http://www.quixoticevil.com/ Comments feed for Quixotic Evil en-gb Nucleus CMS v3.51 ©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=565#570 Matt wrote:

I'd be up for that. Especially around the sort of games you don't usually cover (recently, Forza 3, Red Dead Redemption, soon, Mario Galaxy 2?).]]> Comment index.php?itemid=565#570 2010-05-28 20:19:06 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=553#569 DraconianOne wrote:

Scripts huh? Well if you want someone to look over it when you're done, I'd be happy to oblige (and can provide references etc. should they be required.) Good luck with it. (Still in two minds whether to take part myself considering my current workload.)]]> Comment index.php?itemid=553#569 2010-04-07 06:37:47 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=553#568 Alex wrote:

Holding thumbs for you! :)]]> Comment index.php?itemid=553#568 2010-03-28 06:44:01 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=553#567 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

Good luck, sir.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=553#567 2010-03-25 23:49:13 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=544#566 QE wrote:

That is absolutely true.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=544#566 2010-03-24 22:33:17 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=544#565 passing wrote:

Hey you remembered their name, brand identity is a huge part of advertising.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=544#565 2010-03-24 09:20:48 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=548#564 Alex wrote:

Most of this, I confess, in beyond me at this point.

I'm guessing most of it will make more sense when I progress past level 7.

What I 'do' find encouraging is the amount of detail you go into. It makes me feel I'm at least not the only one that is really enjoying it. So far, I've really found it fun and am really looking forward to spending more time in it.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=548#564 2010-03-15 19:26:22 http://www.quixoticevil.com/index.php?itemid=547#563 Rik O-Neill (Xeevo) wrote:

More great food for thought! I'd only add that in addition to the lack of communication there seemed to be a high turn over of staff - and with each change either a switch in focus (new people have new ideas) or a rehash of the same problems; a number of times players needed to give a new developer or the latest PR person a potted-hitory of a particular long-running issue before it would be achknowledged as a problem - the net result - well, perhaps we could invent a new comedy genre? "The Forum Farse."

If we're allowed to suggest topics for posts - I'd be interested in your take on the direction of STO - and what things you feel they will or wont add. They've certainly acknowledged what some of the player base wants - but what will they act upon?

Polls are interesting to me. Crafting and non-combat missions are something I would want - but they always come last and second to last.]]> Comment index.php?itemid=547#563 2010-03-13 08:42:55 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