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Quote:I believe all vets that had earned enough vet rewards got the 550 for Sept. I know I did.Originally Posted by Zyphoid
As my renewal date was the 2nd, it would be really odd for me to have already gotten my points. This is one of those things that it would be very wise of the devs to straighten out now, and not later.
I did get 550 points on Sept 14th. I am just not sure why I would get my Oct points in Sept. -
Quote:Meh, it's a brand new system being implemented so I expected a few bugs. Having to wait a few extra days to get the kinks out of the first cycle is only a minor inconvenience.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Let's say your billing date is October 5.
1. Sever Transfers are awarded on the first of the month. (i.e. October 1)
2. Paragon Points are awarded on your billing date (i.e. October 5) - however, Freedom launch was frontloaded with extra PP, so if your account was active during launch, you got extra PP. Therefore, if your billing date is before October 11 (according to a GM), you won't get your PP until October 11 - you'll get it on your next billing date (i.e. October 11)
3. Paragon Reward Tokens are awarded at the end of your billing month (i.e. November 4)
Yes, this means that anyone whose billing date is October 1 through October 10, you won't get your PP until October 11.
Yes, that means the rewards are all on a different award date. Yes, that is kind of dumb.
Glad to see the people at PS are quick to respond with an explanation rather than leaving us hanging wondering what's going on. -
Thanks for being so quick with that quote E-K.
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Sam has gotten some great help on builds so I'll try to help with costumes. I suggest drawing on the Time Bandits for inspiration. A greater time squad never existed.
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Quote:I don't know where you learned how to count or what you think the definition of unanimous is but by my reckoningOriginally Posted by AkuTenshiiZero
I have never had one of my suggestions so unanimously shot down. Thanks people.
4 people voted against your idea
4 people voted for your idea, 3 of whom want the added ability to turn it off when they so desire.
1 person only asked about Fran Fine.
That's not even remotely unanimous. Much closer to a 50/50 split at this point. So stop being so melodramatic. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
As long as I can turn them off.
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Quote:Originally Posted by viewtifuldee
What if we subscribe using game cards? I buy a 60-day game card every, well, 60 days? Have they said how they plan to handle those?Same applies to 3 month, 6 month, and 1 year subs.Quote:Originally Posted by Winterminal
If I remember correctly, the billing cycle still "renews" on a monthly basis, and while you'll have 60 days pre-paid, you will get 400 points on the day that the new time card becomes active, then another 400 points a month later. For example, your new time card activates October 3rd. You get 400 points then, and 400 points again on November 3rd.
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Quote:I hate to use the term "simple" but builders lives could be made simpler if the devs took the existing white floor tile that's next to the safe in the base editor and reskinned it so you can't see thru the bottom, and if they gave it the same graphics as the ceiling and floor styles they'd blend in perfectly with base construction. That way a 2x2 room would only take 4 floor tiles to cover the room instead of hundreds of desks.Originally Posted by Kierthos
And the sad thing is, some of the problems with bases being such a pain to make could be solved by adding some very simple items (like fully rendered large surfaces, so we don't have to stack dozens of desks to make a second floor).
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Quote:This isn't rocket science. Everyone that had an active account when the I21 head start began got their points for September on Sept 13th regardless of their actual billing date. Those players with preexisting billing dates between the 13th and 30th got their points early.Originally Posted by Electric_Requiem
My billing date is the last day of the month (September 30 in this case). Does that mean I will not receive my Paragon Point allotment until my October billing date? I am a VIP subscriber, but I have not, as of yet, received in Paragon Points for this month.
Players that just started their VIP accounts after the head start began have to wait until their next billing cycle to get their points. So anyone who started a new VIP account after the 13th won't see any points until the same date in October.
Players that think a mistake has been made need to contact customer support. -
I heard it's going to be done as if it were an off broadway musical.
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Quote:Or, he may have simply wanted to mark the door so he'd remember not to go in there, but didn't want the others to know he found his room. Cuz you know darn well Amy wouldn't have been able to resist looking in to see what it was the Doctor feared if she knew what room was his.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
His honeymoon, if you know what I mean.
That's why his reaction is more sheepish than horrified and why he hangs a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door. Why else do you hang a DND sign except for sleeping, which probably isn't his greatest fear. -
Quote:Below are all the items that cost rent. Storage is just one set of the items.Originally Posted by PsychicKitty
i think the only things that cost are the things that let you hold items.....
Quote:Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Storage Items (per bin) 100 prestige
Auto-Doc / Tree of Wonders 100 prestige
Combat Logs / Contemplation Charts 100 prestige
Robo-Surgery / Spirit Signal 100 prestige
Advanced Worktable / Advanced Forge 100 prestige
Expert Worktable / Expert Forge 100 prestige
Robotic Fabricator / Flames of Hephaestus 100 prestige
Radiation Emulator / Enchanting Crucible 100 prestige
Linear Accelerator / Arcane Crucible 200 prestige
Supercollider / Mystic Crucible 300 prestige -
Quote:Unless the devs realize how much of a cash cow it could be if they sold character housing on the market on a per character basis.Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
Almost certainly not.
The load it puts on the servers is hugely disproportionate to the upside it provides, especially for - and I quote the devs here - "a vanity item". -
Quote:Not a problem. Happy to help. Oh and just an FYI, items like the work tables can be purchased, used then sold and you shouldn't be charged for rent. I've been doing that on my bases that don't have a lot of prestige saved up and they haven't been charged extra rent. Only the things like storage bins which are more or less permanent features.Originally Posted by Cake
thanks for list
At least that's how it has been working for me. -
I'd hate to see the OP's suggestion get ruined or even locked/deleted when the Mods get thru with it, so if the OP could please remove all references to that other game the suggestion would be able to stand on it's own merits.
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Quote:The Doctor also said that he was the only one aging in the time distortion thingy because he was the focal point at the center, and we have no idea how long that temporal moment existed.Originally Posted by DarkGob
The Doctor was inside controlling the droid, so it was still the Doctor saying it, just by proxy. So...
1. He actually is 200 years older, which may have happened in between episodes at a few different points during the past half-season
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Quote:No. Then your sub date on that account would have been reset from the 26th of the month to the first of the month and you'd have to wait until Nov 1 for your sub to renew and get your next set of points instead of Oct 26th.Originally Posted by Organica
So let's say my renewal date was Sept 26 (which it was on my 2nd account).
If I'm reading this right, I could have let my sub run out, waited 4 days, and then renewed my subscription on Oct 1, and that would have netted me my points almost a month early? -
Here's one of the sources that helped me (a hardware illiterate) decide what to get in my new computer.
Quote:Originally Posted by je_saist
If you believe the marketing, it offers C.risp A.nd R.esponsive P.erformance
No, subtlety is not one of my strong points.
To run all Ultra Mode options at once in 1680*1050 the starting point is around a AMD RadeonHD 4850 / Nvidia Geforce GTS 250. These have the respective theoretical throughput rates of- 10,000 MegaPixel / 25,000 Megatexel
- 11,808 MegaPixel / 47,232 Megatexel
- RadeonHD 4730**
- RadeonHD 4770***
- RadeonHD 4850
- RadeonHD 4850x2
- RadeonHD 4860
- RadeonHD 4870
- RadeonHD 4870x2
- RadeonHD 4890
- RadeonHD 5750
- RadeonHD 5770
- RadeonHD 5830
- RadeonHD 5850
- RadeonHD 5870
- RadeonHD 5970
- RadeonHD 6850
- RadeonHD 6870
- RadeonHD 6950
- RadeonHD 6970
**I've never actually seen a 4730 for sale. On paper it has the shader and texture power to execute the OpenGL 3.0 calls in the 1280*720 resolution range.
***As far as I am aware the 4770 was only sold with a 512mb memory configuration. The card also had a 128-bit memory bus. While it's not far off from the 4850 in terms of theoretical power, the memory configuration places this cards target resolution more for 1280*720
For the Nvidia architecture these include:- 8800 GTS*
- 8800 GTX*
- 8800 Ultra*
- 9800 GTX
- 9800 GTX+
- 9800 GX2
- GTS 240
- GTS 250
- GTX 260
- GTX 260 216
- GTX 275
- GTX 280
- GTX 285
- GTX 295
- GTS 450
- GTX 460
- GTX 460 SE
- GTX 465
- GTX 470
- GTX 480
- GTX 570
- GTX 580
*the Geforce 8800 series has the shader and texture power to execute Ultra Mode Code, but memory counts of 256mb and 512mb of local video memory really cuts into the ability of the cards to render Ultra Mode in high resolutions
The list of mobile cards that can render in ultra mode is significant shorter:- Mobile RadeonHD 4850
- Mobile RadeonHD 4850x2
- Mobile RadeonHD 4860
- Mobile RadeonHD 4870
- Mobile RadeonHD 4870x2
- Mobile RadeonHD 5830
- Mobile RadeonHD 5850 GGD5
- Mobile RadeonHD 5870
- 9800M GTS
- 9800M GT
- 9800M GTX
- Quadro FX 3700M
- Quadro FX 3800M
- GTX 260M
- GTX 280M
- GTX 285M
- GTX 460M
- GTX 470M
- GTX 480M
Now, I have the well publicized opinion that most of the Geforce cards are rip-offs. Outside of the Geforce GTX 460, pretty much the entire street price for Nvidia cards are way over-priced compared to AMD cards with similar frame-per-second performance: http://www.pricewatch.com/video_cards/
Case in point: Nvidia wants $500 for the GTX 580. However, in realistic gameplay, the $500 msrp GTX 580 doesn't actually buy you higher resolutions, more anti-aliasing, or better texture quality... compared to a RadeonHD 6970 with an MSRP of $369, and a street price only a few bucks more. So... what are you spending nearly $125+ for? Best as I can figure, a little badge that says Nvidia.
One of the problems with my opinion is that Nvidia offers huge discounts to OEM vendors in order to keep system price parity with AMD offerings. So, if you are buying a pre-built computer from a major OEM like Dell, HP, or Gateway, their computers won't have the price / performance discrepancy you'll find in the add-in card market.
So it's very possible that you'll find one of the card listed here available in a pre-built system for not much off an equivelent AMD card. -
Quote:Because of the astronomical amount of credit card fraud that goes on in South America.Originally Posted by General_CoH
geographic location (for some reason South Americans can't buy).
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Quote:That and the fanatic determination to misinterpret what is meant by the phrase, "The customer is always right." combined with grossly exaggerated entitlement issues.Originally Posted by Twisted Toon
Personally, I blame today's "instant gratification" society.
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Itunes finally sent me the episode and it was great.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
No thank you, I will take my own advice and not do things in-game I wouldn't enjoy.
See how that works?
OMG that would've sucked... to lose all that time when you could have been farming or some other unpleasant activity instead.
But I did enjoy building it, the first time, and I loved the reaction I got from my friends when they saw the finished product and checked it out. -
Thanks for the link.
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Quote:Try building a Castle from scratch. Damn thing took 3005 items to build and had three levels, so YES it was a lot of work, but it was a damn fine accomplishment when it was finished. Actually instead of calling it work, I prefer to think of it as a labor of love.Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Yeah, this is about the place where I fail to be able to connect to your logic. This is a game. To me, if ANYTHING in it can be described as "work" and/or "hard work" then you are most assuredly doing something wrong.
My only regret is that I lost it during a base crash and had to rebuild the whole base from scratch. Least I still have the Pictures. -
Storage Items (per bin) 100 prestige
Auto-Doc / Tree of Wonders 100 prestige
Combat Logs / Contemplation Charts 100 prestige
Robo-Surgery / Spirit Signal 100 prestige
Advanced Worktable / Advanced Forge 100 prestige
Expert Worktable / Expert Forge 100 prestige
Robotic Fabricator / Flames of Hephaestus 100 prestige
Radiation Emulator / Enchanting Crucible 100 prestige
Linear Accelerator / Arcane Crucible 200 prestige
Supercollider / Mystic Crucible 300 prestige
