May 7
EQ2 dev Chat this Firday
Allakhazam.com is having a Dev Chat tomarrow. Check out there website for information and/or to e-mail your questions in advance.
http://eq2.allakhazam.com/sdetail.html?story=13318
No commentsMay 5
Live update 45 on Test
So live update 45 (or game update 45, what ever you want to call it) Is now one test.
And there are some huge changes with it.
- Coercers are getting revamped. They have been one of the least played classes since the start of the game, Which i guess is a good thing
- Cure Noxious, Elemental, Trauma and Arcane have been consolidated into one spell called Cure.
I know a lot of our healers hate having to cure, and now that they only have one button to do it, it make it a lot easier for them - Grayed out quest level 10 or high will give you AA point now. So if your level 80, and have a level 15 quest you can get some AA points from doing it. Not sure how much, but does give people a reason to do the lower end quest.
- Banks now have 12 slots up from 8
- Shared banks now have 8 slots up from 4
- Shared evil characters and good characters can now see each other shared bank slots — FINALLY.
- You can also used your bank to send coin from one character to another.
- Weaponsmiths, and Woodworkers now can make new weapons, with different effects
- And now you can show the little quest symbol on all quest that you have out leveled. Which is great for questers like me
All in all a lot of changes that should of came a year or so ago, but i am at least happy that they are coming
No commentsMay 2
Interview with Microsoft.. should i do it.
So i got an e-mail today saying that i have been chosen for a phone interview with Microsoft….
Took them 3 month, but ya i allready have an internship so i don’t know what to do. I have 24 hours to let them know if i will do a phone internview with them or not.
I am pretty sure i wil NOT go to work with them as i like the company i got an internship with and a few friend from my school have also got an internship there so that going to be fun, but it Microsoft
i don’t know what do ou guys thing
3 commentsMay 1
The Last Cylon is…
So there are a few different theories out on who the last cylon is. I believe the final Cylon is the Cylon centurions. Now first, they are technology already Cylon, but they do not count as one of the final 12, as of yet.

The last supper picture does relieve some things. Cellounge has said that Ronald D. Moore has said that none of the people in this picture is the last Cylon (so that kills Baltar, and starbuck as the last cylon). And if we follow the picture the last cylon would have to be in Judus seat. Judus in the bible betrays Jesus. And if Jesus is number 6, then someone would need to be in a postion to betray number 6.

And there really isn’t anyone in a position to betray her other than the Cylon centurions. You can see that happening as well. When they she asked the cylon centurions to ecsort the other Cylons off her ship, and then says please the other one pauses for a second and then goes back to cleaning the blood.
Since the Cylon centurions can now think for them self, they are in a very good spot to betray her, and all the other cylons.
No commentsApr 29
Shadows of Odyssey — is it Luclin?
So i’m late about 5 days to this, but as Tipa, and The Clockwork Gamer, and a few other have pointed out Shadows of Odyssey seem to point to Luclin.
While i believe it might have something to do with Luclin i don’t think we will be going up to the moon. I think a large Chunck of the moon fell on to Norrath. Back before the game came out and they were realsing lore. They talked about how after the moon blew up a the oceans became very strong, and made passage by the ocean inpossible. My guess is that was caused when a chunk of the moon fell on to Norrath.
Which also fit in with the current lore that they have passed. One of them is the Escape from Guk, the other The Flight of the Mudskipper. Both of these are said to come from the lair of Trakanon. And Guk would be off the west cost (where Trakanon is) of Kunark. It would be easy for him to get infromation for a Luclin/guk Contitent. And if the shadows live there as well, it could show why there is a Shadow strong hold in Freerrot, since that is close by as well.
Also if a large rock from luclin did fall on Norath there would have to be some large (but smaller) impacts near by. On the west coast of Kunark again in the overthere, there is small impact craters. So the place in black on this map would be a near where guk woud be and would also be about the place where a large chunk of the moon could fall, with smaller chunks falling on Kunark

So my thought is this expantion is going to be around the area were Guk was, But after Luclin smash in to it.
No commentsApr 29
Anyone want free 1 month trial of Netflix
Netflix has given me 5 1 month free trails of netflix. So if anyone want to try netflix out for a month let me know.
No commentsApr 28
Better know a Loadscreen #6
Part 6 (unless i miss counted), of a ummm let say 15 part series at the moment.
This first loadscreen is from the orignal everquest 2. I have never seen anything like this in the game. It looks like it is in a cave. So it could be the city of Neriak, or Kaladim. Or it could of be a sewer under freeport of qeynos, or any o the underground dugeons.

Another one form the orginal Everquest 2. Can clearly see that these are examples of what the tower of freeport could of been. Some of these are pretty cool looking. The second to last one looks pretty cool, if it was maybe an ice tower, or mabe something that was pure inky black. I believe if i remeber what Freeport looks like they picked the second one on the bottom

The next screen shot comes form Desert of Flames. I don’t really remeber why i chose this one (I chose all the load screen that i would do for all these a few months ago). The first image in the load screen is the arena that is in the middle of the city.

This one is from Echoes of Faydwer it show some of what Greater Faydwer looks like.. kinda You can see some of the acorns that they live in. You can see some of the trees conecting. And you can see some of the building that did not make it in.

This is of Veeshan’s Peak I’ve never beeen in there yet so i do not know how it looks or if this is how it looks. But most of Rise of Kunark looks like the zone really looks like, so i’m going to say that looks like it really looks like

Apr 27
Semesters almost over
So my last spring semester at SJSU is almost over so I’ve been studying for finals and hanging out with people more than playing MMO. Haven’t really played a video game in the last week or so (which is why there hasn’t been to many post).
Any way here another one of my random picture threads from Saturday.



Guys running in dresses…. no idea who or what they were doing, but they ran by










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Apr 23
High End Ikariam
I made a post about a month ago when i started playing Ikariam. The game changes a little as you get more powerful, and start to have multiple cities. One of the first thing that hit me was War.
- First rule of war… Know who your about to fight against. I made the retarded mistake of attacking someone with out sending out a spy and spying on them first. And as you can see from the picture there defending strength was 10 times stronger than my attacking and my attacking force got destroyed.
- Second rule of war… Have a deference. I did not, and the guy i attacked for the next 10 days would attack me once every 24 hours. This is good for him as it would take about 2-3 day to build an army his size, so he could allwasy kill off my army, and he would get a huge pay amount of resources and money (about 1/3 of all my resource and money in that town).
What he did not know was i am hardcore gamer. What i found out was that resources can only be looted from the town, so i would ship all my resources to another town until i needed them. Later on i found out that if you put resource in your town on the market they can’t be looted. So i ened up doing that. Put my resouces on the market for thousands of time the normal price. He would not be able to touch my resouces.
I did a similar thing with money. If you put that you want to buy resouces on the market the money can not be touched. So i would put the lowest price possible for wanting to buy a resource and so he would only be able to get a few gold from me.
I also would build up an army and stregth my town wall between every attack, so that every time he attacked me it took more time to kill off my guys, and more of his guys would die.
Now this is the good part. War cost gold. He would attack me with an army of 100 which pretty much cost 7000 gold to start the war and 5000 every hour the war went on. Every round of fighting takes 20 minutes. The last few times he attacked me the war would last for about 6 hours. Essentially costing him 40,000 gold to attack me, and since all my resources were not in my town or available he’d win less then 1000 gold from me. On top of that by the end our army’s were pretty even so he’d lose 3/4 of his army before he defeat me so it would cost a lot to rebuild his army to attack me again.
So in the end he was much much stronger than me but i beat him by making the cost of attacking me 40 times higher than the reward.
Rocks and Wine are very important. Most building will require rocks to build them past the first few level. And With out wine your population rate falls off, (and can go in to the negative). More people you have more money you make, or more workers you have. So you want your population to keep growing I try to aim for 3+ people an hour.
As you have more towns, Wine and Rocks are harder to get by as you’ll have 1 town supply it for many towns. So instead of making my 4th town at the last type of resources i made the town on the same rock island as one of my older town as it really hard to get by with just 1 town supply rocks to 3 other towns. Wine isn’t as bad, but it starting to get to the point that my 1 town can’t supply enough to the other 3 towns as they grow.
So the high end of the game has a lot of resource management, and war if you get in to it.
No commentsApr 22
Uber code
//Both people are represented by an abstract class
public abstract class Person
{
public bool StrangersToLove { get; set; }
public bool KnowTheRules { get; set; }
}
//Possible thoughts
public enum Thought
{
FullCommitment
}
//Class
public sealed class Me : Person
{
public Thought Thinking()
{
return Thought.FullCommitment;
}
}
//The target of the song, notice that GetThought can only be called by
passing in an instance of Rick
//which satisfies that she can’t get this from any other guy
public class You : Person
{
private Thought whatHeIsThinking;
public void GetThought(Me guy)
{
whatHeIsThinking = guy.Thinking();
}
}
class Program
{
//The first verse
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var Rick = new Me() { KnowTheRules = true, StrangersToLove = false };
var Girl = new You() { KnowTheRules = true, StrangersToLove = false };
Girl.GetThought(Rick);
}
}