Too much is too much

My IP hasn't changed for over a year at least. (I found a tracert from an old troubleshooting issue from January of last year with the same IP I have now.) Thank god not all ISPs are crappy like your country's

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

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It generally doesn't matter in terms of the internet. Basing a security system upon IP Addresses is/was a laughably pointless thing for them to do. It's pretty much meaningless given that they can and do change and are often shared in an organization where multiple machines are using one gateway.

Then going ahead and basing the security questions on the bog-standard ones banks have been asking for years just added to the Failheap really.

A pointless irritation, nothing more, but I suppose the web munkies can tell the suits they implemented a dynamic, multileveled security system (technically true)

The greatest part of the Failheap is whomever decided that forcing people to use the same password on the Forums and in-game was a clever idea. I hope that person was fired. From a cannon. Into the sun. Especially now considering peoples CCs are accessible ingame...

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I dunno sometimes it is hard to tell, people do some time flip their ish over some silly stuff >.>

Frankly, I'm outraged. OUTRAGED, I scream!

Not *only* did the outage (not outrage) stop me from spending Paragon Points,
and reading fascinating if pointless rants, about things I don't care a whit about,
but, they had the infernal, unmitigated gall to wrap it all up and restore service,
before I could even get worked up about it!!!

So, now, I have to be OUTRAGED that I totally missed it! Grrrr

Fargin Iceholes...


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PS> For Xeno's sake (et al), this too is purely joking... Really, I lol'd

PPS> Double Damn - I thought it was the Forums that were down as well (you know,
*important* stuff, serious bidness). Account stuff? Bah. Who uses that site anyway???

It's whether, not weather.

It's pretty easy to tell in this case if you bother to read the entire post. If you just read part of it and get all in a hurry to make a response and don't finish reading, you fail at reading comprehension.

Since you obviously missed it the first time, I'll copy the parts of the post you apparently didn't bother to read the first time.

Now, did reading that last part clear up your comprehension difficulties?

EDIT: Had your second post been a "Oops, I missed that line." or something similar, especially since a few people had already pointed it out, I'd have not made this response. Instead, you poked the bear.

And just another note. You can cancel your account completely. But as long as you reactivate it within 24 hours it wouldn't count against your loyality standing.

In order to change some credit card information on my account awhile back the tech support people told me I had to cancel the account and reactivate it to enter new credit card information. I asked about my Loyalty status and they told me the above (about the 24 hour grace period).

I disagree completely!

NOT ENOUGH IS NOT ENOUGH!

So there.

Originally Posted by PapaSlade Rangle's right....this is fun.

Enough is never enough unless it's too much and then it's just about right.

I sense a plot is in the works.

There are NO such things as Rangle Plots™.

Originally Posted by PapaSlade Rangle's right....this is fun.

Get 'em, Owen!

Thank you, Champion.

I have this happen every single time but only on NCSoft's site. Trust me; it's not a virus. It's poor software design.
I deal online with my broker, my bank, two credit card companies and several mutual fund companies. All have various types of enhanced security. None of them make me read a Captcha image every time I use the site.

Dynamic IP addresses are the norm in the US, as well. What seems to be different here is the DHCP implementation used by different ISP's.

In DHCP, a dynamic IP address doesn't have to be reassigned with each log-in. When you first request an IP address from a DHCP server, it gives you a "lease" for that IP addresses. You access through that IP address for the duration of that lease. When its close to expiring, your computer will request a new lease. In most ISP's I'm familiar with in the U.S, if it sees you already have an existing about-to-expire IP adress (or sees that the now-expired IP address lease hasnt been re-issued elsewhere), it just renews that lease rather than issue out a different one. This is why most US users keep their IP address for a long time

There are benefits for both the ISP and the user for this, so why wouldn't UK ISP's do the same? Most often its a case of available IP addresses to lease out. If you have surplus leases its ok to let people "hoard" their IP addresses while they're offline. If you don't, short-duration leases free up those addresses for others to use. US businesses, as early adopters, bought up a lot of address space and hoarded them before DHCP was really available. Others made do with smaller address blocks and more liberal use of IP addresses rather than buy larger blocks from the US companies.

Simply "buying more blocks of IP Addresses" isn't always an available option for an ISP right now. There are still many devices in use that only support IPv4's addressing structure (whose address space is nearly depleted) despite IPv6 being first published in '98. IPv6 has a greatly-expanded address space, but if 'net traffic to an IP6 address hits one of these antique IPv4 devices en route to its destination, its not good for the end-user. (I call them antique, but there were devices sold as recently as 2010 that weren't IPv6 compatible). Until IPv6 is a reliable option (its very close- some argue it IS, some say its still too problematic), most ISP's will continue to juggle IPv4 leases rather than risk the bad user experience.

http://www.ncsoft.com/
This is the same site that you log in to to manage your game account(s), how could you not find it? Do you never manage your game account(s)?

Nope.

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

I suppose my confusion came from it being called "the PlayNC website" in the downtime announcement. I don't see the words "PlayNC" anywhere on that page. Is that the "old" name for the site, still being used by people who've been around the game for a while? I've only been around a bit longer than six months.

I manage my account by clicking the "ACCOUNT" link on the NCLauncher, which takes me directly to the account login page, not the main page of the site.



Dang!

Yep. Once upon a time, that's how one would manage their account and/or buy Super Boosters before there was even an inkling that we'd have an in-game store.

Then, until about 2 months ago (give or take), it automatically redirected to http://us.ncsoft.com/en/ ... but since then, it just takes you to the Korean page (since NCSoft is based in Korea and all).

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

I'd buy a King of Harts costume pack.