Necrotron

They may make Praetorian supergroups. Who knows? There are too many options to consider lightly. Doubtless, some will complain, but they will find a way to make Praetoria and supergroups coexist.

I got three words for ya.

Here be dragons.

Re-making and rigging the faces to be animated, this late in the game, is impractical.

But I get the cut of your jib. As the rest of CoH's graphics move on, the faces remain the same. I'd dearly like the existing textures to be recreated in a higher resolution, on a higher polygon face mesh. That's a fair amount of work just to remake existing content, but with Going Rogue bringing the level of detail to a new level, keeping 5 year old faces seems odd.

I love you, Xmas. You explain things better than I can hope to.

It is not worth disabling UAC for anything. The security benefits far outweigh any inconveniences you may face.

Happily, UAC and Setpoint can coexist very easily. Make a shortcut to your CityOfHeroes.exe, with the switch -EUCoH, to run the game without the updater (and without admin privelleges). To get at this, right click the shortcut and click Properties. Make the Target line look like:

"C:\...\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project EUCoH

Start CoH with that shortcut and Setpoint will work fine, no matter your UAC setting. Security and usability hand in hand. Just remember you still need to run the updater to, y'know, update the game when needed.

As for Setpoint, I highly reccomend you install Uberoptions; a program that allows per-application keybinds. I use it on my MX Revolution, to bind the forward/back and left scroll / right scroll buttons to unused keys on the keyboard; then I make binds on the character depending on what powers I want access to at short notice. This is a Godsend for Kinetics. I've also bound the rocker switch for targeting; up for next, down for previous, in for nearest.

Try it out.

Good news for people who have that odd bug where the picture will freeze if you alt/tab away from it, when using a GeForce. It seems to be fixed in the new nVidia beta drivers. Nab them here.

DISCLAIMER: These are beta drivers. Install at your own risk! (etc)

(In my opinion, official nVidia beta drivers are very reliable, but YMMV.)



EDIT: Nevermind. Still does it.

AV nothing. Do +4 missions with Monsters in them for a true test of Manliness.

Looks like a solid setup you got there. Xmas should be proud.

You'll be able to upgrade the CPU to a much beefier model later, as AM3 has plenty of life left in it. Phenom IIs, quad-cores, maybe even hex-cores are in your future. You won't have to upgrade that motherboard for a long while.

My Energy Melee AS works perfectly, thanks. But mine is /DA, which is quite rare; perhaps Dark Armour affects it?

To my knowledge, Intel is using the excess in 45nm manufacturing to put out Core i5s. They just disable a few features so they don't interfere with their high-end chips then throw them out.

If you can get a full refund, do so. Windows 7 launches in a month, and it will be £75 ish, though you can preorder it from Amazon for £65. I know that doesn't help you with Vista right now, but I can't recommend that anyone get Vista when 7 is imminent.

EDIT: Or do you get a free upgrade to 7 when it launches?

I shan't bother to reply to your criticisms, as other people have done so better than I can.

The real problem here, Bya_Kou, is that you have simply become bored with City of Heroes. There is no shame in that. Many people in this thread have been with the game for years. They, and I, know what you are going through.

Yeah, I... still don't know what to make of the i5. It's Nehalem goodness, but it lacks hyperthreading, VT, more turbo, doesn't overclock as well, and isn't that much cheaper than an 860 or something. That's before you take the rollercoaster prices into account.

This new chip confuses me. I don't know whether to recommend it or not.

Englander here. They were slow yesterday, but the techs seem to have squirted some WD-40 about today.

There's very little in it with 1366 and 1156. 1366 has capacity for an extra channel of RAM, the prospect of 6 and 8-core chips, and fast SLI/CrossFire. 1156 is cheaper and needs more cooling to overclock well, due to the integrated PCIe controller (you need to overvolt to keep it stable). The decisive factor is cost.

So let's 'ave a butchers.

I priced up a socket 1156 set; CPU, motherboard, and RAM. I used the Core i7 860 and an ASUS motherboard called the... uh, it was a really long set of numbers. It came to £405.26.

I also priced up a comparable 1366 set, with an i7 920, the ASUS P6T SE (see, much easier name!), and the same set of RAM as the other set (Corsair XMS, DDR2-1333, 4GB of it). It comes to £424.84.

So. Nineteen more quids and you go from the boy socket to the Man socket. I should clarify that there's no penalty for going dual-channel on a triple-channel motherboard; it will save you a lot of money. Should you want to go 6 or 8 core later on, and should you actually use all that power, the extra channel will help.

These new socket 1156 boards seem to be too new, too expensive. I know that the chipset is much cheaper than the X58 found in 1366 boards, so it must just be early price-gouging. The 1366 P6T costs £140, while a 1156 board of the same class is actually near the same price. That smacks as a bit of a ripoff. Hopefully, in a week or two, prices will be more reasonable. If not, 1366 will have more to look forward to.

I should mention the turbo on these new 1156 chips is much more aggressive than 1366 chips. Look at the benchmarks on Anandtech and decide for yourself.

People claim that Defender traps is stronger than Corruptor traps. I'm looking at the numbers and that just ain't true. FFG is 13.3% defense and mag 3 mez protection for both; Acid Mortar is 26.6% res/def with 21 ticks of .1 toxic for both; Triage Beacon is 150% regeneration for both... I hope this is some kind of sick joke by the devs.

I looked at the numbers for Storm Summoning and they change correctly based on Archetype. But for traps, every power is identical.

Well...

I DID find one power that changes its values... but you won't like it.

Web Grenade. The speed debuff is stronger for Defenders.

Today I copied my Dark scrapper to the test server, and respecced in Flurry.

Anyone care to guess why? Just imagine that. Flurry on a Dark scrapper. Also, I have the Sands of Mu.