FredrikSvanberg

Turning off shadows helped. I managed to play for 6 hours this afternoon before I crashed. I haven't tried doing a trial or the newer flashy zones so the jury is still out on those, but before I turned off shadows I would crash about once or twice an hour, or more often on trials.

I can't believe I didn't try turning off shadows. That's the first thing I'm doing this afternoon. Although I would like to get the shadows back at some point.

Or let us change Origin later on at a trainer until we get to level 10, or during a respec anytime after that.

In fact we could go with "Origin: Unknown" until level 12 when origins first start to matter, and when we level up to 12 we get to choose what origin we are.

By then HTML will stand for Hyper-Telepathy Markup Language and we will all be floating brains in jars playing our pretendy funtime games forever. What bliss!

I love slotting the chance for knockdown proc in Brawl.

I usually put as many of the other ones as I can in my first area attack, as soon as possible. Then I forget about them until level 22 or so.

I've wanted a simpler enhancement system for years, so, signed.

While we're at it, can we remove the origin requirement from SOs as well, so any origin character can use any SO enhancement?

I got a bunch of good ones, in my opinion:

(The) Gentleman
Perfection
(The) Gunman
Nihil
(The) Nietzschean
Primary
Sandstorm
Djinn
(The) Missing
Religion
Head Hunter

I am disappoint. Seems like they need to tweak MARTy a bit. AE farming still works.

They're stress-testing the new server for a couple of weeks before the actual release of Freedom. I thought that was obvious.

I don't see a "rash of 1-stars" since the game won't tell us when we've been 1 or 2-starred if we're not logged in when it happens. I noticed because I happened to look at my published arcs and found that "Fear And Loathing On Striga" (play it now, 100 million inf to the vote that brings it back up to 5 stars) had been demoted to 4-star oblivion to make room for another farm on page 3.

I don't see negative comments either because the worthless asswipes who do these kinds of things are too lazy and cowardly to troll properly and prefer to hide behind the safety of anonymous downvoting. If someone actually had sent me a comment with their 1-star ratings I might have taken them serious.

The best fix for the ratings system is to replace it with a like/dislike system or just remove it entirely. Then simply count all plays, not just every player's first play. At least that would give a more accurate account of popularity. Farms would still hold the top 200 spots I suppose, but arcs created on day 1 and never unpublished might reach more than 100 plays if every single playthrough counted...

Praetoria seems to me now like it was intended as a method for higher level primal characters to switch sides. Then they decided that it was going to be low-level content, and side-switching got another system.

The tutorial in Praetoria makes me feel like I've completely lost all my memories of living in Praetoria all my life and becoming a member of Powers Division, or like I've just arrived from another world and don't know anything about what is going on.

Recently (?) we learned that the whole Loyalist faction was a late addition to the GR experience. Apparently we were supposed to all be Resistance and the morality choices would only reflect Warden or Crusader mentalities.

If they had introduced Praetoria as level 30+ content where Primal Earth characters are sent there to undermine Tyrant's rule, not letting us play Loyalists would have made perfect sense. Now we are instead stuck with a problem in the opposite end of the GR path, where Loyalists are suddenly forced to abandon or even oppose their home world.

I think the whole idea of being forced to leave Praetoria could have been made much more palatable if we learned in the final story arc that Tyrant was about to give up on his Powers Division project, since it seemed to cause more problems than it solved, and was planning to kill off every super-powered being in Praetoria (possibly through his connection to the Well).

If that had happened it would have tied into previous high-level canon content where we had learned that Tyrant and his lieutenants had killed every other super in their world and now ruled unopposed. It would have given our characters, loyalists and resistance alike, a perfectly good reason to want to escape that world.

As it is now, when I play a Praetorian I usually get to level 20, enter Primal Earth, and then I abandon the character. Until recently they were abandoned indefinitely and usually deleted after a couple of weeks. Now at least some of them will be going back to First Ward to check that out. I'm thinking that not many of my Primal Earth characters will have a good reason to visit First Ward so now there's the same problem but in reverse.

I want an Airstrike, similar to what Praetorian Durant (?) does in the Admiral Sutton TF.

Well, apparently my trollish behaviour has got some people thinking about how to write more entertaining farms. Not sure if that's a good thing but it can't be worse than what we have. I'm too bored with farm missions to do more reviews for now anyway.

I made a new thread for it here http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=270606 to avoid derailing this thread further.

I tried to copy my fire brute in order to test the limits but the copy tool was down. Oh well.