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That's not much worse than Miss Liberty dying in the SSA, but having full health and endurance at the same time.

Was an alternative name choice going to be "Emo"?

Also wouldn't bother me either way. As I understand it, the personal accounts function identically to the accounts the rest of us have. I am prepared to be wrong, but I'd be very surprised if I am.

As I understand it, they have their "Redname Accounts", which they use to create their personal in-game avatars for dev/community- to-player interactions, and their personal accounts, which work just like the rest of us. Their employee terms and conditions prevent them from using "dev hacks" on their personal accounts (and the consequences of doing so are likely to be a sacking for gross misconduct). They are also not allowed to reveal their personal account global names.

This information has been gleaned over the course of several years, but most noticeably from details (scarce ones) from ex-employees about the treatment of their private accounts after employment ends.

It is also possible for their "dev accounts" to be converted into "personal accounts" with the loss of everything that dev accounts had (like badges and ultra-cheats characters with all tanker powersets, all APPs and all power pools).

The internal wireless card on my laptop works... okay-ish for running CoH on an older Netgear 2000 series router. Using it on a different floor of my house causes some interference, though.

I don't know enough about USB wireless adapters to be able to confirm their utility.

On the other hand, my preference is to always go wired when I can (hence the 10m Ethernet cable I have that allows me to run anywhere in the house).

Sorry I can't help more than that.

My wife finally identified what Wade clearly wanted to be free of.

Pants.

Yes, you heard it here first, Darrin Wade IS Troy Hickman.

And for anyone wondering, one I randomly picked up on in SSA 1.7 - Part 4. Who the HECK is "Black Scoprion"? No one can tell me that a spellchecker wouldn't have picked that up.

I'm tempted to try something similar to this experiment (regardless of its utility AS an experiment), just for my personal satisfaction. I'd try it with an Eng/Eng blaster (a combo which on my main has so far netted over 7,000 hours on patrol) versus a Scrapper or Controller. If I get the time, I'll give it a go, with some rather specific rules in place to minimise preference bias.

Insert obligatory thread necromancy image here.

But on-topic, take a quick look at L25 LotG 7.5% recharge enhancements - a few months ago, I could sell these for a cool 200 million. What is the price today?

Getting a haircut on Sept 3rd, 2005...

I bought City of Heroes afterwards, and was able to (mostly) realise my Pen and Paper RPG character in a computer game.

After that, Power Spectrum, to let me change the colours of his Energy Blast to better suit his concept.

Voted.

Congratulations to you both. As a happily married man, all I will say is that gamer girls know their way around a joystick, gamer girls know exactly how to click your mouse, and gamer girls are known to enjoy a headshot.

Next step, though... Gamer baby!

Just to confirm, you're using game account logons and passwords, which are different to your Master Account logon and password?

Another usual issue: passwords are case-sensitive.

To aid you with one thing: the current game setup should allow you to log in and use the character creator while more of the game downloads in the background.

It shouldn't have anything to do with the game, therefore. It's a problem with your game account. First thing I would do is log into your master account and change the game account password (temporarily) to something utterly basic, like abcd1234. Then try again. If that works, change it to a more secure password immediately. If not, you'll have to register a support ticket with NCsoft.

Rumours of this thread's death are greatly exaggerated.

LAST NIGHT...

Richard, Shanna and Squish had a very silly, relaxing conversation about not a lot.

There were puns! Rumours! Laughs! Elbow-nudges! And one small fireball!

And it was good.

And this is the thing we need clarifying, I think.

Here's the question I want a clear answer to: For a given billing date, when should we be receiving each of Paragon Reward Tokens, Paragon Points, assuming monthly billing?

Please also clearly define how different billing schemes (Quarterly, Half-Yearly, Yearly, Half-Yearly+1, Yearly+2) alter that.

I don't really mind what the answer actually IS, but I want to know the answer.

For instance, I am billed on the 3rd of each month. Ignoring all previous experience, moving forward, when can I expect to see my Token for the payment coming up on March 3rd? My Points? Is it March 3 for one, April 2 for the other? Some other random set of dates? I'm not bothered by the answer, but it matters. With this information clearly defined, we can identify problems more easily.

Also, to help out other issues, when should I get my next Year Badge? My account anniversary is Sept 3rd, it's never lapsed, but has had various "free" or "bonus" months added to it (let's say 3 for simplicity's sake), and I am currently on Quarterly billing.

When I look at that picture Zortel posted, the only thing I can think is:

Both - "1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a thumb war!"