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Quote:So what's the point of slapping a big AMD/ATi badge on the current splash screens? Even the Catalyst driver plugs this game. I really don't understand what the issue is with getting up-to-date support when Ultra Mode was written from the ground up with the support of AMD/ATi. Are their drivers really that poorly written/supported that nVidia can be first with multi GPU support without needing an official sponsorship?Originally Posted by PeerlessGirl
"I'm Peerless Girl, and I approve this message...remember, friends don't let friends go ATI." *winning campaign smile*
Edit: to clarify, ATI has it's positives...but CoH compatibility ain't one of 'em. -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=243411
Patch notes like these show that it is a constant cat and mouse game of finding exploits and patching them. AE just makes it way worse since it can be exploited on a larger scale. Linking tickets to reward merits would be a field day for the exploiters, IMO. -
Quote:I remember farming 'cuda AV in Sharkhead (Shaper Cult mission?) for SOs back in the day when CoV first launched.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
It was a long while back and I try to forget the 'Dark Times', but I remember having a bit of surplus inf in the mid to late 30's, and by the time I hit 50 there was enough on hand that I could afford to play 'sugar daddy' for some of my friends.
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Quote:Fixed that for you.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
d'oh! he only said 95%+....my bad! =(
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Quote:That would make this bug a Nemesis plot?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
The forums are steam-powered
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Quote:Can you describe how it works? Does your stealth radius drop?Originally Posted by UberGuy
Once someone on your team attacks, the mobs are alerted to your presence, no matter how stealthy you are and whether or not you have used any powers. If that initial teammate attacker does not actually hold aggro on the spawn, you can be attacked by other mobs in that spawn just for standing there. (This is a gripe of many a Stalker.)
I've only had this happen occasionally, most of the times my invis works but once in a blue moon a random mob will take a swipe at me even though I haven't aggro'd it. -
Quote:Again, I will ask for the citation for your interpretation of this redname saying that trading beyond the cap is abuse. Whomever can show this first I will give that person 2B+1 inf. Otherwise this is just plain wrong and should stop being spread as fact.Originally Posted by je_saist
We also know that players reaching the influence cap is a rare occurrence. The devs are actually on record as describing off-market trades for more than the personal-influence cap as being an abuse of the system, one they are not sure how to address or deal with.
Easy evidence to the contrary are all the posts in the market forum requesting trades over the cap, without any reprisal from the moderators.
The only thing that was said was the inf cap was there because the original design of the game had never envisioned players hitting the cap. The word abuse was never used.
I'm not sure where you decided that market saturation was the only deciding factor in making F2P models successful over subscription models. I believe that those factors probably are multivariate in nature and not able to be summarized by one factor only.Quote:Originally Posted by je_saist
Conversion to a F2P model has only largely worked in one circumstance: Market Saturation.
To end this, let me pose a simple question:
How many Fantasy / Medieval themed MMO's are there?
How many sci-fi first person / third person shooters with online components are there?
How many Super-Hero MMO's are there?
This may be an interesting read for F2P conversions
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2...ns-players.ars
I'm pretty sure all games compete for the player's dollar and attention, so narrowing the field to super hero MMOs isn't quite as reflective a model to the real world as you propose. Otherwise, this game could have set the subscription price at $100/month when it launched.Quote:Originally Posted by je_saist
When nobody else has a competitive product, you can pretty much set your own price. The fact is, as of right now, CoH doesn't have any competitive products. -
Quote:I'm in North America and I've had this happen to me twice before. It is possible that it could be related to the logout issue that you mention (some people have mentioned it in that thread as well).Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
So far, this has happened twice, and it seems to be EU unique, unless I missed a thread on it.
Keep getting logged out of the forum, however when I try to log back in it says the password is incorrect...despite it working in-game and being the exact same one I use to log in every time.
No idea why this happens, but it's damn frustrating. As if being logged out for no reason wasn't bad enough.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=237802 -
No thanks. I'm happy with the way things are now. Changing things to PBAoEs means that the endurance use goes way up and I can't change who gets what/when.
Losing a single pet means guarantees that I have to choose between losing more pets before recasting or else sacrificing a huge chunk of endurance to get back up to snuff.
Also speed boost and FF are fine the way they are. Changing them to AoE would mean that they would probably get 'looked at' in a bad way. I have no problems putting speed boost on my teammates manually. Did that since I joined and continue doing it now without complaint. -
Quote:If that is a valid argument about american mores then the MPAA has already won. Wait a minute. Nevermind.Originally Posted by Lothic
But there's another theory as to why we are forced to accept non-flat female chests in a game like this and it's fairly controversial and perhaps even a bit creepy. As the theory goes the Devs of games like this want to make sure it's relatively hard to make a female character look like a child for the purposes of discouraging people from doing naughty things to them. The Devs don't want to get complaints from parents about being able hurt (physically or sexually) characters that look like young girls. Thus the easiest way to prevent that is to force everyone to have very obvious adult-looking breasts on our females even at the smallest settings.
Personally I'd hate to think we were not allowed to have realistically flat female chests because the Devs are worried about a handful of perverts out there. But all things considered I'm betting they aren't too upset that circumstances have allowed them to dodge that bullet regardless.
So much for little girls being super powered in this game.
Funny that I had to repost the image since the original URLs got munged because of the A double S triggering the profanity filter. -
I don't think I've ever met her but I wish her the best.
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Quote:I wouldn't conflate the two.Originally Posted by Ironik
People who can write well do very well in business.
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Quote:I would guess that this is exactly the reason why tickets were implemented in the first place. Using tickets allows them to firewall developer content from user content such that the reward merits etc won't get skewed by the ticket system. Bridging them directly would remove the firewall, which would take away any reason for the tickets raison d'etre.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
But realistically would that be any worse than the lolraresalvage or lolrandomreciperolls he was already getting? I agree that the time per merit would be out of whack with the TF/Story Arc rewards but the time-to-reward would be consistent with the time-to-reward already available with tickets.
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Quote:What kitten?Originally Posted by Anarchist_Kitten
Here is another one of my HUGE characters (again, 50% slider)
It's the kitten, isn't it? Makes 'em look bigger. -
Quote:Welcome back!Originally Posted by Leandro
I have been updating the wiki with the new rolls, and it's up to date. I'll update any new rolls that show up. I wasn't posting because my account was inactive, I just resubbed.
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Quote:I remember seeing a guy solo some crazy farms in 15 minutes or less. He was able to power level his lowbees to 50 in the same time that you had quoted (or less). I shudder to think how many tickets he was raking in, and if he was able to convert them to merits it would be lolmerits.Originally Posted by JoshexDirad
some missions are different sizes, and each map yields a different number of tickets, smaller maps take less time but yields alot less tickets, a good farm map takes about 2-3 hours to completely clear it and yields about 1500 tickets max.
giving out 10 merits for one mission? it's not a bad Idea when that mission takes as long as a TF to solo. -
Your all loosers for trieing to maek everyone liek you!
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Quote:Fixed that for you.Originally Posted by WarLord Mars
Is this what happens when cheaters run this?
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Quote:http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=237802Originally Posted by Quatermain
4-5 instances, maybe 6 is all I can remember people doing.
Also, what the hell is wrong with the forums.
The Rednames are hiding from this one apparently. -
Happy Bday!
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*Stuffs Cai in a cake*
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http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...36&postcount=9
I can't remember but I believe there used to be someone on Justice who used to be as crazy?
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Quote:Not bad, but if it was reversed (onto the MM) that would make it simpler to see how much damage is being split, kind of like a fulcrum shift buff. I guess plunking a BG shield on the relevant pet would help too.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
How about this. In the pet pane have a little shield icon in front of the name of any pet in bodyguard mode (like the star that designates Team Leaders)? It's not a great solution since it doesn't answer the issue of explaining it to new players but it would at least provide an obvious indicator "hey this pet is doing something different"
Eg., a MM would have 3 BG shield icons and each pet in BG mode and range would have 1 BG shield each (3 in total), and all other pets not in BG mode/range would not have shields. -
Quote:Double that, and eat all of it in one 3 hour sitting and I will give the merits to you.Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint
i bid 1 10 lb bacon cake and a six pack of bacon cola...
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Quote:True, it's just a damage split, but I don't know how many level 50 Masterminds I've seen getting repeatedly 1 shotted/dotted and me rezzing them. Asking after the 3rd or 4th death if they are in BG mode and getting the 'huh?' makes it painfully clear that there isn't enough clarity about BG mode for people to understand, especially if the combat attributes don't show it either.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Well, the pets will show Supremacy icons by their name if you have them showing buffs.
Also, you don't really "Get resistance." The damage is just split up. (I know, not the best or most exact/detailed explanation of bodyguard.)
(Nothing changes looking at the combat attributes, either.)