um...atitd has that in both blacksmithing and advanced glassblowing.
http://wiki.atitd.net/tale2/Blacksmithing
http://wiki.atitd.net/tale2/Glassblowing
you drop a block on metal on the anvil and you have a number of hammers and force lvls to use to match the metal to the model, closer to the model the higher quality for axes, carpentry blades, etc.
glassblowing you move a glass pipe into a glory hole and rotate it and blow in it trying to match it to the model.
"Inviting women to play the game and then suddenly telling them that they can't play part of the game in the middle of the second season does seem kind of rude, if that's what happened."
not what happened...developer has stated that there will be further events with other types of discrimination.
this game is known to be more of a social experiment then a traditional mmorpg
the goal of this, and future developer run events are to test the people of atitd-egypt (the players) with how they deal with these situations.
the NPC in question was a trader from another land, offering things that were not available in the game...you just had to fit the bill (be male at this event) and not mind trading with someone who was sexist..
the players could have approached the situation in a lot of different ways, the path chosen was to immediately map this to the real world and get pissed citing sexism...had they remained a bit calmer they probably could have talked to the NPC (who was a live person, so I understand) and exposed some more information or something. Instead people quit and drove the NPC into hiding.
ultimately, point is atitd is a game whose point is having the people playing attempt to build a 'perfect' society. They can pass laws that the developers implement, they contribute together towards common research goals, work together on projects and follow several paths towards 'enlightenment'. IMO people playing that game should revel in this kind of thing...
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or talk to the folks at egenesis that developed A Tale in the Desert...
http://www.atitd.com/
um...atitd has that in both blacksmithing and advanced glassblowing.
http://wiki.atitd.net/tale2/Blacksmithing
http://wiki.atitd.net/tale2/Glassblowing
you drop a block on metal on the anvil and you have a number of hammers and force lvls to use to match the metal to the model, closer to the model the higher quality for axes, carpentry blades, etc.
glassblowing you move a glass pipe into a glory hole and rotate it and blow in it trying to match it to the model.
"Inviting women to play the game and then suddenly telling them that they can't play part of the game in the middle of the second season does seem kind of rude, if that's what happened."
not what happened...developer has stated that there will be further events with other types of discrimination.
exactly,
this game is known to be more of a social experiment then a traditional mmorpg
the goal of this, and future developer run events are to test the people of atitd-egypt (the players) with how they deal with these situations.
the NPC in question was a trader from another land, offering things that were not available in the game...you just had to fit the bill (be male at this event) and not mind trading with someone who was sexist..
the players could have approached the situation in a lot of different ways, the path chosen was to immediately map this to the real world and get pissed citing sexism...had they remained a bit calmer they probably could have talked to the NPC (who was a live person, so I understand) and exposed some more information or something. Instead people quit and drove the NPC into hiding.
ultimately, point is atitd is a game whose point is having the people playing attempt to build a 'perfect' society. They can pass laws that the developers implement, they contribute together towards common research goals, work together on projects and follow several paths towards 'enlightenment'. IMO people playing that game should revel in this kind of thing...
oh ya, tons of NeXT in there..good point
err, not really...the system api sure, but there is a that little triffle of the mach kernel in there...which is not freebsd