All Posts by paulscott

Wow they're going to be investing into everquest...  Seems like they are going to be making another one with a bigger number...

Originally posted by CleffyII

Doubt it works as stated.  They are thinning the fuel content.  However, its that fuel that makes the vehicle move.  If you thin it out, when it ignites it will generate less force making it create less of a spin, which means it will need to ignite several more times for the same effect.  There are other ways to increase gas mileage that are more effective.  One is to increase power without increasing the amount of pistons or fuel intake.  Things like Turbo Charges, and using higher octane fuel.  Another is to decrease your vehicles wieght making it require less force to move.  The last is to use an alternative fuel source like a hybrid.

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The chances of it not working are pretty high of course but you'd need to go through a lot of work to publish an article when you don't believe it works.  20% is also well within a reasonable skew factor of having non-blind tests.  

As for why it would reasonably work even though you're putting less in the fuel has less attraction with itself so it ends up filling a wider space/mixing better inside the piston optimizing the fuel to O₂ mix.

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As for being 20% it's the law of massive numbers.  20% on one semi isn't much but 20% running on a good number of semi's in the US is massive(technically the test semi's reported 12-16% though).   Now lets say you can get 10% on trains that get 150 to 250 Miles on a gallon of fuel that adds up a lot faster as well,  the fact that you're drawing from the battery is deffiantly no issue there as well since they generate more electricity than battery storage.

The device is pretty simple looks like a bunch of copper coil and maybe some electronics which most likely falls under compacitors only.

Well techincally it actually involves putting an electical device around your fuel hose that 'thins' it out so that less is put into the pistons.   giving you around a 20% increase in how far you can travel on the same tank.

The creator is working on getting a patent actually licensed right now to one company.  It'll be a big sucess since it can be put on current and old cars, and works for gas/diesel/biodiesal/(probably ethonal), and has the potential of being able to get better efficencies with more R&D hours pumped into it(bad pun). 

I'm wondering how much that company will be selling it for.   They're literally going to lining their pockets with cash since it would be able to save billions upon billions dollars of diesel money in the trucking industry. 

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080925111836.htm

You need to think about Obama saying if you need me call along the lines of:  "Hey it's my job to represent the people(of Illinois), but hey who cares I have better stuff do do"...   That's not what I want in a president.

both the canidates are soo messed up that you're litterally stuck having to decide who would be the least worse.

Worthy of soo many remarks that they're not worth saying.

Originally posted by Larry2298

Originally posted by paulscott

Dungeons and dragons (RL).   While it's not a grind because of it's medium, trying to turn it into a video game makes it so.

 

That's true. DDO has spectacular grind in so many mmo I have played before.

maybe I should edit it to P&P I was half asleep.

Dungeons and dragons (RL).   While it's not a grind because of it's medium, trying to turn it into a video game makes it so.

Originally posted by Gameloading

Originally posted by originalegg

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There is very little hype for this game. Only the hardcore mmorpg gamers know this game even exist, the mainstream gamer has never even heard of the game.

welcome to the website that targets and has a decent sized majority/minority of hardcore mmorpg gamers.

Originally posted by captngolf

Wurm is a good concept, however the current community and players managed to ruin the game by wanting skills to be slower and take more time to increase. It's funny how many of these players also tries to recruit new players through forums like these as they do benefit from every new premium player with more silver being added to the game and increasing the non existant economy.

This true.   There was even a when the Sever dev wanted/did to make stuff easier(a lot of people had lots of fun that night).   Only to be complained out of exsistance from the 1337 people contacting the developer directly and complaining.   It basically made it along the lines of quality increases have a greater effect but when you failed to improve something you did a lot more damage to it.

those that played casualier loved it ofcourse including me.

The market just needs to shift towards smaller, indy and small shop games do work.

Halo is great for a shooter.

I attribute some lower scores of people are giving out due to them growing up and out

Q:What about caves/mines where I can gather resources and which have always been PvP zones?
These zones are FFA (Free For All)! They remain PvP/FFA on both PvP as well as PvE flagged servers. Basically in mines/caves you can attack anyone except party members. When it comes to Resources, Trade Goods and Money, ‘allies’ might suddenly have a "fine print".

Not being able to loot in a game will hardly kill it.   There's still the areanas as well.   You still get the resource node from the person since they obviously won't be able to harvest it any further.  Dieing also makes someone lose their built up/charged stats so depending you could have someone lose up to 3 levels worth of earned stat bonuses.

As for not being skill based every class gets every base skill everyone has healing, archery, swords, and magic.  The classes are just what you specilize in.

TCoS isn't and never was aiming at being a sandbox game.

I thourghly beleive in my countries citizens ability to spend money.

Big brother JR.

He's gonna grow spikes :P

OMIGOD I haven't been in the news for a long time, I need to get into the news so I don't hollywood die, what can I do!!!

Form an utterly basic MMO like WoW/Everquest add whatever focus you want to (PvP, raiding, PvP-raid, territory control).   Now think about what the traditional expansion does add 10 levels and eventually reduce leveling rate of lower levels so people can catch up with 'the crowd'.

Now lets just go over what I'd rather see:   bring back the classic remort.   starting your character over again at level 1 but with some new abilities/honor skills.

Basically at the expansion you add some high level content that people can go through after beating it they get the ability to remort their character.   The content is repeatable it has some nice gear drops but you can only get 1 remort per expansion.   After using the remort your character is set back to level 1 but at the reset screen(which also lets you change appearance or whatever) you're givin the ability to change your attribute growth a little bit (along the lines of  increase the growth rate of a characteristic or two) and are given some honor skills attributed to that same attribute.   (if you take strength as a mage/warrior/whatever  you get the ability to use some unique skills related to choosing that 'honor' and a few dupicates to warrior skills.   If you take spirit you get some healing and defense skills some unique others not.   pretty much you get the picture).

Now lets look at what this does.  This means your level cap doesn't increase, it also means that that there isn't a 'the crowd'  you need to catch in order to do stuff with other people,  makes it so there's a distrubution of players through out the whole world(ease of load balancing),  and provides a way so that old players can go back and enjoy the company of friends if they get someone new to join.   You also make it so that the 'endgame' isn't as relevant and can adjust your focus away from it and to other mehcanics.

So who thinks this is worse/better than current expansion mechanics.  Obviously you can tie other stuff to it instead of just skills and stat growth,  something like unlock being able to use ceremonial weapons, RP abilities(change your teleport portal to a portal made of vines), or just about anything else.   Also what do people think that would be best to make it so that a remort is worth remorting without making it so worth it that it becomes a grind just so you get to the remort location so you can start over again.