Father Xmas

Do you have a price limit or card size restriction to hamstring us any further or is it just PCI, faster than a 9200 and fanless (ie low power since power means heat)?

I would say the HD 4350. It's also a very low power card unlike the 6200 or 9400GT since power means heat and you mention too much heat is bad in your situation.

First reply in this thread has the link to all unlockable costume pieces. The two links at the bottom of that page sends you to crafted and vet costume pieces. However it is missing the items from the Super Booster II: Magic and Super Booster III: Science packs but those also cost real money.

I have an AR blaster that uses the ax for close encounters of the spirit kind.

Right click on shortcut, select properties, click Change Icon. There's a CoV icon, but not THE CoV icon (IIRC) from back in the day.

HD 3450 is rather weak.

9800GT is fine and is in the ballpark of 5-10x faster than the HD 3450. An equivalent ATI card would be the HD 4830.

Yes, the code works on PCs. It was called the Mac version simply because it was the first version that supported the Mac directly.

There is someone using a 12.5MB animated avatar of gravitational lensing around a black hole, linked from wikipedia. Man I love adblock.

First after red name.

Good to know that you got a handle on the problems.

Makes me wonder just how fugly the animation sequencer code is after five plus years of tweaking.

Founder's Falls -> Eden -> Hive

As a long time member over on Victory I can say that on several occasions I had the feeling of being the only straight member on my team, based on the team chat. Did it bother me? Not really. At worse the conversation was just as uncomfortable when I'm the only guy in a group of women and the topic switches to feminine hygiene or being hit on constantly by guys when I'm running one of my female characters.

Is it the unofficial gay server? Yes and such a title can become a self-fulfilling designation. This is just a case of self-segregation and can be found anywhere if you know how to look for it. Individuals will tend to cluster in groups where they feel they can "fit in" or more importantly feel "normal" in such a group. You can see this in college where you can have the unofficial dorm for a particular major or activity, for example the artist dorm, the party dorm, the geek dorm, the Christian dorm. Did they start out like that? No. Did the college administration designate them as such? No, but over time they slowly gain a reputation as the place to live if you were of a particular social/major/lifestyle group and eventually the designation stuck. I once visited a friend for his Masters graduation at Cornell and was put up in the "Bohemian" dorm with hallways covered with student murals and the floor bathrooms being coed. You could easily imagine espresso sipping, beret wearing hipsters with bongos and beat poetry readings with Maynard G. Krebs would feeling right at home there.

As for your friend being told "that if he didn't openly accept homosexuality he should find another server", it's not like he was being asked to convert, just get along. I would guess he used language usually heard on XBox Live voice chat and he found out that, as in real life, people will take offense.

Your friend should realize that in a virtual world, where you can't tell if the race/sex/religious/political/sexuality of the person on the other side of the screen that you are going to have to be on your best behavior or you may end up offending someone with language or behavior that you may use everyday in your social group without consequence but that they will find offensive.

Don't know, assume so. I believe the problem lies with ATI's OpenGL driver implementation than something lacking in their hardware.

Yea! Wonder how close I am to 100 free tailor sessions on my main.

They were earlier in the day, not so much now.

Well I recommend the fast dual core but I was fuzzy on the video (SLi 9600M GT is anywhere from -25% to +50% of GTX 260M). Also I was still rather rushed when posting that and really didn't make my video reasons as clear as possible.

When building desktops, I personally discourage people from going SLi or Crossfire, partially due to cost standpoint, partially due to inconsistent benefit. A game needs to be very GPU bound to gain the maximum benefit from multiple GPUs consistently rather than just smoothing over occasional dips in framerate. Given a choice between spending X dollars on a single video card or the same X dollars on an SLi setup, I'll choose the single video card every time.

The argument against AE for new players is that it ends up "bubble boying" the new player, limiting their experience within the game world. Anything from not knowing how to travel between zones, leaning to fight against a broad range of critters, becoming acclimated to new powers and learning to slot them effectively, learning to use the standard contact tree for missions, not realizing the game doesn't just exist in one building, etc.

Anecdotal tales have been told of new players who finally stick their heads out of AE and discovering that most enemies aren't like the ones they fought over and over again to get to 50. The few tactics they learned in AE don't work well in the general game, especially on certain task/strike forces.

I simply went into my PM inbox, click on the checkbox that checks all messages and then use the "Mark as read" pull down at the bottom of the page and poof, they no longer appear on my CP page as unread.

I can't believe nobody clicky the wiki for the OP.

ParagonWiki: Enhancements

And hand in hand with enhancements come ParagonWiki: Enhancement Diversification, ED for short.

Ah, someone beat me to it.

A couple of other numbers ( in million of Korean Won )

CoH/V sales

2Q08 - 5,743
1Q09 - 6,837
1Q09 - 6,673

Yes that's down 2.4% quarter to quarter. However it did better than the drop in total game sales.

2Q08 - 76,408
1Q09 - 125,994
2Q09 - 119,066

That's down 5.5% Q2Q.

They also changed their estimate for total CoH/V income from 25,000 to 26,000.

Yes, they are bigger. Also the gray box behind the avatars no longer peeks out over the top anymore. People with avatars with transparency is still hosed with a non-square gray box.

Edit: Oh and the smileys look better too.