I think the Zenimax guys know what they're doing, and from what I've seen I expect the game to get better over time, not worse. I'd say there's a great chance ESO emerges as a solid top tier MMO.
I think the Zenimax guys know what they're doing, and from what I've seen I expect the game to get better over time, not worse. I'd say there's a great chance ESO emerges as a solid top tier MMO.
Even now, the occasional bug aside, this game is the most fun I have had in an MMO in a long time.
I hope its sustainable.
Also, bravo on them making a Mac client at launch that looks and runs every bit as good as its windows counterpart.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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Vanilla is open source?! Icy I have some patches too. There's a bug where all my best cutting remarks are hidden from view some percentage of the time, resulting in greatly reduced agree and awesome counts. Now I understand this is a load-balancing issue, processing all the agrees I'd otherwise get might take down the servers but I think I have come up with some optimizations that should really help out. For example, when I make a post, the forum software could automatically register agrees from everyone in the thread, then allowing one or two people to opt out, thereby greatly reducing transaction count.
Just think about it.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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Yeah, this is basically the worst thing to happen. Mostly because it's one of those sticky bits. Once the telecoms have additional inflow of money, then they'll be able to pad the balance sheets more effectively to hire lobbyists to keep the true neutral nature of the network away.
Makes me want to move to a state/city/neighborhood with google fibre.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
Ostgut was a marriage of the two, and as such created something new—a gay club with mainstream appeal. It became a kind of distillation of the nineties scene. In many respects, Berlin’s queer culture is the city’s most essential and distinguishing element—the coagulant and the zest. It was thus in the twenties and in pre-1989 West Berlin, and remains so today. The clubs are its public face. No one in Berlin is made nervous or embarrassed by the idea of going to a gay club.
Ultima Online sounds like it was awesome, but it was a little before my time.
That was the 4th or 5th MMO I played...
Lets see... my MMO history is:
- Nando.net Trade Wars 2002 (500 concurrent players in an ascii-based loosely star-trekkish trading simulator)
- Shadow of Yserbius / Fates of Twinion on ImaginNation (Sierra's weird gaming-only america Online)
- Neverwinter Nights SSI Gold Box MMO on AOL
- The Realm - a weird Sierra Social MMO that played much like Quest for Glory
- Ultima Online Beta
So yeah. I am such an old.
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JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
- wonderfully minimalist presentation. There is a difference between "spare" and "underdeveloped" and Homeworld falls squarely on the former; in a few very short and largely abstract cutscenes and bits of dialog, you get the impression of a vast galaxy with a rich history but without a one hundred thousand word injection of cruft. And as I recall, the race you play as is never shown - you hear their voices all the time, but they might be lizard people or plucky little Mogwai people or blob people for all you know. (Of course then in the sequel it turns out they are human and your mothership is a hot chick because of course she is.)
- The atmosphere is fantastic. The entire game feels vast and lonely and sad.
- The tech tree is kind of sparse considering you spend the entire campaign climbing it (I think this is an unintended consequence of having the same tech tree for the campaign and the multi).
- Though I think this is somewhat made up for by the formation options (having your ships fly in a wing, a sphere, a claw, etc); most RTS combat is drag, click, point at the enemy, and then, depending on the game, hope that you have a really good micro setup. I really like that you have tactical options that don't rely on having lightning-fast fingers.
- I think the persistent fleet gameplay creates a series of perverse incentives. The optimal strategy ends up being to capture everything you can, particularly those sweet-ass laser frigates that you never learn how to buy. If you are really painstaking and careful (eg, if you have absolutely no fun), you can get an overwhelming force very early on and steamroll the first half of the game. But what's worse is that the developers, knowing this, then overbalance the difficulty to compensate for it - so in some levels, if you haven't been husbanding every ship with maximum anal-retentiveness, you get stomped.
- Too many levels rely on a gimmick (an invincible enemy, solar radiation that keeps you from leaving a dust cloud) rather than the core gameplay. I don't always mind that, and some of the gimmicks are really cool, but it is kind of annoying, particularly when it highlights the deficiencies of the UI (trying to stay inside a really narrow dust tunnel so you don't die is an enormous pain in the ass in 3D).
- All that said, I feel bad about never quite finishing it. I think I got to the last or next-to-last level.
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thatassemblyguyJanitor of Technical Debt.Registered Userregular
Ostgut was a marriage of the two, and as such created something new—a gay club with mainstream appeal. It became a kind of distillation of the nineties scene. In many respects, Berlin’s queer culture is the city’s most essential and distinguishing element—the coagulant and the zest. It was thus in the twenties and in pre-1989 West Berlin, and remains so today. The clubs are its public face. No one in Berlin is made nervous or embarrassed by the idea of going to a gay club.
I can't wait to go to Germany.
Agreed, but I can't wait because of the large amount of amazing beer. My liver will be put on a slow death march through the Bavarian country side.
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Ostgut was a marriage of the two, and as such created something new—a gay club with mainstream appeal. It became a kind of distillation of the nineties scene. In many respects, Berlin’s queer culture is the city’s most essential and distinguishing element—the coagulant and the zest. It was thus in the twenties and in pre-1989 West Berlin, and remains so today. The clubs are its public face. No one in Berlin is made nervous or embarrassed by the idea of going to a gay club.
I can't wait to go to Germany.
SO MANY SPARKLE PARTIES
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
The company that sent me a rejection email on saturday just sent me an email telling me about a job I might be interested in and should apply for.
The req looks REAL familiar.
I realize that this is an automated system, but it was automated by dicks.
The EU recently adopted stringent Net Neutrality laws, which in a morbid kind of way will allow an interesting insight in the different paths the EU and the US are taking.
GoslingLooking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, ProbablyWatertown, WIRegistered Userregular
I'm going over the fiction thing I wrote in Writer's Block.
Someone gave a critique which was basically what I was afraid of: it's got a ton of problems. A TON of problems. I figured it wasn't going to be great- I'd figured from the start that the basic concept was better conveyed in a visual medium and I haven't written fiction since 6th grade; it's been exclusively nonfiction since then- but damn and holy shit do I suck at writing fiction.
The purpose was to chiefly provide a framework to show the concept. I don't think I even did well enough to do that.
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
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Dog learns how to protest in their own language and they just laugh
They are, that is true. I guess in this case the term fits.
I will still eat ice cream and sob quietly.
If it was a cat, it would have murdered them in their sleep.
MMO quality is a pyramid.
The top of the pyramid was COX. Alone.
And now... and now...
<runs sobbing from the room>
his accent
the things he says
l
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Cat sounds like Hydra material.
is he just wetting endless midrange js, pumping and driving for baskets, posting up, or all three
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Even now, the occasional bug aside, this game is the most fun I have had in an MMO in a long time.
I hope its sustainable.
Also, bravo on them making a Mac client at launch that looks and runs every bit as good as its windows counterpart.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Geth, roll 2
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Was almost epic enough for me to not notice the stomach flu I am dealing with.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Cats would eat Hydra.
Vanilla is open source?! Icy I have some patches too. There's a bug where all my best cutting remarks are hidden from view some percentage of the time, resulting in greatly reduced agree and awesome counts. Now I understand this is a load-balancing issue, processing all the agrees I'd otherwise get might take down the servers but I think I have come up with some optimizations that should really help out. For example, when I make a post, the forum software could automatically register agrees from everyone in the thread, then allowing one or two people to opt out, thereby greatly reducing transaction count.
Just think about it.
Yeah, this is basically the worst thing to happen. Mostly because it's one of those sticky bits. Once the telecoms have additional inflow of money, then they'll be able to pad the balance sheets more effectively to hire lobbyists to keep the true neutral nature of the network away.
Makes me want to move to a state/city/neighborhood with google fibre.
I can't wait to go to Germany.
That was the 4th or 5th MMO I played...
Lets see... my MMO history is:
- Nando.net Trade Wars 2002 (500 concurrent players in an ascii-based loosely star-trekkish trading simulator)
- Shadow of Yserbius / Fates of Twinion on ImaginNation (Sierra's weird gaming-only america Online)
- Neverwinter Nights SSI Gold Box MMO on AOL
- The Realm - a weird Sierra Social MMO that played much like Quest for Glory
- Ultima Online Beta
So yeah. I am such an old.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
@Feral @Evil Multifarious
Jacob on Homeworld:
- wonderfully minimalist presentation. There is a difference between "spare" and "underdeveloped" and Homeworld falls squarely on the former; in a few very short and largely abstract cutscenes and bits of dialog, you get the impression of a vast galaxy with a rich history but without a one hundred thousand word injection of cruft. And as I recall, the race you play as is never shown - you hear their voices all the time, but they might be lizard people or plucky little Mogwai people or blob people for all you know. (Of course then in the sequel it turns out they are human and your mothership is a hot chick because of course she is.)
- The atmosphere is fantastic. The entire game feels vast and lonely and sad.
- The tech tree is kind of sparse considering you spend the entire campaign climbing it (I think this is an unintended consequence of having the same tech tree for the campaign and the multi).
- Though I think this is somewhat made up for by the formation options (having your ships fly in a wing, a sphere, a claw, etc); most RTS combat is drag, click, point at the enemy, and then, depending on the game, hope that you have a really good micro setup. I really like that you have tactical options that don't rely on having lightning-fast fingers.
- I think the persistent fleet gameplay creates a series of perverse incentives. The optimal strategy ends up being to capture everything you can, particularly those sweet-ass laser frigates that you never learn how to buy. If you are really painstaking and careful (eg, if you have absolutely no fun), you can get an overwhelming force very early on and steamroll the first half of the game. But what's worse is that the developers, knowing this, then overbalance the difficulty to compensate for it - so in some levels, if you haven't been husbanding every ship with maximum anal-retentiveness, you get stomped.
- Too many levels rely on a gimmick (an invincible enemy, solar radiation that keeps you from leaving a dust cloud) rather than the core gameplay. I don't always mind that, and some of the gimmicks are really cool, but it is kind of annoying, particularly when it highlights the deficiencies of the UI (trying to stay inside a really narrow dust tunnel so you don't die is an enormous pain in the ass in 3D).
- All that said, I feel bad about never quite finishing it. I think I got to the last or next-to-last level.
Agreed, but I can't wait because of the large amount of amazing beer. My liver will be put on a slow death march through the Bavarian country side.
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SO MANY SPARKLE PARTIES
The req looks REAL familiar.
I realize that this is an automated system, but it was automated by dicks.
The EU recently adopted stringent Net Neutrality laws, which in a morbid kind of way will allow an interesting insight in the different paths the EU and the US are taking.
Yes jake midrange js alllllll day
Someone gave a critique which was basically what I was afraid of: it's got a ton of problems. A TON of problems. I figured it wasn't going to be great- I'd figured from the start that the basic concept was better conveyed in a visual medium and I haven't written fiction since 6th grade; it's been exclusively nonfiction since then- but damn and holy shit do I suck at writing fiction.
The purpose was to chiefly provide a framework to show the concept. I don't think I even did well enough to do that.
i will. for lolz
@So It Goes will create the new thread
@Cinders is backup