CJ: Maybe PVP will be entertaining. Who knows, you have to do this overhead to get there.
MB: Actually, no, you don't. You can create a PVP only character that is max level, but you can't ever take that character anywhere but the PVP areas. You can't even go to town. Also, you're stuck to preset skills until you find skills via the PvE game.
The PVE is the overhead I meant. I'm not about to create a PK guy with no skills, gimpage isn't good. You're basically required to do PVE to have a challenge in PVP.
I am not in the least bit entertained by click-kill monster grinding through the PVE part of the game. I guess a lot of people who haven't played MMORPGS think leveling up is fun. Its just progress quest with a new name and fancy graphics.
Maybe PVP will be entertaining. Who knows, you have to do this overhead to get there.
I talked with a programmer who's been in the buisness for a while. He claims, long variable names, and functions that say what they do is more important than comments.
He goes on to say that as you change the code, and forget to change the comments problems arise. But if you make your code readable, then you almost don't need comments.
Theres enough fanbase on Starwars to make as many sequels as you possibly can before you die. It doesn't matter that its the same Universe, theres enough aliens, weaponry, unseen jedi abilities, and intrigue to milk it til you die. Its like telling Gene Roddenberry to reinvent himself. If he was alive, most trekkies would want him to be churning out more Star Trek.
Or are you saying that there should be a computer to find everyone's quickest route on the fly?
On the fly, based on traffic patterns on the roads. Map quest doesn't take into account the current traffic load.
I think that wouldn't work, because, say, on an Interstate, most people are going in the same direction (away from the city). If there's a traffic-causing disturbance (say, an accident), everyone is going to need to bypass that accident on the way home. The computer would need to be really intelligent to take into account the fact that EVERYONE is going to need to get off the interstate at point A and get back on at point B, or else all it would be doing is shifting the traffic off the interstate and onto a detour of sorts.
It doesn't have to be *that* intelligent. We have things that do this now: radio forecasters. This is simply automating the task. The alert could say: I95 is backed up, its better to take a sideroad.
All it'd need to do is plot a detour to get around large traffic congestions.
Its not a difficult computer science problem...
In fact its already solvable with the current map software and this extra data
Given you can use GPS to track the speed of cars, and know what road they're on, you can more accurately know the distance/time a car can cover on roads.
If the distance/time of back roads is faster than the distance/time of the freeway, some people with the computers in their car will free up the congestion. Then the distance/time for everyone is raised.
If everyone had computers in their cars to analyze traffic, then another computer could do a mapsearch and find the quickest way home. This would speed up everyone's journey home. It'd speed up the user using the computer to get home, and it'd speed up the commuter trying the congested lane too.
And I'm not even talking the convincing evidence that could be taken to widen roads or make new roads.
Actually this is the first I heard of them. I never saw multisided Legos on the shelf. Instead on selling mass amounts of blocks, they sell small kits of specialized pieces. You even commented on the problem of running out of blocks. Now going silly: If Lego focused on producing blocks for the cheapest price, they could be selling house construction material today:)
The blocks you could construct dinosaurs that moved and grasped is the set of blocks I liked most, next to construx.
I think Lego went too decorative with their highly specialized pieces. Instead of going specific, they should have went general... Pieces with dots on the side, so you could link pieces out on angles. You got your basic 4 directions: Up, down, left, right, but you could even throw in diagonals with extra pieces.
I just said,"Forget Lego", when they made all those fancy specialized pieces... Instead of stifiling creativity, they could have fostered it.
My last job involved learning someone else's big system, and debugging it. I also wrote SQL queries that were several pages long. I personally think its easier to create your own system from scratch than it is to try and trace down thousands of access violations in someone else's code.
I knew so many people who were intelligent kids and just wanted to get rich so they were in CS.
I just wanted to program because it was something I did my entire life, but I couldn't get into CS because my grades in other studies weren't good. The problem is that if I was in CS, my grades would have been awesome, but the college I went to messed my placement up.
Seeing as I'm also having trouble finding a job programming, I don't see it as a bad thing for people rethinking they want to get into CS. The influx of kids into computer science with no prior computer programming before college was mind boggling in the mid 90s.
Ebay can be seen as a meter of your MMORPG's health. If there are a lot of auctions selling in game content, people still want stuff and the economy is flourishing. If there are no ebay auctions, theres nothing in the game that people want, and your game sucks.
If you don't have ebay, you have givers. Givers just give items to noobs. They mess the 'economy', just the same as ebayers do.
If you really want to fix the economy, don't do item decay, that sucks. Do this: Allow users to flip a coin on extra equipment. If its heads, the item gets better, if its tails, the item is destroyed. Suddenly handme down items could possibly be the next big thing.
Also its good to have equipment for every situation. Elemental defense on armor, elemental attacks on weapons, weapons of slaying. You need lots of reasons to diversify equipment.
I wish Mythic would do less time complaining and spend more time making a new game. Hey maybe one where your team isn't forced upon you.
I remember being so awesome at streetfighter, I played the next best person to my skill with my feet, on SNES home system. I schooled him pretty bad. He was a young kid at the time, maybe 12, and was sorta hyperactive about the whole thing.
I think it'd be entertaining to wade through people's game ideas. Get a general feel for what people find is fun, and what they want to see being played. I bet the judges suck and will pick some lame winner, but mining the data itself would be quite entertaining I think.
If you made a MMOG, Highlander Online, where when you killed someone, your character got stronger. And the person you killed has to jump onto another server that's starting up(probably have serious wait time before starting though).
Diablo 2 had hardcore mode, which was fun, because it wasn't a complete grind fest.
In a MMORPG, I've seen people quit because they lost equipment that took them 3 months to aquire.
God spoke to me, but that doesn't give me the right to speak for him.
You'll notice in the Gospels, God used miracles to cure people and help. When demanded of a miracle, he didn't bow to the whims of mortal man. After all, what right do we have of telling God what to do. Your idea for rearranging stars just seems to be for show. When you do something for show, and you're perfect, don't you think you would do something a bit more extravagant than just sign your name in the sky?
Athesists seem to want to act like they know everything. And since they know everything, what room in the picture is there for God anyway? A more humble man has need for God.
I figure I'd like to say Jesus is Lord. Its awesome because I know straight from divine intervention. Elitist people like to think they know everything, talk in big words and then claim God doesn't exist. The truly smart person knows he doesn't know everything, and bows before a higher power. This is quite the contrary look at the elitist view that religion is the opiate of the masses.
I think it'd be nice if they found more stuff on Jesus, for the unbeliever's sake. Any time you get something told to you straight from God, you know you can believe it. I'm currently trying to rally Christians to become stronger evangelicals and master apologetics in order to convert the unsaved. But I'm starting slow, with an email campaign for now. Maybe work on a book... There are many strategies for conversion, and I need to learn as many as possible. Its even fun to be on a mission from God.
I told them they should distribute video content, then they could collect stuff from throughout the ages, and let everyone rate the stuff.... Now let people select groups they're affiliated with, so you don't get deomcrats liking something and republicans hating it, etc etc. Its just a little bit complex, but not much.
Let me tell you something, you need to balance, just not hit the accelerator.
But its good to have a 22 year old memory.
Oh reminds me of my other dirt bike story. I saw starwars, and thought you didn't need a trail to go through the woods. In fact I thought you could go full speed through the woods since I saw my friends disappear into them(they found a trail). So I'm plowing through full tilt, about 20 feet into the forest, a monkey vine snags my neck, and the bike falls on my leg. The not so fun part is that bike engines are hot and it left this burn scar for 6-8 years afterwards on my knee. So I know how kids are influenced by movies. I wasn't like,"Oh Starwars, let me go try this out." I was thinking,"Man, it seems like everyone can drive full speed through the woods."
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CJ: Maybe PVP will be entertaining. Who knows, you have to do this overhead to get there.
MB: Actually, no, you don't. You can create a PVP only character that is max level, but you can't ever take that character anywhere but the PVP areas. You can't even go to town. Also, you're stuck to preset skills until you find skills via the PvE game. The PVE is the overhead I meant. I'm not about to create a PK guy with no skills, gimpage isn't good. You're basically required to do PVE to have a challenge in PVP.
I am not in the least bit entertained by click-kill monster grinding through the PVE part of the game. I guess a lot of people who haven't played MMORPGS think leveling up is fun. Its just progress quest with a new name and fancy graphics.
Maybe PVP will be entertaining. Who knows, you have to do this overhead to get there.
I talked with a programmer who's been in the buisness for a while. He claims, long variable names, and functions that say what they do is more important than comments.
He goes on to say that as you change the code, and forget to change the comments problems arise. But if you make your code readable, then you almost don't need comments.
Theres enough fanbase on Starwars to make as many sequels as you possibly can before you die. It doesn't matter that its the same Universe, theres enough aliens, weaponry, unseen jedi abilities, and intrigue to milk it til you die. Its like telling Gene Roddenberry to reinvent himself. If he was alive, most trekkies would want him to be churning out more Star Trek.
Yah, you know me.
If we had a king, he'd have simply have killed all his political opponents.
Exactly. Its not like the algorithm will only work for highways. It will determine congestion on all the possible routes, and suggest the best one.
Or are you saying that there should be a computer to find everyone's quickest route on the fly?
On the fly, based on traffic patterns on the roads. Map quest doesn't take into account the current traffic load.
I think that wouldn't work, because, say, on an Interstate, most people are going in the same direction (away from the city). If there's a traffic-causing disturbance (say, an accident), everyone is going to need to bypass that accident on the way home. The computer would need to be really intelligent to take into account the fact that EVERYONE is going to need to get off the interstate at point A and get back on at point B, or else all it would be doing is shifting the traffic off the interstate and onto a detour of sorts.
It doesn't have to be *that* intelligent. We have things that do this now: radio forecasters. This is simply automating the task. The alert could say: I95 is backed up, its better to take a sideroad.
All it'd need to do is plot a detour to get around large traffic congestions.
Its not a difficult computer science problem...
In fact its already solvable with the current map software and this extra data
Given you can use GPS to track the speed of cars, and know what road they're on, you can more accurately know the distance/time a car can cover on roads.
If the distance/time of back roads is faster than the distance/time of the freeway, some people with the computers in their car will free up the congestion. Then the distance/time for everyone is raised.
If everyone had computers in their cars to analyze traffic, then another computer could do a mapsearch and find the quickest way home. This would speed up everyone's journey home. It'd speed up the user using the computer to get home, and it'd speed up the commuter trying the congested lane too.
And I'm not even talking the convincing evidence that could be taken to widen roads or make new roads.
Dude you do know that those exist dont you ;).
:)
Actually this is the first I heard of them. I never saw multisided Legos on the shelf. Instead on selling mass amounts of blocks, they sell small kits of specialized pieces. You even commented on the problem of running out of blocks. Now going silly: If Lego focused on producing blocks for the cheapest price, they could be selling house construction material today
The blocks you could construct dinosaurs that moved and grasped is the set of blocks I liked most, next to construx.
I think Lego went too decorative with their highly specialized pieces. Instead of going specific, they should have went general... Pieces with dots on the side, so you could link pieces out on angles. You got your basic 4 directions: Up, down, left, right, but you could even throw in diagonals with extra pieces.
I just said,"Forget Lego", when they made all those fancy specialized pieces... Instead of stifiling creativity, they could have fostered it.
One thing I'd like to note is at my classes at CMU, there was one girl for every 40 guys. I'm talking computer science, science and mathematics.
My last job involved learning someone else's big system, and debugging it. I also wrote SQL queries that were several pages long. I personally think its easier to create your own system from scratch than it is to try and trace down thousands of access violations in someone else's code.
I knew so many people who were intelligent kids and just wanted to get rich so they were in CS.
I just wanted to program because it was something I did my entire life, but I couldn't get into CS because my grades in other studies weren't good. The problem is that if I was in CS, my grades would have been awesome, but the college I went to messed my placement up.
Seeing as I'm also having trouble finding a job programming, I don't see it as a bad thing for people rethinking they want to get into CS. The influx of kids into computer science with no prior computer programming before college was mind boggling in the mid 90s.
Ebay can be seen as a meter of your MMORPG's health. If there are a lot of auctions selling in game content, people still want stuff and the economy is flourishing. If there are no ebay auctions, theres nothing in the game that people want, and your game sucks.
If you don't have ebay, you have givers. Givers just give items to noobs. They mess the 'economy', just the same as ebayers do.
If you really want to fix the economy, don't do item decay, that sucks. Do this: Allow users to flip a coin on extra equipment. If its heads, the item gets better, if its tails, the item is destroyed. Suddenly handme down items could possibly be the next big thing.
Also its good to have equipment for every situation. Elemental defense on armor, elemental attacks on weapons, weapons of slaying. You need lots of reasons to diversify equipment.
I wish Mythic would do less time complaining and spend more time making a new game. Hey maybe one where your team isn't forced upon you.
Maybe this game will be fun. I just got Matrix Online, and that game sucked.
I can't explain the bluescreen now. It just worked.
I remember being so awesome at streetfighter, I played the next best person to my skill with my feet, on SNES home system. I schooled him pretty bad. He was a young kid at the time, maybe 12, and was sorta hyperactive about the whole thing.
I think it'd be entertaining to wade through people's game ideas. Get a general feel for what people find is fun, and what they want to see being played. I bet the judges suck and will pick some lame winner, but mining the data itself would be quite entertaining I think.
I was thinking the same thing when I read it. *shrugs* God spoke with me, so I know he's real. I can't say I can figure all the details though.
If you made a MMOG, Highlander Online, where when you killed someone, your character got stronger. And the person you killed has to jump onto another server that's starting up(probably have serious wait time before starting though).
Diablo 2 had hardcore mode, which was fun, because it wasn't a complete grind fest.
In a MMORPG, I've seen people quit because they lost equipment that took them 3 months to aquire.
God spoke to me, but that doesn't give me the right to speak for him.
You'll notice in the Gospels, God used miracles to cure people and help. When demanded of a miracle, he didn't bow to the whims of mortal man. After all, what right do we have of telling God what to do. Your idea for rearranging stars just seems to be for show. When you do something for show, and you're perfect, don't you think you would do something a bit more extravagant than just sign your name in the sky?
Athesists seem to want to act like they know everything. And since they know everything, what room in the picture is there for God anyway? A more humble man has need for God.
I figure I'd like to say Jesus is Lord. Its awesome because I know straight from divine intervention. Elitist people like to think they know everything, talk in big words and then claim God doesn't exist. The truly smart person knows he doesn't know everything, and bows before a higher power. This is quite the contrary look at the elitist view that religion is the opiate of the masses.
I think it'd be nice if they found more stuff on Jesus, for the unbeliever's sake. Any time you get something told to you straight from God, you know you can believe it. I'm currently trying to rally Christians to become stronger evangelicals and master apologetics in order to convert the unsaved. But I'm starting slow, with an email campaign for now. Maybe work on a book... There are many strategies for conversion, and I need to learn as many as possible. Its even fun to be on a mission from God.
I told them they should distribute video content, then they could collect stuff from throughout the ages, and let everyone rate the stuff.... Now let people select groups they're affiliated with, so you don't get deomcrats liking something and republicans hating it, etc etc. Its just a little bit complex, but not much.
Let me tell you something, you need to balance, just not hit the accelerator.
But its good to have a 22 year old memory.
Oh reminds me of my other dirt bike story. I saw starwars, and thought you didn't need a trail to go through the woods. In fact I thought you could go full speed through the woods since I saw my friends disappear into them(they found a trail). So I'm plowing through full tilt, about 20 feet into the forest, a monkey vine snags my neck, and the bike falls on my leg. The not so fun part is that bike engines are hot and it left this burn scar for 6-8 years afterwards on my knee. So I know how kids are influenced by movies. I wasn't like,"Oh Starwars, let me go try this out." I was thinking,"Man, it seems like everyone can drive full speed through the woods."