Memphis_Bill

And that doesn't scare you?

It didn't censor smartalec. I used a different word to begin with... almost the same, but didn't end with "lec."

Yes, and I was being a smartalec, thus the smiley at the end.

Because it isn't accidental.

Not much to parse. Copying a line from one of mine and changing it, they show up as:

"Globalname" "5" " Name, Name2" "Note"

Global name is easy - the global name, without the @
The number - the rating, from 0-5
The names are the odd bit - it's not just separation by name, but by spaces in the name as well. (if you noted me, you wouldn't have "Memphis Bill, Name2, Name3" but "Memphis, Bill, Name2, Name3")
"Note" should be self explanatory.

It sounds about right, I remember his thread asking for advice on his first character's look.

And - careful, OP. I've got... oh, the count's gone up, but I was near 170 characters on two accounts last I looked. That altitis sneaks up on you. (I should zero out my CGT account and just log everyone in - it'll take at least two hours, but I'd have an up to date count.)

Skyway city has one.

But why do *you* *request* them? Honestly, as presented on release, the Arena was - among other things - for public entertainment as well. How interesting is seeing someone run 10 yards and get tackled when you're regularly surrounded by people who outrun cars, jump over buildings, fly, etc?

Also, while sure people would go to sports, why would anyone want to build them in Paragon City - ground zero for superpowered battles, superpowered villains breaking out of the zig, and transdimensional invasions? A huge group of people gathered in one spot (that's difficult to get out of) = a target. Heck, imagine getting a nice ball park or football field and having the Devouring Earth take interest.

There's the final point that not only are those teams "spoken for" by other cities, but any use of them = paying licensing fees, quite likely - money I'd much rather see go towards more development of the game.

... which currently seems to be "Still the Intel X25 and almost anything based on the Sandforce controllers."

They have (as sort of mentioned above) been creating "SSD Boot drives" at about 40 Gb (including one from Intel that's literally half of one of their X25 drives - I'd say there's a minor performance hit, but with how these run, you aren't going to notice.) Downside being you put on Windows and watch to make sure almost nothing else goes on there.

I still haven't been able to bring myself around to purchasing one. Then again, I can't get myself to pay a premium for a 10k VelociRaptor. Give me a WD Caviar Black-series drive and I'm happy.

Sane is just a state of mind... wait...

Anyway. Good starting points:
- Other than COH, what's it to be used for?
- What are you keeping? (Getting info off a HD. KB, Mouse... case, I assume...)

Won't be able to just plug in that HD and go - Windows will puke all over the new chipset, etc, etc, etc drivers. I don't even particularly trust repair installs.

Get a small, fast drive (not necessarily an SSD,) install your OS, transfer from the old drive - depending on the size of the drive, you may use it as a data drive. Might be able to do a parallel install, as well... I'm just "eh" about that, as well.

And don't say "price doesn't matter." I have the Aug. MaxPC with a dual-six-core-Xeon, triple-water-cooled video card, 24 Gb RAM, etc... $15,800 or so. >.>

New build - start with FatherXmas's lists. Have my system around as well, but as an 1156, you're not going to be able to grab a six core processor (if one would be useful to you - look at your usage, not just 'wants' for that.) and I *believe* i'd max out at 16 Gb. (Of course, running Win7x64 Home, I'd max at that anyway without a version upgrade.)

Blaster. Cold APP. Not customizable at this time.

Edit: That said, any change to the power has to also be visible enough (in both anchor and radius) and thematic. I've been blinded by it myself (sometimes on my own character with it.) Thinning it out a bit would probably be enough.

Stop right there.

Go load up almost any blaster. Look at the secondary set.

Blasters, while not a "melee AT," are not helpless in melee (barring a choice to skip these powers by the player.) Some of the hardest hitting powers are melee powers. And you *do* have other powers to assist your survivability in /ice - chilling embrace, for instance, doesn't just slow the enemy but applies a damage debuff.

The primaries have a mix of utility - some which work better than others with ice patch. AR? Ignite/flamethrower on a ranged ice patch? No real risk. Your Ice/ has multiple holds available, strong AOEs and a nice cone.

Honestly, even with that ice/ice being 48, it sounds more like you need to reevaluate your tactics (why are you rooting yourself putting an ice patch - a *small* ice patch - down next to an AV instead of dealing damage and their associated slows/-rech? What is your tank doing? Why are you not, in team play, holding that ice patch until something breaks away - of course, again, ice/ice is going to give you holds to work with?)

I'll also point out APB for this. OK, it's mostly FPS with a very small touch of MMO, but it's level-less (you gain rep with a contact, your threat level rises and falls, etc.)

It takes a bit to get used to - and the lack of segregation (being FPS/PVP based) can cause some issues when you're dispatched against and/or your target calls for backup. (Imagine, in this game, if your level 10 was opposed by a level 9 - who then called in three fully IO'd out level 50s to deal with you, no degradation of ability or number of powers, etc. There are times it makes it decidedly not fun. )

Pfft. I get 2-3 emails a day inviting me to the Cataclysm beta while telling me my WoW account is under investigation. Which is a neat trick, given I don't have one.