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Mister Rik

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  1. Mister Rik
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker View Post
    Snark? Yes, but I'm getting sick of the increasing ESL feel in CoH...
    As a new player, I honestly thought at first that at least part of the dev team must be located in Asia, because of a number of odd word choices I came across. These were places where the word used meant something similar to what was intended, but doesn't mean exactly what was intended. For example, there are a couple low-level missions in Atlas Park where the contact refers to the bad guys "spreading terror amongst the city". "Throughout" would have been a better word than "amongst". That's the kind of error I've often seen when, say, Japanese people attempt to speak or write in English. They know English well enough to have a conversation, but not well enough to "get" the sometimes subtle differences in meaning between one word and another.

    I ran into a similar situation many years ago when I was a shoe salesman. There was a Mexican man studying our display of work boots, and when I asked if I could help him he replied, "I am seeing only". Of course he meant, "I'm just looking", but it sounded odd because he didn't know the slight difference in meaning between "seeing" and "looking".
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    Plus, one of the quests is clearly designed to show you where various important locations are: Hospital, Wentworth's, Police Station, City Hall ...
  3. Mister Rik

    Mob AI- RUN AWAY!

    POST-ACTION

    I haven't read the whole thread, so don't know if this was already mentioned:

    One of my recent "run away!" incidents involved a mission where one objective was to rescue a hostage. I found the hostage, and he was being guarded by two enemies. As soon as I attacked one enemy, the second one took off running. This was in one of the side rooms in an office building and by the time I finished off the first enemy, the runner was out the door, down the corridor, and had taken several corners. The problem with this was that "rescuing" the hostage required defeating both of his guards. So he just stayed there, kneeling on the floor with his hands behind his head and wouldn't even talk to me until I chased that other guy halfway across the map. Then, of course, I had to actually find my way back to where the hostage was.

    If that kind of running away is intentional behavior, then chasing the enemy off like that should count for the purpose of rescuing the hostage - hey, you took one guard down and made the other run away. The hostage is safe now. Of course, I realize that would probably be a trick to code. But in pencil & paper RPGs, making an enemy run away is as good as killing him, at least for the purpose of defeating the encounter.
  4. Mister Rik
    Thanks!
  5. Mister Rik
    New CoH player here. I just have a couple Mac-specific questions:

    • Since the Mac version of the game doesn't seem to have an actual CoH folder (just the City of Heroes.app package), I'm at a loss to figure out where the game stores the screenshots I take using the in-game hotkey (I've bound this to the Numpad "=" key, since Mac keyboards don't have a "Print Screen" key). I hit the key and I get the momentary screen hiccup that goes along with taking a screenshot, but I've been unable to figure out where to actually find the screenshot afterward. So in the meantime, I'm just using the Mac OS native screenshot key combo, <command> + <shift> + <3>.

    • That "City of Heroes.app" — is that everything? I like to put my games on one of my external hard drives, because it's much faster than my internal drive (also because my internal drive is backed up hourly to another external drive, and that can degrade gameplay when the drive is chugging away during backup and the game is trying to read from the same drive). So I want to move CoH to the fast external drive, and want to make sure I'm actually moving everything. My "City of Heroes.app" is only 4.06GB, and that seems kind of small, so I'm wondering if there are other files elsewhere that I would need to move.

    Thanks
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    Thanks, that did the trick! Found the door down there. I'd swear I already tried that door and it wouldn't let me in...
  7. Mister Rik
    I've got a level 8 "Loyalist" character in Nova Praetoria who has just accepted the mission, "Stop the Raid on Altman's Warehouse" from Cleopatra. Problem I'm having is that I can't seem to find the warehouse.

    The mission location icon on the map is pointing me to a spot of bare grass on the eastern edge of the zone map, not far from the "Underground Access B" entrance. None of the nearby buildings looks like a warehouse.

    The way the onscreen distance pointer is behaving suggests that the warehouse may be underground, but the mission text doesn't say anything about that and I'm not seeing anything else that would suggest how to get underground at that spot on the map. I can't enter the "Underground Access B" door.

    Is it simply pointing me to the wrong place? The criminals in the area are all level 2-3, well below the level of the quest. If that's the wrong place, where is the correct location?