Fuzzy Kittens

Here's a link to the guide (it's a thing of beauty): http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...aker%27s+guide

This.

I ran into it post hotfix. I'm pretty sure that I didn't have issues prior to that (not 100% positive, though - I seem to recall slotting in Ouro prior to the hotfix, but I'm not sure of that).

SS/FA/Mu is my farmer - If you aren't keeping Rage double stacked+, you are doing it wrong.

Doing this plus a reboot worked for me (finally). Many thanks, CrashPositron. Out of curiosity, how many patches did they release this weekend? I downloaded the patch after the Saturday maintenance and had no problems. This morning when I started the game, the updater downloaded another patch - this is when the "No response" problems started.

This is copy pasted from the top of the server status page:

Changes to the Server Maintenance Times

As of Thursday, October 22nd, 2009, the regular bi-weekly server maintenance times will be modified and will take place once a week on Thursday from 4:00 AM Pacific / 7:00 AM Eastern to 6:00 AM Pacific / 9:00 AM Eastern.
Please note: while we are reserving that two-hour period for maintenance updates, they will not necessarily require the entire two hours and additional updates may be scheduled outside this time-period as needed. We may also perform maintenance on additional servers, such as the web servers, message boards, or login servers.



The servers are undergoing maintenance right now. Also, the server status page reads as last being updated 9/7/2010 (9 days ago), so the server status it's displaying isn't current.

All snark aside, what, exactly, do you think this adds to the game? Is it there as a time sink or to try to add some sort of realism? If it's the latter, then why not have some sort of consequence for not stopping a runner (at least occasionally)? As it stands, there is absolutely no downside to not pursuing a runner (unless it bugs out and doesn't leash back to about it's starting point/jumps into rafters, etc. and you're on a kill all). A runner doesn't provide a challenge: ignore it and it'll eventually come back, most likely non-aggroed. A runner doesn't doesn't pose a threat: it won't aggro nearby groups and train them back. The only way a runner might prove hazardous is if a player or a pet chases it into another pack, and neither of those options is a given (honestly, both are pretty easily avoidable).

Me too - firefox (and, yes, I do make sure that the "stay logged in" box is checked). IIRC, this started happening right after they ported the forums. I was guessing (probably incorrectly) that ongoing forum tweaking might be the culprit...viva blatant supposition!

You're entitled to your beliefs. If I may ask, with regard to your argument, what in your background (professional training, degrees, accreditation, etc) would you use to support your argument where it disagrees with the scientific research and data that has been and is being collected and verified (through scientific rigor and discourse) on this particular subject?

Once considered a character defect, gambling is now known to be a highly addictive disorder with neurological causes. Thanks to new advances in brain imaging, scientists are beginning to identify the neural mechanisms that go awry in the brains of pathological and problem gamblers. What they're learning from such research is also shedding light on how these same mechanisms determine individual risk tolerance - and influence the financial choices we all make throughout our lives.

Full article at the Society for Neuroscience: http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagena...fings_gambling

My claim was that you're unfairly grouping those with pathology in with jerks. Pathology is pathology, regardless of whether or not you, personally, believe it. Again, in the case of the lawsuit that prompted this thread - bogus.

Oh really, so someone with diabetes/cancer/hypertension/bipolar disorder/etc. should just be able to will his/her body/mind to health because, as you so eloquently put it, we all have a choice? If you think that humans can't be slaves to things that they can't control, I sincerely invite you to take a walk through either a mental ward or a hospice ward in your local hospital - tell the patients there that they simply aren't exercising their freedom of choice well enough. My point here (as it has been prior) is not the defense of ******* who are looking for any excuse they can find to justify poor behavior. It's just that you seem to be lumping the ******* in with folks who are genuinely ill and calling them all dregs.

What I am saying is that physiological dysfunction is physiological dysfunction. For the record, I think that the lawsuit that prompted this thread is horseshit. The exception I'm taking with your line of reasoning is that you're essentially writing off people who have legitimate maladies, and that's not cool.

While I agree with your sentiments on taking personal responsibility, it's not quite as easy as your argument implies. Neuroscience is is showing us that while the idea of "just say no" may provide a nice (moronic) sound bite, it's what happens internally (generally neurological) that provides the driving force in compulsive/destructive bahavior that is related to but by no means exclusive to substance abuse. That's not being an enabler, that's science. I'm not suggesting that physiology negates responsibility (nor am I suggesting that the twinkie defense is valid). I am, however, suggesting that there are cases where willpower will never be enough - what's required is treatment (be it behavioral, medicinal, or otherwise). Bottom line, if your brain isn't physically operating in a normal or healthy manner (whether your problem is with heroin or gambling), no amount willpower, responsibility taking or forum post bravado will fix it.