Kitsune Knight

He IS the bus. Don't you wanna ride him?

The people getting rich off the market aren't spending inordinate amounts of time on the market (many have talked quite extensively of how they operate).

Power set + Double XP seems to be a good way to get people to burn out. It's not about getting the "maximum money possible", but ensuring a continued revenue stream firstly, and then trying to maximize that revenue stream.

The Android version, yes. And why not just do what you said? Because you don't have to load three large web pages first on your mobile device (so it's far faster), it's a more streamlined interface, and, especially important for anyone not on an unlimited plan, it'll use a microscopic fraction of the bandwidth that loading even one of those pages would use. Mind you, I wrote the Android version in just a couple hours in response to the demands of those in the thread (obviously there's a desire for such an app).

The iOS version includes push notifications. Push notifications are ideal for when, say, you come home only to find out the weekly server maintenance just started, and now you have two to a billion hours before the servers are back up, and don't wanna sit at the login screen / continually refresh the status page. The app will notify you when they come up (which ever server(s) you specify). No, it's not a revolution app that'll change your app... but it's also completely free

The Android version may gain additional features already found in the iOS app if there's enough interest, although I make no promises about that, as I don't use Androids (I didn't even dig my old one out until I already put it on Play... and then found out it didn't render correctly on it!).

Good news! Every mobile device already includes that functionality out of the box, usually provided by a combination of a little doohickey called a 'camera' combined with a wonderful 'liquid crystal display' (or, if you want to get fancy, an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode!).

Well, the good news is I'm sure the carriers and manufacturers are more than happy to oblige in not letting you use Android 4.0 anytime soon

/random Android 4 derail:
So wait, now there may or may not be a menu button? Now that's no fun... I was going to move the buttons into the menu instead of being on the bar along the top, but if they're trying to deprecate the menu button, there's not much of a point in bothering with it.

That's not true in the slightest. Except maybe for AMD's drivers...
(even then, not really... they just have bad drivers in general)


The official OGL spec hasn't been updated as frequently (although things have greatly improved), but new features can be added via vendor extensions until the functionality can be standardized (similar to how modern advances in the web are occurring). OpenGL is also the only option if you want to do development for OS X, Linux, PS3, PSP, Wii, 3DS, Android, iOS, and basically any other platform that isn't named 'Windows', 'Xbox', or 'Windows Phone' (with the latter two being the only platforms that are DirectX-exclusive).

It quite likely is- but that's probably not so much the fault of the engine or OpenGL, but of their in-house development tools. TES isn't really a fair comparison as those development tools are huge selling points for the games, which means there's more motivation to sink money into improving them.

I wouldn't be shocked if lots of their development tools are largely undocumented, with no one around that originally developed them (thanks at least in part to when Cryptic moved most of the development team off CoH). We know NCSoft/Paragon has put at least some money into improving them, as, IIRC, Mission Architect was actually a byproduct of a new tool to develop missions without going through as much effort as their older tools took.

Considering how fast recent development has been, I'd actually be a bit surprised if it was purely due to expansion of the development team. Major revamps have happened to the game's engine, so likely the tools used have seen some lov'n as well.

I want cookies now

Shh! Fix't

I think I'm going to have to rework part of the Android app as well... it seems that, at the very least, Android 2.3 doesn't support the necessary extensions to render the gradient in the background (although 4.0 renders it like total crap with horrible banding, as you can see in the screenshots!).

Wow, you must make some bad-*** office forts...

The first part is a stack trace from CoH Helper (not CoH). It apparently crashed (uncaught NullReference exception, technically) part way through gathered the data (guessing by the method names, getting some data having to do with the memory).

True... they also, apparently, don't support accessing the store via an external browser... note: You access the store in-game via an embedded web browser (specifically the QtWebKit wrapper around the WebKit engine).

Seriously? You'd think the big fancy thirdparty microtransaction platform they're using would be able to handle something like that.

I thought you meant Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers at first... Now that was a show that seemed to have completely forgotten the shows it was based upon! Especially the whole recycled plot aspect (oh hey there, Shadows 2!).

Oddly enough, apparently SciFi was a bunch of idiots and ran it against a huge football game, which slaughtered its ratings on the east coast (and on the west coast, it did extremely well...).


As for Doctor Who... any show that could promote a mild character like Rory Williams into this... well, it just has to be pretty damn awesome.