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Comment: Re:A thought occurs to me (Score 2, Informative) 447

by FnordX (#32866044) Attached to: Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money

Unless the actors in question have the studio donate the actor's profits to the Church of Scientology. The Co$ then goes and pays the actor a "stipend" to live on, tax free, and, since the Co$ is a "charity", the movie studios get to write that off. The actors get to live tax free, the Co$ gets to play with the interest, and the studios get a tax break. Isn't religion wonderful?

Comment: Re:He has no idea what he's playing (Score 1) 895

by FnordX (#28609263) Attached to: Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him

This was all done before changes were made to make this far more difficult, and to make it possible for a player to defend against being teleported by a player of the other faction. He says in his blog that he stopped playing when these changes went into effect because it wasn't "fun anymore". So, basically he was only having fun griefing people, and, when changes to the game meant that he would be forced to actually fight them, he quit instead of playing the new way.

Comment: Re:within the rules doesnt mean its within the rul (Score 1) 895

by FnordX (#28608893) Attached to: Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him

No, sorry, he didn't go to the Arena. The Arena doesn't have Police Drones in the arena fights. He was using a legal-at-the-time trick to kill characters with little risk to himself. If he had actually been challenging them and fighting them, there wouldn't be a story. He was griefing players instead of fighting them.

Comment: Re:within the rules doesnt mean its within the rul (Score 1) 895

by FnordX (#28608817) Attached to: Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him

Imagine, for a moment, that you're playing in a PvP zone in CoH. You're fighting against someone else, and they defeat you. As you respawn, you receive one of two tells from the player playing the other character:
 
"Haha! You suck! I didn't even break a sweat! Why don't you go home and tell your mommy how a big mean man beat you up?"
or
"That was a great fight, you almost had me a few times there!"
 
Both are allowed under the rules, but one makes you seem like a good sport, and the other makes you seem like a jerk. Would you rather have a society filled with the first type of people, or the second?

Comment: Re:within the rules doesnt mean its within the rul (Score 1) 895

by FnordX (#28608725) Attached to: Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him

I'm really not sure what the Government Owning the Means of Production has to do with someone griefing other players in an online game. Perhaps you can explain that a bit more?
 
And being in a democracy doesn't have anything to do with playing a game on servers which you don't own.

Comment: Re:Being an asshole makes people angry, film at 11 (Score 1) 895

by FnordX (#28607891) Attached to: Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him

Fighting means that you use your powers to actually defeat the other person playing the other character. That other player gets to use their powers to try to defeat you. Both players are equally matched in levels, and potentially have an equal ability to defeat the other.
 
Droning means that one player uses his Teleport Foe power to teleport a player into an area of the PvP map that players of that faction aren't supposed to go, and that player is killed instantly. The teleported player has no ability to use their powers to try to defeat the teleporting character. The teleporting player has basically killed you instantly, without earning anything for it, and the teleported character gets XP debt (what you normally get for being defeated in PvE).
 
Also, CoH doesn't have PvP servers, they have PvP zones. Every server has the same zones that PvP can happen in, from Arenas to full maps where everyone is matched in level. It's not like in WoW or other MMOs where PvP can happen anywhere, and the other faction can invade your territory. There are even zones where the two factions can team up together, and are a LOT more popular than the PvP zones.

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