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The problem with that Kasoh is that the people most likely to actually take part in those digital sales and actually be beneficial to the industry are people like me and I certainly won't be drawn in if all the characters i like and the universe i like has been eradicated. Kids are not going to be the ones reading digital direct comics. This reboot seems to be focusing at kids and people that won't know anything about the launch of digital direct so it's a stupid move to do...and even if it succeeds they kill comic shops even more and they lose those readers and lose the ability to market new titles well.

So if they succeed they lose and if they fail they lose.

A reboot of the universe means all my characters are gone so if it is an actual reboot I am more than likely going to stop reading...as I suspect most people are.

Apparently the people making this decision are too stupid to realize that their most popular characters will be completely shunted out of existence or rewrote in such a way as to make them not that character.... and yes the most poplar characters just happen to be the ones i like and the ones that sell the best, Tim Drake, Stephenie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Barbara Gordon as Oracle (i enjoy her as batgirl, but Oracle is much better)...hell i'd even say that most of the young generation of superheroes sell better and are better characters than the older generation and all of them will be shunted or changed irrevocably... With that being the case many readers will just turn off.

The reboot will also turn off those who love the older characters because those characters are made more kid friendly which takes them back, rather than forward, over crap that we've already read.

THey're making a huge mistake, one that will cost them.

Lame...

As far as any similarity in design you might see... well you're wrong, but the reason you would is because Jim Lee is one of the people behind this and DCUO's art is done by Jim Lee.

ahhh so vectors are used for the nifty zoom fuctions and wire from animations and such in 3D models... Yeah... Until I get a more concrete model i should probably stay way from them as I hate 3D modelling...

i dunno if I mentioned it... I'm using Python. I'm told that it is become the standard now adays and from my experience it has great tutorials and I know how to do everything I need in it. I'm not new to programming, but I haven't done much of it in a while and I could never find anywhere that ever got beyond text stuff... I know...or use to know... COBOL, RPG AS/400, QBASIC, C, C++, Python, and other languages I no longer remember...or might not be considered languges like JS, PHP, and various Mark up languages.Eventully I might learn HTML5, Java is similar to all the other languages i know and I have the IDE set up for it, but Python is better imo at the moment. C# never interested me and ActionScript i tried to learn but it didn't have enough applicable uses and the price to buy flash development stuff was too much for too little.


his is not my first game technically... I've done simple games and basic text based RPG combat system engines before so yeah I know roughly the amount of work I'm looking at.

My only problem is people tend to use crap text books and use big examples and/or don't explain what something is used for in tutorials... Like Vectors... I know they're important, roughly what they do mathematically, but I have no idea how their used game wise.

The idea in this post I know how to do everything save for patch a program which i made need later on, but there are other ways around that. The only reason I haven't actually built a game outside of tutorials and classwork I've had is simply because there are no good tutorials explaining APIs and graphics which has always been my problem point.

What I said in terms of difficulty has more to do with the fact that most my game ideas involved 1to1 world/universe scale, 3D, or I simply cannot produce the quality of art that I want for the project and care too much about it to have crappy art. This project is modular, not 1to1, 2D, and I don't care all that much about it i terms of my connection with the idea so I can do it...The only reason a working demo isn't up right yet is because I'm planning on building something else which takes precedence and there is a bit of info i want to pick up before i start on it... and before that i am watching a subtitled series which prevents me from working on anything and watching it so it's been post poned for a short while, a dew days at worst.


I actually did try RPG maker a long time ago and found it too limiting cuz I always wanted to do things other than what was programmed to be allowable.

I think that the AI won't be difficult to write for this, but I may be wrong... But there are a few options for it that I am considering... I don't like the idea of full control, but i can see where it would have its benefits and since i am in to maximum customization i likely will put it in there as it will likely be the default anyways when i write it and then after i get the characters working i'll then add in the AI.

starphoenix... Lois and Clark have been married since the mid 90s... and looking around the real world at women of the same age that lois would be I don't see a problem...especially when you take into account she lives in world with even better technology and knowledge of good health.


Another to consider with DC is that in my opinion it's stupid to "retcon" purposefully or "reset" at the moment. As I pointed out in my previous post... characters have just got too much history to go and do that to. You lose too many fan favorite characters too... However if their concern is that people don't know who the character is any more, well, it's simple... you can satisfy the old and new fans by doing a really really simple thing that was set up when everything was retconed to the way it is now...

You have:
Earth-2 where the 1930s-1980s continuity exists and continues on.
Earth-0 where the 1980s-present continuity exists and continues on.
Earth-1 where the 2010-present continuity exists and continues on.

With Earth-1 the story "begins" in 2010.
With Earth-2 the story "begins" in 1933.

Earth-1 is more or less an ultimates line and I can see how people don't like that or how they can like that...however the trick is in the fact that Earth-0's beginning currently hasn't been written. People like Earth-0 as it is, but we don't know anything about it for certain from direct viewing pre-1980s...that means that DC could put a line out called something like "The Beginning of the New Age" and have it focus on the first decade of Earth-0 where we would get stories and such of early Batman, Superman, Robin, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and such from Year 0 through Year 10. You could have just 1 series or multiple series and have it work and everyone would be happy... save for a few.

I'm less worried about a retcon than a "reset"

Why?
Batman and the Bat family. I love the current stories, but what happens with a reset?
Jason, Tim, Damian, Stephenie, Cassandra, Wendy, Renee Montoya, Sasha Bordeaux, Misfit, Shiva, Black Alice, Black Canary, Huntress, and so many others all suddenly disappear or change so much they aren't those characters any more... It then takes those characters which have changed and tosses them back 20 years into their past with Barbara and Dick Grayson... and lets not talk about all the villains and sub-characters such as Jean-Paul Valley, Harold, Ace, Bane, Arkham, Harley, and sooooooo many others.

The problem with FF12 is that the gambit system is at first useless because there is too few commands and later boring because there is no reason to play at all.

The problem with FF13 is that you aren't controlling their strategies or what they are doing but rather what job they are and often anything beyond their original job their useless...and or overpowered.

The difference with this idea is that you are acting as the party leader and the AI is smart from the beginning. Further, this isn't about jobs, but rather strategy. Also I've always thought it was kinda dumb that I'm playing a warrior yet I'm supposed to know all the elemental weaknesses of mobs... and even if I'm a mage character why should I the player have to remember what the character should have already learned. i also always thought it was dumb that the characters wouldn't react dynamically to what is going on... If I have a mage who is charging up for a massive attack and then suddenly one of my chars are about to die because the enemy had a massive attack why wouldn't they shift that charge into a healing spell that they could get off right then... that seems more reasonable.

I also think that controlling even a few characters gets tedious and boring so this solves that to degree while still having multiple chars. Also the reason for having so many chars is cuz it can work and i always felt that not being able to take however many chars you want to is odd. I also intend to make some place where taking more or less characters will be harder or easier based on that and it won't be just one way where more = easier...sometimes more will be harder.

But that being said, do you think it would be worthwhile to add in a way to have control over all the characters? i think that is boring micromanagement, but what do you guys think?


also, I'm going to be writing this in python >.> I'm currently refreshing myself on everything, but I think I know just about everything i need to know to do this.

I've decided my hand at trying to actually make a game even though most of my ideas are way to big for me to do so I've had to try to come up with something that allows me to actually not care enough to try to get it to work...

I know that sounds weird, but whatever...


Basically the idea is an RPG that has a story that can be broken up into a series of patches/DLC that can end or expand at any point, but also each patch can use previous patches to create an immense and in depth experience.

So the first question is how do I creates a story that allows for a large world, but keep the player limited in what they can explore while more of the story is thought up... and how do you solve the whole problem i have with you being a total nitwit for someone who has lived in this world all their life...

The answer is, this basic premise...
You are transported "magically" to an alien ship who takes you to the galacic capital where the council is left to decide what to do with you. Eventually it is decided that you will act as a "spy" / "peacemaker" as you are an unknwown and thus are more likely to be unconspicuous if you are curious about the happenings of the world. After a test run in the capital you are given increasingly more and more dangerous missions and as such are given access to more of the galaxy.

Basically... think ME + Farscape + some crime drama or something like that...

The galactic government will pay you and you are able to take up side side jobs so that you can upgrade equipment and transportation... originally you start having to pay to be transported, but eventually you should be able to get a large ship and mechs and such...

The obvious path for the story to take is that "you" want to get home so you try figure out how you got there and how to get back and while you do you get wrapped up in conspiracies and such.

How does this limit you? Well if you take the idea of "jump gates" and say that they can be turned on and off and mix that with border patrols you can say that the government must give you access to travel between jumpgates which makes it so you must earn access which means from a story line perspective you only have to develop the capital at first and then put a "to be continued" so that each new planet or what not is new DLC that can advance the story.



I want to keep things within my ability to do them so I'm trying to create a unique turn based system of a sort.

Currently my idea is that you can have up to 15 characters in your party, but these 15 characters are AI controlled, can't always come along, and are divided into groups of 3. Only your main character is self controlled. You give general commands to the rest of the group...

Basically I'm taking the idea that there are 5 basic roles in a battle situation.
Attacker, Defender, Healer, (de)buffer, and Leader. Each of these roles can be taken up by various jobs and can characters can shift between roles based on need. Different roles in the groups effect how long it takes to cast/attack and how effective it is.

So how do you control your group?
You can give your entire party or each group a "mode"

Heavy Attack - All members will use riskier attacks that take longer to charge or take longer to recover from...however if you have a defender in your group they will defend these guys which will help the recovery rate of basic attackers and the potency of magic casters due to them not having to worry about dodging.

Light Attack - All members will use quick cautious attacks... basically so they don't leave themselves exposed but don't hit anything hard.

Defend - Puts all members into a defensive position. Defenders focus completely on blocking. Attackers switch to countering. Mage types switch to regen and healing as primary.

Experiment - Party attack in different patterns and use light attacks to test effectiveness of various attacks. This is important because once you learn the weaknesses of enemies characters will remember it and try it against similar mobs to try to take them down effectively.


I think this is a cool idea and pretty easy to implement...what do you guys think?

You do realize that it doesn't matter how good of security Sony has at the moment these hackers are going to get through. All a hacker needs to get through any security is time and persistence. Again, the only people to blame for this crap is the hackers which is likely Anon.

You may try to argue it's a piracy counter measure, but it's actually it promotes it.

There is always going to be one theater that does things right and they are going to have a pirate that gets a good quality of a movie. With theater only offering crappy 3D for more money which is reduced quality imo for most films because the hassle with the glasses and the lack of ability to do anything good with 3D OR reduced quality 2D versions people are finding they aren't willing to deal with the crappy crapped up 3d glasses, crappy brightness, crappy gimmick effects, crappy seats, or crappy viewing audiences when they can get a reduced quality pirated version from the comfort of their own homes.


Personally I think theaters are dumb in this era. And the only reason they are still around is because people think that it's a bad thing to get rid of jobs. Jobs that aren't needed SHOULD go away. The problem is that when a job is removed that savings that the company gets isn't reflected in the cost the customer pays so that when a machine takes a person job the price stays the same, the employer makes more money, but their consumers make less and can't buy their goods or don't see them as worthwhile. Theaters are have been killing themselves for ages and I don't think I've hear them do 1 smart thing... they always do take the route that tries to screw over the customer and as such I see no reason to patron theaters.

It's a western in a space setting and it wasn't all that great in my opinion. Saying that it was great based on what was aired is a serious flaw in thought. It was mediocre at best and while I could see numerous stories coming from what was presented no story had started and it is impossible to say in what direction the story would have ultimately taken and thus impossible to say future episodes would have been great... let alone good.

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Democracy isn't the the opposition of fascism nor socialism. Fascism and Socialism are opposites. It's more of a political philosophy than a system. Democracy is mob rule and disgusting. Americans do not live in a democracy. Americans are supposed to live in a Socialistic Republic, but live in a government that has slowly been turning into, or has been since creation, a Fascistic Democratically empowered Oligarchy.


As far as the actual topic... I don't view most movies as being good representation of characters from their original format. They are more representative of what the public thinks of those characters and is reinforced by the simplified movie versions. I don't expect faithful translations because movies have never done so. They more seem to write a story and find a character that fits the archtype of the characters they already written, skin it in the costumes and names of those characters, and throw in a small amount of detail the mass public knows and you get what hollywood puts out.

Well, that's one way to get into the hall of fame...

I doubt it's a reboot because the Earth-1 books are supposed to be a 2010-ish reboot and i guess you would have to call them the post-modern age books as New Earth is 1987 and considered Modern Age.

15 out of 30... cuz shakespeare's name sucks so i just typed batman 30 times ^.^

I think some of what you guys are saying is wrong, though I don't generally buy books, because I don't ever go looking for books and ask is this book from a publisher or is it self published. I look for interesting titles and covers, check out the synopsis, get reviews and suggestions from friends, and then make my decision... Never has the question of who published it crossed my mind when actually looking for/to buy a book.

And yes editors and getting a bit of advertising is good, but you can get someone to edit your book...or multiple people to edit your book, and you're not gonna get much advertising if your a new writer or are non-famous anyways so I don't see how that factors in.

It's convenient to have those things under one roof and such... and certainly the "someone other than the author liked it" things is nice, but then we know there is always someone else that likes the same thing that one other person likes and I don't think it's good to deprive that one person of that ^.^