The_Spad_EU

He's doing his usual Stalker trolling; One of Synapse' arguments as to why Stalkers aren't getting Titan Weapons at launch was that it wasn't a good fit thematically, so now he seems to be posting this kind of nonsense in any thread discussing other melee ATs.

OK, look at it this way: If you can easily afford to deck yourself with DOs and SOs at every point in the game that you want to be able to, without having to pick your content or sell your drops in the right places, then why bother with inf at all? Why not just make enhancements free?

There has to be some degree of difficulty involved or there's no point in putting any barrier in place. The whole point of the system is so that at early levels you have to make choices; do I fully deck myself out with DOs at 12? Or do I just slot a few into key powers and save up for 17? Or skip DOs entirely and make do with drops until 22 when I can start slotting SOs?

Even once you have your first 50 and can help fund your lowbie alts, you still have to make choices about what to buy as you probably won't be able to afford to keep everyone in green DO/SOs for their whole career even if you wanted to.

It's not simply that they're vanity items, it's that they're vanity items that - at best - one or two players will ever see and they put a substantial load on the servers. Costumes, auras and the like do not have that issue.

I have no doubt that if the devs could find an easy way to run thousands of player house instances without a significant impact on performance then they would do so, but to my knowledge it is not something that is high on their priority list at the moment.

Then don't run the sewer trial over and over again. One of the big boosts to influence in the early levels comes from the end of arc bonuses, so run lots of story arcs and make sure both of you take the missions so that you both get the arc bonuses.

Not only that, but the only way to "fund" new alts was by use of a trusted 3rd party (or 2nd account) to direct trade inf and you could only trade 100,000inf at a time, so even giving someone a couple of million to buy a round of SOs took quite a while.

You can't see your avatar because you've put the link in as http://www.http//s327.photobucket.com/... instead of http://s327.photobucket.com/...

http://spad.co.uk/mxdsetup1-952.exe

Usual disclaimers apply. Don't trust software from unknown sources. Has been virus scanned by me but that shouldn't mean anything to you. Will be taken down again once the cohplanner.com site is back up and running.

Edit: Please see Tony's post here for the MD5 hash of the installer

This is almost universally the case with 3rd party branded drivers. It is almost always better to get them directly from the OEM (Nvidia/ATI/Intel).

It is, interestingly, why the argument that "My Computer/Email/Website isn't important/popular/valuable enough for hackers to bother with" no longer has *any* validity; the vast majority of malware these days is entirely automated and the operators don't care who or what they manage to infect - although as we've seen here they do sometimes exclude or include specific IP ranges when serving the payloads, partly to avoid serving the malware to security/AV firms but also in cases where they're after something that's specific to a particular country or region (there's no point trying to get NHS numbers from Americans, for example).

And given Oracle's general behaviour since buying Sun I think it's probably for the best that Android isn't running their JVM (unless they win their stupid lawsuit, of course, which would be interesting).