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Maybe I'm blind or sumpin, but I've searched every inch of D and can't seem to locate this person. Did you hide him/her/it under a rock?

Tried asking for help from those hanging about, but got ignored? A big "Thanks so much!" to all those with the big "Help" sign over their heads.

I've done similar myself. I'd like to be able to delete them even if I can't break them down. A little OCD myself and I'd really rather not see them. I made a mistake, let me get rid of it even if I've wasted the components. At least a t2 only used common and uncommon and I've got warehouses filled with that junk anyway.

Almost any browser running in the background can cause a computer to run out or memory, depending on what is running in the browser. Almost all sites have some JavaScript running and poorly written JavaScript leaks memory like a sieve, and most sites use common libraries that are all poorly written.......

However, I get these crashes on a regular basis as well, without running anything else while running CoX. I'd say that there are significant leaks in the CoX memory dam as well.

Special characters would be good, also not requiring passwords to start with a letter. They only require simplistic passwords, and even prevent more secure passwords and then implement a security measure that adds no security.

I'm just glad I never gave them my credit card information. If this is the kind of thing they "think" will increase security, then I don't even want to now how they are securing credit card information.

Using an IP address, something that can be completely controlled by me, where I can make any server believe I am connecting from any IP address I want it to. Something that changes for many on a regular basis, like every time their modem reconnects to their ISP.

This adds no security at all and only causes a inconvenience when we need to go through the same crap over and over again.

Someone needs to take Internet Security 101.

Finally got around to doing this. I did some missions at x4, over 100 activations of this power. No damage was ever received from my own attack.

Either the bug no longer exists or it happens so infrequently that I won't see it. I left a note to this effect on the wiki in the talk section for the page.

Really, that's news to me. I'll have to tell the dozens of ISPs that I work with that they are all doing it wrong and that they need to give business class accounts away to all of their customers in order to get up to speed.

And from the OP
There is a reason that the I.S. people at the banks don't do this as a general rule, because they know that it's not very secure and only adds a minor hurdle to the equation that is easily bypassed.

I happen to be a Web Applications Developer and I deal with security concerns like this on a daily basis. I would go into an explanation of how easy it would be to hack through the IP thing specific to CoX, but that would be too far off topic and I don't think that anyone would really like me to make public the details on exactly how to do it. In order to stop hackers you need to think like a hacker and know the tools that they use. I test my own work and the work of others by devising ways to break it.

I'm not talking about the fact that this may be an inconvenience to me to have to keep setting up new IP addresses. The fact is, that there is no way to grantee that any IP address is always used by the same person, so there is no way for them to tell on their end if I am the person I say I am by looking at my IP address.

Because my IP address is dynamically assigned by my service provider when my computer conects to them. I get the next available IP address. This is how most internet service providers assign IP addresses. Even if you connect through some type of modem, each time the modem reboots it is assigned an IP when it connects. This IP address may or may not be the same as the last time you connected.

For example My service provider's IP address may start with something like 192.169.XXX.XXX
The last 2 numbers (XXX.XXX) in the IP however can be anywhere in the range of 0 to 255 (or there about, some are not available) but that is approximately 256 different values in each for a total of approximately 65,536 possible IP addresses that can be assigned to a computer/modem. Even if you eliminate the ones that can't be used there are still around 60 thousand possibilities. The service provider needs to assign a different one to each connection, so this is why there are so many.

The only way this security does anything is if you have a static IP address, and the only people that generally have static IP address are those that require a static IP address and this usually costs more money than an average internet connection. For example, my work has a static IP address. The reason is that we host web sites and the web sites need to always be found at the same IP address. Private individuals do not, as a general rule, have static IP addresses for their computers.

So, at a minimum, ignoring the fact that IP addresses can be faked, if my account was hacked this system would narrow the list of people that could do so to those that use the same service provider.

Now, if you add on top of this the fact that an IP address can be faked, this makes checking the IP address of the person connecting even more useless. Anyone that is going to attempt to hack into an account is going to be aware of the fact that IP addresses can be faked and how to do it.

Add all this together, and recording what IP addresses I connect from, becomes a completely useless act.

23?! HA! On one character I did 52 trials and got nothing but uncommon. As said in another thread, either the participation meter is completely messed up for this character or random rewards for this is as stupid as everyone thinks it is. My bet is that it's both.

Hate to say it, but I've done this. On one MSR I was on the lag was so bad for me that if I fired off an attack I was rooted in place for as much as 5 minutes. As long as I didn't hit an attack I was fine, I could move around. So, out of pure frustration I just moved from mob to mob letting my AoE toggle do minor damage to everything I got close to.

So, yes, any concern about giving too many v-merits is a foolish concern since by using this tactic one can pretty much insure a merit for every rikti defeated during the entire event anyway.

I assume that this and the quoted post will be deleted, but anyway....

Do you know that there are certain frequencies of light that can cause epileptic seizures? Or that these seizures can be induced even in those that normally do not suffer from them given the correct frequency and color of flashing lights? Obviously not, or you would not have made the comment, your point of view or not. Headaches, minor to sever, caused by certain combinations of light color and frequency of animation are only minor symptoms. The same thing that causes some to have a headache could cause worse in others.

By being concerned about and correcting these problems NCSoft would only be being civically responsable. Just because someone with a "disability" is in the minority does not mean you can just ignore them.

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I have played several characters through to 50 and this may sound very strange to you, (but I'm a little OCD) I get all the contacts and do almost every mission given by each of them. The ones I don't really like are the hunts where you need to go defeat X of Y. There are also several origin contacts in the 20 to 30 range that give duplicate missions. I try to avoid these unless the contacts bar is not full.

Here's the real shocker, I play with my experience turned off probably 80% of the time so I don't out level any contacts before I can complete them.

It takes me some time to get a character from 1 to 50 and I try to stick with each unless I'm really not having fun playing them. So it is a long time between the agains for me. Most of the time I can't even remember what a mission is about when I do it the next time (and I play almost every day)

I like all levels. Most of the fun for me is getting there. Once I hit 50 what do I really have to look forward to? Right now it's running the same two trials again and again and again and again and again and..... until they make me wanna puke.

So, I can't speell :P

I think this is pretty much the problem, no patience. It only takes a few seconds to be patience.

The lack of patience and total refusal on the part of many (not some, but many) to be patient and to follow any type of direction is the main reason I don't lead these things and really only do them because I have to in order to get what I want. Knowing my lack of patience for impatient people I'd probably just start kicking them

Is it so hard to wait for the tank or brute to pull Siege a few more feet? Is is so hard to wait for the escapees to get to the choke point before you attack instead of running out to meet them?

Is it so hard to take a moment to explain to someone that has never done a Lambda what to do after you beet the "Security Team"? Where the doors are? Why they are running in a smash and grab though the warehouse like maniac ITF speed run instead of taking out the mobs? (by the way, I hate Speed ITFs or any SPEED runs, I'd rather get poked in the eye with a stick.)

I realize, many of us have all seen the cut scenes a hundred times or more and they're getting to the point of making us puke, but, is it really that hard to just be a little patient? Is your life that pressed for time that a couple minutes is making you this upset?

Relax a little, take the moment to refill your glass, you'll live longer.

That's why I said, long enough. I'm going to log in and find a quite place where nothings going on to limit the chances of crashing and wait till the badge is awarded. A mission would be good cuz then I can go watch a movie while I wait.

I seriously doubt my experience would be any better than the lagging crashfest I experienced tonight :P