Morning Discussion

by Xav de Matos, Jan 25, 2011 5:00am PST

Vacation's over. I really enjoyed my time away from work, exploring some of the great spots buried within Chicago. It was a hectic time in the city due to the face-off between the Bears and the Pack. It didn't turn out well for Bears fans.

What did turn out well was Never Not Funny, live at the Congress Theater. The show was hilarious as usual, Daver sang the theme and the crew sang along at the end. As an added bonus, I had the pleasure of meeting the crew. What a classy group of gentlemen.

Well, it's back to work for me. Next time I'll be sure to remember to take more than two days off. Maybe.

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RIFT Beta Launch info thread of DOOM.

Server:Wolfsbane
Faction:Defiant

Assuming they have channels, join /shacknews

We'll form some kind of rudimentary guild if we can get together the 1pp for the charter.

Jan 25, 2011 8:44am PST

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RIFT Beta Launch info thread of DOOM. Server:Wolfsbane Faction:Defiant Assuming they have channels... : Visceral Monkey
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- Also, there were two patches last night. If you're at home right now, patch now instead of waiting for th... : Visceral Monkey
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  I will be there. I'm going to use my shackname in game. Probably check out the pet classes first, the 30 ... : massdev
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    We'll you got what, 3 1/2 days? Heh. : Visceral Monkey
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      how do these betas work? is the key for just 1 week of beta access? : OhSnapHighFive
      
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      No it's good for the rest of the beta. How long that lasts overall is unknown. : Xevo
      
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      Only if the key on the account says that it's a VIP key. Non-VIP keys are valid, but are on an invite on... : Derringer
      
      hm well yeah I got a VIP key, I didn't realize there were non-VIP ones. : Xevo
      
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      True, but ALL the keys handed out this week are VIP. : Visceral Monkey
      
      Yeah, thankfully. I never get beta invites anymore haha : Derringer
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  What role are you guys planning to go for? (healer, tank, dps) I'm curious if there's a heavy trend t... : Geoffrois
  - So many choices. I think tank for the moment, starting with Paladin and then reaver maybe? : Visceral Monkey
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    I'm going dps, I don't like being a healer or tank. There's to much pressure not to mess up. : Lakipo
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      As a healer, yes. As a tank, less so. I miss my Iron Breaker from WAR :( : Visceral Monkey
      
      Paladin is good tanking soul. Mix a Voidknight, Warlord or Reaver in and you can make really nice tank bu... : Nihil ME
  - loc / nec / dom for me : hashd
  - I'll probably do some kind of dps route. Probably something in the rouge skill tree. : TheVietSpecial
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    Whatever lets me stealth, stab dudes like a rogue, have a pet and range DPS. : pancake humper
    - Ranger/Nightblade/Assasin perhaps or Marksman for more range. : sogelegos
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    I am going to be a bard, so DPS/Healer/Buffer : Xevo
    - Although apparently it's more Buffing/Debuffing and less Healing and DPS overall : Xevo
  - I tend to lean towards healers, so I'll be going that route, though I don't get off of work until around ... : MarkovChain
  - Healer I guess. : node
  - dps/healer here. Elementalist/chloro/warlock Thats what I'll start with anyway, I won't know till I g... : JuffoWup
  - Most likely tank. If I change it up it will be 2h warrior. : Derringer
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    Ubertank. Paladin / Void Knight / Reaver. : Rotten Deadite
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      Copier!!! : Visceral Monkey
      
      I think there's good synergy between Paladin / Void Knight but Reaver doesn't seem to bring much to the t... : Rotten Deadite
      
      I'm going to copy this too! : chadg033
  - I usually go healer first, then try out other classes. : Ride-My-Rocket
  - Necro! : chungathebunga
  - I'm really thinking about being a Bard or some type of Cleric. : Scotty22
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    I'm kinda planning on healing this time around. I can't really get a feel for what the specs will be like though. I like how wow has changed their specs to be less ambiguous. The souls kinda remind me of when you could hybrid your spec into ineffectiveness in WoW.
    
    With that said, I am really glad to see reactive heals. Though I don't understand the pairing of both reactive heals (orbs) and HoTs as much as they have. In EQ2, the templar was big casted heals paired with reactives. It feels like they combined a WoW druid with a few reactives. I'd be curious as to the HPS effectiveness of them in rift.
    
    But either way, I'm going to be trying warden first.
    
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    I'm kinda planning on healing this time around. I can't really get a feel for what the specs will be like... : TheNiXXeD
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  I'll be there too! What's 1pp? : Lakipo
  - Platinum piece : Visceral Monkey
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  Are we getting on TS3? : Xevo
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    Optional, if someone has a TS server they want to offer up, that's cool. Personally, I have 2 sick kids a... : Visceral Monkey
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      Rydogg's Dallas server is the usual. ts.shackbattles.com :9987 pass boxcar We don't have a RIFT channe... : Xevo
      
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      we've got two on here now, who else is playing and wants to talk? : Xevo
      
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      I don't have a microphone :( : Lakipo
      
      well you should definitely rectify that situation! : Xevo
    - You guys can use mine at agentpothead.com no password default port. I made 3 rift channels just in case. : AgentPothead
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  its up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wolfsbane locked : supermonkeyballz
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    I selected Deepwood : supermonkeyballz
    - Made it level 6 so far and it's fun so far! : supermonkeyballz
- Servers are going online. : Lakipo
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  hmm Wolfsbane is locked? : watcherxp
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    Seems like they might be leaving some locked until the other ones hit higher populations. : AgentPothead
    - I went to Shadebane, it's the only other PvE option even though it's RP. : Derringer
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      Server launch is officially a few minutes away though. : Visceral Monkey
      
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      I just chose Shadebane to mess with the creator. : Derringer
      
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      All open now! : hashd
      
      yuuuuup : Xevo
      
      Yay! : Lakipo
- Servers are slowly coming up, Wolfsbane is not up yet though. : Derringer
- my name in game is deckardpain : myfasha
- Think login servers are kaput, unless there is a delay between log offs. : massdev
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  Well I got disconnected earlier, and now I keep getting the "Failed to connect to the server" error at 49... : Xevo
  - This thread, if their forums ever work again - http://www.riftgame.com/maintenance.php#post607696 : Xevo
  - They just sent an in game message saying they are working on it : Lakipo
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    Same boat I checked out another server waiting for Wolf to come up did some character tinkering, level 3 ... : massdev
    - yeah what an awful decision... how are people going to know there is a global problem if their forums are... : Xevo
- Boo, for last minute huge repatch, yay for best MMO Patcher ever though. Blowing out every bit my line ca... : graceofdragons
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  lol wtf how did you guys kill the servers in the middle of the day! geez some people : smacknca
  - They opened one PVE server initially before 10 am and it was empty to full while I did the character crea... : massdev
- Well, fuck it. I'm going back to work. : Rotten Deadite
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  Fixed! : massdev
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    ...and broken again. : Xevo
    - try not to get disconnected if you're playing since shit done got broke again. : Xevo
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  Europe servers are down, 17 min queue on wolfsbane : imperator
  - The plasma vagina beckons me : imperator
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  I start the game, skip the intro, it starts loading but says "Can't connect to server". Anyone else getti... : Johnnsen
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    yeah read above, their connection servers are fucked and have been off and on the whole time : Xevo
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      Alright, going to try on and off then. : Johnnsen
      
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      You'll know it's back up when the progress circle stops at 39% : Xevo
      
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      Right now it stops at 89% and says it can't connect, then when retrying it stops at 49% : Johnnsen
      
      Yeah, I was goign to take a half day to get up to 10ish, but guess I'll wait until the connection servers... : MarkovChain
- Cool, I can't connect to the server. : Vincent Grayson
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  Finally get in and i have a massive ATI crossfire logo covering my minimap, wtf... : imperator
  - stupid new drivers.... who would want that. : imperator
- Played to level 4 as a Warrior / Champion / Beastmaster. Seemed ok. It'll definitely take some more tim... : pandastrong
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  this guy appears to be trying to connect / play , http://www.justin.tv/purpose2#/w/797270560 : bosst0ne
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    http://www.justin.tv/thelateshift#/w/797188448 this guy is definitely playing. : bosst0ne
    - lol, he's now playing Super Mario RPG on an emulator since servers are down :P : Ambient80
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  There are login server issues, they are working on them. If you guys want a guild, we need 1pp, I'm logge... : Visceral Monkey
  - how long does it take to earn 1pp? : bosst0ne
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    Just about lvl 7 with a necro / lock / dom build and I like what I have seen so far! Sarena in game. : hashd
    - You have 3 souls at level 7? : Geoffrois
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    will send you 5 gold as soon as I get back in : Xevo
    - We have 50 gold right now : Visceral Monkey
  - Sending 15 gold : Lakipo
  - They should lower the guild cost for the beta. : pancake humper
- This game is amazing. The Rift events are pretty sweet. : Derringer
- I was having fun and got randomly booted :( : Vincent Grayson
- 30 min downtime in 10 minutes for a brief update. : Lakipo
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  This game seems damn good especially for being in beta! : hashd
  - Yeah it seems really well polished. I've only had a couple of really minor complaints, mostly about UI an... : AgentPothead
- welp, I've been having fun so far. Level 5 with a nacro/chloro build. Last one to tag will be warlock, ... : JuffoWup
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  We have the guild charter. We need a name for the beta guild, like, now. : Visceral Monkey
  - We have 30 minutes before servers come back up. Get suggesting people! : AgentPothead
  - Lamp Sand Lime : sneakyalmond
  - Cocknews : Ambient80
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    Stick with the classic GCR? We are defiants which are kindof about tech and robots and shit kinda. Anyway... : Geoffrois
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      For some reason I was under the impression GCR in WoW was taken over by non shackers and went to shit or ... : Visceral Monkey
      
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      I admit I have no idea about the WoW shack guilds. : Geoffrois
      
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      http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24652591 : massdev
      
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      We can do GCR, besides, this is a just a beta guild. Even for the long term one though, no one who hasn't... : Visceral Monkey
      
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      It's really not important to me but I would hate to start a fresh guild with any bad blood hoodoo being c... : massdev
      
      I agree. Or we can just re-take the GCR name with Rift and be done with it. : Visceral Monkey
    - I agree with this : Nighteyes
  - Gap Shack : shadebane
  - Why not gcr? : pandastrong
  - Gap Analysis : massdev
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    It has to be GCR : Scotty22
    - IAWTP : Xencer
  - Elbows are too Pointy. : TheVietSpecial
  - Mind the Rift! : MisterPhoton
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    Giant Communist Robots it is. This GCR isn't affiliated with the one in WoW, you'll need to be a post... : Visceral Monkey
    - Visceral to the rescue!! : Xencer
    - So how do we get in????!!? Server is up! : hashd
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      Yeah, is there a shack channel or something? I just made my character. NighteyesJP : Nighteyes
      
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      Do /join shacknews : AgentPothead
      
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      Ok I am there but dont see anyone and I cant seem to talk in there? : hashd
      
      You can talk in there with /5 and /chatlist 5 will list anybody in that channel. I'm assuming it's channe... : AgentPothead
    - how to join? search doesn't seem to work? : watcherxp
    - I'm in as GuyManDude. : Rotten Deadite
  - Kudos for who ever got the money together so fast. Was that all from today or were you in beta before an... : daggot
- well my pyro/ele/chorl is about 9 ish and my fav so far has been the incursion rift events. I got a littl... : massdev
- really enjoying this so far, shadebane is my in game name, assassin/blade dancer/rift stalker. Im to leve... : shadebane
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  Why can't I connect? : Clay
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    servers down for 1/2 hour. : doctorbfunk
    - patchy! : massdev
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  Maggot the pyro maniac lives. So far he plays like a cross between an old EQ mage and a WoW mage. That'... : daggot
  - Got to do a public "instance(?)" at the end of the starter area. Kinda neat, but they could do a little ... : daggot
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  I only got to play a few minutes before the server went down, but anyone getting poor performance on ATI ... : Gorkgork
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    I have a 4890 and I'm playing super smooth on Ultra, I have a phenom II x4 if that means anything : Xencer
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      I have the same processor...weird....I wonder what's going wrong.... : Gorkgork
      
      Yes, im getting that kind of fps on a 5870ish card as well : Visceral Monkey
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      I have quad crossfire 4870Â´s and it runs like shit on medium (2560x1600) : imperator
      
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      The problem there is not the medium, its the 2560x1600. : Caoster007
      
      loads of games that look _alot_ better than this run fine though : imperator
- Server is up! : shadebane
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  Servers back! : Nighteyes
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    20 minute wait to log in. Cripes, why do we always pick the loaded servers? : Rotten Deadite
    - Almost all of them are full : pnkrckjoe
    - Every single one is like that : Visceral Monkey
- Release date on Rift is March 1st? I might try to get into beta. : Lucien Irenicus
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  http://www.livestream.com/deckardpainstream for those who did not get in. : myfasha
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    nice pet there : bosst0ne
    - Yea he is pretty kick ass. : myfasha
  - Went offline for a while. Loving the game so far though. : myfasha
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  It's fun but by level 5 I already had too many skills :( : Nighteyes
  - I did till I removed duplicates. And like WOW, you can add more bars. I have 3 nukes that do similar da... : JuffoWup
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  How much of a WoW clone is this? Be honest. : freakynipples69
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    Doesn't "feel" that to me at all actually. : Visceral Monkey
    - Its more like the love child of WAR and EQ2 : Visceral Monkey
    - I only ask because the UI looks identical to WoW's UI, and so does the combat. : freakynipples69
  - It looks very WoWy but with WARhammer stuff thrown in and a bunch of their changes they did cataclysm. ... : Scotty22
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    This much: |________________________________| : CyCo_PL
    - that's about |_____| too much for me :( : freakynipples69
  - If you don't like WoW, then you will not like this. Maybe because it still seems fresh, but it doesn't r... : TheVietSpecial
- eh it's ok. Pretty generic. : PixelPie
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  Apparently they just took down Wolfsbane. Nice. : Xevo
  - back up : Xevo
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  Why did we choose the crappiest server : whistletits
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    Long shack tradition. Can't be helped. : Visceral Monkey
    - Ouch just as I hit 11. : massdev
  - never pick a server with a "cool" name ... if you can choose between "WOLFSBANE" and "DAFFODIL" go with D... : imperator
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  Is this the goon server? It better not be the damn goon server : pancake humper
  - haha, hell no. They rolled on Lothan : Visceral Monkey
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    Long shack tradition. Can't be helped. : ghost in my shell
    - That I can help. And for retail, we will roll on a brand new one, with no existing name that might draw o... : Visceral Monkey
    - Furries and their wolves :( : pancake humper
  - I hate you all! :( :( Just when I was getting in a groove! : pancake humper
- queue'd : Clay
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  Keeps saying character creation failed. Indeed : jonin
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    Yeah Wolfsbane is a little strange right now. : Rotten Deadite
    - back to WoW, I'll try again later : jonin
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  wolfbane went down again =( so who is what? And how fun are the classes/sub classes So far i tir... : Gapyro
  - pyro/ele wouldn't play again ;p : massdev
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    Hekora: necro/chloro/warlock So many dots, so much fun. : JuffoWup
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      allegedly that is an awesome combo but the reading says its better to go dominator base rather than chlor... : massdev
      
      It is primarily necro, but a giant secondary in chloro for healing duties (along with keeping my own down... : JuffoWup
  - Sarena loc / nec / dom : hashd
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  I'm digging this game so far, have a couple or different rogue combinations since the server keeps crashi... : wellesraphael
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    Yeah it is certainly a cross between the 2 but is actually fun. Perhaps that is because it is new but its... : hashd
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      I can't help feeling like this game is going to be more like WAR in the long run, a solid game that just ... : Vincent Grayson
      
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      yea ....even thou its beta... their inability to maintain server stability is worrisome.. : Gapyro
      
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      This is specifically a stress test beta... that's the WHOLE point of this test. They let thousands of peo... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
      
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      I hope you're right; more to the point that they are artificially allowing the servers to get saturated. ... : daggot
      
      WoW had massive queues in early vanilla : sneakyalmond
- Would be nice to get a little more info on all these server updates. : daggot

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