title: How to time travel with a game GTA IV EFLC mod

text: How do I time travel in the GTA IV EFLC mod that I have downloaded from moddb.com. I don't know the assigned keys. Thanks in advance.


title: How many playable characters are there in Super Meat Boy?

text: How many characters are playable in Super Meat Boy PC Steam version and how to unlock them?


title: For Humble Bundles, if I use a multiplayer key and then uninstall, is the key still valid for others?

text: I'm not trying to sell or make a profit or anything. It's just that one of the games I installed I ended up not liking very much. However my friend really wants to give it a try, but I don't know if it'll work since my multiplayer key is used. If I uninstall, will the game 'know' that my key isn't used and thus let my friend use it?


title: How quickly do larvae spawn in Starcraft 2?

text: When I play Starcraft 2 as the zerg I always lose track of my larvae while fighting battles or exploring. I was wondering if anyone knew exactly how many seconds it takes for a larva to spawn.


title: In Marked for Death Grim Reaper

text: Do all enemies in 20 yards got hit by extra 15% or is the 15% damage divided among them. Say there are 20 enemies within 20 yards. Do all of them get 15% damage or do all of them get 15/20% damage? > 15% of damage dealt to the marked enemy is also divided evenly among all > enemies within 20 yards. I sort of guess that each other enemy got a mere 1% extra. Yet this is an extremely popular rune.


title: How do you decide where to go in Amnesia: Dark Descent?

text: Do we need to refer to any kind of guide for this game? I think I'm still at the first level and I have somehow reached the wine cellar. I've been wondering around aimlessly but can't figure out where to go. So I checked the walkthrough and it appears I had to do a ton of other things before I have to go to the Wine cellar. How do I figure out where to go? Is there any brief area guide that I can use?


title: What are traffic jams for?

text: I saw some missions with this text: > Even the infinite vastness of space is not immune to the odd traffic jam. > This could be a good opportunity to take advantage of some Civilian ships. When I enter there, I do indeed see some civilian ships floating around, but am at a loss as to what to do with them. I'm on friendly terms with the civilians and I'd like it to stay that way. How can I 'take advantage' of them?


title: Why will she not take Pantea's Flute?

text: I found Pantea's Flute before the quest was given to me. Now she will not accept it from me, and it says I still need to go find it. What do I do now? Is this a glitch? I have the game on PC if that helps. I found a post about the lute in the same set of quests, but they just needed to get rid of the item while I need the item to complete the quest. So I don't think deleting it will help.


title: Do I need a Tree Nursery for a Sawmill if I already have a natural forest?

text: In campaign mission 1-4, I need to supply wood for an item as one of my quests. In order to do this, I need to build a Sawmill. The production chain ingame recommends a Tree Nursery for a Sawmill, but I'm wondering how necessary it is to have a Tree Nursery if I'm placing the Sawmill in an area that is currently fully forested. Will there be a negative effect on my Sawmill's productivity if I don't build a Tree Nursery for it? What bonuses will I get if I _do_ choose to build a Tree Nursery?


title: Alpha Centauri 1 link alien artifact to network node

text: I'm currently playing Alpha Centauri 1. I understand that you can link an alien artifact to a city that has a network node in it. I've got an alien artifact on a city. I can't find out how to link it to the network node. Right clicking and selecting action doesn't seem to come up with any likely looking options.


title: Plant Respawn Time

text: Has anyone determined the length of time it takes for outdoor alchemy plants to respawn and if there are any gotchas to the respawn? I did have a look around but all I can find on the web are a bunch of non quotes from people who don't seem that sure.


title: PlayStation 3 not detecting any game discs

text: So I was playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 and the game froze (which happens quite often) so I restarted the PS3 and now it is not detecting any discs (games, dvds, cds). I can hear the drive make sounds. What should I do? I have tried the restore menu -> fix filesystem to no avail.


title: Is there a workaround for the Chateau grenade glitch?

text: I can't move forwards in the Chateau as it freezes when I get to the grenade tutorial. No matter how long or short I hold L2 for it will not throw a grenade. All other function via the start button are fine i.e. option, bonus etc. but it won't throw a **bleep** grenade. Can somebody please tell me how to proceed.


title: How many steps can I remove from hatching?

text: In Pokemon X and Y, you can use both Hatch O-Power and Flame Body to reduce the amount of steps it takes for an egg to hatch. If I use Hatch O-Power and Flame Body, how many steps will be removed from an egg that requires 10000 steps ( I used 10000 as an easy way to compare to other amounts)?


title: Can I get Auron's Masamune without beating the Dark Aeon?

text: Apparently, the path to the statue of Lord Mi'ihen is being guarded by some pretty nasty summoners. I tried warping to Djose Highroad, but it puts me on the beach where the Crusaders battled Sin. I can't seem to find a way to the north side of Mushroom Rock, and the south side has some Aeons I'm not prepared to fight. **Is there any way to get to the statue without dealing with the Dark Aeons?**


title: Is there any wireless keyboard with acceptable delay?

text: I just got a Logitech wireless keyboard to play Worms Armageddon from to couch on the TV. I never noticed while doing other tasks but it seams that there is a delay on all the keys, what makes the supersheep unusable. I testet it with very fast typing in notepad and there is the same problem. I googled a little at it seams that all logitech wireless keyboard encounter this problem. What wireless keyboard do you recommend? (Its really important that the delay is kept to the minimum) Is it better to get a bluetooth keyboard? _edit_ well its hard to define acceptable. I just got told that a delay can be felt by a human around 10ms... So this is my guess: No acceptable: ±60ms Acceptable: ±10ms


title: Completing "Discerning The Transmundane" with a clear conscience

text: The "Discerning The Transmundane" quest requires me to "harvest" the following:   * Orc Blood   * Falmer Blood   * Dark Elf Blood   * Wood Elf Blood   * High Elf Blood However I prefer to only kill in self-defence. Is it possible to complete this quest without killing in cold blood, and if so what is the easiest way of doing so?


title: Finish side quests before or after main quest in Fallout 3?

text: I finally found time to play through Fallout 3 and I think I was lucky I > was already having the Broken Steel Add-On to not just end the game. I really only went through the main quest this time, touching just a few side quests. Now that I finished the main quest: does it make any difference whether I now start finishing all side quests or should I better finish them before I finish the main quest?


title: What all does Spirit Visage's healing bonus affect?

text: I have been rather unsure about this for a while. It clearly boosts the healing you do to yourself from abilities and Spellvamp/Lifesteal, but does it affect things like the Force of Natures percent of health a second? Or how about just the flat regeneration from items?


title: How do I get admin access?

text: As the title states, I'm wondering if someone could give me an in-depth description of how to gain admin access to servers.


title: Can I get science from asteroids?

text: Wow, I've just noticed a load of asteroids appearing in KSP's space center. My first thought isn't "What if they hit Kerbin and wipe out the entire Kerbal race?". It's "How much science can I get from them?" Can I get science from asteroids?


title: What gameplay behaviors are random?

text: SC2 is a deterministic game in the sense that there is nothing left to chance. No units get a "20% chance to cause bonus" or anything like that. The same keystrokes will always yield exactly the same result. But there are _some_ elements which have an element of randomness. The importance of this is that there are still some elements of the game which _cannot be predicted_. I'd love to see a list. Here are a couple I can think of right now:   1. Starting situation (spawn location, map, ladder opponent)   2. When an SCV is constructing a building, it moves in seemingly random patterns during construction. If you're lucky, the SCV will move where he can't get sniped. There are other random things but don't affect the game, like the appearance of a dark templar (scythe or no scythe).


title: What "special move canceling" combinations exist?

text: The in-game help mentions a technique called "special move canceling": > Lastly, take advantage of special move canceling! This is an advanced > technique with which you can cut short the duration of certain moves, > effectively becoming faster than usual. For example, try performing an > evasive roll immediately after landing an attack, or while drinking a health > tonic, and notice how the duration of those moves is cut short. Use this > technique to create devastating attack combinations while staying out of > harm's way! Sounds cool! So this mentions these two combinations:   * Defensive roll immediately after landing an attack   * Defensive roll while drinking a health tonic But it hints that there are more possible combinations that can lead to making some moves shorter. What are those combinations?


title: Does your appearance change based on your morality?

text: In Mass Effect 2, Shepard's physical appearance (especially when you decided to go Renegade) could end up changing pretty drastically, though you could permanently reverse it if you chose to. Does this behavior continue in Mass Effect 3? I'd like to know so I can customize my character's appearance accordingly if this is going to happen again, especially if she's going to end up with Terminator eyes...


title: Why is clay rare?

text: A while back I was digging in my mine, near the bottom level of my map, and I found something odd-- clay! So, I cooked the four blocks I found and it gave me some bricks. Awesome! I've never seen clay again. I consulted the Minecraft wiki and it stated that clay is more rare than diamonds but slightly easier to find since it often appears on the surface near sand. I haven't done a ton of looking but so far I haven't found any clay on the surface. So, why would such a useful block be so rare? Is this a bug or by design?


title: How do I earn a higher level Sega License?

text: On Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing on the PS3, there are various achievements for getting a higher level Sega License (it goes from green (original) to blue to amber to red to bronze to silver and finally to gold). What are the requirements for each level of license?


title: Nullsec exploration for trial?

text: Just created 21 day trial account. Only reason I want to try this game is **exploration**. Nothing more, nothing less. Question is, what do I need to start exploring null sec? Should I skill something up, or get adequate ship? General TO-DO list before I go? I'm still doing the tutorial. Didn't start a single mission from the agents(except that AI). I read that you can basically explore and warp out/stealth in case you get attacked unexpectedly, which is what I would like to do - stay passive and explore/loot stuff. FYI I have a buddy who is also a newb and we will be doing exploration together.


title: What does installing an Assassin Den in a Mediterranean City actually do?

text: I've just captured my second Mediterranean City and have just been reminded that I recently used the "Install a New Assassin Den" mission in my first captured city. But what does it _do_. I can't see anything obvious that _"+1 Assassin slot(s) in the city"_ has achieved (in my first city, of course, haven't used in second one yet). ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6QeNs.jpg)


title: Recording the last minute of ingame footage, how to?

text: I look for a tool for recording in-game. I want a tool that records all the time but keep only what I asked him to keep. I do a perfect match, I press a button, the system saves my last minute and continue to record.


title: Saving drive space by uninstalling games from Steam

text: If I download a Steam game, play it, and delete it/uninstall it, will it be completely gone from my computer? I want to download Amnesia demo, but once I've played it, I'm gonnna delete it to save drive space. Will everything be gone? All the files? Thanks.


title: Is the Crystal Cruiser quest guaranteed?

text: I'm trying to unlock the Crystal Cruiser, and am on step 2 of the Ancestry quest, heading to step 3. I have already: > (1) Found the damaged stasis pod and (2) repaired the stasis pod and had a > Crystal alien added to my crew. Happily, the very next sector for me is the Rock home sector, but **no quest marker ever appears in that sector**. According to the version 1.03.3 change log (which happens to be the version I am running): > If you're carrying the Crystal alien from the stasis pod, the Rock Homeworld > map will start with the appropriate quest marker for the beacon that leads > to the Crystal sector. I don't see that quest marker, and multiple attempts with this save file (which I backed up ... I know, I know!) have never given me the appropriate quest randomly. I should also point out that I have an active quest in the current sector that I am opting to skip. Could that be the source of my troubles?


title: Can I recover a deleted world?

text: I accidentally deleted my world, is there a way to find the files somewhere on my computer? I have already looked where the files would be if I hadn't deleted the world. I am using a Mac but is not 100% mine so i cant do anything too crazy.


title: Mouse Button Press in ROCCAT Macro Manager

text: I recently purchased a ROCCAT Kone[+] which has some great macro possibilities due to EasyShift, which allows you to bind extra commands to the other mouse buttons (accessed by holding the assigned EasyShift mouse button) In the macro manager you can view all the in built macros and their key sequences. Below is an example which has mouse button presses: ![Macro Example - Shows in built macro with mouse button presses](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fl6CU.png) In trying to create my own I was not able to add mouse button presses to my macro using the recorder. How do I do this?


title: How can I play on the League of Legends PBE (beta server)

text: I saw some YouTube videos with people playing champions before they were released. How can I do that too?


title: Is there a MARS working on GNU/Linux?

text: I am looking for a MARS (a software to run CoreWar warriors) working on GNU/Linux, but the only one I could find (nMars) crashes when I open or create a warrior file.


title: What's the most efficient/an efficient AP Farming route at endgame?

text: I've finished the primary plot quest. Not only that, but I've finished the quest achievements for every zone, so while I may have missed a simple breadcrumb sidequest somewhere along the line, I'm pretty sure I've completed 'every' quest in the game to date. At this point, my primary objective is to farm better gear, by clearing out elite subzones/lairs for signet drops, and to fill out more notches on the Ability Wheel to increase the variety of builds availiable to me. Towards the latter end, I'd like to know what questing routes or farming areas offer the most efficient XP/hour. I understand that any quest-based farming route will be on a two or three day cooldown, and thus, know that as I exhaust some routes, I'll need to 'fall back' to less efficient patterns, so I'm interested in multiple options, but knowing the most efficient loops that result in a minimum of downtime from quest complete -> quest giver, and especially those that run through zones with elite/QL10 mobs is the best way to minimize the time I spend doing things with a low rate of return.


title: Is there an equivalent to /played?

text: I want to know how long I've spent playing Guild Wars 2 so far, in other games you can type /played and it will give you a break down of how long you've been playing so far on that character - some other games show this on a summary screen for each character so you can keep track. Is there an equivalent for this in Guild Wars 2?


title: Battle of Claw Island - "You cannot fire weapon in that direction" error

text: I am on the quest "Battle of Claw Island" as part of the storyline for my character, and I am on the stage of the quest that requires you to use trebuchets against the enemy ship "The Warmonger". When I "use" the trebuchet it changers my action bar, giving me an option to turn left, turn right, and fire the weapon, however when I aim in the direction of The Warmonger and press fire I get an error message - "You cannot fire weapon in that direction" - what am I doing wrong?


title: Starcraft 2 Can't Click Connect

text: I've been trying to get onto StarCraft 2 and it won't let me actually press the "Connect" button, it is grayed out, disabled; does anyone know how I can fix this? I have even tried reinstalling it, but that's no good either.


title: Why does Haunt (Consuming Spirit) Slow?

text: I am using Haunt with the Consuming Spirit rune. When I cast this on an enemy, the word "Slowed" appears next to the enemy. Why is this? Character profile on battle.net is here.


title: Is the Debt Collector quest bugged?

text: I have just started the quest `Debt Collector` and have sweet-talked Jane into paying up. After that, we talked more and she mentioned her caravan in the `Broc Flower Cave`. I also received the objective to collect money from it, despite already being paid by Jane. Arriving at the cave, the brahmin that should be there is gone and I guess it's because she has already paid. In other words, you can't both make her pay AND loot her caravan. Is this correct?


title: Torchlight 2 Passive Spells

text: So there are passive spells in Torchlight 2 that I can use on either me or my pet. If I use them on my pet, will I get the effects or just my pet? If I use them on myself, will I get the effect and not my pet?


title: Where are mother's earrings?

text: In the game Lucius you get asked by your mother find her earrings. She does not give you any hint where it might be. Searching the mansion so far was without any success. Where are the earrings?


title: Automatically recharging LZH condensators in nuclear reactor

text: I am playing FTB Ultimate 1.4.7 and I want to build a nuclear reactor to power various machines. Since I want to be able to get as much power as possible out of it without having it blowing up, I thought I'd try using the LZH condensator, since it dissipates quite some heat and is rechargable. I watched this video tutorial and thought I'd try his design out. Unfortunately I don't have the Advanced Repulsion Systems mod, so I can't use the Reactor Coolant Injector to recharge my LZH condensators. I've tried some designs using the Autocrafting table and pipes, but I don't find a viable solution. So I'm wondering if there is a way of automatically recharing the condensators, besides using Reactor Coolant Injectors?


title: How can I beat Maexxna on Heroic?

text: On Heroic she sends two minions back to your hand every turn and plays first a lot of small minions and later some bigger and dangerous ones. What are some good strategies to use against her? _(Question inspired by the similar questions forAnub'Rekhan and Faerlina.)_


title: Where's a good place to mine a solid amount of iron ore?

text: I've been using transmute mineral ore alot (after discovering how much it helps level smithing of course) and was wondering, where are some good locations for harvesting iron ore? I'm aware of halted stream camps massive supply, are there any other iron decent iron ore locations like it?


title: Skylanders Swap Force, are wii and wii u versions the same?

text: For Skylanders Swap Force, are the wii and wii u versions the same? I know the wii version can be played on the wii u, but will we be missing out on the new wii u features, or is it the same release in different packaging? I've looked through the reviews and haven't found any relevant info...


title: How can I protect my buildings against creepers?

text: I love building in minecraft just as much as I love the idea of random mobs attacking me while I build. However, I don't like it when I'm just walking out my door after a snooze and a creeper didn't get the memo and was hiding on one side of my house and sneaks up behind me as I walk out and does an amazing job of remodeling my front door wall. What I'm hoping for is something that will prevent this terrible thing from happening. I've tried fences but they still blow up if you are on the border of the fence and you happen to be unsuspecting of their approach. Some good building techniques would be great for anticreeper measures.


title: How to copy a specific chunk from one save to another?

text: My world is suffering from several chunk resets, probably due to ChicnkenBones chunk loaders (I'll migrate to railcraft's as soon as I fix this). After the first loss, I made a batch to backup everything every so often. And now I need to use them. I was able to open both current and backup in mcedit, find the reset chunk in each, but I don't know how to copy that individual chunk to another world... **What i tried:** I tried selecting it, opening chunck Options menu options, extracting it to a file (it created a folder with a single file there, the single chunk I tried to export), and then open the new world, select the same chunk and hitting import in the main menu; but it gives an error:               I don't know how to import this file: c.-k.k.dat.     Error: IOError('Cannot detect file type.',)      The error even makes sense, because I extracted in one menu and tried to import in another menu, that probably mean different things! But in the Chunk Options menu there is no import, and also, there is no export/extract in the main menu. Picture of error: ![Error given by mcedit](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2W3Jc.png) **More info** I play on FTB, with Direwolf20 1.6.4 pack. I am open to other suggestions if MCEdit doesn't work, but that seems to be the most important and common usage of such a program, I can't belived there is no way to do it. I am considering the main menu to be the horizontal icon list at the bottom, that have the options: Select, Brush, Clone, etc., and the chunck control the vertical text list at the left that is open when you select Chunck Control (last option) on the main menu. MCEdit version: 0.1.7.1.


title: What does "(Player name) has not rebuilt their base and is being revealed" mean?

text: What does this actually mean? Does it mean that all his units and base structures will be made visible to his opponent? It seems that "being revealed" = "will be defeated"?


title: My prison won't receive any food from deliveries and it says my prisoners won't come for 10,000 hours

text: I only have one prisoner left for some reason and it says that the 9 prisoners won't come for 16,689 hours, I tried to open than close the prison intake and also went into the save and changed it into continuous and it still didn't work. Food also isn't being delivered and I made two deliveries and it didn't work. Does anyone know what is happening?


title: Multiple Depots 1 Line

text: In Cities in Motion 2, I have a line with more buses than the largest limit of a bus depot. How can I add another depot to a line so that buses can use that for servicing too?


title: Meaning of letters near Armor and Weapon in "Monster Hunter Freedom Unite"

text: I sometimes see letters in armor names and weapon names in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite:   * Buster Blade **G**   * Diablo **D** Armor   * Mafumofu **S** Armor   * Vespoid **U** Armor   * Blango **X** Armor   * White Fatalis **Z** Armor I am guessing G is for "G-Rank", D is for "Dark", but I was wondering about the meaning of S, U, X and Z letters. Thanks in advance.


title: How much alien blaster ammo is there in Fallout 3?

text: One of the reasons I never cared for the alien blaster (and never went after the firelance) was that the ammo and repair part supply for both seemed ... lacking. Really lacking. I don't remember any (or much) being in Mothership Zeta, either. How much is there actually in the game (without the benefit the scavenger perk), both in the regular game and Mothership Zeta.


title: How to import whole category in Dwarf Fortress?

text: I want to import meat from the caravan, but don't care too much what kind of meat. Is there a better solution than increasing the priority on _every_ meat product? Update: Same goes with bins, bags and just about everything.


title: What happens to the enemy's health after you die?

text: I have seen this post about death in D3 but it does not answer my question above. If you are alone or in a party, pull some enemy or enemies, then do a bunch of damage, but do NOT kill them, what happens to their health **after you wipe?** Does it get reset to full health again? or does something else happen?


title: How to use the carpenter?

text: I'm trying to make a soldering iron using the carpenter, but it wont work as it keeps on showing "missing resources".My carpenter set-up using a BuildCraft sterling engine.My carpenter set-up using a BuildCraft sterling engine and i'm trying to make a soldering iron but "missing resources" keeps popping up, even when water meter is full. ![My carpenter set-up using a BuildCraft sterling engine.](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q5md0.png) ![Im trying to make a soldering iron but "missing resources" keeps popping up, even when water meter is full.](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Hj0Xu.png)


title: How can I get this setup to work properly?

text: I have a setup in a space-station with which I want an airlock with two doors: door X & door Y. I've remade this setup in the Overworld in a smaller fashion to show you how I've got it set up which you can see here: ![Door circuit](http://i.imgur.com/ImPBsXa.jpg) Before clicking the button (which is located on the back of the gold block behind the pistons), door X is open and door Y is closed, just making sure you don't confuse them :P) This is supposed to close door X before opening door Y, after which it closes door Y before opening door X. Although now it's closing door X, a few ticks later it opens door Y, but then it switches them around just about simultaneously again. I've tried using a T-flip flop instead of this configuration, but that proves to be a bit too laggy on a multiplayer server (the doors bugged out by opening & closing repeatedly even though I only had a single pulse as input) How can I get this to work as intended without using up TOO much space? Update: I just thought of another possibility, which is making the button work like a lever (in my case by using pistons) and having 2 seperate outputs which are being toggled with different timings on each output, which works perfectly. Now another question arises, if this is the way to do this, how do i get it to repeat itself once (so it works exactly the way I want it) without having to press the button again? ![New circuit](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8tqNV.jpg)


title: Does resurrecting allies prevent the durability penalty for dying?

text: I just learned from this question that it's possible to resurrect allies. We also know from this question that the penalty for dying is a 10% degradation in durability. If you revive/resurrect an ally, is the durability penalty prevented?


title: Why do I need a "screw trap component" for building a screw pump?

text: When I try to build a screw pump with `bMs`, I see the red text: > Needs screw trap component I've already built seven pumps, and still have blocks, pipe sections, mechanisms and enormous corkscrews to go. Nothing is forbidden, and no burrows are activated. What could I be missing? Edit: It does work now, and AFAIK nothing changed. So the question is: What could I have been missing?


title: How much experience is required for each level?

text: I looked around and I could not find a table of how much experience is required for each level. Various other questions and answers relate experience based on the number of levels gained - but it is hard to make an accurate comparison without knowing how much experience is required for each level. So how much experience is required per level?


title: How does Sharing is Caring work?

text: Sharing is Caring, the ultimate skill of the Best Friends Forever skill tree, gives Deathtrap a copy of your shield. Does it transfer over the special effects as well? Does his shield recharge if given enough time? Will Amp shields or Maylay shields boost his damage at all?


title: Do compasses still point towards your spawn/bed?

text: When I use a compass it does not seem to point towards my bed. I have heard that now compasses point towards North. Is this true?


title: How do all of the damage reducing methods interact with each other in League of Legends?

text: I've been thinking of spicing up my Rammus play with some variance, and one thing I've been looking at is the armor Leviathan, which grants health in a snowball fashion. At max stacks, it reduces damage taken by 15% (which sounds similar to the 4% reduction you can get if you have enough Defense Masteries). As a tank, and as Rammus specifically, I tend to get a lot of assists which helps build up to that 15% reduction. That got me thinking, how does this interact with some of the various other methods to reduce damage, though? There are at least 3 methods I know of.   * **Armor/Magic Resist** - Detailed quite thoroughly here.   * **Reduce damage by fixed number** - Amumu's Tantrum has a passive that does this, and there's also a Mastery that affects this.    * **Reduce damage by percentage** - The aforementioned Leviathan item and the Mastery. **What is the order in which these effects are applied**? Do the latter two apply to the damage after armor/magic resist is factored in, or do they alter the damage prior to calculating armor/magic resist? Are there any other methods of damage reduction that have their own special effects for this? If it's not too far off to simultaneously address, do damage amplifying effects like Vlad's ultimate _counter_ the corresponding damage reduction methods, or do they multiplicatively stack with the results at some stage? This question covers how normal attacks benefit, but it doesn't happen to cover these specific effects and how they synergize with each other.


title: Is it possible to join non-dedicated Call Of Duty servers over internet without having a valid game CD key?

text: First of all, I have little knowledge about hosting a dedicated public game server so I may be using some wrong terms in this question. Please correct me if you find something. I know that we can host a COD server without having a valid CD key (by just selecting Start a server"... or something like that) but cannot join one - it kicks out. I think this is called a non-dedicated public server as it can be joined by users over internet. There is also some way of hosting a dedicated public server, but I am not much sure about that. Now, my questions -   * Will the servers simply created by clicking on "Start a server" be visible by other users when they go to "Join a server"?   * If not, I guess users who know my IP, port can join my server by going to COD terminal and typing  `connect IP:port` Can users who don't have a valid CD key join? I am sure they can't join the dedicated servers listed under Join a server section, but not much sure about the non-dedicated ones. By the way, I have recently purchased the game and have a valid key. I am asking this to know if my other friends who don't yet have the game can play on our own non-dedicated servers **over internet**. I am not able to enjoy the game because of the high ping value due to absence of local dedicated servers. Please check Good public/dedicated call of duty servers list for players in India please!!


title: Where is the Sacellum of Virtue?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Where are all the random dungeons? I've never seen this and I've been through Act IV many times. ![Sacellum of Virtue](http://i.stack.imgur.com/agsAl.png)


title: Force Minecraft to use one outbound port to connect to my server

text: I have a Minecraft server running on a server. It runs on port 25565 and I can connect to it at home. At school, however (it's a boarding school), due to the port blocking, I can't connect to the server (or any other), this is because only traffic from certain ports can get outside the network. Having talked to the head of IT, he's happy to open a port so that I can connect (we have a very accommodating head of IT) however, after some looking around, I discovered that Minecraft uses a seemingly random port over 50000 to connect to a server. I was wondering how I could force Minecraft to use one port to connect to the server, and then I can pass it on to the head of IT, so he can unblock it.


title: Are there any reasons to go through non-civilian sectors?

text: In FTL, some sectors are marked "Civilian", some "Hostile", and some "Nebula". Is there any reason why you might choose a Hostile or Nebula sector _instead of_ a Civilian sector? Will you pick up more scrap from enemy encounters that way? Is that not cancelled out by scrap you might get from beneficial encounters in a civilian nebula?


title: Will Blizzard ban you for using a macro mouse?

text: Someone I know just picked up a gaming mouse with the ability to set macros that will send timed keystrokes into WoW. Is this a bannable offense? To be clear, these are _not_ using WoW's macro system; they are essentially timing scripts that will replay a specific set of button presses with the intent of setting up a kill sequence of perfectly timed spell casts with the press of _one_ button.


title: What's the purpose of my followers "focus"?

text: With level 18, you unlock a new item slot in your followers inventory: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/alrih.jpg) However, neither the game nor much of goole makes any mention of this. What's the purpose of this focus?


title: Do the points mean anything?

text: I am playing My Kingdom for the Princess IV, and noticed that at the end of a level I am awarded points for the level. I find this odd, because the game doesn't seem to use them for anything. (Completing the level before nightfall seems to be the main goal, which gets you a gold heart/star/thing on that level). Do the points matter? Do they do anything? Or are they just there?


title: Can flying monsters fly diagonally upwards?

text: Can flying monsters fly fiagonally upwards? I've got this in part of my fortress. Could a monster in level -2 get to level -1 somehow?                         #####     Level -1: #++X#               #####          Level -2: #####               #..##               #####          # natural stone     + constructed floor     X up/down staircase     . empty space


title: How does follower experience (XP) and leveling work?

text: They level up when fighting beside you, but also level when not in use. How does this work? Do they gain all XP for both their kills and your kills (like party members)? Do they gain more XP when fighting at your side than when not in use? Do they still gain XP when "dead"? Does the follower class affect their rate of XP gain? Are all three followers at the exact same XP level, or are there any slight differences?


title: Can the Protoss Mothership Mass Recall Allies' units?

text: If so, there's a wicked opportunity in 4v4 to mothership rush to an enemies base and recall 400 units into his base!!!


title: What's the best way to kill armored soldiers in Blood Dragon?

text: Are they susceptible to takedowns, or do I just have to plink their helmets enough to kill them? Is there a better way of getting rid of them?


title: Skylander Swap Force Woodborrow pool

text: How do you jump into the the pool in Woodborrow? Do you have to complete any certain level or have a certain character or characters?


title: What should I do when I see a player using a botting service?

text: So I just made an EUW account and found hey this ping is better than NA fancy that and well I am leveling up my account maybe 3 or 4 games a day and everyday or at least every 7 games there is one player who to me behaves like a bot. This player would first of only move every 3 or so minutes always move in one direction regardless the terrain or turrets or whatever would never buy any items till the absolute end of the game and the items would never be good for that champion. This kinda pisses me off but I do not know if its legal or not so is it and when you find a player that does what should one do?


title: Where are the 'Spark Lock' challenges after you defeat Kaos in Woodborrow?

text: Where are the "Spark Lock" challenges located after you defeat Kaos in Woodborrow. A large treasure chest appears in the Great Hollow with a " - " above it, but it doesn't open and it does nothing.


title: Can we manually reduce the file size of Minecraft SMP server by just deleting .mcr files?

text: We had an "accident" with WorldEdit and despite having BoarderGuard installed it sent a tunnel thousands of chunks away. Regardless now the map looks ridiculous. Of course the servercraft.co server crashed during this process and we were robbed of doing a simple /undo! The worst part is, we did not notice the problem until a few days later and the several dozen players on our server would be a tad irked if we had to roll back the server a week. I have read that deleting chunks etc is totally possible with MCedit. But since we chose to go with Servercraft, dowloading, editing offline, and then trying to reinsert the file back to servercraft is almost a nightmare scenerio. We have Bukkit running, and we are using a mod called BorderGuard so I know exactly what regions we are using. I was just curious if anyone understands what happens when you just delete .mcr files from the /world/region folder? Do they go away permanently? I do see that if we were ever to expand the BorderGuard those regions/chunks would come back the same since the seed is the same. Anyone manually lop off part of their world and survived?


title: How do you achieve the 'Know Thy Enemy ' achievement in CIV V?

text: It says you must 'Consult the Oracle 2 times in a single game', but I haven't any idea what that means!


title: In Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is there any way to return to the home world?

text: I'm attempting 100% completion and it looks like I missed a piece of artwork on the home world. Is there any way to return to the home world to collect it? If not, does the game have any new game plus type functionality to allow me to carry anything over between plays?


title: What effect do Admirals/Generals/Commanders have?

text: I know that Admirals make your fleets better, Generals make your troops better (including detection), and Commanders make your starfighters better, but these are very vague statements. What specifically do they affect and by how much? Does Leadership factor in at all?


title: Where can I find hillmen?

text: I've just hit level 30 and want to complete the Race of Man deed "Enmity of the Hillmen" and get myself a nice new racial trait. Unfortunately, I've not come across a hillman yet in my travels. Whereabouts can I find Hillmen and, for a bonus, where can I find the _lowest- levelled_ Hillmen to make my life a bit easier?


title: Does it mean anything when the camera screen turns orange to take a pic?

text: In Far Cry 3, when taking a picture sometimes the screen turns orange and the same sound is heard as when a relic is picked up. Does this have any meaning?


title: Are there any limits on hunting?

text: Does the game put in place any limits on hunting? Is it possible to out-hunt a region, either temporarily or permanently? Or do animals just keep spawning?


title: Is there a way to search by clan tag on Battlelog?

text: Is there a way on battlelog (or somewhere else) to search players by clan tag? I've looked through battlelog and googled and haven't found anything. We run a clan at work and I'd just like to see who else has added our tag to their username so far, and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that. You'd think viewing all the players attached to a certain clan tag would be an obviously useful view.


title: Weapon magazine is zero (infinite ammo or no reload needed?)

text: When looking for weapons in store, I've found one (a bow called Cerno) which Magazine property is set to zero. Does this mean that it has infinite ammo, or it doesn't need to reload?


title: Changing reputation with New Game Plus

text: I finished ME3 a few days ago and want to play through New Game+. I read here: > You'll retain your level, powers, and bonus powers, your credits, your > **Reputation/Renegade/Paragon scores** , and all weapons, mods and armor. I played Paragon the first time through, but now I want to play 100% renegade, just for the fun of it (sick of always being a goodie-goodie two-shoes). Is it possible to play 100% renegade (and thus unlock the renegade option in final confrontation) with New Game Plus? Or do I need to start fresh/re-import my ME2 save?


title: How is tunnel price calculated in openttd?

text: Is the price of tunnel linear or it is exponential by length? I am thinking about to dig a hole down in the ground with a certain frequency and connect holes with tunnels, if so the price I can decrease.


title: My friend loses all his items upon disconnect

text: I'm hosting a minecraft server and it's just me and my friend playing. Every time he disconnects and comes back, all of his inventory is gone. However, the things in the chest remain there. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Can't even log out for the night and come back with everything. This issue doesn't happen with me, but only him. Again, we're the only two that are playing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


title: buying pistol magazine upgrades

text: Where can I buy these? I am pretty sure (i.e. I checked) the following locations:   * Nos Astra Sporting goods   * Batarian State Arms   * Sitra Suplies   * Kassa Fabrication   * Aegohr Munitions   * Spectre Requisitions   * Cipritine Armory   * Elkoss Combine Arsenal Supplies Kinda frustrating that a Paladin X only has like 40 shots with level II magazine upgrade.


title: How do I deal with Cloakers?

text: I'm getting very consistently demolished by charging Cloakers. As they are designed, I never really see them coming, and on the occasions that I do see them, I tend to panic and miss a lot of my shots. How can I keep myself (and my teammates) from getting charged at and destroyed by a Cloaker? Is there any way to tell where they are coming from without having to rely on spotting them?


title: How to reply the last whisper (MP) in chat

text: There is any way to reply the last private message (whisper) you received directly in chat? I like to always use the main chat window (no separate tabs for private chats) and I guess if there is some method, like `/r` or something like this, to answer to the last whisper. I can remember there was something like this in the beta, but now I can't find how. Currently I have to put the complete command which include the name of the receiver.


title: What is Vermivorous The Invincible's weak spot?

text: Yesterday, I spent hours trying to spawn Vermivorous The Invincible. After I finally managed to get it to spawn, it killed me pretty easily. Especially since I was alone. I have the Conference Call and I plan to use it to quickly kill Vermivorous The Invincible by targeting its weak spot. Thus, I would like to know if it even has a weak spot, if it does, where is it?


title: What does the sneak crosshair state mean?

text: So far I've noticed three different states for the sneak crosshair:   1. A flat line: `—•—`   2. The familiar eye: `<o>`   3. And the eye with `DETECTED` below it. Obviously #3 means you've been spotted. What's the distinction between numbers 1 and 2?


title: What is the internal / native resolution of Mario Kart 8 / the Wii U?

text: AKA the resolution before it was upscaled. I'm not sure but I think the gamepad is the same resolution as the main screen. As far as I know the resolution is 1280x720 but could this be confirmed? And are all the game resolutions the same?


title: Install Civ 5 mod on Linux

text: Playing Portugal, I'd really like to have the Trade Opportunities mod. But how do I install it on a Linux system? I could not find it in the mod hub, as suggested by the link.


title: Can't pan map far enough south

text: For some reason I can't pan the in-game map far enough south-east (past `Riften`). Basically I point my mouse at the bottom right of the screen and the map barely scrolls to Riften, it just wont go further. I don't know how long it's been present but have only noticed it since I got the Dawnguard expansion (where I frequently try to fast travel to Fort Dawnguard). So it might be an issue in the base game too. I can't find anyone else online mentioning it but I'd like to know if you guys know a fix. What I've been doing thus far is just fast travelling to a closer town, then immediately fast travelling from there (I am yet to experience the problem happening twice in a row). It isn't a distance thing because I've traveled from the Fort to Castle Volkihar, it seems to be random, and only affects that south east corner of the map.


title: How do I un-nock an arrow?

text: If I have already drawn my bow, is there any way I can un-nock the arrow so I don't waste it? I don't like my current method of firing into the ground right in front of me. Safety first.


title: Is it possible to activate a DVD copy of Dead Space with Steam?

text: Steam doesn't seem to like the activation code for my copy of Dead Space. I can put it in the library as a non-Steam game, but I'm not able to back it up (I seem to have very bad luck with hard drives lately). Is there any way to get my DVD copy of Dead Space to activate on Steam?


title: Special Attacks?

text: It's been awhile since I've played Tides of Destiny. I just got back on and managed to level my Katana skill to 13, and I got a prompt that said I "unlocked the Katana's special attack". I know that each weapon has several different unique attacks (that are not Rune Abilities), but I forgot how to use each one. How do I perform these attacks and is there anywhere in-game where I can look them up?


title: When did Captain Rumford die?

text: In Act 4, you can come across the ghost of Captain Rumford in the Silver Spire. In all my playthroughs, I can't seem to find the part where he dies. How/when did he die?


title: Are you supposed to be able to beat LIMBO without dying?

text: Can you beat _LIMBO_ without dying without any _a priori_ knowledge? Obviously, if you know the proper path you can (there's even an achievement for it; though even that spots you 4-5 deaths). Some of the traps are obvious (bear traps, trip-wires), but others seem impenetrable without hitting them once and learning via dying. Sure, death is cheap in the game, but it makes question if I'm just not looking hard enough. Fighting the three dart-shooters makes me question this the most.


title: What is the ship icon near Ysgramor's Tomb?

text: On my way to Ysgramor's Tomb, I saw a ship outline to the northwest and went to investigate. I went out into the ice flows and the ship outline on the compass began to highlight as I got closer. Then, it went poof and disappeared. I never was notified that I arrived some place, and it does not show up on my map. Does anyone know what this ship is and how do I reach it?


title: Is it possible to finish Diablo III on Inferno difficulty without using the Auction Houses?

text: It is what it is. I'm currently in Act I in Hell difficulty, and even by this point I've noticed that a lot of the gear I've gotten isn't _always_ level appropriate. With all the seething rage in the forums, I just want to make sure that it's **realistic to expect to be able to complete the game without resorting to either one of the two AHs**.


title: Five Fingers mini-game

text: There is a mini-game in the Wellspring pub called Five Fingers. I really don't understand how it works. I tried to press space at the right time, but I always hurt my hand. Maybe there is something I'm missing. Could you explain to me how it works, and how to eventually succeed? ![screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0zpL9l.jpg)


title: How do I break walls as Protoss?

text: I often play 2v2 or 3v3 as Protoss and I often rely on my teammates to break walls. A lot of 2v2/3v3 have common base and entry for each team, which is typically walled. In **early game** , as Protoss, I don't how to efficiently/safely break a wall. And if there are some marines/roaches/stalkers behind the wall, that's bad luck for my zealots. Zergs can use banlings, Terran have their long range tank. What with Protoss? Tempests?


title: How do I answer the phone in Lollipop Chainsaw?

text: The first time that the phone icon appeared, Juliet answered it automatically, but since then I have no idea how to take the call. I've tried every button and combination of buttons I can think of.


title: Can I play Borderlands 2 GOTY Edition without the original game?

text: Does anyone know if I can play _Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition_ if I don't have the original Borderlands 2 game? (I am playing on PC)


title: What resources does a population use when upgrading their homes?

text: While the population constantly consumes resources, they also use some resources when they graduate to the next prosperity level. For instance, I know that to reach level 2 Oriental citizens have to consume at least 1 mosaic for each house. It seems like the Occidental citizens at least consume tools and stone, but maybe glass as well. What resources does each level of population require to upgrade their homes, both Occident and Oriental?


title: I cannot go to newgame + in infinity blade 2

text: I played infinity blade 2. Then I chose new game +. For weeks no problem. I enjoy the fact that I can gain level again. Then suddenly after some update or what, I am back to the original rebirth. With all of my powerful weapon intact. I press new game + again and it goes back to the original screen (with the same position and stuff). I defeated god king several time again, still can't go to new game + To make things annoying, when I want to play again from the beginning I often accidentally press rather the character slots. That ERASED my old character. Finally I tried again from the beginning. After defeating god king I still can't do new game + Then I deleted infinity blade 2. Redownload it, and then play again, defeat god king again. I still can't do new game + Is tis a bug? Am I the only one with this issue? The new game + option is there.


title: In erkie, is it possible to destroy everything?

text: Is it possible to destroy EVERYTHING on a given page when playing the game from http://erkie.github.com?


title: How do I take a screenshot in Starcraft 2?

text: With WoW you can just hit print screen and it saves and image automatically but in SC2 it doesn't seem to work or maybe I just can't find the files. Any suggestions?


title: How are people getting such high scores as 9x10^18 in Temple Run?

text: I see daily high scores in the billions and the all time high scores are ridiculously high, how are people getting these scores?


title: Fallout New Vegas weapon mod button not working for PC

text: I have FNV on Steam for PC, all add-on content as well. I am very experienced with this game, and understand that GRA mods only fit on GRA weapons. That being said, in the PIP-BOY menu, the (x)MOD option is constantly grayed out, regardless of the fact that the proper weapon and mod are in the inventory. Tried uninstall/reinstall, as well as validating game files. Has anyone else had this bug before, and if so, how did you fix it? Thank you for any ideas.


title: Does Ransack have any benefits beyond 5 skill points?

text: In Borderlands, there is a skill called Ransack. With a class mod, it's possible to push the effect of this over 5 out of the 5 skill point natural maximum. However, some skills have no extra effect from being pushed over their limit. This skill could have no benefit from overstacking if it's coded to only drop one, or something like 110% could mean one guaranteed item + 10% chance of another. What is it? Here are two example clips:   While this one does not actually have overstacked Ransack, it can still provide data by showing something other than ammo or money spawning from a Ransack kill:   I am thinking that if someone could mess with their game file to set the Ransack value to a ridiculously high number and see if each Ransack kill causes many items to spawn, the question could be answered rather handily.


title: How is +X% dmg to elemental skills being calculated?

text: I have a WIZ level 60 and I am trying to do a cold-based WIZ which gives a quite high CC. I’m playing now Inferno ACT 1 with MP 1. For gear, I have a couple of legendaries that give me +X% cold dmg and +X% dmg to cold skills, such as Fragment of Destiny (I know, only a lvl 59 weapon, 848dps and +29% dmg to cold skills) and frostburn gauntlets. I’m saving for triumvirate. This question addresses the +x% cold dmg affix, but doesn't address the "+x% dmg to cold skills" affix, which is worded differently. So the question is: How is +X% dmg to cold skills (or skills of other elemental types) being calculated?


title: Mass Effect 2: Romance and Kelly and Liara

text: I've been playing (and loving) Mass Effect 2 as Femshep, and I just finished the excellent Shadow Broker DLC. Here's my problem: I romanced Liara in ME1, but in ME2 she wasn't around, so I started having fun with Kelly. We've been flirty, and had dinner, and now she's feeding my fishes. Then I got the Shadow Broker DLC and, at the end, there's the inevitable conversation with Liara: "What about us?" Is Liara a valid love interest in ME2? If so, could telling her that I want to get back together ruin things with me and Kelly (especially in regard to ME3)? Right now I value my relationship with Kelly more, so I don't want to jepordize that by saying to Liara that I'm still interested... But I'm also intrigued by the effects of having Liara "on the hook" in ME3. Will reaffirming things with Liara ruin my chances with Kelly?


title: Stop auto equipping alcohol!

text: I am playing Dead Island on the PC. Many NPCs want alcohol for various purposes, so I want to collect it when I see them laying around. But when I do this, the game seems to switch my current weapon with alcohol. If I am not paying attention, or if I am quickly attacked after collecting the alcohol, I use the alcohol instead of attacking with my machete/knife like I intended. This is extremely frustrating, since I waste alcohol, and I incur needless damage while a zombie chews on my body while I am switching to a different weapon. Please help me make this STOP. I do not ever want to equip alcohol after picking it up.


title: How does repair work?

text: I know that you can repair your ship at a repair buoy, but I've also noticed that upon taking sufficient damage (like 75% of health) some ships appear to slowly regenerate some of the damage taken. How exactly does this repair system work?


I released a game called RAGE - even though the game was released with 0 bugs and broke technology and design records, post release there were a lot of bugs which made the game unplayable. I see the humour in the irony. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XDejF.png) However, while it was suggested that I should fix these bugs, I didn't have an option appear that allowed me to do this, nor did I see any immediately obvious options on any of the menus to begin fixing bugs. I was already in the process of developing my next game, so I'm unsure if this prevented the options from appearing, but by the time my next game had been finished my fans were disappointed in me. How can I fix bugs that become apparent post release?


title: Does Pierre stay dead if I kill him?

text: Throughout most levels, you may come across a guard named Pierre who is writing a message to his mother (or in one of them, a girl writing to a friend about how all this guy Pierre can talk about is fish and cheese). As a running gag, it's pretty effective. However, since Pierre is, after all, a guard, he is at odds with the thieving crew, and can become antagonistic to the crew if they catch his attention. This leads to the logical conclusion that one may, if carrying a weapon, kill Pierre. He appears in new levels thanks to the thieves' actions, which cause him to be fired from his current job, so it's possible he might disappear or be replaced if killed. Then again, guards seem to be able to revive their own through some magic grisly process I don't understand (or care to). So, in the campaign, if you kill Pierre, does he show up in later levels to write more messages?


title: What does the Lost Word attack from the Knocker demon do in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers?

text: I recruited this demon very early in the game. It had an attack called Lost Word that I used once and automatically killed all the other demons in my party. I was wondering, is this really its only use? It didn't even do any damage to the other enemies I was facing.


title: What's the absolute minimum number of bookshelves to reach a level 30 enchantment?

text: When playing survival, bookshelves are rather costly as they cost 1.5 wood logs, 9 reeds, and 3 leather each. I would like to use the absolute minimum number of bookshelves to enchant level 30 items. How many bookshelves are necessary in order to accomplish this?


title: Can I force a dwarf to become sane?

text: In Dwarf Fortress, is there a DFHack command or can raws be edited to remove insanity from a Dwarf?


title: How can i slow down Utawarerumono Mission Maps

text: I have Utawarerumono English Patch on my Windows 7 64-bit Desktop PC, when i'm in the mission maps it's quite fast, one of the mechanics is that you can perform combos by clicking at the right time when you make an attack indicated by a circle because the mission maps run quite fast there is very little time to even see the circle and while holding the Alt key can ensure that the combo hits in the tutorial it's said it's effectiveness is reduced (obviously to deter using the Alt Key to auto Combo), i've also noticed that when i do, people like Touka, Kuuran and Hakuro first deal about 70 damage in their first normal attack but attacks done via combos using the Alt key only do 1 Damage making it entirely useless I would like to slow Utawarerumono down so that i can pull off combos for Eruru as Eruru even though she only heals i have learned that her healing can be a combo aswell allowing me to heal my characters faster however just like attacking character, her combos using the Alt key will just heal 1 HP which is just as useless EDIT: this is a screenshot on the ingame benchmark test ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/AJdwU.png) as for the specs of my PC, i can't find the paper which has them all written down and i can't remember what my graphics card is like however i have an i7 64-bit Processor overclocked to 4.2 GHz and 4 GB DDR3 Ram, if it's any consolation i can play Starcraft 2 at max settings and Skyrim at max settings minus anti-aliasing for shadows also, i know that it is more than the Battle Maps, after completing Normal last night the final scene which automatically plays while i was able to read all the text the voices were being cut off, while this could be thrown up as just the PS2's voices being incompatible with the PC release the final > where Hakuro has been sealed and his mask is slowly falls to the ground and > land in Eruru's hands you can hear the music skipping every now and again


title: How to make abilities that don't scale their cost off skills and active effects?

text: I've encountered a frustrating set of bugs in the Skyrim construction set. Most people that I see posting questions on overhaul mods seem to agree that cost scaling (with 100% cost decrease effects on armor) is just plain broken. 100% fortify destruction = infinite dual thunderbolt = enemies are perpetually staggered. 100% fortify alteration = entire enemy team is paralyzed for the rest of the game. So I have been researching how to make a mod with abilities where effect scales with level and armor skill buffs/perks instead of scaling down with cost. There are several overhaul mods that do similar stuff, but it appears that they use global modifiers to nullify the default cost scaling. I don't want to use global settings to implement this - just in case I ever want to release the resulting mod to the public, I don't want it to interfere with existing overhauls. * * * First I tested building abilities that are not linked to any skill (not linked to restoration/alteration/conjuration/etc...). This just made them not show up in any powers and abilities tab. Next thing I tested is implementing them as non-aligned Powers with no cooldown. This appears to work somewhat, but it appears that the in-game support for equipping powers in either hand appears to be buggy/nonfunctional. For example, I made a modified version of the starting "Flames" effect that continuously throws fire bolts every 1/5 of a second, designated it as a Power (with no cooldown, as opposed to some powers that are once per day), and set its valid equip slots to "either hand". When I had my character equip the testing effect in either hand and held down the corresponding mouse button, the effect stopped after a fraction of a second with a message "Powers can only be used once a day". (Remember that I did not set it up with a once per day limit). If I held down the mouse button again to re-test, the same thing happened. The amount of time the effect remained active was actually long enough for 1 or 2 fire bolts to appear before the effect cancelled itself with the incorrect cooldown error, which is obviously a game-engine or construction set bug. tl;dr: "How to make abilities in the Skyrim Construction Set with a fixed cost that can be equipped in either hand while not changing any global variables or settings"? Any ideas?


title: After orbit occurs... things freeze up.

text: I've been sending probes into deep space, but once I get so far(I use Time Warp), the command pod has no electric charge and the stage lock is locked(pink). I have solar arrays on my probe, but it says they are retracted and I don't know if/how I can extend them. Is this a bug, or do I need to design a better ship that incorporates electricity better. Also, the m/s speed and elevation are locked after this "malfunction" happens, unless I time warp again. Possibly unrelated, sometimes my stages freeze, causing my ship to become completely unresponsive, leaving the rockets at whatever throttle they were at, then spinning out of control and crashing. Any help would be wonderful.


title: I accidently threw a money bag back up onto the train roof. What now?

text: # I just really love throwing things, ok? Don't judge me. * * * ![I seem to have gotten a little excited with the toss button](http://i.stack.imgur.com/eYcvf.jpg) Now the money bag is stuck on the train roof and none of us can get it back down, even with fast hands. **Is there anything we can do?**


title: What is the calculation behind Attack, Defense and Spellpower?

text: Could someone please explain how Attack and Defence affect Monster Stats and how Spellpower affects Spells?


title: Which comes first? Heart of the Swarm or Wings of Liberty?

text: I'm quite confused as which Starcraft 2 game to buy first? If I buy Heart of Swarm will I'll be able to play in Wings of Liberty too? or no?


title: Where does one mine moonstone?

text: Trying to make the Elven armor. I found a mine that has quicksilver in Dawnstar but not sure where I can get moonstone ore outside of a shop.


title: How do I target others so I can heal them?

text: How can you target an ally to perform a heal on them instead of yourself?


title: What does the code included with new copies of Amalur do?

text: Included with my copy of Kingdoms of Amalur was a single-use code, like the ones that unlock Catwoman DLC in Batman: Arkham City, and multiplayer mode in several games. I seem to remember reading somewhere that this code unlocks some extra quests in this game, but I'm not sure exactly what its purpose is. Does anyone know what all the effects of this code are? I've already played a bit into the game, would I still benefit from the additional quests (if that information is accurate)?


title: Any Easy Solution to the Hands of Time Clock Puzzles?

text: In the temporal rifts that lead to mini-games, is there any easy solution or useful tricks to solving the clock puzzles? In general I resort to randomly choosing a few options and hoping they work out. I wanted to play an RPG - not Super Magic Happy Clocks, but I disgress... I understand the basic concepts and I realize that each puzzle is randomly generated so there aren't pre-determined solutions. Any tips / advice is greatly welcomed.


title: Adventure Mode legendaries on first boss kill

text: Does the improved boss loot on first kill occur in adventure mode? If so, does it count toward the first kill loot in campaign mode? Since it seems to be tied to resetting the campaign I am not sure that it should or would work that way but I have not seen anything that documents how this works.


title: Can the Potion of Life be muled to provide a character with a steady stream of +20 to life?

text: If I have a main character who as completed all 3 difficulty levels and received +60 life from the 3 Golden Bird quests and I have another character who has completed the same quest on normal, can the potion of life the lesser character receives be muled to the main character (for a total of +80 life) or does some game mechanic prevent this?


title: Keeping both Minsc and Jaheira in party - Where to go next?

text: I just adopted Minsc. Nice stats there, buddy! Jaheira is already pissing and moaning because we're taking too long to get to the mines. Minsc wants us to go rescue Dynaheir. I don't want Dynaheir, I'm a mage and I understand she's not a very good one anyway. I've tried (and already failed) to not look at walkthroughs too much, but I see that my best option regarding Dynaheir might be to just let her die. At any rate, I think I want to keep both Minsc and Jaheira (unless you have better advice?). I know from my recent playing of _Torment_ that I'll always play as a do-gooder (my willingness to kill Dynaheir, who I haven't even _met_ yet, aside). So where to next? The mines? (I've talked to the mayor of Nashkell so I assume that quest is open (?), or to the Gnoll Stronghold?


title: How do I check on what sequence I'm in ?

text: I'm playing assassin's creed III for quite some time now and I just(a few minutes ago)checked on how many homestead missions there are,and in most of the sites that I checked there would be,on the bottom : sequences. So I searched but I couldn't find out what sequence I'm on now. So please help me.


title: Why some types of ranked matches become unavailable?

text: Upon HotS release I played mostly 1x1 ranked games... at some point 1x1 got 'unavailable' for me. I resolved that by hitting 'back' button to escape matchmaking screen and coming back. But in 1-2 weeks later the same happened and i can't escape this limitation anymore: whatever i did I was not able to start any 1x1 match. Ok, I played some 2x2 games... few weeks later I was forced to play 3x3 or 4x4... or, i thought I understood the rules: you should play EACH match type... But now, I have played 1x1, 2x2, 3x3.. and available are 2x2 and 4x4... **Why only certain types of games are available?** **What is the rule here?**


title: Will I receive a mage armor perk if I cast a flesh spell before turning into a Vampire Lord?

text: As you all know you are not wearing armor when in the Vampire Lord form. And, the mage armor perk in the alteration tree will improve flesh spells. I just want to know: If I am wearing heavy armor, then I cast a flesh spell, and, then I turn into a Vampire Lord. Will the mage armor perk be active since I am casting the spell wearing armor even though, afterward, I am not?


title: How can I beat the Compulsive Gambler in Gem Minder 2?

text: In Gem Minder 2, in MEDIUM complexity Expedition "Sale!", one of the ancillary star goals is to "Beat the Compulsive Gambler". The Gambler takes gold... and keeps winning. So far, I lost 7 gold nuggets in a row (several times) so clearly it's NOT random. Should I simply keep searching for more Gold Nuggets and the logic for the win is 'Feed the gambler at least N nuggets first'? If so, does it matter if I save between gambling (so I can sell the rest of my gems between saves)?


title: How to make a command block say something only once in Minecraft?

text: I am creating an adventure map and needed to know how to make a command block only say something once in the chat menu. PS: I would like this to be under my floor because it is supposed to be an NPC talking. I also need to know how to set the radius so the text only appears when close enough to the command block.


title: What happens when you pick up rune, when you already have one bottled

text: I'm specifically refering to such situation: Dota 2 Purge plays Bounty Hunter at (from 24:22 to 24:32) He basically picks up Double Damage, waits a bit as he notices rune spawn time is near, then pickups Illusion. So my question is: Did the runes stacked in his bottle and he just activated Illusion to have Double Damage ready? Or perhaps bootle can store just one rune and when you pick up rune, while another one is already bootled, then it behaves like you have no bottle at all (ie: instantly activating a rune).


title: Why does my Minecraft keep crashing?

text: Unlike some other users that asked this, I don't have any mods installed. However, I think that it may be because I am playing on a laptop. It usually crashes when I PvP or take damage from anything (fall damage, mob damage, void damage, etc.) Whenever I crash it leaves this error message:               [17:58:36 ERROR]: Game ended with bad state (exit code -805306369)     [17:58:36 INFO]: Ignoring visibility rule and showing launcher due to a game crash     [17:58:36 INFO]: Deleting   C:\Users\atom3\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.4\1.7.4-natives-51686622245564     [17:58:36 WARN]: Couldn't delete


title: Tips and techniques to enhance aiming abilities

text: In Battlefield 3 (as I guess also in other FPSes) one of the most difficult things to do (at least to me) is aiming correctly when unexpectedly encountering enemies. I mean, I can even react quickly on a sudden enemy encounter, but often I realize that within the kill-or-be-killed frenzy in that very moment I lose control and waste most of the ammo on the environment instead to effectively focus on the real target. And all this even if I truly engage myself and strive to aim correctly. Are there any techniques or tips you would give to get better under this aspect? I'm on the 360 version, should that eventually matter.


title: Can I purchase a gift certificate online for steam that is NOT associated with a specific game?

text: Sorry if this is a repeat question - I didn't see it on the steam FAQ or other questions on here. I'd like to purchase a gift certificate for someone on steam and let them choose which game they want. Is this possible? Or can I only purchase/gift specific game titles?


title: Should I assign rooms to all dwarves in Dwarf Fortress?

text: I usually make a lot of three-square rooms with a bed and a chest each in my fortresses, and declare the rooms bedrooms. Sometimes dwarves seem to assign themselves to beds and put stuff into chests, but this happens quite seldom. What is the proper way of managing rooms for my dwarves?


title: How could I fill up the NAMES of the Pokemon in my Pokedex

text: I tried battle subway and the battle institute, and none of the new encounters came to my Pokedex. When I capture a Pokemon, the Pokemon goes to my Pokedex with a small Pokeball on his left side. When I fight some Pokemon, he goes to my Pokedex WITHOUT the small Pokeball. Like when I fought Shauntal from Elite Four and Froslass came to my Pokedex. but in Gen V Froslass is ONLY available by trade. In the Global trade you can only search for Pokemon that you saw at least once. I want get more Pokemons in my Pokedex, so I will be able to trade more (eg.: Tornadus is a Pokemon BLACK ONLY, I never saw him, and I can't look for him in Global trade)


title: Can Mordekaiser use his ultimate on a Shaco clone?

text: I know that Zilean and Yorick can't use their ultimate abilities on a friendly Shaco's clone but can a Mordekaiser use his ultimate on it? Also can he get a ghost from my clone if he kills me and the clone but he doesn't use it on the real shaco?


title: A way to increase tile working range

text: All cities have a maximum tile working radius of 3. I sometimes want to try a game with just a few enormous cities. Is there any way, such as config file settings or mods out there that do this?


title: What are the lyrics to the song PotatOS Lament on Volume 2 of the Portal 2 Soundtrack?

text: What are the lyrics to the song "PotatOS Lament" on Volume 2 of the Portal 2 soundtrack? It doesn't sound like English (though some parts do sound like the word "potatoes"). Is it another language? Or just gibberish?


title: Most efficient way to farm Slimes?

text: I'm having a hard time finding slimes to kill so that I can make some sticky pistons - I know that they only spawn at the bottom of the map, so I am restricting my search to this area, however I have only gotten 5 slimeballs since I started playing Minecraft! What is the most efficient way to find, trap, and kill the blighters? Can I make a mob trap for them in the same way that I do for other creatures?


title: Are any weapon mods craftable in FA:NV?

text: Is it possible to craft any mods at all in FA:NV or are you purely in the hands of RNG in regards to where you find them? So far I've really been down on my luck on mods to Varmint Rifle. Chet does NOT supply them in my game.


title: Is there a strategy guide for Cartoon Wars?

text: Cartoon Wars looks great after the update and I am wondering how to clear Level 29. Are there any cheats for Cartoon Wars on iPhone/iPod? Where can I find more info on that game?


title: Minecraft "power ripple"

text: Does there exist any known way to create a "power ripple" using redstone; i.e. a situation that is, essentially, just like a sequence of wire-repeater segments, but powering every intermediate block, rather than, as is the theoretical maximum for wire-repeater, every second block? **Edit:** To explain more fully: When a stretch of redstone is activated it is enabled all at once, with no delay between the first and the last piece of wire; repeater-laden wire, on the other hand, has a delay. Unfortunately, repeater- laden wire has "blind spots" when it comes to providing power. Is there any way to create wiring that has a ripple effect, but that gives power to every block along the way? **Reedit:** I keep forgetting this; but people can't read my mind over the internet. :P The reason for this question turning up in the first place is that I need it for moderately temporary situations. **Rereedit:** End result of all the work:


title: How can I expose a vampire?

text: I've found a vampire in my fortress; but I don't want to kill him, as might turn out to be useful down the road. What I _would_ like, however, is to know his real identity! Is there any way in which I can force him to expose his real identity without killing him?


title: What do the red and green apples do?

text: There's a tree next to my house with a sign "StreetPass Tree". Over time, it's grown lots of red apples and a few green ones. What does each type of apple do? Also, when is a new apple added to the tree?


title: Is there any significance to the pathways and roads in Don't Starve?

text: Is there any purpose to the roads and pathways in Don't Starve? I know that you can run faster when you are on them. But, do they tend to lead to anything in particular, or is there any other significance to them? So far I've not found that they lead anywhere, but I was wondering if there is a greater significance in the game a later time, etc.?


title: Where is the Riddler's hideout?

text: Where do I find the Riddler's hideout? I just got the last trophy and there's a blue question mark on my map, but I can't figure out where I'm supposed to go.


title: What does Dark magic do?

text: The Dark Mech items have dark magic bonuses (looks like a black circle or teardrop in their stats), but I can't tell what the magic actually does when activated in battle. If it does extra damage, how much?


title: What're those things for in Hector - Badge of Carnage?

text: At the beginning of the game, I got the ticket in the police station. Later I found the "Who care" badge from the tourist booth. What're they for? Any secret?


title: Stuck in Vents in Duke Nukem Forever

text: I finally got Duke Nukem Forever installed on my new computer and started playing it last night. Right away, I got stuck in the vents off of Duke's training room. I can see a ladder going down from a grate in the floor. Presumably, this is where I need to go next. How do I open the grate to descend the ladder? Or, is there something else I should be seeking? Thanks.


title: Champions with physical changes from items?

text: Is there any other champions that changes their appearance from items/etc? Considering that such don't have/wear skins. E.g Cho'g and Zac's size depends on their HP, that they grow large enough if they reach like 3k+ HP or something. Another is Rengar who changes his appereance from gaining stacks on his Necklace (I don't know if this is true but I'm around 80% sure that he gains something new on his apperance from stacks).


title: What are some WASD alternate control schemes to avoid repetitive strain injury?

text: There are a lot of games out there that assume that players will use WASD as their keys to move the player (ie. most flash games). I don't use WASD as my player control when using keyboard and mouse. I tend to use a AERG (Left-Up-Down-Right) control scheme, due to mainly the size of my hand and WASD feeling too cramped. Plus playing for small periods of time (> 30 min) on WASD makes my hand hurt. The problem that I have is that a lot of the Crouch/Dodge/Target/Run keys are bound to the Left-Ctrl/Alt/Shift which I have a problem using effectively with this layout. I tend to rebind them around my left index finger (on the G). I find that it is sometimes difficult to play in this manner as I don't have a spare finger for extra key presses and sometimes multiple keys are required to be pressed at the same time. I don't really want to use a controller, and I need something that doesn't put strain on my hands. Are there any improvements/layouts that I could use to reduce repetitive stress and still allow optimal control?


title: What actions make the game award you a Mist Tank?

text: The _Spiral Knights_ wiki mentions that completing a few actions will earn you a Mist Tank refilling your Mist energy instantly for free. I have two, one for signing up and one for playing during the day the game launched on Steam. Are there any other such opportunities?


title: Anno 2070 Sunken Research Labs

text: Okay, I have no idea how one looks like, and what are the chances of finding one in a continuous game. Please advise. Cheers.


title: Does the absence of a region restriction notice mean a game is region free?

text: Steam has begun to display region restriction and language info for some games, as seen in the picture. Does the abscence of such a notice indicate that the game on offer is completely region free and not in any way different from releases in other regions (except for those that are region restricted)? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MrO0m.png)


title: Is it possible to establish trade routes in one city challenge?

text: Is it possible to establish trade routes in "one city challenge" since you only have one city?


title: 2nd Steam Account on the same Computer?

text: Will Creating a second steam account work on the same computer? Will I be able to play TF2 with the already downloaded version as an F2P on the new account, or will I have to download a 2nd version of TF2 for the same computer? If so, I know my items would not be affected because of the cloud, but would this be considered cheating towards VAC. If I need to download TF2 again on the same computer as the F2P version, how will I tell the difference between that and the version I payed for years ago? I do plan on buying a premium for the 2nd account, and I don't need the 2 accounts to run at the same time. One at a time is fine.


title: How does The Bee work on multi-projectile weapons?

text: I _know_ The Bee was nerfed to limit it's (insane) effectiveness when used with multi-projectile weapons. I've heard conflicting reports on how this is implemented though; I've heard that damage is always spread evenly across all "pellets" from a single shot, rather than applied once per pellet (as it used to be) and I've also heard that it only affects shotguns, and I've heard some mutli-projectile weapons like the Sand Hawk still have insane bonuses from The Bee. What I'm thinking is that The Bee's damage is only split between each pellet listed on the item card (i.e. the "x15" you see on Shotguns' damage), so when a single pellet is fired but splits into many, each might retain full amp damage from The Bee? Unfortunately I don't have a Sand Hawk to test with. Can anyone confirm exactly how The Bee works in regards to "splitting" bullet weapons like that? Is the amp damage "split" or applied in full to each pellet when a gun fires a single (or multiple) pellets which then split into even more?


title: Making mobs invincible

text: Is there a way to make mobs invincible? I have already spent a while looking for it on google, but all I get is people telling me to give it a resistance potion effect. I am sure there is some attribute that I can give a summoned mob to make it invincible, but I don't know how to do it. How can I do this?


title: How are my multiplayer opponents placing multiple girders in one turn?

text: When I'm playing against someone on my iPhone I've come across people that can place multiple girders on one turn. How the heck are they doing that? I've tried doing that in practice nose and for the life of me I can't figure it out.


title: Game not on the Mame OS X list

text: I have a game called "The Ocean Hunter" downloaded for Mame, but when I tried to find it on the Mame OS X itself, I don't see it on the list. Used the search bar and still the game title doesn't come up. I even put the game into the ROMs folder and still no luck. Is there a way to add the game to the list or something? Using a Macbook Air


title: How do I heal myself?

text: Just started with Avatar on the Xbox, but I keep dying since I don't know how to heal. I read somewhere about something called recovery that heals you, but how does it work? How do you use it? Is there also another way to heal?


title: Mikael's Crucible stopping effects

text: Does Mikael's crucible stop suppresses as well, when used? It wasn't in the description of the item, but almost every other debuff is.


title: Toys, instruments or crafts in dwarf fortress?

text: Is there any meaningful difference for my craftdwarf to make a toy, musical instrument or generic craft (e.g. figurines, rings, earrings, amulets, bracelets, crowns, and scepters)? For trade purposes, I don't see any price difference between the items that can be made using the same materials. Should I ever shift my crafting from the generics?


title: What is the coin that Booker can't pick up in Bioshock Infinite?

text: I got this question from a gaming test in a local weekly magazine. And I've done a lot of searching on Google, reading wiki and different sites, but I can't find any information about this "coin" (not sure if it's a coin). The only thing I know is it's is a kind of coin or maybe Silver Eagle, but Booker can't pick it up. Where is that coin and which chapter does it appear?


Full servers: based on total population or current players logged in? Supposedly server statuses will bounce between high and full, though I am unsure if that is based on people transferring on and off or just players online. Please include reference from anet if relevant.


title: For the 'Wayward Wizard' companion what is a Talisman?

text: Been playing for about a week and finally got a Wayward Wizard as a companion. Cool. I get that he can only use certain items when slots become available but there is one that is initially available as 'Talisman' and I can find nothing that goes into that location. I've checked around the game forums but I must be the only person having the problem :( What is it and what can go in it? thanks.


title: How do you manipulate GOD without actually cheating?

text: I got the problem in my game that GOD deletes a lot of factories which produce guns. So far I blame my defensive and peaceful gameplay as a trader and manufacturer. But atm I am on the hub plot and it involves a lot of producing and managing, so not much time for combat. Anyway, I bought 2 Boreas and now I got serious trouble outfitting them with Clusterflak Artillery, because GOD in his wisdom decided to delete all of them but 1. I have built my own complex producing them, but it takes a long time and 1 Boreas needs around 36 Artillery Guns for a full loadout. **So my question is, how do you stop GOD from deleting more gun related factories and can I animate him to rebuild some of them?**


title: Can the locations of easter eggs be found in the game files?

text: The official KSP wiki lists several easter eggs - objects which can be found on the surfaces of the various planets. Can you find the positions of these objects somewhere in the game files?


title: How much are breeding odds increased for level 15+ dragons?

text: With the v1.13.0 update, level 15+ dragons now have increased breeding odds. > Better breeding odds for level 15+ dragons! How much have the odds increased? Does the increase scale with increased level in the range from 15 - 20, or is it a flat increase? To which types of dragons does the increase apply?


title: What happens when you cash in at level 15?

text: I finished all the challenges and have the option to "cash in", but I'm afraid I'll lose all the items I have bought so far if I do so. Does "cashing in" get rid of the items you've bought already?


title: Does Time Bomb Reveal Invisible Allies?

text: I was thinking about Zilean's Time Bomb ability, and I started thinking about fun ways to use it. One such way would be to cast Time Bomb on an allied champion, while they're invisible. (Eve, Shaco, Teemo, etc.) I'm wondering though--technically if that explodes near an enemy champ, Zilean is the one dealing damage, not Eve/the invisible ally. So what I'm curious about is whether or not the invisible ally will be revealed when "delivering" the Time Bomb. (Obviously the enemy would know "something's up" if an invisible ally is detonated, even if not technically revealed. I am just trying to find out if they will then become VISIBLE to the enemy)


title: How does Eve Online's Planetary Interaction system work, at a social level?

text: Eve Online's Planetary Interaction has been available for a while, but I haven't really paid attention to it. Now I'm wondering how it works - specifically in **social** terms (player-versus-player, etc), not the game mechanics. There's a lot of questions that the wiki doesn't answer. For instance:   * Is it subject to direct PVP? Can other players attack your mining equipment? Are there differences in hi-sec versus lo-sec?   * Is there _indirect_ PVP? Say a limit on how many machines per-planet, so it's first-come, first-served? Similar to asteroids?   * What kind of investment (training time, cash) does it take to get profitable? Is it low enough that everyone can do it (which would seem to lead to inflation)? Or is it fairly difficult and time-consuming (like training for a Titan, say? :) If I had to sum it up in only one question, it would be - what kinds of _player_ interactions does PI enable?


title: Equipping magic find gear immediately before elite death

text: What is stopping me from running through a rift, say, with my best gear, and then, right before I am about to kill an elite, quickly shifting to my magic find gear, killing the elite, and then switching right back to my best gear? Is Diablo 3 smart enough to realize that you are 'gaming the system', so to speak? I feel as if they don't nerf your MF when you do this, then the minimal time it takes to switch back and forth will not offset the increased legendary drop rate (as doing an entire rift with your MF gear might). Certainly people have thought of this before. Is it really that easy, or is there something in place to prevent this?


title: How do I improve my FPS without hurting game quality significantly?

text: Which is the best in game configuration that gives the best looking in game aspect and the most FPS?! And what "tricks" can be made to improve the FPS without giving up at the quality of the game?.


title: Steam Family Sharing; Must I install the games again for each account?

text: I have a younger brother. His Library consists of four games. Mine is 50+. I don't want to leave him logged into my Steam Account, so Family Sharing is a great boon. However, upon authorizing the computer and his profile, his Library insists that he needs to re-install all of the games into his Steam folder. Is there a way to avoid this? I've already eaten up more than half of the drive's space- there's no way he can install all of them.


title: Save files missing after restarting the game

text: I recently found a zapper installed on my computer. The game runs fine but at the end of each level i get a msg. (the msg is in russian) I am assuming the msg says that the game cannot save my progress. As soon as i turn off the game i loose all my progress and the game starts from beginning. this doesnt happen on my brothers computer. print screen comes out all black :/ I run windows 8 on my machine


title: Why are my trick shot infinity pistols not working?

text: I am level 8 o.p and I got Fire Trick Shot and Corossive Infinity Pistols. They don't work, the recoil is all over the place and they hardly do any damage. Does anyone know why this is happenig? Also I had 67 million dollars. I died one time and lost 25 million. I've heard of gear box taking stuff but I don't know, why they would take my money that I earned through selling many weapons at the venders?


title: Can I transfer items between my characters in single player Starbound?

text: Based on this question about a shared universe/planets, I began wondering if you can transfer items between your own characters without an intermediary on a server. Currently at work and unable to test, but has anyone accomplished this and how did you do it without items despawning?


title: How can I limit the area in which players spawn?

text: In the latest vanilla Minecraft server, `spawn-protection` and the radius in which players first spawn are identical. If, for example, I want to protect a 100-block-wide village around spawn, players without personally set spawn points will spawn anywhere in that 100x100 area. This is different from all of the documentation I see, which states spawning only occurs in a 20x20 area. Is there any way in the latest version to limit the area in which players spawn so that it is less than my `spawn-protection` area?


title: Is there any way I can prevent my own Manapult from sucking me into it?

text: I received the Manapult truck as part of the Professor Genki DLC. However, running around and sucking up helpless citizens and shooting them as cannonballs tends to raise your notoriety with the police pretty fast. I was pulled from my truck and when I ran around in front of it during the firefight in order to get into it again, it promptly sucked me up to use me as ammo. When this happens, the only way I can seem to get out of it is to fire myself from it, and this can take away a lot of my health and sometimes even kill me if my health is low enough from the firefight and I wasn't shot at a high enough trajectory to open my parachute. Is there any way I can prevent the car from using me as ammo?


title: What rewards can I earn during the Decoration Events?

text: I learned today about the Decoration Events in Tiny Death Star. I know I have to wait for or summon a _Decorator Droid_ during an event to decorate a floor, but what rewards can I earn by using this droid in all the events? would the rewards be worth summoning all droids at the 5 bucks cost or would the value of the reward be less? Assuming the rewards are a one off and there will be no other way to get them. ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KIo3Rl.png)


title: Are these the right factors which contribute in MMR?

text: First I would like to tell a little about why I wanted to ask this question. I started Dota 2 3,4 months back as my first MOBA game. At the same time my 2,3 friends transitioned from DotA to Dota 2. They were playing DotA since it came out. Obviously they were way better than me in Dota 2 but when I learned the basics I wasn't that bad compared to them. When we got MMR (almost at the same time) I got 1k while all of them got above 3.5k. Apart from a little humiliation :), the biggest downside was I was not able to join them in party because of the difference of the MMR. Before ranked matches were open, we played in party so many times and they could rely on me both as a carry and support (with selective heroes off-course). The point is The difference between their and my game was not as large as 1k and 3.5k. So I did some research and found that there are some factors apart from wins and loses in TBD phase that decide MMR. If not all , some of them are:   1. They option you select when first time you fire up Dota2 from a new account. (I selected "Dota 2 is my first MOBA", They selected "I have played Dota 2 before")   2. KDA and SC in every match. Even before the TBD phase of MMR. (I thought I would perform good in TBD phase and I did but before that I played every solo match as practice match, experimenting)   3. The 9 or 10 matches of TBD phase have no significance except they show the last remaining matches before calculating public MMR.  There were more, but I found these three more relevant. So I have made a new account and I am trying to avoid the mistakes I made before. But I cannot authenticate the validity of these factors.   So my question is if these factors affect MMR or not?   P.S. One thing I noted while playing in new account (I selected "I have played Dota 2 before") that in my first match all the players were of 18-25 level. If unranked matchmaking also uses public or private MMR instead of player level than I guess at-least the first point is true.


title: How do I get rid of the 40% damage cap on elites?

text: In patch 1.03, a cap was added such that any attack done to elite enemies (e.g. lieutenants, mages, saarebas, and rage demons) is capped to 40% of their health. So now however I spec my dual-wielding rogue, I never kill them in a single hit: my max tops out at 80% (40% per hand). The lacerate talent gets around this, but it only procs 10% of the time. Since the rogue thrives on single target assassination and taking priority targets out of the fight immediately, I was hoping there was a way to remove this cap.


title: What are the details behind Fists of Thunder's faster Spirit generation?

text: The skill description for Fists of Thunder reads: > Generates Spirit faster than other Spirit-generating skills due to the high > attack speed. If Fists of Thunder has a higher attack speed, does it mean it deals more damage as well? Does it mean other on-hit effects (such as +life after each hit) get triggered more often? And how **much** faster does Fists of Thunder generate Spirit compared with other generators?


title: Why select and start?

text: From the NES up until the seventh generation of video games, video game controllers have featured a "Start" button and some these platforms had a "select" button. The select button hardly seems to be used these days, and the start button always pauses the game. Why are these buttons labeled "Start" and "Select"?


title: How can I unblock games from changing the screen resolution?

text: I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 15r. It is pretty good for gaming, however I have recently had a problem with running certain games in fullscreen mode. Basically, they don't change the screen resolution, so my games are the same size as they would be in windowed mode with large black borders filling the rest of the screen. This didn't start happening until Viriax crashed while in fullscreen. It didn't change the resolution back to normal, and it was so blown up that I had to fix the resolution from the command prompt using QRes, an open source program for changing the resolution from the command prompt. So far, this has happened to three of the five games that I've tried to run in fullscreen, with the games that worked normally being Osmos and Machinarium, and the games that had the problem being World of Goo, the original Starcraft, and the aforementioned Viriax.


title: How can I change the team formation in pro clubs?

text: I have recently created my online pro and created a new pro club for him to join. The default team formation is 4-2-2-2. Is there anyway to change this? And if so, how?


title: How do you install Minecraft mods on a Mac?

text: I've seen videos for Minecraft mods which add features like oil, pipes and guns. Where can I find these mods, and how do I install them on a Mac?