Gaia

I'm surprised no-one has suggested it yet but I'd suggest creating a range of different characters

Go for your boring scrapper or a fire brute for those days you want to kill lots without needing to think about it.

A corrupter for when you want to play a support toon that is capable of dishing it out - mostly straightforward to play

Also a heavily team oriented defender - you need to think what you are doing here in most cases - very survivable and VERY popular on teams but hard to solo in some cases.

Tank or a tanking brute - needs thought to play well and control the aggro properly

A controller or dominator (or both)- both have lots of control powers but the controller is mostly a support character whilst the dominator is a damage dealer

I'd leave the blaster and stalker a few weeks until you get the others up to about lvl 25-30 and better understand the different mobs characteristics and how to limit the aggro you get - both can be very rewarding but need a bit more thought to avoid dying from the alpha strike.

Play each of them until you get bored with it then switch to a different toon. You'll soon find which you love playing and no doubt find others which you need to be in a particular mood for.


Lastly if you get bored with everything else (so in about 10 or so years ), are masochistic or just want a big challenge try a petless mastermind - just make sure anyone you team with knows what they are getting. I certainly don't recommend this until you have a lot more experience in the game though.

I found the Hide Empty button gets rid of it

If you were seeing mobs of 3 minions on Malicious something had already defeated the rest of the mob or you had pulled only part of it.

+0/x2 will spawn 5 minions, 3minions+1lt, 2lt+1 minion or boss+minion - there was a bug which sometimes meant the boss spawn didn't have the minion.
If you have no bosses set then all bosses will spawn as a lt with no change in the rest of the spawn to compensate.
If there are no bosses in the villain group you are fighting then they will not spawn so that boss+minion spawn would become just a minion.

Even on level difficulty maps you will still see a mix of +0 and +1 mobs. Some maps are set up to start easy - typically -1s and ramp up to +1s to standard - this would mean in the later rooms you would see a mixture of +1 and +2s - its been that way for as long as I can remember.

Also up until the last patch if you had teamed with a Kheld you could also see a quantum or a void in the mob redside - you still willl do so blueside.

If you can't handle the larger spawn size or level on a particular character there is nothing to say you need to run on larger mob sizes - that setting is set up per character.

Are you getting confused between listing and selling fees?

When you place an item on the market you are charged a listing fee - 5% of asking price - if you are asking 190mill this will be 9.5mill.

When the item sells this fee is refunded and the selling fee is deducted from the inf you get paid. e.g. if the item listed at 190mill sells for 250mill you are refunded the 9.5mill and charged 10% of the selling price - 25mill - i.e. a net 15.5mill which means you will receive 234.5mill from the market.

There is a setting for Chat Font size - I had mine set to 12 point and UI scalling to about 70% which seemed to work well and still does at higher resolutions although it is still to wide at 1280x768 even at minimum scaling as I found when I tried running CoX on my nettop.

LFG works but unless there are a huge number of people using it then it is only likely to generate close to minimum size leagues.

I joined one via it on Tuesday and we almost completed Lambda with just a team of 8 (Marauder down to 1% health) - so it is clearly possible at minimum size on a PUG without anything over alphas slotted

Also if you're worried in case you get your global wrong just send something you don't care if it gets lost first - 1inf or even just an empty email. Once you see it in your inbox just hit reply and you can be certain the global is enterred correctly.

Don't forget to delete the email after you have claimed as the inbox is not exactly huge.

XP 64bit version is basically Windows Server 2003 - currently at SP2

Seen this happening for the past few months on an infrequent basis.
When it happens I cannot access any internet sites but it clears once I close and reopen the browser so my guess is its a local caching issue - probably at the corporate firewall but others may be having this from ISP caching.

I'd check the powersave settings in control panel - this sound like the computer is entering sleep or hibernate mode but not being able to come back up rather than a hardware problem.

Snow Globe,

You are completely missing the point here.
The proposed changes involve imposing changes to the provision of entertainment services to one group of people on the basis of geographic location (ethic origin may also be seen as basis). These changes are to be applied in a manner which are not being implemented in a like manner or on like terms with that of another group of people based on the same criteria.
This disadvantages the former group in that their logins and global name i.e. in game persona will change - as these will not apply to NA account holders this falls within the definition of the RRA


Also Part one section 3

3 Meaning of “racial grounds", “racial group" etc.E+W+S.(1)In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—.
“racial grounds” means any of the following grounds, namely colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origins;
“racial group” means a group of persons defined by reference to colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origins, and references to a person’s racial group refer to any racial group into which he falls.
(2)The fact that a racial group comprises two or more distinct racial groups does not prevent it from constituting a particular racial group for the purposes of this Act..
(3)In this Act—.
(a)references to discrimination refer to any discrimination falling within section 1 or 2; and.
(b)references to racial discrimination refer to any discrimination falling within section 1,.
and related expressions shall be construed accordingly.


As you can see European and North American do fall into the definition of racial group as defined by the Act and as such are indeed a protected group.

You might also wish to consider that BRITISH law - your emphasis - does not exist the EULA which form the contract is enacted under English Law - there are equivalent laws in Scots Law, that for Northern Ireland and I would expect to see the same for the Channel Islands and the Isle of Mann but they are irrelevant to this discussion

Any such action would be raised in the County court they would determine the size of damages or pass it to the High court should they feel it appropriate. That this refers to a service for the provision of something that is virtual has absolutely no relevance to the court where such a complaint would be heard.

Bringing up that we currently do not have access to as many servers would only serve to increase NCSoft's exposure to risk of claims for the past 6 years. I believe they could probably show that to be fair but courts may differ.
By your argument allowing access to the first 7 of these would not be a positive action - it would constitute the rectification of a previous disadvantage. The last 4 server increase is also applied to the US so there is no discriminatory positive action there.

It could also be argued that by not allowing NA account holders to change their global names afterward is also discriminatory. They might argue that this is only granted to users affected by the change which would be fair except that they are not affected by the change because of other discriminatory action and as such would constitute indirect discrimination under English Law - however NA account users' EULA is I believe enacted under the laws of one of the US states and whether there would be any claim for that would depend on the relevant law and it would require someone conversant in both English Law and that of the relevant US jurisdiction to determine how such would be resolved.

Oh and to simplify matter here's the location of the Act

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/74/contents

Note you probably should look at the current version with amendments as oposed to the original which would then require you to check each amendment as well.

Thanks for the clarification and I'd again like to make it clear that we should all be proud to be associated with a company prepared to show such a huge level of generosity. There are other areas I have experienced where they have shown generosity albeit not to the same extent where it was not required or expected in the past and I am sure they will continue to do so.

I'm not entirely clear on what the bit about maintaining the service with minimal electricity usage actually refers to but this donation is so vastly higher than any donation that is normally gifted by commercial organisations that it is staggering in its generosity and NCSoft, its staff, management, customers and shareholders should be justly proud of this action - Well done - you put most if not all of us to shame.

In this case any discrimination claim would probably be more based on the concept of Ethnic Origin - i.e. European. It is illegal to unfairly discriminate against a person or identiable group of persons on the grounds covered by the act.

There is also another potential legal pitfall in regards changing the account name as this has the risk of inadvertantly granting access to on user's account to a different user.
Take the example
Player A has a Eu account with account name Account
Player B has a NA account with account name Account
By chance both have chosen the same password - not as unlikely as you may think
Now following the proposed change
Player A's account is renamed to EuAccount
However player A is unaware of this change and logs in to what he believes is his account instead he ends up in player B's account and could adversely affect it - either by deleting existing characters or by inappropriate actions causing player B to be banned.
Now whilst it would currently be possible for player A to do this by logging on to the US servers half of the security battle is not making the account name known and such an action would be more likely to be a deliberate action on the part of player A and as such we should expect NCSoft to investigate and take appropriate action. By making this change NCSoft increases the risk of this happening by accident and I very much doubt if the US player B would be particularly impressed to find all his characters deleted or himself banned due to no fault of his own.

It would be much better to as you have already said prevent the creation of account names or globals which match anyone else on either current server farm - and that really should have been done BEFORE making this announcement. That way there is no increase in the number of affected accounts.

In the case of conflicts betwwen accounts on the same global account grant a rename which can be applied to any account on the same gloabl account for both globalname and account name - If it isn't used before the merge change both.

After that give preference to Active full accounts first Inactive trial accounts last - to be honest I don't know which way I'd go between inactive full and active trial - probably go for the inactive full to keep it - the active trial can become an active full after all.
If both are inactive or both trial come the merge change both.

That should handle the vast majority of problem conflicts - I'd suggest if the number remaining is small after that contact both - either may wish to change anyway - if there is still a conflict after that base it on veteran time at the end of the day it is the fairest means.

In the end this merge is something that many player myself included want to see happening there are a number of benifits - access to a larger number of servers being the major one especially for many EU players, however there are others and I suspect players particularly from the Montreal are might swell the population of Vigilance. We recognise that there are issues with name conflicts what we have a problem with is the way in which these conflicts are being addressed.
Most of us will accept these changes even if we aren't happy but that doesn't excuse taking actions which alienate a significant proportion of the player base especially when they are delivered as au fait d'accomplis.