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General Discussion / Re: The Highly Flammable Post - USSR Politics Thread
« on: April 25, 2014, 01:40:40 am »
Speak for yourself, if you only care about the deaths of certain types of people I feel sorry for you bros.
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General Discussion / Re: The Highly Flammable Post - USSR Politics Thread
« on: April 25, 2014, 01:28:36 am »Nobody cares about how many Syrians die. It's the Europeans deaths which are important. Sad but true.
That's not true at all.
I should note I don't support the use of the Army in Eastern Ukraine. However I would like to point out the extreme hypocrisy shown by Putin regarding intervention. Hundreds of thousands of people dieing in a conflict with their own government? Putin thinks that's okay because he supports that government. A few armed men are shot after confronting government forces? Not cool, says Putin, because this time he supports the armed anti-government groups.
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General Discussion / Re: The Highly Flammable Post - USSR Politics Thread
« on: April 25, 2014, 12:54:20 am »
Russian President Vladimir Putin said "if the Kiev regime has started to use the army against the population inside the country, it, beyond any doubt, is a very serious crime."
Literally just today:
Syrian warplanes target crowded market
Spoiler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War (click to show/hide)
Literally just today:
Syrian warplanes target crowded market
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Other Games / Re: Aurora - The Dwarf Fortress of 4X Games
« on: April 25, 2014, 12:36:15 am »so, how to I go about downloading tech data from my salvagers? Just finished cleaning up Alpha Centauri after the battle...
I did a quick search and this was the best result I found. It is an old post though so it might have changed.
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,1570.0.html
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Other Games / Re: Aurora - The Dwarf Fortress of 4X Games
« on: April 25, 2014, 12:03:53 am »
I move GFTF around with one normal sized freighter. GFTFs can be moved in decimal sized portions over multiple trips.
The key is to make sure you only have the same number of facilities on the world they are built on that you want on the planet they are to be transferred to.
To facilitate this once I have a colony off homeworld and have a homeworld garrison built I transfer all my existing GFTFs to the colony.
This is very easy to do, simply order your one freighter to load GFTF at the homeworld, set it to unload at the colony, then a refuel at homeworld order. Hit repeat twice to have a nice stack of orders, then toggle the cycle moves checkbox.
Your Freighter will continue loading, unloading and then refueling at the load point. When the GFTFs are all on the colony, the freighter will return to refuel and then cancel the load order leaving the freighter on the homeworld.
Now after transferring your GFTFs to the first colony, if you want a single GFTF on a third colony, you can build that single GFTF on your homeworld and transfer it in the above way.
What I tend to do is transfer a single GFTF to new colonies and build a Divison command, a brigade command, and some construction brigades and garrisons.
The key is to make sure you only have the same number of facilities on the world they are built on that you want on the planet they are to be transferred to.
To facilitate this once I have a colony off homeworld and have a homeworld garrison built I transfer all my existing GFTFs to the colony.
This is very easy to do, simply order your one freighter to load GFTF at the homeworld, set it to unload at the colony, then a refuel at homeworld order. Hit repeat twice to have a nice stack of orders, then toggle the cycle moves checkbox.
Your Freighter will continue loading, unloading and then refueling at the load point. When the GFTFs are all on the colony, the freighter will return to refuel and then cancel the load order leaving the freighter on the homeworld.
Now after transferring your GFTFs to the first colony, if you want a single GFTF on a third colony, you can build that single GFTF on your homeworld and transfer it in the above way.
What I tend to do is transfer a single GFTF to new colonies and build a Divison command, a brigade command, and some construction brigades and garrisons.
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Other Games / Re: Planetside 2: Free-to-Play MMOFPS. 2000 players/server.
« on: April 24, 2014, 11:40:25 pm »
I'm fairly certain that the latency fix is not necessary for Windows 8. Tying packets together was extremely unpopular in Windows 7.
The Core unlocking could be useful for Win 8 users though. It depends on your CPU manufacturer and I am not sure which ones, only that mine was one of them and unlocking the cores was very helpful.
30kbps peak speed is pretty slow and it would likely explain the warping around. That's usually a sign of internet lag.
You might want to find a speedtest site and see what your speed is on that.
Are you supposed to be getting more than 30kbps? Is that on wireless and is it different when your laptop is near the wireless router?
You can access your modem through your browser. Find your run menu, type cmd in it. This will open command prompt. Type ipconfig and hit enter.
This will show information on the networks your computer is connected to at the time.
Look for Default Gateway and open your browser. Enter the IP address to the right of Default Gateway. This Ip address is your modem's IP address. Entering it into your browser will send you to your modem's splashpage thingy and you will probably need to enter a password, which is likely to be something the ISP sent to your house.
Don't post either the IP address or your account info on the internet.
Don't change any options in your modem after you open it up with the password.
If you are paying for more speed than you are getting having that page open may help if you call customer support. It may also offer hints such as connection type as to why you are only getting 30kbps.
If you can find a cable wire you can plug it directly from the modem to your laptop's port. If it improves performance you might consider purchasing a 30 or 50 foot cable cord from Amazon and running it from your modem through a hole in your wall and through to another hole closer to your lair.
The Core unlocking could be useful for Win 8 users though. It depends on your CPU manufacturer and I am not sure which ones, only that mine was one of them and unlocking the cores was very helpful.
30kbps peak speed is pretty slow and it would likely explain the warping around. That's usually a sign of internet lag.
You might want to find a speedtest site and see what your speed is on that.
Are you supposed to be getting more than 30kbps? Is that on wireless and is it different when your laptop is near the wireless router?
You can access your modem through your browser. Find your run menu, type cmd in it. This will open command prompt. Type ipconfig and hit enter.
This will show information on the networks your computer is connected to at the time.
Look for Default Gateway and open your browser. Enter the IP address to the right of Default Gateway. This Ip address is your modem's IP address. Entering it into your browser will send you to your modem's splashpage thingy and you will probably need to enter a password, which is likely to be something the ISP sent to your house.
Don't post either the IP address or your account info on the internet.
Don't change any options in your modem after you open it up with the password.
If you are paying for more speed than you are getting having that page open may help if you call customer support. It may also offer hints such as connection type as to why you are only getting 30kbps.
If you can find a cable wire you can plug it directly from the modem to your laptop's port. If it improves performance you might consider purchasing a 30 or 50 foot cable cord from Amazon and running it from your modem through a hole in your wall and through to another hole closer to your lair.
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Other Games / Re: Planetside 2: Free-to-Play MMOFPS. 2000 players/server.
« on: April 24, 2014, 11:18:47 pm »
That said, there's some fix for Windows to speed up network connectivity. It's in this thread, somewhere I think. Duuvian, I think you posted it once: you know what I'm talking about?
Be warned they've added some ads since I went there last time so if you are leery go in with your shields up. Essentially if you use Windows 7 some versions of it limit the number of packets it sends out from your computer by tying multiple packets together and sending them that way. This causes a tiny delay that isn't really noticeable in most uses but will cause minor to moderate lag in video games as your computer is sending information out to SOE servers at 1/3 or 1/2 the rate (not sure of the exact rate offhand, I made those numbers up).
http://windows7themes.net/en-us/how-to-improve-latency-in-wow-in-windows-7/
If you are using a public network wirelessly in a somewhat densely populated area though you can bet at least one of your neighbors is streaming videos or torrenting or some such. If you have access to the wireless modem you could put a password to access your wireless and give it out to people who ask. If you are the one who is using someone else's wireless you will just have to make do with competition for wireless. As someone else said using a wire will be the most reliable solution.
Try opening the useroptions file in your PS2 directory and turn off lighting by setting it to 0. That's what gives me the most performance boost on my computer.
Spoiler: My useroptions display settings (click to show/hide)
Finally this is something you should look at if your game has a lot of lag; it's possibly the most common easy and free fix to graphical lag (non internet speed) problems for people running PS2:
https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/unparking-your-cpu-to-get-more-performance.53793/
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Other Games / Re: Planetside 2: Free-to-Play MMOFPS. 2000 players/server.
« on: April 24, 2014, 06:30:24 am »
I did report prior to reaching space, but unfortunately I crashed shortly after /yelling before I could /report again (which makes me wonder if an admin heard it somehow because I barely had time to glance at the map screen after the /yell to see if you still show as in a hex at 100km above it (you do) and then the game froze up upon escaping from the map.
In other good news, this happened this morning after I returned from orbit:
I logged out after my teammate jumped in my parked sundie between the two bases west of the Southeast Warpgate on the bluff.
In other good news, this happened this morning after I returned from orbit:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I logged out after my teammate jumped in my parked sundie between the two bases west of the Southeast Warpgate on the bluff.
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Other Games / Re: Planetside 2: Free-to-Play MMOFPS. 2000 players/server.
« on: April 24, 2014, 12:08:20 am »They rotate warpgates with nearly every patch, since some are unbalanced. COUGH INDAR
Yeah, North gate is easily the best. Having to go through that Tech plan in the East is rough, and Quartz ridge and a few other bases in the West is too. Plus you have the best chance of fighting in J-9100 Crater base.
In unrelated yet alarming news, I'm currently being lifted slowly into the air by unknown and possibly malignant forces. I'm at 55000 meters above the ground after about an hour and climbing.
It started when I hopped out of a galaxy on a biolab. I started rising slowly into the air. I assume I landed in a grav lift thingy and it never shut off, OR I'm being towed by a Smedyrie to Highalla.
I can move slowly but when I stop I'm jerked back over the grav lift.
I'm going to see if I have the patience to reach 100000 meters above ground.
I have some AT mines. It would be cool if once I reach space if I dropped them they caused a crater. I'm sorely tempted to drop my mines on the Vanu Warpgate from space, but I'm afraid to do it in case it actually explodes a vehicle inside and I get banned.
Also I keep hearing a bunch of weird noises in the background. No sightings of monsters yet however. I just heard a weird high pitched growling noise that starts high, goes low really fast then goes back up to a high note and ends in about a second. I heard a weird bird noise too. It sort of sounds like a loon.
EDIT:
Spoiler: It's lonely out in space (click to show/hide)
Shortly after this I /yelled Yay I'm an astronaut.
Then my game crashed.
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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Let's Keep 'Ol EJ from Dying: King of Dragon Pass LP
« on: April 23, 2014, 08:57:28 pm »
Eventually you should make a lot of trade goods and trade them and some of your herd for artifacts.
For now my advice is to explore your lands as they usually have some nice and safe finds.
MAgic:
1 Children
2 Herds
1 War
2 in either Quest or Discoveries, whichever one helps you explore
1 in reserve
Children and herds because they will increase your population (for raids and production) and herds (for food and for trading), and I assume starting with those would be good for the long term.
1 War in case of being raided or if you decide to raid in the fire season
2 for your early exploration of your own lands
1 in reserve for use as battle magic in case of being raided
For now my advice is to explore your lands as they usually have some nice and safe finds.
MAgic:
1 Children
2 Herds
1 War
2 in either Quest or Discoveries, whichever one helps you explore
1 in reserve
Children and herds because they will increase your population (for raids and production) and herds (for food and for trading), and I assume starting with those would be good for the long term.
1 War in case of being raided or if you decide to raid in the fire season
2 for your early exploration of your own lands
1 in reserve for use as battle magic in case of being raided
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Best Starting Weapon Skill
« on: April 23, 2014, 08:33:01 pm »
I like maces because I can hit a poor little crab a bunch of times in a row with it, while the crab doesn't die from bloodloss.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Dragon Fire Targetting
« on: April 23, 2014, 07:35:23 pm »I have a dragon I have been meaning to put to work for a while now and one thing I would love to know before I build him a nice flamethrower bunker is if his breath weapon can target enemies that are on different Z levels or if it is a strictly lateral blast.
Both. More accurately, your dragon will *target* enemies on a different z-level and breathe fire at them, but the fire is constrained to the dragon's z-level. This can actually be useful, enabling you to encourage your dragon to breathe fire in a specific direction to roast enemies without line-of-sight for return fire, or simply incinerate your garbage.
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DF Adventure Mode Discussion / Re: Sewers
« on: April 23, 2014, 07:32:22 pm »
I haven't heard that before. Maybe there was a war just prior to you embarking on an adventure?
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: How can I force dwarves to use large stone pots for storing seeds and food
« on: April 23, 2014, 07:30:09 pm »
It's actually recommended to have a seed stockpile separate from your food stockpiles that does not use barrels or pots. This is because seeds are very commonly left behind by dwarves who've just eaten a raw vegetable or by brewers' brewing. Since one barrel can hold a lot of bags of seeds, often the majority if not all (especially early on) your seed stockpile will be fit (inside bags) inside of a single barrel. This means when one of those seeds are generated, a dwarf will grab the barrel and with it all of your seeds, bring the barrel to where the seed is laying, and then put it in a bag in the barrel. This will result in plant seed jobs being cancelled until that barrel is back in place in it's stockpile. Since seeds are so common it is a large reduction in farm productivity as the barrel will be traveling quite a bit. If the stockpile does not allow barrels, only one bag of seeds will be taken leaving other full bags in the stockpile to be planted.