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Yeah every time we've gotten the devs to comment on this idea they've told us it isn't going to happen.
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Quote:After talking with the company about my order I was told that if I'm willing to wait they expect they'll be able to fill my order with the new part by the end of March beginning of April. I told them that was fine with me.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
"Soon" is 2nd quarter, which can mean April 1st or June 30th and still count. The P67 fix will be done and out on motherboards by the end of March.
Upon further analysis, if you already made the leap, all is not lost. The two 6Gb/s SATA ports are fine, the problem is the four 3Gb/s SATA ports on the chip (actually the clock circuitry for them). Also a number of mid range motherboards included an additional 6Gb/s SATA controller for two additional ports. Using these 6Gb/s SATA ports, even with 3Gb/s drives, is a viable work around. It's not like the problem is going to blow up your motherboard or damage your drives. -
Quote:And in case anyone doesn't want to look at that thread.Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
As I understand it, not wanting "pimp" characters is nothing more than a rumor, and the real reason is purely technical.
There's a bunch of topics about it, but I think this one explains it the best: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=236651 (start with the 10th post, past all the "no pimps!" rumor-mongering)
Quote:Originally Posted by Seldom
Pimp theming does not seem to be the limitation; all of the devs' answers have come down to this: The engine finds NPC customization to be problematic.
Why? It seems pets, along with granite stone armor and the forms for kheldians are very simplistic. They just use an NPC model in a library, and the system doesn't seem to be set up now to handle customization of the NPC library.
The thugs for masterminds, for instance, use differing models. Yet there's no way to make sure your arsonist always looks the same. It just doesn't specify. -
Quote:Bingo.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
You're not listening. You can do that on any server.
The problem isn't people in atlas spamming. The problem is you not learning to use the communication tools that are provided.
If the OP isn't willing to use the other starting zone for peace and quiet then he needs to use the communication tools we have been provided for the short time he spends in Atlas Park.
Even soloing it only takes half an hour to get to level 5 which opens up contacts in Kings Row and The Hollows, and most of that time will be spent inside missions where he can't receive Broadcast messages.
On the rare occasions when he finds himself in AP during when there are more players online that enjoy AE missions he can use the /ignore feature and even the /ignore spammer feature for the few people that are truly spamming messages.
He even has the option of customizing which chat channels he listens to in his chat box. A simple click and he can have a tab set that doesn't show any Local or Broadcast messages which he can tab off as soon as he leaves Atlas Park. -
Quote:Two wordsOriginally Posted by Troken
Is there like a dedicated server where people actually do missions instead of chilling in atlas spamming for farms?
Galaxy City
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I'd like to see Orwell fight a villainess called Cruel Whip in a whip cream factory. Or maybe she could wrestle a chick named Shooter in a Jello factory.
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Quote:That's because the show needs more scantily clad Orwell and less emo cape sulking over how his family is reacting every episode.Originally Posted by Ironik
I'm losing interest in this show. I don't know what it is, but it's just not clicking with me.
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Interesting. I like Dice. Orwell seems conflicted. She wants to bring Chess down but doesn't want to see daddy get killed. The Cape was what I've come to expect.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Fortress_NA
Just bought one. Thanks for the tip!
Always happy to help someone save a buck.
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Quote:Thanks for the heads up on that.Originally Posted by PumBumbler
You may not want to get a Sandy Bridge system just yet.
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20326
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Quote:I think that would be the best way to do it. Even if the "door" was at the regular base portal and your personal space was one of the choices under the main base and any coalitions.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
It would be nice if personal spaces could be accessed from bases though. Such as through an "apartment door" base item, with various styles available, that when clicked on took a player to their personal base. It would still be a separate instance so as not to affect item limits, but from an immersion perspective you'd have your own apartment in the base.
Of course there would have to be another way to access them for people who don't have an SG, this would just be an option like the vault. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Fortress_NA
I wa lucky enough to find a Collector's DVD Edition in a closeout store for $10 about a year and a half ago. It worked fine, though the updating took a long time. Got Prestige Power Slide that way!
Last November, I bought the full version of the game (retail package) to get Going Rogue. Purchased on Cyber Monday for (iirc) $10. All I had to do was enter the product code to 'unlock' the ful game, since it was already fully downloaded.
I'm planning to buy a Collector's Edition of CoV just for the in-game perks, and the Heroclicks figures.
Currently Amazon is selling new copies for $3.88
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Quote:Originally Posted by zachary_EU
All needed mechanics for vehicles are already in game. If you dont get it you have only lack of imagination. You dont "jump" anywhere. It's just shapeshift. All Techbots "difficulties" are just excuses. Only difficulty is that vehicles are probably too big to be practical inside missions. Thats all.
And here we see Zach is demonstrating the type of response that Claws explained would have gotten a different response. You'll notice how Zach is being deliberately insulting when he says
andQuote:If you dont get it you have only lack of imagination.
then he summarily dismisses any opinion other than his own by sayingQuote:All Techbots "difficulties" are just excuses.
This type of hostile post almost always draws negative responses from other players.Quote:Only difficulty is that vehicles are probably too big to be practical inside missions. Thats all.
Thanks for the assist Zach that was a great example of how some of the arguments get started on the forums.
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Quote:Personal spaces should be completely seperate from bases. We already have a problem with bases crashing if we place too many items in them. Having players decorate their personal spaces would take away from what could be done with the rest of the base or cause an established base to crash because the item limit was crossed.Originally Posted by plainguy
2. Some sort of personal space for every player. Something they can use that is not part of the group. Every kid wants their own room, Heck just about everyone wants their own space sometimes.
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Quote:This also sets a precedent for alternate animations for other travel powers. Now they can take the Powerslide animations and with some adjustments use them to create new choices for Fly.Originally Posted by Lothic
This makes sense from an "easiest way the Devs could implement this" point of view.
Simply reuse the code behind the Ninja Run power and change the animations for it.
Imagine being able to fly around while standing on a surfboard, or a block of ice, or molten rock, or a flying carpet, or a sciency/techy hover disc. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Weapons with auras are entirely doable. And exist.
Swappable customization of the auras doesn't exist and would have to be coded into the Tailor Engine (and get behind Pool Power customization for that).
In the meantime, they'd have to add a hundred extra entries for each weapon: Axe, Axe on fire, Axe with electricity, etc...
What's stopping them? Time. Prioritization. Loathing for having too many Auras out at once which starts to hit fps.
To be honest I assumed that if they did it at all it would be done the same way they did shields. -
Quote:Oh that looks so nice. I have several character concepts that have needed this power so they look right.Originally Posted by Roderick
Well, they're on page 8 for me. Depends on your forum settings.
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Quote:Part of the deal with my family is that they'll be taking my old system and fixing it up for themselves. They'll pay $450. of what the new tower is costing.Originally Posted by newchemicals
Heh, i7-870 is still a nice bump over the Phenom.
Heh, you should at least repair the old system so you can 2 box CoH. or sell it to one of us tech junkies.
I think they are going to try swapping out the video card from their system into my Phenom. Their current system is several years older than mine and tho they aren't into online gaming the phenom will be a huge improvement over what they currently have. -
Quote:The only time I saw responses that resembled the idiocy I've seen on other forums was just after the Devs/GM's dropped the hammer on the original AE exploits.Originally Posted by Arbegla
Yeah. I mean i've heard the rumors, and i've seen some things first hand, I've just never experienced it first hand, and having done so now, I really just want to keep my ideas and theorys to myself. Apparently not devoting myself to a game via playing it means I don't know the numbers nor can i figure them out without devoting myself to said game via raiding.
I do so hope that with the i20 changes, and even the 19.5 ones this game doesnt devolve into that. I like that fact that anyone can pretty much post ideas or theorys on things and as long as they have even a basic understanding on things we're accepting enough to tell them how it may or may not work.
I always get a laugh whenever I see someone claim that our forums are the worst they've ever seen.
I wish I could see the look on their faces when they see how they get treated in other games.
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Quote:Yeah it can be a real eye opener when someone realizes just how nice we are here compared to other games forums. Just last March I saw people get banned in another games forums when they started posting insults and threats against their devs families because the parent company put that game on sale for $10 less a month after the game launched.Originally Posted by Arbegla
No really. I've been playing that other game recent and i made the mistake of posting on the forums, and i forgot exactly how mean the cruel the internet can be outside of the very pleasent CoH forums.
So, I just wanted to say 'Thank you for being awesome.'
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Quote:While I don't disagree with you, the system that had those chips as options was a minimum hundred dollars more expensive then the limit my family told me I could charge. So I chose not to push my their generosity in this issue. I was surprised that they even made the offer to let me use their CC in the first place.Originally Posted by newchemicals
Personally, I think the i5-2500K is the chip to get. At just over $215 (or $180 if you are lucky to live near a Microcenter) I'll probably be picking that one up soon. Ok, I'll probably look hard at the 2600K.
Yeah, I am a recovering tech junkie.
And there's nothing wrong with being a tech junkie as long as you keep the impulses under control.
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Quote:A dedicated PvP server would be a much better idea than a PvP flag system. PvPer's could simply logon to the PvP server and know that everyone they encounter is a legal target, and the PvEer's can continue to play the game without any PvP harrassment.Originally Posted by Lady_Electric
Some people seem to get overly defensive when it comes to optional game mechanics. I never pvp myself, but I'm not opposed to adding an "optional" system of pvp flagging. Notice I said optional? Ok, one more time, it's optional... if you don't want to pvp, don't turn on the flag and add the so-called "jacktards" to your global ignore. Problem solved. I just don't understand why people fight so hard to oppose something that wouldn't even affect them. Plus, I seriously think some people over-exaggerate the prevalence of these types of people. I'd bet you would see very few of them. Maybe once a month. And I've played many mmo's with pvp flagging systems.
Remember, this is a game about super-heroes and villains. It does seem a bit odd to not give the heroes and villains freedom to battle in the city. Would it make sense if Magneto and the X-Men could only fight in a certain neigborhood? I'm just saying this could be something for people to do if they want to add some variety to their gaming.
Remember if there is any part of the playerbase the devs need to keep happy it's the ones whose subscriptions are paying the bills. And in this game that's the PvE players. This game was designed to be PvE from the start and PvP was only an afterthought that was added later. PvP never interested more than a handful of players in it's heyday. -
Thanks for the help and the nifty websites. Using them I was able to finalize my choices and order my new Tower. And it turns out I was able to get a better selection of parts than I originally thought for my budget. (I also learned I was eligible for a discount on my purchase as well as not having to pay for 6 months and no interest if I can pay it off in the first 6 months after the billing starts.) So this will give me time to build up a bulk payment to give my family when the bill arrives on their CC.
So in about 10-15 business days I'll be getting the following
Intel Core i7 870 processor (4x2.93Ghz/8mb l3 cache), 8GB DDR3-1600 RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB, 2 TB Hard Drive - 32M Cache - 7200 RPM - SATAII 3.0Gb/s
I can't wait for it to get here. I've been having game withdrawals ever since my video card died in December.
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I wouldn't mind seeing this level of customization added to the game.
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Gonna have to disagree with the OP on this. The powers are working fine just the way they are.