Release date?

When will this game be released?

March 2007
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August 2007
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Christmas Season 2007
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Sometime in 2008 maybe
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Never. It is Vapor Ware.
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Boogahz wrote:
threnody wrote:"top posting" was the way to do things until people bastardized it. It's more efficient to put what you're saying at the top as people probably are already following the thread. If people are not, they can always look under your comments for context. =P
Aslanna wrote:Then you have no excuse for top posting!
It might make sense if the responses are all to the post directly above your own, but they are not as "efficient" when the person has to finish your post to figure out which prior post you were responding to.
I agree.
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threnody wrote:"top posting" was the way to do things until people bastardized it. It's more efficient to put what you're saying at the top as people probably are already following the thread. If people are not, they can always look under your comments for context. =P
Aslanna wrote:Then you have no excuse for top posting!
Is that so? I've been on discussion boards (BBS / Usenet) for over 20 years now and it's news to me that 'top posting was the way to do things'. It's generally frowned upon most places. Now, I realize this isn't Usenet but it's basically the same thing. Message posts on the internet!

http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting
By A. Smit and H.W. de Haan

Definitions:
Top-posting: Writing the message above the original text, when one replies to an email or a post in a newsgroup.
Bottom-posting: The opposite of top-posting. Now the new message is placed below the original text.

We are fanatic Usenet-readers. As a result we are often annoyed by people who keep top-posting. This is considered as not good 'Net etiquette'. The majority of Usenet-users prefer bottom-posting.
In addition to bottom-posting, it is customary to leave out non-relevant parts of the message with regard to the reply, and to put the reply directly beneath the quoted relevant parts. If you want to know more about writing new posts. Check out this site:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html

Below you can find our arguments why bottom-posting is better than top-posting.

Because it is proper Usenet Etiquette. Check out the following URL:
]http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html . It is a little outdated but still has a lot of valid points. Let us quote something from this site:

If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough text of the original to give a context. This will make sure readers understand when they start to read your response. Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a response to a message before seeing the original. Giving context helps everyone. But do not include the entire original!

We use a good news reader like Forte Agent. Good newsreaders like Agent put the signature by default at the end of the post, which is the Usenet convention. Microsoft Outlook Express however has some serious bugs. Let us quote someone we know:

"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

We are programmers ourselves, and we know it is very easy to implement to put a signature at the end of the post instead of putting it directly above the post you are replying to and can not change the position. Forte Agent has as a feature that reply to a post it will remove the signature (recognizable by '-- ', note the extra space) and everything below it, so it will remove a part of the original message. This is good Usenet practice so Agent is not faulty. Outlook Express on the other hand is faulty, check this bugreport regarding the Usenet signature delimiter.

Top-posting makes posts incomprehensible. Firstly: In normal conversations, one does not answer to something that has not yet been said. So it is unclear to reply to the top, whilst the original message is at the bottom. Secondly: In western society a book is normally read from top to bottom. Top-posting forces one to stray from this convention: Reading some at the top, skipping to the bottom to read the question, and going back to the top to continue. This annoyance increases even more than linear with the number of top-posts in the message. If someone replies to a thread and you forgot what the thread was all about, or that thread was incomplete for some reasons, it will be quite tiresome to rapidly understand what the thread was all about, due to bad posting and irrelevant text which has not been removed.

To prevent hideously long posts with a minimal account of new text, it is good Usenet practice to remove the non-relevant parts and optionally summarize the relevant parts of the original post, with regard to one's reply. Top-posting inevitably leads to long posts, because most top-posters leave the original message intact. All these long posts not only clutter up discussions, but they also clutter up the server space.

Top-posting makes it hard for bottom-posters to reply to the relevant parts: it not possible to answer within the original message. Bottom-posting does not make top-posting any harder.

Some people will argue that quoting looks bad due line wrapping. This can simply be dealt with by dropping Outlook Express as a start, and using only linewidths of 65 - 70 characters. Otherwise one has do it manually, and that can be tiresome.

A reason given by stubborn top-posters: they don't like to scroll to read the new message. We like to disagree here, because we always have to scroll down to see the original message and after that to scroll back up, just to see to what they are replying to. As a result you have to scroll twice as much when reading a top-poster's message. As a counterargument they say (believe us they do): "You can check the previous message in the discussion". This is even more tiresome than scrolling and with the unreliable nature of Usenet (and even email is inevitably unreliable), the previous message in the discussion can be simply unavailable.

Some newsgroups have strict conventions concerning posting in their charter. As an example we can tell you that in most Dutch newsgroups, you will be warned, killfiled or maybe even flamed, if you fail to follow Usenet conventions or if you do not quote according to the quoting guidelines. In general: it is better to practice the guidelines, if one does not want to get flamed in a newsgroup one just subscribed to.

We can conclude that there are no good reasons we know of for top-posting. The most top-posts originate from the minimal work people spend on making posts. We think that one should be proud of one's post, that is it contains relevant content, well-formed sentences and no irrelevant 'bullsh*t', before uploading to your newsserver. If the majority of the group will adhere to this convention, the group will be nicer, tidier and easier to read.

As a final remark we want to bring non-quoting into mind. This means that the original content of an email or Usenet post is completely removed. It makes it very hard for a reader to find out to what and whom one is replying. This phenomenon can be partly attributed to wrong settings of news- and email-clients, and partly to people who want to start with clean replies.
Not that it kills me one way or the other. But it is more interesting to discuss than Vanguard.
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A compromise would be posting half of your message on top,
Bubba Grizz wrote:I agree.
Winnow wrote:Top posting makes more sense if you have to open and read single messages (emails) but who cares if you're top posting on a continuous 50-post per page thread where you're going to have to keep scrolling down each message anyway.

The more efficient the quoting the better, and if not overused, multiple quote breakdowns addressing individual sections, but those can get annoying.
and half on the bottom.
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Once again,
Winnow wrote:A compromise would be posting half of your message on top,
Bubba Grizz wrote:I agree.
Winnow wrote:Top posting makes more sense if you have to open and read single messages (emails) but who cares if you're top posting on a continuous 50-post per page thread where you're going to have to keep scrolling down each message anyway.

The more efficient the quoting the better, and if not overused, multiple quote breakdowns addressing individual sections, but those can get annoying.


and half on the bottom.
I agree.
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I remember an old format of internet msg boards (which you can still find some archaic examples of) which put the most recent post at the top, and the initial post at the bottom of the page.

In that example, I guess top posting would be more efficient, as you'd have to read each thread from the bottom up. (how bassackwards is that?)
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Post it out your ass and remember this: V:SOH sucks ma nuts.
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See what you did? All this talk of tops and bottoms got Xan all sexcited.
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When presented with such evidence as Xanupox presents, I find no other option but to agree that Vanguard must suck.

Threnody, don't use well thought out arguments in the future to contradict his claims. Look at his title. He is the hardest gamer ever.
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I think the best part is that while he claims to not give a shit about the game, he still won't stop talking about it.
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Wow, you must be moldy. Claiming anything useful came from Usenet is heresy most foul. (barring alt.binararies.erotica.goats.ascii)
Aslanna wrote: Is that so? I've been on discussion boards (BBS / Usenet) for over 20 years now and it's news to me that 'top posting was the way to do things'.
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I made no such claim.
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Brad quoted, "Vanguard will be closing its doors on Dec 31st, sorry folks."

I heard they will be taking the source from V:SoH and creating a new kids MMO called, "Backyardigans: The Medieval Adventures"

Sony wins again.
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As you go through the official screenshots, doesn't it look like the game looks worse, not better as the screenshots progress from waaaaaay back in April 2004 up until the last released "official" screenshots back in early 2006?

What's with this game that they can't release decent screenshots and none officially over the past 7 or so months?

http://www.vanguardsoh.com/screenshots.php

The background scenery looks absolutely horrible compared to presently released games. Sparse details and totally uninspired. They need to hire an airbrusher or someone with photoshop skills because as it stands, those screenshots are a deterrent.

I don't care if they are outdated. I can post a group of screenshots to a website in about five minutes. It's not like they don't have time to update that shit.
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threnody wrote:Wow, you must be moldy. Claiming anything useful came from Usenet is heresy most foul. (barring alt.binararies.erotica.goats.ascii)
Aslanna wrote: Is that so? I've been on discussion boards (BBS / Usenet) for over 20 years now and it's news to me that 'top posting was the way to do things'.
Aslanna was 'leet' in the scene before you knew what a scene was. I'd shut the fuck up right about now if I were you.
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You lose points for bad form.
Siji wrote:Aslanna was 'leet' in the scene before you knew what a scene was. I'd shut the fuck up right about now if I were you.
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threnody wrote:You lose points for bad form.
Siji wrote:Aslanna was 'leet' in the scene before you knew what a scene was. I'd shut the fuck up right about now if I were you.
heck, you're the one that claimed she was saying something useful came from Usenet just by mentioning she used them.
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The context of that reference was the top posting vs bottom posting quote she provided.

You people are just angry =P
Boogahz wrote:heck, you're the one that claimed she was saying something useful came from Usenet just by mentioning she used them.
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The underside of my penis itches kinda bad.
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Some fungicide might help. If all else fails just dip your junk in clorox bleach.
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Enough about me.. Let's get back to the original point: Top posting sucks.
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Haha =)

I prefer to start with what I think is the most important thing in a post (feel free to imply anything here =P), I imagine. Or structure the post like I would any other written work, which is a stretch to apply to this shit... but anyway..

We're talking shit about scotch in IRC, which is a better topic.
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Aslanna wrote:Enough about me.. Let's get back to the original point: Top posting sucks.
Agree, i want to get a lil preview of what happened in the last episode/post before reading the reply/see the next ep.

Top posting has and will always cause aneurysms
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How abouts we go back to the Original topic and discuss the release of this game. Rumor has it that it will be released on January 29th. Is that fact of fiction?
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Fiction. That was a tentative release date that was never confirmed by Sigil - simply the date sales companies predicted months ago.

Fact: Beta 5 starts early january barring any pushbacks. Rumored date: Jan 4.
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Mr Bacon wrote:Fiction. That was a tentative release date that was never confirmed by Sigil - simply the date sales companies predicted months ago.

Fact: Beta 5 starts early january barring any pushbacks. Rumored date: Jan 4.
Well, pre-orders are set for January 30th. Not that the date means anything at this point.
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hay guyz everyone having fun in the vanguard thread i think it looks super awesome but i wont buy it because you need like the international space station to even run it at 10 fps lol
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Nick wrote:hay guyz everyone having fun in the vanguard thread i think it looks super awesome but i wont buy it because you need like the international space station to even run it at 10 fps lol
Yeah, and NASA is being dicks and not giving anymore away!!!!!1
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no, they've downgraded it to apollo specs lawl
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Ten Ton Hammer is releasing a bunch of information tonight (not all accurate). I imagine all of the affiliates will be ramping up again soon. Jerrith posted another confirmation on beta 5 starting in early January. At least the NDA will be lifted and people can hate on each other some more.
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YES! LET THE HATE FLOW THROUGH YOU!
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