Defcon_Kid

We have just had the same problem in Union, 8 players ready to go but as soon as any of us joined the event it resetted to Single Match, we tried it at least 3 times and all the time the same, besides all of us tried to list the event, but it didn't work.

Hi, I'm a bit lazy to read all the pages, but as I mainly play on a laptop bought January 2009, I was wondering if you could give me any warning/advice about what I could make in order to get a better performance from UM. Here are my specs:

HP Compaq 6735s
AMD Turion(tm)x2 Dual Core Mobile RM-70 2.00 GHz
4,00 GB RAM
Windows Vista Home Basic Service Pack 2 - 32 bits
ATI RADEON HD 3200 Graphics
driver version 8.479.1.4000 (although ATI CCC says 8.479.1.4-080521a-064461C-HP)
Direct3D version: 7.14.10.0567
OpenGL version: 6.14.10.7417

To sum up, I can play with some UM features set at "Low", but as soon as I try to set them higher my screen nearly freezes up. My current UM settings (after enabling and disabling several combinations) are:

- FSAA: N/A
- Shadow Mode: Stencil
- Environment Reflections: Disabled
- Water Effects: Low Quality
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- World Texture Quality: Medium
- Character Texture Quality: Low
- World Detail: 200%
- Depth of Field Effects: Disabled
- Desaturation Effects: Disabled

Thx in advance for any suggestions.

Thx for your replies guys, it's more or less is what I had already wondered and answered to my friend, but eh, asking does not hurt (I think ).

Hi guys, I haven't found a proper place to ask this, and as some of you already have accounts in both sides of the pond, I've been asked for a friend of mine if the new email in-game system allows people to transfer inf not only between characters of the same account, no matter if they are in Defiant or Union, BUT ALSO if this feature works in order to transfer it from EU to USA or vice versa. Can anybody tell me something about this? Thx in advance.

Aye, that States in P.O. was pretty much harder than expected... maybe it was our lack of shields/buffs, but as soon as he seemed nearly defeated, MoG and thunders and deaths everywhere Luckily people came in our rescue before heading all to Grandville in order to complete Bodyguard hehe.

Out of theme, I want to add that all in all it's been a nice event, I earned 11 badges and about 80-90 merits in Union last Monday playing the same character for 2 hours, and last night making several changes both heroes and villains I think I got at least 3-4 badges in all the characters I picked (some of them even more, like my dark brute).

And now that servers are about to be offline in order to implement the Issue, I say CANT WAITTT!

I played the event last night in Union heroes... as soon as the event was opened to more maps, lag started to decrease, as it was almost unbearable at the beginning. I earned nearly 80 Reward Merits and 11 badges (Frozen Fury and Iron Warrior, Hallow Spirit, plus the 4 Recluse's Victory AVs and Justiciar, and a few more)) in less than 2 hours; then, although the event was still ongoing, I retired and soloed a story arc through Ouroboros.

Now I do have to check my Defiant characters and decide what I'm using tonight!

I don't mind PvP, I can't understand how people can be so obsessed on it, PvP is almost dead here across the pond, besides this game has far more things to do than Architect and PvP.

Anyway, I have to agree with you that questions like "how awesome", "powersets coming with GR" or "Issue 17 release date" are a REAL JOKE, specially with SO many really important questions from the playerbase (more zones revamped, more SFs to pair with blueside, more old tfs revamped, any tfs in Praetoria, The Coming Storm, if it's true that the soon-to-be-old Posi tf version will be available through Ouroboros, any chance of bringing back either Cathedral of Pain or Calvin Scott tf, etc), that had no answer at all.

Well, at least we can still hope for more information next Wednesday.

Cool, as I typed, the time has come to say yay us! although I got characters in several SGs, I'm proud to say that the ones I play most are in the Top 100, Infernal Justice (demon-ish magic origin themed hero SG) and Liga de las Sombras (its redside counterpart). I'd like to take advantage of this moment and encourage peope to join us for any of them; we currently play IJ Wednesday nights and LdlS Tuesday nights, besides we will start a 3rd wave of toons in IJ soon, this time on Monday nights, so it would be a good time to start a new character from scratch.

Come and pay us a visit:

http://infernal.faelkeep.com/phpBB3/index.php

I was wondering the same... a few days ago checked it by myself in the Atlas City Hall and 2 of my SGs are in the Top 100, I'm just waiting for FE to update the list to post here and type "yay go us" and things like that.

I think problem is NOT in our ISPs, but in the EU servers... lag has got worse in the last couple of weeks, I noticed that it took me more time than usual my launcher to connect, more "Lost connection to mapserver" then in the last 5-6 months, or selecting the server, even powers activation cooldown longer, and even last Sunday or last night I thought it was because of the RWZ raids I was in, but tonight it was simply awful, "Connecting" reaching number 3 or 4, almost unplayable lag, etc etc. Besides I was quite tired, I simply gave up playing after an hour because of that.

Besides, just logged out about 15 minutes ago and downloader is stuck since then at 55.1M/884M.

What is this nonsense I'm reading? Who cares about Defiant or Union? We are ALL EUROPEANS!!

(Btw, like mereman I got characters in both servers BUT 13 of my 18 50s are in Defiant go Defiant go!!)

As hercez said, you can join Defiant Events chat channel, it's free so you don't need an invite, tfs, sfs and raids are arranged daily.

No worries uther, at least you did miss the debt fest... nice to know that now the top debt is set at 440.000 instead of 550.000

Yay Infernal Justice is firmly positioned in the Top 100! Currently number 90 but nearly 1 million and a half more prestige banked than the number 100... moreover, Liga de las Sombras, our demonic redside branch, should be also in the Top 100 the next time... go demons go!

No worries Donna, we all non-English people will move to our own servers as soon as they are ready so you won't have to feel awkward again.... wait, that won't happen... so you will have to bear us and our slips for quite some time

Luckily most part of the English community is an example of how to welcome and receive non-Elighs players.

Reporting for duty with any of these lvl 50 characters:

- full empath fender + recall friend
- granite tanker + recall friend
- rad/ice troller
- cold/cold fender
- fire/fire blaster
- spines/fire scrapper
- earth/kin troller

I wasn't able to lvl up characters on Thursday evening because I took part on a MoSTF attempt (only 4 deaths, we were that close), and I spent Friday night playing normal contact missions redside; after that this is what I got along the event:

- bane spider (from 31 to 33)
- ws (from 24 to 29)
- tanker (from 32 to 35)

I could have played more time, but it was quite profitable anyway... between Saturday evening and Sunday night I arranged and completed Cavern, Sister Psyche, Citadel and Manticore (full version, not a ghostable one), no so bad.

How come you can say such bad things about a game you've been into barely a month or two? You haven't tasted almost anything of the content of this game, missions, contacts, maps, task forces! Not everything consists in locking yourself into AE and lvling up from 1 to 50 in just a matter of hours or days. You had bad experiences with some players, I take it, just queue with the rest of us that sometimes have clashed with other people, it's normal in a big community, but luckily that minority left the game long ago and now the community is friendlier than ever, and even being shrinking in numbers lots of tfs, sfs, raids, and so are being arranged weekly.

It was already posted here by Avatea:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=210595&page=5

Congo rats for Karma Police at achieving number 1!

And for recruiters, @Sargatanas for both GammaForce and Infernal Justice.

With just 1 name it's enough, isn't it? if not I'd add more people for Infernal Justice (@Clawd Butcher, @Defcon Kid, @mereman, @Gully RX and a few more).

Just noticed Cunun's post below and we in Infernal Justice have also a SG chat channel.

As mereman posted, there's a certain amount of people I know that has had this weird bug or whatever it is, and have tried almost everything already proposed in order to solve it, while a few of us haven't had any problem at all (crossing fingers not having d000000med it this evening ).

Funny thing, it's happened to a friend of mine this night in Union, we were chatting and he suddenly said "lol, I've been kicked or what?" I said "what do you mean" and he replied "I was in a SG and now I'm not". I asked him what was his previous sg and he wasn't able to say it because he was using in that moment a character that he had created 2 years ago and didn't remember what was the SG name, so I invited him to mine.