Kitsune Knight

You should go to one of the co-op zones (which varies by server, on Freedom it's Pocket D) to find people forming up for them, that seems to be the more popular option now.

Also, it's fairly easy for any team to finish the raid in about 30 minutes... a few nights ago, I was on a team that did the BAF in about 18 minutes (we had to beat the clock, as we had a server reset notice in 30 minutes while we were about to start trying to reform after a glitch). Most of the sections of the raids are also timed, so they're not going to go crazy long anyways.

History has shown us that the vast majority of people that believe this, can't.


Do you ever browse the internet? Sure, you might keep your web browser up to date, only visit more trusted websites like these forums, keep your plugins current, and hell, you might even use things like NoScript... you're safe, right? No. Websites constantly serve thirdparty data all the time (how many images to other sites get posted on these boards everyday? how many are in this post? hint: 10 *), browsers will always have zero days.

The advantages of running as a limited account and such, are that when (not if, but when) something breaks through, you have another line of defense to it completely and totally taking control of your system, possibly well enough that you will never know).


* Not counting my sig, my avatar, or the emoticon.

That's certainly not WAI, right? I'd imagine that'd make a patch power like Caltrops with Reactive basically a nuke!

Specifically this: UAC and VirtualStore don't care about any folders that are not important "Windows" folders (like %PROGRAMFILES% and %SYSTEMROOT%) so it doesn't mess with or interfere with the data in them.

No, those programs were already broken for anyone that ran as a Limited Users in XP. The proper and recommended way was to store the data in %APPDATA% & %LOCALAPPDATA%, which exists inside each user's home directory.

This is the method that every other Operating System has been doing it for quite a long time. Windows application developers should have known for quite a long time to stop writing in their installation directory (most got the clue a long time ago).

The term 'lazy' generally carries a negative connotation.

You can thank laziness for every single advancement humanity has made (and, conversely, you can thank not lazy enough for every single conflict in human history ).

That's quite incorrect (the basis for your conclusions, that is).

The reason there is no 'VirtualStore' for C:\Games is because when you create that folder you have write permissions to it, which gets inherited by folders created inside of it. Without that write permissions, you'd either get a VirtualStore or it would simply fail. VirtualStore was a fix for misbehaving applications (CoH, and the old updater, being prime examples of exhibiting bad practices).

Make sure that file isn't being overriden by a file in your account's "VirtualStore", which is in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore, and then under that path as if you were looking at the root of the C drive.


Data is written to the VirtualStore, when a non-elevated program attempts to write to directories it doesn't have access to, and is running under UAC emulation.

Interestingly enough, trying to use either command in-game results in an 'unknown command' error (if without any parameters, instead of giving a syntax error). Although, giving it a single parameter will try to invite that person if they exist (or giving the same error that invite would).

Yes, on the general (first) tab of options, somewhat lower down on the list.


Also, you can scale the UI size of all the windows independently, so you could scale your chat windows down, boost chat font size, and not have all the other issues that come with UI scaling (like the global list's scrollbar becoming totally broken).