Snow Globe

Thank you for your offer, but I'm pretty sure they'll offer the same advice that I'm already following:

• Check Memory
• Check Drivers
• Check for malware
• Check Power Supply (Actually 3 the PSU is less than 3 months old and at least 200W more than I need in the system.)
• Defrag HD
• Try another computer

I might end up having to view the stream on my laptop.

-Snow Globe.

PS.
The type of error I'm getting is the complete computer crash and restart type of unrecoverable error.

Edit:
I want to make it clear that I in no way blame Paragon Studios for the crashes. It may just be that my main computer is one of the small percentage that flips out trying to watch TwitchTV. I should have a back-up plan in place next week though.

Well, after 15 minutes and 3 times getting a BSoD watching TwitchTV, I'm completely unimpressed. I don't get BSoDs on anything else, including UStream (or YouTube), so whatever they are doing is annoying my machine in an unique way.

Have fun, I'm not going to watch.

My Facebook account is in no way attached to the TwichTV account. You don't have to login through Facebook.

UStream was an absolute breeze to set up with an external IRC client (I despise web-based IRC clients with about the same amount of passion I have for this game as they are usually something you find in a barn) (edit: compared with TwitchTV).

And good thing I have a direct link to Paragon Studios' page, as the "following" doesn't seem to want to work.

Edit:
Emoticons for TwitchTV:

http://twitchtvfaces.com/

I believe that is an option for their market provider. However, that might require signing into the provider's website, not NCsoft's.

My advice is basically matching these two.

I've recently migrated my parents from an old system to a new one and I just copied the old system to a 500gb drive then transferred the files to the new system. I also still have the old drive as backup. I could have done the network transfer, but the portable usb drive was faster.

The old drive might be IDE and the new computer might not have any IDE ports...

Stop putting Canadians in the same group as the USA... We (mostly) use British English.

Doesn't surprise me. At a guess it would happen even with other pop up windows & dialogs.

I think they initially figured that players would only open the quickchat menu so many times in a play session and never think that players would find a way to make their own. Especially the monster you've made.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=136343
Pop Menus =/= Pop Help. He's talking about menus like the quick chat menu. Though they might also be contributing.

And you missed my point. If there is something they can check for, it can be made into an access point. Additionally it gates content as many don't like to have a -4 level penalty so they don't join said content. It isn't a hard gate, but it is a gate.

No, because of this:

When people were looking at it, back in 2007, the Halloween GMs functioned exactly as I described. It got to the point that if a player could be SK'd up past the GM level that their damage would improve by doing so. Sadly, forum purges eliminated the threads in question.

Alpha Unlock is required for Apex & Tin Mage. If your Alpha slot is not filled, it gets filled for the duration of the trial with a power that reduces your effective level (nothing else) by 4 levels. This means you are fighting as a level 46 with all your normal and incarnate powers (if you have just unslotted Alpha).

Basically, the game checks the following for each character:

• Does the character have the Alpha slot unlocked?
  • If no, trial cannot start.
  • If yes, proceed.
• Does the character have the Alpha slot slotted?
  • If no, apply Emperor Cole's Incarnate Control.
  • If yes, do not apply debuff.

They could, if they wanted to.

A lot = more than a few, less than a majority. If you, or the people you regularly team with, don't fit in the statement then you don't have the same experiences that I have. I believe that we've agreed in the past that we don't team or play the game in the same way. I do know that some players during the Issue 18 beta were underwhelmed with the power levels of even the first two tiers of the Alpha slot as well.

The problem has existed since Issue 18 beta. If it isn't fixed yet, I'd have to say that this is an extremely low priority to get fixed.

• Foe cons differently
• More damage per attack
• More mez duration on mezzes
• More healing delivered per heal (this usually tracks max HP)
• Possibly higher buff caps, depending on the attribute in question

As to GMs specifically, what it means is that if you are over the Monster's real level, your attacks are capped. However if you are lower than the Monster's real level, it does't match characters whose level is greater than the monster's real level.

So 2 Rad defenders: one level 40 and one level 15, both using the same attack slotted the same attacking a level 30 GM. The level 15 can have its attacks buffed, but the level 40's damage is capped out at the equivalent of level 30. The Halloween GMs proved that.

Actually, you're wrong about that. Apex & Tin Mage are good examples of providing access to content based on incarnate slotting. Speaking of which, there is no coding reason why the other things you describe can't be tied to level shifts.

And that is the problem with the Incarnate slots/system. It is a half-baked idea that didn't actually meet a lot of player's expectations.

And that doesn't meet a lot of players expectations as to "level shift". That is why they needed to get feedback.

Actually, I think it would have been beneficial for the developers to solicit feedback on using the term level. Why? It is because players have established what a level does. By changing it to a "buff" it was bound to cause confusion as to what the developers meant, what the players expected from "levels", and what they do in practice.

It would be like me telling a client that I'm improving navigation on their website by completely changing the interface with each web page within the site. It would be like a software developer assigning Control+C to anything BUT copy. In other words, they wanted to appear to give players more levels without actually giving players more levels.

Getting feedback early could have prevented the communication breakdown between developer thought and player practice.

One time I was passing overhead (Lusca's head), solo, didn't even shoot and got the badge. No team or damage is needed for either the IP or KR events, just proximity.

To answer your questions in order (in case anyone else had the same questions):

1. Hero's Epic is the name of the arc, not the mission. The mission is the final mission in the arc, and you need to Rescue Positron.
2. You can join a team doing it or do the arc via Flashback.
3. If doing it by Flashback, you need to do the entire arc. If you join a team, it depends on where they are in the arc.
4. Seeing it is a defeat badge, everyone on the mission map will get credit for it.
5. I'm guessing it isn't farmable as the guard is guarding Positron. Seeing that rescuing Positron is the mission objective, I would figure the mission ends at that point.

Oh, and blue text on a blue background is incredibly hard to see. It is hard to see on the villain skin as well.

Aliens and Star Wars (1977) marked the beginning of modern Sci-Fi movie. These two movies, especially Aliens, have more realistic imagery than the 50s and 60s. Star Wars had more "realistic" spaceships, and Aliens continued the trend to where we now see hyper-realism in film.

The retro set is clearly placed in the 50s-60s, not the late 70s to early 80s. This means stuff like Jetsons (cartoon), and "B" movies of the 50s & 60s ( take your pick, though I really want a dive helmet and a gorilla suit ). Ranging from great Sci Fi (Fantastic Voyage, Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, or When Worlds Collide) to the absurd (Killer Shrews, Robot Monster, Santa vs. the Martians, and Plan 9 from Outer Space), the 50s & 60s had plenty of inspiration to draw from to market this set. If they wanted to use modern media, Space Channel 5 or Planet 51 come to mind as having more connection than Prometheus or Aliens.

Then they obviously didn't properly ask for player feedback. This was incredibly short-sighted on the development team's part and, if not Castle, someone else should have spoke up.

Incarnate slots != Level.
Level Shifts = Level.

I'd rather have a T3/T4 Lore slot unused with nothing in Judgement than the other way around. Same goes for Destiny/Interface. I'd rather have a T3/T4 in either Lore or Destiny than build anything in the hybrid slot, and that would apply if I was actually prevented from using the Lore or Destiny powers.

Level shifts mean more than the buffs/powers themselves. If the development team hasn't figured this out by now, I have to wonder what it would take to get the developers to see what is in front of them.

Edit:
Let me be clear, if Alpha, Lore, and Destiny only granted a level shift and not anything else, I'd still value them over Judgement, Interface, and Hybrid.

You retain anything you have unlocked. You can find out all Paragon Market and Paragon Reward items you have unlocked by using the /mypurchases command (for more info see this guide: A guide to finding out what you have unlocked from the market).