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  1. I've got a 5 year old Q6600 on a n680 mommy board with 8gb of Corsair xms2 ddr2 800 running a pair of 8800 GTX 640s in SLi powered by a Antec Neo 500 with 3tb worth of samsung spinpoint f3R 7200 rpm sata drives, stuffed into a Antec P182 case. It ran the game at 20ish fps maxed I replaced the motherboard, ram, and cpu with a freebee server pull a friend from Acatel hooked me up with, An Asus p6n deluxe with a i7 920 topped with a noisy Dynatron cooler and 6gb of triple channel ddr3 1333. I also swaped the duel first gen 8800s with a GTX 660. The game runs at 60fps capped (vsync) at 1920x1080x60 and doesn't get above 40c with forced air cooling
  2. I think it is more about the MMO diverging from its vision to cater to a particular group that's the problem. Games that stayed true to their original concept seem to do better in the long run than those that panders.
  3. It depends on how you want to approach the paper, I'd recommend picking 3 contrasting schools of ethics, like utilitarianism, and something from Hobbes or Kant, maybe even feminist ethics, then apply them to a series of cases. An example would be, A imperial officer is about to escape with a bomb schematic that will kill hundreds if not thousands of people if left unchecked, but to make his escape he set the self destruct device for the base. Do you A: go after him and recover the plans leaving a few people to die (DS) or B: Deactivate the Self destruct saving a few people but leaving the galaxy open to random bombings which kill thousands (LS) For this example, Utilitarianism would say that the dark side approach of leaving the base to die to save thousands of people from random bombings to be the most ethical, as the needs or happiness of the many out weight the needs or happiness of the few. Kant would tell you to do what would gives you the most "joy" which works either way, saving a few now or saving thousands later, it's subjective to the individual. Feminist ethics could support the DS solution also since it calls for the equal treatment of all and a empathetic approach to dealing with decisions, so you would kill everyone in the base and feel bad about it but with all things equal 10 people in the base aren't worth a thousand people someplace else. In conclusion argue shades of grey for an A, worked for me writing a paper on torture.
  4. Actually most, if not all, Desktops have a 1.2-1.5v keep alive battery for the cmos mounted on the motherboard...
  5. Its not that sents got a massive buff, but the combination of some minor buffs, the expertise damage/heal changes, and everyone else getting nerfed that make knights, in general, feel OP.
  6. Satele, our illustrious grand master has a son, and is descended from a pair of note worthy jedi...
  7. problem with the neutral market is that the items are the same for the sith and repubs, but the artwork is dependent on the faction, so an item that looks sweet on a sith looks stupid on the jedi. Same items and item tables but a simple if sith then awesome model/skin: else poo brown hoodie, statement in the client... means bioware only had to make half the items. It also means that as jedi we cant get any of the cool masks.
  8. wow [wou] interjection 1. (an exclamation of surprise, wonder, pleasure, or the like): Wow! Look at that! verb (used with object) 2. to gain an enthusiastic response from; thrill. noun 3.an extraordinary success: His act is a real wow. 4.excitement, interest, great pleasure, or the like: a car that will add some wow to your life. Origin: 1890–95; perhaps identical with Scots wow! exclamation of surprise or admiration
  9. Jawa near speader in anchorhead, customer "Hey! this driod you sold me is a piece of junk! I want my money back!" Jawa "No refunds! You Keep!" customer "But its busted! Stupid thing's vocabulator broke down as soon as I got home. Won't say a word now!" Jawa "Vocabulator not broken! Is feature!" customer "A feature? Don't give me that! What good's a protocol droids if it can't even talk?"
  10. I like the mini game, as an eve player it's a change of pace. I just wish they had more variety, but it reminds me of Rebel Assault and Rebel Assault 2...
  11. Considering the the timeline, the fact that ep1 was horrible and that kotor was awesome... make it swoop bike racing
  12. You didn't read the rest of my post... having played nearly every mmo other then wow or rift over the last 16 years (since UO) I understand the concept of tailored gear... and other items.. Crafting should reward the time invested.. Whats the point of crafting for a week to get something that drops 90% of the time in a instance that takes 30mins to run? With he current mods system all they would have to do is add lvl 50 mods which RE'd to the various purple schematics produce a mod on par with one found in raid and pvp gear... This would let people tailor raid and pvp gear to their spec (by having mod variety). Allow the use of oranges and other purples for people to customize their looks (because we don't want to look like everyone else) Give crafters something to do with their time and money investment Purple Items are crafted from purple mats which are time consuming and expensive to get.. It would actually complement the current system to allow customization of Raid and PvP sets, and would allow others to setup oranges to similar stats.. Raid, and PvP gear would keep the set bonus's but biowares already said these could be pulled and applied to oranges in the future.
  13. The idea of best in slot, cookie cutter gear is.. meh.. Most good pvp based games have crafted gear equal to most raid an pvp gear to add options to character customization, raid and pvp gear looked different (better) and slightly different procs or effects that was unique to that piece of equipment, etc.. However, Crafted gear was customizable, able to be tailored to a particular play style or build, and was on par with generic epic gear when paired with that tuned build. Best fix.. let crafters make lvl 50 mods, would let people mix and match oranges and purples and customize them with mods that fit their builds and looks that fit their characters instead of shoehorning everyone into the same stat, same look gear, that everyone will have in a few months due to there not being item attrition.
  14. that's biowares fault for only having a handful of colors, 3 of which are ls/ds locked. I mean.. luke skywalkers wife had a pink saber, han solo's kids had violet, and there's at least 9 different shades of red crystals in the starwars universe that arn't the fake red sith ones. According to some sources the red crystals are more common than blue. sauce: The New Jedi Order Sourcebook Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary Star Wars: Roleplaying Game Revised Core Rulebook The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology all lucas approved cannon sources
  15. For millennia, the Jedi Order lit lightsabers in every color and hue imaginable. However, following the Battle of Ruusan, the hues of most available crystals had been limited to either blue or green. Lightsaber color crystals could also be compressed, resulting in a pulsating blade, or they could be unstable, resulting in a core which swirled and sparkled. -wookiepedia note that the Battle of Ruusan is about 700 years after TOR and there have been hundreds of thousands of jedi and dark jedi that have used red crystals.. again from wookiepedia, which is just a compilation of cannon sources.
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