Hyperstrike

Feh. Public schooling below the collegiate level (at least in the US) hasn't been anything more than simply daycare/kiddie-jail for the last 25 years, minimum. At best it's craptastic vocational mis-training.

Command of the language? The teachers are too overburdened by simply reading, verbatim, from the class textbook.

Yup. The author has no control over what you believe they wrote.

Of course, some people read the bible and come away "thinking" the world's less than 6,000 years old too.

Simply because you can interpret something one way doesn't mean your interpretation is correct in context.

In short, because you're unduly sensitive to a particular turn of phrase, you were offended.

The problem, Dinah, resides with YOU, not with the OP.

How the hell did I wind up in BELIZE?

Shrink: Tell me. Vy do you think your teammate is a clockwork?
FreakedHero: DUUUUUDE! We crashed a SPACE SHUTTLE into him! AT MACH 10! AND HE DIDN'T BUDGE!
Shrink: O.^
Shrink: Tell me more about zis clockwork teammate of yours!

No problem. I had a couple wrong doors myself as I don't have much directional sense using the coordinate system.

My plots make Nemesis look like the ignorant piker he is.

Edit: And did you just label me the anti-/jranger?

As one of your Brothers From Another Mother from across The Pond. Welcome to The City!

I dunno. A 2 hour Posi ain't bad for a team that really hasn't played together before.

Fire/Rad Superteam from MidLevel Crisis


No ghosting. Just killing everything we came across on way to the objectives in "kill boss and his mob" missions. The only reason it didn't go faster was because our coordination at first...well...sucked a bit. Bu the end though it was just AMx7/hold/cook/next/hold/cook/next until we were done.

Play now...milady?



This actually isn't a bad idea. The local chain out here is somewhat amenable to stuff like this.

I wish there were more places like this here. Unfortunately the "internet cafe" kinda died a slow, horrible death in this area once broadband became more ubiquitous. Even the regularly scheduled LAN party scene ain't much to scream about anymore.

Never mind that infantile behavior like this chases people away too.

Pot: Hey Kettle. Black? Much?

Are you really any different?

Sit back, take a chill pill, slurp a Coke and look at it objectively for a minute.
(Yeah, asking a lot.)
Can you REALLY say the behavior you're exhibiting here is in any way, shape or form different than what you're accusing people of?

If the person is being compensated for their advertising, it is not (by definition) free.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

The devs aren't the ones in charge of marketing and advertisment.

I dunno if Paragon wants to give away that many accounts to the gold sellers.

Okay, YOU are the one advocating in-game rewards for out-of-game interactions. People aren't saying that having a Facebook App or somesuch is a Bad Thing. They're objecting to an in-game reward system (other than maybe the current carrot of free time).

I know it's tough to watch your precious baby idea get knocked about a bit. But keep telling yourself "tough love".

Repeat after me. "Tough love". That chip on your shoulder ain't making it easier either.

Most of those Zynga games don't have a 3 GIGABYTE client download and are played in a more transparent manner than CoH would. They're picked up because they're cheap, easy to learn, and easy set up.

And you are? Yet another loudmouth on a web board? Welcome to the club! There's an awful lot of us out here! It's almost as crowded as Hell!

So one person. ONE PERSON, goes "Facebook? NAH!" and you act like a bunch of people are crapping all over it because of Facebook? C'mon. Is your POV so shaky that you start hurling insults the second someone disagrees with it?

Getting more subscribers is arguably a good thing. Giving people in-game items for it? Arguably not.

Agreed.

Doesn't mean that a cost/benefit analysis shouldn't be done beforehand.

Anecdotes are nice and all. But a poor substitute for actual analysis.

As a general point, I agree. It's when we get down to the brass tacks that we find several people sitting on them...

This is just a plea for yes-man bandwagoning. If the idea is good, it'll stand on it's own merits regardless of whether or not some forum droll thinks (and I use the term charitably) "it smells like dookie".

No. It's time to start posting ways we think would be EFFECTUAL in bringing new blood into the game.

"Could". You ARE, of course, familiar with why web advertising brings such disgustingly low ROI?

Sure, we COULD possibly have a slashdot-style flood of new subscribers.
Then again, we could NOT.


And this is why you fail grasshopper.

Unlike rage-trolling. That keeps people REALLY close. Right? Right?

And I'm not going to say "sorry if you're offended". Currently I'm not. If you want civility, you have to BE civil.

When you absolutely, positively NEVER want to suffer from KB. EVER!!!

Hmm. Interesting concept. I'm betting there'd be a programmatic problem with implementing something like this though...

Nope. Unfortunately there's no way to offline invite.
Best you can do is get a friend to help you out. Have them create a throwaway. Recruit it into the SG and bump permissions to just below the SG Leader/Owner/SuperLeader. Then have him recruit your alts in, bump their permissions, and then you can boot him (or he can quit).

Your system, even on highest settings, doesn't render the whole zone. Ever. It'd grind to a halt if it did.

You're only rendering what's in your FOV.

As for zone loads, if you don't have to unpack the resources for the Matrix room from the PIGG files, it's not affecting your load time in any reasonable manner. Even if it did, you're talking the difference between a 2 second load time and a 2.01 second load time.

That's just what they've done. The data from the object is kept and not seen in the game. You have to utilize a geometry hole to ever be aware of it.

As to "saving it off to another disk", the game doesn't work that way. The client software you have on your machine has a bunch of PIGG files with all the graphics, geometry data, etc necessary to render everything in the game. The server is not handling rendering of anything. It's merely handling all the positional data and communicating it back to the client.

Again, the game doesn't work like that. When I say "sharing resources", I'm talking artwork, graphical effects, etc. Not system resources like RAM, disk space, etc.

Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. By decoupling it, I don't mean making it physically inaccessible. I'm talking about all the basic art, rendering, effects, etc resources that the area utilizes. Additionally, any particular "hooks" in the arena system that may still be referenced to or through this room are preserved. There could be programatic "pointers" buried in the Arena program architecture that would break (possibly badly) if you remove this. Rather than fiddling with a completed system, they hide the stuff that isn't used.

Again, you're simply mistaking "physical access" for how the program code that makes it part of the game ties back into everything else. If it were as simple as removing one area seamlessly, it probably would have been removed before the Arena was released, rather than leaving it in 10+ issues along.

Again, simply because it's normally physically inaccessible doesn't mean that it's decoupled from the game. You're thinking spatially. I'm talking about programmatic issues.


And you know this HOW? Have you seen the code for the game? If you're unpacking the PIGGs and hacking the servers, the devs want to have a talk LONG with you.

In closing, simply because something is not being used in the game doesn't mean that you can simply rip it out willy-nilly.

Case in point, old storage containers with multiple hundreds of pieces of salvage in them. Were the programming necessary for them to simply "go away", people would lose a lot of salvage items.

1: Why delete something that doesn't impact your gameplay?
2: Why delete something that MIGHT have a new use found for it later?
3: Why delete something that might be sharing resources with something else that IS being used in the game?
4: Why take the time to delete something, kill all the possible references, decouple it from anything else it might affect, etc when you can just hide it and spend all that time bringing something NEW into the game instead?

One of the powers. "Just shoot him."

Your toon just shakes it's head, sighs dramatically, and then pulls out the pistol and fires it from the hip, killing the guy (or at least doing mega-level KD).

Ah, an ad hominem and an appeal to ridicule.

This is just a version of "Damned if you do, damned if you don't".

I'm sure it's nice and all for those who absolutely HAVE to be "right" on the internet. When you can come up with a real reason why he's wrong (and not just cast aspersions at him), then come back and play.