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WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — The West Point Cemetery has taken in graduates of the Long Gray Line from the age of the cavalry charge to the dawn of drone strikes. Headstones etched with names like Custer and Westmoreland stand near plots with freshly turned earth.
And after almost two centuries, the 12-acre cemetery is close to full.
The U.S. Military Academy and its graduates are taking steps to make more room with new niches for cremated remains and an eventual expansion of the burial grounds. The work will update a resting place for more than 8,000 people – the most hallowed ground at the nation's venerable military academy.
"I would challenge you to find more valor in a smaller amount of space," said cemetery administrator Kathleen Silvia, who notes that 16 Medal of Honor recipients lie here.
Marquee names here include Lt. Col. George Custer, U.S. commander in Vietnam Gen. William Westmoreland and – buried just this winter – Gulf War commander Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. But it's the rows of graves of never-famous soldiers that give the cemetery its quiet dignity.
Walking among the headstones recently, Silvia -- who was among the first female West Point graduates in 1980 -- points out Revolutionary War-era dead and stoops down to tidy the marker for a recently deceased colonel she admired.
Though a military cemetery since 1817, not all the graves are uniform. A few older ones are extravagant. The headstone of celebrated Army football coach Earl "Red" Blaik is shaped like a football ready to be kicked off. Egbert Viele, a Civil War veteran, rests in a two-story pyramid guarded by two stone sphinxes. It is said that his fear of being entombed alive was so great that his mausoleum was rigged with a buzzer.
There is no record of it being used.
The grounds on a tree-sheltered promontory near New York's Hudson River are reserved for West Point graduates and cadets, soldiers who die while assigned to the academy, and immediate family members. While graves of famous alumni like Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur are elsewhere, some 140 to 200 people are laid to rest here each year.
Some are old soldiers whose feelings for West Point never faded away. Vietnam veteran and retired Lt. Col. Freed Lowrey, a 1967 graduate, says he will be buried here among the historic figures and his classmates who were killed in that war.
"I want to be among soldiers. I want to be among people of my own kind who have served and done so much for the nation and have sacrificed so much," Lowrey says. "I could be in Arlington, I could be in any national cemetery, but this is -- and I'm not a religious person -- I mean, West Point's almost my soul."
Mourners at Schwarzkopf's service in February were told how crucial the academy was to his life and values. On a recent chilly Friday, the cremated remains of Air Force Maj. Gen. William Strong and his wife, Virginia, were buried here amid rifle volleys and a plaintive playing of taps. Strong, Class of 1940, had a distinguished career in the Air Force. Still, he and his wife decided to be buried near his father and brothers at West Point.
Lowrey, who returned to live in nearby Fishkill, now works for the West Point Association of Graduates, which has raised more than $1.5 million for a double-sided wall with niches for cremated remains. While a space beneath the cemetery's Old Cadet Chapel has enough room to handle additional cremated remains for about a decade, plots for outdoor interments of cremated remains are expected to be depleted in about two years.
Silvia expects the first sections of the wall, which will follow a circular walkway in the center of the cemetery, will be in place by that time.
Farther down the road is a plan to expand the burial ground to a patch of adjacent land, since that option could be depleted within five years. Silvia figures that would allow another decade of burials.
Silvia says the situation boils down to basic math. Academy graduating classes can now number around 1,000, much larger than generations ago. About two-dozen of the more than 90 graduates who have died in the decade-plus of conflict since the Sept. 11 attacks are interred here.
Silvia expects construction on the cremation niche wall to begin this spring. She also is enthused about plans for a smartphone app that will allow people to punch in the name of a person buried here and locate their grave.
"These are lifelong friends of ours, and it's a very special honor for me to provide the final salute," she says.
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The official branding of our town as the "Birthplace of Sweet Tea," a recent tourism incentive of the Greater Summerville/Dorchester Chamber of Commerce, has spawned added enticements for visitors. These include the already established Sweet Tea Trail and the hoped for Sweet Tea Trolley Tours as well as Sweet Tea Home Tours.
The trail began with the Antiques Association which was looking for promotion help. Members told Chamber Tourism Coordinator, Tina Zimmerman, they needed a brochure. "Luckily," said Tina, "DREAM and the Chamber work together wonderfully." DREAM did a brochure and she advertised in a regional newspaper. In a brainstorming session, they discussed "over a million different ways" to get customers on a 2nd Sunday trail effort. "What name kept sticking," said Tina, was "The Sweet Tea Trail."
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The idea of course is to encourage people to do more than just "drive through." A lot of tourists to Summerville come up from Charleston for a half day said Tina, "and I want to change that. "I want it to be that there's enough to do here, that they want to spend the whole day – and the night – and then go on."
The many phone calls and visits to the website wanting to know more specifics show there's a lot of interest, Tina added, "which is why I'm pushing so hard for such things as the historic trolley tours and tour homes. And you know, that Sweet Tea Trail promotes all businesses from gas stations to gardens!"
In addition to the billboards helped by the TAG, many other people and organizations have climbed aboard this effort. Perrin Conrad is helping with a plan to lure cruise travelers for a day or so side trip. Others involved include the Restaurant Association, which held a Sweet Tea Festival as well as a Tea Contest; Will Rizzo of Azalea Magazine, who has designed both the official "Tea" shirt as well as the logo; and CSU professor Fred Worthy, a man Tina called a "computer genius who has spent hours and hours with me." Fred designed a valuable computer survey to help determine when and why people come to Summerville. He is now working on an iPad and screen to allow visitors to enter their own information. There are many other projects and products on the scene, such as a proposed golf tournament where players can "Tea Off," and the new Summerville Sweet Tea Jelly from Rina's Kitchen.
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Apple rewrites its apology to Samsung, now appearing in UK newspapers
Apple has rewritten its apology to Samsung following its previous version which was labelled as "non-compliant" by the court that made the initial ruling. Apple was told by Lord Justice Longmore, Lord Justice Kitchin and Sir Robin Jacob that it had to change the wording of the statement and that it should be carried on its home page with at least an 11-point font. The new statement is now appearing in UK newspapers but has not yet appeared on Apple.com. The news comes from The Next web.
When Apple placed the apology on its website on October 26, it ran part of the order but also included references in its UK lawsuits that Samsung products were "not as cool" as its iPad and iPhone devices. The link to the apology was also tucked away in a hard to view section of its website. Apple representatives apparently told the court that it would take up to 14 days to change the statement, but one of the judges refused to believe it.
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Hey LOL ANDROTROLL... what's Ur real korean name ... DUDE... Kim ???
actually they should write:
"Someskunk failed to copy cool iPad design, due to a poorly done copy machine, which was indeed its original design".... or what about :
"Sameskunk did not copy the design of the iPad in United Kingdom, except Ireland, Scotland and all other colonies of the Great British Empire"
Am I the only one who finds the actions of the judges ridiculous? Is this really how the courts in Britain work? In Canada, this case would be appealed as soon as the judges said that Samsung products were "not as cool" etc.
Apple complied with the court order, sure they did it in a smart ass way, but they did what was asked of them. Unless the judges state "word for word" what Apple should write, they should expect this.
And yes, UK judges have gone crazy. I just read a story about how one actually congratulated a robber on his bravery during a home invasion because it is dangerous to rob people's home in the night and he could have been attacked.
Finally an intelligent reply that isn't racist among other attempts at insults.
You are at the correct that the... creative shall we say, methods that judges use in many instances are ridiculous. Perhaps you could look at a few of the absolutely, atrociously, asinine rulings the judge made in Apple vs Samsung as well. These court cases over patents on software, which should never be patented to begin with, are huge wastes of time, money, & resources. Yet Apple from its very beginnings has played in this cesspool. They've won & they've lost. This is the chance you take.
And frankly speaking... I'm never upset when a multinational corporation worth hundreds of billions, that could care less about me waking up the next day, is giving a little public shaming. The hubris of large corporations, like Apple & others, that they can get away with anything because of their bank accounts is far more troubling to me.
Finally...U show Ur identity...DUDE....Ur real name is Some Skung Kim... ait....
and U're working for Samskung.... because the racism argument is the most popular reaction one get from a Korean if he is criticizes him for what ever reason... U guys seems to be confused by the meaning of this word...U see.... when U call Japanese people: stpid ugly monkeys, which I heard many times in Korea... that's a racism .. or if I would call ya a yellow dog-eating Pig with slashed eyes... nun... that would be a racism too... DUDE
They were not ordered to make an "apology." They were ordered to make a factual "statement", that is simply a statement of the courts opinion of the facts. That term "apology" has been just journalistic license, repeated over and over again by blogs and has been misleading. The end result is commentators having fan arguments over the lack of an apology when the Court never ordered anyone to make an apology.
This judg is an idiot.
but he can spell :D
Where's the apology? Nowhere. That's where.
Apple doesn't owe Samsung an apology.
Samsung totally copied Apples ideas., totally. And deep eown everyone knows it. They mindlessly and systematically copied almost every aspect of Apples hardware, software, business practices, advertising techniques etc. so that they could (1) create the impression that their products were the same/just as good as Apple's and (2) save themselves from having to spend the kind of time and money(not to mention the risk) that apple did. And while that may not be obviously illegal it's at least business-wise immoral. If it weren't so difficult to pin down that sort of misbehavior into legal terms it probably would illegal.
Apology not necessary. Samsung should be apologizing to Apple.
ya only US court found that in favor of apple(quite understandable why, apple is a US based company so have to protect one of their own), other than that.. everywhere frm australia to europe, japn every1 ruled in favor of samsung and to be honest apple r tryin to b smart here this is no apology. boy oh boy they want to make a mess of a simple apology n make it worst, could work in US, but else where u will pay for the mistake u do.
Cmn' googloid... are U sure that U know * wat U r sayin..* .... DUDE
Apple did not lost the UK appeal... only appeal of England and Wales... tomhowhard
Keneo is the only one who knows, whats going on there, Koreans did follow the same strategy with cars and all the other products and never apologize to any one...they don't know what's moral, honesty or far-play... all what they do know is eat dog& copy-cat
Seriously its cool to say this on a site? I though he'd be banned for being so damn disrespectful.
so by your own reasoning, apple hasnt won in other countries which is understandable why, apple is a US company so other countries will do all they can to go against them.
and they were never ordered to say "im sorry" they were ordered to give the ruling of the case which states that they did not (lol) copy.
Um, the patents were registered in the US first. The US has some of the strongest patent law in the world, this is how small startups can milk companies like Microsoft. We call it patent trolling though.
Who cares what other courts in the world do, the fact is, Samsung was found guilty in the US, perhaps the most important consumer market in the world. Samsung got lucky they only got hit with a $1 billion dollar fine...
Its so true. Apple was the first company ever to make products shaped like black rectangles. Also the first ever to use touchscreens as an interface. Anyone who makes a phone or tablet that's isn't circular, or a triangle, is blatantly copying apple. Also no other company should be allowed to advertise in ways proven successful, or attempt to make their product look as good as or better than that of their competition. That's just blatant copying.
I can't wait to see the the lawsuits ford is expected to roll out later this year against all car manufacturers currently producing vehicles with 4 wheels and a steering wheel as the main interface element.
Could you imagine if that's how everything worked though? "You are found guilty of stealing that car, now go write an apology letter to the owner". That's what I meant by my statement. I know Apple is going to be OK, and I could care less either way. I'm just mocking the justice system that made this decision.
Dude u r not gettin the point after this verdict. Whn u become famous all wat matters is ur name.. "Apple" & "Samsug". The whole point behind was to make apple loose their face n next time when they want to sue some1 they better be 110% sure they r goin to win or else they will keep suein every1 who gives them compitition.
i dont get how apples face is 'loose'. they need surgery to tighten it?
Most people (myself included) were giving Apple a little benefit of the doubt on their time hardship claims, assuming that, while technically speaking adding a blurb to the homepage might not be a challenge, it might take more than a few days to draft the appropriate marketing/legalese.
If there is a significant delay between publication in the newspapers and on Apple's site, that is going to raise the judge's eyebrows even further.
Sad that they were forced to into a redux. The 'isn't as cool' words were out of the judge's own ruling and should have been allowed to stand. Still, I really don't know what this will accomplish other than to give some dying newspapers some much needed revenue - twice.
Needs "- Apple" at the end. Also, I do think an apology is needed, as they went after for the GS3 which is not *at all* a copy of the iPhone, no one could confuse the two. I think that's the reasoning for the apology. They even said "People are buying the GS3 instead of the iPhone" as an implication that no one would possibly want a GS3, and people were *only* buying Samsung devices because they looked like iPhones, not because they actually liked Samsung/Android. I think that requires an apology, as well as a kick to the massive ego.
I wonder if that ficticious 14-day timeframe is due to the release of the Ipad Mini? I find it funny how a 'tech' company tries to say that it will take them 14 days to add text to their website. I don't care about the apologies, I will just be glad when each of these companies began to solely focus on us, the consumer. Every piece of technology (that is worth anything) is using some form of a previous technology that was invented by someone else. Apple, Samsung, Google .. they all have 'borrowed' ideas from other companies and 'tweaked' or re-worked the technology to benefit their customer base.
It is dumb to try and argue that a phone looks similar so they are trying to copy us. Soon these companies will try to patent shapes.. Apple -- we have anything that is square and black, Google - rectangular so on and so on... The software is not similar to me and how many people really care that icons are alike? Companies use the envelope to symbolize email, because it is easy to understand and universally accepted.
Stop the pettiness and get back to focusing on me... I do happen to pay for your products...
I checked the UK Apple website and I seen NO apology! I fail to see what the point of all this is if the apology isn't on their website.
Once again, only the lawyers are benefiting here.


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Dr. Fischler also contributed to the following books: "Dion Boucicault," forthcoming in the Grolier Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era, ed. Thomas Pendergast. "Gilbert and Sullivan," forthcoming in the Grolier Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. "Drama," Chapter in A Companion to Victorian Literature & Culture, ed. Herbert F. Tucker (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), pp. 339-355. "Douglas Jerrold," A biographical essay published in the Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Reform Writers, 1789-1832, 1996, pp. 169-176. "Herrick's Holy Hedonism," selected for inclusion in Poetry Criticism, ed. Drew Kalasky (Gale Research, 1994), pp. 140-44. Reprinted from Modern Language Studies, 1983. Solutions Manual for Physical Chemistry Dr. Carmen GiuntaAssociate ProfessorChemistry Department These two works are supplements to Physical Chemistry by Peter Atkins. Atkins' text is one of the most widely used for teaching physical chemistry. The manuals are published by Oxford University Press, and distributed in North America by W. H. Freeman and Co. Between them the solutions manuals include detailed solutions of all the problems and exercises in the textbook. Dr. Giuna's co-authors of the manuals are: Peter Atkins, professor of chemistry at Oxford University and author of the main textbook as well, Charles Trapp, professor of chemistry at University of Louisville, and Marshall Cady, associate professor of chemistryn at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN. In addition to writing solutions for the solutions manual, Giunta and Trapp wrote about 100 new problems for the 6th edition of the textbook. These exercises introduce students to some recently published research in physical chemistry. Giunta also wrote the Web based supplement to the textbook for W. H. Freeman. The new editions of the Solutions Manuals were published by Oxford University Press in 2002 Slavery in Early Christianity Dr. Jennifer GlancyProfessorReligious Studies Department Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and charity? Slaves were considered the sexual property of their owners: what was the status within the Church of enslaved women and young male slaves who were their owners' sexual playthings? Is there any reason to believe that Christians shied away from the use of corporal punishments so common among ancient slave owners? Jennifer A. Glancy brings a multilayered approach to these and many other issues, offering a comprehensive re-examination of the evidence pertaining to slavery in early Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Glancy situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting. She argues that scholars have consistently underestimated the pervasive impact of slavery on the institutional structures, ideologies, and practices of the early churches and of individual Christians. The churches, she shows, grew to maturity with the assumption that slaveholding was the norm, and welcomed both slaves and slaveholders as members. Glancy draws attention to the importance of the body in the thought and practice of ancient slavery. To be a slave was to be a body subject to coercion and violation, with no rights to corporeal integrity or privacy. Even early Christians who held that true slavery was spiritual in nature relied, ultimately, on bodily metaphors to express this. Slavery, Glancy demonstrates, was an essential feature of both the physical and metaphysical worlds of early Christianity. The first book devoted to the early Christian ideology and practice of slavery, this work sheds new light on the world of the ancient Mediterranean and on the development of the early Church.Additional Book Credits Introduction to the Study of Religion Dr. Jennifer GlancyProfessorReligious Studies Department This introductory text helps students think through the basic questions that arise in the study of religion. What is the nature of religious experience? How does religion shape the actions of individuals and communities? How does religion promote or inhibit human development and well-being? Developed and tested through team teaching and refined and revised through classroom use, Introduction to the Study of Religion brings together examples from a variety of world religions to explore these questions. Each chapter contains illustrations and sidebars that relate more abstract concepts to the student's life experience as well as study/research activities, suggested readings, and audiovisual resources. The final chapter explores current issues such as patriarchy, alienating images of God, religion in the face of suffering, and cults. A glossary of terms used throughout the text is included. This book is currently in its fourth printing. Living Responsibly in Community Essays in Honor of E. Clinton Gardner Dr. Fred GlennonAssociate ProfessorReligious Studies Department These essays critically appropriate the concepts of responsibility and covenant by reconceptualizing them within diverse Christian ethical traditions (virtue ethics, feminist ethics, African-American) and by discerning their implications for critical social issues, including abortion, law, medicine, public policy, and technology. 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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Matt Krausmann has five dogs at his house. Or at least he did, until Wednesday.
That's when Caroline the beagle had to be put down after ingesting something toxic, likely antifreeze.
Ginny is in the ER now with the same symptoms, and might be euthanized as well.
Geno and Tucker spent the night at the vet's getting their systems flushed, but they appear to be doing well.
Chuck, the only dog who wasn't home Tuesday evening when the Krausmanns believe the dogs were poisoned, is home alone.
And Krausmann is beside himself.
For four dogs to get sick all at once isn't a coincidence, he said. He believes it's deliberate: That someone poisoned his dogs.
Krausmann doesn't keep antifreeze at his home in Corey Woods precisely because of the danger to animals.
It tastes like a sweet treat, enticing animals to lap it up, but shuts down the kidneys and, if not diagnosed within the first few hours, usually leads to death.
The danger is well known. Some states require antifreeze to include a bittering agent, to kill the sweet taste, and in December antifreeze manufacturers voluntarily agreed to include the bittering agent in products sold throughout the United States.
But that won't help Caroline.
"She was having seizures. Her kidneys and her liver were blocked. I had to make the decision to put the poor dog down," Krausmann said, losing his composure as he recalled the day before.
Caroline and Chuck are Krausmann's daughter's dogs. They've been staying with him while his daughter is in military intelligence school in New Mexico and his son-in-law is deployed to Nigeria.
She was set to return in two weeks and bring the dogs home to Fayetteville.
Krausmann said he's always done everything he can to be a good dog owner: fed them, played with them, took them to the vet, kept them fenced in the yard.
"They don't get out. They don't cause problems. But the beagle barks," he said.
That's the only reason he can think that someone might want to hurt the animals.
Now, he said, when he goes into the back yard he sees his neighborhood in an entirely new light.
Now he's worried about letting the remaining dogs out into the yard or letting his toddler granddaughter play in the yard.
He's filed a police report, but he said the police referred him to animal control and animal control referred him back to the police.
A police spokesman said the paperwork is still being filed.
"Who do I talk to? How do I get justice for my animals?" Krausmann said.
He's hoping that someone will come forward with information.
"Somebody out there knows something," he said.
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There is no question that leveling in an MMO is one of the main features of any game. In his latest column, Matt Miller talks about levels and leveling and much more. See what Matt has to say before launching into the comments to continue the discussion.
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Joined: 7/13/12
Levels are important, but disive a game with "level sectore" is a bad idea ..
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Joined: 8/14/04
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Nice column. Apart from the obvious "coh 2!" remark which is bursting from my brain. Leveling is something that i used to love, now it appears as an obstacle. I would love it to be entirely free roam gear based. The only issue i can see is new players may feel alienated due to how far ahead veterans are. PvP could be an issue too due to the gear difference.
again, nice write up :)
Leveling to me is important, but not from a leveling for enjoyment perspective. Leveling to me serves as a hidden tutorial so to speak. It gets you acquainted with your class and lets you get a feel for the skills on a progressive basis. I dont think 90 levels is necessasry and I dont think it should take more than 20 hours of gametime to reach cap. If your playing an mmorpg you want to play with other people. So get everyone familiar with 20 hours of hidden tutorial aka leveling and get them on the same page. That way we are not waiting on each other to reach cap, and we are not just getting everything but the kitchen sink thrown at us right out of the gate.
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Joined: 9/15/08
Quite interesting, how does Matt feels about TSW way of "levelling"?
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Joined: 2/27/07
Levels are the absolute dumbest thing to be introduced into MMO's ever. Give me a skill based game anytime or if you have to have levels at least institute them like Asheron's Call did where they are essentially meaningless beyond indication of progression. AC1 also had a high initial level cap of over 100 which it took years for people to reach.
Gear was not level based in AC1 either, it was skill based. You got points every level to put into your skills. Still one of the better designed MMO's out there for the mechanic design.
UO had no levels and still was a great game. Neither did SWG initially.
Joined: 12/11/08
How you use levels needs to fit around what you want to do with the game. If you start by saying, we're going to have 50 levels, and then change other game design decisions to fit that, then you're doing it wrong.
I kind of wonder how it would be received if a game said, we're going to take the normal size of levels and subdivide them so that we'll have a level cap of 500.
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Joined: 3/04/10
Levels are a tool, it's all about how you use it. If, in a multiplayer game, you use levels to separate players from each other then there is something wrong with your approach...
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Joined: 3/05/04
Levels in a game give me three things: a guide line to follow, a goal while playing, and a sense of achievement for playing. I have played many games since the computer age and the lack of structure, the lack of achievements and the lack of accomplishment equals the lack of fun. That being said the best game that gave me all three was City of Heroes, especially the sense of accomplishment. The badge system was very rewarding for me (probably because of my time in the Boy Scouts), and gave me a secondary goal while I played-even at maxed level. Now one game I play that doesn't have levels but progress based on time/skill points is EVE. Their system will allow you to use any item in the game but it lacks structure as compared to a level based game. I will add they have went to great links to improve this but its no where near the quality of level based games. EVE's system allows you to be anything you want to be as long as you are willing to put in the time to train you skills online or off but it lacks the sense of achievement needed to keep playing. I remember not playing EVE for 30 some odd days while a skill trained up so I could fly a better ship and paid for those 30 days with no sense of accomplishment what so ever-an empty feeling. I might add though EVE is based on PvP with only a minor focus on PvE where the lack of direction comes from and really gets players confused on where to begin. To sum it up, level base games are needed for structure, direction and accomplishment.
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Joined: 6/10/09
Like the poster above me, levels provide a measurement of progress, a goal setting mechanism, and a sense of achievement (which is tied to the progress).
My favorite leveling system was Lineage because although there was a cap, the xp curve was tremendous and took quite a while to meet. It almost seemed the intention was not so much to meet it, but to provide a never ending sense of progression.
I'm not a fan of fast level to cap and then grind gear. Even alternate advancement systems are no replacement for the level progression. At best they supplement it and add depth.
Like another poster said above, how levels and caps are designed should depend on the game mechanics not the other way around. Matt mentioned the paradigm of leveling solo and then grouping at cap. Many games hold to this and though they provide a blend of both while leveling or at cap, the foundation is leveling = solo and cap = group gear grind. That's not fun for me.
What made leveling fun in Lineage was that there was no specific group or solo content. The game was open world pvp with an xp death penalty. People grouped for safety and efficiency. They also grouped to take on tougher mobs than their level would allow.
Most games now aren't fun for me at level cap. I'm not interested in gear grinding or contrived group content. I don't mind systems where leveling is obfuscated or relegated to another system (EVE and TSW), but none of my games right now gives me that same sense of progression that Lineage did.
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Joined: 1/13/12
Nemo me impune lacessit.
As long as I can improve my skills and stats over time through use, I'd love to see levels done away with.
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Joined: 1/14/13
The system that Age Of Wushu uses works best.
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What's your opinion of levels? Love them? Hate them? Have a better idea?
A quick indicator of overall character progression is helpful when competing against players or NPCs.
Is gear the answer to gating content? Should content be gated at all?
Expected progression (gear + character exp) and player aptitude should guide difficulty tuning, but I prefer the sandbox "go anywhere" approach (seamless world). Let me wander into dangerous areas and get chased away by aggressive monsters instead of giving me a portal to click on that displays the message "sorry you are not XX level to enter".
Right now MMOs are stuck in a rut, and I'm curious to know what you guys think of this single aspect and how it can grow and modernize.
The path to "modernize" or revolutionize MMO leveling is to look for inspiration from first-generation games such as Ultima Online or Asheron's Call. Place the burden of character experience distribution amongst attributes and skills on the player.
Darkfall: Unholy Wars employs a refreshing level system.
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Joined: 1/05/09
Levels were not the only way to do things from the early days of role playing games. Runequest used a skill based system. In many ways it was totally different from D&D and Chaosium still uses its BRP (Basic Role Playing) system to this day for games.
I am not sure how it would translate into an MMO where players demand instant gratification from the system to compel them forward. MMO's are a competitive sport now and we mine them like gold or drill them like oil until the precious substance is gone and then move on. So a system where skills moved up incrementally from use and a player had REAL choices about how to make their character and what path to follow might not be desirable by the game paying public. Right there is the crux of the issue: convincing the current slate of game payers i.e. those who spend the money on MMOs OR convincing different people to spend money on a non-traditional MMO.
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Joined: 5/12/10
"MMO gamers need to get past the concept of levels = content." agreed.
TSW is great with its horizontal development and the "soft levels" of 1-10 (too bad it has a huge gear grind in the end, but that's needed only for Nightmares)
STO has only 5 ranks (6 if you count your rookie starting Lt.) but I always say it has 50 levels because I met the same experience you detailed in the column... When I told a buddy there are 5 "levels" and you're progressing continously as you play he said it's a lame concept. "my bad, slip of the tongue, it has 50 levels, not 5 - oh, that's awesome" :) I guess you can't help a powerleveler-type of a player...
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Joined: 12/18/11
Levels aren't "content", they are a measuring stick.
TSW isn't levelless, just look at the LFG channel and see all the "QL-X healer/dps/tank LF X dungeon"
That is the truth right there. You cant have a levelless experience n a RPG, since levelless means no development. Be it gear, skill, or just flat leveling, it has to be there.
I do support a more "open concept" to leveling, and very much like the DF:UW, and the TSW system of spending my points how I like. The issue with this is when an inexperienced player misspends, and ends up gimped. This I have experience with as I ended up having to replay through several zones to gain fresh AP/SP to spend to fix my gimpy build. A personal fail I know but still one that drove me from the game.
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Joined: 1/28/13
I don't think that levels are the problem in MMO's today, its more so how the developers fail to realize on what leveling should entail. KingofHartz said this as well, and I'll say it again. Leveling should be your tutorial of the game. Leveling should provide you all the tools to learn how to play your character, while progressing thru the story of said game. It's when developers get waaaaay to into all of their quests; they end up forgetting what players are going to do after they just breezed thru their 300 hundred quests in 24 hours. There has to be that sweet spot where you are satisfied with what you just accomplish leveling thru the game, but then have the whole world unlocked to you on what to do next. And that's where I think most games miss their mark……..
That being said I think the main problem with MMO's right now is the lack of progression systems after you reach the level cap. Yes purples are nice and all, but I think it's vital that games start having ways to power up your character aside from getting purples.
I'll use your CoH for example :). The Incarnate system was probably one of the best after level cap progression ideas I've seen thus far. Although unfinished, whenever I got that new power or passive on my character, I was excited because I knew that getting it, would make me that much more powerful. That to me was pretty groundbreaking, because getting excited over something that wasn't a piece of gear was not the norm…….
DCUO is another game ill mention because after you hit cap, you still had ways to progress your character. Now they may have killed two birds with one stone, with having one of the only achievement systems actually mean something, other than titles and mounts. Skill points gave you that extra edge in that game, and since they were tied to achievements, it also gave you a reason to get out in the world and want to have them, other than just for your epeen.
But yea developers need to stop making their game all about the levels and see it for what it is, a tutorial. It should progress you thru the story while teaching you how to play your character, it should not be the majority of your game.
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Joined: 1/18/08
"all too often gamers will look at the level cap of a game and determine if it is worth their time"
Do they really? I do pretty much the opposite. I look at what a game will require me to do at the level cap then decide if that's something I'd enjoy. If it is (usually means it has some kind of RvR system and little to no raiding), then it doesn't really matter to me whether the level cap is 40, 50, 80, or 100. The pace of leveling is different from game to game anyway so level 50 in one game could take more time to reach than level 80 in another.
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I have to say, I love levels. I hate reaching the level-cap in a game as I feel that it usually means the story has largely finished and everything I do has little purpose from that point. I don't care for gear-grinding, personally I don't care what sword or breastplate my character is rocking, as long as I feel I'm progressing up that level ladder.
I'd love there to be an almost unattainable amount of levels so that you could continually progress, but as I mentioned, this would have to be tied into an ongoing story so would be impractical.
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Joined: 1/13/06
I loved the Guild Wars leveling system. Anet did it right when they set the cap at 20 but allowed you to still gain XP and skill points. This allowed you to unlock all the skills for all professions on your toon and also kept a level playing field(if you don't count those that made the innovative and seldom used builds). Now I just wish Anet would revert back to that system for GW2.


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