Harry_Canyon

Thank you one and all for your helpful replys...

Yes, the ATI machine runs smoothly except for the noted Skewing of contact/costume window/ID snapshots. I will Adjust AVG and see if that gives me any play, though it hasn't had a conflict before, it may very well not want to play nice with the game at the moment.

For now, I have a workaround even if it is a bit clunky... If I get booted, I log onto another char for a bit. This usually allows me to go back and log in with the stranded toon. The only flaw is the two timed missions in Talos I failed when I zoned in and got popped back to the login. The only oddity I can see is the lack of any error message after the boot. No matter, I appreciate all the help, and if I actually find the culprit, I will post it here in the off chance this happens to anyone else. Probably just a unique combination of situations creating this anomaly.

Thanks again all! Rough em up!

Yeah, I had a feeling it would not be an easy assessment. Truth is, I can't quite find any other issues mentioned on this board that matches this quite right. I don't get inordinate lag (Unless I Que up a TP power, then I hang for 5-20 seconds.), Chat is fine, I don't get Mapserved, I don't get any error messages when I do get booted to Login, I am not on wireless, I have even began running in windowed mode since I17 hit just to keep my options clear.

The only thing that boggles my mind is the other computer running like a dream. My fiance is laughing at me for giving her the older computer to replace her APTIVA (Windows 3.1)...

"Who has the better computer now?" <~That stings more than her painful costumes.:P

OK, I have been fighting with this since I17 beta, and I haven't quite found the cause of the problem. Usually I can diagnose and repair issues on my own, but this has me pretty beat. If I could call upon our brilliant knowledge experts and tell me what, if anything, I can do...

The problem: For the most part, the game runs fine. However, any time I attempt to log into Talos Island, Cap Au Diable, or St. Martial, the loading bar locks up at about 1/4 and hangs till I wind up being tossed back into the login screen. This is not accompanied by an error message, but attempting to log in gives me the "That account is already logged in." message. Pressing the button again grants me access to the character select window again, but attempting to log the same character gives the same results. I have found that if I log in another character and play with them for a while, I can log out and then access the character in Talos/Cap/St.... Though I do get very slow loading times across the board.

Facts you may want to know: This computer is the main computer in a network with a lesser computer (Pretty much 1/2 of everything that this one has. 1 gig Ram, 256m ATI graphics card {Radeon 9250 no less}, 60 gig memory) and the second computer has had no accessibility or playability issues whatsoever. I have cranked the game way down on graphics in the off chance that was the issue, and even tested my internet de-fragged my sparsely populated drive and ram, triple checked my firewall and network settings, and reinstalled the game.



HIJACK THIS:

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CoH Helper:

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Any assistance I may be overlooking would be greatly appreciated.

[edit] didn't copy entire CoHhelper file. :P

So my fiance and I were running through the Rikti War Zone arcs on live with my power armor Inv/EM Power-armor Tanker and her Claws/Regen Protoplasmic Magical-Girl/thing Scrapper, and I noticed something I did not notice before in test or remember having read in a patch note...

So we are in the first mission where you fight Longbow and Vanguard Sword, and I jump over some crates into a couple of Longbow Eagles. While fighting them, I noticed that they seemed to suffer from combat movement reduction on their flight powers! Yes when they attempted to fly away, they only traveled at hover speeds. This took them out of melee range and out of danger, but they didn't fly off at supersonic speeds.

If this is a bug, I may just put a suggestion in the appropriate forum to implement it. But has anyone noticed this behavior before, or knew about this from some obscure note I may have missed? I will test this more when the servers come back up.

City of Heroes® Super Booster VI: Platinum Age Has everything you need to bring a Platinum age hero to life. No longer will you not look your age when you bring these threads to the box social. This booster comes complete with new costume pieces, new emotes, and includes the new customizable voice bubbles.

• New Costume Pieces: New Suit pieces, new hats such as derbies, hobo hats, and beanies, Furs, shorts, bowl haircuts, freckled, snooty, and plump faces, umbrellas, and those glasses that ride on your nose.
• New Emotes: Empty pockets, aim slingshot, drunken swagger, lying sleep, I never, curtsy, arrogant, and hold umbrella emotes.
• New Feature: Customize able voice bubbles- Now you can adjust the size, shape, style, and appearance of your voice bubbles in game. adjustable parameters include: Background, Text, and Frame styles. Now when you have something to say, everyone will know who said it.

City of Heroes® Super Booster VII: Golden Age For those who have Characters from when values were supreme and villains were in-your-face, the Golden Age booster may be just what you are looking for. Classic costume styles from yesteryear return, along with a new retro Jet-pack option for the back. Also included are a few new emotes, and the Bola power so your golden age characters can tie someone up while you work over his buddies.

• New Costume Pieces: New costumes include baggy spandex, cloth trench-coats, new simple tights patterns, new insignias- simple but strong emblems such as Letter-in-a-circle/diamond/square, Ball, Punctuation, or Number-in-a-circle/diamond/square, Fishbowl helmets, cigarettes, and a new back slot item-Retro Jet-pack, that animates while jumping/flying.
• New Emotes: Halt, Puffed chest, and Defiance emotes to bring your golden age character to light.
• New Power: Bola- When you may be outnumbered, this thrown weapon has two weights on each end of a length of cable to take someone out of the fight for a short time. Single target hold.

City of Heroes® Super Booster VIII: Silver Age The Silver Age of comics was when the world saw a surge in more colorful, themed heroes come to the surface. People with new amazing abilities were seemingly created every day, and it was next to impossible to commit a crime without some guy in tights swooping in to save the day. Now that era can be yours with the added Costumes, Emotes, Aura's, and new evolved Power.

• New Costume Pieces: A ton of new tights options and patterns, including under-arm wings/vanes, More animal themed and inspired pieces, such as beaks, feathers, fur pieces, New accessories for head, neck, chest, shoulders, hands and feet, will make creating Goose-boy, Lizard-Dude, or Lightning Lemur so much easier.
• New Emotes: Startled, Confused, A-ha!, Brooding, and the new "MORPHIC" Costume Change Emote
• New Auras: Radiant, dripping, and tracer auras can be unlocked at level 1 if you own the pack.
• New Power: Evolved- The first time you use this power, you will be presented with a choice screen. From here, you can select one of the following auto powers that will never expire:
• ---Tough Skin- Minor Smashing/Lethal resistance.
• ---Energized- Minor Energy/Negative energy Resistance
• ---Thermal- Minor Fire/Cold Resistance
• ---Strong Will- Minor Psionic Resistance
• ---Iron Will- Minor Hold/Sleep Resistance
• ---Sturdy- Minor Knock-back/knockdown resistance
• ---Healthy- Minor Health boost
• ---Longevity- Minor End boost
• ---Aggressive- Minor Damage Boost
• ---Precise- Minor accuracy boost

City of Heroes® Super Booster IX: Bronze Age The Bronze Age of comics was one of innovation and advancement for the comics world. Many colorful heroes came and went, and only the strongest survived. Heroes found themselves inundated with a rogues gallery of foes, and Villains were assaulted on all fronts from every hero looking to make a name for themselves. This pack has a few new costume items, auras, and gives a player access to the Rogues Gallery feature, which will find players put at odds with someone out to undo their deeds.

• New Costume Pieces: New tights designs such as Valiant, Crusher, Moody, Paint Drips, Surge, Dynamo, Insidious, and Abstract. New Full Mask designs, and cape styles.
• New Auras: New auras unlocked at level 0- Odor Vapors, Cloud, Glitter, and new Combat Auras- Warning, And Force Field.
• New Feature: Rogues Gallery- Upon applying this booster to your account, you will gain access to a rogues gallery. You can access this information with Blue Steel Blue-Side, and Red Widow Red-side. Here you can modify the look, power-sets, and likely Motivation of your Rogue (Bruiser, Plotter, Thief, Rival, Insane). More rogues can be added based on level- 5-10=1 Rogue, 11-20=2 Rogues, 21-30=3 Rogues, 31-40=4 Rogues, 41-50=5 Rogues. More can be added with the expenditure of influence/infamy. These Rogues will randomly spawn as an ambush in some maps, nearby in open world, or as a boss in some Newspaper/Radio Missions (Depending on what Motivation you assigned.)

City of Heroes® Super Booster X: Modern Age Heroes got grittier, Villains got smarter, and the world got a little less safe. The Modern age is where the line between hero and villain blurred and you found yourself rooting for whoever you thought was coolest. So what if Dethstryker isn't spelled right, it sounds cool. New costume pieces, including long desired Thigh pieces, new weapon models for all weapons, two new Combat auras, and a new Laser Gun Power for your characters to use.

• New Costume Pieces: New padded armor types, leather designs, and pouches everywhere! including the thigh, where now you can outfit your character with the latest thigh accessories such as Pouches, Knife, pistol, Pads, and Armor Plating. New back mounted weapon models or even a backpack or jets, and all new weapon models for everything from assault rifle to Katana. Bringing over-sized pistols, swords, Hammers, and rifles to every one.
• New Combat Auras: Star eyes, or Energy Gaze.
• New Power: Laser Gun- A low damage energy weapon pulled from who-knows-where. Not a tide turner, but always nice to have an ace up your sleeve.

There we go...

After the cycle begins anew, it is only logical to follow the trees back around in a cyclical fashion.

City of Heroes® Super Booster VI: Mechanized includes all new and improved costume options, three character emotes, three new Combat auras, Four new persistent auras, and a new power option tailored to characters with more robotic characters..

• New Costume Pieces: Mechanized gives more tech options and expands on some long unfinished costume options. Players will now be able to sport an all body Skeletal Robotic frame complete with new Robotic Skull face option. Included are several Tech themed back items, including the long-awaited Rocket Packs, Power Supplies, and other hardware.
• New Combat Auras: Combat Auras get an upgrade! Flashing Warning Lights- a row of lights pulse in steps from shoulder to hand, neck to waist, and hip to foot. Power Rings- A pulse of energy that travels from shoulder to hand and repeats. Scan- Random lines and grids with flashing variables emanate from the head.
• New Emotes: Three new emotes have been added to help express mechanical characters better: Inactive, rotate head, and fold up.
• New Auras: Three new auras have been added in addition to the three combat auras. These auras can unlock at level 1 and are accessible through the character creator. Data Transfer-(Face, Head, Full Body, Limbs, Full Body and Face, Upper Torso) This effect has several points of light that begin somewhere on the character and travel to another location and vanish. Sparks-(Hair, Head, Full body, Chest, Arms, Hands, Legs, Eyes, Full body and Eyes.) Plumes of sparks that burst out of the body. Surge- a steady pulse of energy from within.
• New Power: Added Firepower- All good combat machines come equipped with an energy weapon, and you should be no exception. A small retractable wrist mounted weapon that springs forth and hurls a small blast of particle energy, then retracts until needed again.

And...

City of Heroes® Super Booster VII: Empowered Not all magic heroes wave wands and cast spells, some have been granted powers from otherworldly sources, or draw their strength from them directly. This pack is tailor made to suit those granted powers from the beyond. This pack includes many costume options to help represent your magically powered characters better, four new emotes, And a new variable bonus power.

• New Costume Pieces: The power awakens! Now you can adorn your character with Flaming wings, Glowing wings, Shoulder to shoulder helmets, knee-length skirts and dresses, glowing runes, head to toe trappings, Jewelry, New Faces, and decorative pieces.
• New Emotes: New Meditate, Draw power, Peace, and Rage emotes
• New Variable Bonus Power: Boon- When this power is used, you get the choice of Infernal Curse, or Divine Blessing. Infernal curse grants a resistance to fire attacks for a short time, Divine blessing grants a resistance to Negative energy attacks for a short time. This power is only usable on yourself.

And...



City of Heroes® Super Booster VIII: Abominations Has everything you need for your experiments gone wrong. This pack allows you to exude your nasty presence and show just how Toxic you are. Includes several costume pieces useful in creating the best science project you can. This pack introduces new thigh options, two new aura options, and a new power, to help spread the joy.

• New Costume Options: More organic costume pieces included within. including the new Ooze and Growth Patterns, New Thigh options include Tubing, Fins, Fur, Chunks, Thorns, Blister, and Chitin. New Tails, faces, oozing head pieces, and much more.
• New Auras: New Dripping and Odorous auras for those particularly smelly or moist characters.
• New Power: Infectious This toggle power makes enemies within melee range of you to have a slight chance to be infected with some malady from exposure to you.

And Finally...

City of Heroes® Super Booster IX: Human Condition There are times when a person arises that has so much drive, determination, and sheer moxie, they can tangle with the most powerful super-humans around and hold their own. They rely on their skill, wits, and gear to even the gap, and this pack reflects their needs. included are several costume options, emotes, and the new Swing-line travel power to help the superhumanly-challenged to get around.

• New Costume Options: New Padded and leather armor options, including thigh pads and backpacks. new cape styles such as Wing, Strips, Pocket lined, and Insignia. New mask designs for both full, and open styles.
• New Emotes: Search for clues, Peek around corner, Talk to ear radio, crouching alert, three-point crouch.
• New Power: Swing-line-Using a grapple you swing to the skyline to do your deeds.

That's all I will do, since I don't know exactly what the Mutant Pack will have. but sure that's a few I could think of.

All I have to say pertaining to the matter, is I can't tell which subject we are talking about anymore....

But that's the point is it not PK?






P.S. Well played!

RPI?

Role Playing Implosion

Maybe they just didn't want an S.O.A. solo Metal Shift, and teh sooperfreak back to back. :P

But if the future Nemesis hid his identity to prevent there being more than one Nemesis, and The future Nemesis was following Nemesis' plan all along since he was Nemesis, didn't his being there interfere with the aforementioned Nemesis or his plans? Or was that his plan all along?

If we are to assume that Nemesis could travel through time (which he does with regularity along with simple dimension hopping) Couldn't it be concluded that Nemesis is indeed dead even in our time? Dying a simple toymaker in the past, having launched his whole attack and campaign against the world years ago from a small village in total obscurity. His failure already complete or the world would now be his, achieving victory years ago.

Waging a war forward in time is easy though, it prevents the inevitable paradox that could ensue from tampering in the past. Victories could be wiped away, you could change the course of your development in unforeseen ways, you could inadvertently create a champion that could undo your already constructed plans or challenge you directly. Einstein hypothesized that time travel is not achievable by us, as nothing can travel at the speed of light or greater. Ignoring the fact that the same thing was said about the speed of sound, particles have been identified that do indeed travel faster than this theoretical limit. This proves that not only is the speed of light barrier only implied, it opens the door to theoretical time travel as well. That being said, if Nemesis was capable of tapping these energies, he could move his pizza through the temporal steam and ridicule the fiery tentacles radiating from melting bunnies. This can muff a dinosaur to pickle another win in slit...Manager....bumpkin....tree...philosophical. ..
bandhammer...Bunglimp.


*POP*

Here ya go...



Or is you wish for authenticity....

A pleasure, as always. If I ever get my animations off the ground, you have a job with me.

I agree with all of the above, but fail to see why this one has been overlooked...



Ah the "Siege Perilous"... $%@&!

Up until this, I had (U)X-Men #1-260 and began the Run of X-Men in 91 for about 6 issues... then I just wandered off and began to live.

But don't fret for me, I did come back for a short while to pay money for the "Maximum Clonage" Series for spider-Man.



I only buy Comics now if I hear good things, and this comes from a guy that has a lot of comic books... Mostly 70's and 80's. I decided that if I want a good heroic story, I will run my gaming group through one. The benefit of having a solid world that has remained unchanged aside from heroic failures. Miami is gone in my world... Sorry Miami, Casual victim of Ground Zero. The heroes that failed that day will not be forgotten: Mace, Black Radiance, Mystic Militia, Danger Zone, And Wildside. To this day, you can read their names on the memorial plaque erected where Ground Zero melted down along with this quote:

"Though the sand has been fused to glass and shadows burned into the landscaping, They serve as sobering reminders that eternal vigilance is not enough. We must learn to defend ourselves if necessary, but when that fails, we must learn to bear the burden of loss and rise to become stronger. For it is in that strength that we will send a message to those who plot to do harm that it will take more than the loss of a few of us to weaken the rest of us." ~Pres. Ronald Reagan Sept. 29th, 1988

I prefer a universe where the twists come from missing information, unknown variables, Shadowy Figures, or straight up trickery. I bear butterfly effect penalties for time travelers, and always reference my story bibles (Vol 1-46) to insure that nothing relevant will be affected, and when it will be, I show it. I never understood why people needed to radically wreck a perfectly functioning storyline like Mechagodzilla in a toiletpaper factory, but I always followed the tangent that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. and it has made for a great universe to go to, because mine is the same as it always has been, the only thing that changes is the featured players.

My top 5:

Crisis on Infinite Earths
Siege Perilous
Crisis on Infinite EarthsII
Maximum Clonage
Wolverine (Just anything to do with his past is suspect now. Or maybe that is always the way they wanted it to be.)

Names eh? Ok, you lured me in...


Virtue
Battle-Suit
Ki Force
Bar Belle
Beat-Box
Warbasher
Battalion Boy
Fake Blade
Sunshaper
Armor Class
Gizmo Gun
Ultra Chrome
Sunbathe
Doomside
Ox Fist
Double Swipe
Lethal Dragon
Fire-Finger
Red Rad
Ebony Foot
Adam's Apple
Chromatic Dragon
Molten Madam
Precision Steel
Gaijin Z
Door Buster
Teflon
Counter-Polarity
Mystic Militia
Grand Striker
Battle-Beast
Punctuation
Mindburst
Whistling Bow
Sample
Squatter
Vibrant Glory
Repetition
Auto-Fire
Iron Ophidian
Scale-Stalker
Felinoid
Gasbag
Failed Ronin
Fire Eel
Toxic Shrapnel
Warlord Ichi
Living Obelisk
Critical Care
Lightning Saber
Swift Axe
Dragon Legion
Pyre Charmer
Gladius Knight
Queen Beetle
Tiger Palm
Mantis Master
Celestial Envoy
Nova-Born
Sol Shell
Wild Genin
Lion Mane
Iron Chi
Paper Lotus
Whispered Song
Frost Cowl
Steampunk Ninja
Rage Master


OK, I better stop. I am full of it. I am not sure what it is, but there is plenty to go around.

Try this handy guide I wrote too... http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=119118

Come to think of it, I need to update that baby...

My guess is WAI. I like the look on it. It makes it seem like a really sick villain tailor, and adds the creepy surreal feeling when you have to take it on. Don't repair the face, The Facemaker likes it that way!

I do remember the bug, and it was fairly widespread. This is localized and a bit spot on to be a coincidence. The faces don't look so much distorted, as intentionally placed...

We can walk now, why does it matter if the Facemaker can look however it wants?

it is not.

Notice it is only us Pisces that take exception to your list (Fictional to be sure, but your research of keywords snared the essence of each sign even if it weren't intentional). Well, I won't play that game. Pisces are some of the most diverse individuals in the pantheon, and as such, there is little on these lists that does not apply to us at one point or another no matter the sign. Regardless of the protests (which stem directly from the fact that we are Pisces, and hate to have our personalities displayed lest they enfeeble the mystique we like to pretend we have.) You did in fact staple the moose right in the sack with this. There will be plenty of Pisces that will disagree with me, but to be frank, we tend to draw on all other signs for our own though we do all tend towards the same bent. We just happen to be the quirkiest lot about there, so you never truly know what to get from each chocolate-coated fish... We could be Herring, we could be Halibut, we could be Red Snapper, we could be Mahi Mahi, but one undeniable fact is this...

We are fish. Deal with it. That smell is us, but you will never know for sure. We are slippery, elusive, and will intentionally do just the opposite of what is expected of us for the sole (<~ like that?) pleasure of watching peoples brains break.

See?

Astrology isn't hard... It is just guesswork wrapped up in pretty words.

You may find it to be a bit generic.

I made up something just for the event...