Zombie Man

Ebil-o FTL June-21 & Feb-22-2010
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  1. It broken in two ways:

    There is no auto-exemp for the person who starts it.

    The goals withing the Trial can be made trivially easy with certain powers, tactics, and/or exploits, thus making it a 15 minute affair... which is why it only give 2 Merits so it can't be farmed.

    The Devs collected from players a list of all known short-cuts and exploits several years ago intimating they were looking into a fix. That fix never materialized.

    And possibly because it is so broken, that they never fixed the level requirements.

    Which is why it is bizarre to see it listed as a WST. They have tacitly admitted it is broken. Thus, it should never have made it to the WST list.

    Maybe this was a decision of a newbie in Production who doesn't know its history.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Inazuma View Post
    Now, where's the Mynx and Synpase shipping?
    Synx!
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark_Tower View Post
    My question is why do these pets show up in my active pet window, have hit points (110) and a level (50+1), take damage and can be buffed, but are not combat active?
    Umm.. please tell us the name of 'these' pets that can take damage.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    SnowflakeEmoteBadge and is ;snowflakes
    Thanks for the correction. The forum not loading thing was hitting me really hard last night and couldn't proofread.
  5. It's unlikely to see any of the packs that came out in the last year discounted. That's just normal retail marketing.

    Though as a customer, I value the Party Pack at one third it's actual cost. <shrug>
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Beef_Cake View Post
    I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I sent in a petition, but I figured I would ask here as well.

    I've purchased and unlocked every emote in the game up til now. After getting the newest addition to the list the Alignment emotes with the most recent loyalty program, I noticed that in my menu under ...

    Actions > Holiday

    it shows 3 emotes, but they are greyed out, I can't click them at all.

    Offer Gift
    Receive Gift
    Throw Snow Flake (this one I can type out manually and it works)

    Can anyone explain this? Is everyone else having this issue or it is something I will need to wait for support to help me with?


    Beef
    All part of a Holiday Pack that never materialized. Throw Snowflake was already unlockable with Candy Canes. You can find that one under Interact > Environment and is unlocked with "Badge SnowflackEmoteBadge" (an invisible badge) and is ;snowlakes. The one you can't use is unlocked with "Authbit HolidayPack" and is ;ThrowSnowflakes.

    Open Gift became part of the Party Pack (Authbit RecreationPack).

    The rest you see you shouldn't. For a long time they've been residing in part of that data file that doesn't show up in the Quickmenu. BAB used to take care of the Quickmenu. The new person made a little mistake and moved them into part of the file that does display.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GPBunny View Post
    Pure screw up again. Why some have it and others don't is just stupid.
    Some don't have it because they need to re-log for it to register.



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ashlocke View Post
    Can we please get the items to self remove themselves from the Vanguard Table List if you already have them, just like how they work when you actually purchase them using Vanguard Merits please?
    Yeah, I bugged that.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by vulpin View Post
    Well, it's not noon EDT. Next guess: noon PDT.
    I'm sure that'll make the Europeans happy. <hides>
  9. Zombie Man

    DING! Seven!

    YAY!

    (now make the 7 year gift basket go Live!)
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Alexandria2000 View Post
    ahhhhgh, they added a beep? WHY?
    Because lots and lots of players asked for it in both Beta and when in went Live.

    Especially when you get Leaguemates in Lambda who aren't checking for the temp powers or anyone who's not clicking the Enter button to start the Trial. The beeps are to wake them up, like with Team Chat.

    And for the most part, League Chat replaces Team Chat during an iTrial and Team Chat beeps.

    As posted above, it can be disabled on your end. Good time for folks to learn about the ability to silence certain sounds because if this beep bugs you, I'm sure there are more sounds you'd like to silence (or replace with a more soothing sound). Make it so!
  11. This came up a lot when GR was introduced. We only have theories, nothing in the game lore to point to.

    Transmuter is the only real magic user and he lost his mojo when Reese (?) destroyed the amulet that was the source of his power. Supposedly because Reese was a jerk, but it could have been under orders.

    Either the Devs wanted a magic-free super world as a matter of lore to stay away from fantasy and keep Praetoria a more sci-fi place. Or, there's a lore-based reason why magic was stamped out, e.g., Cole is weak to magic, so, he had it systematically destroyed; or, Cole got really powerfully cause he had vampirically fed off the magic in his world and incorporated it into himself.

    (I don't count Acantha as Praetorian magic since we all know she's there as a hand-waving mechanic for the Halloween Event and costume slot trade-in in Praetoria.)
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    In honor of our newest mod I present the funniest joke in the world:

    Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer?

    Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
    I tried to make a funnier one, and all I got was:

    Die ist ein Kinnerhunder und zwei Mackel uber und der bitte schon ist den Wunderhaus sprechensie. 'Nein' sprecht der Herren 'Ist aufern borger mit zveitingen'.
  13. Freitag Kind ist liebevoll und fürsorglich.

    Willkommen.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    Last night around 2am PDT, the forums locked up so hard that it kicked out my entire internet. I was browsing the internet just fine, visited the forums just fine for a few minutes, after which it took a huge crap, and then I couldn't load ANY website at all. I also couldn't load any of my internet-required applications (like City, Steam, etc.) which connect over a different port than HTTP, and can typically still connect if I'm having access issues to the forums, so my connection was totally hosed.

    I called my provider (Comcast) and they jumpstarted my connection from their end (I guess stopping and restarting service? I have no idea, the tech just said they were going to try "jumpstarting my connection"), and the rest of the web was back. However, the City forums were still dead to me, although this time visiting the forum didn't crap out my actual internet connection.

    Thanked the tech and hung up and went to bed instead of trying to figure anything out, because this is just friggen irritating at this point.
    That happened to me, too, last night. But I was in the game on an ITF. I also use Comcast. The problem resolved itself by morning.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gaia View Post
    Any way we can disable this other than turning sound off?
    It sounding 30 or so times a minute gets infuriating to put it mildly
    Yes.
  16. Has any BAF attempt tried shutting off the new option of shutting off the sending and showing of League buffs?
  17. Same sporadic loading and not loading problems all day long for me.

    At least someone mentioned in another thread that the Devs mentioned in a Ustream chat that they're 'looking into it'.

    Though, given how long it took to (mostly) fix the log out problem....
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Olympus_NA View Post
    Born This Way has no comparison to Express Yourself

    Then again I may be a "little" biased
    I'm a Little Monster and everything she does is amazing
    Mother Monster is my inspiration and haters may hate but in my eyes they won't ever have a point
    Except that Mother Monster disagrees with you.

    Don't know why fans are trying to protect her from stuff she doesn't want to be protected from.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Greenykins View Post
    I would love to see a discussion why other MMORPGs have Q and E for staffing
    Because the mouse is for turning when you are in a FPS and can only shoot in the direction you're looking and moving. The strafing keys allow you to move laterally while still facing your target and shooting.

    In CoH, you can't strafe if you wanted to because of rooting. Also, we fire at our target no matter which way we're looking or moving, so, strafing really isn't even needed, thus, relegated to second tier control.

    Anyway, the real question is why any touch typist would keep WASD when remapping would allow them to keep their fingers on the 'home keys' and use ESDF.

    And when I ran into certain MMOs that are the same genre as CoH and their use of the turn R/L keys was a late introduction or even still absent when the game went Live, it tells me their Devs hate keyboardists and is a main reason to give them a pass and let them die their slow death with their beloved consolists.