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Excellence Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 6/10 5:38am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?] - Date Edited: 6/10 5:39am (2 edits total) Edited By: Excellence
	I recently played a Windows delivery truck sim. Luke's fallopian tubes, did I knock down lightpoles and commuter cars and that was a serious attempt at driving. I had to deliver a payload from Phoenix to Minnesota. It's not funny. Your roads are a joke. -----signature----- Rock-a-by baby, on the treetop, Beaming with pride, the filth they hold, But when the wind blows, my temper implodes, High above a pit, filled with sharkticons, Down will come hardcover addicts, beaming no more. ©
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Hendo255 Registered: Feb '09	Date Posted: 6/10 7:00am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?] - Date Edited: 6/10 7:03am (2 edits total) Edited By: Hendo255
	Excellence posted: I recently played a Windows delivery truck sim. Luke's fallopian tubes, did I knock down lightpoles and commuter cars and that was a serious attempt at driving. I had to deliver a payload from Phoenix to Minnesota. It's not funny. Your roads are a joke. well we drive on the right side of the road over here lol Coincidentally tho, when I was in Sydney for 2 weeks last year I thought the same thing about yours. As did my 9 co-workers -----signature----- Zayne is the Sith Emperor. Both use the Force, both lived around the same time and Zayne is friends with Gryph who is a notorious con-artist. See! it all fits together perfectly!
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Excellence Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 6/10 7:08am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	Left side driving would be easier when coming into parking. I don't know why they can't engineer wheels that turn so you could just move sideways in. -----signature----- Rock-a-by baby, on the treetop, Beaming with pride, the filth they hold, But when the wind blows, my temper implodes, High above a pit, filled with sharkticons, Down will come hardcover addicts, beaming no more. ©
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Zorrixor Registered: Sep '04	Date Posted: 6/10 7:22am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	It always amuses me how it's not just the wrong side of the road, but date abbreviations being in the wrong order too, etcetera, etcetera... One time's a coincidence, twice makes me start thinking someone in centuries past was just trying to be cantancerously different.
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SithStarSlayer Registered: Oct '03	Date Posted: 6/10 10:04am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	Excellence posted: I recently played a Windows delivery truck sim. Luke's fallopian tubes, did I knock down lightpoles and commuter cars and that was a serious attempt at driving. I had to deliver a payload from Phoenix to Minnesota. It's not funny. Your roads are a joke. Umm... knocking over lightpoles, and smashing into other commuters had nothing to do with the roads you were virtual-traveling on. Left or Right-side matters not, either... Thus, I can only surmise that its your skills at the Wii-Wheel that are a joke. -----signature----- Lucas didn't ruin my childhood but he sure wrecked Vader's ^^Foolish men mistake transitory semblance 4 eternal fact^^ o[]\|\|]ooooooooo[0]\|\|[]{ Gal: 5:19-21 Philippians 2:9-11
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Hendo255 Registered: Feb '09	Date Posted: 6/10 11:14am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	Excellence posted: Left side driving would be easier when coming into parking. I don't know why they can't engineer wheels that turn so you could just move sideways in. lol yea like in the movie Batman Forever. Two-Face shoots an RPG at the bat mobile and that's how it gets out of the way haha -----signature----- Zayne is the Sith Emperor. Both use the Force, both lived around the same time and Zayne is friends with Gryph who is a notorious con-artist. See! it all fits together perfectly!
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Zorrixor Registered: Sep '04	Date Posted: 6/10 11:28am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	I think I actually remember seeing a car that could do that a year or two ago. I don't understand why the idea hasn't taken off, frankly. Lots of stuff that started in sci-fi has been copied in real life. You'd think something as relatively basic as that would be a major selling point to all the people who can't parallel park. Plus it'd make better use of space, as cars could then park closer together, without needing to leave room to pull out. I believe the main catch with the car I saw was that it had the danger of that if you forgot to turn the back the right way when you were parked, it meant if a car drove too close when it passed you it would rip your wheel off and cause heck knows what other damage in the process. But then, that's not a fault of the wheel design: that'd be because of drivers being negligent. I suppose the other problem may be that it's often bad for your steering if you turn the wheels while staying still, as it can offset alignment and such. If the wheels were actually designed to be these Back to the Future space age things though then I'd have thought they'd be specifically built to protect against that... even if it meant the mechanism lifting up one wheel at a time, turning it, putting it back down, then doing the next, etc, four times or something--i.e. not putting the full weight of the car on the wheel.
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Lord_Hydronium Title: Literature Gardener Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 6/10 3:53pm Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	Topic, please. -----signature----- Great midis have little midis Swimming round inside 'em And little midis have lesser midis And so ad infinitum.
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Sven_Starcrown Registered: Mar '09	Date Posted: 6/10 11:24pm Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	I wonder if i can drive any speeders or swoops in the game. -----signature----- Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you.
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Excellence Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 6/11 4:57am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	Of course my driving skills were bad! I know nothing of MMO games or whatever this is called, so I'm asking... 1. is the (ongoing) cost worth it? 2. what hrs do you have to put in to make it worth it? 3. if you're a casual not every-day-player, then the monthly fee is not worth it? -----signature----- Rock-a-by baby, on the treetop, Beaming with pride, the filth they hold, But when the wind blows, my temper implodes, High above a pit, filled with sharkticons, Down will come hardcover addicts, beaming no more. ©
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Zorrixor Registered: Sep '04	Date Posted: 6/11 5:15am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?] - Date Edited: 6/11 5:20am (3 edits total) Edited By: Zorrixor
	I suppose it depends on which payment plan you go with. If you aren't going to play every month, then it'd probably make sense just to only buy a 1-month subscription as and when it is convenient. I always keep my WoW subscription going, but admittedly there really isn't much need: I haven't played it since... December? I tend to wait until they actually patch in something worthwhile for a casual player, as I don't have the urge to be forced into a guild that either (i) demands I devote my entire evening one night a week, or (ii) get booted from the guild for a more committed player--and the depressing fact is that guilds that aren't like that tend to be terrible anyway, meaning any group quests would just involve death after death after death. It's a lose-lose scenario for me, frankly. By the looks of TOR, I may actually feel more inclined to play several characters--something I have not done in WoW beyond an Alliance Mage and a Horde Mage. If the TOR classes do indeed have fairly novel questlines, then I may actually do a Jedi, a Sith, a Trooper, etc, etc, etc. Whether MMOs genuinely give you quality for money though--at least from a casual perspective of someone who is not all that interested in the multiplayer aspect; to me it's just an ORPG, not a MMORPG, so to speak--I always feel depends on how dedicated the development team is. In SWG, I lost interest as they never released anything new. The only thing I ever remembered was the Death Watch Bunker... which was impossibly difficult without a million already fully geared up people. I gather they started patching in more content over the last couple of years, but that was way too late to redeem my interest--I'd already defected to WoW. With TOR my longterm interest will again be dependent on whether there is stuff to do once I've played it through once, or whether I should only expect to have anything to do once every blue moon that they release an expansion pack. That, sadly, is what has become of my WoW interest as they upped the stakes so much with BC and WOTLK that on each occasion once I hit max level again I just got bored. Apart from the actual levelling process, I don't get any enjoyment out of a 500 hour reputation grind just to secure a different coloured dragon to ride. Blue, black, red... does it really matter? With me the problem basically just comes down to the fact I play RPGs for the story not the game. I have nothing against most JRPGs even though they often get slagged off in the western press for being outdated and old school: so what if they have good stories? I also don't really get the big interest in multiplayer: killing people, killing AI bots... big whoop. It's still just killing pixels; I've never connected with the thrill killing real people gives all the Halo junkies. Hence why I avoid Xbox Live like the plague.
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Excellence Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 6/11 5:36am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	Thank you for your perspective. I WANT to, but I'm not a serious game player anymore. -----signature----- Rock-a-by baby, on the treetop, Beaming with pride, the filth they hold, But when the wind blows, my temper implodes, High above a pit, filled with sharkticons, Down will come hardcover addicts, beaming no more. ©
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Ulicus Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 6/11 5:47am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	Zorrixor posted: Hence why I avoid Xbox Live like the plague. -----signature----- This is an imaginary story... aren't they all supposed to fit together, though? An animated cartoon about Obi-Wan and Padawan Anakin would have made more sense. Recipient of Golden Ewok™ and Golden EwokTrooper™
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patchworkz7 Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 6/11 9:52am Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	Ulicus posted: Zorrixor posted: Hence why I avoid Xbox Live like the plague. What's interesting is the same people who can be jerks on XBL during VS modes suddenly become some of the most helpful dudes in co-op stuff like GoW2's Horde feature or Left 4 Dead or even CoD4's team games. It's simple social bonding happening over the computer. That said, any shared game is going to have some idiots. WoW has some serious jerks too, and that's a computer game, and I find that City of Heroes tends to be much lower of the jerk factor for whatever reason (of course, they don't have as many subscribers, so a smaller pool to pull from). It also helps that I have RL friends I play most of my games with and we schedule games so that we have full parties and don't have to take in outsiders to do task forces or raids or missions, etc. -----signature----- Original Fiction & essays "Does God Limp?" in HOUSE UNAUTHORIZED http://www.smartpopbooks.com/allbooks/2007.html#house Now in German and Polish Editions! James A Gilmer
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roeman Registered: Jun '09	Date Posted: 6/11 3:03pm Subject: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO) [Was KotOR III/MMO?]
	MercenaryAce posted: [quote=Zorrixor] So would the natural conclusion of a good German or Japanese soldier be to join the allies? ... Not I don't think it is possible or even plausible, but it doesn't strike me as the most natural course. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee: "In early 1861, President Abraham Lincoln invited Lee to take command of the entire Union Army. Lee declined because his home state of Virginia was seceding from the Union, despite Lee's wishes. When Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state." I appreciate the capitalistic/entreprenureal/independent nature of the Sith empire... I plan to further it against the bureaucratic republic in quite a morally-solid manner. This wouldn't make my character particularly evil... perse... at least not any more so than Lee.
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