Master-Blade

Right. The major badge changes were done with i16 on September 15, 2009.

I didn't get anything last night either, but as of this morning, closing the client started a download.... except mine gave me an error and never downloading anything. 3 more client restarts and it probably thinks I already downloaded it. Anybody know how to reset it so I can get the download? I checked the directory for a file to delete and tried looking in the registry real quick for an update flag, but didn't see anything. I probably skipped right over it.

Edit:
On a side note, the updater's pre-update website still has i18 info:
http://www.coh.com/updater/update.html

Maybe it's just a mistake?

Actually, I was just trying to further stress the oxymoron that they aren't free because you buy them. I didn't mean to imply there isn't still a degree of earning for them as well. You'd still have to do tasks to get the money or candy canes to be able to buy them (the holiday respec in particular)... unless of course somebody just handed you those resources.

Fixed

I was once told that prestige is split among team members. For example, if you defeat a foe while solo and earn 80 Prestige, but then defeat the same foe on a team of 8, you will only earn 10 prestige, even if the other members of the team are not in SGs or SG mode. This would mean that SGs don't get an extra benefit from teaming together in SG mode, except for the fact that their rate of killing might be faster than it would have been while solo.

I could be wrong. I really don't know.

I can't remember when the last time it was I ran such a farm, but it was before the new requirements and certainly after i10. I want to say it was even within the last year. They should still re-summon. I don't see why they wouldn't. If anything, I've seen them summon more pets at once these days instead of waiting a minute to summon the next type of pet.

There is only one live game version. Both US and EU use the same version. The only differentiation is one executable points to the US servers, and the other uses EU servers.

There is no reason to re-download over and over again. Simply rename the cohupdater.exe to cohupdater.eu.exe and it should do a simple "Verifying files" and let you into the game.

Don't forget the instanced maps of the Shadow Shard. There are a few of them that are quite large.

Gratz!

And to update my list:
Master-Blade (Scrapper): 961
Teal Tabby (Tanker): 956
Robin Rogue (Corruptor): 952

Tabby and Robin still need Immortal, and all 3 of them still need the foes in RV and working on the 6 new day jobs for their new alignment. Add one more point to those values tomorrow when I hit 54 months, and MB will get 2 more tonight, 3 if the MoLRSF goes well.

Agreed. The 750 club was before GR when the top score was still just under 800 or so. Since then, people have made a 900 club thread, and as mentioned, the 1000 and 1100+ will be here before we know it.

Well.. quick except for waiting 15 minutes for a banner event to finish.

Thanks to Megpie for standing in and hosting for Ginko in his absence.

It's more of a "If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around, does it make a sound?" kind of theory. We all know it does, but if you don't hear it, it doesn't matter.

Yep, they were thinking of removing 3 more: Stone Armor, Empathy, and Mind Control.

Bridge for sale! lol

I'm inclined to agree with you on this. Running SG mode would be faster than converting money, unless maybe if you're a marketeer. haha

It's common knowledge by now.. The Fitness pool is being removed. Those powers will be inherent. That pretty much makes every build that has a fitness power obsolete.

As far as sources, you could probably do a YouTube search for CoH i19 info and find the information fairly easily.

Don't you know that we should ALWAYS believe EVERYTHING we read in global channels especially when NO SOURCE if given?

If you are getting a lower temperature with the side of the case open, then you might have an airflow problem in your case. It sounds to me like something is obstructing your airflow. Either you have poor cable management, or you do not have enough fans doing what they are supposed to be doing. Proper airflow in a case should almost always run cooler than having the side open.

The point to having the case enclosed is to purposely force fresh air in through the front and throughout the case and out the back. An open case ruins the airflow and cause some areas to be stagnant and get even hotter. It's not usually recommended to run with the case open unless you have a small fan blowing into the case to force airflow.

On a side note, I heard that the higher-end NVidia cards do run fairly hot when under stress anyway, especially OpenGL, so you might be safe for now, at least by a few degrees. The reason he was asking you to do a stress test is to see what kind of numbers you get from your card under a controlled test environment.