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Off Topic / Leap Motion (touch screen without touching)

« on: June 21, 2013, 03:45:02 am »

No need to buy a touchscreen.. use with your existing monitor.

$80... I'm considering it.
Thought I should come and let you all know about it.

What it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21LtA5-wiwU

Official site:
https://www.leapmotion.com/

Order page:
https://central.leapmotion.com/preorder/new

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Off Topic / Hawken: Closed Beta now on

« on: October 26, 2012, 03:27:12 am »

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Welcome to HAWKEN's first Closed Beta Event!

It's finally here! HAWKEN's first Closed Beta Event is now upon us, it's time to jump into your mech and join the battle!

You have created your account on www.playhawken.com and have been granted access to Closed Beta Event 1. Congratulations! Now on to the fun part - how to get in the game!

CBE 1 takes place this weekend! The servers will open around 12:00 PM PDT on Friday, October 26. They will be available all weekend and will close Monday night, October 29 at 11:59 PM PDT.

You will find the download for the Closed Beta client here:
http://playhawken.com/beta/

There is no NDA with our Closed Beta Events. Feel free to take screenshots or record your matches and upload them everywhere!

Welcome to HAWKEN, pilot!

Meteor Entertainment

w00t!

Why does this have to be my busiest weekend of the year

Looks like I'm not getting much sleep this weekend.

(Open beta starts 12/12/12)

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General / AFK 2 Weeks

« on: April 05, 2012, 08:09:55 am »

brb (Monday 23rd)

On a side note, anyone in Orlando area, post up and we'll grab a drink. I will still be checking forums... just wont be in SWTOR... or any other world...

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Support / Computer on last legs...

« on: March 02, 2012, 03:54:04 am »

Alas, my mainboard is on the way out... for the last week I haven't had sound and haven't been able to resolve the issue through codecs/drivers/reinstallation. NIC has been gone for a long time, but have been living on wireless. Needles to say, I haven't had a chance to play....

Time for a new one, and maybe some other parts too.
Was considering:

The only hangup, and essential part, is the mainboard.
Considering I'm not OCing, would you consider the H67 to do the job? I was previously thinking P67 minimum, but now thinking the Z68 or even the Ivy Bridge just for future, but to be honest I am less likely to upgrade again any time soon. Grrr... used to be I needed the top notch stuff. I don't think it matters to me any more as much as the extra cash in my pocket.

Also I'm thinking mATX to try and stuff it all into a smaller case (my home setup isn't the same since having kids... my office has been taken over by toys, and I'm now moved more into the living room). A smaller case would allow me to stuff the machine into a cupboard rather than having the hulking mass that currently sits beside the sofa. Smaller case also gives cooling issues of course.

/ramble

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Support / thefuriousangels .com guild page link

« on: January 19, 2012, 05:25:47 am »

Just a note that the flash website that the outside world will see contains a link to the old SWTOR GUILD page, that no longer exists.

Instead it goes to a "page not found".

This is the top left part of the flash.
Just a note!

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Non-VR Games / Assisting those in need (being "griefed", etc)

« on: January 18, 2012, 05:24:40 am »

EDIT:

That'll teach me to post without catching up on other posts first. This would come under the topic of "CODE FURY" I guess... which details are still to be worked out (mentioned under http://thefuriousangels.com/index.php?msg=114465)...

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This is just a quick post to gather our thoughts on the direction of FA in regards to other Republic members (guilded or otherwise).

The other night on Tatooine, there was chatter in the general channel regarding a level 50 imp who was camping the datacron on the balloon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD4Q3ObBlZA). I (lvl 39 at the time) was on Tatooine, and there was another FA-er (lvl 29) elsewhere on the planet.

With my experience on the issue, it would be very difficult for the two of us to team up against the lvl 50... and so a shout went out on Guild chat to see what could be done.

Now, please note that this is not a complaint that we didn't respond. I understand we can't respond to all instances of this, and I don't expect us to. Especially when others are on a different planet, have to QT (or run) back to the spaceport, get on your ship, hyperjump to Tatooine, get down to the planet, then taxi and run to the problem area. This takes a lot of time.

Unlike MxO where it was a lot easier (IMO) to get from hardline to hardline, we do face a problem in getting around quickly around the universe. In MxO it was very easy for us to gather against problem users, and in turn gave FA a very very good name in the game. We were THE "go to" people for assitance.

So I was curious in what direction FA can take this, in the huge universe of SWTOR, so that we can build up our name like in MxO. Ideally, it would have been great for us to gather against the shout that went out on Tatooine... but how can we effectively do that? How can we decide what areas we can reach if a call does go out?

I know we are all busy in game, but quests do eventually get completed and WZ's finish very quickly, in general... but I know we all want to get to 50!!

Again, I want to point out this isn't a complaint that we didn't respond to the Tatooine call... I just want to try and capture what we had in MxO if possible (or at least ask if that's what we ARE wanting to do)... and how we can accomplish that effectively.

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Non-VR Games / 20th - Promoting FA on opening day.

« on: December 19, 2011, 03:46:07 am »

Hey folks.

So just a thought.
I guess on the 20th we are gonna see the servers fill up some more and a big influx of those who haven't pre-ordered.

Just a suggestion here that could be worked on:
Some higher level guys sit on starting worlds (Tython, Ord Mantell) giving away free [crafted] stuff to lowbies. Could sit around the vendors spamming local area chat "Free Blasters! Furious Giveaway! Freshly pressed armor for your levelling needs! All free of charge".

Since most of us will be crafting general garbage at times, just to increase our stats, instead of selling them for pennies, put them towards faction recruitment!

EVen if we don't actually recruit with the giveaway, it certainly shows our presence (how about seeing a lvl 35 guy giving you a free weapon you can use at lvl 1 on your first day playing?). It could be very good for the faction.

Yeah, I'm sure that nobody wants to sit around on Tython doing basically nothing when they could be levelling... at least I can do that from work (can't really level at work).

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General / Origin Product Codes have been sent!

« on: December 16, 2011, 10:44:59 am »

Email just received!

Thank you for ordering on Origin Store. The product that you pre-ordered is now available to either pre-load or download.

Order ID: 989012xxxx
Product ID: 23126xxxx
Product Name: STAR WARSÃ¢â€žÂ¢: The Old RepublicÃ¢â€žÂ¢ Standard Edition
Release Date: 16 December 2011
Digital Rights: xxxx.....xxxxx

Your purchase has now been processed. To redeem your Product Registration Code:

1) Go to www.swtor.com/redeem/game

2) Click "Redeem Your Product Registration Code" (You will be prompted to log in or create a STAR WARSÃ¢â€žÂ¢: The Old RepublicÃ¢â€žÂ¢ account if needed.)

3) Enter and confirm your Product Registration Code (the 20-digit code seen above) when prompted.

4) Follow the on-screen instructions to complete your registration.

5) Install the game and begin playing*.

*Game does not launch until December 20, 2011.

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Non-VR Games / Planet Maps

« on: December 15, 2011, 10:18:54 am »

Hey folks.

Was curious if anyone knew of any sites that have the basic world maps (not galaxy map)? This would be very handy for future tools...

I'm running smuggler, so can do a screen dump of the areas I go to... perhaps we should start a collection that we can manipulate (i.e. add all data points/coords)?

I kinda hoped that it would be up somewhere already...

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Non-VR Games / SWTOR RSS feed for in-game details?

« on: December 09, 2011, 05:46:58 am »

Any one know if SWTOR has a RSS feed for "in-game" details:
i.e.:

> List of current players on a particular server.
> Player stats (for example what level).
> Faction stats (i.e. what players are in faction).

I guess it's unlikely, but would be very handy if we could add the feed in as a tool on the site. I don't see any problems in doing this, so something to suggest to BW?

Thought I would check the here first in case someone saw a post related to this.

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Support / Countdown - Script running slowly

« on: October 06, 2011, 07:00:39 am »

Hey,

Could just be me but thought I would report:
The new countdown clock seems to be stalling the website for me on every page I visit. Get the Flash 10 Player message:

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A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 10 to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script? Yes / No

I'm running IE8 at work on Win 7 Enterprise.

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Non-VR Games / Strategy Guides for Classes etc

« on: August 16, 2011, 05:35:07 am »

Just a quick post to suggest we should get strat guides together on how to level characters etc as effeciently as posssible.

Of course, almost impossible to put a guide together at the moment since not many have had a chance to experience the game, but something to be noted when we all get in.

Would help any newcomers I'm sure.

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General / Praelium Order - Weekly check-ins/meetings?

« on: July 27, 2011, 04:43:09 pm »

Just a quick thread for Euro's to consider:

Should we be thinking about some sort of weekly meetings, etc, just for us?? Considering our time zone, we rarely get a chance to get in on the Monday meeting (would be around 3am my time).

Although there may be minimal business to discuss (although always nice to hear what has been raised in normal FA meetings so we can keep up), it might be a chance to get us used to being online together pre-release.

There may not be a real "need"... but I think it will help bring the crew together a bit more so we are ready to roll.

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Non-VR Games / SW:TOR Website maintenance

« on: July 13, 2011, 08:16:28 am »

So, the SW:TOR website has been down for quite a few hours now.
As website maintenance goes, this seems like quite a while. I have no idea if this is a regular occurrence but, if it is not, it might suggest something nice going on in the background.

I can understand game servers being down for a prolonged period, but website servers? I wonder if anyone in beta could possible say if the game servers are down as well (assuming they are not up only for specific periods anyway)... it might indicate that they are linking something in game to the website in some way?

Of course if this is a regular occurrence, then just ignore me.

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