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Quote:Although i don't have full confidence in the big blue jerk's honesty. i think he mostly tells us as much as he thinks we need to know to go take on the next target of concern.Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid
And the big blue jerk bluntly tells us that the "coming storm" is the Batallion.
i do suspect that the Battalion is biggest threat of the Coming Storm, but most of the other lore in game says that it involves other threats converging at the same time. Especially what the Menders say about the Coming Storm.
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Quote:i'm actually one of those people who most of the time will happily join even random blind invite teams just for the variety and potential "lulz". If someone says they're looking for help with a particularly tough enemy or mission and i am able to help i almost always offer.Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid
If I'm asked something along the lines of "Can you help me kill Nosferatu?" then I'm fairly likely to go and help if I'm able to. Teaming in order to accomplish specific goals is a different matter entirely and I'm usually willing to help people over rough patches.
If I get a blind invite, I just decline. If I get a second blind invite without a tell then it's ignore list time cause at that point you're interfering with my playing by making a little box pop up without even asking.
I can also add that only when I'm playing a tank do people actually seem to get angry at me for turning down invites.
That said, i sometimes solo because i want to finish a particular arc on my own or i am trying to unlock something without outleveling it or turning off XP. Also, i'm rarely in the mood to run or form a team of any size, so if a random stranger sends me a tell asking for an invite while i'm soloing i generally say no, often with a short explanation of why i'm not looking to team at that moment. If they then keep sending me tells insisting i should team just because they want a team i usually decide they're self-centered socially retarded idiots and tell them to slag off and stop bothering me.
The ones who persist after that get put on my ignore list with a brief two-star player note as to why.
Most of the time i will happily team with anyone for a while, but if i say no it really does mean no. -
Quote:The rather kludgy market interface does make it somewhat annoying if you're not in the habit of checking the Announcement section of the forums. And even then it's sort of hard to keep track of what old offers have been withdrawn if you didn't buy them at the time since it changes every week.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
They're not realeasing that much new content each week
It hasn't been an issue for me, but i can easily understand why others wouldn't enjoy it. Not everyone wants to research the market weekly just to know what's available or unavailable. -
Quote:The thing is that the badge text actually contradicts some of the well established lore regarding Rularuu. And it's already been stated several places in game that the coming storm isn't a single event or enemy, but more of a perfect storm of multiple apocalyptic crises happening at once and/or in quick succession, making it nearly impossible for Earth's defenders to stop them all. Something which the Menders and others are attempting to head off by instigating the creation of Incarnates in numbers that have never been seen before.Originally Posted by FlashToo
I fail to see how any of this deserves a facepalm, but if it's not enough for you, there's always the badge text for Stormwatcher.
Of course that could result in a disaster as bad as what they were supposed to prevent if the Incarnates start warring with each other, so whatever the Coming Storm is it's obviously something beyond the Godzilla Threshold in the Menders' eyes. After all, the Midnighters managed to to imprison Rularuu once already without an army of Incarnates backing them up. -
Quote:i go through bursts of making new alts, especially when a new set or AT comes out, and then winnowing it down to two or three i'll play for a while. Sometimes one character appeals to me so much that i go all the way through incarnating them, but i usually lose lose interest in a character a little while after hitting 50 and the process repeats. Very often it's because i come up with a character concept i want to try and work up three or four variations on different servers until i decide which combo appeals most.Originally Posted by ShadowMoka
Kind of wanted to hear the general public's preference on this. I have some people on my global who seem to play just one or two characters and thats it while others (literally) make a new character every time they're on. I'm sort of in between myself. At first I used to play maybe just one or two characters exclusively but now I've been a lot more open to trying out different concepts and stuck with the ones I enjoyed. I sort of sit on the idea of a new character before making one though. I have to think if it's something I really may enjoy or not. I end up spending 10 or 20 minutes just on the Playstyle screen trying to decide X_x.
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Quote:Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
Here's a wacky idea, if someone sends a tell asking to join up with you, why not invite them?Quote:Originally Posted by Aneko
Because I want to be soloing, obviously.Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Because I feel like soloing at the moment, and it's my choice whether I team or not.Quote:Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Because I'm soloing.*hehe*Quote:Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
Here's a wacky idea. If you pester some stranger to join them and they tell you they're soloing, why not just leave them alone and find someone else to play with?
At least now i have a little more insight into the mindset of those people who repeatedly insist you should invite them to a team because they can't comprehend the idea of wanting to solo and how just one or two people like that can bother so many others.
Seriously, i wonder how many of the posts in this thread were the results of PR's insistence that soloing is wrongbadthink being put into practice in game despite all the perfectly valid reasons given for wanting to solo. (IMO "Because I want to solo" is just as valid as "because I'm AFK with RL stuff most of the time"; you have no obligation to team with anyone in particular, ever.) -
Quote:i've played several Traps users and Trip Mine is my third or fourth favorite power in the set. Some teams move too fast to use it much, but it's almost always quite useful for longer battles and events like the prisoner escape.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
A long time ago in a forum far far away I suggested that trip mines be location powers like caltrops, and separate from being tripped they could also be detonated by the blaster that cast them and *only* the blaster that cast them by shooting at them. At the time, the mechanics to allow that didn't exist. Today, I think they kind of sort of do.
The very specific parameters of the suggestion were that it added a new way to use the mines without damaging the existing way of using them for players used to using them the old way. Anyone using Trip Mines in the current normal fashion would be able to use these almost exactly the same, but they could also be used in other ways for other purposes.
Time Bomb on the other hand ranks as my tenth or eleventh favorite power in the set. And in keeping with that ranking i generally never take it. However, with the way vanity pet toggles now work i'd think it would be easy to change it to a Remote Detonator power. Give it the same sort of toggle as the pets and the current 15 second lifespan and have it explode when it dies. i would still reduce the interrupt, but even with it still there i'd be far more likely to take Time Bomb if i could set it off at any time in the 15 second window it's active. -
Quote:Probably a good idea. It's true that enemies with protection and/or resistance to terrorize are far more common in the late game, but aside from Cimerorans and Nemesis it's unusual for most of the members of a faction, especially minions, to be that resistant. Well, i suppose the IDF bots might be, but i haven't checked. Anyway, with fear powers that have a -tohit component i usually slot for the debuff myself.Originally Posted by shaggy5
Good point. I have been slotting fear. Maybe switch to -tohit and let it help me there.
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Quote:By an UNTYPED attack you mean an attack that has no defense tags, yes? Currently there is no defense tag called Untyped. There is base defense, which defends against all attacks requiring a tohit roll regardless of their defense tags, but as far as i know only Personal Force Field and the veteran buff pets give base defense. Toxic defense is in the game engine, but no defenses currently in game grant toxic defense.Originally Posted by Local_Man
Think of Defense as having two overlapping systems. One system is TYPED. Smash/Lethal almost always go together, then there is Fire/Cold, and Energy/Negative Energy. Psi and Toxic are often harder to find. And there are a small number of attacks that are UNTYPED.
It's also worth noting that the damage type(s) of an attack has no direct connection to the defense tags it has. That's at the whim of the attack's designer. Singularity's attacks do smashing damage, but have no defense tags at all. -
It usually takes threads like this to remind me that the Presence pool exists. Then i go look at the numbers again and think "Oh, that's why i never take these."
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The wedding veil also works the same way.
Edit: As well as the wedding tuxedo.
Apparently applying the same colour selector code that capes use isn't workable for some reason and neither is making the interior colours use the same variable as the exterior colours. -
Quote:They'll use the "Grey Alien" face and metallic tights in assorted colours. On the plus side most of the minions will use staff fighting moves. Primarily the breakdancing AoE.Originally Posted by AkuTenshiiZero
New aliens?
NEW ALIENS!?!?!
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Quote:Yeah, i doubt staff fighting will be released in the next month. Nothing's been on test yet and it will probably require testing and tweaking equivalent to what Titan Weapons had. i want it ASAP, but before the end of January seems unlikely. Also, i'm expecting it'll be tied to Issue 22, and that's not going live any time soon.Originally Posted by Angelxman81
Great, another week of Xmas crap lol...
Ok!
January will be great, we will see Statesman die and probably Staff fighting. -
Quote:*pfft* That would imply that the market items are created and tested in advance and that all someone has to do is set the market to automatically add the new items or price points when a preset time rolls around. You know, like the item packs and pieces that are regularly showing up on beta for testing and the way the new weekly market items have been showing up at midnight Paragon Studios time. That would imply pre-planning and automation, things that are not possible at our current level of technology.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
And the New Year's Pack is available on the Beta Server.
Oh... wait.
Right, never mind. -
Quote:No, no we will not. And whatever you do don't look at the market window until Tuesday of next week. It'll try to fool you with things that look like new items.Originally Posted by Ultimus
Everyone is on vacation from the developer team and I believe the CR are too. Think we will still see a Paragon Market addition on Tues?
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Quote:Initially Windows 7 kept trying to do all sorts of things for me and "organize" things that didn't need organizing and prompt for things that didn't need prompting. i don't recall all the changes i made at this point, but it was several hours of looking up ways to change settings and disable unnecessary cruft. Now it works just fine for me. Does what i want it to do and doesn't do the things i don't want it to do. Mostly. There are occasional exceptions that crop up.Originally Posted by Nitra
That's fine if you have either of those... I don't think we need to have our pc's look and run like a big smart phone. The guy and that video.... maybe it's me, but he comes off as very condescending, like "we know what you need yes we do... and what is good for you, so eat this" I do like windows 7 but from what I have seen of 8 not so much...
All the Windows 8 stuff i've seen so far...
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Unless i'm misremembering when you drop to Premium you're granted a number of server slot unlock tokens and you decide which characters and/or empty slots you're going to unlock. If you're a long time player who had previously unlocked a lot of slots before going Premium it's rather unlikely you'd be able to unlock every slot on a server, so you'd have to choose then exactly which characters you want to play.
Moving slots around as a VIP wouldn't change that very much anyway. -
Quote:Yeah, sounds like he's both a carnie and a dog person.Originally Posted by Aneko
Barker? That's a suspiciously anti-catgirl name.
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Quote:And the Praetorians were nothing but a mechanic to add TFs, SFs, and Incarnate trials; and set the stage for side switching and F2P.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
That was nothing but a mechanic to add a new tutorial and intro for F2P.
i'll bet we could do this with every bit of lore added since launch if we really tried.
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Quote:Yup. Also you can get inexpensive adapter kits that allow you to connect almost any standard hard drive to a USB port. They usually consist of a USB to IDE/SATA cable and a power supply. Obviously not suggested for a drive you plan to keep using externally, but very handy for copying or running diagnostics on an old hard drive.Originally Posted by CuppaManga
Things to check:
1. That the power cord is plugged in and connected firmly to the enclosure, and the power switch is turned on, if there is one. I don't deliberately mean this one to be condescending, it's actually very commonly missed - a lot of the power switches are in strange locations, or are push-buttons instead of toggles.
2. If there's a reset switch, press that (it's a circuit breaker).
3. Listen carefully to the hard drive when it's plugged into both power and USB. You might hear a fan, but besides that you should hear the jet-engine-like faint whine of the hard drive spinning up. If not, it might not be connected securely inside the enclosure.
4. If all of that fails, disconnect everything and open up the enclosure.
5. Look for loose or missing connections. They're often very difficult to fully connect, so even if they look secure, pull each one off and re-attach it.
6. Check the jumpers on the hard drive. There should be a diagram on the label explaining how they work. Some enclosures require a certain exact setting: For instance, inside the PC it might be set to "Auto", and the enclosure might require "Master".
If none of those work, then either the hard drive is toast or someone sold you a bad enclosure. It's easy to test: Try it in another enclosure. If it doesn't work there either, the hard drive is gone.
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Quote:Yep, that's right.Originally Posted by shaggy5
So as long as Phantasm is in range of ME, it will get both resistance auras? Am I reading that right?
Thanks for the help. My Ill/Rad troller used to rock, but I have neglected her, so I am working to make her awesome again. -
Quote:That's adorable! Your daughter drew that? i am impressed.Originally Posted by GenderPoison
I found a bottle of Baileys in my stocking! Look what my little girl drew for me this year!!
I love my Shocking Muse Chibi!!
Happy Holidaze Champs!
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Quote:But that's the point of my question... i never saw a statement where he said the runs were on Guardian. Obviously his profile's location suggests that it's the most likely server, but i play regularly on three different servers and occasionally on several more. December for me has been about 80% Champion, but it fluctuates. i know at least a dozen other players who server hop.Originally Posted by Demobot
I am not in any position to judge the general aptitude of the Guardian player community, which is why I don't go to their forums and lecture them.
Overall the most skilled players i know are on Champion, but then as i said i have rarely played on Guardian for several years. (Guardian was my main server from about May 2004 to mid 2005. About that time i started playing on Champion singificantly more.) If Guardian doesn't require +3s and Champion does then that's pretty impressive. i'm still more likely to play on Champion though. -
Quote:The IOs apply the buff to all your pets as long as they're in range.Originally Posted by shaggy5
Phantom Army cannot be hurt, but if I use the resistance aura IO [Sovereign Right], will it help Phantasm, too (I already have the other aura in that pet)?
Anyone know?
Edit: Sovereign Right "Grants you a 40' radius aura which increases your henchmen's damage resistance to all types by 10%. (The enhancement's description incorrectly states the radius as 20', and incorrectly states psionic resistance is not included.)" -
Quote:*huh* In the old days a dead BIOS battery just meant you had to configure the BIOS settings every time you started up. i guess it's been a looong time since i had to deal with that issue.Originally Posted by Eldorado
Based on the rest of the thread, this probably isn't the issue, but like the old cartoon goes , I can't stand it when someone on the internet is WRONG.
[ http://xkcd.com/386/ ]
From Intel's support site, "A battery on desktop boards keeps the values in CMOS RAM active. The battery also keeps the real-time clock functioning when the computer is turned off." http://www.intel.com/support/motherb.../cs-002839.htm
I've had to replace the little wristwatch sized lithium batteries in three different desktops over the years when they started going out and causing all kinds of problems at startup. The first machine would just about get booted up and crash. "Bad power supply," said my friend who had his own small computer business. After changing the power supply for an old one he had laying around, and then replacing it with a brand-new one, he somehow deduced it was a BIOS issue or something before it crashed, replaced the battery, and that solved it.
About three years after buying my next PC, that one started having issues on startup as well, so we repeated the same process with power supplies and finally replaced the motherboard battery. That solved it again, and about four years later that was our first brainstorm when my third PC started acting up, and we fixed it that time without a trip to buy a power supply.
Again, I'm not saying that was the OP's problem, but if a PC is three years old or older, the mobo battery IS a possible $2 fix that might not even require a screwdriver.
Still, VG's posts made it apparent that what she was talking about was the PSU, although the first few posts had me wondering if she had it plugged into a UPS and why she wasn't just plugging it directly into the wall.
As suggested it's not hard to tweak Win 7 to be like XP in appearance. In terms of performance Win 7 is well worth the change once it's tweaked. Vista actually turned into a halfway decent OS once they released the rebranded service pack. At least for Windows native software.Quote:Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
While I may hate Windows 7, I was delighted that I can run my Radeon HD 5550 video card on an appropriate PCI slot and with 6GB of RAM the game now runs on Ultra Mode on the highest settings like glass.
I still hate Win 7. I like my interfaces to be cold and unfeeling.
*hmmm*
Is it odd that every time a thread like this is posted i still expect je_saist to pop in with a rant that misuses technical terminology while it rails on and on about how Linux is superior and Windows is useless garbage?