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Quote:The New Adventures of Superman tried it too and that all went pretty downhill afterwards. I think it's a side-effect of trying to force the characters into keeping their old dynamic, which is rarely ever possible once they're together.Originally Posted by Frostbiter
I get that. I'm just always disappointed because no tv shows are willing to break the mold. So we get season after season of watching the leads balk. It eventually sours me on shows.
Ultimately, it's a big risk to try it, which is why most of the time they just let all the peripheral characters get together and have the leads stumble through a series of increasingly bad relationships with extras until the show comes to an end. -
Quote:The problem isn't being able to keep the drama going, it's the change in dynamic between the characters which can alienate a lot of existing viewers and by the point in the show that it happens it's usually tough to attract new viewers to replace them.Originally Posted by Frostbiter
I think they leave these things unrequited because they just don't know where to take the characters afterwards. So they learn to write those plots and keep them going long after any normal person would have gone insane in that kind of relationship. A good writer should be able to keep the drama going even if their characters fall in love, get married, etc. They just never learn to write those plots.
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The "highlights" on the T9 options indicates that they're repeatable rewards (i.e. You can claim them more than once), but you still need to fill a given Tier before you can move up to the next one.
All Paragon Rewards are available to all your characters, whether they are Account bound or Character bound (unlike some other types of reward/unlock) so it's a bit misleading. Once you claim any reward on a character, you can't claim it again (unless it's a repeatable T9 that you use another Reward point on). -
Quote:Predictable but necessary - we all know that shows like this have to keep their UST unresolved, apparently. That said, at least they had the decency to have Beckett *also* be hiding something this time around.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Good episode.
However they've already set up the monkey wrench to throw into their relationship, that Castle now has the job to keep Kate away from the case. Considering how their feelings bungee toward and away from each other over the years, the revelation that Castle is involved in keeping this covered up will be devastating, even though by doing it is keeping her safe. -
I know there was a bug in beta whereby if you reserved a name you then couldn't create the character because the name was reserved, but that was supposed to have been fixed quite a few patches before it went live.
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Worse than that, if you hit Claim All on a non-50 and you've got Ascendant costume pieces, it'll just fail as soon as it gets to the first one.
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Quote:QT isn't Quicktime, it's the QT UI Toolkit: http://qt.nokia.com/Originally Posted by _Klaw_
Oh sorry I didn't see that. Yeah that will work you should then only see 40MB to download (looks like they're using Quicktime now).
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Quote:Well, no. Any install that you copy is only as good as its patch level; there's no point copying an install that is as old or older than your live install, obviously.Originally Posted by _Klaw_
That won't work unless beta is up to date. I tried it initially at launch but it still tried to download the full patch. It wasn't until I updated the beta that it went through.
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The only game I'm aware of that has actually done proper dual monitor support is Supreme Commander (which did it very well), everyone else just seems to pretend that people only ever have one screen (or decide it's not worth the time to code for the number of people who'll make use of it).
You could always play Windowed and stretch the window across both screens, but that isn't quite the same thing and introduces its own issues
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Quote:You could copy the beta install from your laptop over your desktop Live install.Originally Posted by That_Ninja
Okay, I'll try that. And to clear up the beta thing, I was able to patch the beta fine on my laptop, but I also tried to patch Freedom on my desktop to see if it was the launcher itself or my computer. My desktop doesn't have the beta on it.
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Erm, you're not taking your Mez protection toggle or Dark Consumption but you're taking Assault? And not slotting Weave? Or your F/C/E/N toggle? But you're 4-slotting boxing and Energy Cloak? And 6-slotting Energy Protection & 5-slotting Dampening Field, which are passives?
Are you trying for something specific here, because the current build looks really strange?
Edit: As a comparison, here's my Pre-i21 DM/EA brute build - it's actually a little over-slotted from a DEF POV but I've been waiting for the i21 changes before I respec him.
Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.942
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Daps: Level 50 Mutation Brute
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Energy Aura
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Medicine
Power Pool: Speed
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Smite -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5)
Level 1: Kinetic Shield -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def/Rchg(5), S'dpty-EndRdx/Rchg(7), Ksmt-ToHit+(7), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(9), S'dpty-Def(9)
Level 2: Shadow Maul -- Erad-Dmg(A), Erad-Acc/Rchg(11), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(11), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(13), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(13), Erad-%Dam(15)
Level 4: Power Shield -- S'dpty-Def(A), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(17), S'dpty-EndRdx/Rchg(19), S'dpty-Def/Rchg(19), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(21)
Level 6: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 8: Boxing -- Acc-I(A)
Level 10: Entropy Shield -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 12: Aid Other -- IntRdx-I(A)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(21), RechRdx-I(23)
Level 18: Dark Consumption -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(23)
Level 20: Energy Cloak -- S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def/Rchg(25), S'dpty-EndRdx/Rchg(25), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(27), S'dpty-Def(27)
Level 22: Siphon Life -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-EndRdx/Rchg(29), Numna-Heal/Rchg(29), Numna-Heal(31), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(31), Numna-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(31)
Level 24: Aid Self -- IntRdx-I(A), IntRdx-I(33), Numna-Heal(33), Numna-Heal/Rchg(33)
Level 26: Soul Drain -- GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(A), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg(34), GSFC-ToHit(34), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(34), GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(36), GSFC-Build%(36)
Level 28: Energy Drain -- Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(36), Efficacy-EndMod/EndRdx(37), Efficacy-EndMod(37), Heal-I(37), Heal-I(39)
Level 30: Touch of Fear -- SipInsght-Acc/ToHitDeb(A), SipInsght-Acc/Rchg(39), SipInsght-ToHitDeb/EndRdx/Rchg(39), SipInsght-ToHitDeb(40), SipInsght-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(40), SipInsght-%ToHit(40)
Level 32: Midnight Grasp -- KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(42), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(42), KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(42)
Level 35: Conserve Power -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(43)
Level 38: Overload -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(43), Heal-I(43), Heal-I(45), Heal-I(45)
Level 41: Tough -- RctvArm-ResDam(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(45), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(46), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(46), RctvArm-EndRdx/Rchg(46)
Level 44: Energy Protection -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam(48), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(48), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(48)
Level 47: Weave -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(50), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(50), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(50)
Level 49: Dampening Field -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A)
Level 50: Nerve Core Paragon
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Level 1: Brawl -- Acc-I(A)
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Sprint -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(15)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(17)
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Quote:Try working in the NHS; one of the clinical software providers, EMIS, do something to the servers with the software they install which means they average between 15 and 20 minutes to go from power on to logon screen. What'll really make your brain hurt is that if VMware Server is running on the box with 1 or more VMs, *they* are up and reachable after about 5 minutes whilst the host they're on takes another 10-15 before it's network-accessible.Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
heheh nice.
The company I work for; I get to reboot some servers on Mon. and Fri. nights and one of those servers is the Exchange server (on a Fri. night too of course).
Some times that servers takes 5-10 mins just to turn off (reboot) and another 5 mins to turn on for me to log in to it.
This past Friday, it took 12 or so mins. to reboot it
Grr...not fun when trying to leave work early (or at least on time)! 
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Quote:Got the same thing; I presume it means that some or all of the costume pieces used in the costume are locked or have been changed but it seems an odd thing to indicate on the costume select screen as it doesn't seem to stop you from changing into that costume.Originally Posted by Gothika
Ok, so I'm back after a long while trying out this VIP thing and I noticed that some of the costume slots on some of my characters have a small padlock icon on the top corner of the individual window panes. It doesn't seem to have any affect since I can still use all my costumes regardless of whether the icon is there or not, but its presence has me puzzled. I've tried doing a search on the forums but had no luck finding anything. So I'll ask!
Any idea why that little icon is there (seemingly randomly) on some costume slots and what effect (if any) it has?
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Just be careful, a bunch of EU players have found themselves locked out of the *game* after changing their passwords (though it did let them log back into the forums).
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Quote:It's rare for people to appreciate it. Too often people assume that if they spend £5k for a server that somehow that server will provide them with 24/7 service and 100% uptime and the balk at any downtime requests for patching and hardware replacements.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Actually yeah. I have. That's the problem with assumptions. There's a big difference between HA server farms in electronic trading houses and a game. Primarily the amount of money backing the venture. Downtime for the latter costs someone a couple thousand bucks an hour. In the former, it's millions or billions.
Secondarily, the proper staffing levels to support an HA environment. I don't claim to know how many people Paragon and NCWest have on staff to support their game(s). But I'd find it damnably difficult to believe their development staff can run on a five-nines basis with appropriate staffing levels 24x7x52.
Now if you want to go ahead and pony up a half billion or so REAL dollars, and keep doing it every year, I'm sure Paragon and NCSoft would LOVE to go to an HA format for the game. Then they can actually put the staff on to support that kind of thing.
Until then, reality shows its ugly face.
You have to understand that there is no such thing as 100% uptime. "Five Nines" or better is possible but very expensive. You not only need redundant hardware (which is generally easily enough for most things except CPU, RAM and the system board) but also some mechanism which can protect against software failure (which gets exponentially more complicated as the complexity of the software increases).
Even with a multiple host, VM-based solution with failover clustering on a well designed SAN with full network redundancy across multiple physically-separated sites is only good as long as the application itself keeps working correctly and the users don't do anything stupid like delete a load of important records or accidentally lose $2bn in dodgy stock market trading. -
If you've got Steam, use it to launch the game (non-Steam game) and then use the Steam screenshot function to capture images.
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They're not "live" but they might be semi-live (weekly or monthly updates based on the exchange rate).
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Annoying but no doubt necessary -although I can't say I've had any stability issues this week; lots of minor bugs here and there with things like Fog of War and the Globals dropping out on zoning (though that was happening before the i21 publish).
Ultimately, if all your servers have to be worked on at once and your players are all around the world (as they are in this case) then you're going to have to upset some of them and the "best" option is the one that affects the fewest whilst not being impractical (such as doing all the patching at 3am on a Monday morning). -
Quote:Never bothered me, Vendor drivers are usually a bag of **** anyway, so I've always used the Nvidia or ATI reference drivers on my laptops and I've never had any issues with them.Originally Posted by chrome guardsman
the only suggestion i can make is avoid anything with an M on the end of the name number. those are special "manufacturer's model" types that get no driver support past their initial release. not really a problem unless your using a laptop like me.
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Far too much griefing potential I suspect (and yes, I know it's fairly easy to find out anyway, but this would make it very simple).
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I would prefer the latter *if* they really change the outcome, but they generally don't and so they don't feel like you're really doing anything different.
I like choice, but the illusion of choice is something that only works when it's masked well enough that you don't notice it, so you might as well just stick the generalised options.
Then again, from an RP perspective it's nice if you can take dialogue options that more accurately reflect how your character would react to a situation, but if the option you want isn't there a vague one might be better. -
Tough is *not* T3.
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I've no objection to Free players being able to send Tells to people on their Friends list, but I suspect that there may be more substantial coding changes involved compared to simply blocking Tells entirely.
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Nope. they're apparently being patched in later, prior to or at the Freedom launch proper.
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I've had it on existing characters as well as new ones.