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Quote:Sweet!Originally Posted by Father Xmas
An interesting thing happened while I was at my parent's tonight. I was on one of their computers looking at the CNN piece on the new iPhone and when I got to the bottom of the page, guess what I found?
Not sure how long it'll stay there but here's the link to the iPhone story.
What?[/shouted]Quote:Originally Posted by Kentor1701C
Oh LOL I am getting old. I did comment on it already. Sigh They say the mind is the first thing to go.
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Quote:Hear, hear!Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Do not confuse 'trying' with 'false hope'. Our chances of success are very unlikely- everyone should have already realized that before we even started, but at this point the fate of the game is not yet set in stone.
Give up and leave if you want to, but many of us here won't quit so easily.
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Quote:Yeah, but he'd keep spouting about a certain credit card company the whole time.Originally Posted by Hendrake
Not sure about decorative, but I'd deal with him if he came with access to the tailor interface.
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Quote:I think that the development of a (possibly) simple set of tools to make running events like this would pay off well. Making the running of an event like this one (possibly much) easier would allow for this to me more than a once-a-year thing. And that would give the whole game a much more interactive feel than it currently has.Originally Posted by Freitag
I'm not sure if a destination point is possible. We can drag mobs around some by making them follow us, but I don't know if it's possible to tell them to go to a particular location. That, as well as creating auto spawn points, would also require development time, which isn't always available.
I was on Freedom on the 17th, only about 5-10 minutes "late". I logged into Talos 2, looked around, and found a Lucy with about 40 tentacles just north of the island with Talos's statue. I and some others pulled together a team of 8 with a little bit of trying, and we went at her.
But I never saw a single Arachnos, Coralax, or anything other than that one Lucy. I never saw any red text (I might have missed it in all the commotion), I never saw any suggestion to head to Pocket D, and thus once we defeated her it looked like it was over. Some waited around for several minutes, plus I had enough time to Raptor Pack the entire circumference of Talos Island proper on patrol. I never knew about the PD "afterparty" until I read this thread.
I do appreciate the fact that running an event like this is a lot of work. I just wish there had been fewer/smaller cracks for my toon to fall into. I do still love this game and genre. CoH was my first MMO - I found an unopened DVD edition box for $10 close to 4 years ago, and that got me started.
Maybe one of those exclamation point pop-helps (I forget the actual name) that has the pertinent info. A player would receive it upon first damaging/targeting a mob involved with the event? That way, it is guaranteed the player has the info, and can read it when there is a lull in the action.Quote:I understand there's some frustration about communication if you missed all these messages, but we really did try our best to inform as many people as possible about what was going to happen.
For me, one of the sad things is I had a couple of good one-liners* that went completely unnoticed. Like a /broadcast appeal for help that went something like: "All-you-can-eat free calamari! Self serve just north of the Talos statue!"Quote:Thanks for the continued dialogue people! Remember, we'll be on Zukunft and Vigilance in an hour and a quarter, and on Guardian and Justice later this evening!
~Freitag
*Well, I like to think they were good.
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Quote:From the first post in this thread:Originally Posted by Nihilii
Alternatively, what do people use to view .pigg files in Win7 64 bits? I tried PiggViewer, but it's giving me a "missing MFC71.dll" error on startup.
Quote:Originally Posted by Impkin
Rule 1: Do not ask or explain how to view or change *.pigg files or any other CoH files.
Rule 2: Do not ask or explain how to view or change *.pigg files or any other CoH files.
Rule 3: Do not ask or explain how to obtain and use software for viewing or changing *.pigg files or any other CoH files. See the section in the first follow up post on how to respond to requests for sound file names and locations if you want to contribute.
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Quote:True, and I was aware of that. If I had to guess, I would expect that multi-boxing is same-server at least 98% of the time. I just didn't want to limit my statement to exclude any possibility.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Multiboxing is not (typically) playing on multiple servers at once. It's having two (or more) accounts on the same server and running them at the same time.
Well, PetaVolt is my signature character (and my only 50/Incarnate), despite not getting "my" name on Guardian. I don't take advantage of all the possible character slots available to me as a VIP because I just couldn't keep all of them straight and seperate. Also, I don't feel I have exclusive "rights" to any name across all of CoH. I don't mind sharing.Quote:As far as why take it on other servers?
- It's "your" signature character. And you don't want to use transfers to move it.
I didn't think this would be a real concern, what with being able to find out a toon's global, and the knowledge that not every toon of the same name is always run by the same player.Quote:- Defensively, so someone has to alter the name if they're trying to make you look bad - don't think it's ever happened that I can recall, but who knows.
Sounds like it was a game to remember.Quote:- Kind of related to the first, but different versions of the same character, treating each server as a different dimension or timeline. Or just trying different powersets.
For instance, I've got Memphis Bill pretty much everywhere. I've talked about where the character came from before - inspired by Scuzz in DP7 (basically "sweats" acid,) I created a character for a Silver Age Sentinels game with the same issue, but strong - and yeah, borrowed the firing "spitballs" that I managed to blow up a bunker with. >.> (Epic die roll.)
I've thought about that, and if you can keep all of your toons, and all the variants of those toons, seperate (or just don't mind not having them seperate in you mind), then more power to you.Quote:COH came out, I figured, what the heck, that's who I'm making. First character. The strength was easy - Superstrength. The second powerset, though... there was no dark armor for tanks at the time, and nothing but fire fit. So, Fire/SS tank. Later, I rolled up a Spines/DA scrapper. Friends started a SG on another server - Fire/EM, just because. COV came out - alternate universe where he was initially a gang member, got too successful, was betrayed, ambushed and dumped in an industrial waste dump (which triggered the area damage and other effects) - SS/Dark Brute. Tanks finally got dark armor - Dark/SS tank. Kinetic Combat comes out - Fire/Kin tank (which, yes, was the other reason for that, as "tank" is not normally what people think of when they hear "fire/kin.") Have another that's Street Justice. Another that's a Warshade - all different ways of expressing the same character. My mind boggles at the thought of trying that myself.
Because I work the night shift (and don't farm), a very large portion of my CoH time is spent soloing. As such, it is taking me quite a long time to level my toons. If I made (alternate timeline) copies of them across all the (english) servers, 95% or more of them would still be below level 5.
It took me two years just to get my "signature" (favorite might be a better term) toon to level 50 -- and that was by not playing my other 20 odd toons for large chunks of time. And I still haven't gotten my Lore pets yet, having only recently unlocked that slot.
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Quote:Thanks for the offer.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Oh yeah. For example, this thread inspired me to check the availability of three particular names that are critical to a themed SG concept/name. To my delight the names were available on 10 servers, so I grabbed them and formed the SG on each server. Sure the other 7 names the SG concept requires are just as important but they are so unusual that the only way they'd get used is by someone trying to be a jerk and snagging it just to keep me from filling out my SG rosters. So because they are unusual I don't have to rush to get them reserved ASAP.
Oh and if I had Thunderfist on any server I'd gladly give it up for you.
Okay. But what I don't understand is, once you have a name on one or two servers, what's the point of taking it on the other ~10? No offense, but that just seems greedy to me. After all, you can only play one toon at a time -- unless you are multi-boxing? -
Quote:That means over 100 character creations each year?Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Personally about once a year I do a spring cleaning and go thru my characters and delete around 100 characters whose concepts never took off.
I've been in CoH for about 3.5 years now, and probably haven't made more than 50 -- total. Of which I still have about 40. I tend to make a toon only if I have a 'working concept' to start with, and/or a name. Yes, I have decided to not make a toon if I couldn't design a name that was available -- and that is after at least 4-6 tries at re-working the name in some way.
I tried to get "ThunderFist" on Guardian (my first server, and first toon). N/A. I tried "Thunderfist" - N/A. So I tried KiloVolt. N/A. MegaVolt. N/A. GigaVolt. N/A. TeraVolt. N/A. PetaVolt. Available! But I still dream about being able to rename him to ThunderFist, since he is based upon a TableTop character of mine with that name.
I did get ThunderFist on Exalted, btw.
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Quote:You missed one from Marvel: Strong Guy.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Super Hero Comics have a long tradition of creating heroes with odd, satirical, or down right silly names. Some of them have their own comics and others are destined to be supporting characters.
<snip extensive list for brevity>
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Quote:Maybe the Wayback Machine has an archive of it?Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
It used to be linked in a thread discussing it, but it was long lost in the forum switchover.
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I had been (to my shame) using horribly outdated drivers on my Sapphire ATI/AMD Radeon HD 6970, and had been experiencing crashes (the CoH game, not my PC usually), "dropped" skins/bitmaps(?) where parts of the environment, creeps, PCs became invisible or solid black, and corruption of text in text baloons. I was also seeing occasional, massive hits to my framerate, from 60fps down to 3-5. I could usually fix all but the text corruption by using /reloadgfx.
I upgraded to the latest software & drivers supplied from Sapphire (12.4), and I have seen *maybe* one issue in the past ~two weeks. I haven't checked my framerate lately, but it feels like it is back up to it's old 60fps self.
My one issue is that I cannot get the control center to open. Something happened a long time ago and it stopped woking, but since I am not an overclocker, and everything else still worked fine, so I let it slide. When I updated, I uninstalled all ATI drivers/software, rebooted to safe mode and used a drive cleaner, cleaned my registry, removed any remaining ATI folders, rebooted and installed the new software/drivers. Fixed the graphics issues (apparently), but didn't fix the inability to get into the control center. :-\ -
Quote:Ah. When you said "split it into two rooms", I was thinking you were saying to spread the "Cerebro Room" across two physical rooms. I misunderstood your meaning.Originally Posted by Stone Daemon
Simple. Take a room bigger than what you actually need, and make a faux wall (out of cabinets, or whatever) in between the entrance of the room and the rest of it. Then, you can make the opening in the fake wall halfway been the floor and ceiling.
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I'm not following how this could be split between two rooms, what with the '1x1 doorway' that must be between all rooms.
Given the limited maximum height inside a base, I think that would limit a spherical structure to a 3x3 footprint, or maybe a little smaller. -
In general, this is what we're aiming for, yes?
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You could try it with the (off) florescent light fixture (the narrow one). It would take scads of them, but since they are one "click" tall instead of a desk's 3-4 "clicks" tall, it would give greater controll over the Z-axis curveature of the room.
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IMO the price of rooms and plots should be considerably lower, but the rent higher. I have a toon with a SG of about 20 toons, but only 5-8 are active on even a semi-regular basis.
Growth of the base (being able to upgrade/expand) is next to nill, yet my SG leader toon could pay the upkeep even if he were the only active toon, and only got played once a month.
Price changes would literally be no sweat. No concerns about making a graphics change that could crash the client. No concerns about *anything* that isn't already in place.
The Über-SGs that have an extremely large, very active membership will have oodles of Prestige to work with, both to buy (and decorate) a jumbo base, and pay rent. But the players who, for whatever reason, are in a small, mostly dormant SG are unnecessarily burdened with the extreme cost of the rooms and plots, while paradoxically are able to pay the rent for a base that has 99% of all functional equipment (medical, transportation, storage, and crafting) with ridiculous ease. -
Quote:I actually heard about/saw that one. And even if I hadn't, it would have quickly become apparent the next time I removed/added salvage.Originally Posted by Ulysses Dare
Off my head the only other change I can recall is that the salvage bins now sort alphabetically.
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Quote:Like those transport rings in all those Oranbega missions we so love.Originally Posted by Thunderspark
Of course, site-to-site transporters would be nice for large bases too. Some of those can be truly crazy to try and find anything in.
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Quote:Call it something like "Robo-Retrieval System", and make it a craftable that must be unlocked by getting a badge.Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
WANTED: Master control rack: A device that ties and allows access to the collective of salvage racks within rank permissions.
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Strange. Moreso because it was such a large difference. The only time I've had base prestige go negative is when I've spent most all of it, and my membership dropped (below 20), loosing me the "first 20" joining bonus for that toon.
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Quote:"Now I'm free... Free-falling."[/Tom Petty]Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
the bug I found when we could decorate doorways was objects could be placed in rooms they didn't belong.
this wasn't a game killer until you relocated the entrance to your base.
Once that was done it was very easy to misplace your entrance portal outside of your construction zone, could not be fixed.
the result would be, someone loads into your base, and would fall...
forever...
and ever...
amen....
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Thanks! I had completely missed that these improvements had been made.
Other than the addition of using shift/alt/ctrl with the mouse in the base editor to control position/orientation of objects, and the hacked/magicked 'pads, was anything else about bases changed in the last 2-3 issues? I haven't seen any new decorative items, and AFAICT the existing ones haven't been given "undies".
I admit I haven't been reading *all* of the release notes for each issue.
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Quote:Originally Posted by mercykilling
I personally use the cubicle found in other furniture. The walls of the cubicle act just like a regular wall. Additionally, now that items can be rotated, you can set them at an angle to get the effect of open doors and such. Perfect for an open safe. The only problem is that the safe door that is the personal salvage storage item is transparent from the inside looking out.
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Quote:I use the Steel Cabinet. This cabinet can be "stacked" out horizontally from a wall, and wall items can be "attached" to the sides of it. Then sell off the Steel Cabinet(s). I hang 12 of them in midair that winds up inside the pillars of the Teleport Pod so I can "mount" the beacons to the front of the Pod's pillars.Originally Posted by ScarlettRowan
Please, can someone tell me how to get wall items elsewhere in a room besides on the walls? I've seen some pretty neat constructions using wall items but haven't figured out how they move them. Explanation or link would be awesome!
