Hero Engine: why?

you do know there were more poeple on at a given time due to the winter break for school,collage and some poeple taht work for the x-mas time frame right ?

i'm a worker and collage student (IT and mastering IT degree now) and was off durning dec 15-jan 2 time frame.

also if you in the army/basic training and AIT during x-mas break everyone forced to go home, yes i'm ex-army too lol

I've already realized the same from you. Projects are measured in manhours. You cannot purchase more time but if a project is projected to take 1000 manhours from a certain skillset, often employing one or two additional developers can reduce the customers time to receive a product while still taking the same number of manhours. You can't just throw more people at a situation constantly, that's for certain, however you can put an engine into development for a year or two and begin work on non-engine required tasks.

It's amazing what you can do when you learn how the process works isn't it? Any more advice from me and I'm going to have to start charging you my hourly consulting fee.

Did you even take the time to read how the data is collected? Seriously, if you're not going to take 30 seconds to educate yourself just depart from this thread.

They've done a extensive rewrite of the engine, they say it barely even resembles the original hero engine). it should be threaded, why else is Dual core minumum and Quad recomended?

Champions Online did not use the Hero engine. Yes it used the HERO System for its rules and lore.

Idiotic statement, EA wasnt in the picture when the engine was chosen, something a develope would know.

Yeah man, I made collages in kindergarten too and they are time consuming! Whew! Oh you meant college, sorry I got all excited about making a collage of failure from the bulk of posters in this thread and hanging it on my wall and... what were you talking about? Oh. Wait. Good lord this is difficult to read.

Yes, I'm well aware of the population fluctuation due to game release. However, after 1/3 and 1/14 there is still a declining trend in the number of subscribers logged on concurrently. It did not level off, although as they get lower and lower it does seem to be tapering closer to what will probably be their "6 month" player base, and then decline further after that. It's not growing, that much is certain.

Save it. "Throw money at it while spending an additional two years making our game" is terrible advice. You're fired. I'm sorry Age of Conan didn't work out for you.

Actually it's quite accurate. Most analysts have trimmed BioWare's earnings and expectations way down. Not to mention, the many public tools now available which show decreasing population on almost all severs.

In regards to the engine, look no further to the actual forums - which display an almost universal disgust for the lack of creativity and performance from the Hero Engine.

Although judging from your post history, BioWare can do no wrong - and everything is going great.

I suppose drones are needed, even in real life.

Accurate? Please. Last time I checked numbers can be played with to make them look better or worse, depending on what point you want to make. Ill wait a year before I can say the game is dead or not. As for the analysts, same story different setting.