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Mar 26 2009 04:39
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I am suffering from insomnia lately and I have suffered from it once before due to stress and anxiety issues and I notice that there are times where the insomnia has made me have INTENCE cravings for sugar!
The first time I had insomnia I felt like dates. I would eat 200g of fresh dates the craving was so bad.
This time, it is sweet potato, as I seam to eat a lot of that! And sugars like maple syrup…. This morning I gave in to a craving and had a mixed pear fruit salad with 2 diff varieties chopped up and SMOTHERED in maple syrup. As in, I poured half the bottle in lol!
I don't mind, I only eat healthy clean foods most of my meals are normal and balanced, so giving in to a craving once in a while doesn't matter to me. I sot and enjoy it and don't binge.
I am wondering weather any one else has developed HUGE sugar cravings due to insomnia?
It makes sense that my body feels like compensating the exhaustion with sugar but I am not a scientist or biochemist or expert so I can only go on other peoples experiences!
Please tell me about your experiences with insomnia, and weather you were able to resolve it!
Any help would be appreciated!
I am seeing a doctor next Tuesday about it.
And no, it is not to do with my diet, I have been eating this way for a long time and have only gotten insomnia due to personal, non physical triggers…. Which THEN causes me to crave sugar, which I occasionally have at night, which fuels the insomnia because my body starts waking up and expecting sugar every night!
Mar 26 2009 06:08
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i also had the massive sugar cravings when i was having insomnia a few months ago.
upon my doctor-cousin's suggestion, i've been taking melatonin before bedtime to control said sugar cravings for a month and a half, and it really helps me to fall asleep as well.
therefore, i would venture to extrapolate that sugar cravings and insomnia may simply be a lack of melatonin.
may be worth mentioning to your doc!
Mar 26 2009 08:33
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Thanks, I actually have some melatonin in my " medication" bag hah, I have accumulated quiet a few, for example: vitamins for skin, calcium supplements, a good quality multi V, fish oil supplement, but I only use he calcium and multi regularly, the rest are for when I am sick and need a particular thing.
I also have Valerian, which is supposed to relieve insomnia.
I didn't bother with those more natural things because even the strong stuff I got prescribed by my doctor did not work, despite the fact that I took 3 instead of 2!
I have just taken 1 Valerian, I hope it works!
Has any ones skin suffered due to insomnia? My skin had been really nice and people had been commenting on how much nicer it was looking, then all of a sudden the lack of sleep caught up with me and my skin just broke out!
Having lots of fats was really helping my skin ( about 35% of my calories) and cold pressed flaxseed oil most days seamed to help, as well as having a lot more salmon, so I will keep doing that!
Mar 26 2009 10:00
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I also have Valerian, which is supposed to relieve insomnia.
Has any ones skin suffered due to insomnia? My skin had been really nice and people had been commenting on how much nicer it was looking, then all of a sudden the lack of sleep caught up with me and my skin just broke out!
Having lots of fats was really helping my skin ( about 35% of my calories) and cold pressed flaxseed oil most days seamed to help, as well as having a lot more salmon, so I will keep doing that!
1. valerian is a good alternative, also it's the kind of thing that if you take regularly it helps to promote better sleep. also what i found helps is 5htp, which is artificial serotonin (i think).
2. the skin needs fats- whenever i eliminate fat completely from my diet, my skin becomes dreadful straightaway! almonds are a very good option. the only thing that fixes my skin is lots of sleep and lots of water and enough fat in my diet. i also recently started drinking green tea (1 month or so ago) because i hate the way regular tea stains teeth, which doesn't seem to be doing my skin any harm either!
Mar 26 2009 12:42
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I may be going off on an irrelevant tangent, because you seem to be looking at this from a bio-chemical standpoint, personaltrainer, but: perhaps insomnia and sugar cravings are only related because the stress that causes the insomnia also causes the urge to eat sugar?
Mar 26 2009 15:08
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I have insomnia and sugar cravings but never thought the two were connected. I think sugar gives you a sense of quick energy so maybe because your body is so tired you turn to this.Are you eating enough in general and at a healthy weight? Both of those things can interfere with sleep and skin
I get sugar cravings from being even a little tired or stressed. I have occasional insomnia--have since I was your age--and I've tried various remedies.
Since your insomnia is being caused by personal stress, my advice is to work on stress relief strategies, including exercise, deep breathing, yoga, visualization, affirmations and eating foods that are high in L-tryptophan, like turkey and bananas. Consider counseling or therapy, too.
This is not a fast cure, as you might find with a pharmaceutical or supplement, but it is far more valuable as an aid to living a healthy life. Drugs stop working, but stress relief strategies get better and easier to use (and start working faster, too).
When your body/brain aren't getting their energy stores replenished through sleep, they need to get energy someplace else. Carbs are the best source of instant energy and I'm sure your lack of sleep is triggering the craving.
Mar 27 2009 03:24
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I definitely have enough fats in my diet! I like 35% of my calories to come from fats, and I am a huge advocate of fats because when I a higher fat diet, I notice my skin is nicer which makes sense because fats are so good for the skin!
So, I have about 60 grams of fats a day mainly from salmon, oily fish, almonds or brazil nuts, and cold pressed flax and virgin olive oil.
I am a healthy weight, BMI of about 19 which is fine on my body and I usually have very nice skin. I eat about 1800 - 2100 a day and I am usually lightly active, moderately active about half the week. I give my body what it wants when it needs it and am not restricting to stay slim.
I know anxiety from a new course I have just started is contributing, which has fueled erratic eating patterns
Then I started eating some sugar at night, then I didn't feel like as much sugar/ carbs the next day, so by the end of the day my body had already run out due to not having had them since the night before or the very early morning of that day ( 4 am)
Before my insomnia and night eating of sugar happened I had a large breakfast high in carbohydrates every morning, then a large lunch, an afternoon snack of fruit, and a large dinner so this routine was working well.
Now, some times I automatically wake up early at 4 am and have my carbohydrate full breakfast because my tired body tends to crave carbohydrates at night/ early morning and I figure that I " will just have an early breakfast" then I won't eat until lunch, and if it is a late lunch I won't feel like my usual fruit snack before dinner, so after dinner my body craves the carbohydrates/ sugars again because I have not had them since early that morning!
The only way out of this pattern is to start to have breakfast at the usual time, have my after noon sugar ( fruit) snack, and just eat normally again the way I was before the insomnia and erratic eating started!
Mar 27 2009 03:35
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If I tackle my problems, and do my course work, and work hard enough each day, then I find I don't need to think about the things I haven't done or the fact that I wasted time and didn't try hard enough in my work
I really dislike meditation, I get bored doing " nothing" and need to be doing something, although sitting down and reading is a quiet and relaxing thing I enjoy; I need to be doing SOMETHING though, I hate the idea of doing nothing night time when I lay down and rest is the only time I enjoy " not doing anything"
I think my mind has trouble shutting off, because it is so used to being occupied and I am the type of person who cannot have un finished work or a messy house because I don't like having things I know I have to do any way, I would rather get things out of the way.
So, by NOT doing certain tasks/ things during the day, it will only fuel my active mind at night, so I need to eliminate reasons that I know tend to make me think/ stress so that I have the best possible chance of being able to stop thinking as much and just shut off my mind at night.
That is the mental work I need to implement, as well as the physiological reasons to do with food I mentioned before.
I think you're right about getting back to your routine.
...and yes, I dimly remember my 20's & 30's that I could not conceive of shutting down my mind and thinking about "nothing"...or watching myself breathe...whatever. Those feelings didn't abate until my mid-40's, but I'm glad they did, since I get so much from morning meditation these days.
May 16 2009 16:18
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I know this is an older post but hopefully you (personaltrainer) will comment again. I'd love to hear how you are doing and if your insomnia has tapered off. I am dealing with insomnia right now. A few years ago I had it bad for 3 months where I didn't sleep at all without taking excessive amounts of nytol. Toward the end of that 3 months I put myself on a elimination diet (to see what was causing my IBS symptoms) which was not eating ANY sugar, grains, or certain dairy products and the insomnia vanished completely. About 2 years ago I added oats back in my diet and was still fine. I even occasionally ate whole grains and sugar and although it made me really bloated I never got the insomnia back. Now when ever I have even a shred of sugar/grain-type products/or milk/yogurt I can't sleep that night. It only lasts a night but it is horrible. When I do fall asleep on my own it takes forever and I always wake up at least once in the middle of the night and wake up again very early in the morning. Usually 4am-6am. I want to figure out what is causing this because I can't take not getting the proper sleep. It is effecting everything in my life. And it makes me crave the foods I can't physically eat and when I give in and eat them I have an entire night of no sleep. I know that stress causes insomnia and I worry a lot about things out of my control like my future and the uncertainty of it. But there is more to it then stress. I think 90% is from the stomach to brain connection and the role nutrition plays. When I didn't have insomnia, I was eating low amounts of sugar. Virtually zero processed and low natural. I also was eating lots of tuna or ground turkey before bed and now know both are high in tryptophan. Yet some say to eat a high carb meal to induce sleepiness.
Does anyone else know anything about food or sugar and insomnia?
May 17 2009 12:58
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I am glad you bumped up my post!
There is definitely a stomach brain connection - even if I eat enough, if I have not eaten as many carbohydrates as usual, then my brain tells me that I need more and that it will affect my sleep. In the past when I HAVE restricted I remember needing to get some fruit or carbs at night one time, so this memory from when I actually was restricting comes back when I don't eat as many carbs; perhaps a self preservation mechanism?
I have managed to stop eating early in the morning/late at night. It started when I did it once when I had insomnia, as the pain of being awake was overwhelming and I think I wanted the distraction; from then on my body came to crave the pleasant feeling of eating to temporarily distract me from the pain onsomia causes me.
The carbohydrate/sugar and insomnia link is interesting - I have heard another person on this site say they cannot sleep without 50 - 60% carbohydrates, about 250 grams or more for them.
Maybe it is a paradox for other people; eating less carbohydrate seams to help people, while hindering others.
THANKFULLY my insomnia has STOPPED for almost a week - 5 - 7 hours a night, usually 6 for a few days and I feel like a different person!
I slept about 4 - 5 hours (which was a lot for me) then the next day I went and got sleeping pills that you can only get with doctors prescription, and took them for the next few days which has got me into a routine of sleep!
I am determined to sleep for 7 - 8 hours eventually, although 5 - 6 hours feels FANTASTIC compared to how awful I felt on no sleep.
If I eat around 40% carbohydrates I feel good so I definitely need SOME, just not excessive amounts. I am still figuring it out though, so THANKS A LOT for sharing your experience as I will remember it
By the way - I ALSO tend to wake once during the night, and also at 4 - 6 am. I have had a few good days waking at 6 though, but that is only because I have gone to bed quiet ate (10 - 12)
May 18 2009 19:57
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I am so thankful to see a post about insomnia here! I have had insomnia for years off and on, but NEVER seen a connection between high carb/ high sugar foods. Although alcohol which is basically sugar often makes me wake up in the middle of the night and stay up.
Insomnia for me is triggered by a range of things: stress, emotional issues; working too late (my mind is all wired so that I cant fall asleep at my bed time) poor sleep habits (I need to get to bed by 11; if it gets later than that I often have difficulty falling asleep; but I am usually awake on my own by 6.30-7 am); dinner too late or heavy; more than 1 glass of wine; and caffeine. I never drink caffeine after 5 pm.
I actuallly find that having a cup of milk and a banana usually help me get back to sleep, unless I am sleepless because I have overeaten.
valerian, & hops are excellent for sleep.
also, tryptophan and/or melatonin. (I never took melatonin, the tryptophan killed 2 birds with one stone for me)
could your insomnia be from not enough calories in the day, also ccausing your binges?
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Jul 06 2009 16:33
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I have also been affected by insomnia on and off for the past few years. A few personal problems triggered it at age 15. I ended up missing class quite a bit. It came back to me last November when I started my new job. Prior that I had no sleeping pattern and basically went to bed and woke up at whatever time I felt like. This job obliges me to get up at 7:30 am which is fine, but the thing is for the past 9 months I am never able to fall asleep before 2am (2am is pretty good). It's so stressful.
I took some pills called Victan apparently for anxiety but they didnt work. When I stopped taking them for the first two weeks I had major panick attacks to the point I couldnt breath. I think pills are really bad for you specially after these after effects....but sometime you're so desperate you take anything into consideration!
I lost 10kg in a short period of time....and fell asleep everywhere specially at work...People were always saying I looked awfully tired...
Now I don't stress too much about it....if im tired...im tired...i'll catch up during the weekend. I think i've improved from sleeping 4hours to 5.5/6hours a day.
Hopefully this phase will go away...my weight has stabalised...although now I'm experiencing major sugar cravings.
Jul 07 2009 11:20
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Thanks for bumping up the thread!
Funnily enough, even when I was very under weight I could still sleep?
I have worked out likely possible reasons for my insomnia.
Firstly if I am not very active with my body and mind during the day, the way bodies are supposed to be, than I am not as sleepy. Mentally and/pr physically.
Anxiety is another issue. I tend to try to sabotage my own happy ness. Even when things are going GREAT there is a ANNOYING bastard in my mind that tries to keep me awake.
Also, if I do not eat in a way that balances out my proteins/carbohydrate/fat intake…. For instance, when I tried a raw fruit diet for a day (just for an experiment) my body craved protein/salt/ anything other than fruit LOL, therefore I could not sleep as I was dreaming of grilled cheese sandwiches haha.
I have found that:
I like to have a small frozen banana at night just before sleeping. It is not overly taxing on my digestion.
I enjoy having an earlier dinner so my digestion is finished at night, and than having the small banana. Mentally, I just like knowing I am not " hungry" or I danger of it, so I DO need a small snack before sleep. This has helped with my insomnia.
Insulin... Fatigue or anxiety can make insulin levels rise. This causes blood-sugars to drop sharply and that leads to cravings for something to get the blood-sugars back up to normal.... usually sugary/fatty/starchy foods which are easily absorbed into the bloodstream and provide a quick fix of energy. The trick is to avoid the temptation to eat a lot of these foods and instead keep matching the need for sugar with more 'slow-release' foods... like bananas, wholegrains and othe complex carbohydrates.
There are lots of reasons why you wouldn't be able to sleep in the first place. Worrying that you can't sleep can ironically lead to lack of sleep. And poor sleeping patterns can simply become a bad habit. So good luck finding ways to relax and switch off.
Jul 08 2009 01:22
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Worrying about not being able to sleep/ the anger at my inability to sleep and also the fact that it has become a bad habit (to wake up at 2 - 3 am) all contribute.
I am sleeping enough lately. Maybe not 8 hours, I do not count, but I sleep enough to function normally. I just wake up once a night. Which is much better than every 1 - 2 hours lol. I no longer get sugar cravings either.
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I used to worry a lot about not being able to sleep....ridiculous amounts really...but yeah i've overcome that too. I feel tired, but like you said i can still sort of function....the worst period is like at 4pm....or if this particular guy at work comes and talk to me about work, everytime I feel like i'm gonna fall asleep because of his voice!
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With torrential rain, flooded pitches and some very wet players and spectators, the heart and soul of the Rhinos was never dampened!
Both on and off the pitch they entertained us with an awesome vocal display. Some fabulous rugby that left their opponents wondering what on earth they were up against!
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I don't agree with the 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' crap. I believe that's an excuse for poor 'balance' in a game.
I also think 100% balance is impossible in this genre or any other for that matter.
Let's face it, some people have better reactions, better tactics, better gear maybe, whatever.
What is important is that everyone has a 'fair chance' against another player or class.
It shouldn't matter whether you're wearing cloth, leather, plate - or if you're ranged, melee or aoe.
In a 1 vs 1 situation, each class should have the skills/tools/tactics to put up a good fight against any other class.
True balance has never really bothered me too much. I like a challenge and feel a higher sense of reward knowing I was (probably) the underdog.
What really bothers me is knowing I have absolutely no chance of winning against a certain class, nor even a chance of escaping should I need to.
The main thing that kills PvP for me is the ridiculous burst damage that can kill you in seconds, before you even have a chance to think of tactics or even withdrawal.
'One shotting' is just terribly poor game design in my opinion and there is no excuse for it.
Any fight should have options - and options can only be made if the fight is able to last beyond the blink of an eye.
We're playing MMO's here, not FPS games. Get rid of the 'HEADSHOT' mentality and give people time to think and react accordingly!
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Originally posted by jacklo
fair chance against everyone else? So lets just make an MMO with one class and only one way to spec him.
The frontload damage has gotten way out of hand in PvP mmos. And i would say it is a major reason why many MMOs fail in the end game. But a lot of that hangs on the insanity that is the gear.
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You're all talking like its a single player game. I hope I dont end up in a pug with you guys.
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If the pvp is based around 1v1 then all classes should have a chance...if the pvp is based around group vs group then Rock, paper, scissors.
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Originally posted by Swollen_Beef
PvP should equal that the best player win.
If a class always will lose against another that means that the game is poorly balanced 1 Vs 1. MMOs are of course also about groups versus groups and the group that co operates and play best should of course win, but that really is no excuse for having some classes severly underpowered.
Cloth healers is a typical MMO thing. D&D and most of the other games have healers in heavy armor that actually can both take and give some damage.
In fact in my regular D&D (3rd ed) group we have a cleric as main tank while my bard is the main healer and secondary tank. It is actually a lot better balanced than the average MMO,
If gear, levels, imbalance or other mechanics makes the lousiest players win more than once in a while (everyone can get lucky) the game isn't as good as it should be. And don't give me the old "it is roleplaying, my characters skills is what matters" speach.
This is the reason that PvP is 10 times as popular as PvE in FPS gaming but MMOs are the other way around.
I do not advocate FPS styled combat, MMOs is and should be slower but strategy, wits and competence should win the day, not the class you play or the fact that you farmed gear for 2 years.
Originally posted by Swollen_Beef
Ships aren't classes in EVE. For all you know the player in the logistics ship could hop into a titan the next time you see them.
If you enjoy playing games where your actions after the creation screen have no effect on your chances at victory, there are plenty of MMOs like that. If you prefer a game where the choices you are making right now have a greater effect the outcome of a fight than the choice you made 6 months ago they have those for you as well. However your assumption of which side of the road EVE is on is wrong.
Everything creates huge amounts of negativity on the internet, that's what the internet is for: Negativity, porn and lolcats.
Originally posted by Majinash
Ships are not classes. But there are classes of ship.
you missed the point entirely and decided to read it as something else.
Someone in a Basilisk fully fitted for shield/armor rep, is not going to pick a fight with a harbinger. .
And who the hell cares if the logi pilot can fly a titan. He isnt in the titan right now, so those titan skills mean dick.
Originally posted by Swollen_Beef
Semantics don't make an argument. There are classes of ships... which only matter so far as you need specifics skills to use them. Ships are not classes, ships are equipment.
You seem incredibly unwelcoming of any real logic into your thread. You compare classes in WoW (I make this wild assumption because you mention cloth healer, chain DPS, and "WoW" in your post) and leave out the inverse of Chain healer and Cloth DPS?
In MMOs a class is normally chosen at creation, unable to be changed later on. To decide that chain beats cloth means that every choice after that first choice at creation is null, pointless and thus unexciting. In EVE you do not choose Battlecruiser when you create your account and are thus bound to that class of ship. How you can compare EVE ship choice which is closer to a choice of armor or weapon in a fantasy MMO (which you need specific skills to use a "class" of weapon in, just as you need skills to use a "class" of ship) to a WoW Class which is completely unchangeable after being decided upon is silly.
I didn't miss your point, your point was flawed. If you want a game where "balance" doesn't mean everyone has a fair shot, go play Lineage2. EVE is not the game you seem to think it is, as any player has the chance to beat any other player given similar access to the 2 main currencies, Skill points and ISK. that flows EXACTLY the same as the (attempt) WoW has made to balance WoW so that any class can beat any other class given similar access to the 1 main currency, Gear.
Go look up videos of mining barges killing ore thiefs and frigs taking down battleships, EVE is one of the most balanced games around, far more so than WoW.
Everything creates huge amounts of negativity on the internet, that's what the internet is for: Negativity, porn and lolcats.
Originally posted by Majinash
You cannot change your class once you hit play in an MMO. But you could look at the time in the hangar as your "character creator" Since once you undock, you cannot change your fitting and i have yet to see someoen eject mid-fight, and try to enter into an empty ship.
And i can take battleships down all day too with a gang of frigs and a BS fit meant for rats.
This argument is going nowhere, but i am more than happy to put on the troll face and continue.
Originally posted by Swollen_Beef
You could, but most wouldn't. once you undock you're stuck with that "build" for 10min, a few hours. You are comparing that to a choice that will last your entire play time in an MMO, possibly years.
I mean, maybe you are serious. But saying that the few hours you spend with a specific ship equipped is the same as the years you spend as your chosen class sure sounds like trolling.
Everything creates huge amounts of negativity on the internet, that's what the internet is for: Negativity, porn and lolcats.
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Stop arguing this way please.
We both know that if youre on a Logistics ship you are a healer as long as youre on a logistic. Fact of the matter is you cant just click bam switch ships unless you have a carrier there with a fully fitted battleship. Thats "the next time" you see him that hes in a titan. So what? Fact is youre fighting him now and there you blow up his ship, it will take a WHILE for him to come back with something completely different. Blob warfare? lag will prevent you from going back quickly. Roaming? You have no idea how far the ships are. Oh wait you do! If youre roaming that means you most likely know where stuff are and how far their base or temporary base is. They have a carrier? Well youll know where it is most definitely.
Now years? Let me tell you right now being properly fitted for a TITAN of all things? Doesnt that take 2 years to be able to fly? And you know...A giant fleet with you?
You could get to max level in a bunch of games in about a month. What can you do in a month in eve? Be barely able to fly a battleship, be able to fy a cruiser at least slightly properly with t1 gear. Doesnt matter. Same thing
A Logistic is a healer. You see a paladin healing in the back you treat him like a healer wit ha bubble shield. You see a logistic ship in EVE its a healer. Blow it up.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to train for logistics and get the skills to be able to use it? Longer than how long it takes to get to WoW or Rift or Champions Online or Allods max level.
Actually this is like Rift. In Rift iirc some builds can switch to be tank build, healer build, dps build. You see a whatchamacallit in healing mode, you treat it like a healer. after killing him once, he switches t odps mode and kills you. Whats the difference? Fact is while he is in healing mode, you own him. In dps mode, he can kill you and you might be able to kill him.
Whats the difference between that and eve?
Imo, pvp doesnt have to be everything can beat everything. but the roles you take on the fight can change what you can beat. Look at global agenda. As a pure healer/pure support, I get owned by stuff. Then next fight, I switch to my poison build and I can kill robotics and those cloaker types. Same with eve. Im a logistics, I get owned without people supporting and killing for me. I switch to a battleship, Ill be able to kill. Or I could be a repper Dominix and kill WHILE repairing o.o
This also goes with FPS games. You could be a sniper, taking out medium and short range people. Or you can be medium ranged and take down other medium and short ranged people. Some lets you use all your weapons and some limit you. The ones that let you use all your weapons will be an everything beats everything. But games like counter strike where you have a specific number of weapons you can carry means that you will have to stick to a role. o.o
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PvP doesn't have to be "all things equal" - those that want to win will gravitate to the classes/abilities/setups that are more powerful, and those that just want to play the game will just die a lot more.
Happens all the time in Warcraft, just the Dev's there keep changing up which classes/abilities/specs are the flavor of the month, and giggle while the players take a few weeks to figure it back out again.
Personally, I think PvP is overrated, and I don't see why it gets the emphasis that it does. It makes a lot of sense in games like Eve, where every player has access to every ability/spec/class: they just have to choose to take it. Games like TF2 and Planetside, it makes sense, because even though different classes/types have access to different abilities, they were designed from the ground up to be PvP oriented, and nothing else. It doesn't make sense in games like WoW, where the classes are designed to fill niche abilities in PvE encounters, and then you try to shoehorn a glorified /duel command into a big points system and staged arena encounters.
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Originally posted by Castillle
The difference is whether or not you can make decisions mid-battle to adapt or not.
In EVE maybe if you have years and years of progression you have the freedom to make those switches and fly back to the battle. Maybe. But like you said, it takes years to even get to that point (which is an EVE shortcoming for another discussion.)
Whereas in stronger PVP games like TF2, death is pretty cheap and gives you a chance to switch roles freely and immediately (and regardless of progression.) Same with RIFT, I assume (been playing RIFT since launch but never touched PVP so far.)
And again, this all echoes the core question of whether you want PVP in your game to be a contest of skill, or a contest of "who's played longer and brought more friends?" For me, the latter question is a completely silly way to decide PVP victory.
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MMORPG's are supposed to be massively multiplayer games. The PvP balance should be focused around the massive PvP. This turns into classes suitable for AoE farming are usually underpowered in small scale PvP. I will use Lineage 2 references since it is a game that did massive PvP well and perhaps the best to date as there are countless freeshards for the game as the only real deterent to the game was the long grind and it seems these free private servers fixed that. I played and enjoyed this game to the fullest up until Interlude and was deterred by the "new" Kamael race which didn't look like they fitted with the game, with their Aioneque look, wings and their ability to only wear light armor while all other races were free to use whatever armor they wished and their unique weapons which were transformed from the normal race weapons, such as Sword > Rapier and Bow > Crossbow. I just don't get these changes, anyway let me get back on topic.
Both sides in massive pvp have the same classes to choose from, part of the balance is each side has a fair advantage of leveling up and filling all their roles. They level up and recruit the correct support roles, the best damage roles and organize raids to fund gear for the characters who need it. In L2 this was perfect, everyone could choose whichever side and switch at will. Every side had the opportunity to level up and recruit the same pool of classes. Each side could siege or war any clan or castle they chose on weekends.
These wars, there was no benefit to them other than to deprive them of experience, leveling zones and epic bosses. This was enough and wars happened, people didn't need honor points, you killed your enemy, you didn't exploit any systems as there was nothing to exploit. Sure you gained a clan point when you killed an enemy but the real way to farm clan reputation was through quests, castles and leveling new characters to 40.
It was perfect, but here is where the tricky part begins, because a game must balance it's classes so all get playtime. For example I was a plainswalker, essentially an Elven Rogue/thief class and I used a dagger and stabbed people in their back. Well In Chronicle 1 and 2 this was a strong class and I was a very important damage dealing class, I was one of the top PvP dps's on the server and even ran my own clan and alliance of 200+ people. Essentially all dagger classes were overpowered at this point because we were balanced by our chance to miss or hit our skills, and this patch gave us the opportunity to stack success rate as well as increase the power of our skills and they ignored Physical defense. So while other classes had hard time with tanks, my class could at the most use 3 skills to drop tanks and even 1 shot mages. This isn't even the best part, we were gods in small scale PvP but in large scale PvP it was fairly balanced. Ranged DpS was still more powerful, they had better mana management, as a dagger class I could drop a few people then I'd have to wait 5-10 minutes for mana while archers could continue shooting players with lethal damage consistantly forever and mages were slightly worse but had AoE control such as Sleeping Cloud. Other melee DPS were just god awful.
So in every patch until probably recently, archers were the most dominant and supreme PvP character in the game. They weren't very good in self buffed small scale PvP and usually in the bottom of the chain there, but everyone played them because they were key in PvP. Not only that but every group had roles, as every group that wanted to stand a chance had to have a Bladedancer and Swordsinger, they all needed a buffer such as a Warcryer or Prophet and a healer or two. However there were usually a few options for these roles, such as 3 pure healer roles in Bishop, Elven Elder and Shilien Elder. Every party had a Bishop for healing and an Elven Elder for replenishing mana because thats what they were best at. Sadly, Shilien Elder was best for 2boxing.
Games are going WOW style now though. However WoW isn't even an MMORPG game, it has the world for it but all the content is instanced off, why? It allows the game to be essentially a minigame amusement park. Allows them to choose the attraction, no immersement at all. I can stand in town and select which game I want to play? Kill the boss raiding or play with a team of randoms in battlegrounds matchmaking. It seems like WOW is just "Choose your game: DOTA or Diablo". So games now want to get rid of the pure healing class, well that won't work for massive pvp. Roles are important, specializing is important and people feel more important when they know their role is crucial to the success of the massive PvP. Being the guy to take down the opponents clan leader in a 100 vs 100 PvP fight is just as rewarding as being the healer that keeps their party healed up through an immense battle and also throwing heals at people with seemingly 1 hp. I've seen clutch videos where people have been saved this way and it's awesome.
Now if we could only have a massive PvP game that removed most of the repetitve grind that L2 and Darkfall have. Something with roles and clan warfare over territories and less of this faction pvp crap.


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I recently bought two dead 360's for a good price and got them both working using the heat gun and x-clamp replacement fixes. One has a flashed ms28 drive and the other has a stock ms25. When i stand both of the consoles side-by-side and power them up together the ms28 drive console takes roughly 3 seconds longer to boot. I know it's not mega important as both work fine, i'd just like to know if anyone knows why this is happening.
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Since installing the hd-dvd the 360 takes longer to boot to dash.. it could be that it has the hd-dvd add on info stored from the install disk and doing the same thing?
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Where would it store this info? I don't have a hdd and my mem card is brand new. I'm assuming it's stored on the inbuilt memory.
Is there anyway to clear it?
Is there anyway to clear it?
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its installed on the nand flash on board ,yes , that has the dashboard ,
and thats no big deal just longer detection time , that might happen with different hardware or software , and thats obvious in this case
and thats no big deal just longer detection time , that might happen with different hardware or software , and thats obvious in this case
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Vittorio Colao, the CEO of VOD, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV, "It's a great asset; it's an asset with a fantastic team managing it, we got the value that a good asset deserves." This is an interesting statement given that the question arises as to why somebody would sell a great investment when your primary business is not performing well. I believe that there are two possible reasons behind this decision. Firstly, VOD's management might believe that the wireless business will experience a decline in the future, and they want to get out while the business is doing good to get the maximum price for its 45% share. However, I think that the wireless business will continue to drive growth in the future, and while that growth may not be smartphone-centric, several other growth opportunities are available like M2M solutions. Secondly, VOD might need money to invest in its own business to remain competitive and drive growth, as the telecom industry is capital intensive. This I believe can be a valid reason, as Europe has been left behind with respect to high-speed data services.
There are plenty of growth opportunities available in European markets, especially in the wireless segment. These opportunities have attracted several international incumbents like AT&T, Inc. (NYSE:T), which is looking to expand its operations in Europe. With the sale of the 45% share in Verizon Wireless, VOD has become a potential takeover target, which is discussed in detail in my article "AT&T the Stock of Choice for Hefty Returns".
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Change in Organic Revenue
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The company suffered major setbacks in almost all key European markets, primarily because of poor macro-economic conditions and intense price competition. Also, high unemployment rates in Spain resulted in a massive decrease of 237,000 mobile customers. Given that the company generates more than half of its revenues from its operations in Europe, this poor performance is a serious concern for investors. AMAP countries delivered strong performance, especially India, which managed to grow its organic revenues by 13.8% by increasing its mobile voice minutes, along with the higher rates per minute. Furthermore, VOD red has expanded its footprint in 16 markets and added around 5.2 million customers. The company also continued to benefit from its exposure in the fast growing U.S. wireless business, through its investment in VZ Wireless. But as VOD has decided to sell its shares, these strong results will not be included in its next quarter earnings.
The company offers a healthy dividend yield of 6.10%. Also VOD has announced a $0.17 (11p) dividend per share in FY2014, which is an increase of 8% YoY, and it plans to grow this figure on an annual basis. The company also reaffirmed its free cash flow guidance to $6.95-$7.72 billion (£4.5- £5 billion) this year, which confirms its dividend safety.
With the significant cash infusion after selling its crown jewel investment, VOD has an opportunity to expand and diversify its operations by capturing opportunities available in Europe and emerging markets. As of now, it is too early to say as to how these investments will shape up in the future, as they are primarily dependent on Europe's macroeconomic prospects. Time will also help decide whether selling VZ Wireless was a mistake or an opportunity well taken to strengthen the company's core operations. However, I believe that it will be hard for VOD to justify the sale of an investment, which contributes around 54% in adjusted operating profit. I think VOD has limited appreciation potential, but it promises a striking dividend yield for income-seeking investors.
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