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  1. Ironblade

    Character Order

    Did you check the box on the login screen "Remember Account Name"? It only saves the character order if you check that box. Why? I dunno.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven View Post
    There was an event/anniversary lead by a group called DATA on Infinity,
    Actually, I believe the name is 'Children of DATA'.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sionwyn View Post
    Just wondering if anyone has some advice on the fastest way to get that.
    Let me tell you a story.

    Once upon a time, I got the personal healing badges with arena farming, getting the SG ones in the process. I got the necessary gladiators on a second toon that I didn't care about, so I could have him join other peoples SG's to help with the SG healing badges. And I created another heal farmer just on general principles.

    Then we had free server transfers for a month. Ooo! I can send my guy on a tour to help SG's on other servers..... Wait! Even better, I can PL a new toon to send..... Even better, I can PL a toon to farm heals FOR EVERY SERVER. (I have two accounts, so I can PL myself. Yes, that sounds dirty. )

    Then they extended the free transfers for another month, so I had my fire/kin get Dark Watcher's arc and used the outdoor Nemesis map to PL a villain heal farmer for every server.

    So, if you haven't already gotten started and/or finished with the healing badges, PM me and we can set up a time to get one of my guys into your SG.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by newchemicals View Post
    I get about 8% hidden from Talos Wentworths. I have been meaning to sample the AP or SC WW to see if its different.
    How are you checking? Keep in mind that "hidden" is not a single status, but a whole list of individual options.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Emberly View Post
    It's too bad we can't gift boosters and such, I've a few friends online who I would like to give the boosters, but of course I cannot.
    The only thing you can gift is boxed expansion sets since the code it provides is printed on a physical card.
    Kind of a bummer.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bleeding View Post
    Filing bug reports, and petitions work to a degree. But I have to admit the time it actually takes to get a actuale responce is much to be desired.
    Actually, I find the response time pretty impressive. I was on a TF last week and we couldn't finish a defeat all because the last guy could not be found. He showed up on the mini-map, but was not in the mission at the spot indicated.

    As leader, I filed a petition for assistance. We got a GM response. He took a few minutes to investigate the situation and said it appeared the mission was bugged. He advised he could not simply teleport the enemy to us, due to the bug, and would auto-complete the mission for us, asking if that was okay. I said it was. He completed it. Total time from petition to mission complete: 13 minutes. (I actually used a stopwatch, out of curiosity.)

    BTW, I play a lot and, as best I can recall, this is the second petition I have had to file this year due to being stuck. So while we certainly run into bugs, very few of them are actually game-stopping.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Impish Kat View Post
    Never said you needed to be modded, just a little bite of humble pie... and maybe some common courtesy. You're displaying some seriously bad form here.
    And you're not? You're not the 'offended party'. Give it a rest.
    Unless, of course, you're Bill's mother.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Indiramourning View Post
    Hey, how do you invite your Alts to your SG? Got to have someone else in your SG for that right?
    Not necessarily. A lot of people have more than one account.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chocolate_Bacon View Post
    102 people is not enough of a sample size to throw that number around like it's a fact. Even if it could be shown that forumites are a good representation of the playerbase, which I doubt, you'd need a larger sampling of players to have any confidence in results.
    Yeah? And?
    He didn't just post the percentage result. He posted the exact count so everyone would have full information about the degree of validity. Furthermore, as for forumites being typical, we already had a discussion on that. No one could come up with any reason to think that forum posters would be either more or less likely to be hidden.

    So we have already considered and evaluated all your points and, at the end of the day, the information from Bill's survey is all the data available to us. We know it's not a big enough sample, but it's better than nothing.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
    The amount of notices a user should see should be EXTREMELY limited (with the exception of (un)installing an application, I probably see zero a month).
    Except Microsoft never seems capable of doing something right on the first try. Someone in my office just got a new laptop with Windows 7 and one program triggers the UAC every single time it's launched: MICROSOFT Access.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by The Lone Hero View Post
    I already know how to build. Also, to Memphis, why did you answer the questions when they were already answered?
    Why do you constantly cop an attitude? Any time someone makes a post that doesn't fit your preconceived notion of what the answer should look like, you start an interrogation and/or take umbrage.

    How long do you think you're going to keep getting helpful responses when any post that doesn't meet your quality criteria is greeted with a version of "What do you think you're doing?"
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bad_Influence View Post
    Let's cut this down to the bone, shall we? If the people running CoX REALLY disapproved of "homages," they would NOT HAVE ENABLED THE FOLLOWING:

    *Shields which can look like Captain America shields.

    *The Bat-cape, Bat-gloves and Bat-boots

    *WOLVERINE'S CLAWS! An exact copy, for crying out loud. Yeah, that makes sense.

    ...I am sure there are more costume parts that allow almost perfect copies of existing characters, but you get my drift. If NCSoft *really* dislikes homages, they have the power to stop it right at the costume creator, by removing these options from same. Until they do, I'm not functioning as their unpaid Hall Monitors.
    What a load of bull. Let's cut right to it and state the blindingly obvious that you seem to have overlooked: if they removed every costume piece that looked like an existing comic character, there wouldn't be much left.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by RobertoLyon View Post
    If you're looking for precise numbers, no - but the servers are always listed on the Select Server screen in the following order:

    -Server you last logged onto
    -Least populated Server
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    -Most populated Server (usually Freedom/Virtue)
    Technically, no. They are listed in order of SERVER LOAD. This is not synonymous with population. It is frequently a good indicator of population, but not always.
  14. Exactly. A friend of mine calls it the "aura of extra bonus lag" because it serves no useful purpose and lags you if your computer is on the weak side.
  15. The Pilgrim - Ouroboros Initiation
    Minimum level: 25 (goes up to 50)
    Minimum team size: 1
    Four door missions and 8 'talk to' (all in Ouroboros).
    7 merits

    Twilight's Son - Smoke and Mirrors
    Minimum level: 25 (exemps to 34)
    Minimum team size: 1
    Four missions.
    7 merits

    I figured we could do two of the Ouroboros arcs this weekend, and the other two next weekend. Going Rogue will hit a few days after that and will presumably bring something new we can try.


    1. Ironblade - probably my warshade, Jenni Everywhere (lvl 45)
    2. Ryan Stauffer - TBA
    3. Gillian Boardman - a support bunny
    4. Mystery Inc - whatever we need (bacon?)
    5. Taxi Glowworm (sounds funnier than Glowstick)
    6. Flux Overlord
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  16. I think a better idea would be to have the 'large market fee warning' work a bit better. The user should be able to set the inf amount that will trigger the warning. Also, the bloody thing should stay off when you turn it off!
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    The only problem is you can only join one Supergroup and the supergroup can have a base.
    This sentence could be confusing to a new player.
    Each of your CHARACTERS can only join one supergroup. If you make 10 character, you can be in 10 different supergroups. I have characters in 8 different supergroups, just on Infinity.
  18. Ironblade

    Got Hacked >:(

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Toasted View Post
    My password and contact email have been changed, though this isnt the strangest part.

    I receieved an email on July 27 (the day i attempted to access the account) to my very old email address (one im certainly sure was not affiliated to my plaync account) regarding in game currency transaction.... on Aion?
    These events may not be related. I've gotten emails about my account being suspended in Aion, WoW, and at least 5 different banks.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Minotaur View Post
    No don't, paragonwiki.com hasn't been updated for ages, the cohtitan version linked to by Memphis Bill is the correct one.
    Bzzt! Wrong answer. Paragonwiki.com is hosted on the CoHTitan servers. The paragonwiki.com URL and the wiki.cohtitan.com URL take you to the exact same web site.

    The 'bad' site (known to have hosted malware on at least one occasion) has wikia in the URL. Avoid that one.

    By the way, in my opinion, the paragonwiki.com URL is the way to go. That URL is owned by TonyV, who created the site, and it has followed the site each time it moved. If the site moves again, that URL should continue to work but the cohtitan.com one would not.
  20. Definitely not hard. At level 50, your base hit points is 1874.

    First, you want High Pain Tolerance. If I'm reading the numbers right, it adds 20%, half of which is enhanceable.
    Then your accolades add another 20%.

    I didn't go nuts IO'ing for hit points since I also wanted some defense, regen, recovery and accuracy, so I only have 19.5% to hit points.

    Result: 3146 hit points.

    If you really focused on the hit point bonuses, you could easily get to 3212.
  21. Ironblade

    Refunds?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Prof_Radburn View Post
    What is this bored with this game malarky all about played almost 7,000 hours in the 51 months I,ve had the game not bored yet still lots to see and do.
    Hey, everyone is different. There are actually people who don't like chocolate or bacon.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Emberly View Post
    Complaining about PuG members lack of skill ruining a team is kind of like blaming the goalie for losing the hockey game. I've never been on a team where I could legitimately say that one or two people were so incompetent that we all failed as a result. People should keep in mind that on a PuG team, everyone is a PuG team member and the team's success or failure doesn't rest on the shoulders of one scapegoat who didn't take the powers you wanted them to take.
    I agree partially. But I have seen situations where the player had made power choices that were sub-optimal, and then proceeded to do everything possible to 'capitalize' on the build problems.

    Case in point: I was on a PUG doing the Praetorian War arc. We get to the mission with Shadowhunter and the map full of wolves. The invuln tank, who had just joined before that mission, volunteered to herd them so we could AoE them. Sounded reasonable. The tank runs toward a group and dies in seconds. Recalled and rezzed. Repeat of the insta-death.

    I'm thinking, "Wow, how could she be dying so fast?" I check the power icon display next to the team window and see she doesn't have Temporary Invulnerability on. I have a premonition of doom and check her powers. She doesn't have the power at all. Okay, not going to crucify someone over skipping one power but, if your smashing resistance is like 15-20%, you simply can not herd those wolves. The power selection was 'questionable' but the tactics were completely boneheaded and the worst possible thing to do.

    I pointed out the incompatibility between the powers she had and the plan to herd. She went ballistic. She insisted she had been playing for years and knew what she was doing. To prove this, she charged another group of wolves and died in seconds for the third time. At that point, she went to the hospital and quit the team.

    Textbook example of a noob.

    I'll save the horror stories about scrappers who skipped their mez protection for another time.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Emberly View Post
    Fire/Kins on Master runs invariably screw it up, because they think that they are unstoppable forces for soloing everything that refuse to listen. So, I must retract my previous statement.

    Now that I think about it, almost every incompetent player I have met and remembered was either a tank or a fire/kin.
    Now you malign fire/kins. Bite me.
    I have a fire/kin, built specifically for farming, who is a very welcome addition to any team.
  23. So, I'm on a team doing some missions in Striga. We have to hunt Council inside the base. No problem. While we're in there, we see this:



    Seriously. The Sky Raiders are an elite paramilitary force. Did no one explain to this guy why it's not a good idea to walk around on a target range?
  24. So why don't people just turn up the difficulty and stop whining?
    I did the respec trial today (twice - 1st and 2nd version once each) at +2 levels and the boredom was minimal. Due to the random timing, some of the waves overlapped and some had quiet intervals.

    This is why we have the difficulty settings. This is why they were recently expanded to give more options and control. This seems like the solution to both sides. People with gimped builds run at base settings and uber players can crank it up.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slashman View Post
    I'm still a bit confused about what GR is supposed to accomplish for the game as a whole. That's not to say I don't like what is coming in GR...but if revamping the new user experience is the focal point of the expansion along with side switching, why leave the other 2 possible starting points untouched?
    Time.
    If they decided to revamp the low level blue and red zones to be as pretty as Praetoria, it will be done some time in 2011 and push out a lot of other development items.


    And on the next page I see this:
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slashman View Post
    Or maybe I'm referring to the post by War Witch where she says that they didn't have the resources to revamp the starting zones?
    I see you already knew the reason. So was your previous post just trolling?