Marvin's Log

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Fri May 25, 2012 7:04 am

I can't log before MP time as it's right after my dinner (and I often get lase someminutes).

Dunno if I'll be at home on the afternoon, but the testing however will take only little.

Make a run of the configuration wizard and you should be fine. Usually there are people in there so it's not a proboem to ask if you're coming in loud and clear.

I use push to talk even if the voice activation seems to work pretty good.

Post by **Marvin** » Fri May 25, 2012 3:42 pm

From post: 137716, Topic: tid=5325, author=polyvinyl_zer0k wrote:Been an extremely odd year for weather, even for this area.

I can live with the weather. But Reno must've hired the moron who did Fernley's roundabout to now do the I-80 maintenance in Reno.

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:54 pm

Today, IM took over an abandoned star system northwest of the Cerulean WZ. The system stradles two trade station grids.

Starbuck · Post by **Starbuck** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:45 pm

and what a great system it is . two for the price of one..

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:50 am

Yeah ... I left it at 100% today ... but it could use the creative touch ... maybe a figure eight slightly above the galactic equator.

Starbuck · Post by **Starbuck** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:22 am

I agree it needs more stations..... northen system % drops off alot quicker than the south.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:01 am

Long story short... as Marv already know... my PC basically gave up after more than seven years of service.

Solution?
A new one is coming hopefully this week along with a brand new Thrustmaster T16000 M (as my old Sidewinder was a serial plug stick and could not be fitted into the new machine).

I doubt I'll have all setted up and installed for sunday, but if I'm lucky enough I'll be surprising you all.

If not, it'll be the week after this.

Main specs of the new machine:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Intel I5-2500K 3.3G 6MB
Asus P8Z77-V LE main board
8GB RAM DDR3 1333MHz Corsair
ASUS Nvidia GTX560 TI 2GB GDDR5
Cooler Master Elite 335 case
Corsair solid state 240GB disk

I hope this will keep me in business for some years without troubles.

[Edited on 15/6/2012 by DennyMala]

Starbuck · Post by **Starbuck** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:49 am

Hello denny... good luck with all that and hope to see you soon.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:22 pm

Thanks SB, I'm confident all will turns out nicely.

Post by **Marvin** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:03 pm

You might want to DL the 4-Gig patch to use with older games.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:29 am

Yup, nice reminder Marv... that will come in handy.

...if I only can remember where it was.... hmmm...lemme search....

Post by **Marvin** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:57 pm

Do a search ... IIRC, the first time it was mentioned, a link was eventually added to the thread.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:50 pm

Got it Marv....and I'll donwload and install it.

Beside... I ended up with a 2GB video card....lol... a nice surprise.

Post by **Marvin** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:41 pm

Well, I'm at sea on the laptop* at the moment but when I get back to port, we can compare Skyrim details. Leastwise, until the EM Expansion Pack is released ... at which time WWII goes on hold and the dragons of Skyrim are given free rein to burn and do whatever else dragons like to do.

* Now that it's warm in the garage, I can run the current version of EM on the desktop computer all day, all night (Mary Ann).

Post by **Marvin** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:32 pm

I got nuttin' ... just wanted to show all these "awards and decorations" clans how it's announced in RL.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:53 pm

Everything is turning out quite fine on this end but I'm not yet fully EM functional as I'm still finishing the various installs and configurations of the system.... it has been a busy week-end....

Post by **Marvin** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:37 pm

No problem. Starbuck took care of it ... then we did some really cool contracts against a Vonari colony on Cerulean B.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:10 am

Good to know... I'll be a pain for that Von colony next week-end.

Beside, I forgoto to backup all the mods I was using; not a big issue as I can get them again from here but I'll lack the one you sent me with the different compass and chat colours.

Can you please send it again Marv?

[Edited on 18/6/2012 by DennyMala]

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:31 pm

It's too big to post here. I'll email it to you instead ... as soon as I move the compass rose two pixels to the left.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:30 am

Thanks a lot Marv. Got it.

Post by **Marvin** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:30 am

Starbuck and I checked out the planet with floating asteroids today. There's even one under the water ...

... It's kind of hard to see from ground level. Look closely at the area of water seen through the left quarter panel.

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:37 am

LOL!
Spotted it!

Wow....where the heck is this place?

Letoras · Post by **Letoras** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:58 am

From post: 139125, Topic: tid=5325, author=Marvin wrote: Starbuck and I checked out the planet with floating asteroids today. There's even one under the water ...

... It's kind of hard to see from ground level. Look closely at the area of water seen through the left quarter panel.

Whaaaaat?????? This is amazing amigos!!!!!!!!!

Sinbad · Post by **Sinbad** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:40 am

Wow! That looks amazing! Like the floating mountains on Pandora in the film Avatar! Maybe due to some interaction between the planet's magnetic flux and superconducting elements with the asteroids.

Post by **Marvin** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 4:03 pm

Onehand (that's his name) found it first ... his screenie is on the next-to-last page of the Screenshot section. This is it:

I'm not certain it's the same planet ... but it looks similar.

Edit: He calls it planet Z569 and the screenie can be found near the middle of page 53 (on my computer).

[Edited on 6-23-2012 by Marvin]