Dr_Byron_Poe

thank you eric and necro for taking the time to confirm

there's been a recent thread from someone asking some of your same questions, have a look

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=287308

1) personally i like the ATO set in roots, including the ATO proc, and a Grav Anchor chance for hold.

2) having the achilles heel proc in everything is redundant, since it does not stack from the same caster. if you have it in more than one power there's more chances for it to hit overall, but once one of them hits, that's it. in a defense focused build you probably wont have room for more than 1 anyway, Fling Thorns is a good spot.

3) imho permadom should be your first goal, and defense second; having said that, permadom and 32.5% to S/L shouldn't be hard to get if you are using scorpion shield.

for the most extra recharge to ML in a single slot, Adjusted Targeting has a recharge-only piece you can toss in...

sorry for resurrecting an older thread but i noticed there are others still asking this same question... so i'm posting wherever i see this concern to try and tie up the loose ends

it is possible to dual box on a Mac with the NC Launcher. here is how:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...6&postcount=15

sorry i didn't see this thread earlier -- you can absolutely run 2 instances on a mac, i dualbox on my macbook all the time. here's how:

you have to create a copy of the game client in a separate folder from wherever your original client is. you do not need a second copy of the NC Launcher. when you launch the 2nd instance each time you have to manually change the NC Launcher preferences so it selects your 2nd client, and not the one you already have open.

so, in my Applications folder i have
1) a folder called CoX, with City of Heroes in it
2) a sub-folder called CoX2, with a copy of City of Heroes in it
(important--the copy must still be called "City of Heroes". you can't modify the name. before the NC Launcher existed, when you could launch the app directly, you could just have two different clients in the same place named City of Heroes and City of Heroes_Copy. but the NC Launcher will not properly recognize any app with a modified name, which is why you have to put it in a different folder so there is a different path to it. )

to make the copy you right click on the City of Heroes application and select "Copy City of Heroes." then you just drag and drop it into the new folder.

to open the first instance, obviously just go ahead and log in as normal. i usually go into windowed mode once i get the first acct logged (command-enter)

to open a second instance:
1) open the NC Launcher again, but don't click "play now"
2) look to the menu on the left side of the launcher
3) under "Installed," there is a listing for "City of Heroes" that has a triangle next to it.
4) when you click the triangle, it expands the City of Heroes sub menu.
5) the last option is "Properties"--open it & you will be shown your "Install Location." this is the default client the launcher is accessing
6) click BROWSE
7) open your other folder, and select the other game client
8) you will get a pop up message "install path has been changed-- are you sure" click yes, you are sure
9) you will be returned to the Properties window, and you will see the Install Location has been changed
10) close the Properties window
11) click Play Now

this will successfully open a 2nd instance of the game for you.

unfortunately, you will have to go through this process manually every time you want to run 2 instances. but fortunately it only takes about 30 seconds.

i previously tried making a copy of the NC Launcher as well so that i could have one Launcher defaulted to each client... but that didn't work, both Launchers were just defaulting themselves to whichever instance I had open last.

hope this helps out.

i was able to successfully download from that link last week ... but going back to it now i see the 502 error also

(also, THANK YOU for the update)

quick $0.02 just based on personal experience with my plant/thorns --

i did have a similar problem last month. but unlike yours, mine went away on its own...

it was during 2xp weekend -- clicking the PM market button on either of my accts would cause the exact same crash you experienced. however, mine wasn't getting "stuck" with the blank PM window open, so after restarting each time i could log back in properly. and since 2xp weekend, the problem hasn't resurfaced. so maybe it was due more to people bombing the market for xp boosters that weekend than anything on my end.

sorry i don't have any more more useful feedback for you. good luck getting this resolved, it sounds like a terrible PITA :-/

B reminds me of The Rocketeer, good stuff

Excerpts from an Interview with Detective Selnum:

DESTROIKA’s never talked to me directly. But I overheard his voice, once. Once was enough. I’m glad he doesn’t talk to me now. I don’t even know for sure if he’s a he. But I’m afraid of him.

He knows we’re all afraid of him. Whenever something big goes over on the radio, he comes by the station. Lets himself in and just stares at me. Through that mask. That featureless, emotionless mask. It means stop whatever I’m doing and cough it up. I give him addresses, I give him leads. And he leaves whenever he wants to. He never talks to me. But I know he’s doing us a favor whenever he comes by. He’s mostly on our side, I think.

I mean, we’ve got crime on Peregrine Island, sure; but somewhere out there I hear the entire multi-verse is collapsing. If he doesn’t come around for a while, what can I do? He’s completely out of my jurisdiction. You can tell a rookie by how big their eyes get the first time they see him, but it’s only natural. Eight feet tall, some kinda huge fiery monster, and don’t get me started on those claws he calls legs. No one knows what he is. A demon? A dragon? Some kind of behemoth balrog? Not sure what that even means but Smith says it’s from Lord of the Rings.

All I know is he somehow controls fire. He can light you on fire with his hands, make a sword out of fire and cut you with it, I even heard he used to breathe fire. Can’t tell you how many pens and paperweights I’ve had to replace over the years, things just melt around him sometimes. But he also carries weapons. Nothing fancy, just sharp and painful. Shurikens that explode, caltrops to shred your tires, or your body; he even wraps his fists in barbed wire. I guess if he thinks the fire’s too painless for some reason he’ll just brawl you to death with those razor edges. I know he’s nasty. I know he’s violent. And I know he crosses a lot of lines that we don’t. But like I said, what am I gonna do? He’s outside my jurisdiction. I don't want him coming to punish me one day if I get on his bad side...

But the city loves him. He’s been awarded who knows how many medals of honor or badges of valor or whatever they give out these days. Rescued this, saved the world that… he never shows up for the ceremonies though, so who knows what happens to the hardware. Even got a tag in some fancy supergoup, maybe just to get off the radar. Now they take the publicity as a team. But whenever I see him he’s still going out alone. Johnson gave him a compliment once on earning some award and it really turned his head. He stood in the office door for an extra long time before he left and just stared. Then he stalked out, silent as always.

Last month we had a Carnival of Shadows problem. Debutantes, parties, kidnapping; all fairly basic as far as that scene goes. So I was surprised to see him when the call went out. You can’t really tell on account of the mask but I swear he seemed to smirk when I gave him the info. Something in his body language shifted, like he thinks the whole thing’s funny. Or he thinks they are. Or he just enjoys hurting people. Maybe even women. Those are people’s daughters out there, I said to him. DeVore’s the one you should be going after…these other girls don’t know what they’re doing. He didn’t say anything.

An hour later he showed back up at the station, and went straight to Johnson’s desk. He had a carnival mask with him. Half a mask. Covered in blood. He ripped down a police award for marksmanship and hung the mask on the wall in its place, the picture hook sticking out through one cracked eyehole.

Nobody said a word. Until HE broke the silence. I was halfway out of my desk chair when it hit me, that VOICE. It filled up the room; but it didn’t seem to come from him. It was like thirty different ventriloquists throwing their voices in from outside. From everywhere at once, from everywhere around him, without a source. Like the sound became a physical thing, thick, and slow, and crawling on me like I walked through a spider web. And I saw the sounds before I heard them. In my mind. I saw the voice. It was terrifying. Like a black and white filmstrip of an atom bomb test, and the shockwave pushing the dust clouds. Like watching a fault shift and turn into a mountain. It takes a billion years of violence to mangle the granite. But it never makes a sound. That was the voice. And he only said one thing.

“Just because I’m here, doesn’t make me a hero…”