Katie V

If you want Ultra Mode on Linux, it looks like your best bet is an ATI graphics card and Wine. Using the 9.11 drivers, Wine 1.1.43, and an ATI 4350, all Ultra Mode features work, at about the framerates you'd expect from that card.

NVidia doesn't work: none of the Ultra Mode features are available, and very few of the regular mode features are.

I know exactly what's happening there: the enhancement name is being sent directly to the text-formatting function, when it should be sent as a string parameter. It's a common newbie programmer mistake.

(Specifically, it's being interpreted as the "%A" format specifier, and the next (probably non-existant) element on the stack is being interpreted as a double-precision floating point number.)

In my experience, teleport is optional (I went 48 levels without it) but quite useful, mostly as a substitute for jumping.

24/7 Granite is a different matter. Granite is sufficient for 90% of the content out there, and your other armors are sufficient for 90% of the content out there, but they're not the same 90%. Sooner or later, you'll come across something like a psi-using archvillain who can shred you through Granite, and you'll need the protection that Minerals and Rock Armor provide. Against large numbers of high-level Arachnos Granite is of limited value, but then, so is every other form of protection.

As for increasing movement, that's easy: figure out a way to put two more slots into Swift, and work additional Gift of the Ancients: +runspeed into your armors. You can also try things like putting the fifth piece of Kinetic Combat into Haymaker, or putting three pieces of Winter's Gift into a travel power.

I'm sorry if I sounded rude in my previous post: I didn't mean to.

The slotting for Granite looks a lot better. I'd replace the Impervium Armor: Resistance with a Luck of the Gambler 7.5: you lose a bit of resistance, but gain 2.8% defense to all and a bit of recharge speed. Alternatively, you could go with the much cheaper Red Fortune: Defense/Endurance for the same defense gain and a bit of endurance reduction. At the same time, I'd swap the Impervium Armor: Resistance/Endurance for a cheaper (and slightly more powerful) level 50 Titanium Coating: Resistance/Endurance.

The other change I might make is to drop Physical Perfection, Conserve Power, and Combat jumping for Boxing, Tough, and Weave. Suitably slotted, Weave will give you 7.9% defense, putting you 1.3% from the softcap for energy and negative. At the same time, Tough can give you 24% smashing/lethal resistance outside of Granite, and slotted with three pieces of Aegis, will put you 0.7% away from the softcap for fire and cold.

I don't know how good this change is, because I don't know how much endurance a fast-recharging Super Strength attack chain uses. I'm more familiar with the slow-recharging powers of my stone/fire tank (I focused on mobility and speed rather than global recharge).

On the subject of the defense softcap, you're softcapped to smashing and lethal, but Stone Armor has the potential to be softcapped to energy, negative, fire, and cold as well. Energy and negative are the most important. For example, the fight at the control computer during the Imperious Task Force has you facing 16 boss-class opponents who do pure energy damage, and I know from experience that 35% defense isn't good enough if the team takes too long to destroy the computer. Similarly, the fluffies spawned by a shadow cyst crystal do pure negative damage.

The other reason to softcap is that most debuff and mez effects come with a typed attack, and if you defend against the type, you avoid the debuff or mez. For example, the endurance drain of a Malta Sapper is a pure energy attack, and Ghost Widow's hold and heals are negative. Most recharge debuffs are negative, and there's nothing worse than jumping into an enemy group, firing off a few powers, and then sitting there at -200% recharge.

Without knowing what you're building for, I can only make general observations:

1) Granite Armor is badly slotted. You've managed to underslot it for both resistance and defense while using six slots, something I hadn't thought possible. Unless you're only going to use Granite as a set mule, it needs about two and a half SOs worth of resistance and defense, with the rest going to whatever you want.

2) You're not softcapped either in or out of Granite. True, even unslotted Granite is as tough as other tanks, but the softcap is the difference between being just another tank, and being impossible to defeat under normal conditions.

3) You seem to have built for additional hitpoints. Most of the time, you won't need them, and when you do, that's what Earth's Embrace provides. Those slots could better be used elsewhere: increasing movement speeds or reducing recharge times.

4) That's an expensive build. Hope you've got the cash.

Dell is pretty much the only company that still does non-standard things with their hardware these days, and even they've mostly given up on it.

Looking at the console spew, it looks like the addresses are currently in the 206.127.152.* and 216.107.240.* ranges. Since the client itself tells you this (via -console), I can't see how sharing it violates the subscriber agreement.

Based on a comment in an earlier thread (on the lack of connection between the Yellow and Green lines), I spent a few minutes hopping around Skyway City, mapping out the monorail lines. There are four of them:

1) The Yellow Line. The track runs between Atlas and Kings Row by a convoluted route.

2) The Green Line. The track presumably runs between Talos (via an impossibly thin tunnel) and Faultline, although it does not visibly pass through either War Wall.

3) An active loop in the south-central area that goes nowhere, but with trains running on it.

4) An inactive track running due north-south between the Yellow and Green stations.

Who designed this mess, and has his engineering license been revoked yet?

The only protection that remains protection in PvP is knockback. Everything else is converted to resistances.

Create an "ally" or equivalent objective with "front" placement and no surrounding enemies. On many maps, this will put the ally in the front-most objective spot, which is often within sight of the entrance.