Rajani Isa
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If you are invited to the closed betas, another indication is that (for i16 it was this way, anyway) you will see in the top-forum a series of "Closed <Issue/whatever> Beta" forums - by top forum I mean "boards.cityofheroes.com" - where you have to choose your language subforum.
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Quote:So far the only "bought" cape that isn't unlocked at level 1 is the Cape of the Four Winds, or whatever they call it, from the CoH DVD CE.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
As has been mentioned above those are capes you get from the mission. The cloak is a High Collar cape that only comes from the Magic Super Booster pack. It costs $9.99 from the NCSoft store and you can use it on all characters starting at level 1.
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Quote:Unless something has changed, incorrect. It only grants you a choice between the Tech or Magic Super boosters.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
No, the Valkyrie pack is the goodies from the Mac edition. AE edition gets you your choice of any one of the Super Boosters.
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Quote:Claws looks kinda odd too.Originally Posted by Ragaust
Although, the assault rifle does look a bit odd with ninja run.
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Quote:If you want to change your forum handle, PM Niviene (US) or Avetea (EU).Originally Posted by JahRastaFari
thanks. my original forums handle was Liamlightsun my name from SWG. when the NGE hit a bunch of us came over here and started GMW on the freedom server in COV, so did they merge the european and NA servers, like was there a freedom for both EU and NA? or was there just a european named server?
Include a list of (3) name choices.
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Quote:I misspoke. When I said that they went off vet reward time, I meant they used the same "time" count as Vet rewards do. Namely, time paid (including retail box "free" months) and played. The CoV closed beta was in a way the first vet reward.Originally Posted by NeoSporin
Actually, Vet rewards were not around when the beta for City of Villains was in Beta. In fact. City of Villains went live in issue 6, and vet rewards went live in issue 8.
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Another place to ask questions like this is the Screenshot & and Art forum. The people over there really know the costume creator. Enough of them anyway.
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Quote:Magic Bolero (Top level "Top" female-only)Originally Posted by Xalaqia
I don't recall the specific names of the extra costumes granted by the Magic pack, but they should show in the character creator under "pre-sets".
Baron jacket (top level "Top" Male only)
High-Collar Cape (Cape, Both genders).
Also a several skirt options for females, boots for both genders.
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Quote:Another analogy I've used is "who do you blame for patient records being made public in a Hospital? Records department, or the cafeteria (both of which are vitally important, cause you don't want that doctor working on you with low blood sugar!)?"Originally Posted by RiverOcean
Oh that's brilliant. I love it I may use the 'house" analogy in my work. FYI I work in tech support for a very popular website. You wouldn't believe the number of times I hear complaints exactly like the one your responding too. When people write (or say) those sorts of things they aren't really thinking logically. They're just mad and venting..if they slowed down and thought about it.well...anyway...
Because frankly, the lunch lady has no impact on the Records department's procedures. -
Quote:I would frequently get yelled at by teams in their twentys, cause my corruptor looked like a Family Consigliere.Originally Posted by Master-Blade
Along those same lines, I have a "Longbow" character as well.
She is a Widow named "Longbow Spy-duh", which makes the name even look like a regular longbow as well.
Is there a resemblance? lol
I have the Spec-Op right down to the Badge title, and the ability to use a Stealth power. lol
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Quote:They ended up using a similar phrasing for CoV beta, but it was the vet reward time they went off of.Originally Posted by NeoSporin
I'd have to say its an error. If a new person who has never played CoX before buys the game today, then purchases a years worth of play time, they are NOT a one year vet, and will not get one years worth of Vet rewards.
Vets are considered as those who have subscription time behind them (used up) not ahead of them (prepaid but not used time.)
It is entirely possible they might have decided that prepaid time counts for this specific situation, but it would be a first as far as I know.
In fact... lifetime subs at this time in a games life kinda point to "We're dying, give us cash!"Quote:Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
No. The game's not new and needing a rapid infusion of quick cash to get off the ground. -
BABs mentioned it was assembled/worked on a bit here and a bit there over the past year (or more) during down/free/spare time - that no time was ever assigned to it.
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Veteran Time
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Quote:I find it funny you ignored the first part of my post. Or predictable. Whatever.Originally Posted by Another_Fan
http://www.popularhotrodding.com/fea...nes/index.html
If you go with their first entry there, Cadillac V-8-6-4 and the unmentioned problem that it had with occasionally shutting down while on the highway, it kind of undercuts the idea that designing an automobile is less complex than writing a program. I am sure there are more. In GM's case they let a product go into production that wasn't fully tested and probably failed to listen to anyone that was saying so. Do I feel that automotive design is complex, yes. Do I feel that automobiles are complex systems with many interacting systems ? Yes. Was I driving a Cadilac then ? Yes that's how I know about this. Will I again ? No, These days I drive an Acura, I hear GM has its quality up to par again, ehh so what.
Just another note, I see the new Fords incorporate a system from Microsoft these days. The jokes almost write themselves. If for whatever reason these cause significant difficulties do you think the software is difficult reason will hold water ?
Anyway, I never said car making isn't complex. In fact, it just gets more complex. But you example didn't refute my remark about software coding vs. cars. Your example talked about an issue where modification to a part caused that one part to not work reliably. It didn't cause issues with parts whose only real connection is they are on the same car.
As for the architectural comparison - buildings in the real world fallow the same physics system, all of them. Not so with code in different programs. -
Quote:lately I've used just the /buycoh, no macro/command chaining /dialog_yes to it.Originally Posted by Master-Blade
I'm not sure about that. Some people reported it still worked fine, while several others (including myself) had issues with it.
For me, using the command by itself worked fine, but when trying to pigtail dialog_yes to it, it crashed me. I have not tested it recently though. I still do it the old fashioned way. It gives me time to check the forums inbetween anyway. lol
By the way, having dialog_yes bound to a key really helps in intense fights when you die, or are getting teleported away and have the prompt. -
Quote:Ever since they were listed on the 2nd-level forum display under the Development subforum.Originally Posted by TimeLord
I used to check these on a regular basis...then the forum migration broke the [censored] out of them. They work now? 'Bout damn time.
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Quote:Just to check, do you mean Ragnarok Online (a differnt MMO) or Repeat Offenders ( real big CoH/CoV SG/VG cross-sever coalition) by RO?Originally Posted by Kheldarn
From what I can tell, RO caches them onto your HDD...
And if custom emblems where to be done by City of Heroes that was viewable by everyone - yes they could (and undoubtably would) be cached locally but the player/system/client would still end up having to upload the graphic from you to distribute he graphic to everyone else be for any could cache it on their system. Plus the TTP vs TTP(rogram) ratio would pro ably make it considred not worth it. -
Quote:Artificial load testing is (somewhat) like testing drugs on animals that are similar to humans. It can give us an indication of things will go, but if it passes animal testing it doesn't go straight to the masses, it undergoes human trials- which don't always catch all the issues a drug may have.Originally Posted by Another_Fan
That was for automatic load testing not software design. The post I was replying kept on insisting that if I wasn't playing on test I was somehow causing the lack of load testing.
Just out of curiosity and perversity if you are building something that is massively multiplayer wouldn't you at the start want to have some means of seeing how it works under massive load, aside from the obvious "Have lots of people use it"
And someone earlier brought up a comparison to cars. Code iis a funny beast that can leave the strangest "ghosts in the machine". Unlike cars where you don't have to worry if some tweak to the engine will affect how the car door opens. -
Quote:Let us not forget the fact that such images would then have to be uploaded and downloaded and take up bandwidth, etc.Originally Posted by Kheldarn
There's no real reason for it not to happen. The excuse is that they don't want to have to continually monitor them for inappropriate images, but A) I think we, the players, already do a good job of that when it comes to Character and Super Group Names, and 2) RO doesn't seem to have a problem with it... >.>
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Quote:More than a few people had complained about the fact that their comments would not stay closed, howver. And thee were some people being downright harassing and abusive through the comments becuase they new the reciever could see who sent them. i think they are a loss, but it's not fair to expect the community reps to have to police every little function of the boards for idiots.Originally Posted by Nihilii
You could always hide comments by simply clicking on the minus sign in the User CP. I can't say I really understand the point of this change. Do people who turned off rep still felt compelled to check the comments every now and then ? That'd be more a personal willpower issue than a forum software one if you ask me...
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Quote:It's not the set or bonus amount that matters (although the former is more of a technicality) it's the set bonus name that matters.
I read up in paragons wiki about the rule of fives and it applies not only to the set name bit also the bonus amount ,in my case the 5%
For normal set bonuses, yes this would be the amount, but globals give set bonuses, and even if the bonus is equal to an existing set bonus, the globals will generally have a unique name. So if you have five sets giving a 7.5% recharge bonus and five LotG: Global Recharge IOs (also each 7.5% recharge) those would stack because each source has a different name (the LotG ones are named "Luck of the Gambler recharge bonus"). -
Quote:About the only one I couldn't see would be, of course, the flintlock. But confirmation would be good.Originally Posted by IanTheM1
Hmmm...I think a big problem is that we don't know what you already have available for Dual Pistols. Maybe you could give us some direction on that?
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Quote:It was a stability issue, from what they have said. Various people had mentioned not seeing any issues. So apparently it's kinda localized.Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
And quite frankly, the test server never gets the same kinda loads the Live servers do UNLESS Open Beta just started, so cool off. Please? -
Quote:the tech is in the system for the GMs to use, as the tech was in for renaming characters.Originally Posted by ImpulseKing
No dev comments that I recall either, but I do have 2 anecdotes on the topic. I knew of a SG that petitioned to change their own name and was simply denied. I also know of a SG that GOT petitioned and had their SG name genericed and then renamed.
So in theory it clearly seems possible from a technical standpoint. But I think if we extend the logic a little further we can see why there's no incentive to do so. NCSoft would have to pay folks to take the time to change SG names. When I have a problem with the game bad enough that I want customer support, I don't want to wait while an indecisive leader changes their SG name for the 40th time, or some greifer group tries to hide from responsibility for their own evil.
However, I doubt it will ever become available as the devs don't see any one individual owning a SG... and so won't let there be name changes, etc. -
Quote:I seriously recommend making these two spots your first stop on the forums every time you visit. They are located in the Development sub-forum, top two selections UNLESS (apparently) beta/open beta is going. Then they are #4-5 in the development sub-forum.Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
Ah I see. The patch notes are still up on the main site, so I didn't know, and they didn't say anything about the revert on the the site. Soooorry. :P
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