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ViLSE

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Nov 26th 2013, 17:33:56

I have bought myself two ships so far, one Orion 315p and a Freelancer. But I will try to resist anything more. The Freelancer I only got so that I could fly together with my wife, she will be the gunner in the rear turret. (she promised to try!)

I have been looking into guilds lately but when I asked on the forum for a good one I got sooo many responses that I couldnt be bothered to chose one. I might do that choice a bit closer to release as well.

Colonel Chaos: I really do think you can play this game quite casually, I only intend to play it an hour here or there whenI can fit it in. Long gone are the days when I could sit and play a large number of hours a day or week. Just sounds like lots of fun to me to fly around and find new worlds and trade and so forth. :-)

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Nov 25th 2013, 16:27:06

Yeah really crazy, but they have some 310k people that has already signed up for the game and backing it. This is going to be massive from day1. I say by end of today they will be at $31million. Probably $32million by end of the week.

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Nov 25th 2013, 16:04:51

tellarion, I think they are almost up to $31 million now. But yes, totally insane but looks like a lot of fun.

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Nov 25th 2013, 14:26:49

Hey All!

Long time since I've been here posting much of anything but I am a bit curious if anyone in the earth community has been considering playing Star Citizen when it is done?

I signed up a long time ago in the kickstarter campaign for this game and it has gone huge lengths since then all on community backing. Looks to be a pretty huge game, I will be playing it so if anyone from here is going to do the same feel free to drop me a line. :-)

Some info on the game can be found here if anyone is interested:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

Cheers,
ViLSE

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Oct 31st 2013, 14:53:27

Originally posted by martian:

Vilse: the passwords were encrypted. I'm not sure as to your background in these types of things so I'll explain it in a bit of detail. The encryption method produces a hash key (based on a mathematical formula) and the way that the system knows if you entered the correct password or not is it applies the same formula to your entered password and sees if it generates a hash key. The hash table (which is the table of encrypted passwords) is done in such a way that at least to anyone's knowledge there is no way to mathematically reverse the hash keys back into a password. However if you know the encryption method used (which certain people in RD would have known since they had the boxcar code) and the hash table, it is possible to do a "dictionary search" which contains the hash keys for common passwords.
So if you used a common password or an english word, then yeah they could have gotton your password. If you used some jumble of letters or a bunch of words strung together then no, the only way is brute force or use of methodologies/equipment beyond what anyone in this game would be able to access for this purpose.

There are encryption methods which prevent this kind of attack (ie to save people from themselves) so that even with the hash table a dictionary lookup like I described above would be useless.

Thanks Martian, that should be ok for me in that case, I tend never to have silly passwords that exist in any dictionary. I remember the good ole days when I hacked some UNIX password files and it was stupidly easy when someone used a "normal" word found in a dictionary.

Cheers,
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Oct 31st 2013, 13:54:47

To be honest if anyone does anything IRL then just shut the game down. Its not worth it if that even is a remote possibility.

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Oct 31st 2013, 13:52:23

Hi Pang,

Is there any way we could find out what password we had before they were all changed?

I have been out of contact with this game for a longer period of time and am only really back due to the email about the password change and I cant remember what I had it set to before. Depending on what my password was I might want to go switching passwords elsewhere just to be on the safe side.

Cheers,
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Oct 31st 2013, 13:42:21

Oh my, leave this game for a bit and it all goes kablammo!...

Sounds like the right decision to me though, hope the rest of you all can stick to it and have some fun even after this event.

/ViLSE
DBD + MONSTERS

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Jul 12th 2013, 14:46:48

Yep, and you are the self proclaimed shenanigans-maker-upper so therefore I/We will stay away. :)

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Jul 11th 2013, 13:50:41

Originally posted by ericownsyou5:

Originally posted by archaic:

Congrats to DBD for retiring and letting us have ANW.

In all fairness, we had the highest ANW (aside from ETFT) in the past 10 sets.

Well DBD can always come back one day to ruin your fun yet again. :)
It all depends how much nonsense is going on here if it is worth contemplating starting up again...

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Jun 17th 2013, 16:04:50

Hiya SuperTodd! :)

GO ICN!

/ViLSE

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May 1st 2013, 9:52:40

No worries, DBD comes and DBD goes. One of these days we may be back. :-)

Good job running the show for as long as you guys did, big cheer for Monex and PapaSmurf!!

/ViLSE
DBD

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Dec 14th 2012, 17:16:54

I do not like random teams, the reason I would play in a team is to play with the people I like. There are many people on this server or other servers that I would hate to play with. If there is a random team generation I will simply not play.

A suggestion for how to change team server to work better:
Allow a team to "Declare war" against another team. Unless you are "at war" with another team do not allow anyone to do GS/BR/AB or shoot missiles. Once you are at war you enable these attack types and at the same time lower the explore rate, LG rate from SS/PS and also lower a few other things like cashing and teching points per turn etc. The lower rates are simply to stop two teams from declaring war with one another and then stopping any other teams from killing them. Meaning only allow two teams to be at war, if others try to declare war on the same team simply do not allow it.

A war will then end with a "victor" being assigned once all original countries has been killed. The victor can then get a point against the team for having killed another team. Then some war-like teams cna try and gather as many points per reset as possible and hopefully have fun doing so.

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Aug 24th 2012, 14:12:34

I think those billboards are quite accurate myself, but as pointed out by otheres in this thread they could probably be worded even better.

There are so many things to poke holes at when it comes to Religion that this Atheist group must have had a hard time chosing what to say. :-)

GO ATHEISM!

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Aug 10th 2012, 16:44:19

That's a lot of "Lets assume..." in there ZEN. Personally I am not a huge fan of that. Wouldn't it be nicer to actually know stuff instead of making assumptions and trust in faith?

Wouldn't your life be a lot easier if most the questions were not answered with "God did it"?

This is generally what Science is all about, curious people asking themselves "how did that happen" and "why is X doing this" and so on. There are so many answers out there and so much cool stuff to figure out. I have a great love for that myself and take great pleasure in seeing humanity figuring out these things. :-)

But like you, I will also accept you believe in god and if that makes you happy then all the better. I will still always ask questions though and promote secularism, science and fairness wherever I can. :-)

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Aug 10th 2012, 15:56:25

Yep, thats fine by me, I dont expect any special benefits from not believing in fairytales and as long as you are ok with it the other way around then thats all good.

If there is a cross on your church property then by all means put up a giant cross or an easter bunny statue or whatever you want. On public property keep it off and lets call it "neutral ground" where no one gets preferential treatment to show off their specific brand of religion. I won't put up any giant signs of the Flying Spagetthi monster and you wont put up your cross or whatnot. Its pretty easy really, you dont have any benefits and I dont have any benefits and everyone lives on happily (in theory at least).

Currently I think me putting up a billboard promoting Atheism will cause much more of an outrage than a xtian cross in any event. Or at least that is what the news leads me to believe (in America that is, in Sweden where I am from noone would care one bit). :-)

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Aug 10th 2012, 15:12:26

Nah braden, to be honest I quite like an honest conversation with religous people and I frequently have these. I dont have a problem with people having a religion believe it or not, I just have a problem when any religion has an impact on other peoples lives that want nothing to do with it.

Pray and have faith as much as you want, just keep it out of public schools and dont give anyone any special benefits from believing in a specific brand of fairytales over another. If thats all sorted then Im good with it. And any day someone comes and says to you that you are not allowed to believe in whatever god or gods you want to then I will stand right next to you and protest that you should be allowed to do believe whatever you want.

Of course on these forums its fun to be a but blunt about it to promote some fun discussions. I do admit that I like seeing the (to me) irrational arguments of the religious. :-)

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Aug 10th 2012, 15:05:18

Yep the bible has all the answers and is the only thing we should ever live by...

Here are a few samples of what is in that lovely book, and that's just the stuff in the New Testament, the old one is magnitudes worse.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/nt_list.html

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Aug 10th 2012, 14:42:14

Originally posted by lostmonk:

ViLSE, you really can't base anything off sam, he's more than just a little trolly.

But I would like to know why you think people can't be rational in believing that we were created, rather than just an amazingly improbable collection of perfect coincidences?

Oh and yes, I did realise SAM was a bit of a troll, I definitely wont take him seriously. ;-)

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Aug 10th 2012, 14:41:21

Originally posted by lostmonk:

What you said is indeed not to do with being rational, what you need there is just a good dose of education on what is already proven. Your problem can be fixed if you just open your mind to other possibilities than the dogma of religion.

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Aug 10th 2012, 12:27:33

Originally posted by SAM_DANGER:

Originally posted by ViLSE:

Fun read:
http://atheistcamel.blogspot.de/...ase-creations-act-of.html

Personally I wouldn't waste much time wondering why god created disease or let it happen or whatever. Much easier to simply come to terms with the fact that god doesnt exist and is just a fantasy figure same as Batman or the Easter Bunny.

Then I would welcome you to the club of rational thinking humans. :-)

SO VILSE, IF SOMEONE CAN BELIEVE IN A HIGHER POWER.. IF SOMEONE REALIZES THAT MAYBE WE DON'T UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING, AND BELIEVES THAT GOD IS A POSSIBILTIY.. IF SOMEONE LOOKS AT THE BIG BANG THEORY AND THINKS "HEY WAIT A MINUTE, WHERE'D THE STUFF THAT EXPLODED COME FROM", THEN THEY'RE NOT A RATIONAL THINKING HUMAN?

GOD JUST TOLD ME TO ADD YOU TO THE LIST OF THOSE WHO ARE TO BE EXPLODED.

HA!

SAM

LOL thanks for making my point for me. :-)

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Aug 9th 2012, 16:38:52

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Aug 9th 2012, 16:10:49

You see, the religious people -- most of them -- really think this planet is an experiment. That's what their beliefs come down to. Some god or other is always fixing and poking, messing around with tradesmen's wives, giving tablets on mountains, commanding you to mutilate your children, telling people what words they can say and what words they can't say, making people feel guilty about enjoying themselves, and like that. Why can't the gods leave well enough alone? All this intervention speaks of incompetence. If God didn't want Lot's wife to look back, why didn't he make her obedient, so she'd do what her husband told her? Or if he hadn't made Lot such a fluffhead, maybe she would've listened to him more. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was any competition. [Sol Hadden in Carl Sagan's Contact (New York: Pocket Books, 1985), p. 285.]

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Jul 3rd 2012, 22:45:01

Sounds good qzjul, happy to see changes here, even if it means it will be a while before they happen.

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Jul 3rd 2012, 16:23:14

Well it would be about time we got some changes to the Team server so that it is playable once more. Hopefully Pang makes some changes to the game though rather than deleting countries for breaking the spirit of the game etc.

I am all for changes to this server as it is beyond useless in its current state.

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Jun 19th 2012, 16:24:43

Moral of the story - "Stop eating junk food and you will live longer!"

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Jun 1st 2012, 8:27:10

I just had to sit and try to login about 10-20 times and then I got in. Takes a bit of clicking but its do-able.

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May 31st 2012, 14:35:06

Yeah last night the EU servers were down until about 22:00 UK time.

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May 30th 2012, 8:11:12

The AH absolutely SUCKS.

Its actually quite amazing how crappy the auction house is considering the one in WOW is really really good.

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May 26th 2012, 10:01:21

Originally posted by Makinso:

I have a level 39 legendary now. Wicked barb axe :) Anyone wtb?
:P

Makinso#2390
for those who want to add :)

Hey Mak, maybe we can swap you get my legendary belt with Dex and whatnot on it that I dont want and I get your barb axe? :)

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May 25th 2012, 22:33:23

Originally posted by martian:

you get rare drops *yellow*. You don't get legendary drops (or runes) until inferno mode. Blizzard's site says as much.

I'm on hell mode. Level 52 DH.. getting abused lots.
Nightmare mode was annoying enough.. hell mode is crazy. Even the blue guys are sodomorrific

Well I sure am sitting looking at one legendary drop right now which I got in normal mode from a trash mob. :)

Wanna buy it from me? :)

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May 25th 2012, 15:09:57

HH: I got it from a normal "trash mob" while on level 21 with my Barbarian.

I now own a belt with some very good stats on it that is totally useless for my barbarian (just very high on Dex and Int and other things like attack speed etc). LOL
:)

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May 25th 2012, 9:16:59

Got my first fancy "Legendary drop" yesterday. :)

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May 22nd 2012, 8:13:40

Nice work TIE!

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May 15th 2012, 16:26:12

Well I would imagine most people have broadband these days anyway. But it will surely still annoy some people.

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May 14th 2012, 18:46:41

http://www.politicalcartoons.com/...20-9d8d-5d3a777dfe90.html

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May 14th 2012, 8:31:57

Its about time that someone said openly that its ok for gays to marry. Good one Obama!

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May 9th 2012, 16:52:29

You have a point Orking, when I have been helping the company I work for hire new Software Engineers we have first sorted out any who didnt meet the required University criteria, then we sorted out those with inappropriate skill sets. Whatever was left we read carefully and selected from.

But IT is a pretty big field of work, can you specify a bit what kind of job you are after?

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May 9th 2012, 12:40:35

Looks pretty impossible for me that LaF could win this.

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May 9th 2012, 12:39:13

On the open weekend beta thing I only had time to test out two classes, I managed to play the Monk and the Witch Doctor, both were pretty cool. Although I have to admit the Barbarian looked like lots of fun too.

It looked hilarious when you were bashing zombies (or whatever they were) out in the graveyards and bits of stone from the graves were flying all over the place.

Demon Hunter looked a bit boring but Im sure theyll tweak it a bit too so it will get there. At the moment I have no idea what I will be playing but its leaning towards a Monk I think.

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May 9th 2012, 11:57:31

Isnt the release the 15th?

Anywho, I will play it, already pre-purchased it online so its all sitting there ready to install.

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May 7th 2012, 18:21:41

Not a worry, thanks for letting us know.

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May 4th 2012, 9:50:40

LOL@Mr. Iris, good one! :-)

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May 3rd 2012, 15:19:26

But I dont believe in Hell, what will then happen to me?

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May 3rd 2012, 8:13:57

Of course if you have access to the database and some skills in knowing how to abuse such information, you can easily play the market and get huge NW advantages for yourself and any friends you tell just by knowing how much stuff is on market at what exact prices, how easily you can do a buyout and much more. I know some of that is public from the API feeds anyway but with direct queries in the DB its so much easier to do. In my mind it puts into question all the LAF top NW finishes ever since this cheating started (whenever that was).

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May 2nd 2012, 17:00:02

Yeah pele is correct, even in Elitez there were some legit people. That is most likely the case in all alliances that has at some point had cheaters in it.

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May 2nd 2012, 16:24:22

Yeah I remember when I was president of ICN and we got into a war with Elitez, we fought them long and hard that one reset and in the end 90% of Elitez got deleted for rules violations (due to sharing accounts).

Id say ICN won that war pretty damn bigtime. LOL :)

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May 2nd 2012, 16:14:58

That is fair, everyone has a right to explain themselves and defend their actions. I am all for that much.

Id be very interested to see that defence though... :)

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May 2nd 2012, 12:39:54

LOL yeah hitting Elitez was fun for sure. Those were the days... :)

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Apr 26th 2012, 10:53:41

Thanks martian, its nice to know that there is at least something on the drawing board. I am really quite annoyed that I am not able to play on a server that we peacefully played on for such a long period of time and all because some people decided it was fun to be total douches on the whole server.

I of course realise that you have other important things to do first and thats fine by me, just as long as something gets done about this server eventually. :-)