Texas Justice
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Quote:Actually, during Beta when the account status was set as non-VIP you weren't allowed to send a /petition or a /bug report. It gave errors in the chat window when you tried.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
You can still file bug reports and file petitions but CS will not be getting back in touch with you personally like they do now. This is a standard in every hybrid MMO.
I never did get confirmation of whether that was WAI or a bug. -
I know too well the agony of clean installs and having to reinstall all of your software, get all of your settings just the way you had them previously, etc.
But, I'm glad you got it sorted out before Freedom hits. -
Duneman, I'd recommend trying to get to the address directly using http://boards.cityofheroes.com instead of having to go through paragonwiki. Once you get there, put it in your Favorites or Bookmarks, depending on your browser.
Also, you may want to send a PM to the members of the Community Team about getting your forum name changed. Avatea, Beastyle or Z (sorry, I refuse to spell his name correctly) should be able to help you with that. Just explain that it's your husband's old account and you got stuck with the name he had on it. They'll likely help you out on getting it changed. Give them your top 3 to 5 choices for what you want it changed to (in order of preference). -
Quote:When CoV launched, even if you already had CoH you still needed a CoV retail code to be able to play Villain content and access bases. Somewhere around a year later, the games were merged so that even if as a subscriber you had only applied a retail CoH code, you had access to CoV content.Originally Posted by Death_Badger
I find it strange that prior to Freedom, Incarnate access requires a retail code from Going Rogue, yet after Freedom goes live Incarnate access has nothing to do with Going Rogue, apparently.
Similarly, when I21 launches, GR is being merged into the game for subscribers. A retail code of GR was required to access Incarnate content. Now that expansion is being merged into CoH for subscribers just as CoV was. Technically, the requirement for GR is now met since it is part of the game for subscribers. GR access is purchasable for Premium and Free players. -
Quote:At CoH launch, there were no EU servers. Everyone played on the two US servers. CoH launched the EU servers in February 2005. There were several international players in the game between CoH launch and Febraury 2005 when the EU servers launched.Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie
The EU servers used to be based in germany, and only recently moved Stateside several months in advance of the server list merge.
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This may sound silly as well. When you unplugged the second monitor did you go into the nVidia control panel and set it to use a single monitor?
Yeah, it sounds silly, but at this point I'm almost grasping at straws.
I'm also wondering about the Portrait Displays services and programs and the eDisplay Management program. I know that they are likely programs that came with your monitors, but I'm wondering if they are doing something that could be interfering with the game, much like what the EVGA Precision Tool and Riva Tuner programs did.
Purely hypothetical when looking at those programs, but since it's something I don't normally see in HJT reports, I get curious.
A good test would be to shut off all non-essential services and background programs, then see if the problems are resolved. -
Quote:When CoH first launched, there were two server locations, one on the East Coast of the US and one on the West Coast of the US. There were players from many parts of the world playing.Originally Posted by EU_Damz
For you lot maybeQuote:Originally Posted by Texas Justice
The servers are in the US. The players are all over the world.
Same as it was when CoH first launched.
I know of players from Australia and New Zealand that I teamed with. I know of players from the UK, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and several other countries that I either played with or had read posts from on the forums.
So, I'm not sure what your comment is referring to. At the launch of Freedom, the servers will still be in the US and the players will still be all over the world.
How is that different for you lot? (I'm not really sure what lot has to do with it. After all, this isn't the story of Sodom and Gomorrah). -
Arnold was the original owner of Arnold's. Played by Pat Morita, of Karate Kid fame.
Mr. and Mrs. C are funny. Melvin Belvin is a bit funny. Leather Tuscadero is at least as funny as Pinky Tuscadero.
And all of those made more appearances in the show than Lenny and Squiggy. They were only in one episode (Fonzie's Funeral: Part 2). -
Marion (Mrs. C), Howard (Mr. C), Arnold, Lori Beth, Chuck Cunningham, Dr. Mickey Malph, Police Officer Kirk, Leather Tuscadero, Moose, Roger Phillips, Marsha Simms, Melvin Belvin, Eugene Belvin, and the list goes on and on and on.
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Quote:Ah. Quotes from the Unleashed forums. Does Westley know that you are copying parts of posts from his forum onto this one?Originally Posted by MAD UMLAUTS
Someone said it better than me on another forum
He may not appreciate you doing that. -
Please post the results from HiJackThis as listed in the [Guide] Asking for technical help on the forums thread.
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Goob, I hate to ask this, but have you tried disconnecting your second monitor completely from the video card?
I can't remember the specifics, but I recall there was a problem once with two monitors attached and I "think" it was with nVidia cards and drivers.
EDIT: Further addition to the remembered problem. If I remember things right, other apps and games were not affected, it was either only OpenGL games or only CoH. -
Not always. That's why programs like Driver Sweeper were created. To remove the leftover files used when you uninstall the drivers.
Also, for ATI cards you want to uninstall from Programs and Features in the Control Panel so that you can also uninstall the Catalyst Control Center and other items installed with the drivers. Different drivers may use slightly different versions of the CCC and also use different versions of files with the same names.
If those files are still on the computer when you try to install older drivers, it won't replace the newer version of the file with the older version.
Basically, if you did it the way you described, you basically haven't really changed any drivers yet. -
Quote:Maybe you should go back and read CP's post to actually see what he said. Here, I'll quote it for you so you don't have to scroll back for it. I'll even bold a section for you.Originally Posted by Manoa
If you're using the the same definition of F2P that Paragon Studios is using...
...the F2P game that CommunistPenguin was referring to would technically be considered a "hybrid" model. Just sayin'.
The only game CP mentioned when he said he told a friend the game was going to be f2p was City of Heroes. He didn't mention any other games until a later post.Quote:Originally Posted by CommunistPenguin
My problem with the system, as I understand it, as I said earlier, is that it seems like it would hinder the social aspects of the game. For example, I told my friend the game was going to be f2p, and he expressed interest. However, If its overly hard for him to team because he cant send tells, or start teams, or join SG's, he very well would lose interest and get a bad impression of the game and never try it again. Lack f community has killed many a MMO, and we need to do everything possible to build ours more.
So you are absolutely correct that if you are using the definition of F2P as it's been being used by Paragon Studios then the game he is referring to when he told his friend that the game was going to be f2p (City of Heroes) would technically be considered a hybrid model.
You've just made the same point I made by quoting Arcanaville's post with the overly large font.
Even though you were apparently intending it to mean something completely different. -
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Quote:Wrong. Street Justice was never intended to be part of Issue 21 according to the Dev team. It has been planned to be one of the "frequent additions to the Paragon Market" we were told we'd be getting.Originally Posted by Feycat
Yeah... I knew TW wasn't going into this issue, but up until very recently StJ was. I'm so bummed out about that. My name camp will sadly sit there at level 1 until that comes out. I've got zero interest in Beam Rifle.
They weren't going to release it to the Paragon Market without testing it, so it was temporarily included in the Beta so they could datamine more numbers than they could get on their internal servers and get feedback from actual players.
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Quote:Originally Posted by CommunistPenguin
My problem with the system, as I understand it, as I said earlier, is that it seems like it would hinder the social aspects of the game. For example, I told my friend the game was going to be f2p, and he expressed interest. However, If its overly hard for him to team because he cant send tells, or start teams, or join SG's, he very well would lose interest and get a bad impression of the game and never try it again. Lack f community has killed many a MMO, and we need to do everything possible to build ours more.Quote:Originally Posted by CommunistPenguin
Most F2P games are limited in scope but allow things like tells. It's actually pretty similar to the new model we are transitioning too, they limit class and content, but allow players to communicate freely and join guilds. Anyone who thinks that they will get everything for free is an idiot. But you have to go back and look at what the goal is in going to a F2P Model. Are we just trying to bilk existing customers out of more cash or are we trying to build a larger community, many of which will move from free to premium to vip? I think that by limiting the social constructs of the game we are limiting how big a community we can build.Since you keep telling your friends that it's going to F2P, it's important to keep Arcanaville's large type in mind.Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
This game is not attempting to execute the conventional F2P model.
That makes this observation about as relevant as saying a successful barbeque attempts to infuse smoke into the meat.
In the conventional F2P model, it doesn't matter how much stuff you give away, all that matters is how much stuff you intend to entice people to buy. As long as you have a pipeline of stuff on a sufficiently deep treadmill, its completely irrelevant what you give away. Its a numbers game of trying to get as many players as possible under circumstances where a sufficiently high percentage will buy something, and that percentage can be low.
But in a hybrid model with VIP subscribers, it *does* matter how much stuff you give away, and what stuff it is, because the more you give away and the higher a percentage of the core stuff you give away, the more you devalue subscriptions relative to ala carte purchases and freemium play. That's why no on subscribes to Farmville.
People can debate whether this is or is not a free to play game based on silly semantics, but this isn't about labels. This is about whether this game intends to focus first on its subscriber base, and then create a free/ala carte game from a subset of the subscriber game that is not an identically complete experience so that VIP subscribers always have an advantage in their breadth and quality of gameplay.
If you're a VIP player, City of Heroes Freedom is as much about you as the current game is now. If you are an ala carte Premium player the game is offering you the ability to play less game for less money, where you get to choose what you want to get and what you can afford to give up. If you are a completely free player, then this game is offering you a look around. Have fun, but don't complain about what you get for free. Or complain, but know that you're complaining about what you get for free, and make note of the fact we don't allow you to complain somewhere the rest of the players have to see.
Oh, and just in case I wasn't clear the first time:
This game is not attempting to execute the conventional F2P model.
You'd think this was both obvious, given how many people manage to successfully *prove* Paragon Studios isn't actually doing what you'd expect if they were attempting to execute the conventional F2P model.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the totally free player (never has bought anything, never does buy anything) is getting basically what Trial accounts have gotten for years but without the levels capping at 14. -
We used to regularly have Midnight Hami Raids on Justice. They generally were scheduled to start at 11:59 PM Eastern Time (so that people could tell which day was meant by "Friday Midnight Hami") which would have been 8:59 PM Pacific. That would have easily fit your timeframe.
I haven't been paying as much attention but I don't think I've seen a Midnight Hami advertised in a while.
Still, many don't consider 7 PM Pacific to be too late to start a Hami raid on a weekend. -
Quote:Hey now, that's MY schtick you're using there. You just back off Missy.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Not so fast Zoidbergilinger. That's the head start. Looks like head start will last at least until September 22. If that's the case, and launch happens the following week, then I'm still within the margin for error for launch which I predicted to be between the last week of September and the first week of October.
I leave the math and brains stuff to you. (After all, you are far more qualified than I am.)
Leave my "goofy names for our Community Manager" alone please. (You may be as qualified as I am or even more qualified than I am, but it's all I've got.) -
Quote:The servers are in the US. The players are all over the world.Originally Posted by Ultimus
Hmm I thought it was an American server. Disregard my evening comment then.
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Quote:I think the people that were working for NCSoft Game Support at the time and responding to petitions are still curled up in a fetal position, gibbering wildly and crying.Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
Definitely was issue 2. It brought with it a weekend of the game being almost unplayable due to crashes AND a way too overpowered Rularuu Invasion happening at the same time.
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Quote:Just because you've never seen her hot blond assassin dude doesn't mean she doesn't have one. You might be in his sights right now.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
No, no, no.
Arcanaville is the Archive. She's just missing the hot blond assassin dude.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Then again, I'm much more likely to end up in his sights with all my Arcanaville Digest reports, Arcanaville post stalking, and being a generally creepy D.O.M. (until you get to know me). -
Quote:VK has been doing so well in transcribing these Dev Chats for us that TPTB have granted early access to Time Manipulation just for these posts.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
This is from the future?
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Quote:Well, if you don't put aOriginally Posted by Feycat
Yeah, I've been kinda boggled watching everyone respond to Silver Gale's sarcasm like she's serious. or a at the end of every post, it's hard to tell if it's sarcasm or srs bsns.
Of course, if you do put a or a at the end of every post, it becomes difficult for some people to take you seriously.
And of course, if you are reading one of my posts you can be certain that it contains a healthy dose of sarcasm. Whether you understand the sarcasm or not.
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Yes, please continue endearing the community to the rest of the player base with your winning attitude.
Also, you are making me defend Nyx here. Please consider in your mind how wrong you are in that I'm forced to do this.