Defcon_Kid

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Avatea View Post
    Chat
    • Fixed crash when clicking the Friends button while in 10 or more chat channels.
    LOL just sent a bug report last night and now it's solved yay!
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by KAKTOS View Post
    It would be nice if for once EU servers were also on that list. Otherwise we EU players must spend time and effort trying to log in.
  3. I'm testing my patience right now, cause after 1 hour and 10-20 minutes, I've downloaded only 851K out of the 5.8M from today's patch. Just in case it could be a failure on my connection I've tried rebooting both my laptop and my router, but it's working as slow as before.

    My only guess, watching my connection has worked smooth like silk last few days, playing an average of 3-5 hours daily with just a few lag spikes and some lost conns, is that it must be related to the (huge?) amount of people trying to download it at the same time, if not I haven't the foggiest idea about what's going on.

    Any more guesses out there?
  4. Adding more people for it:

    @Defcon Kid
    @Fulgor
    @Drowen
  5. Defcon_Kid

    Unbearable lag

    Kk, admittedly, I don't know if it's something you did or maybe it's related to less people logging in weekends, but last Friday I had no problems playing, no power activation lag, nearly instantly reading what I was typing in the chatbox as usual at home instead of having to wait 2-3 minutes... almost 5 hours of fine gameplay.
  6. Defcon_Kid

    Unbearable lag

    Here we have pingplotter:

    Target Name: 206-127-144-132.plaync.com
    IP: 206.127.144.132
    Date/Time: 19/08/2010 21:34:58 to 19/08/2010 21:36:38

    1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms N/A N/A 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms ralink.ralinktech.com [192.168.0.1]
    2 711 ms 901 ms 861 ms N/A N/A 793 ms 198 ms 283 ms [172.29.143.217]
    3 * * * N/A N/A * * * [-]
    4 709 ms 881 ms 841 ms N/A N/A 736 ms 197 ms 240 ms [85.205.24.221]
    5 694 ms 943 ms 902 ms N/A N/A 697 ms 199 ms 242 ms [213.242.109.137]
    6 671 ms 963 ms 904 ms N/A N/A 674 ms 200 ms 244 ms ae-0-11.bar1.Madrid2.Level3.net [4.69.141.45]
    7 649 ms 983 ms 901 ms N/A N/A 634 ms 220 ms 263 ms ae-5-5.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.141.42]
    8 633 ms 1022 ms 944 ms N/A N/A 612 ms 216 ms 224 ms ae-100-100.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.141.238]
    9 629 ms 1042 ms 941 ms N/A N/A 573 ms 218 ms 220 ms ae-48-48.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.143.145]
    10 612 ms 1103 ms 984 ms N/A N/A 574 ms 237 ms 222 ms ae-81-81.csw3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.10]
    11 591 ms 1123 ms 981 ms N/A N/A 594 ms 216 ms 223 ms ae-32-89.car2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.68.23.132]
    12 592 ms 1161 ms 1024 ms N/A N/A 595 ms 259 ms 262 ms [195.16.161.58]
    13 571 ms 1223 ms 1062 ms N/A N/A 574 ms 219 ms 222 ms 206-127-156-18.plaync.com [206.127.156.18]
    14 549 ms 1243 ms 1064 ms N/A N/A 553 ms 216 ms 242 ms 206-127-144-132.plaync.com [206.127.144.132]

    Ping statistics for 206-127-144-132.plaync.com
    Packets: Sent = 6, Received = 6, Lost = 0 (0,0%)
    Round Trip Times: Minimum = 216ms, Maximum = 1243ms, Average = 644ms
  7. Defcon_Kid

    Unbearable lag

    Just ran a speed test:

    TCP: Open
    UDP: Open
    Latency: 297 ms
    Fluctuation: 121 ms
    Paquets sent: 100
    Paquets received: 100
    Paquets lost: 0%
    Download speed: 0.03 Mbps
    Upload speed: 0.02 Mbps

    I'll try a pingplotter later on.
  8. Defcon_Kid

    Unbearable lag

    Ok, maybe my holiday connection is not the ideal one, but even so, being a 5 year vet player, and that means I'm used to have quite lag every single time new content arrives (no matter issues or events), I have to say that this time is simply too much... last time I could log in and play lets say in a "normal" way (forming a team, getting some hunting badges, playing some contact missions) was last Sunday night in Union...

    Since then lost conns and general lag (not only power activation, but also reading what I'm typing or following a conversation) has become into a real challenge for my patience in both Defiant and Union, not only in Praetoria, where I have given up completing a tutorial cause I couldn't go past Rothstein without crashing or mapservering, but also Paragon or Rogue Isles, no matter trying to play tip missions or checking the market, everything works horribly and awfully laggy, at least for me.

    I had agreed to join 2 themed teams in Pretoria every Thursday and Friday nights, but thanks to this "lovely?" lag I've sent message to my friends that I'm forced to stop playing and skip the 1st session of both teams cause I can't do anything else but staying online and praying for not being forcibly disconnected or having lots and lots of "lost connection to mapserver" messages every few minutes.

    Thanks for nothing

    Defcon

    PS: Sorry if anyone considers this post as a kind of trolling, but I'm simply expressing how I'm feeling being unable to play while my friends keep telling me how nice and charming is having a rogue or a vigilante, or playing tarikoss being a rogue, while I can't even complete a simple tutorial.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slazenger View Post

    I repeat my original post, in all i want is a straight forward ansewer to whether or not the EU will continue to recieve this kind of treatment, I will not get upset or start whining,creating multiple threads etc., I will just leave having enjoyed my experience up until now.

    On a brighter note, there has been a significant rise in old faces returning.
    On a darker note, how long will they stay if the EU continues to seem a hindrance at best.
    THIS is precisely what is preventing some old vet players I know to be back right now, they are even considering whether buying GR or not, and whether starting a brand new US account (even at the cost of losing all their characters, vet rewards, etc) or investing more money in their EU accounts, just in case we could be merged with US in a matter of months.

    This indefinition is not good for us... as you said, some old familiar faces are coming back this last couple of weeks, but we haven't been told anything new since those Avatea's and WW's posts last April regarding GR boxes in Europe.

    Ok, I won't have any problem cause what I want is to play anyway, so I'll buy GR through NCSoft Store (crossing fingers it does not collapse next Tuestay, btw, as I already agreed joining 2 brand new themed teams in Praetoria, one dual pistols only and another one based in electricity) as I've already done with all these Booster Packs... BUT as I already stated back in April, what we want is a physical presence of GR boxes in shelves, in order to keep the EU Community alive, even bigger with new customers that could pass by them or buying other videogames, take a look at the box and think "hm... that seems interesting, I might buy it". That might be our only hope to keep this side of the pond alive.

    Regarding TV advertisements, magazines special offers... k, that's nice, we already watched 4 videos in both the official website and youtube, but we had to be told where to watch them, all that being customers already, so how hard for other people completely alien to us to notice them. I don't know your situation across Europe guys, but here in Spain, the best pc videogames magazine, named Micromania, has tons of information about WoW Cataclysm (nearly 10 pages), Shogun Total War 2 (more or less the same), StarCraft II, Wings of Liberty and more... but nothing more than just a few lines for COX GR... and that's THEIR AUGUST ISSUE!

    http://www.axelspringer.es/avances/M...186/index.html
  10. Excellent job refunding all the useful information in a single thread!
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    uh GR is a box.
    Not for us outside US, only download from NCSoft store.
  12. Defcon_Kid

    World Cup 2010

    I don't trust these statistics and lists because Egypt was not even in the WC and it's in the top 10... surely the 32 better countries were in the WC; so at least Egypt should be number 33, not that high.
  13. Defcon_Kid

    World Cup 2010

    Statistics of the match:

    Netherlands - Spain

    Possession of the ball
    39,98% 60,02%

    Total Shots (34)
    41,18% | 14 20 | 58,82%

    Total Goal Shots (9)
    55,56% | 5 4 | 44,44%

    Corners (14)
    42,86% | 6 8 | 57,14%

    Goalkeeper actions (13)
    53,85% | 7 6 | 46,15%

    Missed balls (199)
    51,76% | 103 96 | 48,24%

    Regained balls (136)
    49,26% | 67 69 | 50,74%

    Fouls made (47)
    59,57% | 28 19 | 40,43%

    Regarding the referee's performance, I agree he was THAT bad... Van Bommel and De Jong should have been sent off because of their terrible aggressions over Xabi Alonso and Iniesta, the only thing that Dutch team got was to put off-centre Spanish performance, who was quite better than the Dutch one until that moment

    http://www.marca.com/2010/07/11/futb...278875319.html

    Funniest thing is that they protested EVERYTHING and EVERYTIME, like if it was Xabi's fault to be in the middle of De Jong's foot. They had a quite simple scheme, long throws to Robben and praying for a Casillas mistake, while Spain did all the hard job moving the ball despite the dirty Dutch performance and the bad refereeing. All in all, we did win anyway!

    OLEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    PS: Where's the journalist that spoke against Sara Carbonero's presence in the WC? Surely hidden under a rock in the middle of the desert hahaha!
  14. Defcon_Kid

    World Cup 2010

    Toma toma y tomaaa!

    Campeooones campeooones oee oee oeeee
    campeoooones campeooones oeee oeee oeee!
  15. Defcon_Kid

    World Cup 2010

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by New Dawn View Post
    There was no Muller to muller Spain. (The old term "to get mullered" probably comes from the previous german footballer with that name I reckon). Anyway ...."Come on Holland!!"
    You're right, Spain has no Muller, but Iniesta, Xavi, Pedro, Cesc, Silva... even Low admitted the day before the match that while Argentina has Messi, Spain has Lots of Messis.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by New Dawn View Post
    As for poor defenseless creatures, yep there is animal cruelty in many places, such as Canada and the US of A the list goes on but to my knowledge not Holland...Come on Holland!!!
    I've been reading your posts in this thread, and if the only thing you can say regarding what did you think about Spain's game, if we deserved to win or not, our players, German tactics, etc., is animals over and over again, then either you don't have a clue about what football is or you simply don't care. This thread is dedicated to FOOTBALL, and I think that's enough talking about animals, cause every single country in the world has good and bad things, and this is NOT the place to discuss them, IMHO.

    PS: And of course, getting back to the matter, I can't express how delighted I am that my national team reached a WC final for the 1st time ever, I think Pedro was the key to get back to the kind of gameplay we used in the Euro Cup 2 years ago (well, maybe not Pedro himself, but the fact of playing with a midfielder like him instead of a 2nd forward).
  16. We all agreed that a blaster would be needed for future runs, specially against Blue Mitos, that only take ranged damage. We risked ourselves attacking from a closer location in order to defeat them because only the corruptor had max.ranged attacks, and using a huge amount of EoEs.
  17. Grats for that completed MoLGTF from another team that also completed it last Sunday, this was our Roster:

    1. @Clawd Butcher playing Lupine a Invulnerability/Super Strength tank [TANK]
    2. @Gully RX playing Buena a Fire Control/Thermal Radiation controller [BUFFER]
    3. @Defcon Kid playing Criogenia a Cold Domination/Ice Blast defender [BUFFER/DEBUFFER]
    4. @Alastor playing a ?/Kinetic corruptor [DAMAGE/BUFFER]
    5. @Protector X playing a Fire Control/Radiation Emission controller [CONTROL/DEBUFFER]
    6. @Juniper playing a Ice Control/Kinetic controller [CONTROL/BUFFER]
    7. @Sargatanas playing Sargatanas a Dark Melee/Invulnerability scrapper [DAMAGE]
    8. @Endymion playing a Super Strength/Energy Armour brute [DAMAGE]

    We started it last Sunday 29th, and as it was getting late, we decided to split it into 2 Sunday sessions, finishing it last Sunday 4th.
  18. Defcon_Kid

    World Cup 2010

    What do you think about Spain game last night? Even being a bit hasty from time to time, and definitely not good in the last 10 minutes because of the general tiredness of the team except Mata and Cesc, I think we did a nice game, Villa could have scored 2-3 goals more (that ball hitting the crossbar, or the failed penalty).
  19. Let me enlighten you about more possible EU places apart from the UK ones:

    - Barcelona, Spain: FICOMIC (International Comic Fair and Exhibition), last edition took place May 6th to 9th... more than 100.000 visitors

    http://www.ficomic.com/

    - Leipzig, Germany: Leipzig Book Fair, it took place from March 18th to 21st

    http://www.leipziger-messe.de/LeMMon/buch_web_eng.nsf

    - Frankfurt, Germany: The Frankfurt Book Fair... October 6th to 10th.

    http://www.buchmesse.de/en/fbf/
  20. Defcon_Kid

    World Cup 2010

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
    Want some swiss cheese?
    Grrrrrr...
  21. Defcon_Kid

    World Cup 2010

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TrueMetal View Post
    Didn't you just become Euro champions 2 years ago? I think your curse has been broken
    See? I was right after all (sigh).
  22. Defcon_Kid

    World Cup 2010

    At this time Serbia - Ghana already finished, so my poll for it wouldn't be fair

    BUT... still 1 hour and a half for the start of Germany - Australia, so here I go... I'd say 2-0... I guess Australia's quality must have improved somehow, otherwise this wouldn't be their 3rd World Cup in a row, and Germany might feel Ballack's loss, but as Lineker said, "football is a sport on which play 11 vs. 11 and always win the Germans" (more or less, it's the Spanish translation of the sentence, maybe the original one is a bit different).

    Btw... being Spanish and watching so many people thinking we are favourites makes me blush ... Tbh, every single World or Euro Cup Spain has been considered this way, but always happened something, a referee, a failed block, a failed penalty... this time I really think we can do it (crossing fingers with a hand while holding a horseshoe in the other ).
  23. When I was a kid there was much more teen and children programs on TV than nowadays... I still remember the Saturday morning watching either Ulysses 31, anime series like Mazinger Z, or some series from BRB International like "Willy Fog", "D'Artacan and the 3 Muskethounds", or "The Gnomes":

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-9L_3AGTi4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukf7Ef9bRII

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QauGbPYye9U

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syxGGxT7_2Y

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKSfkqDqO04

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkseWkWTJQM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qDVV...eature=related

    Of course I couldn't forget these ones:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyvUTWZC0xQ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tFzD13hmc
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by mereman View Post
    Can anyone think of any marketing EU side in the last year?

    The only mention I know of in a British gaming mag manged to ignore the EU servers
    In the issue of June, spanish pc games magazine "Micromania", the best and probably the only one dedicated to pc games (the others are mainly console ones) gives this incredible piece of news... City of Heroes made 6 years last April! Whoa, what an effort Simply 3 tiny lines in page 63 or so, what a shame.
  25. Nice promotion, but as an European player, I don't really care about it, cause we are not getting any box at all anyway, and even so I bet this boxed thingy comes with the USA serial code, not applicable to EU accounts, so making a pre-order and paying twice (just for goodies that I can get through Plaync when they make available the EU edition) it's just a waste of time and money, IMO.