Nerfherder

Thanks mate, I'll look into the EU invasion one.

I know 2 danes, a brit, 3 swedes and a german (and a french guy with 7 accounts, but I think he's gone now ) that roam about on Freedom. Surely there must be more of us who decided that US servers are abit more interesting than the EU ones?

I'm looking for channels with EU members in it, so I can have a better selection of ppl to hang out with that are regularly online during my hours.

Hope to see you there.

There's a Hello Kitty Island adventure!? Now where's my credit card again?

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Closer to the thruth than you might think. A friend that writes comics professionally once pointed out that Superhero is a joint trademark of Marvel and DC

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...only in the US. Place the servers in Belgium and use any word you like. Welcome the internets.

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If you are gaining xp with 0 risk, it's abuse (if you can herd/pull 3 critter groups and drop them all in under 3 minutes with over 50% health/end remaining, I'd call that close enough to 0 risk). This includes door sitting.


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I have toons that can do that with pretty much most available factions in game... Well, not gain xp since it's really hard to get that last xp needed to hit 51, but still.

Guess I'd just better stay away from MA all together to be on the safe side. I'd hate to have one of my billion dollar build toons deleted.

Server: Freedom
Character Name: iShade, Bowbane, Master Crab, Warstein
SG/VG Name: Indifference League, Vulgar Display of Power, Trading Hand Social Club
When do you crash: During zoning, then never able to log back in on the toon.
Does it affect all characters: So far, all the ones I've tried since the issue started.
Does it affect only characters in one or more SG's or VG's: 3 different SG/VG' on 4 different toons.

Edit: adding more toons.
Edit2: Found out that I don't have to move, just stand still and wait, and the toon will crash, and never be able to login again.

Edit3: Problem solved! Found that it was due to a collision of ingame anisotropic settings and driver level settings.

Setting Anisotropic filtering in game to 16x, when nvidia control panel has a high setting as well and with override application settings will cause the character to crash on loading map screen.

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I received a PM back from a moderator. The current thought is as long as real world stuff stays out of the picture its ok. I'll update you guys if anything changes.

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So we finally have an official word from NCSOFT employees that powerlevelling is OK as long as we only pay/charge in game items?

Good to know.

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... you (or a proxy) can make it to Germany, but not the East Coast?

Bah.

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In all fairness, I think we're talking about the german coh crew who already live and work there.

I don't really care much that I would have to go to a certain event to get the temp power, but I really do have an issue with this:

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*VIP Passes will only work in their respective regions. Passes distributed at PAX will only work on North American Accounts, and passes distributed at Leipzig will only work on European Accounts.


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This means, that since I live in Sweden and play on the US servers (like many other european vets), I would have to go half way across the world to get the temp, instead of just taking a ferry and drive a couple of hundred miles... Awesome thinking!!

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Tried two different times from two different physical locations so far, both times it times out with a message about being unable to contact the server or something like that (will get exact message if it happens again tonight).

I'm going to try again tonight...is anyone else getting this issue currently?

[edit: "The billing service did not reply, please try again." This after about 4-5 minutes of it doing the little bar bit.]


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Same problem here. Tried it 4 times with no luck. Also get a prompt that I need to re-enter my account password, and when I do I get "wrong password" even though I can log in with it on plaync.com...

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I gotta say, now I am even more impressed. Wonder what could happen if they got back up to 60 people.. I bet they would come up with some damn good content!

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Let's double up to 120 and kill off WoW once and for all...

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Final 15?
Fantastic 15?
Fortunate 15? [That's probably more fortunate for us, not necessarily for them]
Fabulous 15?
The FREEM FIFTEEN?
The f[WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS]-over 15?
The Friggin' 15?!?

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FREEMSTERS?

I vote this stealth-nerf that favors RMT farmers to be:

[Censored] of the year!

I have set these goals in terms of levelling:

iStorm, ill/storm 29->38
Frank Frost, ice/stone tank 18->32+ (for KHTF tanking, I love that TF!)
Mobsquad, thugs/dark MM 36->39
Blap Carnage, fire/em blaster 26->30+

Delete my lvl 23 dark/wp scrapper and maybe roll a dark/dark defender.

My guess is that something is bound to fail considering there's an 18mo kid that needs attention as well and both me and my significant other want to play. And no, no babysitters available.

Thanks for the heads up Lighthouse!

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Maybe I should get her into CoX... she's in England though...

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My bet is that she's already into CoX...

Supergroup name: Indifference League

Leader: @Nerfherder

Preferred method of contact: IGtell or IGemail.

Base: Yes, with tp and stuff, but who cares anyways?

Peak hours: Mostly european members so about from after downtime and 6-7 hrs on during weekdays.

SG Motto: Because you're not worth it...

Description: Why bother? Oh ok then.. Wanna be with a bunch of ppl that considers the game to be a refuge from the real world and not another place to call work? Chill, hang out, joke and team with ppl who are playing because it's fun. We don't have board meetings, we don't have mandatory raids, we don't force you to stand in Atlas and recruit.

Rules: Not really. Stay in SG mode until you hit 30. We don't care if you use SG colors or emblem. Be nice. Yes, your friends can come. No, we don't hate you because you're beautiful.

Promotions: First at 100k prestige, 2nd at 200k. Higher rank than that is a matter of discussion.

Farming/PL: Been known to happen, but don't count on it. It depends on the mood of the ones capable of doing it and how much you suck up to them or whatever gets them going.

Activity: Depending on rank. 7 days inacticity as the lowest rank, 15 until 2nd promotion and after that 25 days.

Website: No one cared enough to make one yet.

Maturity: Yes, the jokes in SGchat can be very mature from time to time.

Indifference League can often be seen at WW in Talos.

I can't believe the Murphy factor involved here that short circuited my computer just hours before the event. Wish I could've been there with you all.

P4 3.2GHz
1GB RAM
GeForce 7800GS
250GB S-ATA disk
Latest everything when it comes to drivers, tried both with and without -renderthread 1...

...and I have 9fps in Cap Au Diable. Just tried a CoT mission (aura mission) and was happy the few times I got more then 15fps, most of the time it was between 10-15fps tho with occasional dips into 4-5 fps.

Gamebreaking? Absolutely.

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Ding! We've got a winner!

We substantively increased the number of CPU's in our servers to account for new players....We've hit new highs in active concurrent in the past 24 hours.

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How about adding a counter at the login screen that tells you how many concurrent users there are at that moment? The we can have "Woo hoo! We breached X Peak concurrent users!" parties and celebrations. Maybe even special events when a given number has been breached.

Coming to think of it, some more information to the community wouldn't be a bad thing either. Add sections called "in development" and "Sketches on napkins".

The "in development" section would have information on what is currently being worked on, when it's planned for release, if it's delayed etc. That way players could give some feedback to the ongoing project. I know some of the ppl on this board really got their wiring together and can add some "have you thought about what happened if I do this with that new power?" and perhaps we can avoid a few nerfs/buffs or perhaps even 9000 replies to a new "feature". Of course, only devs would be able to start a thread here.

The "sketches on napkins" section would be a great place to post ideas that haven't made it into development but are under investigation if they are at all possible or good/bad ideas. No promises made that things will make it into development or any timeplans. The feedback to the ideas at this stage would be a nice hint if it will make your customers happier or just sick and tired of the game and the users/players/customers would feel like they're a part of their favourite passtimes evolution.

These three suggestions (concurrent users and the 2 sections) would eliminate a whole lot of griefing in the form of "Why didn't you tell us about this?" and "You never listen to us, you don't care and stop telling us how to play the game" and "You just made it clear it's your game and we're just guests that should be happy to be here and now I'm gonna go play *insert different MMOG here*"

Oh, and while you're at it, hire a wicked Quality Assurance manager that got the power to halt everything unless he/she feels the patch is ready for release.

Now I gotta go and do that work thing again... Thanks for reading.