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Well, the site's back again and for anyone interested I've made available for download the first version of my Character Planner -- note it is a very bare bones version and is in no way optimised for performance at the moment so I'm not sure how well it would work for anyone with a particularly slow machine.

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Anyone else having trouble connecting again? I miss the site whenever it is down.

RagManX

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I must have done something really evil in a past life on the internet to deserve this run of luck. At least the World Cup is over now so I have the time to look into things and sort them out once and for all.

We're having rather extreme weather in the UK at the moment, 28 degrees yesterday at one point. We believe that the place hosting the site just can't cope with it (it's a "budget" place), travelling up tomorrow to looksee. It may be a case that we need to move it to a new (more expensive site) that can cope with what looks like being a very hot summer over here.

We already have drought orders in place in the South of England ... which is kind of funny for a country surrounded by water if you ask me!

Edit: By the way, the other theory is the site was attacked. I'm not sure which of these possibilities is worse to be honest -- will have much better idea what's going on tomorrow evening.

It's been a fun year so far website wise

Introducing the Normalized Damage Scale Comparison Table

Top ten most powerful known attacks at this time:
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1 Blaster_Ranged.Ice_Blast.Blizzard R 7.50
2 Corruptor_Ranged.Ice_Blast.Blizzard R 5.63
3 Blaster_Ranged.Fire_Blast.Inferno R 4.88
4 Blaster_Ranged.Energy_Blast.Nova R 4.88
5 Stalker_Melee.Energy_Melee.Energy_Transfer M 4.10
6 Corruptor_Ranged.Energy_Blast.Nova R 3.66
7 Corruptor_Ranged.Fire_Blast.Inferno R 3.66
8 Tanker_Melee.Energy_Melee.Energy_Transfer M 3.65
9 Brute_Melee.Energy_Melee.Energy_Transfer M 3.42
10 Stalker_Melee.Energy_Melee.Total_Focus M 3.20
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Help us fill in the blanks/correct errors

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actually, you have to multiply brawl by 36 to get rid of all of the repeating decimals.

or, you can use the iakona's exact system which multiplies by .36 and results in a bunch of very nice values which are never more than 2 decimal places and also happen to agree with the devs in posts where they have quotes what their internal dmg numbers are(2.777=1, 4.555=1.64). since iakona's stuff matches exact with a dev quote, i'm using his stuff. and i encourage everyone else to as well.

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Agreed, I believe Iakona's system is, or is very close to, the system used by the game itself. I have seen a number of suggestions as to BI replacements in the past few weeks, each revolving around multiplying Iakona's numbers/BI by one-value-or-another to arrive at a better system.

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I've been working with RedTomax to get the new power data listed on his site, and it's now up.

Click on these links to see info about each pet's individual powers.
Brute Pet
Stalker Pet
Dominator Pet
Corruptor Pet

Click this link to see info on every power in the game (NPCs included).
All CoX Powers
New Patron Powers are listed in the Epic category.

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You can now view the powers of all the new patron pets from the patron powerset pages themselves.

e.g. Dominator Mu Mastery + Mu Guardian

Villain Powers Index

Recent Updates

New Major Stories
- Disturbing the Dead
- Jaeger's Arc (missing 2nd mission and souvenir at the moment)
- Psymon Sez
- Pied Piper
- 'Phase harmonic tuners' (Portal Hopper badge)

New Contacts
- Technician Naylor
- Kelly Uqua
- Magus Mu'Drakhan
- Georgeous Glenda
- Facemaker

Updated powerset numbers for i7 (as on test server May 8th 2006)
- Villains (including new patron power pools)
- Heroes (added ancillary power pools)

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I'm sorry, I meant it as a Q7.5. Not a complaint, just an obvious point that needed completion.

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I didn't take it as a complaint: the answer you guessed is wrong: the correct answer is "No it doesn't, because the Critter Accuracy Scaler doesn't affect Player accuracy or any other PvP mechanic."

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I think warcabbit is referring to the effect in PvP of the tohit debuff ehancements "nerf" with these questions; which you refer to in Q7/

From A7: "... does weaken slotted tohit debuffs, but its not directly related to the I7 Critter Accuracy Scaler."

Q7.5 Does this tohit debuff change, which has nothing to do with the I7 Critter Accuracy Scaler affect PvP?
A7.5 Yes

A great guide, and my favourite new term .... "Active Defense": I've wanted for a long time to find words to describe what it was about blasters that made them so much more exciting to play than their damage dealing cousins, the scrappers, and now I finally have it.

I just wanted to say a big thankyou to all those people who have donated to the site since it came back up.

If I used the money to purchase game time combined it would cover a 12 month subscription! But I will actually use it to purchase a license for some software I have been abusing a trial version of for the past year -- my computer still thinks it's March 2005

To put this into context, in the past 3 days you guys have donated almost as much as I have ever recieved in the prior two years running the site! I am truly grateful.

Also in the news this week:
A change is coming .. the Dread Tomax has arrived in the Rogue Isles this very day. Convalescent's reign as the figurehead of NoFuture are numbered. I'm so pleased to finally have come up with a name for Red's Nemesis, I've created 3 mind/Energy Dominators since the turn of the year but were not happy with any of the previous names I tried.

Red or Dread? Either way, there truly is no future

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at least you haven't put your site up for sale

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The number of hours I've put into the site plus what it costs me in real money .. there's no-one in the world who would pay what I'd value the site at even if I wanted to sell it

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OH THANK GAWD!!!! And it's lightning fast too.

Your site should have won the Players Choice Awards 2006 as Favorite Fansite, I voted for you.
I'll give your site, 5 smiley faces

Anyways, thanks a million for getting your site back up. I really was lost without it.

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Just so you have an idea how much faster it is ...

Each processor in the new box is 50% faster than the old processor, there's two of them and each have 512KB of cache rather than 64KB

For anyone that missed the window to see the numbers in the player awards polls -- My site recieved 22% of the vote compared to Vidiot maps' 70%!

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But since asking when I7 comes live is a crime on this forum (if it isn't it should be) can I ask if you are close to update the CoV part?

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I've completed 90% of the content up to 40 now. It's just a matter of going through 1000 odd screenshots to get them on the website now it's back up. Expect more high level content to start showing up on the site over the coming few weeks.

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Bah. You'll stole my thunder

Double checks*

Yes. It's definitely back

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Sweeeeeet. Now, would it be horrible for me to use HTTrack to download it all? I don't think I could stand to be without it again. I had to depend on googles cache to find out what contacts I wanted to hit for my 25-35 badge and temp power works on my D/D scrapper.

RagManX

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Having acquired about $900 worth of new equipment I will be mighty pissed if the site goes down again anytime in the near future so i wouldn't worry about it.

We've gone from a home-made, DIY server to an IBM xSeries with dual processors and lot of nice "stuff", the long delay was mostly due to the decision to upgrade hardware at this opportunity rather than replace like-for-like (also the fact that some parts were delivered to the wrong address didn't help much)

Bah. You'll stole my thunder

Double checks*

Yes. It's definitely back

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/em Adjust shiny tin foil cap
We know the truth Red Tomax, this was just a ploy on your part to generate more votes in the Players Choice awards by depriving us of your wonderous site and making us realize how hollow and empty our COH lives are without it.

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lol ... Didn't work on many folks judging by the results either .. vidiot stormed away with both website competitions ... there's always next year, I better come up with a better plan

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Truth there.. Your site will probably buckle somewhat of the strain when everyone has to see with their own eyes that it really is up!

Great job Red.. Keep it up..


//Jack

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For the upwards of £500 (about $900) that the new hardware has cost total it better not buckle anywhat lol

This is not a drill
I repeat this is not a drill.

All the parts have been delivered (I would like to point out to you all that 33 != 38, just incase you are as confused as our suppliers over the difference between these numbers, particularly when forming part of a customer's delivery address).

Everything has been tested and works like a charm, baring car failure tomorrow evening NoFuture will be hooked back up to the rest of the world!

Guess who's back?
Back again.
NoFuture's back.
Tell a friend!

Well, yet again I am let down. Part of the order has arrived, a whole lot of use that is! It will be next Tuesday at the earliest before we can get it back up now.

This is getting as bad as the wait for Issue 7. I think it'll be 3 weeks to the day since the site went down next Tuesday. Here's hoping for a NoFuture and Issue 7 double whammy on the 25th.

Me! Stressed? NEVER!

I am assured that delivery will be made tomorrow (it was due today) on the parts we need. If the courier service stand up to their end of the bargain then the site should be up in about 20 hours from now, give or take a few

Really nice guide. Plenty interesting and well written to boot.

We have a new server, hopefully if everything goes smoothly I'll have the site up and running again Tuesday/Wednesday.

Crafty bump to try and reduce the number of global tells/PM's asking me what's wrong with the site

Edit: Post 300 -- Yay for me!

The HD definitely lives, which is great news!

I need to sort out what kit to buy (and just how much I want to spend on it ). Might be a while before the site is back up as don't want to rush into buying something that isn't going to be reliable long term -- but everything will be back ... (I'm so tempted to say "soon" lol).


Ooo, a package? For me!

Shortly thereafter ....

*Invests three pennies, buying 0.0000000000001 shares of Google*

*Tugs at a piece of string*
*SNAP*

*Chews a piece of used bubblegum*
*EURGH*

*Flicks a ball of lint*
&lt;sigh&gt;

*Sucks on a peppermint*

Ahhh, everything seems much better now.

The HD lives (I think)!

Looks like an overheating problem, going to upgrade the case and maybe have a new mobo put in while we're at it. But thankfully when all that is done the website should be intact.

My server exploded, no idea how long it's going to take to get everything back up as I don't know the full extent of the damage yet. I really hope the HD survived as I don't have backup's of some of the later scripts, and come to think of it don't have very up-to-date ones of the rest :/

Only Lord Recluse could have devised such a devious plot, he will pay for this!