I see casual, hardcore and other completely meaningless terms being thrown around and posts and implications made based upon some random definitions of these. There are however several factors to consider, raw time invested, gaming skill, schedule, in game activity preference, etc. A person can play 15 hours a day and still be a simply bad gamer and capable of simple quests at best.

To get the best gear in the game, which is how you progress once you are on lvl cap, you don't particulary need huge amounts of time, you however need skill and being able to keep schedule, since raiding is an activity you have to organize among many players.

WOW shifted to provide rewards for players with both not enough time (quick epic drops in 5 mans, slowly gathering badges, dailies...) and at the same time to those that lack skill, you know, those who stand in fire (again dailies, farming 5 mans, quests, grind achievements... ). This happens more and more every expansion and major patch. Raid content is getting trivial, catered to guilds populated by in-fire-standers. Last little hope are the hard modes, which are not that very hard anyway.

Gear lost any kind of uniqueness, models are completely the same, I guess to make the ones incapable to get the higher item level pieces to feel good, since they can still look the same as a raider geared in full hard mode loot. Epic is no longer epic at all.

Seems most people are under the assumption that MMO is about (solo) quests, especially leveling part. Personally if I play PVE MMO, I do it for cooperative PVE, ie dungeons. Sadly the 5 mens got completely trivial, no CC is ever needed, the party just zooms through the instance. The new(WOTLK) 5 man dungeons are generic, short and boring, again catered so they can be done in 30 minutes or farmed for badges. Gone are the days of magical journeys to BRD or UBRS or having a challenging 5 man dungeon (last 1 was probably Magisters Terrace, while at it, compare the difficulty and effort needed in that incarnation of epic dropping 5 man vs the current incarnation of epic dropping TOC).

This is one of the subjects that could be discussed ad nausea, in fact its happening all the time on many boards in many topics.

Hmm, bumped or not, at least made me notice it.

If there really is no jump, it is a big disappointment for me and most likely a deal breaker. I gave up on GW, Ryzom and FFXI precisely for the lack of jumping. No jumping is understandable in case of mouse controls, ala BG, Diablo, <random asian grinder>. If a game is WASD though, there is simply no excuse for not being able to jump, period.

thx for the info guys, that is unfortunate

I tried the search function and checked last ~200 topics but did not find info about this.

Is there an option of third party interface addons in Aion?

Or, to what extent is the default interface configurable?

Aion sounds interesting, but if I can't set up the gui as I want, I will not bother.

Originally posted by Godliest

I just know that a friend of mine, who's a girl, and some other friends of mine, who're not girls, all agree that Avatar: The Last Airbender is indeed an awesomesauce anime. Be warned though: it's aimed at 7-10 year olds so don't except something very mature, but it's fun at least.

Well technically The Avatar is NOT anime. But I agree it's funny as hell.

Well the Czech were always eurosceptic and in greater sense globalosceptic (is that a word? :O ). He may be trying to get voting preferences up in wake of the fall of the goverment, who knows. Tbh I think he just said loud and clear what others are thinking or do not want to say because they actually planned this road.

Well, you probably want something from the Josei demographic category, for inspiration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Josei

I would say trying Honey & Clover is a good bet.

There is of course the tree view structure often used on sites for comments, however that has its own disadvantages as well. I think most people are used to how forums operate, I only wish people would stop creating huge quote pyramids, maybe an option to quote without the actual content, only reference of poster and maybe post #, etc.

Killed fireflies, felt no guilt, coz I know that there is no spoon.

Well, personally I found ignosticism (no it's not a typo) to be the closest to my view on this matter and taking into account the evidence (or rather a lack thereof) also probably the most logical approach one can take.

I partly agree with the OP, however this goes mostly for the hardcore atheist, I assume many atheists that consider themselves that are actually much closer to being agnostics or ignostics, but are simply not aware of the definitions and do not care, same as they probably do not care much whether or not there is a god.

The Cremator - www.imdb.com/title/tt0063633/

Originally posted by Teala

Originally posted by sanicek

I hope not, it's my trip to NY and Niagaras this weekend, no next 48 hours please. In fact, wait with anything ominous until the end of next week when I'm leaving for good, will you.

 

Leaving for good?  What do you mean?

I don't live in US, was just here for few months on business, so whatever nasty surprises gonna happen please wait one more week :)

I hope not, it's my trip to NY and Niagaras this weekend, no next 48 hours please. In fact, wait with anything ominous until the end of next week when I'm leaving for good, will you.

This is imo the most likely scenario:

There will be growing unrest, NWO proclaimed, however the antichrist will rise and WW3 will start, resulting mass PVP will cause world server crash and we will all wake from the matrix, sudden lack of energy for the machines will result in fight over remaining hamster emergency generators and cause the global laser defense shield to go offline and asteroid will hit earth, causing reversal of the poles and waking up dragons hybernating deep under the surface, who will blame it on use this as an exuse to finally wage war on Martians, who will then try to alter history and send a craft back in time to 1947, which will however crash and with it all hope.

Originally posted by frodus

Global bank, global currency within 15 years
 

Head of market analysis for Schneider Foreign Exchange Stephen Gallo told CNBC yesterday that the financial crisis will lead to the creation of a global central bank and a global single currency within 15 years, echoing the call of top globalists who have exploited the problems they created to push for a new world financial order.
 

video calling for the global currency is about half way down the page in the link

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/03/11/kazakh_leader_calls_for_single_global_currency/

Originally posted by Swiftblade13

Today I posted a link to a video I made... the video was made to introduce WoW to people who haven't seen it yet.

 

You could have just sent those two people who woke up from 5 year coma a PM.

this is my favourite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkXmE9XGec

Obligatory army training, 3 months only, that's pretty light, we used to have 1 year in my country before we stopped with this practice and made the army fully professional. What is troubling is that in times of peace it makes zero sense for each citizen to be trained and recruitable, so I wonder what's the future gonna bring if US is taking measures like these.

And it's not a part regular army either...

But it's a good move for policing your own population if you expect unrest, you can put 3 months of brainwash session out plus the population helps control itself via this institution.

I'm fully in support of polygamy or partnerships of any type, marriage should maybe be replaced by a freeform contract either specifically worded for each occasion or using fitting default templates if not, essentially making this a m:n relationship (since if you can have gender 1:n and same gender combinations, what's stopping you from making mixed groups of whatever weird combinations suits your desires acting as one family). Social customs and religion should suck it up.