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Critical Review by Jay Parini
SOURCE: "The Accidental Convert," in The New York Times Book Review, August 25, 1991, pp. 1, 26.
In the following review, Parini states that Tyler's Saint Maybe is "a realistic chronicle that celebrates family life without erasing the pain and boredom that families almost necessarily inflict upon their members."
Anne Tyler likes to break America's heart, and she will do it again in Saint Maybe. Her subject, as ever, is family life, with the family pictured as a kind of leaky but durable vessel that ferries her motley characters down the tortuous river of time. Ms. Tyler is fascinated by the unexpected ways that people affect one another, for good and ill, and this fascination has given her shelf of books an impressive unity. Saint Maybe, her 12th novel, is vintage Tyler, delicately stamped, like a watermark, with her intimate and unmistakable voice.
One is used by now to Ms. Tyler's oddball families, which any self-respecting therapist would call "dysfunctional" but which Ms. Tyler's readers find endearing. There are, for instance, the Pecks of Searching for Caleb, the Tulls of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, the Learys of The Accidental Tourist. An inexplicable centripetal force hurls these relatives upon one another, catches them in a dizzying inward spiral of obligation, affection and old-fashioned guilt—as well as an inexpressible longing for some perfect or "normal" family in a distant past that never really was.
Almost every novel by Anne Tyler begins with a loss or absence that reactivates in the family some primordial sense of itself, and Saint Maybe is no exception. The novel rocks on the fulcrum of its hero, Ian Bedloe, who believes himself responsible for the death of his older brother, Danny, killed in a late-night car crash after an angry confrontation with Ian. Danny's wife, grief-stricken and unstable, soon commits suicide, leaving behind three children (two from her previous marriage, to a man who has vanished). Overwhelmed by guilt, Ian takes unusual measures to redeem himself. Inspired by a weird but engaging little Protestant splinter group called the Church of the Second Chance, he drops out of college after only one semester to help his parents care for the orphaned children.
Ian, the Saint Maybe of the title, sponges up our emotions as Ms. Tyler tracks him fondly through several decades. At 17, he has "the Bedloe golden-brown hair, golden skin, and sleepy-looking brown eyes." His fairy-tale good looks are somehow enhanced by his off-hand way of dressing, and when he becomes a cabinetmaker (as Jesus was a carpenter?), specializing in fine furniture built without nails according to ancient principles, he has every opportunity to dress down. We rarely see him—even at church—in anything but jeans and a T-shirt. Two decades later, he is described excitedly by Rita diCarlo—a zany mansaver perhaps too reminiscent of Muriel Pritchett in The Accidental Tourist: "The clothes in his closet smell of nutmeg…. He has this really fine face; it's all straight lines. I thought at first his eyes were brown but then I saw they had a clear yellow light to them like some kind of drink; like cider." Rita, as one might expect, comes vividly into Ian's life before the novel closes.
Ms. Tyler charges Ian Bedloe with a wonderfully subtle sexual presence. She does this, cannily, by making his avoidance of sexuality a defining characteristic. His sexual life begins predictably, with a pretty girlfriend called Cicely, with whom he sleeps on the weekends while at college. Once he joins the Church of the Second Chance, the sex stops, and Cicely, alas, falls away. Ms. Tyler peeps into Ian's fantasy life: "In his daydreams, he walked into services one morning and found a lovely, golden-haired girl sitting in the row just ahead. She would be so intent on the sermon that she wouldn't even look his way: she had grown up in a religion very much like this one, it turned out, and believed with all her heart. After the Benediction Ian introduced himself, and she looked shy and pleased." And so forth, onward and heavenly upward.
Only Anne Tyler could make an arresting novel out of material like this. She does so, I think, by placing Ian at a series of perilous crossroads, as when he becomes frustrated with unclehood and hires a detective called Eli Everjohn (who also appears in Searching for Caleb) to find his sister-in-law's first husband. Meanwhile the reader bites off a few nails, waiting to see if Ian will do the proverbial "right thing"—not for himself, so much, as for the children.
Ms. Tyler is one of the few contemporary writers who can really "do" children, and her brood steals the reader's heart. There is homely Agatha, whose wry confidence anticipates a moving turn at the story's end. There is Thomas, her self-contained younger brother, who remains firmly in the shadows throughout the novel. And there is Daphne, the youngest, who has everybody's number; sassy but lovable, she teeters on the brink of waywardness, always retreating at the last moment into a kind of idiosyncratic goodness. It is she who, in a moment of gentle derision, refers to her Uncle Ian as "King Careful. Mr. Look-Both-Ways. Saint Maybe."
The Church of the Second Chance is never far from the center of this novel, and Ms. Tyler mines its comic potential with ruthless affection. This genial flock of fundamentalist misfits has a kindly but firm shepherd in its founder. Reverend Emmett. (Emmett is his first name, since last names are scorned by Second Chancers; they remind one too much "of the superficial—the world of wealth and connections and who came over on the Mayflower.") What binds the members of this distinctly downscale congregation is their adamant belief in the need for "amending"—for showing God they are serious about making up for past sins by doing good deeds. Ian, for instance, makes amends for his part in his brother's death by helping to raise Agatha, Thomas and Daphne.
For all his noble self-sacrifice, Ian is hardly alone in raising the children. Ms. Tyler is intrigued by family circles, and she draws a wide one in Saint Maybe. Ian's parents, Bee and Doug, are the sort of people who can be found in any McDonald's on a Saturday afternoon with a gang of grandchildren. They say things like "hot dog" and exude good will. Their tumbledown house on Waverly Street in Baltimore is a world unto itself; indeed, as the "real" world grows steadily less tolerable down the decades, the Bedloes rely increasingly on one another for the little decencies, the graceful touches, that make life bearable.
Saint Maybe is not without flaws (I'm reminded of Randall Jarrell's definition of a novel as a long narrative that has something wrong with it). Ian's abrupt decision to drop everything, including his sex life, to assuage his guilt is not foreshadowed: Ms. Tyler doesn't sketch Ian's adolescence with sufficient particularity to make his decision plausible. And a fair number of the peripheral characters—like the continuously changing group of "foreigners," students who live nearby and who attend the Bedloes' annual Christmas fest—seem astonishingly caricatured.
Nonetheless, I adored Saint Maybe. It's not as complex a narrative as either The Accidental Tourist or Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Nor is it a whimsical tour de force like Breathing Lessons, which won a Pulitzer Prize. But in many ways it is Anne Tyler's most sophisticated work, a realistic chronicle that celebrates family life without erasing the pain and boredom that families almost necessarily inflict upon their members. Ian Bedloe, for his part, sits near the top of Ms. Tyler's fine list of heroes. Exactly how she makes us care so much about him remains a mystery to me. That is, perhaps, the mystery of art.
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Creepy SA sketch.
this is a SA (service assistant ) sketch I did on my break at work it was my base for my finished pic but I like the original to so here it is
Creepy SA
took me about 5 min for the pencils and about 2-5 min inking after I went over my pencils wih a blue marker so about 12-18 min tops
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..ok the right hand obviously looks a bit screwed up
i think the shading lines on the cap's shade and the shading lines on the shirt is really yhe only thing that looks out of place. i think these areas should use the same style of shading lines as the rest of the drawing.. maybe. im not sure
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spend more time on your drawing this isnt to good
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Thats why its a sketch, check out my site. btw i c you talk alot do you draw at all? if not quit with the advice :eek:
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Drugs, gangs, guns, badges and other matters of federal law and disorder in Texas.
Waco Police: officers fired a dozen shots; read full statement issued by chief (UPDATED)
Waco's police said Friday that three officers fired a total of 12 shots during a melee at the Twin Peaks there that left nine people dead, 18 wounded and 177 jailed on charges of engaging in organized crime. The chief still did not say how many people officers shot, or how many of them were […] [Read More]
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The first regional gathering of motorcycle riders since the Waco melee in which nine people were killed and 175 arrested in mid May is scheduled for Saturday in Harris County. "We are aware of that event, that they are going to have it," said Ryan Sullivan, a spokesman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office. "We […] [Read More]
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As Houston's Dorotea Garcia awaits the return of her recently found daughter, who went missing for nine years after her ex-husband disappeared into Mexico with the child in 2007, another local mother who has searched far longer for her own daughter south of the border, is overwhelmed with emotion. It was 6 p.m. on a […] [Read More]
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Drug Enforcement Administration agents who left California college student Daniel Chong locked in a cell for five days, where he had no food or water, to wrist slaps for the wrongdoing, the Los Angeles Times reports. The incident made international news and led to the government paying out a $4.1 million settlement to Chong. The […] [Read More]
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A former Houston software executive recently sentenced to a decade in federal prison for drugging and sexually abusing his female employees has ditched his two lawyers and is now fighting on his own for an appeal. Henri Morris,67, has filed paperwork notifying the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that he intends to challenge the […] [Read More]
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As senior Houston Police officer Noe Juarez heads to a federal courtroom in New Orleans, his first battle is scheduled for Thursday to see if he can be released on bail pending an outcome of drug-trafficking charges He faces 10 years to life in federal prison without the possibility of parole, if convicted. An in-depth look […] [Read More]


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A piece of software has been released that strips copy protection from iPhone applications, meaning they can be distributed and shared.
Described as "instantaneous app-cracking", the application, "Crackulous" is said to be the easiest solution yet for pirating apps to be used, unpaid, on other "jailbroken" devices.
Developed on the Hackulous forums, Crackulous is being damned as "piracy", and said to be a real danger to developers who make money from selling their applications via Apple's App Store.
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BoI law passes first reading in Knesset
The new Bank of Israel law passed its first of three readings into law yesterday in the Knesset plenum. Twenty-two Knesset members voted in favor of the bill and two gave it the thumbs-down: Ilan Gilon of Meretz and Dov Khenin of Hadash. "The new Bank of Israel law is good for the Bank of Israel, and it's also right for the treasury of the State of Israel," commented Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, who presented the bill before the Knesset.
Under the bill, the governor of the central bank wouldn't be making monetary decisions alone any more. There would be a monetary council with three public representatives appointed by the government, alongside three Bank of Israel officials. In case of deadlock, the governor's vote prevails.
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Gov. Romney says his leadership would create far more jobs than President Obama has. Romney and his party also tend to oppose governmental regulation and labor unions. They say that regulations and organized labor constrain the job-creating initiative of capitalists.
What I am wondering is, how far does Romney want to roll back the clock on working conditions and wages in the United States? To as far back as they still are today in much of China and the developing world? Even in the quickly modernizing country of Panama, where my husband and I lived from 2008-10, three construction workers died in job-related accidents in one week due to unenforced or non-existent worker safety laws.


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After this article hit, one of the CoH designers reminded me about the Lord Recluse Strike Force AI that was created; the Arachnos Lieutenants were efficient and brutal, targeting healers and avoiding taking damage. We thought it would be a nice challenge for players to figure out how to beat it. Instead they just never played it because it was felt to be unfair, the enemies didn't act like any other enemies in the game. We eventually relented and put the AI back to more traditional aggro tables and the players were happy again.
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A good AI is not always about the mob doing the smartest thing - a good AI should be fuzzy. As a simple example how much thought a mob can apply to a problem can be based on how tactical they are for a given context (maybe they know all about ice but nothing about fire) as well as how stubborn they are - as they say, are you stubborn or stupid. Based on these simple scalar values, x passes at coming to a conclusion can be made, with each pass being a weighted RNG accumulated over each pass. The final value is compared to a set of possible decisions, scalar ranges, each range representing some possible action the mob can make.
Long story short (or not so short), sometimes the mob will get out of the fire, and sometimes not. Thats what makes a fuzzy AI more interesting. Smarter mobs will obviously get out of the way, but hey, who is to say the taunts of tanks don't piss them off enough to increase that stubbornness factor and in a blind rage stand in the fire.
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Originally posted by Quesa:
"Your example of the fire tanks in CoH (a game I miss), the crowd playing those tanks wanted dumb AI's but it's the dev's job to sack up and do what is right for the game."
This, so many times this.
Loudest common denominator reaction (LCDR). We didn't do the best fix, because people were upset. So common in so many MMO, always ends up with a new LCDR for the next group. Had you asked the gamers as a whole, what they thought about the tactic, I think you may have found that most supported a change, and probably the initial change you did. Instead, you made a good change, people screamed, so you did something else, just tweaking it so they couldn't do as much at a time, but could still do it.
What you did was fix an exploit of the system. (exploit doesn't always mean cheating fyi) A change to fix something that was being exploited repeatedly, to the advantage of a group of people that played solo. While those without Fire Tanks considered rerolling, because they couldn't take on groups at a time, with impunity.
Smarter AI is my preference, because I tire of boring games, because the AI is stupid. GW2 is not really a good example of 'smart' AI, only a game without any aggro management of the "holy trinity" variety. While combat was different, it just shifted how you managed aggro. "Oh look, I've pissed off the mob, I'll dodge and stop doing damage until he changes focus."
Holy Trinity AI mechanics pretty much come down to a choreographed dance. Move here, dodge this, move here, move there, etc. Player skill devolves to "can you pay attention for 5 minutes of the same ole garbage" per boss fight.
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Matt, the problem was that by doing so, you failed to address the other side of the coin at the same time: Fire Tanks main damage mitigation was to kill things really fast. If you are thinking it was solely because of the AI, you are wrong. The goal of a tank is to maintain aggro of the mobs while the rest of the team recovers. Fire tanks couldn't do that with the burn change, especially with the longer recharge and greatly reduced damage output. They didn't have the mitigation to compensate for your change. You probably would have done better to replace Burn with something that worked better with the "run away" AI. I can tell you from experience that the immobilization protection really didn't compensate for the intense fear that burn had after the change.
Also, when combined with the control nerfs (long recharge, short durations, mobs with higher resistances to controls), getting close to the previous amount of damage, even for less than a group of 15 critters, was unlikely.
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In GW2 during the betas they also made mobs scatter from AoE damage and most players still hated it.
In GW1 mobs (and hero/henchmen AI) still scatter from AoE - for sometime the solution was to use skills that slowed/immobilized the enemy but then it became just enough spike damage to kill all the mobs without allowing them to trigger their scatter while maybe using mobs path finding against them by holding against a wall.
Additionally in GW1, enemy mobs did go after the healers just like the players did go after the mob healers and of course it wasn't stupid from the mobs since the healers could keep them alive.
In the end what developers and players alike need to understand is that Mobs exist to be defeated by the players.
But the need to be "special" by being the only one to be beat something is a pressure players exert over developers.
And that would be ok except then developers tie rewards to that content (both because players pressure devs but also because devs try to entice players to become better at that content to win the rewards), including rewards that will make the rest of the game easier.
PvP via proxy PvE is just a problem without a simple solution.
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I don't want smarter AI against me, I want it with me. For example, a companion such as in SWTOR or even in games like Skyrim. I want my companions to be smarter. If you want an enemy to be harder to kill just give it more HP.
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Pretty much the truth. People who want the holy trinity want "platform games that always has the character jumping on the enemy" or "enemies who always just run forward ala Contra". If the mindset had been this way in the hayday of the video game revolution, we'd have no true innovation.
Trinity is one tactic, it's a single tactic. Games that implement it create challenges by creating different scenerios and having the PCs figure out how to implement the one tactic.
GW2 is the best example of breaking away from the trend. Mobs behave smartly. The higher level dungeons will target characters most important , not based off of the character yelling out jibes in the middle of combat. (i always imagine that taunts are really your mama jokes).
Sure, tank and spank can work on a handful of mobs, but not many and strong team tactics are neccessary, especially when you have a more balanced party.
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I could be wrong, but it seems like Mr. lizardbones just touched a quite important subject.
Generally we are looking not for some qualities in NPCs. We are looking for a challenge. NPS with advanced AI is a challenge. But strong dumb NPS is a challenge too. Just for very short period of time. Then those encounters will become very boring. They become repetitive. Because this is what dumb AI is. Dumb AI (by its definition) besides other limitations has very limited number of possible variation of behavior. So, dumb AI also influence game replay ability.
It is not a secret that progress in game AI development and utilizing was significantly deprioritized by development of PVP, which in some degree satisfied hunger for tactical challenge.
It is actually not about what exactly some NPCs would do in response to players actions, or in anticipation to potential players threat. Scenarios could be developed to your liking. It is about being challenging enough, but not overpowered. Or you will have situation Mr. MMODesigner has described.
Actually modern state of AI capabilities is quite high. Higher than capabilities of average persons. So, what the problem? When you fight another player, you expect him to be not very different from you in mental capacity. Meaning, you expect to win because of your skills.
Different players might have different skills (and not only skills in a game). Simple AI is not operating on skills level. It operates on a simple tactical level (by analyzing of outcome of multiple scenario variation (it is not absolutely accurate, but will do for this discussion)).
Whatever your attempts are to analyze what enough advanced AI will do in some situation, you will fail, because even dumb AI is enormously faster than you are, and capable of producing right (on its level of dumbness) decision in real time. It is very hard to balance that kind of AI with real people capabilities. Besides, real people make mistakes. We love them for those. We can defeat them because of those. AI may be dumb, it may be predictable, but it doesn't make unintentional mistakes. And it is boring.
General (most common) direction in AI development (not in a game industry, but in all AI science) was to make AI as advance as possible, potentially better than human intelligence. Not to make AI to be precisely equal it. This is what we need to make fight challenging and interesting.
So, on my opinion, any hopes that improvement of AI will improve our game experience in nearest future, just hopes.
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I mainly played defenders, and only rarely ever farmed missions or participated in "cheaty" stuff like power leveling a lowbie or whatever. As such, the "Burn nerf" never really affected me directly nor did it bother me. In fact none of the game balance stuff they ever did bothered me one way or the other. This might be because it was mostly beneficial to the defenders I guess. I will say that the "smarter AI" crowd isn't necessarily the PVPers, at least in CoH. There were people who had a fire tank just to generate swag then used a different toon for PVP. These people complained when the nerfs came down because it meant they couldn't as easily corrupt PVE to their personal swag engine anymore. These were the type of people who would complain "Aw, now you're making me go back and reroll a new guy because my old money/XP machine got dismantled, dangit, now I have to play MORE PVE that I hate just to generate enough swag to support my PVPing that I love. This sucks. " My response to those people at the time was to quote Judd Nelson from The Breakfast Club: "BEE OH OH, AITCH OH OH" Listening to the babies who don't want their "automatic win" button taken away is never the right answer. They'll complain when you nerf stuff, but that only proves they're invested. If it all becomes a cakewalk, they'll quietly stop playing altogether and go find another game. As for people not wanting a challenge, I would say that not EVERY mission or game experience needs to be totally challenging, but also, in the last few months of CoH, I regularly participated in repeated Triumph Server-wide attempts to get the "The REALLY Hard Way" badge. We were only successful once, but we had a great time doing it. Some stuff should be that challenging.
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The issue with standard tanking is that it is pretty unrealistic for enemies that are not dumb. I like the concept for druaga tower that it is about the tank as a blockers. For example, narrow corridor or door tanking partially works that way.
An interesting AI would bring a less scripted boss encounters.
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I believe it is highly possible to create smarter VI keeping the trinity. You want the enemy to think smart or more logically and to retain a normal mind, so if we are fighting a pig will we like the pig to act like a human? i guess we don't want it that way. if we are fighting a mob of zombies should they have high intelligence instead of zerg mentality? my take on the matter is if i am fighting against humanoid/intelligent being, make them intelligent. for example : i am fighting an orc champion with trinity group, tank takes aggro; healer heals tank and enrages the orc champion; now the orc champion wants to beat the life out of healer, now here we make the orc champion immune to taunt for 5 sec(or a time depending on situation/balance) and allow him to attack healer, but healer is light armored and die really fast, so add a mechanics that will allow tank to shield healer for 2-3 sec taking 50% of the damage that is done to healer within that time period, this will obviously make the orc champion realize without killing the tank it is impossible to kill healer. but it is way too easy, so we add another attack to orc champion and that is if certain player is below 25% hp and enrage the champion, orc champion will instantly finish him off regardless of any guarding or defense spell/mechanism in place. this will make encounters more challenging despite having a trinity.
i want an open world, no phasing, no instancing.i want meaningful owpvp.i want player driven economy.i want meaningful crafting.i want awesome exploration, a sense of thrill.i want ow housing with a meaningful effect on my entire gameplay experience, not just some instanced crap.i want all of these free of cost, i don't wanna pay you a cent, game devs can eat grass and continue developing game for me.
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Originally posted by Ozmodan
This sounds like it would make a good game in itself - give players a little scripting language and a finite amount of memory/clock cycles, then have their AI-driven parties of characters duke it out in an arena.
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We need smarter PvE opponents, hell most MMOs I play need smarter PvP opponents. :)
The Holy Trinity is the best PvE mechanic devised, but like any mechanic it forces players into a certain style of gameplay. Smarter mobs can exploit the HT to get an advantage, this can cause the HT gameplay real issues. So players want the mobs to be dumb. If there was a tactical response that the players could make to the moves of smart mobs I think they would be OK with it.
In the example given you had to have a Controller to be able to have a tactical response to the smart mobs moving out of the fire. That's a problem as not every team would have a Controller. This could have been solved by having other players "cover" the tank. The other players close of gaps in the flames around the tank simply by having LoS through a gap to the tank, they just move to get that LoS. Or you could have a group mechanic like a finishing move which held mobs already in dot zones.
We don't need the HT going ahead in MMOs, but if that's not used then we need a replacement. The blitzkrieg tactic of a player group with no structure is simply not as satisfying.
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I am all pro Holy Trinity. But the division actualy is :
1. Crowd control - tank, debuff, curse etc ... whatever fits the enemy
2. Support - heals, buffs ... again whatever works in the given situation
3. Damage
Thus the Holy Trinity still exists, but the roles are filled by different classes agains different enemies. In your case, the crowd control and damage was the same character, so it was advantaged. Making the mobs smarter split the roles in 2 again (tank/cc could not do damage) thus you got a pushback :-)
I am all for good AI. Make the enemies less in number and more varied in group composition and skill/tactics used. I fail to see why mobs don't generaly call for help (invalidates pull tactics most of the time) or change targets (classic tank is out without other CC means) or change tactics. That is not hard to implement but lowers the fun of the more straight forward thinking players.
When I can find one such MMORPG that combines all the above, I'll buy a lifetime sub in an instant (I am not interested in KillX/FetchX quests, I can do with the grind if enemies are interesting and challenging).
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C'est la vie.
A rather unimaginative piece to be honest.
Albeit with some grain of truth, if you believe the trinity is synonymous with stupid AI then it's indeed not the artificial kind of intelligence you need.
Just take a few minutes to imagine. You're an MMO designer. You've got classes that fit into the trinity. You're tasked with coming up with interesting, challenging and intelligent enemy tactics whilst keeping the trinity intact. What do you do?
If you really can't come up with anything at all then I'd say that your own lack of creativity, not any flaw of the trinity.
Do note, none of this implies that the trinity is the best combat system. It's simply a combat system among several others. Whether or not you have a trinity system does not determine how interesting, challenging and intelligent your combat is, it all comes down to what the developers do with that system. A good dev can make great trinity systems and great non-trinity systems. A bad dev will produce a boring combat system either way.
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In CoH it wasn't a simple matter of "Dumb AI = fights are winnable, but too easy" versus "Smart AI = fights are nearly impossible, or actually impossible, depending on your team". There were difficulty sliders you could set that would dictate the level and number of badguys that would spawn. So the nerfs to Burn and Taunt were mostly just to take away the ability of those tankers to just set the "mob size" control to "max" then aggro an entire map full of Freaks and immolate them all. When you get to the level of being able to "batch process" an entire map with one particular build, it's a problem. If anything I think the AI might have been handled best as a difficulty setting. If nothing else, the little kids and casual players could set it to an easier setting and the powergamers could set it to the max just for the challenge. I mean, it was certainly true that some people really made a point of maxxing out their build, whereas others didn't have the time or inclination to bother getting every Very Rare thing they might need, or even know what "the best" stuff even was. I certainly didn't, and by the end I just about had the Influence for it if I wanted to (CoH currency was Influence, not gold). I'd also like to point out that the Lord Recluse TF may have suffered from a too-smart AI, I wouldn't know because I never played it, because I never got my one villain to a high enough level to do so. I think people would still have done TFs even if the AIs were smarter than the average bear, but only if it were consistently like that for all such content, and if the rewards were proportionally higher to make up for the added headaches. As it was, it was hard enough to keep a TF together long enough to finish it for a lot of them (see "Dr. Quarterfield TF" in the Shadow Shard) so people tended to start more of the shorter ones (the "Quicky" being the Katie Hannon TF, for instance) because the rewards were the same anyway, regardless of the length or difficulty. They eventually changed that to some extent, but even the difficulty settings you got on the TFs didn't include smarter AI as far as I remember and they didn't give added rewards for anything you could set, I don't think.
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I'm more in the middle.
I dislike farming and feel your first solution was correct.
But that being said I play games to have fun and I don't think continually having to chase down mobs after I engaged them is much fun either.
So maybe one or 2 of the group are dumb enough to keep attacking and the rest path as you described in your first solution.
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Each kind of ai has it's place in a game. A smart ai would be good on fights with mobs that don't hit hard so each class can take a couple hits but not necessarily die. If you have a smart ai on a giant dragon fight you are going to die.... Kinda like that intro video to ff xiv arr. The dumber ai's belong on boss fights to some extent because they make it possible, they make it fun then. But there are many determining factors for the right ai.
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Smarter enemies make for more challenging play. Enemies should be programmed to act appropriately for their environment and for the situation.
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Originally posted by MMODesigner
I was wondering, what incentives did you provide the players to tackle and master this more challenging scenario? Did beating them provide some special title, reward, item etc?
Most MMORPG players are strongly motivated by progression, and will generally gravitate to activities that provide the greatest reward for the least effort/risk.
They don't play these games for "fun" or challenging game play (OK some do) but in general you have to provide extraordinary reward for extra challenge/effort/risk.
If this wasn't part of the design, no wonder the players wanted it changed to be traditional, no reason for them to do this otherwise.
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Most Ender's fans, of course, won't care about comparisons and consider the film adaptation a long-awaited victory in itself. Those fresh to the tale — or at least expecting something fresh from it — may wonder what the fuss was about. show more
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Loved the book first off. But what the hell was I watching? Problems; The Stilson fight was supposed to happen at Enders elementary school not a military school. Bean was not supposed to be i n Enders launch group. Because of that they can't do Enders Shadow. Bernard didn't break his arm in the launch shuttle. . Shen wasn't in the movie. Dink was supposed to be in Rat army. Peter and Val's side story was left out. Command School is supposed to be on Eros. Not a bugger world. Val was supposed to leave at the end with ender as the governor of a colony. That's when he finds the egg. Crappy rendition of a great book
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Sportsbook Review reported on December 1st that Marathonbet allegedly confiscated $1,000 in winnings citing professional betting. SBR has since spoken with Marathonbet concerning the player's complaint and was told that the betting site believes that the player's ID was forged. The player must now launch his complaint with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. | Marathonbet complaint
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Marathonbet Sportsbook (SBR rating B) is among the sportsbooks to apply for a UK license ahead of the implementation of the unpopular new UK gambling law which SBR reported on this week. The law — The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act requires sportsbooks that servce the UK market to hold a license with the UK Gambling Commission. Prior to this point, these sportsbooks were not required to hold the license provided they were subject to the laws of another EEA state or part of a "white list" jurisdiction, such as Isle of Man or Alderney. Marathonbet tells SBR that their application to the Gambling Commission was submitted on August 15, 2014, and the application was fully completed two weeks later. The application was submitted under "Marathonbet Alderney Limited" and is currently pending. Marathonbet.com is presently licensed with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC). Sportsbook Review published a Marathonbet profile on July 23.
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Marathonbet Sportsbook (SBR rating B) has been in business since 1997. Marathonbet was added to the SBR sportsbook ratings guide in November of 2012. The online sportsbook operates two gaming licenses; their .com website is registered in the Netherlands Antilles in Curacao, while their .co.uk license with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC). Marathonbet operates three land based betting shops in the United Kingdom located at Earle Street Crewe, Broad Street Crewe, and South Ashford.
Marathonbet players have submitted mixed feedback. High points include the number of obscure wagering markets on offer such as chess, darts, handball, hurling, and sumo; but low points are registered on extended verification or Know Your Customer (KYC) waiting times. The KYC process must be completed before a payout can be made. Online sportsbooks are required to perform this process to comply with guidelines set by gaming regulators and in-house terms and conditions. If a sportsbook chose not to perform KYC, fraud would skyrocket and processing costs would eventually be passed on to legitimate users. The average time of account validation has been approximately two weeks according to the player complaints filed with SBR. Management has addressed sportsbook complaints with SBR. Most recently, a batch of sportsbook complaints were filed by users based in Greece that claimed their deposits were refunded and a percentage of winnings confiscated. These cases are ongoing.
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It's the simplest and oldest motivational ploy going - a locker room bulletin board filled with incendiary quotes from the opposition.
But as Ole Miss prepares for Saturday's home Egg Bowl game against Mississippi State, it's worked - at least for running back Brandon Bolden.
"You just go over there and see what happened to it," Bolden said. "Ends up being something new. It is kind of motivation, especially during the summer workouts. That was a constant reminder to get things going." ...


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The Newtown High School girls' basketball team ensured that it will continue its season once the regular campaign is complete by clinching a Class LL state playoff berth. The Nighthawks did so by earning their eighth win of the season in a 41-20 triumph over visiting Weston on February 6. Newtown held a 16-2 lead after one quarter of play, and went ahead 28-6 at halftime before cruising past its winless foes. Cassie Ekstrom had a dozen points as nine Nighthawks registered at least one point. Haley Ryan who, along with Ekstrom, sank a pair of 3-pointers, added six points. Eliza Eggleston had five, and Mali Klorczyk, Caroline Chocholak, and Mary Joe Rossi all scored four. Micaela Nowacki had three points, Kelly Merrick scored two, and Lauren Wilcox added one.
Newtown High School's boys' swimming and diving team pulled out a 94-86 victory in New Fairfield on February 11, earning eight first-place finishes en route to topping the Rebels.
Newtown High School's hockey team members hope to get some extra ice time in March with runs deep in the conference and state playoffs. For now, they're getting more shots, saves, and hits thanks to overtime games in the regular season. The Nighthawks played in their fifth overtime battle of the campaign — a tilt that ended in a scoreless deadlock with host New Fairfield-Immaculate of Danbury — at Danbury Ice Arena on February 8. Newtown is 2-0-3 in OT battles.
Newtown High School senior Jenna Calandro earned the Class LL state title in the pole vault event by clearing the bar with a height of 11 feet, seven inches in the championship meet at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven on February 8. It may have been a little short of Calandro's school indoor track record-setting 12-foot-3 effort but it was enough to beat out her closest competitor by more than a foot. And, what's more, it set a Class LL championship record.
The Newtown and Joel Barlow high school hockey teams will play their first annual Warrior Cup game on Thursday, February 13. The game will be played at Danbury Ice Arena at 5:30 pm. It was originally to have been played on February 5 but snow postponed it. Both teams are joining forces to raise funds to support the Wounded Warrior Project.
The Sandy Ground Project was established by the New Jersey Fireman's Benevolent Association last year. Its mission is to build 26 playgrounds along the coast of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut in towns hit by Hurricane Sandy. Each playground honors and and provides a lasting memory of the 26 children and teachers who lost their lives on December 14, 2012. Milford will be the location of one of those playgrounds, to be built in memory of James Mattioli. James was a 6-year old who was among the children killed on 12/14. His playground is scheduled to be built on March 15, with a ribbon cutting planned for March 22. That same morning, a 5K run/walk and kids fun run/obstacle course will be help to help cover the costs of the Milford playground.
After losing a 52-49 double-overtime thriller at Joel Barlow of Redding on January 31, the Newtown High School girls' basketball team got back on track, beating the visiting New Milford Green Wave, 43-36, in a very important late-season game, on February 4. Newtown was led by Sarah Lynch who had 19 points and also led the team with three steals. Cassie Ekstrom contributed to the win by bringing down 11 rebounds. Mali Klorczyk gave the team a spark after hitting back to back 3-pointers and tacking on a couple more clutch buckets.
Another game, another close outcome – a fifth straight hard-fought win for the Newtown High School boys' basketball team. The Nighthawks used a wild fourth-quarter outburst to go on a 27-15 run to overcome host New Milford for a 71-62 win on February 4. Newtown earned its fifth straight victory to improve to 9-5 overall and 7-1 in South-West Conference play. New Milford fell to 4-10 overall (1-8 in SWC action). Ten of Newtown's 14 games have been decided by nine or fewer points, including a 58-56 nail-biter win over Joel Barlow of Redding in its previous tilt, another game in which a late rally made the difference. Newtown finished that contest with a 20-8 scoring run to eek out the victory. All things considered, the New Milford game was a lopsided affair for a Newtown team that has been involved in five games decided by four points or less.
Newtown High School's gymnastics team scored 127.6 points to tie host New Milford and defeat Weston (113.4) on February 4. The Nighthawks were led by strong performances across the board. Elisha Wilson scored an 8.0 on the vault, an 8.9 on the uneven bars, and an 8.65 on the balance beam. Anna Jannott scored an 8.15 on the vault and an 8.45 on the beam.
Newtown High School's dance and cheerleading squads took home South-West Conference championships on February 1. The girls put their best foot forward – collectively –to work together and stand out among the best in the conference in their home gymnasium. Both championships took place at Newtown High School. The dance squad showed tremendous versatility and skill by winning not only its second consecutive SWC hip hop championship, but also the jazz routine title.


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ALBANY — Police are searching for a man who robbed a 47-year-old woman at knife point at around 12:30 p.m. Monday afternoon in southwest Albany.
Albany Police Department officials described the armed robber as a black male about 5 feet 8 in height and 200 pounds in weight. He was last seen wearing a blue hoodie, blue jeans and black tennis shoes and was traveling on a red bicycle.
According to APD reports, the woman was doing repair work at a vacant home in the 1300 block of West Waddell Avenue when the robber entered the structure and demanded money, pulling a knife on the victim. He got away with an undisclosed amount of cash, police say.
No one was injured in the incident, police said.
Anyone with information on the incident or the suspect's whereabouts are asked to contact the APD at (229) 431-2100 or Albany Area Crime Stoppers at (229) 436-TIPS (8477).
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Anze Kopitar scored with 4:23 left and defenseman Alec Martinez had two assists as the Los Angeles Kings won the third straight game of their road trip by beating the slumping New York Islanders 3-2 on Thursday.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Ales Hemsky scored twice in regulation and Tyler Seguin had the only goal in the shootout as the Dallas Stars beat the Calgary Flames 4-3 Wednesday for their seventh win in eight games.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Marian Gaborik broke a second-period deadlock, and Jonathan Quick shook off an opening-minute goal to lift the Los Angeles Kings to a 4-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday in a rematch of last year's Stanley Cup Final.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Anze Kopitar had a goal and two assists as the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Devils 3-1 on Monday at the start of a five-game trip.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
The New York Rangers routed Anaheim 7-2 on Sunday to make it a three-way tie for the overall NHL lead alongside the Ducks and Montreal, with Derek Stepan breaking out of a long slump with two goals and an assist.
Monday, March 23, 2015
Justin Fontaine had a goal and two assists, and linemate Thomas Vanek also scored as the Minnesota Wild breezed by the St. Louis Blues with a 6-3 victory on Saturday.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Tampa Bay strengthened its grip on an NHL playoff spot by beating Detroit 3-1 on Friday, opening an eight-point gap between the teams placed second and third in the Atlantic Division.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
St. Louis missed its chance to go joint top of the NHL standings when it lost 2-1 after a shootout at Winnipeg on Thursday, with Andrew Ladd scoring the decisive goal for the Jets in the tiebreaker.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Chicago's Brad Richards broke a scoreless deadlock in the third period to give the Blackhawks a 1-0 win at New York on Wednesday, cooling off the Rangers' hot streak of form.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Jonathan Toews scored twice and assisted on both of Marian Hossa's goals to lead the Chicago Blackhawks past the slumping New York Islanders 4-1 in the NHL on Tuesday.


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Harrison holds off Reitz down the stretch
Harrison's final result of a 74-69 win Thursday night at Reitz was about what the score indicates.
A good Warriors team that moved to 13-6 overall and 5-1 in the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference held off a scrappy team on the road.
But the start, especially from University of Evansville bound sophomore Ernie Duncan, was another matter. It provided Harrison with the cushion it needed to weather a 28-point fourth quarter by the Panthers (7-12).
The 6-foot-2 guard scored 22 points before the game was 12 minutes old to stake the Warriors to a 34-22 lead with 4:15 to play in the second quarter.
"The last time I felt like that shooting the ball was against Reitz last year," said Duncan, who finished with a career-high 27 points. "In that game I hit four of four 3-pointers. four of four from midrange and four of four free throws. That was the last time, until tonight."
His 9-for-10 field goal shooting in the first half helped Harrison to a 39-25 lead that grew to 58-38 in the last minute of the third quarter.
"We played really good basketball for three quarters," said Harrison coach Bryan Speer. "But in this league you've got to play four quarters to win. Credit Reitz for getting back into the game."
Reitz fought its way back into striking range almost exclusively behind the play of junior guard Kameron Malone, who was shooting even better than Duncan.
After entering the game with a career high of 11 points, Malone hit 11 of 12 shots from the floor to finish with a new career night of 26 points. He also added six assists.
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got involved, the Panthers pulled within 67-65 on an alley-oop dunk that Malone provided for Levels.
But Everette Duncan, Ernie's freshman brother, would hit four free throws in the last 13.4 seconds to finish with 22 points and end any hopes Reitz had of completing its miracle comeback for a win.
"Our guys could've bagged this game and lost by 30 points," said Reitz coach Michael Adams. "But to their credit they didn't. They've done that every day this year, showed up and worked hard to get better.
"Levels and Malone were great and Schuetz came through on a gimpy ankle. But there are no moral victories. We need to play better over four quarters and win."
Levels finished with 17 points and Schuetz with 12.
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The Good Dinosaur SynopsisThe Good Dinosaur asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.
The Good Dinosaur Release Date
In Theaters November 25, 2015
The Good Dinosaur Credits
Starring: Judy Greer, Neil Patrick Harris, and Bill Hader
Directed by: Peter Sohn
Produced by: Denise Ream
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
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