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Dinosaur Comics Stampede
Regular readers know that I was underwhelmed by IDW's efforts to take on the Jurassic Park franchise—I'll have a wrap-up review coming soon—but fortunately for dinosaur comic fans, several forthcoming releases should provide a higher-quality dino fix.
Next February, Image Comics will release a one-shot story called simply Tyrannosaurus rex. Naturally, the story pits the formidable predator against our own species, and it draws its inspiration from the old "cavemen vs. dinosaurs" flicks of the 1970s. Young earth creationists might consider the tale to be based on a true story, but for the rest of us it looks like a fun throwback to b-movies like When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.
After a long hiatus, Dark Horse comics has revamped the Turok: Son of Stone series. The new story is a mish-mash of Native Americans, Aztecs, dinosaurs, "Panther People", and weird prehistoric beasts, but, given the various incarnations of the comic hero, who would expect anything less? The first story arc started last month and runs through February.
Another classic dinosaur title is also being polished up for re-release. Dark Horse will soon release the entire run of Ricardo Delgado's Age of Reptiles (which includes the latest story arc, "The Journey"), one of the few dinosaur series with nary a human in sight. If you liked the visuals of the Disney film Dinosaur, but couldn't stand the chattering herbivores, then Age of Reptiles is for you.
The news I am most excited about, though, is that Flesk Publications has just released the collected run of Mark Schultz's excellent Xenozoic Tales in the single volume Xenozoic. Set in a future in which dinosaurs have returned in the wake of human-caused ecological catastrophe, Schultz's series remains the acme of dinosaur comics, with each story standing on its own as well as fitting into a larger—and still incomplete—story.
So there you have it. Despite some recent so-so titles, the next few months should be chock full of dino comic goodness.
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"Jurassic Park: Redemption" was indeed underwhelming, thanks in no small part to its horrendous artwork of very badly drawn dinosaurs. But it may get a redemption of its own when the next 4-issue story arc in IDW's revamp of the franchise, entitled "Jurassic Park: The Devils in the Desert" also kicks off early next year, with a new team of writers and artists. The story picks up where Redemption leaves off, so the Western themes continue, but the art appears (at least in this sample page) to be much improved, and in fact closer in style to the classic Topps Jurassic Park comics we loved in the 90′s: http://bit.ly/aZT730
Looks like lots of dino comic action coming up. Thanks for rounding them up! I was not aware of most of these.
OH MY GOD XENOZOIC. Also, "Age of Reptiles" compilation? Yes, please, even though the series went steadily downhill after the first miniseries.
I do not know when it's supposed to be released (soon, I gather), but former Ninja Turtles collaborator Jim Lawson is putting out a new Paleo book, as well. http://tiny.cc/7pnze
But Jim Lawson was one of the worst artists the TMNT books ever had. In my opinion.
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Lately,I've been seeing a alot of advertisements and reasons for people to play Wizard101. But what I want to know before registering and downloading this game,is this mmorpg worthwhile to play and worth the trouble to download it onto my computer?
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Yes. It's a fun game, and it has streaming client so the download isn't bad.
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Wizard101 . is a card based MMO.. So if you like the stratagy of building your deck, organizing your creatures then it is a very fun game. PVP is pretty fun.. can be quiet competitive and pretty fun if your trying to get that certain card.. flaw in the game is.. what happens when you don't get the cards you need.. or setting your deck too small to get the cards you want, and fight takes too long. I really enjoy the stratagy of deck building They also have a great housing system, and lots of options for it. The only downside for me is there is no raiding... not sure how you could set that up.. but that would be fun. The game is a good break from other MMO's.. and realitivly free.. I say that, because you can get crowns and just buy zones as you need them.. then never have to spend more money.. but to get all the zones it would be fairly expensive Kraa26 |
Once you get to about level 10, you'll be locked into the "free" zones. I looked at unlocking all the zones and it looked like unlocking the entire game would cost about $60 dollars. You wouldn't have to do it all at once, and there is plenty of free time to decide if you like the game. For every large, complex problem, there is a simple, clear solution that also happens to be absolutely wrong. |
Trust me you will love this game. If your willing to pay some $$$$$ you will have a fun time. I have it, I love, I buy crowns(what you get for money), and its totally worth it. I hope to see you in the spiral!
It's definitely worth trying out. It's not for everyone, but there are some really great game systems inside.
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Wizard101 is a great game, easy to play and lots of things to enjoy! |
one of very few games I have played since they started, company usually ruin the game after a few years but wizard still going strong. The only real bad thing is the pvp, a high level 1vs1 can take up to 2-3 hours / game. Sorry for my english and try this game out, you will not regret it. Edit "how can I be a noob member when I have been member since -04" :)( |
I'm still in debate about recommending this game. currently a lot of players are reporting they are lagging on the game. the customer support is trying to help. as far as buying those hoard packs. not recommended unless you want some of the more common items in it.as this comes up a lot in discussions. |
the answer is simple : yes, try it, it's worth it because there is no trouble to install the game : unlike many other games, you don't have to download it all at once during hours before playing ;+P the game will only download what you need and wait for you to explore it to download more now, knowing if you'll like it or not, it depends on you but the first free areas will be enough to understand how it is and if you want to go further or not in my case, i only play this game now, i never find any game like this : classic : you can find all we see in other MMO (PvP, PvE, questing, gears, mounts, pets, houses to design, crafting, mini-games, etc) original : - the graphics aren't like all other games, sometimes you look at it like a cartoon, lol - there is lots of references and sense of humor - the fight system is clear, easy and let you focus on your strategy and the discussion with your team - the questing helps you with an arrow, you're never lost - you can have 6 characters on one account, letting you experience different kind of magic schools - you can play as you want : just PvP, just PvE, just collecting pets, objects, etc, just design your houses, just meet your friends (the community is really fun, there is always many parties, contests, etc) or do it all, you can't be bored unless you want to ;+P improving : there is always new worlds but also many updates all year long to get better game basics, you really feel at home ;+) a wide bonus system : despite the whining you can hear now and then, you don't need the bonus gear and object to play (i finished the main story with several characters before starting to buy anything) so it's really bonus, just to have more fun ;+) there are many gear, mounts, pets, houses, objects, elixirs to boost or play faster, henchmen when you're in trouble, transformations to look like a mob, etc, etc, and always many new fun things almost every month... the good thing is : -there are always many promotions and contests to get what you want if you can't or don't want to usually aford it - some are even sold in game gold (you don't have to pay to get gold, you win it in game) - many bonus objects can be dropped in the game so no one feels outsider (except those who always want more and aren't happy anywhere, lol ;+) well, then, this game is easy to try, easy to enjoy and it's easy to stay in its world and have fun ;+P i tried to find some other game like it but never found something that neat, especially the fighting system (but you can find the same kind of design and options on the other KingsIsle game Pirate101) |
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If you're willing to spend a bit of cash it's a pretty good choice. The free to play section is akin to a demo so you can get a pretty good feel of what's in store for you. I enjoyed the hell out of the game but wasn't really willing to spend cash on content unlocking so I dropped it. I recommend this game. Just be ready to buy crowns. Besides the devs deserve a little bit of cash for what they've done. Play for fun. Play to win. Play for perfection. Play with friends. Play in another world. Why do you play? |
Wow my nieces play this game. What's going on did it get a patch?
You don't have to buy Crowns to play the entire game, you can get a monthly membership just for 10 bucks! I don't about you, but W101 feels EPIC to me! Even though Crowns are needed to unlock premium content such as Hoard Packs and Lore packs, Henchmen, Premium clothing and housing and more! You can still play your way through the entire storyline just with paying for a subscription! All in all, Wizard101 is a really awesome game worth at least trying, and by the way, KI RAWX :P |
People play this game for a little while then they go away from it. Its fun for a short time, but in the end, it gets repetitive pretty quickly. Some of the activities seem like a waste of time, and filler in nature. You will also run into lots of kids and predators in the game. I work in a very large school district, I talk to plenty of kids and adults about this game. Kids seem to love it for awhile and adults seem to tire of it quickly. I will say the crowns system can bleed you dry so stay from them. A one year sub for $60 seems pretty fair considering other sub prices, however, be warned, most people wind up not using about 9-11 of the 12 months they have for the sub the paid. I would also be leery of people with very few total posts praising the game, they tend to be fan boys of the game. Lastly be wary of KI's advertising, they seem to push certain things on their agenda and its easy to get caught up in this. As an example, look at the Game of the Year Awards on here from last year.
I have been playing computer and console games ever since the days of the Apple ][ computer (Ultima), so I've seen a lot. I find, of course, that games will appeal to different degree to different people, even within the same genre, in this case primarily an RPG. This would be especially true for a game that is aimed to appeal to a wide range of players and of different ages. After all Wizard 101 is oriented toward family play, meaning both kids, parents/adults, grandparents, so finding an overall mix is not easy. ("You can't please all of the people all of the time.") This is my first on-line MMORPG so it is a different experience for me as I now can interact (or not) with other real-life players rather than just computer AI. However I have found it quite engaging for at least the 8 or so months I have been playing it. Yes I find it can get a bit repetitive (like so many others do), and I sometimes take a bit of time off . The "filler" activities are actually welcome breaks and distractions, whether it be gardening, fixing up the houses, doing mini-games, PvP, side quests, etc. Being able to find something to do if I only have a few minutes to spare is nice, rather than getting tied up in a hour + long dungeon or a 2 to 3 hour PvP match. Plus the chats with other "real live players" can be enjoyable and I can always just ignore the pests. KI seems to do a decent job with the chat filters and monitoring for creepers judging from what I see from other posters on a variety of sites. A "feature" I especially like is the fact I don't have to depend on endless grinding to get anywhere. I have a pile of games sitting here that I just plain gave up on out of the sheer boredom of hacking and slashing and not getting anywhere. Being able to form short- or long-term alliances with other players or hiring a henchman (granted for a price) to make it over those humps is a big plus. I like the Crown system actually, as I can spend only what I want, buy more if I need, go away for a while and come back perhaps days, weeks, or months later and know I still "own" those areas I "bought" rather than losing that progress when a subscription that I may not use (as the previous poster pointed out) goes to waste. As for the advertising, well any business needs to advertise to survive. I know this from actually having *been* in business. I get pestered far more with ads for WoW than any of KI's products, and I don't even play Wow (hard to believe hey?). The "advertising" emails are few, and often are promoting free goodies or money-savings promotions anyway, which is fine with me. |


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As buccanneering is back with a vengeance, stepped-up law enforcement and high-tech tools work to help protect shipping on the high seas
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Editor's Note -- April 9, 2009: In the first capture of an American crew in over 100 years, Somali pirates took hostage the captain of the ship Maersk Alabama after an aborted attempt to seize the cargo on board. Smithsonian revisits its August 2007 article on the challenges facing those who are trying to bring an end to the piracy in the Indian Ocean.
The attack came after daybreak. The Delta Ranger, a cargo ship carrying bauxite, was steaming through the ink-blue Indian Ocean in January 2006, about 200 nautical miles off Somalia's coast. A crewman on the bridge spied two speedboats zooming straight at the port side of his vessel. Moments later, bullets tore into the bridge, and vapor trails from rocket-propelled grenades streaked across the bow: pirates.
A member of the Delta Ranger's crew sounded the ship's whistle, and the cargo ship began maneuvering away as bullets thudded into its hull. The captain radioed a message to distant Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) operates the world's only pirate reporting and rescue center. In describing the attack, he added that the pirates seemed to be using a hijacked Indian dhow, a fishing vessel, as their mother ship.
The center's duty officer immediately radioed an alert to all ships in the Delta Ranger's vicinity and found that two other cargo ships had escaped similar attacks in recent days. The duty officer's next message went to the USS Winston S. Churchill, a Navy guided-missile destroyer on patrol about 100 nautical miles from the pirates' last reported position. Soon after, the Churchill headed for the dhow.
Pirates have been causing trouble ever since men first went down to the sea in ships, or at least since the 14th century B.C., when Egyptian records mention Lukkan pirates raiding Cyprus. A millennium later, Alexander the Great tried to sweep the Mediterranean clear of marauding bandits, to no avail. In 75 B.C., ship-based cutthroats took Julius Caesar hostage and ransomed him for 50 talents. The historian Plutarch wrote that Caesar then returned with several ships, captured the pirates and crucified the lot of them.
That hardly spelled the end of pirating. At the beginning of the 13th century A.D., Eustace the Monk terrorized the English Channel, and the European colonization of the Americas, with all its seaborne wealth, led to the so-called golden age of piracy, from 1660 to 1730—the era of Blackbeard, Black Bart, Captain Kidd and other celebrated pirates of the Caribbean. The era ended only after seafaring nations expanded their navies and prosecuted more aggressively to deal with the threat.
Now the seedy romance of the golden-age legends may be supplanted by a new reality: as governments cut their navies after the cold war, as thieves have gotten hold of more powerful weapons and as more and more cargo has moved by sea, piracy has once again become a lucrative form of waterborne mugging. Attacks at sea had become rare enough to be a curiosity in the mid-20th century, but began to reappear in the 1970s. By the 1990s, maritime experts noted a sharp increase in attacks, which led the IMB to establish the Piracy Reporting Centre in 1992—and still the buccaneering continued, with a high of 469 attacks registered in 2000. Since then, improvements in reporting, ship-tracking technology and government reaction have calmed the seas somewhat—the center counted 329 attacks in 2004, down to 276 in 2005 and 239 last year—but pirates remain very much in business, making the waters off Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Somalia especially perilous. "We report hundreds of acts of piracy each year, many hundreds more go undetected," says Capt. Noel Choong, head of the Piracy Reporting Centre, in Kuala Lumpur. "Ships and their crews disappear on the high seas and coastal waters every year, never to be seen again." Even stationary targets, such as oil platforms, are at risk.
Global commerce would collapse without oceangoing ships to transfer the world's fuel, minerals and bulk commodities, along with much of its medicines and foodstuffs. According to the U.S. Maritime Administration, about 95 percent of the world's trade travels by water. Boston-based Global Insight, a forecasting company, estimates the value of maritime trade for 2007 to be at least $6 trillion. Estimates of the pirates' annual global plunder range into the billions.
Unlike the galleons of old, which sat low in the water and were easily boarded, the supertankers and bulk carriers of today may rise several stories—and yet they pose no great obstacle to thieves. Bullets and rocket-propelled grenades have persuaded many a captain to stop at sea; at that point, almost any pirate can climb to the deck by tossing grappling hooks over the rail.
Today's pirates range from villainous seaside villagers to members of international crime syndicates. They ply their trade around the globe, from Iraq to Somalia to Nigeria, from the Strait of Malacca to the territorial waters off South America. No vessel seems safe, be it a supertanker or a private yacht. In November 2005, pirates in two speedboats tried to attack the cruise liner Seabourn Spirit off Somalia. The liner's captain, Sven Erik Pedersen, outran them while driving them off with a Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD—a sonic weapon the United States military developed after the USS Cole was attacked by Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen in 2000.
If you enter an anonymous office 35 floors above Kuala Lumpur's lush tropical streets and pass through a secured door, you will come to a small room dominated by maps of the world taped onto two of the walls. This is the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre, which operates round-the-clock. When pirates attack anywhere in the world, this office almost always receives the first report of it and radios out the first alert. Tens of thousands of vessels depend on the IMB's information.
Red pins mark the latest attacks. On the day I visited, the pins looked like a rash covering much of the world. Another wall was covered with thank-you plaques from the admirals of many nations, including the United States. Noel Choong, who ushered me through this command center, spent more than ten years on oceangoing ships as a mariner. Now, in a dark suit, the soft-spoken Choong looked more like a corporate middle manager than a supersleuth of the seas.
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what this doent help what weapons do they use.
Posted by niyah on March 3,2011 | 09:42 AM
Avast ye scurvy dogs!
The days of Pirates have returned. It is time to have an international treaty to train and allow mariners to go armed with deadly force on the high seas. We are talking belt-fed machine guns, shotguns, and modern military automatic rifles here. Upon entering a foreign port the comercial or private vessel could surrender the weapon onboard, or secure them onboard the vessel with customs tamper proof seals. This international treaty could and should be radified by all freedom loving states. Chance of happening? slim and nil! Better yet, let the would be totalitarians incorperate a second amendment like that of the U.S. Bill of Rights into the UN charter, instead of trying to disarm the law abiding citizen of the world. I propose that the U.S. defund the U.N. until they pass a treaty to garrantee the rights of all peoples to keep and bear arms as a INDIVIDUAL RIGHT!
Posted by Padraig's Ghost on January 10,2010 | 01:25 PM
If there were aircraft carriers deployed in the region that could launch aircraft in seconds of receiving report of pirate attacks, they could and should attack and sink the mother ship stranding the pirates in their speedboat. One should always attack the root of the problem. If enough such mother ships were sunk leaving the speedboat attackers helpless and the pirates become food for the sharks, the piracy would be quickly stopped. Unfortunately United States and many other western countries show far more mercy than these pirates deserve. I am certain that Russia would not show such mercy after some of their ships were attacked. There should also be well armed ships with air support enticing the pirates into a trap and then unleashing all the firepower at their disposal. Again if enough pirates were killed and others released to spread the message in the home base of the most savage retributions to the pirates, the piracy would stop. Mercy, trials, etc. against pirates are counter-productive.
Posted by Ali Nur on May 4,2009 | 03:13 AM
pirates operating from a lawless home country,pose a unique problem for shipping companys.Any government in this part of the world must continuosly curry favor with the public sympathy for the pirates cause,however perverted,any shipper employing aggresive methods,run the risk of alienating the governments of the ports they depend on for business. No poirt no shipping
Posted by rd johnson on April 16,2009 | 09:58 PM
As a former Australian serviceman,with over seas servic,i am ready to help with/in this problem, and i say,Their is only one way to deal with this problem,(of piracy on the high seas)and it is to take no prisioners,elimate the problem,as it will cut the number of boardings of forren ships, and will save the companys a lot of money,and our sea ways once again will be free, from this problem.
Posted by william hinds on December 26,2008 | 03:06 AM
A quick recommendation regarding prevention of Somali pirate threats to ships, from someone who has been there and done this type of insurgency eradication. Why decide to steer way around the immediate standard sailing routes and add unnecessary costs to the consumers? The less costly, most easiest and effective means to counter any pirate threat is to simply contract and have onboard professional armed security teams. I am not talking about "simple security guards." I am talking about professional ex-military operators. This "proper" type of ship security team can counter any of the armed pirate threats available. There are plenty of these people around for contract work. They will need to be screened with proper scrutiny before hired to ensure their abilities and skill-sets. They then need to be assigned into teams. Take the tough stand against these cowardly minions and make a strong statement that says, "You mess with us, we will exterminate you!" You say it sounds too simple and controversial. It is that simple and NOT controversial, but provocatively smart to continue the rite of passage on peaceful seas! You cannot depend on maritime patrol ships to counter pirate incursions because those patrol boats can only be brought to bear AFTER pirates have already control of the vessels. It is ex-post facto at work! Just as any law enforcement agency is activated ONLY AFTER the criminal act has already taken place, it is only reactionary! It takes experienced critical mass teams armed with the proper means of weaponry to not only "discourage" pirate raids, but will effectively in the immediate term overcome any pirate attack on a vessel with precision. Stop making it harder on yourself and your customers and do the smart thing. It is simple and cost-effective, and gets your product to market.
Posted by PETER R DUYSINGS on November 28,2008 | 01:38 PM
I agree with Peter. They don't do it just to do it. They have their reasons. We in America have it pretty well we don't know what it's like over there. So i guess until we do we should try to be more open minded.
Posted by DaughterofaPirate on October 24,2008 | 01:20 PM
There should be cargo ships, turned into pirate hunting vessels. Gut out the inside turn all the cargo space into rooms so you can hold 50 or 60 guys. Reinforce the top sides of the ship to give better cover. Kill all the pirates, siphon out all the gas and oil, sell that, and sink their ship. If this is already being done where do I sign up?
Posted by on July 17,2008 | 04:39 PM
I can not understand people who think that the USA is responsible for everything that is wrong in the world and gets credit for nothing. We give food to the hungry, their leaders keep it for themselves. We give money to their country, their leaders keep it and spend it on themselves. We have been sending support for many years what country has used to resources that we provide (along with countless other country's) to lift themselves out of the conditions these bleeding hearts cannot bear.
Posted by John Morrison on July 6,2008 | 11:41 AM
Caught and put in prison? Noooo. Give them maritime justice as it was in the yonder days of piracy. Hanging at best, burn at the stake at worst. I say if you are going to be dumb enough to run those hostile, foreign shipping routes in a pleasure yacht, or sailboat, you had best invest in arming yourself with machine guns off the black market. I think about 5 or so US made M-60s would do the trick. Easily portable and hidden for when you are port bound...and viciously deadly on the open water. Heck, even simpler may be to just hire a well trained mercenary sniper. You drop a few water bound sand monkeys at 1000 yards and the rest will run...fast.
Posted by M. Sixty SAW on May 7,2008 | 02:44 PM
Has it not occurred to you,that maybe,(just maybe), those buggers in the boat tried to sell the swag for their own profit; and then, came up with some ghost story to tell the boss?If any of them died; it could just as easilly have been caused by over greedyness, or non cooperance in the caper, dued to the dead bloke's stupidity, which was, obviously, blamed on the poor dark faced native sailors.I tell you, insurance companies should seriously look into that;just some food for thaught.
Posted by realist fellar on March 10,2008 | 11:00 AM
it's not a matter of simple-mindedness. Like it's been said before, there's a need to do these things, they may not be justified in our eyes, but in the eyes of the people carrying out these actions they are. That's the simple truth of it. Without evil, pain, or carelessness, there would be no light, comfort or caring in the world. These things hold a balance to one another and it will always be so. We just need to be able to deal with it correctly. (that's what our brave militaries and law enforcement agencies are for, thank you to all people who serve).
Posted by Ness on February 27,2008 | 05:59 PM
What's with the pointless comments above? Right lets kill everyone that commit robbery. For godsake enforcement is of little point if you don't tackle the causes of crime. What compels what is the essentially citzens of the third-world to take to rusty, decreipt vessels, to attempt extremely risky robberies? Spend a day in a third-world country and the answer will smash your narrow minded bigoted views. Yes these people don't rob just to feed themselves. They're stealing in order to lift their station in life. To move to a level that we in the western world expect, nay demand. I say the pirates of the sea are a symbol of what is wrong with this world, of what we've done to the world.
Posted by Peter on December 6,2007 | 06:42 PM
What about the notion of not negotiating with terrorist? Why is The U.N of all people paying for the release of hostages? Has anyone ever heard of Lo-Jack? How about talking to GM and getting these ships the ONSTAR system and locate these guys red handed.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- The tone of the town hall style debate changed from cordial to aggressive with a question on energy policy. It had both men interrupting each other and pushing for equal time.
The two disagreeing on how much oil and gas production on government land is taking place. The president says he's focused on pushing for the future and not only lowering costs now, but pushing for lower energy costs over time. Romney says the president's energy policy is just not working and we need to go in a different direction.
"The proof of whether a strategy is working or not is the price you're paying at the pump. If you're paying less than what you paid year or two ago, why then the strategy is working. But you're paying more. When the president took office, the price of gasoline here in Nassau County was about a $1.86. Now it's four bucks a gallon. Cost of energy is up. If the energy policies are working, you're going to see the cost of energy come down," Romney said.
Obama said, "When I took office, because the economy was on the verge of collapse, because we were about to go through the worst recession since the Great Depression, as a consequence of some of the same policies that Governor Romney is now promoting. So it's conceivable Romney could bring down the price of gas because we might be back in that same mess."
The sluggish economy that dominated the last debate on October 3rd was also a major issue.
Romney blamed the president for the current state of the economy and high unemployment rate. He says he has a plan to get Americans back to work by investing in small business and repealing some of the red tape that limits growth.
Romney took a question from a recent college student, concerned about finding a job after graduation.
"We have not made the progress we need to make to put people back to work. That's why I put out a five point plan that gets America 12 million new jobs in four years and rising take home pay. It's going to get Jeremy get a job when he comes out of school. It's going to help millions of people across the country who are unemployed right now," Romney said.
President Obama says the economy is showing signs of improving. He says he has a plan to invest in education to stimulate job growth, adding thousands of new teachers over the next four years to make sure students are equipped with the skills needed to compete in the crowded job market.
Obama also says he wants to build on the successes in employment from his first term.
Obama said, "What I want to do is build on the five million jobs we created in the last 30 months in the private sector alone. There's a bunch of things we can do to make sure your future is bright. Number one: I want to build manufacturing jobs in this country again. When Governor Romney said he wants Detroit to go bankrupt, I bet on American workers and the auto industry and it has come surging back."
Both men said they want to boost businesses by giving them incentives for not moving their operations overseas.
Obama and Romney also talked to voters about health care during the debate.
Obama's health care reform bill focuses on making health insurance affordable for low and middle income Americans. However, Romney says Obama's policies are hurting the middle class
Obama said, "Because this is not just a health issue, it's an economic issue for women. It makes a difference."
Romney said, "The middle class is getting crushed by the policies of a president who has not understood what it takes to get the economy working again."
This was the second debate for the pair. There's one more debate scheduled before Election Day. It's on October 22nd in Boca Raton, Florida.


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I agree with suggestion 1
I agree with suggestion 2
I agree with suggestion 3
I agree with none of your suggestions.
I spent some time thinking about a title for my thread, since there are three suggestions I had to sum them up and at the same time make it sound interesting. Here we go:
1: Make Casual Mode the standard selection
Pro's: This introduces newer players to the more relaxed environment that is casual mode, and makes newer players able to enjoy the game more.
Con's: None really.
2: Re-name Casual Mode to Normal Mode, and re-name Normal Mode to Hardcore Mode.
Pro's: This makes sure players that are not looking into getting competetive in this game will stick with casual mode, as it is the more enjoyable one when playing - you guessed it - casually. It also makes the hardcore-players feel more hardcore, which is nice.
Con's: I guess it could be confusing at start, but I also want the description of hardcore mode to be something along the lines: "This is the gamemode in which competetive play is fought" or something like that. That also tells newer players that there is a competetive scene for this game, thus giving it some commercial.
3: A win in Normal Mode increases your Casual Mode mode rating by half of the win. A loss in Normal Mode does nothing to your Casual Mode rating, UNLESS it makes your Normal Mode rating drop lower than your Casual Mode rating, in which case your Casual Mode rating adjusts to you new Normal mode rating.
Example 1: My Casual Mode Rating is 1700, and my Normal Mode Rating is 1600. I win a game in Normal Mode, and get +5 Normal Mode Rating. This means I also gain + 2.5 Casual mode Rating. My new ratings are 1702.5 and 1605.
Example 2: My Casual Mode Rating is 1700, and my Normal Mode Rating is 1702. I loose a game im normal mode, and get -5 Normal Mode Rating. My Normal Mode rating is now 1697. This is less than my Casual Mode Rating, so it adjusts to my new Normal Mode rating. Both my ratings are now 1697.
Pro's: All this does is making sure that the newer players will not get stomped by some pro 1900 mmr gamer who decides to play with his 1500 casual mode mmr. This in turn makes the experience for newer players more enjoyable, since I myself know for a fact that the 1500 casual mode bracket is a complete random set of players. The drop on Casual Mode rating also makes sure that you will not fight with players a lot better than you in Casual Mode.
Con's: The option to "semi-smurf" in the Casual Mode matchmaking will be removed, sort of, which some players might not enjoy.
With these three changes, I believe HoN will be:
- More friendly to new players.
- More enjoyable for new players.
- Give the more competetive players people of their own caliber to fight with, making their game more enjoyable as well.
- Make casual mode even more friendly due to the change in the mmr-cmr system.
S2 has stated many times that they want to welcome newer players, and I think this is a great way to do it as they wont have the experience most new players have in normal mode: First few games consist of people screaming at you that you are bad, and you will en up loosing, giving you horrible stats and low motivation to keep on playing. Since HoN is now free to play and it's main sorce of income is through the altarnate avatars and early access, which relies on having players stay, I think this will not only be good for the game itself, the community and the players, but also for S2's wallets.
This is the way to go with HoN, it will solve the current problems this game has as a whole, and will cause HoN to grow as a game. Vote yes to all these suggestion to help improve Heroes of Newerth.
Last edited by Rkey; 05-08-2012 at 06:21 PM.
Please post if you are here to vote, an increased number of posts means an increased number of readers. I think that, despite these changes being so minor, they will improve gameplay for everyone a lot.
People play casual to troll around and normal for a balanced game the suggestion is bad it promotes unbalanced game mode.
Ok, uhm.
1: Yes, people play casual to troll around. Yes, people play normal for a serious game.
2: Which suggestion?
3: It does the opposite by making sure that you cannot "semi-smurf" with you casual mode rating, as I said before.
4: Did you even read this?
So far it seems that most agree wholeheartedly on making casual mode the standard selection in matchmaking though, which makes me happy. This on it's own will indeed welcome newer players to HoN in a much more relaxed and beginner friendly way.
Last edited by Rkey; 05-13-2012 at 07:28 PM.
I like idea behind #3, but i have a better suggestion:
1: Remove Casual Mode entirely.
2: Remove PSR and stop displaying K:D for public games.
3: Implement all the nifty little awards from Mid Wars into public games and record them all on a players stat page. (For Epeen purposes, since we killed PSR and K:D)
4: Don't let new players/accounts use matchmaking until they've played 10 Public games, have your systems analyze their stats from those 10 games, and then drop them into a bracket. (As low as 1300 or as high as 1700 at either extreme. Then, to add the last touch of smurf poison, give bonus MMR based on KDR in your first few Matchmaking games if you're on the sub 1500 side of the spectrum.)
That right there would stomp out smurfs, make public games far more relaxed/entertaining, AND we'd finally be rid of Casual Mode! Three big changes that would greatly benefit Heroes of Newerth.
All of those are terrible suggestions, for one reason and one reason only: casual mode. The mode should be removed from hon completely. It teaches people to play bad, they don't have to know how to lasthit/deny, what items to buy in which situation. Then they come to normal mode, get stomped on the lane, rage to other blaming them etc. Nothing but harm coming from that mode. (Also supports are pretty much useless in casual pub games since there isn't really mid game)
Good supports are useful throughout the whole game.
Casual mode teaches people to play the game in a lot of ways. How do I move my character? What is the objective of the game? How does the map look like? Which heroes are there? What do they do? etc. etc. etc. There are a huge ammount of knowledge you and I have on this game that takes weeks if not months to get right, all of which has nothing to do with denying. Also, I would say that you DO learn which items to buy in which situations. In casual mode, some items are way better than others compared to normal mode, however I do not see this as a problem.
You have to realize that people who know NOTHING about this game will probably not go to the tutorial, but go instantly to a game. They should be allowed to also, and by making casual mode the standard selection I think this will be achieved.
relatively "minor" details such as getting the exact right item or learning to deny is nothing when you compare it to the question "What do you do in this game? What does that hero do?". You shuold be allowed to do those things first before learning things like denying.
No, people should not be allowed to go straight into the game without playing the tutorial first. Also, as GrymM said, new players shouldn't get straight into "normal" matchmaking, but they should first play "practice (not placement, practice)" matches, let's say public games, before they are allowed to join matchmaking.
All those things, "how do I move my character, what's the objective" etc. should be learned in the tutorial, not in actual games. When it comes to what do heroes do, players just have to learn and memoritize what skills heroes have, what do they do, how long/much/when (how much damage at which level), what are their cooldowns, ranges, manacosts? In the practice matches should only be the free heroes (which will be stable after a while), so players could learn how to play against them/with them/using them.
Also one big thing for starting players, and why do they "suck" in their first games, are the smurfers/stompers. Their number could be drastically lowered by making every new account go through a tutorial (which should last atleast 30 mins (so new players learn that games aren't over at 15 minutes, and smurfs wouldn't be created)). I doubt many experienced players would want to go through a very basic tutorial just for 50 silver and stomping.
I really don't feel like casual mode teaches anything normal mode does, neither does it better. You can learn all the very same things in a normal mode game than you can in a casual game. Plus a lot more.
Although the intention is good what you really need to do is to somehow make the first few normal mode games friendlier. Although you can't say that there is a definitive way to play I must say that normal mode is the what the whole game is balanced around. It would be sort of counterproductive to finely balance the whole game around normal mode and then endorsing casual mode to newbies. To give some perspective hardcore mode is, well, hardcore, but it is like casual mode probably also unbalanced in a way. In hardcore mode denies take all the experience away from enemies, there is no static gold gain and it's just all around more punishing than normal mode. This amounts to that heroes with stronger lasthitting are at a definitive advantage, and there are probably tactics that are "too" strong here, just like how carries get too big too quickly in casual mode due to the higher gold gain. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's bad to make players think that the mode that was never meant to be the primary focus is the "actual" way to play, and that normal mode -the game's actual core and foundation- is something for people who think they are "hardcore".
I think suggestion 3 is actually pretty good, the only people who would complain are the smurfers.
Well thought out suggestions, although I personally don't agree with any of them. The reason is that I loathe casual mode. I want my kills and deaths to mean something. If I die, the enemy gains an advantage while I'm set back a bit. Vice versa ofc.
I love the implementation of midwars however, since it gives people a means to relax from the normal "hardcore mode" as you want to call it. If I want a more casual, relaxed and cd-lacking moba I'll go troll around in LoL instead. This game is balanced around the normal mode. The heroes, items and map setups are made around normal mode.
This is just my opinions ofc, but I'm well for the fact that people come with suggestions like this, since it let's the game evolve. Best suggestion I've seen here though is the one about removing KD and those other juvenile stats. The awards from midwars are way more fun and will certainly satisfy people's epeen needs if they were implemented in normal / casual mode aswell.


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