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Seems to have cleared up after the downtime.

More info:

en is sometimes replaced by the letters De. Including capitalization.

So ennd = Dear

Someone screwed something up bigtime.

Confirmed. nd is occasionally replaced by ar, in any form of text. Including global names.

There's more.
Phantom members are appearing in global channels, with a very similar name but missing a letter or a changed letter or two.
I suspect the bugs are related.
nd is the letter combination?

Global chat server seems to be horribly broken at the moment. I have no global friends list and about one in four messages actually makes it through to any global channel.

Has anyone else reported this problem?

Frankly, and in my opinion...

Granite is the only power in Stone Armor that *looks good*.

Why? Because the other powers have gfx that are asymmetric and don't actually look at all protective.

So if Granite were to be changed to look more like the other stone armors, it would look horrible.

Ideally, I like the idea of each armor toggle adding "pieces" of *symmetric* protective plating, and when you hit Granite, it finishes the look and adds bulk.

The current Stone Armors, with their randomly placed lumps of dirt and crystal, do not look good.

Yes, Arbiter Sawyer is new. I think they realized that sometimes even lower level Villains need to respec, and going to Nerva is a pain at low level.

Go to the respec contact appropriate to the side you're playing on; Jack Wolfe in Galaxy City or Arbiter Lupin in Nerva or Arbiter Sawyer in Port Oakes. (corrected, thank you)

That will allow you to use your not-dev-granted free respec.

The only kind of respecs you can use with the /respec command is the dev-granted free respec.

There is a bug in that the message at log in refers to the /respec command when it shouldn't.

*reread the problem*
Ahhh.. this is a different bug. You're actively involved in an AE mission (which is treated as a Task Force), or are in a Task Force. Since you don't know what Ouroboros is, you're probably not on a Flashback mission through the Ouroboros crystals.

In any case, YES do that; open up your Team window and see if there's a "Quit" button.

I would have to agree.

Apart from real time monitoring programs, relying on an anti-virus program to catch infections before they do damage is missing the point. By the time the anti-virus scan is run, the virus has already done damage.

Hardware firewall + anti-virus with real time monitoring + software firewall to monitor outbound connections is probably the most effective approach to catching things before they do damage.

No one thing is a solution anymore.

There are two kinds of respecs.

The free respec the developers give out sometimes for a new issue can be used with the /respec command.

The *other* respec comes from veteran rewards, respec recipies, and the respec trial. For those respecs you have to go to the Arbiter in Nerva or the other Arbiter in, um, I think it's Port Oakes, or heroside, see Jack Wolfe in Galaxy City's Freedom Corps HQ.

Ah. You used the Patron free respec before you used the issue respec? This is where the question comes in... You can only have one free respec. I do *not* know if the patron respec overrides the developer-granted free respec.

You can have a free respec and a veteran/trial/recipie respec at the same time.

Since both processors are on the same physical chip, the temp you want to watch is all of them.

The higher temperature will always be the combined temperature.

On my machine, both cores generally run around 40c, but the combined temperature is 62c, usually.

Generally, you'll find one core running hotter than the other due to load, and the main reason to watch both core temps is to decide whether or not to offload some processes onto the less used/cooler core, IMO.

On my human-form PB, I have three or possibly four of these planned to be slotted in her fast firing single target attacks. I'd go for all five, but alas; I do not have the slots to do it and still get the set bonuses she needs.

It might not seem like much, and in a short, small fight, it isn't. But against larger groups or against AVs, this will add up.

Honestly, I much prefer playing a Blaster the way they are "meant" to be played. At range, using distance and what little control abilities they get to keep the enemy away, with a few melee range attacks for those times playing 'keep away' fails.

Or, if you play a Blapper type, dancing in and out of Melee range. I would *never* neglect range attacks in favor of melee attacks as a Blaster, unless the character is on a "fixed team", a group of characters that always play together.

So, to compare a Blaster to a Scrapper is pretty pointless. A Scrapper has to get up close and personal, and has the damage mitigation tools to do it. Blasters *don't* need that. Defiance 2.0, with its overall damage boost and its attacks that can be used even when mezzed, is sufficient to the purpose.

Having played under both types of Defiance, I find that Blasters are exactly where they should be as an archetype, and that if you find yourself faceplanting, it's because you're soloing using AOE attacks, drawing too much attention and not defeating the enemies fast enough.

What I use:

Netgear router w. firewall, between the cable modem and the computer. This catches most, if not all, incoming attacks.

Avast! free antivirus. It has a real-time monitoring mode, which is a pretty good thing. I use this to catch other things coming in while I'm surfing.

ZoneAlarm Free firewall. Mostly to catch programs trying to dial out without my permission.

MalwareBytes free anti-malware. I use this for regular scans. It is probably the most comprehensive package out there; I've seen it take care of rootkit trojans that Norton Enterprise Security (the expensive corporate program) couldn't even identify.

I also have Registry Mechanic and CCleaner, but those are maintenance-oriented, not anti-virus or anti-malware.

Positron:

WHen you say "only recieve mail from people on your friends list" does this refer to the *global* friends list, or to the *character* friends list?

There is a massive difference between the two.

With the character friends list, I cannot make a villain character a friend on a hero, or vice versa. This means that if it's limited by the character friends list, I will never be able to get e-mail from a villain on a hero or vice versa.

If it's limited by the global friends list, there is no issue.

Please clarify what you mean by "friends list" since there are two different lists in game.

Last night, at 8 pm Eastern time on the dot, there was a massive mapserver/login server failure.

Tonight, at 8 pm Eastern time on the dot, there was a massive mapserver/login server failure.

What is happening on the west coast data center's servers, at 8 pm eastern, 5 pm pacific time that is causing this?

.. Oh, I forgot. The developers and customer service people don't post or read this forum.

60+ months of paid time means exactly that, I think. If you've *paid* for five years of City of Heroes, you get to pop in on the first wave.

I have almost 36 months of time on City of Heroes, and I've paid up for 42. If I bought another 18 months, that's one six month prepaid time non-recurring subscription through paypal, and another 12 month prepaid time non-recurring subscription through paypal, I'd have 62 months paid time (thanks to the additional months free) and would qualify for wave 1 closed beta access.

That's how I read it anyway.

Mainframe, what you want to do is something completely different.

Run a test on your computer's RAM. Use Memtest86 or a similar program in order to check to see if your ram is going bad. If you have any errors at all, you have a bad stick of RAM in your computer.

This same issue caused me a great deal of frustration a few years ago with a different game.

g "powexec_toggleoff Bright Nova$$goto_tray 1$$powexec_toggleon energy shield$$bind_load_file c:\binds\pb_humanform.txt"

Note that you can only activate one power in a bind or macro at a time. So in order to toggle on two or three shields, you would need to add the commands and hit the key two or three times.

Yes, AVG free does have realtime protection.

This kind of thing is why I use a Logitech trackball. No problems with rolling the mouse at all.

I've got AVG Free, Zone Alarm [for catching programs that try to "call out" without permission] and Spybot S&D.

I have other anti-virus, anti-malware stuff installed, but those are the only things running... of course, I have a *real* firewall in my router and another because I use OpenDNS for the internet.

IMO, kill the AE buildings in Galaxy and Atlas.

However, XP = time spent playing the game. You're playing the game when you play an AE mission, therefore you get XP.