http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

Unless you want to pay ridiculous amounts of (most likely) regressive tax for doing something you cannot avoid (driving place), sign this.

And the other thing is, if this goes on to become law, not only will we have to pay for this, but the government will be able to see exactly where you are at any given time you are in your car. Privacy? lol.

Is anyone else on PC version and having problems with the new update??

I went to log in as normal and got the patch files downloaded, where it then told me i had to exit the game.

This i did and then re launched it expecting to be working with whatever had been done.

Alas I'm still looking at a black screen and my hard disk chuggin away.

How long should I wait, I presume they system is actually installin the downloaded files now.

My big concern is that something is wrong and I've just wasted money signin up for another 60 days, when I'm not gonna be able to get the thing to work now.

If anyone can help or advise, be much appreciated

THANKS

Bruce's Dungeon is here.

It plays Tricktrack, or so I hear.

*Waits*

I died in a party today!

and lo and behold! I didn't get kicked!

Seriously, at the moment, I'm really loving PSU, it's turning out to be what PSO was, and so much more, people are really beginning to work as teams now, and it's really easy to make good friends and stick together with them (the PSU-X guys included,) and it's generally really really good fun. I hope PSU lasts a long long time indeed. =D

Using synthesis to upgrade C-Rank metals to B-Rank is financially viable, as far as savings are concerned - though unless you have a Player Shop, selling them off is inadvisable.

Using synthesis to upgrade B-Rank metals to A-Rank... not so much.

Mathematics supporting this statement:

1* Metal: 100 Meseta.
4* Metal: 800 Meseta.
C > B Upgrade Board: 500 Meseta, 10 uses, 4 C Metal required.

To make 10 Peparian, you thus require 40 Carlian. This costs:

4000 for metal, 500 for board, total of 4500, as opposed to the 8000 spent simply buying the Peparian. A saving of 3500.

However:

4* Metal: 800 Meseta.
7* Metal: 2500 Meseta.
B > A Upgrade Board: 2000 Meseta, 10 uses, 4 B Metal required.

To make 10 Slaterian, you thus require 40 Peparian. This costs:

32000 for the metal, assuming you buy the Peparian straight from the shop.
2000 for the board. This is a total of 34000 Meseta. You could, instead, pay 25000 and buy the 10 Slaterian straight from the shop.

Let's now look at upgrading from C straight to A, to see if that's more worthwhile:

Requirements for 10 Slaterian:

160 Carlian, for 16000 Meseta.
4 C>B Boards, for 2000. Total of 18000.
1 B>A Board, for 2000. Total of 20000 spent. A saving of 5000.

Very interesting.

Examining Woods the same way reveals that:

Wood: 150 Meseta.
Ash: 1000 Meseta.
Wood > Ash Upgrade Board: 500 Meseta, 10 uses, 5 Wood required.

10 Ash requires 50 Wood.
7500 Meseta for Wood + 500 Meseta for Board = 8000 Meseta. Saving of 2000.

Ash: 1000 Meseta.
Ebon: 4000 Meseta.
Ash > Ebon Upgrade Board: 2000 Meseta, 10 uses, 5 Ash required.

50 Ash required for 10 Ebon.

50000 Meseta for Ash + 2000 Meseta for Board = 52000. Loss of 12000.

Requirements to upgrade Wood to Ebon:
250 Wood for 37500 Meseta.
5 C>B Boards for 2500 Meseta = 40000 Meseta.
1 B>A Board for 2000 Meseta = 42000 Meseta.

Ve-ry interesting... It seems that it is less economical to upgrade Wood to Ebon than to just buy the Ebon, yet you can upgrade Carlian to Slaterian, Harnium to Stelnium, Meganite to Teranite, Gamotite to Chicotite, and Soural to Cyral at a saving.
Maybe the Woods issue can be resolved by purchasing the wood from its home planet?

Caution: May cause indigestion

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This may sound like a bit of a noobish question but, I've got PSU and I already beat normal story mode and I can't figure out how to get to hard mode. Can somebody tell me how? :puzzled:

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<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - Wednesday, January 10 2007 ]</font>

<P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Good news for our recent competition winners, your prizes should be with you soon!</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This applies to both the winners of both rounds of our in-game <EM>Phantasy Star Universe</EM> 'Peek-a-Boo' competition, sponsored by SEGA of America who have to the best of my knowledge dispatched the prizes, and to the winners of last month's FanArt/FanFic competition, of which was sponsored by SEGA Europe Ltd. who will be sending out the prizes in the coming days.</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">My most sincere apologies go to the latter aforementioned competition winners who have now been waiting a little while for these prizes, as the competition ended over the start of office holidays. Sorry again guys (And gals), but the good news is there's a little something extra on its way to you all aswell as a goodwill gesture from SEGA Europe&nbsp;^_^</FONT></P>

ComputerandVideoGames.com Wrote:A report on the 20 top-selling videogame franchises of all time has pinned Nintendo's Mario at the number one spot, with a total of 193 million sales worldwide.

Published by The Independent, London, the report has put Pokémon in second place with 155 million sales during its lifetime, Final Fantasy following with 68 million. Popular series like The Sims and Grand Theft Auto also appear in the top 10, the former with 54 million sales worldwide and the latter 50 million.

The full top 20 list, with sales figures, is as follows:

1) Mario, 193 million
2) Pokémon, 155 million
3) Final Fantasy, 68 million
4) Madden NFL, 56 million
5) The Sims, 54 million
6) Grand Theft Auto, 50 million
7) Donkey Kong, 48 million
8) The Legend of Zelda, 47 million
9) Sonic the Hedgehog, 44 million
10) Gran Turismo, 44 million
11) Lineage, 43 million
12) Dragon Quest, 41 million
13) Crash Bandicoot, 34 million
14) Resident Evil, 31 million
15) James Bond, 30 million
16) Tomb Raider, 30 million
17) Mega Man, 26 million
18) Command & Conquer, 25 million
19) Street Fighter, 25 million
20) Mortal Kombat, 20 million

<strong>Try it yourself!</strong> <img src="/images/Ragol.co.uk.jpg" alt="Ragol.co.uk" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - January 10 2007 - 8:09 AM ]</font>

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