Snow Globe

The fix:

I'd add:

/chat join OOC
/chat join IC

They may not be CoH-specific, but that means there are more people on them usually.

I found this guide for making weapon choices in the Secret World.

http://yokaiblog.wikidot.com/guides:weapon-choices

It gives you an idea as to what to expect the roles of each weapon to be.

Also good for new players is this thread with a lot of tips for getting more out of the game:

http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=52907

Well, the forums haven't logged me out in over two weeks. That is a heck of a lot more friendly than these forums...

Though I could wish that we could use our own avatar images.

Door missions are mostly solo instances (with a few exceptions). The dungeons are team-oriented. The rest of the missions can be taken/shared among the team. Most missions are outdoorish and lead to the next mission and so on.

The door missions like CoH seem to be closest to the dungeons (possibly Lairs, but I haven't tried those).

Note that almost all missions can be repeated by a single character (seems Investigation missions and the main story can't though).

Gmail comes up with "Hooray, no spam here!". Also I have 2 different email accounts as far as support goes and neither have had anything sent to them.

Edit:
Checked the spam filters on the web versions of both email providers as well for any trace of spam. Nothing.

Edit 2:
The last web mailing I got from NCsoft for the Market was Aug 21st (Nature Affinity), the last email from NCsoft support (petition) was September 11th, the last 4 serial codes applied were on Aug 31st (a bunch of the costume codes).

I'm getting a bit annoyed due to the complete lack of emails from NCsoft.

I don't know... You'd figure that sometime in the last two weeks (according the the original poster), that either NCsoft support or the poster would have spent the 2 minutes to find that.

On the other hand I didn't get an email about a refund yet, and if I don't soon then I'm going to be extremely annoyed at NCsoft Support & Billing.

Um, refunds weren't supposed to start coming out until today.

Actually reading the announcements helps.

Aside from having great respect for the author in question (and her integrity), all I have to say is that you are an idiot.

No, wait, I do have more to say.

She has a closer relationship with the developers (past and present) than you'll ever have and I'll trust her when she is saying that talks are ongoing still.

Well, that certainly fits with Solomon Isles.

Actually, a lot of the inner wheel powers are just as useful as the outer wheel abilities. The outer wheel abilities are more specialized though.

I'd say that getting a single inner wheel category unlocked (the first two trees) will happen about half way through Kingsmouth. It takes about as long as it used to take from starting to about Frostfire to unlock a single wheel category from start.

I've been told the game shifts after you leave Solomon Isles for Egypt (to a Raiders of the Lost Ark style), then again in Transylvania.

The thing I love is that if you get tired of working on a particular skill set, you can change directions fairly quickly.

For example, I was focusing on Elementalism and Shotgun (about 30 hours getting me both groups in both weapons, plus a lot of outer wheel abilities), but I found I really couldn't do sustained fights. So I started working on a different weapon, after about 5-6 hours I've unlocked both inner trees in the Rifle set and now I'm combining Elemental abilities with Rifle, or with a different build (which you can store in game), switch to Elemental, Shotgun, Rifle, or any combination thereof (only active abilities of 2 weapons though). I have a couple passives outside of those (fists and blade) at the moment, but I'll have more choice as the character builds. I haven't even got the Aux weapon yet (Rocket Launcher, more to come later).

It is one of the reasons I loved Khelds: I can choose how I play, yet with even more diversity than with Khelds.

Main page, scroll down, right side of the screen. Just below the "Now Available" panel, to the right of this image:



The first 3 zones (Solomon Isles) are all Lovecraft/Stephen King. Egypt is "Raiders of the Lost Ark"/Pulp adventure. I've yet to get to Transylvania, but I'm taking my time.

As said above, there is a faction-wide buff if your faction controls some PVP points, but otherwise you can avoid it entirely if you want. PVP is strictly optional as you have to go to the PVP areas (including fight clubs) in order to PVP. About on par with how CoH does it, only they don't have missions sending you to find out about PVP zones/arenas.

So you can enjoy the benefits of other's PVP efforts, but you don't have to PVP yourself.

Yes, either an approximately $15 monthly fee or a $200 lifetime subscription.

Yeah, it seems that way, doesn't it.

My names in The Secret World:

Forum: SnowGlobe

Arcadia: SnowGlobe (Templars)
Arcadia: Cleena (Illuminati)
Arcadia: Gryfalcon (Illuminati)
Arcadia: (Dragon, name withheld as even I like my privacy sometimes. )

Warning: Some joker thought it would be a good idea to take "Snow-Globe" after I told tsw's forums that I went there. That isn't me, and I hope the person chokes on any negative reaction.

Let's see, my current computer (currently saving up for better) is:

Operating system: Windows Vista® Home Premium 32-Bit (Yes, this is causing me to crash every once in a while due to memory management.)
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5000+ • 2.60 GHz, 512KB+512KB L2 Cache, 2000 MT/s System Bus
Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 430 Chipset
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Video adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE (1 GB)

It is running about the same for me as CoH. Which is to say 20-30 Frames Per Second.

My next CPU/MB/RAM will be significantly better.
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On a curious to note, they will be releasing their 3rd content patch tomorrow.

The original post? Yeah, anger. Though there is a little overlap into bargaining.

Personally, I think I was close (if not fully) into acceptance when I first responded.

Yes, the acceptance stage is probably the closest to where I am.

I'm not in denial, as I'm sure it will happen. I'm far too rational for that. Whether or not it gets bought out or not is another matter. However I'm not pinning my hopes on that either.

I'm still angry about this, but not for losing the game. I'm angry about losing the community.

Bargaining requires that I have something of value to bargain with. I don't. I don't think bargaining with corporate entities works, so that leaves the final two stages.

Depression. Well, depression can only get you so much as you let it. When I was younger I contemplated suicide (but never attempted it), and the game shutting down isn't as devastating as what was going on earlier in my life.

That leaves acceptance. I can accept that CoH (the game) is leaving. I'm still working on the community part though.

I don't make a habit of displaying the true depths of my emotions to the world. One writing assignment I had was called "Mask and Mirror" in which I had to detail, from my perspective, how I perceived myself compared with how I thought others viewed me. I learned a really important lesson: I don't care what most people think of me. I do care about how a select group of people (and I choose those people very carefully) think of me, and they see behind the mask I usually wear.

I have that already. For more than you'd expect. Sure there is my time with the City Scoop (that was hard to do with going to College full time), and my contributions to the forums, but I'm most proud of my efforts to build and maintain communities.

Actually the people in direct control of account status are likely still there, but they were not at Paragon Studios. It is the accounting trolls at NCsoft. In reality, someone at accounting could tell a server monkey to flip the VIP switch on all accounts. That would affect both the beta and the live servers at the same time. I'd estimate that the database query would take all of 5 minutes to write (provided it is in a MySQL database) and would be able to be done without a server shutdown. At any rate, it would be far easier to do than your suggestion.

However, in the past NCsoft has taken 8-10 hours to "fiddle" with the account database. At that point, I'm guessing that they need approval of 3-4 departments, put it to a test platform, preform a QA check, get an approval of the QA check, put it to the live account server, get THAT approved by QA, and finally have the last QA approval approved. To say that the bureaucrats have run amok at NCsoft is to say that the Atlantic Ocean is a "small pond".

These two are the reason why it wont happen. Especially the first one as there is no one left to set up the code.

I didn't get the one about Blade & Soul either.

For some reason I'm -not- getting these emails from NCsoft...