I remember when the Nobel Prize used to mean something, when people won it many years after tremendous accomplishments. It was so exclusive that the best of the best never knew if they would ever receive it.
User generated content should not always be difficult to make, it should not even require the player to learn specific tools. It should be part of the game itself.
I once imagined a game that would be a mix between a mmorpg (or a dungeon crawler) and a sim-like game. The player would start by creating a low level character and his hous/castle/spacestation (Could be in a fantasy or SF setting or whatever, doesn't really matters), and as he progresses into the game he can add different kind of rooms to his home that will help the character (if the character is a magician, a library would help him learn new spells). He could hire guards to protect his belongings, and other players could attack his castle like if any dungeon in any game. Think x-com here: you build a room because it allows you to hire some crew or buy planes or do scientific research, and when your base is attacked the battlefield depends on how you placed the different rooms. You could buy different objects and furniture for your home that will have be usefull in "sims" mode, orin defense mod, or when you go and attack another player, or in those three modes.
Obviously a lot of thought would have to be put into the balance, for example I think a player whose dungeon is attacked should lose less than what the attacking player earn. If i attack a player and kill every guard in his dungeon, from the point of view of the defender the guards may be hurt or and need some healing to be fully operationnal but they must not be permanently dead. If I search the library of a another player after having killed everybody in his dungeon, I may loot a rare book but the book would not disappear from the player's inventory (it may even have been auto-generated without the owner of the dungeon ever having owned this particular book). And there should be some mecanism that doesn't allow player to abuse the system by farming a pruposely weakly defended dungeon.
So if this paint resonate with wifi signal frequencies, does the signal rebound on it, increasing risks of getting cancer and/or global warming in your own home?
I daresay some employees in the private sector are wasting time reading Slashdot right at this very moment when they are nominally getting paid to do other things.
In some countries, like the one I live in (France), waiters get a decent salary without tips. Giving a tip is not something you always do, you only do it when you want to reward a good waiter. And often the tip is more 2 to 5% than 20. (For a 20% tip, a waitress would have to do way more than her job).
As a result, some people I know didn't understand why all waiters seemed to hate them when they went on vacation in US, and the waiters I know are always very happy to serve american tourists.
The problem is, google's closed softwares won't always be distributed with the phones. A phone provider can choose to distribute an android phone with only their own apps, without the ones from google. If the same phone is distributed in another country with the apps, and someone make a new rom with the apps, it allows someone to install the app on a phone where it wasn't meant to be installed.
And this is bad for google business with phone profiders.
Not true, I get on the command line of my iPhone all the time. There's nothing like being able to SSH into a machine from anywhere you've got reception. Its got nice little touch gestures for different command short cuts and everything.
I once tried to use vi using accelerometer gestures. Now all my colleagues think i'm epileptic.
I really don't care about what a character wears. I don't play wow very much, having done maybe 3 or 4 wotlk instances, and wear several green items.
I think these changes would make sense for the people who complain all the time about how purple gear is too easy to obtain. Because you can't tell 12 million persons "Why don't you stop caring about how much purple everyone wears?" and expect them to do so.
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phpbb is and has always been evil.
Welcome in Apple world.
How can this be modded troll?
Unless Abiword is a helluva lot less expensive than Open. Oh yeah, they're both free. Never mind.
That's infinitely less expensive!
Mac is like a high maintenance mistress, Windows is like a pricey Girlfriend, Ubuntu is like a wife.
The question is, which one will get me laid?
Heretic.
Can such wave servers communicate with one another?
I suppose you didn't play much C&C.
I remember when the Nobel Prize used to mean something, when people won it many years after tremendous accomplishments. It was so exclusive that the best of the best never knew if they would ever receive it.
I feel the same about epic gear in WoW.
three next rings should be I, H and J. no more rings after that.
User generated content should not always be difficult to make, it should not even require the player to learn specific tools. It should be part of the game itself.
I once imagined a game that would be a mix between a mmorpg (or a dungeon crawler) and a sim-like game. The player would start by creating a low level character and his hous/castle/spacestation (Could be in a fantasy or SF setting or whatever, doesn't really matters), and as he progresses into the game he can add different kind of rooms to his home that will help the character (if the character is a magician, a library would help him learn new spells). He could hire guards to protect his belongings, and other players could attack his castle like if any dungeon in any game. Think x-com here: you build a room because it allows you to hire some crew or buy planes or do scientific research, and when your base is attacked the battlefield depends on how you placed the different rooms.
You could buy different objects and furniture for your home that will have be usefull in "sims" mode, orin defense mod, or when you go and attack another player, or in those three modes.
Obviously a lot of thought would have to be put into the balance, for example I think a player whose dungeon is attacked should lose less than what the attacking player earn. If i attack a player and kill every guard in his dungeon, from the point of view of the defender the guards may be hurt or and need some healing to be fully operationnal but they must not be permanently dead. If I search the library of a another player after having killed everybody in his dungeon, I may loot a rare book but the book would not disappear from the player's inventory (it may even have been auto-generated without the owner of the dungeon ever having owned this particular book). And there should be some mecanism that doesn't allow player to abuse the system by farming a pruposely weakly defended dungeon.
Doesn't the X stands for 10?
So if this paint resonate with wifi signal frequencies, does the signal rebound on it, increasing risks of getting cancer and/or global warming in your own home?
I daresay some employees in the private sector are wasting time reading Slashdot right at this very moment when they are nominally getting paid to do other things.
Are you behind me right now?
In some countries, like the one I live in (France), waiters get a decent salary without tips.
Giving a tip is not something you always do, you only do it when you want to reward a good waiter. And often the tip is more 2 to 5% than 20. (For a 20% tip, a waitress would have to do way more than her job).
As a result, some people I know didn't understand why all waiters seemed to hate them when they went on vacation in US, and the waiters I know are always very happy to serve american tourists.
And, the heat generated by the burnig of this trillion will accelerate global warming. Open source is bad for the planet.
The problem is, google's closed softwares won't always be distributed with the phones.
A phone provider can choose to distribute an android phone with only their own apps, without the ones from google.
If the same phone is distributed in another country with the apps, and someone make a new rom with the apps, it allows someone to install the app on a phone where it wasn't meant to be installed.
And this is bad for google business with phone profiders.
I can write 4000 lines of code in ~10 hours.
I can write a 4000 lines app from scrach, that works and is almost bug-free in about a month.
They receive relief for the breach of their right to have the source code.
Doesn't matter if they are the copyright holders or not, they have rights on this code. Just not copyright.
Not true, I get on the command line of my iPhone all the time. There's nothing like being able to SSH into a machine from anywhere you've got reception. Its got nice little touch gestures for different command short cuts and everything.
I once tried to use vi using accelerometer gestures. Now all my colleagues think i'm epileptic.
of course microsoft could fight that by making sure the plugin always work with each ie update.
The IE dev team is well-known for making sure everything works fine between version updates.
Good star trek games exist. They are fewer than crappy ST games, but still.
ST: Away team, while displaying an evident lack of originality (it was basically just commando in space), was very decent.
Just wait for the Dragon Ball MMO
agreed
I really don't care about what a character wears. I don't play wow very much, having done maybe 3 or 4 wotlk instances, and wear several green items.
I think these changes would make sense for the people who complain all the time about how purple gear is too easy to obtain. Because you can't tell 12 million persons "Why don't you stop caring about how much purple everyone wears?" and expect them to do so.