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That and can they get away from posting dates as 4/10 - that means 4th October in most of the world or 10th April in the US or even April 2010 in China - much better to post the month in alpha format so there is no confusion.

The badge event is on the 27th on Freedumb which will be extended to cover 28th-30th if sufficient numbers join. They have also said they will have some other means of obtaining the badge at a later date which will be the only way I'll get it due to being away for the bank holiday.

Was able to log in as far as the server selection screen on mine about 11PM but the actual servers were still locked out for internal testing only. If it hadn't been reactivated it would have failed before that point. Note that ALL of last night was still in the maintenance window.

You could make the API calls to the hardware directly to determine it but that then means they would need to test against a huge range of sound drivers. By calling a standard framework they only need to test against any compliant card - the card manufacturers will ensure their drivers handle all standard calls via the framework. This means if a new sound card is released the card manufacturer will test that it handles all framework calls and then it should work when a user plugs it into their system and installs the drivers. - If the game didn't use one of the frameworks then it could require a code update to handle the new driver.
This is probably also why those older cards are still supported. If they fully support the framework they will continue to work.

I can just see them breaking through a portal into the Abandoned Sewer Network

"Agggghhhh If they have done THAT to Hamidon what will they do to us mere mortals!"

just as the Hydra reaches out a tendril and sucks the life out of one of these new sources of food.

My poor ears thank you
Now to see if I've set up the folder structure right.

Any way we can disable this other than turning sound off?
It sounding 30 or so times a minute gets infuriating to put it mildly

Looks like the Devs have decided its long overdue for Golden Girl to create a character on Union. :rofl:

You ain't kidding about long ago it was about I5 iirc and they listed AT threat order as well - in the absence of anything else - 'trollers had the highest threat, followed by defenders, scrappers were at the bottom of the list. However bear in mind this was at the time that the devs had still to find the document detailing how Threat really worked so they got a lot of it wrong. Oh the joys of trying to maintain complex code without proper documentation.

Also by any chance did the scrapper have superspeed running - that has a -1 mag threat level

It does rely on the guns overlooking it being the first to be taken out though - the other slopes would be much easier without the overhang at the top. The biggest problem I find is overjumping - that just needs more practice.

Of course some of us have been able to see them since May 2005 :P

Thought it was a bit after - about I4 or maybe i5 but in any event its long since and I'm certain they were the same at I6.
You could connect with the US client but you didn't have the option to select a language which there was on the EU one - its now set automatically according to the server.

Actually its probably the US client that would get dropped - I think that may actually have happened several years ago tbh - the EU one has multiple language capability and both can currently connect to either server farm by renaming it and maintaining a single product is much simpler.

EU and NA accounts will be able to play on, connect and transfer between all 15 servers

NA players will gain access to a German language server and a French language one - I expect the population of Vigilance getting a significant boost from Canadian players and given that it is probably the lowest population server of the 15 that has got to be good news.

The NA game client has nothing to do with account billing and the account servers are almost certainly the same code on both as things stand. When they need to perform maintenance on the account servers we lose the Store and annoyingly BM/WW but can continue to play - I suspect that BM/WW was probably put on the server it is on because both EU and NA account servers were co-located whilst the game servers were spread over 3 sites at the time.

The bad news is you are highly unlikely to hear anything about to technical details but in general merging datasets is a well understood process as long as the database structure is clear.
Its generally a straightforward process but does require a lot of dependency checking to avoid messing up the relationships - its usually best doing it one stage at a time testing after each - which is where it takes time.