Operating Systems: The Battle Rages on

I've never understood the "which one is better" debate over operating systems. The entire concept of the debate is asinine. Sure everyone can have a preference, but the whole point and specialties of the various systems allow them to all be decent in their own little ways. Today, I'll look at these system's strengths and weaknesses.

Get Savaged - Savage World: Deluxe

My preorder for Savage Worlds: Deluxe has arrived.  The book is a full-sized hard-bound (vice Explorer size).  I've been pouring over this version and can say I'm hooked.

The only issue will be converting to the new system will take some time.

Free RPG Day

Saturday June 18th is the annual Free RPG Day.  If you're a tabletop gamer or would like to take a crack at the wonders of tabletop gaming stop by your nearby RPG realtor and get a free game you can take home and play.

All the games come with quick play rules, so just stop by.  While you're there give your local realtor some business and get some dice for your new game! (since the only thing not included would be the dice)

This is a great way to try the tabletop RPG hobby without shelling out too much money.  I recommend everyone to head to a participating store.

If you can't get one of these games provided by the leading tabletop RPG developers, that's OK!  Most RPG stores have a play floor and likely you can jump in on the many games running there.  You just need dice, a pencil and a piece of paper or two.

See you at the gaming store!

Star Wars Online: The Old Republic or How to Lose Friends in One Blog Post

Star Wars Online is shaping up to be the next big MMO release this year.  Looking at the concepts planned Bioware is piping out very interesting concepts.  One of the big ones includes your own posse of NPCs, not unlike one of the single player games that they are known for.

The game has many things going for it:
- One of the most recognized IPs (Intellectual Properties) around
- Sci-Fi is a relatively untapped market with only Star Wars Galaxies (defunct), Star Trek Online and EvE Online as major contenders.
- The game is chronologically in a timeframe where there would be numerous Jedi... unlike Galaxies.
- It is being created by Bioware.  The company that has created many classic games based in Forgotten Realms (Neverwinter Nights) and Star Wars (Knights of the Old Republic).
- There are a variety of new concepts in the game to make the playability new and interesting.

Also, if you really like the game and are anticipating it here's a video.

All of these seem so wonderful it must be bound to succeed right?

WoW and Rift

Due to a long absence from WoW, I have decided that... well, I'm bored of it.  So, my short break became an extended one, then I sort of quit.

I'm not sure if it was the boring gear grind, the time required to do a dungeon, the boredom of the same PvP, or the fact that the new expansion seemed a bit lack luster in the end.  Hell, it could even be the fun I was having with my daughter that was better, then circling a zone over and over for ore.

So, I was sans game for weeks, but then there's Rift...

This is not a good idea (Class Action Lawsuit)

There is a thread on the new blizzard forums about an angry costumer trying to initiate a class action lawsuit in regard to Blizzard's World of Warcraft product.  See the thread here.

Here's the important pieces to this article (in the event Blizzard decides to remove the thread).

I would like to get everyone’s interest in filing a class action lawsuit against Blizzard. If you read the technical support and customer service forums you will see that Blizzard has far too many issues that they chose to ignore. The majority of fixes on these forums are corrected by the clients of the software. If you have experienced any of the following after installing Blizzards software, you should respond to this thread.

Legonia, Warcraft, and other things

In the Legonia Project...
It's official, I have to start over.  Unfortunately, the current version of Fractal Terrains doesn't support river design properly, but the people at ProFantasy were kind enough to hand me the beta for the next version to fix the issue.

The down side is due to the changes in the system my world is a bit broken when transferred.  Honestly I wasn't that happy with the original design anyway, so I've done the initial starts on the new world.  So far I'm much happier with the new results.  So although I've gotten a minor setback I think it was for the best.

In the World of Warcraft...
My wife and I decided to x-fer our toons back to our old server since we have so many friends there and supporting alts that staying with my real life friends on their server was painful.  Also their guild was a "super guild" supporting over 300 characters (and only a few alts), but only doing two 25 man groups.

There were also some server/battlegroup issues such as: no PvP on the server due to a lack of Alliance participation, 15 min queue to lose battlegrounds, similarly horrific heroic queue (addmittedly this is likely because I'm DPS).

Meanwhile, I'm trying to get some things finished before the next expansion.  The tiger mount is likely a bust, but I might be able to finish Seeker and Loremaster.

Also, I found my missing DPS for my rogue.  I think I was misunderstanding the new AEP weights, but now with my new gems and my reforged gear I hit 17k single target DPS on the Saurfang fight, before I had to back down about 5k due to aggro concerns.  Doing that kind of damage on one target has it's disadvantages, as seen in the Deathwhisper fight where I died by hitting an abomination too hard.

In other news...
I'm avoiding the bad two topics right now , but there is a few things upsetting me and I may create another blog to keep those rants in a warning blog.  We'll see what happens.