http://www.quixoticevil.com/ Comments feed for Quixotic Evil en-gb Nucleus CMS v3.22 ©2007 QE Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.quixoticevil.com//nucleus/nucleus2.gif http://www.quixoticevil.com/ http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=545#562 QE wrote:

@Random Spod: I can understand that, although you may have been unlucky in that respect. I felt that the community I was part of remained quite vibrant through CU; we even got back some folk who'd been gone for ages, because we were having lots of fun in the new fixed group-work (which was still far from perfect, but better than being penalised for daring to play an MMO with other people).

Of course, that was the impression I had from my perspective. I'm keenly aware that given the people I've pointed this post out to it's not unlikely that we were on the same server, perhaps even in the same community.

@Talon: I don't see where you're disagreeing with me :-) I think the CU made it a great game and Smuggler was a good example of a profession that was made useful and fun by the rebalance.

If you mean it was fun after NGE, then that's fair enough. I can't really comment because I didn't play NGE for long, so I'm still not disagreeing with you.

I was very pleased when they fixed your crowd control. There's no fun in AoE tanking when you aren't constantly annoying people by breaking their CC ;-)]]> Comment index.php?itemid=545#562 2010-03-08 19:28:41 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=545#561 Talon wrote:

Interesting read though I would disagree with one point. Post CU SWG was a good game. At least for the class I played.

Post CU Smuggler was the best CC class I have ever played. For the 5 to 6 months that it was available pre NGE It was the most fun I've had with a class in any game ever. The pure depth of skills and play stiles made for some of my fondest remembered in game moments. I will never forget our excursion to the Avatar Platform with Talon performing CC.

Because I only had one account I never got to play the other classes during the CU, but for that brief time, I can tell you that this smuggler had a blast. :D]]> Comment index.php?itemid=545#561 2010-03-07 22:06:09 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=545#560 Random spod wrote:

To me SWG was a community game, the towns the societies and even the factions worked. The combat craziness was just something to work around. When the people left so did I]]> Comment index.php?itemid=545#560 2010-03-07 19:28:01 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=545#559 QE wrote:

The more I stare at games and their design the more I see that even the most distant-looking elements can affect one another, especially when one of them is broken.
Immersion in particular can be hurt by pretty much _anything_...]]> Comment index.php?itemid=545#559 2010-03-07 13:18:44 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=539#557 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

Just posted a comment in response to the SWGEmu article. Thought I would let you know incase it doesn't come through. Didn't recieve a moderation notice either.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=539#557 2010-03-06 23:52:17 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=545#558 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

Agreed. The CU for SWG was the point at which they reached some kind of balanced experience, yet one that was unique and had all the things that made SWG great (economy, social gaming, player cities etc).

Pre-CU was for the most part a very frustrating experience. Strip away the "newness" of a lot of what people were doing and there were many flaws - which you've zeroed in on.

How dissaponting in a Star Wars game to realise that in order to be effective you needed to be a martial artist, swordsman, or hammer wielding maniac. You could hardly get less "Star Wars" than that. Personally, the composite armour was had a very negative effect on my game experience - I just couldn't believe the world when the armies of light or dark were wearing these suits of heavy armour and charging at each other with what effectively ammounted to broadswords.

Interesting to think that, as you seem to suggest, this "break" in my connection to the game world stems from something as fundemental as the lack of proper combat balancing.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=545#558 2010-03-06 23:49:32 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=539#556 QE (not authenticated) wrote:

Well it seems to work, although without the intended message that the comment has been saved and will be reviewed before it's published.

Stupid thing.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=539#556 2010-02-25 19:29:04 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=537#553 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

Agreed, plenty to do is the key thing with the combat - ground less so than space but even the ground combat is quite compelling. I can't remember playing a game since SWG that made me feel my character is "cool" - but the ground combat in STO feels like that.

I'm hoping soon a lot of wannabe game designers and guardians of Star Trek "philosophy" will get over themselves and give the game the time it deserves.

The combat is far more compelling than many an mmo I've played. It seems a very solid game to me.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=537#553 2010-02-19 07:07:24 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=535#547 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

Just don't say it like you're a jobbing actor who really resents the fact he's doing voice over for a computer game.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=535#547 2010-02-08 18:57:14 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=530#546 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

Quite extraordinary. I'm a bit wary of this whole "Microsoft as a punching bag" thing - but as I learn more about computers and the net (I still know very little!) I'm beginning to see that there's some truth in it all.

My latest run in with "the establishment" concerns having designed my website in Firefox - only to learn that Internet Explorer uses a whole different set of measurements and commands for CSS.

Firefox was fine. Te new Google Chrome was fine - but the browser packaged with all PCs (and therefore by default the number one browser) used its own special set of rules.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=530#546 2010-02-05 19:43:50 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=527#545 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

Intriguing...

And well done!]]> Comment index.php?itemid=527#545 2010-01-30 07:44:33 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=529#544 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

Perhaps subscribe for a few months and leave consideration of the lifetime subscription until later? Although, having said that, I just remembered they're asking people to make this "lifetime" decision within a very narrow window, aren't they?]]> Comment index.php?itemid=529#544 2010-01-30 07:30:41 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=526#540 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

Thanks for the "no nonesense" comments! I'm reading a lot of stuff about STO that either seems unreasonably negative or over-excited in the extreme.

Will definately be playing once it launches.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=526#540 2010-01-21 03:51:40 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=518#539 QE wrote:

Raph: As I say, far better than me. ;-) Although I'll hold you responsible if ever I end up doing anything so daft as an online concert.
And yes, I had a really good time.

Cuppycake: I guessed that. He didn't tell you to say that, right? :-)

Thank you both for commenting. Perhaps I ought to put some effort into my world at some point.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=518#539 2009-12-01 21:11:16 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=518#538 Cuppycake wrote:

As the Metaplace CM, I can tell you that Raph is definitely not a community management nightmare. He is great and is pretty inspiring in his way he deals with our Metaplace users :)]]> Comment index.php?itemid=518#538 2009-12-01 09:34:17 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=518#537 Raph wrote:

I am a better singer minus the head cold, but I agree with your overall assessment. :) I m glad you had a good time!]]> Comment index.php?itemid=518#537 2009-12-01 02:45:29 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=513#536 Term papers wrote:

I really admire this, I mean it really looks interesting! I'm actually glad to see all this stuff...]]> Comment index.php?itemid=513#536 2009-11-24 08:49:06 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=516#534 QE wrote:

Thanks for the comment Ingrid; good to have you around.

I've made a small change to the CMS and the most up to date word count is now visible: see next post.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=516#534 2009-11-18 01:04:15 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=516#533 Ingrid wrote:

Okay, I'm not sure what your word count is at the moment, but the almost-to-halfway gap is closing for me. If I'm not at 25,000 words by the end of tomorrow, I shall not be pleased with myself. Go, QE, Go! We shall not be thwarted by a lack of words - it cannot be! (I shall read properly when I 'officially' catch up. For now, feel free to taunt me with new writing that will make me feel even more behind with both reading (you) and writing (me).]]> Comment index.php?itemid=516#533 2009-11-18 00:14:56 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=513#532 Athones78 wrote:

thanks for the article. It was very ineresting for me.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=513#532 2009-11-17 17:57:41 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=516#531 QE wrote:

OK, I've finally given up on last-minute checking before I post things: there's the last couple of days' chapters in one lump, and I'll try and keep up the nerve to post them as I finish them now.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=516#531 2009-11-17 00:43:05 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=516#530 Dofe wrote:

*prods* i've run out of things to read ;-)
And congratulations on your word count !]]> Comment index.php?itemid=516#530 2009-11-16 20:59:20 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=514#529 Tracy wrote:

I will read it for you QE. starting today. Will post any comments.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=514#529 2009-11-04 12:20:24 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=507#527 QE wrote:

Thanks for that. I will show that one to the Better Half as well, although she's perhaps even less likely to look at it.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=507#527 2009-10-08 00:59:53 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=507#526 Matt wrote:

Photoshop Disasters is good, but Adobe UI Gripes is better.
http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/]]> Comment index.php?itemid=507#526 2009-10-07 23:31:48 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=474#525 QE wrote:

Thanks for your input Brandon. Your comment seemed to be spam, but was so thoughtful that I let it through anyway (eventually, after defanging it).

I didn't say I had someone with knowledge saying it was worthwhile. Unfortunately that's the main thing I'm missing (unless of course it _isn't_ worthwhile, in which case I have a slightly larger problem).]]> Comment index.php?itemid=474#525 2009-06-03 00:16:32 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=474#524 Commodity Broker wrote:

Don't be afraid of self publishing on Lulu. If its your first project, try it out, get your name out there.

There is one downside to self-publising. Oftentimes you'll lose your credibility. you mention in your post that someone with experience and knowledge of that field would deem it worthy to be published. that also means a lot to consumers.

As a first book though, I say, why not?
-Brandon]]> Comment index.php?itemid=474#524 2009-04-22 21:13:36 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=479#513 DraconianOne wrote:

Only for consolidating most of the above and creating a media PC.

Alternatively, set it up as a MAME box.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=479#513 2009-03-22 20:16:25 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=477#512 QE wrote:

If you've got some Windows or XBox360 software to write then C# with .NET (and XNA if it helps) is definitely a great way in.
Serious games are probably still written in C++ on DirectX or similar, though.

In terms of commercial viability, I've no idea. Nobody in my organisation uses it professionally.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=477#512 2009-03-11 13:34:50 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=477#511 DraconianOne wrote:

So, C# - Worth learning then?]]> Comment index.php?itemid=477#511 2009-03-11 10:11:20