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Maine Case Shows Both Sides of '94 Gun Law
By FOX BUTTERFIELD
Published: December 14, 1996
BANGOR, Me.— When David A. Godfrey walked into the Wise Trading Company in Bangor last September to buy a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol, he filled out the forms required to run a background check under the Brady gun control law. When nothing conclusive turned up after the five-day waiting period, he was permitted to buy the gun.
But a few weeks later, officials in Charleston, S.C., notified the Maine state police that Mr. Godfrey was wanted there on charges of murdering his first wife in 1974.
Mr. Godfrey, a 42-year-old long-distance truck driver, was quickly lured to a Burger King restaurant in Bangor and arrested by a state police officer and an agent of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He has since been extradited to South Carolina, where he awaits trial in Charleston.
Mr. Godfrey's case illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses of the two-year-old Brady law, which is alternately portrayed as an important new tool for law enforcement and a burdensome infringement on would-be gun purchasers and the local authorities, who are required to conduct the background checks.
On the one hand, since the law went into effect in February 1994, the authorities doing background checks on people trying to buy guns have identified more than 103,000 individuals with questionable backgrounds, including 72,000 convicted felons as well as illegal aliens, drug abusers and people found to be mentally ill. The checks have also turned up more than 11,000 fugitives like Mr. Godfrey, according to statistics gathered by the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence.
But the background checks are only as reliable as the records kept by the Federal and state authorities. And the Federal computerized criminal information and retrieval system, as well of state and local criminal records, have huge gaps. Because of this flaw, Mr. Godfrey, after the five-day waiting period, was able to buy a gun even though he was wanted for murder.
''People think from television and the movies that the police have these incredible databases, but there are a lot of holes in the system,'' said Police Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske of Buffalo, the president of the Police Executive Research Forum, an organization of police officials that does research on policing.
The Brady law is named for James S. Brady, the former White House press secretary who was gravely wounded in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Under the Brady law, law-enforcement officials have five days to search the background of a potential gun buyer. The sale cannot go forward if the prospective gun owner is a convicted felon, a fugitive from justice, an illegal alien, a drug abuser, or has been dishonorably discharged from the military or found mentally incompetent.
But police officers across the country have found it difficult to conduct a thorough background check because no state has computerized all its criminal records. Indeed, the main computerized source that law-enforcement officials rely on in their Brady searches -- the National Crime Information Center, a series of data bases kept by the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- contains only a fraction of criminal histories from the 50 states. Local police departments cannot even be sure that the criminal histories they do find in the F.B.I.'s system are complete.
Two states -- Maine and New Mexico -- have none of their own records computerized. As a result, the Maine State Bureau of Identification, a branch of the state police, ''still sorts records by hand, the same way we did it in the 1930's,'' said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the Maine state police.
Lenny Wescott, a retired Maine state police officer who is now an investigator for the Penobscot County District Attorney, said that often when he does a record search in the F.B.I. computer system, he finds only partial or confusing data from other states.
''The information may alert you a guy had a problem, some prior arrests,'' Mr. Wescott said. ''But it doesn't tell you whether he was convicted,'' he added, ''and then you've got to use a little ingenuity'' to contact the state authorities where the arrests took place.
''Sometimes, because I am a retired state police officer, I can get them to give it to me informally,'' Mr. Wescott said. But one state never answered his request, he said, and some states make it so difficult to obtain a reply that ''it is just a waste of time.''
Congress recognized this problem when it passed the Brady bill in November 1993 and granted money to the states to improve their computerized systems. Much improvement has been made since the Brady law went into effect, when only 18 percent of all criminal records in the country were computerized and accurate, said Kent Marcus, a Justice Department spokesman. Now all states except Maine and New Mexico are on line with the F.B.I. with at least part of their files, he said.
Among the most improved states are Indiana, North Dakota, Virginia and Washington, Mr. Marcus said, with New York also progressing.


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Fuck HR.
Well, hey, when I was a young lad not long out of college, that's exactly what I did to the VP of HR one night. I still have fond memories...
And this interviewee doesn't seem to understand how Internet routing works.
But it's a university with two class Bs... Don't you get it? They're fucking PRO there in Israel. (pardon my french). Don't bother with that BGP stuff, he obviously doesn't know what it is, nor why Facebook isn't going to bend over backwards to accomodate him.
Did the interviewee not have a speakerphone? He mentions being unable to both type and talk... I think they solved that problem in the 1980's.
The speakerphone would've picked up the "Whaa Whaa Whaa" from the whaaaaambulance on his blog.
Don't get me wrong, but the following passage was telling:
My interview was finally scheduled three weekdays in advance, leaving me in fact one day to prepare, because I've already had plans for the other weekday and the weekend.
Why didn't he prepare in advance? If he knew it was coming any time soon, why not brush up on it in advance? Why wait until the company says "Well, next week" and bitch about having to cancel his plans, which he eventually doesn't do.
So allow me to simply summarize the entire blog in an all too familiar onomatope: Waaaaaaah
It started out like this
Recruiter sitting at his desk with his head in his hands and a half-empty bottle of cheap Scotch nearby, just waiting for the axe to come down. The phone rings. He picks it up to stop the noise and
"Hello, Facebook recruiting. I think you have the wrong number."
"No, I'm looking for a job at Facebook."
"Hey, that's great, my first one since...uhh you do know Facebook already had the IPO, right? I tried not telling people that but the boss got mad."
And it was all downhill from there.
Well then you'll have to log into Facebook while you surf for midget porn. Then you'll get the ads you desire.
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Syrian opposition takes over Syria's seat at Arab summit in diplomatic triumph
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's opposition took over the country's seat for the first time at an Arab summit Tuesday in a diplomatic triumph marred by severe divisions in the ranks of the Western-backed opposition alliance.
The opposition's ascension to representing the country at the summit in Qatar, a key backer of the those fighting to topple President Bashar Assad, demonstrated the extent of the regime's isolation two years into a ferocious civil war that the U.N. says has killed an estimated 70,000 people.
In Damascus, the government on Tuesday blasted the Arab League's decision, portraying it as a selling-out of Arab identity to please Israel and the United States.
"The shameful decisions it (Arab League) has taken against the Syrian people since the beginning of the crisis and until now have sustained our conviction that it has exchanged its Arab identity with a Zionist-American one," said an editorial in the Al-Thawra newspaper, a government mouthpiece.
The Qatari ruler, who chaired the summit, said the Syrian opposition deserves "this representation because of the popular legitimacy they have won at home and the broad support they won abroad and the historic role they have assumed in leading the revolution and preparing for building the new Syria."
In a further show of solidarity with anti-Assad forces, the Arab League endorsed the "right of each state" to provide the Syrian people and the Free Syrian Army with "all necessary means to ... defend themselves, including military means."
It was unclear whether the statement would open new weapons channels to fighters. But it would mark a symbolic slap of the U.S. and European allies that have resisted full-scale military aid to the rebels.
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby told reporters that the call for "rights" to aid rebels is not an end to diplomatic efforts to solve Syria's crisis, but seeks to provide more "balance" with Assad's superior firepower and aid he is getting from Russia and Iran.
"The right to send more weapons to support the opposition is not an end to political efforts, but this might establish balance between both parties," Elaraby said.
Fighting, meanwhile, raged on in Syria. Rebels barraged Damascus with mortar shells that killed at least three people and wounded dozens in one of the most intensive attacks on the seat of President Bashar Assad's power.
The state news agency also reported that a car bomb exploded near the predominantly Kurdish neighbourhood of Rukneddine, killing three people.
The opposition delegation led by Mouaz al-Khatib, the former president of the main opposition alliance — the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition — took the seats assigned for Syria at the invitation of Qatar's emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, while other delegates applauded.
Al-Khatib used the forum to call for a greater U.S. role in aiding the rebels and said he had appealed to Secretary of State John Kerry to consider using NATO Patriot anti-missile batteries in Turkey to help defend northern Syria against strikes by Assad's forces.
Asked about al-Khatib's request for Patriots, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the deployment of the anti-missile batteries to Turkey was a NATO decision with a clear mandate to protect Turkey.
"We've heard some of this before in private," Ventrell told reporters in Washington. "He's now publicly saying this. But again, that's what the NATO mission is."
A NATO official said "the secretary general of NATO has been very clear since the beginning that NATO has no intention of getting militarily involved with Syria. That remains the same."
"Our current deployment of Patriot systems is a defensive action to protect our ally Turkey," said the NATO official in Belgium on condition of anonymity in keeping with the alliance's regulations.
The diplomatic triumph, however, could not conceal the disarray within the top ranks of the opposition and underlined the splits that continue to plague the opposition, complicating U.S. and Western efforts to try to shape the course of the fight to oust Assad.
Besides al-Khatib, the Syrian delegation included Ghassan Hitto, recently elected prime minister of a planned interim government to administer rebel-held areas in Syria, and two prominent opposition figures, George Sabra and Suheir Atassi.
Al-Khatib announced his resignation on Sunday because of what he described as restrictions on his work and frustration with the level of international aid for the opposition. The coalition rejected the resignation and al-Khatib said he would discuss the issue later and represent the opposition at the Qatar summit "in the name of the Syrian people."
Also, Hitto's election as the head of the interim government was rejected by the opposition's military office, which said he was not a consensus figure. Some members have accused Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood of imposing their will on the Coalition.
Atassi briefly suspended her membership in the coalition after Hitto was elected.
Addressing the gathering, al-Khatib thanked the Arab League for granting the seat to the opposition and lamented the inaction of several foreign governments, which he did not name, toward the Syrian crisis despite the suffering of civilians in his country.
"I convey to you the greetings of the orphans, widows, the wounded, the detained and the homeless," al-Khatib told the gathering in an opulent hall in Doha.
Most of the mortar strikes hit the capital's east side, falling near a school in the Baramkeh neighbourhood, the Damascus Hospital, the Law Faculty of Damascus University and the state news agency's own offices.
SANA said one girl and two other civilians were killed.
A government official in Damascus told The Associated Press that four people were killed and 42 wounded. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, and the discrepancy could not immediately be resolved.
Mortar rounds also fell in a number of areas on the city's west side, including the Christian neighbourhood of Bab Touma, SANA said.
The agency published photos of a hole in a wall of what appeared to be a school, medics treating blood-stained patients and firemen extinguishing burning cars.
It was not immediately known who fired the mortar shells. Such attacks in the capital have grown more common in recent weeks as rebels have clashed with government troops on the city's east and south sides. While the shelling rarely causes many casualties, it has shattered the aura of normalcy the regime has tried to cultivate in Damascus.
"They think that that through this tactic they can pressure residents to rise up against authorities," said Fayez Sayegh, a member of parliament and a member of the ruling Baath Party. "But on the contrary, this indiscriminate shelling makes people realize that this opposition is nothing but gangs of criminal terrorists."
Meanwhile, anti-regime activists said Syrian troops seized control of a neighbourhood in the central city of Homs that is considered a symbol of opposition to Assad's regime.
The Syrian military's recapture of Baba Amr, in Homs, while not strategically important in the civil war, is a symbolic blow to the rebels. The poor, predominantly Sunni neighbourhood emerged early in the uprising as a symbol of the rebel movement, first for its protests and later for the armed groups who held it against the regime onslaught.
The seesaw fight for the Homs neighbourhood reflects the back-and-forth nature of Syria's civil war. While rebels appear to be gaining ground, their progress is slow and their fighters remain vulnerable to Assad's military superiority.
In other violence Tuesday, the Observatory said that at least 13 charred bodies, including four children and five women, were found on the outskirts of the village of Abil, southwest of Homs city. It said local activists blamed the killings on pro-government gunmen.
The Syrian government does not respond to requests for comment and did not mention the killing in official media.
Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Brian Murphy in Doha, Ben Hubbard in Beirut, Bradley Klapper in Washington, Tom Wagner in London, and Hamza Hendawi in Cairo contributed to this report.
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The All-India Mahila Samskrutika Sanghatane (AIMSS) expressed shock over media reports about India's refusal to co-opt motion on child, early and forced marriages moved by the United Nation's Human Rights Council.
In a release issued here, AIMSS general secretary H.G. Jayalaxmi said that as per the media reports as many as 107 countries had co-opted the resolution, while India hadn't, which was really shocking.
Studies revealed that the country had a national average of 47 per cent with regard to child marriages.
While 60 million child marriages were reported across the world, India accounted for 40 per cent of them.
At a time when reports about assault and exploitation of women were being reported across the country, the Indian government should have shown a positive stand in fighting them. "However, it is really disappointing that the biggest democratic nation has failed to take a rightful stand on the issue."
AIMSS would urge the Indian government to take a stand in favour of the resolution, she has said in the release.
Adopted on September 27 in New York, the UN motion recognises child marriage as a human rights violation and pledges to eliminate the practice, as part of the its post-2015 global development agenda.
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A new simulation game is scheduled to launch on Wii this Summer, and it's all in the name of science (papa).
Activision today announced Science Papa is heading to Nintendo Wii and DS in July. Using fundamentals from a wide variety of sciences as a base for fun, skill-based experiments, Science Papa sets out to turn living rooms into virtual laboratories that will fuel kids' curiosity.
David Oxford, Activision: "In Science Papa, we are taking real elements of science and allowing players the opportunity to interact with them in safe and creative ways. While the focus here is clearly family fun, the game can stimulate interest and discussion about science.
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Cheap cooking mama cash-in?
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Everyone knows the goal is to get users hooked as young as possible. Schools have small budgets, Adding more Raspberry Pi seats is way cheaper than adding more seats with Microsoft Windows. Microsoft may have a hard time.
True, but like it's a waste of time to teach science before the kids have learned mathematics, it's also the optimal order in IT to teach the theory first.
CS at the level of Knuth is Computer Science. If everybody started with Volume 1 and were slowly introduced to coding via MIX, then it would be Computer Science.
Ain''t gonna happen. Microsoft wants more Keyboarding classes, and sharp young minds who can run through a list of bullet points and agree amiably.
The Brittish education minister Michael Gove called the current ICT curriculum "demotivating and dull" a year ago, BBC reports. "Imagine the dramatic change which could be possible in just a few years, once we remove the roadblock of the existing ICT curriculum. Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word or Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations, Gove said at the BETT conference for ICT in schools.
An extensive report on the failure of teaching boring office administration in schools, was made by Royal Society in 2011, inspiring the UK educational minister to change the whole curriculum. Basically blaming key Microsoft products for the whole mess. Then Microsoft nows tries to salvage the situation.
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Box wasn't the problem. I did the exact same thing but she didn't. She ran a 'test' which I have no idea what it was or what it did to the box to make the picture completely go out.
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Ouch...I've been there before. The first time I made a hefe it did that, but I managed to get by with popping the airlock out for a few minutes to clean it out. My understanding is that at that early in the fermentation, there is enough CO2 in the headspace that oxidation shouldn't be a big concern...at least not in a brief period of time.
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How would you open up this house?
We are happy with the footprint and size of this house, we just want to make the living areas more open. It is an old rambling ranch so no super high ceilings and the ceilings in the dining and living room are 9 ft., We want to open up the kitchen somewhat to both the dining room and library and are toying with making the library the formal dining room because of higher ceilings and a grat view BUT that leaves a lot of space at the back of the house without clear focus. I am confidant/competent with finishes and some kitchen design but furniture placement is not my strength. That makes it harder, I think, to be creative with the floor plan. There are so many awesome design minds on this forum, I was hoping to get some great ideas I would not be able to think of!
I know that how we live matters, but my I think some principals are universal and I would love your knee-jerk reactions!
The garden room is just a room with a skylight. I have faith that a solution can be found that does not require moving the powder room...The library has a large window and a view.
How does the room labeled "garden" work? Is it an indoor atrium? I cannot grasp this architect's design at all as to how the traffic moves and how the seemingly very isolated foyer functions.
The narrow central hall between the garden and kitchen end seems like a bottleneck, nut not understanding the garden rm. at all, I can't suggest any alternatives.
Thanks for your candid reply :) maybe I was unclear, these are the plans from 1962 when the house was built. The architect was using conventions of the area and the era, not all of which I appreciate but many of which I do! This house is 4400 sq. ft. on one level, which we love. We actually love many things about the house but not everything about the areas I posted about. We are going to change some things which is why I posted. It sounds like you think the house is beyond fixing which is certainly fair enough! There are folks who will curse us for changing anything about this house, but oh well.
As far as the foyer, I agree that it is closed off! The architect was a Frank Lloyd Wright disciple and small, dark entries are a FLW thing...we definitely prefer them over grand entries, but I understand that we are in the minority!
Maybe no clarification was needed, but it seemed possible that one would think that this was our proposed blueprint...
It's a little hard to make suggestions without pictures, especially of the garden room, but here are my first impressions:
Right now it's very awkward to get from the front door to the living room ... you walk straight through the foyer, turn left, then immediately right, then go past a large opening into the kitchen before you reach your destination ... all the way on the other side of the house and past informal areas (the kitchen). There's not a lot you can do about the length of the walk, but you can make it more pleasing and less choppy.
Is it possible to open up the garden room and use it as part of the passage? It could be a lovely transition space, especially with plants and a small sitting area. Then you could slide the kitchen to the left into the hallway space, close off the upper entrance opposite the closet and the doorway into the living room, and create a new kitchen entrance from the garden room. This would give you enough room to open up a doorway into the now-library, so you can use it as the dining room if you wish. Get rid of the peninsula in the kitchen and the built-in table and add a family dining table at the window. Enlarge the opening from the dining room into the kitchen. You could also shorten the wall between the living room and the dining room.
You might also consider moving the wall between the living room and dining room (or library) to the left about five feet, so it clears the window, then continuing the wall down to the outside wall at the bottom of the plan, with a wide framed opening between the living room and dining room. This would narrow the living room, but if I'm reading the plans correctly, it's now 25 feet wide, which is pretty wide with only nine-foot ceilings. You would still have a 19x16 living room.
One thing to consider about switching the library and dining room is that the two "public" rooms would be separated from each other, by either the long walk through the garden room and foyer or another through the library (which you may not want to consider public) and kitchen. Party circulation might be an issue.
Great ideas Chibimimi!
The garden room is simply a windowless room with a skylight. It is a bit claustrophobic, actually!
I LOVE your idea of moving the kitchen to the left using the remaining space as a passageway. I really dislike looking at a wall when I walk in the front door. How wide would the passageway need to be to allow for traffic flow AND a seating area? We also have room for a little sitting area against the powder room wall and an entryway table to the right of the door.
Right now we like the idea of removing the wall between living room and dining room and using the dining room as a the dining room. We like the idea of having the kitchen open to the library (maybe a bar higher than the counter with a doorway to the kitchen on the left?) and open somehow to the dining room. I like working in a really open kitchen.
The dining room/living room really screams to be opened up. Neither space feels large at all so our first instinct is not to divide them...
Great ideas!
Some ideas to consider:
If you don't currently use the library, why not convert to the dining room as you originally posted?
My thoughts are to combine the living and dining rooms and make that the new living space.You could open the wall between the current dining space and kitchen. Then to make the LR not so huge, why not create another bedroom by extending the wall from the Garden room to the outside wall, next to the slider. You could also possibly create another bathroom out of part of the garden room if needed. This could be a guest/study or office with entry off the living area if you wanted.
I like the idea of opening the garden room to the entry, you need a minimum of 6' width to create a seating area with a small bench, 8' is better.
Just tossing out some ideas without knowing the rest of the layout or loadbearing walls.


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1. AH closure announcement.....emotion: that shucks.
2. Loot 2.0 and RoS announcement....emotion: excited
3. PTR and beta release....emotion: left out
4. Reading Patch 2.0 and RoS reviews....emotion: unsatisfied
from 1-4, I quit and came back 2 times. and built a barb. played little. Still took advantage of AH while it's still around.
But in the end, RoS doesn't seem positive. It's going to be same old D3 without AH which happened to be a killer for some of older generations who don't have time to grind.
My paypal account is full and may be save up for some Ebay auctioning.
Moral of the story? too much break time between Live D3 and RoS. Beta is beta. Boozor once said he never plays PTR b/c PTR is PTR. It's not worth the effort since it's not real.
PoE is recommended by a lot of people...have not decided on hopping on the train yet though.
go clean teeth and relax dude. just play when you can, or don't. no AH best thing to happen to d3 yet.
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I still play PTR because I don't mind my progress being erased (but there must be a good reason for that of course). Sure I don't grind on PTR lol
Just saying, you play a game mostly for fun.
why is this good?
don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those omg they changed it now it suxxxx i'm leaving blizzard i h8 u forever anyone who thinks otherwise is a casual sheep am i cool no xD tantrum kids or anything... but I'm not happy about AH going away. I'm still getting RoS. I get that this is a game and although there are some things I don't particularly like and would prefer to be different; e.g. stats, skillpoints a-l-a d2lod, but I'm still finding the game enjoyable overall despite all of these little particularities.
Please note I'm not implying you're a fanboy or a shill or anything for supporting the change either, I'm really just curious about the rationale behind why removing AH is a good thing.
I like it because; I don't have a lot of time to play/grind; I'm an adult. I have a job, I have social commitments. I don't feel particularly sorry for myself or as if I am somehow being wronged in not being to get l33t l00tz because of having less time to grind. That's life and I'm fine with the fact that I have more pressing commitments than Diablo. I still like videogames, I did when I was younger, and I still enjoy them today. AH gave me the chance to get the cool and powerful items through trading acumen as opposed to raw time investment which I believe is fair. I don't give a crap about the whole "buying your way to the top" because frankly I want to play the game to get the cool stuff because I enjoy playing the game; I don't even want to be 'carried' to get an HF ring and have been holding off on the numerous available carries to get one until I can gear up and refine my build to the point that I can fight the ubers myself; not necessarily collecting all the machines and doing all the runs solo; but getting to a point where I can be a contributing member of a group that fights ubers on MP10.
so AH going away is a bad thing for me. It doesn't ruin the game for me, but I'm not happy about it.
why are you for removing the AH? I don't mean this argumentatively or combatatively; I'm genuinely curious about the position because I do not understand it at all. I'm against people who are reacting immaturely in response to the petition (look at all the whining in general; I think those are jackasses), but I don't get the rationale behind the change.
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I've been around long enough and lurking enough to say that stop entertaining yoda by replying to these threads of his. If he's on 3/25, great; if he's not, oh well. At this point, it's almost like attention seeking...
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The AH was meant to be a "Safe" way to trade (i.e. buy). In D2 there was a ton of scamming, mostly involving buying things on ebay, etc (from what I understand). The AH certainly corrected that. It was also meant to be a place that you went to in order to buy 1 or 2 items in order to fill out your set from items that you had found in game.
Well, that's not how it worked out. Everybody posted everything on the AH...and, considering how many items drop for everybody across the server, it would be full of GG items in a day with good drop rates. So, drop rates (or at least the rate of dropping items with good rolls) were adjusted to what you see today so that there is a balance supply and demand of items available on the AH. Also, most people eventually filled out their entire gearset from the AH...and that wasn't good for the game.
But, shopping for your gear on the AH is not rewarding. People want to get drops of items from monsters. People want to farm the game, not the AH and third-party gold sites. So, that's why in ROS there is no AH and all items are now BOA......you must find all your items from drops...and the only trading that can occur is with the people that you were playing in game with (i.e. to prevent people from selling/trading items for $ and eliminate botting). At least, that's my general view of the evolution of the AH and where we are today.
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Edit: I'll crosspost what I wrote in Wayne's thread here because it applies
It's a game for heaven's sake. Play it when you feel like it, don't when you don't...that simple.
Stuff like "quitting" and "burning bridges" just doesn't compute.
This is another reason why getting rid of AH3 is a good thing, so people can see the game for merely what it is- a GAME. Not something that they either have to invest in or liquidate.
Edited by silverfire#1855 on 1/27/2014 9:52 AM PST
Ty piehole...
I guess i understand that.
Yeah i played D2/lod and relied on found for the most part since trade was such a cluster-!@#$ for lack of a better term. I liked ah since there was viable trade now without the spamming / viruses / goatse. And i need trade now bc i cant grind like i did back then (time)
Dont agree with the rationale for removal but i suppose i understand the position now
I guess if they 'fix' drop rates then things could be fine; i'm just skeptical about them finding a good droprate that makes higher mp possible for casuals that doesnt ruin the game for grinders or vice versa. Oh well; we'll see
Edited by Larry#1370 on 1/27/2014 10:05 AM PST
You are right. Good point! but I also wanted to put the same post from the barb forum except share my point of view.
another good point.
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We all have ways we like to express ourselves in the wizard forums. At the end of the day, as repetitive as Yoda's "goodbye" posts are, they each and every one of them spark discussions, banter, and camaraderie. It's better than a silent forum. I also go back and forth on this opinion like all the time lol.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm one of the people that is going to suffer with this model. I can only play 1-2 hours a day due to RL. Family, kids, etc. I'm certainly going to be left in the dust, so to speak, by other gg forums members who have the availability to play more.
Actually, you are going to be alot better off in ROS. Let's be honest here, Larry, even with the AH your gear is......lacking....compared to me...and other people have much better gear that I.
Both of us are going to be behind whether there's an AH or not. Even is somebody gave me $10,000 to make the best wiz on the planet I could not do it. I don't have the time to source the best-of-the-best gear on d3up, or diablofans, or the blizz trade forum, or that chinese trading site, or friends of friends of friends. How is ROS going to be different? Those that have the time, instead of playing trade and AH, will farm, farm, farm now to get ahead. And they'll still be ahead of us. Thing is, you can FIND gear now that will allow you to play at T1 and maybe T2 with a modest investment of time. Who knows if either of us will even play T6 (lilke I do MP10)....but at least in ROS I'll have the same chance as everybody to drop GG gear as everybody else....whereas now it takes a ton of time/money.
I'm not sure where I was going with all of that...but, it went somewhere. Lol.
TL;DR in ROS people with more time will get ahead....just like they do no. However, ROS seems to close that gap somewhat by providing drops that you can actually use.
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Edited by PieHole#1628 on 1/27/2014 10:14 AM PST
Here's an example of why there's no AH. I am using a Blind Faith helm on the PTR. It has a 22% chance to blind. It is by no means OP but it does help out with crowd control and the blind effect happens frequently enough to be useful. You can't permablind or anything like that with it. It is useful by itself but...
Promise of Glory gives you a 5% chance to spawn a neph glory globe whenever you blind an enemy. I really really really want a Promise of Glory. Who wouldn't want more neph glory globes? If I could just punch up the AH and snag one with int, CC and vit...what reason do I have to play? I want to play as much as possible because sooner or later I'll find the bracer that I want. It might not have the stats that I want or the stats might not be high enough for my liking so I still gotta farm and look for a better one even after I get my first one.
For the casual player, the first Promise of Glory / Blind Faith combo might be enough for them to have fun and play with friends. To the hardcore (not necessarily hardcore mode, you know what I mean) player, you just see your first set as stepping stones. You think, "I need more armor on this bracer", "This helm would be better with a skill bonus instead of vit," and so on.
AH took the fun out of the game for me
upgrade this upgrade that chase chase chase blah blah
rather just rely on drops, if they come they come, if not, they don't. even better the drops are limited to the people in my party, gives me a good reason to find a group of people to game with again.
this change is best for the social aspect of this game. dont have more than an hour to play a day? find some friends that you can jump in with quick! oh whats that? wizard forum has a mumble where people play together at night? i guess more people will be joining that server to make sure we all have people we can grind together with and share our drops with!
yes, AH3 was a horrible idea for the diablo franchise. we all watched vanilla crash and burn (it did. eff vanilla, i had fun, but the fun im having is NOW since i dont really mess with AH at all except to sell my gg gear and buy decent set pieces to prep my chars for RoS-- sidenote, notice the wiz set is only set for all my chars im not using. tal rasha's sucks no matter what lol).
Well, the original intention was to make a place for people to safely trade. And it did.
But it was a huge fail after that for a variety of reasons. I think in a perfect world it would be great....but it became something very different when people started to take advantage of it....as people always do.
I wish that there was a better way to post an item for trade....with what'd you like in return. i.e.
--- I have 3 CC Mempo with 180 INT and 75 AR
--- looking for OS Chant Will with 1140 to 1160 DPS and 0.23 to 0.24 AS.
...and if someone happens to have just that type of Chant Will....then you click 'trade'
I think the infrastructure for the AH could be reworked for something like this....however....that still leaves you scouring the AH looking for the best "deal". I mean, you're gonna put your 1150 DPS/0.23 Chant Will into the AH and someone is "accidentally" going to post a 6 CC Mempo...not knowing its value. You just "won" the AH. Now, rinse/repeat for the other 12 pieces of gear. And you're gonna have 10 of your items out for trade...and spend the rest of your time searching for good deals.
You'd just create a different meta-game.
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oh don't get me wrong lol. I wasn't under any delusion I was anywhere near being a "good" or high tier player with my current thing due to my incredible AH skillz or anything :p
I'm just saying without AH I would still be struggling through MP0 inferno with found gear; but thanks to AH I can have some sense of progression and actually play like MP8 and have some fun and sense of progression by gradually upgrading my things based on accumulating funds and having an idea of what I want rather than adapting my playstyle to what gear I happen to find. This also has a bit to do with the fact that D3 is much much more gear-based than its predecessors. In D2/Lod your gear supplemented your build. In D3 your build supplements your gear. You CANNOT run certain builds unless you have the appropriate gear; so doing a real build to play higher MP is extremely contingent on having certain types of stuff overall; i.e. imagine trying to play a cm/ww with found gear.
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