Um... they already had this idea, and it's already on PTR to be released with patch 4.3, it's called 'Looking for Raid'. It will only form 25 man raids because it will be easier to balance a 25 man raid than a 10 man raid with PUGs (requires less tanks/healers per DPS, and most fights are easier on 25 man mode due to having a more complete set of buffs/abilities).
The gear it will drop will be of a slightly lower ilevel, and the mechanics will be easier than the 'normal' or 'heroic' version of the raids. I think it awards valor points, so you will be able to gear up and get some familiarity with the raid mechanics if you decide that you want to form your own raid to try out normal mode later on for the tier gear.
As pointed out a bajillion times before on pretty much any forum that discusses WoW, you don't NEED heroic tier gear unless you are running heroic raid content. The LFR gear will still make the 5 mans a faceroll.
If you read the Dungeons and Raids info from Blizcon, you would know that they plan to tune the normal/heroic 5 mans in MoP to be more casual friendly, and the new 'challenge mode dungeons will become the new 5 man hard modes. Challenge dungeons will use normalised gear so that everyone who runs them will in effect have the same level gear regardless of whether they run them the first week of the xpac or the last week of the xpac in T17 gear. You won't be able to ourgear them and they will be a skill check only.
To be honest, having read them a few times, I find they have pacing issues, where Red Mars drags everything out, in some cases hours by hour. And yet when you get to Green Mars he races through years and presents significant historical events in a paragraph or two. I understand that you built relationships with the earlier characters and many of those have passed by the later books, but the ending seems rushed and consquently poorly thought out and 'unfinished'.
Peter Smith, dean of medicine at the University of NSW, said a girl born today in Australia could reasonably expect to live to 100 already, due to advances in medicine, lifestyle and public health. In addition, new drugs to help the body repair itself were in the early stages of development, along with new stem cell therapies.
''I think there is real hope we can extend human life by some decades further,'' Professor Smith said.
Living to 150 may sound unnerving, but it would be ''great'' if you were well until near the end, he said. ''The aim is not just to eke out extra existence, but to facilitate a longer healthy life,'' he said.
The editor corrected my error, the only thing I have to say in my defense is that I was sleep deprived yesterday (long story involving in laws being taken to hospital in the middle of the night) and I didn't check my math. They did however also fix a typo I made that I noticed after I hit the submit button.
It takes time to accumulate 50-100 pounds of excess body fat. It is not something that can suddenly sneak up on you.
I have this sudden vision of a ball of adipose floating around trying to sneak it's way up on Victoria Beckham, hiding behind street lights every time she looks around, ducking into doorwarys, lurking behind parked cars, inching closer and closer.
Why should we value an opinion you don't even feel strongly enough to put your name to?
I've noticed a trend recently of people hiding behind anonymous coward status to protect their karma status, is karma that hard to earn? I get posting anonymously if you were posting information that might be confidential or identify you in other ways, but simply to karma whore? Seriously guys?
One of my former flatmates had a RX-7, he used to keep a spare engine on the landing.
Riding with him was always an adrenaline pumping experience, he lived in inner city Melbourne (Australia) and used to make a point of dragging off trams and pulling in front of them at intersections, accellerating and breaking heavily on tram tracks so as not to run the red light, with several tonnes of tram having to break heavily behind him so as not to rear end him.
My husband love reading comics on his iPad. He's actually planning on getting rid of some paper comics he has sitting around in boxes because he thinks the ereader version is better. It certainly takes up less space.
One minute may be too short if adding this feature, I would suggest 5 minutes, if no replies. Depending on where I'm reading/posting from, I regularly get redraw hangs on the page, probably due mostly to being stuck with the default IE browser @ work. 5 minutes give you time to relaunch the browser if needed and to find your post again.
I'm begining to wonder if I missed them and they expired a few times too many. Depending on how busy work is I sometimes don't visit the site for weeks, other times I will be online for hours every day. It varies. I'm trying to remember when I last had mod points, and it's certainly before the change to the meta-mod system.
In part this will be because people are more likely to respond to something the first time they come across a point they agree with or disagree with, rather than waiting until they have read the entire thread to see if their point is made elsewhere more eloquently.
This may or may not be an example of that very point.:)
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Um... they already had this idea, and it's already on PTR to be released with patch 4.3, it's called 'Looking for Raid'. It will only form 25 man raids because it will be easier to balance a 25 man raid than a 10 man raid with PUGs (requires less tanks/healers per DPS, and most fights are easier on 25 man mode due to having a more complete set of buffs/abilities).
The gear it will drop will be of a slightly lower ilevel, and the mechanics will be easier than the 'normal' or 'heroic' version of the raids. I think it awards valor points, so you will be able to gear up and get some familiarity with the raid mechanics if you decide that you want to form your own raid to try out normal mode later on for the tier gear.
As pointed out a bajillion times before on pretty much any forum that discusses WoW, you don't NEED heroic tier gear unless you are running heroic raid content. The LFR gear will still make the 5 mans a faceroll.
If you read the Dungeons and Raids info from Blizcon, you would know that they plan to tune the normal/heroic 5 mans in MoP to be more casual friendly, and the new 'challenge mode dungeons will become the new 5 man hard modes. Challenge dungeons will use normalised gear so that everyone who runs them will in effect have the same level gear regardless of whether they run them the first week of the xpac or the last week of the xpac in T17 gear. You won't be able to ourgear them and they will be a skill check only.
But I like Iain Banks...
To be honest, having read them a few times, I find they have pacing issues, where Red Mars drags everything out, in some cases hours by hour. And yet when you get to Green Mars he races through years and presents significant historical events in a paragraph or two. I understand that you built relationships with the earlier characters and many of those have passed by the later books, but the ending seems rushed and consquently poorly thought out and 'unfinished'.
Oh Noes! I see a design patent injunction in Apple's future over the use of the beta tag...
If you want to see what happens when Hollywood tries to tinker with Dr Who, all you have to do is look at the last season of Torchwood.
To quote the referenced article:
The question was what would happen if you lived 150 years, not how to make a normal span feel like 150 years...
The editor corrected my error, the only thing I have to say in my defense is that I was sleep deprived yesterday (long story involving in laws being taken to hospital in the middle of the night) and I didn't check my math. They did however also fix a typo I made that I noticed after I hit the submit button.
I have this sudden vision of a ball of adipose floating around trying to sneak it's way up on Victoria Beckham, hiding behind street lights every time she looks around, ducking into doorwarys, lurking behind parked cars, inching closer and closer.
Nah, it's just that after 21 years, the rigor mortis has passed.
posting anonymously to protect my karma
Why should we value an opinion you don't even feel strongly enough to put your name to?
I've noticed a trend recently of people hiding behind anonymous coward status to protect their karma status, is karma that hard to earn? I get posting anonymously if you were posting information that might be confidential or identify you in other ways, but simply to karma whore? Seriously guys?
This!
One of my former flatmates had a RX-7, he used to keep a spare engine on the landing.
Riding with him was always an adrenaline pumping experience, he lived in inner city Melbourne (Australia) and used to make a point of dragging off trams and pulling in front of them at intersections, accellerating and breaking heavily on tram tracks so as not to run the red light, with several tonnes of tram having to break heavily behind him so as not to rear end him.
You know what they say; Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
That's Ok, the flora and fauna will sort them out.
Oh no, you mean the horrow if they get an A-.
Only the lowest 10%?
My husband love reading comics on his iPad. He's actually planning on getting rid of some paper comics he has sitting around in boxes because he thinks the ereader version is better. It certainly takes up less space.
But... it doesn't play .ogg, the horror.
I think you mean their Superbowl ad.
One minute may be too short if adding this feature, I would suggest 5 minutes, if no replies. Depending on where I'm reading/posting from, I regularly get redraw hangs on the page, probably due mostly to being stuck with the default IE browser @ work. 5 minutes give you time to relaunch the browser if needed and to find your post again.
We already have the option (kinda) in Firehose.
I'm begining to wonder if I missed them and they expired a few times too many. Depending on how busy work is I sometimes don't visit the site for weeks, other times I will be online for hours every day. It varies. I'm trying to remember when I last had mod points, and it's certainly before the change to the meta-mod system.
I've had excellent karma for years and can't remember the last time I got mod points. I used to get them more regularly when karma was still a number.
I think you are over-estimating the ability to force getting mod points to spend.
In part this will be because people are more likely to respond to something the first time they come across a point they agree with or disagree with, rather than waiting until they have read the entire thread to see if their point is made elsewhere more eloquently.
This may or may not be an example of that very point. :)