Well my apologies then.
I was pretty upset about the whole thing, I just get a little upset when everything in games need to be monetized, ya know, those services that used to be free...those services that everyone else in the digital environment offer for free...
Regardless, I was upset. I still feel strongly about it, I dont feel im trolling, but if thats the way you feel, then I will bow my head and leave.
I really do wish a company with blizzards standing could have found a way to keep the free service free. They managed to do it throughout all their other games, and what scares me most is that this trend will continue to bleed into other areas and eventually make its way into gameplay...
I'll defend that the core game is solid and worth the money, but the service thats tied to it is not. I really hope you can understand that I was just one distressed individual who was truly upset at a series of events. I still feel as though my idea would have benefited the community more than a paid service. I didnt want to come back to the game in 3 years for whatever reason and have to pay for a service that has always been universally free...
Seems like some of my posts remain in the form of quotations!! Good thing people had the decency to quote me while replying!!
Well, they are giving you the first one free. Why would you need anymore after that?
Poster=NegativeOne
Ohh I dunno...say i wanna come back to the game in a couple years but my prefrences have changed. I nolonger like my name? Now i would be forced to pay some arbitrary amount of money for something that has been free in all past blizzard games...
Good to know my $60/100 and my voice has been rendered null and void because blizz cares about money more than they care about what they customers want...
I honestly do expect a huge gaming crash in the near future...there is no reason for companies like this to rip off its customers while indie developers or anyone else offer services like this 100% free...
something as simple as a name in a game shouldn't be locked
Poster=Blue
We don't think names are simple for StarCraft II, and we've spent a lot of time thinking about how they should be handled.
So, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. You want to have throw away names, theme names, inappropriate names that you think people may find funny that you can switch out of at a whim. We don't agree, and I've already stated specifically why that is.
Yes you have, your greedy...heres a better solution. seriously, this is actually better than a paid...im not even gonna call it a service, its more like just being ripped off...
So, all names are tied to a battle.net account...
Anyone can have an unlimited amount of names
Anyone can chance their name at a whim
Their Battle.net account name (permanent one time creation) on the other hand is posted with their name (above it) for example, so that person can always be identified, no matter the name they are using...
To people who flag that user or report them for spam, they can have a few options, likewise with posters they wish to "follow" or whatnot.
Trolls will appear with a series of red "x"s below their name, to show if you disagree with them a lot, or green checks or whatever to show you agree with them a lot...
After a certain amount of checks or x's, they will either be reported or ignored, turning their thread responses from blue to a red or light blue respectively.
If you honestly thought the best way to "handle" the name change issue was to rip people off...yea...bye bye blizz, i will not continue to support a company so ready to rip off its customers any more than you already have with an unfinished product...
As some of you may know by now, blizzard announced their system of one free name change and then they are announcing the paid service...well, needless to say, the paid service upset a few people...
I ring in with my comment, actual "advice" about how a system can be created that bypasses the need for a paid service, something that will prevent trolls and allow people to have accountability...this after a blue says something along the lines of a paid service being the best way they could think of...
Apparently, ive been permabanned for it...less than 30 posts on the forum...ive also been post wiped....odd thing is, people were agreeing with me...
When it comes down to it, I guess when some random person wants to derail their charge for a free service scheme...the best way to handle it is to permaban their collectors edition account...
Needless to say im a little miffed about it...
-NegativeOne
Forget the storyline, the concept is awesome on its own.
Im willing to help out with the project, but I fear I wouldnt be able to script in the least.
Maybe instead of creep, since Im still clueless from how you would do levels/layers, maybe change things up a bit and use basic enemy units while keeping the same power feed system. Tower can only shoot as long as its being fed energy.
Buildings-
Odin City - Starting Building, All energy output from here, cant attack
Collector - Increases energy output slightly, allows everything to be connected to odin city
Relay - Slightly longer range than Collector
Blaster - Fires at creep (ground only)
Mortar - Fires at creep (splash ground)
Sam - Fires at spores (air only)
Reactor - Increases energy output slightly
Speed building - slightly increases the speed energy travels to its destination
Storage building - increases total energy storage for odin city
Enemy-
Creep - water? Acts like water, dont know how to pull this one off...needs several layers
spores - flying bomb, where it lands it acts like a nuke, Splash damage that also stops you from building there for a few seconds
Actually, now that ive had some time to think about it, creep could be done with water, but it would take a bit of scripting to be done. If you could have a creep spawner for example but instead it modified the water level around it instead of spread creep. It would need to be a dynamic system, as you attacked a block of water, the blocks around it would come in and fill the gap, but honestly, I dont know how difficult that would be to implement or if anyone around here even has the skills to do so.
The sad thing is that I can see it all so clearly in my head, I just dont have the skills needed to make it happen.
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@DY357LX: Go
Well my apologies then. I was pretty upset about the whole thing, I just get a little upset when everything in games need to be monetized, ya know, those services that used to be free...those services that everyone else in the digital environment offer for free...
Regardless, I was upset. I still feel strongly about it, I dont feel im trolling, but if thats the way you feel, then I will bow my head and leave.
I really do wish a company with blizzards standing could have found a way to keep the free service free. They managed to do it throughout all their other games, and what scares me most is that this trend will continue to bleed into other areas and eventually make its way into gameplay...
I'll defend that the core game is solid and worth the money, but the service thats tied to it is not. I really hope you can understand that I was just one distressed individual who was truly upset at a series of events. I still feel as though my idea would have benefited the community more than a paid service. I didnt want to come back to the game in 3 years for whatever reason and have to pay for a service that has always been universally free...
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@Atl0s: Go
I sent in a request to account management...not that it will do any good... im pretty miffed about it... Its just been an all around bad day...
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Kept getting an error trying to edit?
Seems like some of my posts remain in the form of quotations!! Good thing people had the decency to quote me while replying!!
Well, they are giving you the first one free. Why would you need anymore after that?
Poster=NegativeOne
Ohh I dunno...say i wanna come back to the game in a couple years but my prefrences have changed. I nolonger like my name? Now i would be forced to pay some arbitrary amount of money for something that has been free in all past blizzard games...
Good to know my $60/100 and my voice has been rendered null and void because blizz cares about money more than they care about what they customers want...
I honestly do expect a huge gaming crash in the near future...there is no reason for companies like this to rip off its customers while indie developers or anyone else offer services like this 100% free...
something as simple as a name in a game shouldn't be locked
Poster=Blue
We don't think names are simple for StarCraft II, and we've spent a lot of time thinking about how they should be handled.
So, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. You want to have throw away names, theme names, inappropriate names that you think people may find funny that you can switch out of at a whim. We don't agree, and I've already stated specifically why that is.
Yes you have, your greedy...heres a better solution. seriously, this is actually better than a paid...im not even gonna call it a service, its more like just being ripped off...
So, all names are tied to a battle.net account...
Anyone can have an unlimited amount of names Anyone can chance their name at a whim
Their Battle.net account name (permanent one time creation) on the other hand is posted with their name (above it) for example, so that person can always be identified, no matter the name they are using...
To people who flag that user or report them for spam, they can have a few options, likewise with posters they wish to "follow" or whatnot.
Trolls will appear with a series of red "x"s below their name, to show if you disagree with them a lot, or green checks or whatever to show you agree with them a lot...
After a certain amount of checks or x's, they will either be reported or ignored, turning their thread responses from blue to a red or light blue respectively.
If you honestly thought the best way to "handle" the name change issue was to rip people off...yea...bye bye blizz, i will not continue to support a company so ready to rip off its customers any more than you already have with an unfinished product...
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As some of you may know by now, blizzard announced their system of one free name change and then they are announcing the paid service...well, needless to say, the paid service upset a few people...
I ring in with my comment, actual "advice" about how a system can be created that bypasses the need for a paid service, something that will prevent trolls and allow people to have accountability...this after a blue says something along the lines of a paid service being the best way they could think of...
Apparently, ive been permabanned for it...less than 30 posts on the forum...ive also been post wiped....odd thing is, people were agreeing with me... When it comes down to it, I guess when some random person wants to derail their charge for a free service scheme...the best way to handle it is to permaban their collectors edition account...
Needless to say im a little miffed about it... -NegativeOne
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@Kyakan
Forget the storyline, the concept is awesome on its own.
Im willing to help out with the project, but I fear I wouldnt be able to script in the least.
Maybe instead of creep, since Im still clueless from how you would do levels/layers, maybe change things up a bit and use basic enemy units while keeping the same power feed system. Tower can only shoot as long as its being fed energy.
Buildings-
Odin City - Starting Building, All energy output from here, cant attack
Collector - Increases energy output slightly, allows everything to be connected to odin city
Relay - Slightly longer range than Collector
Blaster - Fires at creep (ground only)
Mortar - Fires at creep (splash ground)
Sam - Fires at spores (air only)
Reactor - Increases energy output slightly
Speed building - slightly increases the speed energy travels to its destination
Storage building - increases total energy storage for odin city
Enemy-
Creep - water? Acts like water, dont know how to pull this one off...needs several layers
spores - flying bomb, where it lands it acts like a nuke, Splash damage that also stops you from building there for a few seconds
Actually, now that ive had some time to think about it, creep could be done with water, but it would take a bit of scripting to be done. If you could have a creep spawner for example but instead it modified the water level around it instead of spread creep. It would need to be a dynamic system, as you attacked a block of water, the blocks around it would come in and fill the gap, but honestly, I dont know how difficult that would be to implement or if anyone around here even has the skills to do so.
The sad thing is that I can see it all so clearly in my head, I just dont have the skills needed to make it happen.