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I mean, don't get me wrong. Occasional retcons can be done. Great, fine and wonderful. But Marvel just has a penchant for pulling out the Big Red RESET button way, WAY, WAY too often.

I mean seriously, Spider-Man is what? Three? FOUR levels of total, universal retcon deep at the moment?

The only two things more overused than retcon in the universe are Deadpool and Wolverine.

This better?

Never mind that the Mini isn't designed for this (being intended as a home server) and will be subject to thermal issues as well.

No. Defense > Resistance.

Resistance, they almost always hit you, but you take less damage. Defense, they miss you and you take no damage.

The reason some of us are going Stone is because someone has take point and grab the alpha-stike. Rock Armor helps survivability in those situations. I just wish it could be altered like the primary/secondary version so it didn't look like I was covered in poo.

Unfortunately no. If you could Venge and Fallout off them, we'd be EVIL (well, MORE evil).

Heya Infernoqueen. Welcome back!
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Sorry about the lateness of the post for Monday's event guys. Busy busy busy!



We had another great turnout this week! We started off by trouncing those despicable ner-do-wells Eochai and Jack in Irons. Unfortunately, due to the amount of time they'd been fighting, only some people got badges. We'll try again for a Monster Mash sometime in the future. Make sure EVERYONE gets them.

We then proceeded on to go open a can on Hro'Dtoz in the RWZ. I'd been trying to spank him earlier in the day solo and couldn't get him down below 25% before he'd spank me.

So I upped the diff and brought friends.

Bye bye big Rikti guy!

We then proceeded on to Unai Kemen. We opted to take the Pantheon Masks mish twice as we're not just working towards max merits, we're also working on accolades.

While it was a shorter night, we called it early.

I'd like to thank everyone who showed, and I'll see you guys on Friday!

Hey Net. @Hyperstrike1.

=)

Anyhoo, the Posi team came through in 1:16 on Posi1. We had a pair of splashdowns. One at the ambushes outside City Hall (waves 2 and 3 popped almost simultaneously), and once inside City Hall (huge mob of death mages just ate us).



My favorite quote of the night came right after the Zombie ambush in the Doc Buzzsaw mission.

<Amazing Brute Jr.> Jeez Offended Young Girl, did you pop a couple purples or are you just that tough?
<Offended Young Girl> A little bit of both!

Depends on what you're buying. If you're dealing with a multi-antenna G setup, no. PCI and PCI-E cards are absolutely equivallent.

If you're dealing with a multi-antenna N setup, you'll want to go with PCI-E.

But note, that you'll likely need a wireless router made by the same company as the card to take advantage of the thruput.

Mostly that's bunk.

On a board running the P55 chipset or later (brain-farting about the AMD equivallent), all the gigabit LAN ports (and any controller chips running them) are connected straight through the northbridge (where the PCI-E, high speed USB, SATA connections, memory, etc are). Not the southbridge (PCI, ISA, all the older, slower stuff).

So your actual thruput variance between an on-board gigabit ethernet port and a PCI-E card for ethernet should be approximately ZERO. Latency will vary depending on the solution, not the connection method (since they're both plugging through the same northbridge).

Additionally, if your router is doing 10/100, any extra speed is wasted.
And unless you've got an internet connection running above 100 megabits/sec (full duplex mode 100 up/100 down), your ethernet port speed is largely meaningless.

If you're talking wireless ethernet, don't even worry about it. Even the multi-channel "108 megabit" cards would barely max a PCI slot. Realistically, about 1/3rd to 2/5ths of wireless ethernet's bandwidth is consumed by overhead. In a noisy environment (pretty much anything beyond an EM-free "clean room"), and your device sees real thruput drop even further.

Male.

Tanks. Just have a melee mentality and I like being the toughest thing in the room.

Mostly blue-side.

The new doppleganger arcs that were introduced with issue 17 are quite enjoyable.

I came to the game for the superheroes. I stayed for the community.

Still maintaining a Pirates of the Caribbean Online account, will probably be dropping that though. I barely ever play anymore.

A little over 2 years.

1: I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 alts. About 10 are 50. Most of my toons are in the 15-30 range.

It depends. While I'm levelling, not so much. I pay attention to things that give me the most benefit, but I don't make a habit of capping out at lower levels. After I hit 50, I decide whether or not I want to. Recently I just capped a Force Field defender and the performance of the toon is much smoother now. Less "oops, I'm dead" now.

Sure it could.

It could have been Showgirls bad...

*shudder*

Pretty much any new high-end vidcard you're going to buy is going to scream for this.

Then your shopping is contradicting your stated purpose. Currently Intel is faster clock-for-clock than AMD. Additionally, as you bump up the number of cores, the overall speed of the chip goes down. This is done to stay within certain power consumption and thermal ranges for the platform.

And more, CoH itself won't use more than 2 cores. So it behooves you to get a CPU that is operating its cores at as high a frequency as possible.

Intel has two options. The 1366 platform (which requires triple-channel) or the 1156 platform (which can take dual-channel).

If you're using it as a boot drive only, you're essentially spending a bunch of extra money so Windows starts up a couple seconds faster and nothing else. With your budget (stated below) you'd see better performance returns by spending the money elsewhere (faster CPU, faster gfx card, etc).

I wouldn't worry about SLI/Crossfire for CoH. Performance returns (especially at your stated resolution requirements) are going to be trivial.

SLI/Crossfire essentially involve linking two graphics cards together to share workloads. One card will be a "master", and the one you hook your monitor(s) to. The other can have monitors hooked up, but during gameplay, they won't be showing you anything in-game. For the most part, the technologies are variants of Alternate Frame Rendering (one card does one frame, the other card does the next, etc, etc). So they can, theoretically, knock out higher framerates.

In practice, this isn't always the case. And more, at your stated resolution, a single card is simply going to have more power available to it than the rendering engine will be able to use.

Translation: At 12x10 on something like a GTX460, you should be able to turn every setting up to max (saving Ambient Occlusion, which is a MASSIVE resource hog) and still have framerates well into the 60's.

No. While you'd get a small performance bump from the 470, it isn't worth the extra money or the huge power consumption and noise increase.

A single 470 screams (SCREAMS) at 1920x1080 and will even play 2560x1536 with everything max at an acceptable framerate. However, monitors running this framerate would cost most of your budget right up front.

Don't even waste time with the 465. It's a low speed-binned 470/480 core. So it has all the drawbacks (higher power consumption, thermal profile, etc) of the higher end cards, but the 460 still beats it in performance.

A single 460, while not THE fastest solution on the face of the earth will still rip through CoH with consistently high framerates.

That and prices are pretty much always going to be higher at a brick-and-mortar store because they have monthly rent/lease payments on that brick and mortar (overhead). Online places have overhead too, but warehouse space is usually significantly cheaper than posh retail space. And more versatile too.

The game already gives you a couple options for this, Clockwork Connection, Loa Bone, Shivans, Backup Radio, epic pets, setting up such missions in AE, etc.

A scrapper's probably the best balance all-around for a new player. Decent mix of HP, Damage Output, Defense/Resist. And really no weird mechanics (Gauntlet/Bruising, Control, Defiance, etc) to learn. Just beat face. The crits come when they will.

Three simple words.

Buy It NAO!

No! Bad! BAAAAAD!

Remember, Tactics is also +Perception. This will apply to Fire Imps as well. They'll be wandering further away picking fights and drawing enemy mobs back to us.

Take Vengeance and toss a heal or defense into it instead. More situational, but more controllable.

Not in my experience of 400+ merits in a couple days.

Granted random means random. But I picked up a lot of random crap. (Crap being the operative term.)

More than half my haul was procs. Most of which were glutting the market (both in recipe form and crafted). Literally, the components to craft were worth more than the crafted IOs. Maybe if I were picking up alignment merits from tip missions regularly, I'd say "oh well". But I wound up losing money in the long run from random rolls through RM to AM conversion.

Granted, it was an experiment and I'm in no wise hurting for inf. But the cheap bastich in me has a sour taste in his mouth over it.