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New Jersey – Day two of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships comes to a close with Oregon State's V8 finishing third in their semifinal race.
"Our guys pulled a really solid piece today, the gusty conditions were tricky," Head Coach Steve Todd said. "But we moved well when we hit calmer areas of the course."
The V8 was running with Stanford and Pennsylvania in the early going. Stanford pushed out to a length lead by 1K mark, and from there OSU stayed in contact. Near the finish, the Beavs closed a bit on Stanford and just missed beating Pennsylvania by 0.5 seconds. With a third place finish and final time of 6:20.782, the V8 will race in the C Final tomorrow.
"The Varsity will match up with some good crews tomorrow," said Todd. "So it's a real chance to put together a great piece."
The 2V8 had a solid performance on day one, but struggled with the course conditions today. In lane five, the Beavs had difficulty joining the pack with the other crews, and trailed the group throughout the race. With a sixth place finish and a final time of 6:35.037, Oregon State advances to the Petite Final tomorrow.
"The JV had to contend with rough conditions from a stiff crosswind that made the outside lanes difficult," Todd said. "They'll be ready for tomorrow; this group is really young and tough, and they are ready to bounce back and perform on Sunday."
The Championships come to a close tomorrow, with all three Oregon State boats contending for placement. Live results and times are available here: http://ira.qra.org/index.html/.Sunday – June 1 (Start Times):
3V8: Third Level Final – 6:40 am PT
Lane Assignments: 1/Drexel 2/Oregon State 3/Wisconsin 4/Holy Cross 5/Harvard 6/Hobart
2V8: Petite Final – 8:20 am PT
Lane Assignments: 1/Yale 2/Wisconsin 3/BU 4/Cornell 5/Pennsylvania 6/Oregon State
V8: Third Level Final – 9:05 am PT
Lane Assignments: 1/Syracuse 2/Pennsylvania 3/FIT 4/Stanford 5/GWU 6/Oregon State
1. Stanford 6:17.848
2. Pennsylvania 6:20.272
3. Oregon State 6:20.782
4. Drexel 6:23.370
5. Dartmouth 6:30.633
6. Holy Cross 6:33.072
1. Washington 6:06.490
2. Northeastern 6:09.377
3. Navy 6:10.022
5. Pennsylvania 6:26.379
6. Oregon State 6:35.037
IRA Championships: Day 1
New, Jersey – The Oregon State men's rowing team completed the first day of the Intercollegiate Rowing Championships, with the Junior Varsity 8 ensuring at least a top-12 finish in their event.
The Varsity 8, Junior Varsity 8, and Third Varsity 8 all raced in morning heats, followed by repechage races in the afternoon.
"Day one at the IRA is really important for the team," Head Coach Steve Todd said. "You test out all the work you've done against a lot of new teams."
First to hit the water was the V8. Oregon State performed well, competing with Wisconsin and holding off a charging Syracuse boat at the end of the race. With a fourth place finish and a final time of 5:51.224, the Beavs later raced in the repechage later that afternoon.
The V8 crew had a better start and ran with Columbia in the early going. Midway through, Columbia extended their lead and Florida Tech was right alongside. In the last 500 meters, OSU was able to close the gap, but was unable to overtake the leader to move on to the A/B semifinal, finishing with a time of 5:43.249.
"We needed to be just a little better today to really reach our goal in the Varsity 8," Todd said. "They've still got a great chance to take on some very fast crews and show their top speed."
Next up for the Beavs was the 2V8. The crew had a very spirited race in the morning heat and were pushing Boston University late in the race. Despite falling to Wisconsin earlier in the year at the Stanford Invite, the Beavers were able to finish ahead of Wisconsin today. With a third place finish and final time of 5:52.725, OSU headed to the afternoon repechage.
Oregon State started the race in a mission and took an early lead, making a very hard push to get out front and control the race. Dartmouth stayed right on their stern the whole race and never let the Beavers get comfortable. OSU held the lead at 5:48.995 and will move onto the A/B semifinal, while also securing no lower than a top-12 finish.
"These guys are clicking right now, we mixed in some freshmen and the boat speed has really picked up," Todd said. "They're ready to make the most of their opportunity in the A/B Semi Finals and see if they can make it into the Grand Final with an upset performance tomorrow."
The Third Varsity closed out day one for the Beavs, racing well and staying close to Yale and Wisconsin in the morning heat. OSU finished fifth with a time of 6:05.883, sending them to the afternoon repecahge.
The Beavers 3V8 repechage was one of the closest races of the day, with the top-5 finishers coming within 6.4 seconds of one another. The Beavs finished fifth with a time of 5:53.360, meaning that they will race in the third-level final on Sunday.
"The 3V8 made some great improvements from the morning's race to the afternoon," Todd said. "They ran right with the pack, in there with some very good teams."
The IRA Championships continue tomorrow with semifinal races, where Oregon State's V8 and 2V8 will be competing. Live times and results can be found here: http://ira.qra.org/.
V8 (Heat 3)
1. California 5:40.679
3. Wisconsin 5:49.261
4. Oregon State 5:51.224
5. Syracuse 5:53.239
6. Gonzaga 6:15.968
2V8 (Heat 1)
1. California 5:45.691
3. Oregon State 5:52.725
4. Wisconsin 5:54.404
3V8 (Heat 1)
1. California 5:50.003
2. Northeastern 5:56.533
3. Wisconsin 6:02.465
4. Yale 6:02.767
5. Oregon State 6:05.883
6. Holy Cross 6:10.921
1. Columbia 5:40.610
3. Oregon State 5:43.249
1. Oregon State 5:48.995
2. Dartmouth 5:51.736
3. Gonzaga 5:53.282
4. Hobart 5:57.622
1. Cornell 5:46.997
2. Navy 5:48.978
3. Pennsylvania 5:49.678
4. Wisconsin 5:49.771
5. Oregon State 5:53.360
6. Hobart 6:15.212


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A Bright and Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan
Manifest Perdition
A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.
by Neil Sheehan.
Random House. 861 pp. $24.95.
The Tet offensive occurred a generation ago; the panicky pullout from the rooftop of the U.S. embassy in Saigon is now thirteen years in the past. Many myths both about the American conduct of the Vietnam war and about the nature of the adversary faced by the U.S. have—or ought to have—died since then. To concentrate for a moment just on the enemy side, the Vietnamese Communists were held by many on the American Left to be mere nationalists; they were not. The Communists were said to be interested in no more than the "liberation" of their own land: instead, they have Prussianized the Indochinese peninsula. Even their vaunted pullout from Cambodia is, so far, no more than partial; if the Vietnamese do in fact leave, their likely aim is to install their favored faction of the Khmer Rouge in control. Years of boat people; years of famine; years of tyranny: in this era of perestroika everywhere, does anyone any longer have any illusions about Vietnam?
Of course they do. A Bright and Shining Lie, winner of the 1988 National Book Award, is proof. Its author, Neil Sheehan, ranks with David Halberstam as one of the best and brightest of the young American journalists who rose to the top of their profession for their reporting from Vietnam and ultimately for their opposition to the U.S. war effort. Sheehan covered Vietnam from 1962 to 1964 for United Press International, then returned in 1965 for the New York Times. In 1971, when he was the Times's Pentagon correspondent, Sheehan's good friend Daniel Ells-berg made him a gift of the Pentagon Papers. Sheehan helped to make journalistic and constitutional history in the battle over publication of the Papers; he also won the Times a Pulitzer Prize gold medal for meritorious public service.
Those were epic days. Since then, Sheehan has spent a very considerable chunk of time—sixteen years—composing this work, an obsessively detailed tome about the war, told through the life and death of one man, a formidably dynamic, ceaselessly energetic warrior for the American cause who died in a helicopter crash in South Vietnam's central highlands in 1972. Sheehan's intention is nothing less than to make his protagonist, John Paul Vann, into a metaphor for the U.S. war effort, a metaphor for a certain brand of military attitude, and finally, a metaphor for a certain kind of American, if not for America itself.
Few people outside the operational vortex of the war and various power walkways in Washington knew much about John Paul Vann. He arrived in Vietnam as a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel in 1962, retired in 1963, then returned to Southeast Asia in 1965 as a pacification representative for the Agency for International Development. Inside the Vietnam fraternity, however, he was very well known. Restless, virtually sleepless, a genius at organization and logistics, Vann made a deep mark on the war effort. At his funeral, the pallbearers included William Westmoreland, then Army Chief of Staff, and his deputies, Bruce Palmer, Jr. and Richard Stilwell. William Colby was another. Robert Komer, the guiding light of the Vietnam pacification campaign, was still another. A friend in attendance at Vann's funeral was Daniel Ellsberg, a recent convert to the antiwar effort from his job as a RAND Corporation defense analyst. Another was Neil Sheehan.
Sheehan knew Vann well (and through Vann had met Ellsberg). In fact Vann was one of Sheehan's most important sources during his own Vietnam years, just as he was the tutor of most of the bright young antiwar reporters, although they were not so antiwar then:
Vann taught us the most, and one can truly say that without him, our reporting would not have been the same. . . . He gave us an expertise we lacked, a certitude that brought a qualitative change in what we wrote. . . . He transformed us into a band of reporters propounding the John Vann view of the war.
What was that view? Specifically, Vann saw that the Vietnamese Communists were winning the war where it counted, on the ground and amid the Vietnamese peasantry. Bombing and artillery fire would not destroy the enemy. Only persistent, coordinated military and political work, at close quarters, would do the job. But the military strategy espoused by Washington, as Vann saw it, was a ponderous, abstract logistical exercise, based on a concept of attrition that failed to come to grips with the political nature of the war and the revolutionary promises of the Communists.
An aggressive, articulate officer in the field, Vann drove himself to see the war as it was being conducted in the hinterlands, at tremendous physical risk that added to his mystique. He sent memos, he briefed highers-up, he schemed. To little avail. When bombarding headquarters from within did not work, Vann bombarded from without, through his press contacts. Thwarted as a military man, he came back as a civilian, and worked himself into a position of de-facto command of South Vietnamese forces. But his preferred instrument for fighting the war, the South Vietnamese themselves, failed—at least, they failed in terms that would satisfy a superpower ally which, after 1968, was increasingly absorbed by the process of military disengagement In the end, Vann perished while beating back a North Vietnamese Army offensive that threatened to turn into a major South Vietnamese rout. What came afterward—three more years of conflict—is, to Sheehan, postlude.
Vann, then, failed to change the official strategy of the war. But what is more important, according to Sheehan, is that he failed, or refused, to see that the conflict itself was misguided. This failure goes to his very makeup as an American:
Vann's political credo was the set of beliefs characteristic of the United States that had emerged from World War II as the greatest power on earth, the view of self and the world that had carried America to war in Vietnam in the fullness of this power. To Vann, other peoples were lesser peoples: it was the natural order of things that they accept American leadership. He was convinced that having gained the preeminence it had been destined to achieve, the United States would never relinquish the position. . . . He assumed that America's cause was always just, that while the United States might err, its intentions were always good . . . he saw much that was wrong about the war in Vietnam, but he could never bring himself to conclude that the war itself was wrong and unwinnable.
"He could not abide defeat, defeat for himself or for his vision of America." Why not? To answer that question, at least in terms of personal psychology, Sheehan spent an enormous amount of time and effort tracking Vann's origins. He uncovered a sad, even a poignant, tale of emotional neglect and sexual obsession, the tale of a man born in the redneck South to an alcoholic and a part-time prostitute, who eventually escaped the hell of his private life in the pursuit of far-off war. This, then, metaphorically speaking, is the dark underside of America in Vietnam, a saga of repressed emotions that tragically found their outlet in the wanton carnage of Southeast Asia.
The problem with metaphor, even on this great expanse of canvas, is that it is a figure of speech. The connections it establishes between one thing and another are illusory. They stem from the nature of language rather than from the nature of things in themselves. This is a much greater problem for journalism than literature, and it shows, precisely, in Sheehan's grandiose determination to make something literary, something positively mythic, out of the materials of journalism.
Thus, Sheehan is scathing (as no doubt Vann was) about the stupidity and incompetence of various American generals in Vietnam, led by Westmoreland himself. Well, Westmoreland lost, and wars are lost for secular reasons that yield to secular analysis. For Sheehan, however, this is not enough: when it comes to the actions of his own country he is a Jansenist, a rigid determinist who sees in every secular outcome a rise or decline in the probability quotient of American salvation.
Actually, he sees only decline. This he traces backward in time from Vietnam to just after World War II. The moral rot in those years, he writes, was most apparent among U.S. military leaders, but there were others, too. In fact, it turns out that nearly everyone who was anyone in America was corrupt: "The attitude had spread as well to the greater part of the political, academic, and business leadership of the United States. . . . The elite of America had become stupefied by too much money, too many material resources, too much power, and too much success."
Sheehan picks up the scent again in South Korea, where, he asserts, the defeat of U.S.-led forces in 1950 was traceable to a failure of virtu on the part of Walton Walker, Douglas MacArthur's commander. Walker's troops, it seems, "had not been unduly distracted from what most, in these years without the draft, had enlisted to enjoy—submissive Japanese women and cheap whiskey." Similarly, the reason the members of the all-black 24th Infantry (disbanded in 1951) broke and ran repeatedly under Communist fire in Korea was that they had been forced for decades "into quartermaster and transportation units to fetch and carry for white warriors. . . . The troops of the 24th believed the myth of inferiority and repeatedly ran before the North Koreans." In other words, in Korea, as later in Vietnam, military failure was not military failure but evidence of a greater, spiritual lapse.
Sheehan's Jansenism extends to Vann himself. Vann's epic weakness was compulsive promiscuity, which Sheehan tracks in microscopic detail. Promiscuity is sexual deceit; Vann's great vice is therefore his personal deceitfulness—he is the "bright and shining lie" of the book's title (the phrase, in fact, is Vann's). When Vann retired from the Army Sheehan believed he did so in order to carry on his protests about the conduct of the war. But now he thinks that Vann's departure was due to a charge of statutory rape—dismissed—on his military record that forever blocked his promotion to general. Like America itself, then, Vann is a tissue of deception.
If, however, in American leaders Sheehan sees only "arrogance and professional corruption," he is astoundingly, even lyrically, admiring of the North Vietnamese Communist leadership—and in terms that smack, strangely enough, of 19th-century romantic theories of race, leadership, and nation:
They were mandarins, Vietnamese aristocrats, the natural leaders of a people whom foreigners have repeatedly sought and failed to conquer and pacify. There are only a small number of such peoples on earth. The Irish are one. The Vietnamese are another. The violence of their resistance forms history and legend to remind the living that they must never shame the dead. . . .
To be sure, Sheehan chronicles Communist excesses—very briefly. The Stalinism of the North Vietnamese government in the land reform of the 1950's is mentioned, yet Sheehan quickly notes that "a Vietnamese government that made Vietnamese mistakes and sought to correct them in a Vietnamese way was granted a tolerance for abuse by its public which would have been denied to any foreign-sponsored regime." That is, one might add, it would be denied to any regime that did not maintain concentration camps.
One of the most significant silences in Sheehan's book concerns the role of the North Vietnamese Army in South Vietman. The first substantial admission of that role occurs on page 527. There, Sheehan argues that only in 1965 were North Vietnamese regulars "starting" to march down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to reinforce the native Vietcong guerrillas. In fact, as we know from Vietnamese documents themselves, North Vietnamese units began infiltrating much earlier. The silence is only explicable as a buttress to Sheehan's main thesis: that Communist aggression in Vietnam was organic, a response to "foreign" contamination.
For Sheehan, such contamination flowed, and presumably continues to flow, from one source only, the corrupt and corrupting phenomenon of postwar American internationalism. It would be easy to link Sheehan's teleology of manifest American perdition to a Marxist view of history. Actually, however, his extravagantly judgmental book is marked by a total absence of what Marxists like to call "scientific ideas." Rather, his sympathies and antipathies seem entirely cultural, or perhaps even religious, in tenor, springing from a metaphysical vision of America as an incarnation of material corruption on the world scene. This, at any rate, would appear to be the unargued view which informs and in the end defines his tortured resurrection of the corpse of John Paul Vann. The honors heaped upon his work seem to suggest that in spite of everything we have learned about the Vietnam war since 1975, Neil Sheehan is far from alone in holding onto the antiwar movement's furious if discredited interpretation of that conflict.


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This application is a continuation of 09/206,135 filed Dec. 7, 1998 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,143,336 which is a continuation of 08/841,352 filed Sep. 30, 1997 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,846,584.
The present invention relates to prepared and packaged food products, and in particular to economical, high speed methods of producing such products. According to the invention, rice and in some cases other cereal products are produced that have selected flavors infused directly into the cereal grains, and the grains are agglomerated into predetermined shapes, preferably shapes permitting accurate portion control.
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the volume of so-called convenience foods marketed by various manufacturers. While with certain foods products, the concept of a "convenience" food has come to have a pejorative connotation, implying that such products are inferior to counterpart foods prepared by ordinary methods, this is not always true. It is also sometimes accepted that convenience foods are characterized by increased cost without any counterpart benefit.
However, it is not necessary that, merely because a food product is able to be packaged for convenient preparation before consumption, such food must be of lower quality than a food prepared by other, more elaborate or painstaking methods. Clearly, the requirement for convenience foods arises from attempts to satisfy the time urgency that is common today. Moreover, considerations of economy incident to small volume uses of food has created a significant demand for portion-controlled food products. Where small portions of food can be made to provide both nutritional satisfaction and flavor variety, consumers purchasing such foods can be freed from the obligation to buy larger-than-desired quantities of the necessary ingredients in order to enjoy a product with a variety of constituent flavors and ingredients.
Another aspect of the adverse connotation of convenience foods has arisen because, where quality is satisfactory or even excellent, such foods cost much more than would appear necessary. Where prices are low, there may have been a substitution of lower quality, more bland, or synthetic materials or flavors in place of natural ingredients. In other cases, the preparation methods result in the degradation of flavors and textures of even high quality, natural products.
One reason for the high cost of preparing convenience foods has been the cost associated with manufacture, i.e., such manufacturing steps are highly time-consuming or require elaborate, expensive equipment, or both. In addition, the need to preserve flavors has sometimes created the requirements for tightly sealed, multi-layer packaging which is so expensive as often to rival the cost of the ingredients themselves.
In view of the failure of the prior art to provide reasonably priced, high quality convenience foods that are economical and yet provide flavor and texture sensations equal to those of non-convenience foods, it is an object of the invention to provide novel methods for preparing convenience foods.
Another object of the invention is to provide novel food products wherein soluble flavors are pre-infused into cereal grains comprising a main portion of the product, thus measurably reducing ingredient cooking times.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide a method of preparing convenience foods wherein the ingredients include rice or other cereals, pasta and a wide variety of flavoring ingredients, including herbs, spices, vegetables, etc.
A further object of the invention is to provide a rice- or other cereal-containing product wherein the flavors are literally infused into unpuffed cereal grains and wherein subsequently required cooking time is measurably reduced in comparison with foods made by other processes.
A still further object of the invention is to provide a method of manufacturing portion-controlled products to provide increased convenience and reduced cost for the user.
An additional object of the invention is to provide a cereal-containing product wherein the flavors are infused from an almost dry condition into the interior of the grains of the rice, other cereal, or pasta, all without extended cooking, or in some cases without real cooking at all.
Another object of the invention is to utilize ultrasonic energy as a means of infusing powdered or other soluble flavors directly into kernels of rice or like food constituents.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide a method of providing convenience foods wherein dried flavors in powdered form as will as particulate vegetable, meat or other ingredients are mixed with rice or other cereal and wherein the flavors are thereafter infused into the cereal grains that are agglomerated by using ultrasonic energy, while the particulate products utilize the ultrasonic energy to become bonded to or agglomerated with adjacent cereal grains.
A further object of the invention is to provide a method which includes the steps of agglomerating rice kernels or like grains into a desired shape at the same time that such grains are infused with various flavors, particularly soluble flavors.
A still further object is to provide a single-step method wherein shaping and forming portion-controlled products can be achieved using ultrasonic energy not only to infuse powdered or dried soluble flavors but also to gelatinize grains sufficiently that they will remain adhered to one another in a desired characteristic shape.
An additional object of the invention is to provide a method wherein a mass of grains may be infused with a flavor, agglomerated and formed into a desired shape within a small fraction of a second.
Another object of the invention is to provide a mass production, high speed method of making convenience food products which can be flow-wrapped as an incident to production.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide an apparatus wherein rice or other cereal grains are thoroughly mixed with dried, powdered flavoring ingredients, wherein the mix is dampened with atomized water and fed to a cavity wherein an ultrasonically energized product-forming tool compresses and imparts energy to the grains confined to the cavity, causing the flavors to be infused into the grains and the grains to be agglomerated into shapes resulting from the cooperative action of the forming tool and the cavity.
A further object of the invention is to provide a low-cost, relatively simple manufacturing apparatus which includes an ultrasonically energized forming tool, cavity forming surfaces and a material feeding portion including means for mixing and measuring predetermined quantities of cereal and flavoring materials dispensed into the forming cavity.
The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the invention are achieved in practice by a method which includes blending dry flavors with grains of rice or other cereal including pastas, slightly moistening the mix to insure that the surfaces of the elements to be agglomerated are properly moisturized, depositing controlled portions of the ingredient into a confined area and utilizing an ultrasonically energized forming tool to confine the grains, flavors and moisture to form a unitary, flavor-infused, agglomerated food product.
The invention also achieves its object by providing a product made by the foregoing method, with the product being characterized by the presence or absence of additional particulate ingredients such as meat, vegetables or other foods. The invention achieves these and other inherent objects using parboiled rice, puffed cereals, or other suitable ingredients, in some cases also including bits of vegetables, meat, spices or other ingredients.
The exact manner in which the foregoing and other objects and advantages are achieved in practice will become more apparent when reference is made to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention set forth by way of example and shown in the accompanying drawings wherein like reference numbers indicate corresponding parts throughout.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view, partially diagrammatic in nature, showing an agglomerating and infusing apparatus operative to form a mixture of a moistened rice and powered flavors into individual portion-controlled products wherein the flavors are infused into the rice grains;
FIG. 2A is a side elevational view, partly diagrammatic in character, and showing a conveyor including plural support plates, a feed hopper, a star wheel feeder and a feeding tube disposed above, and feeding moistened and flavored individual kernels of product into, an open chambered plate positioned upstream of an ultrasonic stack that includes a product-forming tool comprising its lowermost portion;
FIG. 2B is a view similar to that of FIG. 2A, and showing the chambered plate and its contents indexed beneath the ultrasonic stack as the star wheel feeder prepares to discharge another portion of ingredients into the chambered plate;
FIG. 2C is a view of a portion of the apparatus of FIGS. 2A and 2B, showing the forming tool engaging the contents of the chambered plate and causing flavor infusion and grain agglomeration;
FIG. 2D is a view similar to that of FIG. 2C, showing the forming tool and chambered plate lifted above the conveyor carrying the formed product and showing the chambered plate ready to return to the position of FIG. 2A;
FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of a form of reduced cooking time product made according to the invention, showing rice grains and edible particulate inclusions such as beans, vegetable bits or the like components;
FIG. 4 is a side elevational view of another form of product made according to the invention and illustrating an instant soup product wherein the grains are puffed rice and the preparation time is a matter of seconds;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of one preferred form of product made in accordance with the invention and showing certain elements of an ultrasonic forming tool used to infuse the flavors and agglomerate the grains of the new product;
FIG. 6 is a view similar to that of FIG. 5 and showing another preferred form of product and a portion of the tool used to form it;
FIG. 7 is a view similar to that of FIGS. 5 and 6, and showing a still further modified form of food product made according to the invention by the tool shown therein; and,
FIG. 8 is a view similar to that of FIGS. 2A-2D, but showing an alternative form of feeding tube and feed mechanism associated with the feed hopper.
While it will be understood that the present invention may be embodied in a number of forms, and that a wide variety of products may be made to embody the invention, certain concrete examples of the practice of the invention will be given wherein the cereal grains utilized are rice, such as a parboiled rice, arborio rice and other grain products. Some examples will be given wherein the completed product is one still requiring significant cooking during preparation, such as a risotto packaged convenience food product, while other examples will illustrate using the process to form an "instant" soup. In such case, the ingredients include a pre-puffed grain such as puffed rice and wherein preparation requires only a few seconds.
Referring now to the drawings in greater detail, FIGS. 1 and 2A-2D show the invention to be embodied in a processing apparatus generally designated 20 and shown to include a conveyor generally designated 22 having a plurality of support plates 23 hingedly connected to one another to form an upper run 24 of an endless chain or belt for carrying a plurality of individual agglomerated and infused cereal products generally designated 25 away from the forming area.
As shown in FIG. 1, for example, a mixer assembly generally designated 26 includes a mixing container generally designated 28, and a mixing auger or agitator generally designated 30 lying inside the container 28. According to the invention, a plurality of rice feeders 32 are provided, each having a lower outlet 34 from which individual grains 36 of rice are deposited into the interior of the mixing container 28.
Another component of the mixer assembly 26 is a dispenser 38 for powdered or other soluble flavors. The flavor dispenser 38 includes an outlet portion 40 from which powdered or granular dried flavors 42 are deposited into the interior of the mixing container 28. The kind and character of flavors used may vary but exemplary flavors will be described in detail in the Examples and elsewhere herein.
Referring again to FIG. 1, a second feeder 44 is also shown to have an outlet 46 for depositing individual bits or pieces 48 of nutrients such as bits of fruit, vegetables, mushrooms dry seafood, other grains, spices, or the like. These are also deposited directly from the outlet 46 into the interior of the mixing container 28. Any convenient number of such feeders may be provided.
Still further, the processing apparatus 20 includes at least one moisture-depositing tube 50, having a spray or atomizing nozzle 52 at its lower end, whereby a spray of water 54 or other liquid in atomized or mist form is deposited onto the materials within the mixing container 28. As the materials are deposited (or thereafter if a batch process is used), the auger 30 is rotated so as to ensure a complete mixing of the rice of other grains, the powdered or granular flavors and particulate ingredients, after which the moisture is added. All ill appear, the moisture content of the mix as a whole should be carefully controlled so as to insure the presence of sufficient but not excess moisture. The moisture required is only that necessary for treatment of the kernels' outer surfaces; this added moisture need not and in fact should not penetrate into the kernels.
Referring again to FIG. 1, a feed hopper assembly generally designated 59 is disposed immediately beneath the mixer generally designated 26 for purpose of collecting treated moistened kernels and flavors (with other ingredients, if any) emerging from the downstream end of the mixing container 28 and metering them to the chambers wherein the individual products 25 will ultimately be formed. The feed hopper 58 includes side walls 60, and an interior generally designated 62 and shown to include a supply of treated kernels 64.
FIG. 1 shows a chute 63 for feeding a mix of moisturized kernels 64 and flavors being taken from the downstream end of the mixing container 28 and deposited in the feed hopper 58. As shown in FIG. 1, the feed hopper assembly 58 further includes a measuring and dispensing portion generally designated 56 including a rotary star wheel or drum type dispenser 65 (FIG. 2A) having plural pockets 66. The pockets move between a pickup position, a transfer position, a discharge position and a return position as the drum 65 rotates. When a particular pocket 66 is registered with a hollow collector cone 67, moistened and flavored kernels pass through the cone 67 and exit at the bottom thereof. If the form shown, there are four cones 67. Naturally, any number may be provided, usually one for each of the number of products to be made in one cycle. Each cone 67 has an open discharge end 68.
Another component of the form of apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 and 2A-2D, is a chambered plate generally designated 70 and shown to include a plurality of individual contoured chambers generally designated 72, each defined by relatively vertical side walls and open top and bottom ends. The chambered plate 70 includes outer end portions 74, each of which mounts a guide collar 76 that cooperates with a column style guide 78, insuring accurate vertical movement of the chambered plate 70 in response to movement of a suitable actuator (not shown). In use, when the chambered plate 70 is lowered, its lower surface 80 rests on the upper surface 82 of the support plate 23, its side walls surrounding the depressions or pockets 84 in the surface 82 and closing off the bottoms of the chambers 72.
FIG. 1 also shows that there is an array, generally designated 85, of vertically reciprocable agglomerating and infusing stack assemblies generally designated 86, each comprising plural ultrasonically energized individual components. Each of the stack assemblies 86 includes input power cables 88, an ultrasonic converter 90, an ultrasonic booster 92 and an ultrasonically energized forming tool 94 having a product-forming cavity 96 in its open bottom surface. Power is fed from a power supply (not shown) through the cables 88 to the converter 90 in a manner known to those skilled in the art.
A charge of dry parboiled rice is introduced into the mixer assembly. This rice is typically contains about 12% moisture when appearing dry to the touch. To make a typical product, a charge of flavoring materials in powdered or liquid form is added. These may typically include saffron, butter, bouillon, salt, and onion flavors, for example. In addition, solid bits are added, including mushrooms, for example. The continuous blender or mixer blends these materials as sufficient water (approximately 3%-5%, based on the weight of the rice,) is sprayed from the atomizing nozzle 52.
Preferably, the blending/mixing action takes place continuously in the mixing container 28 for a short period, i.e., just enough for dispersion and surface moisturizing. Typically, this might be one minute. In FIG. 1, for purposes of illustration, the mixer assembly is shown as being separate from the feed hopper assembly 58. In reality, these units may be combined, or if made separately, they may be positioned more closely adjacent or even remotely from each other, their exact positioning not forming a part of the invention which is novel per se.
Once the materials have been suitably mixed and moved downstream for dispensing into the feed hopper 58, the chambered plate 70 is positioned as shown in FIG. 2A, i.e., with the outlet or open end 68 above the chamber 72. With the cone 67 positioned in overlying, registered relationship with the individual chambers 72 in the chambered plate 70, the star wheel or drum 65 is rotated, causing a charge of product to be metered into the chambers 72. When the chambers 72 formed by the side walls of the chambered plate 70 and the upper surfaces of the pockets 84 on the support plate 23 are filled to the desired extent, the conveyor is actuated at the support plate 23 and the chambered plate 70 move forward together, to the position shown in FIG. 2B.
Thereupon, as shown in FIG. 2C, the ultrasonic stack 88 is lowered until the downwardly facing surfaces of the forming cavity 96 in the tool 94 are fully engaged with the charge of mixed flavors and moistened rice positioned in the chambers 72. A downward pressure is exerted momentarily by the actuator (not shown) for the ultrasonic stack, with the mold surfaces 96 engaging the charge of deposited and partially shaped materials. A dwell time of from about 30 to about 80 milliseconds at a frequency of from about 20 kHz to about 40 kHz and an amplitude of from about 10 to about 100 microns, preferably about 30-60 microns, is effective to infuse the flavors into the rice kernels, and after elapse of a short time, to cause them to become strongly agglomerated.
In FIG. 2C, the above-referenced engagement and forming of the product is somewhat schematically illustrated, it being understood that the height of the chamber 72 is preferably somewhat greater than the depth of the cavity 96 in the tool 94 and the height of the individual products 25. Following compression and exposure of the compressed grains to ultrasonic energy transfer, the ultrasonic stack is withdrawn to a fully raised position as shown in FIG. 2D. At this time, the power applied to the stack may be lowered until the next portion of the cycle.
Next, after the product is formed, the chambered plate 70 is raised sufficiently to permit the finished product 25, now positioned by the support plate 23, to be transferred downstream by conveyor movement, i.e., to the right as shown in FIG. 2D. Thereupon, the chambered plate 70 moves to the left and is lowered to the position of FIG. 2A so the above sequence may be repeated.
In FIGS. 2A-2D of the drawings, the extent of actual movement taking place during the illustrated sequences is somewhat exaggerated for clarity.
Referring now to various finished product made by the method just described, one such product may be similar to the product 25 of FIGS. 1-2D. Another typical product is shown as product 125 in FIG. 3. This product is preferably of a size of from about 30 gram (instant soup) to about 60 grams (rice meal). If shaped as shown in FIG. 3, for example, such product 125 might contain about 6 to 20 grams per segment. The product 125 of FIG. 3, is shown to include plural individual segments 126 each having a top surface 128 and a plurality of side surfaces 130. The side surfaces are slightly inclined as shown, and do not extend entirely to the bottom surface of the product. Accordingly, the individual segments 126 are accordingly joined by webs 134 of reduced height, forming areas of stress concentration to facilitate breaking the elements into individual portions if and when this is desired for some reason.
In the form shown, the major constituents of the bar include a plurality of rice grains 136, and additional inclusions 138 which may be, by way of example, beans or vegetable bits. According to the invention, the powdered flavors are infused into the rice grains, while the solid particulates (including their own inherent flavors) remain outside the kernels but are bound to the surfaces of the rice grains and/or each other by reason of the ultrasonic treatment. A suitable amount, i.e., about a 50-60 gram portion, of a representative product 125 made as described in Example 1, may be removed from a single package, immersed in a suitable amount of water, and boiled for seven to eight minutes. This produces a risotto product having a fully infused flavor, made from only a single packaged component.
In contrast, a counterpart product made by prior art methods would require opening two packages, combining them and then cooking the ingredients from 15 to 30 minutes.
While the invention is not to be understood as limited to any particular mechanism, or to depend for its operation on any particular theory, it is believed possible that the surface skin of rice or like cereals is relatively continuous and water-impermeable in its natural state. It is believed that the application of ultrasonic energy to the surface of the moistened rice (which is moistened only slightly) during product manufacture is sufficient to induce microscopic cracking or etching of the surface layers of the rice, which greatly increases its surface-to-volume ratio and renders it more porous. This facilitates enabling the flavors (which are now in a soluble, powdered form), to migrate very rapidly into the interior of the individual rice grains or kernels, where they remain absorbed throughout the life of the product, i.e., both prior to and through the time of preparation. During preparation, as described above, the cooking or mixing water rapidly moistens the now flavored interior without displacing the flavors back to the cooking water, creating a highly desirable product made rapidly and economically.
A product was made which was similar to that described in connection with Example 1, except that the particulate matter comprised chunks of mushrooms, peas, corn, and like materials, as well as the flavors and condiments as set out in connection with Example 1.
The mixing, and the above-described operational steps of the method were carried out in the same way. A highly satisfactory product was created, this time in a single shape of the kind illustrated at 25 in connection with FIG. 1. As with Example 1, a single wrapping was sufficient to enclose the flavored rice and the agglomerated food bits, i.e., all the ingredients needed to make a risotto or like food product of excellent flavor. The wrapping was done on a "flow-wrap" or continuous basis. As is known to those skilled in the art, a continuous sleeve is formed around the product, and heat sealing is used to cut and form package ends as well as side seams, just as individual candy bars are packaged, for example.
A product was made as described in connection with Example 1, except that flavors and seasoning only, and not solid inclusions were utilized. One such flavor was a dry wine flavoring. The product was made in the same manner as in the foregoing example, and it exhibited excellent flavor and texture when prepared by cooking with sufficient water for a time of about 7-8 minutes.
A mixed cereal grain product was prepared by adding to the mixer assembly ingredients which included the flavors and condiments just discussed and wherein the cereal component comprised not only rice, but also bits of pasta of a size approximately that of corn kernels or the like. A process similar to that described in connection with Example 1 was carried out. Using starch from the rice and gluten from the pasta, the product, when subjected to energy from the ultrasonic stack, was able to have its constituents adhered and their surfaces to create a unitary, agglomerated or self-adhering product with infused flavors. The product thus prepared was able to be cooked in the same short time and manner as in the prior examples.
Referring now to FIG. 4, a different product 225, but one shaped similarly to that of FIG. 3, is shown. In this instance, the product 225 is an edible, soup-forming product having plural individual segments 226, each having a top surface 228 and plural, inclined side surfaces 230. Plural reduced height webs 234 join the individual segments 226 to form the unitary product 225, which is manufactured as described above and wrapped for sale.
In order to produce this product, the same steps as those described above were carried out. In the case of the product 225 of FIG. 4, the chunks of edible products such as mushrooms, peas, carrots, or the like, and the powdered flavors including bouillon, salt, onion and saffron, were the same. However, the grain component consisted of pre-puffed rice kernels 240. In this instance, the residence or contact time between the ultrasonic tool and the contents of the chambers 72 was about 40 milliseconds. The porosity of the puffed rice is much greater than that of untreated rice kernels, enabling the flavors to be dispersed within the body of the kernels in a somewhat shorter time.
However, the ultrasonic energy supplied to the confined mass served to gelatinize the outer surfaces of the expanded or puffed rice granules, causing them to adhere together into a unitary mass. Thus, the subject process demonstrated its ability to provide both rapid flavor dispersion and agglomeration in puffed cereal grains. However, the exact mechanism is believed to be somewhat different insofar as the postulated step of inducing microscopic cracks or etching in the surface of the rice grains was insignificant because of the already porous surface of the expanded kernels.
A product of Example 5 is an instant soup that can be prepared in less than 10 seconds simply by adding very hot or boiling water to the previously prepared and packaged convenience food product. Because the flavors are already infused in the grains or kernels, and because no cooking is required of puffed rice, the product is a truly "instant" product that can be made in a matter of seconds or a minute or two at most.
In the foregoing processes set out by way of example, the upper run 24 of the conveyor 22 was shown to be comprised of a plurality of the individual support plates 23. In this embodiment, the process machinery was of the intermittent motion type wherein the pockets in the support plates were indexed and stopped beneath the discharge outlet of the feed hopper, product ingredients were deposited, and the plate advanced and positioned beneath the forming tool prior to its entry into the chamber where the charge of materials was confined by the chambered plate.
It is apparent that considerably variations to this form of apparatus may be readily made. For example, if the chambered plate is stationary, but the feed hopper 58 is capable of horizontal reciprocation, the apparatus will work equally well. In such instance, the feed hopper would move to a position so that the cones 67 would overlie the chambered plate 70 and discharge a single filling of rice, flavors, etc. After that, the feed hopper would return to the position shown in FIG. 2A, i.e., to the left. Thereupon, the stack 90 would then descend and the infused and agglomerated product would be formed. The sequence following forming would then be similar to that described, including withdrawal of the forming tool, lifting the chambered plate, and indexing the support plate forward.
In a more sophisticated operation, such as the type utilizing servomotor controls, the chambered plate 70 can be moved from an upstream position relative to a fixed point for filling and to a downsteam position for forming at a rate synchronous with that of the advance rate of the upper conveyor run. In this embodiment, the feed hopper and the forming tool also follow synchronous motion sequences, with the tools on the lower end of the ultrasonic stack moving into the chambers in the chambered plate 70 while moving synchronously therewith, and each component lifting and rapidly returning to an upstream position between forming cycles.
In such an apparatus, i.e., where the chambered plate 70 moves synchronously with the upper run of the conveyor, the conveyor is not made from individual hinged segments, but is a continuous belt having a rigid support plate beneath those portions of it at which the ultrasonic stack contacts the grains and compresses them. Hence, all that is required is to insure that the treated grains are confined against movement in all directions.
Referring now to FIG. 5, the type of apparatus used to make a segmented product such as that shown in FIG. 3 is illustrated. Thus, in FIG. 5, there is shown in perspective, a forming horn generally designated 194 and shown to have a proximate or enlarged end portion 195 and a narrower, necked down forward portion 196. The exterior side and end walls, 198, 200 and the interior partition walls 202 combine to form a cavity generally designated 204 having a plurality of individual cavity segments 206. Each of these is the reverse shape of the product made therein, such product being illustrated for example as product 125 and corresponding to that shown in FIG. 3. The forming tool 194 is shown to include a stud 208 which may be used for fastening to an associated booster element (not shown in detail) but corresponding generally to the booster unit 92 in FIG. 2A, for example. Cavities of the sort illustrated in forming horns of the approximate shape shown in FIG. 5, have proved to be very effective in use.
Referring now to FIG. 6, an alternate form of product generally designated 325 and having tapered side walls 327 and tapered end walls 329 is shown. The top surface 331 is shown to be generally flat and the bar or like product 325, which might typically comprise 60 grams more or less of product is created in a forming tool generally designated 294.
Only the tip portion 296 of the tool 294 is shown. The forming cavity generally designated 304 of the tool 294 is shown to include cavity side walls 306 and end walls 308. The forming tool 294 may have a reduced thickness and portion as shown in the embodiment of FIG. 5 or the forming tool may be in the form of a relatively rectangular prism with one or more cavities.
Referring now to FIG. 7, a still further version of a forming tool generally designated 394 is shown. Here, the proximate or forming portion 396 includes a product forming cavity generally designated 404 an shown to be divided into a plurality of individual cavities 406 by partition or divider walls 408 extending both longitudinally and laterally of the cavity. The cavity area 404 as a whole includes side walls 410, with all of the walls 408, 410, etc. being tapered and the interior end walls 412 being generally flat. The product generally designated 425 formed by the tool 394 is shown to have plural individual segments 426, each having flat top surfaces 428 and inclined side walls 430. Reduced height webs 434 separate the elements from one another.
A product such as the product 425 shown in FIG. 7 typically could comprise four 60 gram individual segments, with the segmented bar as a whole thus having approximately 240-260 grams of weight. A plurality of such bars could be regarded as a "family size" unit and be individually packed within a larger, master pack whereby four to six individual bars such as those shown in FIG. 7 would occupy a master pack weighing approximately 1 to 1.5 kg.
Referring now to FIG. 8, there is shown a somewhat modified form of apparatus relative to that shown in FIGS. 1-2D. This apparatus is similar to its counterpart regarding the array of ultrasonic units generally designated 588 including a converter 590, a booster 592 and a forming tool 594. A plurality of support plates 523 are formed into an endless belt forming an upper run generally designated 24 of the conveyor. Plural spaced apart pockets 584 resemble their counterparts and are depressed below the upper surface 582 of the support plated 523. A feed hopper generally designated 558 resembles its counterpart in FIGS. 1-2B. However, the manner of feeding moistened rice kernels and their associates soluble flavors is different. Here, the feeder assembly generally designated 556 includes, in addition to the hopper 560 in the tapering cones 567, a feeder tube generally designated 568 having a lower end 570 with an outlet 572 positionable just above the opening 580 in the chambered plate 582. An auger 584 shown in phantom lines in line inside the inclined center portion 586 of the unit 558 is turned by a shaft 586 driven by an appropriately controlled stepping motor 588. In use, each time the chambered plate 582 is indexed to a position beneath the outlet 572, the motor 588 is actuated sufficiently to advance the auger a given distance to discharge a metered portion of treated granules into the chamber 580 of the plate 582. In other respects, the apparatus operates in a manner similar to that described in connected with the other above embodiments.
It will thus be seen the present invention provides methods and apparatus for infusing cereals grains with flavor and agglomerating such grains into a food product using ultrasonic energy, such methods and apparatus having a number of advantages and characteristics including those pointed out herein and others which are inherent in the invention. Several preferred embodiments having been described by way of illustration, it is anticipated that modifications to the described forms of product will occur to those skilled in the art and that such modification and changes may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.
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I am used to games shutting down.
This game is is like a boat sailing away without a captain and no one is even home to shut it down.
I have read the official forums (hasn't let me post there since I stopped paying months ago). I still see AV talking about what used to be a big expansion (years ago) stringing people along but I don't think anyone believes them any more. It looks like hardly anyone is playing any more.
Even if they ever get DF2.0 out the door I am not sure if I will ever come back due to lack of trust in the developers. Any mmo needs consistent updating for content, fixing, and balance. But a game like this needs to keep on top of the cheating and AV has proven to not be capable of either.
They only thing the seem to be able to due is keep the server actually running lol.
My best guess is they intended this large patch that got out of hand and decided on making a re-release. Then Greece went crazy and they got distracted, people stopped playing in scores, they further got distracted, less and less money and now they are struggling to survive not only with hardly money coming in but with all the problems going on in Greece.
Any of you previous / current players holding on to any hope on this one?
The MO forums look to be more optimistic but I have no idea if the pvp is any good there or if I want to start playing another potential sinking shit. They seem to be holding on the hope of some patching coming out soon and I see no reason to try that until I know if that pans outs as well.
It is too bad another decent company doesn't trying a gameplay style like DF. It is the best game out there to play from a pvp stand point.
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In beta, beta testers told the dev team that the game needed MONTHS of work before a retail release should occur.
Of course we were just beta testers.. what do they care what we think.
The devs released the game anyways. Also in beta some reall stupid changes were made. Minor stuff. But really stupid. Like adding a few extra guard towers to areas which didnt have any before... just.. because... no reason. and removing some skills from the game.
Day 1. AV show they couldnt handle a MMO. No one could buy the game, Actually only a few hundred managed to buy it the first day .
Week 1. The mobs were all bugged to shit. People were duping left and right, and exploiting skills like crazy.
Month 1 tons of bugs everywhere. continues for 6+months
Although the 1 server only probably ever had about 15-20% max population, The devs decided to open the NA server and cut the population in half.. And never recovered. A MMO server with low population isnt fun for anyone. The players keep the game alive making its own content i.e sieges, etc. While the dev team dragged their feet not doing much. promising lots and delivering little.
At some point the devs did manage to push out some patches and updates. It was no where near enough from what the game demanded.
Then you have about 2000 brokem promises of content/changes that were being worked on and coming soon...
They never came...
Then we hear about DF 2010........ Never released..... Renamed Darkfall Arena in 2011 and then renamed Darkfall 2.0 at the end of 2011. Still not released. Suppose to start a closed beta 3 months ago.. never happened.. no talk about it from AV.
We are halfway through 2012 and still no word about anything that is darkfall 1.0 or 2.0
Basically AV ruined the game that they created . The most likely cause is probably not having enough money to sustain a dev team and a staff for a MMO.
They are less then 5 people And probably only 3 people paid with some volunteers who work for free with promises of a paycheck when 2.0 is released.
AV has said countless times that the Greece troubles do not effect them..
Short Answer is. AV stopped working on the game. .
for me darkfall deviated to far from its original concept. Its nothing like the game they announced and it became a compeltely different game. Seems like the developers lack trust in their own player base and they keep silent about everything and generally ignore the suggestions of the community. For me thats enough to indicate that i should steer clear of the game. Althoguh if 2.0 ever does release i will be tempted to give it a try.
As for MO, well its most likely more buggy and abit mroe unfinished, but the developers have stuck to thier original concept and openly discuss and interact with the community daily and for that i aplaud them. They might not be great at putting together a polished product but for the msot part they have been honest and always willing to answer questions. Like darkfall mo also released way to early due to funds but, MO is awaiting its much anticipated expansion that will brind together alot of the content that the communtiy has been crying out for so they have been listening. is see this exapnsion as more of a re-release with a hell of alot of people waiting with baited breathe to return to the game once it launches. Will MO survive or darkfall ever return? i honestly couldnt tell you. But i think MO is worth a try once the expansion launches.
there are 2 types of mmo, imitators and innovaters.
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let me tell you some facts:
The dedicted players of darkfall ( which are around 2500/3000 people) are still coming to forums now and then..( im talking about long time followers)
Over the last 2 years this clubhouse slinkt into 1000 people and maybe 300/400 people sometimes playing it..
EU server is dead.
NA server is slowly dying aswell..
We don't know if they got any new content.. ( i do think they work on something tho)
@ the forum people are getting constantly banned or warned for giving opinions about the situation..
Mods deleting whole threads
And i am not even talking about the content of this threads.. most of the content of this threads are legit debats..
what i do hope @ some point that this darkfall goes either open source.. or a small company with brains takes over..
tbh: internetQ owns 50% of aventuring.. basicly what i am thinking is that internetQ orders AV to focus on other stuff. like mobile apps and so forth
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One thing I figured out early on is that Darkfall is not Aventurine's only priority. Hell, it's not even a top priority to them. They take a lot of outside contract work that has nothing to do with game programming. Much of it is government contract as well as commercial programming. I suppose that helps pay the bills but it's not good for DF customers at all. They viewed Darkfall 1.0 as a "proof of concept" more than as a commercial product, although they do not openly admit it. Now they are hard at work selling that proof of concept to Asian investors to sell Darkfall 2.0. They never seemed to grasp the idea that they really had a good niche audience for Darkfall. The sort of fans, when given proper respect, involvement, and attention can be very loyal and help to grow the game... similar to EVE's following. Those loyal fans are too bitter at this point to drink their kool aid again. All that is left in the game is a few hold outs. This does not bode well for the future of Darkfall 2.0. If it ever sees a release.
Originally posted by deathshroud
MO topic:
When is the expansion rolling out?
How is the combat compared to DF? The DF combat was the best of any MMO I have played to date.
Thanks for the update guys.
It is shame the game was damn fun for pvp (other then the cheating) and I miss my DHoV and OTG friends.
I haven't seen a game worth trying in a while and was hoping this game my pull through at some point even though logic says it is a lost cause.
Originally posted by stux
expansion is when its done but most likely end of june early july.
mo's melee combat is superior to DFO, you have directional attacks and blocks as well as stamina to manage and counter attacks so its quite different but still twitch based, for me darkfall melee consisted of bunnyhopping in a circle and swinging wildly.
as for magic MO has a very basic magic system inplace at the moment that is likely to change in the expansion after, esentially you charge a spell then you have so long before the spell fissles to target and release, but the spell homes in if the target was under the reticule when you cast. So its not as good as darkfall magery but it still has some skill involved and magery doesnt dominate the game like it does in darkfall. Archery is like playing with the railgun from quake, if you fire the arrow when they are udner your cursor then the arrow will hit, like instant travel time. The arrows do dip with distance but they do not take into account having to fire infront of a moving target. But both magery and archery are still very useable and most likely will be reworked later.
I think the reason why i prefer mo combat system is that everyone cant do everything, so you fight people with different combat styles, some hybrids, some mages, some archers, some mounted archers, some warriors etc etc. Everyone isnt an everything guy.
some early vids of mo pvp
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DF pvp! owns MO any day fo the week by a loooooong way.
Originally posted by Mad+Dog
the simple fact that everyone is a jack of all trades and magery is severly op ruins it imo. Also my fav aspect of pvp is melee combat and darkfalls is poorly done. Also i hate all the over the top particle effects magery looks like a fireworks display.
if they balanced all 3 combat styles, implemented some form of max skill restriction like UO, improved melee combat to make it more engaging and indepth and dumbed down the over the top particle effects then i would call darkfalls better. But as it is now its just different. With the impending wipe on top along with the way the developers treat their playerbase i honestly cant consider playing darkfall, 2.0 will hopefully be fun but i doubt if it ever gets released that AV will change thier ways.
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Originally posted by deathshroud
Totally agree.
1 of many flaws of DF is jack of all trades. Everyone can be "gm" of every single skill. Means every character you run into is exactly the same. Sure you have the differences of how long character 1 has played/macrod vs character 2. But bottom line is every player character has the same skill sets which results in the same pvp fights over and over again.
A skill cap just like UO would be nice. Added to MAJOR upgrades to melee and archery attacks/skills. By the way 2009 devteam says archery will be getting weapon types and skills (they never came... along with those prestige classes which never came)
They did mention sometime in 2011? that they want to limit mages from having every single magic school. While I guess that would be a start.. That still has nothing to do with the major problems of archery and melee being awful in pvp if you dont have magic to back it up your worthless.
A melee with 30k+ value in armor vs a naked mage or ajust a robe on and the mage will knock up the melee and destory em, and bunnyhop away. The values for being naked or robes or in shitty armor need to be corrected and make it dangerous to be in such shit armor. In the end major overhauls really need to occur to all three attack types. Give HUGE bonuses to be spec'd into 1 type of attack. They sort of started things with the little specd options they introduced a long time ago but it wasn't enough to make a big enough difference.
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Originally posted by deathshroud
PLEASE... this is a company that still to this day... 2 years after release.. has not shipped the promised "release" discs to customers that foolishly bought the boxed version of the game. Their CM was on these very forums MONTHS ago promising that they would have compensation for the affected players in days.
Darkfall has it's own issues for sure, but IMHO SV is one of the most unethical companies I have ever seen. Heck.. even their CS guy used to use the name CS_SHADY.
We will see what is in store for Darkfall. When the new version releases I will check it out. My hopes for a good sandbox have shifted to Archage though.
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Starvault's reponse to criticism related to having a handful of players as the official "test" team for a supposed MMO: "We've just have another 10ish folk kind enough to voulenteer added tot the test team" (SIC) This explains much about the state of the game :-)
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MMOs dont get a second chance!
You start and stay big or grown incremental - if this is not happen there is no way to recover bcs the market is unvorgiving and saturated to a degree that is simply beyond imagination.
In todays market magic patches must be applied within the first 2 weeks and magic expansion within the first 3 months.
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although its true that many people have left what still remains true (at least in my view) is that despite all its flaws its still the best MMO. I cant think of another MMO I would rather play. I know that sounds crazy, sure you get more 'dings' in other MMOs but none of them give you the same feeling of being in the world like Darkfall does. I know people will make jokes but like I say, I cant think of another MMO that is better. At least for me.
Ironically, I have zero competitive spirit in me which might have a lot to do with it.
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Hi there,
Update you 249 to ver17
249r17 Installer<--- Run from HBC
IOS38-64-v3867.rar<--- Unzip and place on Root of SD
Then wad install when asked
Ive soft modded 2 wii so far no problem. When i tried to do my own, i cant get it to work! Tried using all the 4.2 mods on this site. my wiiflow say s loading, then boots to wii home screen. ran syscheck and here is what i got...
"DOP-Mii Report"
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IOS Version, FakeSign, ES_Identify, NAND, Flash
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Update you 249 to ver17
249r17 Installer<--- Run from HBC
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Then wad install when asked
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SoftMod Essentials:- CFG USB Loader FAT32 --- Wii Game Manager
Are you using a compatible USB device?
When a USB HDD is not compatible sometimes it just returns to the system menu.
Rev 14 is not causing your problem. You can update to Rev 17 if you wish though. IOS38 is only used for games as far as I know.
You said you followed multiple guides? Is this after following one guide and being unsuccessful?
Are you sure your USB device is setup correctly? (as mentioned above) Have you tried a different Loader such as, Configurable USB Loader or Usb Loader GX?
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my hdd doesnt pick , i have to use wii flow 222 and wait until you get to the please insert usb device screen give that a go.
I used other friends hdd, the same one i own. wd 1gig usb. Triend first 4.2 tut , no luck. Then went on to the next to try to get this thing working.
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