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I'm running out of options to play, so I played LOTRO up to level 20 and I enjoyed it. The world is beautiful, good story and the games seems deep. I'm not crazy about a free to play game but what isn't anymore.
Last night I was trying to justify playing LOTRO or Neverwinter, I watched many youtubes of Neverwinter and it's too liner and hand holding, so that game is out.
My problem with Lotro is that I would like to play a Rune-Keeper. I understand that I would have to buy the first expansion to play it. No big deal. BUT the game seems too easy. At first I thought it was just the tutorial area, But level 20 ? I think it's getting even easer. All my skills and abilities seem to be worthless. Infact I'm not even sure what attacks I'm spamming anymore because it doesn't seem to matter. If the game is like this, what does it matter what class you play. Is it broke ? will they fix it ?
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It is a bit easier in the beginning, yes, I would guess to help the levelling experience. Haven't played in a while though. Have to admit, I found it a bit boring with the long distances that have to be travelled in some areas. But that might just be me.
Try playing a bit more in groups, if you can find any. Could also help better to define your role and how easy/difficult it is. If you play as a Warden, you also "spam", it's just different combos you have to remember to be more effective, and that is what makes that class more advanced (though you get help with the combos).
And as always - are you in a guild, who can help you with this question?
Actually there's a thread here about the easy-mode after HD :) (and numerous ones on the official forum too)
So yep, it's not only you, the game is over-easy now. Is it broke ? will they fix it ? Nobody knows for sure. Some say there will be a nerf / fix in the near future, but maybe they're just hoping for it.
You don't have to buy Moria for the rune-keeper, you can buy the class separately as well - just noting the fact, because that would be the worst advice anyone can give... If you plan to stick in LotRO for a bit longer, it's a much better deal to buy Moria, you will need the area anyways. (and rune-keeper, warden, +2 character slots and some starter items are bundled within the box)
I agree on The world is beautiful, good story and the games seems deep. part just as in Neverwinter's case the too linear and hand holding, it indeed is. On a slight defense of Neverwinter, there's no gating in the game, you can play it for free all the way. But of course it's not that great as LotRO. And the gameplay is maybe even more easier :)
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Hay thanks,
Ill keep LOTRO on my Hard Drive and check back often to see if it gets Fixed ( harder ). Maybe Ill download Neverwinter for something to do, because I played everything.
Or now that I'm thinking about I'll investagate The SecretWorld, It's just that I'm not really ever in the mood to figure out secrets.
So yah, thanks
LotRO is just as bad, linear, and hand holding. Avoid it.
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Joined: 11/22/05
MMO's never get made harder over time. If anything the next time you try it, they will have made the game easier.
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Joined: 11/26/13
Originally posted by Tibernicuspa
Lotro may be easy but it is not bad, linear or is there hand holding. But of course there was a post about lotro that you had not stopped by to post bias opinion of a video game you don't play.
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Joined: 8/17/09
Lotro is a decent game but content is gated by money once you get to level 30 or so unless you are able and willing to spend tons of time farming deeds. There are threads on the forums telling you exactly how to get the most bang for your buck if you decide you like the game well enough to invest in it.
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eas·y [ee-zee] adjective, eas·i·er, eas·i·est, adverb, noun
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
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Originally posted by mmo11
I highly doubt it will get harder.
however, there is difficulty to be found if you want. I won't speak for any of the instances in moria as it's been a while since I played them. However I do find some of the open world small party encounters in Rohan (can't remember what they are called anymore but they are mounted combat) difficult solo.
I have been playing some of the instances solo such as the goblin king instance. It's a group instnace so I lowered the level but playing in this manner is difficult.
There is more of an open world feel if you stop doing quests and just "head out". Granted, this is a bit easier with the earlier installments of the game but it's more satisfying than doing the quests. I won't say you will level faster than doing some of the quests but I'm more about making my own fun in these things.
The Secret World is great by the way.
Originally posted by Kicksave321
Played it longer than you, most likely.
Hand holding and restrictive is a perfect way to describe LotRO.
Originally posted by Sovrath
I doubt it as well, but still, many folks hoping for a nerf, that's why I added it to my post.
Great goblin... :) yep, you can still find challenge in the game that way. I tried to solo it on my undergeared hunter (48ish quest gear, on lvl57. On his defense he's a festival-only toon, gathering the outfits and housing items). So, gear is crappy, but I have +8 levels, and the game is over-easy, what can go wrong, right? Lol. The Emissary and the adds ripped him a new one :)
(but it was significantly easier, than before. I remember before RoI, at lvl65 with decent gear it was a challenge to solo the Goblin, now with the changes I think a lvl65 will clearing it without any problems, regardless the gear)
And yep, TSW is an awesome game.
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The game was always pretty easy from 1 to 20.
There are I think two slightly tough quests - the vigil, (or something) in Staddle, where you have to kill 4 signatures, including usually 2 at once. They could be a little tough on level, depending on the class.
And then there is a quest where Adso the hobbit has you go kill a bandit chief, a signature. The trouble is, he has an escort of 2 other bandits, there are about 20 other bandits in the area, including some that run.
He also respawns insanely quick.
Sometimes (fairly often actually) you can end up fighting 6 bandits, kill him first, then by the time you are killing the last bandit, he respawns and attacks you again. On some classes that's doable (guardian, warden), on others, I've been killed (hunter).
It does get a bit more difficult in Moria. Mobs start using debuffs and such, they have more morale than you do (at least if you don't have good gear).
I haven't played much after the HD changes though.
R.I.P. City of Heroes and my 17 characters there
There was an aggro change a few years ago (somewhere around the f2p switch), since then the Vigil is pretty easy, you can kill them off one by one (just like in the latest mmorpg comic here, Aggro :) )
The only thing I never could do in that level range is the deed of killing the Barrow bosses (true, half of them are small fellowship missions, so not even ment to be for solo). I haven't tried it after HD, my new, post-HD hunter is lvl20 already but he's still only at Adso's camp... damn that fast leveling.
(he should travel to the Lone Lands, but haven't finished Old Forest yet, and then there's Bombadil, the south guard ruins, the whole northern Bree region, and the Barrow-downs)
Mobs start to use debuffs way before Moria... When I first played rune-keeper, I hated the orcs in North Downs, always took my runestone :) and at lvl25ish rk's are completely switched off without the runestone, there's no alternate method like the other classes have if their main weapon is gone.
Not exactly related (maybe a bit, as we mentioned Goblin-town earlier), now that Smaug is arriving onto the big screen, an honest trailer came out :) http://youtu.be/Sc32YdEWHzo
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Joined: 11/26/13
Originally posted by Tibernicuspa
Probably not been playing since beta have almost 3000hrs on my main. Now there is nothing wrong with having an opinion but having a bias opinion because it's not meo online is different. I can walk from Thorins gate to helms deep without any restrictions. I might hit three load screens, I can make stops at the Shire, Bree and Rivendell along the way to name just a few, this unrestricted journey would take over three hours.
Im confused did Frodo just wake up and walk into Mordor? Is that what you want just to be able to start a toon and walk into Mordor and beat the game? Cause pretty sure you would whine about that too.
So the facts are it's been out for over six years, they just added another new expansion, the journey continues. That's what this game is a journey you follow the story line and do your part in middle earth that your part of the story has taken you (again Frodo didn't just walk into Mordor)this is Journey!. While your not doing the story you have free roam to go anywhere in middle earth. After I finish a battle at HD and wanted to 6man rift guess what I can no restriction and if I wanted to I could take the three plus hour journey on horse back there again with maybe 2-3 load screens. Oh after I do rift we want to run to moria and do every instance in there again no restrictions we can do that....you let me know if you want me to keep giving you examples of how it's not restrictive.
Don't give me BS about a level one can't go in some level 50 dungeon that's a weak poor example, when in fact a level one could walk from Bree to Rivende with no restriction. Again this is a journey Frodo did not just walk into Mordor, the others didn't just stroll into Moria. Just stop with your bias generic qq about a video game you think is "bad". There are plenty of other video games you can play have fun in those . Trying to persuade someone who is thinking of playing with lies is a joke. You don't give any examples just generic "bad", "hand holding" "restrictive". When all three of those are just pure false as I have explained.
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Joined: 11/10/13
Originally posted by Tibernicuspa
Yes, but by your ridiculous standards any game which has quest markers is 'hand holding'. Sorry, but normal people don't like to be forced to speak with every NPC in town just to find out who has a quest.
Also, you must have played the Bizarro World version of the game, because it most certainly is not linear or restrictive, at least not until Moria (so 70% or so of the game's content isn't linear). One of the problems with this game is simply deciding where to go next (and overleveling because the game is packed with quests & things to do). Granted it's no sandbox, but for a theme park game it's actually one of the more open offerings out there right now.
Can't let the truth get in the way of a good hate post though, eh?.
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Originally posted by Kicksave321
I was in the first round of alpha, and I played the version of the game most people don't even remember, Middle Earth Online.
LotRO is all about hand holding, limiting where you can go, and what you can do.
You try to explore without doing the linear instanced scripted quest line? Your character randomly dies for no aparent reason. Try to go into a dungeon you find? "You don't have the quest to enter here!". Try to follow a river? Invisible walls! Try to climb a mountain? Invisible walls!
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How did someone play Middle Earth Online beta?...I thought Sierra had to scratch that when they went belly up and got purchased by Vivendi. It never got to Beta..or alpha as far as I know..which may not be much.
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If you think it' easy, start doing the group quests or try to burn down elites.
It get's very challenging then
Originally posted by BarCrow
How do people remember the Sierra project, which wasn't publicized at all, more than the Turbine Middle Earth Online, which was advertised and developed for 4 years? Boggling.
LotRO IS Middle Earth Online. 9 months before the initial launch they renamed it to LotRO, delayed the game 8 months, and turned the game into a WoW clone from a sandbox.
The Sierra project was entirely unrelated.


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Near-Mint 1839 Large Letters Ten Dollar1839 $10 Type of 1838, Large Letters AU58 NGC. The Type of 1838 (also known as "Head of 1838") is an important early subtype of the Liberty Coronet ten, distinguished by a bold swirl of hair that curls from the beads in back of Liberty's hair all the way to her temple. High-end circulated examples enjoy constant demand, as Mint State coins are conditionally rare, and this survivor is just a touch of rub away from full Uncirculated status. Small rim nicks appear on each side, and the most visible inner abrasion appears above the 9 in the date. Such flaws notwithstanding, this is a highly appealing coin for the type. NGC has graded just 10 Mint State survivors (9/10).(Registry values: N4719) (NGC ID# 262E, PCGS# 8576)
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Does anyone have any experience with the nForce2 IGP? I'm thinking of buying an EPoX EP-8RGA+ MB next week, and I'm wondering if I should anticipate any problems. I've read the threads about the EP-8RDA+ board, and it seems manageable. The question is how Linux will deal with the integrated graphics.
Anyone know?
the 4191 drivers support the nForce2 IGP. It's pretty simple to install
I just have bought a msi nforce2 based.
under windows : screen limited to 1024*768 (my falt panel can do 1280*1024)
underlinux : old drivers don't work
something seems strange : vga bios report "engeenring version"... maybe problems comes from that
today test :
upgrade bios, upgrade drivers (both OS)
I'll give you more information after launch
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Hi am about 2 buy the MSI K7N2G(MS-6570)
nForce 2 IGP ChipSet.
Is this a good motherboard?
i have read the specs and is it thrue it has a Graphics Card and SoundCard integrated into the mainboard???
What Graphic card is it? and what Soundcar dis it?
And will my SuSE Linux 8.1 work fine on this board??
the one i got was faulty (seems that chip was "engeenering only" so flash failled.
after return to reselers (got a new one)
no more pb on windows (still left to test ethernet)
on linux CG seems to work correctly experenced some problem with my usb mouse..... but I still test....
MSI K7N2G(MS-6570) : i don't know (i've the -L version)
IGP means that CG is integrated
abit nforce2 based MB have more configuration option (especialy under voltage control which really usefull if you want to decrease power comsuption)
but I can't find it.......
underclocking works fine :D (ie using 166 DDR + 166 FSB +under multiplication coef)
sound apu is great (a bit strange but great) : able to do 5.1 to 2 way audio on the usual 3 point audio connector. availlable mode :
2 way +line in +mic
4 way +mirc (line in is used for other way)
5.1 (line in used for rear, mic for sub and central)
CG is a gerforce4Mx (this is not a g4 light (no shader) but rather a G2 Ti improved)
sound card is reported under linux as a via one..... but this is strange to my point of view since previous (nforce1) one was a i810 compatible one... I'vent tested it at this point
under windows ther is no pb
under linux the mb is rather new so expect having some trouble for few months
ide works fine but dma is not enabled by default (u must include a hdparm -d1 line in boot scripts) if you don't u may experence some slowdown when doing huge transferts.
CG is working fine (using last nvidia drivers)
I experienced some trouble on my usb mouse... must check further.... i now use usb->ps2 adaptaters
i haven't tested audio and lan at this point
that's all
ps i forgot : chipset cooling system is a pasv one (so no noise) but is really really hot... if you do watercooling a block can be placed on top without any adapters....
the card don't have 4 holes for waterblock mounting on cpu
audio : ok no pb on linux use i810 driver (not patched ones)
ethernet : ok no pb on linux, use nvnet driver (this don't work on nforce1)
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Charles O'Neil LHP CHIPOLA JC in Georgia
and that pick ends the Reds first day of the draft
18th Round
Charles O'Neil LHP CHIPOLA JC in Georgia
and that pick ends the Reds first day of the draft
Gotta wonder about the level of play on an island known more for Father Damian than sports.Originally Posted by NC Reds
Why is picking a college guy (with presumably less upside) in the long run less risky than a higher ceiling HS pitcher? And why does the "sorry state" of our farm system factor into that descision?
regardless of the state of the farm system, you want to draft the guy who's got a high upside with less risk. If the experts think that's a HS guy, I'm fine with that.
A number #7 pick must be utilized on a very high ceiling guy, and if the Reds scouts felt that none of the college pitchers projected to #1 pitchers, I'd say that Homer was a decent descision.
Who said Bailey had a significantly higher ceiling than other options available?
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
Well it's pretty obvious the Reds think that.
I doubt the listed weight is correct for O'Neal.
Not that I'm a HS pitching advocate in anyway - but for example - Humber threw 12 innings this weekend.
Niemann was in for 2IP in relief before starting on Sunday.
I saw a feature this weekend on the Florida St where he said essentially that the kids would have to 'tough it out' about pitching a lot of innings during the CWS because the team was not deep in the bullpen.
That's not representative in anyway of College baseball as a whole, just an interesting side note.
mlb.com only has him at 165Originally Posted by NC Reds
Over 6 ft and 165lb?
Get that kid a steak
Some of the college starters (Townsend in particular) were projected as relief pitchers in the majors.Originally Posted by MWM
A reliever can never project as high as a #1 starter.
First off I categorically reject the notion that Townshend or Diamond have less upside. Try equivalent upside. For instance BA also noted that Townshend "has the stuff to pitch in the front of a big league rotation."Originally Posted by PuffyPig
Second, obviously that's the way the Reds' scouting folks felt about this pick, much the same way they felt about Ty Howington and Chris Gruler. What's the track record here? Know it. Learn from it. Or repeat it endlessly expecting different results.
Rocky - But that trick never works.
Bullwinkle - This time for sure.
(Lion's head pops out of hat)
Bullwinkle - Must've grabbed the wrong hat.
Third, the sorry state of the farm system means the organization could stand a little self-awareness. When you can't throw money at problems it helps to have a lot of talent in the high minors to replenish your team and to trade in contention years. The Reds picked a guy who may not provide them with either option for years to come. That's not Bailey's fault, it's just that he's an 18-year-old pitcher and they really ought to come with buyer beware tags.
Raisel Ghul, the Demon's Head
Make that a thing.
The high school pitching selections don't surprise me. In many ways, they were predicted on the Danogram, er planogram which the regime was hinting at. But the amount of college bats were surprising.
Sure, we have no idea if they did anything like this, but the key is that we don't know. Who's to say they don't know more about this than we think? Great way of looking at it, CQ.Originally Posted by CougarQuest
And, FWIW, I think it's been a solid draft thus far. We'll see in 2007 :GAC:
I'd be surprised if three years from now, people here on RedsZone who weren't around for this draft or who didn't pay much attention will be shaking their heads asking this question, "You mean we could have had Chris Nelson and we ended up taking homer Bailey?" Wow!
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
woy posted this on another thread, but I thought it was pertinent to this question.Originally Posted by PuffyPig
""When we took over, we needed to restock the organization quickly and do it with college players...People forget I am a scout, first and foremost. I look forward to the day when we've come far enough as an organization that we draft a high school player in the first round."
--J.P. Ricciardi, Blue Jays general manager (ESPN.com)
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
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As much as it pains me to say this, and as much as I like Homer, I'm gonna go out on a limb and call this one a bust. Nothing special. At all.
As much as it pains me to say this, and as much as I like Homer, I'm gonna go out on a limb and call this one a bust. Nothing special. At all.
I hope it's never sunny in Philly again.
Sheesh Hal - have enough sappy self created mellowdrama in there?Originally Posted by OnBaseMachine
Um, how do we have a sample size big enough to call him anything at this point? Either future all-star OR bust.Originally Posted by TC81190
Perhaps we should allow the child to season a year or three before pronouncing him anything...
If it comes down to Homer, Germano, and Gosling, I may be in the minority, but I am chosing Homer.
If he is preforming better then his competitors then I really don't think age should be a factor.
I love Homer, but I would have to go with Germano.Originally Posted by reds44
Germano hands down bring the kid up at the end of the year for a taste.
Germano, I can't believe we are even having this discussion. I love Bailey, and think he is a stud in the making. However rushing him is the absolute worst thing to do. Give him at least a season and a half. Why the rush all of a sudden? I know it is nice to have an actual prospect, but please please please, coddle thy pitchers!
The Sox traded Bullfrog the only player they've got for Shottenhoffen. Four-eyes Shottenhoffen a utility infielder. They've got a whole team of utility infielders.
Yeah I am serious. He isnt like anyone else in the system before him. He has his arm, he has different coaches. You cant lump him in with Howington or Gruler or anyone else for that matter. His Whip was high becuase of his walks. He had a very low hit rate and a very high strikeout rate. He made people miss. His problem was walking guys. That is what he needs work on.Originally Posted by traderumor
No it doesnt, but that 2 something era and 10 strikeouts in 7.1 innings does. It tells us that he has real good stuff.This is a big year for him to establish himself, but so far, a bunch of partisan coaches bragging him up does not tell us a thing.
Doug, you seem to know enough to not take ANY stock in 7-1/3 innings. If you like Bailey, fine, but don't try to sell any conclusions on something as insignificant as a few innings in ST. His current body of work is totally unimpressive, esp. for a high 1st rounder.Originally Posted by dougdirt
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Can't win without 'em
Can someone please tell me what are his total stats at ST.
How many walks, wild pitches and HBP? Any errors?
I mean he's got a great K ratio and a low ERA but put against the rest of the stats is it still that much impressive?
Do you want him for the short haul, or the long haul.Originally Posted by reds44
Age is a HUGE factor. Most guys haven't even stopped growing at his age... he'll end up damaged goods if he's brought up this early.
"Enjoy this Reds fans, you are watching a legend grow up before your very eyes" ... DoogMinAmo on Adam Dunn
Homer's spring so far:
Code:Player W L ERA G GS CG SHO SV SVO IP H R ER HR HBP BB SO H Bailey 0 0 2.45 4 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 9 6 2 0 0 3 10
Homer's pitching his way to the 'Nooga.
What sucks is that his roommate might be Standridge.
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Why is it OK to let a star player out of High School, get his lumps in the NBA and its criminal to let a star baseball player do in in Major League baseball?Originally Posted by pedro
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990/950 Twin Hella (90mm) Lighting Project
This is a personal project of mine. However I have to pay for a batch water jet order. When I'm finished I will post some details and sell a couple sets to share the cost and recover some of the R&D cost.
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The finished project will have the following:
Twin Hella lamps (90mm Reflector Style High, 90mm Projector Style Low)
High beam will have Halogen Bulb.
Low beam will have HID
It will come with complete custom made wiring harness. (Just plug and play)
Kill switch to turn low beam completely off (for US models)
Individual relay for each lamp.
When High beam is ON, low beam will remain on (since the lamps are running from separate circuit connected the battery directly, there will be no load issue)
Custom bracket to mount the Hella lamps.
The bracket will be attached in similar way as the stock light housing.
You will be able to use the stock windscreen or any other after market windscreen made for the bike.
Working on a solution to have LED angel light as running light. (low priority)
The idea is not new. But I want to make exactly what I wanted. I've used Hella lights with HID conversion on my other bikes. So that's a priority for me to improve the overall lighting quality. And I believe I've managed to keep the cost WAY down compare to other comercial options.
I'm looking for about 10 people to get on board. The kit will not be exactly cheap, but that's because I'm using quality parts. Don't need any commitment, but I'd like to get an idea of how many people would be interested.
Just a few pictures of the project.
Everything together will probably cost a bit over $300. This includes the HID kit + 2 Hella Lamps. ($135, price+shipping, I'm not a vendor, I have to pay for everything retail :cry)
You can of course source your own Hella lights, HID conversion kit and/or make your own wiring harness. I can supply the light bracket and the face plate.
You can source your own harness here or make you own.
HL28109 - H4 to H9 High and H9 Low +$104.04
Hella 90mm High
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I read your plans with some interest. At this point my only upgrade would be to the super expensive TT setup. Unfortunately it is the shape of their fairing that mostly drives me (I like it better than any other fairing or screen on the market), as I have yet to read any good reviews of the lights' performance or seen photos of their pattern. Am I right in thinking your lights are the same Hellas?
I'm interested.
Keep us updated!
On the lamps. They are exactly the same. Hella's Bi-Xeon lights are actually different than the Bi-Halogen lights. But for single beam light (these 90s are single beam), you are just paying for the Hella ballast. What I have is exactly the same lamp touratech sells. You can just put in your own HID bulb.
I know quite a bit about Hella lights. Actually the 90mm is an older design than the 60mm. But there isn't much room to fit those huge 60mm projectors.
For your research/project, you can use the following as reference.
ALSO, check out Lynx fairing, they use the same 90mm Hella and have HID kit you can buy. Both will give you a good idea of the quality of light.
As PM'd previously... I'm definitely in!!! And I'll refer anyone else that I hear might want an upgrade like this. I'll be prepping my bike for the KTM Rally in Colorado, so I can point people who are going or show them the set up when I get there and at the CJD pre-rally with his permission too if ( if your quota isn't met).
Rock On!!!
Could you just make it using standard H7 projector housings? I personally see no need for the HID's but the dual light setup would be nice and a set of H7 projectors should still be brighter and have a better pattern than the factory light.
I wouldn't go with another projector except hella, it's all about the optics (the type of bulbs h7/h4/h9 is not that relavant).
H9 would be fine as well, relatively inexpensive and easily found in any auto parts store. Keep me posted on this as you go. I'm very intrigued.
I'm interested, and sub'd to this thread.....Nice work! :clap
I may be interested in this. I have already changed mine to the Euro headlight shell and installed an HID light in the low beam, which has helped considerably over the stock US version. Additionally, I put the Euro headlight switch on mine (so I could shut off everything). Would this system still work with the Euro headlight switch, or would that mess up the 'plug and play' idea?
I ask only because my wiring skills are less than crappy.
The rest of the system operates the same way. Because my US model does not have a switch to completely shut off the low beam, I installed a switch inline from the low beam trigger to the relay that eventually goes to my HID low beam projector.
On top of that, I've made the harness such that the low beam will remain on when the high beam is switched on.
The wiring harness is finalized. I added a long 12 gauge ground wire so it will also reach the battery.
Since I'm making the harness from scratch. I will provide a shorter version of the harness if you already have some sort of fuse box installed up top.
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Why Gold's Last Two Sessions Undermine Its Recovery
The following are the latest daily summaries of my ongoing
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listed for each.
Today's Highlight: Gold's second consecutive gap up formed a second consecutive session whose close essentially equated to its open. No net intraday improvement undermines the rally's momentum, reflecting weak-handed impatient buyers sponsoring a temporary bounce.
Dollar Basket
Jun Contract DX; (NYSEARCA:UUP), (NYSEARCA:UDN)
Monday's shallow inside day was incapable of reversing momentum down. The trend extended up Tuesday to fresh highs attacking 85.00, next targeting 86.10 so long as pullbacks now hold 84.15 as support.
Jun Contract EC; (NYSEARCA:FXE)
Monday's shallow inside day was incapable of reversing momentum up. The trend extended down Tuesday to fresh lows attacking 1.2740-1.2750, next targeting 1.2575 so long as pullbacks now hold 1.2875 as resistance.
Aug Contract GC; (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Potential for a bigger bounce targeting 1250.00 was quickly fulfilled overnight, and Tuesday's session ranged choppily around it. The gap back to Friday's close was filled, and the rubber band has been stretched tighter without buyers yet gaining any traction for their effort.
Sep Contract SI; (NYSEARCA:SLV)
Ranging Tuesday above 19.00 was similar to an "inside day" that should still resolve down to test 18.50-18.55.
30-year Treasury
Sep Contract US; (NYSEARCA:TLT)
Monday's recovery from fresh lows had extended higher intraday, and only narrowly Tuesday around unchanged. Not immediately extending higher undermines whether momentum has actually reversed up. Not immediately extending above 133-28 Wednesday - and preferably also above 134-06 - would suggest a corrective bounce was ending, resuming the decline, next targeting 128-10/128-14.
Crude Oil
Aug Contract CL; (NYSEARCA:USO)
Monday's threat to the rally's momentum was no different Tuesday, which again pierced a fresh high. But Tuesday ended in rally mode, instead of only printing highs overnight. The pattern cannot tolerate much if any retracement, and should extend up aggressive - probably spiking - if the rally's momentum remains intact.
Natural Gas
Aug Contract CL; (NYSEARCA:UNG, UNL)
Tuesday's gap under 3.72 extended down another dime to nearly fill the gap back to Friday's close. Coming only optimistically close doesn't equate to filling the gap. Recovering from a slightly lower low Wednesday would be bullish.
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Herberg dubbed conference champion Last Tuesday, the Rush City cross-country team had a standout day at the Pine City Golf Course, home to the 2014 Great River Conference championships. Eighth-grader Elena Herberg captured the individual conference champion title with a time of 16:07 in the 4K race....Read More
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Herberg and Bowen top racers in age division The Rush City cross-country team left a mark on the Milaca Mega Meet over the weekend, host to 4,400 racers across 148 teams. Eighth-graders Elena Herberg and Kaylyn Bowen turned heads in their age groups' 3200-meter run by leading a pack of 235 runners...Read More
The Tiger cross country boys and girls encountered tough challengers, including Class AA teams, in the Cambridge-Isanti Last Chance meet last week at Grandy Nine Golf Course. The boys team took sixth out of nine teams, while Coon Rapids came in first and Cambridge-Isanti second in the 5000m (3.1 mil...Read More
There are a number of good ways to combat frigid temperatures – sip on a cup of hot cocoa, curl up under a blanket, or do as the Rush City cross-country teams did in Duluth last Saturday: swiftly run to make the cold feel less freezing. Rush City runners ran well as snowflakes fell during [...]...Read More
The Rush City boys cross country team placed sixth, while the girls team was incomplete at the Pine City Invitational last Thursday. Garrett Larson was the first Tiger boy to cross the finish line, coming in eighth out of 72 competitors in the 5000m run. Kevin Nelson placed 14th; Devan Larson, 39th;...Read More
In the first competion of the Rush City cross country team's 2012 season, the Milaca Early Bird Invitational on Aug. 27, the Tiger boys team took eighth place out of 11 teams, while the girls team was imcomplete. Garrett Larson was the first Tiger boy to cross the finish line coming in 19th out of...Read More


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Yeah, you can play LAN or Internet via whatever match-making service it is they are using. There's a chat-type lobby for arranging games, and then you just make a game, invite some people and/or computer players and off you go.
As far as I can tell, they may have intended to make some kind of automatic match-making service and/or ladder play, but there is none at the moment.
What do you think of this game so far Bishop?
Ack. My apologies. I *was* writing a blog entry on the thing, but then I got away from it and never got around to picking it up again.
Hm. I'm not sure I'll ever finish it. So, uh, here's what I wrote so far (raw cut, unedited):
Sins of a Stellar Developer
In which there will be a comparison of two games that probably should have been one, some reminiscing about games past and general ranting about stuff that works or doesn't work in strategy games.
Comparing Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations 2
On the face of it, the games have quite a few similarities. But once you get into them a bit, they're actually very different -- except of course that they're both games that revolve around conquering stuff using spaceships.
Sins actually reminds me a lot more of Homeworld 2 than it does of GalCiv2. Or, more accurately, it made me want to play Homeworld 2 again. But I get ahead of myself.
Let me first describe some of the really cool things about Sins.
First on the list is performance and by extension, graphics. Sins looks great, partly because they've really, really, really cut everything away that's not either a ship, an interface element or really important to making the game look good. In basic terms, there's the interface, the elements you can move, the stellar objects and the backdrop. Done.
What that means is you can throw thousands of ships into combat, zoom seamlessly and incredibly fast from super-close-up to looking at the entire galaxy at once and anywhere in between and have lots and lots of splash and zing and boom and bang effects all going on at once without ever noticing frame rate drops.
Another thing that is pretty cool is the resource management system. It's very basic and easy to grasp, and yet it is subtle and full of the kind of trade-offs that make for interesting and possibly balanced gaming.
In many ways, Sins is a very deliberate and effective 4X game, despite its real-time nature. The game really does scale to a completely massive size if that's your thing, and throwing huge armadas of great-looking spaceships at each other and watching the action can indeed provide for some great fun.
Unfortunately, it falls just short of its mark and ultimately was a bit of a let down, for me at least.
<That's how far I got. Sorry. If anybody really cares, I could probably be convinced to finish it. >
But the one thing that really bothered me about it, is that diplomacy is a joke. You can't really even call it diplomacy, because all it consists of is the AI offering you completely random tasks that you can either attempt to accomplish (which is often just not possible) or go to war.
And, like I was building up to in the original piece, the basic ship-to-ship combat is pretty neat... but Homeworld 2 was better, more involved and used the Z axis. I miss Homeworld 2.
Thanks for th einput, my friend has been trying to get me to play this and i think I am convinced now.
OOO thanks for saving me from a costly mistake. Even if it seemd kind of basic I still liked the way diplomacy was handled in Masters of Orion II and have yet to find a replacement for that game as my all time favorite 4X game. Thanks for a great thread that helped me not drop any hard earned cash on this one though just for the eye candy and mass fleets it might end up as a buy when it hits the discount bin. Great insights everyone especially Bishop!
Tbh when I play vs AI I use the 'fixed teams' option and just ignore the diplomacy entirely. The pirates did piss me off until I realised they're a fantastic way to build cap ship xp by heavily defending your nearest planet to the pirate planet. I think I enjoyed HW2 combat more but the ship abilities in sins make it seem more skill based in some fights.
I like how the game hasn't been out that long and there's already mods out to alter stuff like the tech tree and strategy.
I enjoy the game, I do agree the Diplomacy is lacking somethings, the fact that if you don't complete missions given by the AI they will eventually send fleets to turn you. It is annoying, the online play however for me never works, i try entering a game but it disconnects me from the server. Anyways, the game is good, but may not be worth the $40 I payed for. Never the less great game to spend hours of free time on.
The demo finally came out a few days ago. Maybe I'll buy the real thing and challenge Bishop to a battle.
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President Barack Obama and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney are in the public eye almost every day, telling Americans about their plans to guide the country should they win the 2012 presidential race. Ironically, given such constant coverage, most Americans would probably be hard pressed to factually state what positions the candidates hold concerning fiscal issues, foreign policy, civil liberties, and social issues, especially to a depth great enough to compare and contrast the candidates or understand the long-term ramifications of their policies.
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"Postapocalyptic Novel" of father & young son walking through a burned and ravaged America.
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McCarthy serves up the thinnest and most potent sliver of apocalyptic hell in his latest, The Road. As a father and son make their way through a stark and devastated landscape where all the "roads" go nowhere, the reader can't help but wonder, "What is the point?" along with the characters. The difference between hope and survival is blurred leading to the suspicion that hope might just be "will to survive" in a tux and consequently overdressed for this occasion. The subject matter is grim, but the poetic flow makes it impossible to sink or stop swimming. In spite of already knowing the end of the story, readers of The Road will find themselves rushing along to find out how the book about the ultimate end of everything is going to end. Oh, and as an added bonus, you will never look at a grocery cart the same way again.
Recommended January 2007
Took me about one day to read it. I had three free periods at school, so I pretty much just read when I could. And it definitely was a book well worth it (even though I just borrowed it).
The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, and being the answer seeker that I am, I really wanted to find out what caused this world to become the way it was. But even when I finished it, no answer. And it was only when I finished it did I realize what sort of story it really was.
The story is about a boy and his father, and these two characters' struggle to survive in a world gone mad. We don't know the past, nor do we know what the future holds in store. All we know is the present. The story is about having faith in ourselves and those we are with, whether they be friends or family. Faith and trust seem to be the core values in McCarthy's story, and this is what I took away from reading it. Who cares about what caused the problems in the past. What matters is how we deal with it. As Zeddicus Zul Zorander would say, "Don't worry about he problem. Think about the solution."
By the way, I also watched the movie, which was a pretty good adaptation of the story. It still kept me tense at certain moments.
This book is crushing in its bleakness. There's a gimmick in the narrative that works really well. There are no quotes around what the characters say, nor are there hyphens in compound words, as if to say the survivors are too exhausted to bother with such details. The writing is propulsive and never meanders. One powerful resonance with me was that the characters refused to partake in cannibalism. My grandfather, on "the road" for most of the Holocaust, had opportunities to do so as well, but refused, and put his existence at riske by not succumbing. The book is a masterpiece.
Well, it was definitely a road.
But McCarthy's latest effort, The Road, is a missed opportunity.
Like Steinbeck, McCarthy shepherds his protagonists from an apocalypse of man's making into a hell where man himself is the scourge. Like Steinbeck, McCarthy never holds more than a fistful of scavenged victuals between his heroes and death. And like Steinbeck, McCarthy conjures from this pitiless flight the miracle of unswerving humanity. Astonishingly, this is a book about grace.
With only the corpse of a natural world to grapple with, McCarthy's father and son exist in a realm rarely seen in the ur-masculine literary tradition: the domestic. And from this unlikely vantage McCarthy makes a big, shockingly successful grab at the universal.
"The Road" is a dynamic tale, offered in the often exalted prose that is McCarthy's signature, but this time in restrained doses — short, vivid sentences, episodes only a few paragraphs or a few lines long, which is yet another departure for him.
Post-apocalyptic fiction isn't automatically better when written by Cormac McCarthy, but he does have a way of investing genre clichés with fine gray tones and morose poetry.
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In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
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FLORHAM PARK, NJ - MAY 02: Head coach Rex Ryan of the New York Jets speaks to the media during minicamp on May 2, 2009 at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center in Florham Park, New Jersey. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
Watching the New York Jets screw up royally never gets old. The New York Jets have received a lot of publicity this season, most of it bad. It's been a stinker of a season for Rex Ryan, Mark Sanchez and the rest of the Gang Green misfits, with more lowlights than highlights, which is great so long as you're not a fan of the Jets. For the rest of us, seeing them fall flat on their overrated faces is a beautiful thing in its own right, but then someone comes along and creates a nearly 4-minute New York Jets blooper reel. Come for the buttfumble, stay for the hilarity. Bonus points for setting the video to Yakety Sax, aka the Benny Hill theme. If ever a team deserved this song as their unofficial anthem, it's the 2012 New York Jets. [H/T to SportsGrid] The post The 2012 New York Jets blooper reel, set to the wholly appropriate 'Yakety Sax,' is worth a watch appeared first on Last Angry Fan.
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The phrase "kick the bucket," often used to describe the fact that someone has died, has no definite or proven source of origin. The most probable explanation of its origin comes from the use of the word "bucket," which is linked to an Old French word, "buquet," a term used to describe a trebuchet, yoke or beam from which an animal was hung for slaughter. Oftentimes, before and during the slaughtering process, the animal would struggle to free itself, often kicking the yoke or beam, thus "kicking the bucket."
Another theory, which holds less merit, is the idea that when a person tried to kill himself by hanging, he would have climbed up on a bucket to reach the noose and then kick the bucket away once the noose was secured around his neck.
The phrase originates from the notion that people hanged themselves by
some guy got fired and threw a bucket at his boss
The wooden frame that slaughtered animals were hung from is a bucket. The death spasms of animals caused them to kick the bucket - so its used when someone
Flying Dutchman noose hope i dont have to use it,