DanielCoffey

alumct - Have a look at the sticky post in this forum titled "Useful Information" as it explains how and when the keys are generated. When I purchased my copy, it was clearly stated before I paid that the keys were generated in batches.

It would be nice to either have a way of viewing the current ignore list or know where it is stored for viewing. I assume it is a client-side list? Is there a limit to the number of names it can hold? Does it prevent the ignored person's chat from appearing on the screen as well as in the client-side chat log or does it just hide the screen chat but leave an untouched chat log?

You can always check your Gmail spam folder via the webmail interface. Gmail - More - Spam.

If he is using a desktop, then he can upgrade the card to meet the minimum requirements. If he is using a laptop then the GPU cannot be upgraded (usually) and then he will have to wait till he upgrades the laptop. The game will remain in his Steam library indefinitely so it will always be there when he has hardware that is supported.

There may be occasions where mods are "incognito" to observe behaviour and they will need a mechanism to blend in. There will also be times when they need to wear the official hat and indisputably be identified as mods or staff.

I was just thinking, Fermull, and I apologise if you have already checked this... have you checked the spam folder in your ISP's webmail page rather than in your email client? What I mean is this... my ISP here in the UK is VirginMedia and they filter mail coming to me. Although I do have a Spam folder in my email program for anything that gets through the ISP, they have a webmail interface where I can sign in through a browser and view my mail on their server directly before it is actually sent to me and there is a spam folder there which they filter everything through. I know that Google gmail do it too. There it would be Gmail - More - Spam.

They are based in the Ukraine (UTC +2) and it is also the weekend.

My Naval Action folder under Steam is 1.5Gb.

You are right - I have updated my post above. Thanks.

According to the motherboard spec, you will be using the PCI-E 2x slot that your current graphics card is in for a new one. That is not a particularly fast slot for a graphics card so you will not want to put a really fast card in there or else it will be waiting for data to and from the motherboard all the time but there is certainly room for improvement in the mid-price card range. Your Radeon HD 6550D scores around 2400 on the 3DMark11 benchmark which is reasonable but not brilliant. Modern laptops beat that now but there are still folks here playing Naval Action on much worse equipment. I would suspect that anything higher than an AMD R9 280 is a waste of money on that motherboard although an R9 270 may be worth looking at but assuming you want to stick with AMD, you may get good mileage out of slightly older cards like the Radeon 7950. EDIT : I have been corrected - it is a PCI-E x16 slot which is fine for any current GPU. Thanks for the correction.

I have carried a knotting-related grudge for well over thirty years concerning the figure-of-eight... a very simple knot as you will of course agree. It goes back to a Cub Scouts (the junior Scouts group) meeting where there was a knotting competition. Each "patrol" were given a short length of rope, formed up in lines and the person in charge called out the name of a knot. The boy at the head of the line had to rush up and demonstrate his knot of that type - first to complete it scored a point for his Patrol. The figure-of-eight is very simple. So simple in fact that I did the knot as I ran forward and presented the completed knot as I arrived. I was accused of cheating, ordered to do it again and we lost the point, much to my annoyance. Young lads can carry grudges for an immeasurably long time. My wife has just said..."How old were you? You have been carrying this thing for nearly forty years!!!" Mind you, it did have its advantages... our washing lines are perfect round turn and two half hitches. It bugs the heck out of me when a neighbour or workman takes them down to move a ladder or scaffolding across the garden.

How did you pay for it? If it was through PayPal, it will be sent to the registered email address attached to your PayPal account.

When you check your PC for dust and fans, pay particular attention to the graphics card cooler. Naval Action does not tax quad-core CPUs particularly but because it doesn't currently have vsync, it will run the graphics card at 100% to get as high a frame rate as possible.

This is just a guess on my part so please treat this as an honest question... are there any software emulators for Shader Model 5 that would allow it to be run on older hardware with a beefier CPU?

It has been suggested that Shader Model 4 may come in the future when the game is more complete but it has not been specified when. Until then, Shader model 5 is the minimum specification that works with the current builds.