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Quote:Originally Posted by Melancton
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! It's a Catgirl Master Illusionist! RUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
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Quote:Not necessarily that the person would get mod/admin privs on the board. Just that their name would turn red.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Entertaining as it would be, I can only imagine the metric a**load of crap that would hit the fan if that happened...
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Then again, some of the people here (whistles innocently) are rather...high strung. Seeing some of the people here turn red for a day would probably cause a loss of repeat business for NCSoft as a goodly number of people would die when their heads 'asploded.
Think about it, you're sitting there, minding your own business then you see that *Insert Name* has become a redname. You feel the pressure build then:
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Quote:Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
Hey guys, need some brainpower to figure something out here.
My computer works fast and smooth most of the time. I don't have any issues with any programs or other websites. HOWEVER, on THESE forums, when i use my scroll-wheel to navigate, it's very choppy and laggy. My system manager reports that almost 25% of my system resources are going towards Firefox when I try to use the scroll wheel on the forums. Looking at the usage graph, three procs remain unused while the fourth one goes ballistic trying to crunch all the data apparently required to scroll down a page length >_>
I should also note that if i don't go to Facebook first, this issue doesn't arise as often. In fact, sometimes closing my browser, letting it sit for a minute then restarting alleviates most of the lag.
So it seems to me there's some kind of Facebook/Firefox/CoH Forum incompatibility. here are my readouts from CoHHelper and HiJackThis logs:
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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 7:27:04 PM, on 2/27/2011
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP3 (6.00.2900.5512)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG10\avgchsvx.exe
C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\avgtray.exe
C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\Identity Protection\agent\bin\avgidsmonitor.exe
C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\avgwdsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\avgnsx.exe
C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\Identity Protection\Agent\Bin\AVGIDSAgent.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG10\avgrsx.exe
C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\avgcsrvx.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
O2 - BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter - {3CA2F312-6F6E-O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG_TRAY] C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\avgtray.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O18 - Protocol: linkscanner - {F274614C-63F8-47D5-A4D1-FBDDE494F8D1} - C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\avgpp.dll
O23 - Service: AVGIDSAgent - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. - C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\Identity Protection\Agent\Bin\AVGIDSAgent.exe
O23 - Service: AVG WatchDog (avgwd) - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. - C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG10\avgwdsvc.exe
At least for CPU utlization (though the choppiness could be caused by it), my money is on the Link Scanner and possibly the Identity Protection agent.
Remember, the link scanner is going to hit EVERY...SINGLE...LINK on the page, in the background. Thus why Firefox is consuming resources the way it is. This, in turn, is likely affecting how smoothly the Firefox process is responding to input for things like scrolling. -
Quote:In short. You don't. Unadulterated Psi damage is about as rare as hen's teeth in the game. As such, your other typed defenses should shore you up quite nicely.Originally Posted by AWRocketman
Subject sort of says it. How do you close off the psy hole in Ice Armor's defense?
As such, the advice to get Hoarfrost's recharge down (basically for the heal) is good. -
Quote:Originally Posted by _Elektro_
ah... ok.
So with hasten active (I won't have it perma til 50) it will recharge every... 63 seconds and change... and lasts for 120 seconds. (without Hasten active, its about... 76 seconds, so I should still be safe.)
Sorry if this sounds stupid, but if the Def doesn't crash on any overlap of the power, what about the -damage, and -endurance?
Looking at my build again, even with a set of Gaussian's in it, I should be ok.
But it does make me think it's probably a bad idea for a Shielder like myself to 'use' it until he/she can make it overlap.
To spell it out in no uncertain terms:
This is what happens when you have Rage overlapped and the first instance expires.
Damage
- Your damage on all your primary, secondary and pool powers crash.
- Your damage on your temp powers does NOT crash.
- Your damage on procs slotted into your powers does NOT crash
- You get the 25% Endurance crash
- You do NOT get the defense crash.
- You lose the 30% ToHit buff from the first instance of Rage.
As to it being a bad idea to use.
Yes, you have to watch for the crash. But you're putting out an incredible amount of extra damage with Rage and AAO piggy-backing. In all likelihood, you'll splatter the enemy so fast they won't be around to attack during the Rage crash. -
Quote:blasphemer! repent! Repent!Originally Posted by clawsandeffect
tanks are intended to be tough to kill, they are not necessarily intended to have their hp bar never move.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Starjammer
Since temp attack powers aren't affected by damage buffs, they're also not affected by damage debuffs like the Rage crash.
I find that Ghost-Slaying Axe -> Blackwand -> Nemesis Staff exactly fills the duration of my Rage crash. Of course, you need to be 57+ month vet for that option. It's also a bit of an End hog.
Sometimes, I just use the Rage crash as an opportunity to pause and take a recovery tick.
It's far from crippling by any means. You just learn to work around it.
I tend to let it crash (as it's doubled) and then Taunt > Sands of Mu > Taunt and it's back. Plus, since I have the Perfect Zinger proc in Taunt, I can usually get an unsuppressed "attack" in anyhow. -
Why lead, when you can back seat drive?
"I think we should use the *insert strategy* to defeat *insert villain*."
"No no no! That'll take too long, do it this way!"
"What do you mean you want to speed this TF? I wanna kill all!" -
Quote:Originally Posted by Zwillinger
- So I have this idea...hear me out...World of...Lady GAGA...Online.
How did you want to be beheaded and disemboweled again?
- Sword
- Dull Sword
- Paper Cut
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Quote:Originally Posted by Demobot
800k is absolutely insignificant compared to the amount of influence you can make on the market in a day. With two A-merits you can buy a level 30 Numina proc, craft and sell it for around 200 million influence.
Cursing the darkness is fun I guess, but when you are surrounded by thousands of candles and people are throwing matches at you, your course of action should be obvious.
This is like Steve Ballmer throwing chairs and ranting about the price of a cup of coffee at Starschmucks.
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Quote:Okay, I bought the Animal Pack last week too. *YAY!*Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
Last year I set-up a secondary checking account to act as a filter when I need to pay something online.
I don't use it much. Main thing I use it for is NCSoft purchases. Haven't used it for anything other than NCSoft purchases for months.
Purchased the animal pack when it came out.
Call from the bank today (just a couple of days later) that someone is trying to use the card for purchases out of the country.
I'm not liking the coincidence.
So I'm posting in case others have had fraud issues since purchasing the animal pack.
I'm going to the Customer Service site to report it now.
I DID notice some suspicious behavior on my account Friday. *Uh oh!*
Turns out it was just Uncle Sam trying to give me back some of the cash he extorted from me in the last year. *YAY!* -
Udder Devastation
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Quote:Someone who's farming x8 is pulling in more salvage and recipe drops than they could possibly use. Even distributing it to alts.Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm
How so?
Sure, vendor trash still gets converted straight to inf.
The rest goes on the market, bolstering supply and hopefully keeping prices lower than they would be if demand completely outstripped supply.
As they're doing it ALONE, they don't have to worry about drops being distributed to other teammates. -
Well, don't feel the need to do ALL of your alts all at once.
Wish I'd taken that advice myself... Almost a week of nothing but respecs...
Start with some of the toons you intend on playing. And work them up a bit in Mids first. This way you don't accidentally blow a respec. -
Okay you're already running fairly high for endurance consumption. But you avoided Power Sink?
Also, optimal slotting for Stamina would probably be: Common: EndMod, PerfShift: EndMod, PerfShift: +End
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Quote:While it'd probably destroy the market server (due to all the numbers tracking), what I'd like to see in addition to the last 5.Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
Yeah having a little button showing more than 5 history or something would be nice as well.
Median price in the last 30 days.
High price in the last 30 days.
Low price in the last 30 days.
Now these numbers could still be heavily skewed in low activity items. But they'd give us an idea at least. -
Quote:IMNSHO, mid-season breaks hurt even established shows for the same reason. Especially with cliffhanger endings. They set up this big "ooh, must watch the next episode" mentality. However, that only really works short term. That sort of interest fades in a couple weeks and is completely gone after a multi-month break unless you're just some ravenous fanboy.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Mid season breaks work for an established series like Burn Notice, Psych, Royal Pains on USA, which are the same people who control SyFy.
Agreed.Quote:SG:U however tries to be Lost in space. Large cast, mostly random strangers, tossed together in much less than ideal circumstances. Finally after a season and a half they start to get the ship they are stranded upon under some vague control they, SyFy, choose to break on a cliffhanger big *** space battle. Also it's not a happy series. Unless you define happy as "we didn't starve, suffocate or flip out and kill everyone today".
You forgot the big one. "Rocks fall, everyone dies." Or the Quantum Leap equivalent.Quote:So yes I'll watch the end of it. Let's see if Chloe turns into a homicidal alien hybrid. Let's see how the ship survives this battle. Let's see if someone is left behind only to catch up again. Maybe it will end on an upbeat. Probably because they are almost out of down beats. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Celtic_Coders
Subjective: With the old launcher I had to click two buttons, both are a large size and easy to target. With the NCsoft launcher, I need to click the game name and a button. While the button is large and easy to target, the game name is not. Two possible solutions are to either increase the text font size or to pad above and below the game name to make the clickable target area larger.
Actually, with the launcher, you can right-click and get multiple options for the game.
Green: Game is ready to play.
Yellow: Game either needs patching or consistency checking..
Red: Game isn't ready to play. Needs patching at least.
My Beta install is red due to my having remove the PIGG directory to save space on my drive.
Okay, quantitative analysis here:
Test System:
Lenovo ThinkPad T61p
4GB RAM
Windows XP 32-Bit.
Memory Usage:
CoH Launcher on startup: ~25 MB
After Idle: 2.756 MB Leaks up to 4.048 MB after 30 minutes and stable after that.
NCSoft Launcher on Startup: ~56 MB
After Idle: 3.7 MB Immediately starts leaking memory.
First time startup after 5 minutes: 8 MB
Second time startup after 5 minutes: 11 MB
Third time startup after 5 minutes: 11 MB
Leaving it run causes it to, slowly, continue to leak memory. Usually in single to double KB increments over time. -
Quote:IMNSHO the biggest problem with SG:U was pacing.Originally Posted by Veritech
actually, Season 2 has gotten some pretty damn dismal ratings. this season has done WORSE than the first season. Also, SG:U's ratings have never been anywhere close to Jerico's ratings. if any show got what Universe did for it's first couple episodes, it never would have lasted past the first six episodes, much less made it to a 2nd season.
sure, people may have been watching SG:U, but not nearly enough to keep it afloat.
It took them FOREVER to get some of the story arcs into full swing. I know they were trying to be more epic and less episodic but still.
The other thing was the mid-season breaks. Those completely DESTROYED *ANY* momentum the show built.
"Let's just take a multi-month break RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ******* SEASON! What could go wrong?"
Whoever thought this was a "good" idea needs to be taken out back and forcibly sterilized...with a chainsaw...for the good of television viewers everywhere.
Season one was blah enough that the gap wasn't a huge deal. Season two had started to really come together when they hit their next mid-season break. It's a shame the series was so badly mishandled. It had a buttload of potential. -
Depends on what you're farming.
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I play all my support characters aggressively (ask my Fire/Rad superteam).
My FF/Archery defender is aggressive as hell and built like a tank.
My Grav/Kin is built to take punishment.
Let's face it. I'm a fricking tank. No matter what class I take, I tank. Hell, I've even tanked LR on one of my blasters.
Either I'm just such a poor player that I always revert to tank-think, or I'm just such a spectacular tank that I can tank with anything...
Probably the former. -
Stupid car question. The turn signal thing on the Malibu.
Does it sometimes go away when you turn the air on full blast?
Asking because I have an '02 Malibu with the same issue. -
Quote:Because DJ Zero uses the quarters they steal to keep the club afloat when it's not full of Virtuites.Originally Posted by freewaydoggy
I mean, shouldn't the pinball machines be interactive in Pocket D? Like, you spend say,..25 inf on a game, play a pinball mini-game, and win prizes/rewards & such, no? I think that would be a fine idea, don't you?
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Figure this thread might be helpful for you so people can give you some informed suggestions.
Grab the template from there, answer as much as you can, and paste the result here.
If you're not comfortable building your own, nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all.
Okay, currently
Best bang for the buck: AMD/ATI for chip and video.
Best bang period: Intel/nVidia.
For your $1000 budget, this could either be very generous or a tight build. The questions you answer will help determine that. -
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