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Originally posted by maccarthur2004
Not the point. Wow is irrelevant. Always an outlier. Controlling ganking, griefing, etc is the point. Games whose rules help damaged asshats ruin someone's day are the problem. Those guys are not playing the same game as everyone else, as their desire is to just make someone feel bad. And believe me, most developers understand that these types of players drive paying customers away.
I have played competitive chess, still have loads of miniatures armies, etc. But I have the choice of who to play with, in most FTF encounters. There are stiill some social controls in FTF gaming. Not so much on all internet gaming.
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One of the best PVP games I've ever played (and actually enjoyed!) was Warbirds. This was a twitched based game with quite realistic flight physics. Unfortunately it suffered from another issue not mentionied in this thread (from what I've read so far): different ping times on oversee connections. This will either give a huge disadvantage to the player with the slower ping times or (even worse) let him warp around and let him look like a cheater. So really good PVP either needs localized servers (which splits the community) or not being twitched based at all. But who wants either of that?
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Originally posted by lizardbones
Wrong. Its full blown OW PVP. Its just the third continent that is FFA OWPvP without consequence (faction hits).
I dislike Instanced anything in an MMO... takes away the fact that your playing an MMO.
As for people who dislike OWPvP... More often than not, they have never had the true OWPvP experience (GvG..Group v Group, Faction v Faction etc.) and are basing there entire experience on being killed a few times while fighting a mob, or being ganked by a higher level/group.
So scared might not be the perfect word, but I dont think its the wrong word either.
That or they completely blow at reacting to a noncomputer character that isn't scripted to act the same way over and over again.
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Originally posted by picommander
What is wrong with localized servers? I play PS2 .. and i really don't care much who i am playing with as long as there is a big battle.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
You might be right if PVP is nothing more than big anonymous battles for you, with out much social ascpects. But such a game would look like a niche product in my book. Also, ask the producers about the costs of multi server maintanance...
Originally posted by picommander
Niche product? Isn't that what BF3 is like .. and what PS2 is like. I wouldn't call a jump in and shoot pvp game a niche product.
In fact, anything with political or social aspect is a niche product. Eve is much more niche, than say COD, or LOL.
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It is quite simple really. Some people dont want to do PvP because it is hard, much harder than PvE. PvE mobs just stand there and wait to be farmed by people where as people are much more unpredictable and dificult to farm.
That being said, there certainly are negative elements associated to PvP, as seen in games like Eve. But like with most things, you take the good with the bad and for me PvE is far too boring for me to play exclusively. I need some PvP to challenge me and shake me up, AI dont do that.
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Joined: 3/22/09
People have to realise how incredibly different mmo pvp is to fps pvp. In a fps shooter I can typically get used to the controls and start killing people (who even have crazy unlocks) with a decent chance. In an mmo a new player typically can't kill someone 5 levels above them let alone 45+ levels. It simply isn't fun to head out into an area to level and then be ganked by roaming groups of players totaling 200+ levels combined to you and possible a buddy or two totalling 60 levels. If this imbalance was in any other pvp game in any genre anywhere in the world it would be considered the worst pvp game ever made ... yet we see it all the time in mmos.
I have know many players who simply did not like pvp period. That is their right but most players do at least try it and many indeed love it but the added stress of being thrown into battlegrounds or even worse the open world you normally play in and then be put light years beneath others in power and expected to compete is far too annoying for many to handle.
Pve and pvp have always been a challenge. On one hand players traditionally (through rpg games and older mmos) like the sense of gaining power through pve. It is the addictive quality of the game. On the other hand pvp is about equality where skill should shine over gear advantage. Real pvp players I know want this. They do not want to face roll everyone (sadly many others enjoy face rolling but I feel it is a symptom created from pve levels in pvp hence all the noob zone gankers we see in most games) and want a chance to prove their skill and skill alone. It is incredibily hard to make the perfect mmo where both pve and pvp are deep and meaningful.
We are however starting to see new mechanics addressing this (scaled pvp and downscaling pve levels to zones) but I haven't been impressed by them thus far and they tend to be incredibly flawed. Personally I'd like to see a game where your effective level scales with your area. As you gain in power you can explore farther away places with greater challenge but as you head into lower power areas your effective power scales down so even mobs still pose a threat 100 feet from noob towns. Noob zone bosses would still be such a challenge they would drop gear for your potential level and not noobs. This would stop camping for noob gear for alts or AH sales as well. The game would never have content you out level. Of course this would affect pvp as well. I can't see well geared players not having a slight edge over noobs due to experience and more class skills but a stat cap for your average geared player in those areas could help. NOTE of course that I mean seemless scaling and no zone hard lines.
I know GW2 has attempted this but the game is complete crap in my mind and has no open world pvp anyway. The entire point to scaling is for open world pvp in sandbox games where any space in the game is potential for equal and fair combat.
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From my perspective the open world pvp conundrum stems from pyschologicial point of view. The abundance of gamers have been breed in to a gaming culture that promotes what I refer to as the Hero syndrome. Everyone is essentially conditioned to believe they are a hero. Even in mmorpgs. You are a hero. The set up of gameplay mechanics in most games tries to support the over arcing fact that you are better than everyone or you are the only hope. Ect ect ect... This is why people dislike open world pvp. In such a senario you are not a badass hero that is better than everyone. In such a game, you have to earn a hero or badass status. Which is far more difficult to obtain from a pyschological stand point than it is if inherently given. Gamers for the most part have been conditioned to be counter open world pvpers over the years because of this gaming culture. I am not saying this fits everyone but I do feel that the dramatization of heroism is a large factor as why open world pvp is less accepted than other form of mmorpgs and games in general, and why it may be difficult to develop a pvp game in an mmorpg environment.
Originally posted by Yamota
There is so many wrong implicit assumption in that statement.
PvE is not challenging? That is just wrong. There are hard core raids in MMOs, monster level in Diablo 3. There are many examples of PvE encounters that you are just not likely to beat. In fact, it is much harder for me to beat Diablo on MP10, then head shooting some guy in PS2.
And you don't always need the ultra most challegning gameplay to have fun. What is wrong with mowing down mobs and feel powerful? Nothing if that is fun for you.
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Originally posted by Yamota
There is an assumption in your post that does not address a major issue with mmo pvp. You said pvp is harder. In fact I have attempted such difficult pve challenges in many mmos (I love to test the extreme ability of my character) that the challenge dwarfed equal pvp. In fact I typically am very good at mmo pvp and if it has batteground style pvp with ranks I often rank top 3 with ease and sometimes #1 so far ahead of others I often wonder who the hell even showed up to fight.
The caveate: It has to be EQUAL pvp. Equal gear and level. The major issue is that this RARELY ever happens in an mmo. It only happens if a game has either no gear scaling (pretty much no mmo has this) or in ranked pvp instancing (so forget about open world pvp) which not all mmos have either. You talk about difficulty but there is a massive difference between it being harder to kill a player over a typical mob and having to kill a player who has 3 times the stats you do because they have end game gear and you don't. On top of this most mmos have different gear for pve and pvp so a player with BIS is still forced to be a total light weight when starting pvp against the heavy weights of the game. The only way I see pvp equality is to have all server side calculations in pvp based on preset stats outside of whatever gear you have. I don't see most hardcore pvp'rs and especially the developer having the balls to do it.
It is that issue that turns many off pvp. They are never even given the chance to try it on equal terms. There is a reason we don't have a major fighting sport where non-athletes are thrown into a ring with a champion of their discipline. Imagine some 170lb man in decent shape but little experience thrown in with UFC fighter Alistair Overeem (google his pic if you don't know him) ... imagine the carnage. This is exactly what happens in mmo pvp on a daily basis.
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Originally posted by gravesworn
That is an interesting point. And that also explains why open world SP game is more popular than online game .. after all, it feels much better to be the chosen one in an open world (SKYRIM) than a lowly pilot that no one cares about (EvE).
Plus, it is more entertaining to be the hero.
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Originally posted by Rayshe
Of course the idea of chivalry in a pvp environment is silly to begin with. It's simple human psycology, fight the fair (good) fight or fight the fight you know you can win (bad); people will (almost) always choose the fight they know they can win everytime. The Powell Doctrine shows this thinking in the real world: don't go to war with anything less than 3X what the enemy has. In MMO terms this means ganking, and I don't know anyone who enjoys being ganked.
This is why I only play games where pvp is something you have to accept challenge and instanced pvp. I don't wan't to pvp when I'm out trying to gather stuff for crafting or grinding for levels. When I do want to pvp it's at the place and time of my choosing. Why should I "fear" dieing in an illusionary world that has no real world concequences?
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Let em put a slave ring thru u're nose u're prob not going to like where they're taking you. Think.
At the thought of PvP I wet myself.
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Originally posted by MsGamerlady
if anyone is frightened its FFA full loot pvp'rs. every time a game has gone that route or had servers which did, those games and servers quickly became defunct or simply quiet as a graveyard. the FFA people have a game rebooting for them in DF but that's it. no mmo is willing to do it b/c the vast majority of players do not enjoy being forced to play their game the way someone else wants them to.
i am for pvp. i think SWG had a great system for that which included flagging oneself and being flagged for attacking opposing faction npcs/pcs.
i don't want to be forced into crafting or raiding or questing when i dont want to, why would i want to be forced into pvp?
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Originally posted by Cephus404
Having played on the Fury server in AoC - my first real foray into OWPvP I have to say the shear number of people engaging in this kind of behaviour was depressing. There were no flags on that server - but the degree of ganking, corpse jumping, playground insults etc. was difficult for anyone with the slightest degree of maturity to understand ot tolerate for long. I very much enjoyed the OWPvP when it was lacking in such idiocy - in fact when a little roleplay was thrown in - e.g when two barbarians came up to my necromancer and started to insult me because they felt I was dishonouring the dead by reanimating them, I appreciated the ass kicking I got after I arrongantly laughed at them as fools. But alas, all too often OWPvP was tainted with shitty behaviour and didn't come close to such quality play.
The fact is, PvP players fall roughly into two camps (and yes, I know many bridge it too) - the ones who enjoy the challenge and playstyle, and the ones who get a buzz from one-sided encounters, ganking and endless insults afterwards - the kinds of people who will try their hardest to utterly ruin the online experience of other people and then wail endlessly if any controls are put in place - guards, consequence systems, flags etc.
The OP does seem to empathise with the latter type of player. Seriously thinking that a desire to avoid the 'borstal playground' bahaviour of such PvP players is an issue of 'fear' is clearly ridiculous. To think it is a factor is more of an indication of the mindset of the person asking the question than it will ever be of those refered to.
I think OWPvP is something which can enrich a game - but ONLY when the consequence system is effective and takes an eye for an eye apporach. If you set out to ruin the experience for another player by repeatedly ganking and griefing - the powerful and lawful NPC factions in the game should seriously punish you. Have a system where you accrue 'negative reputation' points based on how civilised an area is where you fight, how balanced the fight is and how much you gank or grief. Have these points slowly count down over time - so a little of such activity, and the innevitable accidents that will occur don't really matter - but repeat offending does.
Consequences then rack up rapidly if you don't stop doing it - your sorry little PC gets arrested by guards and put in prison for an hour real time; you are fined substantial amounts of gold; reputable vendors won't trade with you for a week and for a month after everything costs double; you earn insults and catcalls from every normal NPC in the game for a month and a bounty system allows you to be hunted down and stomped on by every other PC in the game without them suffering any negative consequences and they get gold for delivering your head to local NPCs... with fatality emotes including spitting or urinating on your corpse.
THAT's what used to happen in the real world when things were a little less civilised, and it's the only thing that works...
... can you imagine the wailing about 'my game is ruined' from such people suffering payback under such circumstances!?
The only excuse to kill and kill without being punished is when you are at war or when nobody cares (such as in a lawless area). Put mechanisms in the game for this so war suspends the 'negative reputation system' and an understanding that certain areas in the game world are so wild and remote that banditry and murder in such areas will accrue far fewer negative reputation points, and OWPvP can occur - it just cannot become the purile joke it normally is.
Add to this a system where lawless areas can be made lawful by PC actions - and indeed where such areas can be changed back by the same - and you get a self-balancing system where player interraction is structured but both playstyles can be catered for.
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Why I have impression that OP meant "real man do not pve, they pvp"? Actually ... real man do not play games at all.
For the rest, tried few times but discovered there are to many psychos in games. Is all down to kind of player one is. Have few friends that enjoy most jumping on throat of "enemy" when this one is already half life from mobs fight. Or killing player zillion levels below its own. On the other side I'm kind of person that will always help player in trouble, for me does not matter faction. In games I do not see this as in soccer match, or tennis match, ... that is fun, in games or in real life. Always loved that. Joy of pvp is more .. weird, twisted way of enjoying ruining somebody day. I'm simply not that kind of person.
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I do not enjoy hurting other people and camping them or making thier life online miserable. I guess that we all have diffferent tastes. I enjoy fair games where we both go in looking for a fair fight. I can get behind that. This type of gameplay where bullying and making sure the person you are killing has no chance of fighting back is to put it honestly cowardly and hardly what real men do ; am using that phrase as it was bandied about earlier.
Originally posted by maccarthur2004
GW1 Factions had political/social/economic aspects tied to its regional battles, which were all instanced. Guilds and factions would take control over the map changing what content was accessable to members of your faction. Granted there was nothing diplomatic about it.
Back to the OP, GW1 is by far the best example of PvP in a RPG. Granted its a more of a Co Op RPG, not really a MMO. Whole team builds and strategy were meaningful. You werent better than anyone because you spent 100 hours and they have only spent 10. You were better because you worked as a team. Thats what a MMO should be about, working as a team, not outgearing / outleveling someone else.


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Originally posted by Anakami
That would work...but only if the PvE-Only servers had a blank void where Cyrodiil is in the AvA servers Or, kidding aside, they develop a totally different versions of Cyrodiil complete with NPC dialogue and quests that make sense in a non-AvA war environment for the PvE-Only servers.
RP is a different matter. RP+PvP or RP without PvP are equally attractive options although, as an RP PvPer, I know it's a small minority of the player base.
I keep harping on the same point, not because I'm obstinate (there's enough obstinacy in this forum without me adding to it lol) but because I think that having a consistent story that makes sense throughout the whole fantasy world in the MMO is a key core concept.
Grouping, chatting and "guilding" with people from factions that you are at war with in the current AvA-only model is nonsensical. It would take a total redesign to an MMO environment without a 3-way war for that to make sense. In the current design model for this particular time in the history Tamriel, keeping the 3 factions apart in the areas where the war hasn't reached (yet) makes sense. Fantasy wars in MMOs are modeled based on our own human experience. When significantly large wars break-out between nations, there is just a natural amount of hate and fear directed at those other aliens. Some sort of racial locking would have to exist. Some argue that they want to play a renegade...nice idea... good RP potential, but that would have to be the rare exception--not something that everyone could do willy-nilly.
I understand that this 3-sided war is a big change for single player TES fans to adjust to and is unlike the stories they have seen before in this world where, typically, there is an internal group of bad-guy conspirators or feuding lords that drive the main plot. All I can say about that is that some people seem to adjust to change better than others.
As to DAoC... as I said in an earlier post now Sapphened into obscurity due to lack of voluminous repetition, I can also conceive of a single player DAoC franchise where there was no 3 sided wars and the different races mixed in PvE ways...maybe even banded together to fight a common greater enemy. That, would also have been a large change for those who had only ever played the MMO version of DAoC but I don't see anything implausible about peace breaking out.
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Originally posted by Phry
Ridiculous! You can't put FPS games in this arguement, because they require accuracy, and accuracy comes best in first person. ESO goes not require accuracy, hit boxes are pretty big... you dont have to aim anywhere, just in the general direction.
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Originally posted by rygard49
Thats' actually very well said. I'm still for a free open world, whether there is ffa pvp i another's faction or not but you have put a nice light on part of the problem.
MMORPGs and SPRPGs are about as close "in genre" as one can get. The MAIN difference being multiple players. I am surprised I had to spell that out for you.
Your examples, which I underlined, so you would not get confused, are the petulant examples *I* was speaking of.
If *you* expected to build barracks in WoW or roll physical dice (which you could have done, to no affect on the game) in Warahhamer, yes, your complaints are stupid and unreasonable. Star Wars is fictional? What game is NOT? Sims Online? Second Life? What has that got to do with price of tea in China? Absolutely nothing.
Tell me how faction locked AvAvA makes this game an MMORPG. Would it NOT be one without it? Can an MMORPG exist that does not even include PvP of any kind? Is it really so unreasonable?
A player of TES single player games is not being crazy wanting to take that RPG experience and see it in a massively multiplayer online game. Now, if *I* expected to pause a battle and quaff a fistfull of healing and stamina potions, then you could call me crazy.
Again, *your* examples were petulant flamebait.
*I* know the game will not change. I do NOT expect it to. It is MUCH too late for that. But if (NOT when) it fails to live up to expectations, I would like the developers and publisher to have an idea as to one possibility. I truly hope that the AvAvA players will be happy here. The game was made specifically for them.
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Originally posted by Iselin
There is quite difference between standing in town and bringing up some game interface to automtically join you in a dungeon or a battlefield and grouping with people in an open world and and traveling to a contested area (cyrodill) and fighting for territory.
In lineage 2 you could literally be grouping with people from another clan and the next day find out that you are at war with them because of something that someone in their clan did and even sieging their castle on the weekend.
I see the point you are trying to make in that one moment you might be explorign together and the next you are fighting against them and then back to questing together, but that's not indicative of a lobby game.
I, too, believe faction locks for AvAvA games is best. The Elder Scrolls just doesn't "fit" that setting, in my opinion.
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Originally posted by AlBQuirky
I'm still in the category of not understanding why three distinct factions doesn't "fit" in TES. I dont think anyone has really given a logical reason yet, or I missed it.
ESO is apparently set 1000 years before what we know. Tell me how races pairing off in three ways to dominate a central territory in this period of time makes no sense, or doesn't "fit"
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Originally posted by Sentnl
LOL, like someone playing in FPV is just gonna stand still. The camera still moves the same, you can "orbit and straf" in FPV, the only disadvantage is you can't see anyone coming up from behind you. If you straf to the side out of LOS, they still know where you went, lol.
I'm willing to bet some hardcore PvPer's are going to be posting youtube videos of them owning in FPV just for the sake of doing it. There is a sight advantage of TPV but it's not as extreme as you make it out to be.
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Originally posted by Vorthanion
Because what you decided to state yet again IS the path of least resistance. Whichever path that has the best work to reward ratio. It is all based on opportunity cost.
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Originally posted by Livnthedream
WoW's raids for example. There's a reason why a lot of people try to form raids to do regular raids instead of just doing lfr. For better loot(incentive). The path of least resistance is obviously not doing raids at all. The next path of least resistance is lfr. A step above that is normal raids.
People do not choose the path of least resistance just for the sake of it. People just don't want to have their time wasted and thats a logical thing for people to want. So if they have to spend 3 hours to get some "meh" reward. But if they spend 1 hour, they get a reward that's not as good, but not that much worse, its only logical they choose the 1 hour of work. Rewards have to be proportional to the work required otherwise they initial goal of being a reward just falls apart on itself.
It is hard for me to get excited about this game, or any new "MMO" coming out. Before games come out there are always the hype, the forum debates, and the general "this is the MMO that will be different!" posts. Yet when the games launch, they are the same old recycled garbage we have been fed for years but with a prettier skin. In my opinion, there has not been an MMO released in a good many years that was worthy of the hype or debates. I hate to be negative, but given the track record of releases in the last few years, I find it hard to believe this game will be any different. I really, really, really hope I am wrong because I have been itching to play something that holds my attention for more than 4-6 weeks (GW2 I'm looking at you).
Originally posted by Pixel_Jockey
You can say that about any and all MMOs.
And they all are different...some more than others. Sometimes different in a good way. Other times different in shitty ways.
This one is different because it's built around a 3-sided RvR system and not many MMORPGs have done that. It's also different in how you build your character to be unique by "leveling" class, armor and weapon types separately.
It's still early. We'll see if they can pull it all together into a quality package.
Originally posted by Pixel_Jockey
I agree with half of what you say here.
The hype is always overblown and out of control. Always. There's not been a game released in the past 5 years that I feel has lived up to the unreal expectations built up by their media campaigns.
The debates are another topic, however. I think every MMO should be debated for two reasons.
Originally posted by rygard49
I'm not implying the debating isn't fun or warrented. What I am saying is after all the debating is said and done, after all sides have tried to prove to the other side how wrong they are going to be, we end up getting a turd sandwich of a game most of the time anyways.
Originally posted by Iselin
I'm sorry but the "differences" in new MMOs are few and far between. And no, the 3 sided RvR is not a new concept. Most new MMOs (despite their innovative "differences") mostly all amount to the same thing...something that is fun for a few weeks.
Originally posted by Pixel_Jockey
That's totally subjective, though. Many people love (LOVE) some of the more recent AAA releases. No, they're not blockbuster titles like WoW was and will continue to be, but if you take WoW out of the equation entirely and compare these games to each other, you'll find most of them have comparable amounts of success.
My point about debating is that it doesn't matter what the end result of a game's release ends up being. The debate is a game unto itself and that's why we do it.
Originally posted by rygard49
I can go with that. I think i am just tired of the disapointment (in what i enjoy in a game anyways) and it has turned me into a "sour stanley"(TM)
Originally posted by Pixel_Jockey
Oh I see... you want "never been done before" and engaging in the long term...we can always hope.
RPGs and even MMOs have been around long enough now that "firsts" are few and far between. Most everything is a variation on a theme. Usually variations on things that work.
You want something really, really new? Look at Scarlet Blade: no male characters and blatant sexpolitation MMO...
See, I don't equate new with "good." It's just as likely to be shit.
Originally posted by Iselin
Yes, I fail to see where expecting some innovation from this genre is a fault on my end. I would play Scarlet Blade but it might be uncomfortable playing long sessions with a constant boner.
I don't equate new to good either, that I can agree on for sure.
Originally posted by Pixel_Jockey
Innovation is tough. The old saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention, and unfortunately there's not a whole lot of 'need' in the online gaming world. That's not to say that it's impossible to think up never before done features, but when you look at the 20-30 year history of gaming... there's not a lot left unexplored in terms of game design.
Add to that the fact that many of the thinkers in our world aren't really doers. I think people may have genius ideas all day long for how to successfully change the industry for the better, but they want someone else to implement those ideas. Just look at these forums for plenty of examples of that concept.


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ZVex Super-Duper 2-in-1 BoostThe ZVex Super-Duper 2-in-1 Boost contains two Z.Vex Super Hard On's in one guitar pedal. Crazy-loud dual boost, or use the Master Volume knob for dual overdrive / distortion at any volume. The ZVex Super Duper 2 in 1 is like extra channels.$319.00
ZVex Super Hard OnThe ZVex Super Hard-On Pedal offers totally transparent clean boost. The Super Hard On will push your amp into thick power tube overdrive, allowing the natural sparkle of a great amplifier to pop right up. Check out the Zvex Super Hard On today!$239.00
ZVex Seek II Wah Clowns 1 of 1The ZVex Seek Wah II is unlike any pedal on earth. It basically an auto wah controlled by an analog step sequencer, giving the effect of a tremolo mated to a wah pedal. The Seek Wah turns strummed chords into a hypnotic sequence of arpeggiated wah tones.$329.00
ZVex Octane 3The Z.Vex Octane 3 is one wild fuzz pedal, with germanium diode and transistor fuzz science used with a ring mod to generate wacky upper octave tones. The Octane 3 results in demented chord voicings and solos that will likely get you fired from your band.$319.00
ZVex Nano Head Tube AmpThe ZVex Nano Head Tube Amp is the world's tiniest tube guitar amp, 1/2 watt of tube tone that's perfect for getting that cranked amplifier sound at moderate volumes. Louder than your wife, the ZVex Nano Head Tube Amp definitely isn't quiet!$499.00
ZVex Machine Fuzz GeneratorThe Z.Vex Machine is an fuzzy, ugly machete-wielding beast built specifically to cut through the mix and help your other distortion pedals sound meaner. No distortion pedal like the Machine exists on earth. Where nothing is happening, this pedal happens.$319.00
ZVex Lo-Fi Loop Junky Neon Static 1 of 1The ZVex Lo-Fi Loop Junky Pedal is an all analog looper pedal capable of recording a 20 second sample and playing it back in a warped, hissy, distorted, warbling fashion. And it will save your loop for up to 100 years!$369.00
ZVex Lo-Fi Loop JunkyThe ZVex Lo-Fi Loop Junky Pedal is an all analog looper pedal capable of recording a 20 second sample and playing it back in a warped, hissy, distorted, warbling fashion. And it will save your loop for up to 100 years!$369.00
ZVex Jonny OctaveThe ZVex Jonny Octave Pedal generates upper octave notes 1 or 2 octaves above the original note from your guitar. It features level controls for each octave, a True bypass switch, and an octave selector switch.$339.00
ZVex FuzzoloThe Fuzzolo is a silicon fuzz with a rich subby ripping texture and aggressive midrange, with plenty of volume on tap. Because of the way it preserves the bottom end of your signal, it works great on both guitar and bass.$129.00
ZVex Fuzz Factory 7A new take on our original company flag ship Fuzz Factory. The Fuzz Factory 7 features a 9-position rotary sub switch that opens the pedal up to an astounding new bot-tom end as well as thin, reedy fuzzes.$449.00
ZVex Fuzz FactoryThe ZVex Fuzz Factory is the most unique Fuzz pedal ever. It features an NOS 60's Germanium fuzz circuit with unprecedented control over gating, compression, and "stab" which sends the Zvex Fuzz Factory into oscillation freakout mode.$299.00
ZVex Channel 2Your Channel 2 has two knobs, one controlling Master Volume and the other controlling Gain, which sweeps from unity to +24dB. Connect a music equipment power supply of 9VDC, center negative, to the power jack for use.$99.00
ZVex Box of Rock DistortionThe Z.Vex Box of Rock is the first proper ZVex Distortion Pedal. With both a boost and a wicked distortion circuit in one little box this dual-duty rock machine recalls the glory of a vintage Marshall JTM45 set on "destroy". Be careful.$329.00
ZVex Box of MetalZVex Box of Metal is like adding a high-gain distortion channel to your amp. Unbelievably chunky metal tone with built in gating to eliminate noise. The ZVex Box of Metal smokes every other high-gain distortion box in production, hands down.$359.00
Z-Vex Vexter SonarThe Z-Vex Sonar is an extraordinarily versatile tremolo pedal. The Z-Vex Sonar gives you fully controllable sine wave and square wave tremolo effects, clean boost and distortion, and tap tempo control that shifts to your preset rate.$219.00
Z-Vex Effects Loop GateThe Z-Vex Effects Loop Gate adds layers of versatility to your pedal board. The Loop Gate is an effects loop you can use as a clean/effect mixer you control with your dynamics, or create a tremolo or "trails" effect with any pedal, or use it as a noise gate.$199.00
Z-Vex Basstortion Bass DistortionThe Z-Vex Basstortion offers adventurous bassists abundant distortion worthy of a classic Ampeg SVT tube-amp. The Basstortion responds to your dynamics, cleans up with a turn of your volume control, & growls with primal ferocity the harder you push it.$199.00
Xotic X-Blender True Bypass Effects Loop PedalXotic Effects' brand new X-Blender pedal gives you a True Bypass, switchable, external parallel effects loop. You can still use all those vintage, non-true bypass pedals without experiencing the tone-degrading consequences!$176.00


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Mrs. Kimberly Marcus was appointed in July 2012 to serve as Associate Director for the Office of Legislative, Education & Intergovernmental Affairs (OLEIA) at the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). In this capacity, she leads all Agency efforts in the areas of communications, public affairs, external relationships, outreach, research, and policy development. She also oversees the Agency's relationships with elected officials, as well as its advocacy and outreach strategies. Mrs. Marcus focuses primarily on stakeholder outreach, with an emphasis on global business development. Fortune 500 stakeholders, both domestic and international, are key to her outreach methodology.
Mrs. Marcus comes to MBDA with over 15 years of combined experience in both the corporate and non-profit worlds, having concentrated in the areas of public policy and corporate, community, and media relations. She also brings outstanding capabilities in the areas of strategic planning, economic and business development, fundraising, and corporate philanthropy. Mrs. Marcus has been responsible for building new territories, managing projects, and increasing profits and revenues through creative marketing initiatives. A special emphasis on diversity and inclusiveness is the hallmark of Mrs. Marcus's professional life.
Prior to her appointment with MBDA, Mrs. Marcus was National African American Outreach Director for the Democratic National Committee (DNC). In this high-profile role, Mrs. Marcus worked closely with the African American community to emphasize the importance of the African American vote.
Mrs. Marcus also worked for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, serving as Executive Director of its Public Policy Institute's Government Relations office. Mrs. Marcus advocated on behalf of urban communities and minorities by interacting with members of Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). She was responsible for the creation of public forums and the development of influential coalitions, as well as the publication of relevant policy analysis and research studies.
Mrs. Marcus considered her position as Director of Economic Development for the NAACP to be an exciting turning point in her career, as it gave her the chance to tackle issues of immediate relevance to equal opportunity for people of color. In this position she was responsible for conducting research on over fifty-five Fortune 500 companies, in accordance with the NAACP's Economic Reciprocity Initiative. She streamlined and targeted the efforts of companies in five different industries, enabling them to better reach diversity initiative goals. Mrs. Marcus also managed research initiatives that focused on impediments to minority access to economic resources.
Mrs. Marcus is no stranger to the world of minority-owned business, as she owned and ran her own diversity consulting firm, KC Consulting. As the Principal Consultant for her firm, Mrs. Marcus expanded on the type of work she had done for the NAACP. She continued to advise client firms on diversity initiatives, and recommended implementation strategies.
At the outset of her career, Mrs. Marcus worked for firms in the private sector, performing duties on behalf of minorities and/or other employees. As a Senior Sales Executive at the Strategic Research Institute (SRI), she spearheaded the organization's successful launch of African American/Multicultural conferences and seminars. While at Bank of America, she established a Living and Learning Center—a cutting-edge program designed to help employees enhance skills related to both business and personal issues.
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Kent State University at Stark is the largest regional campus of Kent State University, serving more than 11,000 students each year, comprised of 6,600 enrolled in academic coursework and 4,500 enrolled in professional development courses, and offering bachelor's, master's and associate degrees, as well as the opportunity to begin coursework in the more than 250 bachelor's degrees at Kent State University. The only public university in Stark County, Kent State Stark is nestled on a beautiful, 200-acre campus in Jackson Township. The Conference Center, which houses The Corporate University and the Small Business Development Center, is accredited under the stringent guidelines of the International Association of Conference Centers. Combining a top-quality major university with a community-oriented college, Kent State Stark serves our region as a key intellectual resource, providing access to academic, economic and cultural advancement through excellence in teaching and learning.
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A drug raise on a home in North Augusta yielded two arrests, and authorities are seeking a third person, according to the North Augusta Department of Public Safety.
James Leroy Dandy Jr., 35, and Kishon Orlando Priester, 26, were detained for possession of crack cocaine and placed in the Aiken County detention center, where they remained on Wednesday afternoon.
Dandy was also charged with third-degree assault and battery, providing false information and failure to appear.
Officers executed a search warrant at a home on Francis Street early Wednesday, Lt. Tim Thornton said in a statement.
"Based on an extensive narcotic investigation, sufficient evidence was collected to obtain a search warrant for illegal drug activity coming from the occupants of the residence," Thornton said. After entering the home, officers located and detained Dandy and Priester.
A third target of the investigation, 35-year-old John Nathaniel Tandy, was not at the home and is being sought by authorities, Thornton said.
Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call North Augusta Public Safety at 803-279-2121 or CrimeStoppers of the Midlands at 888-CRIME-SC. Callers may remain anonymous and could be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime beat for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since August 2012. He is a native of Williston and majored in communication studies at Clemson University.
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Lost games a win for NHL, fans
Shane Doan has been traded. Effective this week, Captain Coyote is no longer a shirt and tie-wearing member of the suits. Since the NHL Lockout is now over, that puts Captain Coyote back among the fashionable crowd wearing sweaters (his designer logo happens to be the letter "C").
"From being in the room quite a bit, there was a sense this was the best deal available," Doan said in New York. "It's always tough because we're all fans of the game and we wish we didn't have to go through this. But we did, and we're on the other side now."
Indeed, Doan trades one set of teammates for another. And, compared to attorneys, NHL players have almost as much money, just fewer teeth.
"I'm hoping that our fans understand this was something that had to be done for the strength of the league, for the strength of the Players Association," Flyers owner Ed Snider told The Associated Press. "I hope they don't hold it against us and just come out and see some great hockey."
Whoa, hang on. This is where Paulie Puck has to step in with a question: Dearest NHL, hold it against you? Fans should be thanking you.
For all fans beyond the vulcanized die-hards, the NHL season doesn't really start until January anyway. October, November and December hockey (yawn) barely moves the meter, usually lost amidst the feeding frenzy of the football season.
In other words, if you live for the intensity of playoff hockey, well, guess what? An ultra-compressed 48-game season means every game matters (translation: no so-called 'off-nights' where players essentially decide to give themselves the night off).
Now, did local businesses in the 623 area code ("Wessst Siiiiide") lose hockey-related revenue during the labor dispute? No question. And that's a shame. What's not a scam� err, shame� is that fans now save big dollars (BIG, BIG $$) on season tickets (no preseason hockey right?!) #Ding. Once again, it's thanks again to the NHL for the third work stoppage in Commissioner Gary Bettman's tenure.
So, back to Doaner's wardrobe, we're thinking that when he goes to the office now, he can accessorize that sweater with other things that lawyers don't wear (for the most part) - blood, sweat, tinfoil, bite marks, stitches�