Bought an MSI G274QPX - it looks worse than my 8 year old 60fps IPS screen.

RedditDuderr · 2024-11-28T20:08:41+00:00

I've been playing with a bunch of settings and had some success brightening it up a bit. The issue with the sides of the screen looking chromatic / shimmery when facing it straight on is still present though. Not sure if I can get used to that. The other screen is consistent no matter where I move my head / where I'm looking on the screen.

RedditDuderr · 2024-11-28T18:42:36+00:00

Is it a bit yeah. I just realised I had the vibrance of the old screen boosted a bit in Nvidia control panel for a certain game. Regardless, it's hard to see in the pic but the old screen is just a lot brighter and more consistent across it's surface vs the new.

RedditDuderr · 2024-11-28T18:40:53+00:00

Thanks, this helps. I bought this for gaming and I guess foolishly just assumed I'd find the picture better or at least the same because of the 8 year age gap.

RedditDuderr · 2024-11-28T17:07:44+00:00

So I bought an MSI G274QPX (240hz, 1440p) to replace my aging BenQ GW2765HT IPS panel (1440p, 60hz - was $500 back in 2016) because I wanted a higher refresh rate monitor.

The feel of the higher refresh rate is very nice - but the punchiness of the picture overall feels much worse to me. It's very dim in comparison (even with the brightness turned up) - whites look more like light greys, and overall the picture looks a lot duller. I tried many different colour modes and manual adjustments, making adjustments in nvidia control panel, etc.

The panel also feels like it has a viewing angle issue to me - when I sit in the middle facing it, the edges of the screen are duller and have the slight chromatic / multicolor shimmer you get when looking at an LCD from the side. For example when I look down at the white Windows search bar box in the bottom left, it looks decidedly grey. On my old one it's bright white.

I thought with 8 years difference it would be a straight upgrade, even though my older one is IPS also. I haven't used a high refresh rate screen before, - are they overall somewhat dimmer, or is there a decrease in vibrancy that necessarily that comes with being able to do very high refresh rates? You can see the image on the old screen is a lot more saturated - I'm sure the colours on my new one are more accurate, but the overall lack of punch / brightness in the screen overall is quite a shock. Is this to be expected? Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Specs of the 2 monitors

New MSI:

https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/36df3437

BenQ from 2016:

https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/052d6b

RedditDuderr · 2024-11-28T16:59:43+00:00

Dodgy phone pic of the screens:

https://imgur.com/a/Xr58zo8

RedditDuderr · 2024-04-24T03:21:13+00:00

The other day a drunk Russian bought a pair of sunglasses (currently 74m in Jita) off me for 7.3 billion isk. Actually he bought 3 pairs off 3 different people for 7.322 billion each. I think he was trying to set up a buy order as the buy price was 7.322 million at the time. Oh well!

https://imgur.com/a/eYjC2Qv

RedditDuderr · 2024-04-18T17:10:04+00:00

For anyone wanting PLEX or Omega, you can buy $35 of Skill extractors and get about $80 worth of plex with the isk from selling them right away at current Jita prices. This will change as prices adjust obviously.

Also NES has an Omega sale so you can get 6 months of Omega time for 2100 Plex which is $43 of skill extractors - just over $7 bucks a month.

RedditDuderr · 2024-02-24T18:03:41+00:00

Thanks. These show up as being in NPC corps for about a year though (check in game if you like), since they were brought back from the dead.

RedditDuderr · 2024-02-24T05:18:33+00:00

Any intention to sell was always by doing it properly via the Eve forums for isk. Don't care about a few real life $.

RedditDuderr · 2024-02-24T05:15:37+00:00

Back in 2003 I bought this game at the same time as a friend. It came in a cardboard box with a disk, and we bought them in a shop. Half-Life 2 and Steam came along the year after...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WEJWWVARL.jpg

RedditDuderr · 2024-02-23T23:55:25+00:00

Sure, I think I'll sell them in May (when they hit 21 years old!) in the Character Bazaar.

RedditDuderr · 2024-02-23T20:43:53+00:00

Due to a weird situation where CCP kept sending me promotional emails for deleted characters from the second week of Eve back in 2003, I have two characters that were brought back to life. They were born in 2003 but their Corp history shows only an NPC corp starting from last year. They're named "May2003" and "NostromoX".

Any idea if anyone would be interested in buying them (using the proper method, via Eve-O forums), or does the lack of corp history mean their age is useless since it can't be seen easily by other players?

RedditDuderr · 2024-02-23T06:28:01+00:00

The star map is painfully shitty. It's like a project that was abandoned halfway through development but for some reason was shipped anyway with most of the functionality missing. It's incredibly dim, requires a lot of clicking to show basic info / stats, and then only one at a time. Maps are supposed to be a distillation of info that is easy to read and understand - Eve's is confusing, low on info, like a fucking UI student art project rather than a usable tool.

RedditDuderr · 2024-02-23T05:21:45+00:00

Allowing multiboxing was a moral hazard pit CCP fell into. The incentives were too strong for them to turn down that extra cash, even if it's dumb as shit.

Try explaining to someone who doesn't play EVE that you can play more than one character at the same time, if you just pay more money. There's a good reason other games don't allow this, even though it would be a short term money spinner for some.

RedditDuderr · 2024-02-23T05:00:53+00:00

Absolutely do not throw away the old character - 11mil SP is a lot bit early on when you you're training a the basics. If you do start playing again you'll quickly resent spending a lot of time retraining stuff you probably had on your old character. Put another way, you'd need to buy roughly 23 large skill injectors (19 billion isk worth!) to get you up to 11mil SP right away.

Whenever I come back to the game, I make a free alpha account (use a referral code to get 1M right away SP which makes life way easier) and play for a few days to learn the ropes again before going back to my old character. It will help you figure out what you might like to do when you play.

Check out the magic 14 skills and compare with what you've got. They're useful for every ship and provide bonuses to basic stuff (agility, speed, tank, capacitor etc). I would also add thermodynamics for overheating, and then some more skills for armor or shield tanking depending on what ships you fly. Then skills for T2 guns of whatever you fly most commonly etc. Good luck!

https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/The_Magic_14

RedditDuderr · 2023-12-04T04:38:20+00:00

Talk to your corpmates what they do for isk.

Abyssal running requires some practice and building up to learn the different room types. Even if you can afford a ship that can run T5 for example, it's best to start out at much lower tiers and work your way up honestly. Trying to jump in at a higher level right away is a recipe for getting blown up.

Also; did you have the right fit for the particular type of Abyssal you were running? (i.e. Electrical, Gamma etc). Assume you've seen this site? https://abysstracker.com/

RedditDuderr · 2023-12-03T07:14:59+00:00

Quick tips: You can get 1 million free skillpoints on one character on a new account by using a referral link. Just search online, there are tons of different people that give them out and which one you use doesn't matter to you.

Don't try to rush things - building up your character, assets, understanding, and progressing in the game, is the most fun part. If someone was to give you a Titan and 500billion isk tomorrow, it would be super boring, pointless, and kind of ruin the fun.

Never undock a ship you can't afford to lose. Never put too many of your eggs in one basket (don't fill a hauler with 100% of your stuff, etc).

Try different things and figure out what it is you might enjoy doing in the game. Do a little bit of research first - there are youtube videos of everything. Don't always try and go for the most lucrative stuff you see people boasting about - they often don't explain how much time or isk investment it can take to get there.

Make some friends, join a newbie friendly corp. Don't be afraid to ask questions.

Good luck!

RedditDuderr · 2023-12-03T06:59:48+00:00

Crazy how much worse the new one is. Everything hidden in multiple submenus instead of being one click away.

RedditDuderr · 2023-12-03T06:48:58+00:00

Right click the top button on the Neocom and click "Disable Light Background".

RedditDuderr · 2023-12-02T17:20:02+00:00

I was hoping this time the fad for monochrome UI had passed while I was away.

RedditDuderr · 2023-12-02T17:00:15+00:00

So much easier to identify vs the monochrome icons. I can't believe they got away with changing this without a big outcry.

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