MadHobbit

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  1. hi,
    I got one of these for christmas, I installed it and so far the results have been good,but before that,the bad, first the "manual" is really bad, not very clear on using it,second ,did not install the drivers from the cd,as a new set were just posted a few days before I got the card(have had a few weeks a early christmas present from a long distance friend).after reading the FAQ on the web sites, I was able to get the card to work, the main problem was you have to "teach" it about your apps and games, I had to teach it to allow things like norton to be allowed to go get its updates automatically.

    Now as for COx, so far its has been great removed about 98% of my red spike, get a solid green on netgraph.,I tried a few "lagfests"/ITF with it,and I must say the 3rd mission was never so good.almost no slideshows and that was with a group with a lot of AOEs going off.

    also have been able to download while playing, I was downloadidng guild wars client today ,while playing COH and did not notice and rubber banding or slow frame rates.


    currently the card sells for 99.99 , but my friend got it discounted from Dell,so it can be bought for about 69.99, and like i said i got mine as a present
    below is a description of my gaming system.


    dell 435t with I7
    12 gigs ddr3
    win7 64 bit enterprise
    gtx260

    300gig 10k rpm velciraptor hd

    visiontek killer nic xeno


    this feeds into a dumb 1 gig switch which feeds int my router/switch,which feeds into my cable modem


    any other xeno users out there and how are your results?



    Thank you
  2. this is more of a QOL add, some way to make the mouse pointer larger/more visable. i'm
    slight visually imparied,and lose the point quite a few times playing, and yes i already have the largest pointer selected with windows
  3. MadHobbit

    M&G in Michigan

    3 hours from me i should be able to make it
  4. maybe they will create a bunch of NEW servers and have us all move from old to new, kind of like when diablo 2 added the LOD, you converted your char from Normal diablo2 to LOD, a d2 char could not see or team with lod char and vice versa,and like guild wars to guild wars 2
  5. getting back to recipe storage in base, while Castle may not want it, if marketing shows that they would sell 75,000 recipe storage booster packs at 10.00 each, do you really think they would turn down 3/4 million dollars?
  6. i sell 90% of my unneeded recipes at a store so they never get to WW or BM
  7. well i for one did NOT buy it, i do have all the others,i do not think of it as poor quality,just poor choices,and as for the price of a pack, years and years of marketing has determined tht most people willnot do anything if they spend 9.95 and get a poor product, look at all the print and tv ads,"yes for only 9.95 you too can own one of these fablous belly button lint cleaners"

    my only question is what will be next? I assume the mutant pack,or maybe a base booster pack?(allow recipe storage?) producing a booster pack every quarter or so is a good bandaid to cover declining income. this last push for the Loyallty program is a example,it helped keep the numbers from going down .
  8. well i had hoped that this year when we purchased the winter's gift recipes we could pick what lvl we wanted,and it would not be the lvl of the buyer
  9. one point also, graphic cards drop in price quickly when new cards come out, as GR is slated for Q2 next year ,that is 6 months or so,by tht time the ATI 5XXX will have had at least 1 price drop and maybe more,Nvidia,is suppose to come out with the 300 series of cards if so the high end 295 will be reduced in price.

    and also the new GPU can't do much for you if your CPU can't feed it fast enough.
  10. MadHobbit

    CoH on Windows 7

    running fine, win7 pro 64 bit, 300 gig 10k rpm hd, gtx 260, 12 gigs ddr3 ram,on a 28 inch monitor. be sure to update video drivers after install/upgrade
  11. well i am glad I am on low Pop server, lots less naruto clones running around.
  12. well i looked and am not interested,sofor now ill keep my 10.00
  13. MadHobbit

    M&G in Michigan

    well,hide your women,and lock up the booze,the Hobbit will be there
  14. well,there are a lot of questions,and little answers,at first when COV happened there was a lot of problems not having enough IMF to buy stuff,at the low lvls,then it was realised that heroes got a bit more "extra" cash due to bonuses given for saving people street sweeping.
  15. i have a question, what about IOPs? or the COP? going to get them out? or are you hoping we will all forget about them and just think about the new shineys?
    or what about recipe storage in bases?

    any chance of adding a 2X Merit weekends? 2x weekend is not as fun anymore with the New SSK rules.

    what about the calendar wallpapers you used to have ,they were great for planning on getting the invasion badges.

    any plans on merging some of the low pop servers?(I know they willnot answer this one with other than a no or no comment)

    will Going Rogue be out by christmas 2010?(ok joke)
  16. i am curious as to in game play, I wonder if more heroes will be going villian or villian going hero? did a informal poll on Pinnbadges, and its about 80% villian going hero. I have 2 Stalkers amd maybe a MM i want to switch, no Heroes for going the other way.
  17. what i am wondering ,is with trying to be more cost effective,why does ncsoft not settle ona standard engine,and then port allthe games to it?they licenced the unreal 3 engine a bit ago, and i assume they have all the support from the company they need.while a in house game engine is fine,using a standard engine would make the training of new personnel faster, and easier.as a player ,i really dont care if the game is based on unreal,doom,or xxxx engine. as long as the game play is the same. and if this was a static mmo with a set game world, any engine is fine,but look at all the resources that must be
    used to upgrade the engine,if they used a standard engine ,then that would not be as needed as much. the DEVS here are in some way similar to Hollywood, they are the directors of the game,like the director of a movie, most directors of movies ,dont spend much time worrying about the camera workings, they worry more abuot what will be shown on the screen, they go rent the best cameras they can and go shoot.

    yes it will be a bit of a pain if the game was to switch engines,but once done it will last a few more years,in the computer world, we are getting ready to start using windows 7,which will be a bit of a pain but in 6 months to a year after it happens,things should smooth out.
  18. the event was ok, i played for abut 30 mins with lvl 50 tankin PI,my biggest complaint,was that no longer do arena doors allow TOT.if a team of players wanted to do door "farming"
    what is the difference from doing it inside the arena,or outside?yes i know we willnot
    be involved in the other zone events but that should be our choice.and why do personaly diff not apply? i was set to group of 4 and normal lvls, just got what seemed like the
    1 person spawns, do have a queston, is jack and pumpkin king not going to spawn this event?or if they will was it tested? would hate for the new events to mess up getting the
    other badges for GM spawns,also hope ther is at least 1 more test of it with all turned on,last year there was similar testing then for the real event a bug or tweowas discovered , and not fixed
  19. my only concern is that last year some of the spawns were bugged(too low),and the DEVs were too busy working on the upcoming issue to spend the time to fix the mobs. well it is now a year later,any bets on bugs?
  20. i am reminded of when they added sally,players said she only spawned in about every 23+hours, at first they said we were wrong,then the DEVs finally looked at the code and found out we were right ,it was bugged and they fixed it and posted a apoligy.i understand this game is very complex,and how something totally unrelated can mess up something else.
  21. MadHobbit

    halloween event

    any news on when it happens? hope it goes smooth this year, last year some of the mobs were broken.
  22. when you are working on a badge,say defeat lost leaders,if you mouse over you see you have done x out of xxxx needed,
    this is fine,but once you get the badge, i can't seem to get to see the requirments for the badges,tried right clicking,is there something I'm missing?

    reason I want to know is in-game badges channel someone asked for the requirments for acertain badges, and i had it but could not find a way to tell them


    Thank You
  23. the best I could see,for the players is as we still keep the 2x weekends, which are about 6 months apart,in the middle between them a 2x merits,so that every 3 months or so would be a major event(excluding the seasonal ones like halloween,xmas and valentines)

    one of my other ideas is a thanksgiving event with a giant turkey spawning,and picnic baskets, that spawn smaller rabid turkeys, have it happen over thanksgiving weekend,say wed-sun night, ive suggested it in the past but allways get no answer, some game just need a silly event every so often to liven it up
  24. Like I said it would be a bit sick,if done right,fri do all 3 respec,sat do itf/lg/kahn,with
    numeria,or citial,filler,then sat night repeat the respecs,and the same sunday.

    while the merits are fine, some char need to purchase at least 3-4 recipes for some of the powersets,that now cost over 150 million each that is assumng they are available.Some of the triple recipes for example.,and lets face it with the new powersets becoming avail with I16,there will be another run on the markets.and with GR around the corner.
  25. my second oldest is a earth/ff that i made for issue 2 for respec trials, i just did a earth/emp within the last two months, on both I took the earth epic powersets,
    i too remember the good old days(soon to be a 60 month vet)
    thinking about making a earth/thermal next.