Fahie

Thanks for the responses.

I kind of had a feeling that PVP hadn't picked up again, but was hoping that I was wrong.

One wonders if Positron etc will ever just admit that it was a bad mistake and revert to pre I13 for PVP .. lol

Still, at least the Ill/Rad is good for PvE too .. unless something has changed THERE too :P

Fahie

I'm sure no-one will remember me on these boards, but I'm back and playing CoH after more than a years absence ( gotta love GR )

The important question is, how's PvP looking these days since I hung up the sparring gloves after the I13 debacle?

Specifically, has anything happened with DR, suppression and so forth ?

Fahie

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700 lol .. reminds me of this one:
Apartments

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It's great, but two questions;

1 : What does the designer of that room do with the 10 minutes they have each day that AREN'T spent on designing a CoH base room ?
and 2 : Why on earth is there a photocopier by a pool? Health and safety anyone?!

Fahie

For any tattoo I get done, I come up with an idea then wait six months. If it still seems a good idea then, I get it done. Avoided several bad ideas that way

And avoid green ink on tattoos, I am led to believe that green is the hardest to remove :P

Fahie

I would certainly say AR/EN could be fun, especially if you take the nrg epic too.

I don't think it's worth too much worrying about S/L damage, I'm assuming that you're not planning on sniping Brutes too often anyways

Now what would be REALLY cool is if you actually got a magnification scope on AR so you can pick out targets in the distance

Fahie

To be fair, this is a bit of a geeky powerset.

What next? A trainspotting powerset too?

Fahie

You've all missed the most important part though.

What colour would the power effects be ?!

I need to plan cossies

Fahie

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Now... Go.Kill.Skullz!

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Too late .. I got 'em all

Fahie

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For users with multicore CPU's changing the shortcut target to include -renderthread 1 should activate CoX multithreaded mode.

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I never knew that one for multicores, thanks ^^

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Yep .. that bit *was* a good tip

Thanks from me too

Fahie

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That sucks

You will get bored of minesweeper

Fahie

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Perhaps, but a TB HD full of Movies and TV series' and Pron plus the inevitable binge drinking will cure some of that bordom.

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A little more information than I needed there

Fahie

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Ha, oh well I've never been technical minded anyway. I think that both parts of the original question have pretty much been answered, I'm sure I can put up with a long loading time (might stick the kettle on for a brew while waiting) and I'll mess about with the IG settings.

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Bizarely, the loading times are much quicker under Linux, but I wouldn't recommend that for the faint hearted

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A new PC is out of the question at the moment as I intend on buying a laptop soon for when I'm working in the Falklands, no online games for 4 months

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That sucks

You will get bored of minesweeper

Fahie

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XP (32 bit) can handle 4 Gb but if you have a 256 Kb graphics card, then its address space is taken from XP's memory address space...
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Err .. sorry .. that's completely incorrect.

XP 32 bit can take up to 4 gigs. However, windows will reserve most of the space over 3 gigs for it's own use, so you will only see just over three gigs available. Windows 32 bit does not have a PAE equivalent kernel, so it *cannot* handle anything greater than that.

Additionally ( and ignoring the fact that you have kb and mb slightly mixed up ), windows only devotes local ram to the graphics card if it's onboard. Expansion graphics cards have their own ram. You do not lose 512 MB of system ram by having a 512 MB graphics card.

Windows does not need to assign 512 MB of memory space to it.

Just wanted to clarify that before erroneous information started being taken as gospel

Fahie

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I'll dig out a build for you if you still want it.

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I'd be interested in seeing this, if you don't mind. I've dug my neglected Ill/Rad out recently and started looking at a build for her, but it's so many miles away from the builds I normally do that I'm having a hard time with it.

I've got PA almost perma in one attempt, but then I'd been looking at a high def build for soloing as well, and was struggling to fit in enough of both def and recharge. Wondering whether to forget the def in such high amounts and concentrate on other bonuses - pretty concerned about my recovery, for one.

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No problem, I'll try and sort that out for you this week.

One point of note though is that with careful placement of yourself ( keeping at optimum range ), and the use of confuse for stragglers, you don't need any def at all once PA is perma. Given that their taunt is pretty impressive you can almost do a mastermind trick and watch from the sidelines, except that your pets are invulnerable

Fahie

Once the date is confirmed, I may try and trundle along.

One question though, DR yes/no ?

Fahie

Oh, and personally I would rate fly above SJ for ill/rad.
One of the few builds I would suggest it on, but you need to have very close control over distance considering you want to be spamming blind/confuse. Hover is also very useful here.

If you need SJ to chase someone down in arena PVP with an ill/rad, you're doing it wrong.

SS is a given considering you need hasten anyways, and you need a travel power to close in the first instance.

Fahie

Excellent work

Far better than I can achieve. A few constructive criticisms I would like to make though, and I hope they are taken in the manner they are meant

The lip shape and highlights look a little wrong to me, can't put my finger on why though.
The eyes are a touch lopsided, the left eye ( looking at the picture ) looks angled too much.
The cleavage looks wrong to me. One boobie is overlapping the other. It's almost as if the left is much much bigger.

Anyways, onto the major plus points:
The fabric detail is very good, nice to see folds in cloth in the right places
The setting is great.
You can ACTUALLY draw hands! <applauds>. Moreover, you do something with them! Wonderful!
Proportions are pretty much spot on.
Love the pose.

Fahie

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That rings a bell.

Don't quote me on that though

Fahie

Until recently with nvidia, the last three digits of the model gave you an indication of performance.

200 being the lowest, 950 being the highest I've encountered with 800 being typically the top performer for the release version.

For reference, I'm still using a 6800gt agp, and it's doing very well for it's age, an 8600 ( much newer ) isn't much better.

Anyways, back to your question. You'll have to trade off a lot of things. Either, characters will look quite good, or the scenery, or you can have some particle or shadow effects. You won't get all of them at anything above a slideshow framerate.

As Sinergy said, turn everything to minimum, then slowly edge things up. In a raid or TF you will probably have to turn everything back down again anyways.

Fahie

Male or Female toon ? ( assuming the former due to your mention of huge )
Serious or amusing name ?

You can keep the inf ( hats off for offering it though ), I just like thinking of names for toons

Fahie

Soz, been away from the boards a bit recently

PVP Build will vary greatly depending on how much inf you have. I found myself slowly changing powers and slots around as I secured the purples.

As a general rule of thumb though your first goal should be to get PA perma, or as close to perma as possible.

The debuffs are a must, and don't underestimate the use of blind and confuse.

For epic, either Psi or Ice. I've just switched to Ice personally, mainly for hibernate but also for the additional -rchg/slows.

I'll dig out a build for you if you still want it.

Fahie

If you want to win zonal PVP, roll an Ice/SS tanker.

If you want to win arena, roll an Ice/SS tanker.

I'm afraid it's got that boring I13+

Previous to that, lots of options would have been fun.

Arena with no DR ( diminishing returns ) is a *little* more interesting and gives you a few more options for fun builds.

Fahie