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I've found it's really random. On some toons it's fine and on others all the City zones are "covered" whilst all the hazard zones are uncovered.

Level pacts don't work at the moment. It's one of the "known issues" with i21 due to all the changes in account structure and they said they were hoping to come up with a way to re-implement them in the near future.

Edit: And no, I don't know why they haven't removed the option.

I wouldn't count on it staying that way, once the Name land-rush is over I suspect a lot of players will migrate back to their "home" servers. While I don't doubt that Exalted will remain a popular server, having 5+ Atlas instances isn't likely to be a common occurrence in a few weeks time

I'm assuming that's because you get a ToHit buff at lower levels anyway.

Well that's horribly unreadable

Never been a fan of OpenDNS myself - if your ISP's DNS servers suck that badly then try Google's (8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4) - but if other machines behind the router are working OK then it doesn't sound like a DNS issue anyway. Can you load the tinypic.com site itself? I used to have issues with some of the many imageshack CDN servers back when people still used it, but the main site was always OK. If not then what error code are you getting? 404? 500? 64? etc.

The server status display is one of the known issues they have to work out. It's not displaying server load accurately.

The servers are up, their access lists are not; thus we mere players cannot login to them yet.

If I build a fence to stop you getting into my garden and then tell you that there's a secret door in it and what it looks like, it makes it rather easy for you to find said door and defeat the entire point of the fence.

That's why you have to tell them you're doing it before you actually do, it brings out all of the supposedly linked issues without anything having actually been changed. Then, once all that's died down you silently introduce it and any issues that are raised at that point are likely to *actually* be caused by the change as opposed to peoples' imagination.

It's the same psychological behaviour that allows you to do tell people "I've just made some changes on the back end which should improve things, see how it is now" when they tell your their PC is running slowly, without actually doing anything, and 90% of the time they come back to you with "Oh yes, it's much faster now, thank you".

The human mind is wonderful and annoying thing.

New Atlas, New Mercy, New First Ward, New Underground Trial, New Powers, New Costume Pieces - that's a lot of shiny new textures and animation FX to download.

Resetting the TCP/IP stack and deleting your network card seems a little overkill for trying to flush the DNS cache (which is all you're likely to achieve anyway). One thing to consider if it *is* a DNS issue is if your PC is using your router or modem for its DNS servers, rather than your ISP or a 3rd Party. If so, then it's possible that the cache there has issues and a reset would be helpful.

However, it's rare that DNS issues persist beyond a few hours unless someone has really screwed up the TTL somewhere.

Nothing, just launch the game and it should prompt to check the consistency due to a recent update. Done.

If it's really being stroppy, just force a repair from the launcher to achieve much the same thing.

I copied my Test install over (it was updated to "Beta" level late last week) and I didn't have to patch any further. Can't say for sure if you copy the Beta install over.

I would guess the former, there are doubtless several thousand people hamming the update servers for a 2.5Gb patch, if you've got an up to date Beta or Test install then I'd suggest copying that across on top of your live install (sans "user" folders) to save yourself a lot of time.

I just copied my Test install across sans the "user" folders and the logs folder; Launcher seems quite happy with it.

My guess? 2 weeks today barring any game-breaking issues as the headstart events run into next week.

Man, people are going to be pissed when they find out that the AE doesn't exist on the VIP server, they'll have to level to 50 by doing *gasp* content.

I know there used to be a bug whereby characters who'd just logged off would be shown as having last logged on ~4,000 days ago so it could well just be a manifestation of that. Not sure why that number would be the one though, it's not any obvious wraparound or type limit.

As with anything there's a fine line to be walked between defending our right to privacy and what is required to make use of any given service. If you want to remain totally anonymous and keep all of your personal information totally private then it's arguably doable but you have to make a lot of trade-offs to do it.

More importantly, it's essential to focus on those things are really are an egregious erosion of personal privacy (warrant-less wiretapping, the removal of the right to anonymity online -which they've recently done in South Korea - and soforth) and not to get caught up in things that are relatively minor and completely optional lest you weaken your position.

Yes, it would be nice if NCSoft (and others) didn't feel the need to put such broad statements into their EULAs in an attempt to prevent cheating, protect themselves from legal action and, quite probably, obtain demographic information to sell to advertisers, but they do. While I agree that it's something that probably should be raised with NCSoft in an attempt to get the terms clarified and/or narrowed, it's not something that should be framed in the same terms as civil rights abuses, government spying on their citizens or bodies such as the RIAA trawling for the personal details of thousands of people on the off chance that a couple of them downloaded music off the internet without paying them for it.

I suspect you'll just end up in the Ouroboros Galaxy zone, sadly.