• 4Apr 09

  How to deal with leveling up in mMO games or micromultiplayer online games

  mMO-multiplayer online games that have no more than 16 players at most anything more (24+ players) should be considered massive.

  I still love playing Shadowrunbut I still don't understand why there could not have been the option to allow players to keep what they've accrued throughout the course of a match be it experience points or not (I know the former is not present in this game but work with me here). I mean as long as players who have the same stuff in their inventory are put into the same group as other players who have the same stuff isn't it still balanced since everyone has the same stuff at their disposal?

  I still don't get the whole uber powered player argument it comes across as shortsighted in retrospect. Which may help to explain how there aren't that many games going on at the time. I think the whole team balancing aspect should be scrapped as far as the matchmaking goes in favor of a leveling system where no one else sees the levels of each other and its not posted to some leader-board but its still there for the player in question to see their own.

  • Posted Apr 4, 2009 2:24 pm PT
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• 1Apr 09

  And now a note about my proficient editing

  I've found out I'm mostly ruled by Virgo so back off already.

  • Posted Apr 1, 2009 8:28 pm PT
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• 1Apr 09

  Will the Nintendo DS family ever fully take on netbooks?

  Will the Nintendo DS family ever fully take on netbooks? With the Nintendo DSi's release just over the horizon set to be released April 5th, 2009 or there abouts. I could not help but wonder after watching it in action as they showcased the new features the DSi brings to the table.

  Just for a quick recap those features include the ability to browse the web, download games, record/edit sound, play music, take pictures, edit said pictures with the stylus (and add stamped on icons to them), use SD Cards, and of course play games.

  Though I'm not sure if online multiplay is available in addition to offline it should be a shoe in since that was possible with the prior model due to the wifi connectivity.

  So that brings us back to the question will the Nintendo DS family of handhelds ever take on the current market for Netbooks? The only two features missing in the soon to be released nintendo DSi that would make it akin to one are the option to use a wordprocessor, and the option to open/save/delete said files.Ok so the last one is actually a few features depending on how you view it.

  Now before you say nay to a stylus keyboard do note that it is very much possible to have one. I've used mine on my tabletpc every now and then though not so much as of late.

  As for memory space concerns that's pretty much addressed by the 8 - 32 SD HC cards out there. The latter of which seems to admittedly be in scarce supply here in the U.S. but the 8 Gig is very much on full display.

  Its also worth noting that netbooks don't have any physical optical drives directly built into them. Though they do have usb cables to remedy that. The same could feesibly be done on a future iteration of the DSi. Though let's face it that might raise the price a bit.

  • Posted Apr 1, 2009 8:08 pm PT
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