hate to reply to myself, but I thought it might be cool to have a sci-fi mmorpg based on Stargate? Talk about ease of expansion... it could possibly gain enough support to rival WoW
FFXI killed itself, IMO. Sure people still play it, but when I started a pot of coffee on saturday morning, and went to 'the Dunes' to LFG so I could grind XP, only to finish the pot of coffee before getting into one, I lost interest. Picked up a copy of WoW since a bunch of IRL friends played it, and proceeded to draw in 3 more of my friends to the game. I would love to see a sci-fi mmorpg modeled after WoW, not necessarily a continuation of starcraft... that matrix online sure sounded interesting, but I haven't heard much about it since I first heard about it...
What I would like to see from blizzard is a feature where if you are on your 2nd character and you already have a level 60, then you have the option of purchasing rested XP from the innkeepers in major cities. Like, check into a room, and you have full rested XP, they could even pro-rate it, based on how far from fully rested you are.
from TFA: And before yet another idiot pipes up with Standard Asinine Comment #1 ("but FUN is the only thing that matters!"), let me just say: No, it's not. Shut up and grow up. Our overemphasis on fun--kiddie-style, wheeee-type fun--is part of the reason we're in this mess in the first place. To merely be fun is to be unimportant, irrelevant, and therefore vulnerable.
I can't take this guy seriously. fun IS the only thing that matters in a "game". if it weren't fun, it would be a simulator or learning tool of some sort.
This gamer with a job plans to check out the WoW trading card game.
They say that you can mod your characters in game with codes that will be coming with these cards...
I recently went to ebay to see about scoring some 3rd edition MTG cards (old timer) and the unopened booster boxes (like 27 packs of 15 cards or something) were selling for $500.
I was all about my black-green thallid deck...
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I think we are using 10% ethanol already. At least here in Virginia. Maybe it's nothing, but I have noticed a slight change in the way my car sounds since they made the switch. It kind of sputters randomly if I deccelerate with the clutch engaged, and my car only has 46k miles. Spark plugs aren't due to be changed for another 14k... I hope it isn't related to this change, I know they were warning boaters against using ethanol blends in some cases.
For my first diskless cluster, I used the warewulf cluster solution to see one up and running. Then, I wiped the master node's disk and built one with the openmosix kernel patch etc, and used the Linux terminal services project which was really cool. the ltsp stuff made the node filesystem stuff easy to build onto. I am waiting for the openmosix team to finish up work and release the userland tools for the 2.6 kernel for my next build.
here is a good how-to on LTSP+Openmosix - http://ltsp.org/contrib/ltsp-om5r3c.html
Once you get that going, you might look at PVFS2 Parallel Virtual File System. "PVFS2 stripes file data across multiple disks in different nodes in a cluster. By spreading out file data in this manner, larger files can be created, potential bandwidth is increased, and network bottlenecks are minimized."
by the time alliance shammies and horde pallies get to 60, most people will be well on their way to 70. Matter of fact I'd be willing to bet that most people will be more worried about getting their mains and existing alts to 70 before bothering with the new classes/races. BWL will be much easier to pwn with a 40 man group full of lvl 70's, and on to AQ40 and Naxx
I'll bet the energy companies already have this information. Considering the rather warm winter we just experienced (here at least), I look back to the fall when they announced an up to 70% increase in natural gas prices.
if 30 minutes is all you would have to play, then it is a good thing you don't. I started playing in August and on my main character I have a little over a full month of play time. That's in game, at the keyboard logged hours. Recently the network issues have been getting better on our server, but I think some of that is attributed to the recent server transfer they opened up for our realm. From the holiday season up until recently, I have seen up to 1 hour login time. I started joking about changing the default channel on the teamspeak server i run to "Authenticating..."
Windows XP, from Microsoft's site.. minimum (recommended): 233MHz (300Mhz), 64MB (128MB), 1.5GB HD
I think a better measure of minimum requirements would be that the computer has to be worth more than the license. Microsoft has got to be effin joking to say that XP would run on a 233/64 system. More like 1Ghz/512Mb minimum... and that is still kind of struggling along.
I did the same for a day, that warewulf cluster toolkit, but it used waaay too much memory for the ramdisk for our needs.
I ended up setting up dhcpd-tftp for serving the hand rolled kernel (with openmosix patched in), and served the node filesystem using LTSP. My (slave) nodes run using a paltry 19 Mb ramdisk now. (warewulf was well over 100 MB, if memory serves)
You can even go to a CentOS mirror, download/install the appropriate centos-release, yum, and centos-yumconf rpms (have to --force the centosrelease one, and there may be a few other dependencies you will need to get and install (python-urlgrabber, python-elementree, sqlite come to mind)), and then run 'yum update' on your RHEL boxes to migrate to centOS. I started to try and go from RHEL3 to CentOS 4 on one box (yesterday) but there are soo many dependencies. I ended up just upgrading to CentOS 3.6.
FWIW my media center pc recognized my sony projection tv without issues, using a DVI-HDMI cable. I was interested in getting one of those mini's for this, but I had a spare FIC Ice Cube w/ an athlon 64 laying around after I upgraded my gaming system, so I just used that. As much as I loathe Microsoft, they do have a pretty nice package with that XP media center edition, as long as you have the right dvd decoder (media player 10 compatible) installed. I had to download the latest powerdvd software to get the actual media center interface (and all the buttons on the remote) working correctly. (what I mean by that is that if you just use the bundled software that came with the tuner, for instance, the media center "green button" still brought up MCE's interface, which yielded a decoder not installed error)
Here is the forum post for those who are lazy: It has come to our attention that certain individuals are selling Blizzard's in-game property for cash on auction sites such as eBay and on personal websites. The World of Warcraft Terms of Use clearly states that all of the content in World of Warcraft is the property of Blizzard, and Blizzard does not allow "in game" items to be sold for real money. Accordingly, Blizzard Entertainment will take any and all actions necessary to stop this behavior. Not only do we believe that it is illegal, but it also has the potential to damage the game economy and overall experience for the many thousands of others who play World of Warcraft for fun. In order to promote a fun and fair environment for all our customers, we are actively investigating those individuals who engage in this inappropriate activity and reserve the right to take legal action against these individuals to protect World of Warcraft for all those who "play by the rules." If you are found to be selling in-game property (such as coins, items, or characters), for real money, you will lose your characters and accounts, and Blizzard Entertainment reserves its right to pursue legal action against you as well.
We also want to remind potential buyers in the game to please refrain from buying in-game property with real money. We understand the temptation to purchase better items, but Blizzard, and not the seller, does own all in-game property. In addition, we feel that characters can find ample equipment and money within the game through their own adventuring and questing. Please understand that if you do purchase in-game property from sellers on eBay and personal sites, we may temporarily suspend your account, and at the very least, delete the offending items.
Thank you for understanding our position. Blizzard Entertainment is committed to maintaining the atmosphere of fair play and fun in World of Warcraft.
yes, you have strictly PvP servers, where factions can attack each other without restraint, and PvE servers, where you have to enter PvP mode manually or attack someone in a town in the opposing faction. However, you do not get to loot player corpses at all.
I would argue the heavily abbreviated, almost l33t, shorthand used in chat is also not within the spirit or intent of the game, as it detracts from the atmosphere.
That is why they have Role Playing servers. For people who want to immerse themselves in the world of Azeroth.
As a recent attainer of level 60, I have to say there were times when I would get discouraged about gold. That is when I would devote a day or so to farming materials, and grinding up my crafting skills. As well as fishing, there is a lot of money to be made there, especially as a Herbalist/Alchemist. By the time I was level 40, I was making about 20 gold a day from fishing, then turning around and creating fire oil and blackmouth oil from the schools of fish I was farming. (I have since gotten an epic world drop that I could not use as a rogue, so I sold that for 140 gold, and have not had cash problems since.)
Also, I have played in parties where people have main hand and off hand epics (as well as epic ranged weapon) and judging by the way they played (noobish, if you will. bad party etiquette) I made the assumption that they had bought the gold with which to buy said epic weapons. I view gold buying as cheating the system. You should not be able to get metric asstons of epic items until you have proven yourself.
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hate to reply to myself, but I thought it might be cool to have a sci-fi mmorpg based on Stargate? Talk about ease of expansion... it could possibly gain enough support to rival WoW
FFXI killed itself, IMO. Sure people still play it, but when I started a pot of coffee on saturday morning, and went to 'the Dunes' to LFG so I could grind XP, only to finish the pot of coffee before getting into one, I lost interest. Picked up a copy of WoW since a bunch of IRL friends played it, and proceeded to draw in 3 more of my friends to the game. I would love to see a sci-fi mmorpg modeled after WoW, not necessarily a continuation of starcraft... that matrix online sure sounded interesting, but I haven't heard much about it since I first heard about it...
What I would like to see from blizzard is a feature where if you are on your 2nd character and you already have a level 60, then you have the option of purchasing rested XP from the innkeepers in major cities. Like, check into a room, and you have full rested XP, they could even pro-rate it, based on how far from fully rested you are.
I gather it's some kind of robotic trebootchet
from TFA: And before yet another idiot pipes up with Standard Asinine Comment #1 ("but FUN is the only thing that matters!"), let me just say: No, it's not. Shut up and grow up. Our overemphasis on fun--kiddie-style, wheeee-type fun--is part of the reason we're in this mess in the first place. To merely be fun is to be unimportant, irrelevant, and therefore vulnerable.
I can't take this guy seriously. fun IS the only thing that matters in a "game". if it weren't fun, it would be a simulator or learning tool of some sort.
yep. I played MTG 3rd edition, as did friends who played. I think 4th edition was when that phasing crap came out, and I havent looked back.
This gamer with a job plans to check out the WoW trading card game. They say that you can mod your characters in game with codes that will be coming with these cards... I recently went to ebay to see about scoring some 3rd edition MTG cards (old timer) and the unopened booster boxes (like 27 packs of 15 cards or something) were selling for $500. I was all about my black-green thallid deck...
I think we are using 10% ethanol already. At least here in Virginia. Maybe it's nothing, but I have noticed a slight change in the way my car sounds since they made the switch. It kind of sputters randomly if I deccelerate with the clutch engaged, and my car only has 46k miles. Spark plugs aren't due to be changed for another 14k... I hope it isn't related to this change, I know they were warning boaters against using ethanol blends in some cases.
For my first diskless cluster, I used the warewulf cluster solution to see one up and running. Then, I wiped the master node's disk and built one with the openmosix kernel patch etc, and used the Linux terminal services project which was really cool. the ltsp stuff made the node filesystem stuff easy to build onto. I am waiting for the openmosix team to finish up work and release the userland tools for the 2.6 kernel for my next build. here is a good how-to on LTSP+Openmosix - http://ltsp.org/contrib/ltsp-om5r3c.html
Once you get that going, you might look at PVFS2 Parallel Virtual File System. "PVFS2 stripes file data across multiple disks in different nodes in a cluster. By spreading out file data in this manner, larger files can be created, potential bandwidth is increased, and network bottlenecks are minimized."
Good Luck!!
by the time alliance shammies and horde pallies get to 60, most people will be well on their way to 70. Matter of fact I'd be willing to bet that most people will be more worried about getting their mains and existing alts to 70 before bothering with the new classes/races. BWL will be much easier to pwn with a 40 man group full of lvl 70's, and on to AQ40 and Naxx
but paladins _are_ overpowered. :P
I'll bet the energy companies already have this information. Considering the rather warm winter we just experienced (here at least),
I look back to the fall when they announced an up to 70% increase in natural gas prices.
*puts on tinfoil hat*
The United States itself was a start up, colonized by greedy English, French, and Spanish people who came over and exploited the Native Americans.
if 30 minutes is all you would have to play, then it is a good thing you don't. I started playing in August and on my main character I have a little over a full month of play time. That's in game, at the keyboard logged hours. Recently the network issues have been getting better on our server, but I think some of that is attributed to the recent server transfer they opened up for our realm. From the holiday season up until recently, I have seen up to 1 hour login time. I started joking about changing the default channel on the teamspeak server i run to "Authenticating..."
Windows XP, from Microsoft's site.. minimum (recommended): 233MHz (300Mhz), 64MB (128MB), 1.5GB HD
I think a better measure of minimum requirements would be that the computer has to be worth more than the license. Microsoft has got to be effin joking to say that XP would run on a 233/64 system. More like 1Ghz/512Mb minimum... and that is still kind of struggling along.
I wonder what the statute of limitations is on ruining the environment.
I did the same for a day, that warewulf cluster toolkit, but it used waaay too much memory for the ramdisk for our needs.
I ended up setting up dhcpd-tftp for serving the hand rolled kernel (with openmosix patched in), and served the node filesystem using LTSP. My (slave) nodes run using a paltry 19 Mb ramdisk now. (warewulf was well over 100 MB, if memory serves)
You can even go to a CentOS mirror, download/install the appropriate centos-release, yum, and centos-yumconf rpms (have to --force the centosrelease one, and there may be a few other dependencies you will need to get and install (python-urlgrabber, python-elementree, sqlite come to mind)), and then run 'yum update' on your RHEL boxes to migrate to centOS. I started to try and go from RHEL3 to CentOS 4 on one box (yesterday) but there are soo many dependencies. I ended up just upgrading to CentOS 3.6.
FWIW my media center pc recognized my sony projection tv without issues, using a DVI-HDMI cable. I was interested in getting one of those mini's for this, but I had a spare FIC Ice Cube w/ an athlon 64 laying around after I upgraded my gaming system, so I just used that. As much as I loathe Microsoft, they do have a pretty nice package with that XP media center edition, as long as you have the right dvd decoder (media player 10 compatible) installed. I had to download the latest powerdvd software to get the actual media center interface (and all the buttons on the remote) working correctly. (what I mean by that is that if you just use the bundled software that came with the tuner, for instance, the media center "green button" still brought up MCE's interface, which yielded a decoder not installed error)
well, how about this Straight from Blizzard.
Here is the forum post for those who are lazy:
It has come to our attention that certain individuals are selling Blizzard's in-game property for cash on auction sites such as eBay and on personal websites. The World of Warcraft Terms of Use clearly states that all of the content in World of Warcraft is the property of Blizzard, and Blizzard does not allow "in game" items to be sold for real money. Accordingly, Blizzard Entertainment will take any and all actions necessary to stop this behavior. Not only do we believe that it is illegal, but it also has the potential to damage the game economy and overall experience for the many thousands of others who play World of Warcraft for fun. In order to promote a fun and fair environment for all our customers, we are actively investigating those individuals who engage in this inappropriate activity and reserve the right to take legal action against these individuals to protect World of Warcraft for all those who "play by the rules." If you are found to be selling in-game property (such as coins, items, or characters), for real money, you will lose your characters and accounts, and Blizzard Entertainment reserves its right to pursue legal action against you as well.
We also want to remind potential buyers in the game to please refrain from buying in-game property with real money. We understand the temptation to purchase better items, but Blizzard, and not the seller, does own all in-game property. In addition, we feel that characters can find ample equipment and money within the game through their own adventuring and questing. Please understand that if you do purchase in-game property from sellers on eBay and personal sites, we may temporarily suspend your account, and at the very least, delete the offending items.
Thank you for understanding our position. Blizzard Entertainment is committed to maintaining the atmosphere of fair play and fun in World of Warcraft.
yes, you have strictly PvP servers, where factions can attack each other without restraint, and PvE servers, where you have to enter PvP mode manually or attack someone in a town in the opposing faction. However, you do not get to loot player corpses at all.
I would argue the heavily abbreviated, almost l33t, shorthand used in chat is also not within the spirit or intent of the game, as it detracts from the atmosphere.
That is why they have Role Playing servers. For people who want to immerse themselves in the world of Azeroth.
As a recent attainer of level 60, I have to say there were times when I would get discouraged about gold. That is when I would devote a day or so to farming materials, and grinding up my crafting skills. As well as fishing, there is a lot of money to be made there, especially as a Herbalist/Alchemist. By the time I was level 40, I was making about 20 gold a day from fishing, then turning around and creating fire oil and blackmouth oil from the schools of fish I was farming. (I have since gotten an epic world drop that I could not use as a rogue, so I sold that for 140 gold, and have not had cash problems since.)
Also, I have played in parties where people have main hand and off hand epics (as well as epic ranged weapon) and judging by the way they played (noobish, if you will. bad party etiquette) I made the assumption that they had bought the gold with which to buy said epic weapons. I view gold buying as cheating the system. You should not be able to get metric asstons of epic items until you have proven yourself.
So, if I submit my email address to this database, and just say it belongs to a kid, I can stop recieving v!@gr@ spam?
you have pot plants at work?
It's probably because people don't want to go through the whole "reinstall everything and then beg Micro$oft to reactivate them" crap.
3 words: "bootable ghost dvd"
(ghost image created after activation, of course)
I prefer linux too, except when it comes to gaming.