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  1. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Starry Night View Post
    The solution I use: run in windowed mode. Keep "Activity Viewer" (found in Applications > Utilities) open where you can see CoH's memory use while you're playing. Whenever memory use is around 2 G, in game, use the "/reloadgfx" or "/unloadgfx" command (not sure the difference, both seem to work). The memory use will drop. Unfortunately, it won't drop all the way down; you'll slowly accumulate unfreeable memory.
    As a habit, when I play CoH on my MacBook Pro (versus my PC desktop), I usually just /reloadgfx every 25 minutes or so. At one point, I used to set a countdown timer on my phone, just so I wouldn't get into something hairy, forget, and then have everything come crashing down.

    Great idea on making it a macro.
  2. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ketch View Post
    Nice work. I don't recognize that chest detail. What is it?
    It's from the Tier 9 VIP Celestial Armor set. A pretty nice set in its own right, IMO.
  3. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snowzone View Post
    Time Manipulation looks quite generic.
    Time Manipulation looks like... well, nothing, really. I mean, it's a cool effect to see these waves of power emanating from a character, but no shots of what it actually *does*.

    Which makes me wonder how much of TimeManip is done at this point. Or perhaps just a bad selection of video to show.
  4. El_Furioso
    Let's hope they offer these codes in other places than Facebook. Some of us avoid that place like the plague.
  5. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scythus View Post
    Hm... I could have sworn I've already seen that martial arts billboard before.
    Nope, you haven't. 'Cuz that was my entry in the contest.
  6. El_Furioso
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    In addition, a new low level Sewers Trial for both heroes and villains lets you team up with other starting characters to take the fight below street level.
    Interesting. I hope this complements, and doesn't replace, the organically-grown sewer runs we've been doing for years. A structured trial may not allow hapless level 1s and 2s to dive into giant mobs of reds and purples as their CoH indoctrination.
  7. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Don't you have any left on the Beta server from like the GR beta?
    Just logged in. Beta Server (Beta Server 01) is wiped. All GR beta characters are gone (at least, on my account).
  8. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Red_Addiction View Post
    This was a very fun contest! Thank you guys so much! Congratulations to all the other winners, and runner ups! These are all awesome. I espescially like the Flying Lotus, very nice layout and type usage, and the logo rocks.
    Thanks for the kind words, Red. I made a series of three for Flying Lotus -- should probably post 'em up somewhere. In any event, it was a fun diversion for a couple hours on a Sunday night.

    Great work, everyone! I'm never surprised to see that creative folks are drawn to CoH.
  9. El_Furioso
    I'm seeing the same "clean crash" mentioned by others here. Playing along just fine, then the CoH screen just vanishes. I'm dropped back to the Desktop, although CoH is still running (it's in the Dock). CoH stays like that for 5-10 seconds, then the rest of the app quits as well, giving me the "Send an Error Report" dialog. No freezing or seize-ups; CoH just gracefully gives up the ghost.

    I'll try /reloadgfx later today to see if it keeps the crash at bay... although this is obviously a temporary solution.

    MacBook Pro 15
    2.66MHz Core i7
    4GB RAM
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
    Snow Leopard 10.6.6
    City of Heroes v1.0.3068
  10. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doctor Vivian View Post
    Seems only of value to 78+ month veterans that are still making new toons.

    Most of the 75+ month vets that I've met aren't doing that, they've "settled down".

    But I don't have access to the metrics, it's just personal experience.
    No chance of that here. As soon as I get the latest project to 50, I'm already creating a couple more to start work on.
  11. El_Furioso
    Looking forward to all the awesomesauce this new issue has to offer.

    But, oy! All those respecs to adjust for inherent Stamina! Better throw Mids into overdrive!
  12. El_Furioso
    Looking forward to respec'ing my namesake along these lines. Great work, Awesome.

    One question to all those who've gone down this road: how is this build handling Endurance? I mean, you're ultimately running five (5) toggles (TI, Unyielding, Invincibility, Tough, Weave), which is definitely an endurance drain. Can you attack more than once a minute or so without running out of endurance?
  13. El_Furioso

    Going Rogue Badges

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    Originally Posted by IanTheM1 View Post
    There's a highway leading out of Imperial City at the south end of the zone that got me the badge. Though I may have been helped by lag.
    Success! So while it appears you can earn this badge in more than one spot, I can definitely confirm that the "bridge to nowhere" in the southern part of Imperial City works for the Denial of Service badge.

    Just keep running down the road toward the trees. You'll hit the suppression field and start taking damage. I was at about 1/3 health when there was a "pop", I earned the badge, and the damage stopped. You can then turn around and head back up the road the way you came without damage.

    Thanks, Ian!
  14. El_Furioso

    Going Rogue Badges

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    Originally Posted by SaintNicster View Post
    I think when I got this, I did it from one of the walls surrounding Nova Praetoria
    I'm interested to hear if anyone else has managed to grab Denial of Service, and where exactly you did it. I hit 21 last night, finished off all my Defeat badges (including street sweeping for Seers, ugh), slogged through the Underground for all the Exploration badges and Headjuiced, and this is the last one for me before I pierce the veil.

    I've made it all the way to the standard glowing blue wall heading directly north from both Nova Praetoria and Neutropolis. No badge. Are there perhaps only a limited number of spots where you can earn this one?
  15. El_Furioso

    Going Rogue Badges

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    Part 5: Praetoria exploration badges by zone
    Note that on the maps the stars indicate badge markers and the arrows indicate the resistance plaques (and relative direction you should face). Click thumbnails for larger version. For convenience, the Rail Rider multiple part explore badge markers are on these maps as well.

    Nova Praetoria: Accolade - Pure Praetorian

    • Ambitious - ( (-5398.5 190.6 -255.0))
    • Citizen Cole - ( (-3089.1 -3.7 -255.8))
    • Civic Minded - ( (-4862.5 33.4 -255.5))
    • Guardian of Justice - ( (-5098.5 289.4 -829.9))
    • Into the Wild - ( (-6637.0 -11.7 1727.6))
    • Technophile - ( (-6335.0 -15.6 1.8))
    • On the Waterfront - ( (-6747.1 -75.7 71.8))
    • Un-Civil Society - ( (-4519.9 32.0 -253.8))
    Eight (8) badges are listed here, but the linked map shows nine (9) stars. Do we have one accidental extra star, or is your list missing one badge?
  16. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Redbone View Post
    The two best fan hypotheses I've seen on that is:

    1) Their Hamidon's mutation was akin to a gigantic, Godzilla style devowered (with modifications) and he was never a jello mold. That mobility made it possible for him to spread the DE like a plague with it springing up everywhere he went (and, naturally, his immoble form on Earth Prime is why the DE are somewhat concentrated in Paragon and the Rogue Isles).

    2) OUR Hamidon is "stage one" of the Hami's mutation, but thanks to the concentration of heroes in Paragon he's never been able to get to cell division and develop into the godzilla style devowered because we keep beating him down and he has to regenerate into the first cell again. Pretoria didn't have the concentration of heroes constantly hammering on him, so the first cell replicated and developed into the creature Pretorian Cole beat up.

    I like the second one, personally.
    Ditto that. The second one is really quite good, and all the more reason to continue those Hami raids!
  17. El_Furioso
    My sniggly question:

    The new page says, "Praetoria stands at the location of Hamidon's first great defeat at the hands of Marcus Cole...", which is nice, but *where* is this, exactly? Is Praetoria in the same spot in Rhode Island where Paragon City stands in Primal Earth, or somewhere else?

    Or has this been called out somewhere already, and I'm missing it (which happens a lot )?
  18. El_Furioso
    Too bad online registration is already closed, but this might be fun since I didn't make it over the hill for HeroCon last year.
  19. El_Furioso
    Congratulations all around to everyone behind the scenes. You're the reason I'm still here after 63 months (and counting)!
  20. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jonny_B View Post
    I was thinking the same thing last night.

    I wonder if the Cali earthquake had/has anything to do with it?
    Recent earthquakes here in CA weren't anywhere near Mountain View (Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco), so unless they were on a field trip up north to Humboldt, they should all be fine.
  21. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Twilight_Snow View Post
    The arc is in CoHMR now. I contacted El Furioso, he said that maybe I submitted during database backing up. Thanks!
    Yup. Something got tweaky. But the arc is up and available.
  22. El_Furioso
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by CuppaManga View Post
    For Safari try this:

    1. Make sure Private Browsing isn't turned on.

    2. Open Preferences, go to Security and set Accept Cookies to Always.

    3. Click Show Cookies and type cityofheroes.com in the search blank at the top. Delete all cookies from cityofheroes.com.

    4. Try to log in again.
    Thanks, Manga. Result.... nada. No change. Same behavior as I described above.

    Honestly, this makes no sense to me at all. If I was just seeing this in one browser, I'd think that particular app somehow got munged. And if it was *every* browser, I'd think it was maybe some weirdness at my router. But YES to Camino, NO to Firefox/Safari is stumping me.
  23. El_Furioso
    I posted this weirdness a week or so ago over in the Technical Issues forum, but I thought I'd see if any other Mac users have run into this particular problem.

    I'm currently unable to log in to the new forums via either Firefox (3.5.2) or Safari (4.0.2). I enter my ID and password, and I actually get that "Thanks for logging in, El_Furioso" interim screen, but then I'm returned to the same forums home screen I started on, still not logged on (as if I never tried logging in at all). I've cleared my cache and cookies on both browsers, ran Onyx to try to clear any extra junk out, but no change. I'm actually posting this via Camino -- I downloaded it just to see if it would exhibit the same problem, but it seems to work just fine. On the PC side, never any issues on Firefox/WinXP.

    Has anyone else seen this? And would anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?
  24. El_Furioso
    For some weird reason, I'm unable to successfully log into the new forums from my Mac. Running either Firefox 3.5 or Safari 4, I get the same result. Entering my name and password gives me the little, "Thanks for logging in, El_Furioso" interim screen, so it recognizes me, but then bounces me back to the un-logged-in state. I've cleared cookies and cache on both browsers, but no difference.

    Here on WinXP/Firefox 3.5, no issues at all.

    Any suggestions? Anyone else see this?
  25. El_Furioso
    This feels like one of those Star Trek TNG episodes where they're on the Holodeck, inside the Holodeck, and they all run around yelling, "Computer! End Program!"