trading items to get around it, that are in turn sold for gold?
Sorry, I've heard these "simple fix solves all" solutions before, and if you actually try and work out the details... they just don't work or are more unmanagable then the old ways. Want an example? Try Star Wars Galaxies, where they made things simpler, but not better.
... not to flame but... um. NO. The problem with inflation in FFXI recently is because gil prices got disgustingly LOW. Basically if you make a million gil sell for $5, it's worth $5. If you make a million gil sell for $10, it's worth $10. So by making the money CHEAPER, your DEFLATING the VALUE of gil. Which basically leads to where FFXI is. Gil can be bought for so low, that what used to cost 8 million a month ago now costs 24 million. Remember, the people setting prices are the players. So if the players can get 20 million gil for almost nothing, then 20 million gil will be worth almost nothing. Yeah, your solution "print more money, and everyone has more money!" doesn't work in real life or the virtual one.
Using a proxy isn't that exciting, A lot of Palm based browsers do that.. What's amazing is that it works on so many devices, and works so damn well. The fact it's massively small is icing on the cake. personally I don't use it, but it sure beats a lot of alternatives.
Depends on how important reliability is... generally SCSI means better support and warrenties, and hard drives designed to run 24x7. Hard drives that are targeted to the desktop user are designed for desktops, not servers. However if you have a good backup system, and you simply can't afford SCSI, then ya SATA would be your best bet. An example of that is my home server... no WAY I'm forking over a few thousand dollars just to serve my personal files:P
Nope, my Axim isn't remotely a smart phone (I wish) you just have to be running Windows Mobile 5 or Windows Mobile 2003 (which for older devices does mean your sol I believe)
Note this is not the same as the mobile browser listed in the article... that one uses Java and will run on almost anything that uses Java. This one is actually an application written for the Pocket PC. I used the one that this slashdot article is talking about on my Palm Treo 600 (not for long tho, found it slow and too basic) For my new Axim x51v I use the Pocket PC version.
As for is this a reason to not buy a smartphone? Uhhhh No.
I recently had a recruiter tell me that I would have no problem finding a job in the current economy - not because I am enthusastic, well-educated and have good experience - but because I am caucasian - 'white'.
I find that interesting, because the competitions (what our government in Canada calls it's hiring method) for the past couple of years has been very clear that if your white and male, your not elligable to apply. I don't think we've had a hiring that's allowed "non visible minorities" from outside in our area for at least 2-3 years.
Not to burst your bubble... but my now over a year old, abusrdly expensive at the time, 6700 Ultra card, is in fact more then powerful enough to play any game I've thrown at it (Doom3, Half Life 2, Quake 4, Civ4) in higher then average detail (I'd say near max but it's been awhile for Quake4)
The 3 month card obsolence is gone, this isn't the 90s anymore. And a much older card, ATI 9600 Pro that my friend uses, has played all those games (granted no where near max setting)
And I do actually find this exciting, I usually am quite impressed with the visuals they use on these.
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Explain to me how that game is on rails?
Also please explain to me how, with all the choices you could make in say Baulders Gate, you got to not fight the boss at the end? These are the two quickest examples I can think of. Another would be FFX-2, where if you screw up in like the first 5 minutes (or anywhere, really) you get a different ending?
Damnit! Thanks to you guys I think I really will reinstall BG2 this weekend... Just when I thought I was "clean"
I guess I just suck but the end fight for ToB is FREAKING IMPOSSIBLE. By the time I get to the end I've used up all my spells and practically get one shotted. It's been over a year since I've fired it up to get owned again but good grief that's a nasty fight. Myeh, maybe I should just give in, reinstall, and use Gamefaqs.com
Further to add, for tank and pull there's {Shield}{Party}, or just {provoke}{Can I have it?} and {Fishing}{Monster}, I've seen both English and JP's use those terms. perfect? no, usable? hell yes. Have fun talking with your Japanese / French co-players in WoW. Oh wait, don't they have seperate servers for different countries?
{Take Care!}
Eh? Crappy? I just organized an Optical Hat run with French, English, and Japanese players, and was quite succesful. How'd I do it?
{Optical hat} {Do You Need It?} 14/18 {White Mage} {Can I have It}
Wow, that is such a crappy setup, I mean, how can ANYONE understand that, when each of those words is translated into the language of the player.
Sorry, but from someone that's actually played this game quite well, the Auto Translator while not perfect does the job, does the job better then any other game out there that I've seen, INCLUDING WoW.
Each to their own, can't argue with the success of WoW, but I hardly consider FFXI a dismail experimental failure you seem to feel it is. I rather enjoy the fact that I can talk to someone in japan and actually COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. Unlike WoW, where all you can do is /spit or whatever the command is (that's considered global how?). I can log into my FFXI server at pretty much anytime of day and instead of finding a population 1/2 what it normally is, it's always roughly the same level.
This is a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario... what's the biggest complaint about games with multiple endings? People feel cheated if they don't have the time to invest in seeing every ending or complain that a choice they made in hour 1 affects the outcome in hour 20. If you make it linear, you make THOSE people happy, but you also make the camp your sitting in unhappy because it's so linear. Who's right? Both are. The answer? There is none. There will always be games with multiple endings and there will always be games with single endings because both feed a specific group. Games industry will die as soon as the movie industry or music industry will die. Never. Change yes, shrink sure, die no.
To be perfectly honest, next time my parents need to upgrade, which won't be for awhile, if things don't change it's going to be Apple products... tired of providing tech support for stupid things, while Apple's seem to just work, and just work right. Even simple stuff like sharing a printer seems to be nothing but a headache in Windows. Who knows, my dad need's Office for compatability with his clients, but maybe I should look at CrossOver or whatever the Wine port for Office is and have them run a locked down version of Linux.
I'll second that! When I saw Genesis I nearly drooled... I grew up on the sega side, started with the SMS, moved to Genesis, then nothing until PS2 many years later. I wonder if any SMS games will be on (and I'm probably one of two people that would actually care to see that but oh well :D)
Ya, but this is one less barrier... and I don't see how PAL vs NTSC is Sony's fault.
I tried this out last night, and it's amazing. Some of the effects I've kinda hacked with fvwm, but this is a whole new playing field. Unlike other software I've tried that does some of what XGL does, this actually does it fast and well. I'm really tempted to try this on my gentoo box, but i'm unsure about the stability, anyone use XGL day to day? I know it's not ready for public release but I want it NOW :-)
I typed in FFXI, about half of the top 10 results returned involved selling gil (gold), in google I got no gil selling on the first page (other then the ad's, which are both full of gil sellers)
I do like the infinite scroll idea instead of paging tho.
Man wish I knew about that, that sounds like it would have been fun. Nothing like listening to the tape recorder go on for like 20 minutes loading up the data for this tho!
Wow, another TI/99 er out there :-P
We never had that joystick, instead we had some black and red unit that worked really well. We also had two blue white and black ones, that never worked... I'm thinking it was designed for another computer system but was way too young at the time to figure that out. No idea the make of those.
Parsec ftw!
Explain that to someone that needs a database built in a day or two, and plan to use it on a standalone Laptop. Access is much better then a "real" database when it comes to Rapid Application Development. Sometimes all you want is something quick and dirty, and not to mention "pretty" I'd rather go that route then a full blown SQL database. Yes you may not follow all the database rules with an Access database, but sometimes it doesn't really matter for very small instances.
No I totally get it. 100%. Even if your logic was correct, What's left? a destroyed economy. Observe:
Pre official sanctioned selling of gil:
Little Johnny, an mmo noob, creates a character, starts with 100 gil. Knows nothing about gil selling.
Squareenix sells gil:
Little Johnny, an mmo noob, creates a character. He chooses the "start me with 5 million gil for $20!" option. Now instead of having money as a limited option, he hsa 5 million gil. Does that actually make him richer? No. Because almost everyone else has 5 million gil to start with, because it's so cheap. So what used to sell for 50 gil, now sells for 2.5mil. The crystals he farms, that would have gone for 1000 gil... well.. 1000 gil is worth a fraction of a penny, so now he sells it for 50million gil. What have we created? A worthless gil. Yeah, no more gil farmers, but no more economy either. GOOD JOB!!!
However, the POINT YOUR MISSING, is this. Why do people sell gil? to make a profit. So Little Johnny, now a vertern, decides to "sell his account" does Squareenix buy it? Or does he sell it to IGE? Should Squareenix get into the business of buying gil and characters and items then? If so all we've done is turned SE into IGE, except stuff is even CHEAPER then IGE (and lately the problem is that IGE prices have been dropping) and not removed the problem with inflation.
I don't major in ecomomics, but I think i "get it" better then you do.
Perhaps the reason this hasn't been implemented is not that there's a secret agreement between gold sellers and the game makers, but because things are in fact more complex then your making it?
Here it is:
Sooo. Last night, because my friend is on dialup, I agreed to bazaar (sell off my character by leaving him logged in, a fully legal thing to do) an item that takes a long time to sell. So she gave me an item, with nothing in return, to my level 1 mule that I tried to sell with. It did'nt sell, I gave it back to her, and she ended up selling it anyways. She then decided to be nice and give me a small percentage of the sale. So she again gave me something "for nothing" In your world her kindness and mine would be returned with a ban or something like that. Wow, great idea.
Or let's make it even simpler. Two friends play. Friend A has a birthday, friend be buys the sword of l33t+4 for them as a gift. Friend B is 30 levels higher then friend b. BZZT BAN!
Or, your "but low level's should'nt have a sword of l33t" argument.. what about Guild banks? My level 1 mule stores the gold / items for my group. Is that wrong? What if I start a new character. I sell all my stuff, give it to a friend, create a character, and get the gold back. Is that wrong? And what if a level 30 gets 30 gold by farming for 3 months? Or do you set an "allowable" limit, where anyone going over that will be denied trade rights for a certain time, or banned? Who sets the ban? What if there's a legal excepetion? What if inflation makes the ban level too low? too high? Who monitors? What if they start trading items to get around it, that are in turn sold for gold?
Sorry, I've heard these "simple fix solves all" solutions before, and if you actually try and work out the details... they just don't work or are more unmanagable then the old ways. Want an example? Try Star Wars Galaxies, where they made things simpler, but not better.
... not to flame but... um. NO. The problem with inflation in FFXI recently is because gil prices got disgustingly LOW. Basically if you make a million gil sell for $5, it's worth $5. If you make a million gil sell for $10, it's worth $10. So by making the money CHEAPER, your DEFLATING the VALUE of gil. Which basically leads to where FFXI is. Gil can be bought for so low, that what used to cost 8 million a month ago now costs 24 million. Remember, the people setting prices are the players. So if the players can get 20 million gil for almost nothing, then 20 million gil will be worth almost nothing. Yeah, your solution "print more money, and everyone has more money!" doesn't work in real life or the virtual one.
squirrel: i don't got time to play with myself
squirrel: shake it baby!
that is so... so very, very wrong.
Using a proxy isn't that exciting, A lot of Palm based browsers do that.. What's amazing is that it works on so many devices, and works so damn well. The fact it's massively small is icing on the cake. personally I don't use it, but it sure beats a lot of alternatives.
Depends on how important reliability is... generally SCSI means better support and warrenties, and hard drives designed to run 24x7. Hard drives that are targeted to the desktop user are designed for desktops, not servers. However if you have a good backup system, and you simply can't afford SCSI, then ya SATA would be your best bet. An example of that is my home server... no WAY I'm forking over a few thousand dollars just to serve my personal files :P
Nope, my Axim isn't remotely a smart phone (I wish) you just have to be running Windows Mobile 5 or Windows Mobile 2003 (which for older devices does mean your sol I believe)
By downloading the Opera for Windows Mobile Pocket PC edition http://opera.com/products/mobile/products/winmobil eppc/
Note this is not the same as the mobile browser listed in the article... that one uses Java and will run on almost anything that uses Java. This one is actually an application written for the Pocket PC. I used the one that this slashdot article is talking about on my Palm Treo 600 (not for long tho, found it slow and too basic) For my new Axim x51v I use the Pocket PC version.
As for is this a reason to not buy a smartphone? Uhhhh No.
Not to burst your bubble... but my now over a year old, abusrdly expensive at the time, 6700 Ultra card, is in fact more then powerful enough to play any game I've thrown at it (Doom3, Half Life 2, Quake 4, Civ4) in higher then average detail (I'd say near max but it's been awhile for Quake4)
The 3 month card obsolence is gone, this isn't the 90s anymore. And a much older card, ATI 9600 Pro that my friend uses, has played all those games (granted no where near max setting)
And I do actually find this exciting, I usually am quite impressed with the visuals they use on these.