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• • How is the endgame ?

  • I guess a lot of people reached already lvl 80, how is the endgame about and what this game offers ?

  • Posted: 7/04/08 3:51 AM
    Age of Conan
• • God I'm bored :(

  • Originally posted by blondeh
    

    Have I just grown out of MMORPGs or gaming in general. Cant find it in me to load up any mmorpgs. None fill the void SWG pre cu left.

    I cant bring myself to play Call of Duty 4, Counter-Strike or any other fast paced FPS because.. well its just point, click, kill....YAWN.

    Am I looking for an alternate World because my real life is just that boring also. What is it I'm looking for to entertain me. I dunno :(

     

     

    Maybe you are yourself a boring person, no offence but there are so many options to do things in real life.

    A crap load of different sport types, photography/video filming, socialize with friends and go out, do some business online i.e. ebay or build webpages, get out and explore the world the area where you live and enjoy the nature, watch tv, educate yourself i.e. history or anything and read, save mony and grab a backpack and go travel to see other countries, get a fulltime job, get a girlfriend or wife....the real life is for sure not boring since you dont have much free time.

     

    It all depends on yourself if you are bored or not...

  • Posted: 6/20/08 12:47 PM
    General Discussion
• • Rohan (New game open beta, very good)

  • Another warning for people who think this game is free - ingame shop item games are not free - especially when the item shop is expensive you pay more than for mmorpgs with monthly fees:

     

    - second bank bag 69$ (wow i pay monthly less than 15$ for blockbuster mmos)

    - + 50% xp scrolls for 3 days 10 $

    - double Mkill bonus 3 days 10$

    - Party xp + 50% 3 days 10 $

    - double Mkill bonus for party 3 days 10 $

    - 18 slot bag for character 30 days 2 $

    - fishing pole +50% chance 30 days 8.50 $

     

    and so on....

     

    pvp/pve items:

    - magic. attack + 30% for 4h 1.30 $

    - melee attack + 30% for 4h 1.30 $

    - pdef +10 30 days 2.50 $

     

    and so on ...

     

    The infos are from beta players and i saw this thread per accident, thought i post it here..i never ever touch a ingame shop item mmorpg again.

    www.onrpg.com/boards/93114.html

     

     

  • Posted: 6/17/08 11:49 AM
    SystemHolic Online Rohan
• • Ireland: get the the heck out of our EU!

  • Originally posted by HYPERI0N
    

    Originally posted by olddaddy
    

    Okay, I'm confused.

    Some claim this is a true democracy, and circumventing the Irish vote is a bad policy. However the Irish are voting as a state block, what about the other state blocks? One state block can prevent implimentation of a policy by all the other member states? Minority rules?

    If the EU wants a true democracy, it seems to me that all persons qualifying to vote in all member states should vote for an issue on a consolidated basis, not on a state block basis. If the EU is voting on a state by state basis, with each state having an equal vote, the persons of a large population state each have less than their share of the say (if my state has twice the population of yours, and both states have the same representation, than each person in my state has half the voting representation than each person in your state). On top of that, are you saying that it takes only one state to block a policy, rather than a policy must be upheld by, say, 2/3rds of the states? Is there a mechanism for the majority of member states to over ride the veto of one?

    It sounds like one faction in the EU wants the EU to be a confederation of independant states, the other wants it to be a federation of states. Is that a correct observation? no but its an understandable mistake as you may be confusing states with seperate countries with different views and cultures.

    Heck, we've probably bored you Europeans to tears discussing American political problems, feel free to enlighten us on yours.

     

     

    Basically to sum it up this Treaty basically does 3 broad things.

    1. Surrenders various countries powers of Veto [for example if it was decided by the leaders of Europe in Brussels to make Wearing Crucifixes in a public pale or building those countries wont be able to say no as they no longer have the power of Veto in those areas].

    2. The treaty creates a Presidential position.

    3. Suddenly i cant remember this one.

     

    So basically one of the concessions in this far reaching treaty is that ALL members must agree on it as it effectively makes them subject states to Brussels. So for something like this that could affect every European country they all need a say in this.

     

     

     

    There are no demcratic options for votes in several countries. There is no democratic basement for such important decisions, it is just centralized e x c e p t some countries like Irland  - the "new" EU-Constitution is nothing else as the Agreement of Lisboa.

    If the inhabitants from the countries without any possibility to vote would get informed more about the new EU-Constitution, most would not vote for it - thats a fact.

    Here in germany the media even dont discuss the whole agreement for the public, the detailed informations are "kept hidden". Only in some news/magazines or from inofficial political movement organisatios you read about the detailed facts, but not in the mass media.

     

    It is not only about centralization of the politics of each country in europe and the cut of national politicians and influence from brussel into national interests. Its also about the taxes like someone did mention already, taxes which will be decided in brussel, the whole domestic politics of each country will get influenced by brussel.

    There is even more...introduction of the possiblity of death penalties, introduction of a new EU Army with commitment to each country to rearm....well you see there are severe changes.

    Why in many countries people cant vote for such severe decisions and how will be elections in the future with with centralized politics in brussel ?

    And if you talk about germany, there was an former CDU politician who talked about a new versaille for germany with the agreement of Lisboa. Yes i know thats a bit exxagerated but if it comes to payements in the EU, germany is the country with the biggest  part and has not the reasonable delegates when it comes to the numbers of inhabitants in comparison to others - did i hear influence of taxes from brussel ? hah...well i can agree and disagree here but there are some points which are interesting and are facts.

     

    The agreement of Lisboa, the new EU-Constitution, failed in France, Netherlands and now in Irland ! All countries where real democratic elections did happen.

     Theres is just not enough educational advertising for the Constitution in some countries, but they dont care and i promise you the EU-Constitution will come since economical groups benefit from it but not the masses. Thats a similar piss take like they promised each of us  about so golden advantages of the €uro and after all we got the highest price rates in short time and got in germany due to latest economical researches a "real" inflation rate of 12% !!, official 3%.

  • Posted: 6/14/08 6:46 PM
    General Discussion
• • Ireland: get the the heck out of our EU!

  • Originally posted by Elikal
    

    I know for our American Neighbours it sure seems of little significance. For us Europeans, it is a vital, decisive question, wether or not to unify Europe to strengthen us for the future. Let me say this clear, by heart I will always be way more German than European, but in my mind it has always been clear to me that Europe has only a future if we are able to create a unified Federation of states, in the long run like the USA. I know, thats not what many Europeans like, in their hearts they cling like to the historically grown nations, like I do. But reason and science all show that we are to unite or to loose our significance in the world.

    Ireland, I dont get it... NO other nation has benefitted greater from European Union than they! Billions of Euro went into the once poorest nation of the EU, special contracts, laws, any kind of support. But people are fooled by the most stupid arguments now.

    It has already been the same a short time ago, when the Europeans Nations forged a European Constitution, one of the most modern ever made, which would replace the entanglement of bureaucrats with simple and democratic structures, more direct democracy, more transparency. The bad thing is, 90% of all people who voted against the Constitution never read it. They claim all evil to the Union and all good the National states. Then the Constitution was stripped of the ideals and reduced to a contract, which now was under vote of the 27 member nations. So far all had agreed, all but the Irish, those who always had gotten the greatest gain, the most money from the EU. And with what arguments? The EU contract would bring in drugs, prostitution and abortion - appealing to the LOWEST fears. It were only 45% Irish who even WENT to the vote, and now a nation with a mere 4 million inhabitants has over-voted the other 500 million Europeans! Democracy ad absurdum.

    The only realistic fear of Ireland was the strengthening of democracy! Currently the EU is lead by Commisars, unknown bureaucrats, free of influence of the EU parliamant, and one Commisar from each of the 27 Nations. All decisions must be accepted by ALL 27 members atm! This principle was ok when the EU only consisted of 6 or 8 members, but with 27 it makes it almost impossible to go ahead, and no decision can be made about anything now! It twists the weight of the actual number of people, when a nation with 4 millions has the same weight as a nation with 80 million people! In any REAL democracy there is one principle: One Man One Vote! The Constitution as now the contract who was in question, would have replaced the Commisars with a real kind of government, directly under the control of an elected Parliament, where one European person is ONE vote, as Democracy SHOULD be. There are so many parts of the Constitution and the contract who would have strengthened democracy and the influence of the people, but most followed whims and prejudices, when it came to one of the most important decision of Europe since the end of the World War II.

    I do respect any Nation decides not the be part of the European Union, even if I find it extemely selfish of Ireland only to take the good (our money) and then dont stand for the obligations and responsibilities. Thats no decend behavior. I hope those states willing to ratify the contract, or better the Constitution, will form a new European Union and those who are unwilling are leaving! We Europeans must set a good example to create a modern, democratic Federation at the beginning of the new century, and not loose ourselves in stupid bickering over false rumors and hearsay! This is a shameful day for Ireland. IF you dont want to be in, fine, but then get the heck out of our European Union!

     

    No it is not, in Ireland the people can at least vote directly. Its a shame that in many countries, also germany, people  cant vote about the EU-agreement and in every country where people had a chance to vote against the agreement of Lisboa, the agreement failed. This has its reasons since part of the agreements content delimitate the freedom of each nation politics. Just read about the agreement of Lisboa, most interesting to read about facts from  the famous german Prof. Schachtschneider and other small organisations who fight against the agreement. The whole convention has only one aim, to centralize the powers of each nation and to influence big parts of national politics and shorten the powers of own  politician. This is some kind of the beginning of a political dictate and not about democratical freedom, thats a lie.

    The whole EU decomcratic Federation freedom and especially the convention of Lisboa has a lot of content which most people even dont know about, probably you are also one of them and the most important point, they cant vote for or against it.

     

    The votes in Ireland are only real free democratic elections ! Maybe you should rethink your demands that a country with real free democratic elections should get out of the EU, thats rather a shame if you believe in freedom and deomocracy.

     

     

    Here are some links for my german friend, hope you read it:

    interesting article:

    www.welt.de/berlin/article2025646/Das_legt_der_Vertrag_von_Lissabon_fest.html

    www.jungefreiheit.de/Single-News-Display.268+M5b97368f608.0.html (Interview-Prof. Schachtschneider)

    "Nach der neuen Vertragslage soll der Europäische Rat in allen wichtigen Politikfeldern, etwa der Wirtschafts-, Währungs- und Sozialpolitik, der Steuer- und Justizpolitik – außer der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik – die Verträge selbst ganz oder zum Teil ändern können, ohne daß dem der Bundestag und der Bundesrat zustimmen müssen.
    
    Diese Entmachtung des gewählten Gesetzgebers ist unglaublich – aber wahr. Ich möchte aber noch einmal betonen: Unser eigentliches Ziel ist nicht, einige Änderungen des Vertrages zu erwirken, sondern den Vertrag insgesamt aus der Welt zu schaffen! Denn es geht hier um nicht weniger als um die Freiheit! "

     

     some interesting facts to read abou the changes due to the agreement:

    www.eu-vertrag-stoppen.de/

     

  • Posted: 6/14/08 10:53 AM
    General Discussion