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Stuff that could be offered to subscribers
Priority login on busy servers.
Longer idle period before being kicked.
Priority tech support, though free players should not be ignored/told to just read the support forum.
Small free monthly amount of cash shop currency.
Free Guild/Gang/Outfit creation.

I can support pretty much all of these. City of Heroes does similar stuff, but it's still playable to end-game content without paying a cent.

Quote from: PTTG?? on April 06, 2012, 03:26:28 pm

Obsidian is easy- just go to the nether.

Quote from: PTTG?? on April 06, 2012, 03:26:28 pm

go to the nether.

Quote from: PTTG?? on April 06, 2012, 03:26:28 pm

nether.

when was water placeable in the nether? I must have missed that update.

Pretty sure he means getting buckets of lava from the nether, not bringing water to the nether.

Quote from: forsaken1111 on April 06, 2012, 02:59:25 pm

Megaprojects are more interesting when you don't cheat. Just my 2 cents.

I'm much more impressed with someone's tower that they built in survival with stone they mined themselves and ore they smelted, rather than some guy who imported the blueprint for the USS enterprise and said "Hey look what I made!" or threw down infinite stone in creative mode.

Yeah, but it's not just one guy spending his free after noons, its a bunch of poorly orgainized jerks on the internet who don't know each other placing fake blocks in a video game over the weekend, so it doesn't really work when 10+ people are mining the whole continent apart, reaping the natural resources in the kind of orgy of manipulation and abusing the earth that the industrial revulotion could have only wished it was.
what was I talking about?

You don't need to rape the landscape for very much nowadays. Wool grows back on sheep, and the sheep can be dyed beforehand for different colors. Cobble can be made in infinite quantities. Trees can be grown, and wood can be burned for charcoal (for turning cobble into stone). Iron golems respawn and can be killed for iron ingots. Zombie pigmen drop gold nuggets, which can be turned into gold ingots. About the only non-renewable resources are diamond, obsidian, and redstone.

On the plus side, according to the X-COM wiki Russia will never make a deal with, or turn you over to, the aliens. So they're secretly your best bro!

I have 2890. I assume that's what everyone else has, since we've been sharing xp equally.

Yeah, no thanks. (thankfully?) I'm not up on modern rehabilitation techniques; my only personal experience with the matter is my dad, who got treated for alcoholism when I was much younger. All I remember of the process is him being gone for a couple of weeks, and him going to AA meetings for a while. It stuck, and he remains sober to this day, but I know that he's one of the lucky ones.

I don't think drug users and sex offenders are comparable. Most people (yes, there are some who genuinely do not) have a sex drive and something that turns them on. Unlike drugs, sex drives are perfectly natural and very hard to change. If some sick dude gets off on rape - the real thing, not a certain pornographic subtype - I'm not sure how much rehabilitation is gonna help. Thus my homosexual example.

Ok, did no-one see the word "some"? I'll bold it next time, so people can see and comprehend it.

Of course not everyone in online gaming is a sexual predator, and not everyone gets on the list because of online gaming. But it is a risk.

In order for a sex offender to find a victim, they'd have to breach that wall somehow (probably in a guild)

You'd be surprised how open some people can be about their age, gender, etc. It's a stupid thing to do, but there's a reason the acronym "asl" exists, and that's because people will respond, truthfully in many cases.

and manage to travel huge distances to find that person.

I remember a story in which a pastor drove 200 miles, packing condoms, to meet an underage girl he met online (the girl was thankfully a police decoy). Long distances aren't a deterrent to everyone, and the distances aren't even that large sometimes. The larger the online community, the more likely you are to find someone nearby. And again, some people are stupid about online privacy and safety.

We already subject sex offenders to a lifetime of torment and exile from normal life, now we're taking away their right to freaken' entertain themselves.

They can entertain themselves with single-player games. Besides, I don't have much sympathy for people who take molest children or grope strangers without their consent.
Now, the ones who are falsely accused or whatever, they're a different story. It's the way I'd feel about anyone falsely accused of a crime. But honestly, if you're wrongfully labeled a sex offender, not being able to play WoW should be the least of your worries.

The sex offender system is absolutely out of control and is ruining two lives for every rape instead of reconciling one while rehabilitating the other.

Clarify? Aside from the trauma the victim suffers (which, by the way, would be the same no matter how fair and great the justice system is), who's life is getting ruined? The rapist, should he/she get caught, richly deserves a ruined life in my opinion.

@B TSG: To put it bluntly, your friend and his girlfriend(?) were idiots. No, assuming the story is factual, he does not deserve sex offender status, especially since both parties were minors. And no, it's not a perfect system. I've never tried to claim that, and in fact have repeatedly stated the exact opposite at various times and in various threads.