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    Steam allows payment in for mods?

    in Art, Media & Technology

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    They give mod authors a "pay what you want " option isntead of a fixed price aswell , which is pretty much asking for donations @@Botdra

    I may go ahead and enable that option for one of my skyrim mods and see what happens

     

    The pay-what-you-want isn't actually really pay what you want. It is technically but it has a minimum payment that the modder sets, so it's basically like putting your mod up for sale at the minimum price giving the potential buyer the option to pay even more. Plus Valve gets 75% of any profits, which is ridiculous.

     

    I'm for modders making money if they create something really good but I think either the mods should have a big donate button instead or they should have a true pay-what-you-want like Humble Bundle with a minimum purchase price of $0.01. Charging upfront for mods like they're doing is a terrible idea. Plus, a lot of these paid mods on the Workshop are free on Skyrim Nexus. 

     

    If you do decide to put something up for a cost, be prepared for some backlash. There's a lot of people on Steam that are pretty pissed about this whole idea. 

    How long have you been a part of the JK community?

    in Jedi Knight General Discussions

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    I first played JK2 in like 2009 I think and didn't make a mod until 2010 for JKA. Then most of my involvement in modding was for the Jedi Betrayal project until I left in 2012. I haven't really made any mods since other than my high res JK2 texture pack. I've never even had that much interest in Jedi Academy. I've only played through JA like twice, JO maybe three times, and I very rarely play multiplayer for JA or JO, only if I happen to be incredibly bored.

     

    A big part of the reason why I still stick around here is because of the community. The site is big enough that it's actually a community but it's small enough that you kind of know everyone a little bit. That's what I like about JKHub. A lot of other online communities are so big that it's hard to keep up with everything and everyone that I quickly lose interest. I've had long periods of absence here, but for some reason I keep coming back. 

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    Quake Freed: Call For Jedi Academy Content

    in Jedi Knight General Discussions

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    I'm looking for members of the community to suggest mods that they feel have had a strong inpact on the JA and JO community. (Can be your own mod don't be shy) Post them here or PM me.

     

    Movie Battles is probably the biggest, most successful total conversion mod JA has ever had because it created its own pretty popular spin-off community. KOTF (Knights of the Force) was very popular as well but it was single-player only and a lot of people here frown at it because of plagiarism.

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    The Big Facebook/Google/Apple/Microsoft Debate

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    Just got my 16 GB for the Mac. Everything runs way better now. Programs still start up slower than my main rig (Mac has dual Core i5, main rig has AMD-FX 8320 quad/eight core) but since I have such a massive amount of memory I can just leave everything in the background like Mac always does and then pull programs up when I need to. 

     

    This Mac still eats up a ton of ram though. I just pretty much have Chrome and Photoshop open and 6.5 gigs of memory are in use. My main rig only has 8 GB and I can alt tab out of games and have Photoshop open and only have like 50% memory usage.

    The Big Facebook/Google/Apple/Microsoft Debate

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    Personally my big gripe with my Macbook, running Mac OS X 10.8.5, is that every time I sit down to do work on it, I end up waiting for the system to do something, and not doing any work! It's either a backup, or an update, or apps getting slow and having to restart the computer -- which takes a million years, by the way. Spotlight (the search utility) is always indexing at something in the background and slowing things down, and the entire memory management of the OS is absolutely horrible.

     

    That's one of my other big gripes with Apple. I'm almost certain that they purposely slow down your devices after system updates. My iPad Mini ran perfect on iOS 7 but when I updated to iOS 8 it ran like garbage, and there is no significant graphical difference between iOS 7 and iOS 8. I'd understand if it was slow on the update to iOS 7 since there were a ton of new effects, but seriously, either they purposely slow down your device or purposely don't optimize the OS for old devices. I agree too, my Mac Mini has 4 GB of ram and manages it terribly. That's why I just ordered 16 GB of Mac Ram, hopefully that will be enough. I had 4 GB on my old PC for years and I never had such huge slowdowns like I have on my Mac. 4 GB I thought was modest but not incredibly slow.

     

    Apple products are awesome for that first year that you use them, but it seems like after the year-long honeymoon of having the latest thing they just want you to feel like shit for not buying their newest product.

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    The Big Facebook/Google/Apple/Microsoft Debate

    in Art, Media & Technology

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    Like i said before.. Apple a is piece of shit company... Microsoft is following. About Google.. well... they are tracking when you use the search engine.. and stupid Chrome browser. But Android is a good mobile OS. Is not Google success.. is a Linux form around the world developers success ! Android track you with stupid google services. If you dezactivate that.. you don't have a problem. Can't say the same for dezactivating tracking on stupid iphone and other products that use icloud shit !! Facebook is a spy social website for tracking sheeples people that put they own private information and thinks that is cool... LOL..! Its a same method like Apple do. This why those corporations has alot of money.. this is a sheeples people fault !

     

    I can't understand why so many people have an irrational hatred for Apple. I'm far from an Apple fanboy (the only mac I have is a Mac Mini I got fairly recently), and I've gotten rid of my iPad in favor of an Android tablet. I still think Apple makes great products though. The only real downsides to their products I can think of are price and the closed-off nature of Mac and iOS, which was one of the main reasons why I switched to Android.  

     

    Also, you probably actually use a lot of services from these companies that you trash talk. Linux isn't all sunshine and rainbows either. It's great that it's free and open, but it can also be a pain in the ass from time to time, especially if you aren't a tech wizard nerd who spends all day tweaking an OS.

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