Father Xmas

Well did you team with a Kheldian since you logged in as this character but before soloing? If so you smell like space seafood and you will get Quantums. Been like that for as long as we had Kheldians.

Now if you just logged in as this character and haven't teamed with anybody since logging in and you are getting Quantums while soloing, I think that's a bug.

Saw this link over at IO9.

I would go with one 3x2GB memory kit than two 3x1GB memory kits. First it's usually less expensive and second it's easier to get three sticks working with such aggressive timings (Cas 7) than six sticks.

First, with the exception of the new 1-20 starting area, four power sets and acess to the post level 50 Incarnate feature in Going Rogue, everything is accessible in no matter which version you buy.

It sounds like you are asking about bases and that's a different system from the AE system which allows you to write your own missions. The only problem is each character can only join one Supergroup and that Supergroup can have a base. Now nothing prevents that character from being a one man Supergroup but it's tough building a functional base on your own. However that personal Supergroup can be affiliated with another bigger one and have limited access to their facilities. But it's a mutual thing and there are a limited number of affiliations a Supergroup can have, 10. It's doable but building a base like this on with a single character Supergroup is virtually impossible.

I have a couple of characters with personal bases, mainly for my own crafting area (crafting table, vault access, storage racks, teleporter to a zone with a CH. Base editor really needs better beds than cots, hospital or ones with straps but you can make a kicking man-cave with lots of TVs, comfy chairs and empty bottles.

I've might have seen custom CoH/CoV graphics/art painted on a case but nothing along the line of a Atlas City Hall case or an Arachnos Flyer case.

Or a Ghost Widow or a Sister Psyche rack mount.

I like your wallpaper. See this thread on what you should post here for help.

Well I don't lump Vanguard Merits in with the rest because all you can get with them are a few temp powers and costume pieces. And the "currency" and items are tied to a particular activity, joining Vanguard and bashing Rikti scum. Now if they had Rikti War Zone/Vanguard only enhancement recipes I would reconsider.

And I'm all for buying random recipe rolls but I'm against buying specific recipes for inf, that's called a store.

I know what the devs are trying to do and I don't envy their task. On one hand they want encourage players to try all the various content in the game but on the other they don't want to penalize those players who aren't interested.

The problem is when the perceived benefit greatly exceeds the "cost" of participating.

Examples:
Not enough players were doing missions preferring street sweeping so they increased the mission bonus and halved the in mission debt and suddenly everyone does missions and few if any street sweep, except maybe toward a badge. Now we have zones that look and feel deserted.

Giant Monsters, while interesting at first quickly became "not worth the time". They now added a couple of merits to the reward. But even with that there are many times where GMs are simply left roaming about. Same could be said about zone events that lead to badges. Oh look Suppa Trolls. Oh look Steel is burning again. Oh look the Ghost Ship is stuck again. Oh look three Paladins in Kings Row. Lusca isn't a event, it's a tourist attraction.

With the introduction of the crafting system the devs divided the reward pool to encourage TF/Trial participation that was languishing. Sounds like a good idea but quickly had the side effect of only a few TF/Trials becoming popular due to being able to "speed run" them. The lack of a "speed run" SF/Trial on the CoV side quickly added yet another reason why some players believe that "Devs hate Villains". The "fix" for this was Merit Rewards.

Sorry to trot this out yet again but I would have only one alternate means other than random drops from critters to get recipes and salvage and that's through Merits.

I would pull the recipe/salvage ticket rewards out of AE and merge those types of random rolls with the Merit vendor and only have a AE Ticket to Merit conversion at the Ticket Vendor. I would have a Inf to Merit convertion added to the crafting tables. Merits can only be used for random rolls.

I would add finer targeting to the random rolls by allowing you to target a particular set type such as Melee Damage or Immobilize sets as well as level range. Because it's so much fun rolling a set recipe getting one only usable in powers you don't have. And yes it would be a premium to target this way.

The big trick, and it would take a bit of data mining and analysis about recipe popularity, inf generation vs drop rate, etc. would be setting the conversion rates of Inf to Merits and Merits to Recipe Roll. The wrong values would translate into either total disinterest or total collapse of the CH because it's easier to simply "buy" your desired recipe with random rolls.

I think I mentioned this on another thread.

Prestige was introduced as a base currency because they didn't want Heroes who've been sitting on 18 months of accumulating inf to out build villains. Makes sense when CoV came out and base raids were possible. This is currently not the case anymore. They got rid of base salvage, now it's time to get rid of prestige.

Merits were the "solution" to speed runs for TF/Trial recipe drops. Now merits drop for GMs and story arcs so dedicated TF/Trial players aren't the only ones who could get those drops.

AE Tickets were the designed solution to handle rewards in a system that may be (and was) exploitable over short (we wished) periods of time.

Now we are getting these Loyalty Merits but they will allow us to pick the exact recipe including purples.

I'm all for, and here I am trotting it out again, the ability to buy random rolls with inf. It destroys inf, removing it from the game and provides a new source of supply for the market. It's like buying from the off market vendors in Diablo II, sometimes it's useful, often you spent more than what you get by selling the item back. The trick is coming up with a fair cost that isn't too high so few use it or too low and totally devastate the market price.

The single Intel SSD does save you a bit of money and the Intel X25-V does have faster writes than the Kingston.

No idea why you downgraded the RAM from DDR3-1600 to DDR3-1333. It's not the default speed of the memory controller in the i7-870 but the 1600MHz setting is unlocked.

That motherboard leaves all your options open for future upgrades whether it's dual video cards (of either major brand), a fast USB 3.0 external drive or a SATA III SSD.

The HD 5770 is a tad weaker than the old GTX 260/216, I wouldn't classify that as low end.

But either of the GTX 460 cards is faster than an HD 5770 (and the GTX 275) and their performance improvement (at least in other games) generally exceed the relative increase in price from the HD 5770 (% increase in performance > % increase in cost). Also the price delta between the these cards at CyberPower are at least on par with those at NewEgg (meaning CyberPower isn't stealing you blind).

Can't vouch for the GTX 460 in our game, the card came out only a couple of weeks ago while je_saist actually runs an HD 5770 in one of his/her rigs since I17. Also the most recent ATI driver seems to fix the remaining problem with AA and the Ultra Mode AO option with the HD 5xxx series.

And I just noticed no OS installed. Got a student or corporate discount somewhere?

I think those who disliked District 9 were upset at being blindsided with a morality tale when they thought they were going to see a bug hunt. Plus everyone talked funny.

Sort of like all the parents who got upset when they took their little ones to Bridge to Terabithia thinking it was going to be another Narnia. It wasn't the movie the trailers implied.

I'm of the camp where you buy the most expensive single GPU video card your budget can handle than either spend a similar amount of money on two video cards and possibly larger PSU and more case fans. At the very least the performance will be consistent across all games than hit or miss with a dual GPU set up.

Also one point that Hyperstrike didn't bring up is the market life span of a mid to high end video card is around 18 months and sometimes much less. If you went the buy one now, buy one later plan, think about getting that 2nd video card within 6 to 9 months of the card's introduction.

Cheap low end cards are around forever, I just saw an ATI 9250 in Staples this week, they had more than one and the boxes look brand new. Scary.

I can't imagine him in Matt mode as a lawyer.

I seem to remember they won't work if the heal grants some other benefit. It's as designed I seem to remember from a dev post. Someone with better search skills can find the post.

I might be wrong. It was a while ago.

Okay, you asked for it.

Well, there is the SSD RAID 1 setup. In my opinion SSDs are still immature and ridiculously expensive, doubly so by configuring them as a RAID 1 (over $6 per GB). Sure, shouldn't have a problem with the OS drive failing ever but I don't know how much of a boost you'll get from just the OS and one or two selected apps running on it. Also the Kingston V-series has terrible write times. I also think RAID of any kind breaks TRIM support which means the drive's read performance will get worse over time. But it's just a lot of money, no real technical gotchas.

The motherboard only has one remotely real video card slot, the 2nd one they talk about for Crossfire setups is only equivalent to a x2 slot in bandwidth so a 2nd ATI card (I know you have a GTX 460) in Crossfire wouldn't help much. Also the x16 slot will switch to x8 if you enable either USB 3.0 or SATA-III (6Gb/s) ports.

Now if you want a motherboard that supports nVidia SLi (x8/x8) as well as Crossfire and can still have SATA-III and USB 3.0 at the same time, then out of their selection I would go with the Asus P7P55D-E Pro. The Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P will force the SATA-III and USB 3.0 ports back to SATA-II and USB 2.0 when you have two video cards.

No real problem with the CPU. It's a tad overkill but it will let you use the DDR3-1600 ram without needing to overclock the CPU base clock like on the i5-760.

Currently without the ability for multiple GPUs, unless you get some single card with multiple GPUs, the 800 watt PSU is a bit of overkill. But then again after overlooking the specs (with only 600 watts at 12 volts) it's more like a good quality 650-700 watt, which is still overkill. But oddly (not really) a more appropriate sized PSU, at least the ones I would consider from their selection, are more expensive.

First, that teaser almost seems like the movie Disney would run in front of a new Pirates attraction.

My dislike with the 2nd and 3rd movies is that they "broke" the first movie. End of the first movie Jack escapes and gets the Black Pearl back, Will gets Elizabeth, Norrington gets taken down a notch and Barbossa is killed. Nice classic Disney ending. And it was a nice simple classic story full of Campbell classic architypes.

Then they through all of that out the window with a convoluted plot driven by complex cross purposed motivations of the main characters and ends with our happy couple from the first movie now living a less than ideal existence, Barbossa having the Black Pearl once again and Jack back alone in his dingy.

Well it starts and ends as a documentary, it's in the middle where they showed the audience what was really happened, a story that those doing the documentary couldn't know.

I didn't find it jarring at all. By the end you should realize that the documentary was about the events that led to the Prawn's ship leaving. They were able to piece together the start of the story from the ride along with Wikus but then shifts from that footage to let the audience see the events from Wikus's perspective that led up to the departure. They then conclude with Wikus's wife thinking he's still out there and we seeing that she's right.

It's different from films based on fictionalized real life events because they don't need to do the backstory unless it happened long enough in the past that a refresher is needed. I'm thinking of movies like United 93 and World Trade Center. This structure allowed them to give us the backstory of the Prawn's arrival, the formation of the district and MNU without an uninteresting voice over, wall of text, a history class set in a school or forced conversation from a couple of main characters remembering back when.

Intel's boxed cooler for the i5-7xx/i7-8xx series isn't really that great at stock speeds, over 70C under load. Compared to the coolers for the i7-9xx quads or the Core 2 quads, it's downright tiny.

Also the Turbo Boost is controlled by chip temperature as well as current draw so additional cooling means more reliable Turbo Boost.

Firefly

Kolchak: the Night Stalker - only the original, remake blech!

The Fugitive

Warehouse 13

New Amsterdam

Cop Rock

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Tales of the Gold Monkey