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It's hard to make a good MMORPG. But it can be different types of hard depending on what you're trying to do.
Let's take an analogy. It's hard to walk ten thousand miles. It's also hard to run a 100 meter dash in under 11 seconds. But they're very different types of hard.
Most humans could walk ten thousand miles if so inclined... eventually. If they started on the project at a young enough age. At three miles per day, it would take you about nine years. That's doable. Most humans, on the other hand, could never run a 100 meter dash in under 11 seconds. It takes considerable physical prowess to do that.
On the other hand, for those few people who can run a 100 meter dash in under 11 seconds, it doesn't take very long to do so. Some of them could do it hundreds of times if so inclined. Not all, of course; if your personal best is 10.99 seconds, it's hard to replicate that a hundred times. But world-class sprinters that can push 10 seconds don't have to run full throttle to break 11.
Meanwhile, no one can run ten thousand miles a hundred separate times in a lifetime. At a full marathon per day, that would take over 100 years. I don't know if elite endurance athletes would be able to walk 26 miles per day many days in a row, but even if they could, no one stays in the peak physical condition necessary for that for 100 years. The problem is that walking ten thousand miles just once takes too long.
So what does this have to do with MMORPGs? Making a good theme park game is largely about making lots of content. That's not all that there is to it, of course, but it's a big chunk of it. You make lots of races, lots of classes, lots of quests, lots of world zones, lots of loot drops, lots of NPCs, and so forth, with every single one hand-done.
Making one quest or one NPC or one loot item isn't hard. Lots of people can do it, so it's not the second type of hard. But it is the first type of hard: it takes time to make each one. You can't make a good theme park game on a smalll budget. You can't even make a mediocre theme park game on too small of a budget. But if you throw enough money at a theme park, you can finish it and it will more or less work. It might not be great, but it probably won't be abysmal, either.
Sandbox games are different. To make a good sandbox game, you have to have a number of complicated game mechanics that work together in complex ways. And they need to work together very, very well. You need for interesting gameplay decisions to arise in very complicated ways--and for players to not have a single way to short-circuit the intended complexity.
That is the second type of hard discussed above. Most game programmers can't do it. They could try, but the game would probably be a train wreck.
However, a sandbox game isn't the first type of hard. You don't need hundreds of custom-done quests, and hundreds of custom-done mobs, and so forth to make a good sandbox game. The game will succeed or fail on the basis of whether your sandbox mechanics make for interesting gameplay.
Suppose that you're in charge of choosing an MMORPG to be made and need to decide whether you want to make a theme park game or a sandbox. And let's suppose that you've got a big budget. Which do you choose? If you say "sandbox because I like sandboxes", then that's why you're not given that decision to make.
If you try to make a theme park game, you'll end up with a game that more or less works. You might end up losing money on the game, but you'll at least deliver a working theme park game. Throwing enough money at the problem nearly guarantees that.
But what about a sandbox game? A sandbox game doesn't have tons of custom-done content that will take players tens or hundreds of hours to play through. If the sandbox mechanics work well, then great, you'll have a huge hit on your hands. But if they don't? If you don't have the programmers on staff to make sandbox mechanics work well, you'll have a spectacular failure on your hands. That's embarrassing, and not beneficial to your future employment. And how do you know if your programmers can deliver a good sandbox? The only way to find out is to let them try.
Now suppose that you have a small budget. Now a theme park isn't really an option. You can try to make a theme park, and make quests and dungeons and loot drops and so forth and hold players' hands as they go through your content. But someone else with a bigger budget can do everything you can do, and do ten times as much of it. You can't really make up for your lack of quantity with superior quality, either. Not only are you constrained from the start on your budget with resources spread thin, but in theme parks, quantity has a quality all its own.
A sandbox, on the other hand, is doable. You don't need to make thousands of custom items. You make a relative handful of base items, and then let the stats vary depending on a variety of things. You don't need to make hundreds of custom mobs. You can get by with dozens, plus some copies and some randomness, so long as you make them adequately interesting. And so forth.
So on a small budget, what do you make? Even if you're a theme park fan, budget realities are going to force you to at least include some elements that people would think of as being sandbox.
Let's look at this another way. Suppose that you're going to make a sandbox game, and are deciding on how big of a budget to give it. There's always stuff that you can do with a larger budget that you can't do with a smaller budget. But while theme parks get vastly better as you throw more money at them, sandboxes only get a little better. If you don't have programmers who can do sandbox mechanics well, your game is going to be a failure, and you'd much prefer a small failure to a large one.
Even if you could make a successful sandbox game on a small budget, it doesn't follow that you could do the same on a large budget. Whether a game is commercially successful depends not just on revenue, but also expenses. For example, SWTOR is probably a commercial failure. It certainly is one if the rumored $300 million budget is anywhere near accurate, though that number includes the cost of EA buying BioWare for the express purpose of making SWTOR.
On the other hand, if SWTOR had exactly the same sales figures on a $10 million budget, that would be a smashing success. EA earned several times that on initial box sales in the first month after launch alone. Anything else after that would just be gravy.
Throwing more money at your game won't be the difference between the game being good or not. But it will make a huge difference in how high of a sales threshold you need to clear for the game to be a commercial success. Do you really want a larger budget than necessary to make your sandbox game? Really?
When you first start on the project, no, you don't. It might be nice to have some extra money available for when things go over budget, but you don't spend it if you don't have to. Maybe if it's clear that the game is going to be something special, you can increase the budget later. Blizzard has probably spent a lot more on developing WoW than they expected to when they first started the project. A sandbox game with WoW's level of commercial success would probably end up getting a huge budget to try to sustain that success. But even among theme parks, there is only one WoW.
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Wipe yourself off, U DEAD!
If a company could do exactly what EvE has done except in a traditional fantasy setting , everything else would pretty much be blown out of the water.
Im talking.about the entire game. Combat depth, crafting, market, social, the whole shabang.
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Very, very well said.
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Originally posted by Deathenger
CCP has probably spent a lot more on EVE over the years than they expected to when they started the project. But EVE didn't start out as a big-budget game, did it? We think of CCP as a major developer now, but that's precisely because of EVE. They weren't a major developer when they got started.
And the problem is that "do what EVE has done" is something most game programmers can't do, whether in space or a fantasy setting or whatever. Or rather, maybe they could reverse-engineer the game if given a large enough budget, but that's not what you meant. What you meant was do something about as interesting as EVE, but with the sort of differences that one expects when moving from one game to another in the same genre.
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So if anything, the constant expectation for a super high budget TRIPLE A Sandbox MMO right off the bat is generally unrealistic, and that using EVE as an example isn't exactly correct considering its origins? Also the fact that EVE took years to get where it is at right now?
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I seem to see this even outside MMO's. For instance, CoD games, assassins creeed games, etc. Why risk TRYING a change when what they have works. Especially with games like ME3 staring them in the face and the backlash that came from it. Better to have a small group mad because of rehashes, than the whole group pissed their whole series just went to shit, and not come back for more.
Good read.
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It's all about financial backing. Themeparks sell, while sandbox MMOs are still in the experimental stage with no real quantifiable numbers you can show at an investors meeting. That's the bottom line. At the end of the day you still have to try and convince financial backers to pour some money into your idea.
I mean sure you could bring up EvE and say hey! Here is a couple of hundred thousands of players playing a sandbox MMO but are they playing EvE because it's a pure sandbox or because it's a well made space MMO with no real competition in that corner market?. Could be a bit of both but it makes for a bad example because of that.
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The reality of the issue goes over many people's head.
Its not about how Themepark or Sandbox a MMO is. It's all about how interesting the feature list is to the MASSES.
The term Sandbox isn't what turns people off about a Sandbox MMO.
what turns people off is the way Developers tend to always have the same unpopular features in Sandbox.
*FFA PvP just is not popular no matter how much you try. So stop trying this.
*Full Loot just is not popular. So stop doing it already.
*Aim based controls, just isn't popular. Stop doing it!
*Playing as a vehicle, just isn't popular. Don't do this.
*lack of PvE developer made content, just isn't fun in the long run. Stop doing that than.
Man this list goes on. But usually most of these can be found in any so called Sandbox MMO. But people wonder why that genre isn't popular right now. Change many of these listed here in your sandbox and you can expect much growth.
but of course, most sandbox MMO developers will never do that and stay in their little box of mind.
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Originally posted by MMOExposed
you need to add *Crafting Simulator* to that list.
I think the prostitute mod corrupted your game files man. -elhefen
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Not so sure about the "most game programmers just can't do it" mentality. EVE isn't exactly the most complex game in the world.... Most of the complexity comes from the well thought out mechanics and systems they put in place but after that it's mostly just graphical spaceship spreedsheets.
Most of the time game programmers make what they are told to make by management etc. So I wouldn't say that the programmers are the hang up it really is the funding and the overall vision of the people in charge.
CCP has great vision for what they to make available to players. Talented Programmers to achieve the logic. Talented Designers and animators etc. But that idea has to come first.
The key to doing it "the EVE way" is first make a good but SMALL sandbox. Go for depth over breadth. Once you have a fun small sandbox and majority of your playerbase is starting to reach it's edges.. you expand the "sandbox" out again. Old players are happy customers, new players will be excited to dive in and make their mark on the world, the weaklings will leave etc.
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I just wanted to say I liked this analysis Quizzical.
I'm not convinced there can't be a framework that allows for a reliable way of turning budget into sandbox content, growing a game and its verbs in a sort of predictable snowflake of complexity, but I don't have a proof-of-concept handy.
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Sandbox is your only hope for a decent mmo ;)
Every game and company start out as indie ;)
You think the big companies became massive over night? lol
And by reading many posts on these forums, the majority of the people here have no idea what a true sandbox is anyways. Always throwing misconceptions around about full loot pvp and other horse dung. Its obvious they have a mental picture of their version of sandboxes, but not a true one.
And to be honest themeparks are worse at pvp concepts than sandboxes. Usualy forcing you to pvp as a end game content- raids, warzones, other bs.
And player content > everything else. Well atleast if you are creative. Never stood around waiting for updates or expansion packs while playing a sandbox, we the gamers made content and it came fast and was more fun than any themepark i have played.
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Originally posted by BeefMach1ne
You can't really take EVE as an example in this case.
EVE launched back in May 2003 and the game was hollow and broken in so many ways, If EVE launched this year CCP would have gone under within matter of months, but the thing is, in 2003 there werent that many MMOs out there, MMO gaming was still in It's early stage we had like what 10 MMOs to pick from.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.
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Originally posted by Enigmatus
Here's a 2010 Gamasutra article on this very subject:
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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While it is true that sandbox approach is more suitable for low budgets, chances to make it growing and successful game are as small.
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Most investors won't throw money, that's all. If I invest, I want a return. It's all about money, unless you are donating.
All these devs, including the ones from Mortal Online, Darkfall, Embers of Caerus, etc, think they will hit the jackpot like EVE did. But EVE is not a fantasy/medieval MMO. So what we have is fail after fail. I don't understand why these indie companies can't design a sandbox MMO without the full loot PvP or provide a server for it. Or how about a specific area in the game world where the full loot PvP takes place? If they don't learn from Dark Fail, and Mortal Fail, and soon to be Embers Fail, don't know what else.
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Originally posted by Quizzical
Well.. that is just to some degree correct. Because a sandbox mmorpg is basicly both types of hard, at least a full fledged out sandbox mmorpg, or maybe better called virtual world.
But you have to differ here. If you mean just a empty world with sandbox mechanics you would be right. But a real virtual world and as i would call a full fledged out sandbox mmorpg you need the world, too.
With the world i mean a world simulation run by npc factions all alone without the player, but fully changeable by the player. And with it you get your first type of hard again. Maybe not in that amount of a themepark, because you dont need a lot of scripted content. You dont have to do every single Quest/Encounter script by your own. But you need a background simulation/AI(think of dwarfen fortress) that let everything run. And you need to create the world, with cities, landscapes, and some kind of npc faction and npc history/story. (Look at UO or SWG)
EvE was rather empty, but not completely. And it is by far easier to do something in a space sim than in a fantasy based games. Comparsion is here between Elite and Dwarfen Fortress as examples. And EvE was the only successful indy sandbox mmorpg out of 15? or more indy attempts for a sandbox mmorpg.
Originally posted by BeefMach1ne
And that is the solution i thought of as development cycle for a sandbox mmorpg. First of all develop core systems, maybe make some single player games out of it(Mount&Blade, Minecraft etc.). Then create a small world with you full set of sandbox tools, maybe a MORPG with just 200-500 player per shard/server/world. Just a few tiny islands, where you can toy are around, but fully done with different NPC factions, and a complete simulation of a world.
And after that you can either expand over time to make a mmorpg out of it, or just release at next a mmorpg.
And that where the fault begins in most indy sandbox productions.. they try to do a huge world, but completely barren and the lack of a lot of sandbox features. Or with a good amount of sandbox features, in a empty 2D/3D world, or mix of both.
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Originally posted by Gdemami
Money only get you so far. you need great game designers. Designers that understand the niche network.
How to make mechanics that will interest people in the long run rather then short time.
developers that arent living in the past but also not delusional about the future.
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Nicely written post, OP.
There's also another risk with sandbox games: the dynamic of it past launch. In the typical themepark players cannot lose, they always gain xp, gears, fame, gold, whatever it is. In sandboxes players can lose.
I only play sandboxes these days and have experienced multiple situations where a game lost large number of players (i.e. money) because those players lost something they valued. A guild in Ryzom that lost their outpost in GvG warfare, In Darkfall where a former powerful alliance was finally defeated, in Wurm likewise. Because of this paying customers left the game.
In a sandbox, what players do, can affect other players to an extent that some of those players prefer to leave the game instead. It's a real risk because what players do to others can have a real effect on the bottom line.
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Originally posted by Onomas
My favourites are the ones who dislike sandboxes because they think player content are quests written by players. It's obvious they don't have a clue how a sandbox game works.


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Based on the episode title, will we see a special cameo from Jack?
We start this week\'s episode with a waitress telling someone on the phone that she "just needs the truth.†She certainly gets more than she bargained for when co-workers and patrons start telling her all their negative feelings toward her. She gets so depressed that she grabs the restaurant\'s handgun and blows her brains all over BIG ANDERSON\'S HAPPY PLACE sign.
Dean and Bobby argue about what\'s going on with Sam. Sam shows up with info about the waitress\'s death being linked to other suicides. The boys show up on her sister\'s doorstep, where Sam really gives her the third degree about lying to them. The sister admits to telling the waitress to "just kill herself.â€
Next scene takes place in the dentist\'s office, where the Dentist is trying to calm Paul down. Paul suddenly becomes very calm, and starts sharing about how he hates his own wife and hooked up with the Dentist\'s younger daughter. The dentist GORES into Paul\'s mouth with his cavity drill. Wow, they have really upped the blood factor this season. That was BLOODY!
Dean sends Sam off to investigate the dental death while he researches what\'s going on with Sam. Sam finds out the dentist hanged himself in his cell. Dean heads to the dentist\'s office to find any kind of info he can, while Sam goes to examine the body. He finds a picture of the dead waitress. They both go to Harry\'s House of Horns. Harry doesn\'t know what\'s going on, but he really seems preoccupied with his stolen thousand-year-old horn (stolen the same day the waitress died).
Dean thinks this could be another of Heaven\'s weapons that landed on Earth. Castiel shows up. Caz says he doesn\'t know what\'s wrong with Sam, but it is not Lucifer. Caz says he has been distracted by another war that has made him do regrettable things. He promises to still help Sam, but lets Dean know it isn\'t Gabriel\'s Horn of Truth.
Meanwhile, Sam gets a lot of truth from the coroner, who says that all the bodies are gone from the morgue. Dean, while in the bar, says "I\'d just like the freakin\' truthâ€, and he gets a dose of truth from the bartender, who doesn\'t know why she is telling him all her secrets. Dean rushes off, but not before getting a second glance at a lady who admitted she got breast implants to get a lot of attention (the look on Dean\'s face was PRICELESS). Bobby and Dean chat again, while Bobby says he is watching TORI AND DEAN ("Tori Spelling… I\'m a huge fan.†Tremendous!) Bobby admits to getting pedicures. Dean figures out that he is cursed.
Sam is speaking with the first victim\'s sister. He investigates the victim\'s room, where he finds a box that includes a cat skull.
Dean is talking to Lisa now, who is ready to lay some serious truth on him. She breaks things off with him.
Dean confronts Sam about why he just stood by as the vamp attacked Dean. Sam says he froze and feels terrible about it. Dean doesn\'t seem to know what to think (I could swear Sam had a poker tell during this conversation, which would be a great connection to the earlier conversation).
Dean and Sam learn that the first victim summoned Veritas, Goddess of Truth. Dean remembers a newswoman from the bar television while he was in there. They see in her try-out video that she is afraid of a neighborhood dog, the Achilles\' heel for Veritas, and the video shows her eyes light up for total confirmation. Â (Side note: Â Veritas is played by Serinda Swan, who has been in the series before as a hospital receptionist… she is extremely easy on the eyes)
Sam and Dean follow the news lady with a flask of dog\'s blood. They find the missing bodies in her home, but too late, because Veritas throws them across the room and ties them up. Sam and Dean work on untying themselves while Veritas pulls one of the grossest tongues I have ever seen out of one of the bodies AND EATS IT! GROOOOOOOSSSSS!
Veritas asks Sam and Dean to play a game of truth or truth. She asks Dean how he feels about Sam, and Dean admits that he thought Sam was a monster, until he realized that Sam was just acting like him. Dean now knows that he is a killer, not a family man. She asks Sam how he feels about re-joining with Dean. He says that they watch out for each other, and Veritas starts going nuts. She says he is lying to him, despite being cursed to only tell the truth. She says he is NOT HUMAN. Sam escapes before any more can be revealed, and they fight. Dean escapes and both brothers stab Veritas through the heart. Dean keeps the weapon held up toward Sam.
Sam admits there is something wrong with him, and he admits he let the vampire bite Dean. He wanted to find the nest of vampires. Sam admits that he has lost feeling any kind of fear or emotion since coming back. He knows he needs help, and Dean puts down the weapon. He then proceeds to beat the holy hell out of Sam\'s face, reminding me of Sam\'s brutal beat down of Dean in the Season 5 closer.
Quote of the Night: Old lady in the restaurant: "I ran over a homeless man once, and I never even stopped to see if he was alive.†(Call me crazy, but I laughed really hard at this very random comment. Her delivery of the line was droll and flawless.)
Gore of the Night: The Dental exam scene will make anyone who saw it think twice before setting up his or her next teeth cleaning.
Also, I am pretty sure I gagged when Veritas chomped into the dead body tongue. The sound effects, combined with great special effects, really made this jolly fat guy lose his appetite!
Moment of the Night: The big reveal at the end about Sam, along with Dean\'s reaction, really made a serious impact in the storyline for the remainder of the season. This can\'t blow over in a few episodes. The damage has been done.
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EFWolverine We better hope this defense is for real, because pretty much every combination the defense has thrown out there tonight has had its way with the OL. I'd love to meet some of the people who swear Funk knows what he's doing.
EFWolverine I'd love to meet some of the people who swear Funk knows what he's doing.
The defense was in complete control, and the offensive line/running game struggled to make much happen. On Saturday night, Michigan's first-team offensive line featured true freshman Mason Cole at left tackle, sophomore Erik Magnuson at left guard, junior Jack Miller at center, junior Graham Glasgow at right guard and sophomore Ben Braden at right tackle. Derrick Green was the first-team running back, and Devin Gardner took basically all the reps with the starters. But the run game never came close to looking productive. Michigan's defense, for its part, was extremely aggressive. If the offensive line struggled, it was in large part due to the fact that Michigan's front seven willed its way into Michigan's backfield. Defensive coordinator Greg Mattison showed press coverage basically wire to wire, and showed an array of blitzes -- linebackers, corners, safeties, nickels. And, more often than not, they worked -- especially against the run. The biggest position battle on defense heading into Saturday seemed to be at cornerback. Sophomore Jourdan Lewis and freshman Jabrill Peppers were the team's No. 1 corners Saturday night. When Michigan showed nickel, it moved Peppers inside and brought in Ray Taylor to play opposite Lewis. Junior Blake Countess played almost exclusively with the second team -- but did end up snagging an interception against Gardner. A few other quick notes from the scrimmage: • The running game really struggled to do anything, but Michigan's vertical passing game looked solid, at times. Devin Funchess hauled in a 40-yard one-handed snag over the middle from Gardner. Freddy Canteen beat Jourdan Lewis down the sideline for a 35-yard snag against Shane Morris. Freshman Maurice Ways looked solid as well, hauling in a 30-yard catch down the sideline from Russell Bellomy before snagging a 20-yard touchdown in the back of the end zone. • The running back rotation early in the game featured Derrick Green, then De'Veon Smith, then Drake Johnson. All three saw time with the starters, though. But Green seemed to see the most. It didn't much matter Saturday night, though, as the backs spent most of their time fighting off defenders almost immediately after being handed the football. • Michigan showed a lot of double-tight end, single back formations early with the first team. Both Keith Heitzman and A.J. Williams were the starting tight ends. • Joe Bolden was the team's starter at weakside linebacker. Jake Ryan was in the middle and James Ross was on the strong side. Desmond Morgan also saw reps with the starters, but at this point, it appears he's behind Bolden. • The only players who did not go through contact drills were tight end Jake Butt and safety Delano Hill. • Graham Glasgow left the scrimmage midway through with an apparent foot injury. He did return, though, with his right foot heavily taped.
Ohio St.'s actions are not unlike their lower intestine: stinky and loaded with danger.
zjgm02 EFWolverine I'd love to meet some of the people who swear Funk knows what he's doing. Based on the fact he's still on staff, the HC and AD must think Funk knows what he's doing. How funny would it be if the only reason Big Al's mastery on offense didn't work is because Funk is so inept, and the former was kicked to the curb while the latter's still belying up to buffets all over AA?
EFWolverine I'd love to meet some of the people who swear Funk knows what he's doing.
"The other night we ran the ball pretty well," Hoke said. "You can't play well one Saturday and not as well the next, there's another lesson with consistency. The defense I thought (was better), and to be honest with you they should, there's more veterans over there, more guys with game experience." "I think to some degree they're (defense) always a little ahead of the offense and it's been that way forever. We need to catch up offensively pretty fast." "I don't think you can pinpoint anything in particular, you've got to play with good leverage, you've got to be positive with your footwork, hips gotta be forward and you have to finish your blocks," Hoke said. "It sounds easy, but when you've got a defense that blitzes a lot, it puts a little more pressure on them." "Let me say this, I'd be lying if I wasn't concerned about all of our football team," Hoke said. "That's just being a coach. Do we need to improve still? There's no question about it." "I don't think any of them (had a good night), and this is without watching tape, I think we need to keep improving there," Hoke said. "I think we need to see things a little better."
WarrenWolverine If anyone watched the highlights of the scrimmage, I look at the first catch Funchess makes and the catch on the fade against Peppers and wonder how in the world he drops 5 passes against Iowa and completely whiffs on the deep pass against OSU.


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I wrote about some inj morph file change the default parameter of mopphs,
and if you use "save modifeid assets" on the figure which you applied inj file,
it may cause trouble, on another topic..
then I thought it is not heavy problem if I check the inj type morph files,
before "save modified assets".
Usually I do not use character preset file.
I often apply saved shape preset with genesis on the sean.
so I have not recognized many products character.dsf change default other morph value too.
so I just ask , if I use some character products dsf ,(eg victoria5.dsf character file)
and save modified assets on property editor,it cause same problems?
that means when I load new genesis, the genesis keep the shape of morph (eg victoria5)
which I applied everytime.
I think it is not important matter for many people, but I often change parameter,and save modifeid assets,
so I want to confirm it. (I do not want to test it,,)


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On July 4, 2006, Kristopher Tyrpak's family gathered for Independence Day at his house in Dripping Springs, Texas, but this time his family didn't just come over to celebrate . . . they wanted to hear if Tyrpak would choose to play soccer or baseball. Tyrpak picked soccer; and since, he hasn't looked back.
"In 8th grade my parents said listen, you have to choose which one do you want to play," said Tyrpak who was 14 at the time. "I'm a pretty active person, so of course I am going to want to play soccer."
The decision was met with the support of his family, who has also been there for Kristopher. His parents and grandparents – who were at the house when he chose soccer – watch all his home games, cheering him on from the stands.
"My wife and I are deeply family orientated," said Kristopher's grandfather, Walter Tyrpak. "So consequently, it was no effort at all to follow Kris in his soccer endeavors."
Walter was originally surprised his grandson chose soccer, saying Tyrpak was a fantastic shortstop. The decision, however, didn't sway Walter's support, and he even has watched his grandson in ice, sun, and rain with the rest of his family. They also traveled around the country to tournaments with his club teams Austin United and Lonestar SC, and one of Walter's cars eventually died wandering around the States watching Kristopher.
The Aztex player added: "Without (the support from my family) I don't see what I would do. I can guarantee I wouldn't be where I am right now, because through those times I wanted to quit they were there, saying no you cannot quit, you really do love it."
The time when Tyrpak thought about quitting was during his freshman year. Although burnt out from constantly playing the sport, his family kept pushing him and wouldn't let him quit – reminding him of the passion he had playing soccer under Wolfgang Suhnholz.
Suhnholz, the current Austin Aztex Super-20 coach and former youth club coach for Tyrpak, bestowed the passion to play soccer upon the Aztex player. The former Bayern Munich player was Tyrpak's favorite coach growing up, and Suhnholz's knowledge kept him in soccer. If he ever had a question as a young player, Tyrpak knew he could talk to Suhnholz, the man who helped him develop into the player he is today.
It also helped that the former Dripping Springs high school player began maturing into a bigger, faster soccer player between his sophomore and junior year. The combination of Suhnholz's coaching when Tyrpak was younger and stronger frame aided Trypak's jump from two goals his sophomore year in high school to more than 30 his junior year.
The increase in production paved the way for the Austin-born player to begin receiving scholarship offers from colleges across the United States. Interested programs included Ohio State, Dayton, Central Florida, and North Carolina, but Tyrpak chose to play closer to home earning a full scholarship from Houston Baptist.
Playing in Houston meant his family could easily travel to games, while also playing at an NCAA Division I school. The perfect fit worked out early with Tyrpak as he led the Huskies in points, 21, and goals, 8, while being named the Atlantic Soccer Conference Rookie of the Year and to the Atlantic Soccer Conference First Team his freshman year.
He built off his first year with another strong campaign the next season in 2011, achieving Atlantic Soccer Conference Second Team honors. His sophomore year was also when the rebirth of the Aztex were announced, a team the local Austin product grew up watching.
It wasn't long after the announcement that Tyrpak was asked to join the Aztex. Because he is 20, the HBU player originally thought he would play for the Aztex Super-20 squad until he received a surprising phone call from Paul Dalglish.
"I was getting ready to kick the ball around with some friends, and (Dalglish) called me," Tyrpak said. "I didn't know who it was at first, and he said 'I'm Paul Dalglish the coach of the Austin Aztex."
Dalglish eventually offered Tyrpak a spot on the Premier Development League team. The Austin native couldn't contain his excitement, and he wrote a note to his girlfriend who was in the room that read 'Dalglish wants me on the top team.' Tyrpak instantly called his family telling them the good news, and a week later his grandpa was already looking to buy season tickets.
Tyrpak's progression as a player has continued with the Austin Aztex. He has started every game since joining the club, but one match particularly sticks out. With the Aztex hyping the organization as "Austin's team" before the club's first home game at House Park, Austin-born Tyrpak stole the show with a hat trick in a 6-1 win over the El Paso Patriots in the club's opening home match. The performance left an imprint that not only the fans want soccer back in the city; but also, Austin has the talented soccer players who can compete at a high level.
"Playing in front of that big of a crowd, in your hometown and being able to score goals in front of the fans is surreal," Tyrpak said. "It is unlike anything."
Tyrpak dreamed of putting on the Aztex uniform when he was playing youth soccer in Austin. When he wears the jersey for the city that he loves and grew up in, it means a little more for Tyrpak. The Austin-born player said if he doesn't make it to MLS, he always wanted to play professionally in Austin, and in the future that could be an option.
What most people do not know about Tyrpak is that his career could end on one play. The headgear he wears is to protect against concussions, which he has suffered multiple in the past. Concussions recently ended the career of one of America's most promising strikers – Taylor Twellman.
Tyrpak suffered his first concussion his junior year during state playoffs when he knocked heads with an opposing player and woke up on the sidelines. From his junior and senior year, the HBU player said he endured four more concussions before a doctor told him that, 'if he were concussed again, he would have to stop playing soccer.' The injury gives Tyrpak a different perspective every time he steps on the field.
"I step out each game playing like it could be my last," Tyrpak said. "Depending on if a concussion happens, it could be my last game, so I have to treat it like it's my last."
For the Aztex, Tyrpak performs with the intensity that it could be his last game. Playing wide on the right wing, the Austin native works tirelessly for his club, and has scored four goals and provided two assists in 10 games.
Because of his work ethic and attitude, Tyrpak deserves ending his soccer career on his own terms, not because of an injury.


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Sometimes people forget that DUI charges can result from driving under the influence of alcohol or any other intoxicating substance, including many drugs. That's why some cough medicines have a label warning you not to operate heavy machinery after ingesting them.
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The company on Monday started displaying messages on PCs to inform people that the software is installed on their system, 180solutions spokesman Sean Sundwall said. The message explains that the software displays pop-up ads and offers a link to uninstall the software, he said.
As is common with adware, many people may have unwittingly installed 180solutions' product. It may even have installed itself in a so-called drive-by install, where Web browser vulnerabilities are used to drop and install software on PCs when people visit malicious Web sites. 180solutions software is installed on about 20 million PCs, the company said.
180solutions has dubbed its notification effort a "campaign to renotify customers" to ensure "proper consent and disclosure," the Bellevue, Wash.-based company said in a statement.
The move could in part be triggered by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who in April sued Web marketer Intermix Media for installing software on people's machines without meaningful consent.
180solutions is under pressure to clean up its act, said Alex Eckelberry, president of anti-spyware software maker Sunbelt Software. 180solutions is "in a bind" because of the threat of litigation, demands from financiers and blacklisting by anti-spyware products, he said.
Sundwall said Spitzer's action is "totally unrelated" to 180solutions' moves.
"We actually were very supportive of Spitzer in this suit as it provided an opportunity to further differentiate the bad actors from the good ones," he said.
180solutions does not deny that its software has been installed on PCs unbeknownst to people. However, it blames "rogue distributors" for those installs. The company relies on about 1,000 third parties who get paid for each installation of the 180search Assistant. 180solutions itself also distributes the Zango Search Assistant.
In the past six months, 180solutions has cut off about 440 distributors, Sundwall said. Also, the company last year sued two of its distributors and is taking technical steps to prevent the illicit installation of its product, he said.
180solutions' software pops up ads based on Web sites a PC user visits. The company pitches the ads as a form of payment for services, such as those it provides on Zango.com, a Web site with games, other online entertainment and software. It claims to provide people with more than $500 worth of content a year in exchange for the ads.
Still, there is skepticism about 180solutions' moves.
"The company's practices are so troubled, damaged from years of bad acts," said Ben Edelman, a Harvard law student and an adware and spyware researcher.
180solutions is still installed without proper consent, Edelman said. Even installations distributed by the closest 180solutions partners "are misleading at best," he said. Furthermore, 180solutions actively discourages uninstalls of its products, said Edelman, who details some of the company's practices on his Web site.
Lawmakers are also fighting adware and spyware. The U.S. House of Representatives last month approved a pair of bills that supporters say will help safeguard Internet users from spyware.
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- A popup alert from an adware maker ...
- an adware maker displaying a popup with a link to something called an 'uninstaller' ... Looks just like another driveby download attempt.
Only the dumbest user will ever click on such a link (even if the new trick is ... it's a real uninstaller).
Users who have this spyware on their machine are obviously not aware about the source, so they won't know who this '180Solution' is.
The only goal for this is to allow 180Solutions to claim the people it bombarded with that popup and who did not click on the so called 'uninstall' link are 'willingly' keeping their spyware and are no more entitled to claim they were not notified ...
Another clever trick around 'consent' ...
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- Yeah, sure......
- If 180solutions had any concept of ethics at all, they wouldn't
have come up with their sneaky program. Now that they have
come up with it, a current acquistionof ethics would require that
180solutions unibstall any of their spyware whenever and
wherever found without bothering the user. Then, if
180solutions still wants to snoop, that's the time to ask for
install permission.
But of course, 180solutions doesn't understand ethics, just
income. So the installs continue, and the 'uninstall link'
continues to look like SPAM fraud, and 180solutions heeps
counting their cash.
It's too bad that there isn't a way to screw up 180solutions's
computers in retaliation.
....but maybe there is....
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- Pathetic!
- I love that they make it seem as if they are doing users a favor by letting them know their software is installed, and giving removal instructions.
You want to do people a favor...?
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- What value?
- The problem with 180 Solutions is that their software adds absolutely no value whatsoever, much less covers the cost of the additional overhead they steal from your computer and communications infrastructure.
They'll claim that by providing advertisements you'll get opportunities to find deals you wouldn't otherwise learn about but the truth is that the web is already mainly supported by advertising revenues using legitimate delivery methods while their software actually detracts from the legitimate advertisements and weakens the true support for the internet.
Their company model is based on being parasites.
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- Makeover attempt disingenuous at best
- I find the attempt of an adware pusher to makeover its image disingenuous at best. A good way for them to start the makeover process would be to stop pushing adware in the first place, however, I doubt that this is what they have in mind. The problem with these adware companies is that the owners and investors seem to think that they have a legitimate business model when they in fact do not. I also find it particularly amusing that many of these adware programs often hitch a ride with file sharing software that has been promoted as a way to illegally obtain copyrighted material (not sure if 180solutions has done this, but others have).
It is interesting to note that they blame rogue distributors for these installs of its software. Many adware companies are making the same claim. My question is where did these rogue distributors come from and why were they allowed to be distributors in the first place? It seems to me that the distributors make an easy scapegoat for a more fundamental problem (that problem being an illegitimate business model). Part of the solution would be to go after the companies that advertise on these networks. Once a GM or Circuit City is sued (or at least publicly embarassed) for advertising in this manner, much of the adware revenue will dry up and the adware companies will cease to exist.
It also seems that all adware companies claim to provide valuable services in exchange for viewing the ads generated by their software. For zango.com to claim that it provides over $500 worth of content per year is laughable. For the average consumer, there is nothing on the web that is worth $500 or even $5. One example is meetup.com. Since announcing a plan to charge they have lost most of their members and are continuing to hemorrage as people jump to other services that are still free.
Also to blame is the current lack of diversity in computer hardware/software. Since the vast majority of computers are based on the same architecture and run the same operating system with the same integrated web browser, it is only too easy to exploit holes in this one system to guarantee that one's adware has a large install base. I am not advocating that people switch en masse to Linux (not pratical for most people at this time) or even to using Firefox in Windows (somewhat more practical), but there needs to be a number of different operating systems (both open-source and proprietary) and web browsers from different companies with differing philosophies that have significant market share to make it more difficult to guarantee that the software can be installed on a particular computer.
Finally, the fact that these companies seem to be targeting children is particularly troubling. Naive parents may be partly to blame (why any parent would allow a child to run as a privileged user on a computer is incomprehensible), but the idea that any company, legitimate or not, would aggresively target children with insidious advertising is beyond the pale. This alone should be enough of a reason for these companies to be put out of business.
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- Hello my fellow computer user's.
I'm 42 years old and have been using the Internet for mass
communication back in the day when the internet was in DOS
The user's back then were really cool and followed a serious
code of helping one another. Like if you needed some bit of
information, you would have at least 100 user's reply with what
ever information you needed and it was all for free,
But today is just like a massive ocean of filth where almost
everyone and every company is trying to get your money by any
means. and i am here to tell you that 180SOLUTIONS are the
biggest lowlifes on the Net.
I spend 60 to 80% of my time searching and removing spyware
and adware from every single person I know and don't.
Those programs are coded to stop an antispyware programs
from removing the spyware but crashing your system, openning
hundreds of internet explorer windows until the system crashes,
changes everything about a person's computer.
I'm not your average computer user.
I just really love the technology since I first saw the movie
WarGames which was the newest thing back in the day.
Everything I do with computers is self taught, just like my
awesome fighting skills.
I only beat the crap out of bad guys and wonna-be bullies.
Sorry for jumping off subject but I really HATE these nerds that
write those f#@king programs.
Born In Brooklyn, Raised in The Bronx.
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- ADWARES have no place in Business
- There is nothing an ADWARE can do to improve its image. It has no right to install itself into the systems of other people. They have to be on the guard all the time. I have antivirus software, antispy software. Yet one adware found a way to get past all this anteverything software and set up its search Engine right at the bottom of my laptop. Every sec my software keeps asking me for my approval for the change in my applications or for addition of new software. Is this what the Adware trying to do? I don't need its alerts. what are my anti-everything software for?
The time has come to ditch this system of doing business. The time has come to adopt a new method of delivering the internet service that is server based rather than client based. This client based interne service has caused agony for everybody. It should be put out of business.
A case is made for this new way to deliver the Internet service at
http://wirelessera.rediffblogs.com
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