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Blizzard in Singapore

Aggroboy — Sat, 29 May 2010 22:20:17 +0800

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/S...ory_532544.html

So they will have Battlenet server and also support center in Singapore, mostly to serve Starcraft 2: Wings of Profit. I'm thinking what are the odds of a Singapore WoW hosting.

CFP/Wealth Management Courses

Aggroboy — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:02:30 +0800

I'm just a typical underpaid programmer who knows a little bit about investing, stocks and properties. Been thinking about taking CFP or related wealth management courses to increase my knowledge about investing and growing my savings. I don't intend to change career line. Is it a good idea?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Easiest way to pay Broker?

Aggroboy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:13:04 +0800

Hi guys, how do you normally pay for your share purchases? Check? Bank transfer? CC?

Right now I'm paying by check, which is troublesome because I have to bank in at the bank. Maybank2u limit is 5k

Brokers with in-house research?

Aggroboy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:23:47 +0800

Anyone can recommend brokerages which are good for providing analyst research reports?

I remember Kenanga and CIMB used to give a lot of research and recommendations to their customers. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Cross Faction Transfer

Aggroboy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:23:46 +0800

I'm surprised this topic is not in LYN yet:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...cId=18031079410

Basically in a future patch, you can change from Alliance to Horde and vice versa. It will change your race to a rough equivalent in the opposite faction, probably based on your class as well.

New PvP Battleground

Aggroboy — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:23:07 +0800

Isle of Conquest

Battlefield 1942 or AV with vehicles?

Alliance Cat Forms

Aggroboy — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:12:33 +0800

Actual Blizzard Spells

Aggroboy — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:40:03 +0800

Some of the actual unused spells in the Blizzard client:

Lag
Woof Woof
Summon Programmer (for 8.3 hours)
I can't drive
Battle Net
Link Dead
Demam Babi

Some of them you can link into trade chat

(add in swine flu)

Ventrilo Recommendation (v2)

Aggroboy — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:33:45 +0800

What ventrilo providers do you guys use for raiding?

We tried Darkstarllc (SG server) but it has been completely crap.

Zero Punctuation

Aggroboy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:37:04 +0800

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation

Probably the most entertaining game review site.

DK Paladin Arena Video

Aggroboy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:14:01 +0800

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJI01lQHbxk

so funny

Should we have a bandwidth cap?

Aggroboy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:58:27 +0800

Places like Australia, New Zealand and some parts of US are implementing it. The gist of it is that the small population of sophisticated downloaders/P2Pers in Malaysia are taking a huge disproportionate share of the bandwidth. The casual users or gamers get affected badly by their activity. What do you think of a bandwidth cap? Something that is large enough so only the 24/7 downloaders will kena? Moderately heavy surfing/youtube/gaming/download will not hit the cap.

Typical BT/p2p user will say that "blah I paid $$ for it so I deserve to use every bit of it 24/7 to download my TV series" and "blah it is TMNut's fault for not upgrading their infrastructure". They may have a point, although I'm not sure about building infrastructure around assuming people will download 24/7.

What do you think?

WoW with SSD

Aggroboy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:47:27 +0800

SSD = Solid-state Drive

Was wondering if anyone of you is using this. From what I saw at my friend's PC, it rendered transition (from peak Dalaran to WG) almost seamless. Instant load times and stuff.

Yeah it is insanely overpriced, but sounds like a enthusiast toy for those of us who treat WoW as srs bns

Need Recommendation for Ventrilo

Aggroboy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:01:42 +0800

Anyone know of a paid Ventrilo provider that is good for Malaysian connections?

Any information is very much appreciated!

epic fail...

Aggroboy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:41:18 +0800

THAURISSAN Realm

Aggroboy — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:24:46 +0800

For those people who want to move or start a new character, THAURISSAN is the new recommended realm for Malaysians.

Is it good for raiding?
There were originally many Asian guilds that progressed into Sunwell in Thaurissan, and now coming expansion a few more SG/MY/AUS T6 quality guilds will transfer there as well. Assuming no pre-patch guild implosions and including guilds that will transfer there, there would be at least six GMT+8 raiding guilds.

What about casuals?
There will also be several casual 10man raiding guilds that are Oceanic. As opposed to old school NA servers, Orgrimmar and Ironforge are generally bustling around local Malaysian evening. The raiding pool is better for recruitment. Getting groups for 5mans or farm-status raids (e.g. Gruul) is generally easier for people after school and work.

Are you poaching me? I'm happy with my current server!
This post is just for people who need a home. If you are doing good with your current server and guild, stay there.

Are you sure Thaurissan is the place to go?
Currently, it is where our communities are transferring to. It has the most visible and substantial community of regional people. Of course no one can predict what will happen in the distant future, guilds will come and go. Also, there will always be many other realms under the radar that have pockets of Asians. Finally, your niche will vary depending on your lifestyle.

How is the latency?
As of early September 2008, with my friends and I using Streamyx with decent IPs, latency will vary between 300 to 450. Tunneling services like Gamepath or Lowerping may reduce that further by 50 to 100.

How are the Battlegrounds?
As of September 2008, Horde queues for AV were around 10mins. It is below average for a battlegroup faction, so it is not the best if you like to BG a lot. However, things will likely improve in next expansion.

How about Alliance?
Alliance is smaller in number compared to Horde, but have generally better PVE and PVP progression with respect to population pool.

Thaurissan used to have insane Horde to Alliance ratios, whereby Horde numbers were so overwhelming that Alliance toons had trouble questing and doing dailies. When Blizzard started free PVE->PVP transfers, Thaurissan Alliance was one of the main beneficiaries. Several top end Alliance guilds transferred that and carved their niche. SG/MY guild <Ghost> was the top raiding guild in Gorgonnash, and they recently moved to Thaurissan for better raiding pool.

Why are you posting this?
People always keep asking which server to go in these forums, and the stickies are too scattershot and outdated. Choosing a new realm can be a confusing process for people, so this post is meant to give a specific choice. I have no agenda against/for Thaurissan except for good friends who recently moved there.

Honor Points to be reset

Aggroboy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:44:47 +0800

QUOTE

As many of you know we will be featuring a new Battleground, a dedicated world PvP zone and all new PvP items in Wrath of the Lich King. In order to make the transition from The Burning Crusade to Wrath of the Lich King flow as smoothly as possible, all accrued honor points will be reset at the launch of the expansion. We do this to ensure select players do not have an unfair advantage at level 80 from stockpiling honor to instantly purchase the newest Wrath of the Lich King PvP rewards. For those with unspent honor points prior to the release of the expansion, we will be offering a few upgrades and special rewards in next content patch solely for purchase via the honor system.

I read special items and now that's all I care about. Screw the upgrades what are those "special" things going to be?
The items should be on the PTRs now, or very soon.

Same as others have posted, curious about what will happen with pvp tokens/badges accumulated? possible to get a blue to clarify this please?
Marks of Honor will be wiped as well.

Beta Key (fake or real)

Aggroboy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:52:43 +0800

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...765576548&sid=1

@ all oceanic/SG/MY guilds

Aggroboy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:09:50 +0800

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...202538059&sid=1

Post here if your guild is not listed

Death Knight race?

Aggroboy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:49:15 +0800

Which race would give death knight a slight advantage in PvP?

Undead - WOTF
Dwarf - Stoneform
Tauren - Warstomp
Night Elf - Shadowmeld
Human - Perception
Orc - Stun Resist
Blood Elf - Silence
Gnome - Escape Artist