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How about a Luck Charm? Come on, I'm trying to claim what's rightfully mine!
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Just in case you weren't aware, but you're not required to use PvP IOs. I know, I know, that's a pretty outrageous comment, but it's the truth!
Also, if you're going to complain about them, you should also complain about Purples, as well as the actual freaking drop rate of PvP IOs. ATM, it's probably easier to get them via A-Merits than PvP. -
Was it a boresight?
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This has been asked for since the first addon pack was released. Don't hold your breath for it ever changing
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Quote:That means Adobe (well known jackasses) intentionally put a check in to prevent you from attempting to install it on Vista/7, not that there'd actually be issues.Originally Posted by SlaveDawg
There must be some "trick" to get it to work, because when I go to install it I get an error message stating that it is not compatible with my OS and will not let me install it.
Microsoft actually said the reason that Window 7's version number is 6.1 (and not 7) is because of software explicitly checks the version number of Windows... aka the Adobes of the world.
Adobe would prefer you shell out the money, that's why they included the check and tell you it's not supported.Quote:Originally Posted by SlaveDawg
I guess I will need to look into this further and see if I can get it to work for me... I would hate to have to shell out another couple hundred dollars just to be able to use PS again.
You could try setting the compatibility mode to XP Service Pack 3 and see if that fools the installer. If that doesn't work, someone out there probably has a hack of some sort that disables the money-grabbing check.Quote:Originally Posted by SlaveDawg
Also, if any of you have any tips on how to get it to work, please send me a Private Message, I would greatly appreciate it. -
Quote:These are pretty much used only by harddrive manufacturers and crappy tech journalists that like buzzwords. You've got half a century of 1 KB = 1024 bytes, and the vast majority of the tech industry still laughs at the word 'kibibyte', even harddisk manufacturers acknowledge that they're making things up, since at least until recently (haven't checked in a few years), they'd have to put a disclaimer on their box that redefines the units!Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
KB = kilobyte = 1000 bytes
KiB = kibibyte = 1024 bytes
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The usual retort is that they're using the SI prefixes incorrectly!!!! But that's not true if you remember these are really base 2 numbers. And why try to redefine a unit of measurement after its been in widespread use for, what, half a century? There isn't one.
So in short:
Kilobyte = 1024 bytes (the world), or 2 ^ 10 bytes
Kilobyte = 1000 bytes (hard disk manufacturers)
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Quote:I hate how you squishies flaunt all your time-mezed badges, while my meleer has noneOriginally Posted by TheUnnamedOne
Sure, everything was fine until YOU brought it up....
You know, I REALLY hate the way that Melees get all that Protection and my squishies don't!!!
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I would say that Hasten is easily the best T1/T2 pool power in the game, and one of the best powers in the game period (because of the impact it has on so many other good powers).
Which I think ends up saying a lot about this game, and the attitude of the player base. In a good way. This game encourages individuality over all else, and even skipping a power like Hasten won't gimp you, and it definitely won't get you blackballed from teams (any team that kicks you for not having Hasten is likely being lead by a person that recent arrived from one of those other MMOs).
For what gets the least benefits, I'd imagine the (de)buff sets would be a good starting point. Sets like Force Field don't really benefit all that much from +Recharge, since they've got lots of toggles you just leave on, or clicks that recharge, out of the box, far faster than you need them. Sonic Res would be similar, depending on how important you think Liquefy is. The Defender secondaries are all fairly similar from how much they benefit from +Recharge (although, I'd rank Ice higher, since it has the Blaster version of the nuke). -
Quote:He also has 150 Vanguard Merits. Explain that one!Originally Posted by TheUnnamedOne
Bob has 154 Gum balls and he's only level 5?!? Twink!
Obviously the answer is that "Bob" works for Paragon and can do whatever the hell he wants with his characters! -
Quote:Yep, you're right, I miscounted. (note to self: don't trust my ability to count above 4)Originally Posted by Oathbound
I *think* it might actually be 5 chances.
At 0seconds (upon summoning) then again at 10, 20, 30 and 40seconds.
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How the market remembers the previous value you entered is just flat out annoying. It's pretty much just bait to misbid!
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Quote:Random numbers are random. You'll also have ITFs where you get a crap ton of shard drops, with it balancing out over time.Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA
Mmm...
Interesting note, but it makes me feel even worse when I do a kill all "ITF" and walk out with out a single shard drop... Maybe the game should institute some kind of streak breaker.
Stormy
That depends on the pacing set in the mission. Take the standard BM farm map (the ones sans BM): In that, it's an even pacing, so all enemies are the same level. It's akin to the option you have in AE.Quote:Originally Posted by all_hell
For w/e your settings are, there are spawns of mobe who are a little above or below what you have it set on. That's why I use +1 x8. that way I get 0 lvl49 mobs. Whereas with +0 I get some 49 mobs.
That, also, depends on your character. I don't give a crap about KB/KD on my Fire/Kin since: 1.) I don't have any (unless I respec and pick up Bonfire, which I'm tempted to do) and 2.) Fire Cages would block it all anyways, and that's one of my main AoE attacks (fast animating, fast cycling, good damage, large radius, and immobilizes!).Quote:Also, now with the level shift, +0 mobs now bounce away from my KB like -1 mobs. So, +1 is helpful in that there's less walking for me since I don't have to chase stunned mobs who have been thrown across the room. -
It'd work similar to toggles: once every 10 seconds (so 4 chances, IIRC... since it has a 45 second duration)
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Quote:For something simple like this, I'd just create a table, something like this (mind you, this is excel, but I've not done anything that can't be done just as well in OOo):Originally Posted by Jawbreaker
I was thinking of a spreadsheet or something similar to make it easier to track Amerits, Reward merits, AE tickets etc.
Also, ditch OpenOffice. LibreOffice is the new name*.
* The full story is that Oracle, and before them Sun Microsystems, have simply done a horrible job at managing the project. LibreOffice is semi-forked from OpenOffice by the vast majority of the OpenOffice developers, and has a much more developer-friendly environment, such as not requiring the developers sign over their full copyrights for the express purpose of selling a closed source, competing product (i.e. StarOffice). Since the split, the number of developers contributing to LibreOffice has far surpassed the number that have ever contributed to OpenOffice. OpenOffice is basically a repeat of the XFree86 incident... the group controlling the project becomes so out of touch with the developers of the project, that the developers revolt and fork the project, which quickly replaces the original in pretty much every distribution channel. -
Mind you, different characters will have a much different time at doing different difficulty settings (and you're +1, so -1 difficulty is closer to -2 for standard 50s). My Fire/Kin Troller (not +1 yet) can handle +0/x8/no bosses quite well, and I can plow through the BM map very quickly (and it never gets tedious, like it was back in the day when I had to deal with bosses).
I should probably do a few BM runs, recording my inf at the start and end to get the total inf reward from the missions, and average it over the missions I did... then compare it to my drops, and how much they went for.
Based on just eyeballing it, I'd probably only get a couple million inf from enemies, while guestimating, I get ~15+ million from a poorer run in drops (I usually get at least one decent 10-ish million recipe, and a couple rares)... A 75% reduction in kill rate (mind you, I fight at +0, not -1, so that 75% is just wrong for a whole host of reasons) would correspond to a 75% reduction in in drops/minute, which'd gut at least my primary source of income from farming.
For maximum purples/minute: -1/x8
For maximum inf (any source/minute): it depends
I'd say run it on a few different settings and see what works best for you- and don't forget to factor fun into it! You'll be able to get far more inf if you don't burn yourself out! -
Quote:Damage (and Debuff) Resistance, though, doesn't follow that pattern. 25% Dam Res to X type will reduce X type by 25%, likewise for 50% (take half), 75% (take quarter), and 100% (take none... assuming you didn't hit the cap, which any player would have).Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Note that this X/1+% is how all reductions work in this game. So 100% recharge buff halves the recharge of a power, just like status resistance.
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Quote:A quick google search shows quite a number of people are using Photoshop CS2 on Windows 7 with no issues. Adobe's response isn't surprising, that just means that Windows 7 came out after CS2, not that CS2 doesn't/can't work on Windows 7 (Adobe has a long reputation for being just all around *** hats).Originally Posted by SlaveDawg
My older version of PhotoShop will not run on Windows 7 (CS2). I even checked Adobe's support forums, and Adobe's response was to upgrade because the older versions were not supported on the newer OS.
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Quote:If your laptop has an nvidia card, laptopvideo2go.com has always been my preferred source (since the OEMs are generally 1-2 years out of date!). As for AMD, not sure where/if you can just use the desktop version. For Intel, probably can get them from Intel's website (of course, if you're using Intel, that's probably your problem right there! Before SandyBridge, their graphics accelerators weren't even capable of running many games without rendering errors!).Originally Posted by EarthWyrm
I do need to figure out how to update those. My laptop is really ticky about them, though. I prolly just ought to go up to the tech forum and ask for help...
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Quote:I'm fairly certain it isn't- but, unfortunately, it's sticky and is shared by basically all the other recipe windows (crafting bench, tickets, vanguard, etc).Originally Posted by Fulmens
... which may be the default.
It would be nice if the Devs made that and the recipe window NOT the same, so you could see what you had WHILE you were looking for what to get (atm, clicking 'recipes' while at one will close it!). -
Quote:A quick search suggests that's a DOS-based game... that should run perfectly fine in dosbox. Alternatively, for older games, you can install many in VMWare/VirtualBox in an XP/98/95 VM and play them fine.Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
I've a friend who dual-boots XP & 7 because apparently Masters of Orion 2 won't play even in XP compatibility mode.
I've, personally, not encountered any applications that worked in XP that didn't work in Vista/7, although I had quite a number that stopped working in both 98->ME (then again, ME was just fail all around) and from 98/ME -> XP. -
Quote:It could happen fairly easily, all the HD manufacturers have to do simply redefine the unit of storage again!Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
I wouldn't hold my breath. And it'd be googolbyte (1 with 100 zeros after it).
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Quote:I'd say from a purely min/max perspective, the Ill/Rad brings more (ultra-tank-pets, decent buffs, and some of the best debuffs in the game), and is commonly recognized as such... especially since Romans like to cause cascading defense debuff failures, so unless you're a fair major over the softcap, it's unlikely your +Defense will be too reliable.Originally Posted by Gruumch
I think the SoA brings almost as much to the team as the troller, but I guess others just don't see it that way.
Although, personally, I don't think it's hard enough to really care who you bring for the most part. Often, the time spent trying to find the perfect team will amount for more time than the savings from just pretty much PuGing it (I've actually joined a PuG STF while another one was only accepting certain characters, and we got to the last mission before they were even starting). -
Quote:That's only true if you have the option clicked to hide recipes you don't have the required ingredients for.Originally Posted by Sailboat
Further obscuring this issue, I believe that when you're actually on the screen where you redeem A-merits, you won't see anything on the list you don't have enough merits to buy. So few people will see the purple or pvp recipe costs on the list, and may not realize they're even available.
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As Hyperstrike said, there's a good chance it's due to cpu issues. I think it could, alternatively, be due to possibly having outdated drivers (video card drivers cause so many issues, they're incredibly sensitive).
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Quote:Ah, my mistake. After a moment it consolidates your bids if they're exactly the same. Too used to canceling before it has a chance to consolidate :POriginally Posted by all_hell
Just have some bid and then bid some more later. You don't need to have all 2bil+ in cash on hand at once.