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I feel the same way about Diablo style random loot. Which brings us back to the problem that if you're not actually changing the world (e.g. NPC permadeath) then that too is gay. Ah well

Yeah because who wants AI in an MMO?

SWG-style crafted loot with NPCs dropping different quality materials would work pretty well. Then would't matter if any particular NPC died. Holy OCD Batman!

2 Best of E3. So somebody besides SOE likes it - but yes, we'll see how it goes in the beta.

Found the guy who must be working on the combat AI for EQN - not StoryBricks. http://intrinsicalgorithm.com/IANews/ Long presentation on AI combat - goodbye taunting??? http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/me...k-CoverMe!.pdf

Unless of course he arrives on American soil and ends up mysteriously dead/disappeared/lobotomized. I don't think the smart move is returning to the US at this point.

Lucky. http://epicslantpress.com/mmo-radio-...2-brian-green/ Not a lot on story bricks but 11 to 20 minutes in an example of bandit/village/pc interaction. Bandits are located at a hideout, have motivation to go wandering/raiding to get money. They wander around area and eventually...

I'm not about to call him a hero because I don't know his real motivations (stopped clocks and etc.) but I otherwise agree with Araysar particularly that "just following orders" isn't an excuse. Whatever his reason, Snowdwen revealing the NSA Surveillance State was a Good Thing (tm).

The other problem besides the one Abe points out, is that it is all about execution - looks great on paper, will sound great at SOE Live, but we won't know if actually works as advertised until we get into beta.

Yep anyone thinking it won't be FTP or also on the PS4 is dreaming. Also yes, it will have some kind of mini-map. Smed really wants to be able to do a "EQN hits 1,000,000 players" press release withing a few months of release and FTP lets him do that.

And when the game is revealed in all its glory the main topic of conversation here will be does it have maps or not... Not with the game is sound or not, just whether it has a mini-map or not. So yeah, I agree it's getting a little ridiculous.

Old news but interesting: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/12...ng-npcs-to-li/ StoryBricks as a Swiss Army Knife (or Obi-Wan) - here with its LFG function. Edit: Make that its LFG/e-Harmony function.

I wrote off SOE back in 2008 or 2009. Mainly because Smed seemed to have gone insane and SOE was only producing crap. But Smed hiring back Jeff Butler for, and Butler incorporating StoryBricks into, EQN have me convinced that Smed and SOE have been born again and there is hope we'll get...

Don't feed the troll!

Snowden is talking about what's going on now, not what happened 50 years ago. Nice to see one of our NSA shills trying to change the conversation from how America is becoming (has become) a police state to race.

No. You're forced to do every quest whether you want to or not. Current Paradign - Listening to Radio Station Do all the quests in order, whether you like the quests or not (listen to all the music selected by someone else, no choice - but presumably you like some of the music since you...

There's a huge difference: you only do the stories you want to do and the stories are nonlinear and based on your style of play. If all you want to do is grind mobs you can do that. You're not being forced to go down any particular path or complete a story in a particular way. If you decide...

It works fine. Storybricks are limited: beginning, middle, end. So lancelot roleplayer kidnaps a willing Guinevere gets pursued, fight ensues and story ends one way or another. Ends with faction hit in King's kingdom generally but positive faction with Queen/Queen's Guards or whatever. Queen...

I have seen the light Kreugen, you're right. Probably better that you don't watch the whole video: StoryBricks guy is very smart but longwinded. Unless you like RPGs then watch away. http://youtu.be/OMbOkJRHhfU I finally get storybricks after this video. -key points after 31 min and...

They're not going for niche. EQN will be on PS4 and will be FTP (hopefully with somekind of gold membership for those of us who hate FTP). It seems like SOE thinks it has the (note the use of the definite article here) WoW-killer thus the secrecy and the 1 year max from reveal to release...

Cuba is a rathole but if you want to go off the grid Venezuela and Ecuador aren't bad choices - you just have to get out of the big cities (Caracas highest murder rate in the world these days, IIRC, and Guayaquil is also very, very dangerous) and head to the Andean regions. Lots of places w/o...

Itzena doesn't know what he's talking about. If EQN has open-world PvP it is "EVE-like" with security zones not FFA PvP everywhere.

Too bad Venezuela is going down the toilet - many a hot girl and nice beach there and the Andean region is stunningly beautiful. If Chavez and co. hadn't destroyed the economy would have been an awesome place to live in exile. Much better than Cuba or Ecuador.

And the cocktease continues: https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status...91827966242816

To be perfectly honest Dumar, this example from UO isn't the correct way to do things either. Since you're basically roleplaying a serial killer in the above example - you should have been treated as such by the game: pursued by police entities/UO equivalent of Sherlock Holmes until you were...

Also a_skeleton_03, you really need to look up the term 'datamining' - the NSA can't datamine the data if it isn't stored. The whole point of these operations isn't to listen to the data as it is being recorded, it's to datamine the pile of data after its been stored. I know I may only be in...

Good to see another NSA shill. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57...calls-e-mails/ http://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-can-affor...e-ca-513693317 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/0...f-us-citizens/ Yes, this shit is happening and has been going on full blast since 2007. Metadata for every...

Secret reveal to MMORPG, Tentonhammer, Curse and presumably the media (PCGamer, etc) MMORPG and TTH gave it best of show which was a cock tease with feathers.

New thread: The SOE Live Live thread (starting on August 1st) - this thread should be locked for posterity at that point so all our insane and wrong ramblings can be immortalized.

Because the NSA nees a confirmed 5 Zettabytes of data storage for porn? amirite? Edit: I say confirmed because of the cite above, other sources suggest several Yottabytes of storage.

You and Tuco are the ones defending the US, I suggest you offer evidence that (1) these programs dont' violate the Fourth Amendemtn (2) they are not turning us into a police state. But since you insist: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/303...-on-since-2007...

I think this is the biggest bullshit argumen out there being used by the US to defend the programs 'you don't know, so you have to trust the government.' The government has done nothing to earn our trust, and everything to make us distrust them. Which reminds me that the most effective use...

You're absolutely right. The NSA has been bugging all our phones since 2007, has been keeping all the info in storage indefinitely since 2012 (if not before) what's a little more info and emails from Facebook, Google, MS and Apple? My mistake -_-