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Comment Re:Aphelion vs Parhelion (Score 1) 50

by ebacon on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @11:27AM (#49735909) Attached to: Martian Moons May Have Formed Like Earth's

Technically Aphelion and Perihelion refer to distance from the Sun for Sun-Orbiting bodies. I'm not sure what the term for min/max orbital distance for Mars orbits would be. Since greek for Mars is Ares, maybe aparion and periarion ?

Comment Artifical Spaceship. (Score 5, Insightful) 272

by ebacon on Friday January 02, 2015 @07:35PM (#48721439) Attached to: How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy

Dunno. I think a real spaceship might be more practical.

EA Flip-Flops On Battlefield: Heroes Pricing, Fans Angry 221

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @07:50AM from the put-your-money-where-your-gun-is dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ben Kuchera from Ars Technica is reporting that EA/DICE has substantially changed the game model of Battlefield: Heroes, increasing the cost of weapons in Valor Points (the in-game currency that you earn by playing) to levels that even hardcore players cannot afford, and making them available in BattleFunds (the in-game currency that you buy with real money). Other consumables in the game, such as bandages to heal the players, suffered the same fate, turning the game into a subscription or pay-to-play model if players want to remain competitive. This goes against the creators' earlier stated objectives of not providing combat advantage to paying customers. Ben Cousins, from EA/DICE, argued, 'We also frankly wanted to make buying Battlefunds more appealing. We have wages to pay here in the Heroes team and in order to keep a team large enough to make new free content like maps and other game features we need to increase the amount of BF that people buy. Battlefield Heroes is a business at the end of the day and for a company like EA who recently laid off 16% of their workforce, we need to keep an eye on the accounts and make sure we are doing our bit for the company.' The official forums discussion thread is full of angry responses from upset users, who feel this change is a betrayal of the original stated objectives of the game."

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