Texas Justice

If you read the entire post, you will see that the OP did indeed claim that it is a scrapper. One sentence claimed it to be a jumping off point for the imagination, but in another sentence actually wrote that the OP now has a pistols scrapper. See the quote at the end of the post.

If you read it, then you either skipped a sentence or misunderstood because the OP actually did write that they now have a pistols scrapper. See the quote below.

If the OP had instead written something along the lines of "and finally with the introduction of Time Manipulation I have something close" then I wouldn't have bothered replying at all. The problem is, the OP actually claimed to now have a pistol scrapper and there is no such thing.

That's not me putting words in the OP's mouth. That's not me misinterpreting what the OP wrote. It's what the OP actually wrote.

Community Digest is your friend. An announcement was made about this on October 5.

Here's a link to the Discussion thread.

The original plan was that only VIP's would be able to post on the forums. However, enough players made valid points that Paragon Studios listened and began investigating ways to allow non-VIP's to have limited posting capabilities.

I know for a fact that non-VIP accounts can post in the Gameplay / Technical Issues & Bugs forum since I've posted there on my other account. Actually, it was in response to another non-VIP player's questions about posting. Our Community Manager even posted in that thread as well with some clarifications about what they were trying to implement, although it was a bit vague as they apparently haven't fully ironed out what they are going to be able to do.

It's possible that when you tried to post it was before they started trying to implement those features or it was before they had gotten that section set up for non-VIPs to post.

EDIT: It is also possible that they have again made some changes while they are trying to see what they can implement. My Premium account has this message at the top of the forums:

When I get to Gameplay / Technical Issues & Bugs I can start a New Thread. The legend at the bottom of the screen says that I can post replies but I get error messages when I click New Reply. I also don't have the Quick Reply box at the bottom of the page. In Player Questions it now states that I can't make new posts and can't Reply to posts. Since they haven't announced the formal decision on what they will be allowing and are likely still tinkering with the vBulletin software to give non-VIPs limited posting capabilities, anything could change between now and when they formalize the decision and announce it on the forums.

Nope, because that would violate the forum rules and the mods would come in and lock the thread.

Of course, that would shorten the new arguments.

Fleshed out that last sentence a bit.

I see no such admission in your post. Not a word about imperfection. Not a word about guilty pleasure. There was nothing of the sort to gloss over.

I did however see some erroneous points made.

Nope, you have a Dual Pistols Corruptor.

Except that it isn't a Scrapper, it is a Corruptor, so those that have been wanting to play a pistol scrapper still can't play one.

It's a Corruptor, not a Scrapper.

The flaws are still there.

Yes.

Actually, they've had the "no infringement" rules in since the game launched, even before the Marvel lawsuit. It was even mentioned in the original Prima guide with a cute little cartoon about Neo and Wolverine clones. The Marvel lawsuit just brought more attention to the rules that were already in place. That's one of the things that helped them in the lawsuit in that they already had rules in place telling players this was not allowed and had a policy to remove the infringements (Generic costumes, generic names, wiped Description and Battlecry, etc.).

And if they spend money in the shop they are no longer Free players but are now Premium players and have different restrictions. One thing they gain as soon as they spend any money in the shop is the ability to use tells.

Currently, I know that they are able to post in the Gameplay / Technical Issues & Bugs forum and I believe they are able to post in the Player Questions forum as well. Those two sections alone are some of the best help resources any player can get, whether they are Free, Premium or VIP.

The Help channel is only limited in that it is specific to that server. That is far more reach than Broadcast, Request, Local, Team or anything other than a global channel or tell has. Well, I'm not sure about /ac since I never use it and don't have it on any tabs.

Not a problem. No one is in my league.



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Alex, what are 3 things I won't have a use for but won't whine about since they are a free gift?

Glad you were able to get it resolved.

That memory usage looks rather high to me. Is the memory usage that high all the time, is it that high when you are playing CoH, or is this something else? How long had it been since you had shut down the computer completely or rebooted?

A few things in the CoH Helper catch my eye. I'd recommend turning Ambient Occlusion OFF completely as it is known to be resource intensive. I'd also recommend turning Bloom OFF as well and lowering the World Texture Level to High.

It might help a bit to reduce the Maximum Particles to somewhere around 25050 from the current 50000.

Those of us used to looking at HJT logs already know to ignore things like the O10 entries for the unknown file in the Winsock LSP and the file missing entries.

I am a bit curious about the 2 RIFT entries in the Running Processes section. Were you playing RIFT when you ran HJT or is this some extraneous stuff that RIFT leaves running even when you aren't playing? If the game was running, that could possibly account for the memory usage I noticed in the CoH Helper output.

It showed up before that for me. I got it once on the weekend a few weeks back and once a few days ago.

From it happening the first time, I knew that I only needed to exit the game completely (the launcher is set to close as soon as the game launches) and then restart the game.

I haven't done any street sweeping since Issue 1 or 2 maybe. And that was in Boomtown with SG members. We rolled through everything in our path. It got old after a while.

I've never done the old sewer run.

I'm not a big fan of radio missions. I'd rather do missions from a contact that tell a story.

I preferred getting the initial contacts and running their missions for the stories. And then getting introduced to more contacts and running their missions for the stories. And contiuing that way through to 50.

I don't think any of my characters have followed the exact same contact chain, even among my several Technology characters. I always vary the contacts even if I have the same starting contact.

And I like running it that way, so I'll continue to do it that way.

And no, I haven't done the new sewer stuff either and don't plan to.

I see a rather glaring flaw in your post. Scrapper =/= Corruptor

HP, AT Modifiers, Damage Scales, Defense, probably more I'm not thinking of ...

Not to mention that Scrapper Primaries are Melee Attacks and Corruptor Secondaries are Ranged Attacks.

Trying to equate the two is rather absurd.

You can run the First Ward arcs without sound. It isn't really necessary for any of the missions and there are no voiceovers that I can remember.

I'm going to address those last two paragraphs that I bolded. I believe you have misunderstood how the points when the points will be awarded

Picking up from your later post, you paid in March. At that time, Paragon Points did not exist so you haven't been receiving any until Freedom launched. When the monthly billing date rolls around, you will get your points (unless you were in the group with a billing date that fell between the 1st and 11th, those will be awarded the 11th of this month and on progressively earlier dates until it lines up with the correct billing date by February).

You aren't having to wait until your renewal date March of 2012 to get those Points. You will get them awarded on that billing date each month. If you purchased an annual subscription today, you wouldn't get all of the Points front loaded. You would still get them on the billing date each month.

Their original plan was that they would front load either the Points or Reward Tokens (I can't remember which) for multi-month subscriptions, but technical issues are preventing that from happening so they have changed the plans based on those technical issues. You'll still get the points each month on the billing date and the Reward Tokens each month. You won't have to wait until your subscription renewal date.

There is a difference between what the terms Billing Date and Renewal Date mean.

The Renewal Date is the date that your subscriptions renews and charges your Credit Card or whatever payment method you have set. It is usually expressed and calculated using a Month/Day/Year format with each one being significant to the calculation. This could occur 12 times a year for monthly subscriptions, 4 times a year for 3-month subscriptions, 2 times a year for 6-month subscriptions or 1 time a year for 12-month subscriptions (including the 12-month + 2 bonus plans they've offered at times).

The Billing Date is the same date each month and it is the monthly anniversary of the Renewal Date. It is usually expressed and calculated using a Day format since only the Day is significant to the calculation.

For example, if you paid a 12-month subscription on March 15, 2011 then your Renewal Date is March 15, 2012 and your Billing Date is the 15th of each month. The 15th of each month (Billing Date) is when your Points are awarded.

Continuing that example, if you paid a 12-month subscription now, on October 7, 2011 then your Renewal Date would be October 7, 2011 and your Billing Date is the 7th of each month. The 7th of each month (Billing Date) is when your Points are awarded. However, since it is before the 11th, it may be that it temporarily awards it on the 11th and then subsequently on earlier dates until February when it would be back to the 7th. But we don't know if that was only for existing subscriptions or how new ones would be handled if they are before the 11th of the month.

Hopefully that will clear things up for you and some others.