ign.com poll: best MMO of 2012

[Electric-Knight]

What are well all typing in though? You think they'll lump all "City of Heroes" variants together?

I'd just type "City Of Heroes"... But should it be "City Of Heroes: Freedom"? Am I overthinking this?

[Quinch]

Probably be best to just go with City of Heroes.

[Perfidus]

I just went with City of Heroes, yeah.

[valaton]

Voted. Will spread the word to the RL friends that played as well.

[Inkitgee]

Dun dun done.

[OzonePrime]

Done!

[The White Rager]

Don't forget there are multiple categories. In addition to the 'best MMO' category, I think we should all be voting for it in the 'best Role Playing' category. That was a huge part of the appeal to City of Heroes as well, and something it did very, very well.

[houtex]

One vote from my house.

I'll see about commandeering a couple of other IP/machine combos.  For sure I can get 6 more though...

/is ballot stuffing bad?  Really?  Well... too bad.
//I am teh ebils.  And I'm ok with that.

[Quinch]

Technically you could keep running an ipconfig /release and /refresh to change your IP address, but quite honestly, I'd rather win fairly than by cheating.

[Perfidus]

Technically you could keep running an ipconfig /release and /refresh to change your IP address, but quite honestly, I'd rather win fairly than by cheating.

Hmm, I'm not sure. My main was a villain, after all...

[Hyperstrike]

Technically you could keep running an ipconfig /release and /refresh to change your IP address, but quite honestly, I'd rather win fairly than by cheating.

Actually this may or may not work.  If you're sitting behind a home router on one of the following IP blocks, you're accomplishing nada.

• 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
• 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
• 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

This are private IP address blocks and are meant for NAT-style setups with multiple private IPs sharing a public IP.

So if your public IP is 24.232.211.222 and your private IP is 192.16.0.12, doing an /ipconfig release and /ipconfig renew will simply net you a different address on the 192.* network.  But, to the site, your 24.* address hasn't changed.  So you can't vote again.  Not could anyone on your network.

[Felderburg]

Surely they're not foolish enough to use a network IP to count votes? That owuld be pretty terrible if their system only allowed one person per network to vote.

[Kistulot]

Besides, most people are on an ISP thats public IP only changes every... maybe never.

Head on over to www.whatismyip.com and for the fun of it, check back every so often. Its safe, I promise.

[Quinch]

Well, depends on the ISP. I'm on DHCP, for example - a static IP even costs extra.

[dwturducken]

If it's coming from your cable company, it can be significantly extra, if it's even available. If it's a smaller, local ISP, it may be nothing. Assigning a static IP costs the ISP nothing.

That said, I believe DSL typically uses 24 hour DHCP reservations, so leaving your modem unplugged until it renews is actually counterproductive. I haven't done enough testing on my cable modem to see how long it has to be off, or if the customer premises equipment even has any affect.