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This unit is designed to provide students with an understanding of how food policy and regulation affects the different components of the food system, including food production, processing, marketing, consumption and nutritional health. Food policy is critically important for public health due to its role in food security and sustainability, healthy eating and obesity prevention. The unit also examines food regulation. Food regulation is used by governments to protect the public against potential risks associated with developments in the food system and is also a particularly powerful policy tool for promoting public health benefits by determining the composition and labelling of food products. Case studies including food fortification and food labelling, food security and sustainability and obesity prevention will be reviewed.
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Going F2P these days is just a sign of the changing tastes and expectations of gamers not necessarily indicative of the state of the game. You will see more and more games being released in this manner rather than switching to this paystyle later on in the game's lifecycle. Hurray for us!
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Originally posted by VoreDock
Actually, there are plenty of publishers that CLAIM that f2p has been great for their games. In fact, we really do not know. We know that many people THINK that because something says "free" in the label that they are getting all they can out a game without paying. OR, they are willing to play a watered down version of the game simply to avoid paying. The problem is, that for most of these so-called f2p play games, you will not get much for what you DON'T pay for.
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Joined: 12/13/08
Originally posted by Loktofeit
You are trying too hard to twist my words. All I was stating is that developers have to design their systems so that paying players have an advantage.
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Joined: 8/26/08
Originally posted by HeroEvermore
Meaning your game is just not good enough to keep a monthly fee. Games like FFXI, WoW and many others are good enough to keep a monthly fee. That is my belief.
Except there are free to play games far more successful than subscription.
If companies like EA, Activision, etc. knew how to do F2P, they'd switch. They don't, so they use the older, crappier subscription model.
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Joined: 1/22/13
from what i have seen ftp is a mugs game take SWTOR
to unlock everything it costs 7160 cc thats not including WZ, FP and OP's weekly access thats ruffly $65 upfront then its
Weekly Pass: Flashpoints 240
Weekly Pass: Space Missions 240
Weekly Pass: Operations 240
Weekly Pass: Warzones 240
so if you wanted to do all 4 it would cost you 3840cc wich works out $40 a month lol 4x the sub or if you only did 2 of them $20 a month lol 2x the sub
also as a sub you get 500 cc a month so knock off $5 from my monthly fee and am paying $4.99 a month for all of the above
ftp = being bent over and shafted
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Originally posted by thinktank001
Rather different stance than your original statement, but let's roll with this one.
Developers have to design their system so that the goods and services appeal to their target audience. An advantage does not necessarily have to be part of that equation. Now, if you're going to consider every last unlock or any content that a person could get which others don't have as an advantage, then how is this any different from an expansion? And if it is the same, isn't that an MMO thing and not a specifically F2P thing?
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
Actually, F2P is future of MMO. All the F2P games until now were trial and error to see what works. F2P definitely works at the benefit of all, the game company, the players, if done right. It is convenient for everyone. P2P will lose out in the long run. They seem to be winning, but they'll lose out. All mmorpg games will become F2P. Mark my words.
To make further point, SWTOR, Aion, Lotro's model of F2P is done wrong.
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Sandbox is your only hope for a decent mmo ;)
Originally posted by Witteker
You honestly believe this?
If your game sucks so bad you cant keep your subbers, making it free to play will not make your game better.
Sure it adds a few thousand or million players, but they dont pay anything. Its not a success if you have 2 million players playing but only 5% paying.
This arguement is old, people just need to really say what they are thinking. Fact is you either cant pay for a sub or wont because the game is not worthy of 30 cents a day. But you would play a gimped version of the game for free to entertain yourselves. Thats all you get is a gimped version. Restrictions out the butt, i would rather pay 30 cents and be free.
If you and i played the same game and i paid the sub and you did not, you would never be on equal grounds as me at all. Future? No its more like a crutch to lure players in and hope they get some of you to buy from their cash shop.
And there are still more subscribers in this market than f2p accounts and provide more income to the industry. With some good AAA games coming out soon that are subscription abased also...... i think your logic is flawed.
And Aion has one of the most "free" games on the market lol, but its done wrong?
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Joined: 4/25/08
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Any MMO I have been subscribed to that has gone F2P, I have quit. Why? Because the overall gaming experince went downhill.
Some I quit before due to the game being a load of rubbish ie SWTOR but other games I enjoyed like LotRO and AoC were not the same after the F2P conversions and I did try to like them but alas the worlds suddenly filled up with dicks and I cancelled my subs. Even trying them as a F2P game still didn't feel good and so now all my characters have been left to ruin.
So after all these F2P MMO experiences I have told myself I shall never play another F2P MMO ever again. I would rather subscribe to WoW than play a F2P MMO as they are that bad imo.
Wow, there are a lot of people who post.
But when a P2P goes F2P, that already means it's not a good model. It was not designed with F2P in mind.
There are some things that need to be considered for F2P:
1. All content needs to be free. No charging money for opening up zones or anything like that.
2. You do not sell items that give advantage in game, except for time savings, etc., meaning you sell fluff, like cosmetic, pets, etc.
3. The fluff needs to be also purchasable by game money.
Originally posted by Onomas
Yes, I do honestly believe this. Any game that goes from subscriber to F2P is not done right. F2P needs to be purely F2P from the get go.
Originally posted by Scummyman
Yep, those games that went from subscription to F2P is not done right. Bad model.
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Originally posted by VoreDock
How nice of those companies to give players more people to play with!
Dude, it's about the money and only money. How come people can't figure out that when a "free" to play game makes more money than when it was a subsciption, it isn't really free? I know, I know, nobody here spends money on cash shops, bag slots, species unlocks, class unlocks, toolbar unlocks, quick travel, mounts, health pots, xp pots, armor, weapons, gear enhancements, etc etc. Ever. Right?
Generally speaking, let's say those people who claim that they don't spend a cent on F2P games are telling the truth. Nobody I know will group with those people. They can't chat, trade, their armor and weapons are sub-par and generally worthless to a group, IF, they can even participate in group content such as instances. No thanks, I'm not carrying you through group content and wiping over and over because you're wearing restricted gear or you are level capped at 5 - 20 levels below the rest of us.
The most a F2P "gamer" can pull off is playing all the solo content and then move on to the next F2P game. Which is fine. I've done it more than a few times. But, you don't see me bragging about how great F2P is. Why? Because it's restrictive and I can't afford to play F2P games.
Censorship is intended to create an illusion that one side of the debate is correct and unopposed. Silence is not consent.
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Joined: 4/25/12
As a parent , I LOVE f2p. Instead of me hearing that my kids want to sub to this game, and then that game, and then that game, and then paying for a sub that they do not want to play anymore.
Now I can say, hey, you have "$X" a month, you can spend it on whatever game you like. Since those credits rarely dissapear you can build them (like an allowance) to earn what you want to unlock.
Subs are for chumps plain and simple. I'll take free entertainment any day of the week.
"Oh but it is NOT free!!!!!!!"
Yes it is, it is free because I have the ability to NOT spend any money if I do not want to. In addition I can EASILY limit the amount of money I spend becuase I know how to be frugal with money. I can wait till next month and use my monthly alotment if I so choose, or I can not choose to spend any money that month and go to a movie instead, ALL while playing a free game.
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Joined: 12/24/11
Ten or maybe even five years ago, I would've chosen F2P. But that was because I was young and without a job. Now that I do have money and have realized how expensive games are to make, I feel like F2P isn't necessarily the best option for a game developer/publisher. F2P tends to have a connotation of "cheap" and it also makes it looks like the game is at its wits end, a desperate move per se, to gain (or regain) players. I do believe that P2P is still a viable business model, but unfortunately with the overasturated market of MMOs out now, plus the fact that a majority of them suck and are of low quality to begin with, I can see why more people have become jaded and prefer not to pay to play. In other words, people do have money to subscribe (just look at how more people suddenly decided to pay monthly for SWTOR after it went F2P, ironically enough) and people will try to fit time in between their busy schedules so they can play if the game is fun and of high quality.
On the other hand, F2P in itself isn't really a bad business model. It just depends on how publishers choose to implement it. For example, EA did a piss poor job with the stupid restrictions imposed on SWTOR's F2P, whereas En Masse Entertainment will not be restricting non-paying customers for TERA when it goes F2P. So, yeah, it depends on the publisher.
Actually, the model I prefer is B2PF2P, meaning you at least need to buy the game to play the game. Download for free, that's bad. B2PF2P is best. You buy the game, but no subscription. If people are immersed in the game and feel that they want to contribute to the game, they will. Also, if they want some fluff, and they don't want to work for it in-game, they can purchase with real money.
Above model works best.
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Joined: 5/01/08
FTP has a stigna around it. It's sterotyped as being full of trolls, children, and freeloaders with no support or customer service to back the game up. Whether true or not is irellivant as percepetion is reality in marketing and buisness. Aslo it doesn't help that MANY of the asain games being pushed on westerners are heavily P2Win & FTP.
Age of wushu is a perfect example. One member of Goonsquad just droped 10,000 on in game gold to convert to silver to equip the guild. Yes I didn't miss a zero there.
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Joined: 7/05/11
Sandbox is your only hope for a decent mmo ;)
Originally posted by mrrshann618
You are still paying money. So if its money you are paying, an allowance............ how is that free? Just because you have the choice to pay this month or next its all of the sudden its free? No you still drop $$$ into the game. Free means dont pay a dime, ever. And you clearly said you do pay.
And for your child a free game may be ok, but fo an adult we dont want gimped game, we have enough of those already. Restrictions and content based on a cash shop is not my idea of a good game.
Seriously, who the heck cant afford 30 cents a day for unlimited entertainment this day in age? Even going to the movies will cost you 1-3 months in subs lol.
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Originally posted by Witteker
So, the game is entirely free to play and the only way the company is going to make any money is by selling cosmetic crap in its cash shop?
Please, never go into business for yourself....


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another consideration....that Abel also as an innocent was slayed. Gave God his best and was slayed for it...thinking of the 'seed' of the woman here... enmity between the woman's 'seed' and the 'serpents'. Typifying the 'lamb' slain.
In Leviticus we have 5 sacrifices. They are the Burnt Offering for our acceptance before God, the Meat Offering for our acceptance before man, the Peace offering for our reconciliation to God, The Sin offering to atone for the source of our sin, and the Trespass offering to atone for the fruit of the sin source.The first two cover Cain and Abel. The life is in the blood. The life is what belongs to God. The grain is what God gave to man after the fall "By the sweat of your face, you will eat bread". Cain gave out of order. He gave of the offering of the earth, the natural. Abel gave of the life because he understood that the life belonged to God.
The way I understand this is, Cain tried to please God by his own works. He tilled the ground, worked to raise the sacrifice. WORKS. God provided the sacrifice that Abel gave. GRACE. We still do this today, try to please God by our own works.CHB
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A pair of seniors stepped up and hit two of the biggest shots of the season on Tuesday evening.
In the closing seconds of the fourth quarter, Anderson Moore drilled a three-point shot to send the game between Ashe and the East Wilkes Cardinals into overtime.
At the end of overtime, it would be Jordan Spell that buried the game-winning jumper to avenge a loss to the Cardinals earlier in the season. Ashe beat East Wilkes, 61-59.
Junior Cullen Ashley had a big game for Ashe with a team-high 14 points. Senior Eli Gambill added 10 points, Spell finished with nine and Devan Sheets scored nine. Moore ended up with seven points, Seth Sheets scored six, Johnathan Cox had five and Zach Lawrence finished with one free throw.
For East Wilkes, McKinley Johnson led all scorers with 17. Avery Wallis chipped in 15, Jared Bryan had 10 points, Abram Logan had nine and Jathon Sales finished with six.
The Huskies improved to 6-13 overall and 5-7 in the Mountain Valley Athletic Conference. East Wilkes dropped to 6-12 overall and 4-7 in conference.
This game was the second in as may days for the Huskies. On Monday, Starmount defeated Ashe 49-43 after a huge fourth quarter effort from the Rams where the team scored 28 points and overcame a double-digit deficit.
Zach Worley led Starmount's balanced scoring attack with 10 points. Luke Shore scored eight points, James Ashley added seven and Gunner Cass had six.
Spell tallied 12 points and three rebounds, Moore had nine points and five boards while D. Sheets added six points and three rebounds. Cox finished with five points and a team-leading three steals, Gambill had four points, Lawrence added our points, S. Sheets finished with two and Matthew Lee added a free throw.
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Tom Burden of Grypshon and Mollie Verdier of Therapals won the second Pitch & Pour business pitch competition held Jan. 30 at the University of Toledo. The competition was organized by UT's Launch Pad Incubation Program.
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The mat not only enhances the safety of the aircraft personnel but also improves productivity by reducing the number of persons required for those jobs, Burden said. He and his colleague Bryan Robbins demonstrated how it works during their presentation.
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Joined: 2/27/07
Originally posted by VengeSunsoar
Ah... you added a few too many zeroes there, they are lucky to have a few thousand at best and the game is still full of buggy code.
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Who did wrong? The advertiser hired to sell the game or the consumer who put faith in advertising?
Originally posted by psysention
Point taken about the SWG classes, but I still felt like I was building a 'bounty hunter' class or an 'entertainer' class....but I guess it is different enough from other games to call them something other than 'classes'.
But I beg to differ on the themepark without levels and classes, you can have a free form skill building toon which has a very linear set of quests and content to build those skills. It would be possible.
In fact, my guess is the first 'BIG' sandbox will actually be more of a hybrid themepark/sandbox - although how they mix the two, I'm not sure. I think VG attempted this hybrid, although at the end of the day it falls clearly in the themepark catagory. Although instead of having one big long ride, it has hundreds of little ones. Anyway...I digress.
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Be Brief, Be Bright... Be Gone.
Originally posted by Ozmodan
Haha I didn't mean a few hundred thousand, I put the / in there to indicate a few hundred or a few thousand. I would be suprised if there were 5000 people playing.... actually I'd be surprised if there were 500.
But the code is not so bad anymore. Still gets laggy at times but not nearly like it was.
Quit worrying about other players in a game and just play.
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Try to be nice
A Themepark is:
A derogatory term used by Eve players for all other online role playing games.
A Sandbox is:
A term used when referring to Ultima Online. Usually, by players who in the same breath claim that they really like being ganked in that game, but for some reason (maybe they forgot their password) are playing SWTOR instead.
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Isn't a sandbox a game where you can leave some evidence that players were there? If the world is static it's not a sandbox imo.
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its simple. A Sandbox is a free open world ready for punishment. And then the players are given tools in this open world/sandbox to create their OWN content. TOOLS are very important for a sandbox game. Tools can be incentives for people to do things... or just random crap put into the world by the devs. Tools could be things like giving the players the ability to build houses anywhere, fight anywhere, farm food, rob people. These are tools. You give them these "tools" and then drop them into an open world/sandbox and players will start making their own content. This is a good Sandbox game.
Of course you could just drop players into an open world with no tools at all and it would still be a sandbox. People will eventually find some dumb crap to do. How long they'll end up doing it is another thing.
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I'm completely sane i murdered all the other people in my head
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I am upset as my heir will ruin my kingdom.
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I've been doing some thinking about this subject as well as reading a few opinions on how AAA devs don't want to make a Sandbox mmorpg because it wouldn't make any money for them. I can't help but look at a game like TOR and what it cost, around 200 million i believe to make and how shallow and empty the mmo side of it is and how it appears that most of the investment went on VO actors and cutscene work. Then i look at a mmo like Rift and if i'm somewhat correct, it cost like 60 million to make and has all the features of a well made themepark even if it didn't stray too far from the norm.
Now with the newest game engines becoming more dev friendly, wouldn't it be a safe investment to make a sandbox mmorpg in the vein of say, SWG pre-cu with the dynamic event system that GW2 will have. It surely would probably cost around the same as Rift and wouldn't need as many subs to break even and make a profit. Let's use TOR again as an example. If it cost 200 million to make, and they got 2 million pre-orders at 60 bucks a pop, that come's in around 120 million up front for the game with an 80 million needed to just break even. 1.7 million subs at $15.00 bucks is around 25 million a month, so it is easy to say they have already broke even.
Now take a new mmo like i mentioned that only cost 60 million to make and sells 750k pre orders at 60 bucks a pop. That comes to around 45 million up front. Say they keep around 600k subs at $15.00 bucks and that comes to around 7.5 million a month, so in about 2 months they already broke even as well.
I guess i'm trying to figure out why does these big dev companies keep pushing out the same old tired themepark games that are nothing more than a dungeon crawling / instanced warzone gear grind, than creating an up to date virtual world that is actually what the term MMORPG really means. You would think these dev companies would GET IT by now. Continueing to make these clones of WOW and keep going after their sub numbers with games that have the exact same systems in a different skin is so pointless and down right extravagent. They seem like they don't want to take a chance and spend the money on a sandbox mmorpg, yet their willing to spend upwards to 100 million on a copycat game that has far more to lose under the public scrutiny of being labeled a WOW clone. Doesn't make common nor money sense at all.
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Originally posted by musicmann
Because -- It's all about the fast buck.
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There are so many very different ideas for what a sandbox is and how it could operate, that it always seems to end up in lala-land as just an idea rather than ever coming to earth in a practical way that we could support.
Game companies spend millions of dollars to produce an item that they hope will appeal to their target audience. How are they going to recoup that investment in order to be able to keep the servers running and add more space/resources for player-created content? I have to ask: what will the game company make money on once they build you a sandbox to play in?
Should they charge a flat sub for access? Should they make a cash shop for sandbox-developing tools? Should they charge you for the in-game raw materials to make and build things? Where are the boundaries between what the game company should provide in the way of content and what the player wants to be able to create?
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Originally posted by Jaedor
A sub fee would be the most practical way, and i really don't think in this day and age people would mind, if the game was very well made. Content could come in the way of dynamic events, like GW2 will have. You have to remember that in a sandbox mmorpg the main content comes from the tools that create interdependency among the players, a player run economy, a deep crafting system that has crafters that make all the items in the game and other stuff.
In my opinion, it's really time for devs to realize that it's ok to break free of the end game gear grind systems that was thought to be so cool in WOW 7 yrs. ago. There may not be 10 million subs out there but i would guess somewhere close to a million mmorpg gamers out there that would love a AAA sandbox mmorpg. Let's really think about it for a sec. The last AAA mmorpg that was made and released was SWG in 2003, that's 9 freaking yrs. ago. Every new AAA mmorpg that has come out since that time has tried to copy WOW and it's themepark model and has ended up with very moderate success and did not capture the subs of WOW, which was probably the motivation to create those mmo's.
So, if these dev companies are making these WOW clone mmo's and are only getting a few hundred thousand subs, then why not grow a set and really be innovative and make a full blown up to date sandbox that will surely do as well or even better than those other games that are copies of copies of WOW. I guess being realistic, maybe they have been waiting for a mmorpg like Archeage to come around from a Eastern AAA company and want to see how it will do in the west. I can only hope that it will get a western publisher and do very well. Then maybe these companies will start to become more open and creative.
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War...war never change
Entropia universe
- Unique land owning wich allow players to rule a large piece of land on this huge map mmorpg
- players can own and customise theyr own apartament and house
- now even more versatily ways to afect the enviroment
Personaly,im truly sick of CLIQ games,"craft,leveling,iteraction and questining" WoW clones...i look and taste any new game that ofer new and more of contents like EU and archeage.
WoW 4ys,EVE 4ys,EU 4ys
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MMO sandbox games are as exciting as watching paint dry.
Originally posted by Heinz130
Then get out there n support em champ.
AFAIAC "sandbox" is slang for "a game that will be lacking in unique subs". Also known as "a waste of investment dollars".
Asking Devs to make AAA sandbox titles is like trying to get fine dining on a McDonalds dollar menu budget.
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Originally posted by Moaky07
I'm genuinely curious. What are the best features of theme park games as you see them? If you could just put it in positive terms as an advocate of Theme Park (vs an opponent of Sandbox) I would like to have a better idea of your perspective. Thanks. And I am not trying to set up a rebuttal, I just want to know.
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Originally posted by ignore_me
How about 'gives people what they want?'.
Games ultimately are an entertainment form and for the vast majority of people, they'd rather let a game tell them a story than make one of their own.
Both are equally valid, it is just a case of personal preference.
I do not like Jazz, but that doesn't mean I consider Jazz a lower music genre.
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War...war never change
Originally posted by ignore_me
Ill answer this one:
Ppl just want new and diferent features,in my case i play games for 28 years now,mmos for over 12 years and im just sick of "CLIQ" games,i want more to deal with than my char and my itens.
Finaly,we have way more than we need of sandold.
-Game producer: Hey,look,another WoW with better grafics and guns!
-me: No thx
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Attracting new players is a major obstacle for sandboxes. "I made a character, but I didn't know what to do. I went out to find something to do, but somebody killed me and took all my stuff." So a shiny themepark needs to be smuggled in with the sandbox to get people playing/going. It can't be separate from the sandbox. Their workings need to intertwine. At first, it'll be easy for the new people to stay in themepark land. As they progress higher, worlds need to collide. Maybe that means they're forced into more open PVP areas (I don't know, it's not MY sandbox!). Maybe it means they HAVE to start crafting to get better gear to be able to keep going (if you believe crafting is core to sandbox, like I said, whatever). Point is... you wean them into it. Then by the time they're almost done with the themepark, BAM, they in the sandbox. Ideally, they wouldn't even really feel the transition. They might feel like now they're more into "endgame content" or something. Ideally, after this game came out, people would be all up on the forums "'DERPADERP it's a themepark!' 'DERKADURP, no! It's a sandbox!'" Meanwhile the people who just started playing MMOs like two months ago are like "Hey this game's way cooler than that last game I played, I don't know why, but there's like so much more going on in it!" At this point, everyone is just playing the game, hopefully getting all sandy, not canceling their account. Then the themepark doesn't even need to end. While everyone is off in Emergentgameplayville, an expansion could be in the works. New raids, PvE challenges, whatever extra junk to fatten it up. If it's true what everyone says that sandboxes keep players longer... that expansion should sell better than Cloney Island Themepark MMO of the Week's expansion. Same with the next expansion. And the next expansion. And so on. Seriously... a blockbuster MMO w/the fanaticism of a sandbox crowd? $$$ for like a decade.
But that'll never happen. lol
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Originally posted by musicmann
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The problem is, that the usual game engines wont work for a real sandbox game. It requires different features(from the engine), or even completely other ones.
As example. Network code. Seamless vs. Zoned. With a zoned game(more or less all themeparks) you can more accuratly predict the network traffic and the amount of rendering(so both for network code and graphic engine), and you know how to handle it. By switching the zone you can switch easily the amount of network traffic and graphics/polygons to render during the loading screen.
In a seamless world you have to write a dynamic network and graphic render code. With some kind of Radius of Transmission(for what have to be transmitted) and a Radius of View(what have to be rendered), which have both to be dynamically adjusted at any given time. Now lets assume you run into a big city with a lot of people in there, a lot of polygons and a lot of network traffic, the Radius have to be reduced very fast and in real time, which almost always will end in sum amount of lag. In the zoned design the city is just a new zone and you got your loading screen for it.
But thats not all. Sandboxes are about to manipulate your surroundings.. this requires also a lot of features which are not in place in the usual themepark game engines, and are not that easy to implement in already existing engine. In most cases it is easier to write a new one from the ground up. BUT, you need a lot of experienced ppl capable of it, and a lot of time beforehand you even start to design such a game.
So look at it from that side. The Clonewarriors(companies developing a new themepark clone, or in every other genre) are foremost designers, graphic ppl and all that stuff, working with existing technology(different engines) to craft a new game, but withit they are limited with what features they can offer. They are not capable of making a new game with completely new features.
But with all those features a sandbox requires, it has to have also as much polish, grapical quality, filled with content, tutorials and stuff. So you need the 60 mil. like Rift for the quality, and another undeterminated amount of time and money to create your new engines, test your engines and required mechanics before you even start to "design" the game. And new technology is always risky, but there can be unexpected problems, well even unsolvable problems, where you have to start from beginnings.
E.g. look at Shadowbane, they got a engine with deformable terrain, but withit a lot of unsolved bugs in their engines, and just not the graphical quality of other titles at their time. They never perfected their engine, and they went out of time and money to make a quality mmo.
But thats not even the end of it. In a sandbox environment you have to many unknown variables how things turn out, or what can be expected, that it requires a whole lot more testing and research beforehand, and you need more or less a ready game for it(maybe not the top notch graphic texture or end objects, but all objects(placeholders) have to be in place. So you have to iterate your graphics(animation, textures, 3D objects) a whole lot more often as for a known environment, where it is more or less enough if you do it one time. This all makes it a lot more risky, a lot more unpredictable, and as a investor you dont like unknown variables, you dont like risk or unpredictablility. And therefor you dont see a lot of big money investments in sandbox titles.
As much as i see it, the best bet for a quality sandbox mmo is from CCP, with other words World of Darkness. They have some amount of money, they have the experienced ppl to be capable of doing it, they have experience in the required engines/code, they have experience with sandbox mechanics. So with all that, if we can expect a AAA sandbox it will be most probably from CCP.
Edit: Prototyping is the key for sandbox development. Start with a small world(as example a small island, but with everything filled what can happen in the big world) just with a lot of placeholders(textures, polygon objects, animation) and test your engines and sandbox mechanics to the limit. This will requires more or less at least the time of the development of a usual themepark. And if you got everything right, working engines, working technology, when you know, for what you are capable of doing. Then start to design the game, and during this improve your engines further. At the end, themeparks are a lot cheaper, a lot easier and a lot more predictable to develop, and even the success is easier to predict.


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Art Link is in his second season as linebackers coach at UNH in 2013.
In 2012, Link guided the dynamic senior duo of Matt Evans and Alan Buzbee, both of whom started all 12 games in the middle of the Wildcats' 4-2-5 defense. Evans concluded his illustrious career as UNH's all-time leader with 460 tackles, including a team-leading 126 stops (No. 2 in CAA) in his final collegiate season. Buzbee ranked third on the team with 69 tackles, including a pair of interceptions, and sophomore Shane McNeely showed signs of what's to come with his 33 tackles in a reserve role.
Link joined the Wildcat coaching staff as linebackers coach in April 2012 following five seasons (2007-11) as the defensive coordinator/linebackers coach for head coach Dale Steele at Campbell University. Under his tutelage, the Camels ranked fifth in FCS football with 18 interceptions, 13th nationally with 28 forced turnovers and No. 31 in the country in red zone defense during the '11 campaign.
He was responsible for recruiting the Carolinas, the entire state of Florida and Texas junior colleges. Link also coordinated Campbell's punt-return unit and was heavily involved in special teams coaching.
Prior to coaching at Campbell, Link served as defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach for head coach Dave Dunn at D-III Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Art turned around a squad that posted the worst defensive season in school history (2005), molding the unit into the school's best defense in history the very next year. He added special teams duties, focusing on punt team and kickoff coverage.
Art served as the graduate assistant at the University of Florida, his alma mater, for two seasons (2004-05) under head coaches Ron Zook and Urban Meyer. He was responsible for outside LBs, conducted scout team preparation, aided opponent breakdown efforts and assisted in the recruiting process.
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Hey! What do you know I watched a full WWE PPV live for the first time in probably 10 years and it happened to be Wrestlemania! I've been keeping up with the stories, watching stuff on the youtubes, and was interested what they were going to deliver especially with a surprisingly short build for the biggest PPV of the year. Going to give some general thoughts and then a best part and worst
Updated 04-08-2013 at 12:58 PM by JohnnyV123
Hello all. Sorry if this turns out to be nothing short of terrible. I've never written a wrestling review so please be gentle with me...
This is my Wrestlemania review, as written from a sofa in merry ol' England, sipping tea and eating crumpets.... and by sipping, I mean gulping.... and by tea, I mean German Lager.... and by crumpets, I mean peanuts and nachos...
Let's first
Updated 04-08-2013 at 11:23 AM by ThomHodkinson
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I'm writing this just two hours after wasting my $70 on a horrible WrestleMaina. The WWE had so many chances to make this WrestleMaina one of a kind and unforgettable. But just like the last few PPVs, WWE put's on a boring, predictable, and lackluster of a show. Here some things I wanted to point out to you on why this WrestleMaina was one of the worst
Updated 04-08-2013 at 10:54 AM by Frank
Alright, so Wrestlemania is in the books for the year. And after sitting through the 4 hour PPV, here are my thoughts in my first ever blog post.
First things first, I was one of the unfortunate people who choose to order the PPV online from WWE.com. And I got to see the "Our Apologies - this service is unavailable message".
So that sucked, but thankfully I found a decent stream
I'm sure that by the time you see this WrestleMania-themed #YYYTRR blog entry most of you will have seen the show or at least its results, but in the event that you have yet to see either, spoiler alert!
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I'd like to thank WWE for giving us two great main event matches and a few surprises tonight. But if there was an award for killing
Hey everyone. I am back with yet, another opinion of mine. This time, I would like to share with you my predictions for WrestleMania 29 plus the outcomes for the main events which include:
The Rock vs. John Cena II
Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H II
Alberto Del Rio vs. Jack Swagger
Undertaker vs. CM Punk
I am sure that most of you are tired of seeing the WrestleMania 29 predictions posts (there are only about 50,000 of them on here). Nonetheless, I thought I would bore you with my own. I have done some deep thought over the past few weeks and the following post is how I *think* WrestleMania will turn out on Sunday night. The matches are presented in the order that I think they will be in.
Hey Wrestling Fans. DK Savior here with the final Coffee Talk before Wrestlemania. The season was a long one. One filled with seemingly lackluster build and little to no real drama. Nothing since the Royal Rumble really WOW'd me and by reading blogs and forums, it seems I'm not alone. But not withstanding, we are approximately 24 hours from Wrestlemania. And many, MANY predictions that have come out.
Well it's that time of month again. WrestleMania. For me, this WrestleMania will be historic but not compared for moments that we have seen before and I want to share with you my favorites. Feel free to share yours in the comment section.
WrestleMania 21 : Randy Orton vs Undertaker - Even though Randy Orton lost this match, he came very close to ending Undertaker's
Updated 04-06-2013 at 08:59 PM by RatedRKO
Hello everyone. First time poster. We are all excited for Wrestlemania, even if the build has been less than stellar. Little bit about myself, my name is Tyler. I live in Oklahoma City. I have been watching wrestling for about 13 years. Edge has been my favorite wrestler since I was 12. Here is the predictions.
1. IC Title match. Wade Barret vs. The Miz
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The UFC thinks they are "too big to fail" even if some hardcore fans leave, they are "In" with hollywood and believe they can get all the casual idiots to doll out the cash they ask for. That's just the way it is.
The UFC thinks they are "too big to fail" even if some hardcore fans leave, they are "In" with hollywood and believe they can get all the casual idiots to doll out the cash they ask for. That's just the way it is.
Scarface: Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, and fuck you, I'm out!
"I don't call the fighting in my films 'violent', I call it 'action'. An action film borders between fantasy and reality. If I were to be completely realistic in my films, you would call me a violent, bloody man. I would simply destroy my opponent by tearing his guts out. I wouldn't do it so artistically." ~Bruce Lee
dana peaked in terms of effectiveness in 2006. I've stated that the UFC has outgrown him and he's been a barrier to progress ever since. It's funny that people are just starting to catch on to that.
and yet still sad.
All manner of men came to work for the News: everything from wild young Turks who wanted to rip the world in half and start all over again -- to tired, beer-bellied old hacks who wanted nothing more than to live out their days in peace before a bunch of lunatics ripped the world in half.
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I feel the same way but not with the ufc but with dana. lately, he seems to be in his man period a lot and nothing positive seems to come out of him. would love it if Lorenzo asks him to step down as a president or apologise for his outbursts with pretty much everything right now.
Tito was their biggest draw for a stretch and got dissed regardless of situation.
You say shark I say hey man, Jaws was never my scene and I don't like Star Wars
As for Lorenzo, I think that actually he is not that better than Dana White.
Obviously he has the ability to speak in a polite way in public, but at the end, if he really wanted, he would change a lot of things in the UFC.
Dana White does a lot of idiocy but Lorenzo allows all of that. He is obviously more intelligent, but he is not some "very nice guy" that wants the best for everyone. He is a fucking thief that also just cares about money.
If he really cared about how the UFC treats the fighters, he would have fired Dana White a long time ago.
Not only brazilians can do this stuff
I've always kinda thought what Pashak just said. It's not like the man that is actually in charge isn't well aware of what's going on.
Big Hairy American Winning Machine
Most of the other stuff hasn't really turned me off the UFC...
What bothers me the most over the last couple years is the way they've dealt with their expansion and how they have over saturated the market with their product.
TUF is on the air constantly now and there really isn't enough talent to justify this. Back in the early days of TUF you had multiple guys coming into the UFC and staying long term (and being successful) now the vast majority of the cast memebers are no where close to UFC level and the winners are not exactly standing out. On top of that they tie up mainstream fighters for close to a year filming a show instead of actually fighting.
With all the fight nights, fox shows and TUF Finales they have completely watered down the product. They throw so much top talent at these shows the PPV's become lacking in name value. I'm all for seeing new guys and prospects fight but for $60 a PPV the main card really should be stacked. They also have done a really poor job in general in dealing with injuries cards need to be designed in a manner so that if someone gets injured there is a back up already fighting that night to take their place. This is pretty much the only business out there that seems to think it's ok to deliver an inferior product and still think they can charge the same rate.
Quick question.....
As far as the MMA business goes.... is it better to cater to potential new fans in lieu of pleasing an already established fanbase?
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Quote from: Molly on April 02, 2009, 07:38:56 AMFind the good people in our congress and support them.Find good people running for congress and support them.Throw out the bums.But bums need a home too! And a job, they really need a job -- particularly a low skill one like politics! Good pay and nothing to do. What a life!!!
Find the good people in our congress and support them.Find good people running for congress and support them.Throw out the bums.
QuoteImagine this though...for 20 years you were beat several times a week with a 2X4.What does that mean?
Imagine this though...for 20 years you were beat several times a week with a 2X4.
Quote from: Molly on April 02, 2009, 07:50:01 AMQuoteImagine this though...for 20 years you were beat several times a week with a 2X4.What does that mean?Mainly addressing Martin regarding extreme fundamentalist upbringing and its effects on how one tends to react to this stuff.
OK...what do you think prophecy says about this? Do you think it's the "things will wax worse and worse", then (and wonder at what point and what shape things will be in) God steps in, intervenes, and begins to even more directly begin to deal with evil and put His children in the 'ark'? You know there are 939.5 different views of this within Christendom...and that's just in one town here in Missouri.
Oh. Too bad you weren't raised by wolves like me.
Mainly addressing Martin regarding extreme fundamentalist upbringing and its effects on how one tends to react to this topic.
I've got to admit, Molly. I don't think I'm one that's brain-dead, but I do generally feel (personally) helpless besides praying about the situation, trying to help ensure my family's well-being, and trusting God in mine and my family's behalf . So, besides those aspects I've just listed, what are some things that cause you to feel empowered?
Molly,In perilous times you are advising people to 'trust America's founding fathers'? We're going to be saved by fighting for our Constitution and an earthly government? I don't think so.Jesus once said, "Do not weep for me - weep for yourselves and for your children. Do you think that was an odd thing for him to say? Why would Jesus say such a thing?Anne
I agree, all good. I wish there was more of an organized effort, a real movement/venue (PEACEFUL, Big Brother...don't want on any "watch lists"...promise, I'm not a terrorist ) to speak up
Global conquest is the goal of true Christianity. But not with lies, military, killing, etc. Through the preaching of the Gospel. All I've waited on is the Lord to take me off the leash and I'm the next Alexander the Great. But not with lies, military, killing, etc. The resurrection's not until after the millenium. The Lord's waiting on us to take this thing. Lots of passages about His High Priestly ministry that get twisted by the premillenialist into reflections of Christ Jesus bodily being on earth during the millenium. Israel will look upon Him whom they've pierced in the exact same way that we've looked upon Him whom our sins have pierced. Jesus cares for the lambs in Isaiah 40 through His High Priestly ministry and our stand of faith on the Hosea 2:18 covenant. We're either going to overthrow religion in the next few years, or we're going to be stuck with it for centuries. We've entered into the season where we're at a Crossroads on what we're going to do, whether His Will will be done on earth as it is in heaven, or whether we're going to bury our talent. He's done absolutely all that He's ever going to do about it between now and the resurrection of the righteous and the wicked (2Timothy 4). He's not going to do another thing about it except what He's been doing [as High Priest] with honoring His Word as we stand on it. We already have His Holy Spirit. He's waiting on us to pour Him out upon all flesh. There's not another outpouring that'll ever happen again that's not coming straight from the Body in the earth. We pour Him out upon all flesh, or we take another walk around the mountain for 40 Jubilees and get judged accordingly with being allowed to rot in the desert.
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Dear Editor,
Brooks Moore's recent article reflects that he and, unfortunately, millions of other Bamboozled Americans just don't get it on this gun control issue.
The truth is that...of course the present administration would love to confiscate all of our guns, and NO, they couldn't "just take them if they want to". The goof offs in DC know this, and that's why they haven't already done it. Most Americans aren't wimps, Mr. Moore, and the central government just doesn't have that ability...yet.
And in reference to "more guns", etc, lets use another example to show how stupid that line of thinking is. I guess they should stop us buying more cars. After all, the more cars are out there, the more accidents. The more accidents, then the more deaths! So ban, say, fast sport cars, and all v-8's!
Nope!! Just remembered! It's the drunks and texting drivers that are killing people and not the cars. It's the very same with guns, knives, oh yes, and ball bats, and sharp ball point pens. Let's don't forget them!
And for Pete's sake, you should be thanking God above for the NRA, of which I'm a proud member, by the way!
Yep! It's true! A gun-toting Pastor!
The truth is that the present people in power in Washington are attempting, not so discreetly now, to do away with our Republic and Constitution and form a democratic government, which leads to the next step, a socialist regime, that ultimately ends up becoming a dictatorship! Don't say I'm crazy! The same bunch took prayer right out of our schools before we could say, Our Father, who art in heaven!
I've said it and said it, and, unfortunately, I am as right as rain.
If Americans don't wake up and smell the confiscation of our freedoms one by one, and become unified and shout very loudly,"Oh no you don't!!", we are in for a very bad ending to our great nation. The good news is that I believe there are enough of us beginning to speak up and refuse to be silenced!
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Speaking publicly for the first time about his May 2010 arrest and subsequent confinement, Pfc. Bradley Manning testified about his time in a cell in a segregation tent at Camp Arifjan, an Army installation in Kuwait.
"I remember thinking I'm going to die. I'm stuck inside this cage," Manning said in response to questions from defense attorney David Coombs. "I just thought I was going to die in that cage. And that's how I saw it – an animal cage."
Manning was later sent to a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., in July 2010. His lawyers are seeking dismissal of all charges, contending his pretrial confinement at Quantico was needlessly harsh.
Manning's testimony came on the third day of a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, the sprawling Army post between Washington and Baltimore.
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Speaking in emphatic bursts, sometimes stumbling over his words, Manning said that at Quantico, where he was held for nine months in highly restrictive maximum custody, "I started to feel like I was mentally going back to Kuwait mode, in that lonely, dark, black hole place, mentally."
Manning said he never sank that low but grew frustrated after five months of spending up to 23 hours a day in a windowless, 6-by-8-foot cell.
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Manning is trying to avoid trial in the WikiLeaks case. He argues he was punished enough when he was locked up alone in a small cell for nearly nine months at Quantico, where he also had to sleep naked for several nights.
The military contends the treatment was proper, given Manning's classification then as a maximum-security detainee who posed a risk of injury to himself or others.
Earlier Thursday, a military judge accepted the terms under which Manning was willing to plead guilty to eight charges for sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.
Col. Denise Lind's ruling doesn't mean the pleas have been formally accepted. That could happen in December.
But Lind approved the language of the offenses to which Manning would admit.
She said those offenses carry a total maximum prison term of 16 years.
Manning made the offer as a way of accepting responsibility for the leak. Government officials have not said whether they would continue prosecuting him for the other 14 counts he faces, including aiding the enemy. That offense carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Under the proposal, Manning would admit to willfully sending the following material: a battlefield video file, some classified memos, more than 20 Iraq war logs, more than 20 Afghanistan war logs and other classified materials. He would also plead guilty to wrongfully storing classified information.
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