EVE can be fantastic, but it is very niche and very cuthroat and has serious permanent impacts when you get stuff wrong.
The fact you lose stuff (even skills trained sometimes) when you die, and the fact it can be the heavily meta-gamed makes it more risky than most are willing to take. Still, it kept me hooked for years.
If you think fleet management issues or asset stealing are at players own risk and you're prepared to risk losing your ship permanently if you get blown up, the rewards are there.
If you think life should be fair and just and risk free, its hell.
A bit succinct, but true.
I tend to warn people that EO is a game that eats the young and inexperienced online gamer; sends veterans of FPS games crying into the night and requires the survival instincts of a starving tiger. Its learning curve is legendary.
However, despite the massive population of unwashed trolls who thrive on 'delicious tears' of upset players, the periodic favoritism of CCP for various alliances and veteran players and the fact its a game where pvp is as predictable as atomic decay and deviation from peer-reviewed fittings is met with scorn and righteous indignation...
Its a game I miss for its depth, complexity and rather amazing visuals.
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"Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated."
Running properly configured virtual servers allows for B to take over invisibly if A crashes and a program called Tickler (no, I'm not joking that's the name) sends notices to the sysadmin when A is down, so s/he can log in from a smartphone and reboot it if needed.
S/He can use a laptop from home too, if that's preferred over the smartphone, but the point is, it's easy.
Also, it's good to ensure that you have stupidly high levels over overkill on the bandwidth, memory, and processors allocated. But not always affordable.
I've said it and I say it again: Everyone who pays money for this game since the F2P launch is making a mistake. Server downs are the least problem STO has (I was a happy subscriber back in the days. And then, darkness came. )
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"No. Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects... and claw at you." -Worf, son of Mogh
"A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
"That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" - Robert Justman, appreciating Emmy-Lou
Considering you have to agree to giving raptr access to EVERYTHING on your computer you'd be nuts to be a raptr user, luckily I don't think you have to be one for the livestream.
Well, according to Brandon, you need a Twitch account. Which, apparently, can be created within 30 seconds.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Eve is good but you have to know what you are getting into lol... its dangerous out there!
Correct, TSW is buy to play.
As for EVE... not unless you can invest lots of time and can handle losing everything if you put so much as a foot wrong. I honestly wouldn't waste your time with it.
Chances are there was still some residual damage from the hardware failure yesterday, so this shouldn't be totally unexpected. However, if it were to happen a third or fourth time then maybe a 50% bonus dilithium weekend event or something like that would be in order.
its my theory that pwe angered someone like 4chan and got massively dropkicked via DoS attack on all their ftp games. since they are all down server wise.
Romulus burned, untold billions died.
It's the Tal'shiars doing, Sela lied.
Vengeance is born, with eternal scorn.
New Romulus rises.
I tend to warn people that EO is a game that eats the young and inexperienced online gamer; sends veterans of FPS games crying into the night and requires the survival instincts of a starving tiger. Its learning curve is legendary.
However, despite the massive population of unwashed trolls who thrive on 'delicious tears' of upset players, the periodic favoritism of CCP for various alliances and veteran players and the fact its a game where pvp is as predictable as atomic decay and deviation from peer-reviewed fittings is met with scorn and righteous indignation...
Its a game I miss for its depth, complexity and rather amazing visuals.
Chances are there was still some residual damage from the hardware failure yesterday, so this shouldn't be totally unexpected. However, if it were to happen a third or fourth time then maybe a 50% bonus dilithium weekend event or something like that would be in order.
I really think giving out refined dilithium is a bad idea without some Zen to balance it out. Unless you deliberately want to strap the exchange to a rocket, that is.
Works both ways, though - so any compensation would have to be in some other form.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
nope, it's free - you can pay for new episodes, if you want, but so far that's just been a few new repeatable missions with a good reward (fun missions, though) - the bulk of each expansion is free.
also if you subscribe you get ~$10 worth of points per month, which is enough to buy the expansion anyway.
Even something as simple as giving out free c-store Bridge officer (Ferasan, Caitian, Aenar or Borg, players choice) or a free purple mkxii tactical console would be a nice gesture without totally throwing out the economy of the game like free Zen or dilithium cap increase could.
But fat chance we will get anything, like the time the lore missions were bust for the KDF for weeks on end. Cryptic simply doesn't appreciate it's customers, and when something like this happens they don't want to try and keep some good will.
Considering you have to agree to giving raptr access to EVERYTHING on your computer you'd be nuts to be a raptr user, luckily I don't think you have to be one for the livestream.
Not to mention you have to be in a time zone roughly what they are, or a night owl where I am to take advantage of that. They should have run one for one side of the world and another for the other side or done it at a time where 90% of people could potentially take advantage of it. Instead of 11AM-1PM PDT they could do it at say 8PM to give the majority of people the opportunity to take advantage of it.
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A bit succinct, but true.
I tend to warn people that EO is a game that eats the young and inexperienced online gamer; sends veterans of FPS games crying into the night and requires the survival instincts of a starving tiger. Its learning curve is legendary.
However, despite the massive population of unwashed trolls who thrive on 'delicious tears' of upset players, the periodic favoritism of CCP for various alliances and veteran players and the fact its a game where pvp is as predictable as atomic decay and deviation from peer-reviewed fittings is met with scorn and righteous indignation...
Its a game I miss for its depth, complexity and rather amazing visuals.
"Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated."
that one got posted in one of the anniversary event downtimes
VMWare ESX.
Running properly configured virtual servers allows for B to take over invisibly if A crashes and a program called Tickler (no, I'm not joking that's the name) sends notices to the sysadmin when A is down, so s/he can log in from a smartphone and reboot it if needed.
S/He can use a laptop from home too, if that's preferred over the smartphone, but the point is, it's easy.
Also, it's good to ensure that you have stupidly high levels over overkill on the bandwidth, memory, and processors allocated. But not always affordable.
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Well, according to Brandon, you need a Twitch account. Which, apparently, can be created within 30 seconds.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Correct, TSW is buy to play.
As for EVE... not unless you can invest lots of time and can handle losing everything if you put so much as a foot wrong. I honestly wouldn't waste your time with it.
It's the Tal'shiars doing, Sela lied.
Vengeance is born, with eternal scorn.
New Romulus rises.
~Tear
and not to be overstated . stability.... sigh
Personally... Youtube....
Look up 'Star Trek dubbed'
For example... wrap your laughing gear around this little gem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNKqJiMfkUs
Watch this and don;t laugh...I challnge you!
I really think giving out refined dilithium is a bad idea without some Zen to balance it out. Unless you deliberately want to strap the exchange to a rocket, that is.
Works both ways, though - so any compensation would have to be in some other form.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
They are so close, can't wait for it!
Lol, also for the Germans
nope, it's free - you can pay for new episodes, if you want, but so far that's just been a few new repeatable missions with a good reward (fun missions, though) - the bulk of each expansion is free.
also if you subscribe you get ~$10 worth of points per month, which is enough to buy the expansion anyway.
STABILITY!!!.....why wasn't that astrixed out as profanity!!!!:P:P:P
It's the Tal'shiars doing, Sela lied.
Vengeance is born, with eternal scorn.
New Romulus rises.
But fat chance we will get anything, like the time the lore missions were bust for the KDF for weeks on end. Cryptic simply doesn't appreciate it's customers, and when something like this happens they don't want to try and keep some good will.
Not to mention you have to be in a time zone roughly what they are, or a night owl where I am to take advantage of that. They should have run one for one side of the world and another for the other side or done it at a time where 90% of people could potentially take advantage of it. Instead of 11AM-1PM PDT they could do it at say 8PM to give the majority of people the opportunity to take advantage of it.
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Occidere populo et effercio confractus
Very good quality.
We weren't applying it to STO :cool:
"Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated."
Well this is an STO forum.....;)
what on EARTh are you talking about? Speak english... what is this... 'book' you speak of?:P