How about a game where the player that achieves the great status becomes the next target for the player behind him? Good/evil alignments would fight each other for mobs/quests and higher status players become higher level targets. Roleplaying could become a bigger deal and make more sense.
Keep track of everyone that has anything to do with _MOB_X_ and if those players associated all quit, bring _MOB_X_ back into the game, recycled like.
heck, have quests where you bring 20 healers with you and resurrect _MOB_X because you are aligned the same as that mob.
I think there are numerous ways to handle it,but I suppose it comes down to development time/cost..
how many people here have actually USED a vertical mouse? I have. I was to the point at work where within 5 minutes of using a mouse my wrists would begin tingling and my fingers would start to go numb. I switched to a vertical mouse and the relief was IMMEDIATE. However, you do need to 'learn' how to use the thing, which takes a few days to get used to it...and it feels much different than a normal mouse. There is also an accuracy and speed cost...I would not recommend a vertical mouse for gaming. What I ended up doing was using the vertical mouse at work only, then I woud switch back to a normal mouse at home for gaming.
There is no 'snake oil', repetetive mouse movements can really start to hurt. Vertical mice definately do relieve a lot of the stress involved with moving the mouse and clicking the buttons, but at a cost of accuracy/speed. Now if they started claiming to *cure* RSI, it would be a different story.
If not, suck it up and be thankful the mistakes of your vendor give you a well paying job."
Way to troll... I'd never be thankful that the problems with software require me to spend more time with it. I didn't sign up on my job to "deal with bugs in software", I signed up to administer the damn thing. If the software worked the way it is supposed to, I'd have a hell of a lot more time to do more productive things, and a hell of a lot less stress. And I'm not speaking of Oracle specifically, this applies to ALL software. The less time and effort spent on the vender's part making software work and work well, the more time administrators spend fixing it. People seem to think that bugfixing = good job. You fail to realize that this effort could be better spent elsewhere, such as innovating new solutions that would make our jobs even more efficient. Would this put some of us out of our current jobs? Sure! And I'd be damned happy because it would free us up to pursue more innovative and hopefully more efficient technologies.
In other words, we're spinning our wheels in the mud of flawed software.
"To translate for/. readers: You have one C++ programmer, and you need more work done. Just hire one more programmer, and to your surprise, you get 4 times as much done."
Sound like that first guy was a real slacker... and I know, we can smell our own =p
Same here. Grew up on Atari, Collecto, Intellivision, Nintendo as a kid, and Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Decent, a plethora of other shooter clones that came out in the 90's in my teens. FPS was a lot of fun, and very much a groundbreaking and exciting thing. But now it is pretty much old hat, a standard if you will. But it is definately getting better. I loved HL2 when it came out because of the better graphics, storylines, and overall immersion it offered. DM is fun as well, in small chunks of time. But DM type play has lost it's luster. This is where games like Everquest (and now Everquest II) stepped up and brought so much more to the plate. Not only do you get the DM type play, but many storylines, unique experiences (tradeskilling, raiding), and overall just more DEPTH than the old point and click and fire a rocket up your buddy's ass type play. I think people my age (late 20's early 30's) grew up in a very interesting time, we got to see games go from 8-bit Atari, kilobyte memory games to games requiring gigs of memory and huge amounts of processing power. What a trip it's been! I know it's only going to get better and better. I can't wait to see what comes out after Everquest type games become status-quo. Maybe a Second Life-Everquest type mash-up where you can create your own items/monsters/whatever and then grab a group of your friends and go raid =).
They should write a whole suite of applications for this kind of thing. More compatability! More extensions! Then people can rave about how much they love their GiMP Suite, and everyone else will think they are very very strange! It'll be great!
i've been wanting to use that joke for years 8-)
I water cool. Why? Because I got tired of the jet engine that was my CPU/GPU cooler setup. I could barely hear myself think. Not only that, but after a few hours my system would get extremely hot all over as the heat spread around. I went to water cooling, and i'll never go back. The system I run is very very quiet, and remains pretty damn cool for about a day if i'm gaming a lot, or many days if i'm not. Yeah, there's the risk of it getting a leak, but so far so good, and I'm very happy with it. I'm water cooling my CPU/GPU/RAM and 3 scsi hdd's.
It's got Bluetooth, and they say it will be controllable from a host machine, be it a computer, a PDA, or a mobile phone. What more could you ask for?
Fire! Laser Beams!...or maybe a beer holder!
I feel your pain, CmdrTaco. I had my in-game name changed and was booted as well. It was a very disheartening experience. None of my friends knew who I was afterwards. Apparently, SOE does not like governments, or cheese. The combination of the two asploded the collective GM heads (although it took thier collective heads over 6 months to asplode, and commence changing my name...must be the timezone difference or something). They gave me some lame-ass hokey name in its stead.
Oh, my origional name? Govmentcheese Isthabest.
Pure. Roleplaying. Magic.
Where I live I'm pretty much forced to pay for a bundled service for cable internet...I have to shell out $15/mo for cable TV, on top of the cable internet bill. But this is due to the cable company not having a way to "filter out", if you will, the cable TV service from the broadband service. Oh, how I long for digital cable...
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How about a game where the player that achieves the great status becomes the next target for the player behind him? Good/evil alignments would fight each other for mobs/quests and higher status players become higher level targets. Roleplaying could become a bigger deal and make more sense. Keep track of everyone that has anything to do with _MOB_X_ and if those players associated all quit, bring _MOB_X_ back into the game, recycled like. heck, have quests where you bring 20 healers with you and resurrect _MOB_X because you are aligned the same as that mob. I think there are numerous ways to handle it,but I suppose it comes down to development time/cost..
install urinals as well as a toilet in every shared bathroom.
In other news, Open Source has been found to lead to Open Sores. Story at 11.
"There are other factors like lunch breaks and the location of good restaurants, which the problem doesn't account for."
lunchbreaks...good restaurants....the best lonely housewives...
If these robots can go into tubes, maybe when the internets are clogged they can help us out?
I wonder if the end boss is hard? =p
how many people here have actually USED a vertical mouse? I have. I was to the point at work where within 5 minutes of using a mouse my wrists would begin tingling and my fingers would start to go numb. I switched to a vertical mouse and the relief was IMMEDIATE. However, you do need to 'learn' how to use the thing, which takes a few days to get used to it...and it feels much different than a normal mouse. There is also an accuracy and speed cost...I would not recommend a vertical mouse for gaming. What I ended up doing was using the vertical mouse at work only, then I woud switch back to a normal mouse at home for gaming.
There is no 'snake oil', repetetive mouse movements can really start to hurt. Vertical mice definately do relieve a lot of the stress involved with moving the mouse and clicking the buttons, but at a cost of accuracy/speed. Now if they started claiming to *cure* RSI, it would be a different story.
But can it be used to find Sara O'Conner?
Way to troll... I'd never be thankful that the problems with software require me to spend more time with it. I didn't sign up on my job to "deal with bugs in software", I signed up to administer the damn thing. If the software worked the way it is supposed to, I'd have a hell of a lot more time to do more productive things, and a hell of a lot less stress. And I'm not speaking of Oracle specifically, this applies to ALL software. The less time and effort spent on the vender's part making software work and work well, the more time administrators spend fixing it. People seem to think that bugfixing = good job. You fail to realize that this effort could be better spent elsewhere, such as innovating new solutions that would make our jobs even more efficient. Would this put some of us out of our current jobs? Sure! And I'd be damned happy because it would free us up to pursue more innovative and hopefully more efficient technologies.
In other words, we're spinning our wheels in the mud of flawed software.
"To translate for /. readers: You have one C++ programmer, and you need more work done. Just hire one more programmer, and to your surprise, you get 4 times as much done."
Sound like that first guy was a real slacker... and I know, we can smell our own =p
Same here. Grew up on Atari, Collecto, Intellivision, Nintendo as a kid, and Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Decent, a plethora of other shooter clones that came out in the 90's in my teens. FPS was a lot of fun, and very much a groundbreaking and exciting thing. But now it is pretty much old hat, a standard if you will. But it is definately getting better. I loved HL2 when it came out because of the better graphics, storylines, and overall immersion it offered. DM is fun as well, in small chunks of time. But DM type play has lost it's luster. This is where games like Everquest (and now Everquest II) stepped up and brought so much more to the plate. Not only do you get the DM type play, but many storylines, unique experiences (tradeskilling, raiding), and overall just more DEPTH than the old point and click and fire a rocket up your buddy's ass type play. I think people my age (late 20's early 30's) grew up in a very interesting time, we got to see games go from 8-bit Atari, kilobyte memory games to games requiring gigs of memory and huge amounts of processing power. What a trip it's been! I know it's only going to get better and better. I can't wait to see what comes out after Everquest type games become status-quo. Maybe a Second Life-Everquest type mash-up where you can create your own items/monsters/whatever and then grab a group of your friends and go raid =).
They should write a whole suite of applications for this kind of thing. More compatability! More extensions! Then people can rave about how much they love their GiMP Suite, and everyone else will think they are very very strange! It'll be great! i've been wanting to use that joke for years 8-)
I water cool. Why? Because I got tired of the jet engine that was my CPU/GPU cooler setup. I could barely hear myself think. Not only that, but after a few hours my system would get extremely hot all over as the heat spread around. I went to water cooling, and i'll never go back. The system I run is very very quiet, and remains pretty damn cool for about a day if i'm gaming a lot, or many days if i'm not. Yeah, there's the risk of it getting a leak, but so far so good, and I'm very happy with it. I'm water cooling my CPU/GPU/RAM and 3 scsi hdd's.
When rounding, I always look to this simple pattern:
You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby Right round round round
It doesn't help my rounding, but it's sure is fun =)
It's got Bluetooth, and they say it will be controllable from a host machine, be it a computer, a PDA, or a mobile phone. What more could you ask for? ...or maybe a beer holder!
Fire! Laser Beams!
Actually, I think we're safe from that... http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html =)
I feel your pain, CmdrTaco. I had my in-game name changed and was booted as well. It was a very disheartening experience. None of my friends knew who I was afterwards. Apparently, SOE does not like governments, or cheese. The combination of the two asploded the collective GM heads (although it took thier collective heads over 6 months to asplode, and commence changing my name...must be the timezone difference or something). They gave me some lame-ass hokey name in its stead. Oh, my origional name? Govmentcheese Isthabest. Pure. Roleplaying. Magic.
Where I live I'm pretty much forced to pay for a bundled service for cable internet...I have to shell out $15/mo for cable TV, on top of the cable internet bill. But this is due to the cable company not having a way to "filter out", if you will, the cable TV service from the broadband service. Oh, how I long for digital cable...