Zekiran_Immortal

If he bought the game, the only thing preventing him from using it, is not having actually activated it via a paypal or visa payment. They could then cancel it, but what's the point?

They could save up 20 bucks and buy the Architect edition. That's a month - in another month they would likely have another 15 bucks. Do they drink coffee at starbucks or buy junk food at school? ... .just wondering. it's a good game, good enough to buy and support instead of freeloading.

It needs to be a paid account, I believe. I know why you think trials are supposed to be, they said something about it, but I've never seen them activate trials before.

My old inactive accounts are all working.

Hehehe, any addition to the shoulder-animal list is a good addition.

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A Beach Event does sound like a nice counterpoint to the Winter Event, and there's even a comics tradition of gratuitous swimsuit issues to back it up. I just hope it's not Redcaps.

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It should be Devouring Earth.

I like it.

Since we DO now have a (very small) example of underwater movement, it'd be kind of fun to see this as a summer event as well as maybe a testing ground for that feature.

Love the idea of waterballoons.

I saw him broadcasting in Protector Atlas looking for a farm.

... Sigh.

OMG, yes, we do need that dance. I can just see a huge line of people doing it. That would be so hilarious.

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-Waves white flag-

Ok what if they suspended people from making toons on Freedom and Virtue for a couple months. I mean damn...theyre filled! Seriously there really wouldnt be any harm or fowl, and the other servers do need a boost

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.... You know that the same PEOPLE play on different servers, right?

That's why they CAP Freedom during events, first so it doesn't blow a gasket, and second so that people will PLAY on those other servers too!

I don't think you really understand what you want here. The thread title implies you DO want servers to be packed like Freedom, and now you're all "but there are so many!"... DUH. That's what the point is we've been trying to say. Medium and low population and load servers are MORE FUN for a lot of us, because we don't get as bad lag, we have more access to names we want, etc - your argument against keeping "all" the servers open is utterly opposite of what you just posted.

Well, that.

My animal avatars almost all have wings - they're blessed by nature gods, and thus have aspects of many different creatures and elements. Icy Grip is an ice/ice tanker. Trickster's Jackalope is a rabbit, antelope, crow man, he doesn't fly either but then as a fire/fire tank he's never learned to control his powers, so his costumes get progressively more burnt.

Anyway, he's skinny. This is about phat.

Hehe

He leaps, like most of my other characters with wings... The one I didn't give wings to was the porcupine girl, for the obvious reason that while one *can* imagine a bear with wings... a porcupine is not really so easy to have hovering....

Yeah Justice was when I last logged in... Then infinity... Pinnacle has been slipping down below Protector, I think we may have drunk them under the table at some point. Or they drunk themselves, which is far more likely.

I think that *might* be workable... it isn't for me to say, but it certainly has merit.

I already have a panda, though.

<-- I has nvidia.

Let me put it much more simply:

Anything - ANY thing - that adds ANY graphics complexity, DOES add lag and processing issues. Even switching from Hero to Villain side has people scrambling around here asking why their machine won't work right or why can't they even enter Grandville without crashing. The issue is graphical and processing power, and you cannot get away from those problems if you add anything to the visual appearance of any game.

@Psyonico - I like how the water looks, actually, it IS a clever little trick, it's not "real" reflection (and also, notice how many costume pieces and sometimes whole areas of your character simply *vanish* under water?) but it does look pretty cool, enough to fool you into thinking you're seeing a reflection.

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Today on Protector there were a total of 12 yes 12 toons lvl 16-25 in total.

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And what about the other 200 at different level ranges?

We can sidekick and exemplar. Don't even start with the "but there aren't teams".

We also have server transfers. If you think that Protector - my home server - is 'dead' then *buy a server transfer or two and go to freedom*. But don't try *changing Protector INTO freedom* thank you very much. I like it exactly the way it is.

And your information is - without a doubt - wrong, about there only being 12 or whatever people.

** Search only finds people who are not on hide ** Anyone with eyes can look around and see far more than those you saw. Plus, do you think that the folks *higher* level than that don't have random alts that they might be willing to get on and play? Have you even asked? Do you have any people on the server even willing to *play* with you on a regular basis that would do that? If you don't, there's a problem right there. Join a global channel or two and become more social. But don't piss and moan because you're not willing to find people or ask them to alt. It's not a sin to do that. Plus, I've been on Protector for almost 5 years. The people there *are willing to do that* if you are as well willing to be friendly and non-confrontatory. With the attitude seen here, I can say you're going to have to learn to control your temper and your mouth, if you want ANYONE to team up with you regularly or go out of their way to help.

You [censored] ned, now I have an image of a rainbow-farting unicorn and the city vault at the end of it...

Regardless of people there for the anniversary, Steam will be providing us with plenty of newcomers and it's a reactivation week - even if you and I don't get those emails, plenty of other folks will be.

Apparently you've never heard of the "Standard Code Rant". Unless you are a developer of THIS game using THIS engine, you really need to not throw around terms like "it won't cause lag" and "this would be okay/easy".

Any of those effects DO cause a lot of lag. They have to be processed and sent, that's why we don't have weather. This has been discussed at length, though not very recently that I recall. I do believe it's in one of the sticky threads, but I'm not sure.

Have you looked at the threads about the 5th Anniversary test server pictures? How people are pissed that "they didn't show up" or "where am I" - it's because the engine can only render a certain number of things before it just gives up and you lose information. That's why hamidon frequently vanishes, if you're on a raid, or during a Zombie attack, you may not see people very close by any more.

Any additions - you've got to look at the lowest end machines, AND the lowest end connections.

Now, with that said, I would love to HAVE weather, but ... not at the cost of missing the rest of my team mates images, or losing too much other data.

Or that there are around 2-3 times as many people ON protector than there were shortly before I14...

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Grey is not red. Grey is an artificial limit put in place BEFORE it hits red.

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The cap is an actual number of logins concurrently.
Server load colours are not. (though they have tended to correlate)

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Yeah and the do, definitely, go red long before then. I have seen the red, and I have seen the grey. It's a pre-emptive use of the cap, yes, because it's better to keep those thousands of people ON the game at all, than to let them actually CRASH it.

It's that 5 minutes before they go grey.

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I make a prediction here and now. Tuesday at least 9 over the servers will hit heavy load.

Probably all 11

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Yup. And I'm gonna guess that two of those will be greyed out within an hour...

It's a good thing the rest of those servers still have enough room not to explode, huh?

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Right now Virtue and Freedom are the only flush servers.


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Good for them. And when double xp and other events like the one coming up shortly happen they will be the only ones *shut to new people*. That leaves 9 other servers to play on, when those are closed.


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If there were only six servers or five then the "quiet" would be maintained minus the desolation factor.

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No, no it would not. First, because by jamming the people on one server onto another's territory, you'd get a culture clash of epic proportions. Second, because there is no desolation. Only lack of team building skills.


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Seriously today on Protector nobody was on Perigrine Island. Ghost town.

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I cry bull on that one, sorry. There are more people in the AE buildings everywhere, including Protector, and hundreds more in maps already. Just because they don't show in your search does not mean they aren't playing.
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I understand y'all have 20 50's and can speak COH abbreviation like a military linguistics operator,

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No, I have 3, and all it takes is some careful observation and patience to learn "the lingo". You have neither.


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but being a spazzy tool is hard to hide.

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You said it, not me... But it still is true, check that mirror out lately?

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Chill out folks. The idea has some merit, and I wouldnt be surprised theres always a long whine fest whenever someone suggests something out of the norm.

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No merit whatsoever. It's not out of the norm, it just isn't necessary in the slightest, especially at this time. More players are quite literally POURING in from Steam and other sources, with a new box and mac editions available.

Just because you don't know how to find a team, doesn't mean things are bad enough to condense the servers into fewer, harder to maintain, easier to break and overload servers.

You have not addressed any of the issues that we have brought up, but that's typical, because it's not about OUR names, it's about YOUR teaming.

I hate to say this, really I do, but... do you LIKE standing in the middle of the sheep herd? Some of us prefer to graze alone or in small family units, instead of being crowded into the meat factory.

The emotes won't work while a power is up, or even when you're using some toggles.