Ironblade

Well, since it connects okay the first time, you know you'll be getting any patches downloaded. After that, the easiest workaround would be to simply skip the updater. This is EASY to do.

My regular desktop shortcut for the game has the target as:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe"

I also have a second shortcut to BYPASS the updater. It has:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project coh
Note the two spaces outside the quotes; one before -project and one before coh. This skips the updater and launches the game directly. Just keep in mind that, any time there is a patch to download, you MUST go through the updater. I use the bypass shortcut after the game crashes and it insists on wasting my time verifying files.



Yes, that would be the 'pre-download' for Issue 17. It's over 800MB. All those Ultra Mode graphics, don't you know.

Beats me. I don't have any HD sources to try it with.

I am not being believing at the current time that this was honestly in fact sent by the NCSoft persons.

Half right. Yes, we'll submit to epic tedium for a badge.
However, we'll gravitate toward the way that's least labor-intensive. If I can spend 10 minutes in a PvP zone for a badge, or 30 minutes elsewhere, you can bet I'll be in that PvP zone.

I see. And when you speak on the devs' behalf, we should just take YOUR word for it, but ignore what the big, bad farmers say?

We have to distinguish here between 'okay farming' and 'exploitive farming'. If you want to log your fire/kin and clear the Council Empire map twenty times solo, the devs have ZERO problem with that. THEY SAID SO. (Well, one of them said so, but it was the big enchilada.) You want to actively farm standard missions all day long, go for it.


Sorry, bad comparison as your statement is flat-out false. Farming is not 'illegal' (or against the rules, TOS, EULA, or whatever guidelines you'd like to apply).


Of course, at the opposite end of the spectrum, if you are using a macro'ing keyboard to automate your character for farming - that's absolutely 'illegal' and will get you permanently banned.


To summarize, in a nice and obtuse manner: There's farming and there's 'farming'.

If you can find me something to spend it on.
We need more/bigger base stuff. My SG has like 27 million sitting unspent.

This one? Thresholds CoH: What to do When

I don't have that model.

I have a 226BW (22" widescreen 1680x1050). The backlight failed after 2-3/4 years, still under warranty, and it was repaired very quickly at zero cost to me (they paid shipping both ways). However, since I absolutely could not be without a monitor (and didn't have a spare), I bought....

XL2370 which is a 23" 16:9 high def widescreen (1920x1080) with LED backlight. The monitor itself looks nice and has a great picture.

Excuse me?

Pretty much. Sure, some builds will work better than others at times, but the 'underperforming' build might well be more fun to play. Also, you need to be pretty picky about your build if you plan to fight archvillains with a team of 8 people set to +4 difficulty - i.e. extreme/unusual situations.

Keep in mind, though, that many powersets have one or two KEY powers that you will really regret not taking. An example would be that all tanks get a power in their primary set that provides 'status defense' and all scrappers get such a power in their secondary set. Your 'status defense' power will make you mostly immune to being held, slept, stunned, etc. That's a huge benefit.

"that other MMO"?
If you're referring to WoW, there are COUNTRIES with smaller populations. Comparing ANY other MMO to WoW is absurd.

To have lunch with hovercat.

(shrug) You can do the STF with no tankers OR scrappers. So what?

To the OP: Scrankers are fine as long as they don't try to pass themselves off as a 'team tank'. I was on an STF where the leader assembled a 'classic' team - tank, damage, buffs, debuffs. We were about halfway through when I started wondering why the tank was so useless. I looked over his powers and saw he was missing some of the key defenses and didn't have Taunt. He volunteered to 'tank' the STF but was built as a scranker (he was kind of incompetent as a player also, which was a big part of the problem).

I've also teamed with scrankers who were clear about their build. They said they were a scranker, or that they weren't built to be a 'lead tank'. And that was no problem.

And it's so easy to spell it that even a caveman can do it?

It doesn't matter what it was started for.
This is the interwebz! muahahahahahaha

And WHOSE time is it to waste?
Don't worry yourself about it.

Sure does.
I'd IO him for +recovery. It's the 1st set bonus in the sets that have it so you can semi-frankenslot for high performance in the powers, using PAIRS of IO's. If you've got the influence, you can get epic +recovery. My dark/dark runs 10 toggles. He has Stamina with 3 endmod plus the Performance Shifter +END IO, then he has +48% ADDITIONAL recovery from other stuff. Basically, I wanted to see if it was possible to get enough recovery to run everything I felt like. Yes, but it wasn't easy. (No purples, FYI.)

At the other extreme of the cost spectrum, I have a defender without Stamina and +33% recovery from sets. No Perf Shifter, no uniques, just cheap sets. His build was a bit over 20 million influence.

Don't you mean "Sorry to act the fool in multiple threads...."?

sheesh. So they want to dump another gig of data on your system. Whose computer is it, anyway? Oh, wait.....

The bug is that sometimes the level lock doesn't work. Just as Drakmarth stated, I've also seen TF's where everyone goes up a level when the leader levels.