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The Aiken County Sheriffs Office responded to break-ins on Connection Road in Graniteville, Edgefield Highway in Aiken, Saint Johns Place in Warrenville, Pine Street in Aiken and Old 96 Indian Trail in Wagener.
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It wasn't until Mindy Honey became a mom that she realized the impact her foster families had on her.
Honey, 32, entered the foster care system at 18 months old in Belfast, Maine, and bounced around until she was 7. Two years later, the Pennsylvania couple who had brought her into their home adopted her.
"I really appreciate how much they did for me," she said.
She shared her story Friday night at the KidsPeace Foster Care and Community Programs' 21st annual foster parent recognition banquet in Danville, Pa. May is National Foster Care Awareness Month.
Honey said after she was adopted, she had a normal childhood until her father unexpectedly died when she was 15. Still, she turned that hardship into a positive, working diligently to put herself through school so she could become an ICU nurse. She now works for Geisinger Medical Center and has two children of her own, who make her realize every day how much she has to be grateful for in her life.
Recently, a foster sibling from a family that had given her a temporary home when she was small reached out to her via Facebook, asking if she was the person who had lived in their house. Honey was touched to be able to say thank you to people who had helped to shape her early years, and she hopes other foster parents who guided her would be proud of where she is today and what she has accomplished.
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Music Review: Holiday pops much more than the same oldBy Jim Lowe
Staff Writer | December 09,2012Jim Lowe / Staff Photo
Dawn Willis leads the audience in a carol singalong at the VSO Holiday Pops concert at the Barre Opera House on Friday. The program will be repeated at 3 p.m. today at Rutlands Paramount Theatre.For the occasional concertgoer, holiday music programs are a joy, reminding us of everything we hold dear about the time of Christmas and Hanukkah.
But, for the music aficionado, these same programs become the dreary same old, same old, same old.
That is, unless the program is created and directed by Robert De Cormier, founding director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Chorus. On Friday at the Barre Opera House, De Cormier led the VSO and VSO Chorus in a program that was full of the familiar, new takes on the familiar and some new traditions to celebrate.
(The same program was presented on Saturday at Burlingtons Flynn Center and will be performed at 3 p.m. today at Rutlands Paramount Theatre.)
At 90 years old, De Cormier, still one of this countrys foremost choral conductors, is at no loss for ideas and the ability to execute them. It was in the more classic prologue to Vaughan Williams Hodie that he led the chorus and orchestra in its most beautiful performance. The complex and spicy orchestration complemented the rich choral sound and message, beautifully delivered.
More novel, De Cormier led the chorus and orchestra in what is thought to be Grubers original Silent Night, familiar but more elegant and lyrical than what we are accustomed to. De Cormier juxtaposed Mozarts and Leroy Andersons Sleigh Ride. Although it was filled with appropriate sleigh bells, the Mozart (from his German Dances) was light and elegant. The Anderson, well, it wasnt but it was lots of fun.
De Cormier introduced an impressive work by 18-year-old Jacob Morton-Black, a Colchester High School senior and a product of Vermonts Music-COMP, a high school composition mentoring program. Morton-Blacks Danse Slav et Valse for orchestra proved a lively work based on Russian themes. The simple themes belied the works complex harmonic language and colorful orchestration. It was a real pleasure.
After The 12 Days of Christmas, Louise De Cormier, Roberts wife and a former Weston Playhouse actress, read letters from the unhappy girl receiving the gifts hilarious.
You cant get more traditional than Messiah, and Dawn Willis, the VSO Choruss assistant conductor, led the chorus and orchestra in a 10-minute version of Handels masterpiece. Willis led a performance that was not only spirited but clean and clear you could actually understand the words of Unto Us a Child Is Born, Pifa and Glory to God. And, of course, it closed with the audience rising for the Hallelujah Chorus.
Truly charming were two Hanukkah songs by Woody Guthrie, arranged and orchestrated by De Cormier. Intriguing and fun were Tintinabulations, variations for orchestra on Jingle Bells in multiple recognizable styles. Just as fascinating was the complex orchestral work, Pat-a-pan, a Fantasy, by Hershy Kay, originally written for the Cleveland Orchestra.
The carol sing-along, led by Willis, had even the aficionados lending their voices enthusiastically. And De Cormier closed the program most appropriately with Why Cant We Have Christmas the Whole Year Around?
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Robert De Cormier will lead the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the VSO Holiday Pops at 3 p.m. today (Dec. 9) at the Paramount Theatre, 30 Center St. in Rutland. Tickets are $20-$30, or $16-$24 for seniors, or $9 for students. Call 775-0903, or go online to www.paramountlive.org. For information about upcoming VSO programs, go online to www.vso.org.MORE IN This Just InThe family of a Connecticut man who was killed in a car accident on Route 4 last Friday night is... Full StoryAssociated Press Full StoryIt seems like I just started to warm up from last winter and I see back-to-school displays. Full Story
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Author Rick Bloomer and his family firmly believe in our mission. They have sponsored children for several years and consider themselves blessed to also be able to sponsor a student in our Leadership Development Program.
Over the past couple of years, my wife and I have partaken in the discipline of fasting. We have really focused on strengthening our relationship with the Lord, and with His grace and guidance we have experienced success with many challenges.
In September 2008, our daughter, who was born with spina bifida, had her only ventricular shunt revision to date (thank God). At that time and after hearing God's calling to do so, my wife decided to do her first fast, with a dedication toward our daughter's health. It was a 21-Day Daniel Fast, which essentially consists of consuming all natural plant-based foods only (fruits, vegetables, nuts).
About a week after our daughter's shunt revision, we took her out of the bathtub one night and noticed that her shunt tract looked majorly infected. It was bulging out an inch from her neck.
We knew from all of our reading and study what an infected shunt looked like. We also knew that infections were somewhat common following surgery and that if she did ever have a shunt infection, it may require a hospital stay of 10+ days before it was resolved.
We quickly called the neurosurgeon and she told us to get to the hospital right away. It was about 7 p.m. We put our daughter down to sleep in our bedroom while we packed and got ready to go.
My wife, packing the suitcase on the living room floor, looked up at me and asked, "How will I ever comply with this fast while in the hospital?"
We knew after spending 14 days in the hospital after our daughter's birth that the food certainly was not "Daniel Fast compliant."
Couple that with the stress that is often present when dealing with such a situation and you can understand the potential difficulty here. But after thinking about it for a minute, she made it perfectly clear that because she made the commitment to the Lord, she would stick to it. My wife proceeded to pack her plain rice cakes, natural peanut butter, and fruit.
About an hour passed and we were ready to leave. My wife went in to wake our daughter and yelled for me to come into the room. When I arrived and looked at our daughter, I could see clearly that her shunt tract was perfectly normal. No bulging. No discoloration. No swelling. Perfectly and beautifully normal.
We called the neurosurgeon and she suggested to simply observe her and then to see how things looked in the morning. Well, in the morning, she looked great, and praise be to God — she has not had one major health problem since that night.
In fact, she started walking on her own this summer … a real miracle for a 2-year-old with spina bifida!
Some people might think that the issue with the shunt was mere coincidence. But we know better. That was the awesome and mighty hand of God blessing our daughter abundantly!
I strongly believe that this blessing was due to my wife's obedience and faithfulness to the Lord during this difficult time. She accepted His challenge to complete the fast and He blessed our family because of it.
I can relay many similar stories of God's blessings over our lives during other periods of fasting over the past two years. This is why I am so enthused about sharing the wonderful discipline of fasting with others.
In fact, a few months ago, God placed an idea in me to engage as many people as possible in a program of fasting.
Why? Because our family has experienced firsthand the absolute power of fasting and prayer and I want others to have the fulfilling experience that we have been blessed with.
But God also gave me an idea associated with the fast that involves "fasters" requesting sponsorship for their devotion and effort during the fast, in much the same way as they would if running a race or walking a 5K. This made perfect sense to me. Give up some of my food, my comfort, and my way of life in order to provide food for others in an attempt to enhance their way of life.
We decided to call the program Fasting-for-Food, and we have been working hard to develop the program over the past few months.
Because so many individuals who fast choose to follow the Daniel Fast, we have partnered with Susan Gregory (The Daniel Fast blogger), author of the best-selling book "The Daniel Fast: Feed Your Soul, Strengthen Your Spirit and Renew Your Body."
Susan is a wonderful woman of God and oversees a New Year fast for thousands of individuals worldwide. She will be instrumental in promoting this program.
In addition, as my wife and I have been involved with Compassion over the past few years, we thought to ask Compassion to serve as the main partner, receiving funds from this initiative.
Specifically, funds raised will be directed to Compassion's Global Food Crisis Program, to be used to provide food and other basic needs for some of the poorest people in this world.
In the true spirit of Christmas, please remember that the wise men came and gave gifts to Him and not to each other. Our own personal fasts might be the best gifts that we could ever provide to God — the giving of ourselves through a focused time of prayer and devotion to Him.
I hope that you will consider a fast this New Year. I also hope that you can help spread the word about this program so more people can learn of the benefits of Christian fasting.
It is our intent to engage as many people as possible in a fast this New Year — with the main objective of enhancing their own personal relationships with Christ.
When individual relationships are enhanced, group relationships are enhanced and good things really begin to happen.
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I pray that the Lord will place on your heart the desire to dedicate yourself to Him this New Year through a focused period of fasting and prayer.


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Episode: 002 | Aired: October 09, 1960
The state police ask Andy and Barney to step aside while they search for an escaped convict in Mayberry. Look For: The only appearance of Barney's Mother played by Lillian Culver. Otis Campbell in the Mayberry choir.
Episode: 003 | Aired: October 16, 1960
Andy schemes to help a young local guitarist (James Best). Look For: Guest star James Best, who would go on to play Sheriff Coltrane in The Dukes of Hazzard, among many other guest-starring roles in TV and film.
Episode: 004 | Aired: October 23, 1960
Andy schemes to help a young local guitarist (James Best). Look For: Guest star James Best, who would go on to play Sheriff Coltrane in The Dukes of Hazzard, among many other guest-starring roles in TV and film.
Episode: 005 | Aired: October 30, 1960
Andy comes to believe that Ellie is a deadly female hunter out to marry him. Look For: Barney wearing his signature salt-and-pepper suit for the first time in this episode.
Episode: 006 | Aired: November 06, 1960
Opie befriends an 8-year-old runaway.
Episode: 007 | Aired: November 13, 1960
Andy, trying to lift Barney's spirits, stages a minor robbery and tries to match his deputy with a shy seamstress. Factoid: The Snappy Lunch (mentioned in this episode) was actually one of Andy's favorite eating spots when he was in high school.
Episode: 008 | Aired: November 27, 1960
Andy becomes upset when Opie contributes a measly three cents to the Underprivileged Children's drive.
Episode: 009 | Aired: December 04, 1960
Andy strives to end a long-running feud between two neighboring families. Look For: Andy wearing a nightcap to bed.
Episode: 010 | Aired: December 11, 1960
Ellie's decision to run for town council sparks a battle of the sexes. Look For: Mary Treen as Sam's unnamed wife. She played Andy's housekeeper, Rose, in the first episode.
Episode: 011 | Aired: December 18, 1960
"A modern-day Scrooge (businessman Ben Weaver) causes trouble on Christmas Eve. Factoid: This was the only Christmas episode -- and the first directed by Bob Sweeney. Blooper: Andy incorrectly reads a letter from the Hubacher Brothers as Merry Christmas instead of greetings from state prison.
Episode: 012 | Aired: December 25, 1960
Mayberrians (especially Barney) become suspicious of a stranger who seems to possess knowledge about everyone. Look For: Walter Baldwin, making his only appearance as Floyd the Barber before Howard McNear assumed the role.
Episode: 013 | Aired: January 01, 1961
Almost everyone puts on airs when a Hollywood film crew decides to use Mayberry as the backdrop for a movie.
Episode: 014 | Aired: January 08, 1961
Ignoring his own advice to Opie, Andy plays fast and loose with the facts when trying to sell the old town cannon. Look For: Lucille Ball on the cover of TV Guide on the magazine rack at Walker's Drug Store.
Episode: 015 | Aired: January 15, 1961
After Andy teases the fairer sex about gossiping, Aunt Bee pulls a prank to prove that men are gossips, too. Look For: Lucille Ball on the cover of TV Guide on the magazine rack at Walker's Drug Store, again!
Episode: 016 | Aired: January 22, 1961
Andy is chosen to be the sole judge of a local beauty pageant. The entrants include Floyd's niece, the mayor's daughter and Ellie Walker. Look For: Floyd singing, Hail to Thee, Miss Mayberry.
Episode: 017 | Aired: January 29, 1961
Andy and Barney, on a still-smashing spree, are surprised when a trail leads them to two spinster sisters. Look For: Barney eating spiked preserves on toast.
Episode: 018 | Aired: February 09, 1961
Andy counsels a Mayberry couple that constantly bickers. Guest Star: Fred Boone is played by veteran actor Jesse White, best known as the Maytag repairman.
Episode: 019 | Aired: February 12, 1961
Andy becomes suspicious when a record promoter comes to town to gather material for a folk music album. Guest Stars: Hugh Marlowe, who played Ellery Queen on TV during the '50s, plays Mr. Maxwell. He's best known as Jim Matthews on the soap Another World.
Episode: 020 | Aired: February 19, 1961
Barney's overzealous policing enrages the people of Mayberry. Look For: The Manhunt music is played at the end of this episode. It's in this episode that it becomes Barney's Theme.
Episode: 021 | Aired: February 26, 1961
An infamous con artist, held temporarily in Mayberry, manages to enchant everyone except Andy. Look For: Andy tells Opie and Barney his own version of Jack and the Beanstalk.
Episode: 022 | Aired: March 05, 1961
Andy tries to help Barney express his love struck feelings for Thelma Lou. Don't Miss: Casanova Barney's seduction of Ellie.
Episode: 023 | Aired: March 12, 1961
Andy and Opie go to great lengths to show Aunt Bee what a mess they'd be without her. Look For: Hope Summers makes her first appearance as neighbor Bertha Edwards. She will ultimately return as Bee's friend Clara Edwards.
Episode: 024 | Aired: March 26, 1961
A handsome new doctor arouses suspicion in Aunt Bee and Barney and jealousy in Andy.
Episode: 025 | Aired: April 02, 1961
Mayor Pike (Dick Elliott) and the townspeople are shocked to discover that the last living descendant of Revolutionary War hero Nathan Tibbs is Mayberry's town drunk, Otis Campbell. Look For: The Barney Fife Peter Piper Nose-p\Pinching Test for Drunks. Factoid: The actresses who play Mrs. Bixby (Isabel Randolph) and Mrs. Harriett Wicks (Carol Veazie) both appeared at different times on the Dick Van Dyke show as Laura Petrie's mother.
Episode: 026 | Aired: April 09, 1961
A by-the-book courthouse inspector condemns Andy and Barney's lack of proper procedure while Andy deals with a local bootlegger. Look For: Barney plays checkers with himself.
Episode: 027 | Aired: April 16, 1961
Ellie encourages and helps a female farmhand to express her femininity. Look For: See what happens when Ellie sprays Midnight Madness perfume on Andy.
Episode: 028 | Aired: April 23, 1961
Grumpy businessman Ben Weaver insists that Andy foreclose on a down-on-his-luck neighbor. Dont miss Barney's attempt to sell an old suit at the rummage sale. Look For: The Scobey family is played by the same actors who played The Muggins family in the Christmas episode.
Episode: 029 | Aired: April 30, 1961
Barney is suspicious that Mayberry's mysterious new farmer (William Schallert) is up to no good and growing marijuana. He's shocked to find out what's really going on at Sam Becker's farm. Factoid: This was the first episode by the prolific writing team of Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum. Guest Star: William Schallert played Patty Duke's father in The Patty Duke Show in addition to a variety of other television and film roles.
Episode: 030 | Aired: May 07, 1961
An escaped convict vows revenge on Barney Fife, the man who sent him back to prison. Look For: The hilarious scene where Barney uses his body as a weapon to capture the crook.
Episode: 031 | Aired: May 14, 1961
Mayberry guitarist Jim Lindsey (James Best), a success as a solo artist, returns to a hero's welcome. However, Andy suspects trouble.
Episode: 032 | Aired: May 21, 1961
Aunt Bee, believing that the jailhouse environment is adversely affecting Opie, forbids the lad to spend time at the courthouse. Listen For: Background music by Earle Hagen and crew during the 'kick the can' sequence.
Episode: 001 | Aired: October 02, 1963
Andy and Opie make room in their home (and hearts) for a new housekeeper: Andy's Aunt Bee. Look For: Photo of Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) as a young woman hanging to the right of the kitchen door. Opie mentions his dog Gulliver; as a boy, Ron Howard had a dog named Gulliver.


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It is said that the songs and pop culture moments one experiences between the ages of 12 and 20 are the ones that become the benchmarks for one's life. I find that to be more accurate as I age further away from The Police and The Clash and through the era of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, but I am currently immersed in an era that predates even my teen years.
Playing around on the wonderful and free Pandora Internet Radio recently, I created a "Bobby Bare Radio" station designed to cycle through some of the laid-back singer's '60s and '70s work. Pandora uses the results from its Music Genome Project to study "melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals and lyrics," to find other artists and songs that align with one's stated tastes. This produces a flow of comfortable, familiar music, even with songs one is hearing songs for the first time. I would readily accept an argument that this result is as limiting as it is comforting.
Within an hour, my Bobby Bare Radio station resurrected a hit parade of singers and songs I love but have not heard since I discovered rock 'n' roll via a basement AM transistor radio in 1977.
"Wolverton Mountain" by Claude King. "Saginaw, Michigan" by Lefty Frizzell. "Skip a Rope" by Henson Cargill. "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean. "Waterloo" by Stonewall Jackson. Plus a string of favorites by cherished artists like Johnny Cash, Tom T. Hall, Buck Owens, Roger Miller, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Marty Robbins, Charley Pride and Johnny Horton.
Pandora can certainly produce some treasures. Two Horton songs caught my attention (and, as they were intended to do, drove me to a music site to purchase the tracks). One was "Go North," an acoustic version on "North to Alaska" with none of that record's production but twice its emotional impact. I grew up with Horton's "Battle of New Orleans" constantly in the background, but in addition to that classic, Pandora offered "Battle of New Orleans (British Version)," which tells the story from the redcoat point of view. Learning new versions of songs that have floated in my head for 40 years is an invigorating and exciting venture.
Robbins' best-known song, "El Paso," is about a cowboy's ill-fated love for Faleena, a maiden in Rosa's cantina. At the end of the song, the cowboy, who murdered a man in a fight over Faleena, is shot and killed by a posse. Several songs after playing "El Paso," Pandora played "Faleena (from El Paso)," a sequel of sorts in which, during the course of eight minutes(!), Robbins sings of Faleena's life from birth to the moment her cowboy lover dies in her arms, when she takes his gun and shoots herself. Not a happy ending, but it underscores one of the reasons I love this music; name a current song on the charts that contains enough story and theme to warrant a sequel. I refuse to fall into the trap of "the music these kids listen to just isn't as good as my music," but I am not apologizing for the nostalgia trip.
One of the artists who continually pops up on my "Bobby Bare Radio" station is Merle Haggard. The Hag may not be as well-known as Cash or Jennings to the wider pop music audience, but his body of work is as uniquely American as anything by Cash or American innovators such as Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Rodgers and Chuck Berry. In addition to "Mama Tried" and "The Fighting Side of Me," Pandora played Hag's 1982 song "Are the Good Times Really Over? (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" The record, which one that year's Academy of Country Music award for song of the year, is a downbeat rumination on the state of the union that remains so relevant it could have been written this morning.
The song slowly cruises through a litany of worry; the stability of U.S. currency, the impact of war, gender roles, problems with the automotive industry, drug abuse, lying politicians and the fight for liberty. The chorus is at first desperate and sad — "Are we rollin' downhill like a snowball headed for hell?/With no kind of chance for the flag or the Liberty Bell?/I wish a Ford or a Chevy would still last 10 years like they should./Is the best of the free life behind us now and are the good times really over for good?" The song ends on a note of hope that looks naked on the page, but issued from Hag's weathered, timeless voice, is as inspiring as any cinematic vista: "Stand up for the flag, and let's all ring the Liberty Bell./The best of the free life is still yet to come and the good times ain't really over for good."
If "Are the Good Times Really Over" were released today, it would be Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity's new theme song by tomorrow. And I have no doubt that as events and history cycle through their unstoppable paces, there will be a day decades from now when "Are the Good Times Really Over" will retain its relevancy and will again speak for the times.
Intellectually, I know there are people who will be as attached to Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber as I am to my Sting and Joe Strummer compositions. But on a heart and soul level, where music has its greatest impact, I'd rather be dying in Faleena's eternal embrace than caught in one less lonely girl's bad romance.
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I have a lot of cues. Currently playing with a Ray Schuler.
I have a lot of cues. Currently playing with a Ray Schuler.
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Im thinking of gettin a cue just for looks.
I've got a Viking "tall" butt (33") and a shaft cut from an ancient house stick at the points (36"). What's nice is that the total weight is 20.5 ounces.
This is necessary, since I'm 6' 5" tall.
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I'm having a 3 piece cue made with a standard 30" butt, 12" middle piece, and a 24" shaft. I may also experiment with a few smaller middle piece inserts, i.e., 8", 6", 4".
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Joined: 6/05/06
I was stunned that as a returning "premium" player, I was asked which 2 of my characters I wanted to play. I didn't want to play any of my old characters, I wanted to make a new one to play a new story. Well, that required that I delete almost all of my old characters! Are you kidding? What if later I decide that I want to subscribe again....and now most of my characters are gone! What a joke.
Hence, I had to create a completely new account, which means that I'm not a "premium" or "preferred" F2P character. As such, a lot of the things I was expecting as a previous subscriber were now completely gone.
As a result, I think I played about 3 hours on my new character and haven't logged back in. It's just too restrictive. I was amazed that some of the quest rewards (under lvl 10) were locked! I mean, that's really really too many restrictions.
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Joined: 2/17/07
NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by asmkm22
I want to play it but not always, and the $15 is too much, in comparison
SOE offered a 3 day sub per month to EQ2 and that would have suited me here. Also before APB shut down and went free, they offered sub by game time, buy 20 hours and use it whenever - 5 hours in Nov + 10 hours in Dec + 5 hours in Feb - no need to play all within one month, this would have suited me too
Other MMOs with F2P make it all possible to play at minimal expense too. SWTOR does not
I like SWTOR but it is not the only MMO I play, and to pay a $15 sub to all that I play would bankrupt me, as SWTOR is so limited and EA shows no future with it, it will have to be the one that gets the chop, but if they make it more accessible and I would play it.
SWG may not have done well, but it no way bled subs as fast as SWTOR has. SWG did better overall as did not cost millions to make. SWG had its full 26 servers for 6 years, SWTOR went from 200 to 20 in 6 months.
SOE put a lot of effort into it in its final days with probably less than a tenth of the devs that SWTOR has, with actual new stuff and improvements. Making the terminal missions support BM xp was certatinly not stuff held back, that was new stuff requested from the playerbase. SWTOR devs show no signs of this kind of playerbase - dev interaction.
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Joined: 9/09/08
MMO gamer since 1997
SWTOR is so content light that they need to charge for odd things like hide helmet.
Imagine if we had 4 character slots, all action bars, all crew slots and maybe an increase on the credit cap and market slots.
I know I wouldnt have to give them any money for more than a year.
I would level 4 different classes to 50, put them in adaptive gear and be done with the game.
Most people would do that and the game would shut down.
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Joined: 5/25/04
Originally posted by mnwild1998
Exactly, the game is great. I just got my ninth level 50 character and I am no way near tired fo the game. It is awesome!!!
Regarding the F2P complainers, they only do that because they cant enjoy the game as they want without paying.
Some seems to think that F2P is the ENTIRE game and then future content costs but that is no way near the case.
I am happy they put in alot of restrictions, I hear everyday somebody subscribing because they want to be able to play the way it is should be.
Even I have spent around $150 on cartelcoins eventhough I am a subscriber and I am not regretting it at all.
In life you dont get anything for free, why should you in SWTOR?
Subscribe and be a happy player like the rest of us
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Joined: 6/05/06
Originally posted by Winterizer
Because a single-player story game (essentially what SWTOR is) isn't worth $15 a month for a lot of people (look how many quit). The fully-functioning single-player story portion of the game is probably worth about $5 a month. I'd pay $5 a month to access the class story PvE game, which would exclude all "end-game" content and restrict the # of warzone matches. Instead, I got a severely restricted game experience that doesn't exceed the cost of my time playing the game (i.e., I'm better off doing almost anything else rather than the restricted PvE SWTOR experience).
If I were a subscriber, I'd want to have as many people playing as possible, in the hopes some percentage shifts to a full-paying customer, which increases revenues for EA and thus would help finance future expansions to the game. With the current set-up where the restricted playing experience doesn't even cover the cost of my time, I suspect the total number of new paying customers is really dropping.
Perhaps EA knew all this, and instead of trying to get people to convert to a full subscription, they simply hoped people would just purchase the cartel coins.
So in a nutshell:
August 2nd:
SWTOR critic: ToR going FTP in under 9 months shows that ToR is a failure.
SWTOR defender: ToR is not a failure. FTP is the wave of the future, people don't want to pay a monthly fee anymore. There are lots of great FTP games like LOTRO, AION, and even GW2.
November 16th:
SWTOR critic: ToR doesn't even have a true FTP system. You still have to sub to really play the game. This is another failure.
SWTOR defender: ToR is not a failure. FTP is never trully free. Besides, FTP is stupid, what's $15 a month? P2P has always been the true way to play a MMO. FTP is just for entitled freeloaders. SO what if ToR's FTP system isn't ike LOTRO or AION, besids, you have to spend money, $60, even on GW2.
I'm not a Vulcan, but I can say that ToR's defense over time is a bit illogical.
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Joined: 10/13/07
Considering F2P, it seems Planetside 2 has it done right as does Guild Wars 2, Aion and City of Heroes (minus NCSoft's decision to shut that down). I have no problems spending money in Planetside 2 for unlocks because they're cheaper to spend with station cash than to rack up 1000 cert points to unlock the items and then use ingame certs to upgrade the purchased items. The game is worth playing to me for now and I just purchased double station cash on black friday. I also bought a few things in City of Heroes too in the past.
Novice Member
Joined: 1/06/08
Originally posted by defector1968
Apparently, u havent played turbine`s lotro
u grind mobs (100/200/300) to earn cashshop point aka turbine pts to purchase cashshop items.
That is also one of the reason lotro was succesfull due to the ability to grind to buy cashshop items
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Joined: 6/09/06
End is not an "end" just the begining.
Originally posted by Skymourne
It can be awful but broken. It's ok, F2P players can buy unlocks from the auction house but the bad part in it: F2P players have credit cap and they can't buy unlocks for 350-500k when their limit is 200k. It can be solved when subscribers realize no one buy their unlocks on auction cuz other subscribers won't need unlocks and F2P-ers can't buy it due to limitations - or they should remove credit cap. If you compare STO's F2P with SWTOR you can see; STO is playable for free SWTOR not. Until they not balance the F2P-P2P player base SWTOR is a P2W game.
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Joined: 3/27/07
I would give everybody the ability to progress through content without paying a cent. Instead of forcing it upon them I'd make all paid options nothing but optional perks and go from there. You're probably thinking that the game would fail hard, right? Well, that's assuming that it's made from the same old regurgitated mold as the last 100 MMORPG'S released. You make a quality game with reasonable pricing and players will flock to it. There's really nothing else worth thinking about.
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Joined: 8/02/12
I think a good portion of you guys are insane. Stuff like the game is not the problem, people not wanting to pay is. Or the self entitlement thing. Want to know a major problem? Forum goers at swtor website, being deragatory and confrontational, trying to come up with restrictions to add themselves. Just overall douche behavior at the finest. Call the potential spenders names and stuff, hell I wonder how many people see that and just pass up the game. Not sure what it is like in game. I did the beta stuff and got to like 15 or so and then never bought the game. But if the chat in game is ever 1/8 as noxious and poisonous as most of the forum discussion then I will be beyond shocked if a large amount of people 1.)Get a membership. 2.)Spend much money on cash shop
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I played today. PvP is as fun as ever, but Bioware's idea of "F2P" is totally messed up.
Why would I pay for basic UI elements??? For example.
Bioware have decided that the best way to get people to pay for their game is to give them less-than-half a product for free, and force them into buying things should they want the full deal. That's one way of doing things, I suppose, but it's certainly not the way to encourage consumers.
XFire stats are telling. Player numbers peaked on F2P launch, then declined, then rose again at the weekend, and are now declinging again. It seems to me that EA arrogantly misunderstood what a F2P game should be; hopefully they'll pay the price for that as SWTOR flops even under a F2P model.
The restrictions on the game have further posioned and MMO community that was already notorious for its cynicism and bullying. By restricting the forum to paying customers only (along with practically pointing out the people who are playing for free in game), EA Bioware have cemented a toxic atmosphere that is likely to drive customers away from - and not towards - paying for the game.
There just seems to be a lack of business sense at EA. Either that, or they genuinely believe that SWTOR is a bad product. The ONLY reason I would choose to market a game I had made in the same way EA did and have with SWTOR is if I knew the product was substandard. The funny thing is that it ISN'T substandard! With less restrictions, a more open playing field, and more content diversity, SWTOR would make a great game that I would happily pay for on one level of another. As it stands, EA are trying to bully and manipulate me into paying them, and I'm not going to do that.
Game has already been uninstalled. I'll reinstall it if they fundamentally alter the entire payment model, and add in some real, original content.
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Originally posted by Kabaal
mmmmm, it seems to me that most of the F2P games out there are bad with a few exceptions like Aion. I do not like Aion but its F2P system is great for players
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I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.
To all those that say, " You have no right to complain about something that's free...."
Well......you could leave a flaming bag of poo on my porch and even though its free, I'd complain about it. " But no one is leaving anything on your porch technically. This is something you could just ignore...."
Which is true. Except they could also be offering free flaming bags of poo near the local intersection at the "Flaming Bag of Poo" stand. Would people complain about it? Yea. They'd say, " Have you seen that ridiculous stand near the interseciton trying to give out free bags of poo? Why? That's just stupid. Nobody wants that. "
What does a free flaming bag of poo have to do with Swtors F2P model? I might be tempted more to take the free flaming bag of poo thats what. In other words.......EVERYTHING.
Originally posted by dotdotdash
In a nutshell: EA did give up on the game, three times.
They gave up when they told the slow-poke, overspending Bioware to pare the scope of their game down in mid-development.
They gave up on the game when they set a firm x-mas 2011 release date despite the fact Bioware was still months behind from being ready to launch.
They finally gave up on the game in early spring 2012. Bioware tried playing catch-up with Groupfinder and custumizable UI. They also had a major patch release. They saw that they were still bleeding subs and decided the best course of action was more live events, and to release major content monthly.
EA said enough of that, the bleeding subs are jepordizing EA's executive positions. They canned SWTOR's management, and stockpiled the content. They annonced a cockamaney FTP system to hide sub numbers. The FTP system itself is designed to milk the die-hard fans still subscribing.
I'm not blaming EA for all of SWTOR's woes, Bioware shares that blame. I'm just saying that in the spring, EA decided to pull the plug. What you are seeing now is just an orderly retreat frm the MMO market.
Nutty nutshell over.
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NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by funyahns
According to this thread on the official forums:- This game needs to die!
it is just as bad in game
"I was on tython (I decided to play a jedi knight) and whenever a new person asked a question what was the answer they got, a insult, or a sarcastic remark. Now if I was a newcomer I would be mad, mad to the point of quitting. These are people we need to keep the game alive, but no making them mad is the better way to go so they don't play anymore."
I think it is down to the fact that the game is single player centric and people just want to play the game and not be bothered by anyone else. ergo SWTORs game design is complete failure for a MMO, and so the game is the problem.
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NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Originally posted by Corehaven
Great Explanation!
Also I think these people have not played any other F2P game as F2P, and if they do play them they sub to them so just assume that they are all as restrictive in F2P.
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NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
Another good post on the official forums - "Free to Play - Feeling the Failure":
Originally posted by superniceguy
FYI - That thread was deleted before the googe-bots even got to it.
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It's absolutely hilarious that they're deleting thread with constructive criticism in so aggressively.
That's not likely to make things worse at all. I mean... it's worked SO WELL in the past for them!


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The problem is, steaks tend to be too thick to cut with a focused laser... So the closer we can get, the further we can cut.
Alternatively, you probably should pound the steak thin :)
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This gives the steak that seared in flavor :)
It probably won't interest meat eaters to know ( since most are by default unconcerned or willingly ignorant about the calamitous effects their eating habits have ) that it takes 2640 gallons of water to produce 1 POUND of edible beef, or that over 50% of the USA's water supply is used to raise animals for food, or that raising animals for food is the biggest polluter of the water supply & soil, or that 70% of grain produced is used as animal feed, or that rain forests are being cleared to rear animals...etc, etc, etc...
There is no argument in favour of eating meat other than "it tastes good". That remains a fact, regardless of anyone's views on PETA, vegetarians or Ted Nugent.
My cows must be about to turn to dust because they wouldn't drink more than a gallon a day.
Probably not bullshit, that water is everything that production of meat requires, including growing all of the grain, transportation, processing, etc.
Oh... Then there was probably enough for both you and the hamburger your neighbor ate.
"All muscle tissue is very high in protein, containing all of the essential amino acids, and in most cases is a good source of zinc, vitamin B12, selenium, phosphorus, niacin, vitamin B6, choline, riboflavin and iron.[54] Several forms of meat are high in vitamin K2,[55] which is only otherwise known to be found in fermented foods."
There is plenty of an argument other than "it tastes good". sure, you can get your proteins and such from other foods, but you will not get all of the different kinds of proteins your body needs to function correctly. Most vegetarians I know either have an unhealthy body weight, get injured easily, or are anaemic (iron deficiency). Those I know who are completely healthy do not NEVER eat meat, they just eat it on occasion, recognizing the health benefits. If you do not balance your diet correctly, you will have health problems. Although the way that meat is produced in the world is not necessarily something I agree with, meat is an integral part of our diet.
The urine soaks into the ground, the sweat evaporates and drool...... well I dunno. I believe 9 year old children learn about it and it's called the Water Cycle.
Granted to raise an animal uses a large amount of resources, but at least farm animals have a use (i.e. Food). Your bog standard house pet also contribute to your afore mentioned problem, yet produces no valuable output (other than enjoyment).
And I work as a Chef.....
We once tried removing wolves from Yosemite Park (because we thought they were dangerous), this allowed the elk in the area to live longer and have more offspring, those offspring then ate the sapling trees in the area, giving less ground cover for the areas around the river, which let the river bank erode away making the river wider, making it too shallow for fish to swim in. While all this is happening all of the old trees in the park were dying off, and since the overpopulated elk had eaten all of the saplings, there were no trees to replace the dead ones, leaving a bunch of dry timber to be ignited that could burn the whole forest down.
This is stuff I learned in 8th grade Biology, and there are many more examples. Remove one natural factor from an ecosystem and the whole thing falls apart, you create a break in the food chain that is hard to repair.
I actually didn't know any of that. Learn something new every day ^-^
Hurray! Vegetarianism!
"Your bog standard house pet also contribute to your afore mentioned problem, yet produces no valuable output (other than enjoyment)."
That's grossly incorrect. your bog standard pet is a better therapeutic aid than a psychiatrist in some cases. A pet can relieve stress and anxiety, regulate your heartbeat and blood pressure and even help us in our social lives providing companionship that we as humans need. Enjoyment should be simply be an added perk to all the benefits of having a pet... not the absolute reason for having one.
When I told some friends I had just got a high powered laser cutter for Christmas, the first thing they asked was if they could try cooking steak with it...
I had seen your instructable in the past, but never checked into it (as I didnt have a cutter at the time). While you have done some great initial research... it seems like your meat came out pretty rare, and not evenly cooked. Is that the case? Was it edible? Was the goal just to cut it out and then BBQ it?
I think if I were to try this, I would cut the steak very thin ~1/4 in and then do a raster sear on both sides, followed by cutting it out. Have you tried working different thicknesses?
Very interesting post
Any lifeform is edible if it is severely refined. Even some inorganic substances are edible if they are severely refined.
Iron house-keys and nails are edible, when refined properly...
Even the liver of the polar bear is edible when refined.
I assumed we were talking unrefined, since refined includes pretty much everything.


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