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Each year, Time magazine selects a person who had the most influence on events during the previous twelve months. If the same question were posed in 1862, who would Time have selected as the Person of the Year?
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Painting With Penicillin: Alexander Fleming's Germ Art
The scientist created works of art using microbes, but did his artwork help lead him to his greatest discovery?
- By Rob Dunn
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Even to scientists, the question of where great discoveries come from is a bit of a mystery. Young biologists learn technique. They learn to sequence DNA, extract sediment cores or distinguish chemical compounds. But how to make a big breakthrough, well, that is equal parts chance and voodoo. Scientists who have a great insight one day (and implicitly, at least in that moment, understand discovery) are as likely to fade into anonymity the next as to make more big discoveries.
Among the classic examples of the unpredictable nature of discovery is that of the Scottish son of a pig farmer, Alexander Fleming. As you may have learned in school, Fleming kept a messy lab. He left petri dishes, microbes and nearly everything else higgledy-piggledy on his lab benches, untended. One day in September of 1928, Fleming returned from a trip and found a goop of some sort growing into a stack of abandoned bacterial cultures and killing them. The circle of goop was a fungus. In that chance moment, Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, properties that would change the world.
Because of Fleming and the scientists who elaborated on his discovery, millions of lives were saved. Some of you are alive to read this because of Fleming. Even if you were not saved by penicillin or some other antibiotic yourself, one of your ancestors likely was. That much about Fleming's legacy is true. He was an ordinary man who had an extraordinary impact. What is wrong is the idea that his discoveries were simply happenstance. There is more to the story.
In addition to working as a scientist, and well before his discovery of antibiotics, Fleming painted. He was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club, where he created amateurish watercolors. Less well known is that he also painted in another medium, living organisms. Fleming painted ballerinas, houses, soldiers, mothers feeding children, stick figures fighting and other scenes using bacteria. He produced these paintings by growing microbes with different natural pigments in the places where he wanted different colors. He would fill a petri dish with agar, a gelatin-like substance, and then use a wire lab tool called a loop to inoculate sections of the plate with different species. The paintings were technically very difficult to make. Fleming had to find microbes with different pigments and then time his inoculations such that the different species all matured at the same time. These works existed only as long as it took one species to grow into the others. When that happened, the lines between, say, a hat and a face were blurred; so too were the lines between art and science.
It is not clear why Fleming started painting microbes; perhaps he picked up a brush one day and noticed that it felt like the loop he used for his bacteria. Or maybe it was due to the promiscuous sexual predilections of artists. Fleming worked at St. Mary's hospital in London, where he treated syphilis cases. Many of his patients were painters, and those painters sometimes gave Fleming paintings and perhaps even lessons in return for treatment. Fleming's palette grew richer with time as he found bacteria with the colors he needed. He found joy in discovering a strange new strain of bacteria, in the way that a field biologist might feel the same in happening upon some new and wondrous bird. He collected unusual life forms in the hope that one of them might someday prove useful.
Fleming was a self-taught artist; he had no real artistic training and so he painted what occurred to him. The paintings had little in the way of dimension or nuance and yet still had a vigor, heightened by the reality that they in fact were alive. As one breathed on the paintings, they breathed back.
One could view these paintings as just another manifestation of the strange ways in which scientists become obsessed (biologists have more than a fair share of quirky hobbies—miniature trains, headstone photography, broken glass collections). But as scientists have begun to reconsider Fleming's story, it has become clear that these little paintings were more than art.
On that fateful morning, what Fleming actually discovered was, in a way, a version of one of his paintings. Each of the colonies of Staphylococci bacteria that he had inoculated on the plate had grown into a small shape resembling a planet or a star in a night sky. But there among his wild planets was something else, a larger, lighter body at the top of the dish, the Penicillium fungus. Around it the sky was dark, where the bacteria were dying. It was his masterpiece, his "rising sun," the painting that would save more lives than any other discovery.
Fleming's discovery of the effects of penicillin, the compound produced by the fungus, was a function of his eye for the rare, an artist's eye. Other scientists had undoubtedly seen Penicillium growing on their petri dishes before Fleming, but they had thrown those dishes away as failures (In fact, both Chinese and Greek medicine had used fungus topically to treat bacterial infections for several thousand years). Not so for Fleming, who spent his life searching for outliers and the situations that favored them. The outliers were not lucky accidents. They were instead, for Fleming, the living art of discovery.
Nor was his discovery of penicillin an exception. His other discoveries accumulated as he collected other odd observations. Fleming one day hung his nose over a petri dish so to allow his mucus to drip on to the plate. He wanted to see what would happen, what observation would grow out of that strange planting. A new color? A new life form? What he found instead was that his mucus killed bacteria. He had discovered, or he would go on to anyway, lysozyme, a common natural antibiotic that most bodies produce in great quantities. Fleming leapt on the unusual like a weasel on a vole and in doing so discovered what others had walked right past or even thrown, disgusted, into the trash.
Fleming's bacteria paintings have many descendants. A group of modern painters is using bacteria to produce all sorts of images. Glowing bacteria are used as a scientific tool. The most important descendant of Fleming's artistic methods, though, are the thousands of modern scientists who, like Fleming, make discoveries by looking for the unusual. You will find them with their messy labs and eyes for oddities. They are bored by experiments that work and prefer those that do not, those whose results make no sense at all. In those moments, they think sometimes that they have found something truly important. Usually they are wrong, but every so often they are right, and our understanding of the world leaps forward. In such moments, the prepared mind favors chance rather than the other way around.
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great article
Posted by Bob on February 17,2013 | 12:34 PM
Very interesting! Thank you so much!
Posted by Tom on December 7,2012 | 07:35 AM
this is cool enough for my project
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Posted by holly on February 9,2011 | 06:26 PM
I liked the article, right up to the point where Mr. Dunn writes, modern scientists "are bored by experiments that work and prefer those that do not." Upon what do you base this claim? As a scientist, I can tell you, we like experiments that work, as they are far less common than those that do not.
Posted by Samantha on August 7,2010 | 10:34 PM
As an artist and lover of science, I found this story so fascinating. The creative process is often the same for scientists as it is for artists. Thank you so very much for this story. And yes, penicillin did most likely save my life at one time.
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Posted by Silvia Giono on August 5,2010 | 07:04 PM
A few years ago, teaching my final microbiology class before I retired, I decided to ask my students to create their own original art works using variously pigmented bacteria on large petri plates. Since exhibiting their work at a conference soon after, I discovered that I wasn't the first to think of this concept! Since then, many impressive collections have been gathered for viewing on this website, which also pays tribute to Fleming's illustrious (!) and truly original efforts: http://www.microbialart.com/ Enjoy!
Posted by Ben Wise on August 5,2010 | 06:49 PM
thanks to flemming for his penicillin and his paintings. i am very attracted by his painting with microbes. in fact i am about to do my research studies in microbiology.
let the soul of flemming wish me good luck! will you?
Posted by jeevabala on August 3,2010 | 10:49 AM
Great stuff Rob! I'm going to try to weave this story into my microbiology course.
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Classic cargo style with removable insulation and serious waterproofing.
Thanks to super-waterproof Infidry-15 fabric and a toasty removable microfleece liner, the 686 Smarty Original Cargo Pant is one of the best values in the entire snowboard industry. Plus, it comes in like a hundred million awesome colors (more like ten, but who's counting?).
- Infidry-15 waterproof/breathable membrane keeps you bone dry in any snow conditions
- Removable 250g fleece liner pants give you extra warmth on cold days, and a super-comfy pair of post-ride lounge pants
- PJ-Connect easily attaches to your 686 jacket to hold your kit in place during pow-day ragdolls
- Air-Flo vents feature Smooth Operator mesh gussets to avoid zipper snags
- Tons of pocket storage space for snacks, tools, and other essential items
- Cordura cuff guard resists damage from dragging in the parking lot
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These are the dopest dope ever. Gunmetal texture is very pleasing to the eye... Chicks dig it. The pants are uber warm when pared with the included liner for those frigid days. Haven't worn with without the liner yet but I expect to be just as comfortable. I'd buy these again in a heartbeat. Maybe my favorite snowboard pants ever and I rash through alot every season.
Great Pants!!!
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With the zip-out liner these pants are extremely warm..it will handle anything mother nature can dish out while keeping you dry and warm. Numerous well-secured and accessbile pockets. Considered a classic and I agree. You can't go wrong with a pair of these pants.
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After 3 uses the pants have a number small cuts/tears on each of the inner ankles of each pant leg. I am not happy with the quality of the product especially for the cost paid.
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Angie Ziola
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- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift, but have feedback to share
These pants are super comfy, warm and have pockets for everything. The removable liner is a great feature for those warm & dry days.
Still the best pants!
Cecilia C
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I bought these pants for my boyfriend about 5 years ago, they were on sale on Dogfunk for 79 bucks! These pants are unbelievably durable, he's been wearing these pants for 5 years, his only pair. My boyfriend loves that these pants has many pockets, tons of stuff that he could stash in them, easy access to the cargo pockets, it's great for the days he is not wearing a backpack. The only issue he has with the pants is that the zip off liner can get heavy when he hikes, otherwise it is super warm. Most days he rides without the liner because of the weight, otherwise these pants will last years!
the dopest
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- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
these are some dope pants. its basically a pair of sweatpants you can zipper in and out of snow pants. there are also extra little things that really come through. goggle wipes in one of the pockets, a hook for your gloves on the waist, even a little pocket built into one of the belt loops. and whoever thought of using velcro around the buttons is a genius. cant go wrong. Im 6 feet tall have a 32 waist and i got the mediums, they fit just a tiny bit too big, but thats what you want in snow pants anyways. dont even need a belt because of the little velcro tighteners around the belt loop.
poof dry all the time
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The 2012 Smarty original cargo are one of the most reliable pairs of pants I have ridden. As far as sizing goes, I am 5'11 180 lbs. and went with the Large, which fits loose but not to loose that I look like a clown. The textured feel to them is great, snow and water just wick right off the fabric. They have a ton of pockets that are nice and deep for storing whatever. The inner leg zip allows for easy air flow and the liner keeps the pant at the perfect temperature even if its 50 degrees out. The only flaw that I have noticed is the bottom button, it comes undone and doesn't hold well which can cause the pant to drag a bit. Pick up a belt for these and that should help. These pants are great and as long as 686 keeps making them, I will continue to buy them.
Wet-Cold Butt!
OK, does anyone else out...
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Wet-Cold Butt!
OK, does anyone else out there experience wet butt with these pants? I know a good percentage of boarders including myself sit & click bindings before going on a run .and these pants need an extra layer or something for your afterburners. I have a pair from 4 yrs ago, daughter has a pair from 2 yrs ago and I just ordered a pair for my son. So, have they made any improvements with the back area? Other than that, theyre GREAT and very versatile with the zip out lining, good for cold, normal and just chillin before/after riding.
Tim Bohlken
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if you get cold-wet butt you are going to want to go with a gore-tex pant
Good Choice
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I love these board pants. They have tons of pockets, fit real nice, and have a zip out liner for when its super chilly. I've been out probably 30+ times in these things and have yet to get noticably wet in them even on the warmer days. I hardly use the zip out liner because it honestly gets too hot when its 20+ degrees out and your movin around a lot. Overall, If your stuck between these and another brand or 2, I'd get these. You wont be disappointed.
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- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Some years ago I found ski pants to be lacking the same versatility as snow board pants. That was 7 years ago. I just purchased my third pair of the 686 Smarty Pants. If a cuff guard were added to prevent ski edge cuts, the pants would be perfect. Warm on the coldest of days, these pants are.
the one and only
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if you haven't had a pair of 686 smarty cargo pants at some time you are missing out.
this pant changed how i layered for snowboarding.
with the liners zipped in, they are plenty warm around all the windy cold days in the rockies.
there are so many features in this pant they are hard to list. my favorite is the reinforced heel panels and gusseted crotch. these pants are durable, warm and hold up.
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Nice try 686 staffer...
But it's all true! HA! Loved these since day one, and they will last for freakin ever! I don't use the liner much since I'm on the Beast Coast, but it's nice to know that I have quick install insulation, should I need it.
the one and only
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if you haven't had a pair of 686 smarty cargo pants at some time you are missing out.
this pant changed how i layered for snowboarding.
with the liners zipped in, they are plenty warm around all the windy cold days in the rockies.
there are so many features in this pant they are hard to list. my favorite is the reinforced heel panels and gusseted crotch. these pants are durable, warm and hold up.
Awesome Smarty pants!
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These pants are a 3-in-1 pant! The inside liner removes, to make them a very thin, nice pant overall! They are very warm, and keep you dry on the coldest days! The cargo pocket is a great feature, to store all of your extra "stuff" in. These pants fit and look great as well! You can't go wrong with this one!


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Holiday Shopping Brings Joy and Happiness
Black Friday is a pep rally for the American consumer
November 21, 2012
And here it was: the question. Every year I get it from a caller as I was talking on the radio about Black Friday and the holiday retail season: "Aren't you upset about how all this materialism and all this talk about shopping is ruining the meaning of Christmas?"
The simple answer is no. I am quite happy about it and proud of it—and feel good to be part of it. Our founders had it right when they said that we are endowed by our creator (their words not mine) with certain inalienable rights: "life , liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Bam. Not my words—their words.
Who are "they" to tell me I am doing something wrong by shopping? Who are "they" to tell 78 million Americans that there is something wrong with shopping on Black Friday weekend, spending upwards of 70 billion dollars? Who are "they" to tell retailers that they are wrong to try to maximize profitability by staying open late and even going to Thursday to try to get consumers in the doors? Who are "they" to tell E-retailers that encouraging spending on cyber-Monday is wrong?
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Here are the facts: Black Friday is important to retailers and the economy. Our economy is driven by consumer spending. More spending, more stuff, more manufacturing, more jobs on Main Street, more money because people are working, more spending. The hip bone is connected to the ankle bone—you get the idea.
There really is something "magical" about Black Friday. It is one of the busiest shopping days of the year (not the busiest as some seem to say every year). It is a giant pep rally for the American consumer and the American retailer. It affects consumer confidence and we cannot have too much of that, for consumer confidence drives the economy. This is the day that consumers wait for to try and hunt for the Great Bargain, and why should anyone want to stop that? If consumers want to buy things that make others happy and buy things that improve their lives, what in the world is wrong with that? Exactly what the framers had in mind. If stores want to try and jump the gun by starting at midnight on Thursday (there is no penalty) then good for them. I hope it works. It is tough out there for retailers (big and small) and there are only a couple of weapons they have to try to make it—opening hours and sales and E-mail lists—are important ones.
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The successful retail businesses I study at Purdue have one thing in common: They are customer obsessed. They understand that to be successful they must work backwards from what the customer wants. If the customer wants sales, give it to them. If the customer wants Black Friday sales, give that to them, too. If the "they" don't want to get up and hunt on Black Friday for that deal, fine. I am not telling them they are wrong. If Middle America wants to get up, I will buy them a Starbucks (just a metaphor).
Holiday shopping brings joy and happiness. Contrary to what we read, people love to shop. Shopping is cheap and easy entertainment. It is social. It is bonding between mother and daughter, father and son, mother and son, father and daughter. It is the embodiment of the American dream as described in the words of our founders: life, liberty , and the pursuit of happiness. I, for one, am happy that "they" don't have the power to stop us. The consumer has the power. I can assure you that if the consumer stays asleep on Thursday and Black Friday, retailers will not open for the holiday and that would not make for a healthy economy—which right now may be the most important thing after world peace, the environment, poverty, education, drug policy. Somewhere in there.
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Silicone breast implants: What happens if they rupture?
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Ruptured silicone breast implants can cause breast pain or changes in the contour or shape of the breast. Ruptured silicone breast implants aren't thought to cause breast cancer, reproductive problems or connective tissue disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
When a silicone breast implant is placed in your body, fibrous tissue (capsule) forms around the implant. If the implant ruptures, it might go unnoticed because any free silicone tends to remain trapped in the surrounding tissue. This is known as a silent rupture.
It's possible, however, for the fibrous tissue to become inflamed. Additional scar tissue might form as well. This can lead to:
- Pain, soreness or swelling in the affected breast
- Change in breast size or shape
- Lumps in the affected breast
- Softening or hardening of the affected breast
If you have silicone breast implants and suspect that an implant might have ruptured, consult your doctor. He or she might rule out or confirm the rupture with an imaging test, such as an MRI scan.
If you have a silent rupture — one that's not causing signs or symptoms — treatment might be up to you. Some women take a wait-and-see approach, while others prefer to remove or replace the ruptured implant. Ask your doctor to help you weigh the pros and cons of both options.
If you have a ruptured silicone implant that's causing signs or symptoms, your doctor will likely recommend surgical removal. If you wish, a new implant can usually be inserted at the same time.
If you decide that you don't want breast implants any longer, the implants can be removed at any time. You might need a breast lift or other corrective surgery to help your breasts maintain an aesthetically pleasing appearance.
Keep in mind that breast implants aren't guaranteed to last a lifetime.
In fact, the Food and Drug Administration recommends routine MRI scans to detect silent ruptures in silicone breast implants — starting three years after the implants are inserted and repeated every two years after that. Debate continues, however, on whether the benefit of routine MRI scans justifies the cost. There's also a concern that routine MRI scans have the potential to lead to unnecessary surgery.
Work with your doctor to determine what's best for you.
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- Silicone gel-filled breast implants: Updated safety information. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm259825.htm. Accessed May 3, 2012.
- McCarthy CM, et al. Silicone breast implants and magnetic resonance imaging screening for rupture: Do U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommendations reflect and evidence-based practice approach to patient care? Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2008;121:1127.
- Holmich LR, et al. Untreated silicone breast implant rupture. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2004;114:204.
- McLaughlin JK, et al. The safety of silicone gel-filled implants: A review of the epidemiologic evidence. Annals of Plastic Surgery. 2007;59:569.


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Happy Monday, all! Are you still enjoying the Easter long weekend? Public holidays are a bit of a non-event in my household, generally, because the only person who's job is affected by them is my dad, and he works from home most of the time, anyways. For the rest of us, it's business-as-usual (though I do take the chance to rest a little due to the decrease in emails…).
Nick and I decided to celebrate the Easter holiday in a very low-key way – we had a small fire in the back paddock, and just sat and enjoyed the clear sky and full moon. We also had fire-cooked chocolate bananas (check out my Instagram feed for a peek).
Since in this topsy-turvy world, most of the blogosphere is celebrating the burgeoning Spring, I thought I'd do my bit for the Southern Hemisphere today and put together a little Autumn inspiration post – some warm colours and textures to celebrate my favourite season.
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Fusion-io software turns servers into shared flash storage
The Fusion ION acceleration software can yield app performance gains of up to 25X
Computerworld - PCIe flash module maker Fusion-io today unveiled software than can combine NAND flash storage capacity in industry-standard servers into a single pool of high-performance network storage.
The company's new Fusion ION acceleration software runs on tier 1 servers that contain Fusion-io's ioDrive modules, allowing them to act as primary data storage targets -- essentially, flash appliances.
Currently, Fusion-io's ioDrive modules act as internal storage capacity for the servers in order to speed up performance compared to what hard disk drives would offer.
Fusion-io's ioDrive PCIe cards come in ioMemory modules (essentially DIMMS) that hold up to 10TB of data in a 1U (1.75-in. high) form factor. The ioDrive modules also come with either lower-performing, lower-cost multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash or higher-end, single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash.
According to David Flynn, co-founder and CEO of Fusion-io, a 1U server using the software can deliver more than one million I/Os per second (IOPS), up to 6GBs throughput and under .06 milliseconds of access latency. "The implication of this is huge," he said. "With just software you can have off-the-shelf servers behave as network storage servers and offering open platforms to customer."
Fusion-io claims its software, working in conjunction with its ioDrive memory modules, can boost application performance from 2X to 25X due to the use of NAND flash versus hard disk drives within the servers.
For example, Fusion-io claims its ION software was tested by "a leading global media and entertainment" company to accelerate a number of key applications, achieving a 25x improvement in SQL Server performance, an 8x improvement in transcoding performance and up to 40x acceleration improvements on a variety of other applications.
"Software-defined solutions are rapidly replacing specialized hardware throughout the datacenter, and Fusion-io has been at the forefront of this transition since our founding," Flynn said. "ION software combines customers' preferred server platforms and ioMemory to deliver greater performance than even dedicated flash appliances, while also improving the efficiency of high performance storage arrays."
The ION software can be used to deliver storage traffic from open server platforms over Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and iSCSI using standard networking protocols.
How it works
Fusion-io's ION software comes with a virtual storage software component, which creates a layer of abstraction that separates the server application from the ioMemory module.
"It treats ioDrive more like memory than a typical drive, so you achieve lower latencies," said Woody Hutsell, senior director of product management for Fusion-io. "Also, [the virtualization software] implements adaptive flashback, a media protection so ioDrives that fail still will not result in data loss. It's essentially a RAID with error correction code. Ultimately, even multiple chips can experience failures and it won't result in data loss."
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Well we know how SWG had wind power plants and you used that to power harvesters to get mass amounts of resources. Is their any other games with a similar system besies Fallen Earth ? |
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The game linked in my signature is as close spiritually that any game is going to come to SWG, and will have player structures, turrets and harvesters last I read. The developers have even noted that the game is very influenced by it as well as other great sandbox games. It's not out yet, but you can follow development. Some of us who backed it on Kickstarter will be getting in for early closed beta hopefully by the end of the year (not known yet). This game has already been in development for years, and the feature list is insane.... check it out. They have great monthly developer notes outlining line-by-line what was added or changed. They blow my mind every month. Bored. |
My concerns with the Repopulation is it sounds like it will be forced PvP and it will have a cash shop which seems like it would be a serious conflict of interest in a true sandbox game. I am keeping my eye on it, but I still have serious doubts.
Originally posted by Kazara The devs are not making the cash shop play to win. They are gamers and they are completely against that. I have no problem at all with cosmetic cash shops, or things like mounts, or even minor boosters like GW2 has. I think I read also that there are safe areas from PvP, but this isn't a hand-holding MMO either. We have enough of those. I'd be perfectly happy with an SWG style flagging system, myself. What better way to have basically opt-in world PvP? Bored. |
Originally posted by MindTrigger Sorry, but those "cometic" items and mounts should be craftable/looted/rewarded in a sandbox game. Sadly, in order to make those non pay-to-win items sell, they will have to be more desirable/superior than anything that can be crafted, looted or rewarded in game. I have no issues with account services being for sale, such as extra character slots, cosmetic character changes, name changes, emotes, extra inventory, race/class changes, etc. No matter how "harmless' a cash shop might begin as, the greed factor always seems to take over. I also would rather see the SWG flagging system, which I believe would appeal to a larger playerbase. Forced PvP will turn-off many potential players (including myself), as observed in other failed sandbox MMO's. Consensual PvP really is the way to go. Those who want to PvP can do so without griefing those who have no interest in it. I support choice, which will allow players to truly play the way they want to. |
Originally posted by Kazara note that greed factor isn' there because of corporation's agenda. it's inherent in standard accumulation-based economy model. in other words, as long as there is something that can be collected and gives in-game power, there will be players willing to pay real money for it, without having to "work" for it. it's players that are greedy, and corp can't fix that. i think proper cash shop can reduce effect of that. now, whether cost of it is worth it, it's up to player to decide. imo, i'd rather corp gets the money, instead of some random gold-farmer. |
Originally posted by spinner_vis The fact is, the model du jour for MMO's is free to play. Especially for an indy sandbox game, that's the only way they are going to get people to try and play the game. The cash shop is their income, and I have no problem with any of it as long as pay to win is kept out. I do tend to agree that the cash shop should not be the only avenue to get cool cosmetic stuff, but I have no problem what that stuff being super-rare in the game world other than cash shop purchases. These companies do not want or need to make a game where you get unlimited play for free. Sure you can play some of them for free, but you don't get to also believe you should have access to all the things that would be in a cash shop for free as well. I'm not really sure I understand the mentality of people who think they are entitled to completely free gameplay. They don't want ads in the game, don't want subscriptions, don't want cash shop, etc, but they want full access to the game for free. Interesting to say the least. Bored. |


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Johnny Cash on why he wears black: "I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, but is there because he's a victim of the times."
Kinky Friedman on why he wears black: "So I don't have to wash my clothes as often."
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He's in the right job to fulifil his wish then.
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A new storm is poised to bring travel delays this weekend in parts of the Midwest, South and Northeast from snow, wintry mix and rain.
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Philadelphia International Airport received more snow (8.6 inches) from a single storm this past Sunday than it did all of last winter, when 8.3 inches fell.
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While many may dream of a white Christmas, the reality of one may not be favorable, depending on one's geographical location during the holidays.
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Yet another blast of Arctic air will roll southeastward this week over the Midwest and will reach the Northeast.
A snowstorm continues to race across the I-95 Northeast Tuesday sparking travel delays, right on the heels of this past weekend's winter storm.
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