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Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer

Thanks to both of you for the input. I found this video on youtube this is the cooling system that I will be installing and a guide to installing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUxoFiFuS_g

I think I should clarify my question. As I said I'm only an intermediate builder. I'm having trouble understanding some of the specs on the case and what to look for. As you will see from the video, the rear fan that will be going into my system is a 120mm fan. I need to know if the case I decide to buy will accept a fan that large. I also need to know that my GTX 260 which is a large gpu will fit (it barely fits in my current case). I think those are the biggest questions. I don't need a case that will just look cool either. I only want it to be functional. I'm not looking for one with some space age design and glowing lights all over it. I will most likely disable any lights that do come with it.

Originally Posted by rsclark

Just because people keep saying something doesn't mean it's true. Even if you do know how to use the search function, you still run a real risk of only finding 30 people within 10 levels of yourself and 75% of them having LFG messages saying they only do trials and TFs (or bizarrely telling you they will purposefully get you killed if allowed on your team).

When trying to tell someone why I like this game more than most MMOs, I give an example of a random Wednesday afternoon from several years ago, where we were able to put together a successful TF pick up group with 6 strangers who had never met before or since - something I have not seen in any other game. But it's also not something I see in the game now.

Now, I don't know whether to blame any changes on lower population or simply on the effect IO sets and the new difficulty settings have had on the ability to solo content, but to say that it's not more difficult to find groups now than it used to be seems more based on wishful thinking than on anything resembling reality.

Originally Posted by GhoulSlayer

I just bought a Corsair H50 liquid cooling system. When I got it home I discovered that the fan which is included is too large for my case. Rather than modify the case or use a smaller fan I've decided to get a case that it will work in but I'm only an intermediate builder. I want to make sure that I'm buying what I need before I actually make the purchase. I found this case at Newegg.com: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811147023 It's a great deal but I'm not sure that it will solve my problem. Here's the specs on my rig:
MSI K9N SLI V2 mobo
AMD 9560 2.3 Ghz quad core cpu
2 gb ram
EVGA GTX 260 gpu (1 fan)
Windows XP home edition

Originally Posted by Lightfoot

This may be difficult to believe given the response you have received, but City of Heroes has one of the friendliest and most supportive communities of any MMO on the market (if not THE friendliest and most supportive). You are getting a lot of snark in response to your post, and I feel I should explain why so that it doesn't drive you away.

This suggestion is made often by new players who come from other MMOs and returning players who have been away for a while (probably playing other MMOs, which tends to color their perception of their previous City of Heroes experience), who don't understand how City of Heroes has evolved.

City of Heroes is a heavily instanced game. More than 90% of the game happens in private instances. When you see people just hanging around, it is usually because they are socializing or recruiting for teams and supergroups. The folks who are actually doing missions will only be seen for the minute or two it takes to cross the zone to get to their next mission door, and then they are off the streets again.

A few years ago, the best way to earn xp was to street sweep. Therefore, you saw tons of heroes out on the streets clearing mobs in circuits around the zones. The Devs noticed that lots of people were completely ignoring the missions that they spent much time creating. To encourage people to experience more of the game than just the streets, they took some actions; they introduced half debt if you died during an instanced mission, they increased the xp awards for instanced missions, they increased (greatly) the xp rewards for completing a story arc, they started awarding Reward Merits for completing story arcs, and they have greatly increased the quality of the writing in the stories from the first batch of arcs. All of this has taken many heroes off the streets and into the instanced missions.

This means that the "Lvl 18 Healer LFT" that used to work in broadcast isn't so effective any more. If you want on a team, you need to take some initiative and learn how to use your global channels (which probably didn't exist or were just introduced before you left) and the team search functions. You can't be afraid to form your own teams, and with supersidekicking, you don't need to play "level Tetris" to make sure you have enough mentors for any lower level recruits. In fact, you don't have to worry about exemping down either, as you now earn experience while exemped. Teaming is easier than it has ever been, provided you put forth a little bit of effort (join a Global Channel if you don't want to lead, or learn how to use Team Search if you aren't afraid of the star).

The reason you got a lot of snark was because you stepped in, looked around for a few minutes, and assumed that something was drastically wrong, and then provided a terrible solution for a problem that doesn't really exist. If you had posted something like this instead:

"Hey, I've been away from the game for a few years, and it seems like it is a lot harder to get on a team now. Does anyone else feel this way, or is it just me? Does anyone have any advice on how to get on teams more consistently? BTW, I'm on Justice server."

You would have been deluged with helpful advice on how to use the search function in game, as well as the names of the Global Channels for Justice Server. You went about it in a negative way, therefore you got negative responses.

Here's hoping that now you know why the response was so negative that you decide to stick around.

Originally Posted by Stargazer

Well, that depends on what they asked you to run. For instance there's a CoH-specific diagnostic tool that gives information that is different from what dxdiag gives. If, on the other hand, they asked you to run another dxdiag, well, then that'd obviously be the same information.



It seems clear that 3rd party programs/services (like the ATI hotkey poller) can cause this issue. Has anyone tried to see if closing other 3rd party programs/services can also help get rid of the problem?

It might be worth trying to turn off pretty much any other programs running at the time, including browsers, media players, IM clients, antivirus programs, automatic updaters, quick launchers ... (pretty much anything that puts itself in your system tray) and see if that makes any difference.

If nothing else, it could help ruling out some potential causes.

Originally Posted by MajorPrankster

That much angst over $15?

Originally Posted by Bunny_Slippers

Did you put your own Global Name in the "to" field?

Originally Posted by Evilanna

Because men are threatened by empowered women?

Originally Posted by ElectroHawk

By this logic only people in an SG/VG would be able to unlock the Incarnate power? I'm not sure how well this would be received by people who mainly solo or don't feel the need to join an SG/VG.

Beside that, revamping the Shadow Shard is way overdue IMO. Should it be linked to the Incarnate.. maybe but I think at this time we are speculating WAY too much on what the system is and what it means to our precious lvl 50.

Originally Posted by Shuriken_BladeX

I seriously thought so too! But to be honest that actually makes the AI seem smart. I mean if your getting your **** beat would you sit there and take it or get the hell out of there? Most enemies i've seen end up fleeing when all their allies are dead.

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

Under my proposal it would be 10, 5 per server.

It gets people back in time for them to experience GR and then (assuming the content's good enough) they will stay and perhaps even buy more slots.

My proposal isn't a universal panacea - it's one suggestion that I believe would help reinvigorate the EU servers.

War Witch has expressly said that there are no plans for a sever merge - and as things currently stand in the highly unlikely scenario that a list merge took place any returning EU players with maxed acounts would be forced to play on a new server to play GR content - or buy more slots.

If a server list merge takes place the EU servers would become more ghostly than Triumph.

Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint

it doesn't matter if you give slots or not. once they are filled, the people who left due to not having more slots will leave again. what is going to keep them? nothing. and i highly doubt that the devs would want to keep giving out free slots to keep people that weren't going to stay anyways.

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

How would extra slots not help? If you've got a max of 12 (maybe more if you've paid for them) and you're maxed out on all of them, how could being given 5 extra slots not benefit you? If nothing else it has the potential to entice someone back to play the game until they've filled all those slots wtih 50s

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

What does "Mytery" mean? It's a mystery to me.

Originally Posted by Electric-Knight

Go the character select screen
Click on that character
Click the button that looks like it says "delete"...

Originally Posted by JohnX

Getting a little tired of the "darkity dark mystery death ultimate killer of darkness with darky awesomeness" stuff.

I bet no one has that as a name.

Originally Posted by Maniac_Raid

With GR only 1 level of Incarnate will be available until I19 drops. And even then, it will only be 10 incarnate levels. Not the same as raising the level cap to 60. Similar, but not the same.

Just wanted to make sure that was clear before people go on making up rumors and the like.

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

I am looking for a website that sells time card codes. Not time cards, but like... I'd pay for the time card, and they'd email me the code. I have googled, but none of the results look legit; they all look like RMT fronts. Has anyone here purchased a legit code from a site?

Alternately, if anyone has a 30 or 60 day time card laying around, I can paypal you money for it.

I have a friend whose account is lapsing and would like to give him an extra little bit because City is his only hobby at the moment. He's having a rough financial period, like many people; I am doing OK right now and can afford a splurgey no-reason gift.

Originally Posted by Azerrath

A question of sorts.
The Looking For flags just not used? / A waste of time?

During a moment of random curiosity and watching the same person broadcast they were looking for a team 9 times in five or so minutes I looked at the search to see if he had a flag going. I got nothing. I checked all the flags including 'Do Not Accept Invites' and hit search. There were 11.

A full-ish search pointed out over 300. Not that it shows all of them but over 300 poping up on the search and just 11 using the flags?

Are they really that much of a lost cause?

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

/bind button4 (stuff)
/bind button5 (stuff)
etc, up to how many buttons you've got. Button4 is usually the button that goes "back" in browsers, button5 is "forward".

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Key_Names
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Slash_Commands