{"id":685,"date":"2006-09-15T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/15\/gaming-days\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T12:49:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T16:49:47","slug":"gaming-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/15\/gaming-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transition to Out of the Park Baseball 2006 has entered the painful phase.\u00a0 The computer AI just does odd things with players.\u00a0 Some get released when traded, others are listed as being parts of teams but don\u2019t show up on rosters, all sorts of nonsense.\u00a0 The good people at Sports Interactive must be on vacation or doing something OTHER than fixing the bugs that were claimed fixed, but in fact were not.\u00a0 A brief glance at the technical support section of the OOTP 2006 forum shows at least full page of unanswered problems.\u00a0 Own a Mac and want to FTP your team exports?\u00a0 Too bad, because SI doesn\u2019t seem to have a clue about Mac FTP issues.<\/p>\n<p>So I am not talking about anymore SI games until OOTP 2006 is finally patched up and doesn\u2019t feel like an unstable mess.\u00a0 If you\u2019re an online league, please take my advice and wait a while before suffering through the transition pain.\u00a0 There are some brilliant additions and we will work through them to enjoy the game, but a lot of commissioner\u2019s blood will be shed to get there.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, World of Warcraft continues to shine.\u00a0 Lots of nice looking games get released and fall by the wayside because I am playing WoW whenever I am not dealing with OOTP 2006 issues.\u00a0 I am finally at the point where I can do the end game raiding content whenever I want.\u00a0 Getting together with 20 or 40 people to take on a dungeon is a pretty\u00a0exciting experience when things work.\u00a0 When they don\u2019t, it can be very frustrating and expensive.<\/p>\n<p>There is just so much to do in WoW that it\u2019s hard to describe.\u00a0 Many people approach the game thinking it\u2019s all about getting to the highest level (60) and enjoying the end game content.\u00a0 It\u2019s so much more than that.\u00a0 First, you must determine how exactly you want your 60 level character to\u00a0participate in raiding instance dungeons.\u00a0 Is you\u00a0priest going to focus on shadow damage or become a healbot?\u00a0 Is your warrior going to abosorb a lot of damage or deal a lot of pain?\u00a0 The answer to each of these questions leads to long and winding paths to various armor sets, trinkets, rings, weapons, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So there is a lot of research involved.\u00a0 Various web sites contain a lot of information about the best strategies for different portions of the post-60 world.\u00a0 Need a pre-Molten Core priest build?\u00a0 Look it up.\u00a0 Want to know how\u00a0to spec for Zul\u2019Grub?\u00a0 Look it up.\u00a0 This is the sort of\u00a0gaming complexity that keeps me coming back for more in the same sad, sadistic way I keep\u00a0trying to solve OOTP 2006.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll write more\u00a0about WoW since I\u2019m done with SI games for a while, even with NHL Eastside Hockey\u00a0Manager on the horizon.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see if we can get Jonathan to join us on Bronzebeard server!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transition to Out of the Park Baseball 2006 has entered the painful phase.\u00a0 The computer AI just does odd things with players.\u00a0 Some get released when traded, others are listed as being parts of teams but don\u2019t show up on rosters, all sorts of nonsense.\u00a0 The good people at Sports Interactive must be on &hellip; 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