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  1. Ironblade

    Name wipe

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Beltor View Post
    I'm an example of this. I've been playing the game since 2008. I didn't register on the forums for over a year and don't post that often.
    Exactly. I didn't know the forums existed initially and didn't register on them for over a year. And I don't post much, either.

    What? The word "much" is entirely subjective!
  2. Kick the staged download to the curb and just use the NCSoft Launcher. Yes, it doesn't let you play while downloading... but it WORKS.
  3. Ironblade

    Cap Buster

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Granite Agent View Post
    Is the only way to get Cap Buster to kill the 330 redcaps? Paragon Wiki not totally clear. I thought you could get it just completing the Snaptooth (DJ Zero) mission one time?
    Cap Buster is for defeating Redcaps, wherever you find them.
    There is another badge, Toothbreaker, specifically for defeating Snaptooth (5 times).
  4. I got nuthin' on the mouse problem.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lexandro View Post
    First of is stuttering and a terrible performance at the recommended settings for my system.
    Recommended by whom? If you're talking about the FAQ on NCSoft's web site, it's full of wishful thinking. Try turning the settings down, maybe by a lot. If the problem goes away, that means your system is underpowered.

    That's an awfully low-end graphics card for this game. Also, you really need more RAM. You're running a 64-bit version of Win7 and you have 2GB? This game can take around 1.3GB all by itself.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doc_Reverend View Post
    It happens. Not really worth getting upset over.
    I respectfully disagree.
    This is A LITERAL SLAP IN THE FACE!
  6. Ironblade

    I expired

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gameboy1234 View Post
    Do NOT make me come over there and go upside your head with my 20 pound armored gloves!

    Resubscribe NOW!
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    If you have Saved Costumes that you want to keep, you make extensive use of player notes or you have AE arcs that you may want to revise then you may want to copy those over.
    Let me expand on this.
    "If you have Saved Costumes that you want to keep, you make extensive use of player notes or you have AE arcs that you may want to revise then you..."
    SHOULD BE BACKING THESE FILES UP ON A REGULAR BASIS!

    Seriously. When you have a hard drive crash, or some other incident that causes a lost of data, if the data loss is permanent then the only correct explanation for how it happened is "I was lazy and/or stupid." I've seen people with their livelihood stored on the computer lose it all because they had no back-ups.

    I remember an audio file that was making the rounds years ago. It was a guy calling tech support. They had serviced his laptop and, in the process, had wiped the hard drive. The only copy of his doctoral thesis had been on that drive - "Two years of my ******* life!", as he phrased it. Gee, too bad, dude. You messed up.

    If you have ANYTHING on your computer that you don't want to lose, you should be backing up EVERYTHING.

    /threadjack
  8. Go to the forum section for your server and:

    1) See what global channels are active for that server. If there isn't a list or post about it, just ask.

    2) See if there are any scheduled task forces. Infinity, for example, has task forces and trials with sign-up on the forums. Same day and time each week; different task force (usually we start with Posi 1 and work our way up in level).
  9. Home, home on the ranch.
    Where the beer and the cantaloupe......
  10. Ironblade

    Name wipe

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon View Post
    After four pages of reading, I haven't seen this question answered: what the heck is a dead realm?

    Is he talking about the under populated servers? If so, why would those servers get blamed for the problem?
    Yeah..... I'm thinking that anyone talking about "dead realms" doesn't actually know the game well enough to have an informed opinion on the naming system.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison View Post
    Integration is worth slotting, but Tough and Weave are equally important for a /regen character.
    Well, I have Integration slotted, but didn't have room for Tough or Weave.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Badaxe View Post
    Meanwhile back at the range....
    Would that be 'range' like a stove" Or shooting range?
    (I ask because the historical quote is, "Meanwhile, back at the RANCH." )
  13. Ironblade

    Name wipe

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ukaserex View Post
    The more characters you make, yeah, the harder cool names are to get.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    It is? (says the 300+, two account altaholic.)
    Well, yeah, by definition, in fact. If you make a new character, then there is ONE less name available.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    Seems roughly instantaneous to me,
    That's what I'm seeing, also. I monitor damage buff on my tank with Rage and stealth on various non-stalkers when ghosting missions. Not noticing any delay at all.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GadgetDon View Post
    I'd written a free game series for the Apple II, "The Wonderful World of Eamon". It was free, people could make copies as they wanted, they started to spread.
    Huh... I remember that game.
    I had a Radio Shack TRS-80, then Commodore Amiga, then IBM PC - but a friend of my brother had an Apple and had that, one of the Ultima games and some other stuff.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doctor_A_Science View Post
    its shows i am a mentor.. yeah right like you trust me mentoring
    Oh, you'd probably be okay at mentoring total ROOKIES.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea View Post
    I think you missed some of the context. He likes getting his weekly SSA merit but he wanted to turn villain to get the Scorpion Shield patron power.
    Ah, so this was a one-time-only event, not a regular practice.
    I was busy looking at the pretty pictures.
  18. Ironblade

    Name wipe

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind View Post
    Honestly, I don't see why we need unique names in the first place.
    It's not a question of 'need'; it's a question of 'want'. We want them. By "we", I mean "most of the players".

    Quote:
    Of course it's a bit late for this now. But City2 is only, what, five years away?
    Not that any of us know. To the best of our knowledge, there is no CoH2 planned. We have been TOLD this by the developers. Now, maybe they're playing games with semantics and something similar really is planned. If so, we haven't been told about it.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    Why, when we already have an infinitude of excellent names to use?
    Infinitude? I dunno.... I would have said plethora.
  19. Similar to last weeks TF (Imperious), this is a co-op task force so characters of any alignment can join.

    Saturday, Aug 11 at 1PM EDT

    Lady Grey Task Force
    Level 45+
    Requires 8 to start.
    Contact is in the Rikti War Zone.

    1. Ironblade - Dark Lord Darkness (dark/dark controller)
    2. Doctor A Science - dunno
    3. Elllls - maybe a dark/dark troller, maybe something else
    4. Asgardian Blade - Kyrybdys (rad/dp defender)
    5. Saint Jon - Saint Jon (blaster)
    6.
    7.
    8.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AngelicaVenger View Post
    Get yourself a Warrior farm mission and work it, work it, work it 'til the purple recipes drop.
    Too time-consuming. Much easier to work the consignment house.
  21. Ironblade

    30,000

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aisynia View Post
    No offense, I like you, and you've helped me out with a couple things in the past, but I really thought you were above measuring parts you don't even technically have.

    Insert my stock response to anyone who does this: So?
    Coincidentally, I have the same response to your post: So?
    I found her post amusing.
    Don't actually care whether or not anyone else did.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bronze Knight View Post
    I retired him when the BAF/LAM came out because he just couldn't keep up. He wasn't soft caped and his low health meant he would die every other spawn. I just stopped playing him because I knew that no matter what I did he was useless in the new endgame.
    What, were you trying to solo the spawns? All of my squishy characters have this problem unless they follow someone tougher who can take the aggro. Why should masterminds be any different?

    And yet, despite this low survivability that you claim makes them useless, I have six squishies (controllers, defenders) up to level 50+3 incarnate status.
    Not seeing a problem.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Organica View Post
    Because saying something can be done and actually doing it are two different things, I continued to run tip missions and confirmed hero status this afternoon, then ran SSA1 for my weekly hero merit. I think this is pretty neat -- it takes 10 days to go from hero to villain and back and confirm hero status again, but since you can have 10 vigilante tips already run without being a vigilante yet, and can run your SSA immediately after confirming hero status, you really can do two SSA's 7 days apart for hero merits while still making the full round trip journey.
    Question: If all you're interested in is the Hero Merit, why are you actually changing alignment?

    1. Run 10 hero tips and a hero morality mission to confirm alignment.
    2. Run 10 hero tips and a hero morality mission to get a hero merit.
    3. Repeat step 2.

    You can get a hero merit every 2 days using the tip system.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CatAtomic View Post
    Has anyone successfully met this badge requirements since the pet nerf (lore pets do not receive level shift via lights) and/or the lights nerf (hover/fly prevents damage from lightning)?
    Yes, today on Infinity.