TyrantMikey

Anyone remember this video? (Taking out Rikti Dropships)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZHWh...eature=related

I never got a chance to do this. I'm fairly certain a lot of us didn't, but it would be awesome if we could organize something like it before Battalion Shuts Off the Lights on the 30th of November.

As far as I know, we need to run a LGTF at a prescheduled time, triggering a Rikti Invasion. Then, we make sure everyone knows to monitor the chat channels for the zone(s) being invaded, and form teams that can take out the drop ships. If possible, someone with group fly should be on teams lacking fliers.

I don't know if leagues can be used to help coordinate something like this or not.

But man, do I *really* want to do this. Pure AWESOMENESS.

This thread on the CO Forums is an open-armed welcome from many of the players at Champions Online:

http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/sho...d.php?t=167511

It's worth noting that they look up to us as a community. And they want us there with them, and are offering to do whatever it takes to make us feel at home there.

I think that speaks volumes. One poster notes, "It was never them & us. It was just us."

Also, the moderator of Champions Online Role Players (CORP) posted this on his site:

So many veeeelinnnns!

(Added my blue dot in Massachussetts!)

For a superhero fix, it has to be CO. DCUO is a piece of crap. It still has a lot of UI problems because it was designed FOR a console, and ported to PCs, and the bulk of their playerbase is on the console platform. They'll never change the thing to make the substantially smaller PC base happy.

COs constumes are big, bulky, and nowhere near as finely detailed as COH's were, but they're getting there. The creator is actually really good. I could do without the epic levels of comedy. But it's not a bad system. It's come a long way.

But, if I had to choose a game, it's the Secret World, hands down. There's no limit to what you can be, and it's in the modern world. Costume creator is lacking, but the missions are complex and require strategy and teamwork, and you have to use your brain. You can't just faceroll your way through swarms of minions.

So, in order of preference: Secret World, CO, and DCUO only under threat of torture.

You could consider a video montage that shows the long history of COH, showing footage from all your previous videos.

It is generally unwise to speak for the vast majority of the population if you do not have numbers to back up your claims.

Council. Hands down, every time.

No other foe seems to have mastered the ability to pack 500 guys into a 10x10 space, primed for tanking & spanking, or nuking, or optimal controller utilization, or whatever role you happen to be playing. It's like they're their own worst enemy.

And they JUST. KEEP. COMING.

They should just put signs over their base doors that say "FREE EXPEEZ INSIDE."

Seriously, how does anyone play on a laptop? Those keyboards are so small! I feel like I'm trying to cram my fingers into the area the size of a pill bottle to type. I don't even want to think about what it would be like trying to play on a tablet.

And let's not even go into freeze-framing lag when a Rikti Invasion or Zombie Invasion start. Sure, I could turn the graphics all the way down to 0, but that's kind of lame.

No, I'll stick with a system that's designed for gaming. A quad-core PC with 6GB RAM, and a screaming graphics card with its own physics processor and tons of memory. And a display I can actually see.

After all, you don't try to drive a nail with a screwdriver, do you?

As a long time player of blasters, I'm actually looking forward to many of these changes. However they pan out, I'll adapt.

On the subject of secondaries, I've always felt that it is a travesty that blasters appear to be one of the few archetypes whose secondary forces them to close into melee range. Now, I'm willing to admit that that perception is flawed (and someone once made a compelling argument against it in the past, but that was long ago and I can't recall it anymore), but it seems that our secondaries provide so few useful powers for blasters who prefer fighting at range that the secondary set essentially dictates play style.

In a perfect world (and, therefore, one that will never happen), what I would love to see is a way for blaster secondaries to include two powers at each tier: one ranged, one melee. You can choose ONE. Once you choose a power at a tier, the other at that that tier is locked out (unless you respec). That way, ranged blasters can design their toons to suit their play style, and blappers can theirs. And the secondary no longer dictates the play style.

But I realize this will never happen, because similar functionality doesn't exist for any other archetype. And it would be the equivalent of opening Pandora's Box.

Still, one can dream.

I've recently learned that the odd behavior with the mouse is NOT limited to the Mac version of COH. I have several machines with COH installed on them, and I can reproduce the behavior on clients running Win7 64 bit.

It's definitely not Mac-specific. It's something with COH.

I have also noticed odd mouse behavior. For example, if I'm flying, and I drop out of flight, my character will land with the camera facing slightly to the right of my character's actual point of view. It's very annoying, as it requires me to reset the camera position (which I've set to a handy key bind).

Sometimes, also, when placing a targeted AOE, the cursor seems to be out of synch with the targeting reticle. Highly annoying. No real idea what's causing it.

iMac
2.7Ghz Intel Core i5
4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)

System Report:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac12,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Boot ROM Version: IM121.0047.B1E
SMC Version (system): 1.72f2
Serial Number (system): C02H20LJDHJP
Hardware UUID: E09F6BBF-9397-5403-A2C9-A66BC4BA6EEC


USB Device Tree:
Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v7.0:

Product ID: 0x0745
Vendor ID: 0x045e (Microsoft Corporation)
Version: 6.33
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Location ID: 0xfa130000 / 6
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 100

You know, the funny thing about estimates is that people tend to forget that they are just that: estimates. Instead, they view them as guarantees, promises to deliver product X by date Y.

I'm not making this up folks. I can't count the times management has asked me, "What's the estimate for developing this feature?" and I cringe because I know they're not asking for an actual estimate. They want to know when it will be finished. And the truth is, no software developer worth his salt knows that. The number of variables is incalculable at the outset of any development effort. They are unknown.

The problem is, the users don't know that. To them, a feature is easily developed, and when the developer estimates six months to complete something, the user thinks he's actually guaranteeing six months to complete something.

On the contrary, the developer is saying, "I need six months, plus or minus time to account for unforeseen setbacks due to technical difficulties, redesigns, acts of God and other unknowns that cannot yet be accounted for."

Trust me. The developers would release a long term plan, and they'd mean one thing, but we'd read something else entirely.

I was watching Big Bang Theory and noticed something kinda cool on the wall in the comic book shop.



Product placement FTW!

Absolutely, wholeheartedly, 100% agree.

This insanity doesn't stop at Kings Row. It continues for every zone you enter for the first time after you've already acquired your radio. It's stupid, pointless, and frequently misdirects you from your mission directive.

On a timed mission, it can mean the difference between success and failure. (3 minute timed mission, anyone?)

I'd have to take issue with the idea that a tanker's inherents aren't designed to help him solo. More accurately, any of my tanks--who are primarily soloists--will argue that point with you with conviction.

*Casts Raise Dead*

A little search-fu found this thread from a year go, but since this one describes exactly the problem I've been experiencing (a LOT), I wanted to append to it, rather than starting a new one.

Very frequently over the last month or so, I've been getting the following sequence during game startup.

1. Attempt to login by providing credentials.
2. Click Login.
3. Game sits and cursor spins.
4. Game complains that it can't connect to the login server.
5. Click Login again.
6. Game sits and cursor spins.
7. Game connects and my characters appear.
8. Select a server.
9. Game sits and cursor spins.
10. Game complains that it can't connect to the DBServer and kicks me back out to the login screen.

Now, this happens a LOT. Like, several times a week. And, it will frequently happen even if I've been connected to the game and playing for hours, and just want to log out to the character selection screen. The game will lose its connection, and I can't log in at all.

I've been monitoring my network activity, and I don't appear to be dropping packets. I'm on broadband, and using an internal wireless network, but the netgraph is in the green the vast majority of the time, with no dropped packets that I can see. Flushing the DNS cache hasn't helped, and neither has resetting my IP address (though that would accomplish little, given the wireless config). Also note that my firewall is set up to keep its grubby mits off of COH, as is my anti-virus software.

I am at my wits end. The game has become virtually unplayable. I spend more time unable to play the game than I am able to play it. I'm open to suggestion at this point.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem these days, or was this issue resolved, and do I need to contact my service provider?

Recently, mom and I have noticed a drastic increase in (1) mapserves, (2) inability to connect to the logon server, and (3) inability to reach the DBServer once past the logon screen. This is only over the last few weeks, particularly since the server merge.

We play primarily on Victory, a very low-pop server which has only 1 green dot the vast majority of the time.

Has anyone else been experiencing this, or has something on our end been the likely culprit?

P.S. It should be noted that *all other* Internet activity (such a streaming media on Hulu and Youtube) are unaffected and work just fine.