Hyperstrike

Uhm. No. Sorry, but you're incorrect.

Logging into an MMO doesn't mean you're RP'ing. Does playing Quake make you RP Sarge? Does playing Metroid make you RP Samus? When you play Donkey Kong, do you RP Mario? ('ats-a SPICY meatball!)

Yes, you're playing the game. But, by default, CoX is really more meta-game by default. You have to actually to go out of your way to role-play. Otherwise, you're doing what every game makes you do. Knock down enemies the computer throws at you.



Incorrect. Every server allows you to RP. But RP is, by no means, inherent.

Over-emphasis doesn't make your point any more valid. You have a point, about discrimination against any given play style. But your conclusion that everyone is an RP'er isn't correct.

Have you ever thought that he was being facetious? C'mon, this IS PK we're talking about here. You've never seen lolPVP either?

I posit that you've just allowed yourself to be trolled and have over-reacted in a SPECTACULAR fashion. Congrats!

Note: I've even noticed this on allies in missions as well. They just all of the sudden turn around and go charging off and I don't find out about it till they die. Had this happen recently during the Serpent Drummer mission. All of the sudden all my hostage/allies charged off, died, and I failed the mission.

I had to log off and go do something else before I put my fist into one of my monitors.

I'm out here in Chicago doing present hunts right now. I'll shoot off a global if I come across the GM...

No, but holes in geometry and less than complete occlusion of them can.

Years ago, nVidia put out a Quake demo to "show off the power" of their new cards.

Turns out that the map used for this had massive un-occluded geometry holes in the map itself. So in certain areas, you'd wind of having your system trying to render the geometry of the entire map, textures and all.

Accordingly, framerates dropped into the toilet going through these areas.

Good plan.

Yes.

Win7 doesn't read the docs. It reads the filesystem. In that, you're safe. You'll still have to reinstall the applications that read the various file formats (like Office to read Word *.doc and Excel *.xls files). But it's not like Win7 is going to not recognize the XP-formatted NTFS volume.

I wouldn't worry horrendously about spindle-speed. You don't need a 10,000 rpm disk for this. Just get yourself a nice, sizeable hard drive with a decent amount of cache on there (helps smooth out throughput speeds).

Are you looking at EIDE (ATA/100-ATA/133)? Or SATA?

Again, is it EIDE or SATA? If it's SATA, you have very little to worry about. Simply plug and play. If it's EIDE, you will need to just watch your jumper configuration on the drive (Master/Slave/Cable Select). After that, it's gravy.

As for formatting it up, the first time you format the drive, I'd recommend NOT taking the "quick format" option. Let the system take the time to do the full error checking on the disk. Remember, if you write to a bad drive and can't recover the data it's NOT a backup.

Saw it. The plot itself was, as people have said, reminiscent of Dances with Wolves. My response to this is "so what?", as if you want to get STUPID about it, most of these kinds of films are just not-so-cheap knockoffs of the standard "Hero's Journey" archetype.

Go see it anyhow, preferably in IMAX 3D. I wound up getting there late and wound up standing through the whole movie without a real complaint (though the dogs are complaining now...)

The 3D isn't screaming, up-in-your-face 3D. It's something that you just kinda sit back and stop noticing after a few minutes. And this is a GOOD thing. It's exceptionally well done 3D (and I hope to God when this comes out on DVD/Blu-Ray that they release a 3D version).

I want a quarter each time you use that Hulkers...

I rarely get motion-sick anymore. Early 3D used to do it to me. When I got my first TNT card, it came with a copy of Descent. I basically forced myself to play it for a few hours (with intermittent trips to the head to up-chuck a few more toenails).

After that, very little bothered me.

I do notice that low frame rates and/or blurry monitors tend to touch off a bit of queasiness now and again though.

Hey! Hey! Read the tags bub!

Ingratitude? Much?

They didn't have to give you JACK ALL.

So you got a hobby horse instead of a pony. DAMMIT! YOU WANT A PONY!

Simply because the gift is the useful equivalent of a pair of socks to you doesn't mean that they're playing favorites.

You have been given the ability to transfer servers within your shard grouping FOR FREE (when a few weeks back it would have cost you money). Additionally, this gives you a strategy to freely rename toons if their current name isn't what you'd like it to be. Simply because you don't see a use for it doesn't mean there's a plot to discriminate against you. If you choose not to take advantage of the gift, the onus is on YOU.

First thing I thought "*BLEEP!* YOU DOLPHIN AND WHALE!"

Old joke from Revenge of the Nerds 2

You can mount fan filters over them. Either the plastic ones or the metal ones you saw in my link to newegg earlier in the thread. It won't create a solid barrier, but for the most part, if you have positive case pressure, you shouldn't need it.

Modular cords are nice and all. Don't get me wrong. But you get cleaner signal off hardwired PSUs. Every interface adds a bit of line noise. Just take extra care routing your cables and be meticulous about bundling up and routing/hiding the ones you don't use and it'll look just fine. You may have to play with it a little, but it'll be ok.

Here's a picture of a rough cable job I did on a workhorse box I put together at work (dual quad xeons FTW!)



Wish I had some pics of my cable routing in my current case (my last case was somewhat messier than I wanted because I was still using the dinky Sonata cases). But I had to put it together and get it into service too fast to take good pics of the inside (and I don't want to pull it open right now).

I'd only really recommend filters for air INTAKE fans. Putting them out evac fans will simply cause turbulence and more noise.

Good! You're not entirely as clueless as I look!


If you're actually going to mount ALL of them, I'd go for variable speed fans and keep them all on low. ESPECIALLY the 80mm. Don't go for the highest CFM fans you can find. With as much ventilation as you're putting in, you don't really need it. Unless you want the thing to double as a hovercraft...

Years ago, I had a case with a 40mm fan spot in back over the expansion bays. I went out and bought a 40x40x40mm fan that was quiet enough outside the case. When I put it in, it had such a high throughput and so much oscillation that it sounded like I'd hooked up a Dustbuster to the thing.



Even with rubber grommets it still was noisy as hell.

The smaller the fan, the faster it has to turn (or the thicker the fan has to be to scallop the blades more) to move more air. And because it's moving more air through the same aperture, it's going to be louder, because turbulence is higher.

Any really high-CFM fans should be buried inside the case (not in the front, not in the back, not on the doors, not on the top. Usually this is some sort of internal mount (like the secondary fan in the old Antec Sonata cases) or on the CPU cooler itself. This way the case itself acts as a noise baffle.

As others have said, make sure that you have slight positive pressure. This prevents the case from vacuuming up dust and debris from around the door seals. Excessive positive pressure will get you turbulence-induced noise and the case randomly puffing out what dust it DOES collect and can prematurely kill your fans).

No.
Front: In
Open Side Lower: Either
Open Side Upper: Either
Back: Out
Bottom: Out
Top: Out
Backside 80mm: Out

You do NOT want a bottom fan pulling in. It'll just hoover dust up. I'd recommend leaving the bottom one out if you're leaving anything out.

Depends on your environmental needs. Also remember that more fans = more noise.

Realistically, I'd say:

1: Front (In)
1: Back (Out)
1: Door (In)
1: Top (Out)

Plus, remember you're going to have a fan on your CPU cooler too (or are you? It's late and my brain is malfunctioning).

This doesn't help a lowbie present seeker when he runs across a zone-capped mob and goes splat.

Well. If worst comes to worst and you just GOTTA have the speed badges, get yourself 7 friends with teleport.

You'll need to nav the first 2-3 gates yourself, but then they tag-team TP you through the rest of the gates.

Make sure they are NOT slotting TP for any endredux when doing so, as the person just down the line is watching for the end bar to flux.

Is it a cheap cop-out way of getting the badges? Sure. So what? Not everyone has razor-sharp control, and TP teams still take quite a bit of skill and teamwork to get right.