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Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44
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Joker86 Joined: Sun Feb 06, 2011 2:28 pm Posts: 233 Location: Germany	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 I am less offended by those dancers than some of the other users, although I would put myself on their side, but what upsets me most is the entire design of the shop. It's so much out of place, it always remembers me of mods for some games, where people try to be funny or something like that. Of course I feel bad for that/those modeler/texturer/whoever who made the shop, but really: it's crap and could have made much better than this! Why not a normal shop with a normal, illuminated sign, and you got some glass tubes in it with shop window mannequins in them, wearing for example the glasses or hats or something like that. It would be decent and would fit to the other shops (e.g. the class shops with the statues or the jetpack shop with the big jetpacks in the shop window). If you want make the mannequins rotate in that tubes, and there you got your movement. And thinking that something is not to be discussed just because it is somehow acceptable is more than an only questionable attitude. @the closed topic: I don't know why it got closed, but I got a bad feeling about it. If it got closed because Hi-Rez doesn't want to discuss it, it's not a nice move from them. If it got closed because of some verbal faux pas, then I don't think the rule with "do not reopen closed topics" would apply, as not the topic itself was a problem, but the answers. (Next to the fact that with this second possibility the question comes up why to close a topic instead of simply moderating it? That what you got mods for ) Oh and to the argument that those girls are not real: let's make a game where you run amok in a kindergarden. It's not real children, so no harm is done to anyone. And yet I believe many (by far the most) players would not want to play such a game, not because some virtual kids are harmed, but simply because of the "message" such a game would have. And someone could have problems with the message of: "It's okay for women to dance around half naked to entertain some strangers, and to present their body like meat". As I said, I don't see things that drastically, but yeah, I can understand such an attitude very well. Especially as I am a relationship person, and I wholeheartedly despise everyone and everything superficial, going that far to decline two ONS offers till now. (Although one of them was not really seductive anyway )
Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:59 pm

TalentX Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:05 am Posts: 303	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 @asianjoykiller your name serves you right. you've definitely been a kill-joy in this thread.
Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:31 pm

LEDLED Joined: Mon May 02, 2011 8:38 am Posts: 184	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 I find it d*** hilarious that Hirez has made something so strange that you have all missed the main reason as to why this "shop" is a horrible addition to the game. Want to know what the question you should be asking is? AVA FIX? Oh wait were too stuck on sexism to care. Great job guys.
Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:21 pm

Celestiae Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:16 pm Posts: 560 Location: zoomed-in	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 I'm quiet because I am at work right now. _________________
Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:38 pm

xhrit Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:18 am Posts: 103 Location: earth	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 so i was thinking about it, i really like the store, the dancers are meh but i do agree that it does seem out of place. the more i thought about it the more I started thinking that high rez should add a seedy under-dome area with all manner of illicit / shady happenings. There could be the a night club, the burning shop, a run down casino, some homeless dome dweller in a back alley that could function like the peg leg boy in diablo and offer hugely overpriced random loot. Then I started looking around teh dome for a place for HighRez to put the stairs down to the underdome, but I couldnt find any. So then I had the idea that they could just make a big shaft that you have to jump down to get to the stores there. with no way to get back up out of the shaft without buying a booster. _________________ The control virus is in the word-image-symbol programming that makes up our environment. Our task is to disrupt, disorientate and destroy these lines of control. Smash the control images, smash the control machine.
Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:37 pm

AsianJoyKiller Joined: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:39 am Posts: 2502	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 xhrit wrote: Then I started looking around teh dome for a place for HighRez to put the stairs down to the underdome, but I couldnt find any. So then I had the idea that they could just make a big shaft that you have to jump down to get to the stores there. with no way to get back up out of the shaft without buying a booster. Care to think that through some more? I mean, that is an abysmally bad idea.
Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:44 pm

AnEskimo Joined: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:37 am Posts: 555	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 I thought it was pretty d*** funny. There should also be a sign warning you about going down there without a booster, you know, to put people on notice. But make it so you can only read the warning if you're about to fall in.
Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:46 pm

AsianJoyKiller Joined: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:39 am Posts: 2502	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 obskewer wrote: I thought it was pretty d*** funny. The only thing you'd see in city chat would be noobs screaming "HALP GM I CANT GET OUT OF THIS PIT!!!" EDIT: Actually, it could work. Just make the pit so deep that if you don't have a jetpack you'll die from fall damage. Then booster people could laugh as they watch inquisitive noobs jump down to their death. Last edited by AsianJoyKiller on Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:48 pm

AnEskimo Joined: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:37 am Posts: 555	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 ninja edit Well, why didnt you read the warning?
Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:49 pm

CookieEater Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:14 pm Posts: 1274	Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44 LEDLED wrote: I find it d*** hilarious that Hirez has made something so strange that you have all missed the main reason as to why this "shop" is a horrible addition to the game. Want to know what the question you should be asking is? AVA FIX? Oh wait were too stuck on sexism to care. Great job guys. dont say that, they might ban you. again.
Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:14 am

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Joker86

Joined: Sun Feb 06, 2011 2:28 pm
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Location: Germany

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

I am less offended by those dancers than some of the other users, although I would put myself on their side, but what upsets me most is the entire design of the shop. It's so much out of place, it always remembers me of mods for some games, where people try to be funny or something like that.

Of course I feel bad for that/those modeler/texturer/whoever who made the shop, but really: it's crap and could have made much better than this!

Why not a normal shop with a normal, illuminated sign, and you got some glass tubes in it with shop window mannequins in them, wearing for example the glasses or hats or something like that. It would be decent and would fit to the other shops (e.g. the class shops with the statues or the jetpack shop with the big jetpacks in the shop window). If you want make the mannequins rotate in that tubes, and there you got your movement.

And thinking that something is not to be discussed just because it is somehow acceptable is more than an only questionable attitude.

@the closed topic: I don't know why it got closed, but I got a bad feeling about it. If it got closed because Hi-Rez doesn't want to discuss it, it's not a nice move from them. If it got closed because of some verbal faux pas, then I don't think the rule with "do not reopen closed topics" would apply, as not the topic itself was a problem, but the answers. (Next to the fact that with this second possibility the question comes up why to close a topic instead of simply moderating it? That what you got mods for

)

Oh and to the argument that those girls are not real: let's make a game where you run amok in a kindergarden. It's not real children, so no harm is done to anyone.

And yet I believe many (by far the most) players would not want to play such a game, not because some virtual kids are harmed, but simply because of the "message" such a game would have.

And someone could have problems with the message of: "It's okay for women to dance around half naked to entertain some strangers, and to present their body like meat". As I said, I don't see things that drastically, but yeah, I can understand such an attitude very well. Especially as I am a relationship person, and I wholeheartedly despise everyone and everything superficial, going that far to decline two ONS offers till now. (Although one of them was not really seductive anyway :mrgreen:

)

Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:59 pm

TalentX

Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:05 am
Posts: 303

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

@asianjoykiller your name serves you right. you've definitely been a kill-joy in this thread.

Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:31 pm

LEDLED

Joined: Mon May 02, 2011 8:38 am
Posts: 184

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

I find it d*** hilarious that Hirez has made something so strange that you have all missed the main reason as to why this "shop" is a horrible addition to the game.

Want to know what the question you should be asking is?

AVA FIX? Oh wait were too stuck on sexism to care. Great job guys.

Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:21 pm

Celestiae

Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:16 pm
Posts: 560
Location: zoomed-in

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

I'm quiet because I am at work right now.

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Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:38 pm

xhrit

Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:18 am
Posts: 103
Location: earth

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

so i was thinking about it, i really like the store, the dancers are meh but i do agree that it does seem out of place. the more i thought about it the more I started thinking that high rez should add a seedy under-dome area with all manner of illicit / shady happenings. There could be the a night club, the burning shop, a run down casino, some homeless dome dweller in a back alley that could function like the peg leg boy in diablo and offer hugely overpriced random loot.

Then I started looking around teh dome for a place for HighRez to put the stairs down to the underdome, but I couldnt find any. So then I had the idea that they could just make a big shaft that you have to jump down to get to the stores there. with no way to get back up out of the shaft without buying a booster.

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The control virus is in the word-image-symbol programming that makes up our environment. Our task is to disrupt, disorientate and destroy these lines of control. Smash the control images, smash the control machine.

Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:37 pm

AsianJoyKiller

Joined: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:39 am
Posts: 2502

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

xhrit wrote:

Then I started looking around teh dome for a place for HighRez to put the stairs down to the underdome, but I couldnt find any. So then I had the idea that they could just make a big shaft that you have to jump down to get to the stores there. with no way to get back up out of the shaft without buying a booster.

Care to think that through some more?
I mean, that is an abysmally bad idea.

Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:44 pm

AnEskimo

Joined: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:37 am
Posts: 555

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

I thought it was pretty d*** funny.

There should also be a sign warning you about going down there without a booster, you know, to put people on notice.

But make it so you can only read the warning if you're about to fall in.

Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:46 pm

AsianJoyKiller

Joined: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:39 am
Posts: 2502

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

obskewer wrote:

I thought it was pretty d*** funny.

The only thing you'd see in city chat would be noobs screaming "HALP GM I CANT GET OUT OF THIS PIT!!!"

EDIT: Actually, it could work.
Just make the pit so deep that if you don't have a jetpack you'll die from fall damage.

Then booster people could laugh as they watch inquisitive noobs jump down to their death.

Last edited by AsianJoyKiller on Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:48 pm

AnEskimo

Joined: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:37 am
Posts: 555

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

ninja edit

Well, why didnt you read the warning?

Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:49 pm

CookieEater

Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:14 pm
Posts: 1274

Re: Patch Notes: June 29, 2011 - VERSION 1.44

LEDLED wrote:

AVA FIX? Oh wait were too stuck on sexism to care. Great job guys.

dont say that, they might ban you.

again.

Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:14 am