Johnstone

Funny you should mention Manticore. I actually did solo Manticore's TF on my Kin/Sonic Defender back before IOs were introduced (To this day, she still doesn't even have any IOs since I got burned out on her after hitting 39). Started out as a pretty full team, but the first mission totally owned us. I'm still not sure exactly what was going wrong; I assume that some members of the team were just not pulling their weight. So, a bunch of people quit and some just logged out. I logged out as well. I logged the character back in the next day and saw that I was still in the TF... So I figured, why not, I'm pretty good solo on this character. Ran through all the missions with no problem. When I got to Hopkins, I busted out a Warwolf, Amy, and a snowman. So, I didn't technically solo him by some standards, but pretty much I did.

That said, I'm not really sure how I feel about the large team requirements. Yeah, it feels more epic to take on full spawns and AVs by yourself; but if there's nobody else around, it loses its appeal. I haven't run the new trials yet, so I can't really comment on those. I do typically prefer small teams of good players rather than large teams of indeterminate skill levels though. I do agree that it feels a little backwards that low level TFs have smaller team requirements than high level. If I can take out an AV with two teammates at level 15, why do I need seven others at level 50? I know, the level 50 AVs are far more powerful than Doc Vahz; but I'm a whole lot more powerful at 50 too.

If she's decreasing the dpi to 72, she's making it take up less pixels anyway. That's what I'm saying. By making it 72 dpi, it's just going to look worse if it gets printed out than if you just decrease the pixel dimensions.

Also, I am a digital artist, so you don't need to tell me about what digital artists like.

edit: And when saving a version for the web, it should always be a separate file than the original. Never save, always save as and choose a new name. And work/save incrementally; you never know when you might want to go back to an older version.

I have a feeling that you missed something in what I posted. DPI doesn't matter for the computer. Pixel dimension does. 300 dpi of an 8 x 10 gives you a pixel dimension of 2400 x 3000(and that is not good to upload, which you seem to think I said you could). 72 dpi of that 8 x 10 would give you a pixel dimension of 576 x 720. Meanwhile, if you just set the pixel dimensions to 576 x 720 and leave the dpi alone at 300, it'll look exactly the same and take up the same amount of storage space as the 72 dpi; the difference is that the 300 dpi 576 x720 would print out a lot smaller.

I actually started working on a logo weeks ago but then got distracted by school work. Last day of the quarter was today and I have a week off. I actually currently have two other things to work on, but if I get some spare time between those two things and catching up on playing, I'll try to finish up my entry.

DPI doesn't actually matter except for printing. What you're doing when you change the dpi: photoshop does some math and figures out how many pixels wide and tall the image needs to be to print at the desired dimension in inches. i.e. You're working on something that's set at 300 dpi and you made the image 8 inches by 6 inches. What the computer sees is that this image is 2,400 by 1,800 pixels and that when it sends it to the printer, it should make 300 pixels take up one inch. When you change the dpi to 72 without adjusting anything else, the computer will do the math and make the image 576 by 432 pixels. If you print that out, you will end up with the same sized image, but you'll be able to see a noticeable difference in quality. Now, if you leave the dpi at 300 and just change the pixel dimensions to 576 by 432, it will look exactly the same on the computer monitor since it is the same exact number of pixels; but when you print it out it will print at 300 dpi. So instead of printing out at 8 by 6, it will print out at 1.92 by 1.44 inches; much smaller, with no pixelation.

If it's purely digital work though, dpi doesn't matter in the slightest. You could set your dpi to 1 as long as your pixel dimensions are large enough. Not too large though, a good standard to stick with is around 600-800 pixels wide if it will be presented online; this will make sure that it can be viewed comfortably even on a 1024x768 monitor. Of course, it's good practice to not set your dpi to 1 though in case anyone does decide to print it out, otherwise they'd end up with a giant mosaic.

Dude, come on, we all know knock up is a lie. You can't knock anyone up in this game. The proof is that there are no children.

There is no Poseidon analogue in CoX. They couldn't get water looking right, so it became Energy Blast. Poseidon got mad about that and withdrew his support.

Personally, I would like to see old story arcs brought up to give equivalent rewards to tip missions. I'm fine with the WSTs giving better rewards, but the time/reward ratio for story arcs is horrid in comparison to tips and it doesn't feel right. I ran Harvey Maylor's arc this past week. It took me three days of play to finish it (and I had actually already ran a mission or two of it before this). Basically, if I had chosen to do tip missions (where I can pretty much choose what enemies I face and make things easier on me), I could have gotten more of a reward in 2/3 the time and not had to fight 2 EBs.

I know, that's why I was posting in response to this:
In no way was I saying that what I find fun is the only kind of fun you can have. I didn't even say anything about what I find un-fun (aside from only having the option to do a limited set of missions if I want the best rewards). In fact, I stated that I did enjoy the old story arcs, but didn't have the time to devote to running them anymore since their rewards aren't up to par anymore.

If no one is forcing me to do anything, then don't tell me how to play. I will chase the rewards and enjoy the benefits of them. I would just like more avenues to lead to those rewards. If I do Heroic content, I'd like a Heroic reward.

The first time I saw a spawn of almost all fakes was back when the revamped RWZ was on test. I ran through the arcs with my fire/kin since she was my main back then. I ran her on invincible and dropped her down after encountering (I think it was) 5 of them at the end of one mission. Since then, I've encountered them on anyone running at higher difficulty. I never thought anything of it since the mission that I spot them in is one that says to defeat a group of fakes. Frankly, I thought it was common knowledge that these types of spawn will happen in the RWZ arc and I was a bit surprised when I read this thread and realized that so many people didn't know it existed.

Shift-A will toggle between the two select modes for the path select tool too if you don't want to wait for the pop-up.

Shift works to switch modes between all the tools actually, as long as you know the shortcut key for them. Shift-W will switch between the stupid-select and the magic wand (I think they actually call it smart select, but it never selects what I want it to when I'm working on stuff, so yeah).

See, I thought it was constipation. Figured maybe BM was too hard and you needed some stool softeners.

I really think they should have thought a little harder on naming Battle Maiden. The current acronym/abbreviation just leads to terrible jokes like that. They could have just named her War Maiden and avoided any bowel movement jokes entirely.

Those two sentences make zero sense when you put them together. If I play to have fun, that means investing in a character to make them the best that they can be. The better they are, the more fun I have. I recently went from being a 123-character-playing altaholic to almost exclusively playing my inv/ss Tanker because with all the rewards I've gathered for her (tons of set IOs I could have never afforded without A-merits and Alpha slot ultra rare), she's just too much fun to play. She can take on any enemy group and succeed, running at +2/x8 (some are dicier than others of course, but she can do it).

Now, if I hadn't worried about rewards for her... Well, she'd probably still be one of my more neglected characters. I'd probably be making more alts in the search to find a more fun powerset combo, and then getting bored with them and starting again. Instead, I have a character that I've invested into and I enjoy playing immensely.

But like the OP, I am a bit tired of doing tips and WTFs. I enjoy story arcs, I do. But when I have a limited amount of time per week to play and I am trying to make my character even more enjoyable to play by making her stronger, it's not worth my time to even talk to a real contact anymore. If story arc rewards were comparable with tip/morality mish rewards, I'd be ecstatic. And that's what I think should be done with them. Make the rewards comparable. If I play through a story arc marked as Heroic content, I should get an A-merit at the end of it (of course, some story arcs shouldn't be worth an A-merit. The super short RWZ ones come to mind immediately). Time-gate the story arcs so you can't get more than one A-merit in 20 hours and make them lock you out of getting an A-merit from a morality mish for the same period of time (maybe even time-gate it longer than that and do 40 hours so it wouldn't be faster than tips/morality mishes).This would probably require the re-balancing of a lot of story arcs to make sure that they're worth an A-merit, but a lot of them already require that you do a lot more than 11 simple missions.


tl;dr: I enjoy rewards, I enjoy number-crunching and making the best build I can come up with. I don't enjoy doing the same thing every time I log into CoH to get those rewards. Revisit story arcs and make them give comparable bonuses to tips/morality missions.

Those are my thoughts. Tear them apart, maybe we'll come up with something awesome.

See, I just always run with the maxinactivefps 5. I figure, if I alt-tab out of CoH I don't want CoH hogging my graphics while I surf the web. The maxinactive setting doesn't affect your play at all, so there's no reason to not use it all the time. The maxfps setting isn't like that though since it throttles your maximum fps, as the name implies(duh). If I run two instances, I tend to put maxfps 25 on both though anyway, since I've had the second instance black out on me a few times when I didn't. My fps never actually even gets higher than 25 anyway though...

Anyway, I'd rather just have it all on all the time instead of having to type it in every time I start the game.

It's not quite as obvious to set up anymore, but yup. It's possible. Rather than try to tell you, here's an image that should explain it all:



Think this should explain it well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
(Some foul language)