title: Can I play Minecraft on a USB flash drive?

text: I've got a 4 GB SanDisk Cruzer here with practically nothing on it, and I'm about to go house-sit for a friend with a computer but no internet. It sure would be nice to play Minecraft while he's away, but I'd just as soon not muck around in his `Documents and Settings\Application Files` folders. Is it possible to have Minecraft and my world on the flash drive itself such that I can play it directly from the drive, rather than installing to each computer I bring it to?


title: Track the changes made by mods?

text: Is there any tool that can track the changes made by any mod? This is because my speedmult value keeps randomly changing to 31 and 175. I have over 60 mods installed.


title: Farming problem - seed planted but no plants appearing

text: I created two farm plots, all of them with plump helmets seeds. The seeds are planted and everything seems okay, but two seasons have passed and nothing has grown. My dwarves are starving right now and I don't know why this is happening. I destroyed the farm plots and created new ones only to get the same problem. I am using the Masterwork mod.


title: Stuck on "Updating setup files..." when installing Diablo 3?

text: After a reasonable hiatus from Blizzard games, I have decided to reinstall Diablo 3. I used to have it installed and working on this machine and removed my previous install using Add/Remove Programs. However, now when I try to reinstall the game, the Diablo 3 Setup starts 'Updating setup files...' and then hangs; ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Faskj.png) I have had a quick google for ideas on how to fix it which seems to bring up a bunch of posts when the server loads were really high last year, nevertheless I have been through the list of suggestions, making sure that secondary login is enabled, running the installer as administrator, etc. After leaving the installer for ~30 minutes, it finally brings up an error stating it could not run the Blizzard agent; ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TXG5f.png) This gives me an error code - BLZPTS00007 - which gives me a few more google hits including a seemingly official guide on how to troubleshoot agent issues on Battle.net, however performing the steps listed under 'Advanced Troubleshooting' still hasn't resolved my problem. How can I get past "Updating setup files..." when reinstalling Diablo 3, and what is error BLZPTS0007?


title: How to get Shadow Ranger achievement?

text: I'm planning to run the game with Ranger Hardcore Mode, and wonder what I should (or should not) do to obtain the Shadow Ranger achievement? In the description: > Complete the game without killing any Humans unless forced to. But how can I tell when I am forced to kill? Maybe I could run to an open space, get agression and then kill all enemies? * * * I beat this game on Ranger Hardcore with bad ending (yeah, to get good one you need to explore every hole in this game and without killing somebody, mutant or human I think). And this you shouldn't do to get this achivement (plus only stealth walkthrough):   * You shouldn't hit NPC while they're on rails, on the level with Regina. Because I have one and could kill it with this train, if game doesn't count stuned enemies as object that you can't kill. Next items is questionable, as said that there are no triggers for killing there.   * You should stun everyone at Red Square.   * You shouldn't shoot at level with Ganza train, while you going with Khan.   * You shouldn't kill anyone in the end. I have done this things and don't get achievement. Also, you shouldn't kill anyone even if you're going to reload level.


title: Will mobs fight each other?

text: Is it possible to pit mobs against each other? I was hoping to create a boxing ring-like area where I could spawn mobs to fight each other. Edit: Can I get two zombies to fight each other? Edit2: Can Ghasts fight each other because they use range?


title: What is the secret of the blue bug in Your Doodles Are Bugged?

text: I was playing Doodle #20, which requires "some sacrifices to be made". While playing, I got a steam achievement - Blue Bug's Secret (Discover the secret of the blue bug). I've been wondering what the blue bug was all about, but I have no idea what happened during the chaos of that level that was supposed to be his secret. EDIT: After further information my guess is that it has something to do with the blue fireworks that occur when the blue bug goes into the pot of "blue honey" - my guess is that there's one of these pots in every level, though I've only checked for it in two levels. In Suicide Mission, it's just above and right of the gap; in Skydiving, it's near the floor, to the left of the honey. I still don't know what the purpose of it is. **What is the secret of the Blue Bug?**


title: Who is the Iron Hunter and Where is he located?

text: I saw this question and wondered to my self, "Who is the Iron Hunter, where is he located, and why was he imprisoned?"


I'm playing Command and Conquer: Red Alert, but one thing is making it particularly difficult and that is the speed that the screen scrolls - this is unrelated to the speed the mouse pointer moves, but it seems that the moment your cursor touches the edge of the screen it begins scrolling rapidly in that direction. There are no menu options to change the scroll speed unlike in the later games. Is it possible to adjust screen scroll speed?


title: Minecraft closes after I click Login

text: I've tried every solution I've found online. Please can someone help me with this. Here is the log. Any help is appreciated and thank you in advance!               #     # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:     #     #  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x4cddd09f, pid=3928, tid=856     #     # JRE version: 7.0_10-b18     # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (23.6-b04 mixed mode windows-x86 )     # Problematic frame:     # C  [ig4dev32.dll+0xd09f]     #     # Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows     #     # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:     #   http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp     # The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.     # See problematic frame for where to report the bug.     #          ---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------          Current thread (0x4b421800):  JavaThread "Minecraft main thread" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=856, stack(0x4bf80000,0x4bfd0000)]          siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000005, reading address 0x00000000          Registers:     EAX=0x00000000, EBX=0x00ab9888, ECX=0x4cd22ffc, EDX=0x00ab85a0     ESP=0x4bfcf19c, EBP=0x4cd22ffc, ESI=0x4cd74a74, EDI=0x4cd22ffc     EIP=0x4cddd09f, EFLAGS=0x00010216          Top of Stack: (sp=0x4bfcf19c)     0x4bfcf19c:   4cd22ffc 4cd74a74 4cd22ffc 00ab9888     0x4bfcf1ac:   4cd22ffc 4cd74a74 00ab9888 4cddd529     0x4bfcf1bc:   4cd29694 4cc64804 4cc92260 4c8fad6e     0x4bfcf1cc:   54010d4f 00adfb70 00b2c478 4bfcf330     0x4bfcf1dc:   54010d4f 00b2fd14 4cd22ffc 00ae7fd0     0x4bfcf1ec:   4bfcf83c 4cc163e1 ffffffff 4cace414     0x4bfcf1fc:   54010d4f 00ab1390 00010000 4bfcf350     0x4bfcf20c:   54010d4f 00000000 67342ac0 4bfcf2f4           Instructions: (pc=0x4cddd09f)     0x4cddd07f:   08 00 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc     0x4cddd08f:   cc 83 ec 0c 53 55 56 57 8b f9 8b 87 f4 1a 05 00     0x4cddd09f:   8b 08 8b 51 08 8b 87 ac 1c 05 00 3b 87 b0 1c 05     0x4cddd0af:   00 8d af 78 1a 05 00 89 7c 24 10 89 54 24 18 89                Register to memory mapping:          EAX=0x00000000 is an unknown value     EBX=0x00ab9888 is an unknown value     ECX=0x4cd22ffc is an unknown value     EDX=0x00ab85a0 is an unknown value     ESP=0x4bfcf19c is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x4b421800     EBP=0x4cd22ffc is an unknown value     ESI=0x4cd74a74 is an unknown value     EDI=0x4cd22ffc is an unknown value               Stack: [0x4bf80000,0x4bfd0000],  sp=0x4bfcf19c,  free space=316k     Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)     C  [ig4dev32.dll+0xd09f]          Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)     j  org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsContextImplementation.nCreate(Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer;Ljava/nio/IntBuffer;Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer;)Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer;+0     j  org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsContextImplementation.create(Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/PeerInfo;Ljava/nio/IntBuffer;Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer;)Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer;+10     j  org.lwjgl.opengl.Context.<init>(Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/PeerInfo;Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/ContextAttribs;Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/Context;)V+104     j  org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/PixelFormat;Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/Drawable;Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/ContextAttribs;)V+88     j  org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/PixelFormat;)V+9     j  net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a()V+174     j  asq.a()V+94     j  net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run()V+6     j  java.lang.Thread.run()V+11     v  ~StubRoutines::call_stub          ---------------  P R O C E S S  ---------------          Java Threads: ( => current thread )     =>0x4b421800 JavaThread "Minecraft main thread" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=856, stack(0x4bf80000,0x4bfd0000)]       0x4b449c00 JavaThread "Timer hack thread" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4092, stack(0x4bd10000,0x4bd60000)]       0x4b44a000 JavaThread "Snooper Timer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5652, stack(0x4b920000,0x4b970000)]       0x01c8a800 JavaThread "DestroyJavaVM" [_thread_blocked, id=6024, stack(0x01b30000,0x01b80000)]       0x4b17d000 JavaThread "AWT-EventQueue-0" [_thread_blocked, id=5692, stack(0x4b570000,0x4b5c0000)]       0x4b174000 JavaThread "TimerQueue" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=6112, stack(0x4ab40000,0x4ab90000)]       0x4b173800 JavaThread "SwingWorker-pool-1-thread-1" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5980, stack(0x4b4c0000,0x4b510000)]       0x4a169000 JavaThread "AWT-Windows" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=5848, stack(0x4aaf0000,0x4ab40000)]       0x4a120800 JavaThread "AWT-Shutdown" [_thread_blocked, id=6068, stack(0x4aaa0000,0x4aaf0000)]       0x4a120400 JavaThread "Java2D Disposer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4600, stack(0x4a750000,0x4a7a0000)]       0x4a00ec00 JavaThread "Service Thread" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=6064, stack(0x4a2b0000,0x4a300000)]       0x4a004800 JavaThread "C1 CompilerThread0" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5500, stack(0x4a260000,0x4a2b0000)]       0x49ffdc00 JavaThread "Attach Listener" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5656, stack(0x4a210000,0x4a260000)]       0x49ffbc00 JavaThread "Signal Dispatcher" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4544, stack(0x4a1c0000,0x4a210000)]       0x01c72000 JavaThread "Finalizer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=1036, stack(0x49f70000,0x49fc0000)]       0x01c6d400 JavaThread "Reference Handler" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4532, stack(0x49f20000,0x49f70000)]          Other Threads:       0x01c66c00 VMThread [stack: 0x49ed0000,0x49f20000] [id=5844]       0x4a022800 WatcherThread [stack: 0x4a300000,0x4a350000] [id=4024]          VM state:not at safepoint (normal execution)          VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None          Heap      def new generation   total 157248K, used 92913K [0x03d10000, 0x0e7b0000, 0x19260000)       eden space 139776K,  66% used [0x03d10000, 0x097cc460, 0x0c590000)       from space 17472K,   0% used [0x0c590000, 0x0c590000, 0x0d6a0000)       to   space 17472K,   0% used [0x0d6a0000, 0x0d6a0000, 0x0e7b0000)      tenured generation   total 349568K, used 0K [0x19260000, 0x2e7c0000, 0x43d10000)        the space 349568K,   0% used [0x19260000, 0x19260000, 0x19260200, 0x2e7c0000)      compacting perm gen  total 12800K, used 12581K [0x43d10000, 0x44990000, 0x47d10000)        the space 12800K,  98% used [0x43d10000, 0x44959718, 0x44959800, 0x44990000)     No shared spaces configured.          Card table byte_map: [0x49b10000,0x49d40000] byte_map_base: 0x49af1780          Polling page: 0x00bc0000          Code Cache  [0x01c90000, 0x01ea0000, 0x03c90000)      total_blobs=1276 nmethods=1000 adapters=210 free_code_cache=30672Kb largest_free_block=31407744          Compilation events (10 events):     Event: 8.925 Thread 0x4a004800 1003   !         java.net.URLClassLoader$1::run (73 bytes)     Event: 8.926 Thread 0x4a004800 nmethod 1003 0x01e97808 code [0x01e97950, 0x01e97b88]     Event: 8.941 Thread 0x4a004800 1004   !         sun.security.util.ManifestEntryVerifier::setEntry (299 bytes)     Event: 8.944 Thread 0x4a004800 nmethod 1004 0x01e97f88 code [0x01e98280, 0x01e98cd0]     Event: 8.987 Thread 0x4a004800 1005             java.security.Provider::ensureLegacyParsed (123 bytes)     Event: 8.988 Thread 0x4a004800 nmethod 1005 0x01e99e88 code [0x01e9a040, 0x01e9a348]     Event: 8.990 Thread 0x4a004800 1006             sun.security.util.ManifestEntryVerifier::verify (272 bytes)     Event: 8.991 Thread 0x4a004800 nmethod 1006 0x01e9a588 code [0x01e9a770, 0x01e9ad4c]     Event: 8.996 Thread 0x4a004800 1007             java.util.jar.JarFile::maybeInstantiateVerifier (96 bytes)     Event: 8.997 Thread 0x4a004800 nmethod 1007 0x01e9b608 code [0x01e9b780, 0x01e9ba04]          GC Heap History (0 events):     No events          Deoptimization events (0 events):     No events          Internal exceptions (10 events):     Event: 8.996 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x095fbbe0 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166     Event: 8.996 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x095fbfb8 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166     Event: 9.002 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x09611850 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166     Event: 9.002 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x09611c90 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166     Event: 9.003 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x09615180 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166     Event: 9.003 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x096155a8 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166     Event: 9.004 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x0961ba00 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166     Event: 9.004 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x0961be60 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166     Event: 9.006 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x0961e450 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166     Event: 9.006 Thread 0x4b421800 Threw 0x0961e900 at C:\jdk7u2_32P\jdk7u10\hotspot\src\share\vm\prims\jvm.cpp:1166          Events (10 events):     Event: 8.996 loading class 0x4a075e50     Event: 8.996 loading class 0x4a075e50 done     Event: 9.002 loading class 0x4b37ab78     Event: 9.002 loading class 0x4b37ab78 done     Event: 9.003 loading class 0x4b37a9b8     Event: 9.003 loading class 0x4b37a9b8 done     Event: 9.004 loading class 0x4b3176f0     Event: 9.004 loading class 0x4b3176f0 done     Event: 9.006 loading class 0x4a089588     Event: 9.006 loading class 0x4a089588 done               Dynamic libraries:     0x00bd0000 - 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0x65f7c000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\client\jvm.dll     0x6fee0000 - 0x6fee8000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WSOCK32.dll     0x71800000 - 0x71821000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WINMM.dll     0x75750000 - 0x75756000     C:\Windows\system32\PSAPI.DLL     0x77980000 - 0x779d0000     C:\Windows\system32\WS2_32.dll     0x717d0000 - 0x717fa000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WINMMBASE.dll     0x75cd0000 - 0x75cd8000     C:\Windows\system32\NSI.dll     0x724d0000 - 0x724dc000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\verify.dll     0x70b30000 - 0x70b50000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java.dll     0x70a00000 - 0x70a13000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\zip.dll     0x65ae0000 - 0x65c22000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\awt.dll     0x778f0000 - 0x7797b000     C:\Windows\system32\OLEAUT32.dll     0x75610000 - 0x75746000     C:\Windows\system32\combase.dll     0x743b0000 - 0x74457000     C:\Windows\system32\uxtheme.dll     0x73df0000 - 0x73e09000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\dwmapi.dll     0x77a20000 - 0x77b39000     C:\Windows\system32\ole32.dll     0x75060000 - 0x75069000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\CRYPTBASE.dll     0x75000000 - 0x75051000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\bcryptPrimitives.dll     0x76800000 - 0x778c6000     C:\Windows\system32\SHELL32.dll     0x779d0000 - 0x77a10000     C:\Windows\system32\SHLWAPI.dll     0x77b40000 - 0x77bb5000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\shcore.dll     0x705e0000 - 0x7060a000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\fontmanager.dll     0x695a0000 - 0x695b4000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\net.dll     0x74b80000 - 0x74bca000     C:\Windows\system32\mswsock.dll     0x724c0000 - 0x724cf000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\nio.dll     0x72980000 - 0x72990000     C:\Windows\system32\NLAapi.dll     0x74a10000 - 0x74a85000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\DNSAPI.dll     0x6ed40000 - 0x6ed49000     C:\Windows\System32\winrnr.dll     0x6c3f0000 - 0x6c400000     C:\Windows\system32\napinsp.dll     0x6c3d0000 - 0x6c3e4000     C:\Windows\system32\pnrpnsp.dll     0x6f1e0000 - 0x6f201000     C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll     0x72280000 - 0x722a0000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\Iphlpapi.DLL     0x72390000 - 0x72398000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WINNSI.DLL     0x72350000 - 0x7238f000     C:\Windows\System32\fwpuclnt.dll     0x6f1d0000 - 0x6f1d7000     C:\Windows\System32\rasadhlp.dll     0x74bd0000 - 0x74bea000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\CRYPTSP.dll     0x748f0000 - 0x7492e000     C:\Windows\system32\rsaenh.dll     0x749c0000 - 0x749db000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\USERENV.dll     0x751d0000 - 0x751e1000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\profapi.dll     0x69470000 - 0x69490000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\sunec.dll     0x68d70000 - 0x68da1000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\t2k.dll     0x76560000 - 0x765d4000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\clbcatq.dll     0x72df0000 - 0x72f36000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WindowsCodecs.dll     0x70d20000 - 0x70d29000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\sunmscapi.dll     0x753c0000 - 0x75548000     C:\Windows\system32\CRYPT32.dll     0x75250000 - 0x75262000     C:\Windows\system32\MSASN1.dll     0x4bf10000 - 0x4bf7b000     C:\Users\Dave\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin\natives\lwjgl.dll     0x672a0000 - 0x6736e000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\OPENGL32.dll     0x704e0000 - 0x704e8000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\VERSION.dll     0x68d40000 - 0x68d63000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\GLU32.dll     0x65a00000 - 0x65ad9000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\DDRAW.dll     0x709f0000 - 0x709f7000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\DCIMAN32.dll     0x70520000 - 0x70526000     C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\jawt.dll     0x4c8d0000 - 0x4ccc2000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ig4icd32.dll     0x4cdd0000 - 0x4d06a000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ig4dev32.dll     0x64200000 - 0x64329000     C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\dbghelp.dll          VM Arguments:     jvm_args: -Xms512m -Xmx1024m      java_command: C:\Users\Dave\Desktop\mc\Minecraft.exe     Launcher Type: SUN_STANDARD          Environment Variables:     CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext\QTJava.zip     PATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin     USERNAME=Dave     OS=Windows_NT     PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13, GenuineIntel                    ---------------  S Y S T E M  ---------------          OS: Windows 8 Build 9200           CPU:total 2 (2 cores per cpu, 1 threads per core) family 6 model 15 stepping 13, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, sse3, ssse3, tsc          Memory: 4k page, physical 2087316k(1171344k free), swap 4184468k(2640304k free)          vm_info: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (23.6-b04) for windows-x86 JRE (1.7.0_10-b18), built on Nov 28 2012 08:34:29 by "java_re" with unknown MS VC++:1600          time: Tue Dec 25 13:40:44 2012     elapsed time: 9 seconds


title: What are roads for, and when to build them?

text: I've started playing Civ 4 recently; it's a great, complex game, and there's a ton to learn. One aspect that puzzles me are roads. I read something about needing roads to gain access to resources - but my pasture worked just fine without any road! On the other hand, I did need to build a road for, if I recall correctly, an iron mine to start giving me iron. What resources require roads, and, outside of the movement bonus, are there other uses for them? For example, is there a trade bonus for connecting cities with a road?


title: How do I avoid collision with the launchpad tower?

text: I keep losing boosters to the launchpad tower. Is there any way to place my rocket further away from it?


title: What's the monocle room's secret?

text: The first world/area shows an "incomplete" room (white node) with many paintings, most prominently one of a monocled guy. What is the secret to this room? ![node screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6J4KK.png) ![monocle plainting](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rRQg8.png)


title: What is the ratio of Tourism to Culture when influencing a civilization?

text: In Civilization 5, Culture is described as your defense, while Tourism is your offense in the game of influencing other civilizations. When you generate Tourism, you generate it 2 points at a time. I've found that, even when you're generating as little as 4 points of Tourism, you can find some (culture-poor) civilizations where your influence is rising. It seems unlikely that even a small, culture-poor civilization would generate a mere 4 points of Culture per turn. So: how many points of Tourism does it take to overcome X points of total Culture? Does it matter whether the Culture was generated recently? Or does Tourism compare against Culture-per-turn rather than total Culture?


title: Should I get the Blasphemer's Outfit or wait for Oathbreaker?

text: Doing a playthrough on Dark difficulty and I started gathering some diagrams for Blasphemer, then realized it may not be worth it. Upon checking some wikis, I see that there are two additional armor sets, but not much in terms of suggestions. Should I wait on the Oathbreaker/Kingslayer set or get Blasphemer?


title: What happens when I configure my USB hard drive for Xbox 360?

text: What happens when I configure my USB drive for the Xbox 360? Once it is configured, will I be able to use it like normally on my laptop/other computers? Will I be able to see files from the Xbox (such as saved games) on the USB drive when it's plugged into a PC?


title: Pact of Research in Civilization V

text: What are the requirements to have the option to sign a Pact of Research with another Civ?


title: Mass Effect 2 Choices Stats

text: I remember in pre release interviews some of the devs mentioning we can see stats for the choices that people made in ME2, along the lines of, how many players chose this choice vs that choice, etc. Is there anywhere I can see those stats? Very curious. Thanks.


title: What effect does karma have?

text: I'm wondering what effects your Karma has in Fallout New Vegas, since they introduced the reputation with different factions?


title: Why did my character data get corrupted?

text: One time that I log into Dead Island, hit PLAY at the title menu to look at my character data, and look at characters data, one of my character data is corrupted. Instead of the facial icon for the character, it's like an anonymous, gray silhouette, and instead of the time-stamp info of the last time that I played them, it said something like "CORRUPTED". I can't play it anymore; All I can do with it is delete it. Why did this happen?


title: Xbox 360 power supply has red light at start of day

text: The adapter has a red light when we turn the power on at the mains. When it's not connected to the Xbox, it will be orange until we plug it in. Since this happens at the start, it's not an overheating problem. After we reset the power at the main enough times, the power does work, and it does not fail as long as we don't turn off the console. Has anyone ever had this problem and/or know if a new power supply will fix this?


title: How to make your followers craft?

text: So following on from this question How can I find my followers skills and stats I've found that Sven is good at some craft skills, namely Alchemy, Smithing and Enchanting. How do you get them to craft, or control it? I know you can talk to them and ask "I'd like you to do something." to get into command mode and point them at a workbench for example, but how can you control what they make? I've pointed Sven at the forge and he's come back with nothing. Perhaps I need to load him up with materials?


title: Why can't I use the Black Star to recharge a weapon enchantment?

text: I got the Black Star a while back and decided to use it today. I killed a guard, trapping his soul in the star. This is the first soul that I have trapped in the star. When I tried to recharge my weapon, the star didn't appear in the list of possible choices. After some experimenting, I figured out that, due to the Black Star's name, the star won't show up in the interface if you have three or more (other) black soul gems. Any idea what I can do about this, besides dropping some black soul gems all the time?


title: How do I get up on High Hrothgar to the Greybeards?

text: I'm following the main quest and I need to get up to the Greybeard's monastery High Hrothgar. The quest marker first lead me to Ivarstead, and then I tried to find a way up the mountain. I haven't found a way up yet and I am nearly around half of the mountain now. The Clairvoyance spell also doesn't help, it just says "unable to find a direct path". How do I get up this mountain?


title: How do I glitch Phasewalk?

text: I've seen players who act like they're in Phasewalk (e.g., sparking with Brilliance, moving very fast, Phasewalk background sound), but they are carrying a weapon. Other effects include being completely visible and able to shoot and throw grenades. Further evidence that leads me to believe that this is a Phasewalk matter is because after a normal Phasewalk length of time, they come out of it with the characteristic, ending AoE. Is this just a glitch for me or are they doing something special? In Borderlands, there is a class called the Siren (A.K.A. Lilith). Each of the classes has a unique Action Skill. Hers is called "Phasewalk" (PW).


title: Tips for jungling on Twisted Treeline (TT - 3v3 map)?

text: There are several jungling tips/guides for Summoners Rift (SR - standard 5v5 map). Is it possible to jungle in 3v3 and what would be the differences to SR? If so how and which heroes are good for jungling on TT?


title: How do I acquire new powers?

text: What I refer to when I mention "powers", is the abilities I am able to get in the game. You can find it by going to magic in the menu then to powers. From the beginning of my playing the game up to probably about the second to the last time I've played it, I've only had one power (Battle Cry). I want to know how to get more powers. I was able to get a power that enabled me to turn into a werewolf, but that came from one of the quests. Will I have to wait more while doing the quests to get a new power, or is there some other way? Do I have to use the enchantment tool?


title: Why Do MW2 Maps Keep Crashing?

text: So I am level 59 in MW2 multiplayer, and am planning on getting MW3 in the near future. I want to be able to prestige before then so I can get the bonuses listed in this answer. But whenever I play on any maps other than Highrise, Querry, and Afghan, My xbox crashes and says               The disk you have entered is unreadable.      Please try wiping it with a cloth or cleaning it.      My disk is scratched, but I am afraid of fixing it because all of the reviews I have seen of people do this have been good like:`This saved me $60!!!!!`, to `You suck!!!!!!!!!! You ruined my disc` Obvisously it will take me forever to prestige if I can only play on 3 maps. Is there anyway around this? Also is there any ways to fix it for free that you have used and work?   Thanks in Advance


title: How can I use my wand/offhand instead of my signature spell?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I set a mouse button to a regular attack? I am equipped with a wand with magic abilities, and want to switch to it when monsters resist to my primary or secondary ability. As far as I could observer, this happens only when my spirit level drops to a level insufficient for me to use my secondary. How do I use my wand _directly_?


title: Can't go to jail

text: I was in the jarls palace in whiterun and "accidentally" took an item called "unusual gem." Now every time I go to whiterun then I get massacred by a huge group of guards and if I kill anybody I'll just be digging myself into a bigger hole. :(


title: Why won't the blank map QR code map work?

text: I scanned the QR code on the back of the blank map and came up with `RT RT RT LT RT RT RT LT` I entered it and nothing happened. Is there another puzzle that cancels it out, or is my game just glitched?


title: How do the stealth and detection elements work?

text: Similar to my older questions for BioShock 1 and 2, I would like to know what the stealth elements are, how they work, and how the enemy AI detects the player in BioShock Infinite. This is in case one wants to be extra-sneaky when playing through it. One of the reasons I asked this question is because BioShock 1 and 2 had stealth elements and even stealth and detection-modifying gene tonics ('gear' in BioShock Infinite) like Wrench Lurker, Natural Camouflage and Security Evasion. Stealth kills can be done on 'unaware' opponents on both of those games. And certain plasmids (Vigor in BioShock Infinite) can make opponents 'unaware' or affect how easily you are detected (e.g. Insect Swarm). I was wondering if BioShock Infinite has similar stealth aspects in its gameplay.   * How does your **distance** to an enemy, before they get alerted work? Can I sneak near a non-alerted enemy to melee attack or shoot him/it in the face? At what distance will enemies be alerted to my presence?    * Do the **sounds** you make matter? (from weapon reloading/equipping sounds, gunfire, vigor effects to walking on different types of floor) Will crouch walking lessen sound?   * Does **sight or light levels** matter? Can I lurk in the shadows? Sneak behind people? Hide behind objects? Being on a different level (a floor up or down)?   * **Once you're spotted** , is hiding effective? Do enemies alert each other? What if they see a dead body you killed?    * Any **enemies with unique behavior** when it comes to player detection?    * Is **Elizabeth** also detected by enemies?    * How does the ' **Gear Head** ' hat gear work? It is described as a gear that will make you " _become harder to detect_ " and " _affects automated turrets, zepplins and motorized patriots_ ". How does it make you "harder to detect" by those mentioned enemies?   * Does **difficulty** matter?


title: Is there a suprise award upon victory?

text: RIOT released 1st April special flash games today about Cho'gath and Astro Teemo. Is there a special award for completing these, like a skin? They are kinda fun, but I am done playing today, unless there is a vanity reward there. I wouldn't want to miss those.


title: What are the differences between the difficulty levels in BioShock Infinite?

text: To better help decide what difficulty to play the game at, I would like to know the differences between the difficulty levels. I would like specifics on the following:   * What are the changes in **enemy stats**?   * Do the **quantity of enemies** increase in the harder difficulties?    * What about **loot quantity**?    * Are **stealth** attempts harder? Are you more easily detected?   * Are there any enemy **AI behavior** changes?


title: Choosing a BattleTag, how is it used?

text: To play Diablo 3, you have to choose a BattleTag. Blizzard says the name will represent me on battle.net. I already have an account name for Starcraft 2, and I'm wondering if I should use the same name for the BattleTag. On the one hand, I'd would be nice to have the same name for all 'accounts', and also Blizzard might move to the BattleTag for Starcraft 2 one day. On the other hand, my Starcraft 2 name is rather sci-fi themed, and I think that would be weird / bad for the atmosphere in Diablo. I'm wondering: How is the BattleTag is displayed in Diablo? Are there also character names, and what is more prominent? _(And the following is a soft question and not really fitting for the site, but I'd still appreciate a comment, or an addition to your answer: What do the BattleTags tend to be like on average? I mean more thematic like, dunno, 'VigorTheConqueror' or 'DemonSlayer', or are there a lot of silly or off-topic names like 'Tassadar' or 'TupacLives'? ;-) I don't want to pick something that sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm probably overthinking this, but maybe someone could add their opinion.)_


title: Playing in multiple regions

text: If I switch regions in the launcher, every single time it has to patch some small amount of data (I assume its the localization differences). Is there some way to avoid this, short of having multiple program installs?


title: What does whether or not the hit icon is filled mean?

text: When you hit someone, a little icon pops up to indicate it. Sometimes it's filled in though, and sometimes it isn't. ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dMick.png) What does that signify?


title: Am I going to lose access to cloud storage when my gold membership expires?

text: I currently have an Xbox Live gold membership, and I am uploading all my saved games to the Xbox 360 cloud storage. According to this article you need a gold membership to use cloud storage. What I fear is, the day my gold membership expires, will I suddenly be unable to access my saved games?


title: Foiled Game Singleplayer?

text: Is there a single player mode of Foiled where you face an AI instead of having to have another person? I can't find one anywhere.


title: How do I open the Candy Box?

text: I've found a candy box, but I can't open it. What do I need to do? Does it have anything to do with throwing candy on the ground?


title: How did Albert Fink observe the tears?

text: Later in the game, we find out: > Albert Fink was able to hear the music of the future through tears, which he > used to make him and his brother a lot of money. Why was Albert able to view these tears in the first place?


title: Keeping prestige up as Castille

text: I've been attempting to claim heir to the throne of Aragon, which means I have to keep my prestige higher than theirs as I understand it. However, while I try as I may, somehow my prestige sometimes tanks. Is this due to loans? Stability? What are some strategies to make sure I get that throne?


title: Sockets and items

text: I have a couple of questions about item socketing.   1. What is the effect of Bloodstone in the process of socketing? I have Bloodstone of the Founder,does it have any other effects compared to the other Bloodstone qualities?   2. How many sockets an item could have at maximum?   3. Can I create sockets on all items or are there limitation?


title: What should I do to start a "stealth" or "assassin" character in Dark Souls?

text: My younger brother got the game Dark Souls a while ago. I have always said "the game seems too slow for me" but after seeing some gameplay and having my brother explain some of the things about the game, I want to start playing. What I want to do is have some sort of "assassin" or "stealth" build. I say this because I do not know the term for Dark Souls. I know you can get bows, daggers, and short swords, but what I want to know what character to start with and what stats to build. What is it I should do to make this character effective?


title: What difference do gems make in enchanting weapons?

text: Currently, I'm enchanting a Glass Bow (Exquisite) with Fire Damage. I have a Grand Soul Gem and a Petty Soul Gem available. When selecting the Grand Soul Gem, the weapon has the following stats:   * Damage: 30   * Weight: 14   * Value: 1702   * Burns the target for 43 points. Targets on fire take extra damage. When using the Petty Soul Gem, these are the stats:   * Damage: 30   * Weight: 14   * Value: 1372   * Burns the target for 43 points. Targets on fire take extra damage. I've also noticed that the charge level of the weapon is just slightly less. Since I plan on actually _using_ this weapon, I really have a hard time seeing any worthwhile difference here. The only changes are:   * Value is lowered. (Not relevant to combat.)   * Weapon is slightly less charged. (Very small difference, and easily resolved by charging with another low-level gem.) I could see using the higher gem perhaps if I wanted to go straight to market with this weapon. But other than that, is there really any point in using a higher-level gem to enchant weapons you actually plan on using?


title: Is excessive use of rail in Quake-Live a valid strategy?

text: I get frustrated when playing Quake-Live on some maps such as rebound or vortex portal, when some users seem to only use rail and doubler and nothing else. This is frustrating when an enemy does this as it seems there is little chance to get into the enemy base to capture the flag. It's equally frustrating when a teammate does it as they are not helping to capture the flag. Is this a valid strategy? Does it make sense to do this in a capture the flag match? I seems like it is useful for racking up kills, not securing captures. What can I do to combat the use of this strategy?


title: What the difference between relative and absolute input (mouse vs. joystick)?

text: What is the difference and how is one advantageous in its particular use case?


title: Do the 'aura' abilities in the Vendettas campaign affect the player character too?

text: I am playing the Vendettas campaign offline (singleplayer) as Inugami, and noticed that he has 'aura' abilities, like 'Dark Melee Aura'. It is described as " _Players standing close to Inugami receive a damage bonus to their melee strikes._ " ![Dark Melee Aura](http://i.stack.imgur.com/OEFen.jpg) Does this only affect allied players, or does this affect the player character too? Also, what about the other 'aura' abilities of Inugami and the other Vendettas characters?


title: Is it possible to force Grand Theft Auto 1 to run at 1080 resolution?

text: I've been searching Google but it only gives answers for GTA4 and since I've bought the GTA Pack on Steam, I'd like to play the older games but in a better resolution than 60x80. Is there any way to do this? Maybe a program that forces them to this resolution or perhaps an ini change?


title: Can all enemies be suppressed?

text: Can all enemies be suppressed? For example, can you successfully suppress a Cryssalid or will they simply take the hit point and destroy you?


title: Does a Diablo 3 guest pass let you play with regular players?

text: Can people using guest passes interact with people with the standard game? Specifically, if I give one to a friend, can we add each other as friends, and play a game together (up to the Skeleton King only of course)?


title: How many play throughs would it take to get all achievements?

text: I see that many achievements require leveling multiple characters to level 60, and I see from the full list that play on multiple difficulties is also necessary. Suffice it to say, most (probably including me) will never complete all of the achievements. Even still, I am interested in the most efficient strategy to acquire all achievements. Aside from the "character leveling" achievements I believe the analysis will benefit all of the lesser achievement whores (like myself).


title: How to measure combat in Diablo3?

text: Is there any way to see how much damage different type of mobs/NPCs do on my character; in particular, is there any way to see what kind of spell bbq'd me with how much damage inflicted?


title: Convert PS1 saves on PC to PS3/PSP save format

text: I've been hunting for some PS1 game saves as my PS1 memory cards died. GameFAQs has many more saves listed for the Original PS1 save format rather than the PSV format. The PS3/PSP require PSV format to work, and I don't even know what to do with the gme files GameFAQs lists for PS1. I know I can use the Sony Memory Card adapter for physical memory cards (and I own one) but that doesn't help me here unless I can somehow copy .gme files with the adapter from my PC, then to the PS3. If I can do that, that solves the problem as well, but I don't know how/if I can do that. How can I convert these PS1 saves (.gme) to PS3/PSP format (.psv)?


title: Which NPCs can point me to San Francisco?

text: I want to travel to San Francisco. Unfortunately it's been a long time and I forgot where it is and people in other towns don't want to tell me. I have asked for directions and got plenty, but none of them to that great city. My question is in what cities can I find out how to get to San Francisco (also which NPCs will tell me)? I would like a complete list (it shouldn't be long) so I can decide which cities to stop in to get directions. I would like to know what people will actually put San Francisco on my map, rather than the actual directions of how to get there on the map.


title: How much data does a game use?

text: I currently play DotA 2 and in the summer my Internet will be capped at 5GB/month. On average how much data does a game of DotA 2 use?


title: Where is the infinite (99) lives staircase in the original Super Mario Bros?

text: I know there's a staircase at the end of one of the levels where a well-timed jump onto a turtle coming down a staircase will allow me to keep landing on the same shell until I max out my extra lives. Where is it?


title: Do races affect stats?

text: Do races effect stats, or are they purely aesthetic? I was planning on recording my adventures so I want to know what I'm doing going into it.


title: Miners not clearing second level down

text: I've just started playing Dwarf Fortress vanilla. I'm following a guide and it had me dig a staircase down, which I have done. The problem I'm having is that my miners won't go down the stairs to dig out on the next level down - The only thing I can see is that there are some 'gabbro' blocks that blocked construction of the stairs. Are they causing my issue, and if so, how do I remove them? If they are not the cause, what's making it so my miners won't go down to the next level? Level one: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NvEPO.png) Level two: ![Level 2](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GAl6P.png)


title: What button do I have to press in this scene?

text: Possible spoiler. > I got captured and I am stuck on a scene where the bad guy finds my hiding > place and drags me out. There is a cinematic and afterwards he chokes me. > Here is a picture of the scene: ![enter image description > here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ao10e.png) There are two circles and some > kind of "call to action" but I cannot figure out what to do. I tried pressing left click, right click, space etc. with no effect. Either I get the timing wrong or I am pressing the wrong buttons. I am playing the PC version.


title: Where can i find the Expenses Data Map

text: When my city ran out of money the game switched the view to a data map of where my budget was going to geographically. I can't find how to toggle that view manually, outside of running out of money. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/eJ5IV.jpg)


title: Where did the Conduits in InFamous Second Son come from?

text: As I understood the story to play out, at the end of Infamous 2; > Good-Cole kills every conduit on the planet, himself included. If I'm understanding this correctly, how does InFamous Second Son work around this plot event?


title: MW2 on PS3: can I use the same split-screen profile across multiple ps3 accounts?

text: Otherwise, when playing the same game across different playstation accounts (not psn accounts), you need to level up for split screen separately.


title: When a rune or item says +x magic penetration, how is that calculated?

text: This is something that has been bothering me for a while now. Insight runes and Sorcerer's Shoes provide magic penetration. Is this a flat-rate penetration? Or is it a percentage? For example: 9 Greater Marks of Insight provide **+8.55 magic penetration**. If I'm Shen, my level 2 Vorpal Blade does **95(+0.2AP)**. For simplicity, say **I have 0AP**. If I'm facing a level 3 Akali who has **54.36 magic resist (35% reduced damage)** , when I use Vorpal Blade on her, does it do damage based on:   * Her magic resist minus my magic penetration: (45.81 magic resist = 31% reduced damage = **65.55 damage** )   * Her magic resist minus a percentage of my Vorpal damage: (54.36 magic resist - (8.55% * 95) = 46.23 magic resist = 32% reduced damage = **64.6 damage** )   * Her magic resist minus a percentage of her magic resist: (54.36 * 91.45% = 49.71 magic resist = 33% reduced damage = **63.65 damage** ) The reason this confuses me is that the **Void Staff provides 40% magic penetration**. The **Archaic Knowledge mastery** reads **"penetrates 15% of the target's magic resistance"**. There doesn't seem to be any standardized wording.


title: What should I do if I can't fight my opponent?

text: Scenario: You're paired up against an enemy who outclasses you and you're unable to do anything meaningful in lane. You can't harass, you can't farm, you can't get a kill and if you leave the turret alone it'll die. You can't sit under turret; you're being killed from full health under turret. What exactly should you do in this kind of situation? Especially if you don't have a jungler or anyone else who can help you?


title: Having problems buying colours

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  The package colors on Draw Something doesn't work   >  Lost my colour palette in Draw Something I have more than 900 points collected, but whenever I try to buy more colours, my points are deducted but the colours are not bought. It always says there are not enough coins available. What do I do?


title: Lost my colour palette in Draw Something

text: I have come back to play after a couple of hours and I have lost my colours. I now have red, blue, yellow, green, and black. I did have about 20 different colours I had bought which are now mysteriously gone. Where have they gone and will I ever get them back?


title: 'Unfinished Business' hasn't unlocked despite finishing two separate challenges

text: The description given in order to complete this trophy is to finish one challenge. I have finished two - Illumination and the egg one, however the trophy has not popped up. Is this a glitch? I'm playing on the PS3.


title: What carries between playthroughs and chapter replays?

text: If I were to start a new playthrough (and since there appears to be no New Game+, that would be through "New Game"), do I keep my money, infusions, weapon and vigor upgrades, voxophones, achievement progress, other collectibles? If I were to replay a chapter, does any added money, infusion, upgrade, etc. carry through to later in my playthrough, or must I complete every level again in-between to carry the progress? (E.g., if I replay an earlier level, find an infusion, save, replay a later level, would I still have that infusion accounted for?) What happens to my current progress if I replay a chapter? Can I pick up where I left off?


title: Can I lower vending machine prices?

text: I want to maximize the bang for my buck. _BioShock 2_ had the "Vending Expert" gene tonic, which lowered vending machine prices. Does _BioShock Infinite_ have anything similar?


title: Are gear spawns random?

text: In the Worker Induction Center, there is a five-lockpick lock on the gondola near the checkpoint. I've noticed that upon reloading the checkpoint, gear always spawns behind the lock, but the gear isn't always the same.   * Does the gear location pick between a few possibilities upon spawn, or is it completely random? (If so, what is available where?)   * Do these gear locations always have gear, or do they not spawn once its options have dried up?   * Does having certain gear affect the spawn? (Can you get the same gear twice?)    * Is some gear more rare than others? (Is certain gear only available in late-level gear locations?)


title: How do you convince ally players to buy wards in normal games or lower Elo?

text: I realize that wards are very important and since I mostly play support I am usually the one that gets wards, but if I don't get as many wards because I am playing some other role I realize that no one else gets wards. Is there some way to convince other people of their importance to the game?


title: Wii U connected to projector audio issues

text: I'm thinking of buying a Wii U but It seems that it doesn't have an audio out (only HDMI). My projector Sanyo Z-700 has HDMI but I can't get sound out of my projector. So is there any tested way to get sound out of the HDMI through some adapter that works with the Wii U?


title: How do I decide whether to use Pow-Pow or Fishbones?

text: Jinx's Q switch between her minigun and rocket launcher. While the minigun (Pow-Pow) adds attack speed, the rocket launcher (Fishbones) does 110% damage and AoE. When do I use what? The 110% damage is cool but so is the attack speed.


title: Does the Avatar Logbook store unequipped skills?

text: The Avatar Logbook can be used to store and re-hire up to 99 Streetpass, Spotpass, or DLC characters. It doesn't store items or between-level experience. It stores stats and equipped skills, but I'm not sure if it stores unequipped skills. Does anyone know?


title: Do fields have any effect besides MU (Mind Units)?

text: I know that in theory Mind Units are the point of the game as it's a score per side, but it really doesn't matter much on a regional scale. Has anyone noticed any other affects that fields have for players? Like maybe increased damage from xmps when attacking under friendly fields? Or increased damage from enemy portals when attacking under enemy fields?


title: Where is this Unexpected Event taking place?

text: So I see this event... is this on EVERY system? If it is on a specific system, how do I find out which one so I can take it for myself or blockade it to make it less useful for my enemies. ![Unexpected Event](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qFQoz.png)


title: Is there an optimal repair point?

text: In Dead Island, is there a cheaper time to repair a weapon, relative to its condition, or does each usage-by-hit cost the same to repair?


title: What does buying a drink do?

text: I've bought a drink for Ash and Sam and it's suppose to make them show their tells more often the more they drink. Does the longer they play (and drink) in that game make their tells more noticeable? I've noticed that after the game I've bought a drink in, I can't buy a drink for that character again. Does buying a drink for them permanently make their tells more noticeable?


title: Tiny Tower demolished floors

text: In Tiny Tower, can I get a demolished floor back? I demolished the record shop before I realized I needed it for the missions and the Stellar Record achievement. Will it ever reappear in an empty retail unit? Any Suggestions?


title: What is Powered Output?

text: I'm using the MC Forestry mod, which has machines that have powered output. I've tried taking items out of the machines by using the regular wood pipe to stone pipe, which doesn't work. What exactly does powered output mean, and how can I get items out of these machines using pipes?


title: How to survive the base defense mission?

text: The base defense mission is one of the most difficult ones, especially because it hits you unprepared. How can this mission be won?


title: How do I craft glowstone in the PS3 edition of Minecraft?

text: After collecting some glowstone dust, I trodded on home to create some glowstone. Opened up my trusty crafting table and began to look for glowstone. To my dismay, I couldn't find it right away. If I could, I would just lay out the recipe and build what I need. ![glowstone](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vjbNd.png) The PS3 only has a recipe list though. Where is the recipe for glowstone in the PS3 version of Minecraft?


title: Does playing Deus Ex:HR on the hardest difficulty make a pure stealth run any harder?

text: I am thinking about going back and re-beating Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut for an achievement run, including The Foxiest of Hounds and Pacifist achievement. I am wondering if playing pure stealth and never getting detected would be any harder on the hardest difficulty compared to the easiest difficulty, so I could also get the achievement Legend. I imagine bosses would be harder, but would the normal part of the game be any harder?


title: How can I properly aim frontal cone attacks?

text: Frontal AoE attacks (generally known as "cone" to ranged and "cleave" to melee) such as Cone of Cold and Dragon's Breath are extremely useful in PvP... When they don't miss. However, when they do miss, not only have I wasted a GCD, but I have also opened myself up to attack since I have to be in melee range to make use of them. When I see other players in PvP (eg. on YouTube), they rarely seem to miss even though the effect of their AoE's don't always visually contact their target. How can I ensure that I don't miss front AoE attacks?


title: How much RP can I get at no cost

text: At level 3, new summoners get a 400 RP bonus. Are there other ways to earn RP using such bonuses or promotions like the Tristana and Alistar free promos?


title: How does Early Access work?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  “Early Access” - What does this mean? I'm thinking of using the Early Access for the Anti-Materiel Rifle, but I'm not sure if it unlocks permanently, and I can later purchase it with GP, or it is just usable for a day and then it locks again. How does Early Access work?


title: What's the difference between Arena Quests and Challenge Quests?

text: The guild member on the far right in the marina hands out _Arena Quests_ and _Challenge Quests_. But the same quests are in both lists, and when I finished a quest in one it also checked it off in the other. What's the difference between these quest lists?


title: Is there anyway to acquire a crate key in Team Fortress 2 Beta?

text: I have 20 crates from drops in Team Fortress 2 Beta and I obviously need keys to open them. I can't find any way to get keys in TF2 Beta but there may be one. Is there is a way? If so, what is it?


title: How to split a levy

text: I'm playing the Game of Thrones conversion mod and because of the way the provinces are set up, it's very easy to have individual levies larger than my entire fleet. I know you can create multiple groups of levies by assigning the levies of each barony to a different group, but is it possible to split the levy of a single barony? i.e.: Playing as a Greyjoy count, one of my castles can produce a levy of 2,000 troops on its own while I can only raise 16 ships total. Since I can't find a way to split them, there's no way to get those men to the mainland, even with multiple trips. Only being able to use the forces of my vassals, who have smaller levies or will not let me levy their entire force, dramatically reduces my military power.


title: Is Revelation a good substitute for a self-destruct device?

text: Over the course of the game, you get access to a virus called Revelation that can be used to destroy target systems (or rather to disable them for a while). Should you ever be traced and have the authorities break into your server room (as indicated by the motion sensor), will running Revelation on your machine prevent you from losing money and reputation?


title: How much time does it take for a free colonist to learn through experience?

text: In the manual, at page 34, it says > Acquiring Skills: A free colonist that works at a particular job for an > extended period may become a specialist in that skill. The colonist has > learned through experience How much time does it take for a `free colonist` to learn through experience? Is it the same for all specialties or does it take more time for specialties taught in University rather than for specialties taught in school?


I'm wondering what determines how many coins I get for burning an object. It seems like the bigger the object the more I get, but I'd like to know specifics. What determines the amount of coins I get from burning objects?


title: What are the differences between the War Mage and the Sorceress?

text: From what I've noticed so far, there seems to be a few differences between the two playable characters in Orcs Must Die! 2. So far I've noticed that the War Mage has more health, while the Sorceress has more mana, and they both start with different weapons and traps. Do either of them have exclusive traps or weapons? Do their traps unlock at different times? What are the differences between these two characters?


title: What is the quickest and most reliable way to deal with kobolds?

text: Kobolds are a major problem in my trap setups. Not because they aren't killed by most traps, and not because they can make it to the rift very easily without player intervention, but because they set off all of my traps without actually being effected by them. This causes a problem where a kobold will run through my traps, setting all of them off, and causing them to all need to reset. Meanwhile, a wave of orcs will come waltzing through my defences because all of my traps are resetting themselves. I've tried placing brimstone almost immediately after the rift (brimstone is one of the few traps that kobolds will be affected by). This helps immensely with the kobold sappers (the one's with the explosives) because they're normally the first ones out of the rifts, and it sometimes helps with regular kobolds, but the problem is that sometimes kobolds come after the first few orcs have already wasted my brimstone. What is the easiest and most reliable way to deal with kobolds? I would prefer if there's a strategy that needs no player intervention, but I'm starting to think that I'm just going to have to keep an eye out and shoot them quickly.


title: What tactical niche does each of the new multiplayer units fill?

text: Each of the new multiplayer units is presumably designed to meet a need, to fill a role in a situation or tactic where previously its race was weak. What situation is each of the new units designed for, and why couldn't similar Wings of Liberty units fill that role? For example, Tempests are long-range aerial siege units that handle anti-air structures on the ground well, similar to Brood Lords or Yamato-using Battlecruisers. Void Rays lack the range to handle this, and while Carriers have the range, their Interceptors do not, so the Interceptors get shot down leaving the Carrier sitting there like a useless lump. The Tempest is just 1 of the 7 new units, though. What tactical situations are the other 6 designed for?


title: What is the most effective method of defending a star?

text: In Sins: Trinity, what is the most effective method of holding and defending a star and the associated system?


title: Where does Sword of the Stars: The Pit saves screenshots?

text: I took few screenshots in game and I can't find them anywhere. There doesn't seem to be a screenshots folder anywhere inside the folder where game is installed. I also searched _My Documents_ folder and haven't found anything related to that either.


title: Disabling gore in Bioshock Infinite

text: How can one disable, or at least tone down, the gore in Bioshock Infinite?


title: Differences when playing a Pandaren in contrast to getting there with another race/character

text: I used to play some chars with different classes and races but still didn't manage to get beyond level 75 and therefore wasn't on Pandaria yet. After a few months I wanted to create a new char and would like to play as a Pandaren. What are the differences starting as one in contrast to level up and get to Pandaria? To what extent am I spoiling myself about this extension and the corresponding regions?


title: Are all Vsync options equal?

text: I've noticed there are a handful of ways to apply v-sync to a game:   * In-game option    * Catalyst Control Center    * D3DOverrider    * RadeonPro   * Windows 7 Desktop Window Manager (via DWM.exe when gaming in Windowed-Fullscreen mode)  What are the functional/applicable differences between methods? I'm trying to determine which method might be preferable over another, or when you might want to use one method over another.


title: How does Berserker Rage interact with Boulder Toss?

text: Berserker Rage gives 25% damage when fury is near full, and Boulder Toss uses your entire fury bar for huge amounts of damage. How does these two skills interact? Do you get the large increase in damage from throwing the boulder near max fury work? Or does it set your fury to zero and then do the damage?


title: Do you still get stabbed if you decide to draw your gun?

text: In the scene where you are asking for the tickets to the guy talking on the phone. If you demand the tickets he stabs you.


title: Do the Monk's mantras affect Witch Doctor pets?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What skills from other party members affect witch doctor summons? As title, do the Monk's mantras affect the Witch Doctor's pets?


title: Can the Templar Heal player minions?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What skills from other party members affect witch doctor summons? If I play a Witch Doctor with a couple of minions will the Templar use Heal on minions even though the text says _you or the Templar_?


title: Tekkit weird fluctuating fps while playing

text: I have a really weird problem with my tekkit client. My fps seems to be fine but my game is constantly "Skipping frames?" When pressing F3+Shift you can see more detailed information. (Circle with different colors) It seems like the unspecified type is fluctuating 1% higher and 1% lower several times a second. These kind of lagspikes happen when the 1% comes and drops. And the fps is constantly over 120. Anyone had such a problem and/or is able to help?


title: Is Cracked Tusk Keep supposed to be empty?

text: I have finished all of the main quests except the Thieves guild ones(Oh and I haven’t done the civil war quest either) including all the DLC’s so have been playing a long, long time and through all that I have never seen any NPC in Cracked Tusk Keep since I first visited. The interior seem to be re-spawning i.e. new health potions on the table etc. but never an NPC. It’s been so long I can’t remember which faction actually occupied it in the first place. Its tucked there in the corner of the map, which I don’t pass often, but it’s always empty. It looks a prime location for any bandit chief but no one has taken it up. Is it supposed to be empty, is it part of a quest line I have missed or even a bug?


title: Installing textures for unleashed

text: Within the launcher i have the option to install 3 texture packs, but after the download/install completes i do not get to choose those packs and neither are they installed. I tried manually install FTB pack like sphax and johnsmith's. I used the patcher and then selected the texture within MC but there are still plenty of textures missing. So how do i install a good texture pack like the two above? A step by step explanation is very welcome.


title: How does the Restless Giant rune work?

text: The description on Blizzard's site is a bit vague:               Restless Giant      20% movement speed      35% attack speed      200% Physical damage     This effect cannot occur more than once every 120 seconds. Elite enemies include champions, rares, bosses, and other players.      This seems to be saying that the Gargantuan will attack at roughly 1/3 of his normal rate, but do twice his normal damage. Or is it 200% weapon damage (which would be a very nice boost over the Gargantuan's normal 25% damage)? Is this a triggered effect that occurs when you have a Gargantuan out (i.e. it has normal stats until the effect triggers)? I've heard that it may trigger under other circumstances besides the elite enemies (one rumor was that 5 or more enemies in melee could trigger it). If it is triggered, what can cause it to trigger?


title: Tools to progress in WoW PvP skills

text: I am playing a rogue and am thoroughly enjoying it. I've recently started picking up resilience gear so I can attend to PvP more often when I'm done doing my PvE routine for the week. The issue is, I'm fairly terrible at PvP and want to get better. I do understand that it will take time and lots of dueling practice to get better, that's perfectly fine. In the meantime, I was wondering if folks can recommend critical add-ons that will help in the world of PvP? I've also found a service called skill-capped.com that costs money, but has decent content for learning how others are PvPing. I find it terribly difficult to follow the videos. There are times you are supposed to "trinket" or do a particular action when someone opens with one way or another. I can't keep up with who is casting what, when some cool downs are available, things like that. What are some add ons I can get that will help me in PvP?


title: How do I get more rare crafting ingredients?

text: When I salvage a magic item, sometimes I get a rare crafting ingredient. What are the chances that this will happen? Are there certain items which have an increased chance of this? How can I maximize my rare ingredient yields?


title: Does Thunderclap teleport on all Fists of Thunder attacks, or only the first in the sequence?

text: The Thunderclap rune of Fists of Thunder adds the ability to teleport to the target when striking it. Does this teleportation happen on any hit of the skills 3-hit sequence, or only on specific hits in the sequence?


title: level 53 in borderlands 2 after 2.5 playthrough

text: So I finished the 2.5 playthrough and I'm only on level 53. I am having difficulty getting more xp without being able to replay missions again. Any ideas for how to still get xp?


title: How to use Tall Goat and other rewards?

text: When I get the trophy rewards, like tall goat, how do I actually activate it and become tall? Thanks.


title: Are store perks cumulative? Do you need lower levels?

text: Store have several perks with different ranks: for example **Venom 1** that gives 2% chance of poison on archer attack and **Venom 3** that gives 10% chance. I've noticed that I can collect XP and directly buy **Venom 3** without buying lower ranks. Do I need lower ranks for anything? Are they giving any cumulative bonuses if I have higher ranks or can I ignore them and go directly for highest rank instead?


title: Borderlands 2 - how to force menu NOT pause my game

text: While i play single player and go into any menu (esc, inventory, etc) it pauses my game. How can i go into menu without pausing the game?


title: Does razor's static link reduce damage from Ursa's Fury Swipes?

text: So say Ursa has 100 basic physical damage, and level 4 Fury Swipes (so adding 30 damage per attack), and say Razor uses his static link on Ursa for a few seconds and drains, for the sake of this example, 200 damage. When Ursa right clicks Razor, Razor will not suffer the 100 basic damage, but does the 30 extra damage per attack still apply? Or does it still stack and then apply one it's exceeded the drained damage i.e. the first attack will add 30 damage (so 130 total, still less than 200 drained so no damage applied), the second will add 60, the third 90, and then the fourth will add 120, meaning 220 damage total, meaning razor will suffer 20 damage (to be diminished by armour etc)?


title: Does a weapon potential boss damage boost stack with a set boss damage boost?

text: It has been tested that if you have multiple boss damage potentials on a weapon, only the lowest counts and they won't stack. With the level 140 sets coming, there is a 30% boss damage boost on having the full set. Would this stack with a weapons potential (going to 60% damage increase on bosses) or would only the lowest count?


title: Can my achievements be tracked in multiple systems, eg. Games for Windows Live and Steam?

text: Say that I'm playing a game that's available on both systems (Mass Effect for example). Will my in game achievements be tracked on both?


title: In War Metal Tyrant, where can I actually watch my saved replays?

text: There's a button with a camera icon that lets me save a replay of a battle once it's over. The tooltip even says, "Save your replay to show off to your friends!" However, I don't see a way to actually _play back_ those saved replays (let alone share them with others). I have looked everywhere and searched the War Metal Tyrant wikia, to no avail.


title: How to trade Power between Cities?

text: I just started with this quite old game. I have a rather good working city and wanted to export garbage to the neighbouring city. This worked fine. Then I wanted to import Electricity from the neighbouring city. This didn't work at all. Here's what I did: Build a road to the edge. Build a power line to the edge. Go to the other city, built three power plants and give them full money and build garbage places, connect everything with streets and lines. Go back to the main city. I can export garbage. Fine. But I can not import Power. Not fine. My city went to ruin because I had no money left and I destroyed the power plants because I thought that importing only works when I have no power plants. Can someone please give me a detailed explanation on how to trade electricity between cities?


title: Is it possible to play online using cross-platform?

text: A friend and I have some games (e.g. NFS Rivals) in common. But he's playing using XBox One while I'm playing on PS4. Is there a way to play those games together (online) ?


title: How to get an overview of all skills in my fortress?

text: Is there a way to get an overview of all skills among all my dwarfs, either in vanilla DF or with a tool?


title: How I do to manage so many Overlords?

text: I'm training using zergs in Stacraft2, and I create a lot of Overlods. In broodwar it's straighfoward: I send my OL to patrol my base. With Stacraft2, There are so many variants that I'm lost on how I do to manage all this work:   * Scouting;   * Spread over the map and expand creep where the tumor is not arrived yet;   * Morph to Overseer to get detectors to patrol my base;   * Scatter the excess in some safe location;   * Remove it from the rally point to don't obscure my weaklings ;)   * etc; Whats are the recommended strategies?


title: Maximum party size?

text: What are the party/group size limits in City of Heroes? I can find all kinds of resources online that say which games are multiplayer, but nowhere can I find a listing of "this many people can play together in this game." If someone has a listing like that for MMO-type games, that would be **_awesome_** , and save me from basically asking this same question for Champions Online and whatever other MMO's I come across while trying to find one that plays with a larger group right away...


title: How are recommended champions determined?

text: Looking at my profile page and the list of Champions, I can see that I can sort them by several characteristics, including `pusher`, `ranged`, etc. However, they also have the option to sort them by `recommended`. All of the recommended champions for me at the moment are Easy to Medium difficulty. That's the only real pattern of commonality I see.   * Are these recommendations tailored to my current Summoner level (which is only 2) or does the game just automatically recommend champions of lower difficulty?    * Will these recommendations change over time?    * If they do change, what factors affect how the game recommends champions to you? For example, tailoring to my preferences as I play more champions, recommending different difficulties based on K/D ratio, etc.


title: How to unlock jumbo jets?

text: There is a screenshot on the Facebook page where you can see the player is at level 11 and has a Tetra-M. Yet I am at level 12 and the biggest planes I have are Birchcraft. Or maybe is it just because they are the developers?


title: How do you get Ghost while waiting for the funicular in Picus?

text: So here I am waiting for a "funicular" and I've got all these mines and a cute little robot with machine guns guarding the doors, but for some reason I can't get the ghost award. The radar doesn't go red or say hostile. No one sees me. Everyone dies within about 3 seconds. I've tried different ways for about an hour without getting it. Did anyone actually get ghost here? Is it even possible? If you did, how?


title: Hunting the Giadrome

text: I'm a total newbie Monster Hunter player and have just started playing Freedom Unite on PSP. Having breezed through the tutorial levels (though I haven't played all of the weapon tutorials yet), I'm attempting the quest which, according to the game, is the easiest quest available - the Giadrome. But, in 4-5 attempts so far, I've been unable to defeat it! I do feel I am getting better at the game - I'm familiar with the Giadrome's movements. I'm dying less. I've been able to isolate the Giadrome in an area by itself (so I don't have to deal with Giaprey at the same time). I've managed to get the Giadrome to flee into a neighbouring area several times. But it seems that no matter how many times I hit it, it never goes down! What am I doing wrong? How many times do I have to hit this thing?


title: Demon's Souls: Recommended early stats leveling path for Magician class

text: I'm about 10 hours into Demon's Souls with a Magician class character. I've defeated Phalanx and have started on the leveling path. Can anyone recommend the most useful early stats leveling path for the Magician class? For example, should I add points evenly into VIT, INT, END and MAG? Or should I put all (or most) of my points into MAG?


title: Any way to get rid of the DLC nag messages?

text: I own Fat Princess but, don't have the DLC and don't really want to buy it. This usually isn't a problem but, for some reason while on multi-player games I get a "Buy the DLC" popup every time I fight a DLC model or walk over their stuff. Is there any way to turn this off? It doesn't take up much screen space but, it's uber annoying.


title: Blast protection of doors and doorways (Rust)

text: So i was browsing the rust wiki and i noticed the amount of blasts needed per base item. I listed them below. * * * Wooden doorway : No blast amount stated. * * * Wooden door :               500HP          2HP per Rock - 250 Hits     1HP per Stone Hatchet - 500 Hits     2HP per Hatchet - 250 Hits     6HP per Pickaxe - 84 Hits     600HP per Explosive Charge Explosion - 1 Hits      * * * Metal doorway : No blast amount stated. * * * Metal door : 11-13 F1 Grenades , or 2 explosive charges (usually taking two due to decay) * * * Now its pretty obvious that a metal doorway + metal door provide better protection that a wooden doorway + wooden door. But what if you do a wooden doorway + metal door, or metal doorway + wooden door. Does this affect its resistance in any way, or does it take the resistance of a specific item, or does it take the resistance of the strongest item? * * * So basically what i've learned is that a wall-section (window, door, wall, etc.) is as strong as the weakest part of the section. So for example if you build metal window bars and place them in a wooden window (frame), the section would be as strong as the wooden window since that is the weakest link (correct me if i'm wrong in any way). So to return to my original question, lets say we place a metal door in a wooden doorway (which happens quite often), would you be able to blow up the wooden doorway without destroying the metal door? If so, would destroying the wooden doorway grant you access to the base (or building/wall/etc)? The same could be asked for a window.


title: Adding java arguments to a multicraft server

text: In my multicraft server ( ** _multi_** craft, it's for **_mine_** craft) I am running out of PermaGen memory space (This is my crashlog if you want it). According to this StackOverflow question, I need to add the argument               -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSPermGenSweepingEnabled -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:MaxPermSize=128m      to launching the jar file. How do I do this? My host will do something if needed.


title: Difference between different ammunition

text: What is the difference between this types of ammunition? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9lriO.jpg) I have less of the second one, so it's supposed to be better, but I usually have far better results with the first one, and I think it deals more damage.


title: Skyrim doesn't adjust the dungeon difficulty based on your level

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do enemies and monsters level up? I completed the main quest line from the Magic Academia and then took a couple of sub quests from the secondary characters over there. When I went into the dungeons I was able to 1 shot all the enemies and 5 shots the bosses. I was under the impression that in Skyrim the dungeon difficulty should depend on my level, but instead doesn't look like to be the case.


title: I'm being attacked everywhere I go!

text: Every time I try to go near a bigger town in Skyrim I always get attacked by guards and/or villagers. I know that I'm a thief and a vampire (and also a Khajiit) but I don't do anything bad when someone's looking! I think everything might have started when I tried to feed myself (with blood) in a house in Whiterun. A villager saw me and I quickly ran away from the town, with guards after me, but I didn't kill any of them. I know that everyone in Whiterun is an Imperial but when I'm near a town with Stormcloaks, they try to kill me too. And if a guard would try to send me to jail now, I would actually go there with no fighting back. But there is no one who's talking to me, only attacking. What should I do? I can't finish my quests when everyone's attacking me.


title: Extra experience from equipment

text: I would like to know what happens if I wear 2 or more items that reward extra experience per kill. For example, a helmet that adds 5% extra experience and a ring that adds 8% extra experience. What is the final extra experience I gain? 5%? 8%? 13%?


title: Punkbuster support on Windows 8 developer preview

text: I was wondering if there is any way to modify the registry or whatever to allow Punkbuster to accept Windows 8 developer preview as a legitimate build of Windows? This is required for me to be able to play Battlefield 2142 and I've tried some of the old methods back when Vista betas were being release but to no avail.


title: Does the Playstation have a marketplace like Xbox 360 does?

text: I recently decided to move my entire gaming activity away from the PC (and steam) to a console for many reasons, including my reluctance to constantly upgrade my PC. Since I already had an Xbox 360 laying around I figured that would do. After my first Xbox Marketplace game purchase I realized that **only Norwegian content** was available and Xbox Live won't give me any English content (Conversation with Xbox Customer Service here) I decided to scrap the Xbox and try the Playstation 3 instead. Before I buy one though I'd like to confirm that it's possible to purchase and download games using some kind of marketplace service. If Xbox Marketplace sucks donkey balls and PlayStation 3 requires physical game disks I might just stick with the PC after all Thanks for any info on the hopefully existent online PlayStation 3 game acquisition service * * * Followup questions if you cba:   * Can I install physical game disk games to the PS3 in order to play them without the disk?   * Does the PS3 have a service for backing up my game save files?


title: How do I make an electrical engine pump out more MJ?

text: Could anyone please tell me how to (if possible) make an electrical engine transfer energy from its own reserves to a machine, a lot faster?


title: How to add prisoners at prison architect?

text: I can't add prisoners. I did not tick fog of war and add prisoners forever. I have cells, kitchen, office, canteen, yard. How do i add prisoners?


title: How do I delete a character?

text: How do I delete one character on ConClave? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/moNkT.jpg) I searched for "Delete" or something like it. I know, I still have "room" for more characters, but I just want to delete one. There is a way to do it?


title: How do I get up to this gold chest on the Bank map?

text: So I'm playing Fistful of Frags, the full game, and I notice something on the 'Bank Robbery' Map (the one with a big bank that has a vault in it and a huge rooftop area). As I respawn, and hop across the stairway to grab a blue chest, I look across the way into a building I've never been in the rooftop of before and to my surprise, I see a gold chest! ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VYFtm.jpg) However, I _don't_ see any way of getting up to that room. The area below it doesn't have any staircase that I'm aware of, and it doesn't look like there's anything betweeen that balcony and the small rooftop on the other side to hop onto in order to reach that high. How do I get this gold chest?


title: Wizard Using Disintegrate Weapon Choice

text: I am a Wizard trying to gear up for Act 2 of Inferno. My preferred damage spell is Disintegrate (used in conjunction with Magic Weapon and Venom Hydra and Archon). I have been reading up on weapon speed (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3424908246). From this I gather that Disintegrate is one of the few spells that benefit from a faster weapon speed. (On a side note, if I am wrong about that please explain why.) It is unclear to me why exactly this is true. (And if anyone can succinctly explain that, it would be nice.) My current DPS with Magic Weapon and a two hander with 0.9 attacks per second is 24,312. Which stat on a 1 hander should I be primarily interested in besides DPS? Does 1.35 attacks per second matter much over 1.30 attacks per second? Would getting a weapon with 10% attack speed be a huge bonus if it had the same DPS as another weapon? Thanks for your advice.


title: Why does Disintegrate deal more damage than Ray of Frost?

text: According to the spell description, Ray of Frost deals 215% weapon damage and disintegrate deals 155% weapon damage. However, if I enable the damage numbers in the option menu I can see that I deal more damage using Disintegrate (besides, enemies DO die faster). I've tried it with a few monster types on Act 3, and it's unlikely that all types were resistant to cold. While this makes sense (Disintegrate is a higher tier skill after all) I don't understand why the spell description says the contrary. The only thing that comes to mind is that Disintegrate is somehow "faster" and hits more times. So why is Disintegrate doing more damage?


title: What are all the (hidden) achievements in Papers Please, and how do I get them?

text: What are all the achievements for Papers, Please? It appears some are tied to obtaining certain tokens, but what about the others?


title: Cycling through attack modifiers in Dota 2

text: I understand that attack modifiers do not stack with each other. And I also want to know how multiple picking up more than one attack modifier changes behaviour in Dota 2. In HoN, you can cycle through each modifier by assigning a single shortcut key. Is it possible to do the same in Dota 2? If so, please explain to me how it is done.


title: GTA Money Exploit/Loading Areas

text: Towards the end of this money exploit tip video, link bellow, the video talked about how the hack won't work again if you leave the area **after** taking the money (the case won't reload when you come back). What I'm wondering is if I do the exploit x numbers of times, but on the last time I don't take the case, will the case not be there after I leave the site and come back later?


title: Trouble connecting with friend in Minecraft Pocket Edition demo

text: My friend and I both have the same Minecraft Pocket Edition demo. It has always worked for connecting in multiplayer, but all of a sudden, my friend can't connect to my server and I can't connect to theirs. It just sits at the "scanning for servers" for hours. Anyone know what to do to fix it? We are using the same wifi. Both are on iOS and using the same version, I think. We haven't updated anything (not the phones or the game). There hasn't been any changes to the wifi recently.


title: Legendary Difficulty same as Thunderstorm Skull?

text: I'm trying to understand the difference between Legendary difficulty and using the Thunderstorm skull modifier in Halo 4. From O.M.F.G.: > The **Thunderstorm Skull** is a doozy. It promotes all enemies to the > highest available level, making combat much harder. I'm not sure I get what differs between this skull and the highest difficulty level. Thanks in advance!


title: What's the maximum health amount I can have by using Hearts to upgrade my max health?

text: I'm curious. How high can I get?


title: I have a huge bounty and the guards won't arrest me. Why?

text: I killed someone as part of a quest in Gorhart. He wasn't an enemy per se (I sided with bandits on this one) so I incurred a bounty after I killed him. Here's what my current stats look like: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9i20k.jpg) As you can see, my bounty is currently 5,292 because I assaulted and murdered an innocent. To my surprised, when I walked outside, directly after the murder, none of the guards seemed to care. No one rushed to arrest me. I even tried to talk to them to see if that would trigger something and that didn't work. Why aren't the guards doing anything?


title: COD Black Ops: Can opponents voice chat in free for all?

text: In a free for all match, can I voice chat with my opponents? One of my friends started playing Black Ops (it's her first FPS game ever) and to teach her how to play I created a private free for all match so we would be the only two players on the map. I tried voice chat with her and everything was set up correctly (we could see the speaker icon above our heads blink when either of us spoke in the map). Only thing is I could not hear her at all (the volume was up high). I know in TDM you can't listen to the enemy chatter due to strategy and stuff but I would guess you could listen to enemies in free for all (for trash talking). Anyway, to repeat, is it possible to listen to enemy voice chat in FFA?


title: Sky Reflection Linked to Camera Velocity (Glitch)

text: I thought maybe this was just me until I saw an unanswered post on the Bethesda - Skyrim forums: loose sky reflection. Note that this problem only shows up if you've modded Skyrim.ini to reflect the sky by adding `bReflectSky=1`. The problem is that the sky appears 'detached' from the rest of the world when reflected in water. Rather than it being fixed, it moves with the camera (i.e. moves when the player moves in first person view.) When standing still, the reflection looks great, as well as when moving at a constant speed, but if you alternate between standing still and moving, or just tap a directional key repeatedly, alternate between walking, running, and sprinting, or even strafe around in circles at a constant speed, the sky portion of the reflection jumps around in odd, unrealistic ways corresponding to the character's velocity. It's hard to see when the sky is just blue with some clouds, but very easy to see at night, especially if you use the "Enhanced Night" mod. Has anyone encountered this, and does anyone know of a way to fix it? It might just be a bug that went undiscovered because by default `bReflectSky` is off. Or it could have been turned off by default because they couldn't solve the bug, who knows. I'll work on some demonstrative screenshots. **Confirmation and Demonstration** > I had someone else email me that has been working with the same problem: > > I actually did make a couple videos and the result with the free camera in > the second video is pretty crazy. > > As far as I can tell the reflection only looks correct from exact point in > space where the players face is when standing still. It's not actually tied > to the camera at all; the reason the anomalies are seen is because the > camera bobs up and down during running and jumping. It's even more obvious > when using the TFC 1 command and flying around. > > I've posted about this on the Bethesda official forums and the Skyrim Nexus > to no such luck.


title: How Do I Defeat Lightning & Amodar?

text: The Lightning & Lieutenant Amodar fight is one of the first DLC for FF 13-2. I'm having trouble beating them. I've tried taking out Amodar first, Lightning first, and also turtling while they use their more powerful attacks. Any proper strategies, paradigms, or monsters to use against them?


title: Call of Duty on PS3, local play and ranking?

text: We're looking into creating a small gaming club at work where we meet and play Call of Duty on PS3 using "LAN Play" so that it's only us at work that will play together. The question is, will we be able to create local characters that will get XP, ranks, unlocks, etc.? Or will we have to play some kind of online play to get those things? We don't care if the characters are locked to local play, if that is even possible, since this is just local play fun. So, is this possible? If this is possible in one of the CoD games on PS3 I would like to know which one, but I suspect this borders on asking for recommendations.


title: How do I use the "Confident" card?

text: I found a "Twists of Fate" card in the "Special Delivery" chest at Gorhart - I assume for having played the demo. I dismissed it pretty quickly, but I seem to remember it being titled "Confident." However, "Confident" is not listed as one of the cards in the Destiny menu. I also dug through my inventory and couldn't find it there. How do I activate this card?


title: How can I tell who is going to be hit when two players attack together?

text: Yesterday I was playing SF4 and was using C. Viper. At one point, I started a super/ultra attack but was immediately grappled by Zangief. Shouldn't I have been invincible during the super/ultra attack? This got me wondering - if two players attack each other at the same moment, how can I tell who will be hit? I apologize if the terms I use for describing the various actions are inaccurate.


title: What rules govern how I can power a Redstone Lamp?

text: The new Redstone Lamp is a great way to create a toggleable light source, but what rules govern how I can power it? Specifically, what are the configurations I can use to light it up? A direct line of Redstone Wire into the block is obvious, but what about adjacent blocks? Pistons have interesting ways to power them; I'm just wondering if Redstone Lamps have equally interesting methods.


title: Can I negate the life drain from blood rage?

text: The active gem Blood Rage drains a small % of your max hp as Chaos Damage per second depending on gem level. Is it possible to cancel out/negate that drain with enough life regeneration?


title: Why doesn't the Angel Watch building work as per the in game description?

text: In the second mission of the tutorial campaign, one of the secondary missions is to build a unique building in your starting town. I chose the **Angel Watch** building, which has the following right-click description: > Fills the Guardian Angel faction ability gauge to rank 1 at the start of > each combat. After building the Angel Watch, I fought many battles before the end of the mission, and I only saw the faction ability gauge start at rank 1 twice. Is there some other requirement that must be met before the building activates? If so, what is it?


title: Banished - Old growth vs new growth Trees

text: Some Banished knowledge bases (I think the game for one) seem to imply that herbalist/gatherer likes old untouched forests to do their work, but a lot of people recommend a forester to keep a dense forest cover next to your gatherer/etc (The wiki says both of these things, I believe). So which is it? Is a forester a bad thing to put next to a gatherer, or the absolute best thing? Maybe a Forester does more good than ill, but the optimum would be a completely dense untouched forest?


title: How do I save Anderson?

text: I have already beaten the game twice, but both times I have been unable to save Anderson. The first time I realized it was because > I didn't have at least 4000+ effective military strength, but after > returning to the scene on the Citadel with 5000+, the Illusive Man still > makes me shoot Anderson, which leads to his death shortly after. Are there specific dialogue options I have to make during this scene? Does a Renegade/Paragon quick time show up that I'm just missing? I have only tried picking the Paragon options.


title: Why do computer opponents use Shoryuken that often?

text: I am playing Street Figter 4 on the PS3. I found that when fighting a computer opponent that is controlling a Shoryuken-enabled character, you are very likely to be on the receiving end of a Shoryuken while in mid-air. When I fight Ryu/Ken/Seth, they punch me in the face mid-air whenever I try to jump above them. Was the AI configured to behave like this? So what I'm wondering is if this is some sort of AI rule: When the player jumps right before you ---> Shoryuken?


title: How do I turn on OverPower Level?

text: I beat the first level of Digistruct peak, and I want to activate the over level. But how do I do it? I tried looking around to no avail.


title: How to properly configure autolabor in DF Hack

text: I've seen some dwarf fortress let's play recently so I decided to give a shot to some of the DF Hack features. The most interesting one was autolabor. However, it seems that everytime I turn it on, it assigns the labor in the least optimal way possible. For example, if I have 3 master miners, it will assign the mining job to the mason and the hunter instead. Is there a way to calibrate it? In the videos, it seemed to work very well! I'm using DF 34.11, DF HACK r5 on the DF Starter pack V19! Thanks


title: How can you see the ghosts or invisible people in the shaded woods

text: When going through the foggy part of the shaded woods you are often attacked by some unseen attacker. I'm assuming ghosts or invisible attackers. Is there any way to make them visible to have a fighting chance?


title: What is a "pixel shader"?

text: I have noticed that some games quote the requirement for "pixel shader 3.0 or better". What is a pixel shader and is it some software requirements or hardware requirements?


title: Do Pokemon have default move sets?

text: I am trying to find out if Pokemon have a set of default moves. I am talking about Gen 1 Pokemon here (or fire red/leaf green). Besides a default set, can anyone find any charts with recommended move sets for each pokemon? I have been looking, but haven't had much luck. **EDIT:** I am looking for move sets at level 50 or level 100. Like, when you face AI in the battle tower or something, how is it determined what moves their pokemon have? I ask because I'm making a battle simulator for fun and I would like to have a set of recommended moves for each pokemon, so people can just choose "use default move sets" instead of having to go through and customize everything.


title: What is benefit of a lit shelter over a non-lit shelter

text: I have read tutorials asking you to construct "lit" shelters. What is the benefit of lighting your shelter ?


title: How do I attack from the sea?

text: I tried to wage war with France from Scotland, but for some reason I could not attack from the sea tile, while an allied army was. How do I attack from the sea? In general, why can't I land on blocks that are not mine?


title: Why is it suddenly raining dragons?

text: I have just finished the main quest line, and now every few hours I will fast- travel somewhere and a dragon corpse will drop out of the sky in front of me. It's always dead, the corpse is always empty, and it never decays to a skeleton or performs the Absorb Soul animation. So far I have been rained on by an ancient dragon in Whiterun, two elder ones in Riften and Sky Haven Temple, and other dragons at random times. What has not happened yet, since I finished the main quest, is a random encounter with a _living_ dragon. I don't know if this is related, but it seems odd. I don't remember this happening on my previous play-throughs. I have Dawnguard and Hearthfire installed, but otherwise the mods I am running are the same as I have been running for months. Has anyone else encountered this particular problem and/or know how to stop it?


title: Can you drop Tiers in LoL Ranked?

text: ... and if so, what criteria must you meet? I keep hearing conflicted info, like   * "Only through inactivity."   * "Only from challenger."   * "You can never drop Tiers."   * "Yes." Does anyone know definitively?


title: When do you drop a tier and where do you land?

text: With season 4 they enabled Tier dropping against boosted or ebay accounts. While I really find this a good thing I ask myself when you will drop a Tier. I heard that you need the MMR of division 5 below your current Tier (Plat 5 League + Gold 5 MMR + Lose = Drop) and I also have some friends that lost around 15 games in a row (because they have a boosted account) but they didn't drop out of the Tier. Also when you drop, where will you land? Will you be in Division 1 of your current Tier or will you instantly drop to the Tier where your MMR is?


title: What day is Nintendo's eShop updated on?

text: I've been looking around and can't seem to find any solid confirmation on what day new titles are added to the eShop. I know within the next 7 days or so I'll find out, but I thought this might also make a good reference question for others. So, to slightly rephrase; around the world, what day are new titles added to Nintendo's eShop for the 3DS and Wii U?