Fast posting thread
10-22-2010, 01:36 PM
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10-22-2010, 01:36 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
10-22-2010, 01:42 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
I finished Moscow a few minutes ago and have done the first star in like 4 Italy levels. I started the second star on the first level in the fight one because I just assumed I had to do it. I'm almost done with that one though.
10-22-2010, 01:43 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
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10-22-2010, 01:57 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
Part 1 - In each town, there is a job theyre calling a gate job, where it drops a specific item you'll need a lot of later in the level. Cell phones have been perfect examples of what im talking about here if theres any confusion. At the bronze level, the gate job takes [lets say] 5 energy, at the silver level it takes 10 energy, then 15 for gold and 20 for ruby. I do the gate job 100 times in a row on the bronze level, and build up a huge supply of the item. That way when Im doing the later job on the ruby level for 2% per click, I dont have to go spending 4x the energy doing the gate job 100 times.
In Italy and Vegas there is also a job in each town/district that drops an item you will need to build up one part of it. Im not talking about the 4 core building items, I mean the one specific to each building.
I do those 100 times on the bronze level too, in vegas that wasnt enough so in italy im doing them 110 times.
Part 2 -
Sometimes these items come from a gate job in a previous town, rather than the gate job at the beginning of the current town. By doing the towns in reverse order, from silver to ruby, I get to handle any of those situations at the silver level instead of ruby.
Make sense?
10-22-2010, 02:36 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
im gonna do italy backwards. All 5 towns to bronze, then finish the 5th tonw to ruby, then the 4th town to ruby, and work my way backwards. Listen to my theory on this:
Part 1 - In each town, there is a job theyre calling a gate job, where it drops a specific item you'll need a lot of later in the level. Cell phones have been perfect examples of what im talking about here if theres any confusion. At the bronze level, the gate job takes [lets say] 5 energy, at the silver level it takes 10 energy, then 15 for gold and 20 for ruby. I do the gate job 100 times in a row on the bronze level, and build up a huge supply of the item. That way when Im doing the later job on the ruby level for 2% per click, I dont have to go spending 4x the energy doing the gate job 100 times.
In Italy and Vegas there is also a job in each town/district that drops an item you will need to build up one part of it. Im not talking about the 4 core building items, I mean the one specific to each building.
I do those 100 times on the bronze level too, in vegas that wasnt enough so in italy im doing them 110 times.
Part 2 -
Sometimes these items come from a gate job in a previous town, rather than the gate job at the beginning of the current town. By doing the towns in reverse order, from silver to ruby, I get to handle any of those situations at the silver level instead of ruby.
Make sense?
Part 1 - In each town, there is a job theyre calling a gate job, where it drops a specific item you'll need a lot of later in the level. Cell phones have been perfect examples of what im talking about here if theres any confusion. At the bronze level, the gate job takes [lets say] 5 energy, at the silver level it takes 10 energy, then 15 for gold and 20 for ruby. I do the gate job 100 times in a row on the bronze level, and build up a huge supply of the item. That way when Im doing the later job on the ruby level for 2% per click, I dont have to go spending 4x the energy doing the gate job 100 times.
In Italy and Vegas there is also a job in each town/district that drops an item you will need to build up one part of it. Im not talking about the 4 core building items, I mean the one specific to each building.
I do those 100 times on the bronze level too, in vegas that wasnt enough so in italy im doing them 110 times.
Part 2 -
Sometimes these items come from a gate job in a previous town, rather than the gate job at the beginning of the current town. By doing the towns in reverse order, from silver to ruby, I get to handle any of those situations at the silver level instead of ruby.
Make sense?
2) You smoke way too much weed
3) You are 100% right
So basically I'm gonna follow that theory......finish bronze to open them all up.......but before continuing I'm gonna stock pile parts for cheap on the silver level.......genius!!
10-22-2010, 04:10 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
This was kind of a cool fix. I had to share it. My wife has an HP laptop that first lost it's wireless and eventually lost it's video and began failing to boot. It would turn on, check the cd drive then reboot. I searched online and it's quite common with the dv6000s and dv9000s. The problem is inadequate cooling for the gpu. It actually melts it's own solder and breaks away from the board. Not sure why this affects the wireless first but it does. This computer lost the wireless about a year and a half ago. Anyway, I found some fixes to try online. Basically you have to re-flow the solder on the chip to bring the connections back, then fix the cooling issue.
Here's what I did. Take the motherboard out and take the heat sink off. Slap some thermal paste on the gpu and set a quarter on it. Put some solder on the top of the quarter to act as a thermometer. Heat the quarter with a pen torch. Once the solder on the quarter melts, continue heating for another minute or so. Pull the quarter off and let everything cool back down. I slapped it back together and it's like new. Even the wireless started working again.
Here's what I did. Take the motherboard out and take the heat sink off. Slap some thermal paste on the gpu and set a quarter on it. Put some solder on the top of the quarter to act as a thermometer. Heat the quarter with a pen torch. Once the solder on the quarter melts, continue heating for another minute or so. Pull the quarter off and let everything cool back down. I slapped it back together and it's like new. Even the wireless started working again.
10-22-2010, 04:42 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
NINER !! we have a mechanical engineering question ??????????????????
will the diameter of a 1/4 inch hole in a 1 foot by 1 foot square block of aluminum get larger or smaller when the whole block is heated ?
i have heated a bearing race to expand the inner diameter so it would slide on a shaft easier but would the ratio of the hole compared to the total amount of material make a difference ?
i guess what im trying to find out is would a 6 inch hole act the same as a 1/4 inch hole in the same 1 foot by 1 foot square block of aluminum when heated ?
will the diameter of a 1/4 inch hole in a 1 foot by 1 foot square block of aluminum get larger or smaller when the whole block is heated ?
i have heated a bearing race to expand the inner diameter so it would slide on a shaft easier but would the ratio of the hole compared to the total amount of material make a difference ?
i guess what im trying to find out is would a 6 inch hole act the same as a 1/4 inch hole in the same 1 foot by 1 foot square block of aluminum when heated ?
10-22-2010, 04:44 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
This was kind of a cool fix. I had to share it. My wife has an HP laptop that first lost it's wireless and eventually lost it's video and began failing to boot. It would turn on, check the cd drive then reboot. I searched online and it's quite common with the dv6000s and dv9000s. The problem is inadequate cooling for the gpu. It actually melts it's own solder and breaks away from the board. Not sure why this affects the wireless first but it does. This computer lost the wireless about a year and a half ago. Anyway, I found some fixes to try online. Basically you have to re-flow the solder on the chip to bring the connections back, then fix the cooling issue.
Here's what I did. Take the motherboard out and take the heat sink off. Slap some thermal paste on the gpu and set a quarter on it. Put some solder on the top of the quarter to act as a thermometer. Heat the quarter with a pen torch. Once the solder on the quarter melts, continue heating for another minute or so. Pull the quarter off and let everything cool back down. I slapped it back together and it's like new. Even the wireless started working again.
Here's what I did. Take the motherboard out and take the heat sink off. Slap some thermal paste on the gpu and set a quarter on it. Put some solder on the top of the quarter to act as a thermometer. Heat the quarter with a pen torch. Once the solder on the quarter melts, continue heating for another minute or so. Pull the quarter off and let everything cool back down. I slapped it back together and it's like new. Even the wireless started working again.
10-22-2010, 04:57 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
The problem was it overheated and broke the solder joints. The freezer wouldn't have done anything. I knew the motherboard was the issue because HP put an extended warranty on the mbs for an extra year because so many failed. I didn't know the gpu was the issue until I started looking for a new motherboard and found some fixes instead. I also used a penny in the heat sink so this fix cost me $8 for the thermal paste and a penny for the heat sink.
10-22-2010, 05:04 PM
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Re: Fast posting thread
Sunday River opened for the season. Now hopefully they'll actually get some snow. They just make snow on a small trail so they can be the first open in the east. I think they're the first open in the country this year though.
