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Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by declaredemer 

On the contrary, I think Obama will be a more effective, and responsible, steward of the country's resources. 

I don't want to get in any arguments based on his policies, but (there is always a but ) with him wanting to throw large amounts of cash at non-taxpayers and his comments stating we should ignore the deficit for the next few years, I do not see him as a responsible steward of resources. He will bankrupt this country completely.

Many claim him surren...errr ending the Iraq war will save billions, but they fail to realize he wishes to use those resources to fight in various parts of Africa (Dafur, etc.).

 

Edit: With that said, I am done. As Enigma is above (and possibly everyone else), I am sick of political threads. I just took the bait on this one.

What do you think Bush's boy Paulson is doing right now, Dekron?

Bush's utterly illegal and unpaid for war of aggression has a lot to do with the state of the federal government's finances, too.  The GOP has been borrowing and spending like poets on payday for eight years.

Obama has a gigantic mess to clean up created by 30 years of moronic GOP policy.

I've given this game several chances post NGE to win me back.

The fact that they still have bugs like NPCs shooting through walls that prevent you from returning fire is game breaking in and of itself.  Then there's the rubberbanding.

Top it all off with ridiculous grinds to complete collections (Sith waist 4/5, anyone?) and the known capricousness of the development team that always makes things worse in the name of "intent".

An example.  Chapter 11 went live yesterday.  A friend of mine was able to complete in pretty short order the hologram emitters collection.  I went back in the afternoon and the collection loot was not dropping at all.  She came along and helped me for an hour and a half killing droids and we got exactly 2 pieces of the collection to drop when she and another friend got the entire collection in the same amount of time, mind you with multiple duplications of loot drops.

Our theory: sometime during the day, the devlopers tweaked (by tweaked, I mean seriously changed) the drop rates when their metrics showed the loot dropping "too fast".  So, as usual, they overcompensate and make the loot drops several orders of magnitude less certain.

The problem here is that they pushed it live with the loot drops so frequent, obviously not well tested, then they scale back drastically in the live game, violating once again, for the umpteenth time, Koster's rule of MMOs: you can't take things away from players and not expect them to hit the cancel button and thus put your own job in jeopardy through reduced revenues.

They wonder why the vets are not coming back en masse as they imagine.  Someone mentioned in another topic that SOE's problem is always that they're pursuing imaginary customers, not doing anything for the ones they actually have, and in fact alienating the ones they have.  It's this dunderheaded mentality that gave us the steaming pile of bantha poodoo that is the NGE in the first place.

Faux is a sewer that has no crediblity at all.

Keynes was a smart man, who understood that the market is the most efficient way to distribute goods and services, if it is not allowed to self destruct as it eventually will do.
 

It has to be guided and nurtured and not allowed to pursue its self destructive tendencies.

Adam Smith understood this as well.

The Cult of Rand, OTOH, doesn't undestand anything at all.

Originally posted by ArcheusCross

If what the OP says is true then i truely wonder what the hell are corporations thinking?! I mean seriously... is it because they have survey people only taking wows numbers into effect and not looking on places that matter like these forums?

Hell theres like 10 threads a day at the least in multiple game threads that state they want games to change more towards sandboxes.... or even not to chance towars wow like gameplay.. ughh

WoW has quite frankly ruined the genre, because the greedy suits can only see WoW's numbers and drool.  None of them are happy with making a profit unless it's like WoWs.

Originally posted by Fishermage

It's not an addiction by any definition.

The answer, as always, is freedom. Allow the market to do its thing -- as the commodity gets more scarce, the prices rises, leading to private investment into alternatives.

Government can only harm the market signals, and it has. Once again, the problem is government, the solution, is freedom.

 

Sorry, but the market will NEVER be allowed to "do it's thing" as long as there are huge corporations manipulating it for their private profit.

Adam Smith figured this out over 225 years ago.

We'd be so much better off, energy independence wise, if Jimmy Carter's initatives of the late 70's were not all deliberately sabotaged by Ronald Reagan's puppetmasters.

The ADK was a serious game imbalance mistake.  Without it, even the best players were forced to eventually replace their weapons.  One of the things about decay was that it not only created a reason for crafters to continue on, it became a leveler of the playing field for combat players.

With a lightsaber with an ADK attached, Jedi never had to worry about replacing the decayable components of their lightsabers, which would eventually become useless as they used them  They'd have to go out and find more of those flawless pearls and so forth.  Even the color crystals decayed!

A friend of mine used to go through a pistol a week, so he spent a lot of time searching for good weapons.  This created a new form of "down time" that made for actual relationships between combat players and armor and weaponsmiths.

The crafting itself was pretty straightforward.  Combine the necessary materials in the schmatic into the finished good.

The detail was gathering the right mats for the good, with the correct qualities, to craft the best finished good, using the experimentation system to get the most out of the materials used in crafting.

To that end, there still is a minigame of resource gathering that involves finding the right resources when they spawn.  There were problems early on because some items, say a flame thrower, required a specific resource type (some odd flavor of copper or iron or something) that didn't spawn often, so some servers took quite a while for flame throwers to appear at all, let alone high end flame throwers.

The right materials could enable you to have some amazing finished goods, like high resistance armor that had a direct impact on how the combat aspect of the game played out.

Then there was the entire pharmaceutical crafting game that affected combat trhough buffs, debuffs, and DOT attacks.

It was very deep and very complex, and very database resource intensive, which is one of the reasons it was nerfed into nothingness in the CU.

Originally posted by Dailus

Ok so apparently I left the game with a damaged barc speeder. This has been years ago. Since there is no decay theres no "repair" option as far as I can see. So am I stuck with a permanately smoking speeder?

 -Dailus

You need to spend about 250k on a vehicle repair kit which you can apply to your BARC (or any of the other "high end" vehicles).  The high end vehicles can't be repaired at the city garage for mere credits.

Some trader on your server probably makes them.  Some specific space minerals are needed for it which can only be obtained by mining by hand in space, so they're a bit on the spendy side.  Try a vendor search for "vehicle repair kits" and see what comes up.

Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by SioBabble

Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by sepher

Then there's the increased Earned Income Credit which should go into effect Obama's first year as well

Earned Income Credit is welfare, simply put.

It goes to those who pay no taxes and they get a check back from the government.

 

The Earned Income Credit was instituted by Ronald Reagan.

And your point is what? Just because Reagan instituted it does not mean it is welfare. I really don't get your point.

Well, either Ronald Reagan was expanding welfare, or perhaps your understanding of tax policy is deficient.

Because, after all, everything Ronald Reagan did was wonderful, right?  I mean, that is the reason he's worshipped by "conservatives", right?

Originally posted by Faxxer

Originally posted by Sabiancym

Mccain is best friends with George W. Bush.  The most successful terrorist in the world.

 

/fail

 

full of it.

The truth hurts you so much, doesn't it?

Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by sepher

Then there's the increased Earned Income Credit which should go into effect Obama's first year as well

Earned Income Credit is welfare, simply put.

It goes to those who pay no taxes and they get a check back from the government.

The Earned Income Credit was instituted by Ronald Reagan.

Originally posted by Fishermage

 

He will be shown for being too much of a croneyist. In the end, Iraq will have turned out to be a very good move. Those who can't see the global strategy don't understand, but in decades it will be seen.

Oh, yes.  The invasion of Iraq was a brilliant move, just like the invasion of Poland in 1939 was.

Originally posted by Suvroc

Originally posted by Obraik

On the RMT thing, a few years back, LA mentioned in an interview that they'd like to feature RMT in their next Star Wars MMO.

 

Which is definitly my biggest concern regarding TOR. I sincerly hope Bioware stays far away from this, but something tells me not to hold my breath.

 

I have no doubt that the Ferengi infested outfit that is LEC will be into RMT big time.

Money is the ONLY thing they love.

Ron Paul: the Lyndon LaRouche of the early 21st century.

The deserting warmongering coward deserves not one iota of respect.

He is the most incompetent President in the history of the United States of America.  He makes Harding look not so bad.  His criminality makes Richard Nixon look like a model citizen. His vacuousness makes Ronald Reagan look like a Nobel laureate.

The only example he sets is the worst one imaginable.

Good riddance to rancid rubbish.

Originally posted by Cabe2323

Originally posted by Laserwolf

I tried and failed to get interested in College Football 3 seasons in a row. If it gets a playoff system then I'm in.

 

I hope he does try and push college football more into a playoff.  This current system is so broken and corrupt it is ridiculous. 

It's corrupt on purpose.

The bowl system is all about making money for the bowl promoters.  The BCS system is basically a ratification of that mindset.

In the US, EVERYTHING AT ALL TIMES IS ABOUT THE MONEY.