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The only want I avoid horrid lag in base is to play in safe mode.

That has been broken for several months. I am sure the devs know about it.

Hmm, a 19" Mac Book Pro? Where can I get one? :P

My Plant/Earth/Ice dom has no pet, and he is the highest damage toon I have.

Blades tweaked this build for me and posted it here.

1. I did swap the slotting of Frozen Armor and Maneuvers.

2. Flares helps my dps because it recharges so fast that I can use it between blaze and fire blast and not miss a beat.

3. I do want to find a good Hami-O for my Ice Storm, I just haven't gotten around to it.

4. My AOE damage is actually pretty good. Not nearly as good as my plant/earth/ice dom, but good enough for me to farm the TV mish in grandville. Sleet definitely helps to debuff mobs.

5. I don't really have a problem with endurance because a. I don't have hotfeet on all the time, only when I am in the middle of a mob, and b. I have consume recharging so fast that I can perma it easily. So if I wanted to have hotfeet on all the time, as long as I keep hitting consume I could make it work.

6. I just have a 50 run speed IO in super speed at the moment. I have stealth toggled on all the time so a stealth IO would be overkill.

I mainly wanted a lot of recharge for this toon, and I have 135% w/o hasten. I went with spiritual for my alpha and I am in the process of working on opening my other incarnate slots now.

I have the same computer, and the only way I can play is in safe mode. Even then, I still crash a few times a day. It is worse since i20. I refuse to mess up my computer by getting bootcamp. *sigh*

I will post here once the base has been sold, so if I haven't posted that yet, that means it is still available.

A quick update: We have had some great interest in the base! Unfortunately, the deal we had set up with someone fell through at the last minute - which means that fortunately for you it is still available!!

Send me a tell and you will get a prompt response!

Hello!

I have a super group for sale (INF, not real money.) on red side Freedom with a full service, beautiful base! The base is fully decorated and has plentiful storage, 2nd tier energy and control items, 2 workshops, a med center, a teleport room, and 4 unfinished rooms for individual members with an enhancement bin in each. The teleport room has the beacons for Mercy, Port Oakes, Sharkhead, Cap au Diable, St. Martial, Nerva, Grandville and the Rikti War Zone. There are many unique design details that set this base apart from others. Must see to appreciate. Send a tell to @Bjorlak or @Squishee for more details and a base tour.

Thank you and have a great day!!

This base has been sold! Thanks for all your interest. I have another base just as great in the works and I will post here when it is ready.

I am running an i7 MacBook Pro and have all the same problems as nunix. None of the suggestions have worked for me. I am not running the game on an external drive, however. Thorwing out the preferences does nothing to fix the lagging and crashing. I tried to download the test server from the link provided and when I launch it, it just pulls up the regular game. I was directed at one point to a thread addressing that issue, and I couldn't figure that fix out because the files that were supposed to be changed were different in my download. Gah. The only way I can play the game lag and crash free is in safe mode.

I sent a help ticket to tech support about this, and they were absolutely no help. The asked me to attach a copy of my system profiler file in RTF to them, which I did about 5 times, and they kept not getting it. At that point they told me to open up a new help ticket and reference the current one. WTH???

So, I have given up. I play in safe mode now and the game looks crappy.

Here is a picture of the teleport room of the base I have for sale.

http://i813.photobucket.com/albums/z...6-13-52-54.jpg

Hello, I have a super group for sale (INF, not real money.) on red side Freedom with a full service, beautiful base! The base is fully decorated and has plentiful storage, 2nd tier energy and control items, 2 workshops, a med center, a teleport room, and 4 unfinished rooms for individual members with an enhancement bin in each. The teleport room has the beacons for Mercy, Port Oakes, Sharkhead, Cap au Diable, St. Martial, Nerva, Grandville and the Rikti War Zone. There are many unique design details that set this base apart from others. Must see to appreciate. Send a tell to @Squishee for more details and a base tour.

Thank you and have a great day!!

When i17 came out, and in the 3-4 weeks before it came out, I was using a mac book pro 15" laptop with 2GB ram, 2.4ghz intel core duo, nvidia 8600GT graphics card with 256k memory, and a 250GB hard drive. I was getting a lot more lag and the game started crashing on me a lot. Sometimes I would get a screen freeze and the only thing I could do was either a hard restart or a force quit. Other times the game would just disappear off the screen, without even a message saying the application unexpectedly quit. This was maddening. I updated to the latest version of snow leopard, which only marginally helped.

I decided that if my computer couldn't handle i17, that maybe it was time to replace this 3 year old machine. I plunked down $2600 dollars for the newest mac book pro. This one has 4GB RAM, 2.66ghz intel core i7 processor, nvidia GT330M graphics card with 512k video memory, and a 500GB hard drive.

I have yet to transfer any of my files from my older mac book pro to my new one. I decided to try an experiment instead. The first thing I did after I set up my new machine was download a fresh copy of CoH. I fired it up, thinking new computer, fresh copy of the game, this should solve my problems, right? Well, I am getting less lag that is for sure. But the game is crashing more than ever now, every 20-30 minutes sometimes, and CoH is the only program on the computer! I had ultra mode turned off. Then I tried turning it on - same problem. I dumped the preferences of the game from my user - library - preferences - city of heroes folder, and that didn't work.

My only conclusion is that it's not my computer, it's just the game. The devs must have borked the game for us mac users.

My question, for anyone who is reading this and has a mac, is this: anyone else having this crashing problem? Has anyone figured out a way around it? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Try this:

/petsay_all <em dance>

and insert any emote you want in place of dance.

This happens to me and my friends on a regular basis, when we aren't hidden and can see each other's chat. When I am in editor and sending a tell, sometimes the "hidden chat" message not only pops up, but it keeps popping up over and over until I am put on a time out for 2 minutes, as the game reads me as spamming. UGH!

Great list, so many thing on it I have thought about before as a sg leader/base builder. Can I just say that the simple ability to select a number of items and move them all together would be the single most helpful function that could be added to the editor interface? That alone would strip hours away from my projects. I just built a movie theater with a lobby, second floor, concession stand, pinball machines and video games, ticket booth and atm machine. It all took me multiple hours over several days to complete (over 2500 items placed) and the time would have been cut in half if not by two thirds if I could just select and move multiple items at a time. The ability to copy a group of items and paste multiple times is a close second on my list. It just makes common sense.

Does anyone have an issue where the game crashes, and it doesn't ever say assertion failure? Its been happening to me since i17 went live. I always play in windowed mode for those times when the game just freezes on me indefinitely (in which case I have to force quit the game, nothing else works). Out of the blue the window just disappears and in a few seconds a OS X window comes up saying the program unexpectedly quit.

This and a myriad of other issues have cropped up in the 4 weeks leading up to i17. My first thing is to verify files. That never does anything. Then I restart my computer. Run disk utility. Nothing works. So a couple days ago I decided to change some stuff.

I am on a Mac Book Pro 15", 2.4ghz, 2gb ram, 250hd (with plenty of free space) and the nvidia 8600 card, 256 megs video ram. Yes, it is a 3 year old computer, but still runs like a top in every other way. Up until 2 days ago, I was running leopard. On monday I trashed the game. I ran every utility I had on the drive. Then I installed snow leopard, which I recently purchased. After all the downloaded updates to the system software, I downloaded a fresh copy of CoH. 8 hours later after all the fixing files, I started up the game and everything was fine for the first hour and then I got an assertion failure. Gah! Then later I got the crash where the window disappears with no dialogue box saying what happened. So much for installing a fresh copy of the game!

i17 has easily been the buggiest issue I have experienced in my 15 months on the game.

Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

Thanks in advance,

Drew

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