Recent content by Foxeye

Eeeeehhhr, are you saying that hard-working and intelligent people in the USA get ahead? Because I don't see much evidence of that. On a day to day basis I see the lucky, charismatic, and well-connected people getting ahead. Do people in this conversation not consider Northern Europe...

I do know for certain that all the data in that display was simulated data, not from an active server. However, it was simulated data provided by Simu, so it may still hold something of significance.

Oh my...I think that's the stuff my company is doing with Simutronics. Or something related. I recently got to see a PoC done for Simu, along with Streambase's stuff, that was a sort of...hmm...well, it was a map. And you could see PC and NPC location in a variety of ways, with other metrics...

What I have actually found to be the biggest disparity in these games is actually that much more effort is put into making the female character models attractive than the male models. So often it's "average joe guy model" next to "hot goddess female model". I'm not sure who that sucks more...

Yeah, I'm from the US, but I cheated...I'm married to a Finn. :P Unfortunately for the US, I don't believe the albums have made it over here. What I have I bought from finland.

The word "Crafting" has been used for 6+ years by the MMO community. It might have *been* manufacturing, but it was *called* crafting. Just because you don't think it deserves the word crafting doesn't change the fact that millions of people have used it to describe the inane "gather, put in...

That is something I'd love to hear in an MMO! I'm listening to something right now, "Vandraren" by Nordman, that is just that. I'm listening pretty hard and all I can hear is pipes, stringed instruments, one of those hand shaky things (I forget the word), and a beat generated by...err...I...

*laughs* Dude, you can't just walk up to crafters in all MMOs (not just WoW), say "What you are doing is now going to be called 'Manufacturing'. 'Crafting' shall from this day forth be simply the act of combining items", then use that as the basis for how HJ has crafting. Nevermind that it...

Agreed Pietoro. I've actually found the recent trend to talk about "how can we write games for women?" to be downright annoying. The gaming industry should worry more about how to create good games, period, rather than worrying about shoehorning in "games for women". :rolleyes:

I talk about it on my forums when something comes out that excites me so much I can't help but share it. I think I have an ongoing thread with HJ updates. I'm fairly sure I've interested a few people because of it. Admittedly, I try not to hype games these days, though, because I'll feel like...

Forgive me if I'm asking something that's already been explained...my brain is jittery on caffeine and reading comprehension has gone down accordingly. :P Is the addition of Wyr to an item something that can *fail*? Because if it can't fail, and if you can't do anything to increase your...

As much as I think a character creation tool would be ab-fab, I can see their point about resource allocation. It's a small company, and they've got a lot they are trying to pull off. I work for a software company myself and I sit in those meetings where they try to decide which 10 of the 1000...

a-Hah! So *you're* the one we have to think for all non-RPers thinking that all RPers constantly speak in thees, thous, and dosts. *shakes fist menacingly.* ;)

Given that RP is something that has been discussed a lot lately on these boards and other HJ boards, and that Stephanie Shaver's latest dev post also concerned this, I thought a link to the latest Daedelus Project that is focused on RP would be of some interest to some people. Overview I...

Jaraeth pretty much said it all. Though personally I prefer Opera to Firefox.