Zombie Man

Go to Bloody Bay and enlist the aid of a Shivan. If they're going to destroy humanity, they might as well be put to work for the privilege.

The people who say CoH has bad graphics fall into distinct groups:

1. Those who compare it to console games that can afford to make extremely realistic graphics on a standardized platform without having to worry about all the zillion extra polygons and textures that's in a game with this degree of complexity and customization and trying to make it look good on all sorts of PC configurations. It's comparing apples to oranges.

2. The same situation happens above when CoH is compared to the Asian model of MMOs that create spectacular player models... but don't have the customization that CoH has. They can afford to make highly realistic avatars when there's only a handful of models to make. I'd like to see them provide a billion costume combos for their avatars.

3. Those who have crappy computers and videocards and monitors. When you have a rig that can take advantage of most of what Ultra Mode can provide, the graphics are downright beautiful.

4. Those who are used to that 800 lb gorilla of an MMO with super saturated colors. They've gotten used to playing in a cartoon graphics world and can't appreciate a more realistic setting.

Besides offering a license for Base Privileges (paying rent, creating, editing) they can also make it a reward for a certain Reward Level. That would prevent a million resource-hogging bases from pure freebies, but still allow Premiums to use bases, and, most importantly... monetize it!

Freemiums can participate in the Seed of Hamidon event in First Ward, but not the arcs unless purchased a la mode.

I would think that for those not too interested in reading mission info that the normal path would be:

1. Death From Below
2. At level 8 go to Kings Row for Radio Mission and the Safeguard for the Fly Pack.
3. More Death From Below until 14, then Posi I and II
4. At level 18, Faultline for the two 15-29 arcs.
5. At 20, a lot of options open up

You can make it +20 enhancement inventory for a total of 30 slots. Which means that any respec that re-uses at least half of its Enhancements can save the rest in inventory.

(I'm waiting for that one to go on sale.)

While true that it's there for Dev use at their discretion, it has been unavailable for a long time without any reason given. It's also called The Training Room for a reason in that, when it is available, it can be used to try stuff out, and the Devs are usually accommodating of cross-server PvP on Test.

It would be nice to know its status.

Added to Guide to Guides under Character Creation

Ms. Machina. Deus ex Machina. She's the living incarnation of a punch in reality.

Consolidated from several threads:

One tip for successful search results is to search just the thread titles. There's a drop down choice for that right under the Keyword field.

Also, at the bottom left, chose do display Threads and not just Posts so you don't get every post in every thread, but just the listing of threads.

With PvP Sets, they have an extra set of Bonuses that function in a PvP setting.

The Damage Proc is not an effect of the Set's bonuses. It happens if it is the only IO of that Set that is slotted. It does have an extra 10% to go off in PvP, though.

See here: paragonwiki.com/wiki/Gladiator's_Strike:_Chance_for_Smashing_Damage

What makes it more expensive is that it's useful outside of PvP and yet has the rarity of a PvP IO. Other PvP sets have dropped in price because for non-PvPers, the bonuses of PvP Sets isn't outsdanding: they don't have the high Defense or Recharge that most non-PvPers build for. But the handful of PvP Procs which are useful outside of PvP are still very expensive.

Hmmm

Also, plotting

Added to Guide to Guides under Incarnate System.

Is the The Twilight Zone red, blue, or goldside? Or is it co-op?

I've found one of the biggest slowdowns from more than one instance of the game is from FSAA. Make sure you lower that.