Snow Globe

Because the various popmenu, help file, sound files, icon pack, or map pack threads [edit] do not [/edit] discuss how to change binary files in the client.

Every single one of those puts additional data in the override directory (/data) without touching the client itself.

Various 5-9 over the years.

As I said, outside of a tests of my designs and the NCsoft launcher, I don't run IE. In other words, I know what code it is accessing other than NCsoft. Recently due to having to do a lot of diagnostics, I now know that too.

If I could make my own browser, I would. That being said, I can't as I design and develop websites. I can only minimize risks and use safe computing habits.

Sadly, I do keep up with these things... It is my workplace so to speak. Basically IE is my last choice to use for anything. I might not have the extensive security background that Arcanaville does, but I have to know as well. I have to know how the different browsers break to avoid those breaks.

Anyone can read the forums... Seriously, log off and read them. As to posting access, they should have a "premium (or above)" section for player help. Then again it would be a spam infested nightmare to police.

Edit:
I think is because people think Ms. Liberty shares too many qualities with an unnamed forum poster.

Yes, but I qualified my "status quo". My second account is currently paid (thanks to the GR sale), but it will return to its normal operation (non-active) mid-August. It will be a Premium account. My Primary account is paid until December, so I can't go premium until that time (at the earliest).

After that? Who knows? I hope to be able to afford it, but I might not, so my answer is "unknown" at this time.

Since last week's patch, leagues with over 19 members are subject to this bug. It seems to happen if the league is designated "closed" by the leader.

Ok, the sale is over, but I have a question regarding it and Issue 21 that needs to be addressed at some point:

What, exactly, does a premium account get from having City of Heroes Going Rogue: Complete Collection attached to it?

I understand from your post (and previous redname posts) that it has:

• +2 character slots if applied before Issue 21 launches.
• Alpha Costume set (various bits & aura)
• Omega Costume set (various bits & aura)
• The lousy Shadowy Presence power. I actually rate the usefulness of this power below the Walk power as walk can be used for demos/machima. This power is the most useless player power in the game. Critters can see you while in it, it has a long activation and short duration, you get knocked out of it if bumped by anything or use any power, and a recharge that is the same length of the duration (only if you don't get knocked out of it prematurely).

And we've been told that this will NOT include the Incarnate System.

However, you don't mention any of the following for Premium customers:

• Access to Praetoria.
• Side Switching.
• Four Stance Emotes.
  • /e stancehero1
  • /e stancehero2
  • /e stancevillain1
  • /e stancevillain2
• Electric Control Power Set for Dominators and Controllers (if the premium account has unlocked Controllers in some fashion).
• Demon Summoning Power Set (if the premium account has unlocked Master Minds in some fashion).
• Dual Pistols Power Set.
• Kinetic Melee Power Set.
• Hero and Villain Alignment Merits.
• Fort Trident and the Crucible.

Probably taking cues from Liefield...

I still regularly act as a technician and, guess what, most of the viral removals I have to deal with relate to IE.

Heck, I rarely use IE, I have higher than standard Internet settings in IE, I know and use best practices when it comes to phishing/using unknown software and I still found a vector that was embedded in the registry. The vector changed the registry stating the user-agent to a javascript. Installing IE 9 didn't change the user-agent. I had to manually do that myself.

You realize that is like saying that someone is less evil now than they used to be because they only maim people instead of killing them, right?

http://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder

I've used CBuilder in the past, when it was owned by Borland (I still have a copy of 4 professional). It worked great at doing rapid window applications. However I've since moved from desktop to web programming.

Yeah, that is about the only thing I want to do with IE.

It is still a insanely stupid program to use.

That would be the big reason. I seem to remember one of the red names (can't remember if it was theOcho, BABs, Positron, or a forward through one of them from the other artists) stating that how City of Heroes stores its costume data is largely incompatible with 3D printing.

The issue is that the safety net is full of holes.

Both the "lucky" and "unlucky" get the same safety net. After 8 Empyrean Merits, the "unlucky" person has a choice between more grinding, a costume part, or a needed rare component. After 30 Empyrean merits, the "unlucky" person has a choice between grinding more trials, saving more for special recipes, or a needed very rare component. The "lucky" person doesn't need to choose as they already have the rare or very rare component.

The "safety net" is also outrageous compared with the value of other things the Empyrean Merits can buy.

This is why I didn't allow Steam to download City of Heroes.

I think I'll mostly miss my Christmas Event collection loop. I got Toy Collector on several characters there (at least 1 per winter event).

Where to begin?
The NSS Labs' test is about phishing, not other avenues of exploits.

From page 14 of their report (Test procedures):
So they were deliberately excluding exploits.

Again, from page 14 of their report (Test procedures):
They were only targeting social engineering sites that targeted Europeans.

NSS has only been around for the last 3 years, not really long enough to claim any credibility, in fact I'd trust Arcanaville's opinion more than that site. I say this because I've looked at their partners.
Well, I know one of their partners:
TELUS is a phone company.

Also, about the website where you linked to:
This is from neowin's website: http://www.neowin.net/credits/

Oh, an FYI, I use IE 5, 6, 7, and 9 (on various machines). For my personal browsing, I mostly use Chrome these days, followed by Firefox. I used to use Opera, but haven't in a while now.

I think I prefer Incarnate Ningis and Pus.

I've felt that way since I found out the requirements in Pre-Beta. I was constantly being told that I was "imagining things" and that people would get them. Yes, people get the badges. That doesn't mean the requirements are good though.

I can confirm this page is accurate:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Incarnate_Merit_Vendor

And that "streak breaker" is used for other things, hence the objection to the random tables. Effectively, it is a double punishment for the "unlucky".

The two characters that I mentioned have nearly the same sample size as Leandro's initial post (100 trials). Given that, their runs are should be close to his, but they aren't. Admittedly I'm also keeping track of the 2 times I got threads (1% overall runs) and failures (which Leandro might not have or have been subject to).

The character with 78 trials is: 4% V / 13% R / 46% U / 28% C / 1% T / 8% F (values rounded).

The character with 69 trials is: 13% V / 26% R / 45% U / 13% C / 0% T / 3% F (again rounded).

And my overall range (212 trials): 7% V / 19% R / 44% U / 24% C / 1% T / 5% F (rounded).

Compared with Leandro's (100 trials) overall range: 10% V / 20% R / 40% U / 30% C.

The degree with which the individual character deviates from the overall is a problem.

And there should be a streak breaker, because the system itself is suspect. Otherwise people (not just me) would have stopped complaining about the rewards by now.

Ok, that math error is corrected. Shouldn't do math in my head late at night. Any other data is coming from Excel, not my head.

Yes. That is exactly what I'm saying. If I were a player getting what I see on say Snow Globe as compared with White Succubus, I'd be really ticked off at NCsoft.