Hyperstrike

Damn Secondary Mutation!

/em flingpoop

Thanks for all your hard work Arcana. I probably would have picked up a lot of the game "eventually". But your participation and explanations made the assimilation effortless and nearly instantaneous. As such, I could concentrate on just sitting back and enjoying the game. Which I did. IMMENSELY.

Wish I could have stayed for all of it. But I was promised out to another event for a friend. Would have been awesome.

Glad everyone had fun RtR'ing their *** off.

Actually there's another way.

Also, you have to be careful with flight. If you're too high in portions under the map, you're auto-ported back topside.

Was close but kept going right by it. Cheated by resorting to demoediting.

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I dunno. I think, had Cryptic gone the way they have with CO, this game would have died a long LONG time ago.

Being put on the kind of maintenance that CO is on would have been a death knell 5 years ago. Remember, we were five months out from i12. Being put on "maintenance" by Cryptic then would have pretty much STOPPED development. This was years before F2P became a viable option. There was no cash shop. And the game was still hemorrhaging players.

As angry as I am with NCSoft, they allowed this game to continue to grow. Yeah, their strategy of nixing advertising budgets was an asinine move. But still, the game continued to grow and change.

I'll worry about December 1st sometime on the 2nd. I've actually taken a *gasp* DAY OFF!

To be in-game for the last day. Essentially my own "24 hours of gaming".

I'll be complete toast afterward and probably won't be coherent for 10-12 hours after.

Why should *I* be the only one squicking and paying out big money to shrinks?

You KNOW where you need to be JayboH.

How many server transfers do you have built up?

Head to bed early the night before. And TT rarely lasts more than about 2 hours or so. So you can crash back out for a bit or take yourself out to breakfast and still have time to spare.

And if you're on a missions team, simply leave when you gottta leave.

And if not, well, now's the time to abuse all those server transfers you've been building up.

"May"?

You WILL!

Seriously? Some horse's *** was griefing this stuff?

Sorry. Did nursing for over a decade. This phrase just leads me off into places I don't want to go.

A lot of it has to do with what the proprietors will accept as "profitable" and what the players will accept as maintenance.

One of the reasons large publishers can afford to keep things afloat longer is because their bandwidth costs to their hosting facilities are more or less fixed. And, depending on their server infrastructure, the cabinet space for paid-for hardware is negligible.

As long as said game doesn't directly impact on the bandwidth reqirements or rackspace requirements for more profitable titles, and the basic maintenance costs are covered, a large publisher COULD, theoretically, keep a title on life support indefinitely.

Unfortunately, smaller companies don't have the ability to leverage that type of economy of scale.

Not saying CoH couldn't still be run at a reasonable, acceptable level of profit. I, quite honestly, am convinced that it could. And maintain it's standards for content release and support.

It's would just take some very VERY careful management.

Are screenshots NOT showing up in the Screenshots folder underneath your CoH directory?

You shouldn't have to cut and paste anything.

By default, screenshots are without UI.

If you want a screenie with the UI

/macro SS-UI, screenshotui 1

After you run the macro, you'll take only screenshots with the UI until you turn it off or exit the game.

/macro SS-NoUI, screenshotui 0

This will turn it off so when you get screenshots you have no UI.

/macro SS, screenshot

Does the same thing hitting PrtScrn should do. Captures a JPEG screenshot to your Screenshots directory.

/macro SSTGA, screenshottga

Grabs a screenshot in a lossless TGA format. Better suited if you're going to be manipulating the image extensively as you won't have to deal with compression artifacts.

If you're just grabbing screenies of static scenes, you can also use the Snipping tool and grab all or part of the screen. Then you can save it directly to a format of your choice.