Memphis_Bill

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"Choose your weapon."
"Mace and chain."
"And you?"
"One of those, and one of those...ooh, a few of those.."
"Mace and chain for him too!"
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Player (with no other info other than "I think" and "Maybe") : "Populations are down."

Developers (with actual data from billing, server info, etc.) - "Subscriptions are up."

Which should I believe? Hint, it doesn't start with a "P."

/agrees

Note, Aion is live, not in beta. Headstart was last weekend, it's completely live now.

The Forum Cartel - which doesn't exist, by the way - took them over and blocked the devs access.

/bind shift+sysrq "screenshotui 1$$screenshot"
/bind sysrq "Screenshotui 0$$screenshot"

For enhancement screens, character select screens, and tailor screens, hit screenshot, then paste the result in Paint or another image editing program. See other peoples' notes on Vista.

Heh, it's the first thing that did when I saw the title. (Since it happens to be called "Deathscythe." And I like the design...)

If he irritates me enough to downrep him in a system I don't like to begin with, no, he doesnt' deserve a break. He hasn't bothered to try to see why it is not only unneeded, but a bad idea.

And no, the servers do not, and have not, needed a merge, ever. The reasons have been pointed out multiple times. If you care to learn anything and actually *think* about it. And if you don't want to actually think, the reasons have been spelled out numerous times.
... while we're told subscriptions have gone up. Care to point out how that works, "jeenyus?"

Know what happens when you "assume?" Yes, I'm in SGs. No, that is not the only thing I do to group. I pick up PUGs just fine. No, it's not name recognition by a long shot. Hell, I pick up people on *trial* accounts and run them through missions if they're interested.

I know it's difficult, but try actually finding out what you're talking about before doing your "broken sewer line" impersonation.

Which, IMHO, would kill it deader than Auto Assault. It wouldn't help if I wanted to check out, say, my new Elec/Elec tank this issue, or if a new group of IOs came out.

Besides, what would happen if I transferred a character there that *had* stuff that didn't exist in the issue before?

I see the phrase "Defeated," not "Killed," despite the name.

Yet, even if you go by power names or descriptions - there's still nothing new. "Headsplitter," anyone? "Disembowel?" "Beheader?" Description of Cleave:
Or Incinerate:
And if there's any question about the definition,
(American Heritage dictionary.) If you're worried about naming, death is pretty well implied there.


All of these are powers used by heroes since day one (Broadsword, Battle Axe, Fire melee), two of those only *recently* ported to villainside.

By mention of "Tankers," I'd say that's obvious. There's nothing new, theme-wise, in the set.

We've been told by the devs (I want to say by Posi, but it's been a while) that one person doing the right thing (or wrong, depending on your POV) could conceivably bring a server without much population on at the time into the red.

F'rinstance, one of the reasons the City Vault wasn't taken live in a previous form is that it caused massive lag and slowdowns - which would probably make that server show red load levels, as it's working at providing that data as well.

If, say, Guardian's servers suddenly had 1/3 of their processing power taken away for whatever reason (a ferret attacked the racks or whatnot,) Guardian's load would suddenly go up - same amount of "stuff" going on, but fewer processors to share it.

Forgot pet damage, btw, as far as existing sets - and call it odd, but I wouldn't mind seeing a taunt set. Tanks, Brutes, Scrappers, and both Khelds can use them out of the box, while Masterminds going the "Tankermind" route normally pick up something from the Presence pool to help here, as well. That's not a bad chunk of ATs. But it'd be low, low priority.

That would definitely remove the firewall problem

Norton, unfortunately, seems to change their interrface with *every single version* they come out with. Generally, it's going to be down in the system tray by the clock. Either left or right click, and there should be something dealing with settings for internet protection, firewall, or whatever they call it this week. Temporarily disable it - some have you disable it completely, others give you a timer - and see if it works. If so, see if there's an exceptions list, and add COHUpdater.exe (and City of Heroes) to it.

Heh. Yeah, add that to the list. "You remember when you laughed at SNL because it was funny, not because the people were embarassing themselves so badly..."

(SNL stood for "Sorry, not laughing" for me for a long time - don't think I've bothered *looking* since "Weekend Update" lost Dennis Miller. And yeah, I remember the classic crew - Chevy, Dan Akroyd, Belushi and the rest.)

... I also remember when every episode of M*A*S*H was new. >.<

That sounds about right. I know I used to like them for their information and general style - and I wasnt' subbed, so this was higher newsstand prices. But it was around that same time I started wondering why I was wasting money on them. I pick up the occasional issue when I see them in the store and just... "eh" then put it back down.

This has been true for years. No, my pointing that out has nothing to do with this article. They've been pretty pointless for... hmm... yeah, years. Probably a minimum of a decade.

Unsurprisingly, you ignore what you've been told. If I could red-rep you again, I would.

I've been hopping between Aion and here for the last week. For someone coming from another MMO, yes, COH *Looks* more sparsely populated. Why?

Because everyone's running around outside in other games. You're competing for kills with them for that "Get X Enemy-item" and "Defeat X Bad Guy," while another's going for the "Take the soup to Jim" mission.

COH? People are *inside* instanced missions. Yes, there's some travel. No, you don't have to compete to "Defeat 10 Hellions" - because there's around 300 in a 1000 yard radius, if not more. You see me going to a contact, then a door - *and my team vanishes from the map as we all go inside.*

Gee, why does someone who doesnt' spend half a second to think about it think "the servers are empty?"

As has been pointed out, AGAIN, even those of us on "small" servers have no problems getting teams with a *bare minimum* of effort (IE, not just standing there going "vlv 10 nincompoop lft!" in local or broadcast.) Oh, and not every team has to be 8-person, one-of-each-AT minimum, etc.

You also, AGAIN, ignore all the problems with a server merge - including a *very* solid impression that the game's about to die that such a thing sends.

Go learn something before spouting off instead of ignoring what's been told to you.

You'll get it when the store comes back up. (Yes, I am in the same boat.)