Coyote_Seven

I'd expect a computer as sophisticated as this to win on Jeopardy. It's the sort of thing machines would excel at; that's why it's such a challenge for humans.

I'd like to see Watson win on the $100,000 Pyramid.

EDIT: Or Family Feud.

I think I'd choose Jeff, the god of biscuits.

Maybe it will give you six slots for each and every one of your slotable powers.

Kheldians will go nuts.

I always thought that ambushes should work differently for Stalkers. The ambushes should still charge, but not directly at you. Perhaps to some random point nearby you.

The effect would be that, they know you're there somewhere, but they can't see you. So they have to roam around blindly. There could even be NPC dialog about how they can't find you and how frustrating that is.

If one of them gets aggro, then you can get something like, "He's here! He's here!"

I'm surprised it doesn't also require some Blood of the Incarnate and Essence of the Furies Invention salvage.

Well, a lot of players on this forum are really keen on increasing their sense of immersion, and they all want even more changes into the game's appearance.

In such a light, it just seems odd to me that those same players would not care about how efficient the game was at producing random numbers. I mean, if this game was pencil-and-paper, would you be so thoughtless as to not care if the dice were broken and/or weighted?

And those hardware solutions are not exactly bank-breaking. Particularly for an entity as big as NCSoft.

EDIT:

Whether it's trying to get a shard, a particular bit of rare salvage, or a particular Purple recipe (or trying to get one at all!), a lot of players like to lay blame on the game's random number generator for hating them (or in some cases, loving them).

Based on my own observations by playing this game since May of 2004, I'm pretty confident that the game's random number generator is a software routine. As such, being an algorithm, that makes it closer to being a pseudorandom number generator. I'm sure that if you were keenly observant (and had a heck of a lot of time on your hands), you'd be able to discern the pattern and be able to use it to your advantage.

I'd suggest that the servers each be retooled to use their own hardware random number generator. Something perhaps like this device, that uses the unpredictability of certain measurable physical phenomena on which to create a random number as output.

Now, it's true that a hardware random number generator might be too slow for the purposes of an MMO server. If that's the case here, then I'd suggest that a hardware random number generator could still be used to create a new seed value for the software random number generator at regular intervals.

What do you think?

Now Virtue needs a Super Group called The Dog Police.

I think I'll use sirloin steak on my next hero. That way I can change his name to "Incarnate Asada".

I'd just like to say that the game already has a color code: Grey, Green, Blue, White, Yellow, Orange, Red, and Purple.

The STF and LRSF are both "purple" Task Forces, most definitely.

Feel the love here on the City of Heroes forums.

Well, I guess I know what to do the next time someone asks if I'm a god.

For a moment I read that as "Benny Hill".

So you're saying that, as time goes on, the devs become more and more like B.A. Felton, and the players become more and more like Bob Herzog and Brian VanHoose.

Was it just me, or did the b-board server also crash?

Maybe it was just crashing in sympathy.

That gives me an idea for a new hero: Jeff, the god of biscuits.

He was born in Jeff Jeffty-Jeff!