Xaphan

Keep in mind that Enriche is a bottled drink. Like bottled water, it could be drawn from one place and exported all over the world. It's also likely they have warehouses full of the stuff, so a silly little terrorist bombing won't have much of an effect on Enriche distribution.

The water treatment plant that would be keeping any potential Hamidon Spores or Will of the Earth out the drinking water, on the other hand... that could be more of a problem.

Might be a long one here. Being a thread for things we're grateful for, I think I'll talk about this here. I'll try to make it relevant to CoH near the end. It's not something I usually bring up since I'm not one to try to garner attention, but since the whole thing is almost over I might as well get it off my chest. But just to make it clear, I'm not looking for any sympathy or special attention.

Over the last five or so years, I've had to deal with Trigeminal Neuralgia. The pain often being enough that I'd be unwilling to speak for weeks or months on end, since that was one of the sure ways for me to set it off... and it's hard to hold a conversation when you're constantly stopping mid-sentence due to blinding pain. Eating was always a problem too, though obviously that was something I had to do, so I suffered through it. For roughly the first three years or so of this I was improperly diagnosed too... partially because it's somewhat unusual for someone as young as me to have Trigeminal Neuralgia, and partially because I'm not enough of a drama queen to properly explain the level of pain I was going through.

For the last two years I've been on medication, and it's made things a lot better, though still not perfect... and I still don't talk much. Habits are hard to break, and the fact that it does still flare up on occasion despite the pills makes me reluctant to try. But, having to take pills every day, and knowing that if I miss even one I'll suffer for it majorly is a bit tiresome. And they are getting less and less effective... so, a little while back, I finally decided to pursue surgery as a solution.

Things have been going pretty well on that front. Next week I'll be going down to Toronto for my pre-admin clinic and an additional MRI that they'll use during the surgery. The week after that, I'll be heading back and so that they can crack my head open and see what they can find.

The one downside of this is that I'll probably miss the week where the WST is one of my favorite TFs.


Summing things up:

• I'm very glad this whole ordeal is almost over, and each week ended means another week closer to getting past this whole thing.
  
• I'm very grateful to CoH as well, since it's given me something to do and be a part of at the times when I needed it the most.
  
• I'm thankful for the community being one of the best ones I've encountered, with some of the friendliest people I know.
  
• And I'm very thankful for the devs who continue to update the game and make it even better, and constantly give me new things to do.

Okay, pity time over. Continue on and ignore this post. No "oh so sorry you've gone through that" replies. Really. I hate them.

1201 right now. Lot of work to get the rest of them... but that's never stopped me before!

I've teamed with people who prefer voice chat, and even joined once or twice (though just so I could listen. I don't speak often for reasons I won't get into). But I've never encountered anyone who completely closes their chat tabs. That's just... bizarre. And I would guess exceedingly rare.

Just note the character so if you run into him again you'll know what to except, and move in. It's not a common enough occurrence to worry about, imo.

The main draw of being in the middle is that you can team with anyone, no restrictions. Most useful when your friends aren't restricted to one side of the game. However, there isn't really a reward incentive to choose the middle ground, just a Quality of Life one.


Here's what's kinda funny... originally in testing, Hero and Villain merits didn't exist. So, there was no real reason to stay a pure alignment, other than the fact that the perma-temp power you go from it was a little better. And most people ignore those powers entirely anyway. But overall the plusses of being a Vigilante/Rogue outweighed the negatives. It was a matter of having nothing or having a cool QoL bonus. So people were afraid that EVERYONE who wasn't a hardcore RPer was going to stick to the middle path, and there would be virtually no pure heroes or villains. Because really, what would be the point?

Then came Hero/Villain Merits. The decision suddenly became one of having a better reward for playing, or being able to play with more friends. For many people, the rewards won out in that situation.

He should give a souvenir. "The Beast Beneath the Mountain". If he's not giving it, then there's a bug.

Also, he shouldn't be triggering a zombie invasion. That should be triggered by handing in Halloween Salvage. If he is triggering that, again, it's probably a bug.

All pretty good news... except the NCsoft Launcher thing. Ugn, unless you're completely revamping that thing, can we PLEASE still be able to use the standard launcher if we want to? I'd rather not have to bother with that thing.

Some of the blaster nukes are situational attacks for sure. That situation being "whenever you have a blue candy in your insp tray, or you're able to make one". And I've got to say, I love it the way it is. Sure, I may not use Inferno as much as my other attacks... but then again my other attacks don't make entire groups disappear in one shot either. So there's a good balance there.

The main difference is that Primal Hamidon can be beat down by regular heroes on a nightly schedule. Praetorian Hami needs something a bit more "godly" to handle.


Praetoria: Everythings better there. Even the society destroying eco-terrorist monsters. (Hey, I didn't say better for US...)

Wow, actually got one! Was worried for a moment there since I was still getting all set up.

Really easy solution to this one. When you have Patrol XP, in addition to letting you level faster, it also gets consumed when you die instead of you getting debt. So if you have patrol XP, and you don't WANT patrol XP, just jump into a group of purple mobs a few times until you've died enough and run out of patrol XP.

Problem solved. The devs don't have to waste any time on this one, and you get to level at as slow a pace as you want. ...Well, it's still a LOT faster than it was when the game launched, but you can always just gets lot of debt all the time to even it out a bit...

I've been having this problem too. One thing I tried today was going into the NVIDIA control panel and disabling Multi-GPU mode. Not sure if it's fixed it for sure, but so far I've been logged in several hours (running two instances) without a problem. But that could just be blind luck.

But still, Disabling Multi-GPU mode has worked for me so far. I'll post here if it turns out I'm wrong and it crashes again. But hopefully it won't.

I think it's a perfect parody of comic mega-events. Really cool in premise and the buildup is awesome... but the resolution and return to the status quo (more or less) just feels rushed, forced, and leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

I loved it.

Looks pretty spiffy. Unfortunately, since I primarily use Badge Hunter to track my badges, I don't have much of a reason to get this. Looks neat, though.