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I am trying to put together a simple app to play a pre-roll video followed by some content video.
Currently, I'm trying to use the AVQueuePlayer class to get this done. Unfortunately, it seems to want to play the videos properly in sequence.
For example, the pre-roll plays by itself for a few seconds, then (prior to the pre-roll being complete) it starts to try and play the content video. For a few seconds, the player seems to be at war with itself and switches back and forth between the two videos (neither playing very well at all). Finally, when the pre-roll is finished, the content video then plays the rest of the way normally.
I've looked through the documentation for the AVQueuePlayer and I don't see anything obvious that I'm missing.
My code is pretty basic:
AVPlayerItem *preRollItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithURL: preRollUrl];
AVPlayerItem *contentItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithURL: contentUrl];
self.player = [AVQueuePlayer queuePlayerWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:preRollItem, contentItem, nil]];
[self.player play];
What is the trick to getting the videos to play in sequence.


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The Swiss youngster secured a summer transfer to the Bavarian club, and although he feels that Germany is different to his homeland, he is looking forward to the challenge aheadBayern Munich attacking midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri is confident that he is fully prepared for the rigours of the Bundesliga after his recent move from Basel.
The Switzerland international has been widely tipped to have a big future in the game, and Die Roten won the race for his signature earlier in the summer.
The 20-year-old is hoping that Sunday's DFL-Supercup clash with Borussia Dortmund will stand them in good stead ahead of the Bundesliga season.
"I'm naturally ready for the league," he told TZ. "These teams have always played for the title. Borussia Dortmund are our strongest opponents.
"We have a lot of pressure on us, and you can feel it. But I think that I can handle it well. It spurs me on even more. It's a completely different world to Switzerland.
"There is a lot of competition, and that's an important thing."
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Q: Why the lackluster attempt at blocking the PAT kick by just about everyone…all the time. No effort is shown (maybe 3 lineman butt heads with the snapper and the guys to the sides of the snapper but that's it) and 5 or 6 guys take a step and then stand straight up and turn to see where the kick is. Where is the effort? Doesn't the special teams coach do anything to get a PAT kick blocked? You even see this in overtime unless the PAT kick is needed to tie the other team and force another overtime period. The same holds true on "chip shot" field goals unless the game is in the 4th quarter.
Surely some teams must put on a decent "block" play all the time but I didn't see such a team this past year.
A: They try more than you think in college than they do in the pros, mainly because several of the players in on special teams are fired up to be out there. In the pros, going after the extra point after a normal touchdown (and not one late in the game when the conversion is more meaningful) is like pressing in the NBA or blitzing in an all-star game; you just don't do it. However, I'm with you. It drives me NUTS in the college game when there isn't someone flying in from the side trying to block a kick. College kickers are hardly automatic compared to the pros and they can get rattled. Even if a defense doesn't get the block on one kick, if it's in the back of a college kicker's mind that he'll be under pressure, he could get a case of the yips on the next short kick.
Q: One of the rabid Beaver fans here (and I'm not hiding my allegiance even though my team didn't show up for the Vegas Bowl...at all). What do you think about Oregon State scheduling Boise State AND Texas Christian early in the season when they seem to start every season as The Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Players? I certainly admire the courage of the AD and Coach Riley, but is it a good idea?
A: Kudos to Oregon State, but unfortunately there's still a stigma when it comes to non-BCS teams, even ones as good as TCU and Boise State. That's why the Fiesta Bowl matchup sucked. At the end of the day, one non-BCS team beat another and we didn't learn anything. It's the same for Oregon State, and it's the dilemma that both the Horned Frogs and Broncos are facing. There isn't enough national splash when you beat a non-BCS team, and Boise State and TCU are good enough to play with most BCS teams. As far as the "good idea" for a team with national title dreams, no, it's a horrible move to play a beartrap team like Boise State, TCU, Utah, or BYU. If you're Oregon State and don't have a realistic shot of playing for the whole ball of wax, then yeah, you're nuts to not play some great teams in non-conference play to beef up for the Pac 10 season.
Q: In terms of scheme and coaching mentality do you think Mike Leach would work in the NFL? Rumors had the Raiders interested, though it was probably just a pipedream for people who would enjoy the overall craziness of an Al Davis/Mike Leach partnership. And do you think Chan Gailey can help the lifeless Bills? I don't know much about his Georgia Tech. achievements. - A.E.V., Aarhus, Denmark
A: Gailey is a completely separate issue from Leach. While Gailey was fine at Georgia Tech, he was solid as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys and is the safe, boring choice for a team that couldn't get the top names interested in the gig.
I've had arguments on several levels (including some interesting banter with the NFL Network's Mike Mayock) saying that many NFL teams already do use the type of offense that Leach runs
to a point. The New England Patriot record-setting offense of a few years ago was spreading it out and looking very Texas Tech-like, but with far more downfield passing and the occasional use of a fullback. So yeah, if Leach could get his own ego out of the way and if he could simply be a seen-but-not-heard coordinator, I absolutely think that his system would rock in the NFL level in the hands of a Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, or Jay Cutler. Chicago can't give away its offensive coordinator job, can't run the ball a lick, and has a franchise quarterback, but it wouldn't take Leach if he came free. If Mike Martz can't get a job anywhere, then Leach will likely have to take over some college team's offense.
Q: I know you'll get a version of this question a million times, but here goes …
If, as suspected, the Big 10 picks up a 12th team, do you think it will lead to another major shakeup of the conferences? It seems that if they take a Big East team, it will probably only trickle down to CUSA; but what happens if they get, say, Mizzou? - E.G.
A: I'm not as sold as others are that the Big Ten can simply take a Big 12 team just by asking, but I do believe that the head honchos are thinking far bigger than just adding a 12th team and might be looking at adding three schools. If I had to throw down a longshot wager, knowing how progressive the head honchos are trying to become, I'd bet the Big Ten will end up with Syracuse, Rutgers, and Pitt to expand the scope east into bigger TV markets while trying to upgrade the basketball side of things. Football-wise, getting Missouri, Nebraska or Colorado might seem great for football fans, but they don't do as much for the Big Ten revenue-wise and in terms of academic prestige, while taking over Iowa State does nothing outside of creating a few decent conference rivalries with Iowa and Minnesota. New York City is an untapped college football market, and the Big Ten could make a dent by making Syracuse and Rutgers bigger players on a national scale; both programs would jump at the chance to leave the Big East. Pittsburgh just makes sense from every angle. To answer your question, I don't think the Big Ten will pick and choose from
separate leagues if it goes the 14-team route. If the Big Ten does take a Big 12 team, I think the Big 12 takes over TCU and goes on about its business, or else it makes a power play and gets TCU, BYU, and Utah to make its own 14-team league. The Big East would be in a bigger pickle if it loses teams. UCF? East Carolina? Maybe, but that won't do anything to move the needle if the league loses some of its top programs.
Q: How is that Dan Hawkins had a ton of success at Boise State and has had virtually none at Colorado? Even after setting aside the first two years (theoretically for the transition from the mess Gary Barnett left behind), it's been a disaster (5-7 in '08 and 3-9 in '09). Did the Hawk get dumber? Is it that much tougher to coach in the Big 12 than the WAC?
Is Colorado a school that no longer can expect to be a top 25 player?
A: Don't gloss over what a complete and utter mess the program was when Barnett left it and try to remember the timing of his success. The scandals his teams were involved in happened just as Missouri was becoming a player and Kansas was starting to look decent, but more importantly, the North in 2004 and 2005 was awful. Colorado was playing for Big 12 titles just when Kansas State was starting to suck and Nebraska was trying to find itself again, but yes, Barnett did do a nice job early on. Colorado went to the Big 12 title game in 2002 helped by a win over a fantastic Kansas State team, but that was at home and Nebraska stunk. In 2001, the Buffs stunned an unbeaten Husker team in the classic 62-36 steamrolling, but Kansas State was mediocre. I'm not trying to dismiss the success, but it's not like trying to win in the Big 12 now. Colorado has to face a far better Big 12 North just as the program continues to try to rebuild. Hawkins hasn't been able to bring in the top players and the lack of success has made it that much harder to get the talented prospects needed to become a player. Even when he did hit a home run on a star, like top running back recruit Darrell Scott, the results haven't worked out well. Now, because he's essentially a lame-duck coach, he's REALLY not going to be able to get the stars. It really is all about the players. Colorado had 21 players drafted from 2000 to 2006 and just five in the last three years. Three of those players, including a kicker, Mason Crosby, were taken after the sixth round. Also, it's not like the Hawk has forgotten how to coach, but it's possible that his tenure at Boise State was slightly overrated to begin with. It's not like his Bronco teams crushed and killed a bunch of BCSers. The Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma,
and the true launching of the program as a
powerhouse, came on Chris Petersen's watch.
Q: You are always critical (rightly so) of BCS-level teams playing a sub-par non-conference schedule. There are certain schools that are willing to meet the competition but have a hard time getting others to play and have to go looking for a "schedule-filler". Case in point: I understand that Nebraska asked Boise 'anyone-anytime-anywhere' State to play a 2-1 series and there has been no response. What's a school to do when people don't want to play them? There are bowl tie-ins. What about non-conference tie-ins for a few years? - BB
A: I don't know if I'm a fan of a basketball-like ACC vs. Big Ten challenge with forced non-conference games because it's hard to make it fair and equitable (Ohio State has to play, say, Virginia Tech but Indiana gets Duke), but you're right when it comes to Nebraska in this case. For all the belly-aching Boise State has been doing about not getting anyone to play them, it's not exactly jumping at the chance to play the Huskers partly because it's not considering itself just another non-BCS program anymore. Give Boise State credit for not underselling itself now that the brand name strong, but on the flip side, Nebraska doesn't have to bend over backwards to schedule anyone nasty when it's already doing a solid job of trying to put together schedules with at least one good non-conference game. There are always games out there to be had against other FBS teams, as I point out every year in a column showing how the schedules could be changed so no one has to face an FCS team.
Q: Considering you watch all the sports that you do and all the football you do, do announcers really matter that much? To me, announcers should be like great officials: not noticed. We were having the lunch time discussion about this and I wanted to hear your take. - SF
A: Play-by-play guys, outside of the true greats like Brent Musburger, are at their best when they call the game like they've called a thousand other big games before, while color analysts are at their best when they
stick to explaining X and O aspects that you probably can't notice on TV. Announcers are bad when they seem like they're trying too hard, and there's nothing worse than when a big moment is biffed by an underskilled announcer, most notably Skip Carey's nightmare performance in the baseball playoffs last year. So yeah, the announcers really do matter that much. In a current example, take the Australian Open. I don't always go out of my way to make tennis appointment television, but when Dick Enberg is calling a match (even though he's slipping a lot) and with Chris Fowler involved, the telecast takes on another level. Throw John McEnroe in the mix for the other majors and tennis becomes more interesting because of the announcers. On the flip side, I can't do any baseball game with Joe Morgan or Tim McCarver involved, while Bill Walton made the NBA more unwatchable than it already is.
Q: "Wait, aren't all games really exhibitions?" I'm not trying to be nihilistic and say no game really matters in the grand scheme of things. What I mean is, what games do "matter" in this world of the BCS and no playoff? What makes a game an exhibition? An interconference game? Neutral field? Isn't every FBS vs FCS game an exhibition too? I'd like your thoughts.
A: First let me take another hit and turn down the Floyd before setting the
dial to pith. None of these games actually matter,
which is sort of why they're so much fun. The only
people outside of the United States who know
anything about college football are the kids that
got circumcised by Tebow, while no one under the age
of 30, cares one lick about Bear Bryant, Keith
Jackson, Archie Griffin, or the 1984 Orange Bowl.
What I mean about the exhibition aspect of bowl games is that they don't matter in terms of determining a champion;
they're not playoffs. That gets lost on many (trust
me, it does) who get all up in arms about the idea
of a Boise State or a TCU getting into the BCS
instead of a Penn State or an LSU. So to directly answer your question, the games that do truly matter in college football are the ones that have an outcome on conference championships or the national title chase.
With that said, don't equate exhibition with irrelevance.
The Fiesta Bowl might not have mattered to this
year's national title chase, but based on the win by
Boise State, it sure does matter for the 2010 race
with a stronger preseason ranking meaning
everything. Q: Over the course of the last 20 years, Boise State has transformed from a successful DI-AA school to a school capable of competing at the BCS level. What is the formula for this to happen, and how was Boise State able to capitalize on it? Would this sort of success be possible for teams like Grand Valley State or Montana?
A: Playing in the WAC has certainly helped.
Remember that this has been a long, long process for the program to get to this point and it was hardly an overnight success story. Boise State was a good Big West team that managed to come up with some gaudy records by being plucky, aggressive, and air-tight when it came to mistakes on both sides of the ball, but even with some bowl wins (at home), it's not like there were any wins of true note until a Humanitarian Bowl win over Iowa State in 2002.
That was the only win over a BCS team during this great run (a previous win over Louisville was when it was in Conference USA) until a pasting of Oregon State in 2004. But don't dismiss all the wins over all the WAC teams, along with a BYU thrown in here and there.
Wins are wins, and if they were so easy to get in a
non-BCS conference, then why didn't anyone else,
like Fresno State, have the same success?
Boise State had some tremendous coaches like Dirk Koetter and Dan Hawkins, who were innovative,
gutsy stars who did the most with the talent they had, and it got to the point to where Boise State just didn't lose. The Sun Belt is sort of seeing the same thing with Troy, who came from out of nowhere to be special, and the MAC got a great run from Central Michigan over the last four years, so I do think Montana, if it got to an FCS level, could absolutely be a non-BCS power with a little bit of time. But give Boise State credit for being unique and special for being able to keep this run going for more than a decade. It's not like a slew of NFL stars have flowed through the place (but that's changing), yet few programs have been able to come up with the
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The results of the GEMS study also confirm the product's good tolerance profile versus placebo, with no residual effect on waking and with no rebound phenomenon nor withdrawal symptoms after treatment cessation, as already demonstrated in EPLILONG and EPOCH.
Sanofi-aventis also announces the results of the first phase III study (NOCTURNE) conducted with volinanserin (second 5-HT2A antagonist developed for the treatment of insomnia characterized by sleep maintenance difficulties / night-time awakenings) which showed that volinanserin significantly reduces WASO and the number of night-time awakenings (measured by polysomnography) at 3 and 6 weeks of treatment, versus placebo. The results also demonstrate the good safety profile of volinanserin versus placebo. Two other Phase III studies versus placebo are currently on-going.
Saredutant : the INDIGO study (EFC5574 in elderly) results on saredutant are also released today. The study did not reach significance versus placebo (same for the comparator).
It is notable that the effect size obtained in INDIGO is in the same range than that of the non-elderly population. The pooled analysis of all saredutant studies demonstrates a positive short term benefit on patients suffering from MDD as measured by the HAM-D score.
Results of the maintenance trial will be available in the second half of 2008. Trials associating saredutant with an SSRI are on-going.
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Pittsburgh (22-8, 10-7 ACC) at Clemson (19-10, 10-7)
WHEN: Saturday, 4 p.m.
WHERE: Littlejohn Coliseum, Clemson, S.C.
RECORDS (2012-13): Pittsburgh 24-9, 12-6 Big East; Clemson 13-18, 5-13 ACC
NOTES: The winner will clinch the No. 5 seed in next week's ACC Tournament in Greensboro, N.C., opening league bracket play Thursday at 2 p.m. against either the No. 12 or No. 13 seed ... if Clemson loses, the Tigers settle for the sixth seed, opening Thursday at 9 p.m. ... Clemson needs this win to further its faint NCAA Tournament hopes; the Panthers are currently projected in to March Madness, while the Tigers are trying to make their way back onto the bubble ... Clemson is 13-2 at home this year, after going 8-7 at Littlejohn Coliseum last year ... Pitt, normally a bastion of home success, scuffled to three straight home losses to end this regular season, but the Panthers are 6-2 in true road games this year ... the Panthers walloped the Tigers 76-43 at Petersen Events Center on Jan. 21, shooting 56 percent from the floor against Clemson's 32 percent clip.
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Some say sparsley populated Hyde County is the perfect site to test unmanned aerial vehicles. The county is in the process of submitting a proposal to be one of six FAA approved testing sites for drones.
Plans are being set to revitalize a depressed area of downtown New Bern called Five Points. The project would create local jobs, and attract new businesses to the area.
The new, documentary film "Freedom Lost: Restoration" explores an often forgotten piece of history about life for African Americans in New Bern and James City in the time surrounding the Civil War. The free screening takes place at 6pm Wednesday, February 27th at Craven Community College's Orringer Auditorium.
We've all seen it on YouTube… people hanging around, minding their own business, then someone fires up a boombox and everybody lines up and recreates the dance segment from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video… or shoppers at a mall food court suddenly performing the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's The Messiah.
From now until April 15th, AARP is offering a free tax preparation service for low to moderate income tax payers, especially those 60 and older. The program is in locations across eastern North Carolina.
To find a tax aide location near you, click here: http://www.aarp.org/applications/VMISLocator/searchTaxAideLocations.action
Imagine… advancing through school hiding the fact that you don't know how to read. Here's the inspiring story of Earl Mills, who read his first book at age 48, published two books of his own, and has a passion to support literacy in eastern North Carolina.
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A bill will likely be introduced in the next couple weeks that will impose regulations on commercial dog breeders that sell directly to the public. The bill is part of a growing effort to put a stop to puppy mills in North Carolina. Groups, such as the American Kennel Club, and the North Carolina Federation of Dog Owners believe the legislation may affect responsible dog owners in a negative way.
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We continue our Black History Month series with a profile of cabinet maker Thomas Day who owned the largest furniture business in North Carolina during the height of slavery.
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Watching the tag team "debate" featuring Barack Obama and Candy Crowley v. Mitt Romney, it was easy to see what a second Obama term would look like. Picture J.R.R. Tolkien's Mordor, or Detroit, but with even less hope, no change and a really lousy economy.
Where are we now?
We have a $16 trillion national debt exploding by more than $1 trillion annually. Unemployment perked along above 8 percent for 43 months before miraculously "dipping" to 7.8 percent -- just before the election. (Adding those who have quit looking for work, the rate is above 10 percent.) Twenty-three million are jobless and fewer work today than when Obama took office. Welfare spending is up more than 30 percent.
More than 47 million are on food stamps and 46 million -- roughly 15 percent of us -- live in poverty. Median real household income is sliding. Gas prices are hovering at about $4 a gallon, sucking the life out of family budgets. Heating costs are crazy. Even Joe Biden says the middle class is buried, and Americans are about to be clobbered with arguably the largest tax increase in American history -- Obamacare.
Immigration is a mess; the economy a shambles. Government is more intrusive. Terrorists use us for a punching bag. And Michele Obama does not want us eating cheeseburgers.
Really, what's not to like?
In Obama's brave new world, all that simply is part of a vast, successful, hard-to-define recovery he snatched out of a hat; a fix requiring four more years to complete. The problem? He cannot explain what he would do with four more years or what he did with the four he had. Blaming former President George W. Bush goes only so far.
In the debate, when Crowley allowed, Romney pounded away, detailing his five-point economic plan, offering a blueprint. Obama defended Planned Parenthood, the Detroit bailout/union giveaway and his fib that by sticking it to the rich he can cut the deficit.
Obama has no plan but to tax, borrow and spend. He offers only more trickle-down government.
Gasoline and fuel prices would not drop, nor would the United States achieve energy independence. His Energy secretary, Steven Chu, says gas prices should be in the $9- or $10-a-gallon range. As Obama took office, they were in the $1.80-a-gallon range. In the debate, Obama did not disavow Chu's views.
Obama would continue appeasing his green pals, blocking vital projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. He would back campaign contributors' costly solar and wind projects, ignoring the reality that focusing on those as primary sources of energy now is reckless and premature. The United States will need oil, natural gas and coal for decades.
Tellingly, and despite Obama's debate assertions, oil and gas production on public land is down. Drilling leases and permits are down too under the Obama administration. We would see more of the same.
The future is the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska -- cheap talk and closure of vast tracks of federal land to exploration and development accompanied by rigorous, intrusive, combative government harassment on private lands. Mining in Alaska would be jeopardized. Note the Environmental Protection Agency and its attack on the Pebble prospect and projects elsewhere.
Taxpayers would pay the tab for abortions. Obamacare would devastate the medical profession.
Law-abiding gun owners? Toast in a second term. During the debate, Obama promised another "assault weapons" ban. Somebody should tell him we already had one. The only real problem with "assault weapons" has been the Obama administration's "Fast and Furious" scheme that secretly dumped thousands of weapons in Mexico, killing at least one Border Patrol officer and perhaps thousands of innocent Mexicans. Obama has hidden the details -- even from the Mexican government. Crowley helped Obama dodge Romney's questions about it.
Perhaps the most pernicious, insidiously devastating thing that could happen during another Obama term would be his selecting one or more Supreme Court justices. The harm to this nation over generations would be catastrophic.
The ugly truth is that another four years would look like the last four -- but worse. Obama is unable to lead -- from the front nine or the back -- and he lacks ideas, offering only gambits and excuses.
Without a doubt, Obama failed. Even Mordor and Detroit would look good after four more years of him.
Paul Jenkins is the editor of the AnchorageDailyPlanet.com.
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The worst was Tomb Raider when it was the most next gen game ever, 3 weeks of playing it straight after christmas took its toll on the dpad thumb.
Bytheby the ABC XYZ controller was introduced on the Megadrive/Genesis just for Super Streetfighter II and select other games then used it also. I was happy to see the xbox duke having almost the same configuration of buttons but the S and now finally the 360 controller took it back to the SNES configuration.
Also with the sega controllers you could also hit one row of buttons with your thumb (A+B+C) which is something much harder to do with todays controllers and afaik no game uses three face button moves these days?
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Originally posted by Scot
Large population ... yes .. no different that LoL, WoT, and many online games need a large population to keep the matching with groups fast, and so on.
But the gameplay itself is not massive.
You may as well say CoD is massive in population, which is true.
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I dont remember the last game I played that was too massive.....Even WoW never felt massive because there were so many servers.
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Originally posted by FoeHammerJT
Of all the reasons I've heard for and against the single-server architecture, that seems to be one I've rarely seen presented, most likely because it's an odd combination of two unrelated things - single server design and physical world size.
While in EVE, one *can* go to an isolated place and feel all alone, the reality is that most players are in populated and trafficked areas. It's very true that the size of the game world doesn't matter except in relation to its population. However, in more massive world environments, the difference lies in where the content is and what the content is. In a more themepark design (ex: WOW, LOTRO, AoC), the content is not only tiered but every last bit of space is used. When acquisition slows, bigger gaps of empty space start to build in the middle zones because there are less characters in that level range. The problem comes in the fact that in those games, the players must complete the content of those areas to progress to the later areas. This creates undesirable empty space, as players feel they are alone in the world or on a 'dead' server.
To give you a better understanding of why some players and developers like single-server MMOs, here are a few links:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132563/infinite_space_an_argument_for_.php (a very great read on the topic)
My affinity for the single-server design is one of the reasons I've been watching several of the indie games. They tend to focus on a single server for their games, allowing for greater player control and more dynamic storytelling since less resources have to be devoted toward maintaining and controlling it all. The things we could learn from a game like The Repopulation, combined with what we've seen in existing single-server worlds (ex: ATITD, EVE) could prove invaluable for game designers, as it allows us to watch a new community grow, whereas the existing games already have very formed core communities due to how long they've been around.
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If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
Single server game also remain niche for only catering to a single section of the player base. See Darkfall and MO, and their refusal to add non-PvP servers. Those games would double their player base with PvE servers with optional PvP, instead of forcing it on everyone playing.
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Originally posted by Neo_Viper
Are you suggesting that Free Realms and ATITD would double their playerbase if they offered PVP combat servers, too? That seems a hard sell, as I don't see the correlation between the server architecture and the game design choices that you are suggesting.
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Too massive? More like not massive enough.. Sure some games will have 100k or millions of accounts, but when was the last time you saw or felt the zone was full of adventures?.. This is a classic reason why I hate instancing.. All it does is make the game nothing more then "group" RPG.. Nothing massive about it.. I would love to see zones again when you have multiple groups across the zone doing their thing.. Soloer's spaced out over here and there.. Occasionally the reason for ALL of them to unite to take down the invasion (Rift comes to mind) or the big bad Dragon (EQ).. With the exception of meeting places, such as your cities, every game in the past 5 years has felt like a ghost town..
Currently I play around in GW2 and most of the zones feel like ghost towns.. Hell , most of the waypoints in the high level zones are locked out, and no one is in the zone to help take them back.. What a waste of space..
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If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
Originally posted by Loktofeit
Except that Full PvP players are a minority. That was my point. If those "extreme" games were offering options, they would at least double their player base.
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Originally posted by Rydeson
Yes, and that is how many players like it. Otherwise, why would that becomes the dominant design?
Personally, i like small group dungeon run much more than open dungeons with hundreds of players in it. That is just not how i envision a dungeon run should be.
Originally posted by Scot
Scot, thanks for the reply. I agree that there is a bit of a schism that the larger over-all population of gamers have brought into the genre. I think its a big concern as well. The #1 aspect I think we've lost is the dangerous world full of creatures you were afraid to fight alone and places you simply didn't journey to alone.
I do think you are creating some specific circumstances for a smaller population game that I have never advocated. I.E. the lack of current MMO standbys such as guild, crafting etc.
I have not indicated that any such game should have any fewer features than a large population server. On the contrary, I think a smaller community makes many of those features much better!
Lets take Housing! Currently, the solution to housing is to instance it. Server and world size limitations currently limit the amount space 25-50k people are having to share. Imagine a game world the same size as EQ2 or FF14 even, you could have houses and guild houses for everyone, completely UNINSTANCED. Now imagine said guild houses/keeps etc were destructible in clan warfare. That would certainly be much more meaningful and consequential than current MMOs.
Now let's look at Crafting! Currently, the only solution to crafting is Auction Houses. Every game that ships without one is bashed until it gets one. And that's because 25-50K people are a swarm, and it requires fast access to exchange the very high number of goods being exchanged.
Now, shrink that population to 400 people. Instead of an anonymous auction house you go visit that great blacksmith in that other city and see what he has in his shop. You would have to seek out crafters, get to know them and have the opportunity to personally haggle for your goods. (maybe even thru an NPC interface as an offline option.)
Houses and Crafting are made better with huge server populations in what ways exactly?
Originally posted by FoeHammerJT
How many players want to spend 30 min walking around finding people just to buy a sword?
Personally i prefer a AH. I don't play games just to go around and barter. I play them mostly for combat, and a little craft & trade. I don't want to haggle, or have to spend time knowing crafters. That is not why i play games.
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Originally posted by FoeHammerJT
Most players don't want to go visit that great blacksmith, though, which is one reason why auction houses exist. Also, personally haggling requires the other player to be online at the same time you are, which is another reason auction houses became the preferred system by players. The smaller the community, the lower the chance of player interaction.
All that aside, the presence of auction houses isn't what broke direct trading or personal trading. Universal auction houses, banks and inventories did. The more regionally restricted the goods and access to them are are, the more demand there is for crafters and the more opportunities there are for them to carve their own niche and make a name for themselves.
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Originally posted by Loktofeit
I should have worded that better you are right.
I do NOT consider the current instant queue dungeon runs on ez mode to be "group play". At best they are a multiplayer rush to get loot. This includes "Massive" 25 man instant queue raids.
Meaningful community interaction is what I think is most missing in today's latest MMO releases and I believe the #1 culprit is the huge player pools these games have evoked. I realized that during this exchange. It isn't "Massive in world scope" its "massive in player pool" that most concerns me. Too many people, too little real estate, too little need to interact with each other.
Massive Auction Houses make trade completely disconnected from interaction.
Easy group play/content results in a rush mentality that lacks tactics or interaction by the players.
Guild "rewards" and instant raid queues have eroded the glue that used to hold many guilds together: their need to band together.
Single player quest grinds have invaded, conquered and enslaved every theme park game to the point that the vast majority of leveling consists of a single player experience with "others" nearby "doing the same stuff" with no meaning or challenge.
I'd like to see an intrepid developer challenge the norm. Create a world where player interaction is more meaningful and you are accountable with how you treat those around you. Eliminate some of the anonymity that these million player cross server instance/raid finders have created. Let's see if something different could work a bit better!
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Agree. Do the F2P have an ignore feature? Those work but depending on game might be talking to your self haha.
This post is intentionally written as to not make any sense what so ever. Thank You Very Much.
Originally posted by Loktofeit
I'd like to see a poll on that. I don't necessarily doubt that "most players" would agree with you. The game I am talking about wouldn't be for "Everyone". I'm not talking about building WoW 2 or GW 3. I'm talking about a different kind of game that instead caters to those would like to know the guy that spent 2 hours finding that metal, and working to make the highest quality weapon he could. I want to talk to that smith, and get to know him.
If you wouldn't want to do that, its fine. Merely, post that you disagree with me, and want to see tens of thousands of NPCs..i mean other people you don't talk to, in the world around you. it's cool, you can enjoy that.
I do have to disagree with the Auction House issue. If you are trading with a chart, you are trading with a chart.
If you want to go buy something from a store you have to wait til its open. (I.e., online.)
I'm looking for people that want to see something different :).
Originally posted by nariusseldon
That's great Nari. There's a lot of games waiting for you to go slay mobs in!
I'm hoping to find one that piques my interest and gets me interacting with other players online again.
Originally posted by nariusseldon
Massive is the size of the player pool. When queuing for what passes as multiplayer content these days. You are queued from a pool of hundreds of thousands up to millions. People you will never see again. This has created a situation, where there is a distinct lack of community and player interaction.
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Originally posted by FoeHammerJT
So, you're suggesting that auctions houses have been adopted and used for a decade because no one wanted them? Are you also suggesting that most players would rather wait for a guy to be online or a shop to open?
As for the yellow part, it would be cool if you left the assumptions and passive aggressive stuff out of this. There was nothing in my post that indicated my playstyle or preferences. Personally, I enjoy personal shops. Krom Flaa. That was the blacksmith I used to visit for all my PVP weapons. Exceptional quality and deadly poison. Haven't played that game in years but I still remember his name because that gameplay made an impact for me. However, I'm not about to suggest that the quirky RP and hometown socializing crap that I enjoy doing in MMOs is any indication of how others want to play.
"Houses and Crafting are made better with huge server populations in what ways exactly?"
You asked how it was better and I gave you an answer as to some ways that it is. If you didn't want an answer, don't ask.
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Originally posted by Loktofeit
You and I are having a disagreement on premises. Your premise is that whatever is most popular must also be best.
My premise is that just because a lot of people like something, doesn't mean I need to like it as well. I'm not saying Auction Houses don't appeal to the masses. Clearly they do, for if a game dares try to implement trade in any other fashion its a cardinal sin; and they must repent!
So for the record: Auction Houses are popular. I don't like Auction Houses because they have eliminated trade between players for a majority of the time.
Next point: I feel like there is a rather large difference between Trade and Crafting. You need not do one to do the other.
I hardly believe Auction Houses are friendly to crafters.
Point of fact: Since the advent of Auction Houses, gathered materials have tended to out trend craft items. There has been some progress in this area, but in GW2, WoW, EQ2, gathered materials tend to sell for more than a finished product. FF14's HQ and complex crafting system, long grind, and fairly significantly learning curve (all good things by me) are making some impact. By further eliminating the randomness in gathering they have made some progress towards goods being valuable vs materials and that's great!
I still think Crafters are better off without an Auction House, but not necessarily traders (And certainly not gold farmers!) This is my opinion and probably not the opinion of the masses, we are talking about the same masses lining up to instant queue and play Call of Duty 76: Yellow Ops Part 4, and instant queue for instances with people they neither speak with or will adventure with again.
I was asking for players' personal opinions on this forum regarding the subject matter. Not what you or anyone else holds to be "The Truth of the Majority" .
I dissent.
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@Nari - Well I am talking about the size in memory and number of polygons. But also the level/game world size as well. I think the only reason you think Splinter Cell is not getting bigger is the console effect as I mentioned.
I am not a CoD player Nari, but this is all relative. Put enough players in a FPS and I would call it massive. PS2 qualifies there. Gameplay in AoC, WH, GW2 is massive; not in all areas of course, just certain 'battelzones'. I am not sure we are talking about the same thing here, but if WoT had enough players on a big enough map I would call it massive multiplayer, just not a MMORPG.
@Single servers - I am not adverse to one server, for game play reasons it has many advantages. But as a roleplayer I have found official rp servers to always be better. I am sure there would be others who must have PVP servers as well, so you can see why this has remained a niche area.
@Foehammer - I don't think that things like housing work better with big populations. What I was saying was that smaller population MMO's tend to have smaller funding, which in turn means they leave features like housing out. I can see the appeal of a small, tight knit community, I know these work on unofficial RP servers for example. Just about everything you said in your subsequent post is where I stand. You cannot even call modern easyMMOs the successors of the old MMOs, they are so different they are in their own genre.
@Auction House Lovers - You go to a hub area where all the crafters are, you don't have to go on an adventure to find a blacksmith. :) In fact you would travel the same amount of time, just going to see players rather than an AH.
@Popular - This is the argument they always roll out whenever anything about modern easyMMOs is questioned. There are many MMO's with said gameplay, MMOs are doing well so everything must be great! Lets look at cars, they are popular, the companies that make them are making huge amounts of money. So the car industry must be fine! For heavens sake don't bring up the need for hybrids and start talking about CO2 emissions. Just because something is popular does not mean it is perfect.
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Originally posted by FoeHammerJT
False. I at no points said anything was best, rather that the design is currently most common because it is the most desirable. Good, better, best or bad is irrelevant. You seem to confuse fact and opinion. Actually, that seems to be your problem with each post that you don't agree with, but you're having trouble seeing that.
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A circle rolls around the outside edge of a square so that its circumference always touches the edge of the square. Can you describe the locus of the centre of the circle?
This rectangle is cut into five pieces which fit exactly into a triangular outline and also into a square outline where the triangle, the rectangle and the square have equal areas.
Do you know how to find the area of a triangle? You can count the
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A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . .
Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.
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A game for 2 players. Can be played online. One player has 1 red
counter, the other has 4 blue. The red counter needs to reach the
other side, and the blue needs to trap the red.
A tilted square is a square with no horizontal sides. Can you
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A right-angled isosceles triangle is rotated about the centre point
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The opposite vertices of a square have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d). What are the coordinates of the other vertices?
Can you set the logic gates so that the number of bulbs which are
on is the same as the number of switches which are on?
Show that for any triangle it is always possible to construct 3
touching circles with centres at the vertices. Is it possible to
construct touching circles centred at the vertices of any polygon?
The number of plants in Mr McGregor's magic potting shed increases
overnight. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of
his gardens, planting one garden each day. How can he do it?
Use the interactivity to play two of the bells in a pattern. How do
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bell to ring?
These formulae are often quoted, but rarely proved. In this article, we derive the formulae for the volumes of a square-based pyramid and a cone, using relatively simple mathematical concepts.
Triangle numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
Can you find all the 4-ball shuffles?
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right
hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of
A point P is selected anywhere inside an equilateral triangle. What
can you say about the sum of the perpendicular distances from P to
the sides of the triangle? Can you prove your conjecture?
Use the interactivity to listen to the bells ringing a pattern. Now
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when it is your turn to ring?
Square It game for an adult and child. Can you come up with a way of always winning this game?
Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.
Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
A red square and a blue square overlap so that the corner of the red square rests on the centre of the blue square. Show that, whatever the orientation of the red square, it covers a quarter of the. . . .
A game for 2 players that can be played online. Players take it in turns to select a word from the 9 words given. The aim is to select all the occurrences of the same letter.
We can show that (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1 by considering
the area of an (x + 1) by (x + 1) square. Show in a similar way
that (x + 2)² = x² + 4x + 4
Start with any number of counters in any number of piles. 2 players
take it in turns to remove any number of counters from a single
pile. The winner is the player to take the last counter.
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the
patterns of play are similar.
Can you discover whether this is a fair game?
A metal puzzle which led to some mathematical questions.
There are thirteen axes of rotational symmetry of a unit cube. Describe them all. What is the average length of the parts of the axes of symmetry which lie inside the cube?
Two engines, at opposite ends of a single track railway line, set
off towards one another just as a fly, sitting on the front of one
of the engines, sets off flying along the railway line...
Learn how to use the Shuffles interactivity by running through these tutorial demonstrations.
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
What is the relationship between the angle at the centre and the
angles at the circumference, for angles which stand on the same
arc? Can you prove it?
On the 3D grid a strange (and deadly) animal is lurking. Using the tracking system can you locate this creature as quickly as possible?
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
This problem is about investigating whether it is possible to start at one vertex of a platonic solid and visit every other vertex once only returning to the vertex you started at.
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
This is an interactivity in which you have to sort the steps in the
completion of the square into the correct order to prove the
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Diablo Cody Cameos on '90210' With Tori Spelling
"They haven't told me yet. I'm being completely honest. I'm dying to know," she says Wednesday (Jan. 14), following the TCA press tour presentation for
One reporter tells Cody that the buzz is that she'll be playing herself and consult the character Donna Martin -- played by the returning
"No," Cody, 30, exclaims. "They have not told me this! Are you making this up? I swear to God, I did not know that. I love Jason Priestly. I love Tori Spelling. I'm so psyched."
Cody, born Brook Busey, would be a good fit for the show with her edgy sensibilities and looks. At the press tour panel, she layered an argyle cardigan with a skull-and-crossbones motif over her dress.
The "Juno" writer is a longtime fan of the show, having blogged on it for Entertainment Weekly. She reveals that her public love for the show was what landed her the plum role.
"I don't know if they want me talking about it because I'm sure they're deeply ashamed, but Im very excited," she admits. "I'm completely obsessed with the show -- both incarnations, old and new. They actually called and said, 'Do you want to be on "90210?"' I said, 'I don't care if you want me to wear a bear suit. I'll do anything on "90210."'
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men. Paul assumes in 1 Cor. 11:5 that women, too, will pray when the church meets for worship. Here he is addressing a specific problem at Ephesus.
lifting holy hands. On this posture in prayer, see Ps. 63:4; 141:2.
without anger or quarreling. Paul is not concerned to mandate a particular posture, but to encourage a proper attitude (1:5).