Liz Bathory

I noticed that if you want to check if a name is free on a server you can't actually do that unless you have at least one cr3eated character on that server.

So if you want a special name. And you goto another server to see if that name is free. And that server doesnt yet have any toons on it. the option is grayed out.

I want to check before hand. Without having to create a dummy toon first.

I have access now.. I dont leave my SG...

I would transfer and renounce the SG I made and brought to rank 9. Thats the problem here.. Friends went to US and I cant even talk global with them. Even though I want to stay.

Would you leave youre ic relatives and friends.. rebuild youre history.. leave Union wiki.. etc. If you could switvh youre mains to the rp server on us Shadowe?

I may place an alt there.. but I have altiris

I dont think people will all leave for the us servers. As it is already stated that they are not all more populated then UNION unless we are talking about one of the three major populated ones.

Free transfers ... ? NO WAY?!

Just one list of servers... and one global.. under one account.

I don't think it will kill UNION or DEFIANT. And it will certainly keep the French and German servers. As those are the only language ones.

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Let's see... how can I put this:

NO.

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hhmmm... discussion = give reasons... A simple NO we can't do anything with.

I am with friends in Rome who are also COX players.. I will try and be there. But I cant promise anything.

I also have another prob.. driver change towards Omega helped a lot. But when I tried to directly access my gfx card 8800 GST 512, I get a blue screen every time.

Checking for hardware errors several softare found some. In the memory access. the memory modules checked out fine, my banks not. This board (ASUS) I have has obvious problems with the 1066mhz memory I am running. As its still new I let it be replaced by a board that actually can run what it says on the box.

I wil prob get the P5Q instead of the P5E... a friend has run this board without probs using the 9800 card

Then I will test again.

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One thing I will say, that hasn't been covered already is how when subscribing to an MMO I find personally that an over-abundance of servers actually puts me off settling into a natural home for my toons. Kinda like going shopping and finding yourself staring blankly at 30 different brands of fabric conditioner that all say the same thing.

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It is meant to be that you choose a light load server at the moment you create youre first toon. The way to achieve that is to automatically list the lightest load on top. As most new creators just pick the top server.

This can be used to divide the server load lots.

After that you should always stick to that server.. no matter what. But this can't be uphold ofcourse.

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One thing I will say, that hasn't been covered already is how when subscribing to an MMO I find personally that an over-abundance of servers actually puts me off settling into a natural home for my toons. Kinda like going shopping and finding yourself staring blankly at 30 different brands of fabric conditioner that all say the same thing.

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I was thinking about a virtual merge of Union and Defiant. Just buy 12 slots and move all my Defiant toons to Union. If everyone would do that we get a real Union/Defiant load.

US forum info ...
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....c=#Post11560127

I know.. I was there But a fresh suggestion thread was needed. And on both EU as US forums.

Ok,

Title says it all...

We just had a COH/COV merge... but that should only be the start.

We have loads of servers in the US… and only 4 here in Europe. I am sure that the logs show more players in the US. But I am also sure that there are loads of Europeans there. I also see the occasional American on the EU servers. Lets be honest that having two versions of the game is not the easiest way to maintain. And its also confusing for the new players who often make an account on the wrong side of the ocean.

Aside from that… as we discussed in the server load thread… EU servers sometimes seem a bit empty. Or, what is more precise, some servers in the US are over crowded. These full servers are mighty attractive to players who like that sort of thing.

US has several advantages over EU…

- Higher server load (=more players online at most of the times)
- Cheaper (if we calculate the price per month its several Euro’s cheaper)
- More servers available (which means more slots for those with altiris)

Aside from this... these days the connection towards the US is not slower then that towards the EU servers. So this is not a valid reason anymore to play closer to home.

EU players who are counting the value of their money and are less attached to their old toons will transfer. And doing so are able to draw some of their friends with them. This will only make the EU servers more empty.

If there was one server list showing all servers this will balance out more. Worst case we would really see which servers are too low on population to stay up. This will also help with another problem. The language servers. At the moment there are only two… German and French. French will be handy and often used by Canadians if the list would be one. A lower populated server in the total list could be rebuild as a Spanish server. Something the whole of South-America and Spain would love to see happen.

But why pay for two accounts?

This is one game… one game should be one account. If a player tries out US and like it (or vice-versa) he would end up having to pay two accounts. And in the end will be liable to cancel one of the two. The cheaper account with the most slots/servers will always win.

As such we need a total account merger. One account server for all.

One account server will result in the lesser part of the two (EU) to have to change their account name if that name is already in use somewhere in the US. This is needed for technical reasons. Also... when the server list merges some of us (only when doubles exists in the US) will have to change their global name. The doubles should be generic-ed and a free global name change granted. This is not funny but it will make it possible to chat with all friends online everywhere in the world on ANY server.

With a merger like this we will have to merge Veteran rewards. US and EU licence under one account will become one account where the oldest veteran reward is leading and kept. Also the add-ons are merged and kept. As the player paid for these too. If the player has two separate named accounts for EU and US he will end up with two accounts that both have access to all servers. A later build in functionality may be able to let the player petition these two accounts with details to merge them. But that is not an automatic feature and therefore most likely cost some money.

With only one account… it will now be handiest to create/merge all forums into one. Therefore make it easier to maintain and get all feedback on one place. One site will also be handier for the latest news. The COV and COH sites should by right already merge. It can't be right that the news is often placed upon the COH site and not on the COV site. One site and one forum for all with the possibility to shift the template to Hero or Villain colors when wanted is the best idea.

This will give an honest server load… will make sure players from all over the world can play with each other… and communicate with each other… will remove the reason to hold on to two accounts when you’re not really want too… makes maintenance easier, therefore cheaper… All-in-all good stuff. It can be that at first there will be loads of accounts dropped resulting in a drop of income. But this will be set right by the players who stay on longer.

My 2 Euro cents (which should be cheaper then 2 Dollar cents these days)

Definition of a male witch is a warlock

RP in this area is a bit ... hmm ... undead at the moment. RP in general on the official forum is in satsis during the vacation period.

Will get better by the end of august I guess.

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Adding to the search for team leader. I think it would be good if when searching for a team you could see the team leader and who are in the team. This would help so you know there is no point sending a tell to a leader because the team is already full

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This would be great and would mean you have to generate more inventive excuses than "teams full" when you dont fancy inviting someone to the team, for whatever reason (not necessarily that the person asking is bad: sometimes you're just happy the way the team is)

- Logout to char select would be a godsend
- Everything Valkryst suggested would be spot on
- another uni in Villains would be ideal

or as someone suggested just an old building would be great, even if the conceit is that the guy's just setting up a business but villains keep breaking in to use his stuff. Put a vault in there too :P

- oh and the hinted at recipe storage.....

...please

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Can we add to this functionality that a team that is in a TF is not shown in searches at all. Or is flagged in TF.

whahahaha.. Yes.. he could have said something REALLY embarracing.

NC support suggested I check / test my memory. And indeed it came up with errors. I am now testing banks and modules seperatly. To see if I find a working combo. Then test again if the gaming (gfx card) stays stable.

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There is a world of difference between using an entity from a dead religion (such as those from Norse or Ancient Greece) and using one from a currently extant religion.

There is also a world of difference between creating a character for RP that is linked to a religion, and creating a character for RP that is in a religion.

Open-minded has nothing to do with it - I am open minded regarding other people's religious beliefs. I am willing to accept that my faith may not suit everyone, and that they may choose to believe things that are different to what I believe - I do, however, draw the line at passively accepting someone's blasphemy by claiming to be a connected to my religion when they are not. Just as I would not create a character called "The Prophet Mohammed", out of respect for the beliefs of others, no other reason, I would expect all others to respect MY beliefs and give me the same consideration.

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ah.. first.. most of those religions aren't dead. Some have been revived and are excpeted as official religions. The norse and celtic for instance.

Being atheistic I am not offended by ANY use of religious icon being or whatever in any way. I CAN however understand that those who are religious would be having trouble with misuse of their mythological, legendary or historic elements. I have travelled all over the world and can accept peoples belives and customs. I just would like to see the rest of the world do that too.

And it is a fact that there are beings from active/living religions are being used one way or the other in comics. But being sensible I can also see that in no way an american game would trust its players to act free on that or endorse any of them.

Just wanted to state its there and its possible. And there is even a very good chance you would not be generict.

Back on topic... All religions and magic are interconnected. Actually basically the same. Most of the magic invokes deities of any kind. Therefore most magicians are some sort of shamans or priests. So a magic orgin is around magic powers... which are often derived from a mystical being that can be seen as a god to any of the religions available.

ergo... magic origin, or a natural with magic powers from a mystical empowered artifact is actually the same as an religious origin. So no change is needed.

Yup... Each power set differs in the accuracy. Some are High acc like archery others low.

I usually use 2 acc enhance... and a blaster I would always go with tactics from the leadership pool as you want to be able to see youre target. The +acc, +perception will help here.

If you place youre sets in Mids Hero Designer you will be able to see the percentages and slot more or less what you need. Make sure you slot for an end result of 115%-130% at least.

Every missed shot is end wasted. So you might even want to replace the end red for an acc if you really have trouble hitting. Setting the usual 2 acc, 1 end red, 3 dam to 3 acc, 3 dam

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I DID read the 'damn posts' - i was giving my Point of view across. and advising on from the original posters link about 8800 gt cards..*sigh*

If you weren't referring to me in particular, maybe you should make that apparant in your post....


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WHAT link about 8800 GT cards? My original post didn't mention them. Neither did the link that I included in my original post, other than to say "There's not a problem with them".

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http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showfl...e=0#Post1102837

hmm.. in comics it was never a problem... The Demon Etrigan... Mephisto... There is a real angel running in the DC universe.. there are real greek gods in both. And what about Thor?!

I know there was a celtic god powered being in Marvel. And eventually the Hellstorm Prince of Lies went into the real believs... ofcourse it was cancelled after 20+ isue. Prob because of that.

Whatever someones believe is... shouldn't we being able to accept characters based upon those believes?!

If we can accept Thor (Marvel)... We should be able to accept Gabriel... and as such being able to accept Lucifer (DC)... So we can accept Athena (Wonder Woman) and Hercules (Marvel)

Lets not be short sighted.Each of these could be just as much an issue to worshippers of those believes that may or may not be still around. And as long as we can't accept this there will be a good reason for war amongst men.

(btw. at work now... but I am almost certain most of these names are already taken too, happy petitioning!)

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Touchness? Is this the /grope powerset?

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fighting pool power

ha.. I also took Touchness so I had some more ress... Helps a lot.

ah.. using our toons and origins we already bring in religion. I have a toon that is the Morrigan (Mor-rioghan) celtic goddess... Statesmen is Zeus avatar... another toon of mine is bound to Bast, egyptean goddess.

And I met crusaders and crosswielding heroes and villains.

We all know the Priest (pious) ... the only thing we dont have is support in buildings from COX itself.

If I wanted to make a flaming sword wielding avenging angel... Its ridiculus easy to make. Maybe I make a Gabriel

He Red... I will be on tonight.. Can you add me to the channel too...

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Maybe the more you don't play the game the more character slots they give you to not play the game with?

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The game has that already.. but those who are not playing the game don't notice it.

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I did. I came back and discovered that I had 4 character slots to claim if I wanted. I already filled one of them, which means something else gets pushed down the list of characters I don't play.

Edit: PS, who's that in your avatar?

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A model that I found on the net that did a shoot inspired by Elizabeth Bathory. She had precicly the look I had given my toon. And what I had in mind.