Er, what? Have you watched the show lately? I've never been a big Superman fan to begin with but my wife (who doesn't like comics) likes it. The storylines this season have been horrid. The blonde love interest becomes Lois? Seeing the binary code in an email causes you to become homicidal (new unforseen Outlook bug)? Jonathan making a deal with Jor'el to gain super powers to save Clark? This deserves the axe far more than Angel did.
Yes, I will complain about the lack of content in the pre-Kunark days. Why? Because it shows the flaws that were inherant in the game system. Newbie guards to not need to have better stats than a god. Being able to run through a zone and not see a mob because every spawn point has either a necro, druid, or a party was on it. I remember being able to walk from Upper Guk to the King room in Lower and never see a mob. This was a year and a half into the game. This wasn't three months after release. The only "content" to be found was player-killing GM events. The class armor quests that came out about 4 months before Kunark was too little too late for most people's main characters since they already had better armor drops or planar armor. It was great for twinks, but most people didn't do the quests with the secondary character. It was someone's main character camping greens for the items to turn in.
So what if it's been five years? That should be more than enough time to figure out how the game operates in production. There still seems to be a disconnect from people telling SOE that something's broken to SOE reacting. This is true across the board. When I played SWG, there were the same problems.
Class balance, while not easy, can be acheived. How? Lay out before hand what class is going to do what. EQ did this very poorly. With 7 melee classes (both pure and hybrid), you should be able to balance out who does what.
Warriors have HP's and taunt like a mother.
Shadowknights are the best warrior type at dealing damage.
Paladins are the defensive tank and nobody will tank undead better
Rogues will do the most melee damage if they are in position (this is the only one they got right)
Monks will do the most melee damage anywhere
Rangers best at range with a bow
Now instead of giving magic items that give other class effects or spells, your equipment improves what you're best at. This is where they went wrong. As soon as a SK can do the same as a warrior, you don't need a warrior. As soon as a warrior can do the same as a paladin, you don't need a paladin. When everyone is outdamaging a monk, why do you need the. And so on...
Same should be true for casters. Nobody ever at anytime outdamages a wizard and they control access to the planes. Mages are the best at summoning useful things and have the best pets while trading for damage. Necros are the best at controlling undead and slow damage. Enchanters are the best at CC (got that right).
The point still remains that they planned poorly, executed poorly, and refuse to listen to the player base about broken things and problems with the Vision.
The company is called Sigil Games Online and is made up of the creative minds that designed the original Everquest. Sigil has hired up a lot of the Everquest talent, (which may account for the odd ball expansions that have been released. ie PoP, LoY, GoD, and Luclin). Also, Sigil has only hired experienced people.
You mean the people that brought you Evercamp. Obviously you either didn't play or have forgotten what EQ was like pre-Kunark. Where the world was so mob-underpopulated and item-underpopulated that there were 120+ people in Lower Guk. Class balance was a joke (and still is to this day). Mage pets were broken for two+ years. Necros were more valued for their pets with fine steel daggers to tank than a warrior with full plate and SSoY's. Not to mention the broken quest system that made you camp for rare items for real life days on end.
Brad McQuaid, John Smedley, and most of all Abashi/Absor never listened to the players. They had "The Vision(tm)" and all other views be damned.
The max fine from the FCC is $27,500 per station (i.e. each affiliate station). Advertising dollars lost is unknowable until the contracts are renewed.
So if the FCC comes down, it's looking into the millions.
Python is not weakly typed. It is dynamically typed. But you knew this, and just made an honest mistake because you do real work.;)
By your logic then, VBScript is ok since it does dynamic typing as well.
int foo = 5;
char* bar = "duh";
foo = foo + bar;/* perfectly valid */
Yes, because char* points back to the ascii value for the character and not the string itself.
The best compromise is to allow both typing schemes - dynamic, unless specifically statically typed. That way, if I determine a bottleneck is due to dynamic typing, I can use static typing. Now that is something I would like to see in Java.
Wrong. People are lazy. Give them the easy way out and they will take it. Same debate we're having about.NET and Java now..NET lets you get away with things that will blow up on you.
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Er, what? Have you watched the show lately? I've never been a big Superman fan to begin with but my wife (who doesn't like comics) likes it. The storylines this season have been horrid. The blonde love interest becomes Lois? Seeing the binary code in an email causes you to become homicidal (new unforseen Outlook bug)? Jonathan making a deal with Jor'el to gain super powers to save Clark? This deserves the axe far more than Angel did.
After seeing him play the Riddler in Batman Forever, I'm willing to give him a chance here.
The chance is not as big as the Riddler, but it's there.
D'oh! Forgot the line breaks.
Warriors have HP's and taunt like a mother.
Shadowknights are the best warrior type at dealing damage.
Paladins are the defensive tank and nobody will tank undead better
Rogues will do the most melee damage if they are in position (this is the only one they got right)
Monks will do the most melee damage anywhere
Rangers best at range with a bow Now instead of giving magic items that give other class effects or spells, your equipment improves what you're best at. This is where they went wrong. As soon as a SK can do the same as a warrior, you don't need a warrior. As soon as a warrior can do the same as a paladin, you don't need a paladin. When everyone is outdamaging a monk, why do you need the. And so on... Same should be true for casters. Nobody ever at anytime outdamages a wizard and they control access to the planes. Mages are the best at summoning useful things and have the best pets while trading for damage. Necros are the best at controlling undead and slow damage. Enchanters are the best at CC (got that right). The point still remains that they planned poorly, executed poorly, and refuse to listen to the player base about broken things and problems with the Vision.
Brad McQuaid, John Smedley, and most of all Abashi/Absor never listened to the players. They had "The Vision(tm)" and all other views be damned.
The max fine from the FCC is $27,500 per station (i.e. each affiliate station). Advertising dollars lost is unknowable until the contracts are renewed. So if the FCC comes down, it's looking into the millions.