Soul Storm

Sorry I knew there was something I forgot on that last post. I have a ATI Radeon 3850 Pro 512MB card. I run COH on 1600x1050 with everything maxed out. Have done ever since I got the card. I play other newer games like TF2, Borderlands and @*cough*apb*cough* (you didn't hear me say that!) All completely maxed out and none have ever made this problem occur.

It happens when I am playing CoH (it's happened 3 times this afternoon only when playing CoH) and never any other time. I can be happily playing away and suddenly the display goes blank and the computer has turned itself off. It's not a restart or anything, it's a hard power off. You can turn it straight back on again no problem.

When this happened earlier I took a look inside the case, the CPU cooler (general area) didn't feel too hot. The GPU I could feel it was quite hot. It cooled itself down after a few minutes, but the fan works fine so I don't really get why its doing it.

There is no warning, no artifacts nothing to suggest something is going to break or go wrong and then boom suddenly the computer is off.

My processor is an Intel i5 750 and for months i've safely had it on a turbo profile which raises the clock in hi-load situations from stock 2.6 to 3.6 ghz. There is very good airflow through the case and so the cpu temps are 30 degrees at idle and 50 at load.

The graphics card temperature as I've said is 102/103 degrees at load and around 40 at idle. I tried speedfan but it didn't come up with a gpu sensor. The video card fan works and I cleared it out of any dust etc before I took the sensor temperature reading.

The thing I don't understand is that its worked for a good 2 years why would it just stop now? The Graphics card is the oldest thing on my system, everything else was replaced just before christmas.

Edit: The fan is turning just fine still. Still as loose as the day I got it.

I recently cleared out my computer of all the dust etc. Today it has started to shut itself down when I am in the middle of playing the game.

I downloaded GPU-z and it said when loaded it was running at 102/103 degrees celsius, which doesn't take a genius to realise something is wrong here. I've emailed the people I got it from but the thing is that it's 2 years old. Will I have to pay for another replacement?

Is that definitely the source of my computer shutting itself down? HELP!

Hey guys, I'm still here don't worry! I've gotten no reply from theHedoren so I'm gonna skip over his request for the moment and get back to it should he reply. I also realised I never did one for @Beyond Reach at the time so I've been in touch with him and I'm working on that.

As for the next poster you'll see? That'll probably be one for Clave_Dark_5 who I've just gotten in contact with again.

Funny you should mention the support team because I had a big crapload of no help from them myself tonight!

I was on Union on my MM and I started up the Barracuda SF.. we were having a great time and reminiscing doing the whole 'teaming' thing and then we got to reichsman. We found out very quickly that the 'Infinite Mob Respawn' bug I had assumed was fixed the last time I ran into it, was still very much alive and kicking. So I petitioned and waited... nothing. Petitioned again and still nothing. Went to my play nc account to 'Ask a Question' and requested in-game help from a GM. I got an email saying someone would contact me as soon as possible. An hour passed and everyone quit from the SF.

When I'd ran into the same problem on a non-double xp activation weekend my team had the problem resolved in minutes. Then we do the SF on an activation weekend and everything goes completely ignored. Seriously something is VERY backward here...

My point is that it seems no one is answering anything either In-Game or account based as I tried to get a response from both ways in order to fix my own issue.

I hope that NCSoft wake up and fix your account, Steampunkette. I've seen DP in action and its very impressive so much I want to give-in the way you have

Alright guys! We have been moved! Instead of the Player Help section, I've requested we were moved over to the actual 'advertising' MA section in the For Fun! part of the boards. Success!

I've been busy once more (sounds like I keep saying that, but I really have!) and gone through the entire thread and reformatted it so that on every arc poster there is a small thumbnail image that you can then click to go to my DA page for that image; I figured it gives you the option to comment either there or here. Choice is good! I also added the thumbnail previews of my own 2 arcs in the OP in order to quickly show you the kind of stuff we're looking at here.

As I was looking through the thread it seemed that there was a lot of me saying 'ooh I've been busy' or 'oh noes! I've had Swine flu!' and honestly I'm not making up excuses guys. This is something I choose to do as a bit of 'creative relief' im my own down time so I'm sorry if the posters aren't comin' as thick and quick as expected but I'm doin' my best and I'm learning along the way too!

With all that said I'm happy to be able to show you the next poster, which is for Bubbawheat!

He wanted the poster to feature the custom enemies that he'd made in the arc but not to feature the actual protagonist. I set about trying to get some inspiration for the poster and finally settled on a format that included the custom enemies and the source behind the power of the arc. I worked at it in an evening for a bit, and then the vision took hold. Instead of studying for my ongoing exams I spent the entire next day doing the poster. At the end of that day I gave Bubba a poster that featured a similar format to what you see below but it was focused on a set of heroes (@Rent, @Red Yellow Guy, @Cait Rua, @Sapphic Neko and @Effy from Union) that were about to tear through the enemies. This, as Bubba rightly pointed out, put the focus on the players characters instead of on the actual arc itself so I went back to the drawing board and then some more heroes (@Sgt_MP_Lawrence, @Mandos and @Thyristor) dressed up as plain clothes civillians and I added them in, as if they were trying to sneak around the enemies. (Oh! And without the advice I got from @Saphi I would dare say this poster would be in very different shape!)

Without further ado, click below for a bigger image of the poster as per usual:

Edit: Whoops didn't read the OP. Nothing to see here... move on *embarrassed*

I had an odd experience with this actually. Normally I log on and the chat channels are on and im ignored like most people. This morning I logged on, the chat channels are off and globals are down and within 5 minutes 3 of my friends /telled me... this never happend when the globals are up! Coincidence? You decide!

Standard excuse for not reading the entire thread. Admittal of not even reading one post above before commenting.

*starts playing with action man and/or barbie and completely derails topic into obscurity*

Halfway through reply notice there was a Dev quote. Misquotes previous Dev response and picks it apart from all context now proudly proclaiming "WOOO FLUFFY BUNNIES <insert Dev name> SAID SO!"

Cue obligatory attempt to completely derail thread by likening OP to a small infant that has been encouraged that their own opinion counts and that one day they will take over the world and everything will be 'just fine' if we do what they say.

Extra nonsensical remarks that mean nothing and add up to a simple post count filler.

End with extra remark coupled with the standard !11!!1!1oneoneeleven.

Well last time I tried a Hami Blu/Red side didn't go very well lol. Last time I tried red side it was just a case of spawning pets and sending them to die for a bit.. lol

I'll try to make myself available for this. /tell me @Soul Storm if you need me for a lead or something.

I really hope this is the case. In the interview here: http://www.massiveonlinegamer.com/ne...at-going-rogue
War Witch says:

To quote my post on this subject in the other discussion thread the other day:

Okay I am a little irritated by this. Yeah its good that we'll be getting the GR expansion and that there are a number of ways to buy it.

HOWEVER: Once again there is no retail box presence in the EU at all. That is ridiculous. It must be well over 3/4 years since I have seen a single City Of box in ANY shop in the UK at all. Mission Architect was a golden opportunity for you to get some presence back in the market but you said at the time that wasn't going to happen. I understand that some shops would question putting a 5 year old game on the shelves, but you got them to do it in North America so you should be able to do it in the EU. Now another fantastic opportunity to get more players back onto the EU end of things comes along and you're throwing it away?

Sorry guys, but from where I'm standing it seems you're turning away or deliberately digging your own grave in the EU.

Okay I am a little irritated by this. Yeah its good that we'll be getting the GR expansion and that there are a number of ways to buy it.

HOWEVER: Once again there is no retail box presence in the EU at all. That is ridiculous. It must be well over 3/4 years since I have seen a single City Of box in ANY shop in the UK at all. Mission Architect was a golden opportunity for you to get some presence back in the market but you said at the time that wasn't going to happen. I understand that some shops would question putting a 5 year old game on the shelves, but you got them to do it in North America so you should be able to do it in the EU. Now another fantastic opportunity to get more players back onto the EU end of things comes along and you're throwing it away?

Sorry guys, but from where I'm standing it seems you're turning away or deliberately digging your own grave in the EU.

Okay, I recently reformatted my computer. I have a relatively recent backup of the CoH folder I keep on my external HDD so I copied that over. Not a problem.

I went into the game and looked over my arc (Shadows In Your Mind) and saw that there was something that needed changing so I republished it. I then noticed that the custom group I made only had named characters within the arc still in it. All the Lt's and Minions I made had disappeared.

Like I say I reformatted my drive so the information for these minions isn't there, so by republishing it did I effectively wipe out half of my own group? If so is there any way to retrieve them as I worked a long time on them but also can't quite remember the powers of all of them.

If this is a weird oversight in the system is there anything I can do other than just manually recreating the group from the top of my head?

Wow it's been a long time. You can find out where I've been here. But fear not I am still alive and I'm still doing the posters for your fine arcs!

The last arc I was up to was Electro-Cute and I had completed this at the end of last year but the author was planning to re-do the arc and so requested me to not post it for a while. Then I took a little break and since I've gotten the go-ahead to post it.

I fixed the link to the picture you should be able to see the image now

As for the problem, that's still left me clueless!

I made this: http://muessig.deviantart.com/art/Ri...anda-152591575

I made using the existing Issue 10 wallpaper and a screenshot from the Going Rogue teaser trailer. Originally I made it as fanart to encourage existing players to come back and try out the new Invasions Mark 2.0.

I submitted it to DeviantArt and now I'm trying to submit it to groups so more people see it, but they're saying I need to get written permission to use the stock elements in order to post the image, so I have pm'd Avatea but I'm at a loss.

What do I do guys? Do I have to remove this from the site or what?

Well I am from the UK and have played on the EU Union Server for years, never having a problem getting a a team. I guess the myth is true; the people that complain about server population never make their own teams?

Feel free to send me a /tell @Soul Storm any time!

What I wanna know about i17 is, with the ultra mode will we be getting updated Character models (I don't want mittens anymore!) and will we be getting improved lighting effects like where you fire off a power and the light from it shines around the room kinda thing...

Hey,

I play on Union, if you ever want a team etc /tell me at @Soul Storm

Hope to see ya around!