1. people will no longer have any competition for the unique items. thus the unique item will be more attainable, making that unique item less valuable.
2. more unique monsters will obviously have to exist, 1 unique monster per each instance, increases the number of unique item drops from that monster. The rarity of that item is then increased linearly with whoever seeks that item.
To remedy #2, the chance of drop could be lowered, but that would just frustrate gamers more. If you think you have to kill for a long time to get a unique item in modern MMORPGs, imagine how long it would take if the drop rate chance was divided by the number of other players also looking for that item.
Why the people are rioting, violent protest is not a solution and as such should not be treated fairly by the media. Its harsh, but their point would be better served if they could collect nonviolently. Resorting to violence is an emotionally charged, illogical approach to problem solving.
I'm mad at my current living situation, so I'm going to burn down 'my own neighborhood', i've never understood the logic in that, and cant bring myself to try to reason with a person who thinks that way.
not at all, that method is actually used when lubing your cube:). turn the top face 45 degrees and then turn the right face until the thing explodes.. when you actually look at the individual cubies it becomes apparent that it is specifically designed to be able to be broken apart without damaging the cube.
the fact remains that North Korea is not stupid enough to actually attack us. And we are smart enough not to do anything about them, China is too big of a risk. We know that there was bad money getting to terrorist groups from Iraq, we know they hated us, and we know they'd jump at any chance to be an immanent threat.
ok, i'll burn some karma:P
if we waited until Iraq was an immenent threat, wouldn't that imply many more losses of life due to war? personally i'd rather fight a war where less Americans, and Iraqi citizens are killed, than wait until a country builds to the point that they ARE an immenent threat.
I'm sure microsoft would rather that 2 horse race to be between the XBox and the Nintendo Revolution, Sony is a bigger company (than Nintendo) and thus is a bigger threat. I wonder if we'll start seeing some collaboration between MS and Nintendo in the future.
does MS insist on "revolutionizing" UI's? With all of the importance developers place on standardizations of code, why do they feel that does not also apply to UI design? Even my grandmother is capable of using a menu bar, and every OS has some variant of that.
I was actually looking forward to seeing this, and had high hopes that there could actually be a _good_ Final Fantasy movie. I hope Square doesn't get too discouraged by this (they shouldn't, piracy isn't anything new in the game industry)
To me this seems to imply that Vista may come with some API stuff that make it similar in programability to the XBox360. This is kind of exciting to me, personally, as the bridge between developing for PC games and console games needs to close the gap for many reasons. the most important one being independant developers.
Perhaps MS will now be known as the console manufacturer that has a nice programming interface, rather than Nintendo... Time will tell
The rating title isn't indicative of the content. It is indicitive of the appropriate age level of players.
Games aren't 'Everyone' or 'Teen', They are suitable to be played by 'Everyone' or 'Teen's.
As such the first definition suffices.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of full development, either mental or physical:
The intended audience is for those who have reached full development, of (in this case) mental attributes.
"So far we have learned that the "hot coffee" modification is the work of a determined group of hackers who have gone to significant trouble to alter scenes in the official version of the game," reads the statement. "In violation of the software user agreement, hackers created the 'hot coffee' modification by disassembling and then combining, recompiling and altering the game's source code. Since the 'hot coffee' scenes cannot be created without intentional and significant technical modifications and reverse engineering of the game's source code, we are currently investigating ways that we can increase the security protection of the source code and prevent the game from being altered by the 'hot coffee' modification."
how is this statement issued by R* incorrect? The mod works by editing the main.scm file(the mission script). R* intentionally removed the scenes from the game before release. The mod (even though simple) edits a flag that re-enables this feature. In effect Patrick had to reverse engineer the main.scm file, and edit copywritten materials.
Regardless of the amount of actual editing that went into making this mod (i believe it was a single bit), the time it took to find and edit the content to enable a feature that R* did not intend for release completely supports their statement. Nowhere in their statement did R* say that the content was not originally ingame. (It'd be tough to argue that considering the file was a single.scm file) much less than would be required to manipulate animations and textures in the game.
I am a Republican and a Christian, and I have some issues with the content of the single player game for VC.. yet I am on the MTA team:-p
But My views as a republican are based on the protection of every one of our constitutional rights, 1st and 2nd included. I personally find it more disturbing that church youth groups will take trips to play laser tag or paintball, not playing a mulitplayer video game.
Paintball involves actually carrying a gun (which to some people could look very realistic) and shooting at your friends, in the physical form. To me the line between reality and fantasy is more blurred here than when viewing it through a CRT.
My $0.02
Kent
thats a common rumor which is entirely untrue.
we've had to write the entire netcode backbone for MTA.. as well as spend a lot of time disassembling and reversing code to get to the point we are at now.
That was my post w/ the geographic map. I couldn't log in for some reason..
My only point is this. People often diminish the importance of these other states. Especially those from New York and California. I often get the impression more that Californians (especially) think less about people from rural areas.
that map shows 20 states voted for gore and 30 voted for Bush. But people sometiems forget a great chunk of our population lives in NewYork and California.
If you do some research into how the electoral college works, it is precisely to protect these smaller populated rural states. A strictly popular vote could potentially be hazardous to the longevity and more specifically the wealth of these states.
Anyways, even disregarding that, people seem to act like this is the only incident where this has happened. Which is completely not true
FOUR PRESIDENTS won the presidency but lost the popular vote: Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the election to John Quincy Adams (1824); Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election to Rutherford G. Hayes (1876); Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the election to Benjamin Harrison (1888); Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George W. Bush (2000).
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that wont work, for 2 main reasons.
1. people will no longer have any competition for the unique items. thus the unique item will be more attainable, making that unique item less valuable.
2. more unique monsters will obviously have to exist, 1 unique monster per each instance, increases the number of unique item drops from that monster. The rarity of that item is then increased linearly with whoever seeks that item.
To remedy #2, the chance of drop could be lowered, but that would just frustrate gamers more. If you think you have to kill for a long time to get a unique item in modern MMORPGs, imagine how long it would take if the drop rate chance was divided by the number of other players also looking for that item.
Why the people are rioting, violent protest is not a solution and as such should not be treated fairly by the media. Its harsh, but their point would be better served if they could collect nonviolently. Resorting to violence is an emotionally charged, illogical approach to problem solving. I'm mad at my current living situation, so I'm going to burn down 'my own neighborhood', i've never understood the logic in that, and cant bring myself to try to reason with a person who thinks that way.
not at all, that method is actually used when lubing your cube :). turn the top face 45 degrees and then turn the right face until the thing explodes.. when you actually look at the individual cubies it becomes apparent that it is specifically designed to be able to be broken apart without damaging the cube.
Kent
the fact remains that North Korea is not stupid enough to actually attack us. And we are smart enough not to do anything about them, China is too big of a risk. We know that there was bad money getting to terrorist groups from Iraq, we know they hated us, and we know they'd jump at any chance to be an immanent threat.
ok, i'll burn some karma :P
if we waited until Iraq was an immenent threat, wouldn't that imply many more losses of life due to war?
personally i'd rather fight a war where less Americans, and Iraqi citizens are killed, than wait until a country builds to the point that they ARE an immenent threat.
if you had RTFA you'd know that MS has already developed a software based solution to the problem.
:( i can't see it... (just kidding)
the previous article is discussing gaming addiction, while this one is about how gaming is on the decline
I'm sure microsoft would rather that 2 horse race to be between the XBox and the Nintendo Revolution, Sony is a bigger company (than Nintendo) and thus is a bigger threat. I wonder if we'll start seeing some collaboration between MS and Nintendo in the future.
does MS insist on "revolutionizing" UI's? With all of the importance developers place on standardizations of code, why do they feel that does not also apply to UI design? Even my grandmother is capable of using a menu bar, and every OS has some variant of that.
I was actually looking forward to seeing this, and had high hopes that there could actually be a _good_ Final Fantasy movie. I hope Square doesn't get too discouraged by this (they shouldn't, piracy isn't anything new in the game industry)
this is not Offtopic, its funny...
Michael Crichton is good at many things... giving an accurate description of what AI actually _is_ is not one of them.
He didn't ask whether we were at that point or not, only if we were 1 step closer. And I'd agree.
To me this seems to imply that Vista may come with some API stuff that make it similar in programability to the XBox360. This is kind of exciting to me, personally, as the bridge between developing for PC games and console games needs to close the gap for many reasons. the most important one being independant developers.
Perhaps MS will now be known as the console manufacturer that has a nice programming interface, rather than Nintendo... Time will tell
I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you, nearly every game on that list had a console port, or was a console game.
I could see an argument saying there were too many fps'es but that it is pc biased is hardly fair.
haha good episode, but the correct translation was 0101100101, then 1010011010 (357) to (666) Kent
wasn't something better done around 1991
yes and the noun is 'audience'.
This game is intended for 'mature audiences' only is a common phrase you hear in some commercials.
The rating title isn't indicative of the content. It is indicitive of the appropriate age level of players.
Games aren't 'Everyone' or 'Teen', They are suitable to be played by 'Everyone' or 'Teen's.
As such the first definition suffices.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of full development, either mental or physical:
The intended audience is for those who have reached full development, of (in this case) mental attributes.
"So far we have learned that the "hot coffee" modification is the work of a determined group of hackers who have gone to significant trouble to alter scenes in the official version of the game," reads the statement. "In violation of the software user agreement, hackers created the 'hot coffee' modification by disassembling and then combining, recompiling and altering the game's source code. Since the 'hot coffee' scenes cannot be created without intentional and significant technical modifications and reverse engineering of the game's source code, we are currently investigating ways that we can increase the security protection of the source code and prevent the game from being altered by the 'hot coffee' modification."
.scm file) much less than would be required to manipulate animations and textures in the game.
how is this statement issued by R* incorrect? The mod works by editing the main.scm file(the mission script). R* intentionally removed the scenes from the game before release. The mod (even though simple) edits a flag that re-enables this feature. In effect Patrick had to reverse engineer the main.scm file, and edit copywritten materials.
Regardless of the amount of actual editing that went into making this mod (i believe it was a single bit), the time it took to find and edit the content to enable a feature that R* did not intend for release completely supports their statement. Nowhere in their statement did R* say that the content was not originally ingame. (It'd be tough to argue that considering the file was a single
I am a Republican and a Christian, and I have some issues with the content of the single player game for VC.. yet I am on the MTA team :-p
But My views as a republican are based on the protection of every one of our constitutional rights, 1st and 2nd included. I personally find it more disturbing that church youth groups will take trips to play laser tag or paintball, not playing a mulitplayer video game.
Paintball involves actually carrying a gun (which to some people could look very realistic) and shooting at your friends, in the physical form. To me the line between reality and fantasy is more blurred here than when viewing it through a CRT.
My $0.02
Kent
thats a common rumor which is entirely untrue. we've had to write the entire netcode backbone for MTA.. as well as spend a lot of time disassembling and reversing code to get to the point we are at now.
That was my post w/ the geographic map. I couldn't log in for some reason..
My only point is this. People often diminish the importance of these other states. Especially those from New York and California. I often get the impression more that Californians (especially) think less about people from rural areas.
that map shows 20 states voted for gore and 30 voted for Bush. But people sometiems forget a great chunk of our population lives in NewYork and California.
If you do some research into how the electoral college works, it is precisely to protect these smaller populated rural states. A strictly popular vote could potentially be hazardous to the longevity and more specifically the wealth of these states.
Anyways, even disregarding that, people seem to act like this is the only incident where this has happened. Which is completely not true
FOUR PRESIDENTS won the presidency but lost the popular vote: Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the election to John Quincy Adams (1824); Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election to Rutherford G. Hayes (1876); Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the election to Benjamin Harrison (1888); Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George W. Bush (2000).
am i the only one who thinks this whole thing is just a little ... obvious?