Do you play Urban Dead? 'cause if not... I'm standing in St. Jude's Hospital looking at your evil twin. O_o

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

More of a teaser than anything else, and small, but I doubt anyone will complain at this point.

Now available to download from http://coalguys.com/?p=290]this link here.

Minimal story on TMZ.com.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Okay. I went to go log in to City of Heroes, downloaded the latest patch and got this after typing in my password and hitting "log in":



(Yes, that is City of Heroes, I just have a customized backdrop to it.)

Ok. I've seen that before, it USUALLY means that it's a problem on City of Heroes end. And I just have to wait. Well I checked the server status page
and it said everything is up and running. I started doing some checks.

I'm running Windows XP SP2

This setup has been running fine up until late last night.

I checked my firewalls, turned them off. Reset my router. Nothing. Same thing.

I want to stress that all this time I am able to get online normally with all my other applications - except World of Warcraft, which is doing something
similar to what City of Heroes is doing, except it gives no explanation. It just hangs at the login.

I did release and renew of IP and DNS Flush from the basic Network Repair in Network Connections. Still no go.

I checked the command line prompt. That's when I ran into something very strange looking.



Now that just does NOT look right AT ALL. Yet somehow I'm able to get on the internet.

I took the router out of the loop entirely and hooked up to the cable modem directly. This is what I got:



Did ipconfig /release



And then a renew:



I also did ipconfig /flushdns and ipconfig /registerdns while I was at it.

Here's something else to ponder:



That all shows as normal even though the command line is funky.

(Oh and here's what it looks like when I have the Router hooked in: )



I have gone as far as uninstalling the network driver and connections and rebooting to get the auto-reinstall of the drivers. Still no luck. I can get online
just fine with e-mail and browser, but City of Heroes and World of Warcraft? Gone. Can't play them. What the hell is going on here?

Help?

• Trick Arrow - Flash Arrow - Perception Debuff now supresses when the player is hit.
  
  
• Ninjitsu - Blinding Powder - Perception Debuff now supresses when the player is hit.
  
  
• Devices - Smoke Grenade - Perception Debuff now supresses when the player is hit.
  
  
• Fire Control - Smoke - Perception Debuff now supresses when the player is hit.
  

I'm thinking about getting a new graphics card for my computer, even though I don't play games much. I'm thinking of swapping my X700 for an
HD4670. Any suggestions?

This is an excuse/explanation for a technical design that's been wandering around my head for a while now. It has no real context or point, I just found myself typing rather than jobhunting.

Link to board post

Quote:When we created Mission Architect, the goal was to have an outlet for players to craft cool stories, using our assets, that other players could play and participate in. Other players could rate those stories and the best-of-the best would rise to the top.
While we have accomplished some of those goals with the initial launch of Mission Architect, some have found ways to abuse the system we put in place. We are not blind to this happening, nor did we not expect it. However, it is time to take action regarding it, so please be aware that we are about to implement a zero-tolerance stance on the extreme abuse we are seeing in the system.
One thing was made clear to me when I interacted with the players on our Anniversary. It was that you guys really don’t like the powerlevelling that is going on with MA. The constant spam of MA PL teams forming, requests for “Meow” missions, 5 star badge cartels, and the inability to find quality content in the Mission Architect listing are all things I heard complaints about over and over while I was logged in on Tuesday.
So here is a list of things that are going to happen:
• Players that have abused the reward system egregiously may lose benefits they have gained - leading up to and perhaps including losing access to the characters power-leveled in this fashion.
• Currently, some badges are being modified, and some may be removed from the game entirely. The list of changes being made to the MA badge system is not final yet, but you will be made aware when we have a concrete plan.
• Players who knowingly use an exploit when creating an arc, run the risk of having access to MA suspended, or worse- depending on the severity of the action, their account banned.
• Players who have a story arc banned for any reason, will have it continue to use up one of their publishing slots. Players will NOT be able to unpublish this slot without Customer Service’s help. This sets up a “three strikes and you’re out” policy. If an individual gets three story arcs banned, they will no longer be able to publish since their slots will all be used up with banned arcs.
•• This lock will not take place on the first level of “complaint banning”, where an arc has received a larger number of complaints. Players will still have a chance to fix the arc.
•• If Customer Service looks at an arc and determines it was banned in error, they will mark it as “unbannable”. At that point the arc can not be banned for any reason. The unbannable flag will reset if the player makes any changes to the arc at that point, and the arc can be banned again.
•• Remember, publishing slots are account wide, so players will not be able to log in another character on their account and use their slots instead.
•• Players are urged to avoid using common farming terms in their story title and/or descriptions. Even if it’s a joke, DO NOT run the risk of having an arc banned and requiring Customer Support to grant you your publishing slot back.
Some of you have taken the stance of “how does powerlevelling hurt the game?” and “shouldn’t I be able to play the game the way that I want?” What we want to make clear is in order to keep the game fair, balanced, and challenging, we have to maintain a risk:reward ratio. This is a ratio we’ve spent years attempting to achieve. Mission Architect is not immune to this, and we are taking swift action to see that the problems players are seeing and are being exposed to are remedied.

Can anyone help me with a bit of Latin? I want to change the subject of the famous old line Nos morituri te salutamus from "we who are about to
die" to "We who are dead". Can anyone do that for me, or point me to a website that can?

Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I ducked in a couple nights ago to play my Negima ripoff character Negi-kun (and get him an outfit with the new magic cloak that looks like his early Mundus
Magica arc costume), and I noticed that aside from one other character, I was the first LL player on in weeks or months. And the base is locked for failure to
pay rent. Is the Little Legendary dead? Should I move Negi-kun and Luna Toons over to Virtue?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.