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Since it's against the forum rules to invoke the name of a popular poster / meme on this boards (hint: rhymes with kdanger), I'll just say: No. Do not want.

Not until we get a freestanding water tile as a decorative base item.

More accurately: The slow fields need to either be fixed to reflect correctly (they're massively distorted right now), or reverted back to the pre-I17 look.

This is not true. Force field defensive items are always "on", as are Stealth Suppression fields. Some of these items would "break" due to a bug after being moved a few times and appear to be off when not in a raid, but it's clear that the intent was for them to always be "on".

I saw really bad server slowdown (ITF-style: client/server recharge time disagreements and ultra-slow-mo ragdoll) during a Mender Tesseract's SF on Protector, as well as some missions on Pinnacle. Everyone on the team noticed it.

It's definitely server-side.

I've observed it happening on multiple computers simultaneously. In fact, when it happens, it always affects everyone until the map is loaded the first time. Everyone will pause for the same amount of time with no progress on the loading bar as the server itself loads / initializes the map. No local HDD access and minimal network activity. Once that finishes, everyone suddenly starts loading at the same moment, and of course the computer with the fastest hard drive / most cache wins.

A quick check in team chat verifies that everyone else also paused for about the same amount of time, regardless of ISP.

It doesn't happen on every mission, but I've seen it more and more lately. As for why, I have no idea. Maybe they're pulling servers out of the cluster and preemptively upgrading them in anticipation of GR, leaving less to service the maps (I've also seen some bad ITF-ish server-side lag lately in a few missions). Maybe there's a problem with the storage, and it's I/O starved trying to load the map, though it seems unlikely their setup would use a centralized SAN. Maybe a bug slipped into the code and it's waiting for a synchronization signal that never comes, and doesn't actually load until it times out.

It could be any number of things, and while I would LOVE to be able to study their server code to find out why, I know it's never going to happen

Aside from what was already pointed out about having to buy the pack, the other problem with this is that the game engine disallows explicitly targeting yourself. For ally buffs it auto-targets the closest ally if you don't have anyone targeted. So, standard code rant applies.

The only other way to do it without a general way to auto-deny or delete buffs would be to make a completely separate "Don't fortune me, bro" power, which is ugly to say the least.

7.5% resist doesn't seem too bad. I think that would only make a difference for tankers/brutes/scrappers that are playing sets with medium-to-high resistances already. It probably won't do much for a squishy.

IMO the one that sticks out is the 30% recharge. I mean, that's almost half of Hasten, for 20 minutes, with no downtime or endurance cost...

Sorry to hear that.
We'll definitely miss you, but understand and wish you the best of luck. 2nd shift doesn't sound very fun.

Ah, we were wondering if something came up. No problem, glad everything is all right. We hit level 12 before we called it a night. A good target is 10 -- we're planning to do a Posi first thing, so it would be good to have everyone at least 10 so that we can start it.

I think we may have one other joining us next week. Nemorin and I have a couple 50s on Justice so we'll probably be running a high-level mission or two at some point during the week to help get them caught up. If the timing works out you're welcome to join us. I'll send you a PM as soon as I have a general idea of when that'll be.

Well, didn't get there in time, but I was going to say just play whatever you want to. If you like tanks, play a tank, but don't pick that just because we "need" one.

Looks like there's still 2 open spots, and a few days left until Saturday if anyone else wants to join. At this point I think another defender or controller would be most beneficial to team balance.

Also sometimes you can exceed it in very large, or multi-part indoor zones where the various sections are far enough apart in virtual space. The two that come to mind are the thorn tree mission from villain respec/STF, and the eden trial.

I completely agree with you on this. Well maybe not on the NES (there's only so much you can do with such a limited palette), but some SNES era games still look quite nice.

However on this I disagree. I said they look subjectively better "from a distance". Up close, as in actually moving around in the world and playing the game, is when they look worse, and that's what matters since it's what you're doing 90% of the time.

In general, the CoH world feels a lot more immersive to me. Partly that's due to the level of detail that exists even in mundane environments. Partly it's due to mechanics (mostly collision detection on actors). Partly it's due to CoH having some quite spectacular vistas of its own -- sunrise in several zones with full bloom and depth of field enabled, the instanced island in Cim, St. Martial at night, Croatoa at dusk, etc. They're just a bit more subtle since the world is designed to more closely resemble our own.

No. CoH with the upgrade it got in Issue 6 (not even counting Ultra mode) has considerably better graphics than WoW. Both technically more advanced effects, as well as higher resolution textures on scenery and players.

A lot of people though don't realize that because they don't look at the graphics. They see a bunch of buildings in a cityscape and think "boring", without taking the time to actually look at them. WoW's landscape is much more colorful, varied, and (ironically) cartoonish. I have to admit WoW's fantastic vistas can often look subjectively "better" at a distance, even though up close they're polygonal and pixellated. The lack of actual detail is a little disappointing given how much of a bigger budget they have to work with.

As far as Ultra mode, WoW isn't even close. They got some limited shadow mapping on players only a while back. They're getting reflective water in the next expansion.

1. Open the definitions files.
2. Copy the texture and shader names used for water to the slow field items.
3. Save.
4. Done.

Single use Wentworth/Black Market porter temp powers can also be purchased for 10k inf a pop. It used to be listed under "fixed price", I haven't checked to see where it is under the new interface. Might still be useful to grab one before you have the day job one charged up.

While somewhat high for new players, once you get a few higher level toons, that becomes a drop in the bucket. Before day jobs I made it a point to always have one of these on my characters (and buy a new one immediately if I used it, since it ported me to WW anyway).

The recharge times of the mission and base teleporter powers (both vet and day job), Pocket D, as well as the portable workbench and Ouro portal are decreased by Hasten, global recharge bonuses, and outside buffs.

The Wents/BM ones give you a debuff that prevents you from using it again too soon, so recharge won't help you on those.

CoH has always maxed out the CPU (or as much as it can on a multi-core system) for as long as I can remember. But then again, I always disable vertical sync, so it's rendering as fast as it possibly can.

Guess I'm just used to games running in a tight loop.

It also depends on how they do their accounting. If they're using accrual accounting, they may not recognize the pre-orders as revenue until the goods are actually delivered (i.e. release date). It's considered a liability until then.

I have no idea how NCSoft/Paragon does their books, but it's a fairly standard business practice to use accrual instead of cash accounting.

I'm slipping on my kernel programming hat for a moment to fix a couple minor quibbles, hope you don't mind . Real memory is a subset of virtual memory. The virtual memory column in task manager shows how much address space has been allocated to the process, and the real memory column shows how much of that space is currently paged in to physical RAM. Virtual memory may also include shared pages, such as DLLs that are shared by multiple processes, memory that's swapped out to disk, memory that's been allocated but never touched, or even things like memory mapped I/O to the video card which don't correspond to main memory at all.

So, real memory will always be < virtual memory, and it makes no sense to add the two numbers together.

EDIT: I noticed that in the Windows 7 task manager at least, "real memory" has been renamed to "Memory (Private Working Set)" and "virtual memory" has been renamed to "Commit Size". Those names do describe what the values really are a little better.

Also, the per-process limit for 32-bit programs on Windows is 2GB of address space, not 3GB. 32-bit CPUs can natively address 4GB of virtual memory. Windows by default splits this in half. It reserves the upper 2GB of the address space for the kernel, and gives the lower half to user programs. When a context switch happens, the mappings for the lower 2GB change with the active process, while the upper 2GB remains static for the OS to use.

1.5GB-1.7GB real memory used likely corresponds to hitting 2GB virtual memory allocated once you factor in video buffers and shared pages. It's consistent with the CoH process crashing due to address space exhaustion, so it's really a "2GB crash", not a 3GB crash. The TL;DR version is that it's allocating too much memory and never releasing it. Whether it's an actual leak, or it's just trying to cache too much and needs to be a little less aggressive and recycle more, is impossible to say without extensive debugging.

You can tweak this a little. In XP, you can add the /3GB switch to boot.ini. This changes the setup, so that Windows splits it into 3GB user space and 1GB kernel space. In Vista and Win7, "bcdedit /Set IncreaseUserVa 3072" does the same thing. However, in order for a program to take advantage of this extra space, it has to specifically tell the OS that it's what Microsoft calls "Large Address Aware." 32-bit LAA programs will also be able to use the full 4GB address space when running on a 64-bit OS.

Given the age of the game engine, I'd doubt that CoH is linked with that option, but I don't have the development tools installed right now so I can't check. If anyone has Visual C++ installed, run "dumpbin /headers cityofheroes.exe" and see if there's a line that says "Application can handle large (>2GB) addresses"