CrazyCatMan

Just to clarify about literate role player: From what I recall of my days posting on the gaia forums, literate role players were the people who would use good grammar and spelling. Some of them were terrible at actually describing things and would just fancy up their words instead of putting real effort into rambling a description out for 3 or 4 paragraphs, But quite a few were actually capable of high quality long posts. And they didn't usually employ word switch tactics to make it sound fancier, they just wrote better.

Does this help at all in CoX Roleplaying situations? Not at all. In fact, it can make things horrible. These people tended to take time and put a lot of effort into each post, and because of the limited length of each chat sending, and how long they might take to say anything, you could be in for a long wait while they polish their hello.

So if you see someone with 'elite roleplayer' 'literate role player' or 'elite literate better than you role player', then you might well be in for a ride on the slow boat to longpostistan.

Now, in the interest of going on for entirely too long and rambling, I'll keep going about the literate role players on Gaia. There was, and probably still is, a level of 'how literate you are' system for Gaia, There were the Lite literate role players, who were looked down upon by the most snobbish of other literate role players, regardless of weather or not they were actually better. Lite's are the kind of literate role player who will post a minimum or short amount of information instead of multiple pages in a post. Their longest posts tend to be a few paragraphs. The quality of description value varies, but all literates are generally using correct spelling and grammar.

The middle ground was simply referred to as Literate role players. They were the people who could belt out multiple paragraphs easily, with their longer posts reaching into a page or two. They generally weren't given any flack from anyone on the higher or lower range of the literacy level chart.

There were also the Oldbies, people who had been role playing for more than 5 years. Now, by more than 5 years, I mean more than 5 years on a forum. It doesn't really matter how many years you've been playing dnd or doing other forms of role playing, the only way to be an Oldbie was to have been role playing for a long time on forums. Or you could claim to be one as long as you made suitable references to things which were old and role playing related. "Back in my day, we played Neverwinter nights on a 28k modem and we thought it was the bee's knees in our America Online chatroom." Oldbie is a modifier, and you're not likely to see it in a CoX character bio.

There was the Elite Literate Roleplayers as well. Or, who I like to refer to as the snobs. Quite a few of the people who claimed to be elite literate role players did in fact have a fair amount of skill, but they also had a rather, well, I don't think I can adequately describe them without going past the pg 13 limit of the forums. So instead I'm going to say they had a mickey mouse hat. The worst of them would lock themselves away into private guilds and never allow anyone new into the guild unless that person had been scouted by one of the members of the guild, then 'tested for literacy'. The best of these people either didn't use the term 'elite literate' went with 'advanced literate' or used the term simply to find people of a like skill level with which to role play. They didn't begrudge people for not wanting to sit down and type out a 3 page background story, But they did generally require anyone in a role play they were in to use mostly correct spelling and grammar. Which was reasonable considering that the most you were usually going to get for picture making was going to happen in someone's bio, where they might have gone out into the wilds of the internets to pick out a picture for their character. In fact, this became an extremely popular option, and the way of learning how to describe what your character actually looks like just flew out the window, rarely seen again.

As a final note, I just have to say, if you guys all think Pocket D is bad, then you haven't seen how bad it an get in some places where the light of compassionate, considerate role play refuses to shine.

I recently decided to renew some time on City of Heroes, remembering that my laptop could run the game fine back when Architect came out (the last time I played). I wound up downloading the game, getting some time shovled onto my account on the backs of the time card gremlins and everything seemed to be going swimmingly. Until I got to the login screen. It stated clearly that my computer seemed to be running on old drivers that may not be compatible with city of heroes and could cause stability issues.

I did not think this would be a problem. I was very, very wrong. I can generally go for about 5 to 20 minutes before the game crashes and I have to wait for the game to finish freezing, Vista to realize something is wrong, and finish closing the game before I can start the game back up, only to have it crash again shortly thereafter. This is, of course, excessively frustrating. I want to throttle the makers of my laptop (Toshiba) for not only using customized drivers for their product, but never updating them since the product's release in 2008.

Full details of what I'm working with are here: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...ily=1073768663

I have attempted downloading Nvidia's driver to update that, but it fails to detect compatible hardware. An Intel driver update similarly failed to complete, going so far as to 'install' then pop up with a window which could be best summarized as 'oops, we're not compatible, canceling installation'.

If anyone knows of a solution I could use to fix this problem of attempting to run the game with "out of date" drivers that, apparently, refuse to be updated, I would be quite happy. I recall that my desktop (which died a few months ago when the video card, or something caused it to refuse to display anything ever again), could run City of Heroes just fine, and it was not as technologically capable as this laptop.

I almost forgot to mention clearly that I did not purchase the going rouge expansion because I wasn't sure at the time if I really wanted it. I now know that I would quite enjoy purchasing it, but I'm not about to sink 40 or 50 bucks into purchasing it if the game is going to fail to run properly on this laptop.

When the game is running, it runs fineish. It's a little slow sometimes, but it's not lagging me badly, and when things (such as character models) are close, they look right. Unfortunately, I've been crashed by such varied things as the game failing to load a pair of wings, a female character's gigantic hair, and of course a few times the screen has gone to crap on me and instead of seeing people, or people with gaps in their model, it's showing me torso's and perhaps some legs, with heads missing entirely, and even floating arms. In other words, the game stops displaying properly, then freezes, then crashes.


Edit: And then I opened up my eyes and looked at the threads in this forum. Now I feel silly, as it's time to look at those.

Edit 2: I managed to get my driver updated by something mentioned in the main thread for driver issues. And now I feel extra silly for not having actually looked before posting.

oh, I just kind of read over it and saw bugs, and figured it was more specifically for dealing with bugs in the game rather than my computer attempting to stab me for wanting to play this game again. Well, time to repost this there then.

I recently decided to renew some time on City of Heroes, remembering that my laptop could run the game fine back when Architect came out (the last time I played). I wound up downloading the game, getting some time shovled onto my account on the backs of the time card gremlins and everything seemed to be going swimmingly. Until I got to the login screen. It stated clearly that my computer seemed to be running on old drivers that may not be compatible with city of heroes and could cause stability issues.

I did not think this would be a problem. I was very, very wrong. I can generally go for about 5 to 20 minutes before the game crashes and I have to wait for the game to finish freezing, Vista to realize something is wrong, and finish closing the game before I can start the game back up, only to have it crash again shortly thereafter. This is, of course, excessively frustrating. I want to throttle the makers of my laptop (Toshiba) for not only using customized drivers for their product, but never updating them since the product's release in 2008.

Full details of what I'm working with are here: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...ily=1073768663

I have attempted downloading Nvidia's driver to update that, but it fails to detect compatible hardware. An Intel driver update similarly failed to complete, going so far as to 'install' then pop up with a window which could be best summarized as 'oops, we're not compatible, canceling installation'.

If anyone knows of a solution I could use to fix this problem of attempting to run the game with "out of date" drivers that, apparently, refuse to be updated, I would be quite happy. I recall that my desktop (which died a few months ago when the video card, or something caused it to refuse to display anything ever again), could run City of Heroes just fine, and it was not as technologically capable as this laptop.

Edit: I forgot to mention clearly that I did not purchase the going rouge expansion because I wasn't sure at the time if I really wanted it. I now know that I would quite enjoy purchasing it, but I'm not about to sink 40 or 50 bucks into purchasing it if the game is going to fail to run properly on this laptop.