Zombie

Member since: Oct 18th, 2009

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Anti-Aliased: UI see what you did there pt. 2 (Massively)

Aug 12th 2010 11:31PM Play Eve Online.

You'll never complain about any other MMO's UI ever again.

EVE Evolved: Ratting, part 2: Flying safe! (Massively)

May 31st 2010 3:37AM The best way to survive in 0.0 is join a null sec alliance. They have many benefits, and contrary to popular belief among carebears they're not all elitist dictatorships, either.

Just remember when you are in 0.0 you are PvPing just by being there, even if you just want to pop rats. To be successful, you need (a) friends (b) situational awareness and (c) preparedness. All the points in the article and comments are basically this, and a good alliance will help you with all three.

Community mismanagement 101: TheSixtyOne alienates top users (Download Squad)

Feb 7th 2010 6:38PM The problem with T61's redesign is the site now has a different feature set and a different emphasis. The old site's features were more useful to a lot of established users (myself included) than the new site's. For us, the old site met our requirements, and the new site does not.

Even if you set aside bugs and usability problems (and they're real) the change in functionality is sufficient to be a real problem. If a few other people just discovering T61 now find it to be a nice site, that's because they're looking for something different than T61's old users were. The site doesn't do what attracted me there in the first place any more, so there's no real reason to go on using it.

All the World's a Stage: Attitudes about roleplaying for the first time (WoW)

Oct 18th 2009 10:38PM Both roleplayers and non-roleplayers have generally confused storytelling with roleplaying, and that's the source of the issue with this post. Storytelling isn't roleplaying and doesn't require playing in character.

Unfortunately, not only do troll-players have a "lol RP" reaction to storytellers, roleplayers themselves tend to try to get them to RP "for real" instead of just telling their stories the way they want to. Forums that could be used for posting character stories are called "role playing" forums and posters are expected to stay "in character" (even when the poster wants to be an author, not a character).

For that matter, a lot of role playing doesn't even really require a narrative; the two things are really distinct activities and shouldn't be conflated.

You can also split out lore nerds - people who have an encyclopedic knowledge of the "source material" with or without a desire to add to it. These people also get confused with roleplayers sometimes, but they're also not the same thing.