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Kitchen work is one of the most stressful jobs you can have. Waiting tables is not. It isn't even comparable. You'd have to work in a kitchen for longer than six months to understand, but it really is absolutely ridiculous what your average cook has to put up with on a daily/nightly basis in...

Who has Fridays and Saturdays off!

Shitty waiter confirmed. Edit: And since you love my posting so much, I'll explain a few things. The average scenario I outlined up there? Is during normal business. If I get that type of service at 6pm on a Friday? They get tipped and probably well. If I get that service on a...

I'm a regular at several, actually. And I get good service 99% of the time. Not average. So I tip fairly well most the time. Glad we got that out of the way. You must be a shitty waiter with a sense of entitlement because you can take orders and refill water. I would love to stiff you...

Uh, in California, Minimum wage for tipped and untipped employees is 8.00 an hour. That is post tips for tipped positions. If, after they count out their tips and they don't amount to at least 8.25% of the total sales from that server, the difference comes out of their paycheck down to a...

For bare minimum service? Yeah, if that's all they do, they are already getting paid for that. If they can't pull a tip from a table, they deserve the $8 an hour they are going to get for doing a mediocre job. And odds are they aren't going to be waiting for very long (here) if that is all...

Customer questions are great, but it takes a fairly decent server to get descriptions out of people that match items a restaurant actually produces. Nothing is more confusing than a person asking if salmon is white and jumping immediately to what 100+ bottle of wine they should purchase to...

Correct! It pays well enough, and it also means I know infinitely more about this topic than you do. =)

Thought I'd respond and poke the retard some more ^_^ I tip good service well. Odds are better than most. But the key word is "good" service. Average service? Means you did not go above and beyond the call of duty for me or anyone with me, and for that servers deserve nothing above and...

Tips weren't always taxed, and businesses ran just fine by paying minimum wage to minimum work jobs like serving. Sucks that the government effectively decided to tax gratuity and put the burden on the buyer to pay the wages for certain service industry members. Because in 90% of cases, they...

This is what happens when servers fuck up: "Oh my, I am sorry to hear your steak is the wrong temperature. The cooks are a little backed up so they might have given me the wrong steak. I'll go check it for you!" Instead of what should be "Yeah I am a moron who doesn't know that when someone...

Eh, in my experience it is more for speed of drink delivery on busier nights. If you have a full bar (10+ drinks in the works at a time and constantly having people try to shout combinations of words that they think make sense at you) it can take a bit to get a drink. Even longer if you are...

Actually, nevermind. Carry on.

That's honestly pretty standard for bartenders. I tip consistently because I'd much rather get 30-50 out of a person who always comes back (dude buying girls drinks, large parties, etc etc) than 10 for his first two drinks then nothing later on. But experienced people with disposable income...

Have been in the hospitality industry for 14 years. Bartended, Served, Hosted, Cooked, fuck bussing, Managed. If your server sucks, fuck 'em. Don't tip them shit. The world is full of shitty waiters/waitresses, don't promote that behavior. After cooking, I have zero respect for most tipped...

Aside from Europe, there really isn't a large following for Star Wars around the world. It's big, but mostly among English speaking nations and really only in the West. Lucas did a lot to kill the pedigree with the prequels, though the game did sell about what KotoR did with being almost...

See, now that I can get behind. Coupling in with my previous ideas involving sandbox gameplay, it should be relatively simple to have random "invasions" that create tension in otherwise peaceful areas. And those invasions should have finite caps (Rift was buggy as fuck in this regard when I...

Those interactions are nice. And they exist in modern games. Just not in instances. You can train people in most mmos if you bring aggro mobs by them and then they leash or join in. I know WoW/WAR/FFXI/TOR did this for a fact. It's one of the reasons people avoid others in open world...

Except, all that gameplay stuff that emerged in EQ? Exists in just about every game since then. Yeah lots of stuff came out of the first major 3d mmorpg, because the developers had no f'n idea what they were doing in most cases. Pulling and breaking spawns? Is about using CC right and...

At least you are honest about Content Denial being what makes a sandbox for you. Some of the other mmo hipsters are in denial about it.

EQ wasn't a sandbox, and it had less options for players at release-velious than it has today. That's not an opinion, it is straight up fact. Early EQ: All non-pet/druid/wizard classes could not solo effectively past a certain level, and then in most cases could not solo period to endgame...

Careful about trying to have anyone who isn't a "hardcore" mmo player from prior to 2002 in your game... the concept rustles the shit out of some jimmies with some of the mmo hipsters around here~ I -highly- doubt EQ:N will incorporate any of the mod-able terrain shit from Minecraft into the...

Yeah but they still had the quests themselves. I'm saying remove all "quests" that involve killing x of y that aren't epic in nature and instead just regulating that to the achievement pane. Lotro/TOR/WAR all definitely had quests for killing 10 of x or collecting 10 of y. I think the...

You know, all those 10 bear ass collect "quests" and similar nonsense could just be looped into achievements similar to console games. You've killed 10 bears! 10xp and 1 silver. You've killed 200 bears! 50x and 5 silver. You've killed 10000 bears and PETA wants to rape your dead corpse for...

Yes, because clearly the only way to have npcs give out quests (aside from, you know, all the quest givers in EQ) is to do the retarded over the top way that WoW turned into. Clearly. And again, there's that argument about not having quests in a game because Freedom and Options, when...

u r dum. Sorry, just using words you can assimilate. Your opinion couldn't be more wrong and you have no idea what I consider classic cinema. Your dislike of JJ's version of star trek is valid, since retard-neckbeards hate good stuff in favor of stupid shit. Your love of stupid shit is thus...

Pretty sure Elidroth works for Sony, so I highly doubt he's a sucker who has been lured into misbelieving. On the other hand, Sony has zero track record with making Sandbox games, so I am firmly in the wait and see category, so distrusting the words of someone who works for a company regarding...

I personally believe that the crafting level of players should be proportional to the content available in the world. If the highest anyone has killed is a lowly red drake... then that is the crafting level available. Crafted gear can be identical to dropped, it just requires money and time...

To a degree yes. One aspect I will happily steal from a previous game.

Gear loot is an interesting mechanic but should be regulated to specific servers. It is possible to have a "sandbox" without being able to steal shit from everyone you kill. As to driving the game, all you need to do is add durability in a smart way. Not "You died, lose 10% durability lawlz!"...

Considering the previous information that Leia and Han are both on board for a sequel, I would imagine that Jedi would still be super rare in episodes 7-9. I think what the prequels tried to do was harness the idea that they weren't quite so rare at one point. I mean Jedi pretty much breed...

Oh definitely. A few of his cinematography choices made me go "yeah ok wtf." but for feeling like a Star Trek "The Future is AWESOME!" about the movie? Knocked out of the park. You couldn't have lied to me about Z. Quinto or Eomer being Bones and I would have negged you. After watching...

No. I've watched literally every episode of star trek the original series and Next Generation. JJ abrams did an amazing job with the material and it fucking FELT like a star trek movie. Your opinion is wrong.

No-no, I like your idea of spell focii et al. I am just elaborating on the idea of what a playerbase would purchase. No idea is a bad idea, it just needs refinement at the absolute worst. edit- goddamnit. I thought I hit enter after changing existing nonsense regarding the current topic =|...

I hope you are wrong on your prognostication of what could happen. I instead hope that developers see my ideas and go "Hey there's another way instead of raping the f2p playerbase wholesale." and invest in that methodology. I would like to believe that developers want a real game, not a...

I agree almost 100%. Purchasable bonuses should be cosmetic, not gameplay power oriented. To step that up, I am 100% for content that doesn't detract from the game being added via one time purchase nonsense. BUT. Holy fuck, don't ever put class specific/content specific...

Honestly, I imagine that Sony's marketing guys as well as the developers attached to them are really interested in what will make -me- drop money on a f2p game. I have high playtime and a ridiculous tolerance for bullshit as long as it has something resembling a payoff. My thoughts on EQ might...

Honestly, I think there is a -very- viable and easily "exploitable" cash source that Sony could follow if they look at my concepts above in order to generate large sums of cash. The default, basic, F2P version is -exactly- how I laid out. No quests (or extremely minimal), no linear hub...

I'm not sure event scripting really needs to be a focus with these type of procedural spawns. It would probably be really simple to just come up with a set of parameters that are npc neutral (ie, not specific to any individual mob in the game) that can be randomly or semi-randomly assigned...

Procedural content with procedural bosses based upon content consumption. People killing all the orcs in an area for faction or something? Less orcs overall spawn and more kobolds start popping up. Keep killing orcs and avoiding Kobolds? Orcs stop spawning and a boss Kobold spawns. Crafting...