Close to how it feels when your rigged out rook gets scrammed by a Privateer Arazu and the ECM gods don't happen to favor you at that moment? 6 Figgin ECMs and none of them work on 1 stupid ship....
Um... I just feel I have to say something, cause people have been REALLY overtstating this. The guy gave himself 1 T2 BPO. BoB owns like 50 T2 BPOs. Yes they are relitively rare and are expensive, but BoB was a superpower before the entire thing happened.
Maybe we'll get lucky and we'll see more stations overall. Obviously they wouldn't keep them all, but they would be able to offer a wider selection for cheaper. As for the technology for both sattillites, from TFA "XM radio receivers can't receive signals from Sirius, and vice versa. But Karmazin and Parsons said in an interview that the companies are working on developing a receiver that could receive both signals." I'm currently a Sirius subscriber and love it. I'd imagine that if it were required to change hardware to continue service, they would either provide replacements free of charge or give a very good discount for those already subscribing to either service.
This crap about D2 being BoB alts is rediculous. D2 tried attacing Fountain just this weekend. They've been camping the 0.0 entrences that BoB and thier allies generally use and killing as many as they can. D2 is mostly made up from other alliances that BoB Crushed at one time or another and I remember their leadership plotting BoB's demise as long as 6 months ago. I know because they asked the alliance I was in at the time to join them. Whoever came up with that must have had a rock trasnplanted for his brain.
You're right, that's both illegal and unethical. It also happens quite often and is ignored more often than not. I'd venture to say that as they found 5 people working for CCP in BoB and that there are MANY more than that number working for CCP and supposedly, most of them play the game, there is a distinct possibility that similar things have occured in other alliances and corportions. I've seen one CCP ex-employee admit that he used his position to help his alliance before he quit and he wasn't in BoB. Why is BoB taking all the heat then? They are currently the biggest and most powerful alliance in EVE. They are getting a bit cocky about it and have no qualms about throwing thier weight around either which wins them few popularity points. Many hate them and would like nothing more than to see the alliance die. Of course they will be the focus of accusations and suspicion. I'd bet that if a member of Big Blue had been discovered doing this, there'd be much less of a fuss about it although it'd still be wrong.
Really, I'll admit that T2 frigs, destroyers, cruisers, and battlecruisers are the best in the game in thier classes. However, T1 battleships, and cpitals are the deciding factor in most battles. Even a command ship can be beaten 1v1 by a battleship. Even so, T2 ships and equipment are available to everyone in the game and usually for prices that are pretty close no matter where you get them from. T2 equipment is almost always beaten by some type of faction equipment. The exceptions used to be cloaking devices, guns, and amunition. After the T2 ammo nerf, I don't use T2 guns or ammo much anymore. There are just too many drawbacks and not enough benifits compared to other available equipment. T2 Cloaking devices are still the best though. Faction's the really uber stuff and anyone with enough ISK or the time and access to 0.0 can get that. The real advantage of T2 equip is that it's cheaper than the equivilent T1 and faction equipment and you can make a much better profit by making it.
Have you ever played any other MMOs? They have the same issues too. Customer service has actually been improved a lot lately. I remember waiting a month and a half for a response from my petition about a year ago. The last one I made was taken care of within the day and the GMs have been very helpful lately. As to canceling your subscription, I think that's just stupid. Yes, maybe the things the Devs helped BoB along a bit, but they are mainly so powerful due to thier very active and knowlegdeable player base. They have fewer players than many other alliances, but when it comes to a battle, more BoB usually show up than those arrayed against them. They control some of the most profitible regions in EVE and have controlled them as far back as I can remember. They have so much income from other things that I doubt the things the Devs admitted to made that big of an impact in the grnd scheme of things. I'm not saying what they did wasn't wrong. It was and those responsible should be punished for that. Also, I'm not in BoB nor am I a fanboy of them. I've fought with and agianst them several times and have developed a respect for them through my experiances. I've also fought with and against many of those arrayed against them and LV and have less respect for most of them. Goonswarm are laughable and while I've never been in a capital battle against RA or AAA, they didn't do so well in the conventional battles I saw. D2 is a force to be reconed with, but I don't think they can take BoB on thier own.
Yes, there are a lot of people are arrayed against BoB and LV, but they have allies as well. All the battles I know of so far have been going heavily in favor of BoB and LV. I don't doubt they've taken losses, but both of those alliances have tremendous capital assets even if they are outnumbered on the whole with conventional ships. Capital ships, good leadership, and good coperation with your allies are what win the big alliance wars. BoB and LV have been coordinating very well so far while the attacks against them have seemed poorly planned and coordinated. The war has just really started though and I think this war will be very interesting as most of the major players of the north and south are arrayed against each other.
Not so rediculous if you have a lot of ISK, and trust me, BoB makes ISK by the boatloads through legitimate means that I know of. When I say boatloads, I mean at least 50 bil a month. That's just from corporations/alliances paying them to let them live in BoB controlled regions. Then they have VAST POS networks mining very expensive moon minerals and I would be surprised if they didn't make at least 100 bil a month from those. Then they have several complexes in thier control, and you can easily pull 30 bil a month off a single 10/10. Depending on the faction, you could probably make to 50 bil a month. And that's just 1 complex. Taking these things into consideration, I'd be extreamly surprised if they didn't have a huge collection of T2 BPOs.
I don't know about you, but most PVP I do is in a roving gang. We go out and look for people to kill. My main's in one of the bigger 0.0 alliances and I have an alt in the Privateers. We do PVP the same way in both situations. The thing is, EVE is a lot better if you're not stupid and lazy and you're flying with people who aren't stupid and lazy. Honestly, I prefer solo PVPing, but it is getting more difficult to do lately. Definately not impossible though, a properly fitted Vagabond works VERY well for solo PVP and I've been successfull soloing with interceptors and T1 cruisers as well. You just have to be smart about it, select your targets carefully, and wait for the right time. I PVP in my Rokh all the time and I have friends who use thier faction BSs in PVP. PVP in EVE is all about tatics, I've seen 2 BS and a recon kill 2 command ships, 2 BSs, and a T1 cruiser with no losses before.
If you're talking about the original PC Baldur's Gate games, then yes, they were ground breaking. However, thier graphics pale in comparison with Oblivion. If you're talking about the new console Baldurs Gates that are trying to be bad imitations of the original Diablo, they suck and still don't have as good of graphics as Oblivion.
The parent asked "How could this be dangerous?". I made the point that when used by criminals, it gives a SIGNIFICANT advantage to them over normal police forces. In combat, any sort of advantage is dangerous. The enemy holding higher terrain could prove dangerous to people who have to attack them there. A kitchen knife, baseball bat, and yes, even a gernade wouldn't give criminals nearly as much of an advantage over police as this armor would.
Because in the wrong hands, it would give people a significant advantage. It's happened before. http://www.cnn.com/US/9702/28/shootout.update/ 10 policemen where shot before they were able to take down 2 robbers with body armor. In this case, the officers had to go to a nearby gun store to get sufficent firepower to take the guys down and it took over 200 officers. Let me point out that the body armor these guys were using dosn't come close to what this guy has developed.
He didn't design it to make someone invincible. He made it to protect people from as much as possible as still be practical for use in combat. His first design may have protected a lot better, but extreamly limited mobility.
I have had both a DS and PSP for almost two years now. I still use both, however I definately find myself gravitating towards the PSP more often as it has more functionality. I do use the DS every day though as it doubles as my alarm clock.
"Oh yeah, a computer that speaks and understands English, that's weird."
There's software out currently that translates voice into text, http://www.courant.com/technology/hc-techcol1221.a rtdec21,0,4539347.story?track=rss The reverse shouldn't be too hard either? With 100 years to perfect it, I'd be surprised if it's not in common use by then.
As to the aliens speaking English, supposedly you're hearing what they're saying via the universal translator, not the actualy words they're speaking. Now as to the plauseability of software that can listen to a few minutes of audio and then be able to translate it, it sounds a bit far fetched, but 100 years ago who thought we'd be able to watch a movie in color on a device that can fit in your pocket?
I use a wireless mouse and keyboard sitting on my couch and using my HDTV as a monitor while playing PC games all the time. I don't know why, but sitting on the couch and using the TV to play my PC games seems to work so much better for me most of the time.
The thing is, I'll have already bought it and they'd have made their money. I know, I know, rent before you buy. But it turns out I'm too lazy to do that whole return them on time thing and it usually ends up costing me more to rent things than to buy them... For instance, I graduated High School four years ago, but still have several of my books and my football gear. I really should return that stuff...
I'll probably be tared and feathered for saying this, but I beat FF8 without much trouble and liked it almost as much as FF7. I know a lot of people who complained about it, but a few like me who enjoyed it quite a bit. I'd put it behind 7 & 10, but ahead most of the rest of them on my favorites list.
One of the best stories ever was when a General called my friend in to repair his AC. My friend went there, looked at it and it's not turned on. He turns it on and it works perfectly fine.
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Close to how it feels when your rigged out rook gets scrammed by a Privateer Arazu and the ECM gods don't happen to favor you at that moment? 6 Figgin ECMs and none of them work on 1 stupid ship....
Um... I just feel I have to say something, cause people have been REALLY overtstating this. The guy gave himself 1 T2 BPO. BoB owns like 50 T2 BPOs. Yes they are relitively rare and are expensive, but BoB was a superpower before the entire thing happened.
As long as you don't advertise it as a confirmed fact, sure, why not?
Maybe we'll get lucky and we'll see more stations overall. Obviously they wouldn't keep them all, but they would be able to offer a wider selection for cheaper. As for the technology for both sattillites, from TFA "XM radio receivers can't receive signals from Sirius, and vice versa. But Karmazin and Parsons said in an interview that the companies are working on developing a receiver that could receive both signals." I'm currently a Sirius subscriber and love it. I'd imagine that if it were required to change hardware to continue service, they would either provide replacements free of charge or give a very good discount for those already subscribing to either service.
This crap about D2 being BoB alts is rediculous. D2 tried attacing Fountain just this weekend. They've been camping the 0.0 entrences that BoB and thier allies generally use and killing as many as they can. D2 is mostly made up from other alliances that BoB Crushed at one time or another and I remember their leadership plotting BoB's demise as long as 6 months ago. I know because they asked the alliance I was in at the time to join them. Whoever came up with that must have had a rock trasnplanted for his brain.
You're right, that's both illegal and unethical. It also happens quite often and is ignored more often than not. I'd venture to say that as they found 5 people working for CCP in BoB and that there are MANY more than that number working for CCP and supposedly, most of them play the game, there is a distinct possibility that similar things have occured in other alliances and corportions. I've seen one CCP ex-employee admit that he used his position to help his alliance before he quit and he wasn't in BoB. Why is BoB taking all the heat then? They are currently the biggest and most powerful alliance in EVE. They are getting a bit cocky about it and have no qualms about throwing thier weight around either which wins them few popularity points. Many hate them and would like nothing more than to see the alliance die. Of course they will be the focus of accusations and suspicion. I'd bet that if a member of Big Blue had been discovered doing this, there'd be much less of a fuss about it although it'd still be wrong.
Really, I'll admit that T2 frigs, destroyers, cruisers, and battlecruisers are the best in the game in thier classes. However, T1 battleships, and cpitals are the deciding factor in most battles. Even a command ship can be beaten 1v1 by a battleship. Even so, T2 ships and equipment are available to everyone in the game and usually for prices that are pretty close no matter where you get them from. T2 equipment is almost always beaten by some type of faction equipment. The exceptions used to be cloaking devices, guns, and amunition. After the T2 ammo nerf, I don't use T2 guns or ammo much anymore. There are just too many drawbacks and not enough benifits compared to other available equipment. T2 Cloaking devices are still the best though. Faction's the really uber stuff and anyone with enough ISK or the time and access to 0.0 can get that. The real advantage of T2 equip is that it's cheaper than the equivilent T1 and faction equipment and you can make a much better profit by making it.
Have you ever played any other MMOs? They have the same issues too. Customer service has actually been improved a lot lately. I remember waiting a month and a half for a response from my petition about a year ago. The last one I made was taken care of within the day and the GMs have been very helpful lately. As to canceling your subscription, I think that's just stupid. Yes, maybe the things the Devs helped BoB along a bit, but they are mainly so powerful due to thier very active and knowlegdeable player base. They have fewer players than many other alliances, but when it comes to a battle, more BoB usually show up than those arrayed against them. They control some of the most profitible regions in EVE and have controlled them as far back as I can remember. They have so much income from other things that I doubt the things the Devs admitted to made that big of an impact in the grnd scheme of things. I'm not saying what they did wasn't wrong. It was and those responsible should be punished for that. Also, I'm not in BoB nor am I a fanboy of them. I've fought with and agianst them several times and have developed a respect for them through my experiances. I've also fought with and against many of those arrayed against them and LV and have less respect for most of them. Goonswarm are laughable and while I've never been in a capital battle against RA or AAA, they didn't do so well in the conventional battles I saw. D2 is a force to be reconed with, but I don't think they can take BoB on thier own.
Yes, there are a lot of people are arrayed against BoB and LV, but they have allies as well. All the battles I know of so far have been going heavily in favor of BoB and LV. I don't doubt they've taken losses, but both of those alliances have tremendous capital assets even if they are outnumbered on the whole with conventional ships. Capital ships, good leadership, and good coperation with your allies are what win the big alliance wars. BoB and LV have been coordinating very well so far while the attacks against them have seemed poorly planned and coordinated. The war has just really started though and I think this war will be very interesting as most of the major players of the north and south are arrayed against each other.
Not so rediculous if you have a lot of ISK, and trust me, BoB makes ISK by the boatloads through legitimate means that I know of. When I say boatloads, I mean at least 50 bil a month. That's just from corporations/alliances paying them to let them live in BoB controlled regions. Then they have VAST POS networks mining very expensive moon minerals and I would be surprised if they didn't make at least 100 bil a month from those. Then they have several complexes in thier control, and you can easily pull 30 bil a month off a single 10/10. Depending on the faction, you could probably make to 50 bil a month. And that's just 1 complex. Taking these things into consideration, I'd be extreamly surprised if they didn't have a huge collection of T2 BPOs.
I don't know about you, but most PVP I do is in a roving gang. We go out and look for people to kill. My main's in one of the bigger 0.0 alliances and I have an alt in the Privateers. We do PVP the same way in both situations. The thing is, EVE is a lot better if you're not stupid and lazy and you're flying with people who aren't stupid and lazy. Honestly, I prefer solo PVPing, but it is getting more difficult to do lately. Definately not impossible though, a properly fitted Vagabond works VERY well for solo PVP and I've been successfull soloing with interceptors and T1 cruisers as well. You just have to be smart about it, select your targets carefully, and wait for the right time. I PVP in my Rokh all the time and I have friends who use thier faction BSs in PVP. PVP in EVE is all about tatics, I've seen 2 BS and a recon kill 2 command ships, 2 BSs, and a T1 cruiser with no losses before.
If you're talking about the original PC Baldur's Gate games, then yes, they were ground breaking. However, thier graphics pale in comparison with Oblivion. If you're talking about the new console Baldurs Gates that are trying to be bad imitations of the original Diablo, they suck and still don't have as good of graphics as Oblivion.
Ha, the fedral law against commiting suicide is about the same.
The parent asked "How could this be dangerous?". I made the point that when used by criminals, it gives a SIGNIFICANT advantage to them over normal police forces. In combat, any sort of advantage is dangerous. The enemy holding higher terrain could prove dangerous to people who have to attack them there. A kitchen knife, baseball bat, and yes, even a gernade wouldn't give criminals nearly as much of an advantage over police as this armor would.
Because in the wrong hands, it would give people a significant advantage. It's happened before. http://www.cnn.com/US/9702/28/shootout.update/ 10 policemen where shot before they were able to take down 2 robbers with body armor. In this case, the officers had to go to a nearby gun store to get sufficent firepower to take the guys down and it took over 200 officers. Let me point out that the body armor these guys were using dosn't come close to what this guy has developed.
He didn't design it to make someone invincible. He made it to protect people from as much as possible as still be practical for use in combat. His first design may have protected a lot better, but extreamly limited mobility.
I have had both a DS and PSP for almost two years now. I still use both, however I definately find myself gravitating towards the PSP more often as it has more functionality. I do use the DS every day though as it doubles as my alarm clock.
"Oh yeah, a computer that speaks and understands English, that's weird." There's software out currently that translates voice into text, http://www.courant.com/technology/hc-techcol1221.a rtdec21,0,4539347.story?track=rss The reverse shouldn't be too hard either? With 100 years to perfect it, I'd be surprised if it's not in common use by then.
As to the aliens speaking English, supposedly you're hearing what they're saying via the universal translator, not the actualy words they're speaking. Now as to the plauseability of software that can listen to a few minutes of audio and then be able to translate it, it sounds a bit far fetched, but 100 years ago who thought we'd be able to watch a movie in color on a device that can fit in your pocket?
I use a wireless mouse and keyboard sitting on my couch and using my HDTV as a monitor while playing PC games all the time. I don't know why, but sitting on the couch and using the TV to play my PC games seems to work so much better for me most of the time.
The thing is, I'll have already bought it and they'd have made their money. I know, I know, rent before you buy. But it turns out I'm too lazy to do that whole return them on time thing and it usually ends up costing me more to rent things than to buy them... For instance, I graduated High School four years ago, but still have several of my books and my football gear. I really should return that stuff...
Or their parents were only children....
That definately sounds unique. I'd probably play it just for the novelty.
I'll probably be tared and feathered for saying this, but I beat FF8 without much trouble and liked it almost as much as FF7. I know a lot of people who complained about it, but a few like me who enjoyed it quite a bit. I'd put it behind 7 & 10, but ahead most of the rest of them on my favorites list.
One of the best stories ever was when a General called my friend in to repair his AC. My friend went there, looked at it and it's not turned on. He turns it on and it works perfectly fine.
Baldur's Gate 2 is one of the best games ever... I love Neverwinter Nights, but I'd pick BG2 over it.