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Viv! - lil nip

Vood - CHOMP

wow...Voo is still alive? Isolaters too? 0ooo

mucho belated Happy Bday

screen doesn't worry me so much as most times it will have an external monitor attached, shoulda noted that sorry.

does that change anyones votes?

Looking at a few different laptops for gaming, some refurb.
Around $500

All have different graphics cards, any inside knowledge on wading through appreciated

1. Asus X83VB-X1, 14.1in Notebook C2D 2.0GHz 4GB 250GB DVDRW - with NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS graphics 512 MB.

2. Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 Gaming Laptop
nVidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra graphics card

3. MSI GX610 15.4" Gaming Laptop AMD TL50 1.6Gz/ATI HD2600
ATI Radeon HD2600
Video Memory 256MB DDR3 VRAM

4. MSI 15.4" GX610 Neo Edition Notebook Computer, AMD Turion 64x 2 TL50 1.6 Ghz / 512kb x 2 Cashe,
with ATI Radeon HD 2600/256MB DDR3

5. Dell Inspiron 1720. It comes with a Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz processor, Ample 3GB Memory, Huge 17 inch wide LCD Screen, and 256MB DEDICATED Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT

right now leaning towards #1, but any/all inputs welcome...hard to know what real difference, if any...

thanks, portability isn't the biggest factor, so thats fine.

All of these have different graphics adaptors...any work best?

I need a inexpensive gaming laptop for next 2-3 months, ~500 ideally, can use external monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

Fair amount on Ebay - comments on how these would run?

Most of these have 2 gig ram, (some 4), all have variety of Video cards.

comments on what will play reasonably well and best bang for the buck appreciated

laptop 1

Laptop2 Dell XPS

Used HP

Used MSI

Used Asus

my Widow just dinged 40 and noticed the new powers when I read the first plaque. for the 2nd one on, and now again, all I can see is the first power....

Is there a complete list somewhere of the revised patron powers for SOA...? couldnt find anything in forums or Wiki...

thanks

ps was thinking Mace Mastery but seems like would be a re-draw pain in pants with claws....

yawn.

sigh. when is i15 due and whats the content?

thanks for all this.

sigh, since BaBs has stated i14 is almost entirely the MA, and what you describe here intesest me very little, i14 is a non event for me.

basically $5, plus the tax, to tp into a mish every two hours......sold!

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<a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/events/winter_event.html"><strong>It's Holiday Time</strong></a> again in Paragon City and the Rogue Isles.

This year join the festivities and be rewarded as well as get the chance to reward others.

By simply logging in between <strong>December 15th, 2008 and January 4th, 2009,</strong> players receive the following:<ul>
[*] [*] The Holiday Spirit Temporary Power. This temp power grants 48 hours of 25% Debt Protection.</li></li>
[*] [*] The Frostbitten Badge</li></li>
[*] [*] The Holiday Cheer Temporary Power. Use this power on another player to give them a random, Mystery Gift - possibly a Temporary Power, a sack full of Influence or Infamy, or possibly a winter themed hat.</li>[/LIST]
Join up with the rest of the community to discuss this years Winter Event.

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so one thing I notice that iirc is a change from last year - the Holiday Spirit and Holiday Cheers' don't stack, if you didn't use last years

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gumble I've gone from ZERO rent to owing 1600 prestige. so <BEEP> it. I'm leaving the game as soon as they turn off the power.

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Yes, because doing a middlin-long Oro arc is so terribly difficult.

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what a [censored] whiner. Our completely tricked out base that supports a lot of people, rent just came doing for a measly ~2500 instead of 40k+...so he must have a lot of storage items or something.

The devs even fixed it so that you now earn prestige AND influence in SG mode, so the old arguement doesn't stick.

If you don't see the value of the base items enough to do a TF a month to pay for em, you shouldn't have em to begin with. I am playing a new alt on a new ST on a new server with no Telepads or storage and I'd give my left arm AND do two Posi's, nekkid in the snow, to have base items.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Enjoy WoW.

nice guide! thx!

you should try reading the release notes...I am hardly an NC Soft cheerleader, but there is a lot more in i13 than meets the eye....and if ya don't like it and miss PvP - enjoy WoW!

I encourage people to read the patch notes if you haven't been keeping up (I wasn't)...I was pleasantly surprised at a # of things I wasn't aware the depth of including:

- Villain Patrons unlocked
- holy [censored] - a 5th patron power!!!
- invuln buff
- war mace buff
- don't want to level - In Options, a player may now choose to have their character earn No Experience.
- Pocket D Telepad beacon
- new IO sets

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Merit system:

If you do your own story arcs, you can get Pools C and D.
If you do other people's story arcs, you get nothing from C and D.

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hmmm I didn't know this...suddenly everyone is going to want the star, and their arcs done! :0

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that seems high, was hoping stealths would be less...can we expect the run and fly stealth cost to be similar?

is there a concise guide, or collapsed thread on the details of the merit system yet? I don't have time to wade through 16+ pages, and I dont' want to burden the forum with questions already asked multiple times....

thx

wow, you invested far more personal time responding than the respondee deserved.

In the event that somehow this person is actually badly inconvenienced (seems questionable) the bigger picture and reality is that changes will be a boon to the vast majority of both existing and new base users and builders, with very little negatives to most others. NC Soft seems have to clued in somewhat that their revenues lie in the hands of the larger base of casual players, not the hard core extremists.

On a related note Sunstorm and other Devs.. if i13 isn't coming out this week, you need to do some proactive communication...PR has never been your strong point, but hear me out.....I was able to play a lot over last Thur-Sunday and I was taken aback by the rampant negativity over i13 over merits, bases. It was evident on SG teams, PuGs, and Forum chat channels. So much so I came back to the forums, which I rarely use now (used to a lot) to dig into what may be fact vs fiction.

Long term, active players are running around touting incorrect DOOMs (have to rebuild your whole base is a prevalant one)......the more I dug into the base changes, read about Merits etc, the more pleased I in fact became and did what I could to dispell....

considering many still don't come to the forums, consider a subscriber 'i13 is almost here' and take some of these myths head on. Ear whispering and doomsaying can be put to rest via proactive communication.....

my 2 influence...

just started a plant/therm. Thanks for the guide...one with more detailed stats/#s would be nice though...(like whats the resist on the shields, with slots...helps)

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To recoup Base plot costs, you can simply buy the same plot. I will add that to the top.

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Is there a guide to that somewhere....rebuilding? Or a good post? with several old bases that don't need changes or prestige, can/should I just leave thing alone?

seeing stuff like needing Hami Goo for telepads......

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They took out the Hami goo for telepads.

In order to recoup cost differences now, all you need to do is go into the editor after issue 13 hits.

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great news on both fronts, thanks. The more I read, the more I don't see any reason to be concerned...sounds like we'll get a big 'refund' and we already have prestige banked....we do use a buttload of storage though, so we will see what comes out in the wash.

x+2 (=z)

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To recoup Base plot costs, you can simply buy the same plot. I will add that to the top.

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Is there a guide to that somewhere....rebuilding? Or a good post? with several old bases that don't need changes or prestige, can/should I just leave thing alone?

seeing stuff like needing Hami Goo for telepads......

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Noted Ex.

I would say however, that perhaps we can as a community offer Sunstorm a tour of our bases as an organized event? Would that be possible?

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Excellent idea!!!

Thanks for giving us our own redname for bases Posi. Welcome Sunstorm.

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Yes, let's work on something like this.

Send me your ideas on how to make this work to my PM or email at exlibris@ncsoft.com

Ex

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instead of wading through all these pages of quasi answers; are the changes finalized? I see Plasma's new guide....is this baked then with i13 close, I'd assume so.

I was doing a big base overhaul today and was told I may be wasting my time.

I am excited at the base prospects for new SGs and players; I hope that Veteran SGs with bases built over years and now static are not being penalized or have to rebuild things. We have 4 very large bases, and 4+ medium ones. Most we are completely content with....I am still searching for what, if anything, happens to existing bases.....