Scarlet Shocker

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  1. Scarlet Shocker

    can't log in

    no but I'm crashing real badly.
  2. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...98#post3210598

    Posting here in the hope that we can identify an issue that may be location specific
  3. I have recently been experiencing lots of instability on Defiant server.

    I am crashing regularly and if I zone from Ouro to IP that's a guaranteed logout - I can almost replicate it.

    It seems that others are experiencing similar issues on the Defiant Events channel but is this a server or a routing issue? I remember about 18 months back, there were huge issues with the EU servers, which turned out to be a problem with the link between the UK and the German servers.

    Apart from crashing I'm not experiencing many server issues, nothing untoward in any way but reliability is a problem right now.

    Who else experiencing this or similar?
  4. Scarlet Shocker

    Hamidon?

    Next weekend's the player meet, so how does the 2nd October sound? That's a saturday
  5. Scarlet Shocker

    Insanity Trio?

    Tex, not sure if you've read above but we're hoping to do some Mo runs so temps won't be much use.

    Local, our newcomer has 2 grav 50s and wanted to try something else. It's taken me like 2 days to get a toon from 1-25 with PuGs so I'm guessing there'll be no real issue with reforming if something looks especially broken, but there's a big element of playing something fun for all of us.

    We'll see how it goes once we've got a few hours under our collective belts and take it from there.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Justice_Reaper View Post
    Fusionette has locked herself inside her new car.



    Hero: Burn the car. Watch the result to make sure you did the job right

    Vigilante: Burn the car and walk away.

    Rogue: Rip the car apart and leave the bits on the sidewalk next to her

    Villain: Open the door, help her out, point her in the direction of the nearest hero mission in need of her unique "assistance"
    Fixt for ya
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lightslinger View Post
    Explain DE clearly in a well worded announcement, launch it with some other major buffs and rebalances and I think it would be received much better than ED.

    Yeah and they're really good at that!
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kallandra View Post
    You were allocated a 'puter quite early on, no.2 on the list iirc :P

    haha ok well if somebody else wants then they're welcome. I'm only gonna be able to make the Saturday anyhow.
  9. Scarlet Shocker

    Brooklyn Tornado

    Oh no! Has anyone told Mr and Mrs Beckham?
  10. Scarlet Shocker

    How do I....

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Some days I miss console-based operating systems But not enough to try Linux, God no!

    You don't need to use command line on Linux these days and it's got a flavour for pretty well everyone, regardless of capability.
  11. Scarlet Shocker

    Insanity Trio?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Local_Man View Post
    Both Ice and Earth are very low damage, so your Fire/Rad will have to provide most of the damage. Until you get to 32 and all the pets, that trio will be pretty slow.

    True enough but it's not like we've got a race on our hands. Out philosophy its more geared towards survivabilty than munching through mobs. If they are locked down there's not much they can do and we can take our time
  12. Scarlet Shocker

    Insanity Trio?

    We've now got a 3rd member, an Ice/Cold troller so we now have the following combo:

    Fire/Rad

    Earth/Sonic

    Ice/Cold

    I think we have probably most bases covered - especially in forms of damage - and appreciate all the advice here.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fuzzy Kittens View Post
    This is copy pasted from the top of the server status page:

    Changes to the Server Maintenance Times

    As of Thursday, October 22nd, 2009, the regular bi-weekly server maintenance times will be modified and will take place once a week on Thursday from 4:00 AM Pacific / 7:00 AM Eastern to 6:00 AM Pacific / 9:00 AM Eastern.
    Please note: while we are reserving that two-hour period for maintenance updates, they will not necessarily require the entire two hours and additional updates may be scheduled outside this time-period as needed. We may also perform maintenance on additional servers, such as the web servers, message boards, or login servers.



    The servers are undergoing maintenance right now. Also, the server status page reads as last being updated 9/7/2010 (9 days ago), so the server status it's displaying isn't current.

    There are 4 servers missing from the list though and at the time of writing those that are listed are shown as Up
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    I should have specified, but I was looking for a discussion on the subject of WHY we like these things. Simply listing movies or games in a "my dad can beat up your dad" fashion just serves to elicit "I disagree," because there's nothing to discuss in "I like this movie." Why? Why does that movie work but this movie not? What does it have in it that the other doesn't? What does it do right?

    If you don't enjoy over-analysing your, though, I have no problem with it. It's just hard to work with strict opinions.

    *edit*
    But I will admit - it was out of line for me to do that.

    Ok then I'll try and elucidate:

    Get Carter (Sir Michael Caine's version) Jack Carter is one scary ****. He's a real hard man in every sense of the word - he's ruthless, merciless and he doesn't need flashy special effects to show how truly dangerous he is. Even stark bollock naked with a shotgun he's intimidating and he shows several times how amoral he is. He's out for revenge and nothing's going to stop him and the only way to stop him is from a VERY long way away but in that time he's ruined several lives and careers. He's very mortal, but one of the last people you'd ever want to cross - and delivers one of the best lines in movie history: "You're a big man but you're out of shape. For me it's a full time job, now sit down and behave." Deadly in a curiously patronising way.

    Die Hard places much higher emphasis on the effects - and despite the bad guys being smarter than your average movie goon, you know the outcome in the end, the good guy's going to save the day - and even his war cry is a rip-off of a classic celluloid cowboy - and of course there's the big flash bangs and the action but the gritty realism isn't there.

    In a superhero/comicbook context I'll state it this way: Daredevil over the Fantastic Four for the same reasons: DD is much lower key, and is street-level superheroing - Hells Kitchen is the backdrop compared to the universe-spanning stories of the Fantastic Four, with Galactus and the N-Zone and the like, but I guess I can empathise with Matt Murdock bashing heads more than I can with Reed Richards whipping up a "transmodulating reverse parallel frequency device designed to open a breach between our dimension and the N-Zone and send the [insert alien threat here] back through it."

    Both styles have their place I happily admit. One of the unsung Marvel epics of recent years was the Annihilation saga: I really enjoyed that and yet it seemed to slip under so many radars despite reinvigorating so many Marvel B-list heroes careers.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kallandra View Post
    The last 2 computers have now been allocated to Grouchybeast and Archie!

    All 15 computers are now taken (although I know some of you are only planning on coming for the Saturday, some for the Sunday and some both lol, so hopefully if i've mis-counted there'll be at least one spare somewhere on one of the days!) I think the rest have said they're bringing laptops *phew!*

    *Panics some more* See you all a week on Friday/Saturday!
    Frankly I'm more for the social so I'm less bothered about playing than meeting you guys but I will gladly hook back up once I'm back at my SG HQ of course!
  16. Scarlet Shocker

    Hamidon?

    See how much response we get.

    I've never run a Hami as lead so I hope some who've had some more experience will step up but this section seems to be pretty dead.
  17. Scarlet Shocker

    Insanity Trio?

    Well as I said above we've started as a duo, a Fire/Rad and an Earth/Sonic and just the 2 of us have munched through the first 8 levels in just a couple of hours.

    I do like the idea of a /cold - but I'm also thinking that a /poison MM might be good. I've got one at 50 and never really got on with the MM AT but by all accounts the Thugs/Poison is an AV killer so with the other de/buffs we bring that may be fun.

    So it could be that we'll just throw the final slot open to anyone who can bring something interesting and make an interesting team, or we'll just pick up somebody for the TFs/SFs as required.
  18. Scarlet Shocker

    Insanity Trio?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Local_Man View Post
    Are you sure about this? I'm believe that the Nictus cannot heal off of the Phantom Army. Phantasm, yes, but not Phantom Army -- or Spectral Terror either.

    I know for sure that Ghost Widow cannot heal off of Phantom Army in the Statesman's TF.

    I didn't know this. I was going by the advice of my team mate at the time - he's normally good with numbers and said that so I presumed he was correct. But thanks for the good information

    Also an update - so far there's 2 of us and my oppo didn't want to play fire so has opted for earth/sonic.

    I would consider a dom in place of a 3rd troller. I'd consider anything if I'm honest but I just really like the idea of a 3 man troller team doing it. The idea of a plant/cold as a 3rd man appeals. Great holds and good shields and slows.
  19. Scarlet Shocker

    Insanity Trio?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Local_Man View Post
    But if you are doing a trio of controllers, consider making all three Fire/Rads. Stacked AM, stacked Choking Cloud+Hot Feet, 9 Imps running around and all the Rad debuffs. Everything melts in seconds. (I'm just finishing up my second Fire/Rad -- he's 49 and working to gather up the IOs he needs for his final build. I wanted one on my main server to team with my buddies so that we can all be on Fire/Rads to cruise through stuff.)

    Missed this point in my response but I'd thought of this or something similar but I can't help feeling some harder control and a different choice of secondary would be more versatile.
  20. Scarlet Shocker

    Insanity Trio?

    I've got an Ill/Sonic at 50 and frankly I don't like it that much... but that's not IO'd or anything, and an earth/thermal 50 that's a whole lot more fun to play.

    One of the problems wtih the Ill we came across was that on the Imperious TF, the Nicti heal off the pets too much so their damage is mitigated.

    I've said in another thread I'm not a huge fan of /kin controllers. I've played a kin defender to 50 and retired him and I've played a kin troller to 40 then deleted it and played others too - but I've never found the debuffs of a kin to be so good compared to sonic or rad

    Past trios and duos I've tried haven't been single AT types but one of the big issues I've noticed is that it's a breeze if you don't rush, until the AV, which is a huge step up.

    The toughest AVs to beat in my experience are Hero 1 and Ghost Widow and the collective Freedom Phalanx on LRSF (but if they can be isolated then it's less difficult.)

    Bear in mind we won't have nukes or shivans on Mo runs, so we'll be limited to what we can produce between us.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    I couldn't disagree more.

    Then why ask the question?
  22. Get Carter vs Die Hard

    Get Carter wins every time (that Stallone isn't in it)