AnoucheSyn

Something had came to me the first day of MA release when I saw dozens of people in the MA building in Atlas off in their virtual worlds.....why leave home?

I would imagine that the devs of CoH and any other successful MMO business model would incorporate a system of making players use their travel powers, or in cases of below lvl 14, a lot of tireless footwork, going around from NPC contact to NPC to get their story arc/missions started, and that this model is consistent with the idea that they are trying to extend the amount of time spent on each individual paying account in the quest to get their character from 1-50. In other words if I can send you back and forth enough times across the maps, I can postpone your rise to 50, therefore collecting another monthly charge.

But now as the rise of more groups preferring radios over character story arcs, and simply generating a semi-generic mission on Invincible with a full over-powered team, the running around aspect becomes even less a detraction because you always remain on one city map, ...at least until everyone out-levels that city and its called in radios. So, this becomes the norm, and radios become the PUG default...thereby circumventing the devs MMO business model. First there were farm missions, now its simply Invinc PUG radios with max bonuses.

Now, here comes MA. You don't even need to leave your characters super-powered body people, for those on the rise to xp and getting to 50, radios and farm missions, become a thing of the past....another era, another business model, turning over creativity and inventiveness to the player, hopefully the veteran, ushering in a way to leave those old well-worn, rarely-ever-surprising, CoH maps by the wayside, and putting a MA building in every major city....to disguise the fact that you are still never leaving the building.

Once we had The Portal Corporation, assigned exclusively to the higher level hero, where one would leave through a convenient portal into other instances, but always return to that familiar setting of spinning rings and the loud droning screech of entrances to packed farms, padding, and sidekicking, for max xp collection.

With MA, sadly, hero need never leave the sanctity of his/her public computer terminal.....if what he/she desires is that oddly, easily, obtainable xp. The times are changing

This is my card and I have 3 of them in my Reactor Extreme:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

I have lock-ups ever since I switched to this new rig, every night, several times a night, usually around hour-2 or hour-3, then every other hour. I have done heat-retention and BIOS tests with Hardcore, the makers of this rig, which show no issues,.....this rig can run the original Crisis on max settings (forever), no hiccups. And has absolutely no problems with any other online game that I know of....I play WoW(all expansions), Guild Wars(all parts), and even NWN-2, not a blip all night.

City of Heroes is my most played game, and NCSoft just makes me jump through the same standard trouble-shooting hoops on my ticket. I have yet to see them question why this hasn't been addressed in a CoH patch, by working with NVIDIA and squashing it once and for all.

ok not to beat a dead horse but....if you had an intel-based mac you could run parallels or boot camp, making the mac client redundant.

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If you have the box, just insert the DVD and drag the City of Heroes application to your Applications folder. Then double-click it to start CoH.

For an electronic download, start here:

ftp://client.coh.com/US/

Look for the Mac_CoH_installer_US.dmg.

Once you've downloaded that file, double-click it to mount the disk image, and then drag the City of Heroes application to your Applications folder. Double-click the application, and wait for it to download files.

After that you're ready to play!

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My friend has a 17 inch powerbook G4, running Tiger 10.4.11, and has tried unsuccessfully to activate the application that will download the files. What he keeps getting back is this message:

"Your system does not meet the requirements and cannot open this application"

A previous question I had posted about this very same problem was answered back saying that CoH Mac is not supported in this way but runs in all different sorts of Mac environments. Why then, cannot my friend get past this message?

yes, that is great news, the problem I have just discovered now is that you must have an Intel Mac, which essentially means, quite ironically I believe, if you have this type of Mac, you could be running Boot Camp/Windows and playing on the PC side.....if you have an older version Mac - non-Intel chip, and can't run any version of the Mac OS above Tiger, like my friend...you are once again not allowed in the "members only club". What's the point for an existing Mac owner, and why wouldn't you just use Boot Camp with your Intel chip Mac and play back on the PC side, like I do? They should have been able to pull this off without Intel based Macs...I can sympathize with the idea of a digital download that doesn't discriminate between a mac or pc account, but Intel-based is really for NEW mac users. Unfortunate for my friend who can't afford the latest Mac and manages to run WoW: Wrath of the Lich King, on the same non-Intel mac laptop, even though Blizzard says its against the recommended requirements to play...he plays WoW, with all 3 expansions every night. Blizzard manages the cross-platform deal with their game without steep requirements....and you wonder why their user base world-wide is so enormous. This could be a reason why you will only get new affluent Mac purchasers as your new user cross-platform-base.

Thanks!

Ok, here's my question in regards to a friend who had a PC account in the past, and bought the PC version already.

He had to borrow a PC and was able to buy the PC version and play for several months until the PC broke and he had to return it, thereby no longer being bale to play CoH. He has a Mac Laptop running Tiger and plays WoW, but is interested in the Mac version and has been waiting for it to come out of beta.

He is now wondering if he has to BUY the digital Mac download, essentially having to purchase a 2nd copy of CoH, to get the game installed on his Mac laptop, or can he simply re-activate his old PC account with his existing toons, and be given access to the Mac client to download the new platform's software and begin playing on his Mac laptop without having to re-purchase the game just for playing on a Mac?

Hopefully, you have an answer that can get him going without to much buyer's grief. Because of a trial account and difficulties retrieving his account information, he actually has bought the PC version TWICE, and is therefore reluctant to but the another version of the game.

Thanks for any and all advice forthcoming.