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The Truth is Revealed!!!

I can't wait till this kid grows up and tries to use some more of his WoW inspired skills to get job only to find out  using "Mind Control" is not in his RL talent list.

Originally posted by Jatar

Here is a fun idea, what if you could rename any player to anything you want?  In other words, if you ran into somebody named God Hater or something, and you were offended, you could right click on them and choose 'rename'.  Then type in any name for this player you want.  This system is used in some non-game chat software. 

From then on you would see that name over their character, and that name if they send you a message, and when you send to that name the game automatically sends to the player.  Everyone else will still see the original name (unless they too rename the player).

Now, when you are offended, you can fix the problem yourself.  Players who aren't offended can leave them as they are.   Another nice feature, you can change a long name to something short and easy to type.   Your only limit would be that you can't rename someone to the same alternate name you used on another player.

Of course, in voice chat you might have a little difficulty if you renamed someone Bonehead and use that to refer to them...

Jatar

CitadelofSorcery.com

Great idea! I'll add it to The GAME feature list immediately!

Originally posted by Gnomig

Just a thought: if you had the opportunity to ignore a player completely, then it could work out... i do not mean to block that player from the chat, but to make him invisible too... this combined with an quickignore-button should do it really.. if you encounter someone really breaking the immersion, then click his name in chat / target him in some way if you see him dancing around - and WHAM - he's off your screen for good... you could soften this harsh concept by introducing ignore timers such as 1/8/24 hrs or permanent ignore.

Wel... I like the thought

The GAME™ will have this feature! It is currently in the Pre-Beta Stage of Alpha Testing.

Originally posted by UnSub

As a side point - if Turbine were really trying for maturity or realism, why only boobs? Why not full frontal nudity for both males and females?

 

Either way the article was definately not a bash against AoC. I plan on playing on some kind of PvP server when it comes out, but it seems to me they have lost track of what really makes their game attractive to mature gamers if indeed that is their target audience. As much as I enjoy full frontal I'd rather they focus on creating a gritty mirror of Howard's world.

"Besides, when using the transpiration tool which can contain many people, your partner can also take together with you! "

I lol'd

Can I have your stuff?

Not much we can do for the guy besides nominate him for a Darwin Award. I wonder at what point he realized he wasn't going to survive? Probably toward the end  he was hoping RL didn't have such a harsh death penalty.

An interesting announcement considering all the PR work that went into telling folks that Sony was just a publisher when it was plain that there was only enough rope to hang themselves...Now that the wizard behind the curtain is revealed, It will be interesting to see what direction the development takes.

Don't worry all. Votes were counted and recorded before the crash so no need to vote if you already did so.

If you have not voted then I'll be keep track until tonight at midnight PST (3 am EST) Results will be released with my article on Monday.

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Originally posted by ZenoLoc
I have to agree that it was a good article even if admitting that I agree with Dan about anything does make me feel a little ill. 

Sure we didn't have a ghost writer this week?

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I was a ghost for Halloween. Does that count?