October 2007 Archives
This is part of something I posted this elsewhere but only certain eyes can see it:
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"I haven't played WoW or CoX much of late. Neither has really kept my interest. I think CoX is becoming a little too bloated trying to be like all the other multi-player games out there. Instead of fighting crime, you now spend a ton of time with inventions and auctions and all the rest of the crap. The game was supposed to be the comic book world come to a game. Yet, I really must have missed the issue where Superman was standing in an auction house yelling, "Batman is sure selling his utility belt a bit high now! WTF? I was going to buy that! I so wanted a batarang!" The devs are wanting to be too much like other games without giving villains an epic archtype still.
And WoW has a lot of grind time which gets a little old real fast but I can see where after a while of taking time away, the urge will bring me back. Happened before already."
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As of right now, I'll probably let all the games accounts expire that I have to pay for. If I don't play them, may as well not pay for them, right?
Originally, I was going to title this Q & A but just had to be different.
E-mailer Rob (among others but he was the first to ask so he gets the cred :) ) asked about the statement I made in the last entry about Storm would be in season 5 while the current one is only #46. For those who weren't here from the start of Spoomph V2, StormStrike #1 appeared in 2003. It took a couple of months off at the end of 2004 to synch up with the calendar year and restarted in January 2005. So as far as calendar years 2003 would be season 1, 2004 season 2 and so on to now 2007 being season 5.
E-mailer Jaime (like that name and might see it appear sooner or later concerning a vote on a power that was here a while back hint, hint) asked since I posted about games I play, can I share some of the names I have in the games. Well, lately I have been playing mostly Guild Wars. I don't think I will do Tabula Rasa and they may have had another server wipe since I played last so wouldn't help there. But my call sign was on the last time Marsden but since I don't play it anymore, it may or may not exist. CoX I have many and I haven't played that game really in months so may do no good looking there. WoW is kind of secret because I don't want a certain set to know and so I will not say openly because I told them back then that now was not the time to worry about me in there. But if they find themselves getting a few pot-shots from the other side of the fence, well... (innocent grin or is that sinister grin) Now, GW... my main is a paragon Heavnsent Hellbound but mostly played an assassin that I never expected to keep and a necromancer that I didn't know I'd keep either. Those three are all level cap, have all three campaigns opened up, and into Eye of the North. My assassin just completed the Nightfall campaign yesterday so may play to get some of those new heroes some levels. Abaddon is sort of wimpy with the right team.
E-mailer Alex asked where can he get back issues of StormStrike to see what he missed. Well, I have always thought about making back issues available but never had the proper avenue that I could get behind 100%. With the ability to make PDF files with no problems with a click, I first thought of doing that and making it available for download but then bandwidth would get in the way. If I go that route, I'd want to put something else in each one. Sort of an extended edition but then it would take time away from what is current. However, the chronology that used to appear was pretty much outlined events that led up to StormStrike #1 as it was an expanded version of the preview issue called Spoomph Universe: Zero. Oh, the chronology isn't gone, it's just part of the new wiki. I will try to put past events more into the chronology portion that may hit the back issues. Also StormStrike #25 (for those who came and saw that one) was pretty much brought up to date with that one. It was the funeral issue and the funeral pretty much focused on Jai remembering things as the service was happening to sort of help late comers at that time. Maybe I will do a similar remember issue again one day. Not planned yet but who knows.
Well, I have to run but maybe I'll answer more questions next time. Oh, to answer e-mailer Brenda, no I will not allow comments on the blog anymore. I had to deal with spammers so you have to continue e-mailing comments and questions. ;)
