Shatzer - If you're not dead, got a question for ya:

I've been going through your Battletech cards to get them ready for auction. Hell of a nice collection, BTW.

Are you sure this is everything? I think you may have a binder or two still in hiding.

I don't have any Inner Sphere Mechs from A-G.
The Command: Resource cards appear to be missing T-Z.

Thanks...

Yep.

well today

is there still a drow game thursday

*yawn* temporary sanity... of course, i get to work until 11pm now.

uh

Im not gonna be able to make it at all, i need to work 3rd and i need a nap.

Yeah... that'd be today now. Dustin...? Shatzer...?

Im gonna need to leave early tonight from the movie thing.

So. Anything happening tomorrow?

you guys suck, no posts for 3 days... you guys suck.

Pretty likely that I won't be at movies for the next two weeks. Can spare a single night for game, but that's all. Moving and papers and exams, oh my.

OK. So then see ya drow next week. And then kill the dead the week after that.

You suck, Dustin.



I guess no game today.

Son of a...... I miss the last day of coh, Jeremy, can i bring my machine over to your place after 8 pm, or at 8 am?

Well guys, Dustin tell me he won't make it tommorow night until about 8 at least. So you have a decision to make. Either the three of you face off against the undead horde (and one of you is suddenly on his own, since you'd split up), or we wait until Dustin shows and hold a short session. Or we table it for another two weeks. I'm not really pleased with any of these options, although I can make any of them work, so I'm leaving it up to the players.

Besides, with tommorow being the last day of CoH beta, I couldn't make an impartial judgement.

dusty ill buy your ticket you can just pay me back.there 16 bucks

Larry-- yes, im interested, the question is, can i afford it, probibly not.

dustin..arch enemy is playing next month,i just wanted to know if you are interested

FLEABAY RULES!

Well, since Caronline and Dustin both won't be making it to the movies tomorrow, I'm going to go ahead and call off. I'm falling way behind on my E-bay stuff anyway... be a good day to catch up.

Jeremy--Since when is the phone a taboo communication method? :)

Dustin? Girl? Nah, extremely unlikely, unless you count talking to a CK waitress as "doing something with a girl".

I suppose I might have to break down and actually call his house. That's so against protocol.

I mean... I even left him an e-mail to his City of Heroes character. Nothin'.

I wonder if he's out like... doin'... stuff. Like... with a... girl, or... something...

John--You know that from experience, eh? ;)

Jeremy--No movies for me this week. Need to spend more time on a paper.

Butt + Monkey = Dustin :)

Dustin can read? Heh..........

Jeremy--No idea.

Everyone--You know you need a Cthulhu Fhtagn Teddy Bear.

Does Dustin even bother to read the blog anymore?

What is this, "Good news, Bad news Day"?

Dustin--I can definitely make the next session (April 29), and probably the one after that too (May 13). No promises about the two sessions after that (May 27th and June 10th). I counted weeks wrong... *snickersigh*

Hey Dustin- You know how you haven't used your SWG account for a while?

You know that 60 day SWG card you bought, that expired some three weeks ago?

Yer account is kinda' dead at the moment. Heh.

No grindage for the Jeremy.

::singing::
...come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me...

Thrusday is almost over, ROCK ON!

Caroline - Death after L4 is an XP penalty, I think.

::singing::
...Mammasay mammasaw mamakusaw Mammasay mammasaw mamakusaw...

It is Thursday, ROCK ON!

Jeremy--So what are the char death penalties? Sounds like City of Heroes or Star Wars Galaxies should license out the details for their char appearance system... Bah. Racial limitations on classes, especially when there are only two classes, are stupid. What the games calls "dwarven females" are halflings, or maybe gnomes. They shoulda done some extra programming to create "little anime boys" aka male counterparts, and create a real female dwarf.

Dustin--Aww... and the group was so looking forward to getting random discounts at CK... ^_^ Hey, you'll have money. Does personal bidet service pay well? ;)

Hey Jeremy I think I counld get some of that XP if I had to u know the
rouge thing (sneak sneak).
hey dusty could I have the dagger of siecen like this first make it a rapier+1 4 times a day instead of a dagger ?

all-- as of monday, im gonna be a part time professional ass-wiper, yeah im employed.

Jeremy - NVM found the site and the link. the screenshots of the game look really good.

Jeremy _ Got a link for that lineage beta signup? i would like to take a look at the game...

Jeremy--Hey I would like to try Lineage out. And I'll be sure to avoid Grokknock in the spawn area. It sounds like a world in which Grodnick would like to be resurrected :)

Lineage. S'ok. S'also kinda' amusing. Grokknock the Orc Warrior levels up to L3 in the noob spawn area working on the Tutorial. Then I walk back to the are where da' Noobs spawn in. I wonder if it's possible to attack another player...

I walk up to a freshly-spawned character, yell "Grokknock angry! Graargh!" and beat the poor bastard down.
No PvP restrictions in the Tutorial area. Brilliant.

I'm already dissapointed. Humans, Elves, Dark Elves, Orcs, and Dwarves are what you have to chose from. Each race has a male and a female base avatar. Each character has the choice of exactly two hair colors, two faces, and four hairstyles. Giving you a grand total of 16 freakin' variants.

You have two options- fighter or magic user. And to make it even more of a pisser, Dwarves don't even have the option to go Magic. "Warrior Type." That's all. So no Stumpwater Jack...


Dwarf males are old, bearded, gruff warriors. Dwarf Females look like 13-year old Anime girls with pigtails. Just thinking about that is illegal in 37 states.

Edited because Dustin clarified that only the axe was magical.

[IC] *cursorily inspects the weapons*
I *disdainful sniff* prefer to rely on the gifts from Lolth and my house.
But if you wish to trust tainted weapons, I won't deign to judge you. *sugary-sweet smile*.
I believe I can ask Lolth to help remove the *sneer* "elven taint" from those weapons, but she will almost certainly require a donation of appropriate value in return for that assistance. [/IC]

BTW- I signed up for a Betatest account for Lineage II using both my Yahoo and Definitiveedge e-mail addresses. And both of 'em were accepted.

If anyone might be interested in trying Lineage, I have an extra key...

Loot-- 300xp...

I'll take this. You can all fight over the rest.

Bloggerific!

Loot-- 300xp, 1\2 of a deer curently smoking, 4 water skins 2 of em filled with wine and 2 with water, there were 8 mighty composit long bows +2, 8 mundane longswords, 1 +1 great axe.

I am blogitastic.

I really hope to make it to tonight's shindig. I have had the worst (I'm not kidding) month of my professional and personal life ever! I think that it may be behind me (knocking furiously on wood), and really would like the chance to sit and veg out on some anime.

Jeremy--Hey homey did you get your system up and running?

John--School goes. One paper down, one draft to go. *yawn* Apple hardware, software or both? You coming to Bebop? *pesters*

Jeremy--Sounds like major monitor weirdness.

Wayne--And a Happy "Jewish Zombie Exits Cave" Day to you too. Not sure we had any xp for last session, beyond the raise to 2nd level.

Dustin-- Did we? *forgetful*

Yes. We remember how to blog but Blogging will only happen once in a full moon.........

Holy crap people are blogging!

Shatz- Yeah, thanks. Don't know what the hell happened, but for some reason once the screen-saver kicked on, the Brightness/Contrast settings in the Color Configuration setup actually started working. They were both pushed over to 100%. System would re-boot, sit there nicely, but as soon as you'd hit a key or touch the mouse, it would go bright again.

If you looked at the screen at an extreme angle, you could just make out the icons, and I re-set the brightness/contrast settings back to something normal. Fixed the problem. Rebooted, everything seemed fine. Then it did it again some half-hour later- had to go back in and re-adjust the brightness settings...

hail, All.


Dusty- Not to get away from that every time consuming SWG, I was wondering what xp are you awarding for your last session? I need to keep my character up to date.


John- Congratz on getting certified for Apple, agian.

Everyone else - Hopefully you had a good Easter and cya at the game on thursday......

yeah I'm apple certified again...... at least for the next 364 days and counting. Blah!

Jeremy--You get your mom squared away yesterday? Let me know.

Dustin--You suck monkey butt!

Caroline--Hola. How goes school.

Wags--See above entry for Dustin.

The rest of you be buggered.

Well that about does it!

Bah who needs commandos when you have Rancors! Well actually it will be awesome. Critters will "tank" for Matt while he burninates our enemies!

I am, in fact, quite down with doing the Corvette. Though it might need to wait for the weekend so that I have the best possible connection. (Friday nights and Saturday in particular.)

Edit: I am now also a Wookie with a sweetly sliced Launcher Pistol, a pair of sliced Acid Rifles, another Flamethrower, and a 33-pack of Particle Beam Cannons. Guildies rock.

Wookies with flamethrowers... Reminds me of Burning Monkey Solitaire :D

Cool. A wookie Commando. And just in time to run the new Corellian Corvette.

I'm not sure, but we MAY be possible to run the mission multiple times (once per group leader.) Which means it may be possible to run all three "variants" of the missions- Rebel, Imp, and Neutral.

*Sniff Sniff * I smell burnt fur=)

I am now a Wookie with a flamethrower.

Woohoooooo!

Larry-- check ebay

does anyone know if beanie babies are still worth anything,i think my syster still has the original princess one

i killed them all.

(of course, mine would be purple, not pink. silly hello kitty handguns)

Wow no one is blogging!

wahoo I win!

:)

I hope that everyone is having a nice Friday morning. Mine kind of sucks :(

CAN YOU BE A FREAKIN' HAIRDRESSER IN ANY OTHER GAME? NO, THAT IS WHY STAR WARS GALAXIES RULEZ THE MOTHER FUCKIN' HIZNOUZE.

::Shakes head:: I can't top that one...

Point- Shatzer. :)

Oh yeah I'm putting an end to this whole MMORPG discussion!

CAN YOU BE A FREAKIN' HAIRDRESSER IN ANY OTHER GAME? NO, THAT IS WHY STAR WARS GALAXIES RULEZ THE MOTHER FUCKIN' HIZNOUZE.

Okay I'm done now :-P

Jeremy--Playstation 2? Hrmn ::Digs thru stuff:: I think I may have something like that around here somewhere. Oh yeah under all that dust :) I really must finish Boomstick!

" I want more in my online game."

You want a chat-room with pretty pictures. Like AOL, but with green chicks in fleshwraps...
Mmmn... Oola... :)


"Well at lest in Swg, when I come against a rule that I didn't know, I don't get bitched at for five fucking minutes. You know you have a problem, when just about every form of entertainment you have pisses you off."

As I've said before- when you start that DM powertripping shit specifically to fuck with players you don't like, and get completely blatant with it (which you do) I'm gonna' ride your ass about it. Don't take it too personally. So far, me being a total dick about a few stupid little inconsistancies with the book has just been convienient. ;)


Oh, BTW... I finally hoked up the Playstation to try out Drakengard. It's sweet as hell. It's basically Dynasty Warriors 2 combined with Panzer Dragoon. You either run around on the ground killing bad-guys, or fly around on the dragon in arial missions versus airships and stuff. You can also fly the dragon around on the "ground" missions, and burninate people by the hundreds. Muaahaha...

Caroline--This system cuts down on a lot of power gamers, not all but most. This comes from a ton of ex-Everquest players, not me, that are in my guild. System is brilliant in it's simplistic nature. Now if they would just do away with the broken ass TKMs........ By the way how many online games like this have you played? Being a mac user and all :-P

Dustin--Yes I have the books. You are playing a TKM, master doc, Imperial. They think you are one of them! Go reb find a nice guild and have a good time. Also try something else with Darsh, you don't have to be a doc or TKM forever! It really is fun to try other things, trust me.

shatz-- Do you still have a set of books for paranoia, and/or all flesh must be eaten.

Well at lest in Swg, when I come against a rule that I didn't know, I don't get bitched at for five fucking minutes. You know you have a problem, when just about every form of entertainment you have pisses you off.

The only reason I still play swg, is the interaction with other characters, the game would not be half as fun, if my imperial zarbrak wasn't good hunting buddy's with lok, an entire wookie only rebel guild.

I understand that perspective of friendship. I just disagree that levelling has to be removed to get that friendship.

I look at my Star Wars character the same way I look at my old pencil and paper characters. I've had to give up my Bounty hunter stuff to get pistoleer, which means the weapons I use have changed. So what? I have built a reputation and friendships with the other characters on the server that makes the game fun. I can't walk thru a starport without bumping into a guildmate, or someone that I've hunted with. And of course they want to chat with old troggie! This is the fun part of the game to me, not what I can or can't kill and with what I do it with. Plus soon I'll be able to open my salon where I can do hair and nails and sell my latest strapless gown design! I guess if you really need to be a 60th level sorcerer that can go to the dungeon of big greenie meenies so be it. I want more in my online game.

Of course this all being said I'm all over the Worlds of Warcraft beta!

I understand that there's a game balance problem between high-level and low-level characters. However, removing the level advancement system after a certain point does not fix this problem.

The problem of high-level characters helping or not helping newbies is a matter of player attitudes, not a problem with game mechanics.

The main solution I can think of is difficulty zones or levels. If a new character goes to a high level or a difficult place, they get killed. If a medium or high level character goes there, they get XP.

Larry- Leons.

Ask Jeremy how much fun it is to be either too high or too low a level to find groups to "adventure" with.

Indeed. A critcal flaw in the Final Fantasy Online system. Parties are REQUIRED beyond level 10 or so (if you want any hope at all of actually getting anywhere.) Except the way the XP system is laid out, all characters receive a percentage of the XP total based on the level of the HIGHEST player. (Not a party average.)

A L2 Black Mage (ranged offensive spells) and his L6 Fighter buddy team up on an enemy, they'll get a little less than half the HP as if both characters were L6.

In addition, if ANY member of the party is more than 2 levels from the "party average" the entire party suffers severe XP penalties. (A "level 10" party can consist of L8-L12 characters- +/- 2, and be an efficient fighting machine. The second that L12 characters levels to L13, XP begins to suck again, until the L8 character catches up...)

This was done to prevent a 70th level White Mage from "power-leveling" a new character by powerboosting it with defensive/healing spells, and letting them go buck-wild on creatures far higher than they should be able to solo. (However, this still doesn't work, because the 70th level White Mage can STILL assist the noob- by following them around UNGROUPED and casting the same spells. It's stupid...)


That still doesn't change the fact that my SWG character has progressed as far as it can, and the only way to "continue" with the character is ripping it back to Noobie-level and starting over.

whose game is tomm or thursday?

Caroline--Yes and every other game out there has High level characters that couldn't give a damn about new players. Galaxies is the only game that prevents that from happening. Ask Jeremy how much fun it is to be either too high or too low a level to find groups to "adventure" with.

John--Star Wars Galaxies does not have a reasonable experience-based leveling system. Once you hit the max number of skills and profession levels, you can't do anything else to improve your character without paying for it or making it yourself (which usually requires paying for materials). When you consider the level limit and how much nerfing the classes have gotten, the game seems irrelevant. Although it is very pretty and induces fangirlism. The socialization aspect isn't bad, but every single other rpg system i can think of allows guilds and has levels.

Jeremy--Have you read the amber novels and/or the amber diceless system corebooks? I've got a friend who's willing to give you a thorough opinion of the system, but he needs to know what you know first.

shatz-- Do you still have a set of books for paranoia, and/or all flesh must be eaten, I would like to try and run either or both of theses systems. t

Shatz- I might be. Depends on what a Master CH/BH is worth on the open market. If it doesn't sell for enough, I'm going to continue with my hologrind.

I'm at a position now where I'm going to have to basically rip the character apart if I want to continue leveling.

Jeremy--No more Atropos? Are you quitting Galaxies?

I've yet to be really impressed with CoH. It's cute and all... but... well...

Okay, have you seen Lineage 2 yet? =D

I'm probably going to play my CoH Beta, and sell my copy to someone at Erics. (Or Dustin. He's gonna' need a copy. Het Dustin!)

I will still be putting my SWG character on the auction block. He sells, assuming I can get enough for him to at least cover the cost of the game itself. If I feel the need to, I'll buy another copy and start from scratch.

Stargate sg-1 is kick ass kool Jeremy I got it it is the best I will bring it to the game

Poor Jeremy. I guess you don't get sucked into the black hole of CoH for a little while yet.

*makes face at time* i don wanna go to class... *whines*

Actually, forget that classwhining part. I just don't want to be awake. *grumblesigh*

CoH's play servers are down till Wednesday. April 7th is the day they said everyone is gonna' get in anyway.

I feel cheated, somehow...

Bastard!

Woot! Finally, accepted for the CoH Beta!

Jeremy--Fear the Wicker Wookie, he will crush you!

i'm the killer of all in daves world on battle net

John- I'm still 120k from Master CH. But I don't look like a walking wicker basket. :)

Casshern trailer

Go. Watch. Marvel at the prettiness. Who else wants to go on opening night? *gleeful* But who knows when that'll be... or if it'll even come out in theatres here...

Jeremy--Any chance of digging up some of the anime episodes the movies based on? They're apparently from the 70s...

All--If anyone else feels like trying, go right ahead. I have bandwidth quotas and limited HD space.

Oh yeah. ARMOR ROCKS!

Dustin--Huh good to know :) So how is COH?

Jeremy--I'm an armor wearing CH master wookie now! Da bomb diggity am I.

matt--yes, that is all u need to do, and also, atropos needs a vender, it is a totaly seperate thing though.

John-- yes i would be offended

Dustin--Would you be offended if I named my 2 toothed hill jack Grand Mauler "Darsh's_Kin"

You want me to just pop a house in and drop an access fee in, then?

I dont need a venbdor.

You just need Buisness III for a vendor, actually. :D Though I'll have to go some merchant for the map advertisements. I'll check, I may be able to just set a simple vendor in the shack, then, and I can certainly do the access fee.

Larry-- I think you have a verry sound buisness proposial, you need to start looking for funding, and i think youll make tons of cash.