Pendix

Soon we will all embrace the power of digital communication, and fall under it's Electric Control!



. . . sorry, couldn't help myself.

Gah!, You're gona make me do this now aren't you

Though mate selection is an interesting dimension to the issue, it was not what I was going to argue. What I was going to argue is that evolution does not just stop because we have things like 'medicine' and 'welfare' or because we are highly sucessful. We may have reassigned certain elevolutionary pressures away from the individual and on to socicity, but in so doing all we have really done is change the context of the evolutionary pressures from 'those-traits-fitest-to-survive-in-the-natural-world' to 'those-traits-fitest-to-survive-in-our-society'.

In addition to this: a sucessful, prolific species, has weakened pressures on their survival, however, the rate of mutation does not change, and with the larger population, there will be more mutation, more diversification.

Right now we are a sucessful species, we are going through a phase of genetic diversification, simply by virtue of how bloody many of us there are. (did i just say the same thing twice?)


(It should be noted however that I am no Evolutanary Biologist, just a layman who 'thinks' he understands the process, so take the above with a grain of salt)

I would so like to take issue with this statment, but I really dont have time right now (or enough space in this post).

Ever study Ancient Egyptian History? Even in passing? Watched a documentary maybe?

*sigh*

Anyway.

So, if the family members in question were Sterile? Does it then stop being an 'Unforgivable Sin'?

You were there were you? Or perhapes your personal superpower is 'perfect-knowledge-of-human-nature-and-social-conventions-through-out-the-ages'?

You wanted an example of incidents of it that werent due to abuse of power or lunacy; you were given one. A dam good one infact, and your responce is 'dont count' becasue you can 'guarantee' somthing you are in no position to 'garantee'.

Degrees of inbreeding in aristocay have been common for as long a there has been aristocracy, and the reason is not insanity or abuse of power, (thou it isn't smart either) is to preserve the 'purity' of the 'blue blood'.

It's a Liberal, Communist, Nazi, Rostrician conspiracy I tells ya! They're out to keep us honest, hard working, average Joe power-levelers down!

Two Words: "Architect Entertainment"

So . . . people who are playing Blueside should stop? The get their rear ends Redside and start using the market to re-dress the balance? Even if they dont want to? Because if they don't the market will be 'unhealthy' and that would be 'bad', at least more 'bad' than having people play a Side they dont want to?

The 'health' of the respective markets, let me be clear here, is not the player's responsibility, the players sole responsibility is to have fun (conditional on not screwing with other's Fun; which is where things usually get complicated). Hence, short of a magical influx of players into Redside, the only thing that will improve the Redside market, is some kind of direct action by the Devs (such as Merging the market, or altering Redside itself to be attrative to more players).

PS Merge the dam market already!

. . . ok, who are you and what have you done with Golden Girl?

But seriously, on the matter of animated hair; there is one character in game (2 if you count her ancient Roman incarnation) with animated hair, if they implement moving hair in the same way, personally, I'd hate to see it. If you look at Ghost Widow's hair; sure it looks ok from a distance, but up close; eugh, it's like they shaved the back of her head and then stappled a thin sheet of hair on.

oh, and Good Luck to BABs on teh whole moving tails/seperating tales from belts thing, sounds awesome.

I love doing crazy **** with origins.

Best example is my magic origin robot: "Steel Oni".
He is a demon who inhabited a cursed suit of samuri armour and would slowly corroupt and eventually take over the wearer of the armour. The armour passed through a lot of hands and eventually found its way (in the modern day) into the hands of an Arachnos lab. There, they broke down the armour and incorporated into a robot. They theorised that the robot would possess the demon's power but, lacking a mind or soul, would not be controlable by the demon. . . they were wrong .

As a current engineer to a future one; you'll do fine, you certainly have the right attitude.

And establishing a sense of progression and achievement.

(just somthing I see people forgeting about in the 'levels' disscussion alot, I now return you to your regular shedualed WoW fanboy insanity)

Play a game for what it is, not what it 'should' be.

Heh, pretty much why I left too, though . . . I miss the pretty ships, I miss them soo.

It's not so much that there are 'people' encoraging players to farm, it's that the Game Itself, is encoraging it. By attaching such a disproportionate reward to a very narrow band of content (easily access content to boot) the game not only encorages players to play that content, but encorages players to play it repeadativly at the expence of other content that they may enjoy more.

wow . . . are they ever gona to be disappointed.

I respect that; I'm not attacking people who farm or even the Self-Styled "Farmers" (unlike some other people here who shall remain nameless). I'm attacking the flawed content itself; for being bad game design.

And, strictly speaking; a Game, that is ment to be played for fun, should not be encoraging it's players (also paying customers) to do something that is not fun. One of the harshest critisims that can be leveled against an MMO is that it functions more as a Second Job than a Fun Game, and I can certainly see some new players comming away from the current CoH experience with that impression.

A Cavilear King Charles Spaniel, unless I an quite mistaken, and hence; most definatly Cute Enuff

Also; mu only experience of Double XP weekend is a few instances of loggin on, finding my friends not logged in, casting an eye about for any non-AE-farming teams, and loggin out shortly thereafter