We just got our latest patch, why are we already concearing ourselves with the next one...
This was a minor Update not a Major one
:p
I also hear they drive on the wrong side of the road. :cool:
As far as the latest patch, yes, it was minor and quite frankly holds no interest to me. I'm more interested in where they are taking this game as it seems to me that they are not too sure.
Gracia might actually change how this game is played, i see it change some core mechanics, such as leveling style for certain classes, leveling speed and adena input. (you'll understand why if you read all possible translations).
I'm hoping it will be for the better in the end, even with the changes I like the least.
I Remember in E&B they would destroy Planets and Bases that were normal landing spots in the game and as time goes up they would repair some part of the bases as we got new updates. How much of a repair was base on people doing quest to like repair a base or something.
Have the Undead take over Dion or Giran and and make it a qhost town with damage building and all the guards dead and shops closed down. It becomes a non safe area and then have a quest to get rid of the undead by killing the undead that spawn in Giran and at night tthey become 6X hp mobs and 2X in the day.
Then Next Update 6 months later take out the undead make it a peace zone again with just a few shops open and buildings under repair, holes in the ways. And do this random with different towns different reasons that it happen like some big dragon attack.
it's logically more efficient to do year/month/day... why?
if you go day/month/year, you look at day first... then what's your first thought? Ok it's xx day... how many xx days have existed?... (# of years existence has... existed o.o) x 365 x 12 x 1st day of money = ?????
then month... same question... xxxxxxxxxxxx # of months have existed
finally you can narrow it down with the year
so algorithmically it's inefficient because, you go from a HUGE set of values and narrow it down exponentially
with year/month/day, it's MUCH more efficient because you narrowed the possible values down SIGNIFICANTLY with the year, and you keep narrowing it down linearly
therefore China/Korea/Japan > u all :P (and if I may say so they all have similar origins, mainly from the mainland, which is China now. Not saying Koreans/Japanese are CHinese because after so many generations it's changed now, just like how after only a handful of generations Americans call themselves Americans :P)
Egyptians were the Engineers, Greeks were the Geometry people, Chinese were the Numbers people. (obviously there are exceptions when geniuses are born)
... unless you are looking for practical solutions and not theorical ones.
Day/month/year is used because in a conversation at a given time you are already at a set day, month and year. To speak about a near date, you'll use only the number of the day.
"Ok, we meet the 12th!"
If the date is a bit further, you'll had the month just behind.
"24/5: Meeting at 17:00 in the conference room."
And if it's not the same year, you add it after.
"The latest version I have is from 11/7/2007" or "11/07/07"
Why more practical? Because if you have one number, it's the day, two they are day and month and three they are day, month and year. With that system when you see 09/03, it's obviously the 9th of March while with year/month/day system, it's year 2009, in March. Which is a useless form.
year/month/day is great for sorting files, but day/month/year is more practical. And of course I don't know what you're talking about for China, but Asian languages tend to be read from right to left, so... if they write it year/month/day, it's the same as our day/month/year.
Also, if you want to categorize civilizations, Arabs were the Numbers people. In case you don't know, they invented the zero and the numerals you're using right now.
... unless you are looking for practical solutions and not theorical ones.
Day/month/year is used because in a conversation at a given time you are already at a set day, month and year. To speak about a near date, you'll use only the number of the day.
"Ok, we meet the 12th!"
If the date is a bit further, you'll had the month just behind.
"24/5: Meeting at 17:00 in the conference room."
And if it's not the same year, you add it after.
"The latest version I have is from 11/7/2007" or "11/07/07"
Why more practical? Because if you have one number, it's the day, two they are day and month and three they are day, month and year. With that system when you see 09/03, it's obviously the 9th of March while with year/month/day system, it's year 2009, in March. Which is a useless form.
year/month/day is great for sorting files, but day/month/year is more practical. And of course I don't know what you're talking about for China, but Asian languages tend to be read from right to left, so... if they write it year/month/day, it's the same as our day/month/year.
Also, if you want to categorize civilizations, Arabs were the Numbers people. In case you don't know, they invented the zero and the numerals you're using right now.
About the last part. 1-9 was invented by Indians(from India)ar abs took that and invented 0, well invention of zero was very important too.
These buggy content updates are rolling out way to fast. We need to put a brake on them and fast!
Lets fix the bugs first people.... Then we can have an update.
Actually I only half agree. The updates were too few. Especially with a game that doesn't really offer to much with significantly different gameplay.
However, YES... bugs need to be fixed.
They then need to add updates but they need to create updates that fit in with the rest of what they have done.
Should they want to radically alter something different they then need to look at how it could affect other parts of the game world and then either implement it with changes (if it could ruin another part of the game) or then alter the other parts of the game so that they fit in with the new material.
And of course I don't know what you're talking about for China, but Asian languages tend to be read from right to left, so... if they write it year/month/day, it's the same as our day/month/year.
Epic fail :) East Asian languages are read either left to right, like english, or more traditionally, DOWN the page in vertical columns. Each 'new line' is a new column to the left of the other. So while you read 'right to left' in the sense that the lines are in a right to left order, the actual order of characters goes down the page.
As for the date argument, year-month-day and day-month-year both make sense to me. They both are consistent, going from smaller time periods to large, or vice versa. The American month/day/year makes NO sense to me at all though, it's not consistent, you can't sort logically by it... I can't see any reason why it exists.
I Remember in E&B they would destroy Planets and Bases that were normal landing spots in the game and as time goes up they would repair some part of the bases as we got new updates. How much of a repair was base on people doing quest to like repair a base or something.
Have the Undead take over Dion or Giran and and make it a qhost town with damage building and all the guards dead and shops closed down. It becomes a non safe area and then have a quest to get rid of the undead by killing the undead that spawn in Giran and at night tthey become 6X hp mobs and 2X in the day.
Then Next Update 6 months later take out the undead make it a peace zone again with just a few shops open and buildings under repair, holes in the ways. And do this random with different towns different reasons that it happen like some big dragon attack.
Btw the whole date thing. American way = crazy, just like driving on right side of road, spelling cheque as check, jam being called jelly, all biscuits being called cookies, and refusing to use the metric system.
:p :p :p :p
But love ya's still.
For the record Day / Month / Year makes most sense cause days go into months which go into years. Day -> Month -> Year. If its Month / Day / Year I gotta read middle first, then left, then right. Crazy..! ;)
Btw the whole date thing. American way = crazy, just like driving on right side of road, spelling cheque as check, jam being called jelly, all biscuits being called cookies, and refusing to use the metric system.
Oh there's so many more too ... light switches operate in reverse (up = on, down = off), petrol being called gas (it's not even a gas!), electric outlets not having on/off switches (annoying cause you gotta pull things out of the wall when normally you'd just flick the switch), no such things as newsagents (newspapers and magazines come from little vending boxes or supermarkets), pharmacies/chemists being called 'drug stores' (mmm, drugs), tax not being included in prices (take something marked as $1 to the counter and they say 'that'll be $1.17 please', wth), being able to make turns through red lights (ok I admit, that is actually useful), toilets that for some reason fill up with astronomical quantities of water (what a waste), 'entrees' meaniing 'main course' and 'starters' meaning entrees (bizarre), etc...
The funny thing is, it's not just that different countries are 'different'. I've travelled to many, many nations and most things are fairly standard these days. The US has a disproportionately high number of oddities compared to every other country. Maybe they just like being different?
Then again I'm married to an American so I love them in the end ;)
Wow this is incredibly offtopic. Um yeah...Gracia, woot!
I have no idea if it was ever their official name, but there is a site that has been called bl.ah by the L2 community for years. And I imagine fu.bar is due to what the acronym actually stands for.
Thanks! :) Why would they want to censor a fansite? I sense a story here..
(There are so many interesting stories about L2 censoring, like that 311 ban or whatever, I forget the exact # but there is some # combo in L2 that shows up as -_- and is a very interesting story, I'll tell more if your interested)
There is some logic to the American date system. Month numbers can only go up to 12, so therefore it becomes the smallest unit and goes first. Followed by days which can go to 30 or 31, and years which have no limit.
So it's based on the size of the potential number which would go into the slot, with smallest going first.
Wow what a waste of time haha ... I sat read trough every message hopeing to get a glimps at the new update stuff being translated or explained by people who play korean test.
WOW , seriously day/month/year or month/day/year ...
don't really care because where I come from we just say April 30th, 2008 none of that number none sense.