QuiJon

Well mine is now around level 29, looking forward to getting the gremlins.

Here is what i have noticed. Now take into account i rarely detail a build while i am leveling the toon and really work out nuts and bolts later on respec, so if your planning a perma, what purples, kinda mind set this is prob not your route.

Basicly i have found that the slotting on the elec side can be kinda sparse. At level 29 i think i still only have 3 slots on the AOE sleep, being 1-2 acc and a mix with 1-2 sleeps, dont recall which way it went. 5 slots on the ST hold, 2 acc, 1 recharge, 2 hold. 3 slots on the regen aura, 1 acc, 2 endmod. And in the last couple levels i just got the confuse and AOE immb, the immb is one slotted acc, confuse i think i put the last 2 slots on for 1 acc 2 confuse duration.(i was surprised to find out the confuse was an AOE honestly)

I think i have pretty much taken all the attacks i can but power boost, the fitness line and hasten and SS. Now granted the attacks right now are sparsely slotted but i figure at the rate im going the early 30s should round out attack slotting better then now.

It seems solid, and consistant to play. So none of that later bloomer kinda stuff. Its nice to pretty much have solid AOE control even if it is a sleep. I pretty much have skipped for now the AOE hold.

Whoopy pictures of people in old clothes.

Oh well I guess low rent internet sites need to pay the bills some how, so might as well leech off pictures of a crowd that could be for any period peice.

Seems like the discussion has gotten off target from the impact of this players claim to a general discussion of the validity of addiction medicine and sciences.

However i think neither actually applies to this dude. I might be reading between the lines here, but frankly this sounds like a bitter RMT dude trying to make a buck off NC Soft.

The article claims 20k hours over 5 years and 3 accounts. Averaging 11 hours per day means this guy basicly couldnt have played this game, slept and held a job really for the most part. So I would be willing to bet that the guy spent his time earning things to sell in game to support himself. He had 3 accounts set up probably sold gold, power leveling and such. NC Soft bans him and then he basicly decides "Oh well i was addicted and that is their fault."

Well i dont think so. As has been mentioned already unfortunately these jack hole lawyers will prey on smaller companies rather then take on the big boys. I see no evidence of sickness in this guy, only his greed and a desire to take revenge on having what was likely his illegal (or atleast unethical) revenue stream halted.

I know they are a smaller company but if i was NC SOFT i would have some intern research those three accounts in the server logs for anyone he teamed with, or transfered gold to or loot and look for patterns of set amounts of money being transfered etc. I would contact those other account holders and offer like free play time or something to get a statement as to what transactions happened and how much they paid. Then i would turn around and sue the dude for all the money he made selling the ingame products that nc soft owns.

Yes it would cost some money, but better to set a strong example now that they wont be taken advantage of then to allow this case to win and have every old player come out of the woodwork looking for their payday.

This dude sounds really bitter about Lucas not accepting his ideas. Yes there was a inherent darkness to ESB but its because it was the middle act. First act introduces the characters sets up the world and the stage motivations etc. The second act puts those characters into a total no win situation, the third act, they get out of the troubles. Star Wars follows this basic dramatic formula pretty closely.

And honestly i think Kurtz was wrong. I would have been really pissed off, even at 13 when ROTJ came out, that these characters i loved died, or rode off into the sunset, etc. At that age i want a happy ending. And RTOJ mostly provided that. Star Wars wasnt intended to be a movie about the cost of wars, the price of freedom etc. Its a heroes journey about facing challenge, doing the right thing, redemption for mistakes etc. And just like other mythic hero journeys the point really is mostly to see the heroes win.

I take the prequels for what they were, and though i can sit back and say how dorky some of the dialog sounded etc, i know one thing, i had waited 25 years to see a fight between anikin and obiwan, and when they were circling on the landing platform before they started fighting, i was literally sitting on the edge of my seat. And i dont think i had been that excited in a movie since i was 13 watching the emporer taunting luke and just waiting for him to reach out for his lightsaber.

My only real complaint on the prequels is that Lucas either disreguarded or ignored things in the novels for them that make aspects of the movies make more sense. Like in ep 1 describing how anakin was able to pilot the pods by using force powers he didnt even know he had, or just "felt" in the force why he should have fired a torpedo into a dark part of the ship which ended up being the energy core.

In the second movie i think it almost all works well, acept they dont really touch on his dreams close enough, his attachment issues etc, which is really the corner stone of his gradual fall to the dark side.

And in the third movie, his fall seems clunky because they didnt use the set up in the book. In the book he feels very betrayed by the Jedi when they grant him council status becaus Palpatine wants him there, but not Master rank, which would give him access to the jedi archives to in his hopes find a way to save Padme's life. So in this way he feels the jedi are betraying him, costing him padme etc, which opens him up more to the seeds of discontent that palpatine spent years planting in side his head.

But I really try to keep inmind that these are movies primarily made to appeal to the 8-13 year old crowds, and as much as i would have liked a new set of movies made to appeal to me in my thirties, that really just wasnt going to happen. It sounds bad and i usually would say that its a bad trait of a movie to force me to do it, but when i check my brain at the theater door, i enjoyed the prequels very much.

Sorry under the new rules im gonna have to report this thread for the pictures of other games on the shelf other then COX.

It depends on the game for me. Sometime doing the open world feel IMO just gets tiresome. For instance in probably the most famous of car theft games it works great. However there is another series of games that surprises me i didnt burn out my 360 playing, where they felt that the ultimate version of paradise they wanted in the series was to go open world, or sandbox style. However IMO i buy a racing game to race, i dont want to F around all day getting to a new race location just let me proceed through the game play. But for some time now its like every developer just trys to work Open World into their game in some way even if it doesnt work for the project well.

those look tight.