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  1. It happens. Like the time the red panda got loose in the Central Park Zoo in NY. It was found sitting outside its enclosure, staring through the glass, since it wanted to get back in.

    The official explanation of how it got out? "We didn't know they could jump that high."
  2. How about you read more and speak without a clue less.
    I followed every one of those links. I guess they're interesting if you want to read about PRICE SUPPORTS and how the government INFLUENCES prices of various commodities. But they don't FIX the prices.
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    Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid View Post
    So now, since apparently everyone is "respectfully answering" my question, I'm going to have to prove that no, they are not.
    Ah, so now you have yet another agenda.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DaShuk2381 View Post
    Well I checked back last year and there were still a lot of my old friends here, but this forum is hardly thriving, lol.
    Oh. I wasn't even thinking about the forums.


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    Infinity also looks to be one of the lowest populated servers, at least the times I am on, I'm lucky if there are 2-3 people in any of the zones I am in.
    Actually, it's one of the more active. It's usually in the 3rd or 4th position out of..... 14? Checking how many people are in a zone really tells you nothing - unless you're in the Rikti War Zone. That's where all the incarnate stuff launches from on this server.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy View Post
    I can make inf. to fund a project, which is the only time I bother. If I have an alt that I want to be decked out, I will deck it out. What I'm curious about is.. Why would anyone be a "real" marketeer?
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    If I want a new character, I spend a couple of weeks in game farming and marketeering to collect the 5 purple sets and 3 or more PVP IO's I need, plus an extra billion or two for extra stuff like Kin Combats and LOTG's. I spend it all within a day of making it.
    Just a difference in strategies. When I make a new character, I don't want to "spend a couple of weeks" generating the funds/IO's for them. I prefer to have the funding activities occurring on an ongoing basis. On any day that I log in to CoH, I first log in to my marketing toon for a couple of minutes.

    When I have a character approaching the level where I will IO them (usually level 35 initially, again at 50 if I REALLY like the character), I have the funds sitting there and start setting up lowball bids weeks in advance. When I'm ready to IO, all the expensive stuff is sitting in storage waiting.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Honbrid View Post
    This is true, but it WAS Tuesday morning where I am when I made my post (a little after 1 AM to be exact), so we're both right

    (Or at least I thought it was when I made that post - and this one. Apparently I have lost my sense of time.)
    Yeah, the time stamp says March 3rd, which was Saturday. I was going to ask how many International Date Lines there are between me and wherever you are.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DaShuk2381 View Post
    I'm just missing the days when Infinity was thriving, both in game and the forums,
    It is still thriving.

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    just kind of sad to see my global list staying dark anytime I am on the game.
    Well, you've been gone for how long?
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    For the second time, our schedule matches up with the Weekly Strike Target. Next week, we head back out to the Shadow Shards.
    As promised, it's back to the Shadow Shard this week. Yes, the Weekly Strike Target is level 44+, but the respec trial is so short and easy it hardly seems worth scheduling it. I'll probably run several, both red and blue, during the week.

    Saturday, March 10 at 1PM Eastern

    The Legend of Ruladak (AKA Sara Moore TF)
    Level 40+
    Requires 8 to start.
    Contact is in Cascade Archipelago (go to Firebase Zulu then check your map for the zone portal)

    Worth mentioning: the contact is out in the middle of the zone, far from the regular zone portal. HOWEVER, she is right next to 'Mole Point Charlie' - a secondary zone connection that you are initially unable to access. To gain access to the Mole Point, you have to go the long way the first time and talk to the Mole Point Technician. After that you (that particular character) will be able to take the shortcut from the 'extra' portal in FBZ. I'll point this out to everyone when we're gathering at the contact.

    1. Ironblade - Capt Tom Tachyon (time/rad defender)
    2. Doctor A Maybe - maybe
    3. Asgardian Blade - Asgardian Blade (scrapper)
    4. Saint Jon - Heated Exchange (blaster)
    5. As Astra - not sure what
    6. Angelica Venger - Angelica Venger? (blaster?)
    7. Flux Overlord - maybe
    8. GATE-keeper - Olivia Neutron-Bomb (blaster)
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DaShuk2381 View Post
    then he turns around and wacks off 3/4 of my hp with one axe hit.
    The Minotaur??? I always have a problem with the Honoree and Captain Holtz. The minotaur has always been easier for me. On anyone that can't go toe-to-toe with him, I kite him. The room he's in is wide enough that you can circle the perimeter with him following you and he'll only rarely actually manage to get a swing at you. Stick to short animation ranged attacks.


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    Trying this on my emp/rad defender, who is my only 50.
    Yeah.... never tried this on an emp. I soloed Nosferatu on my emp and swore I'd never solo another EB. It's just too annoying and time-consuming.


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    Honestly I would grab help/team for the boss, but Infinity seems like it is deader now than it was 2-3 years ago when I left the first time.
    There's more places to go and things to do. You need to ask on global channels and you'll have tons of people volunteering to help.

    I would recommend:
    Inf Badge Seeker
    Infinity Incarnates
    Infinity Badges 2.0
    Infinity TFs
    AE Anonymous

    These are all active channels with 'serious' players. If I'm starting a task force, I'll broadcast on any or all of them to assemble a team. Also, you can specifically look for me. I'll help if I'm on. My globals are:
    @Ironblade One
    @Ironblade Too
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by graystar_blaster View Post
    And how could you possibly after all this time continue to talk about a video-game in the real world terms of life and gain and loss.
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    Originally Posted by graystar_blaster View Post
    . They are knowingly and without care defrauding the people buying as to the value of the object they are buying.

    in the real world this is a crime you go to jail for? so if you cant go to jail in this game for this type for rime dont compare it to life.
    Wait, didn't you just say ask how someone could possibly compare the game to real life? But it's okay when you do it?

    To answer your question, though, no that's not a crime and you don't go to jail for it. Because your comparison is BS. Does a store owner go to jail if they sell something for $50 even though they know they will put it on sale next week for $35?
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Young_Tutor View Post
    1.)To be honest, the current WTF is Statesman/Lord Recluse, which is open to level 45-50. Your friend who is level 45 would get a huge part of the way to 50 if they did STF a couple of times this weekend
    You only get the bonus XP ONCE PER WEEK PER CHARACTER.


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    Originally Posted by Honbrid View Post
    Actually, STF/LRSF ends this morning, switching to the third Respec trials.
    No. The weekly strike target switches on TUESDAY morning.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ricohdah View Post
    I think the sure way to know is if you have the Countdown to Call to Justice symbol in your active power display or if you have the Call to Justice power itself means you can earn A-merits. Frenzy symbol for villains.
    Actually, this is completely wrong.
    You get the Countdown and then the power when you do a morality mission. If doing that morality mission CHANGED your alignment, making you a hero or villain, you are *NOT* eligible for A-Merits yet. If you changed alignment, you need to run ANOTHER set of 10 alignment missions and a morality mission. THEN you can earn A-Merits.

    If you were ALWAYS a hero or villain, and did a morality mission to get that power, then you can earn A-Merits.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by _Klaw_ View Post
    How does it stop someone playing the game?
    Actually, I think personal drama would be causing that part.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kurukaze View Post
    I can start multiple instances - 2,3,4 no problem - but as soon as the second instance is up, Windows (7, 64bit version) is reducing the priority of both instances to lowest priority.
    This is probably not accurate. In order for you to be observing the task priority, you have the task manager active which means CoH is now a background task. If one instance of CoH is the foreground task, it will have a higher priority. Observing task priority changes it - Heisenberg's principle as applied to the task manager.

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    As soon as I manage to close one (very slow in game or fast via task manager) the other instance recovers to normal priority. Needless to say this leaves me unable to play with multiple instances.
    That sounds like your system isn't powerful enough to be running multiple instances. Or maybe you don't have enough RAM and it's slow because it's using the pagefile. I have zero problem running two instances under Win7 64 bit.

    I set each instance to /maxinactivefps 5
    so when it's in the background, the graphics card doesn't have to work so hard on it. Can we get your system specs?
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    But anyone who defends the current state of Tankers is just allowing them continue getting screwed over, just as they were screwed out of Fury and thrown under the bus by the devs to be low damage decoys.

    In other words, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of them problem.

    Proud to be part of the problem.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MaestroMavius View Post
    You could help me in my new found addiction to IOing.

    I've spent more Influence in the last 3 days on sets than I've earned in entire years of playing, since I don't play at 50.
    Wait a minute... you've spent more in 3 days than you earned in years? Then where did that inf come from? Sploitz?
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by mousedroid View Post
    It's ridiculous and the company should be ashamed that their forums are this user unfriendly, but they are so clearly unwilling to fix it that I stopped complaining about it months ago. ETA: Until today.
    Clearly unwilling to fix it? Naturally. Or maybe it's one of those bugs that's hard to find because it's not consistent. It's not affecting everyone. I haven't had the forums log me out since some time last year.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by War Witch View Post
    Yes, I've been at the helm, as Lead Designer getting Going Rogue out the door (then moved into a more producery role with one, then two strike teams)
    Cool. Were you issued bulletproof gear for the strike teams?
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Black Pebble View Post
    The e-mail provider has blacklisted the COH newsletters. This can be for a variety of reasons such as the rate the newsletters are sent out, or issues with the header information.
    I guess that's possible. However, I receive a tremendous amount of spam, most of it obviously and blatantly spam, which is simply diverted into a spam folder. The CoH emails don't show up at all.

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    The customer never opted in. (It's surprisingly more difficult than it seems to sign up for these newsletters.)
    Perhaps the settings on your end were lost at some point? I USED TO get the emails, but now I don't. I did NOT change email providers.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Siolfir View Post
    It's certainly not worth arguing about, but
    But maybe it is, after all, huh?

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    Besides, in a purely performance-based look at it, a decent buffer/debuffer is worth more as a force multiplier to the team than an otherwise "pure damage" AT with a level shift and t4 incarnate powers.
    Now you're stating the blindingly obvious. I do have some clue how various AT's contribute to a team.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr_Body View Post
    Use a 50.
    Ignore that.

    Use anyone. The items go into account-wide email.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    The final fight in this task force is quite difficult and Capt Tom Tachyon isn't level-shifted yet, so I'll probably bring someone else.
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    Originally Posted by Siolfir View Post
    With no snark intended whatsoever, why would you bring someone else just due to not having a level shift?
    I wouldn't and I didn't say that.
    I said the final fight is hard *AND* Capt Tom Tachyon isn't even level shifted. It's a contributing factor. Also, I'm taking into account further incarnate slots. Bringing someone with a level shift and all tier 4 incarnate powers will improve the performance of the team more than Tachyon. I'm not just joining a TF that someone is running, I'm the one running it. On the hard task forces, I'll bring whoever is most useful and Tachyon can sit this one out and get his Notice/salvage/whatever some other day.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BearDarren View Post
    I also was wondering if I had missed an announcement while I was gone.
    Look! I found a reply in your own post!
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    I know it's purely anecdotal and that Very Rare and Rare drops are random
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ViperZeroOne View Post
    I'm looking to create a character that would compliment my friend's characters like a tank, healer, or possibly even mastermind. I'd then like to get to their level as quickly as possible so I can join the team and give them a better chance at survival (and getting themselves to 50).
    I've highlighted the part that is, quite honestly, a waste of time. Make the new toon, PL him to 22 so you can slot SO's, and you're in business. You don't need to be anywhere NEAR their level to team with them and make a huge difference. ESPECIALLY if you pick a powerset like force field.