In your inventory you can 'prefer' weapons depending on type. I thought that this meant that they were used, according to what ability each required, over anything else in the inventory. Now I have a 'preferred' pistol, duel pistols, rifle and duel smg's, however when I go farming and loot a few low level weapons along the way the abilities always seem to use the first weapon of the correct type available in inventory rather than my 'preferred' choices.

Do I have the meaning totally wrong or is it a bug that's never been fixed?

If my presumption was right and it is a bug, I obviously don't see it as a major issue. In PvP I usually clear out my loot before hand but if I forget  or I'm farming then combat comes my way then some abilities will be using weapons with a lower base rate of damage.

Hi from sunny Oman!

Hope everyone is well and the Drama is ticking over nicely! (Links to any worthwhile drama threads would be appreciated for next time I get access to the 'net, saves me searching for them ) I'm out here participating in a joint exercise with the USAF, RAF and Navy. Whilst I've not been one to worship the sun I must say that a nice tan is creeping up on me even though my job resides indoors! Luckily I don't have to sleep in a tent, I have a nice air conditioned porta-cabin, although I'm always checking my boots and shoes and pretty much everything else for spiders and scorpions... urgh...

Well have fun with the update, I still have a few more weeks out here, so I'll have to catch up on all that I've missed out on then. I may even get a few photo's from the area posted up when I get back too!

Bai!

Per Ardua ad Astra

("Through Adversity to the Stars")

For those of you unaware the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom celebrates its 90 birthday today. It is still a source of national pride along with the Army and Royal Navy.

The Royal Air Force was founded on 1 April 1918, during the First World War, by the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. After the war, the service was cut drastically and its inter-war years were relatively quiet, with the RAF taking responsibility for the control of Iraq and executing a number of minor actions in other parts of the British Empire.

The RAF underwent rapid expansion prior to and during the Second World War. Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of December 1939, the air forces of British Commonwealth countries trained and formed "Article XV squadrons" for service with RAF formations. Many individual personnel from these countries, and exiles from occupied Europe also served with RAF squadrons.

In the Battle of Britain in the late summer of 1940, during the Second World War, the RAF defended the skies over Britain against the German Luftwaffe, helping foil Hitler's plans for an invasion of the United Kingdom, and prompting Prime Minister Winston Churchill to say in the House of Commons on August 20, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".

The largest RAF effort during the war was the strategic bombing campaign against Germany by Bomber Command. While RAF bombing attacks against Germany began almost immediately upon the outbreak of war, from 1942 onwards, under the leadership of Air Chief Marshal Harris, these attacks became increasingly devastating as new technology and greater numbers of superior aircraft became available. Controversially, the RAF adopted a policy of night-time area bombing that saw raids on German cities such as Hamburg and Dresden. Other units, however, developed precision bombing techniques for specific operations, such as the "Dambusters" raid by No. 617 Squadron

During the Cold War years the main role of the RAF was the defence of the continent of Europe against potential attack by the Soviet Union, including holding the UK's nuclear deterrent for a number of years. Since the end of the Cold War, several large scale operations have been undertaken by the RAF, including the Kosovo War, the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

From the recognizable features of the Spitfire and Hurricane to the Lightning, Phantom and the Vulcan bomber to today's force of Harriers, Tornados and Typhoons with numerous aircraft inbetween including the Halifax bomber in which my own Grandfather flew during WWII, The Royal Air force remains a permanent source of Air power for the United Kingdom, her commonwealth and her allies. A service in which, I'm proud to serve.

/salute

I really, really hate goodbye threads.

But I've unsubbed now to spend time on real life. While technically the last day of the month is my last subbed day I'll probably not be on much. PvP has become the same old same old and I never could get into any player RP.

Might pop in now and again in the coming months but unless something new turns up it'll be a brief visit. As the title implies all my stuff will be saved with my characters so noone is getting it.

I'm not gonna list people here so to all the good guys and girls who I know and got on with, be you Zionite, Merv or Mech -

Take it easy, I'll see you around either here or another future MMO.

So CERN's Large Hadron Collider is gonna get turned on on 10th September underground in Switzerland. Some people fear that the experiment will create miniature black holes, in fact two people are so worried that a miniature black hole will expand (disproving Hawkins' theory that a miniature black hole would evaporate in a billionth of a billionth of a second) and swallow the Earth, that they have filed a lawsuit to stop it... in Hawaii. While it's doubtful that that suit will be successful, there are others who are persuing the issue in the European Court of Human Rights.

What do you think, unfounded fear, or doomsday approaching?

Ok so I got booted from the game due to a margin server error or something. Relogged and saw all the servers were down. Tried again shortly after and now it fails to authenticate my username and password.

Happening to others?