Zubenelgenubi

Zubenelgenubi has been an astro-nerd for as far back as he can remember. Literally, for as long as I can remember - even as a very young child (I remember Armstrong walking on the Moon). I live in Tucson, and work at the National Observatory in Education and Public Outreach.

Send me a FB friend request if ya'll wanna stay in touch.

(I thought I was all over being sad and crying about this by now. Hell, looks like I'm not.)


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Any chance of a Triple Threat attempt? The ONE LAST BADGE that Zube needs for the complete set.

I have a Grav/Rad troller who could use those badges, and Zube still needs Triple Threat. Count me in!

Thanks for the replies so far. Sorry that I'm so clueless with the technical aspects of this stuff. Hard to know what's relevant and what's not.

It's a Dell Inspiron 531.

Don't know how to tell if it's a mini tower or slimline. Thing stands 14” tall and 6.75” wide.

Power supply says max 300 watts. Never been replaced.

I don't understand why newchem would say increasing memory is useless. My understanding is that the first thing to ever do to improve a computer's performance is to increase memory.

All,

My daughter has a computer that will just barely run CoH. But the frame rate is so poor and choppy that the game is really unplayable. I'd like to upgrade it a bit and see if she can play on her machine. Please DO NOT try and sell me a new computer! I know this one isn't a gaming rig, and it's a few years old, but I can't shell out a few hundred dollars for a new one.

It's a DELL with an AMD SemPron Processor LE-1250
It has a built-in graphics “card”: NVIDA GeForce 6150se nForce 430
2 GB of RAM

Obviously the first place to start is the RAM. I just bought another 2 GB on eBay for $20.

There is a video card slot, a PCI express 16 channel.

So MY QUESTION IS:

Can someone recommend a halfway decent video card that I cal plug into this slot? I'm NOT looking for cutting edge or latest model, I'm looking for something that's one or two generations old that I can pick up cheap but which will allow this machine to run CoH at an acceptable frame rate. (yeah yeah... I know... depends on your definition of the word “acceptable”... whatever). I know the processor is rather crappy, so I don't need something that's soooo much better it's like putting a $10,000 stereo into a $300 junker car. Ya know?

Any suggestions?

Coming.

Zube will be there. So will ReDorothy.

Yes, thanks for the run. I'll also be up for the next one. Will it be this Sunday at the same time?

For the Really Hard Way, I think it really needs to be planned out in advance and limited to veteran players. Although we got 3 badges yesterday (and almost got the 4th for Master of), it was clear that some in the league had never completed a Magi before. Many did not even know what an Ultimate inspiration was or where to get them. And the team should be carrying a lot of tier 3 reds as well. We also had a lot of tanks on the team, whereas a few more blasters *cough* might have made a real difference in DPS.

But overall VERY successful! Thanks again!

ReDorothy wants a slot also. Please and thank you.

I'll bring Zube for some blastage.

Should we load up on Ultimate inspirations like in Amy's run? Or anything else?

Faces are the new brains...

Confirmation bias may be at work with me too, since I haven't ever tracked drop rates before or after any updates. But it sure as heck seems much lower to me.

Difference is that I ALSO see no real increase when using that windfall power. It appears to be useless.

But yeah - the Devs introduce RMT enhancements that are BETTER than purple drops, and mysteriously the purple drop rate goes into the crapper at right about the same time. It's AMAZING!

If the devs want to milk the cash cow like this, it might be nice if the drop rate for VIP players remained the same but was lower for FtP or Premiums.

You had me at "Bobcat Goldthwait."

... then where oh where is our gorram MOON ZONE that was voted as our favorite new zone for the Devs to create, what, like 4 or 5 years ago...?

Seriously... We're gonna have all these SPACEMEN (and women) running around on EARTH.


moon zone
Moon Zone
MOON ZONE
MOON ZONE!!!

This is the recipe. I'm ready to buy it from B.O.T.L.E.R. at any time. You pick the level, I create it, we trade cash for proc.

LEVEL: Your Choice
Gladiator Armor
+Res (Teleportation)
+3% Def (All)

2.25 BIllion

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We really need a Spider-Man reboot NOW? The ink is barely dry on the DVD's of Spider-Man 3.

Hey, let's do a reboot of THOR before the new Avenger's movie comes out! It's been almost a year now, fans are ready for a Fresh New Vision!

All,

Gave the wife a new iPhone for Christmas.

We're looking for a good barcode scanner app for the phone that will allow us to catalog and keep track of the large collection of DVD's and/or manga that we own. Being able to output the data into a database on windows would be good too...

suggestions?

Just some FYI on this...

I just got this drop. It was in the middle of the TPN, and not the end. I was not fighting Maelstrom at the time, but was outside on telepathist duty.

Not being able to craft it for Zube, and having no dual-pistols characters, I sold it at WW's. I got 970,000,000 for it (77 million fee)

Previous sales records were:
150,000,000
400,000,000
350,000,000

Only 4 have ever sold.