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Relative to another object in a similar orbit, you do have some control, albeit not quite the same level as you see in a sci-fi movie. Stunts/maneuvers performed in atmosphere by planes can exceed 8 G's [1]. In order to pull a similar maneuver in deep space, you would need rockets with a TWR...

Your use of "played" seems to suggest that you are no longer playing it. Was it because you got bored after a few months, or some other reason? I only ask because I really enjoyed GW2 for a few months, but after that period I got bored and stopped playing. The group mechanics for me is what...

For those of you wondering whether you are allowed to say whether you were invited to the beta or not, here is an official reply from a Zenimax employee on the ESO subreddit: TL;DR: It is against the NDA to say you are in the beta, but they are understanding and won't ban you from the beta for...

I'm on the fence. I recently purchased the game and I'm having a bit of a love-hate relationship with it. I enjoy the challenge and trying to figure out fights, but I'm not liking the "wasted" time going from checkpoint to the difficult part each time. For example, it was taking me about 5-10...

People buy phones every 2 years for two reasons: You are already paying for the cost of a new phone every 2 years in your monthly wireless bill, so you might as well get the upgrade for little or no cost (at least using the US model). The mobile space has seen extremely fast improvement...

This. I picked up the X-series pack a couple years ago when it was on sale, and only was able to spend a few hours in it. I figured if I was going to spend hundreds of hours flying and building ships and exploiting an economy, I might as well do it in EVE with/against real people. I can...

For those of you talking about a lack of Holy Trinity, I was also initially disappointed. Having played GW2, I saw the same thing -- people weren't really playing together, just happened to be attacking the same thing. However, I did some further reading, and found the following: If that's...

Your definition of pay2win and mine are different, then. I view "pay2win" as a pay shop where the best items are only available through a pay shop. In other words, if you want to be the best, you have to pay. What you describe is "pay to save time" -- in PS2, you can't get anything that...

All EQNext needs to have to be successful is /pizza!

SOE has repeatedly indicated that all their games are developed under a F2P model, although they all have optional subscriptions that generally unlocks the entire game (save for expansions). Hate on SOE as much as you want, but their F2P model is halfway decent -- you can experience a decent...

A group of us tried it out a few months ago. While initially fun, there was absolutely no variety in the game. It was drop a thumper, kill some stuff, repeat. I don't know if they've done anything further since then, but we grew quickly bored of it in a few weeks.

2 Mb/s upload for $60 a month comes out to about 9.5 cents per gigabyte. Assuming that the average game is 10 GB, that's 95 cents per game using expensive residential cable prices for bandwidth. Amazon charges 12 cents / GB for the first 10 TB, but it quickly scales to 5 cents / GB as you...

Yes, it is. I started playing it back on GEnie when an online plan was for 20 hours a month. Really started playing it when AOL went unlimited, and pick it up for a month or two every couple years, mostly for the nostalgia. There is still an active player base and the main areas frequently...

No. I haven't played any of the PVP yet, but I think the biggest PVP battles are 64v64 and I have no idea of the map size. It is more like a multiplayer Borderlands. The primary experience is a theme park PVE experience.

Crimes can only be committed at commercial properties. If you only have residential, you don't have any place for a crime to be committed, hence no criminals.