Willowpaw

They can claim "No backing up" until they are blue in the face. That does not actually trump the rights granted by federal copyright law. I believe the relevant section is 117...

I am not seeing anything there that grants the copyright owner authorization to override the rights granted to the rightful user of the software to make a backup.

I'm sure there is precedent for other works as well. But that will take a bit of extensive digging, and it is way too late at night for me to engage in such a hunt.

That is the second best way to "cope" with laws concerning digital restrictions management policies. It may be technically illegal to circumvent the restrictions in order to exercise your rights, but so what? As long as you aren't redistributing, what are they going to do? Raid your home to confiscate anything you may have backed up against their wishes?

Are there seriously people who will absolutely refuse to exercise their fair use rights and instead just "cower in the corner" and do nothing because "the law says I can't do this. And the law is the law"? Personally, I suspect that the ones in threads like this who just keep parroting over and over that "you can't do that because it is illegal" are simply playing D-Bag's advocate. Not calling out anyone here specifically, but I have seen plenty of these discussions elsewhere, and am pretty convinced that the ones touting the letter of the law truly don't believe what they are arguing.

And even if they did attempt to claim otherwise, it would still be perfectly legal due to a thing called fair use. No matter what any imaginary property owners may claim, you always have the right to back up any media that you legally acquired.

That depends on your camera angle. Somehow, I manage to get the click on their shields.

And when you hit level 5, there's the Lost. They wear tires, TVs, wicker, and other oddities. Their names though are not very indicative of their group (Scrounger, Headman, Aberrant, etc).

Lately, I have been doing the "That's the Combination on My Luggage" technique for placing my bids. No particular reason really. Also, I did go ahead and upped it to 34567 (or it may have been 45678...don't remember exactly), and they were purchased immediately.

What made it even sweeter was I then crafted the endurance reducers and had Holly Day, who is at perma level 10 until after the Winter Event (so she can be my purchase agent for Winter's Gifts - Slow Resistance recipes) put up those endurance reducers. Surprisingly, she has been getting anywhere from 700,000 to 800,000 for them. And this rate, she is going to be quite wealthy by the time she resumes leveling in January.

As for the Hammi Goo, yeah, fat chance getting one for 1 inf. I have a standing bid in for one at 765432, and that went in just a couple days ago. However, that one should get filled within the week.

So, since my PB did a frankenslotting with primarily level 25 IOs in her level 30 and under powers, how hard would she be hit in effectiveness when she exemps? Higher level powers I went ahead and did higher level IOs in, since when she exemps down, those would not be available anyway.

Like, say she exemps down to 15 or 20? Will the level 25 IOs not be effected too badly, or will she get a big performance hit?

Nah. It's Eagle's Claw, Eagle's Claw, Eagle's Claw.

Bah. It has taken much much longer for my purchase orders for Never Melting Ices to be filled by bidding and waiting. I need these for some 45 Endurance Reducers, and some set IOs that are going to be crafted and resold.

My bids went in like 3 days ago (23,456 each if I remember right), and none have been filled yet. So bidding low and waiting patiently is not always viable. Well, in this case it is, but for someone who has just leveled and is in need of the stuff to craft their enhancements now without making the team wait, patience is not a virtue (or a Protector...or a Liberty, etc for that matter).

Of course, in that case, it is best to plan ahead and have what you will need at least 2 levels out. But still...


I've also noticed that uncommon salvage (both arcane and tech) now fetches a pretty decent sum consistently, usually in the 5 digit and often in the 6 digit ranges). At least, the tier 2 and 3 uncommons do well. Low level uncommon salvage generally is best off being vendored still for the most part however.

Your wish is granted...

http://www.openoffice.org/

The spreadsheet function suits the bill perfectly.

It's pretty easy to keep track of all 22 day jobs using a simple little spreadsheet.

Also, instead of doing them all at once, why not one server's worth per day each week? That is how I've been doing it (Monday - Liberty, Tuesday - Protector, Wednesday - Freedom, then Thursday is Virtue and my off servers of Justice Champion and Guardian). When a character reaches the 21 day mark, he then either goes to a new day job, or charges up an accolade for one week. Much easier to manage that way.

Then once various characters get all the day jobs (I have a couple that are close, and several who are at least close to getting all the ones available at their current level), then they will go through and top off all their powers.

There is also a Day Job accolade called the Rune of Purification. It is identical in effect and abilities to the Rune of Warding. You get it by getting the Archeologist badge (Midnighter/Mortician).

Oh, and that Claymore that you get in Safeguard/Mayhem weapons raid only lasts 30 minutes game time.

And if you don't talk to them first, then the first regular contact you talk to in that level range will send you to talk to them anyway before they will give you any real missions (likewise, at 25, the first contact in that range will make you go talk to Bower in Croatoa.)

Or, when you start seeing red numbers floating above them when you attack instead of "Deflected" or whatever the message is, then you know that their MoG has crashed.

Would that be the outhouses in the construction sites?

And now for a few additional tidbits of unasked for info...

Vet Rewards: First veteran respec comes at the 9 month mark.

Patron Respec: This one actually stacks with the Freespec. This is the only time I have ever seen upon login that I have 2 unclaimed respecs available...



That confused me at first, and I was wondering if I had hit a very fortunate bug that made the most recent freespec stack with the previous one. Then I realized that it must be the freespec plus the patron respec.

Freespec upon new issue: This will be handed down to every character you currently have on your account at the time the respec is granted.

Therefore, I would recommend taking some time to come up with some alts that you might want to play, and create them really really soon. After all, Issue 16 is upon us and there should be a freespec given out with it. So any characters you make before now and then will not have to wait until you do the trial or get your 9 month reward.

Using Your Secondary Build: Just remember that when you use a respec of any type, it will only apply to one build. Therefore, if you want to respec the other build, you will need to burn a second respec.