Father Xmas

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Ha i am good at all maths but calculus! :P

But thanks been working in neuroscience for 14 years now and i love it.

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Well Calculus was the 1st semester Freshman math class at my college. Everyone but business majors (Hockey) had to take it. This included Psych and Sociology majors. Two semester's worth actually. Along 2 semesters of Physics and Chemistry with their associated labs. Engineering majors also had a requirement of two semesters of computer science (FORTRAN).

Well since you don't list your CPU or video card, kind of tough to tell.

Post a CoHHelper report, it'll also include your in game settings for video, there may be a few things to tweak there for performance. It uses .Net 2.0 so you may need to download that from Microsoft.

Well some may be a royal PITA while soloing even as EBs. Nosferatu for one, Madame of Mystery is another.

I'm so going to get flamed over this.

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MA is a dilemma without a reasonable resolution.

A lot of dev time was put into MA. It's purpose to allow players with a creative side produce new content that would be a change of pace, especially if as a player you are on your 20th alt or to allow missions to be created that would challenge solo players who still find PvE at the highest level of difficulty to easy. They can't simply remove it without a lot of explaining to senior management.

If they made it so MA missions offered reduced XP to dissuade abuse, AE would have been a ghost town in two weeks. Which would also require a lot of explaining to senior management.

If they locked maps to minimum level ranges (low level characters don't normally have missions on extra large maps) it would have been said they were limiting creativity.

If they limited the number of spawns per mission based on level (to keep XP down) they would have been accused of not allowing someone to create a really challenging mission. ("I've always wanted to fight a desperate battle against incredible odds.")

As it is now, the alternate reward system of tickets have affected the market supply terribly, at least in the short term. While giving players a way to get the IO sets in high demand without endless "farming" for either Inf, random drops or merits, it prevents the market from being supplied by IO recipes that weren't useful for that character. Without a constant supply of unwanted recipes and salvage pricing goes out of whack. Prices soar and now players "farm" for the Inf to buy the once inexpensive salvage or simply go with the flow and do only MA missions for tickets so they can roll randomly for them.

They wanted to make sure there was enough AEs to satisfy the initial demand of editing or trying out missions so we have one in just about every open zone, but having them in the lowest level zones have made it so players need not ever leave those zones (except to craft and you can do that at the most modest of SG bases).

As others have pointed out, eliminating the need to travel from contact to mission and back (until you get the contact on speed dial) speeds leveling more than any previous changes to XP (reduction of max debt, 1/2 debt in missions, increased mission bonus, smoothing of XP though modifiers based on level of critter, patrol XP for the player who rotates through their alts).

The side effect of all this are newbies playing the game for the first time and simply miss out on the whole experience, at least once. I see more and more questions about how to get contacts since new players simply skip over that method of getting missions. Many simply never explored beyond Atlas and Mercy unless they joined a TF or an PUG playing an actual "normal" mission.

I'm not saying MA was a bad idea, but the unintended consequences of it have affected the "society" in the game and on the forums more so than any other feature, that the devs have added to this game. More than adding loot, more than adding PvP, more than adding bases.

It's like what would happen if we ever got the ability to jack into the internet directly with are brains. It may sound like a good idea to be able to access the collected knowledge of mankind but it'll just end up with all the guys surfing porn and the girls writing slash fiction and everyone shopping online. Nobody would be doing the work required to keep society functioning.

A long time ago the devs halved debt in missions and boosted mission XP bonus to encourage players to play the content the devs created instead of street sweeping. MA has undone all of that by providing a path of least resistance for accumulating XP. Without some kind of limiter in place to force MA junkies out of AE into the "real world" to revive the market economy and repopulate zones with players traveling to and from missions, Paragon City and the Rogue Isles will become virtual ghost towns, more so than before MA arrived. The problem is any significant change now to rewards, XP or other, would be considered the biggest nerf since ED.

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So how do you change MA so it doesn't become a ghost town overnight or a roach motel where players check in and only check out when they're Level 50?

I still use it at high level. Then again I have to hit bonuses.

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Like this?

https://boards.cityofheroes.com/showprof...part=1&vc=1

On my other account it was because the Mods pulled my title and thus it was left blank.

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Wow, impressive list of papers. Don't entirely grok the work. Back at college we joked that biology was the science for those who couldn't do math. The Pre-Meds joked that all the other sciences just didn't want to get their hands getting icky.

I got mine after someone else with one pointed me out to the powers that be. They asked me what I wanted, they misunderstood the request.

Not complaining. However it does require research on people's part to grok it.

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well according to anandtech - as of i7 the physx card added up to 80% peformance increase scaling to CPU.

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2828

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PhysX card and software emulation support added to CoH/V Issue 7, June 2006

AnandTech article from September 2006

nVidia buys Ageia February 2008

nVidia releases first video card driver with PhysX emulation on the GPU, August 2008

Yes and then you select the alternate timings.

CoH/V's implementation of PhysX was one of the first and as such was built using a custom software library from Ageia that worked with their PhysX processor. As a result the game didn't even support upgrades from Ageia back in the days before nVidia bought them out, as Ageia changed how their library works, relying on the custom library found in the CoH/V main folder.

While later games used the newer library code from Ageia, that nVidia leveraged with their GPU accelerated PhysX drivers, CoH/V was simply to old, to much an early adopter to take advantage of this.

Wolf_Shadow: Nearly all DDR2 memory that is operating with faster timings than JEDEC standard (CAS 5 for DDR2-800), require a voltage boost to make those faster timings stable. At the standard 1.8 volts, the memory should default to the standard CAS 5 timings and then you should be able to go into the BIOS and bump the DRAM voltage up to 2.0 V. The DRAM may even have it's faster timings as an alternate setting in it's SPD (just looked, it does). In the BIOS the memory timings (basic) and voltage settings are found on the "M.I.T. (Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker) page.

JImmay: Seasonic is an excellent power supply. The SS-550HT has 492 watts of power available at +12 volts. Yes it's more expensive than others in that class but you can't really go wrong with it. Only drawback is it has only 2, 6-pin PCIe power connectors and not a 6+2-pin for those uber video cards that require one.

Noyjiat: Big whoop. While DDR3 does have higher bandwidth, it does little for latency (time between asking for and getting the first chunk of data). Combine that with the increase cost (yes the prices are coming down), the fact the limiting factor in a Core 2 setup is the FSB speed and that most DDR3 motherboards are enthusiast class (read tricked out and expensive), it's not an reasonable alternative for someone on a smallish budget. You get more bang for the buck from a better class of video card or one higher rung on the CPU ladder.

If you notice Greenykins, the MB you picked is in my $600 parts list so I don't need to be sold on it.

Well, the 4GB warning was if you didn't know and freak out once you get it assembled and start playing with it. I remember a number of posts here back when people started upgrading to 3 and 4 GB and wondered where the memory went.

As for the difference between a GTX260/192 and a GTX260/216, depends on your preferred resolution and game settings. Here is a comparison of the two across multiple games and resolutions from a review at X-bit Labs running with a 3.0GHz Q9650 Core 2 overclocked to 4.0GHz to minimize CPU impact. Both cards were clocked at the same speed so what you are seeing is what the extra 16 SPs bring to the mix.

Lastly, it seems that NewEgg is having a problem keeping SATA DVD burners in stock. TigerDirect seems to have LG SATA drives in stock.

To Noyjitat:

Limiting only if you want RAID, dual video cards or higher overclocking. Of course if you don't care about those things and price is important then it's a great little motherboard.

This Gigabyte MB gets around the RAID and any extreme overclocking issues. This one handles all three if you want Crossfire (ATI) cards. Gigabyte, at least at NewEgg, doesn't offer nVidia SLi motherboards.

To the OP:

Why the IDE DVD burner and not a SATA one (other than the LG model is sold out)?

Also why get the 192SP (streaming processors) version of the GTX 260 when the 216SP version isn't really that much more (and actually cheaper after rebate)?

And BTW, with 4GB of main memory and a 896MB video card with a 32-bit OS, don't expect the OS to see more than maybe 2.5GB of that 4GB.

No, by opening your ID I'm guessing the assumption is that you are editing it and the whole thing is transmitted back up to the server. Somewhere in that process, either in the client or up on the server, that text is filtered to remove any excess white space including empty lines or lines containing only spaces (I'm guessing at the lines containing only spaces).

No the procs roll every 10 seconds in an always on power so Performance Shifter triggers on average about once every 50 seconds for 10 endurance. I have one slotted in stamina on my corrupter and it's such a nice little boost to endurance.

Most likely we won't know if it's being looked at until a fix appears. Dev's of any software rarely if ever reveal what bugs are being looked at and fixed to their clients. Such a list quickly becomes a rallying point and source of countless arguements about whether this bug is more important to fix than that bug and which subgroup of customers is being favored/screwed by the devs.

It is cosmetic problem and not game breaking in the least. Yes, it's a QoRP issue as with the color chat binds but the game itself is still playable.

"Moment of Glory" is that scene in a fighting anime series like 'Bleach', 'Dragonball Z', 'Yu Yu Hakusho', etc. where one side unleashes some horrible instant kill/total annihilation attack that hits the target with a massive sky rending explosion. The smoke clears only to reveal that the target not only survived but is only slightly singed, hair mussed with a little blood out of the corner of their mouth.

THAT is "Moment of Glory".

...and sometimes it's just stubborn. That's why I really haven't changed anything since I resubscribed last December.

Waiting for the day the forum software is replaced. Hopefully before the world ends in 2012.

Put up a Hijack This report, there may be something conflicting.

So what do you mean loading screen. Do you get as far as logging in, selecting a character and then it hangs or is it earlier?

I seem to remember that there was one version of the ATI drivers that really didn't play well with the game, at all. Sadly all I remember is it was one of the version 8 drivers.

Post a CoHHelper report for your desktop system so we can see your game settings.

I prefer using links directly to the source.
TweakCoH.

Yes MrCaptainMan, the Corsair VX550 is a good power supply.

Gamma, the only real difference between PSUs with a single large +12 volt rail and those with multiple smaller rails is simply assigning and capping rails for specific components. Few PSUs actually have multiple, independent +12 volt supplies.

The problem is few PSU manufacturers document which rails supply which components. As long as the manufacturer choose wisely, no one's the wiser.

The problem with a single rail is if some component draws more current than the wiring harness is suppose to handle, wires gets hot, insulation melts and smokes and you have the possibility of a fire. The use of lower gauge wire mitigates this.

There are only a few costume pieces you can craft, different styles of wings and a couple of boots with FX attached to them. You can bid on them at the consignment house.

ParagonWiki: Invention Made Costumes

ParagonWiki: Unlockable Costume Pieces

No, make a Buck Rodger's space vampire, a Vorvon.

Don't forget to check out the Monkey Fight Club while you are there. I believe it's on the hero side of the club, lower floor.