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Actually, they have apologized for it and many other "undelivered features" over the years, and in many cases have given at least some kind of explanation (whether it's to your satisfaction or not).


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Not calling you a liar of course, but can you link to a dev post where they have apologized for CoP/Base raid? I sure can't find it. In fact, I tried to go as far back as the forum will allow to find explanations or even a status update on its future and had absolutely no luck.

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I'm sure it's long gone by now. You'll just have to take my word for it.

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Well I found this here. Not quite an apology by most standards, but for Jack it's about as close as you'll ever get.

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Actually, they have apologized for it and many other "undelivered features" over the years, and in many cases have given at least some kind of explanation (whether it's to your satisfaction or not).


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Not calling you a liar of course, but can you link to a dev post where they have apologized for CoP/Base raid? I sure can't find it. In fact, I tried to go as far back as the forum will allow to find explanations or even a status update on its future and had absolutely no luck.

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I'm sure it's long gone by now. You'll just have to take my word for it.

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You ever been hanging out with co-workers and heard one of them grumble "Lets not talk shop"? I think that's the case here. These guys are no doubt putting in serious hours concerning I11 so taking a break to interact with the community in a laid back manner is cool with me.

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This would be the case if the last 2 years have been their coffee break. CoP/Base raids were advertised features that have been undelivered, then bugged, then rescinded and remained missing for almost 2 years. The people who have paid for those advertised features have continuously asked them for an update as to the status only to receive silence. It is an embarrassment to Cryptic and to the devs, and their unwillingness to communicate just exaserbates the situation. How long should their "break" be? How much time does it take to type : "We are sorry, we acknowledge that there is a major advertised feature that we haven't implemented and fixed 2 years since it was sold." But of course, dodging their responsibilities and talking about Photo 1, 2 and 3 is so much easier.

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Actually, they have apologized for it and many other "undelivered features" over the years, and in many cases have given at least some kind of explanation (whether it's to your satisfaction or not).

Ultimately it comes down to time, resources, and popularity. While CoP might be something they really want to get in, it simply might be something that is resource-costly to get working for what is probably a small % of the user base. And it doesn't make sense diverting resources from features everyone can enjoy to work on ones that only few can enjoy. Good or bad, that's just the way things go.

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Hmm, don't think we've ever seen a pic of _Castle_...

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And if I can at all help it, you never will! Muahaha!

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Hear that Ex! I do believe the gauntlet has been thrown down!!!

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Get a pic of JLove playing a catgirl. We know he does because he protesteth too much.

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ROTFL!!! Halloween is coming...

Hmm, don't think we've ever seen a pic of _Castle_...

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Since the dev's are chained up working, I thought I would show you where we allow them to play on a short term basis each day.

***Conjures smoke and mirrors***

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Hmm... have you checked the lead content in all those Chinese-manufactured goodies? Cause we get ornery if issues aren't released on time and really hate excuses like "heavy metal poisoning"...

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Did you know that the late game Tyrant mission was once in a generic cave?

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Did you also know that in the original Tyrant Mission, If you were able to fast track with invis powers. States would be chained up at the end overtop of tyrants Throne, and if you freed him, you could then lead him to the exit and watch states hit Mobs for 4000 dmg a hit!!

Seeing how much damage that is, people would SK lowbies into the mission, stealth through to Tyrant, defeat him, then Let the newly Released Statesman powerlevel the group by owning everything in the face. Hence why Statesman was removed from the Mission.

sometimes I wish they'd bring States bake and just remove any exp from kills he got. I didn't care about the exp, I just had fun watching statesman KO blow someone through the roof and see more damage than a brute with full fury

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I recall there being no Statesman at all in this mission until about Issue 3 or 4...

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I just did this a few days ago and Statesy is there alright, and once you free him if you hang around for a few minutes an ambush spawn shows up and you get to see him do a 4000 dam KO Blow. And he will follow you, but only to a point -- he gets stuck in the mud on the way out of Tyrant's throne room; no way to get him to fight for you past that.

But it was definitely cool seeing him in action, if just for a little bit. I must admit tho, I expected him to be taller

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Did you know... Enrage inspirations used to be called just Rage, which is also the name of the drug that the Trolls take which mutates them. For a while I found it highly amusing that heroes were popping the same pills that the enemies did.


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Was this in beta? Cause I always remember the Troll drug being called Superadyne, or just Dyne for short.

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Liberty Server was home to a really interesting roleplayer who called himself "Cog Warlord" in the days of I1/I2. The Cog Warlord tried very hard, within the restrictions of CoH, to be a real villain, long before CoV came out.
He played using fairly high level Tanker, and in his "Warlord" guise, he'd announce via broadcasts as well as on the Liberty Forum here, that he was going to further the plans of the Clockwork King by leading a charge of mobs to area X in zone Y.

In essence, he created zone events where he'd herd up dozens, maybe hundreds of mobs and lead them back to common player areas like the AP entrance to the Hollows. I can understand why someone might think he was griefing lowbies by doing that, but he DID repeatedly announce his intentions and give plenty of warning of his nefarious plans. The net result was that higher-level players would come out to protect everyone. Given the sheer size of the herds, lots of people had a chance to help and there was a very tangible sense that the bigger toons were protecting the smaller ones. Plus, we got to show off our high level powers.

I'm fairly certain that Cog Warlord eventually got banned for what he was doing, but I will remember him as the first player villain in the game.

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After initially hearing about this guy, I took my claw/invuln scrapper and did the same, creating a giant ambush on the atlas gate of perez park. Rather than RP a villain I sent warnings that someone was launching an attack and began herding up everything nearby. I brought them from the north, south and inside the walls all flooding in, 100s of mobs at a time. The 20 or so people there really enjoyed it and towards the end I almost was able to bring the Kraken, but my lack of a toxic resist and a mean old police drone didn't let me.

Multiple people asked me if I was a GM since I was able to control mobs like that and make them attack the area, but really it was my old wolf herding skills in play.

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I remember occurances like this happening in the Hollows on Freedom as well around that same time. It was great fun having a dozen or more heroes of all levels simultaneously fighting dozens and dozens of Outcasts and Trolls that someone skillfully herded to the gate. It was definitely a one-of-a-kind experience, something the game itself never did previously.

As an aside, perhaps the devs took note of these wonderfully fun events, cause it seems they used the concept to some capacity in the war against the 5th Column and Council -- where swarms of one mob type would suddenly spawn and start an all out war with the other faction.

And even today, to a much lesser extent, you can see some of this if you're lucky enough to be in Skyway during a Supa Troll rally.

I was looking at the specs of the 7300LE, and though it's certainly no powerhouse, it's not really all THAT bad either. I'm curious tho -- is this built into the motherboard or an add-in card?

Besides updating to better drivers (uninstall the old ones, restart, don't let Windows auto-install new ones, then install the ones you downloaded) I think the biggest obstacle here is going to be the level of visuals. The CPU is fast, so that will help, and as long as you stick to moderate settings and resolution you should be able to get decent performance (medium textures; FSAA, AF, bloom, dof, water, and particle physics off; particle count <5000, shaders on "low (no world bumpmaps)", world details around 60-70%, resolution no higher than 1280x960).

After you get newer drivers installed, start up the game in safe mode (check the Safe Mode box when you run the updater) and see how it runs. If performance in safe mode sucks, well there ain't much you can do cause that's the best it's gonna get really. If it's ok, then you can go into the graphics options and slowly turn things up till you find the sweet spot for you.

Also make sure you turn off anything that's running in the background, like the Vista sidebar, and make sure you check the "disable desktop composition" box on the compatibility tab of the game's shortcut.

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nvidia GeForce 7300 LE

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Unfotunately this is most likely due to being an underpowered card for this intese 3D game in performance-mode. So be sure ot have the LATEST Vista Drivers for it and try turning down the graphics settings (as well as turn OFF Boom, DoF and other junk) in the Co* Option... Graphics menu.

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That's it? No snarky "get a real graphics card" remarks? No snide retort? No dripping-with-disdain commentary? Who are you and what have you done with Shego???

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Ditto on long skirts. I even would have been happy with, and have suggested, long "loincloth" type skirts, ala Mystique and Alex Ross's version of Wonder Woman in Kingdom Come. It seems to me this would basically be a straight/thin version of the trenchcoat put both in back and front. I mean, trenchs clip pretty badly now, how much worse could they be if made thinner and placed in front as well.

And I also wonder, how would a long skirt be any different than a long robe? CoT have had long robes since day one, and they don't clip. I'm sure there is a good explanation -- I'm just making an observation.

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as jay mentioned, the NPC costumes were never designed to work on players. player parts have different considerations since each part moves independently of each other while NPCs costumes are animated together as a whole.

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The CoT never run at supersonic speeds or sit down. Do any NPCs sit down?

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Yeah, you can usually find Hellions, Skulls and Tsoo sitting. Tsoo are another one that have long robes too

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But do Tsoo in robes ever sit? I usually only see the pant-wearing Tsoo sitting.

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I'm pretty sure there are long-robed bosses that sit, tho I won't swear to it at the moment.

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Ditto on long skirts. I even would have been happy with, and have suggested, long "loincloth" type skirts, ala Mystique and Alex Ross's version of Wonder Woman in Kingdom Come. It seems to me this would basically be a straight/thin version of the trenchcoat put both in back and front. I mean, trenchs clip pretty badly now, how much worse could they be if made thinner and placed in front as well.

And I also wonder, how would a long skirt be any different than a long robe? CoT have had long robes since day one, and they don't clip. I'm sure there is a good explanation -- I'm just making an observation.

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as jay mentioned, the NPC costumes were never designed to work on players. player parts have different considerations since each part moves independently of each other while NPCs costumes are animated together as a whole.

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The CoT never run at supersonic speeds or sit down. Do any NPCs sit down?

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Yeah, you can usually find Hellions, Skulls and Tsoo sitting. Tsoo are another one that have long robes too

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A whole zone fighting Rikti sounds alot like the Rikti Crash site zone that no one uses right now. I sincerely hope this is not the bulk of what is happening with this exapnsion or we will have another Eden/Rikti crashsite/Crey's Folly/Boomtown/(other empty zones) ... we sure need more of those.

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I think the "new" zone IS the Rikti crash site, just revamped like they did with Faultline.

Ditto on long skirts. I even would have been happy with, and have suggested, long "loincloth" type skirts, ala Mystique and Alex Ross's version of Wonder Woman in Kingdom Come. It seems to me this would basically be a straight/thin version of the trenchcoat put both in back and front. I mean, trenchs clip pretty badly now, how much worse could they be if made thinner and placed in front as well.

And I also wonder, how would a long skirt be any different than a long robe? CoT have had long robes since day one, and they don't clip. I'm sure there is a good explanation -- I'm just making an observation.

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Hello there my fellow Heroes & Villains... I been thinking in upgrade to Windows Vista and wonder after this entire talking if is worth it buy it.

Come to RV I am going to smash you! Grrrr


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NO.

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Anyone know how to fix the problem of the mouse pointer not agreeing with what is onscreen? I seem to have to click roughly 1 inch below what I want to click on. Plus, the top of my screen is cut off.... It almost seems like the game wants to be a little bigger than my screen. I'm using Vista and running the game in safe mode (If I run it in normal mode, it's a small window that shows roughly 1/4 of the game).

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This has come up before and I think it's because you're not playing the game in the same resolution as your desktop. If you want to play the game in 800x600 you need to change your desktop resolution to 800x600 first, then fire up the game.

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Btw, ATI cards do not get the 'outdated drivers' message anymore and haven't for awhile.

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It's an nVidia thing, and I believe it only happens with drivers over version 100. It has to do with the way the driver internally stores its version and the way the game reads it; for example, driver version 160.02 reports as being 6.14.11.6002. The game reads the 6002 part and thinks it's driver version 60.02, and gives you the error message.

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I have an issue that I hope can be helped I read through the thread and it's helped dramatically, however...
Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE Just updated drivers (like 5 min ago) uninstalled old drivers first, then new. COH Prompts me that I'm using older drivers. The game runs terrible in 'medium'. I need to turn the resolution down to 1bout 25% to be able to play it. playing in windowed mode does not help either.
Incase ya need:

Running Vista Home
Intel Core 2CPU 6400 @ 2.13 G
2 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE

It's driving me crazy and I think I'm going bald from the headaches I can play the game, but it aint pretty.
Anyone have any thoughts?

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What driver version did you upgrade to? And don't worry about the old driver message, it's normal in Vista.

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Checked on the overheating issue. I am able to consistently reboot the system and do everything (except play CoX) right away, so I'm shying away from heat being the culprit.

I will check on the BIOS flash option and see what happens there.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

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Yeah, but a heat issue may not present itself unless the system, including the graphics card, is under full load like it is while playing a game.

Now if you're having troubles playing CoX, but no other games, or if you run a benchmark program like 3DMark06 and have it loop for an hour or so with no troubles, then it's probably not heat. But you just can't rule heat out simply cause the machine boots up and you can surf the web and check email, etc.

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Ok, I've been having this problem for awhile and its really starting to bug me. I have just installed a Vista upgrade disk on my computer a couple weeks ago and fixed the mouse cursor problem. I have 2 Nvidia 7950GT SLI video cards with the 32 bit Vista drivers. It says I have old drivers when I run CoX and my game crashes randomly every 5-15 minutes saying that the display driver has stopped responding. I'm not sure if this question has already been answered in this forum before, but I'm not searching through 500 pages of posts for it. I'm being annoyed by it, especially when in a team and having to ask the leader for an invite back because my game crashed. Can anyone answer my problem to this issue? (Try to keep it simple, not a computer expert.)

Thanks -Spoon

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Don't use SLI. It's pretty much that simple.

I would check to make sure the laptop isn't overheating. This is the most common cause of BSODs in situations like this, so long as you haven't added any new peripherals or updated any drivers.

If you have done either of those, undo what you did and see if the game plays again.

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I just updated my driver 2 days ago. They're the newest available. Actually, before I updated my drivers, at least I got to see the login screen before it crashed. But after I updated the drivers I haven't been able to get past the client and "Loading" bar before i get an error message.

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When you updated your drivers, did you uninstall the old ones first? Use Driver Cleaner in safe mode in-between uninstalling and reinstalling?

Did you also try running the game in windowed mode instead of full-screen? You can change this in the registry or with a utility called TweakCoH.

Also, you might want to also try rolling back your drivers instead of using new ones. Sometimes newer isn't always better. And if you're using any shortcut switches (such as -renderthread and -compatiblecursors), try launching the game without them, see if it makes a difference. I've heard reports that the -renderthread switch can sometimes cause hangups and crashing like this.

Oh, and btw, when the game crashes, does it tell you what module crashed? Or does the game just shut down? You can also try looking in the event log to see if an entry was written (right click My Computer, select manage, click on Event log, then applications).

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I know you heard this before but I have no idea what to do:

I just upgraded my dell E510 to Vista. (COH worked great on XP). Had the mouse issue and used the fix. however the game is very laggy and rubberbands. I have 1 GB of ram and my graphics card is a Nvidia 7300 LE. Here are what I think my options are and please tell me what you think?:

1. buy a new good graphics card (I don't want to do this if Vista is still going to cause problems)

2. Upgrade memory (I don't really run any heavy applications on my comp aside from COH)

3. reinstall XP (I like the vista interface)

Please help me choose the best solution and if buying a new card is the solution please tell me which one is known to work with out any problems.

Thank you !

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Adding another 1GB of RAM will greatly improve the game's performance, especially in terms of lagging/rubberbanding. But even so, you won't get the same level of performance under Vista as you will with XP.

I would start with the RAM and see how that turns out, then decide if you feel it's warranted to buy a new video card (which will ultimately cost more). But you definitely want more RAM.