Bill Z Bubba

I've no idea what Meiling is talking about, but the thing that finally jumped out at me abotu your screenshot was that it looked, for lack of a better word, dirty.

Do you use bloom or depth of field?

Could you post all your settings like I have me laid out early in the thread? For both ingame and CCC?

"i don't know" huh.

I'm not knockin it, it looks great, but something's nagging me and I can't figure it out.

EDIT: Thinkin about yankin my 8800gt and stickin back inthe 1950xtx with these 8.7s.

Huh... for comparison, here's a screenie I took a long time ago with my X1950XTX.

X1950XTX

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I'm not saying that You Mods are not totally in your right to enforce it. ...The only point I wish to make is that it might be a BAD BUSINESS DECISION if it's seen by enough people to be randomly Dictatorial and therefore ANTI-AMERICAN. This country was built on conscientious objections and scofflaws. Insta-Banning such people may only endear them more as Martyrs and eventually have the opposite of the desired effect if things are taken too far. (and I can almost guarantee they will be)

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Great Satire! You must watch Colbert.

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Just as a standing rule, PMs from me can generally be quoted and put up on the forums.

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And that, Castle, is part of why we love you.

(And abuse you, but that's just one of the ways we show our love.)

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That was Castle?

/scrolls back up....

/Looks at his PMs...

Nahh, can't do it. I'll still need direct permission.

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I'm sure this will get deleted, but past moderation actions have proven otherwise. Is this a change in how you guys are approaching this? Because it has happened in this very thread.

Anything that disagrees with moderator or community rep behavior, even if it's not attacking, has been deleted. Will this still be the case?

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Obviously where you saw a lack of forum rules being broken, they disagreed. Their judgment overrules yours.

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Disagreeing with the moderators or Community Reps will be deleted?

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I doubt it. As long as those disagreements are also controlled and lacking in insults and other such silliness.



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LH's post above yours seems to say I was right. Though it is a bit unclear.

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I am unsure how LH's post could have possibly been read to imply that you are right. Niv's last few posts have specifically stated that you are wrong.

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This is a proprietary board and all rules are subject to interpretation by the moderation staff. Any and all posts may be removed or allowed by NCSoft and its staff.


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I don't understand why you need this when it's already understood to be the case.

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Disagreeing with the moderators or Community Reps will be deleted?

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I doubt it. As long as those disagreements are also controlled and lacking in insults and other such silliness.

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And just as a general FYI excessive use of the notify moderator button can get you in trouble as well. Even if it's reporting valid infractions of the forum rules.

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I'll take that chance.

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Well ask yourself this, is that a "constructive" sentence? The hidden/fake cussing wouldn't be an issue so much as the fact that the sentence lends nothing to a discussion and would be considered trolling.

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Fair enough. But the "lends nothing to a discussion" part will always fall under moderator whim, so if I see a post that lends nothing to a discussion and hit notify moderator, it will always be a coin flip on whether action will be taken.

However, that point's been pounded into the frelling dirt now, so I'll quit harping on it and hope for the best.

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Use other words.

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Odd point that.

Officially, the following sentence has no cussing:

"I'll farking cuss on this gorram forum any time I frelling want to."

Yet any geek worth his salt knows what I said.

Is this allowed?

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They are not kidding, which is good news.

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I will continue to hope.

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Which means that every single time that I or anyone else puts a post up on these forums that isn't 100% happy-happy-joy-joy undying praise for the moderators and/or NCSoft staff that we're essentially giving the Grand Wheel 'O Death a hearty spin. Round and round and round she goes, and where she stops nobody knows!

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Mods, seriously, do you NEED a better example of what has turned these forums into a cesspool?

Flatly blowing everything completely out of proportion in order to continue to spew baseless garbarge.

This is the norm. This is what you allow on a daily basis. This is why you keep having to rehash the rules.

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I think the rules could be summarised by the phrase, "Play nice."

Seems fair to me.

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Asking villains to play nice even on a message forum is an outrage imho.

What this board need is more emotions more blood and more chaos to be entertaining. Hey look at the TV stations, they learned that years ago

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Why do you think these forums are here for entertainment?

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Does this mean you guys will get rid of the sections that encourage this type of behavior?

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This is actually a very good question. Will PWNZ and Forum Games be purged? Will threads posting off to NSFW content in the art forum be nuked?

Or will it be a case of "Continue as you were, but be more careful?"

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QFT. Nerf X threads have lead to so much trouble on these forums. There are some players that just wont be satisfied till everyone is nerfed in some way. If that player just felt x powerset was overpowered then they can play without enhancements so it doesnt feel as overpowered, that is how I see it.

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Mods notified for breaking rule # 2. Abuse and disrespectful behavior is not tolerated.

Lumping all players on one side of a discussion as "wont be satisfied till everyone is nerfed in some way" is insulting and inaccurate. Not to mention disrespectful.

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I don't like this rule at all. Some things ARE overpowered and need a few whacks from ye'olde nerf bat. How are we supposed to point those out? "All powers of players and NPCs need to be cranked up heavily in order to match the Shivan temp power - or do something I can't talk about that would be effectively the same but much more simple."

The fact that these kinds of posts CAN turn into nasty threads really just isn't fair. Can I not post suggestions unless I'm sure all the folks responding will be responsible??

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I'd vote send a PM. We really don't need the discussions and they do all become the exact same flameware between the "nerfherders" and "FOTM roller PLers."

EDIT and an aside:
I'm clearing out my ignore list. If the mods are truly serious about cleaning up this place, I'm all for helping out.

Cool. And if I see that the rules are actually being enforced, very cool.

If you would like an example of where the rules are being completely ignored, please see the "Now Testing in the Training Room - July 15, 2008" thread.

I hope the ban stick is used often and without remorse. Even if, and especially if, I'm the one being beaten with it.

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I just downloaded the 8.7 beta driver. And that just worked all kinds of magic.

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Good magic or bad magic?

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Didn't Castle say back in Open Beta that he was playing with a mace/ea brute?

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Axe/SR, I think.

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Castle knows better than to bother with EA.

Whatever are you talking about?

Very nice. Bokuman has interesting stuff.

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I really have an energy aura + war mace brute and it's strong

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You're right. It is. Mace has some nice secondary effects to help your mitigation. Pushing EA's melee defense up with some outside help will also help.

Mace/EA is strong. Compared to ff/ene defenders.

EDIT: For soloing.

Installed the 8.6s, reset all my settings to as they are in the beginning of this ancient thread, FSAA functions just fine.

As always, the big killers of FSAA to ATI card users are Bloom, Depth of Field, Desaturation FX and High Water FX.

Disable the first 3, and set Water to Low or Off.

Then disable FSAA and AF in game and manage them in the CCC.


Ok, that said, as I mentioned in the last post, things may be different with newer ATI cards. I have no doubt that there are some hardware changes so if the steps above are not letting you have functional FSAA in game, please post your findings here so that all the ATI users can put there heads together to figure out what may be the problem.

Good luck.