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Промоакции для игроков не только в шутерах — воспользуйся промокодом Vavada от наших партнеров и получи бонусы, которые подарят азарт и атмосферу, сравнимую с игровыми победами.
.Last week Shortpacked!, a web comic set at a toy store, had a series starring That Guy:
I give you well-thought-out advice, and you don’t drop all your plans and do what I say? How arrogant are you? I just fixed everything, and you reject it.
The adventures start here and run for five strips.
I think you’ll see the relevance.
: Zubon
The character of Statesman is part of City of Heroes. NCSoft bought City of Heroes, but Jack Emmert, the Statesman himself, did not go along. So Mr. Emmert no longer has rights to that identity. I imagine the same thing happened with Lord British, and will with General British if Mr. Garriott leaves NCSoft.
Is that right? How does that work? Does the new IP owner ask the original fellow to stop using that name/handle/whatever? It is not as though Mr. Emmert can log into City of Heroes on Statesman, but it might cause some oddities to have a forum post from Mr. Emmert (anywhere, not just about CoX) under that name.
I like the notion, “We just bought you. Please vacate your identity by 5pm. Security will escort you out.”
: Zubon
I’m going to be in San Francisco the evening of November 26th through November 28th for the Dow Jones Consumer Technology Innovations conference at the Sofitel Hotel. This is sort of last minute, so I am scrambling around to make arrangements…I need a pickup from the airport (SFO) around 11p on the 26th and a couch to crash on. Anyone interested? Otherwise, I’ll head over to couchsurfing.com because I’m cool. Email me.
Yes, we are presenting at the conference. Something wicked about AI-driven evolving and adapting ecologies, as well as dynamically scaling player driven economies. Yeah, no kidding.
: Zubon
Fileplanet has opened a Stress Test for this coming weekend to upcoming MMO, Pirates of the Burning Sea.  Check it out, see what FLS has been working on and have some fun for free!
See you there, and send a tell to Cyndre Montoya.Â
~Cyndre
One of my favorite artists/illustrators is Wayne Reynolds. He has been doing a lot of work for Wizards of the Coast and Paizo Publishing, including the main art for Eberron and Pathfinder. Have a link to a bio, a bibliography, and two small galleries (the first is larger), along with wallpapers and larger images. You can also find his stuff scattered throughout the Wizards of the Coast galleries, not always listed by name. I can’t find a good single place for his stuff, and not all of it is online (like some nice ones from Dragon that made it into the Compendium book, which does not have a gallery that I could find).
Flipping through the Wizards archives reminds me that Sam Wood has also done a lot of great art for this generation of Dungeons and Dragons. If you have a favorite piece from D&D 3rd Edition, it is probably from one of those two or Todd Lockwood. Anyone know of any games that are tapping these folks?
: Zubon
In terms of creating new content, the players I want are achievers and socializers. They are the easiest to satisfy.
Killers
Maybe I should want killers. Many seem to prefer no updates at all. All the new PvE content in the world is useless to them, unless there is something new to harvest that could be of PK use, in which case they will condescend to suffer through a bit in order to get back to the real game.
I mentioned last time that we were on our way to lolpocalypse. The harbinger has arrived: lolthulhu. There is hope, though. Perhaps the path through The LOLcat Wasteland will instead lead to LOLsingularity. That may or may not be a good thing.
: Zubon
Hat tips to Daily Illuminator, Prettier Than Napoleon, and Language Log. Personally I prefer lolPrufrock:
i can has backpart? i can has peach?
im in ur white flannel trousers walkin on ur beach
have heard mermaids singing each in eachi do not think they say o hai to me.
for someone completely new to MMORPGs, picking up the game and getting through all the new customizations is a bigger issue. I have many first time players in my guild, and as they leveled up there was a clear knowledge gap apparent between what they knew from learning in game, and what I knew from my outside reading even about classes I had never played. Increasingly complex customizations are required to be successful in the game, especially if you are looking at the pvp game.
I have no idea how a casual City of Heroes player would know to look for all the task forces or hidden contacts. As an experienced gamer, I no longer expect the game to guide me much beyond a basic tutorial, and I do not trust the tutorial to guide me towards good decisions because of the gap between the designers’ original vision and what is actually effective in the game.
In our guild, you ask Adam or I about rules specifics, and you ask whoever specializes in that class for guidance on big decisions. If you are not tapped into the information network, how very lost are you?
: Zubon
According to the press release, NCSoft has acquired 100% of the rights to the CoX franchise from Cryptic. According to Ex Libris, one of the CoH forum moderators, the CoX dev team are now working as NCSoft employees. There are several more press releases linked off of that one, including one that mention soon-to-be-announced expansions and sequels.