Kitsune Knight

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You have no idea how much the loss of the ~ key for binds pissed me off. Every one of my characters used it for travel powers (except my Warshade, which used it to target dead bodies... necrophiliac!), I had to rebind every character, and try to figure out wtf key I would use, and is probably a large part of the reason I began ditching travel powers (I definitely couldn't do stuff like switching between SJ and CJ mid-fight... I like my combat mobility ).

Now I have my favorite key back... woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Yeah, that's a good point... always forget about the redraw "penalty"... should, since I remember clearly when the whole thing was finally addressed by the Devs, and how it was actually not a penalty at all at the time*.



* Except when it was, or when the attack was faster when you drew with the attack... apparently the original animators just put random numbers!

If you hit escape, then try to use an attack, it'll automatically select the closest foe.

I used to use tilde (technically the grave accent key) for toggling my travel powers... but since I switched laptops a few years back CoX completely ignores that key for binds

A good SSD (much less a great one, like the new generation based on the SandForce 2200 controller... basically anything but the very first gen crap, like what jmicron made) will blow away pretty much any traditional harddrives in transfer rates, such as the VelociRaptor from Western Digital. SSD's latency, "seek time", and transfer rate will just slaughter a traditional spinning rust bucket.

The latest gen of SSDs are already about to bump into the limit of the newly-introduced Serial ATA 3... SATA is quickly going to be completely outpaced by the speed of the drives (some manufacturers are already toying with alternative methods, like plugging them straight into the PCIe bus, or using wired PCIe).

This. When the online store is down, only 12 slots are available per server. If you want to roll a new character and must absolutely do it right NAO and it has to be on that server, you have to delete characters until you only have 11... So, just be patient. You could go to a different server and work on your costume/power customization until for now and save it, and then roll it later when the store is backup.

Plus, the paragonwiki.com address predates the wiki.blahblahblah address. But, IIRC, when they moved off of wikia, they didn't immediately get the paragonwiki address back, so for a while wiki.cohtitan.com was the only valid way of getting there... and then they got their domain back, and had it point to the same spot. Paragonwiki.com's url was already used in countless places, so to prevent anything from breaking they pointed both to the same thing, so that any existing forum posts/guides wouldn't need to be rewritten.

The primary point was to fill in gaps (especially pre-Ouroboros and pre-AE and pre-XP-While-Exemped), along with something for 50s to do. There's the variety because, beyond newspapers/radios, they generally deal with special enemies (such as Rularuu, Cimerorans), or offer special rewards (each Borea mission gives a vanguard merit as a reward... or was it multiple? something like that!).

Originally they had the deal with Intel & nVidia. Now, you'll notice both of those logos gone, and AMD/ATI logos instead. I wouldn't put much stock in the little logos either way.

That, to me, suggests the Devs have intentionally limited the internal data structures to use no more than 1.5 gigs of memory, but could bypass that limit if data is leaked (and leaked data is no good, since it's unaccounted for).

There gets a point where you won't be seeing any benefit from additional RAM. If the system is able to keep all the files it's regularly accessing cached in RAM, and the programs you're using have already reached their limit... you're not gonna benefit from more RAM.

The special switch only works with programs compiled using that special flag (plus, windows also has to be started with a special flag), if you tried to forcibly set it on the CoX executable (i.e. hex editing the file), Bad Things could very well happen (especially if any code depends on the normal top of the user space address space).

Also, for whatever reason, City of Heroes will never use more than 1.5 GB of RAM, even if Windows technically allows it to use more. You can see this in practice, while CoX is running, fire up Task Manager and it won't pass that magic number, even if you have unused RAM.

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This section is for people that are encountering technical issues primarily, don't let the slash in the section name mislead you (it's not 'Gameplay' as well as 'Technical Issues & Bugs', but 'Gameplay Issues & Bugs' in addition to 'Technical Issues & Bugs'.

It's not really a big deal, though, mostly just for future reference.

I've no idea what they mean by "up to", but most any recent (non-atom) processor should have no trouble with CoH. As for the graphics, it's likely going to only be playable with lower settings, and 2GB of ram is fairly low, especially by todays standards, so CoH generally won't have enough memory.

I'd say to look elsewhere, you should be able to find systems a fair bit better for the same price range- especially if you're willing to build it yourself.

I don't know about you, but I've found quite a lot of hero ATs in Praetoria, probably more than villains. And as for me personally... I've more blue ATs in Praetoria than red (low level Paragon is the worst content in the game).

That's just the reserved time. They generally only take a couple hours.

You won't see Mids itself, as it's (1) a .net application and (2) written in Visual Basic... but, you might see another application designed for character creation and all that fun jazz... although, really, the biggest hurdle to creating one is that there's no easy access to the vast amount of power information that it would need. The database Mids uses seems to be extremely hard to work with (since the in-app tools just cause massive explosions), and reverse engineering the format would probably just be a pain in the ***.

I've in the past worked on a variety of projects that'd love to have access to the powers (the latest one being an app that'd find the absolute best attack chain of a given length, with a given set of powers... although the crazily large processing requirements didn't help with that too much either), I've even started trying to create my own (there are a lot of powers in the game! )... Maybe one day


I've actually spent more than a few classes sketching out a touch interface for a character designer, a few of which I actually rather liked on paper... But now I'm just rambling