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Comment Get over yourself (Score 1) 709

by tstrike on Thursday January 07, 2010 @06:24AM (#30680524) Attached to: Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry?

You know I hate do-gooders straight from college.. Remember this: 1. Your degree confers NO certification of experience. You are simply a Padawan learner sitting at the feet of your Jedi Knight and Jedi Master colleagues. 2. Forget your college learning and instead be a sponge. 3. IT requires a combination of liberal arts and science. It is abstract in its beginnings and concrete in its scientific application.is 4. IT management is different than Software Development/Engineering... You require more time and distractions to think a problem through.. You cannot be at full go all the time, you will burn the fuck out. 5. You should spend the first 3 years of your life reading publications and listening to webcasts. 6. Your co-workers involved in water cooler talk means that they are human, try it sometime you might like it. 7. Mind your own damn business... No one likes a cubicle porcupine... And STOP Snitching!! That will get you alienated quickly and I can assure you it will get you fired. 8. Remember young Padawan the path to the Dark Side... See Yoda for more details.. or your resident Master Jedi in your office.

Jumpgate Evolution Dev Talks Class Balance 86

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 31, 2009 @06:39AM from the check-out-my-+1-laser dept.

Hermann Peterscheck recently made a post on the Jumpgate Evolution developer blog about NetDevil's strategy for balancing the various classes of ships in the game. They seem to be taking a different approach from most MMOs in letting the PvP side of the gameplay set the baseline, rather than allowing PvE concerns to override that. From the section titled Combating Combat: "Early on our lead systems designer, Jay Ambrosini, came to the correct conclusion that all of the preliminary balancing was best done in a PvP context. The reasoning is that in PvE, the player needs to feel powerful, but in PvP the fight needs to feel balanced. Once ship classes are balanced in PvP, its not as hard to make the player feel powerful in PvE, but the opposite is not true. We spent many weeks playing just the first class of ship, the light fighter, in teams of 5 or 6 in order to evaluate what it was that made those ships fun to fly and fight. After daily battles, you begin to see what makes those ships work. We also started with the mid level ships as opposed to the low or high level ships. This is primarily because you can find the center point and then work upwards and downwards from there. ... It's very tempting to just throw a bunch of classes of ships together in order to say things like "our game has 15 classes of ships!" but this, we believe, is the wrong direction. People want meaningful and strong choices and not lots of meaningless, empty choices. Currently we plan to have 4-6 classes, but they will each have nearly endless possible configurations within those groups."

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