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Posted by: Havohej : Category: As the title says, really. I’ve spent the bulk of my time this week job hunting without success; in a desperation bid I even went sniffing around at the local fast-food joints hoping to at least find something to tide me over. At one place, I was told they had too many people already and that nearly everyone was being cut to 2 days/week - that’s not even 20 hours!
My leisure time has been spent levelling a couple of nationals on Pirates of the Burning Sea’s Blackbeard server, mainly just to get a sense of that side of the game. My main character remains Stephen MacKenna, though - yarr!
I’m considering the 5-day EVE-Online Free Trial offer CCP e-mailed me the other day, sort of a ‘winback’ effort I guess. It talked about all the changes that came with Quantum Rise and offered me 5 free days with my existing account. I planned to resub for a few months after the new year (probably in February or March), but I might at least use the 5 days… haven’t decided yet.
Actually, they’re calling it a ‘Vision Statement.’ But the end result is the same: a clear definition of what sort of game experience the Flying Lab Software developers intend to create with Pirates of the Burning Sea. This sort of thing is what we begged CCP to give us for MONTHS with regard to EVE-Online but which, to the best of my knowledge, they still refuse to do. But to be fair, it’s easy to understand why a company would hesitate to make such a declaration.
Things change, after all. Markets shift. What is popular today may be anathema tomorrow and when you’re dealing with such a remarkably fickle (yet remarkably loyal at the same time) consumer base as MMO gamers, the risk of alienating one group or another is dangerous indeed! But FLS has delivered.
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I’m sure 90% of my readers are already subscribed to CrazyKinux’s Musing’s RSS feed, but if you aren’t check this out! Not much I can say other than WOW!
Thanks to CK for going all the way to Iceland to share these awesome previews from CCP with us less fortunate!
This afternoon, my attention was brought to an article posted at FOXNews.com, titled “Army Working on ‘Ghost’ Soldiers, Mind-Controlled Guns.” Normally, I wouldn’t find anything like that spectacular since I enjoy the show Future Weapons on the Military channel (check local listings, heh). This article, however, mentioned World of Warcraft! I had to read for myself what was going on here and overall, I think the whole thing is quite interesting.
Among the ideas being pursued by the US Army researchers are elf-regenerating body parts, intelligent “virtual soldiers,” mind-controlled weapons, brain “wipes” to purge traumatic memories, “quantum ghost imaging.” Now a lot of that sounds way beyond our time, certainly not possible within my lifetime; or is it? The Fox News article included a link to read the full story at Military.com’s DoD Buzz site. Military.com is a private military-oriented website, but they get their information directly from the source, citing such credible individuals as Dr. John Parmentola, the Army’s director for research and laboratory management.
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¶ Despite the terms of the agreement, under which GODS members were to make no shitpoasts or smack about the matter (which we haven’t), it has been clearly and publicly established in two posts (here and here) on CAOD that Pure. has lost their war. With respect to the arrangements that have been made, I won’t go too far into detail about it.
¶ It is enough to say that Pure. put up more of a fight than any of us expected them to, especially considering that the rest of the Northern Coalition was largely occupied elsewhere defending against MAX and Triumvirate. Despite the fact that G00DFELLAS came out on top of almost every single fleet engagement (we had negative killboard efficiency on only 3 days out of the O-2 conflict: the 3rd, 4th and 5th of September, when things were just getting underway). Despite the fact that Papa Pod’s doomsday detonations claimed only 13 G00DFELLAS ships, despite their inability to destroy a single GODS capital ship, Pure. was never afraid to engage and did their utmost to give as good as they got. Their POS defenses were more than adequate and while it could be said that our failure to destroy POSes the first time was due to our not having enough numbers in every time zone, the Pure. POS gunners and capital fleet can’t be discredited here.
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