The_Coming_Storm

Originally Posted by Eat_Me

I have one of those lovely Mice with the free moving scroll wheels, and while the mouse wheel works fine in other programs, for City of Heroes Its impossably slow and unresponsive. Ill have to scroll it back really fast and long in order to move the camera back or forward by a few feet.

The problem is not with the drivers or my OS, but with the way the mouse handles the scroll wheel.



While this is very helpful of Microsoft to tell me what the problem is... I am still no where closer to resolving the issue.

Is this perhaps something one of you has encountered before and knows a work around?

Originally Posted by eryq2

As i just logged off the client started downloading. What is it? Taking like 45 minutes to do.

Originally Posted by YippeeGo

As for me, I'll take people who know how to play the game over a monster headed robot legged brute who invites 6 stalkers to the team. If you get a team, that is.

Originally Posted by Denji

Shenanigans for the "Loyalty" part.

Originally Posted by Disappearing Girl

Agree.

Originally Posted by Soul Train

The forum thread has now cracked 1100 pages.

Most of the posts are negative.

Also, while the original reason given was to 'take away the pro-troll environment', this has been exposed as a smokescreen.

The real reason? Apparently Vivendi has inked a deal with Facebook to "cross-pollinate" Battle.net with FB, supposedly to attract new subscribers by exposing player accomplishments and armory drops.

So this is essentially a money grab. Players have been reduced to marketing data, to be sold to whoever wants to pay.

I can't live with that, so I cancelled my WoW account this morning. Cata may as well be vaporware for me unless they rethink this decision.

Hey everyone... did you miss me?

Originally Posted by zII_HITMAN_IIz

Another one of these?

STOP Q_Q'ing about how you haven't been invited to CB!!!

Anyways, unless you want to get into CB for actual testing and instead of trying to check out some 'cool' new feature like 97% of these other knuckledheads trying to get in, YOU SHOULDN'T....erm....WON'T BE INVITED.

It's true, and damn does it burn.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Good GOD, man! Please, never put blue text on a teal background ever again!

As for the actual idea, I very much like it and have a history of suggesting just that from time to time. But the current system just doesn't support what I think it is you want. And, yes, we do know a fair bit about how the system work. It's especially evident if you look at the texture packages, which you are actually not allowed to do.

Basically, each mesh piece can use one and only one texture file at a time, and some will have bump mpas and shininess added to them as additional textures, which are actually usually just bi-colour monochrome. What this means that patterns over costume pieces can never be other textures. Patterns are colour masks that allow you to tint a section of texture a different colour and is defined as a bi-colour monochrome mask. There is no way to force, say, a cloth texture to draw over a metallic texture (or at the very least no precedent for it). If you tried, you'd end up looking like you just painted part of the metallic texture with an airbrush.

Now, despite this, a few textures with both skin and clothes still exist, like te t-shirt or the tank top. The problem with these is that they're not clothes over skin, they're just one texture with both skin AND cloth on the same bitmap. Doing multiple variations of these with non-human skins, while possible, would both be seriously time-consuming AND balloon the costume piece dropdowns to unprecedented size.

Now, on the subject of skin under gloves and bracers... Yeah, I can kind of see that. It'd be a lot simpler to just give gloves and bracers a "texture" dropdown to alter the skin texture underneath them than to try and alter skin texture on a whole-model basis, though.

The problem with swapping out skin is that currently, Tights With Skin options work by using patterns to simulate clothes, and the only reason THAT works is because skin texture is relatively smooth and tinting it kind of looks like skin-tight clothing. Any detail you put on the skin, however, will show through the "clothes," revealing them for what they are - bodypaint. Any detail like... Nipples! Seriously, grab a bare-chested male and start putting patterns on him. You can't make them look like clothes with the guy's nipples clearly showing through the fabric!

Again, this is still a very good idea, and I hope and pray that one day we might get the ability to overlay textures on top of each other. That would be the ideal solution.

Originally Posted by ElectroCute

I was just reading my July 2010 issue of PC Gamer and they're talking about a City of Heroes 2. Has anything official been posted about this? Has anyone heard anything good, bad or indifferent about this? I mean is this going to be like EverQuest, 2 different games running at the same time but not connected in any way?

And last but not least, has anyone heard even a whisper about when it's coming out?