Chad Gulzow-Man

Well if you're gonna hit 10, you might as well go to 12 for the DOs!

And if you're going after 12, then go ahead and hit 14 for the travel power!

The system effectively has to queue up every polygon (be it a building, object, or animated model) within a certain radius of you and then decide whether or not it should display those polygons based on the camera position.

There's a lot of geometry and effects being processed when you're near a base, there's a lot of NPCs to process AI for and that's where players tend to gather. It's a triple whammy to both your system and the server.

As far as being on an 8-man team, it entirely depends on where you are and what you're doing. If you're in a small enclosed office map, your system will probably run close to 60fps when not in combat and could possibly run even higher. But during combat, your system has to think about where everybody and every enemy nearby is standing currently, where they're facing and moving, where their powers are being directed and what animations and effects it has to apply to those powers as they're being used. To a minor extent, you'll be held back from a hardware standpoint by people with weaker machines and internet connections than yours, since the game has to report all commands back to the server and then tell your machine what your teammates are doing.

The whole point of FSAA (Full Screen Anti-Aliasing) is to get rid of jagged edges. Your video card should easily support at least 4x FSAA without causing any sort of performance dip, and it can only make the game look better for you. Your video card is also completely sufficient to run at your chosen resolution.

There was an older lady in my SG that got her account hacked a couple times. And every time it happened, she blamed NCSoft for not keeping her account secure until she finally got fed up and quit the game.

But hey, that's what happens when you don't change your password after the first time it happens. Or the second. ... or the third.

And I don't get the whole fascination with beating up another player. But if that's your thing, I'm perfectly willing to leave you to it.

In case anybody was waiting on pins and needles to see if I got the badge, you can relax. I did.

Rather than creating player-defined spawn points, would it be possible to allow designers to choose SPECIFIC spawn points from the already available ones to put a particular mob or interactive object at? As opposed to the whole "Front, Middle, Back" thing, I mean.

I have a mish with a closed door near on the last floor of a lab map, and I'd prefer if my end boss were always behind the door... but sometimes he appears in another side room on the same floor.

Sounds like a Dominator Assault powerset to me... >_>

I live on the US east coast, and a good number of the announcements are made with the Pacific timezone in mind. It doesn't upset me when they don't include EST in their announcements.

Do you know why they primarily make announcements using PST? Because that's where their headquarters is. They're not lounging around in London saying, "Man, to heck with Blue Rabbit and the other European players! This game has officially gone to the Americans!!!"--they're in California, in the United States, and that's the time they operate on.

If Paragon Studios primarily operated out of Europe, I would expect their announcements to be made according to their local time just the same. It's actually kind of silly to expect them to do otherwise.

Yeah, I'm still at work for another 4 hours, but I'm a little worried I might not get the badges. For some reason my debit card, which is usually billed on the first of the month, was not billed until the 2nd of November. I'm still using the same debit card I've been using for close to two years, and the account had plenty of money in it.

Did my account lapse for a few hours or for a day? I don't know. I wasn't at home on Nov 1st, so I don't know if I was locked out ot the game.

(Does that still confuse you? Cuz it confuses me. )

If it comes down to it, I'll contact customer service. I've been with the game since CoH was in beta and don't plan to quit anytime soon, so I believe they'll be reasonable about things. (I lost a couple days due to my bank cancelling my previous debit card as a "safety precaution", if you're wondering why my bill date isn't the 28th.)

And either way, I'll wait until I get home from work and check for myself whether or not I earned the badges before I spam the poor customer reps.

Fixed. (Cryptic hasn't worked on this game for a couple years now.)

Just as soon as they can find a way to keep the peg leg from falling off when you stumble around after drinking all that rum.

It means you're eligible for entry to the beta once they start the "loyal customer" wave of invitations. I believe 5+ year vets still have higher priority.

Note that the beta won't actually start until some point after New Years, in 2010.

I haven't quite run everything, and I doubt anyone (devs included) has memorized every bit of the storyline. However, you're suggesting things contrary to some very prevalent and important story canon.

Here's the thing: we do know how some things are going to go. People have posted links to information about specific things, which has been verified by the developers or existing story canon, and you keep ignoring it.

Nobody's saying that the stuff you're suggesting couldn't be in some parallel dimension. They're just saying it's not in Praetoria, and for the most part are backing it up with proof.

No. No it couldn't. "Crazy puppet monsters?" Possible. Muppets? Not a chance at all. NCSoft doesn't have nearly enough money to get the rights to the Muppets, let alone what it would take to get the property owners to allow the images of carefully-crafted children's rolemodels to be used as villains for superheroes to beat up willy-nilly.

Me, Serious? Not really. Just annoyed that you're refusing to drop the subject after proof has been offered that you're wrong.

It's fine to speculate on things, but for pete's sake, it's still two months (at least) away from when the Going Rogue beta test begins. We'll learn a lot more when it gets here, and things are likely to change significantly between the start of beta and the actual release to the live servers.

It's a little short notice for something like that, especially since nothing of the like has been tested on the Test Server.

But you made it sound like the mutant ability attracted robo-geniezilla. Now you've gone and confused me.

Then you're a Mutant, since that "ability" was what lead to your powers.

The powers thing is iffy, though. You still might just get terminal magical nanite cancer.

Do we know that Vigilantes won't be able to speak to contacts in the Rogue Isles?

I was planning to churn through all the Villain content with my Hero using Ouroboros.

Something like this?

*snicker* Two goblets, one cup... >_>

...

Alright, who snuck drugs into my sandwich at lunchtime?

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/impetus

The only problem there is, if your mez protection toggle had an enemy debuff on it, and someone managed to mez you through it, wouldn't that drop the toggle completely (as opposed to just suppressing it)?

To further prove that math and logic can defeat anything, ever.