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i think it's fair to have a consideration for 8 as the longest running, since for all those years with no Doctor Who TV, he WAS the Doctor for all the fans still following. we shouldn't downplay that. but caveats are understood, he was audio only.

as for Smith, it took a while for me to warm up to him. i think he really started to come into the role for me with the first Christmas special, which i quite enjoyed. i think from there he became a much more fleshed out and realized Doctor. it helps that they started treating him more like his own Doctor and less like a corporate construct trying to recapture Tennant with pithy catchphrases.

and i agree with another who said that Smith comes across to me as a Doctor who, true to form, is always running away and grappling with that desire and the trauma that follows him. i love it. he has become one of my favorites.

note that it also took about a season for me to really warm up to Tennant as well.

i say stick with it. i look forward to seeing what's next, and i'm all for a multi-doc story come the anniversary. i want to see 8 and 11 together. =) i'll settle for 8 and 10, which would still be grand. would also love 9, though i doubt Eccleston'll be back.

are you still having problems? i'd need more specifics about what exactly isn't working in order for me to help you.

i don't really know. that's a lot of changes. =)

ok, so, if i read that correctly, the only problem remaining is that it hangs at the loading bar, is that correct?

if so, it sounds like it's not correctly passing the -renderthread 0 argument. try adding that argument manually and see if it works.

yeah, those are the important ones.

Planet of the Dead is cool, but it's the most "one-off" of the set. see it, but you don't have to put everything on hold for it.

all you need to know going in to Waters of Mars is that the Doctor was told by someone with psychic affinity (in Planet of the Dead) that his "song is ending" and "He will knock four times." note: that "He" is meant to imply someone that is not the Doctor.

now go watch Waters of Mars! =D one of my absolute favs! =)

*edit* oh, don't worry about dreamland. it's neat, but not at all important. it's an adventure with Martha Jones.

these changes don't bother me much. sad that Static Shock isn't getting more of a fair chance. i liked the cartoon.

my biggest problem with the "diversity" is that it feels forced. they don't feel "diverse," they feel like caricatures. i really tried to like Blue Beetle, i wanted to like it, but i shouldn't have to read a comic with a spanish-english dictionary. it was overdone, artificial, and unrelatable. i feel the same way about Bunker getting all up in a comic i was really enjoying. ug.

but in general i'm really enjoying the reboot. it got me back into comics in a big way, and by and large i feel that the universe feels more focused. as was said, the new Batman comic is amazingly good, and my personal favorite comic is Captain Atom, and that was a big surprise to me.

but, one of the things i really don't like about the new universe is that lack of history. that superhumans are a very new phenomenon. i liked a DC universe where the JSA were the historical heroes. i'm a big JSA fan, so i'm looking forward to see their treatment in Earth 2.

ah well, fun times with DC. i will say that i'm much more likely to read the new war comic than i was the prior two efforts.

*edit* also, the 90s rocked. =P Age of Apocalypse, Gen X, Ghost Rider, Infinity Gauntlet, that's my childhood. =)

i just resubbed...

i *just* found out that Statesman is being killed.



i'm sad, i really like Statesman. to me he's very iconic of CoH. i'm sad to see him go.

so what about Recluse? what about States' TF? and who will be on the webpage now fighting that big robot? these are the things i'm concerned about. =)

also, yeah, the signature characters need costume and roster updates badly. but we all know this.

awesome! thanks a bunch! i'll be remaking an old character, now with TW! it's going to be sweet. =)

thanks for the input! ok, so right now it's looking like Brute again for me. =) are either AT in more demand at high levels?

also, a sort of related question: does recharge reduction synergize with TW, given momentum and the long animation times?

ah, good point. sorry. Electric Armor.

hi guys! returning player, glad to be back. =) love the CoH devs, they always make something new to get me to come on back. =)

so, Titan Weapons. looks really exciting to me, looks powerful. so this brings me back to the age old question, Tank or Brute? is it the same answer, Brutes just do more damage, and Tanks take more damage?

how well does the Tank handle TW, how's the damage for them? i guess i'm trying to get at, how big is the damage difference between tanks and brutes with TW, since i don't know this new powerset at all.

thanks for indulging an old player! any insight would be appreciated!

glad to hear it! enjoy!

but are /bin/wine found under .cxgames? i don't think they are.

normally, if you use the generic installer, you should have two directories, the hidden one and a normal one for the program. the hidden one should contain your bottles (if i remember correctly.)

my advice: archive your CoH bottle, completely uninstall cxgames, then reinstall using the generic installer. then install your CoH bottle from the archive. that should fix it.

alternatively, you can find the cxgames program file somewhere under your root directory and edit the cohlaunch.pl to call that directory instead. i don't know where it installed it though.

hm, that's odd. i don't actually play anymore but i can try to help.

it seems like the script is working fine, it just can't seem to find your cxgames directory. do you have those directories that it's looking for?

how did you install cxgames? did you use the .bin method? i always use the generic installer, and not the .deb file, because it makes it easier to troubleshoot and update.

so i recommend that.

*edit* also, where did it install CoH?

anytime! glad it worked! =)

did your shortcut work prior to this?

when i tried to do a shortcut like the way you posted, it tried to install a new version of CoH somewhere else. basically, it wasn't truly running the cohlaunch.pl from the correct directory, it was running it from another directory, even though cohlaunch.pl was in the correct CoH directory. i think it tried to run it from the Desktop directory, but i don't recall.

what i have is a script that launches the perl script correctly, then i have a launcher that points to my script.

my script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

cd ~/.cxgames/CityofHeroes/drive_c/Program_Files/City_of_Heroes/
exec ./cohlaunch.pl -renderthread 0
# EOF #


this way it makes sure to change to the correct directory first before executing the perl launcher.

then i just have a launcher on my desktop that calls my script, like so:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30531972/cohlauncher.png

the launcher is in the bottom tray.

perhaps, perhaps. i don't think many of the things you're saying are totally unfounded. there's definitely the history there, for sure.

as someone who couldn't deal with linux in the '90s, i was super happy with the modern friendly approaches founded with, uh, was it pclos? or mepis? one of them i think started the livecd. and then ubuntu. but je_saist is much more knowledgable than i about linux history and developments (and also in general. =)

i guess i consider it "friendly enough," at this point. teaching my mom from scratch, with no prior computer knowledge, to use her mac, i was constantly thinking that, with a fresh slate, i bet i could have gotten her using ubuntu. but i had mac mini on hand so i just gave her that and let steve jobs hold her hand the whole way. =)

to your particular issue with the Ubuntu Software Center and the Synaptic Package Manager, this was a choice made by Canonical, the guys who make that distro. not all linux distros work this way. they did this, i believe, to try and present a friendly front-end on one side to help people find programs like "music player" really easily, while keeping it separate from the more "hardcore" nitty-gritty of Synaptic, which will get you those scary computer-y things like XML:simple, and could bork your install if you do it wrong (like accidentally uninstall something important.) so for the future try looking there for the more "serious" stuff.

if you want a more unified package manager, feel free to install another that is perhaps more to your liking, or you can try another distro. i know Kubuntu is moving to Muon next release, and i'm happy about that as i personally prefer Muon as a package manager. but, like all progs (and linux in general), it's your preference. if you don't like how it's done, change it to something you do like. =) make it your own, that's it's key strength, i feel.

as for windows vs linux updating process, it could be a point of preference. all i know is, windows had me restarting after every little thing, and sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't. i don't go through this with linux. =) ah, cest la vie.

you misunderstand what i'm saying about you "having" them. you still need to select them for installation. what i mean, more accurately, is to say you already had access to compiled versions of the dependencies ready to install, should you so choose. you would need to go to Synaptic Package Manager, search for the dependency, then select it for install. the Manager would then also install any additional dependencies that would be needed for any given item.

i'm glad you're trying. i'm trying to help you understand how things work here and where you went wrong, so you don't have to do it again unless you want to. =) things, by and large, aren't as difficult as the path you took to achieve your goal. =) it got you there, for sure, but you sort of reinvented the wheel as you went. =)

almost everything you need will be in your package manager and in the repositories (which is where programs and such are stored.) very rarely do we actually need to go to a website to get something, though it does happen for the odd speciality program or two (such as cohlaunch.pl)

linux will always have a certain "do-it-yourself" quality. it generally is as easy or as difficult as you want it to be, depending on what you want to do with it. but the real wonderful thing about it is, you can get it to do just about whatever you want, as long as you try.

i'd have no qualms giving Ubuntu to my mom, or my friends (and i have.) but they also aren't going to try and run City of Heroes. i know a few linux gamers, but they're definitely a rarer breed.

i'm a bit surprised by that, honestly. i'm running Kubuntu, based on Ubuntu 11.04, and everything i needed was already in the package manager with no compiling necessary.

not sure what else to say at this point. =) i hope your future efforts go more smoothly. =) not every game requires you to add in extra dependencies. all i can say is, perhaps next time maybe more thoroughly check the package manager first to see if what you need has already been compiled for you? i know those dependencies are in there, because that's where i got them. and for you that would be the Synaptic Package Manager, not the Ubuntu Software Center or whatever they're calling it now. =) and, when in doubt, ask for help. =)

the flip side of that is, well, now you have some real experience in building things from source. =) good job! =P =D =)

so, if you're not a fan of linux, why are you using it?

what distro are you running, if i may ask?

hi there! =D

why don't we take a moment a take a nice, deep breath. =)

ok, what seems to be the problem?

Linux is in some ways similar to Windows (or any OS) and in many ways different. we need to approach it as if we are learning a new thing.

in this case, it is in many ways similar. you know how in Windows if you want to extract a .rar file you need to download a program, like Winrar? it's the same in Linux, except in this case we need Unrar. these are called dependencies. all OSes have them, and they are called dependencies because to achieve the desired goal "depends" on having another component. other examples of this are, say, having the correct DirectX for your game, or the correct driver for your video card, or when a program (like the NCSoft Launcher) requires Microsoft .NET version whatever. =) it only seems different because you're not used to these other programs or these other terms.

now, it looks like you're also referencing compiling source code. this is a PERL script. it does not require compiling, and the instructions on the web page do not mention compiling. just think of it as an executable. make sure you have the required dependencies so that it will run (which are listed on the webpage), then place the cohlaunch.pl file it into your City of Heroes directory.

then open a terminal and change directory to your City of Heroes directory, and run the script like i detailed in the first post,

./cohlaunch.pl

and add any arguments you might need, like -renderthread 0

let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions. =)

*edit* i'm glad you got it working! running non-native software on any OS can be very challenging (and yes, sometimes frustrating! =), but it can also be very rewarding and educational for those who take the time to give it a fair go.

and always remember, while Linux is sometimes similar to Windows (or can appear similar), it isn't Windows, and needs to be approached as its own entity. it's for the ways that it is not Windows that we tend to love it. =)

i'm glad it worked out for you, p3x! it's a great solution for the community, and has less bugs than the NCSoft launcher.

i'm enjoying it. =)

*edit* i updated the first post to be in-line with the new version 0.7 of the PERL launcher.

i spent a few hours playing with 0.6.2 of cohlaunch.pl and encountered no problems. it ran like a charm using just it to both patch and launch.

i'm using it now to download the beta and give that a shot. couldn't find a team for the life of me once i left praetoria. =/