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Off Topic / New $500 Gaming Rig

« on: April 22, 2010, 08:11:46 pm »

So I realized that while it is nice saving for a glory system down the road, in the mean time I would like to enjoy playing games like BF2 or L4D2, hell I'd even enjoy hopping in APB if my computer could handle it.

Currently I'm trying to get the most out of a 4 year old satellite with a 1.8GHZ Turion 64 X2, 4GB ram and Radeon X1200.

Current benchmarks:
TF2 on lowest settings 15fps average 10 low 25 high
CSS on lowest settings 25fps average 15 low 40 high
L4D2 on lowest settings 10fps average 5 low 20 high

So I've done some researching, this seems to be a good breakdown.

Here is a list I've compiled, and just wanted some thoughts.
I am able to spend more on certain things because I already have a case with an optical drive and hdd I can use. I can try shopping around for better prices, but these are newegg prices as of today.

gpu
ATI Radeon HD 5770 (MSI Hawk)
160
or
Nvidia 260 GTX (ASUS)
199

cpu
3.2GHz AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition (loved the potential for overclocking -example-)
99

motherboard dependent on graphics card
MSI 790X-G45
99
or
Asus 750a SLI
99

ram
OCZ Platinum 2GB (2x1GB) DDR3 1333
50

psu
Corsair 750W
90

Off Topic / Internet Speed Choices

« on: January 30, 2010, 03:48:48 pm »

So I'm moving to a new apartment next week and have some options on what download/upload speeds I can have.

Here are my options so far (I have narrowed it down to the ones I am considering).
25/25 @ $70/month Fios Tier 2
50/10 @ $100/month Comcast tier 3
50/20 @ $145/month Fios Tier 3

Now correct me if I am wrong, but the upload speed tends to be the most important factor when talking about online gaming n'est pas?

I am currently leaning toward the 25/25 because it is the fastest upstream plan as well as the cheapest among the list.

Thoughts?

Aside: I am currently on a 3/0.768 @ 42/month DSL plan :-/

Off Topic / randomness (music)

« on: September 16, 2009, 05:58:27 pm »

I got to thinking that we need a thread where people can randomly share whatever music they're listening to and/or think others should be exposed to. While artist/song name suggestions are welcome, being able to actively listen to the music via a stream is what I'm going for here.

Phienyx inspired me to post a few more examples of music from Tipper.

I always equated Tipper's music as offbeat music you could play in the background of movie (or an episode of CSI as the case may be), though most of his music you can't really appreciate without a nice sub.

Relish the Trough
Ton of Brix
Run4Cover
Veil Lifter
Tiny Face
Daved and Confused (used in CSI, how I found this artist in the first place).
No Dice
Couch Barrels
Minimal Thoughts of Reason

Off Topic / "New" Car

« on: September 13, 2009, 05:38:58 pm »

So I'm in the market for a used car. After a vigorous initial screening I have narrowed down my selection to the following model and model year ranges.

Non-Hybrid
Acura TL - 2005-2006
Volvo S80 - 2005-2006
Volkswagen Passat - 2005-2008
Saab 9-5 Aero - 2005-2007
Toyota Camry - 2005-2008
Honda Accord - 2005-2008
Nissan Altima - 2005-2009
Nissan Maxima - 2005-2007
Infiniti G35 - 2005-2006

Hybrid
Nissan Altima Hybrid - 2007
Honda Accord Hybrid - 2005-2006

If anyone has any particular knowledge, good or bad, about any of the car/model years listed above I'd appreciate the input. For example, I have heard bad things about the QR25DE engine in the Altimas. I've also noticed the Nissans and Toyotas have lower dashboards in general and thus my knee hits them uncomfortably, but I haven't tried those particular models listed.

General / Halo 3/Wars/ODST Achievements

« on: September 06, 2009, 09:30:03 am »

In anticipation of the ODST release later this month (and for those of you who preordered a beta invite for fall of reach multiplayer!), I am seeking any and all volunteers to work on finishing up achievements in the current Halo games.

Halo 3 Achievements
Halo Wars Achievements
Coming Soon: ODST Achievements

For achievements that can be made in campaign/skirmish, co-op is the best way to go about it.

For Xbox Live achievements, best way to play FA vs FA is to set both people's language to something other than english and then search for the same game type with that language preferred.

I remember doing this when Halo 3 first came out and it was a nice group effort.

FA Gamertags can be found via this thread.

I'll be on all day today and tomorrow as well as every weekend thereafter in the evenings.

Off Topic / Matrix Music

« on: August 09, 2009, 01:12:56 am »

So I was re-watching the Matrix the other day and thought the dvd menu music was cool. Sadly, it's just an audio loop made for the movie industry called "Conquest of Truth" (not made by Enigma)

If you just want to listen to the same 36 second loop over and over here is a mp3 format I found.

http://www.mediafire.com/?id2ymlzmz3d

The better known, similar sounding song used in one of the trailers is Enigma's "The Eyes of Truth" (4:15-5:15)

http://www.last.fm/music/Enigma/_/The+Eyes+of+Truth

Off Topic / 64-bit OS Users?

« on: June 30, 2009, 10:10:08 am »

Anyone running (or used to run) a 64-bit os like xp64 or vista64?

I'm curious if you've run into any specific problems (like lack of driver support, certain games not running, etc).

My hard drive failed last Friday and I'm tempted to load a 64-bit version of windows on my new one (also have 4gb of ram that wasn't getting used).

General / Confessions of a Hacker

« on: May 21, 2009, 07:06:00 pm »

Happened to be browsing the DFO forums when this guy posted. I copied it knowing it would get removed fairly quickly (about 5 minutes later). Interesting read.

DFOHAXOR wrote:
Wall of text, but worth reading if you are interesting in a different perspective, or want information in regards to the topic. Hell, if you just came to troll and yell at me good for you.

I would first like to let people know that I don't give a rat's ass how you perceive me. I play the way I play regardless of what other's think and have played this way in the entirety of all my gaming.

The only reason I will give you a background to where I am coming from is in hopes that you understand that I am not retarded like a small portion of the hackers that are out there, and to personalize myself to the game to show that I am not coming out of left field with what I am presenting. But, as always, this forum is fickle with teenage angst and extreme personalities, so your opinion is your own. Good for you.

Gaming, as far as its existence in my life, is not high up on the list. Does this make my actions correct or worthy of doing so? No, I know that my actions can/have hurt games.

I hacked, I macroed and I exploited. I was not the obvious hacker. I hacked/exploited for wealth to fund my macroing. I rarely took part in PvP, using my time rather to macro up skills. No, I did not take place in rigorfests. No, I did not take place in Acid Pool exploits. Those exploits were in clans (which are heavily ridden with exploiters/hackers) so I missed out on those. I spent my time in Darkfall going solo; doing my own thing. I learned everything about the game by myself through my own actions and through seeing things. I never stole other people's mounts and the moment someone came to my spawn I teleported out of the way and let them take over the spawn.

In the hacker community there is a constant battle of the "good" hackers and the "stupid" hackers. The "Good Hacker" goes unnoticed to the general population. He never uses speedhack, he never uses aimbot or sticky to his advantage in PvP and is non-conflict when it comes to other players. The "Stupid Hacker" group consists of either teenagers or players who hate DF and don't care if they get caught. These people are the ones you see stealing boats, jumping from out of ground to kill you or steal your mount. They also attack the "Good Hackers" even knowing that they will just teleport away.

But that's besides the point of this post. I am throwing this out there to let people know a few things, ask questions, or just hate on my with nerd-rage until this thread is locked and I am banned.

First, let's give you a background on the cheats used and how. Most hackers (in DF) have two accounts. One clean, one for hacking. This is what I did and this is nothing new to the DF Forum community.

How the hacks work:

1. Teleport is loaded up after you are logged in. You can move with the direction keys on the numpad section of your keyboard. This hack allows you to teleport instantly anywhere in the game. Yes, you can teleport inside buildings, rocks, trees, under the ground, you name it.

Repeated use of this will give you the "Out of Virtual Memory" error, so next time you see all the people with this problem, keep that in mind. I see people post from here to the hacker forum all the time.

2. Darkfall Physics - This one is the good one. This hack encompasses wallhacks, radar, three different forms of speedhacks, player (and GM even if they are invisible) detection, graves/nodes wallhacks, sticky to player (popular for the hackers that like to steal mounts), and of course the infamous aimbot.

Wallhacks drop almost all of the current things you see unless you have certain wallhacks turned on. You can drop all the scenery and just see players (highlighted in purple if they are behind something, green if they are in front of something), mining nodes, or simple things like chests or gravestones.

Speedhacks have three different settings from Sprinting all the time without loss of Stamina (if you pay attention closley when people use this function THEY DO NOT LEAN FORWARD WHEN THEY RUN) to obvious speed hacking.

Aimbot and Player Sticky are similar. Sticky you can be a mile away, throw your cursor over the mob/player/mount, hit F1 and be RIGHT on the guy, stuck to him. This gives the player a look of scrabbling around your back as you try to run away. Aimbot does what the name says. Snaps the cursor to your guy so you have less of a chance of missing.

Radar shows + on the screen of locations of players, mobs, and NPCs.

Proximity Alarm sounds off when someone is within distance of your radar. The only problem? That the radar detects things way off the radar screen. So players sometimes don't know if it's an invisible GM or a bug.

3. SECURE Physics

This hack is like the regular Darkfall Physics, but minus the tools they are not sure are detectable. Guess we will see!

Other factoids:

1) They are banning accounts again. Yes, get excited! They have been banning accounts since yesterday and it's picking up again. They banned my CLEAN account, not my hacking account. What does this mean? It means they are going about it some other way. They must be detecting item transfers or something as I NEVER ran a hack on my clean account. Yes, I did macro, but was never warned or booted by a GM. So they could be coming down on macroers, no idea.

2) The Mercs, Rainbow Ninjas, Pain, NME, Blood, Bad Boys for Life, Shadow Syndicate, Collations of Character Killers are the plethora of hacking clans. Some are better than others, but they hack and try to act like they don't. I know this by going under their cities, seeing who is teleporting in, who looks at me, going to their spawns and seeing their responsiveness to my location etc.

3) The game economy is fucked up by greedy exploiters/hackers. Some of these people have one account, some have multiple. They buy low, and sell high, driving prices higher while they get a profit. This is terrible in how it makes it so the low be/new coming players cannot afford certain items. Other players exploited a Mount Dupe trick in the early days to attain HUNDREDS of mounts. Then by selling them they got quick gold in the beginning launching them to the riches (All the people who suck Styyled Enrolled's penis for thinking he's some uber gamer are kidding themselves. There's a few in the other Alliances as well).

4) Yes, Ky Ky hacks. Yes, sorry, the infamous Dread Og hacks. How do I know? From sharing the same spawns/locations as them. Ky Ky obviously hacks, where as Dread Og may not hack in PvP, but he does have a second account (named King Khang or something in that nature, it's in the same alliance as Dread is) that he has near his main account, using hacks to teleport to get his goods, take them to the bank, and scout other players entering in the area.

(Sorry Dread! Guess you better make another YouTube video of yourself talking in that spit filled voice of yours!)

5) Deathless Mages/Hooded ones are THE primary source of income for most hackers. Hit up the map sites and hit those spots, people will be there. Just target Harder Level spawns and they will be more than likely exploited, but after the last ban some smart hackers started hitting up Hard/Medium level spawns that they could kill fast and in 4-5 mob numbers.

6) Some hackers teleport to the Bindstones thinking they will go unnoticed. Check above a person recalling in and see if they have the Shield above their head. If not, yes, they teleported in. Others use rocks/houses in the nearby area to teleport in to then walk out. This is a tricky one as you can actually log out and sometimes get stuck inside a building and walk out and not hack.

7) Most common used method of hacking is to teleport inside a building and use a mount to kick through the walls of the building. Most popular used mounts by HACKERS are the Drakes as they have a tail that reaches further and has a wider attack range from side to side.

Names given in this statement are true, take it or leave it. The names in this post were not thrown out there because I was wronged by the people in any way as I was pretty much left alone with my tactics ingame.

That's all I have for now. We will see how long this post lasts. Again, feel free to ask any questions you'd like or rage/troll me, I could give a fuck.

General / Patch Notes 5-15-09

« on: May 15, 2009, 08:17:56 am »

Some highlights I am particularly happy about
-Skill gain has increased significantly in all melee skills
-Vendor icons on minimap now display the vendor name
-Zoom added to World Map
-Axes melee range has increased
-Greataxes melee range has increased
-Crafting skill gain has been increased
-Requirements for getting trueforge armor and trueforge weapon skills have been modified.

Skills

* Skill gain has increased significantly in all melee skills
* Skill progression in archery has been increased significantly
* You are now required to hit a valid target to gain skill in archery
* Skilling up in magic has been increased significantly
* Skill progression in spells requires the caster to hit a valid target
* Number of successful hits required to reach surging mode again with spells has been extremely reduced
* Knockback, Seize and Whirlwind have been modified and skill gain has increased

Gameplay / Fixes

* Small adjustments made to melee reach depending on character race
* Corrected spells that would skill up rigor without dealing damage
* Corrected a problem some players had while buying skills and starter weapons from vendors
* Corrected an issue in auto optimization
* Fogginess of environments has been reduced
* Various client side issues have been corrected
* Clan Mines/Quarries/Groves/etc now start out at 25% capacity and their regrowth rate has been increased
* Clan Guard Tower damage had been slightly increased

Monsters

* Monster loot for Demon and Fire Giant has been updated
* A.I. tactics have been enhanced and improved

User Interface

* Improved worldmap and minimap marker information (You can use the options window to change this)
* Zoom added to World Map
* Improved crafting window
* Improved tooltips for crafting window
* New tooltip for spells display reagent requirements
* Display of active weapon under hotbar updated, improved and fixed
* New chat messages displaying who buffed or debuffed you
* Vendor icons on minimap now display the vendor name
* Player Journal and Clan pages now accessible trough external browsers. Go to http://web001.eu1.darkfallonline.com/darkfall and log in with your username and password
* Trading window confirmation now displays the name of the person wanting to trade with you
* Various skill descriptions have been improved
* Various item descriptions have been improved
* Various problems with Journal and Clan windows have been resolved

Weapons

Melee Range has increased:

* Axes
* Clubs
* Greataxes
* Greatclubs
* Knives

New Polearms have been added to the game:

* Guisarme
* Spetum
* Imperial halberd
* Polehammer
* Glaive
* Partisan
* Dragon tail
* Skewer

Visual Updates

We have made visual updates to:

* Giant Dragon Skeletons
* Blacksmith market stands
* Kobold huts and props.
* Harbor bases
* Human keep bases
* Human skeleton props
* Minotaur Statues
* Some player controlled ships
* Miscellaneous props

New Quests

ORDER OF THE AXE - DWARVEN FACTION

* A New Enemy
* A link to the Leaders
* Fire Standard Leaders
* Helping Out
* The Legendary Blacksmith

FIVE BEARDS TRADING COMPANY - DWARVEN FACTION

* Masters of the Dark Taint
* A Trading Post in Trouble
* Protecting the Trading Post
* Evigvanger is Safe
* The Miners of Otredale

THE RADIANT CIRCLE - ALFAR FACTION

* Rare Sightings
* Forgotten Creatures
* These New Neighbors
* Castle Obad
* Materials for Enchantments
* The Fallen Necromancers
* Shulgan the Cautious
* A Matter of Security
* The Cursed Ones

THE HARN MANDEAN - ALFAR FACTION

* West of Nagast
* Weak Minds

ALFAR CAPITAL

* Tialanta the Fighter
* Five Humans Less
* Hunting Mirdain is Fun
* True Predators
* Big, Slow, Ugly and Stupid

OTHER ALFAR QUESTS

* As Strange as they Come
* Two Eyes
* Hanthar's Gift
* Dangerous Gnolls

Crafting

* Crafting ingredients have been reduced for

* Tribal Pike
* Cultist Polearm

* Crafting skill gain has been increased
* Requirements for getting trueforge armor and trueforge weapon skills have been modified.
* Improved crafting window
* Improved tooltips for crafting window

World Building

There have been area and world building updates to:

* Carpendale
* Winterworth
* Wetstone
* Thangruk
* Waterbourne
* New NPCs have been added in Obad

Magic

* 'Leech' spells no longer work on mounts
* Mana cost for powerful spells has been reduced
* Potential maximum damage for spells has been increased
* Holy/Unholy damage will now drain stamina
* Bone can now be bought from the arcanist

Spell Balancing

AIR MAGIC

* Arrow shield: Effect has been significantly increased
* Arrow ward: Reach has been increased
* Come hither: Reach has been significantly increased
* Exploding charge: Damage output has been increased
* Guiding wind: Effect has been significantly increased
* Lightning bolt: Reach has been significantly increased
* Lightning ward: Effect increased, reach increased
* Lightning weakness: Effect increased
* Lightning shield: Effect increased
* Thunderstorm: Reach and duration increased

EARTH MAGIC:

* Acid Rain: Reach significantly increased. Duration increased
* Acid Shield: Effect significantly increased
* Acid ward: Effect significantly increased
* Disintegrate: Damage increased. Impact area increased
* Gravity: Reach increased. Cooldown reduced
* Impale: Damage increased
* Ironskin: Effect increased. Reach increased
* Pungent mist: Reach increased
* Stamina leech: Reach increased
* Stoneskin: Effect significantly increased
* Tarnish : Effect significantly increased

FIRE MAGIC:

* Dragonbreath: Reach increased
* Fire Shield: Effect significantly increased
* Fire ward: Effect significantly increased. Reach increased
* Haste: Effect significantly increased. Reach increased
* Inferno: Damage increased
* Smoke signal: Reach increased
* Volcano: Reach increased. Duration increased. Damage increased
* Wall of fire: Reach increased
* Weakening blaze: Effect significantly increased

GREATER MAGIC:

* Beacon: Reach increased
* Heal other : Reach increased
* Infliction shield: Effect significantly increased
* Infliction ward: Effect significantly increased
* Insight: Effect significantly increased
* Rend: Casting time reduced. Cooldown time reduced. Damage increased. Area of effect increased.
* Telekinesis: Reach increased
* Venom: Cooldown time reduced

LESSER MAGIC:

* Health to mana: Effect significantly increased
* Heal mount: Reach increased
* Launch: Reach increased
* Lay on hands: Reach increased
* Magic ward: Reach increased
* Mana drain: Effect significantly increased

NECROMANCY

* Bludgeoning weakness : Effect significantly increased
* Desecration : Effect significantly increased
* Death fog : Reach increased
* Infernal shield : Effect significantly increased
* Infernal ward : Effect significantly increased. Reach increased
* Mental weakness : Effect significantly increased.
* Piercing weakness : Effect significantly increased
* Slashing weakness : Effect significantly increased
* Undeath : Effect significantly increased. Mana cost reduced
* Unholy caress : Reach increased
* Unholy flames : Effect increased. Mana cost slightly increased.
* Vampiric touch : Reach increased

SPELL CHANTING

* Bless other : Effect significantly increased
* Blessing : Effect significantly increased. Reach increased
* Hymn of Intellect : Reach increased. Effect increased
* Hymn of Might : Reach increased. Effect increased
* Hymn of Skill : Reach increased. Effect increased
* Hymn of Swiftness : Reach increased. Effect increased
* Hymn of Vigor : Reach increased. Effect increased

WATER MAGIC:

* Blizzard : Cooldown slightly increased
* Cold shield : Effect increased
* Cold ward : Effect increased. Reach increased
* Frostbite : Reach increased
* Ice storm : Reach increased
* Icicle : Slight damage decrease
* Shards : Slight damage decrease
* Toxic rain : Reach increase. Duration slightly decreased
* Water breathing : Reach increased
* Weakening chill : Effect significantly increased

WITCHCRAFT:

* Disease : Effect increased
* Insect swarm : Reach increased
* Ominous drain : Effect increased
* Palsy : Effect increased
* Pestilence : Effect increased
* Sluggish : Effect increased
* Stupidity : Effect increased
* Tongue Rot : Cooldown increased

General / Auto-Harvest

« on: May 01, 2009, 09:30:11 am »

Patch notes for today.

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=183767

"Auto Harvesting Enabled. Simply stand in front of the resource node and click the left mouse button. Your character will continue to harvest from the node until the node is depleted, character runs out of stamina, or is interrupted."

Oddly enough I had already planned on spending 6 hours today doing nothing but wood/iron/herb gathering :-)

General / Goodies Up For Grabs

« on: February 04, 2008, 02:43:25 pm »

I have some goodies to give out.

People that have been farming headgear lately get first dibs. If none of them need these things then it's open to all.

First come first serve in either case.

Note: Please actually need the item, not just want a second copy.

Zion Outpost Access Key - Claimed
Area K Trenchcoat (male) - Claimed
Widow's Moor Lenses (male) - Claimed
Quicksilver Pills (stack of 20) - Claimed
Data Scrambler 0.4 x 2 - 1 Claimed
Quicksilver Gloves (male)

General / Buddy Keys

« on: February 03, 2008, 11:01:38 pm »

Anyone still have some?

General / Headgear Farming

« on: February 03, 2008, 11:15:59 am »

So here's where I'm at on my headgear farming.
Male
10 Archives 3 Corrupted Codes

Female
8 Archives 3 Corrupted Codes

and 240 Insecticides (plus whatever Sorrows has)

Headgear costs 10 Archives, 5 Corrupted Codes
1 Archive = 40 Decaying Code
1 Corrupted Code = 340 Decaying Code
Each low level spawn can be farmed at roughly 60/hour (so 2 people = 120/hour, 3 people = 180/hour, etc)

I tried farming level 53s but it's painfully slow

I would like some help finishing these up.

*Note: I'm farming the female one as well now because I have a deal to make 130mil and a male area K. I'll split my earnings with the helpers and whoever is the first helper to call for it gets the area K.

Off Topic / My Newish Laptop

« on: January 03, 2008, 04:41:16 pm »

I decided to split this from the other thread because it wasn't really relevant.

I bought this computer in an somewhat a state of emergency back in October. Paid retail at a Best Buy, 3rd cheapest one they had in stock.

For those of you interested my stats (including all my personal touches):
Make/Model: Toshiba Satellite A215-S4747
CPU's: AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-56 1.8GHz
OS: Windows XP Professional (32-bit)
RAM: 4.0GB (2x2.0GB) Super Talent DDR2 PC-5300 667MHz
Display: 15.4" Widescreen WXGA
GPU: ATI Radeon X1200 128MB Dedicated (Integrated up to 319MB)
HD: Toshiba 200GB 4200RPM ATA
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook, Samson C01U Microphone, Sony MDR-V700 Headphones
Optical Drive: LG GSA-T20N SuperMulti CD24/24/16 DVD-8/8/4/6 DVD+8/4/8 DVDRAM 5
Mouse/Keyboard: Logitech G5 Laser, Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000
Extras: Built-in Chicony Webcam, SD Card Reader, Firewire, S-Video Out, 4 USB 2.0 ports

And just look at this sexy desktop I have going.

That's right, I made it look and feel like a Mac.
(in case you're wondering the icons from left to right are firefox, thunderbird, teamspeak, aim, mxo, steam, itunes, word, excel, bittorrent, seti@home, spybot, notepad, calculator, paint, system preferences (control panel), trash (recycle)

Matrix Screensaver I use.

Off Topic / OMG GLOBAL WARMING!

« on: January 01, 2008, 12:08:31 pm »

I was actually surprised to read this rather common sense article in the Times (not because of what it said, but because it was in the NY Times).
In 2008, a 100 Percent Chance of Alarm

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