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I should clarify my point. If you want to not be very mobile, just sit, point and shoot (tank), then a PW is what you want. A TE or a JD should not be able to match a PW dps-wise in this type of combat. It could however be possible that you could achieve a higher dps with a JD or a TE using tactics that require more attention (more movement, more clicks, different skills etc)

I think when they say balance, they are referring to balancing what each class can do and what they have available so that we don't have a server full of just one class and nobody else. There definitely should not be a balance in dps between the classes. PW's should be able to take and deliver more dps than any other class in the game (hence the nickname 'tank class') However a group of all PW's should not be successful in a raid, it should require that a supporting class or two be involved.

IIRC minimum post count is required to vote on polls. You have to have posted like 5 times before you can vote.

Maybe a drop down off of the sort button so you can choose which method to sort by rather than hitting sort, waiting for the "sorting machine to reset" and then click it again until you get to the one you want.

Shield recharge is nice in a raid situation but definitely not overpowered. Whenever I have been on raids, we like having a TT around for kiting and hull repair purposes. The PP is definitely better in combat than a TT, but that is to be expected. Progen should be better in straight combat compared to a Terran, but I don't believe that makes a TT useless.

Shatner...Star Wars references....AHHHHHHH I'm drowning in nerd soup!!!!! Somebody throw me a rope, or do I need to roll my 20-sided die to see what my chances of escape are?

How does it work if you hit something that can't see you? If the mobs scan range isn't big enough to spot the shooter, will it leave its tether to try to find the shooter? If not, its not much of a kiting weapon.

Very little sleep over the last few days and fighting a major head cold, so I apologize for the goofiness, but it is less than 36 hours from Christmas, so here is something I put together last night while not being able to get logged in for some reason. T'was the day near Christmas and all through F7, Not a creature was stirring, not even Vaden. The jenquai were mining in gas fields with care, In hopes that an update soon would be there. The Terran were nestled all snug in their ships, While mumblings of credits danced from their lips, And Hexergirl in her kerchief and Kyp in a beanie, Wondering why this content push was being such a meanie. When out on the server there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my terminal to see what was the matter. Away to enb-emulator.com I flew like a flash, Sometimes these crashes are a pain in the a**. And what to my wondering eyes did appear, David, and eight tiny developeers; (sorry, had to make it rhyme) With a little old server, so temperate and quick, I suggest someone hit it with a stick. More rapid than eagles his helpers they came. He whistled and shouted and called them by name: "Now Tien! Now Byakhee! Now Freak! Now Riia! On, Kenu! On, Webby! On, Blacklung etc.! To the top of the server, to the top of it all Fix away, fix away, fix away all!" They posted not a word, but went straight to their work, And squashed all the bugs; then restarted with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, through the exit David rose. He sprang to his ship, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim 'ere he drove out of sight, "The server is starting and to all an enb night!"

You know when you go to a bar and on the pool table, there is numbered slots for you to put your quarters, to hold your spot, so when the people playing on the table now are done, they know it is your turn. I'm wondering how difficult it would be to set up raids the same way. I have seen a few issues since I turned OL135+ with multiple groups going after GoBB or the Master in the bowl at the same time. Usually not a big deal, whichever group gets the kill usually (stress usually) gets the loot and if there is something that somebody else needs they will leave it out there. But there are occassions where it seems the same people are camping the same raids over and over again. I'm wondering if we can't set up a queue system to handle this issue. Possibly set up an NPC at the various stations near the raid sites, (QAR for the controller, Paramis station for GoBB, Chernevog for the RD base, etc). Maybe attach some cost to starting a raid, each player in the raid group can only do each raid only once a day, or every 12 hours, or whatever the dev's decide is an appropriate time for each raid. A raid leader would go to the NPC and pay their fee or bring some comp or whatever. It would set up like a job, the boss would only spawn when the raid leader's group approaches the area, the boss spawns, the group kills it, loot, give away whatever, give like a 15 minute or 30 minute cooldown time or whatever before another group is able to start another raid. Each person that goes up to the NPC to try to start the raid while one is going will be put into a queue and be told they are 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 19th in line whatever, so they can plan accordingly. I say any toon that is within a certain distance of where the boss is killed is locked from starting a new raid for a certain period of time, possibly tie it to the accounts, so that the same person couldn't log on an alt and start it again. This might prevent some of the spawn camping. Just an idea, let me know what you think.

Agreed, at the peak times, it seems there are at least 3 groups if not more in the bowl at a time right now, if we made it more raid style again and made it so that it would take possibly two groups including explorers for js and traders for shield recharge to take down the bowl, that would be more ideal. And for the people who like the bowl the way it is now, can we possibly make a portion of Cooper with the fishies that drop possibly just comps (not the big stuff like weapons, shields, engines, etc) but stuff that may require a single small group to survive, and leave the rarer stuff for inside the bowl.

Forgot about that little trick. I grew up on a mouse that had no center wheel, so I hardly use it for anything other than scrolling up and down a long page. Actually I grew up before there was a mouse, or Windows, there was just Oregon Trail, and we were grateful for it.

I think I've heard of people getting this error if they didn't do the patch or it didn't patch correctly. Edit: Also make sure you are doing both the client and the config run as administrator. I believe I also had to change both of mine to run in compatibility with windows xp (using Win7 64 bit) to make it work.

I have become so accustom to right-click and select open in new tab that I don't even notice the difference anymore, but yes, it would be nice to have it done automatically.

I agree with these statements and while it is rare that there wouldn't be a builder on that can build the weapon, I still would like to be able to build it myself. The looted ammo can be found in market but its rare (especially the plasma and chem). There was somebody on yesterday who spent a couple hours trying to find those ammo samples. In hindsight I would guess Byakhee possibly regrets using the BB as the reward considering that it doesn't drop anywhere else, but the fact remains that this gun is in the game now, regardless of how it got there, so there will be those people who feel slighted because they don't have the gun mapped. I'm more bothered about the fact that I'm having difficulties just getting the mission itself rather the end-reward. To be honest I already have a BB gun 200% built by someone else so like you mentioned, I use it when I solo and when I go into the FB or cooper or whatever in group, I switch it out with one of my bile cannons.

Well, Matt just be happy you can do it all. Apparently my mission tree is so messed up, I can repeat none of the missions. Even with GM assistance, I wasn't even able to pick up the Capture the Cargo mission again. I get default Var no matter how many BPOMT I have (currently have 6). My JE has been running a couple hours a day for the last couple weeks in the gas fields in Glenn, I'm close to another set of 300 of each of 9's hoping that possibly when I'm ready some divine intervention will allow me to try the mission again and hopefully get a better result than 1 out of 4 on the mappings (only got the impact ammo mapped last time).

Is that what the FB normally looked like in live? Like somebody spilled a bag of doritos everywhere?

See this is why that one station says not to mess with the repair bots while in the docking bay.

I cleared my temp internet files, deleted all browsing history, cookies, cache, etc and I get the same error. Repeatable in IE8, Opera and firefox.

So what about the wandering pirate showing drops no loot?

I'm not sure if this is a bug, did a mob search on lvl 50 Wandering Pirate and the DB lists them as having no loot, however there are several items that this mob drops. Interesting thing, do a search for brimstone impact ammo and there are two mobs listed in the drop section, but then do a mob search for either of those two and neither of them will show up.

I thought the issue might have to do with my security here at work, but I thought it was strange that it worked in Firefox here and not in IE8. But it is working now for me.

For those of us that never made it to the FB in live, can somebody give a run-through of what it used to be like? From what I'm hearing, you didn't used to gate into the FB you were sucked into it, and then you had to battle through the boss fishies, in order, before you even got to the Master? And when you were done, there was no gate to get back out? Raiding is completely new to me, only made it to the high 60's in live, I've been in the FB a few times, but as it is now, its not a raid, its just an area where its better to be in a group.

I noticed the sig generator has a different pop-up when you update your sig. Also, my sig is not getting updated either on the net-7 site or on the forums, even after doing the ctrl-f5 to refresh. Edit: I noticed I get a javascript error when I try to update that says: Message: Access is denied. Line: 5910 Char: 4 Code: 0 URI: http://www.net-7.org/js/jquery.js This is on IE8, however the update works fine on firefox

I think Slayer mentioned it once before, in live, EA/Westwood didn't provide anything like this, it was all end-user created stuff. Kind of like a cheat guide, so basically I agree with what you are saying about official listings. Since this DB is directly tied to the DB in-game, I think it should go one way or the other. Either show all mobs that drop the items, or show none at all.

well that horse has been dead for a while but you can continue to beat it. Doesn't seem to change anything.