Razoras
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Prima was most likely faced with a simple business decision. The update had a lot of pages. That costs money. It would cost US $100-200 just to print it off at Kinkos, imagine how much it would cost to print on decent paper with quality coloring? To keep the bundle at a reasonable price, they'd need to run a very large quantity through the printers to keep the cost of production down. Since they didn't, it is very likely that the quantity of expansions they'd need to print to keep prices down was either too close or greater than the quantity of basic binders sold or made.I sure as heck wouldn't do it if I was in their shoes, either. They probably lost money on the whole deal.
NCSoft could have stepped in and subsidized some of the cost if they thought it would boost binder sales and make it worth it in the long run, but they apparently didn't think it was worth it, either. -
Quote:Well, not exactly.Originally Posted by tuter_king
Are they eating cats in the last link
First they start to cook some cat and then they switch to dog meat half way through during the cooking sequence and then they all get drunk on cow urine. -
Why would the noise outside a store be a bug? Maybe they put that noise there because stores are... noisy.
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Quote:Well, we know more than just the three so far.Originally Posted by Clobbertime
I'd settle for a complete list of the powerset proliferation. They mentioned at least one per AT but only named three in the announcement.
- Blaster:
- Radiation Blast
- Controller:
- Cold Domination
- Defender:
- Traps, Assault Rifle
- Scrapper:
- Electric Melee
- Electric Armor
- Tanker:
- Electric Armor
- Electric Melee
- Brute:
- Claws
- Corruptor:
- Archery
- Trick Arrow
- Dominator:
- Earth Assault
- Mastermind:
- Thermal Radiation
- Stalker:
- Broadsword
- Blaster:
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Quote:Check out the rest of the world's driving orientation while you're a-learnin'.Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
See? I have learned something new!
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Indeed, PayPal has been skimming money off payments made for as long as it has existed. It's part of the business model. The sender of money doesn't see it happen, though. This doesn't seem like a change at all, to me. If you select Goods and Services as the reason you're sending money it always meant fees.
To avoid fees you always had to choose "Gift." I think the arstechnica article is just about wrong on almost every "change" it speaks of. Or my account has been a business account for as long as it has existed so the change wouldn't have been detectable. -
383 is the sample size required for a confidence level of 95% with an accuracy of +/-5%.
Do the other servers now, Leandro! -
Pretty much every single character I've made, aside from gimmicks (like a pizza delivery man turned into living pizza toppings because of a nearby chemical explosion), are tied directly to the world somehow. A lot of them are from other regions of the country or even the world, though. There's more to heroes than what is in PCity, or even the US, and the possibilities you can derive from the vague or even undefined area of the world are almost limitless.
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It at least seems like the inactive account check should only happen when a character is being logged in, rather than how it was implemented.
- Set a flag or remove a flag based on account status.
- On means inactive, off means nothing or at least active.
- Check for flag only on character log in, and then abolish the pact if one of the characters is flagged.
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These things take some work. It's something they have to create themselves, and then try to shoehorn into a pre-made forum they didn't develop themselves without breaking anything. It took a long time for the Dev Digest to happen on the old forums, too.
The Dev Digest isn't broken. The Dev Digest doesn't exist anymore. The old posts are broken, because this board doesn't accept the HTML in those posts, but that isn't a Dev Digest anymore. -
Quote:It depends on how you're evaluating a MMORPG. What does active subscription level represent?Originally Posted by Desmodos
Today, finding subscriber numbers is REALLY difficult (unless someone knows a place I'm not looking). Even NCSoft no longer includes it in it's quarterly earnings reports. Have subscriber numbers become completely obsolete for evaluating MMORPGs?
From a business perspective, without context those numbers are useless. A game with 100,000 subscribers could need to shut down within months or a game with 5,000 subscribers could bumble along forever.
From an average Joe perspective, companies don't want those numbers released unless they tell a good story. The fact of the matter is, every game loses subscribers every quarter, with spikes caused by new free content or pricing gimmicks (subscribe now and get a 9.99 monthly rate that reverts to 14.99 if you ever cancel) and even bigger spikes triggered by box expansions. The trend will still, generally, be downward.
All having access to these numbers does, really, is create angst among the regular folks about them. Businesses don't generally like transparency anyway, so from a business perspective there's zero reason to reveal them and from OUR perspective they're almost meaningless, too. -
You know it's a european post when they're blaming the Polish for everything!
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Haven't encountered this one yet.
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I think it has been mentioned a few times already. Just go to your user CP.
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Quote:Hoo boy. What kind? The self-diagnosed kind like 99% of the Wikipedian Asbergians or one who has actually been diagnosed?Originally Posted by PhiloticKnight
Well then, you'd hate me... I'm an Aspergian.
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I'm winning the thread without even trying!
Edit: What the heck? I was well into red less than 24 hours ago. -
When you run -test it asks you what directory you want to install to, so you should be safe. But copying your live install to the directory you want to run test from and then running cohupdater.exe with -test on it will still save you time, so it is a good process to go through regardless.
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PK's rep size varies. In warm climates it can be pretty big but with enough of a chill or a breeze it doesn't seem nearly as impressive.
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Your avatar and signature are very mad at eachother.
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Quote:You disagree?Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
I disagree.
Not only does it give you the opportunity to tag someone as disagreeable that other people may agree with, it give you the ability to insult them at range with a comment that only they can see, and pretty much must see when they open their options window. That nasty comment could come from anywhere and you have no idea where it came from
It also allows populars (as a cliche term) to bully outsiders.
You can't disagree, what I stated is the INTENT of the feature (here and as it is implemented elsewhere). The requirement to leave a comment when giving a negative rating is to that it makes giving a negative rating additional work so that positive feedback is easier to give.
Yes, it most certainly does get abused as an easy insult tool. You essentially get to send a nasty anonymous PM, but that can be done while giving a negative OR a positive rating. The question was with regards to why negative rating was specifically singled out with the requirement to enter text when positive feedback just requires a single click. -
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How far out of synch with the forum clock is your system clock? Adjusting your system clock closer to forum time (assuming the usual cookie fixes don't work and fixing the URL you use) might do the trick.
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You just brought it to a whole creep-tacular level. PP's skin on someone's tongue? What... the... eff...
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That bunny died and his owner took pictures of the funeral.
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It's to make it less easy to bomb someone with negative reputation. This is not uncommon in other venues that are online and give you the ability to rate a person or thing.