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Hubsch, Lehn, Zoubek & Hautzinger's approach to improvised music is driven by a mixture of mechanically and electronically generated sounds forming a vividly structured architecture of layers and sonic landscapes.
LHZ + H : Thomas Lehn, Carl Ludwig Hubsch, Philip Zoubek, Franz Hautzinger
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Released in: Poland
"Hübsch, Lehn, Zoubek & Hautzinger's approach to music is driven by amalgamation of mechanically and electronically generated sounds. Sounds, allocated to electronic music, are generated by mechanic means and vice versa.But more characteristic for the music of this ensemble is the vividly structured architecture of multilayers and sonic landscapes. Chamber composition created in the peak of the moment.
Thomas Lehn
Born in Fröndenberg (Germany) in 1958. Since the early 1980s Thomas Lehn has been working as a author and performer of contemporary music. After studying recording engineering - piano with Prof. Wilfried Kassebaum - at the Music Academy of Detmold in Germany, studies at the Music Academy of Cologne with Peter Degenhardt and Prof. Klaus Oldemeyer (classical piano) and with Frank Wunsch and Francis Coppieters (jazz piano) completed his academical education. In the 80ies he took part on courses of Studio for pianistic interpretation held by Prof. Jürgen Uhde.
As an interpreting pianist he has been playing concerts since 1982 - performing both contemporary new music including numerous first performances and traditional composed music of the classical and romantical period. In 1989 he initiated the chamber ensemble Trio Dario and four years later the Mengano Quartett, performing compositions of the contemporary avant- garde, in particular numerous first performances of comissioned works.Developed parallel to his work as a pianist, since the early 1990s his major and widely known work has been performing and producing live-electronic music. Rooted in the experience of a wide spectrum of musical fields based on his background as an interpreting and improvising pianist in classical-, contemporary and jazz-music and being involved in numerous other projects like music theatre, dance, multi-media, studio pre-/post-production etc., he has been developing an individual 'language' of electronic music.
The electronic equipment he uses consists of analogue synthesizers of the late 1960s, and since 1994 in particular the EMS Synthi A. Besides the substantial characteristics of its analogue sound synthesis, the facilities of this modular instrument - for example to modify electronic sounds very directly as well as to combine and to control several parameters of the sound synthesis at the same time - allows him to spontaneously act and react in close contact with the various structural degrees of the musical process.
In 2000 his solo album Feldstärken has been released on German label Random Acoustics.
His ensemble activities include duets with: Gerry Hemingway and Marcus Schmickler, whos CDs Tom & Gerry and Bart has been released on Erstwhile Records; Günter Christmann, who published the CD temps durée on his own label edition explico; Eugene Chadbourne and Paul Lovens, with whom he published c inside and Achtung on grob. Other duett partners are Italian violinist Tiziana Bertoncini, Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber and French pianist Frédéric Blondy.
Major trio collaborations are KONK PACK with Tim Hodgkinson and Roger Turner (CDs Big Deep, Warp Out and off leash published on GROB), TOOT with Phil Minton and Axel Dörner (CD one on SOFA), THERMAL with John Butcher and Andy Moor (CD Thermal on unsounds), FUTCH with Jon Rose and Johannes Bauer (CD Futch on Jazzwerkstatt).Larger ensembles are the vario 34 sextet with Günter Christmann, Alexander Frangenheim, Mats Gustafsson, Paul Lovens and Christian Munthe (vario-34 and water writes only in plural released by edition explico and concepts of doing), and last, but not least MIMEO, the Music in Movement Electronic Orchestra (which released queue, electric chair & table and, in collaboration with John Tilbury, The Hands of Caravaggio).More recent projects are the ensemble]h[iatus, an ensemble for interpretation and improvisation of contemporary music (in collaboration with Le Quan Ninh, Martine Altenburger a.m.o.), Close Up a trio with French saxophonist Bertrand Gauguet and Austrian quartertone trumpet player Franz Hautzinger, as well as a trio with Günter Christmann and Roger Turner, and ITI, a quartet with reed player Ken Vandermark, trombonist Johannes Bauer and drummer Paal Nilsson-Love.
Thomas Lehn has been touring in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungaria, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.He has been involved in projects promoted and/or supported by Goethe-Institute in Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Lille, London, Manchester, Marseille, Montreal, Rome, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw, Wellington and York.
Carl Ludwig Hübsch
Born in Freiburg, Carl Ludwig Hübsch grew up playing clarinet in the local brass band and drums in punk- and rock bands. Around 83 he exchanged the clarinet for a tuba. Mostly self teached, he explored all kinds of music including a wonderful mediocre dance music trio. Musical roots to be mentioned are Frank Zappa, King Sunny Ade, The Dead Kennedys ...
The discovery of Jazz and Improvisation led to studies in Improvisation with M.A.Fataah. Hübsch received certification at the Pedagogic College in Freiburg in singing, theory, drums. He studied electronic music with Klaus Weinhold. In Cologne he studied as guest in the composition class with Johannes Fritsch. Since 1990 Carl Ludwig Hübsch has lived in Cologne where he finally awarded a livelong stipendium at his own university.Hübsch's work focusses on Improvised Music and Conteporary Music. He composes and performs in concert halls, studios and theatres lending his talents to ensembles and orchestras. He`s well known for his unique solo concerts. He leads Workshops for tuba or improvisation. Another most important focus on Hübsch's work is Composition.
Besides his own project like Hübsch's Longrun Development of the Universe, Drift and Hübsch's Primordial Soup he founded the ENSEMBLE X and co-leads the Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra together with Matthias Schubert and Frank Gratkowski. Hübsch is part of many collective projects and ensembles and works as side man in various projects. Carl Ludwig Hübsch performed with musicians like Michiel Braam, Thomasz Stanko, Paul Lytton, Lester Bowie, Jasper vant Hof, Paul Lovens, Ernst Reijseger, Angelika Sheridan, Peter Keller, Thomas Lehn, Martin Theurer, Gunda Gottschalk, Axel Dörner, Ute Völker, Gino Robair, Philip Zoubek, Le Quan Ninh, Michel Doneda, Scott Fields, Michael Vorfeld, Uwe Oberg, Ulrich Phillipp, Franz Hautzinger, Sebastian Gramss, Nils Wogram, Frank Köllges, Udo Moll a.m.o. throughout the planet.
Philip Zoubek
Piano, prepared piano, keyboards (1978) was born in Tulln an der Donau. He studied jazz piano at the Viennese Conservatorium, taking lessons from Reinhard Micko. After the conservatorium he studied under Hans Lüdemann at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. He now plays in various jazz and improv ensembles in Cologne, Vienna, Zurich and Berlin, including Ensemble Creativ, Org, Cauldron, Camera Obscura, Ubik, James Choice Orchestra and Muche/Zoubek/Tang. With the group Snaut he experiments with the versmelting of speech and voice.The project Q-Spektrum, a multimedia composition with Ensemble Cauldron, was presented on DVD, thanks to support from governmental and educational organisations. This project, which received the Kompositionspreis 2002, experiments with symbiotic inter-related auditive and visual compositional processes, concepts and presentations which motivate, strengthen and link back to each other. At present Philip Zoubek is mainly occupied with his own ensemble Philz.
Franz Hauzinger
Detours often lead to more thrilling goals because they open up new perspectives. Franz Hautzinger has taken long and bendy detours and turned to many dead ends, he has spent years without instrumental activity and has made a hopeful new start. All this, those victories and defeats, this "History from the Total Crash to 'Emergency Individualism'", as he himself described it, made Franz Hautzinger the highly profiled musical personality that he is today.
Born on March 11, 1963 in Seewinkel, Burgenland, a Hannibal Marvin Peterson concert at Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf was the young trumpeter's "awakening experience". He studied at the Jazz department of today's Art University in Graz from 1981 to1983 until lip palsy forced him to take a six year total break from trumpeting. After moving to Vienna in 1986 he started in 1989 to explore the trumpet in his very own and un-academic way. He became attached to the circles around Christoph Cech and Christian Mühlbacher, played in the Big Band "Nouvelle Cuisine" and the octet "Striped Roses"; the CD "Zong of se Boboolink", which he recorded with saxophonist Helge Hinteregger and which was influenced by sampler collages was the first personal CD statement. His 10 month stay in London provided new ideas and contacts, amongst others Kenny Wheeler, Henry Lowther, John Russel, and Steve Noble. Hautzinger assimilated the stimuli in very different ways: in"Regenorchester" ("Rain Orchestra") with its changing instrumentation, in the quartet with Helge Hinteregger, Oren Marshall and Steve Noble as well as in the trio "Speakers' Corner" with guitarist Martin Siewert and drummer Wolfgang Reisinger.
The conscious decision to avoid electronic sound sources but to still comprehend the development of digital music on the trumpet - the quarter tone trumpet purchased in 1997 - were decisive stages for the creation of Franz Hautzinger's sensational solo trumpet CD "Gomberg" (2000) on which he presented this new until then unheard cosmos of sound that he had developed on his instrument.Hautzinger positioned himself with "Gomberg" at the front line of the international improvisation avant-garde; collaborations and CD records with Derek Bailey, the "AMM" veterans Keith Rowe and John Tilbury as well as Axel Dörner, Christian Fennesz or Otomo Yoshihide, and Sachiko M followed. The step into the world of decelerated sound microscopy and from 2003 on the re-discovery of musical sensualism, the confrontation of his trumpet sounds with groove and tunes ("Regenorchester XI" and XII) can be considered as important stages in his development. Franz Hautzinger teaches at the Vienna Music University since 1989, is a member of the Berliner Ensemble "Zeitkratzer" since 1999 and received comissions from Klangforum Vienna amongst others. He is a globetrotter whose unmistakeable musical signature is known from Vienna to Berlin, London to Beirut, or in Tokyo, New York, and Chicago. Franz Hautzinger has shown that even in times where postmodernism is history an instrument can still be reinvented."-Monotype Records
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> I used to swear by cast iron pots and pans, but lately I've taken a liking
> to copper bottomed steel pots and pans. Even if something does stick (and
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I generally use large stainless pans and stuff too, but there are some
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> Bill and I hope to use either stone or ceramic tiles on the kitchen floor
> when we can catch up financially. My folks had tiny little mosaic sized
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> renovated when we sold her house. It does mean you need to pick the style
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Process oils are as ever present as they are important to our everyday lives. As consumer demand changes, we at Nynas adjust to move forward with it.
Picture the scene. A man is riding the train home from work, he gets comfortable and takes his shoes off while he adjusts his glasses to focus on the news headlines on his iPad. He wonders if he'll make it home in time to get his children ready for bed. Then he spots an advert on a discarded newspaper for a cruise aimed at pensioners, prompting him to think about his elderly parents.
Our fictive man is probably unaware that he is surrounded by process oils. They go into the plastic on the frame of his glasses as well as the rubber soles on his shoes. Demand for process oils to make battery separators, used in the tablet computer he's replaced his morning paper with, has never been higher. His thoughts go to the wellbeing of his family - plasticising oils go into the adhesives for baby diapers and adult incontinence products, a growing market as populations get older.
At Nynas, we always try to develop products that fit the needs of the future requirements for our customers. Naturally, this means we adapt to the changing market.
Demographic changes, for instance, mean more people can now afford consumer electronics, which drives growth for batteries and process oils as a result. On the flipside, the publishing industry that we supply with printing inks has been hit by falling readership, so we are developing our oils to be used in inks for digital printing on ceramics.
In the future, the solvency of naphthenics will be used to enhance end product performance that cannot be achieved with other oils. There is a need for process oils with very low volatility and high levels of purity, particularly so considering how tightly regulated our industry is.
Consumer trends indicate that the need for naphthenic process oils will continue to rise. The chemical industry doesn't stand still, and neither do we at Nynas.
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I've seen a lot of Seiko Divers watches in this thread, and have to say, I am impressed.
I now look online to see if I can find any of them to buy, but am kind of confused with all the models.
Any 101 on Seiko Divers? Also, is there a place online where I can find and buy them (except eBay)?
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I've seen a lot of Seiko Divers watches in this thread, and have to say, I am impressed.
I now look online to see if I can find any of them to buy, but am kind of confused with all the models.
Any 101 on Seiko Divers? Also, is there a place online where I can find and buy them (except eBay)?
www.seiyajapan.com and www.higuchi-inc.com/index-e.htmlpost #3634 of 66423/11/14 at 5:58pm
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What about this bronze watch?
It seems to be the only decent kickstarter watch. I dial looks plastic like, but the creator is trying to fix that. Most bronze watches with cusn8 seem to start at 800.
Check out this thread, you'll find all the info about the watch here as well as a ton of discussion.
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I've seen a lot of Seiko Divers watches in this thread, and have to say, I am impressed.
I now look online to see if I can find any of them to buy, but am kind of confused with all the models.
Any 101 on Seiko Divers? Also, is there a place online where I can find and buy them (except eBay)?
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www.seiyajapan.com and www.higuchi-inc.com/index-e.html
TheWrait posted my two favorite sources but http://www.creationwatches.com/ is another good one for Seiko Divers and they seem to replenish their inventory a bit more frequently than Seiya or Higuchi.post #3637 of 66423/16/14 at 2:11pmQuote:
I'm extremely pleased with the result.
Great work by MCWW:
-case was refinished to remove a ding on the left side of the case and a prominent scratch on the side of the bottom right lug
-movement regulated
-dial, hands and chapter ring replaced (parts from Dagaz)
-crystal replaced (sapphire crystal from yobokies)
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Check out this thread, you'll find all the info about the watch here as well as a ton of discussion.
so glad i found this, just a few days up on that deadline too! hahapost #3639 of 66423/19/14 at 3:30pm
post #3640 of 66423/19/14 at 8:27pmSeiko divers come at varied price points. Seiko 5 divers can be had for well under $200, Prospex divers $500-$Thousands. There are some in between as well.
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You'll need to figure out what level of quality and features you want. For instance if you want a hacking movement you'll want to go Prospex.
Don't forget vintage!post #3641 of 66423/20/14 at 8:44am
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Hello, could anyone give me a check if the following watch is authentic and what price range they usually go for?
Sea-gull M177s
Here is the ebay description given:
Offering rare and popular model M177S from Sea-Gull. Watch is with amazing silver dial, in stainless steel, and leather strap (after market).
They don't manufacture this model anymore and it's sold out everywhere. Very hard to find - COLLECTOR'S ITEM!!!!!
Complications: Date, Automatic.
Watch info:
Movement: ST16.
Width: 40mm (not including crown)
Width: 43mm (including crown)
Lug Width: 20mm
Lug to Lug: 47mm
Quality of this watch is outstanding, precise finish, fantastic silver dial, see-through back. This is a lot of watch for your money!
Watch comes complete without boxes or paperwork, I am selling just the watch.
This watch is in good condition, minor scratches and signs of handling. My pics show some dust and fingerprints, but watch looks much better in person.
The movement is accurate and all of the complications function precisely.post #3642 of 66423/20/14 at 10:20ampost #3643 of 66423/20/14 at 11:28amI doubt anyone is making fake Seagulls.
Also, I suspect they are different sizes. The Seiko 5 is likely 36mm, while the Seagull looks to be almost Panerai size.
The seagull will also feature at least some hand finishing, as evidenced by the movement. I suspect there's a plastic spacer hidden by the case back, and the date and 3 looks goofy to me. That said its a few steps up from a Seiko 5.post #3644 of 66423/20/14 at 11:32ampost #3645 of 66423/20/14 at 1:29pm
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Go for a Seiko 5, just know that they usually come with folded link bracelets that aren't worth keeping. Sea-Gull has too much writing on the dial, the "since 1955" part is totally obnoxious and indices always look better than Arabic numerals, IMO, especially on something that isn't an obvious sport watch.Return HomeBack to Forum: Classic Menswear
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UO was my first, and I've never forgotten her. Over the years I've played em all, well almost - never got much into the sci-fi ones other than SWG. I can tell you though, anyone who played that game and allowed themselves to really dive in, still thinks about going back, and what it might be like. Just this month I cancelled my account for the first time, ever... and I started playing back in 97.
I sincerely hope they have plans of redoing this game, BUT with many cautions in place. If you try to change too much of this game, it will fail, and it will fail more quickly than Warhammer and AiC (if that's possible for AoC). If there are any stabs at remaking this game, you must keep it simple. The game survived for as long as it did with a VERY limited amount of content compared to what's out there now, and they did it by keeping things simple.
Off the UO topic for a sec though, I would love to also see an attempt at EQ again, whether it be a remake or an EQ3. Try to make this one have the addiction factor of EQ1 though plz Content overload is killing these games, too much space equals empty areas. No one wants to play solo all the time, and if you do, why are you paying $15+ a month for something you could do on your 360. The social factor is what promotes competition, and it's competition that drives addiction - That's what the next great remake should be based off.
I agree with the premise, and those are worthy candidates. But how could you omit EverQuest? EQ was bigger than all of them - before WoW it dominated the genre. EQ is the template on which most of the later games were built. There's a lot of folks out there who played EQ who would love to see a remake - with updated graphics, and based on the classic game - the first three years, when the original dev team were in charge. This one is top of my "I can't believe they haven't done it yet" list. :-)
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On September 25th, the MMO industry turned 12 years old. In 1997, Origin launched Ultima Online and while it wasn't the first multi-player RPG (MUDs) or even the first one with graphics (Meridian 59), it was the first commercially visible game to hit the market and set off a chain of events that led to more half assed, poorly translated imported MMOs than anyone can possibly imagine.
You are wrong. The first graphical mmo was Neverwinter Nights for AOL. It was released 4 years before Meridian 59.
Get your facts straight.
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"On September 25th, the MMO industry turned 12 years old. In 1997, Origin launched Ultima Online and while it wasn't the first multi-player RPG (MUDs) or even the first one with graphics (Meridian 59), "
Why does everyone say Meridian 59 was the 1st graphical MMO? Especialy if you are writing an article you should put in the effort to look these things up.
From wikipedia:
"Meridian 59, the first commercial, 3D massively multiplayer game, was developed by Archetype Interactive and published in September 1996 by 3DO."
"The Realm was launched in March 1995 for Windows personal computers. It was designed in the tradition of graphical MUDs, before the popular usage of the terms "massively multiplayer" and "MMORPG"." Refering to Sierra's The Realm Online.
Meridian 59 was not the 1st graphical MUD, it was the 1st 3D MUD. The Realm gets no respect, sigh.
I even played The Realm, you're right I should have mentioned it there, but the larger point is moot since that's not where I was counting from.
Sorry, M59 still appears on our list, The Realm has long since disappeared as far as I know. I simply forgot it when sorting by age.
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Nice article. However too bad my favorite is not there.
I am willing to pay a 50$ monthly subscription for working remake of original Shadowbane.
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Originally posted by Campana
If you want a UO remake, Mortal Online is the one:
The guy who started this has said the best gaming years of his life happened in UO and he wants to recreate that.
MO has only 1st person style though and that will drive many ppl out of it, and a mmorpg to to survive and succed you need big numbers of ppl playing it from start otherwise it will have financial problems and thats bad for every game's future.
In regards to a MMO requiring big numbers of people playing from the start to make it I believe you are incorrect. I have been playing EVE since 2003 and that game started as a very small game and we were a very very small community (~20K.) The game has done great and been a huge success, growing a lot every year (~300K.)
I would say for a large company like EA or SOE you are correct in that it needs huge numbers at the start to make it. But for indi companies it is much better to grow the game with the playerbase. And this is much more important in a game like EVE, UO or MO that has so many sandbox aspects to it.
CCP did it right with starting EVE small with a small community, it is to be seen how Star Vault will do with remaking UO with MO. I hope MO turns out great as it is time for a game like that.
For MMO's, I am looking for a new or fresh experience rather than I remake of a game I no longer play.
I played DAoC long after release. At that stage the company was updating the game to:
If an old game is still making money, maintaining a game so that it is still playable is one way of extending the income stream and may be a better option than risking venture capital on a complete remake.
City of Heroes is a great game. Don't be put off by some of the above posts that discount the game because it does not match their preferred game style.
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Originally posted by Campana
If you want a UO remake, Mortal Online is the one:
The guy who started this has said the best gaming years of his life happened in UO and he wants to recreate that.
MO has only 1st person style though and that will drive many ppl out of it, and a mmorpg to to survive and succed you need big numbers of ppl playing it from start otherwise it will have financial problems and thats bad for every game's future.
Yea I'm a huge UO fan but these 1st person view wannabe remakes are really turning me off. The top-down angle is one of the reasons I loved UO. I think someone above here said it best in that another UO would have to be top-down view with todays graphics otherwise you just have a mediocre MMO trying to come off as "hardcore". UO never had any kind of hardstance on "this is a hardcore game BRO" it was just a sandbox MMO that allowed the community to run the end game.
These Darkfalls and this MO game is nothing like UO if only for the fact that it is in the 1st person view.
The Realm was pretty fun, it would be interested to see it remade into 3D.
Shadowbane should definitely be on the list. The depth of character customisation was incredible. Haven't played a game in which I could make the same class in so many different ways, or play the same spec group in so many different ways. This depth also resulted in incredible PvP as you were always adapting and adjusting your spec group and strategies based off who you were fighting (and if you were on Lore, one fight would be versus a Vampire Necro spec, then a Centuar Prelate spec, a Mino Polarearm or a Dwar Chucker spec... There was incredible variety.) which brought an amazing challenge, especially if you were the one leading your group.
I would pay a hefty fee to play Shadowbane on a better engine with a good population.
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I cant say I read this through entirely, simply because I am not conversant with all of the games covered.
I do think its an excellent article with a very good and strong point.
From my perspective, there are too many games out there vying for our time and attention and too many of those are either outright rubbish (rubbish beyond any influence of any objective personal opinion) or are merely a flashy graphics front end pasted on top of old, outworn, poorly implemented ideas and game engines that are so simplistic as to baffle their description as MMO.
Strangely enough, one game that you would have to consider as being worth a remake would be Conquest Online. Pretty poor on the graphics front, with and extermely simple class and combat system, its nevertheless a great game for both group and solo play.
As for those you mentioned AC was a game I never really liked and maybe a spruce up of the graphics and general game mechanics would result in a decent hack and slash.
UO maybe once had some sort of glory, when people were actually there to play with, but I cant say I ever saw that, and, tbh, the hard to see graphics and eye frazzling colour contrasts put me off it almost immediately. Stick Baldur's Gate quality graphics on it and maybe it would be worth some attention.
Perhaps, in some ways, Wurm Online is the remake of UO, having a 3D environment with gorgeous graphics and complete freedom to pursue whatever skills you are interested in right up to the point where the buildings and items you construct are repsresented as part of the landscape. This game is well worth a look if you like Ultima Online.
As an original player of EQ, EQII and AO, I look back with sad nostalgia to the days when the servers were packed with eager, fun loving players in games where team work was an ultimate requirement to success. The same can be said of the revivified DDO.
All of these games, in spite of looking slightly aged with respect to their graphics are games that have eternal appeal, simply because the games themselves are incredibly well written, well balanced and have that immersive quality that any good MMO must have to be recorded in the annals of the glorious.
However, it is not any datedness or inadequacy of these games that would suggest a remake, or necessarily that any of them need any sort of remake, since what makes a game great is not it graphics but its playability.
What really needs a rethink, and all MMO's really have to consider this issue, is how they are marketed.
With the advent of WoW we saw a type of self destructive, predatorial marketing that encourages people, especially younger players, to focus on uberism, soloing and deemphasis of what actually gives an MMO lasting appeal to all age groups, ie the social group play aspect that causes the game to be more than just a computer program but a leisure passtime that is as fun and fascinating as any other passtime that involves interaction with other people.
Its the people that lend the dynamism, fun and excitement in the longterm. No people = no game.
The younger players grow up. They want more from a game than an online solo FPS/RPG in a huge environment. When the game has become too focussed on solo play, the players are inhibited from creating the social environment that would keep those players as they begin to want more from the game than just personal achievement .. as they begin to want the achievement of working well with others.
Those players then leave the game they played to try to find a game that offers that missing something but, all games suffering from that migrational inclination in a market where there are almost more games than players, the market as a whole actually starts to lose players, driving them away with its own cheap marketing policies, with the end result that every game currently, good or bad, is suffering from depopulation.
The solution, perhaps, is not for the games that led the way and are still the best to be revamped, but for those games to be recognised by us for what they always were and still are .. the most playable games on the market.
In return, the companies running those games need to do two things. They must ensure that their player population is not split destructively across multiple servers.
Every game has an effective minimum population which seems to be about 75% of what the developers estimate as the maximum population which the servers at the time could handle.
All the games mentioned are old and were developed for much less powerful hardware. Were each of the companies responsible to invest in more modern servers, capable of twice the population load, and then merge the populations of the current servers so that the new more powerful servers ended up with between 75% and 125% of that initial maximum estimate, then all their servers would be sufficiently highly populated to make the game attractive to new players looking for other players to play with.
Assuming, our hope, that those games then attracted more players, their servers could then be split at around the 150-175% population mark to create new servers to handle incoming population.
Remember that all those old games were written in times when the computer at home was much less powerful, when our internet connections were much less capable. Client side lag, which was a common cause of frustration in the past, should be nearly non-existent in those games now. Similarly, there is no reason for there to be server side lag in older games, given that today's server hardware and internet connections are also to the order of seven times more capable.
Running servers that can cope with twice the initial estimated maximum population should be trivial. Thus consolidating existing populations to make games that much more attractive to new or returning players should be, more or less, simply a matter of investing in servers capable of doing so.
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Dungeons & Dragons Online, 13 Fighter <Knights of Shadow>, Keeper(?)
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Another game in desperate need of revisioning is Diablo3.
It's not even released yet, and I can already tell it will not live up to the standards of the hardcore diablo fans.. It has the look and feel of a diablo game, but none of the key character customization features that made the previous games so enjoyable. It is going to be a major letdown if it ever does release, since for me Diablo&D2 were and still are my top favourite RPG's of all time.
Don't know if it was mentioned, but didn't they kind of try to re-do Ultima Online with Ultima Online Worlds and Ultima X? Not sure of how much money was wasted on those two ventures, but with the market as flooded as it is now with MMORPG's I don't see it happening any time soon unfortunately.
Exactly how is it that people forget the past so quickly? Meridian 59 is listed as an afterthought to UO when talking about the first MMO? Meridian 59 was old and grey by the time UO went into Beta.
Even worse, nobody seems to remember the other original MMO, NeverWinter Nights.
(And somebody stick a sock in the mouth of the first noob that pipes up with "NWN isn't an MMO, and it only came out a few years ago"... FFS. And here I was starting to get the impression that most of the online gaming community were getting to the age where nobody bothered to card them anymore....)
For those who don't remember: NWN (now known as ONWN in light of the new, less impressive games) was an old-school D&D Gold Box game, but online and in a massively (for the time) multiplayer, persistant world. (I think the popcap at that time was 250, later raised to 500? Which was actually damn impressive for the early 90s.) Like M59 it was hosted by an internet service (in this case, AOHell... back in the day when it cost $2.50 an hour to be logged in... Ouch!) There were GMs and farming, level grinds and PvP. There was even epic gear that had to be purchased with live event and PvP ladder rewards. It had virtually all of the trappings of the modern MMO, but with an oldschool graphics engine.
Like a lot of older gamers (man, am I really using the term 'older'?...) I actually kind of apreciated the low end graphics to a certain degree as it fostered more imagination which in turn gives the game more immersion and flexibility. Until graphics and content bloat can catch up to the capabilities of the mind (not to far off with the level of customization we're starting to see in some of the next gen games), the old games still have that one thing going for them.
As for a remake of ONWN? I think DDO kind of nailed that one. I actually started playing DDO (this year, after it had had time to mature a bit) because of it's nostalgia value from ONWN.
I played UO from Beta to late 2003, and I have to agree with the op. If they took the game back to it's original roots and update it a little in the graphics department, I'd come back.
UO was and still is the most original MMO ever made.
Awesome. However I think I would put DAoC as number one. I loved that game so much... really brought MMORPG's to the forefront of my gaming time.
Asheron's Call "the lands of Dereth"
One super gigantic unzoned world
No classes
No non human races
AC2 only connection to AC 1 was it was 1000s of years after AC1
When you remake a game you need to keep fun elements of the original game, not throw the whole game out make a brand new game.
Asheron's Call, Champions Online, Dark Age of Camelot, EVE Online, EverQuest, Lineage 2, Star Wars Galaxies and World of Warcraft.Waiting for SWTOR
This list was pretty good. I agree with pretty much all of them.
COH is a good game. But even in its heydey, its fans wanted more from it. This was supposed to be Champions Online. But IMHO, they changed the formula too much and didn't make as good a game as COH. So the world STILL needs a COH remake.
Great article and ideas.
I have always wondered why companies did not do this instead of making a never ending parade of awful MMO's.
I would agree that this is a real opportunity for some of these companies and yet it goes untapped.
I would support any effort if it was done on the right terms. By remake I would stress it would have to be just a remake. They should remake the engine and return to launch mechanics and begin anew and nothing more. Anything more and they have serious risk of failure. Complete failure. They should get the idea from everyone that cries about classic servers and begs to return to the original game and just do it simply. Remake the original game and nothing more.
I wholeheartedly agree about UO, or at least a game similar to that. As you said, it's amazing that no one has tried to rip off the concepts of UO like they did EQ ( WoW and everything else, though EQ ripped off DIKUMud).
I think I know the answer as to why no one has attempted it, and that is it's just plain hard to do right.Star Wars Galaxies came close in many ways. IMO the parts of the game that worked were the sandbox UO loike parts.Player housing/cities, the deep crafting system, exploration.Where they totally screwed the pooch was their crappy take on classes, unfinished or broken skill trees,etc.., and their total failure at making you feel like you were actually playing in the Star Wars universe. And the whole fiasco about how they introduced and handled Jedi into the game really pissed a lot of people off, including me.
Ultima Online is - hands down - the best game I ever ever played (and still playing for more than ten years). And hitting 37 in a couple of months, believe me, I played hundreds (if not thousands) of games since the early 80s.
Would I have to rate UO on a scale from 1 to 100 where UO is getting the 100, the second place would not even get above 50.
UO still - in its current state - wipes the floor with all those wannabe MMOs out there.
Personally: I consider all other MMOs out there totally crap (although I can not speak for Eve Online).
Sure, there are some nice games out there, e.g. Vanguard, Darkfall Online (do not believe the bad rating of that game), Mortal Online somewhere in the future, but all of them come not even close to UO. Theres great crafting in Vanguard, but where is the PvP? Darkfall Online as being a copy of UO has not implemented all parts of UO: where is the taming? Where is the stealing?
I honestly doubt that there will ever be another game with the same game depth as UO.
The Realm was launched in March 1995 for Windows personal computers. It was designed in the tradition of graphical MUDs, before the popular usage of the terms "massively multiplayer" and "MMORPG". You may of had to zone ever screen.. but the fights were fun, the quests were fun and I think it is what lead to EverQuest's success!.. until Wow came along..
I'd like to say, since I was a part of this eon, that the above show's clearly Merdain 59 was almost a full year after The Realm launched.. Even to this day I don't feel that Ultima Online held a candle to it.. Don't get me wrong I loved the Ultima RPG series, However, Ultima Online had way to many short falls, throughout its whole life..
The Realm Online will always be the Father of MMO's, at least for me!
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I must say UO being on top was no surprise. They ended up killing that game by adding more and more nonsense and making things easier to appease the instant gratification wants of the younger generations.
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South African Measures to Counter Spread of Ebola
South Africa's Department of Health has published a Cabinet decision with regards to measures to counter and control the potential spread of Ebola from West African countries where outbreaks have been reported. Cases of the disease have been reported in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, and recently an increase in the number of cases has been noted in the first three. The Department of Health has taken measures in South Africa to enhance surveillance
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U.S. Customs Inspectors Deployed to Rotterdam
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Crew Kidnapping Persists Despite Piracy Slowdown -Report
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NYK-TDG Maritime Academy Graduates Its Class of 2016
The NYK-TDG Maritime Academy (NTMA), which is located in the suburbs of Manila and jointly run by NYK and the Transnational Diversified Group (TDG), proudly graduated the 117 students comprising the academy's Class of 2016.
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Operation Atalanta Continues to Keep the Coast of Somalia Safe
The European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) welcomes the European Council's decision of 25 November to extend the mandate of Atalanta, the European Union's counter-piracy operation along the East African coast.
Dryad Expands VSM Service to Sulu Sea
With vessels and crew having become a recent target by the militant jihadist group Abu Sayyaf in the Sulu Sea, it has now become an area of high risk for mariners. Dryad is therefore expanding its Vessel Safety Monitoring (VSM) service to the Sulu Sea
Paris MoU Reports Decrease in 'Bans'
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Russian Warship made 'unprofessional' Maneuver-U.S. Official
A Russian warship carried out "unprofessional" maritime operations in close proximity to a U.S. Navy ship in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, a U.S. Defense official said on Friday. This is the second time the same Russian vessel has come within close proximity of a U.S
U.S. Accuses Russian Warship of Aggressive Maneuvers
A Russian warship carried out aggressive and erratic maneuvers close to a U.S. Navy ship in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the second such Cold War-style incident there in a matter of weeks, the U.S. military said on Saturday. The U.S. European Command said the Russian frigate, Yaroslav Mudry
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UK Cocaine Bust Nets Turkish Sailors 42 years
Two Turkish sailors were jailed for a total of 42 years on Friday after their attempt to smuggle a huge haul of cocaine into Europe was thwarted, partly due to some swift international co-operation between Britain and Tanzania. Some 3.2 tonnes of cocaine
NOAA Aid to Protect Marine Mammals
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IMRF Launches Children's Lifejacket Campaign
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Braemar Calls for More Training for reducing Ship Casualties
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Drewry Finds Risk of Carrier Failure Still High
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Reduction in Maritime Crime across World's Traditional 'hot spots' - Dryad
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Gas Tanker Attacked Near Key Shipping Lane Off Yemen
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This is the perfect step stool
By TAH
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About Me Avid Do-It-Yourselfer
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By Sometime I need to be taller
from New Hampshire & Maine
About Me Casual Do-It-Yourselfer
This stool is tall enough for me to reach whatever I need to. I have 3 now - two in the house and 1 in the apt. I'm lost without them and Grandson knows right where it is when he wants to use it too!!
Great Little Helper
By Ginny
from Wisconsin
The step stool proved invaluable in getting the house decorated for the holidays. Didn't need to get out the ladder at all. As an added bonus the box that the stool was delivered in was sturdy and just the right size to mail gifts to out-of-state family.
This is my second one
By Cori
from Las Cruces, NM
Love these little stools. They come in very handy. I store them in the closets so they are right there when I need to get something off the closet shelves.
It helps me reach the things just out of reach
By handy healper
from Atascadero CA
I gave it to my daughter to go in her trailer. It folds and tucks away in a small place.
Love it will be purchasing another soon
By Debbie
from NY
Perfect for the kids getting onto the bed in the camper and reaching the top shelves in the house.
I use this over and over for my tasks
By Gerald
from Missouri
Use it to get in and out of an SUV or similar vehicle
By ctryskydvr
from Cincy, OH
Great folding step stool or elevation stool under commode. White goes with anything w/out it sticking out like a sore thumb or so obvious. Cleans easily. It's small & compact & stores easily. Definitely recommend!
I keep one handy on both floors
By Nan Naa
from lake Village, AR
I use this stool often. I keep it in the kitchen to use to reach upper shelves. I use it to dust the top of the ceiling fans. I use it outside to sit and pick the blueberries.I an lost without one so I keep one on each level of my house.
Handy to have
By MJ
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Once I saw a paper,
That was glued to a tree
It had simple message
For you and for me
With red, crooked letters
That the author wrote
"Somebody is joking!"
Was first thing I thought
I stopped by to read it
Because well, you see
I had nothing better
At that time for me
" I search for a Hero!
If you're one then call"
Was what it was written
I raised my eyebrow
"I search for a Hero"
This kid must be nuts
He can search all he wants
But he won't have a chance
The Heroes from TV
They are in our heads
Those guys with the muscles
Those guys with the capes
They all are just fiction…
But then we are done…
Because there are villains
And they're more than one!
Who is going to save us?
Who is going to help?
Who is to prevent,
This world from its end?
I sat on a bench,
Looking straight to nowhere
Thinking of fiction Heroes
And the costumes they wear
I must have gone crazy
But that was what I thought
"The Heroes, must be real
They are someone you know"
The Heroes don't fly
They do not have magic arms
But there is no doubt
That they are among us
The Hero is waking,
By his alarm clock.
Gasps while complaining
That he wants to slack
The Hero is going to work
Or to school
Wearing sunglasses, and thinking-
He is cool
The Hero would rather,
Play games or sing songs
Instead he has to listen
And he has to work
The Hero is someone,
Who chats with his friends
His world of ideas
Don't have a single fence
The Hero is someone,
Who reads comic books
Pretending that he has
"Main character looks"
The Hero is one
Who'll stand up for his friends
Even knowing, that he
Is not the best defense
The justice don't matter
He fights not for world
But just for his closest
That's what he was taught
With face, blue from hitting
With one swollen eye
The Hero will smile, saying:
"I am fine!"
I pictured that smile
And smiled myself
This world. It is safe!
And we are not done!
The Heroes are still here
The Heroes – they LIVE!
I know it is stupid
But you have to believe!
You, me, everybody,
Got something inside
That helps us to stand up
And do what is right
We have greater powers
Than magic itself
Our hearts hold small fires
None can stop them
So, if you seek Hero,
You don't have to go
Just look in the mirror
And see what it'll show!
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We were established in 2003 to eliminate the many risks plaguing the rugby recruitment industry.
Our aim is to provide a professional and comprehensive service to all Players, Coaches and Clubs. We operate under three cornerstone values of honesty, integrity and professionalism.
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We are widely recognised as the market leader in this area. Managed from our New Zealand office, we source Players from within our major markets for placement with Clubs anywhere in the world seeking foreign Players to add value.
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- Open communication. We have a company-wide policy that all communication must be responded to within two working days.
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We have agents based in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland, as well as part-time agents based in key European markets. This provides a high level of security for our clients and ensures the arrangement runs as smoothly as possible.
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We give Clubs a six week period to assess a Player after his arrival. Should the Player not be up to first team standard, our fees are either refunded or credited to the Club. The Club must notify us of this during the six week probationary period.
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We match players to clubs/unions – depending on their requirements and style of play, their strengths and weaknesses and their aspirations and objectives for seeking a contract. This ensures that both parties get the most out of the arrangement.
We deal with over 500 clubs in ten countries around the world. This ensures that we are able to secure playing opportunities for players with varying preferences.
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We understand the comparable level of rugby around the world. We understand the ability of our clients and we take into consideration their objectives for seeking a contract.
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2002-2006- Sth Australian coaching staff at various levels.
2007-2016 General Manager Southern Districts Rugby Club in the Shute Shield- Sydney Premiership. Recruitment, retention , player welfare, administration, financial management, sponsorship.
I have spent that past 10 years working professionally in Rugby Union. Have close liaison with key stakeholders in Australian Rugby and relationships and alignment to many clubs and coaches. A strong working understanding of Rugby in Australia and experience in dealing with overseas players needs, desires and wants. Level III ARU coach
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There are three registration periods in the fall, spring and summer terms. What you can do in each period varies.
Registration-by-Appointment – By appointment only
- Eligible students may use self-service registration to add, drop or swap classes and change the basis of grading.
- NEW for Spring 2017!
- Wait listing for closed classes begins on the first day of registration, 7 wait-listed units maximum.
- Students in good standing may enroll in 16 units maximum as soon as registration begins.
- Registration in repeated courses is not permitted until later.
Nonrestrictive Registration – No appointment is necessary
- Access to online, self-service registration continues.
- Wait listing for closed classes continues.
- Enrolling in repeated courses is permitted beginning with the date specified in the calendars below.
Late Registration/Schedule Adjustment – Starts the first weekday of classes
- You may continue to add, drop, or swap classes and change the grading basis of a class online.
- Week 1: Wait listing continues. Permission is not required to add classes except for restricted classes.
- Weeks 2 & 3: Wait listing is not available. Permission is required to add all classes.
- Registration in repeated courses is permitted.
- Access to online self-service registration ends at 11:59 pm the third Friday of fall or spring classes.
Find more dates below. Learn more in the Registration Guide.