Ironblade

I have two defenders that need the component from the ITF (empathy and dark). However, I'm typically logging off around 10 EST. Any chance of doing this earlier or on the weekend?

I left the launcher running when I went to work. When I got home, the patch was downloaded and ready to apply. That took 70 seconds.

Anyway, we started with discussion of how to find teams and wandered into an off-the-wall discussion of server load.

I'm curious if the OP was able to find one or more global channels that were helpful in finding teams. This is information that would be useful to many.

I don't see anything in the hardware that would explain the crashing (and I wouldn't know what to look for in the HijackThis log).

Having said that, I would think your system is starved for RAM and bogged down by writing to the hard drive. You've got a high-end 6 core CPU. I see the BOINC application (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, for everyone else reading this) running. How many threads are you letting that use? I have it running 8 threads and that's taking over 1.5GB of RAM right there.

I ask because you have only 4GB of RAM and, on top of that, the system can't access all of it because you have a 32 bit version of Windows. You've got a race car engine in the family minivan.

I'll be there with Al Pine - level 19 plant/cold controller.

You don't really need to be "firm and decisive". You're not a manager affecting peoples careers. You're not a general leading troops into battle.

This is a game. People play it to have fun. Therefore, a "good leader" is someone who increases the amount of fun people are having. What does this mean? Well, the people who enjoy organizing a team and keeping them moving are already out doing that. Those aren't the people who joined your team. The people who joined your team are the ones who DON'T enjoy organizing a team and getting everyone moving in the same direction. They joined someone else's team so someone else can handle the 'drudgery' for them.

Let's also keep in mind, the people who don't like running a team could also be soloing - but they chose not to. Instead, they joined your team. So you need to maintain the 'teaminess' of teaming.

• A team has more than one person - the more, the better.
  You need to keep the team 'team-sized'. You don't have to have 8 people but, if you drop below 5 or 6, you need to find more.
• When you're on a team, someone else decides what you do next.
  You need to know what you're going to do next. Do you have missions ready? Maybe an Ouroboros arc? Does someone on the team have a mission they want to do?
• Keep it moving.
  No one needs a team if all they want to do is sit around and wait for something to happen. If they joined your team, they want to DO stuff.

Now, a challenging aspect to all of this is that not everyone has the same goals and not everyone finds the same things to be 'fun'. One person may prefer stealthing missions. One person may hate exemping below their actual level. One person might be working on a badge for defeating a specific enemy type. These issues are why I don't run a lot of regular teams. I mostly run task forces. All you need to do is determine HOW you are running the task force (speed run, defeat all, etc) and make that clear to people. Once you have that, everyone is on the same page.

Rial's text in yellow and mine in white, to avoid stacking lots of quote boxes.

It's exactly as I stated. There is no contradiction.
A contradiction is two opposing statements, one which states that something is true...
red means a certain "server load"
...while the other states that it isn't...
you can't assume that red means 'danger' or 'overloaded'.
Can you explain how this is not a contradiction?

If you can't grasp the BASIC ERROR in your argument, then this is all probably pointless, but I'll try anyway. With only 3 gradations of load, equating red with 'danger' or 'overloaded' is an ASSUMPTION BY YOU. You're attributing a condition that you have no basis to assume.


I would agree that is complete nonsense but you did in fact say it.
Frankly, I can't even figure out what you meant by this one. The nonsense is wall-to-wall in your post.


So to the average player, Freedom is in fact overpopulated as population, though not the only reason for lag, does play a major factor in how much lag the average player experiences.
Simply put if the average player is still the one complaining about lag all the time, the sever is overpopulated.
No. Every server has location congestion at various times and places. If a particular player has lag issues, then they need to avoid crowds.
If the server has such high load that EVERYONE has lag, THEN it's overcrowded. Not before.
And now your contradicting yourself again. You said "no" as if to say I'm wrong but then the following is in agreement with everything you said no to.

And I'll say "No" again. Now I have to question your reading comprehension.

As an aside, you don't get to speak for the "average player". You only get to speak for YOURSELF. YOU say that the average player has lag on Freedom, yet people still flock there in droves. Apparently they're not having problems with their enjoyment of the game.

As I said, the server would be overloaded when lag is a widespread and common occurrence. Since large numbers of people play on Freedom without mention of any problem, we can safely conclude the server is not overloaded. With all due respect, the fact that you say otherwise means nothing. You are one person.