Zortel

If Inf amounts are stored as a signed 32 bit value, then the maximum limit would be 2,147,483,647 Inf.

One of the problems Hero side is that different contacts give out the same story arcs, but if say, Player 1 had Story Arc A from NPC *, and Player 2 has Story Arc A from NPC #, they don't get mission completion credit for each others.

They really need to sort this out, by making each Hero story arc only come from 1 contact.

They could really do with redesigning the Paragon contacts to tighten them up to 7 year later MMO standards.

Put it this way:

In CoH:Freedom, as an F2P player, you'll be able to make 2 characters from a pick of 8 different AT's, with a lot of power sets available.

In another super hero-y free to play game, you're limited to single concept archetypes. Person with sword, rather than person with sword who can blaze with righteous glory, or crackle with divine lightning, or person with no sword but fists and feet of fury and a determined glint in their eye, or person with sharp spines and evil aura. And can then customize the look of those powers too, to more fit your concept.

From just one AT.

That's a bit more freedom for free, IMO.

Can we uses them as hats, or lawn furniture?

I advocate Freeps, Preeps and Veeps.

Oh, I meant in general, really. At the moment it's perfectly possible and has been done to stream the game client from your home PC to a tablet, but as a friend who did such said, the controls are the big problem, so yes, you'd need an external keyboard and mouse. Of course it can be argued that games designed for tablet play would suit the control scheme better, but the problem rests on communications in a MMO sense, and...

Well, really, not everyone wants to play tablet games, like not everyone wants to play Popcap Games offerings at the moment. I can't imagine myself playing a Fallout game on a tablet, or Deus Ex, or so forth. Some games just suit the gaming PC as we have now better.

I can see that there are uses for tablets, but I think the general public needs to take a long look at them before making any snap decisions based on tech 'moguls' and financially interested parties preaching on the future.

Internet service providers would care because a greatly increased demand on bandwidth across their network from streaming video and data for a client terminal, OnLive-style system would result in network congestion and lead to packet shaping, bandwidth restrictions and so forth.

Unless you pay a premium for your traffic to be prioritized, which would go against the concept of net neutrality.

Also, every party you add to a process, is something else that can go wrong. Currently to play CoH, I need:

1: Power
2: Internet
3: NCSoft

With client terminal gaming you'd then need to have the streaming game service as 3, and shift NCSoft to 4.

And then you'd likely have to pay for the ability not to have your packets shaped or bandwidth cut to use the services with your ISP. That's one extra part of the chain and two extra payments.

Regarding tablets in general, to take a look at Apple's offering, what if your favourite game/game distribution system isn't supported on it? Or if they shelve support for it. In a tightly controlled market place, it's easy to strangle, and then you're left to hang. You may also be looking at a reduced lifespan due to heat/components, or the death of planned obsolescence.

I suppose the only advantage is that when it does die, you don't have to worry about your personal data when you ship it off to be repaired.

It'll all be on the cloud. :P

Edit: Also you're looking at double serving of latency as well. Connection from Tablet to Game Streaming Service, and then Game Streaming Service to MMO Game Servers.

A matter of personal preference. I find Matt Smith (And by extension Smith!Doctor) to be rather alluring.

I know I certainly do!

Imagine you're watching a film, or hell, even really getting into a part your acting in a play. It's a tense or emotional scene in a nightclub. Maybe you've caught your sidekick accepting bungs from villains, or you're pleading with a friend to stay on the right path and not fall into darkness. You're into the scene, they're into the scene.

SUDDENLY, HUGE MECHANICAL SPIDER/SPACE SHIP/LORD RECLUSE APPEARS!

For me, I'd ignore the hell out of that. Why? Because it breaks the dignity of the scene. It yanks you out of the moment into 'Hey guys this is a computer game ZANY STUFF!' and sometimes it can be hard to recover a scene from that.



If you're looking at role playing (Role playing, not roll. That's a different kettle of fish entirely, more of an accusatory statement about someone who plays a game more as a roll dice/hit things/get loot exercise, with minimal to none in character interacton) as a collaborative storytelling exercise, then just because someone says "LET'S HAVE IT RAIN CATS!" does not mean it has to rain cats.

Because that would be stupid.

And cruel to the cats.

Instead, I believe that in a close-knit scene between several characters (As in, the players have worked with the other players in Roleplaying before and the characters have history) a gestalt editor forms from precedence and known playstyles of the characters involved.

The Gestalt Editor acts to say 'Sure, having A step out of the way so Character F can get to the bar works', 'We can get player Q involved in this', and so on.

It also acts to say 'No, we're going to ignore the pink wolf setting a boombox down and shaking its tush', and 'you really, really want to acknowledge Lord Recluse or some simulacrum of giving out high fives -right- when it looks like this friendship is going to make or break?'

There are some situations where the Gestalt Editor may say 'Sure, hell, give the Recluse-a-like a bro-fist!' but to accuse someone of lacking imagination because they don't want the emotional quality of their activity to be diminished by someone in power who isn't even roleplaying?

Gestalt Editor says 'No', and I concur.


Regarding Rikti INvasions, as a final point? At the game zone location spot in Galaxy City that I roleplay at, invasions are always met in character. They're fought off, banter is had, then we check if people have been injured, and return to what was going on. Is it hard to ignore bombs and Rikti beaming in?

Yes. That's why we don't.

Is it hard to ignore Disco Dancing Statesmen? No. That's why we ignore Disco Dancing Statesman. Also, Rikti are known to invade. Statesman is not often known to dance in night clubs.