Rainbow Serpent

Thanks for posting this. Love you!

At least we looked good while getting our a$$es kicked. And the BAF was fun.

Peace, Jade River.

PS: Since when is a$$ blocked?

PPS: Maybe good news - I know there were three or four servers down, but we're the only one now, plus two Unknowns. Light on the horizon?

Really hoping this isn't the end for Virtue (and the others). Virtue is my home, and most of my toons/friends are here. I still have a few on Union, but I transferred most of them here in the last few weeks. Since the announcement, I'm seeing the same faces over and over and I don't want to lose those friends yet. I know that Hit_Streak comes into the game, but I don't know what's involved in getting them back up or how much access they need/have. I just hope to Helle that it gets fixed, I was not prepared to lose the game today. This utterly locks.

I went to Union and broadcasted on the Request channel to see if any of the Admins were about. No response (even from the players). Maybe we can try announcing on other servers as well and hopefully get lucky.

Peace, Jade River.

WOO! Servers back UP. You rock Devs/Techs/Folks. xox

I also got mapserved and can't get onto Virtue. The server status page might be correct, I can get into Union. This is terrible.

Peace.

Hi. The Virtue server (along with some others) went down around 18:20 EST. Does anybody know if there are devs enough to bring them back up and/or if they're checking in regularly? Having until November 30th is nowhere enough time to explore everything I haven't yet done in the game, but if the servers stay down from tonight... There are just no words.

Peace, Jade Rivers.

Bookmarked! Will get to this soon, thanks for all the links. I'll go wherever the game goes. It would be awesome if it were picked up. It's too good a game not to be, especially with all of us willing to continue subscribing.

Peace, Sol.

Current Toon: Jade River
Global: @Rainbow Serpent

Hey. I am putting together a brand new system, but with a limited income. I am sorely behind in new technologies, having started roughly around !Pong! and ending up in the 90s. Basically I'm wandering around wide-eyed while nodding and smiling at the new shiny tech and terminology (eyes glossing over). So, help?

I'll be building it from the ground up. I found a great deal for a new EVGA "01G-P3-N988-TR" GeForce 9800 GT HDMI 1GB 256-bit DDR3 (PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support) video card. Yes that was copy/pasted. EVGA repackages/overclocks the NVidia cards using NVidia technology. I want to make doubly sure that this is compatible with the game (but I have a bit of an energy/ability problem so my researching is less great). I am unsure whether this model is the one you've listed below as being "entry level" for playing in Ultra Mode. I haven't yet had that pleasure, so I'd be happy with anything approximating UM for CoH. My imploded laptop could only play recommended and the older PC I'm using is minimum with some effects turned up.

I'm looking for a power supply higher than the 400 this card requires (12 volt with 26 amps +). Also, the card is 9" x 4.3" w/ fan. Is this common? Seems a bit monstrously sized to me. Do standard cases (w/ the extra bays) fit this? I haven't chosen the motherboard or ANY of the other hardware yet, so no - I don't know the rest of the specs yet. I've had a lot of ASUS boards with AMD Chipsets, which I find to be groovy. I'd like to avoid Celerons. They may have updated their hardware, but my memory banks have NOT.

I'm building a new-ish PC to replace the laptop and my primary purpose is gaming & graphics and the ability to play CoH on higher settings (and not be left in the dust as they update). The card I found is ridiculously cheap, comes with 2 years parts & labour warranty and was rated high amongst cards that cost considerably more.

I've been an ATI woman forever and although I love the RagePro's/Radeon's, I really wanted to try out NVidia (as well as enjoying the NVidia graphics updates vs. ATI's "recently" faulty drivers). Can anyone confirm that this card (on its own merits) can play the game, and well? (Definition of Well: better than what I have access to now... seriously; I don't ask for much). Or even what to expect. My main barrier in creating a new system is building something that'll play CoH nicely but not leave me looking at an empty fridge for the new few months. I've only got $400 to $500 magick money at most (excluding the monitor, peripherals and HD). I'm prepared to spend more on the motherboard. The card with the warranty is less than $100 before rebate. Building a system from scratch costs markedly more than I remember it costing vs. a pre-built system. Bastards!

I'd like to get any info anyone has ASAP, so I can buy this card while it's still at the advertised price. I'll also take any suggestions on what to look for/avoid in parts (even the obvious). Example: Cap'n, upcoming Trident reefs to the left, hard starboard to port! Cap'n, avoid the DDR2 drones to the right! Bee-dee-bee-boop! Etc. Etc. Thank you for generating this list!

Peace, Sol Kenaz.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was trying to find help in the Help channel around suggestions for my Empathy/Earth defender. I had currently set the F1-F8 keys to heal teammates which was very clunky and left me having to bind the rest of the Empathy powers to other keys. Some awesome person in the game told me about the Pop Menus and I found your thread in the forums.

I'm about to try out the .mnu file I created using the Numpad keys instead and just downloaded and "installed" the Classic Badge Reporter. As a badger, this is awesome. If it still works, I'll try the extended version next. Thanks for the many hours you put into this and happy gaming! 1000+ Internets, or whatever the kids are saying nowadays.

Peace, Sol.

EDIT: Badge Reporter working correctly, just hunted down the updated version for Help and the Extended version. Thanks!

I've been able to copy my toons successfully over to the Training Room. Thank you for fixing this.

Peace, Sol Kenaz.

I'm fairly new to CoH, but perhaps if everyone from EU and NA servers submitted daily bug reports until it actually got some attention. A lot of games don't provide "test" servers as they do here, but - since they do offer it - I believe it's their job to make it functional. There are user messages going back to February, and that's without really searching. It's very frustrating.

Yesterday or the day before I tried again to copy three characters over to the PTS. When I reloaded, it said the copy was in progress for each. When I checked back later, it had apparently finished but again - nothing showed up on the PTS. I also got an "invalid server" error message the first time I reloaded the page after copying the toons (from Virtue).

Peace, Kenaz.

I also copied a toon over more than 24 hours ago, and it is still not there. I have a level 44 to level up and can't do it until I try some of her powers out. So no transfer, no levelling up. Has anybody heard from the devs, etc. that they're aware of the problem? I'm new to the game, so still don't know who we'd send a bug report to.

Peace, Kenaz.

Later: Come to think of it, I tried copying over a toon a few times last week (on both the Test server & Rogue) and she still hasn't arrived. I had to create her from scratch.

I'm new to CoH, but here's my screen so far. I keep the map in the upper left when I need it.

Peace, RainbowSerpent.