Captain_Karate

Woke up this morning to find a nice surprise in my WW window. At first I was somewhat disapponted in getting that purple. But now, not so much...

Hopefully this screenshot link works...

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I'm no expert...but I have some ideas I would try if it was me having the same problem.

Are your graphics drivers up to date? If not, go to Nvidia, or AMD etc and get the latest drivers.

Have you tried to login with another character? Or just the one? Maybe it's a problem with that particular character.

Have you tried running the game in Safe Mode? That sets all the graphics options to their lowest. You might want to try that, and see if you can at least get in.

So ya...get the latest drivers, run the game in safe mode, and see if you can get in. If not, try running safe mode again and try a different character.

Personally, virtually 100% of the time I am farming, it's to level up an alt of mine on another account. I usually farm at +3 x 8. But now, since I got my level shift yesterday, I will likely increase to +4 x 8, since my difficulty will stay essentially the same, but the xp for my alt should increase. If I was just farming for drops tho, (which I never do, they are just a byproduct of my xp-fest), I would probably stay at 0 x 8 and mow through mobs even more easily. So count me in as increasing my difficulty, for the above mentioned reason.

I like soloing personally. It's why I chose a scrapper for my first ever hero character, and a stalker for my first ever villain. I liked their survivability, and non dependence on other toons for support. I don't like the idea that "you have" to team if you want to get the rare/ultra rare incarnate slots. Some people like soloing their 50's. Not everyone likes going online and seeing how big of a team they can form, and let's go fight evil or whatever! 8-)

Even when I don't solo, it doesn't really count because I'm playing with my other toons. I've got 4 accts, and plenty of powerful characters. I can pretty much level up my own characters fairly fast, and I don't need a team to do anything in this game. Oh wait...now I do. :-/

Don't turn this game into WoW with the requirement you have to raid or do team instances to even have a chance at the best gear etc. What's next? Enhancement Score rating for how well you have your powers slotted with high end enhancements? That's why I left WoW. "Looking for tank for ICC. Please link previous achievement badge and GS 6500+ rating" ring a bell? Or, if you do want to keep making us do TF's... can you please also give us soloists an alternate way to also experience the incarnate goodies?

[QUOTE=weather_witch;3472986]I'm considering the change to windows 7 any known issue with COH under windows 7? Anything I need to know when changing over the be sure coh runs right? I'm assuming the coh client on the web site is up to date? I hate loading COH and having to let the machine run all night to catch all the updates..sigh.
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I read somewhere on these forums recently that you can just save your CoH folder to a DVD-R or a memory stick(it's a 3.9 GB folder or so), and then just re-copy the folder back to your computer after you reformat and install your new OS. Then just run the updater again, and it will verify the files, and you should be good to go. Might need a double check on that from someone who has actually done this though. Can someone more knowledgeable than me verify this works?

I always run CoH in full screen mode. But I am usually in between missions or sometimes in the middle of them(lol!) alt-tabbing out of CoH to change a song on youtube, or check my email etc. Sometimes, but not always, when I alt-tab back into CoH I am seeing the CoH screen, but when I go to click a power, it's like I am on the window below it? I really hate going to click cinders, and next thing I know I'm bumped out of coh and it's clicking on an IE link on youtube or something.

So why am I seeing the CoH window, but my clicks are sometimes hitting pages on the desktop? Can I fix this? Also, related....sometimes to alt-tab out of coh takes me two attempts. the first alt-tab basically brings me back to coh. Doing it again actually brings me to my other open window.

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I made about 2 billion although it was not from anything planned, just playing the game. I got 6 purple drops(apocalypse, soulbound x4 lol, and abs amazement) over DXP weekend and about 40 yellow and orange recipes while levelling up my characters. I crafted everything that was worth it, and listed em all for about 60% the going rate. All are sold now, and I am up the 2 billion. :-D

Hi everyone.

I'm not a pvp'er at all. But I was messing around with two of my cousins in Warburg this weekend, and I had to admit it was fun. We had just "normal" toons. Like not specifically designed for pvp, but that have some good io sets etc, and are pretty good in pve. I read some posts on this boards, and some build critiques, and had some questions.

Ok...kb protection. -30 or -40 pts of kb protection? Uh...is the universe gonna fall on me? lol. Why do I need so much? In pve on my /sr scrapper I had practiced brawler, and that seemed to work pretty well for never getting kb'd. What's the reason for all this kb protection? Is there a diminishing return on this protection in pvp or something? I suppose I could just go to a pvp zone and find out, but I'd prefer not to look like a total fool first. Although I'm sure that wouldn't be possible against anyone with an ounce of pvp experience.

I am guessing speed is very important in pvp. But do you absolutely need two travel powers? Is SS a requirement? How good is flight in pvp? I guess on a ranged blaster, but I am talking melee scrapper here. SS and SJ? Or is just SJ or SS good enough?

I won't be buying the pvp io's. Some are cheap, but some are real bank breakers. Ya...Glad armor proc I will have to live without. ;-) I understand that they have two sets of bonuses, but how effective is a non pvp io'd toon vs a pvp io'd one, generally? Am I just wasting my time considering going to a pvp zone without like a 20 billion inf build? I'm not considering pvping for the kills. But I would like to have fun. And getting my butt handed to me over and over again would be more frustrating than fun, in my books. lol.

What's a fightclubber? Scrub? I've seen these terms tossed around in a few posts, but don't know what they mean.

That's all I can think of for now. Thanks to anyone and everyone who answers my questions.

Thanks!

I need a clarification on how these recipes drop. If you are on a team consisting of two players, and defeat an opponent, does each player have a chance of a recipe dropping for them? Or does it determine first at the kill if one drops, and if so, randomly determine which member of the team gets it? Can both team members receive a pvp recipe from the same kill, or not?

Thanks!

I need a clarification on how these recipes drop. If you are on a team consisting of two players, and defeat an opponent, does each player have a chance of a recipe dropping for them? Or does it determine first at the kill if one drops, and if so, randomly determine which member of the team gets it? Can both team members receive a pvp recipe from the same kill, or not?

Thanks!

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I found out the answer on the PvP forums. At the time of the kill, it determines if one drops, and then randomly determines which team member gets it.
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I'd be more in favor of this "enforced teaming" if they would at least remove the minimum amount of players required to actually start the WTF. They could leave the normal amount required for the regular TF version, but modify(eliminate) it for the Weekly Strike Target. Actually requiring 8 people is a bit overkill, considering that with incarnate abilities already slotted, and purpled out toons etc, we are no longer talking about difficulty of content that is usually(supposedly) designed around non-io'd characters. So if a TF is designed for 8 non-io characters...surely super io'd toons can accomplish the same feat with less players? Why not give them the option to at least try?

I've been annoyed for awhile about most of those things you already mentioned peterpeter. The difference between the naming of a recipe and crafted enhancement is my major petpeeve though. Also...I hate how there is a difference in name between "disorient" and "stun" etc, although it exactly the same. Why would a recipe be called something like "whatever:chance to stun" and the crafted enhancement be "whatever:disorient bonus"!!! That kind of stuff drives me crazy.

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