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• • Classic-> NGE-> CU/RB

  •  If SOE  would've started off with the Classic SWG game then made the transition to the NGE and then ultimately ended up with the CU/RB... how would that have impacted the game? 

    Or, for the sake of a grand 'what if' scenario... what if the order were NGE-CU-Classic?  Where would we be today?

    I'n this scenario, we would keep expansions in place as well as 'content' that has rolled out for the game.

     

  • Posted: 5/12/08 3:10 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • It Wasn't The NGE That Ruined SWG!

  • The chicken or the egg?

    The NGE was a massive step in the wrong direction for SWG.  It caused people to leave.  It may not be the snow that crushed the village, but it is the cause of the avalanche.

     

     

     

  • Posted: 5/12/08 2:58 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • LOL @ SWG community

  • It's as if they feel that they need to make some type of broad-sweeping change... something that is easily noticed by their customers. 

    The point of any change in SWG is typically not 'to fix' anything in particular. 

    Often, the point of change in SWG is simply for the sake of change itself.

    If they make small adjustments to the game, they are afraid that nobody will notice them.

     

     

  • Posted: 5/12/08 1:53 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Conan1, Conan1972, Conandude...Please don't do this!

  • What about names like:

    Boobalicious

    Boobdude

    Boobsnblood

    Doublebreasted

    gotboob

    ncseventeen

    conanobrien

    aoconan

    ageofc

    lastactionconan

    Breastever

    Coolnan

    Coldnan

    Arny

    Conandoinator

    t1000

    sarahconorconan

    runningman

    gettothachoppa

    cumwitm3ifuwannaliv

    eyellbebak

    ...

    I'm sure there wil be a ton of them.  Hopefully you can kill them enough times to make them quit the game.

     

     

     

  • Posted: 5/09/08 12:18 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Totally Wireless Computing.

  • I don't game wirelessly... but if I did go back to it, I would make sure that all of my wireless devices were 2.4GHz. 

    You'll find several wireless mouse products that have 'hot -swappable' battery packs. 

    As far as receivers go, you can go with something the size of a very small thumb drive or the typical usb cable that allows you to put a receiver on your desktop with LOS to your products (not required with 2.4GHz, but 'safer').

    Logitech makes quite a few 2.4GHz mouse products.  I know other companies make them, but Logitech makes some of the best. 

    I would go lazered for sure.  No matter what mouse product you get.

    And for the keyboard portion... there are 2.4GHz solutions out there.  There are even 2.4GHz BlueTooth products out there.  While I'm not a huge fan of BlueTooth myself, they are out there.  Microsoft makes a few products in this line-up and so does Logitech.  Get a keyboard that docks, if possible. 

    If you want to stay cabled:

    For me, I don't like a bulky mouse, but the Microsoft Sidewinder mouse has some great features (other than form factor, imho).  The optional weights, on the fly DPI switch function, and something as simple as the cable anchor make this a very cool product.  (The cabe anchor:  run your mouse cable through giving yourself enough cable on the moue-end to have full range of movement, the anchor holds the moue cable in place from there, as opposed to gravity pulling on the slack that normally would be hanging off of your desk/surface and dragging your mouse or creating additional resistance when you try to move it). (sorry for run-on sentence from hell there)

    I'm a big fan of the Razer mouse products for comfort/feel, though. I own 3 of them atm.  Going back to a standard design mouse from the slim and trim Razer stuff... it's tough.  Feels like going from a sports car to an SUV. 

    ...

    Wireless displays:

    You could go with a wireles projector... or a projector, period.  The signal throughput is improving on the wireless products.  Resolutions are moving north on the wired projectors.  But if the goal is simply to have your display (display surface) at a more distant reach from you... a projector would be the way to go, imho. 

    With DisplayPort monitors shipping, I'm still going to stick with a flat-panel/LCD monitor.  LCD quality continues to get better, though they still haven't reached CRT in true representation of 'black' (instead of the inky color you normally see). 

    Wireless... POWER:

    It's coming.  Tesla did it long ago.  MIT has done it recently.  We already use variations of it.  But, it's coming.  You'll see it in laptops and other items very soon.

     

  • Posted: 5/09/08 11:56 AM
    General Discussion