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• • I want to stay, but I'm thinking about quitting...

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    Originally posted by Theutus
    Apparently using a Quad Core is not going to increase any games performance unless it is optimized (the game) to use all 4 cores... most games still only use one core out of the four. So if you have a quad core that runs at 2.5Ghz its like using a single core at 2.5Ghz... That's what I heard anyway.

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    That is true to some extend: if the game is not specially designed to use multiple cores, it will not use them. However, even if said application only uses the one core, other applications and actions will be re-routed to other cores by the operating system resulting in better performance.

    I have a high end machine (Quad Core, 8Gb ram, gf9800GX2) and the performance I got out of WAR (back when I was playing) was ridiculous, even after days of tweaking graphic settings, installing addons etc. While some people in my guild with lower grade hardware were running it flawlessly.

    If you have trouble check the game forums (HA!), I mean warhammeralliance.com there were plenty of optimization threads there, you may find some good advice there.

  • Posted: 11/28/08 8:07 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Do you look down on players that sell GTC on market?

  • You are absolutely right, my bad. Thanks.

  • Posted: 11/16/08 5:06 AM
    EVE Online
• • EVE boring? help.

  • @OP:
    Boring? Hardly. Overwhelming perhaps. I think that that if you expect a button mashing, reflex based, instant gratification game you will be disappointed with EVE. If you on the other hand have some patience to learn how things work, have the brains to see how incredibly complex and diverse the game is, and if you can get over your first initial losses when you realize how brutal EVE universe can be you are set for an experience that will change your views on how MMOs should be. :)

  • Posted: 11/15/08 8:35 PM
    EVE Online
• • Do you look down on players that sell GTC on market?

  • I am a fairly new EVE player, I have never bought or sold GTCs, but I like the idea of them being in the game:
    For one, and I am surprised no one has mentioned it yet, they are an awesome way of taking ISK out of the game economy which helps preventing inflation.
    Second: time is very important in EVE - especially now that ghost training has been removed: if you for some reason cannot pay for your next month of game time, you are loosing skill training time (which is a permanent loss as it is impossible to make up for it), so giving people an option to pay with in game currency for more playing time is great.

    To sum it up, I see no problem with trading ISK for gaming time, or vice versa, if you do it the CCP way you know you are making a safe transaction, and you are not destroying the game... Plus if you are real good at making in game money you can actually play for free, how perfect is that?
    

  • Posted: 11/15/08 8:23 PM
    EVE Online
• • Too easy to earn gold?

  • You get pigments for dyes from critical successes in cultivating... They do not happen that often, so I bet there will be a nice market for them.

    As for gold being easy to get, yes it is, you are not starved for money at early levels and you can get by on what you get from quests and mobs you loot along the way, I guess money grinding is not meant to be the a time sink in WAR. On my server there is a healthy AH, not too much stuff at this point yet, but there are some nice blues and even a few epics. I am sure that prices will inflate over the time, and you will be spending lots of money (more then people are used to from other games) on talismans, dyes and pots.

  • Posted: 9/19/08 6:29 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)