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That's the thing, because it's hard to tell, anyone who doesn't know the flag won't be able to tell, but anyone who does, such as armed forces members, navy sailors etc will be able to tell.

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It wasn't that it was upside down - it was simply WRONG.

The red diagonal lines should touch the edge of the flag as follows, going clockwise around the flag: upper edge; right edge; lower edge; left edge.

The original flag as drawn in-game was simply one quadrant of the flag, mirrored (but the Union Flag has rotational symmetry, not mirror symmetry), and was thus incorrectly represented. This error has now been corrected (and hopefully someone can produce a screenie of the current version so that it can be verified that it is not being flown upside down).

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If memory serves (and I'll get FFM to verify, as I don't currently use Vista), you need a few things to install CoH properly on Vista, and the first is that you need to run the install with Administrator rights (which you have to turn ON, since they're off by default). I also believe that Vista dislikes installing software to certain root directories.

More details soon.

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I do ? How do I do that ? And Vista smells !

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A friend at work just suggested that you attempt to install it to the "My Documents>Games" location, rather than the default. If that doesn't work, it's because your account on the PC doesn't have Admin rights.

If memory serves (and I'll get FFM to verify, as I don't currently use Vista), you need a few things to install CoH properly on Vista, and the first is that you need to run the install with Administrator rights (which you have to turn ON, since they're off by default). I also believe that Vista dislikes installing software to certain root directories.

More details soon.

Nope.

You keep the badge you got when selecting your first PPP, and do not gain another.

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Thanks for the post, Saxtus!

I’ve just checked it out the official website and noticed a problem with the Union Jack in the 7th picture... See if you can spot it.

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It's a common mistake really.

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And has (allegedly) been corrected on the latest version on Test Server.

Thanks. I'll fix it and get Pious or Z to lock out the bot.

Edit: This has now been fixed, and the bot is blocked. Thanks, Zortel!

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Yes, you can have two different Patron Power Pools on different builds. Or at least you should be able to, since they can now be changed on a respec.

Probably just that you have Windows suppressing display of "known file types".

Not sure how it works in Vista, but in XP the way to change that is to open My Computer, Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, and uncheck the "Hide Extensions for known file types" box.

That's rather peculiar, and shouldn't be happening. I'd suggest making a post in the Tech Issues/Bugs forum.

Just to clarify, though - you've created the character, run through the tutorial and are trying to access via Galaxy City?

What is the error message you are actually getting (and which one - is it a pop-up dialogue box or does it dump you back to the login screen?), and at what stage of the zone load does it occur(CoH Splash-screen or the Galaxy City loading screen)?

((Sorry, folks - last minute change to my plans. I'm on a training course at work for the next fortnight, so internet access is extremely intermitent. Apologies. I'll post when I can.))

Sam straightened, wiping a last spatter of regurgitated breakfast from her chin, leaning heavily on the solid form of Fridan.

"It's not a wild goose chase, lieutenant. She's on to something. Let's see what we can do about playing the stalking horse, shall we?"

Glowing brilliantly, she rose from the floor, hovering on a cushion of radiation, her skin gleaming in the dim light, a bright spot in the darkness, and she closed her eyes, stretching out with her mind, linking her senses to everyone she could reach.

Minds were just computers. Incredibly fast, incredibly complex computers. Her thoughts flowed farther and farther outward, brushing every mind she could touch, not searching for anything, not looking for anyone, just allowing her subconscious to filter through the city's collective awareness, running what amounted to a sophisticated analysis program.

After a few seconds, she felt her thoughts reach the outer limits of the city.

<Murderer> her mind intoned, subconsciously blocking the message from anyone who didn't fit her definition of the term. <Murderer. I'm coming for you. I am the light in the darkness, the day to your night. Fear me, Murderer. Your doom is at hand. I am Luminescence, and I am coming for you.>

Swiftly she locked down her telekinetic barriers, and winced at the temperature spike as her body warmed rapidly.

"I hope he likes a challenge. He's playing my game now."

Sam's breakfast had consisted of a bowl of muesli and a tall glass of orange juice. The combination didn't look good as it splashed on the floor at her feet.

Coughing and spitting out the remains, trying to clear the foul taste of vomit from her mouth, she shuddered.

"Th-thanks, sugar."

Shaking herself, trying to keep her head clear, she examined the memory, replaying it over and over in her mind, even as it faded.

<Concern, acceptance, annoyance, SurpriseHelplessFearAnger... Emptiness.>

"Helpless?" she whispered, seeing bloodspots on her arms, and knowing they weren't real, just an afterimage of the emotions she was sensing.

"Why," she asked no one in particular, "would someone feel helpless inside the space of ten seconds?"

Half-listening to Hicks' conversation, Sam opened her mind, trying to get a feel for what could be making the woman he was talking to so concerned...

And there was nothing. No rage from anything except a group of trolls so hopped up on 'dyne that they'd hate their own mothers, no pleasure except from the bum who'd managed to scrape together enough cash to pay for a bottle of rotgut and a street walker.

Whatever it was, it didn't fit her mental picture of a serial killer.

Which didn't mean the other girl was wrong.

"What do you sense, sugar?" she called out. Hicks might be a cop, and he might know some of the truth, but there was no way he was ready for dealing with something like this.

Reaching out with her thoughts, she sought the mental signature of the woman who had identified her self as Kitsune Vixen - hadn't Dicky met her a time or two? - and projected a simple request: <Show me.>

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I kinda hope that if you take a hero for example my lvl 50 Martial Arts scrapper rougue, he can respec with a maybe a new power set say dual guns. That would make him EVIL!!!!!!

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Very much doubt it. The going rogue is supposed to take your hero/villain and make them rechoose their side not respec them into a completely new character. Which changing one powerset is.

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And even if you could respec and change a power set... a scrapper with a distance powerset??? Would that be overpowered or what?

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considering AT modifiers, no.

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Isn't Scrapper Ranged Damage multiplier something like 25% of base, where a Blaster has 112.5%?

Careful to preserve the bodies, sweat beading on her forehead as she wrestled to control them, Sam gently slid them through the air toward the waiting ambulances. She could have done the job a hundred times as fast, without the effort, if she'd dared unleash the full power of her mind - but to do so would bathe the local area with a dose of radiation that would make Chernobyl look like a high school science project.

Just stay with it Sammy, she told herself. Don't think about what they are, or who they were. Just do the job. Her mind wandered, memories of an early morning shower in the arms of her lover a welcome distraction from the horrors before her.

She only vaguely heard Hicks' snapped order to someone - a civilian, no doubt - and allowed a slow pulse of energy to wash through her, easing her muscles.

<Threat index 8.4: Target Fridan in visual range.>

The words pierced her consciousness as they sounded in her head from her earbug, and her head snapped around in surprise, spying the sharply-dressed man with glowing skin, unable to prevent a broad smile crossing her face. She didn't even notice that she was subconsciously still moving bodies as she turned and practically skipped over to him.

"Fri! Sugar, it's been far too damn long since you showed your ugly mug." Holding her arms out for a quick embrace, she waved toward the Captain. "Some guy over there's in charge. I'm on cleanup duty and 'tenant Hicks there is kinda bossing me around. I'm hoping that Dicky will show his face, soon, but I can't promise anything. What I'd really like is some sort of gamma-to-X-ray blocker so that I can really get some work done. Oh, and how's life? You owe me a beer."

Hey Xem. Yeah, I managed to get tickets for myself and Pixie (don't ask me how...).

Was a truly awesome time, with the usual brilliant fun hanging out, geeking over comics, and nattering crazily to Stephen, Matt, Kat, Jase, Andrew... we even ended up going out for an evening meal with Simon Furman (and my inner Transformers nerd squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!).

It was great and awesome, and I'll eventually get round to posting some links to scans of the piccehs Pix and I got done.

Here's a teaser, though - The original pencil sketch by Phil Winslade from page 18 of the sketchbook... And I OWN IT!

Sounds like port-throttling by your ISP, to be honest - CoH uses at least one port that is commonly used by torrent software, and some ISPs artificially slow down data transfer through those ports. I think there's a way to force it to use alternative ports, but I can't remember how.

Anyway, glad your problem is solved (and for future reference, you may want to try to time download of patches outside peak hours - that might prevent or mitigate the throttling).

While respecting Lieutenant Hicks' privacy, it was all but impossible for Sam to avoid following the man's train of thought. Thankfully for her modesty, she'd gone with trousers today, rather than her usual ultra-micro-mini-skirt...

With a smile and a saucy wink, Sam turned to look at the carnage once more, her expression turning ghostly pale, and she almost stumbled. "Help moving the bodies, eh? You sure know how to show a girl a good time, Lieutenant." Her pronunciation, a clear 'lef-tenant', betrayed her British nationality as much as anything else, despite years of aclimating herself to Amercians.

Slowly, almost imperceptibly, her skin began to glow, growing brighter by the second, as she concentrated in reducing a fraction of the telekinetic barrier she held under her skin, and a stream of radiation trickled forth. Ostentatiously, she raised a hand, and four of the nearest corpses rose from the ground, blood dripping from them to pool on the floor like a macabre rainfall.

"Wh-where would you like them, sugar?" she murmured, her voice strained with concentration. Even as the bodies moved, Sam knew that the microscopic cameras laced into the threads of her clothes were recording the scene and transmitting it to Huntington Manor, where Helena would begin analysing everything visible and running it through her physics processing software in an attempt to make some sense out of it.

Avatea, please feel free to move this to a more appropriate part of the forum if Gen Disc is inappropriate:

For anyone who doesn't know, NCSoft have given a great deal of support to Draw the World Together, a charity supporting Everychild, which provides educational support to disadvantaged children across the world.

One of the things that DtWT have produced is a Sketchbook, containing pictures of some of your favourite City of Heroes signature characters drawn by some of the best comic book artists in the business. Andrew Wildman (who created DtWT) has a very limited supply of these sketchbooks that have been signed by a large number of the artists who contributed to it, and in the interests of raising even more money for this worthy charitable cause, has decided to Auction them on ebay.

So, anyone looking to get a wonderful piece of City of Heroes memorabilia, signed by many of the contributing artists, please feel free to head over and make a bid. The proceeds will all go to Everychild (subject to any conditions that I'm sure will be on that ebay page - I can't view it right this moment), so as well as having a very cool item, you can be satisfied that you did the right thing.

Thank you all.

It has been over 2 weeks. Good point.

The sense of revulsion emanating from beneath the bridge snagged her attention as she soared along the uppermost raised roadway of Skyway City, dodging cars, busses, trucks and taxis, ignoring the occassional cry of dismay as she barrel-rolled to avoid a motorcyclist.

That sense of horror, dismay, fear, hatred... it was far more than she expected from the inhabitants of this part of the city, and stray thoughts scattered through her mind. This was not par for the course in Skyway. Not by a long shot.

Focusing her will, she blinked out of existence a fraction of a second before a massive eighteen-wheeler would have driven her skull all the way down to her feet, and reappeared, unfazed, at the edge of the incident zone.

"Luminescence of the Fletched Alliance. Who's in charge here?" her voice carried, clear and strong, but it took all of her self-control to avoid broadcasting what she was seeing to everyone for a mile around.

Go into your City of... directory and delete the .checksum file.

Try again, let us know if it helps.

If they're offline it will flag the message to them once they get online, so don't worry too much. Though on the basis of adding one person who then didn't log onto their personal account for AGES after they told me their global name, there is a time limit to it.

And enjoy the game. Get yourself up to L35 and then you can enjoy the party lands that are RWZ and Cimerora.

Hopefully see you around.

((I'm of two minds about this idea (as a result of which, my final answer is "Go for it!").

Firstly, the Dawn Patrol is THE British supergroup, and it seems a little odd for them to operate a satellite branch in the USA, however... the official history indicates that the DP took advantage of the CCFA, which would seem to indicate that they have established a presence in the US, at least at some point in the past.

Doing this, my suggestion would be that some care is taken (IC) about avoiding "stepping on toes" between the Dawn Patrol and the Freedom Phalanx, because this could be seen as a violation of territory - while I have no doubt that the FP will happily work alongside the actual DP members, Statesman is enough of a snooty goit to possibly view a US-based division as "uppity youngsters".

Of course, there's actually no reason that the Paragon Division Dawn Patrol has to be actually franchised by the British Dawn Patrol - which might make for some entertaining RP opportunities - they may have simply taken the name, 'without permission', but if they do a good job, no one's likely to complain.

So many options, so little time... Go for it, Beam.))

No probs, Mumsie. Always happy to help the greeting card business