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That's not actually the problem, the problem is that Mids' is written in .NET which is Windows only (and no, Mono doesn't really count) and so even if you could somehow compile it to run on OSX it still wouldn't work because the .NET frameworks aren't present.

Cue standard rant: .NET is great if you know that your application is only ever going to be used on Windows systems and it provides a great base on which Powershell can operate, however, if you even think you might want your application to work on non-windows platforms than it's a terrible choice of language - this applies equally to any other platform specific languages.

Given the difficulty of finding something compilable that you can run on iOS, Android, Windows, OSX, Linux and anything else you feel like (Window Phone 7? Symbian? BeOS? HP-UX?) that also does what you want, HTML5 is often the best solution these days.

And yet I can ring my other contacts *from* the Chantry without any issues...

Well that's because only complete idiots tell the Captain how long it's *really* going to take to fix it. Smart people (like Scotty, incidentally) overestimate by a substantial margin so that when they're told they only have half the time to do it, it's still easy to achieve.

Tell that to NCSoft's payment backend.

Using the Find Contact button, but you can only do it with certain contacts and even then only if you've never spoken to them before.

ftfy.

The difference between technically possible and practically possible is frequently quite substantial, however

NCSoft's payment system has always been ******* awful; pre-Freedom you couldn't buy more than 3 things in one go from their store because when trying to buy the 4th thing it would automatically flag you as "possibly fraudulent activity" and block you from making any more purchases for 24 hours. This is ignoring the fact that there wasn't a "cart" so it was impossible to buy more than one thing at a time.

Equally, if your card provider has a temporary authorisation issue or you make a typo somewhere in the payment info; Bam! Possible fraudulent activity. I'm all for anti-fraud measures, but when they're implemented as ineptly as NCSoft have managed, they're a menace.

You know what would have been a clever way to do it? To have had Tyrant actually *do* the retcon by traveling back in time and striking his deal with the well so that the "new" Praetoria storyline comes into existence. It would also give further justification for Ouroboros to be involved and hosting the seemingly random assortment of Incarnate NPCs who keep turning up there.

Ah, but remember, that was pre-retcon Tyrant from back when Praetoria was still the throwaway evil goatee-wearing mirror universe rather than the increasingly complex mess that is has become today.

Because there was (still is?) a bug whereby triggering the cutscene before everyone had loaded into the trial would cause some or all of the loads in progress to fail and boot those players out of the trial without the ability to rejoin.

The latest WHQL driver for XP is still 280.26. Looks like they're starting to move it towards legacy OS status where it belongs.

Ah, didn't realise that about Earthquake. Mental Scramble makes sense now, especially considering I couldn't find any record of it in my combat logs, which matches the observations in that thread.

It's not a bug and it's not unresistable per se, it's just auto hit.

Though I do think Mental Scramble might be bugged, it's supposed to be psi,ranged according to the attack info, but despite being softcapped on ranged Def I get hit with it every single time I come across a Tarantula Mistress.

This. It only takes one of the many stupidly overpowered defence debuffs in this game to hit my soft-capped Widow (such as Mental Scramble which does -27% Defence) and the lack of any substantial resistances mean I go down pretty fast unless I'm quick enough off the mark to stack purples to keep me alive.

Don't forget that even softcapped there's at least a 1 in 20 chance of any given attack hitting you.

You know, apart from the actual content