PeerlessGirl

That's so weird. While I've had the flickering (only in Praetoria, mostly Nova Praetoria, and mostly when running through at fairly decent speed (Ninja Run). It never causes me any sort of slow down or crash. I have a Phenom II x4 965 on an MSI NVidia 750a SLI base (specifically the NF750-G55). 8GB of RAM, and an EVGA Superclocked GTX 470 with 1.280GB of RAM, all running Windows 7 64-bit (Pro). Are you running the latest drivers? I assume you are.

What are the specs of the rest of your rig, perhaps there's something else leading to a bit more of the instability.

I wasn't aware of the command, but I was aware of most of the rest of it, was just trying to explain some stuff to the poster. As far as "need" to be faster, if it gets too close to 30 or below 30 it looks and feels like crap, so it "needs" to be at least 40-50 for me personally, thankfully that's what I tend to run at with everything maxed out, so I'm good.

It may not play well with AA for ATI cards, but I have no problems with it, and I'm using a slightly better version of your card, so it's not an issue with CoH and/or Nvidia.

The only reason it killed your computer was heat, and primarily that was a major issue because it was a laptop. I suspect it was already on the heat borderline, or that wouldn't have happened. A properly cooled PC maintained well can run 100% load almost indefinately, until a fan fails or a hard drive does. I routinely full-load stress test my PCs for at least 1-3 days after they're built to make sure they can handle that.

They aren't related. Nvidia 3D only works when 1) it's turned on 2) the hardware supports it (that requires a 120Hz monitor) and 3) With games that support it. I had heard CoH was looking into it, but I don't believe it does currently. Even if it DID each "eye's" feed runs between 30-60fps (that's why it requires a 120Hz monitor, 60x2 is 120), I doubt it's related to that.

Don't worry so much, as long as you test your equipment properly, you likely won't overheat it.

FWIW, once I started using Ambient Occlusion, I couldn't go back, however, my SO is exactly the same as you, she keeps it turned off. But then, some people run without AA too, and I can't do that.

It's also worth noting AA settings take a MUCH lower hit on the 400 level GTX cards than they have on any cards previous, including current ATI models, so it "costs you less" in FPS to use the higher AA modes. In some cases nothing, and in others, no more than 5-10 fps, where it used to make 20-30fps differences.

That's good. Although your graphics aren't going to "kill themselves trying to push to infinity". I used to routinely get 150+FPS in CoH before UM went in. Granted the further past your monitor's refresh you go, the more tearing you get, but there's no harm in it. Though knowing about the max fps command is handy.

I'm honestly not sure if that 30fps "lock" with V-synch is intended or a bug or unintended consequence with Ultra Mode, I've never gotten a confirmation on it either way. It's probably also safe to add back some settings if you wished to, such as Ambient Occlusion, or a higher AF rating, or AA or somesuch. If you don't prefer them though, you're good to go as is. Glad I could help.

You know, I've always wondered that myself, would be nice to know if that were the case or not. It really doesn't matter beyond incidental, but I'm curious. Something tells me they'll be built from i19 on with that in mind though, at least base-slotted wise if they're not though, I would think.

If they did that, there'd be enough slots to 6 slot everything, just about. There'd be no build challenge at all, and already almost overpowered IO stuff would become blindingly worse. If they weren'y going to do Incarnate, I could see that maybe happening, but given the Incarnate Endgame stuff, I don't see it ever happening.

*Nod* I dunno what to tell you, my aeroglass stays enabled if I run CoH, UNLESS I turn those options on (it's primarily the "disable visual themes" one, but the other controls the taskbar "hide peek" mouseover popup thing, I think, so I always disable or enable both). If yours is doing it anyway, that's a little wierd.

Note the point where I said "unless you want set bonuses." I don't know if they'd perform better in Fly or Hover. I had the freebird fly, and the fly end in fly myself, but I've just gone down to a base IO slot, to get that slot back for something else, didn't affect my speed at all, I don't have hover though.

More to the point. It's like 5-10mph from the cap, just with base fly and swift with 1 slot. So, slotting it isn't going to get you anything, again, except in the case of Hover.

With the changes to base fly in i18, you honestly don't need to slot fly at all, or put slots in swift for fly anymore. The only reason you'd need to is if you wanted set bonuses, or perhaps to increase Hover's speed.

I honestly think the Merit Vendors are this way on purpose. That's why they're funny. The Syndicate looks awesome IMO (I love the "Bruce Lee/Kill Bill" track suit some of them wear). The Ghouls are creepy and neat looking. The Destroyers, while the most "plain" are still on par with Scrapyarders and Freaks (and just about as nasty as both of them put together). I think you underestimate how much they care.

For example, did you even notice that almost all of the new foes use existing "player available" costume pieces? Did you realize the NPC contacts actually have appropriate heights now, as opposed to it seeming like the average height in CoH is 6'5" if judged by the contacts Hero/Villain side, even the supposedly normal humans?

There's a lot of little things there most people don't even notice...

Hey. New Trina looks awesome, especially compared to old Trina.

I know. I'm playing my character's glaring at the Fitness Pool like: "Yooooou.....I haaaate yooooou." Especially on my new Ninjutsu Stalker, I've already started swift, and will have to take Health here shortly. I was like "I am NOT rolling any new characters until this goes live".

Then you are projecting. Though the more you go on, the closer I get...

time to go do something else, I think.

*goes to play Ma...err..a sci-fi SP RPG.*

*shrugs* Takes more than that, to do anything with a Tank, PvP or otherwise if you're halfway decent at it; but as I've come to realize, 4 out of 10 Tanks suck and 5 out of 10 are marginally competent. I'm the other 1 out of 10. Again, PvP is a mini-game to me (and likely most everyone else, if they even do it at all). It's possible to be an RPer AND a Min/Maxer. Within reason, my build is pushed to it's utmost, because it *is* part of my character's concept, by the same token though I won't do something "just because" character is king, and all must fit in that framework. Doesn't make your view of the game wrong, just different than my own.

I posted like 5 or 6 times (that all happened to be in a row, because I was responding to people) and I posted "so much" when guys like TamakiRevolution and NiceTry (no offense, just that you've posted a lot NT) posted about 20 times or so, ok, sure that makes sense.

Obviously they know what their ACTUAL player base wants, because they've done nothing but GIVE us what we wanted since they took over from Crypic. Perhaps not immedeatly, and not everything, but there's no denying that's what they did

It wasn't done "six years ago" because of the Jack Emmert/Cryptic era and his enforced "vision" people weren't supposed to *need* Stamina, they used it when they didn't have a "perfect" team with one of every AT and a few extra meleer's and blasters.

They're not "waiting and rationing anything out for "god knows how long". It's no different than I1s clearing up issues from launch, i7 clearing up issues from CoV's release. But what do you know you like PvP, you covered the issue right there in your own post.

You aren't the only one who has to 'find their end-game content elsewhere for the time being' we ALL do. In your case, you futely "bang on the walls of Reality" in favor of PvP, while I just RP and create new characters and ideas. Once Incarnate starts to materialize, we'll have "end game content." Wait, or get out.

They attempted to "fix" PvP by inviting 90% of the "PvP Community" into serveral beta's, most of which I was present in, so I watched how they acted. They ran rampant over the other discussions, willfully broke the NDA, and generally acted like 5 year olds, and/or bulls in a china shop depending on how you look at it. It was SO bad that after that, betas got a heck of a lot smaller, and less people were asked in. Ex Libris and Lighthouse worked very hard to try to work with and appease a minority that frankly never should've existed to any real extent beyond an afterthought in this game anyway, and all they got for it was crap. Enough so that both are no longer with us (probably moreso in LH's case than Ex's). It was repeatedly thrown at them that they failed to actually test anything and/or work within the framework of what the Devs decided needed to be done. They left wiggle room, but the PvPers would have none of it, and this is what they ended up with. Nothing.

To an extent, we're all "paying guests" in the Dev's vision of the game. They've given a lot of "wiggle room" on a lot of things, many of them things we directly asked for: Power Customization, Inherant Fitness, Beginner's Luck, Villain access to APPs, side-switching, more moral choices and sub-factions in Praetorian Content. Incarnates. Safeguards. I could keep going, but I doubt it would sink in. It's true that if you ignore your subscribers, you lose customers, to a large extent they've not done that, they've only ignored the ones that earned it, or didn't frankly matter. I'm a heavy RPer too. I want an enforced RP server and more name policy enforcement,clickable chairs, a lying down emote like Bobcat's. I also don't expect them to give me everything I want, because I'm a minority who doesn't matter as much as the majority.

When you act like that, that's what you get. To clarify: I spoke in broad terms. I know that not ALL PvPers acted this way, or act this way, but a large majority of them *at the time* did exactly this. It cast the entire group/community/subculture/whatever in a negative light that will likey persist until the day CoH's servers shut down. Serves them right.

I actually do PvP on occasion on Virtue, and am not half bad at it. It's a side mini-game, not a focus of CoH, it never will be.

Deal.

This is the last I'm saying on this particular subsection of a topic, it's been covered. Let's move on.

Little reason except maybe..."RP" "Concept" "Fun" "Character Broadning/Development" You know. Those little things.


Sure, there'll be people who'll always min-max everything, and will take powers that make no sense within the framework of their characters (then again, some people don't even build enough of a framework of concept or character to have those "limitations" in the first place. To quote a broadcast I saw last night in praetoria on Virtue: "So, which has the better pop on this server in this game, Heroes or Villains, cause I'm about to hit 20 later today and I don't want to gimp myself by picking the wrong side." I didn't bother to try to explain that, if mechanics is all you looked at, it didn't matter cause you could switch without too much work, or be a tourist and go to both...but...*shrugs* if that's fun for them, I guess it works.

Personally I'll be taking Superspeed (because it's RP-appropriate, even though I have fly as my main TP, and I dropped it in favor of taking hand clap back a while ago), RPD because it's the final power in my primary powerset, and probably either Group Fly for RP concept, or Combat Jumping which also fits, but is a bit more about the extra power.

I'm an RPer and a Concept builder, but I also have an amazingly good build who also CAN PvP fairly well, if I choose to.

It's worth noting what someone can do with Vengence or whatever, but not everyone even uses the leadership pool, because it's not thematic, or they don't want the end drain. I doubt even 20% of the players think like you. I can bet money 20% of the ones on Virtue don't.

We don't know for sure, no. However, from what I've gathered and the way I see it, we're getting at least one Story Arc that will be part of earning the slot (as opposed to the weird, hacknied "salvage system" we had in i18CB) which will help explain it. We're also getting the first of the content designed to be used with said slot (the Apex TF). There may also be other things we don't know about.

Yes. This also. :P personally I'd have paid 20 bucks JUST for Ultra Mode. We ended up getting that "for free" so buying GR where I thought it was going to be in the first place was kind of a no-brainer. Also, JUST finished my first moral choice in Praetoria last night at the end of Cleopatra's arc. I was agonized staring at the screen trying to decide what to do. I felt like I was playing Mass....err...a certain Sci-Fi RPG that is single player. Except I wasn't, I was playing CoH! It was totally worth all the suffering with Pre-Order codes and stuff, and the money JUST for that one moment.

Getting kind of tired of this "they moved back all the Incarnate levels" stuff people are spewing in a few posts in this thread. Were you in i18 closed beta at all? If not, a lot of it will be lost, but even then Positron copied his CB post into the open forums for everyone to see regarding the SNEAK PREVIEW INCARNATE SLOT removal. He explained that it was a sneak preview, not a full release of the system, that it wasn't ever intended for GR, but was added in as a peek at what was coming/bonus. It got removed because they had to slap together a hacknied reward system to facilitate unlocking it, and there was no content to really use and test it on, because the content that goes with it wasn't there, as it was just a preview. Also, people in the CB complained (rightly so) that it didn't make enough of a difference to their characters, and that there was no "lore" to back up how we got the Incarnate abilities, or what allowed such a thing within the framework of CoH. Both of those are being addressed by pulling the slot, reworking it, and waiting until some of the content is there to support it. The one slot was the only thing covered. all 10 of them were not going to be released at the same time, and they still won't. Positron has covered this a few times as well. They've flat admitted that i19 is "The stuff we didn't have time for while working on GR". Just like i7 was basically "The stuff we couldn't work into CoV (i.e. Mayhem Missions, Level cap to 50 increase, PPPs etc.). That's no different than has ever happened before.

Sometimes I think people just complain to "hear" themselves talk.

I knew someone would show up who remembered, or had the old email or something. :P I'd be curious to see the text of that whole email, just for history's sake and posterity. Nice little quote at the end though. I was in the game when CoV was closed (I was a fairly clueless new player who had just come in at the end of i3/beginning of i4 and had only been playing maybe 6 months when CoV came out, so I had no idea there was even a new game coming or a beta going on until Gamestop announced the Pre-Order for it. Ah...good times, good times.