Work in progress

Life changes, that is a constant. 

  Work is shifting away from me doing daily computer maintenance ( and hence easy time to write a few notes for the blog) to being more actively involved with some reporting issues. And hence not that wonderful time to say something silly. 

    I guess this means I am re-evaluating things.  Currently I  am doing this on my break. So it might just be that this post is a waste of time. 

  Like that has ever happen !  ;)

I listen to alot of interviews with Bioware on E3. Well 5 or 6, some written some on video. But I never got to see the arrogant one.  Would liked to have seen it to understand Kiriths statement more.  

-Jason 

Advice on setting up Capsuleer

Well I was going to talk about never try to play on the computer when the wife decides to hold a garage sale. 

  But that got trumpt by my iPhone. 

I refresh my podcast selection and see Planet Risk and the Neutral Zone have put one out. Great!!!

  I go to sync my phone to iTunes and it hangs up. This causes another problem in that iTunes then will only preform a restore to the phone. No other option than say it's a new phone. So after the restore, life is good. 

 I remember last night my Command Center finished 4 last night and moved on to 5 ( I was able to sneak in a que update when the wifes head was turned ). This morning I go to refresh capsuleer, and my characters are gone. 

   Now anybody who has used Capsuleer knows getting your characters on is a pain. But the last time my phone was restored ( actually I think it was when I upgraded my phone), I created a contact on my phone. Inside that contact I created the website address with my API correctly placed. 

  What this boils down to is that, instead of getting worked up, I just opened up my Capsuleer contact and click on Acinom. A few seconds later she was back, and all the work didn't need to be repeated. 

Very handy idea I recommend to all capsuleers. 
 
  Did the same thing for iClone. 

-Jason 

While reviewing this thread, I notice this sounds like came up with this idea. I did not. It has been awhile, but I believe I got it from the Capsuleer website. I was just happy I got to use it the way I orginally planned on using it.

This thought brought to you by the word - Random

Swap skills, pulled out 2 inventions - 1 of which failed, and finished hauling stuff around. Yeah that is an exciting topic. 
 
   Last 4 days watched parts of the movie "They Live". Yeah, I am one of those guys. Googled " I am here to chew  bubblegum and kick ass. And I am all out of bubblegum."  I thought it was Bruce Campbell in the evil dead series that had that line. But I was wrong.  Still that is one of the best lines ever. 

   Yesterday I got some sad news Heroes, Chuck, and V are being cancelled. Heroes I am not so worried about. It became a convulted mess, the writers painted themselves in a corner multiple times. Then the next season would forget what powers Sylar or Peter had. 

   At least SGU is still around. Man, love that show. 

  Ran through a mission on STO. the entire away team was to shoot 5 tribble patches. No one shot back, not deadly tribble came to haunt me. Overall pretty lame. 

    Finished the night with some EQ: time. 

   How was your weeked?
-Jason 

EQ2 takes a page from Eve handbook

Funny how Eve seems to affect my other games. 

   EQ2 has changed since the last time I played. The level cap is now 90. I get a temp pet as a wizard. And the sage aspect seems to have been nerfed. 

    Oh back in the day. I chose Sage profession since it was the only way to increase the level of my spells. Now it gets me to the first level. Then I have to find a research agent and tell him what skill I want to raise up. After X amount of days - Ding it's ready for pickup. Sounds familiar to me. So like eve I have to decide what I want the most now and plan for later. 

Overall I do enjoy this style of thought. 

-Jason  

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Well the movie thing for blogspot isn't something I will do alot of, I believe. 100 megs is a pretty short film. But it is another free feature. 

    Todays news is pretty dry. Missioning level 3s in a Drake is not a real page turner. I'm not saying that my blog is fabulous, but this is worse then normal.  

    Kirith over at Ninveah.com ( Edited for DOH! factor ) is just a plain awesome writer. I was reading about his misadventures in moving. Something I shudder at myself. His ability to grab your intrest and make you laugh and cringe is inspiring. Their are many other blogs out there that I read - threw capsuleer - that give testament to being inspired to try after reading Kiriths accounts. 

-Jason 

New Caprica City

There are aspects of the TV show "Caprica" that I don't care for. But there are quite a few storylines that keep me coming back. 

  One in particular is New Cap City.  The first time I am introduced to the virtual game - the girl asked "how do you beat the game?" To which the geek answered "no one knows"

  Right there I knew that
A: it was probably foreshadowing a matrix like architect 
B: the writers have never played an MMORPG in their life.

Over 10 years ago when I started Everquest, my girlfriend at the time wanted to know when I would beat the game. I tried to tell her that it would never happen. You can grow bored, but there was always something to do on the horizon. 

  Then Caprica started talking about the death penalty. When you die - you are booted from the game. Not to return ever. New Cap is a harsh game, complete anarchy with people doing whatever they want. 

   The only game I know that was similiar was a 2 month server on Everquest. In that EQ. Everytime you died you were reset to a noob. Level 1 with no non-noob gear. You lost everything. And it was open PvP. There was some prize at the end of the time for the highest character. I made it to level 3. 

  Still it is an intresting idea with New Cap. A free game that let's you do anything. But how would you stop an alt?  Block IP addresses, and credit card accounts. Well I just said free, but if you charged a one time fee requiring a credit card you could stop anyone undering 18 from playing ( I said you could do anything in the game). And you would force people to jump through hoops to get another account. Plus multiple cards from a person might have the same address. And you could block it that way. 

   Picture Eve where when you die you don't come back. It would make playing a bit more intresting. 

   This is just a random thought I've been kicking around for 2 or 3 weeks
-Jason