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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xieveral View Post
    As of late, I've seen twins running around with the same names. Its not the l/I trick or alt codes...
    It's either that or something similar.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by flipside View Post
    In regards to Taskmaster Gabriel, I'm not entirely sure I understand how he works. Does he give you a mission that you need to keep in your mission list while you complete all the other arcs?
    He does, but you don't have to get it. He tracks what arcs you do whether you have spoken to him or not.


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    And you have to complete all the DA arcs in a single week? Lastly, what defines "a week"?
    You don't have to do them within any time limit. You can take a month. The one week restriction is on how often you can get the 2 Empyrean merit reward.

    As for what "a week" means, for the Signature arc 'one week' timer, it actually means 6.75 days (6 days, 18 hours). I have not checked Gabriel's timer (like I did for the Signature arcs) but it seems likely to be the same duration.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell View Post
    I have never done a TPN in which we bothered with the seers.
    Yeah, I think teams normally ignore the seers unless they are trying for the badges.


    Anyway, I would agree (with some of the posters) that BAF and Lambda are the easier trials.
  4. Ironblade

    Test

    The preceding was a test of the emergency forum system.
    Had this been an actual emergency, oxygen masks would have dropped from the cabin ceiling.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Major_T View Post
    I believe it is a game play problem. It's evidence that there are many players who are dissatisfied with the reward percentages of the solo path and we're acquiring data to support that assertion.
    There's nothing to support. If you personally are dissatisfied with the drop rate, that's a factual statement. It doesn't need support or documentation.

    Personally, I would be curious to know if the rarity distribution is the same as the iTrial drop table.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by halfthief View Post
    Our free choice is being ***** by devs who do not seem to care about players as they throw their weight around deleting things, creating new content rather than fixing problems in the game that people have reported for over 6 years now.

    Unlike many who are playing this game for free, I pay a monthly fee to play. I deserve better than this. So does anyone who takes time to play this game.
    You know, there's a good chance that nothing was actually removed. If you dedicated 10% of the words you spend ranting to just tell us WHAT mask, maybe someone can tell you where to find it or if the name has been changed.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lotus_Maximus View Post
    Combining severs with other noncompetive servers I'm sure will provide a more stuctured and fluent gaming experience to all players, giving them more communication, knowledge, competiveness, challenges and most of all less work flow for the Dev's or any Tech.
    I'm sure you're mistaken. You've come up with some pretty vague-but-impressive sounding benefits.... which all seem to be made up out of thin air.


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    This is just an idea so please focus your comments on promoting this idea as oppose to not supporting combining servers.
    um, no. It's a bad idea that has been discussed many times before.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GATE-keeper View Post
    Any time an incarnated character defeats an enemy who cons higher than gray, that enemy has the potential to drop an Incarnate Shard.
    oops, not correct.
    Any time an incarnate defeats an enemy THEIR LEVEL OR HIGHER, there is a chance of getting a shard. If you're exemped to 15, enemies need to be 15 or higher to drop shards.
  9. Ironblade

    Catalyst

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    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    See sig.
    Seriously? You have 4 links there and none directly mention what he was asking about. Do you think your reply was more helpful than "Yes" or "No"?
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    I guess it does help when you get disconnected(boy this game is suffering that a lot more than it used to, aside from really bad past times they had to fix) int he middle of a fight and log back in still alive due to your toggles staying up.
    Actually, it's completely irrelevant to that situation. Your toggles already stay on in the situation you described. It's only after being logged off for 15 minutes that they turn off.

    Of course, if you get disconnected in the middle of a fight that's even slightly challenging, you'll probably be dead when you log back in. 30 seconds of you doing nothing but being a punching bag is probably long enough to get you killed.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    Tell that to everyone learning to use one, or enjoying it, on a smartphone(which is much smaller than a tablet) with features such as "swipe" that put words together for you based on which letters you "swipe" over.

    I really don't see a problem with the larger tablet screen having custom onscreen keyboards instead of the bulky standard 104 key keyboard that has to be carried and connected and can't be changed.
    You keep going back to tablets. The rest of us aren't talking about tablet computers. We're talking about interface devices for a desktop system. In that context, a touch screen is an absolute joke.


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    Yes, there will always be a niche market for the standard keyboard, but it is no longer essential.
    <shrug> You are incorrect.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    So, anybody who says "Windows 7 is better than Windows 8 because I can get into the settings to change things easier" is ignorantly forgetting that they "NEED to get into the settings because it doesn't work right".
    That's a remarkably superficial, and even stupid, comment. Different people have different requirements. A computer is absolutely not a 'one size fits all' item.

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    Edit:
    This topic is done. Bye.
    If only. This is the second time you've said you're done. It didn't 'stick' this time either.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    What do you mean?
    Do you not like an onscreen keyboard that can be configured any way you want rather than a physical keyboard that is made one way and you just have to deal with it as well as clean it?
    Do you really need a mouse, that you have to move around on a desk to make some pointer move across a screen, when you could just "point" your finger right on what you want with no extra steps and a lot faster?

    The mouse and keyboard are not "the best interface possible".
    I never said they were the best possible. But they're a hundred times better than any interface a tablet offers. I assume you're joking with the examples in the previous paragraph. An onscreen keyboard would be absolutely horrific and an incredibly stupid and useless interface. And I'm sure you realize this.
  14. Ironblade

    Accolades

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    Originally Posted by Deacon_NA View Post
    Here's the empirical fact - I can go from 0 to Unveiler in about 20 minutes. Just to be clear, "empirical fact" is used because I have personally done this.
    <shrug> Having obtained this badge many times, I dispute your so-called fact.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by FourSpeed View Post
    Maybe I'm misreading this a bit,
    Misreading big-time. The OP was asking about what a CHARACTER can carry.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    Anyway, I haven't read any reviews of Windows 8. I just have heard that it is meant to be streamlined to run on tablets with touch interface, and saw a picture of the interface example a while back, and I would like to see things designed for tablet use first and foremost because that is the future(along with making the operating system much less of resource hog). I'm sure of this, until we get brain interfaces.
    Sure, it's "the future" to the extent that the majority of computer users will be using a device with that format - because they don't need anything better. The problem with this 'simplified' interface is that, if you DO have the additional capability granted by a full keyboard and mouse, the interface is gimped in comparison with what we have now. They're sacrificing one format to deliberately promote another.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bunny_M View Post
    I also can't view the following link:
    http://newsletters.ncsoft.com/emp/co...-02-15/na.html, either on my home connection, or at work. (No browsing issues at work, either.)
    hm... I can view that link fine.
    My gripe is that I simply don't receive the darn newsletters.
  18. Ironblade

    Distortion

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    Originally Posted by Cyba View Post
    Hello you see i just started this game and i have more then the minimum graphics card requirement so i have checked.
    From the NCSoft site? Their "minimum" requirements are a bit of a joke. We need to know what hardware you actually have.

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    everything i mean everything is distorted or flashy as i would say. flickering, flashes, random colors,
    Any chance you can provide a screenshot? A lot of graphic problems can be diagnosed immediately from a picture since it's worth, you know, 10,000 words.
  19. Ironblade

    Good news.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
    Yes, I know what I speak of. I used to do tech support for [redacted], a company that made a DSL modem for [redacted], a few models of DSL Gateways for [redacted], a few models of DSL Gateways that were used by [redacted] (I was part of the European support team working the overnight shift), and was testing a DSL Gateway for [redacted] when I left the company to move back to Texas and wound up providing [redacted] with a few different DSL Gateways since.
    hmm.... did you [redacted]? And what about [redacted]? I think that [redacted] [redacted] and also [redacted]. But [redacted] [redacted] [redacted].
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    Every, EVERY fething smeg-headed time I try to get into my account, it asks me to do the whole damn 'Verify Account' schtick.

    How many times do I have to do this sodding thing for the bloody system to remember? What muck futhering idiot tech monkey do I have to slap to get this thing to work for once? Seriously?!

    NC's web design staff are monkeys. One-handed brain-dead monkeys. I am honestly sick of this....
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    Originally Posted by houtex View Post
    Um... I had this happen to me once. It was a virus. A nasty one. One that reports your stuff to evil people. My bank's website kept asking me for my info.
    I have this happen every single time but only on NCSoft's site. Trust me; it's not a virus. It's poor software design.
    I deal online with my broker, my bank, two credit card companies and several mutual fund companies. All have various types of enhanced security. None of them make me read a Captcha image every time I use the site.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    Stuff like this is almost as frustrating as the stupid "???" objectives in some of the new DA arcs.

    Why give people an objective and not tell them what it is?
    Because you're supposed to look around to figure it out? While the empty text box is an error, the ??? objectives are intentional.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    Don't remember if he's one of the ones introduced this issue or not - if not, then he's one of the ones you just "walk up and shake hands" with. (Found Linda Lockhart and... bah, the art museum guy... the same way heroside.)
    Yeah, he's from the newest issue. There were four - the three you mention plus... um... Brother Something-or-other (the Luddite guy).
  23. Let's not forget that something being simpler can be completely independent of being 'good' or 'bad'. I've seen a lot of review of Windows 8 that it's *BAD*.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Davpa_CoX View Post
    I've never seen the demotion feature work. I have a few officers that have well exceeded their drop time and they are still in the ranks. I don't want to kick them because they are important in the history of the group, but I want them to demote down the ranks. I wish they would actually get that feature to work.
    It works fine. It is by design that the auto-demote feature ONLY affects the super-leader. This is so that one person leaving the game won't leave the supergroup high and dry with no way to change settings. If the singular super-leader vanishes, someone else gets the red star. All other ranks are immune to auto-demotion.

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    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    It used to work, back a long time ago. I think that was before they increased the super group size limit. Maybe they broke it when they did that.
    It still works for me. I saw an auto-demotion in the past month.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei View Post
    "It was good for the game because it opened the door to a nice new revenue stream in the SSA's. That is good for the game"....Check it did do this, to what degree we will never be told.
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    Originally Posted by CactusBrawler View Post
    Did this for a couple of episodes, then promptly slammed the door shut when the quality took a nose dive.
    And that tells me your posts are not worth reading. So, the revenue stream was good then died off? And how do you know this? Oh, you actually don't. You're just making &*#( up. Yeah, par for the course on the internet.