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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    Unless they're hit with a bug that's been around for a bit - they don't auto-dismiss. And you can't order them to dismiss, either. I tend to have to zone a few times (in/out of the mission,) eventually I can dismiss and resummon some pets that will follow me.
    I've seen that bug a few times, but it didn't stop me from resummoning. It just turns the existing pets neutral, but allows you to summon new ones like normal.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DiamondJoe View Post
    Hi, new player. I have a low level MM. Sometimes I'll go into a zone or a mission and my minions will stay at the spot we ported in at. They won't follow me or respond to commands. When I try to dismiss them they won't even dismiss. I can't summon new ones as they are still there.

    Nothing else in the world is bugged. I can still interact with NPCS, see other people moving around.

    Is this a problem only I am facing or have other people experienced anything similar?
    Having current minions wouldn't prevent you from summoning new ones. It would auto-dismiss the new ones and resummon.

    I suspect you're actually experiencing network lag, not a problem with your minions.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal View Post
    You must not have read many of Steelclaw's other posts.

    He's well known for being remarkably funny
    So if you don't find it funny, there's clearly something wrong with YOU.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Knight_Marshal View Post
    They way you people abuse tea by leaving it hot and putting weird flavors in it I can only assume you are also the people who put sugar into grits.
    Plain iced tea (unsweetened) is also very nice.

    Grits are horrid, sweetened or no.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by QuietAmerican View Post
    Where as coffee is never described as "delightful."
    I do enjoy coffee as well. I never understood the cold-war between tea and coffee... both are perfectly valid and enjoyable beverages...

    But no, coffee is never really "delightful", that I will give you.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Manofmanychars View Post
    Personally, I don't cook meat in the microwave, I got a stove and an oven, and I like to cook. My George Foreman grill does bacon and burgers, though (with less grease).
    I can't believe you mentioned having a stove and an oven and liking to cook then went and mentioned the george foreman grill.

    My gods man. Buy a cast iron grill pan and throw the gimmicky late night infomercial special in the bin where it belongs!
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Manofmanychars View Post
    Microwaved burgers are just as bad as fried, it's not like the grease goes anywhere. Matter of fact, more grease gets left in the frying pan, so one could contend that microwaving leaves the burger less healthful.
    Erm no. Any decent cook who cooks a burger in a pan will drain the pan as it cooks. The microwave heats in an entirely different manner than the pan and plus no one really takes time to drain it, which leaves it dried out and tasteless by comparison, yet still swimming in grease.

    So cooked in a pan can be healthier if your cook has an ounce of culinary skill, and will definitely taste better.

    But grilled is absolutely the best way to go for burgers.
  8. I enjoy Twinning's of London, whose teas are mercifully available in the U.S.

    Their Ceylon Orange Pekoe is delightful.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Minotaur View Post
    Are you sure it's debt rather than patrol XP ?
    I am certain the OP is getting Patrol XP and is mistaking it for Debt.
  10. Smurch

    I > Team

    If you want to solo, then solo. Otherwise be a team player. Don't join a team to show off how well you can solo. That's just being a jerk. Being a team player means sometimes reigning yourself in for the good of the team as a whole. Putting the success of the team (and that includes fun as success) above your personal need to be in the spotlight is what teamwork is all about. Showboating is generally considered bad form in pretty much every team endeavor. If you're that awesome that you aren't threatened by anything, then help your teammates. Help them to be awesome, too. And ask that they increase the difficulty next time! Or, if you're bored, leave and go solo.

    There's nothing wrong with wanting to solo, the game supports that. There's something very wrong with insisting seven spectators come along to watch you do it.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    That's where the whole awful mess of the "official fan fiction" began...
    Lucas gave it an official thumbs up.
    Just sayin'
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sevenpenny View Post
    Hoping that someone here will be able to help me figure something out....... I think that Luke Skywalker went over to the dark side for a bit in a novel series or was it a comic book series? What I would like to know is what are the titles of the books and are they still available?

    At any rate thank you in advance for any help you can share with me.
    That'd be Dark Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Empire
    It was a comic book/graphic novel series. You can buy the reprint graphic novels on Amazon. A Hard Cover of the whole trilogy is coming out in October: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Dark...0373149&sr=8-2
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    Laptops don't have the luxury of a big honking heatsink that desktops have. The natural side effect is that they will run hot. That's why those cooling pads, laptop stands with built in fans for improved cooling is popular.
    I missed the part where it's a laptop. Yes, get a lapdesk with a cooling system, either active or passive. Laptops run hotter than desktops, and that's expected. Check your manufacturer's website for safe operating temperature tolerances.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tyrrano View Post
    So I guess the $64 question is, what's a safe temperature to shoot for? I think I can shave off a few degrees with a good laptop cooler, but if the threshold is in the 70s I might have to give up CoX on this machine for good.
    You'd need to look up the safe operating temperature for your particular GPU. It will be available on your manufacturer's website.

    Realistically, 87 degrees isn't bad. In many cases, 105 degrees is the "generally accepted" point of no return where you stand a chance of system failure/shutdown/bricking. But even that is theoretical. If you're under 100 degrees c. I wouldn't worry too much about it. If you approach 100 degrees, it's time to look into where the issue is. If you never exceed 95 degrees c. you're probably fine. If your card is even somewhat current, it can handle it.

    However, it shouldn't be running that hot unless you're pushing it hard. If it's doing that with THIS game on low settings, something's wrong. I'd check drivers as a previous poster said. If it still has an issue, I'd replace it.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    If there's one thing I've learned from my years here in the market forum it's that incurious, low information players harbor all kinds of counterproductive, ridiculous ideas that they believe in wholeheartedly.
    That's true about many more things than just the market.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    Meh, CoX has always proudly held itself up as not like the other MMOs (and they're not).
    But it still holds itself as an MMO. A Massively Multiplayer Online Game.

    Or are you seriously contending that one of CoX's differentiators and thus selling points is that more than half it's servers have almost no people in them?

    "we have a low population because we like it that way" is probably not a viable business model for a subscription based service.

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    I mentioned two things earlier. CoX draws a bit of a different crowd than most MMOs. And it's all about expectations. The expectations that keep being held up here are going to be from gamers that have played other MMOs, I think. While this likely is a sizable portion of our playerbase, it's hardly a majority by itself. They're also usually more well-informed than the straight on MMO newb, and would more likely have the attitude of "Where is everyone?" rather than "There's no one here, I quit." People keep trying to attribute attitudes of new players, and usually without the "likely", "mostly" "somewhat" kind of qualifiers (EDIT: Even me, but I fixed ).
    Look at it from the perspective of a business owner instead of that of a player with a vested emotional interest and you'll see things differently.

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    So, what you're saying is that people were there and you saw one. Mission accomplished!
    Tell me, do you honestly feel, in your best estimation, that an accountant from NCSoft would be equally exuberant?

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    Maybe you should have asked him where the people were. He's have probably told you.
    He'd have told me they're all on other servers?
    I doubt it.

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    I spend a lot of time on these forums. For every person that acts like you describe, there will be 4-5 giving polite, helpful, solid advice.
    Which, if it even hints at changing to another server, will be equally bashed.

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    It's not "head in the sand", it's "you're focused on something that you've mostly exaggerated to fit your doom".
    Yes, I've exaggerated the population disparity. Ok. I admit it. I personally crashed victory to make only 2 people (including me) logged in and I created dozens of new accounts on Freedom just to prove a point.

    And yeah, I personally made TR and DR go away due to low populations in anticipation of this moment.

    And yeah, every other MMO that had server closures due to low population? I made those up. I fooled the entire MMO community just because I wanted to screw with your head.

    You found me out. Good job.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    This is probably the slowest time of day for Victory. And there's still someone there. And how long did you wait around to see if anyone crossed your field of vision?
    I jump-packed to the main hubs (wents, the statue, the monorail station, etc).

    Meanwhile, I just made a character on Freedom. There are SIXTY people in Atlas Park and I see a BUNCH of people right there under the statue as soon as I log in.

    Sixty people on Freedom. Two on Victory. Which do you think makes a better impression on a new MMO player seeing the game for the first time (and be honest)?

    But yeah, the population disparity? Totally exaggerated. I mean two is almost sixty if you add just 58.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    Victory is hardly the top of the heap, but I see people in the mainly traveled zones (Atlas, Steel, Talos, PI) at all hours of the day and night.
    As of right now, there are two people in Atlas Park in Victory.

    And I'm one of them. I have no idea where the other guy is.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    I sincerely doubt that, unless a gamer's inherent is "Three's Company stupidity".
    Can you please make up your mind how you feel about the level of intelligence of other people?

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    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    Oh, we wouldn't be surprised. People stay stupid and ill-informed things about CoX all the time.
    Really.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    It's like you're saying they're going to quit if in the first glance around in the first five minutes they don't see anyone. I'd counter that people with that level of impatience probably won't stick with the game no matter what.
    MMOs are a highly competitive market. You need to outshine the other guys and you generally have a brief window in which to do it. You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

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    If you look around to different zones and wait 15 minutes or so you WILL see at least someone
    Or, on more populated servers, you'll enter the game next to several someones right in the tutorial.

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    but I see people in the mainly traveled zones (Atlas, Steel, Talos, PI) at all hours of the day and night.
    Funny, I logged in one of my old characters on Protector the other night just to see, and did a /whoall in Mercy. There were THREE people listed. THREE. I SS'd around the zone and spotted one of them.

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    Like I said, they can ask the people they see. They can ask in Broadcast.
    You mean the same people who, when they DO find their way to the forums, yell at them and tell them it's all their fault for not properly using the various team locating tools they had no way of knowing about and generally making them feel stupid for asking in the first place?

    Yeah, that will garner tons of subscriptions!

    Good job with the head in the sand approach, by the way. It worked really well for all of us over on Tabula Rasa. And on Dungeon Runners. And Auto Assault. All of which had more populated servers than some of the servers here. Hey, it worked for them, it can work for you!

    Because I'm telling you, I heard the same stuff you're saying now echoed loudly in the TR forums a mere month before the game was dropped. I don't want to see that happen here. I'm still in mourning over TR. I LOVED that game, I never had problems finding teams or getting enough people to do Capture Points. Despite that, it was still closed by NCSoft who were unhappy with it's numbers.

    But hey, no way that could happen to YOU right?
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    Ask someone?
    You over-estimate the average computer gamer by half.
  22. The most epic mis-tell ever was in Broadcast on Protector in 2007. I cannot repeat it verbatim without breaking multiple forum rules, but I can say it happened in Port Oakes, it was an ERP mis-tell, it came from a Bots Mastermind I was standing near at the time, and it described what the mastermind's bots were doing to their chat partner using various "attachments". High speed rotary action and the other person's posterior, in concert, were mentioned. The character in question was female.

    Nothing, absolutely nothing, has topped that since.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slashman View Post
    Empty outdoor areas is one of the things that people equate to server emptiness, yes. Still, we have always been a heavily instanced game. And even after street sweeping was effectively killed by tank changes and XP alterations, there still seemed to be more folks running around outside.
    Guild Wars is entirely instanced, but I see more people in that game in the social hubs than I do in many of the servers here.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SwellGuy View Post
    New people won't know. Ok then let new people know.
    And how do we do that, keeping in mind 90% or more of the players never frequent the forums?

    And can we change the dogpiling tactics of small server advocates when new players do dare stick their nose in and ask about server population?

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    How long will NC pay for "dead" servers? What's that to us? As some have stated in this very thread the server costs can cost more on a busier server than a "dead" one.
    If I run a store, I have to have more staff and goods on the shelf if my store is busy than if no one comes in. That doesn't mean the empty store is the better investment.

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    Honestly I am beginning to think there is some kind of dementia or agenda related to the pro-merger people that they aren't stating.
    Um... what? I hope you're joking.