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I'm using a very similar system in a turn based web RPG I'm working on (it's a hobby project, so chances are pretty small it will ever be in a state that is fit for public consumption though). The only real difference compared to your system is that the penalty for death in my game is just that...

It's an interesting idea. In the end success would depend on if the resources you save by not having to create leveling content enables you improve the overall quality of the areas to such a degree that reuse wont feel too repetitive. I think the main problem when creating a "real next-gen"...

While this is true, I personally find the end game in most current MMOs so boring that I would have no reason to play the game at all if not for the leveling part. Now, this is not to say that many games have good leveling, but at least you tend to get new abilities, new stuff and move to new...

WoW probably has a few good years left. I'm guessing it will bleed 1-2 million per year until it gets down to million or so diehards that will stay until they get forcibly booted off the servers. Investing more resources in WoW might slow this down a bit, but ultimately the game is just old...

Yeah, that's why you usually have to install a bunch of mods before you can look at an Elder Scroll game without thinking it's some weird Fallout crossover and all the characters are mutants. Sadly, if they fuck up the characters to the same degree in TESO there will be no mods to fix it.

Yeah, even if you somehow manage to sell a lot of boxes it's going to be extremely hard to retain the players considering the majority of the player base will already have played WoW for a bunch of years. On the other hand, given the long development cycles of big budget MMOs I guess that some...

Yeah, all MMOs prior to WoW were low budget by today's standards. Can you name a more recent low budget MMO that made it big? Also, niche MMOs have a disadvantage in that many players prefer to play MMOs that they can convince at least a couple of their friends to play as well. For other types...

Yeah, I think WoW pretty much killed the genre with it's success. Simply put, no one is willing to invest serious money in something that deviates too much from the WoW formula. This means that anything original will be made on a shoe string budget and will be unlikely to have the kind of polish...

I think most gamers would agree that a high end gaming PC would have at least one high end graphics card in it (or a couple of less powerful ones). The rest is probably debatable. What is a high end graphics card? Nothing outlandishly expensive, but probably a GTX680. I mean, the word "high end"...

Yeah, it is and has always been a small niche market. Personally I have never seen the point of stuffing your computer full of graphics cards when one is enough. The only reason I mentioned it is that the EA guy specifically said that the next gen consoles are at least a generation ahead of...

I also have a hard time thinking of that many tasks in a game that require a huge amount of computational power while not being sensitive to latency. Maybe you could offload part of the path finding in some games. Maybe the AI in your chess game. Maybe bitcoins for the developers?

Technically he could be right! The architecture could be a generation ahead even if it gets left in the dust in terms of performance by a current gen high end gaming PC. Obviously, if that is the case the wording is intentionally deceptive.

I would be worried about any rapidly growing religion that opposes some of the core principles of my society. Currently Islam fits this description in Sweden. Publish stuff they consider against Islam and you will be a marked man. The Jews are being driven out of Malm?. Many Imams here advise...

To be honest I don't think the actual text matters that much. The clergy are the lawyers of religion. I'm sure they can interpret almost any religious text to mean whatever they want given enough time and motivation.

I'm from Sweden, not from the US. But yes, while the US is not nearly as secular as Europe, it is certainly more secular than we were a couple of centuries ago. I don't think it's a coincidence that the most of the highly developed countries are vastly more secular now than they used to be in...

The Sweden Democrats is nationalistic party on the far right (by Swedish standards, so it would probably be considered pretty moderate almost anywhere else). They are fairly close to the mark here although the picture is a bit more complicated. Many refugees/immigrants during recent years...

I think the general idea is to try to avoid an arms race between criminals and law enforcement.

History indicates that once a sufficient standard of living and level of education has been achieved society will gradually become a lot more secular. It can take a while to happen however.

Outside of message board tough talk I doubt many actually consider this an alternative. It's pretty clear that there isn't a realistic military solution to the problem. Clearly, we will eventually have to learn to co-exist.

I mostly agree. The main reason for most of the terrorism today is not religion in itself. The west has done a lot of bad things to some of these people. It is not very surprising that some people feel the need to strike back. Since they don't have the military resources required to do this...

I did say most (the US not being one of them).

Mixing religion and politics rarely ends well. Fortunately, Christianity has very little political power in most western countries these days. Islam on the other hand seems to be at a point where it is much more likely to get mixed up in politics. I for one have no desire to replace our...

Looked at the code and the hack basically just sets the stamina to the max value every 1ms. It would certainly be possible to detect this if you wrote some extra code to do it (or logged every user action, but that would probably not be realistic). However, this exploit is possible in the first...

While I agree with this to a large extent there could be some benefits. Firstly, quite a few console game suffer from frame rate drops when too much stuff happens on the screen. This would be less common on the more powerful console. Secondly, while the player might not get the option to for...

I think I was a bit unclear. What I meant is that the PS4 should have a performance advantage in terms of graphics compared to the XB1 since they both use a shared memory architecture and the PS4 seems to offer a lot more memory bandwidth. I mean, fast memory is obviously a good thing for both...

I have not really kept up with the specs, but I assume that the CPU and GPU will be sharing memory on both consoles. And if that is the case it seems likely that the biggest gain for the PS4 from extra memory bandwidth will graphics performance.

Doubt an infinite stamina exploit would result in a rollback.

Yeah, sadly, many tests are relatively easy to pass by memorizing stuff that you generally will forget quickly afterwards. Back when I studied computer science I remember a significant number of people that basically cheated on the assignments and then memorized stuff for the tests. Many of them...

Good point! Yeah, who would have imagined that people would be so generous as to spend real money in the "open beta" to "test" their cash shop and to "test" that their founder packs works properly?!

Not sure if it has been decided yet, but wasn't there a trial in the US about someone exploiting a bug in a poker machine? Imagine that I exploit a bug in a server that belongs to a bank and transfer money to my account a bunch of times. Would I end up in jail? Most likely. How big is the...

Personally I'm not upset. On the other hand, I'm not looking forward to redoing the same content again. Also, while I definitely agree with the "Either you have fun playing or you don't; if you don't why play?", you have to remember that part of the fun in a game like this is the progress itself...

Servers are up again and it looks like they implemented the 7 hour rollback. Kind of annoying for me since about half my playtime over the last week happened during that time frame.

I think Sanderson did an excellent job on WoT. I might be slightly biased since I love his other books though. As for WoT in general I think it has too much filler. The core is great, but it feels like Jordan ran into trouble with the main plot after a few books and started padding the books to...

I agree. Hard Magic and Spellbound are both great books.

Yeah, what's with all the anti bomb propaganda these days? A conspiracy to ensure that we are unprepared when the zombies/aliens invade? Making a bomb or two used to be a natural part of growing up.

True, the cooldowns do feel a bit long considering the number of abilities you have. Although except for "autofire", is there really that much difference between spamming fireball as a mage in WoW compared to spamming magic missile as a CW in NW?

I think the number of skills it pretty good. Another 1-2 skills would have been fine as well, but I for one like all my abilities being easily accessible without having to come up with and memorize fancy key binding schemes. Even in a game like WoW with a bloated set of abilities you probably...

I have played a cleric a bit and it tends to work fine as long as dps burn down the adds fast enough. If the dps don't kill the adds you will probably be too busy trying to kite/dodge AoEs to build much divine power. And once you run our of divine power you won't be doing much in the way of...

I have to say that the combination of the way healing aggro works and boss fights with lots of adds isn't very PUG-friendly. Seems that more often than not, the cleric will spend most of the fight kiting/tanking adds.