do I have the right to demand YOUR treasure for things that make ME happy.
In a word: No.
YOU have no right to demand much of anything from ME. However, if we live in the same society, that society have rights to demand things of both you and me. It might demand some of MY treasure and give it to YOUR pet project.
When you (implicitly) agree to take part of the benefits of living in a society, you also (implicitly) agree to pay the costs.
The second you paid your taxes it's no longer your money, it's ours (as in yours and mine and everyone elses in our society). The distribution of which we've decided to leave up to our politicians (since we cannot bother ourselves).
The politicians do "thoroughly debate" every expenditure, but not necessarily in a venue you or I have (easy) access to. This is in order since we've relinquished our right to influence those decisions.
So you're saying, no cookie for me? The cookie is a lie too?!
Bad theheadlessrabbit, bad!
Anyway, it seems we have different perspectives on the why and the how of the loudness wars. I think you're just silly with your opening statement, so I'll just leave you with this choice quote:
The inner ear automatically compresses blasts of high volume to protect itself, so we associate compression with loudness, says Daniel Levitin, a professor of music and neuroscience at McGill University and author of This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession.
Human brains have evolved to pay particular attention to loud noises, so compressed sounds initially seem more exciting. But the effect doesn't last. "The excitement in music comes from variation in rhythm, timbre, pitch and loudness," Levitin says. "If you hold one of those constant, it can seem monotonous." After a few minutes, research shows, constant loudness grows fatiguing to the brain. Though few listeners realize this consciously, many feel an urge to skip to another song.
Reporting a spammer in WoW has the same effect as/ignore in addition to making the actual report. That's why it seems so effective to the individual player. It's not an insta-ban by a long shot, but the player reporting the spammer might experience it as such. Pretty smart move on Blizzard's part.
I've also been told that I would not enjoy it as it is very strict and one OOC mistake gets you booted.
Hardly. I play on a RP server for much the reasons the OP stated (if I see one more "Lolswerougeisop" character name I might barf), and I can safely say that not all of us are roleplaying all the time.
They're strict on character names mostly, but in-game RP? Not so much. You could probably play OOC all the time without problems. No-one is forcing you to RP (but if you don't want to RP occasionally, why roll on a RP server? There's bound to be RP there...)
I'll just state it one more time for the record: You cannot, absolutely cannot, level RR any meaningful amount by either idling in PVE or for that instance in RvR scenarios. Let it go. You're wrong.
Now, if RvR is of "exactly zero interest" to you, have you considered that maybe you're playing the wrong game? RvR is what WAR is about, after all. It's not shy about telling you that, either.
Oh, and a heads-up: it's also not a gear grind type of game. WoW is that-a-way ->
As I've stated here and in several other posts in this story, there's lots of problems with WAR. A few major, a lot of minor, but none of them showstoppers. It's a hell of a good game and a hell of a fun time. Gripe if you like, but do it about something that is actually a problem, not something you're either misinformed about or just plain made up.
Hey, I won't call you names. I just hope you'll enjoy the game. It is a good one after all. Not perfect by any means but a good one. Hopefully it'll get better and better with subsequent patches.
Oh, and hopefully this episode of Internet drama (brought to you by your friendly pals at/.)might get you to, you know, actually check if there's a solution already in-game before shooting off at the mouth about flawed design. Here's hoping!;)
There's a button in the lower left corner of your character portrait. It has an icon that's supposed to represent two (or is it three?) people, coloured lightbrown on black. It's right above where the "Open parties in your area" frame appears. I think it even has a mouse-over helptext.
That's the "Open parties" button. Click that to get the list. It's all in the game manual if you're afraid to click around in the UI. The game manual came with your box and is also available as a PDF in the game installation folder.
I'm trying hard not to flame you here, but it's really hard to give any weight to your critcism when you obviously haven't even tried to find out how it's supposed to work.
Yeah, don't get me started on the problems with WoW, what with the gear focus and the interminable grinding and the class balance issues and... Don't get me started, I said!;)
Actually, I cancelled my WoW subscription five minutes after my first keep battle in WAR, it's that much fun:)
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/ is the unofficial official forums. That's where the devs post, that's where the server forums are, that's where everyone goes for information.
If you're on the US servers I say you've nothing to complain about, compare the numbers of US Heralds to the number of EU Heralds and you'll understand why some people question Mythic's choice of GOA as European partner.
Oh, and the official European site is absolutely terrible.
Sure, if your reading comprehension skills are really bad, that might be your conclusion. If not, you might have picked up on the words "won't get you very far", "take forever to level your RR" and "very small amount".
No, my correction is that you won't be able to level your RR that way. I thought that was pretty clear from my post.
Renown rank goes to 80 (twice the character's maximum rank), and the amount needed to raise one rank increases with each rank. So basically after RR2 or so, you need to do RvR scenarios and open RvR to increase your RR.
Which means your plan won't work, which in turn means your criticism doesn't either.
Do yourself a favour and pick one of the many real problems with the game if you still feel a need to criticize it. Scenario exploits, pet problems, ability problems, crafting; there's any number of real problems to discuss without needing to resort to made-up ones.
Yeah, A for effort on the rant;) F for facts, though:(
I'll just correct one of your misapprehensions for you: Yes, you get Renown points for free when your faction takes control of an RvR area. However, unless your RR (Renown Rank) is really low (say, below 2) it won't get you very far. Your plan of parking your character behind the inn won't work for several reasons, one being that it'd take forever to level your RR that way, the other that you'd be logged out after 15 minutes of idling. "The best way to get PvP renown" is to do RvR scenarios and open RvR, there's simply no other way to do it.
There's problems with the game ("Ability not yet ready" anyone?), but getting a very small amount of Renown points free isn't one of them.
It is a threat, but unless the torpedo is fired from the shore (as it could be in Iran if the carrier battle group approached the shore too closely), then it is likely that any submarine (and certainly most ships or aircraft) would be detected by the escorts and the combat air patrol long before they got close enough to deploy the weapon.
Ehrm...
Reportedly, during a Joint Task Force Exercise on December 6-16, 2005, with the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group off the coast of Southern California, the Gotland managed to take several pictures of the Ronald Reagan from close quarters, indicating a "strike" on the aircraft carrier.[9] As Gotland's Lieutenant Commander Jan Westas says, the U.S. ASW forces "have had a very difficult time finding us."[8] To date, the exercises have been carried out in deep water. It is expected that exercises with the Gotland in coastal waters will prove even more challenging to U.S. ASW.[8]
One of my gripes with the UI is that the open party notification system time is extremely short
Or, you could just click the button and peruse the list at your leisure? Not as fun as griping, I know, but then you'd even get a big ol' "join" button for every party, and you could sort them by what they're doing, PQ, RVR or PVE.
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I think it should be pronounced "joke", which seems to fit...
I thought the quote was:
"It's hard to wreck a nice beach."
- unknown speech recognition software
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/
I prefer PS1="\u@\h:\W\$ " myself, sometimes with some ANSI escape sequences thrown in for good measure (and color).
"Read man bash like you read the bible. No, scratch that, man bash IS the bible"
- unknown
The chances of anything coming from Mars is a million to one.
In a word: No.
YOU have no right to demand much of anything from ME. However, if we live in the same society, that society have rights to demand things of both you and me. It might demand some of MY treasure and give it to YOUR pet project.
When you (implicitly) agree to take part of the benefits of living in a society, you also (implicitly) agree to pay the costs.
The second you paid your taxes it's no longer your money, it's ours (as in yours and mine and everyone elses in our society). The distribution of which we've decided to leave up to our politicians (since we cannot bother ourselves).
The politicians do "thoroughly debate" every expenditure, but not necessarily in a venue you or I have (easy) access to. This is in order since we've relinquished our right to influence those decisions.
And yet you wasted a few more minutes with a worthless reply. I'm amused :)
So you're saying, no cookie for me?
The cookie is a lie too?!
Bad theheadlessrabbit, bad!
Anyway, it seems we have different perspectives on the why and the how of the loudness wars. I think you're just silly with your opening statement, so I'll just leave you with this choice quote:
However, since many people find louder music *sounds* better
Two words: Loudness War.
Get rid of that and you'll not only get better sound, you don't need to crank it up to 11 either.
2) The lore is sometimes very dense, and I get tired of reading it XD
What's this world coming to? </getoffmylawn> :)
Reporting a spammer in WoW has the same effect as /ignore in addition to making the actual report. That's why it seems so effective to the individual player. It's not an insta-ban by a long shot, but the player reporting the spammer might experience it as such. Pretty smart move on Blizzard's part.
I've also been told that I would not enjoy it as it is very strict and one OOC mistake gets you booted.
Hardly. I play on a RP server for much the reasons the OP stated (if I see one more "Lolswerougeisop" character name I might barf), and I can safely say that not all of us are roleplaying all the time.
They're strict on character names mostly, but in-game RP? Not so much. You could probably play OOC all the time without problems. No-one is forcing you to RP (but if you don't want to RP occasionally, why roll on a RP server? There's bound to be RP there...)
I'll just state it one more time for the record: You cannot, absolutely cannot, level RR any meaningful amount by either idling in PVE or for that instance in RvR scenarios. Let it go. You're wrong.
Now, if RvR is of "exactly zero interest" to you, have you considered that maybe you're playing the wrong game? RvR is what WAR is about, after all. It's not shy about telling you that, either.
Oh, and a heads-up: it's also not a gear grind type of game. WoW is that-a-way ->
As I've stated here and in several other posts in this story, there's lots of problems with WAR. A few major, a lot of minor, but none of them showstoppers. It's a hell of a good game and a hell of a fun time. Gripe if you like, but do it about something that is actually a problem, not something you're either misinformed about or just plain made up.
Hey, I won't call you names. I just hope you'll enjoy the game. It is a good one after all. Not perfect by any means but a good one. Hopefully it'll get better and better with subsequent patches.
Oh, and hopefully this episode of Internet drama (brought to you by your friendly pals at /.)might get you to, you know, actually check if there's a solution already in-game before shooting off at the mouth about flawed design. Here's hoping! ;)
Err, no.
There's a button in the lower left corner of your character portrait. It has an icon that's supposed to represent two (or is it three?) people, coloured lightbrown on black. It's right above where the "Open parties in your area" frame appears. I think it even has a mouse-over helptext.
That's the "Open parties" button. Click that to get the list. It's all in the game manual if you're afraid to click around in the UI. The game manual came with your box and is also available as a PDF in the game installation folder.
I'm trying hard not to flame you here, but it's really hard to give any weight to your critcism when you obviously haven't even tried to find out how it's supposed to work.
Try this: Click "Help & Preferences", click "Index", uncheck the "Use Beta Index" box.
Now, woe can be someone else!
Yeah, don't get me started on the problems with WoW, what with the gear focus and the interminable grinding and the class balance issues and... Don't get me started, I said! ;)
Actually, I cancelled my WoW subscription five minutes after my first keep battle in WAR, it's that much fun :)
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/ is the unofficial official forums. That's where the devs post, that's where the server forums are, that's where everyone goes for information.
If you're on the US servers I say you've nothing to complain about, compare the numbers of US Heralds to the number of EU Heralds and you'll understand why some people question Mythic's choice of GOA as European partner.
Oh, and the official European site is absolutely terrible.
Throwing the bath out with the bathwater...
Baby. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
On topic, I don't miss Barrens chat one bit.
Sure, if your reading comprehension skills are really bad, that might be your conclusion. If not, you might have picked up on the words "won't get you very far", "take forever to level your RR" and "very small amount".
No, my correction is that you won't be able to level your RR that way. I thought that was pretty clear from my post.
Renown rank goes to 80 (twice the character's maximum rank), and the amount needed to raise one rank increases with each rank. So basically after RR2 or so, you need to do RvR scenarios and open RvR to increase your RR.
Which means your plan won't work, which in turn means your criticism doesn't either.
Do yourself a favour and pick one of the many real problems with the game if you still feel a need to criticize it. Scenario exploits, pet problems, ability problems, crafting; there's any number of real problems to discuss without needing to resort to made-up ones.
Yeah, A for effort on the rant ;) F for facts, though :(
I'll just correct one of your misapprehensions for you: Yes, you get Renown points for free when your faction takes control of an RvR area. However, unless your RR (Renown Rank) is really low (say, below 2) it won't get you very far. Your plan of parking your character behind the inn won't work for several reasons, one being that it'd take forever to level your RR that way, the other that you'd be logged out after 15 minutes of idling. "The best way to get PvP renown" is to do RvR scenarios and open RvR, there's simply no other way to do it.
There's problems with the game ("Ability not yet ready" anyone?), but getting a very small amount of Renown points free isn't one of them.
How do you figure that?
What does one negative atmosphere of pressure mean in your reality? Because it has no meaning in mine...
It is a threat, but unless the torpedo is fired from the shore (as it could be in Iran if the carrier battle group approached the shore too closely), then it is likely that any submarine (and certainly most ships or aircraft) would be detected by the escorts and the combat air patrol long before they got close enough to deploy the weapon.
Ehrm...
http://www.nti.org/db/submarines/sweden/index.html
Speed of sound in salt water is approximately 5400 km/h (that's about 3350 mph for you imperials)
Or, you could just click the button and peruse the list at your leisure? Not as fun as griping, I know, but then you'd even get a big ol' "join" button for every party, and you could sort them by what they're doing, PQ, RVR or PVE.
But what do I know.