Arcanaville

Not so much toggles I think as autofire powers, and I think it was like that from the beginning.

Also: Gigabolt.

Healing is different there than here. There you have significant out of combat recovery (health). So you mostly need healing for in-combat health recovery. Regeneration (the passive) does that, but besides that you don't really regenerate in combat like you do here, and its noticeable.

Since out of combat health recovery is substantial, you can get away with not having healing if you manage combat well. But if you play in a manner where you are constantly aggroed and thus "in-combat" whether anything is actually shooting at you at that instant or not, having healing becomes important.

I'm not sure if that's been fundamentally modified since the F2P conversion in terms of other build options, but I think that principle is still supposed to play a major factor in CO combat.

I remember doing that as well. How heroic: living in an abandoned train station for weeks killing homeless people for a badge called Isolator.

After that long living in a train station in Recluse Victory without a shower, that badge was probably highly descriptive.

What you say is: hire me and I'll bet my job I'm better than they are.

I seem to recall a discussion about an @EepEep camping character names on Exalted. Maybe it was another EepEep, I'm sure there are tons of them around. Err... well, being City of Heroes, that's actually reasonable.

I've been begging rednames who might still have access to the building to either take some high res photos of the Going Rogue wall for me (high enough for me to actually see where I signed it) or just saw it up and ship it to me. Its not like you guys need a wall there anymore.

It was nice finally connecting a face to the name as well. Its too bad there was all that Freedom stuff just sucking up all the time or I'd have more time to chat with you. Man that was a long day. If I didn't already mention it, shoot me an email if you get a chance.

And this is a perfect example of why this is a non-trivial problem to solve.

For the same reason that there's a material difference between Aunt Betty dying of natural causes and being shot to death by a mugger.

I agree. Just consider there are more than two possible views to hold regarding the game's shutdown: that people demanded an infinite game, or that they are willing to accept a shutdown under all sets of conditions. Because that's the duality you presented earlier. The third possibility is that many players would have been willing to accept a shutdown when the time obviously came and it was handled with some respect for the longevity of the game and its playerbase, but are not willing to accept a shutdown done with seemly so much haste the company itself hadn't even gotten around to creating sunset plans and terminated virtually all the employees that support the game overnight, and with so little transparency the players are still debating whether it was a profitable game at the time of shutdown.

There are some players that have said this is how it always happens, but to my knowledge this is almost never how it happens. This aspect of the shutdown has me a little puzzled, and significantly more ... perturbed.

I wanted it in part specifically so you guys in the Titan Network could have the information

What I was asking for was a command or a command toggle that would, either when you logged out or on command, dump everything we're allowed to know about our character into some kind of file. Costumes, contacts, inventories, current position, active mission, etc, so that in theory that could be used by players to track their characters' progress through the game. The Titan Network could then write a tool to capture that data and present back to the players something like a timeline of each character and what they did. Sort of like a cross between herostats and city vault.

Me too.

We'll see. I'm aware offensive passives have gotten much better since launch, but I'm unaware of damage mitigation outside of defensive passives getting materially stronger. If they have, that would be interesting to see.

I suspect there will be no new releases to the Paragon Market after the planned date of November 30th as well.

I know that name. Why do I know that name...
(EepEep, not Ghost Falcon)

And why do I get the feeling its for something bad...


Wait a minute.

NCSoft is the person who, when we were about to default on our mortgage, swooped in, bought us a new house, got us a big screen TV, asked us to invite all our friends over, then locked us in and set it on fire.

Don't sweat it: if you don't do it for a living, these are things no one tells you and you can't just google. Everyone I know, including me, has learned primarily through mistakes.

When I was playing more, both Invuln and Force Fields was strong (although FF in particular got hit hard by the post-live nerf bat). For soloing I used to combine them with Sorcery.

The big problem was being in melee. Critter melee damage was much higher, so if you played a concept melee character you were eating more damage for no gain back then. I don't know if that has been remedied to a sufficient degree yet.

For the purposes of this discussion, I believe its fair to say that's not that much different from saying you can get pretty durable being a water blast blaster with tough, weave, and aid self. The analog to the defensive set in CoX is the defensive passive in CO. Yes you can get healing in other sets, but that's also true here: you can get healing in Water Blast and the medicine pool as well.

Even if the shards are virtualized server clusters running on a virtual server farm, for complex reasons consolidating shards can save a lot of resources even for the same player load. It has to do with how cores are virtualized (or rather, not virtualized), how virtual "guests" are managed to accommodate that, and how memory is committed in virtual server clusters.

In other words, 1000 players on Freedom doesn't necessarily burn the same amount of electricity and physical gear as 1000 players spread out on sixteen shards. It may not even be remotely close.

By the way, I forgot to mention. No.

Its actually approximately 8.7 times per second or about one tick every 115 milliseconds. Almost exactly one tick every 3.5 animation clocks.


Which means even after I figured out Arcanatime, I was still left with the mystery of how this worked. I never did figure that out. That will go down as one of the unsolved mysteries of the game unless a programmer wants to shed some light on that one, which will be hard without access to the code.

Sounds bad. Who's acranaville?

Also, I'm running out of different tricks for all-caps: I've been using a different one each time.

You can't "paint" with ABS unless you happen to be on Venus, but you might be able to coat the models with some other material.

You can also sand it to a relatively smooth finish and then sort of wipe it with acetone which gives the sanded surface a glassy finish.

My understanding is that the CoH servers are housed in NCSoft's own datacenter in Texas. If that's the case, the cost savings of decommissioning CoH servers is minimal: the electrical costs of energizing them and the aircon load, plus the incremental costs of opcenter staff. It could be something like $10k a month. Not per server, but for all of them.

No, name conflicts are easy for people to figure out solutions they will be personally comfortable with. Deciding the best way to resolve them is one of the more divisive issues you can introduce into a game community. There is no easy way to do it.

Its easy in the same sense deciding who doesn't get the last lifeboat seat is easy. Just draw straws. Just choose the youngest. Just choose the youngest woman. Just armwrestle for it. Just let everyone vote. Just let everyone jump into the lifeboat and sink it. See how easy it is: I solved the problem six times in thirty seconds.

You're welcome, and I'm not sure what the heck to do with all my stuff either.

Cool.