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Made alot of progress playing Zeno Clash only to have my graphics card (driver I think/hope) bug out on me. I hope I didn't lose my progress. I was, according to loading screens, halfway through the game, and then it buggered out. Hopefully it didn't burn out that whole time.

At least according to Speccy, it didn't overheat. I assume it was a driver issue.

It autosaves at the start of each fight, and you can't manually save it. If it died while it was saving, it might fuck up that save, but it keeps something like the three most recent save points, if I'm remembering right, it's been a while since I've played it.

Quote from: lumin on April 23, 2010, 01:26:44 pm

Here are my requirements to get me to play a MMO again (not "an" MMO by the way):

This niggled me, and yes it is an.

But, I agree with everything else you said.

That actually says that both are valid because there's no agreement on a standard rule there, so both of you are wrong for insisting that the other form is wrong.



Aside from a few people's points (and the more common "costing anything at all because 'what are operating expenses?'" complaint ( the new smileys really suck, that's not even animated )), EVE fits what most people are saying: its economy is almost entirely player driven, except for some quest rewards and the low-end junk dropped by rats, and while death isn't permanent, you do lose ships and potentially skills. It can be an absurd amount of grinding if you're trying to make enough ISK to get by in game, but then, it's really a game for people with jobs, who can drop ~$30 on a timecode to sell as two PLEX's in-game for... last I heard about 500-600 million ISK in all (even working a minimum wage job (in the US, at least), you'd have to make more than 100 Million ISK an hour for it to make more sense to grind for ISK than buy timecodes, so it comes out to: queue up skills -> buy a timecard for the cost of a couple of pizzas -> sell PLEX's -> roll in pile of imaginary money -> buy awesome shit that you can fly because your skills were training all that time you were out actually improving your life -> hilarious griefing time! ). Sadly, I don't have a good enough internet connection to update to the latest patch, so I can't play. D:

Edit: I could add on to the economics of timecodes bit by mentioning that the best I managed, after about a month of playing, was around 1 million an hour running l3 missions in a drake, maybe 1.5 if I went and looted/salvaged each mission in a cormorant... Now, of course there are more profitable things, like construction for a decent corporation (which, like skill training, is a minimal investment of time, even if you have to log on now and then to keep production running), but that takes very specific skill line that takes a damn long time to get anywhere in. I don't know how higher tier missions pay, but the l4s I saw offered were only a few million more than the l3s I was running, and require either a t2 fitted battlecruiser or a battleship, preferably t2 fitted... :/

Oh, I missed those. Yeah, those work pretty good, though the non-face ones just kind of look out of place with beards...

Quote from: Sir Pseudonymous on April 22, 2010, 07:56:56 pm

That was usually how it was in the original l4d versus, except with the best survivor players (or, alternatively, both sides being shit with infected (lol public games...)).

Best may or may not include the liberal use of everyone corner camping with melee spam.  PuG.

The best players I played with only corner camped when you're stuck in one place for a set amount of time, like the wait for the elevator in no mercy or the finales. The rest was just barreling through, outpacing the horde spawns and fucking over the infected trying to set up traps. Note that that's a rather small minority of players, however...

They are validating it by obeying the demands, hence supporting it as a legitimate means to an end.

You do realize that you can lock the thread, don't you? Unless that's changed in the new forum software, in which disregard that.

Yeah, with every laptop I've seen the hardrive is just attached by one or two screws on the bottom. You just pull out the battery, unscrew the harddrive case, and then do the same thing with the other. Or you could buy a cable to then just plug the old hardrive into a usb port, though I couldn't tell you what that cable is either...