Here’s a nice little program that did what it said it would and didn’t cost me anything at all: Unlocker
I couldn’t rename a folder on our XP machine. It said, “Cannot rename folder. It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.”
Of course finding that program is an exercise in frustration. This program makes it so much easier.
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The perfect game would be an MMO(RPG) with two factions, one that plays like Warhammer and WoW, et al, and the other that plays like PlanetSide and Battlefield, et al. I thought about a third faction that played like Unreal, but the third faction was a horrible drawback in PlanetSide, so no.
Excellent guide for Warband leaders and anyone who might want to understand the tactics available for warbands in Warhammer Online.
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I built my first machine from parts bought mostly from NewEgg. The box cost just over $1000, but from what I can find, I’d have to pay close to $3000 to get anything like it prebuilt.
Here’s the parts list and some pics:
Interesting website called The Daedalus Project: the psychology of MMORPGs. The surveys and updates are closed. The researcher is moving on, but the results of past surveys and analysis are still available
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Been playing Warhammer Online now. RL friends stopped playing WoW, and it became tedious, and the most fun I have playing MMOs is playing with people I know in Real Life — I always feel awkward in guild chat with people I don’t really know, partly because I’m a geek when it comes to social skills and partly because I’m not a hard core gamer.
Warhammer, abbreviated WAR for Warhammer Online, Age of Reckoning, is more gritty than WoW; bloodier. There’s a LOT more PvP, which is the fun part for me.
I play a Marauder class, named Depredator, on the Phoenix Throne server — fun as hell.
w00t
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WARDB (database, including *career builder*)
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I found out that if I set Ventrilo to PTT — Push to Talk — it wouldn’t work when playing Warhammer Online in full-screen mode. The problem has something to do with Vista.
Simple solution: run Ventrilo as Administrator.
problem solved!
Well, kinda. Still on Azgalor — much better server than Aegwynn (IMHO) — more pop, better pop, less trash-talking kids cluttering up general chat.
OK, so Everquest2 is pretty cool — the PvE stuff is nice and all, but in the few weeks that I’ve been on, there’s really no reason to group. There was one time (in band camp), where I was camping a NPC spawn and so was someone else, so we grouped just to get the last piece of the Stein of Moggok, but that was it: group up, wait around, kill Prud, disband, /wave.
I stopped playing World of Warcraft some time ago, after maxing out to level 70. When I started playing again, after a time away, it was at the urging of my Sister-in-Law and her husband who had created a guild. They were already level 70, so I pushed to catch up, and the most fun was chatting with everyone rather than playing together — in WoW it’s bad for a high-level to group with lower levels because the lower levels do not receive enough points when working together — that is, that the higher level player contributes so much to the fighting that it wouldn’t be fair for the lowbie to get the same points.
