Comment Re:LHC (Score 1) 541
Isn't one of the doomsday theories surrounding the LHC that our section of spacetime will get shoved elsewhere in the universe?
Cool, like Space 1999, except that the Earth would zip around the galaxy and not the moon?
Valve Engineers Weed Out 'Lying' TF2 Game Servers 97
billlava writes "Tired of Team Fortress 2 servers that lie in order to attract players, engineers at Valve (creators of the Half Life franchise) have come up with a way to weed out servers that give false information about the number of players online, or custom server options. 'After kicking around some proposals, we came up with a simple system built around the theory that player time on a server is a useful metric for how happy the player is with that server. It's game rules agnostic, and we can measure it on our steam backend entirely from steam client data, so servers can't interfere with it. We already had this data for all the TF2 servers in the world, allowing us to try several different scoring formulas out before settling on this simple one that successfully identified good & bad servers.' Of course, this only works with their games running on Steam."
Comment Human NPCs (Score 1) 1000
What about live people playing the role of NPCS? You should be able to hire guys from India to do it. Not only would it enhance roleplaying and battles, they could keep an eye out for Chinese gold farmers.
