Reinhardt

ESO has been rather nice compared to a lot of other MMOs. Mature players (so long as you avoid Stonefalls zone chat), good guilds, interesting and often unique quests. Definately +1 worthy. Europa is definately a game for those who like the Civilization style game, although this one is definately FAR longer. Especially with the mod from teh workshop that changes the start year to 2 AD, and lets it run untill 9999 AD. ARK.. I never really could get my head into the dino taming/breeding. Wasnt much for PVP. But give me the materials to build and I'd go crazy, massive structures quickly, and often with unique design features tailored to that specific build. I was similar in 7 Days to Die. Never really got good at zombie fighting, instead relying on a very good defensive build instead of any weapons. Space Engineers I really could have gotten into, but the game got VERY stale playing by myself, or on the server I was using where I ended up alone anyways. As for TOR.. it seems the things I dislike most about the changes, are what the programmers wanted as key features of the expansion; the level scaling for planets, the lack of anything unique about companions, the quick travel changes now allowing even easier travel to even more locations, and even a few of the story changes (good story, I just dont like the direction) It just feels like this expansion didn't add to SWTOR... but remade SWTOR entirely into a new game. Add in the fact that the SWTOR community, particularly main hub region chats, has appeared to be some of the most immature and asinine people I have seen in any MMO (Second only to WoW's Barrens chat before Cataclysm), well there is just very little to make me ever consider returning to it. Really, ESO, STO, and LOTRO remain some of my favorite MMOs, possibly because the 3 of them are far closer to the ideal of an MMORPG than any others I've tried (only because I never got the joy of the SWG experience, and cannot manage to get my hands on the copy of the game that the emulator needs)

@Xoza I'm not dead yet. Just been roaming the universe of games. Settling on ESO when my btter-half is on with me (north american server, Ebonheart Pact for now.), or playing Europa Universalis IV by myself (1300 hours into this game and I'm still drooling over it) Gave ARK: Survival Evolved a go.. really fun game. Less of a heart attack than 7 Days to Die, less laggy than Space Engineers. SWTOR.... I wanted to like the Expansion. The story IS rather good, but the game play changes... I just couldnt endure. A pity really.

Well I'll be playing PS2 semi frequent. Probably an hour to 4 hours a day most days. Then as soon as I can get money into it, SWTOR (reknew my account AND transfer to Begeren colony).... yes TR. not NC like I played in Beta (which pissed some people in Ordo off at the time, at least assuming their mood according to some of the insults I recieved) But yeah in SWTOR I need the account vurses free... my guy was in raid gear before Shadows of Revan hit... so still pretty decent now, BUT as a free account I dont have authorization to use the gear. Was surprised I got through Shadows of Revan without ever upgrading.

Ya know.... Xoza is just one person I've never felt the need to harass. I remember meeting him back on... Telos IV on SL.....he ended up on my skype list after one massive group call where I sat silently and lurked... yet we never spoke. YOU on the other hand.... *grins with much mischief, sadism and evil intent* OH aaaand I intend to get my other half into the Ordo. She plays PS2 with me, and is the one trying to get me back into SWTOR which I have offered to pay for her character transfers to Begeren Colony if shes willing.

So how DOES one go about reintegrating into Ordo now? I mean I'm used to the SL days... show up in sim.. get a little refresher training... prove I am still qualified for my Myrmidon title.. and get my happy ass to the front line untill someone calls for raid volunteers.

.. and why am I covered in them? Reinhardt combat effective. Oh the days of SL, raiding enemy sims and defending Titan. And all the training we did. I was proud of all I achieved and all we were. It has never faded. I am Ordo for life, and I am proud of all I have earned with Ordo and all we became together, even if I am not active. WELL its time to change that. And be active again. Requesting permission to return to the line. Formerly rank E7, formerly Terra/Alpha Cohors/Evalidus, former command staff of Icarus, and then finally 33rd Legion/Tier 1, and moderately decorated (I still have an active list of all former achievements, awards, and education if any of it has bearing on present setup.) My long term LOA/retirement was due to no longer playing anything in Ordo's roster. For a long while, my gaming interests and Ordos did not match up. It seems like that changed. I WAS in the Ordo steam group, got booted one day randomly with no message as to why. Currently active (again) in: Planetside 2 (server: Emerald. TR main/NC and VC alts), In the process of re-activating: SW:TOR (current server: Ebon Hawk. 60Jug/25Sin/11Mara.... I HAD a 60Guard.. oopse.) Have played recently: STO (1 Fed, 1 Kling, 1 Fed-allied Rom, 1 Kling-allied Rom) Trying to get my hands on: ARK Have/used to play/inactive accounts: WoW (unknown server. Belf DK tank I remember), Minecraft Recommend for others to try: Space Engineers, Europa Universalis IV, Banished, Kerbal Space Program And yes I still have the TS info.. I have popped in occasionally over the past week just to lurk in the entrance. Just a visitor/guest now.... how far I have fallen.

having played it somewhat recently.. you get more than 3 or 4 classes, THOUGH it seems the most advanced classes are pay to play. That said, the basic ones are free. Played as a dwarven warrior, the play was decent, the storyline rather good. Graphics were not the best comparatively, and the play got rather stale (despite some impressively original quests). The biggest hinderance to play was being alone, if you arent with a group it can and will get stale fast. I didn't get to experience alot of game features before moving on.. but it does look to have alot of potential.

so far, most of what I've been reading makes this game look like medieval PvP set on Tamriel.. thats literaly.. the only conneciton to the elder scrolls storyline that I can find. Though I signed up for the beta, I am NOT expecting an elder scrolls game... just medieval pvp with racially bound factions.

My question becomes this.... George already betrayed Star Wars's original fans.. who watched the story-telling style movies, and then learned the expanded universe. George went on to write make episodes 1,2 and 3, and the clone war series, which has made alot of the previously approved expanded universe, now impossible, and in the end, loosing alot of the original fans, even if he gained a new fanbase of short attention-span action sci-fi action lovers. The question is will Disney try and find a balance between the lost original fans and the new in an attempt to regain the originals and keep the new, or follow their habbit of catering to the new short-attention spanned fans? This is going to be the make-or-break moment of this endeavour in my opinion. Then again it IS Disney. We can expect more Jar Jar Binx moments, more whiney anakins, and movies that are almost entirely CGI if not fully done so. George was, flat out, the worst thing for Star Wars. Disney.. as of this moment, looks to prove that wrong, and be an even bigger threat to it. BUT they can prove themselves the Chosen One, depending on how things evolve. I'm interested in seeing how it goes, but I'm not going to expect much and I sure as hell wont hold my breath.

I've played a Sith Warrior/Marauder, and 2 Sith Warrior/Juggernauts to 50.... (was becuase of the server merges and them not willing to move my first Jugg to the server I wanted) Though I since deleted the Marauder.... felt too squishy, and the Jugg was just EPIC. Though right now my account is inactive. The game gets stale pretty fast..... when you play it as obsessively as I did... and tend to do when I reactivate my account.

http://malfador.com/ - official webpage, really OLD design TBH, but this is the company that makes the game. location of demo, and official patches. http://www.strategyfirst.com/ - the games publisher, where you can buy it for 9.99 http://spaceempires.net/ - not an official site, but THE major hub for shipsets, mods, discussion forums for SE4, SE5, and other games related to them. http://pbw.spaceempires.net/ - the play by web, semi automated site that lets you play pbem style games with other players (there are mods that enhance the AI of AI players to such a degree you don't always need to play against humans for a challange) If you end up getting it and try mods (frankly, stock feels unfinished to alot of people, which makes mods almost required), remember that mods, as downloaded, do not work together, BUT there are ways to splice mods together. It is rather simple to figure out though, if you poke around the data folder or graphics folder.

Someone interested in the USSR, and Comrad Markius is the first to jump on it. Not supprised... not supprised at all.

Question: If one genuinely has no word processors to write up an essay to attach to the email, is it permissable to include the essay in the body of the email? ((at least I managed to figure out WTF MLA formatting was))

A rather.. old game, I think I've been personally playing it for a dozen years now? BUT the 5th game in the series is not as good as the 4th. (well the political aspects of the 5th game are superior, BUT the graphics and other aspects of teh game cause a good bit of client lag) It's a 4x game; eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate. And as the name implies, you are building and micromanaging an interstellar empire. It is fully possible to dominate the game with only a small handfull of colonies, or with thousands of planets developed and pumping out war machines. And if micromanagement isnt your style, you can assign AI ministers to run aspects of your empire for you. Technology is researched, intelligence missions undertaken, ships and other military hardware designed and produced. Regions are defended, enemies are conquered. The game posesses total customizability. Every graphic in the game is controlled via bitmaps. Datafiles are modded as text files. There are extensive pre-made mods, made by the community, available. As are shipsets. Now while I expect people like Agares to be drooling over a game concept like this, who has played it, does play it, might play it? Becuase frankly, I'd like to get an Ordo shipset made, get players together for a multiplayer game (which will take the form of a pbem setup, with game turns being processed simultaneously by the host)

I'll be honest... stores up here in Toronto, always advertise when a sale is ABOUT to occur. It draws in extra business which offsets the losses they take from the sale itself. That said, something like steam would function differently. Advertising a sale in advance or not would not draw in or lose customers; they are already there. The only real reason they might consider advertising sales in advance is to increase customer satisfaction, which is a good reason, but they would be left with no real way to offset the losses from the sale itself.

That reporter (and I use the term loosely since it IS Fox) looks like he can barely keep a straight face. Because yeah.. we have had worse than that. The G20 riots in Toronto, the Vancouver Hockey Riots, the Montreal Student Protests/Riots IF only our protests took the direction of "I am a little upset." in a subdued fashion like that mans sign.

Yes we gave you Bieber. And Celine Dion... and Shania Twain... you know.. all the people we DIDN'T want. SO we sent them to you... no lie.

Yep theres 2 of them, though a good deal of people think there is only the 4th of July. First, there is the 1st. And this is for us Canadians. There are FEW days you will find Canadians being truely patriotic. We are a subdued people. We're humble (okay no one has EVER accused me of being humble lol), neighbourly. Loyal, proud, able to laugh at ouselves long before we'd dare laugh at anyone else. We invented the lightbulb, the telephone, basketball. Hockey is part of our background and our identity. We've produced people from Wayne Gretzky to Sidney Crosby, from Mike Mayers to Jim Carrey... and even the man we ALL wish would finaly die, William Shatner. Our military might is laughable. But we don't care. We'd rather be peacekeepers and we are. Well... and there was 1812. There is few times when a Canadian becomes truely patriotic. NHL playoffs and the Vancouver Cannucks are in the finals (becuase lets face it, the Montreal Canadiens usualy get bumped out early in the playoffs, and the Toronto Maple Leafs have NO chance, ever.), Olympic Hockey and the Canadian team is in the finals. And July 1st. The day our process to independance began back in the 1800s. We were given independance for being Canadian. For all the things that people think of when they think of us, is what led to us, being us. Now this sunny, mild day (28C/82F or 32C/88F with humidity).... I'm headed down to be part of my community, my family with me.. and just relax on a beach. To all Canadians... enjoy this day. Celebrate who and what we have become as a community. For the Americans, well I dont know much about the history of the 4th, but I wish you the same peace, relaxation and community that we up north enjoy.

Well.. this topic just saved me a bunch of wasted money.. *takes Arma2 off his wishlist, since he isnt likely to get it before Arma3 comes out*

Fine then.. no atomic manipulation. HOW about... a simple.. never ending regeneration, ala Wolverine. Becuase it amounts to NEAR-invicibility (how Wolverine is invincible is beyond simple regeneration), and immortality, since death itself is due to the failulre of the body to continue rejuivinating itself.

Right, but his is just control over the larger creation. Lacking alot of the detail attainable at the atomic level, case in point; creating a mini nuke to explode in someones face. Or he can make matter unstable, but it would still exist (say a solid wall becomming jelly), while if you make the atomic structure unstable, things can completely vanish when they break apart at the atomic level. That said... the concentration needed to manipulate a large number of atoms at once is going to be insane, vurses the relatively simple ease manipulating matter itself would have, comparatively speaking. But atomic manipulation would be able to achieve more possibilities than matter manipulation alone.

Actualy thats an interesting idea. Can we declare 27Jun the Ordo Necro Day? Have it our own lil trolly holiday every year? I mean not like we get many. And I'd have to one up Xoza with his matter manipulation, and go atomic manipulation myself. Cause the birth, or death of stars... mutate peoples genetic structure at an atomic level.. reorganize all percievable existence to defy the laws of nature... cause entire structures to vaporize due to molecular instability... OR just look at an enemy long range and cause the hydrogen particle in the sweat on their forehead to split and force them to endure a very mini nuclear explose IN THEIR FACE. NUCLEAR HEADSHOT! Oh yeah totaly a villain.

Is something borked in the database? When I log in, Mercury announces me as Succenturio (E7 as per the promotion above) BUT the database does not list me, when I log into it, as E7, but still as E6.

Alot of very prestigeous merits given out this week, congratulations to EVERYONE.