Bramphousian

525 million

Common IOs can be purchased at crafting tables (universities, bases)

Yes, I always take it on every tank. I find it critical to MY playstyle. I wouldn't go so far as to classify it as "essential", or to ostracise the tank that doesn't take it, though.

Sorry, I don't.

The_Bronx

My wife had the same issue. She's using a computer with a GeForce 9400, and was getting about 35-45 FPS before the most recent patch. After, she was getting between an average of 3-5 FPS, with a high being 7.

Her settings looked the same, but the culprit seems to have been the shadow settings. Like Coulomb reported above, the patch reset her shadows from the once-available "stencil shadows" to a high-quality shadow.

I saw a pile of them at my local Wal-Mart the other day. I've never seen them there before. They were hanging from a strip by the console games. There were at least two strips of a dozen each there.

I can only recall seeing a couple of them at my local Best Buy and EB, but that was at least a year ago.

In an average gaming week:
1) How often do you PuG instead of grouping within your SG or friends?
Almost exclusively.

2) How often do you group with friends and fill the rest of the group with PuGs?
It happens rarely. When my wife and I play, we normally duo... but, I'd say maybe 10% of the time, we'll add others.

3) How often do your PuG members do what you feel needs to be done without being told to do so?
I reserve my judgement of "what needs to be done" on my own character. Everyone can be the judge of their own.

4) How often do you find yourself telling PuG members what you feel they should be doing (for the good of the current team/session)?
I never tell someone else how to play their character. Exception is if it's a newer player who asks. Everyone plays differently, and you've got to learn to adapt to a playstyle. I wouldn't want someone telling me how to play my character... who am I to do it to someone else?

5) How often do you find yourself adding PuG members to your friends/global friends, and if those lists are full, using other methods of remembering them?
Not often. I don't think I have ever added anyone to my global... someone else normally initiates. For server-friends, I have about 10, on all characters. I do look at global names for my teammates, and tend to remember who I enjoyed teaming with, and who I didn't.

6) How often do you group with complete jerks in a PuG?
In over two years of playing, there are only a few instances. Don't get me wrong, I have played with a lot of terrible players, but few jerks.

Edit: Misread Question 3.

I keep one of each on hand now. Just in case one runs out, and I need a spare. For instance, on a flightless character during a Hami raid.

Thanks, Ping and co. for the bash, and congrats, once again!

My wife walked away a couple hundred million richer. She wishes to express thanks for the event.

haha, awesome. Thanks, Cherry

Please tell me someone got either a picture or a video of Dave and Tungsten

Try to click on the team window, and press the Quit Task Force button.

congrats Dinah and the Pillars!

I took Flurry, SS, Hover, Fly, CJ, SJ, Recall Friend, and TP on my first character. (WP/WM Tank)

My first time flying through IP, I spotted Lusca. I thought, "Neat, a giant octopus... let me get closer. Oooh, I can target it. I'm a tank, I can probably take it on. What? I'm dead? From an octopus!?"

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