Hyperstrike

I've taken, at low levels (TO range), to slotting up to 3 Accs. Quite simply, while the difference in accuracy is fairly miniscule at that point, I've found it more beneficial to hit more often than to do more damage or eat less End and miss more.

Once I hit DOs, I scale back to 2 or 1 (depending on the base acc), and then at SO's and IOs, 1 Acc and rely on +ToHit.

For running your operating system? No.
For running any single, non VM application? No.
For running large numbers of concurrent applications? Maybe.
For running large numbers of VMs? Maybe.


For gaming? Not really.

No!

It will not cause "conflicts". This is unmitigated FUD.

Capacity-wise, all you get is an additive effect up to the maximum memory supported by the motherboard and operating system.

1 GB
+
1 GB
+
.5 GB
+
.5 GB
=
3 GB

Speed-wise, some boards will revert to higher latency settings if you populate all the memory slots.

Also, speed-wise, the board will use the slowest module (the lowest common denominator) and run all the memory at that speed.

The only time you get "conflicts" is if you're running memory of a type/speed/configuration that the board/memory controller is not rated for.

I've used it a couple times. If you can separate the nictus successfully (-fly, etc), it works pretty good. Just watch out for the ambushes.

A couple things that can go wrong.

1: You don't separate the nictus. You CAN overpower their heals, but it takes for freakin' ever! And throwing down that much firepower for that long can leave your team drained. Having to do it multiple times until he's really most sincerely dead is aggravating.

2: You separate Rommy from his nictus too much and he perma-dies, leaving you to fight the three nictus. Especially if you have a high-level taunt-tank, you run into the problem of the three overlapping each other and being damn near inseparable, which then makes killing them an absolute BEAST.

If either of these happens, tell your MM's to ditch their pets IMMEDIATELY. All they do is provide nictus fodder and make your job harder.

No.

No NO HELL NO.

Okay, a few costumes, and one or two little nothing temp powers? Fine. Cool. Great.

Entire power sets being available À la carte? That's just a bit too much.

Asking people to do without optional costumes and neat little single powers I can deal with. None of them (with the possible exception of Ninja Run) are game-changing. Asking them to do without whole power sets simply because they can't or won't cough up $10-20? Completely inequitable.

ESPECIALLY if it's not balanced like the rest are.

Moreover, how EXACTLY do you expect such a power set to be "PVE only"?

You are now booked on the Failtanic.

Yeah, trying to explain the vagaries of instruction pipeline efficiency to the terminally clueless almost as much fun as banging your head off a wall while sticking your *BLEEP!* in a press compactor set to "agonizingly slow".

Just an FYI guys, I added a link to this thread over on the MidLevel Crisis threads in the Market forum.

Currently there's not a lot of group activity for MLC. The rad superteam happens on Monday evenings there.

Any other days good for you guys?

Nonono. They're talking about memory speed ratings. Not amount.

If you have PC2 5300 RAM (667Mhz DDR2), and you get some sticks of PC2 6400 (800Mhz DDR2) and plug them all in, most boards will block all of them at the stock PC2 5300 speed.

You won't LOSE speed from adding more memory. You simply won't see as great a speed bump as you would if all the memory were running at the higher native speed.

Usually true. To a point. If you're on a 32-bit operating system, you will probably rarely see more than 3-3.5GB of memory addressable without hacks.

If you populate all four DIMM slots, some controllers have timing issues running certain speeds of memory at or above default specs. Thus, you'll see slightly lesser memory performance (since it's throttling the memory interface back down to the default, spec-speeds).

Okay, the sweet spot for 32-bit Windows (Windows itself) is about 2GB of RAM. More than that is good for running apps without getting into resource contention with what the operating system is pulling just keeping things running.

In your case, I'd say to throw all that memory in there.

But the STF awards you a lot more than just 9 merits and takes a lot longer than 20-30 minutes.

Well you're also talking about a TF that's been nerfed down to something in the neighborhood of negative five merits. Asking a group of 30's to fight a +7 EB is a bit much. Even SK'ed up.

I can understand this mentality. But look at me now. An 18 month vet already and paid through 30 month. Barring a server shutdown, I very well could be here 5-6 years.

Okay, there's optimism, then there's pure fantasy. You're somewhere WAYYYYYY past the latter here.



If they do, someone will gripe that vet rewards suck.
If they don't, someone will gripe that vet rewards suck.

Kinda like asking someone if they'd prefer an injection of LD100 potassium chloride or LD100 formaldehyde?

Take your Ritalin Beavis! *SMACK!*

Actually, since the authentication method belongs to NCSoft themselves, it'd be applicable to any and all games that use NCSoft authentication.

As someone who works in the IS/IT field I can confidently say that adding a layer isn't necessarily adding security.

Also, security is NOT about "keeping the other guy out". Anyone who's trying to tell you this is SELLING YOU SOMETHING. Security is a deterrent system, but it doesn't stop people from getting in. At it's root, a system is designed to be accessed and used.

Ideally security should

• Make it tough enough that an unauthorized user trying to break in gives up and moves on to greener pastures
• Makes the unauthorized user have something spectacular (and highly visible) to get in and sets off alarms, getting them noticed.
• Takes so long to get in, creating an anomalous usage pattern, that they get noticed before they can do any damage.

Notice I make no caveats for flat-out stopping someone. Given enough time, any system is breakable.

Thing is, unless you can truthfully purport to speak for "the majority" or "the whole" of the PvP community, the actions and words of brain-dead douchebags like the aforementioned nameless one are what will continue to be foremost in the minds of non-PvP'ers being groomed to participate in PvP.

Again, the majority of the problems with PvP aren't technical. They're social.

A certain person who's name shall remain unsaid has essentially said "Stoopit PvE'ers shouldn't buy up PvP recipies because the PvP'ers need them!"

They also talked about "Korean RMT'ers", how price caps on the market would "fix" the economy, etc.

Currently? No.

Are the devs working on it for the future? Yeah.

When will it be out? SOOOON! <TM>