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It is for some and not for others, however if you follow the post that Zombie made then the techies here might be able to see if it's something that can be fixed on your end. I'd also suggest opening a support ticket with NCSoft. Even if they aren't able to help, simply making them aware through official channels that your issue is still ongoing may help them nail down why your specific configuration is still having issues, which may help them get something in for you in a future patch.

Aero doesn't play nice with CoH, especially with certain services running. This has been happening off and on for quite a while, with various software configurations. We had a troubleshooting thread going for this, shortly after Win 7 released if I remember correctly, and as near as we were able to determine there are certain services that, when interacting with CoH, aren't giving control back to the system to disable desktop composition (Aero) correctly when alt-tabbing. Many of these are anti-virus programs, but there were several other background services that did it as well.

Using windowed mode is one work around for the issue. The other, if you prefer to run in fullscreen anyways, is to set it so that Aero remains disabled the entire time that CoH is running. To do that you can right-click on your updater shortcut and go to Properties. Select the Compatability tab, and in the Settings section check off "Disable desktop composition".

There are two different types of story arcs, major and minor. You can only have two major arcs at any given time, but any number of minor arcs, in addition to your open major arcs.

Unfortunately, this forum is for players asking for help from other players, as is the Tech forum. The people that you're trying to contact may not see this thread. That said, however, I would suggest PMing one of the community reps with this (Avatea, or TheOcho). They may be able to help you out with this.

Hit up the Tech forums, you'll find plenty of DOOM there at the moment ^.^

I believe this post by pohsyb sums it up well.

If I remember correctly, the settings for the game are stored in the registry, not a file. Messing with that generally isn't advised unless you're experienced. Have you tried the game's safe mode?

"Sniper Rifle" refers to the power by that name in the Assault Rifle set. This is the only power that it applies this to.

Here's the Paragon Wiki entry on the power..

Yes, you will continue to be able to play the game and use the forums until your account reaches the "Playable Until" date on your game account page.

Have you contacted Support about getting help? You might also try asking for player help in the Technical Issues section with figuring out if there is something on your end that can be done to relieve the problem you're having. If this isn't a widely experienced problem then there may be a conflict between the game and something else running on your computer. The people in the Tech forum are pretty bright, and can normally be a lot of help with this kind of thing if you're poilte about asking for help, and post the reports they ask you to run.

The "Aion" timecards are actually normal PlayNC Timecards in an Aion branded package. They still have the logos for CoH and Lineage II on them, and are usable for any NC game.

Have you tried running it with the "Run as Administrator" option? It sounds like the program may not have permission to write into the directory it's trying to write to, in which case that should fix it.

Your username and password for the game may not be the same as your username and password for your master account. Can you still log into your master account on the main site? If so, you should be able to reset your game password there, and make sure that you're using the correct username.

If the credit card is on file, then you should be able to alter the purchase limit to as much as $250 in the billing options on your master account. A support article about the card on file and options for controlling purchases can be found here. Hope that helps!

I disagree with this suggestion. The game is already very newbie friendly...but there also needs to be items and features for advanced players. Those would be IOs and the market. "Newbie friendly" does not need to mean "everything accessable to every player". Certain things are made to cater to certain subsets of players. These features are among those. As it is, any new player can make their way through the tutorial, get some very good instruction about game basics, and then set about building their knowledge from there. There's even a tutorial available for IOs from level 10 up, and generic IO recipes are already purchasable. If you're looking to put set IOs into your build in the way the OP is talking about, you're no longer a newbie. If you're at the point where you're looking at these things, you're capable of asking what's involved. The system is fine as-is, and with a little patience you can get what you want over time.