When I was reading draklar\'s post I couldn\'t help but think of wc3.

---Loading Resident Evil Map---
Map Starts
Kramy picks Demolitions.
Kramy: Runs around shooting zombies and collecting items.
Kramy joins group at center of map.
Other Guy starts shooting Kramy.
Kramy: uhh?
Other Guy: You got bit by a zombie!
Kramy: No I didn\'t...
Kramy runs away and drops a claymore.
Other Guy dies when a zombie gets too close.
Kramy comes back.
Other Guy says \"AHH, KRAMY IS A TK!!1\".

Other Guys 4 and 6 start shooting Kramy.
Kramy drops a satchel and runs.
Other Guys 4 and 6 stand on satchel.
Kramy blows up satchel.
Other guys 4 and 6 die.

Other Guy 5 says \"OMG THAT GUY JUST KILLED 3 PPL\"
Other Guy 5 starts shooting Kramy.
Kramy shoots other guy 5.

Other Guys 2,3, and 7 start shooting Kramy.
Other Guy 3 drops chain explosives as a trap.
Kramy Uses RPG on other guys 2, 3, 5, 7, and the chain explosive.
Other guys all die.

Kramy gets flamed for a while.
Kramy runs around map killing zombies and not dieing.
Everyone else leaves.
Kramy keeps playing for a couple hours.
---Kramy wins map---

Rather lame rp\'ing, eh?

Well, with that said, I have to agree with you - powergamers don\'t tend to ruin games. After all, what\'s worse?

\"Greetings noble merchant from the great city of Ojaveda, what brings you to our humble bar?\"
--Powergamer walks away

\"Greetings noble merchant from the great city of Ojaveda, what brings you to our humble bar?\"
--Other guy says \"I aam gere to suck yer blud!\"
--Other guy says \"Sllurp suck suck slurp....\"

Duh.

What\'s your video card? I have a GeForce 2 MX 400(64mb), and after updating to the latest drivers, I discovered 50% of the games on my computer(6) didn\'t run anymore. Weird, eh?

I downgraded to the second-newest drivers, since a GeForce 2 will never be able to play DirectX 9.0c games anyway, and now only 1 of the games on my computer doesn\'t run.

Ooh, the image. 8o I don\'t think your cat will be very happy if you try.

Hmm.....not sure - if there were issues, they seem to have gotten them worked out for WOW.

There\'s a couple other good older games for the mac, although they aren\'t MMO. I enjoyed EV Nova for a while - it\'s a space game with good, random storylines with a couple hundred different branches(about 6 or so major storylines that you\'d actually want to play). Also has lots of modding capability, and once you beat it you can install one of their mods to convert it into the predecessor EV games.

Originally posted by Foresteer
Yeah whats good for \"serious\" work often isn\'t good for games :/ i just wish there was an OS that was more secure and safer then windows easy to understand AND had more the 10 peices of software that is useful and fun written for it (come on.. there is no such animal as a\"linux gamer\" and even less possible is a \"Mac Gamer\" and if somebody either claims its possible or says they are one.. they are not deserving to talk or be heard on the topic of gaming )

Most(all?) of Blizzard\'s games are mac-compatible now...but that\'s just one company.

Originally posted by Foresteer
Now you can install linux on your bird feeder or even your spatula if you like..

Lol

Originally posted by Diamondcite
When the game becomes more stable I believe this will be a great idea, but for now there have been cases were the clients that didn\'t update being able to play the game while those that did updater couldn\'t play  the game simply because the client was newer then the server.

Agreed.

Originally posted by Androgos
Use the commands if you really want to shout.
Plus it makes no sense what you\'re saying

If you want to shout, then be in the shout tab.
In the old system, you could shout while being in the guild chat, which somebody (x100) reported as a bug

Yeah, I always found it strange that if you accidentally shout something you want to say to your guild, then use \"up\" to get the message again, and flip to guild, it prefixes \"/shout\" on there anyway, so you have to retype the entire thing.

Smells like a bug to me....or stupid design choices. Technically you don\'t say \"/shout\", so it shouldn\'t be recorded as text.

Another thing I found annoying(haven\'t been on for a few weeks), is if I\'m answering a question or something in shout mode, while talking to an NPC, quite often I forget to flip back onto \"say\". If the NPC is selected, the message should go to him, as I always deselect NPC\'s whenever I am talking to someone else, then reselect them when I want to begin talking to them again. This should not apply to monsters, obviously.

Edit: I doubt the last one will be changed for convenience  or common sense though, since there are plenty of slow-typers and hotkey-illiterate people out there.

Betas can also be, in some situations, \"Alphas\" with all the bugs fixed. Commercial games don\'t usually do this however, but lots of small game-making hicks release \"Beta demos\" (with all known bugs fixed) to see what people think. Most of these only have 1-3 levels, or in the case of a MMORPG, 1 town...

Originally posted by Xordan
Draklar: What if one person mines and the other runs back and for selling?? Then you don\'t have to stop mining, and you don\'t have to worry about having a max amount of ore. Yes you have to split the profit, but that isn\'t so bad.

I seriously question Xordan\'s logic. To make this simpler, lets say ore is worth 10 trias.

Assuming 2 people mine for 100 seconds and get 10 ore, then take 100 seconds to run to a shop keeper, sell it, and get back, they each get 100t every 200s

Assuming 1 person mines for 100 seconds and gets 10 ore and another person takes 100s to run back and forth selling the ore, they make 100t every 100s, but have to split it, making it 50t every 100s

COMPARE:
100tria every 200secs
50tria every 100 secs
1/2 > 2/4 = FALSE

Hmm...don\'t really understand your logic, doesn\'t make any sense to me. About the only reason I can think of mining together(since two people and trading ore is less efficient than doing it alone) is chatting, which is kinda a mute point since if you\'re running somewhere(which one person would be) you can\'t really do much chatting.

This leads me to the conclusion that this kind of logic is utterly moronic. (no offense)