Ulfsark

Simply and outrageously awesome! Score one in the fight against PL'ers. And frankly, this is awesome, since now my friends can play whatever toon they want! Just the other day i was in a TF that was too low for my friend, she's 47 and wants to hit her first EVER 50 blueside. Now, it can all happen

Jay, I truly Love you. I'd offer to do you highly inappropriate favors, but .... statically speaking, there's only a 10% chance you'd like it :P

Ok, do the thing with the shortcut.

Tell it what directory to install to.

Run the shortcut.
Stop it before it downloads the file manifest.

Copy PIGGS folder to CohTest

Run shortcut again, right?

*Follows directions* -- wow, from 4 hours to 3 minutes. I LOVE YOU! Thank you SO much! :-)

EDIT: ok, maybe not 3 minutes, but a half hour is still a ton better than 4 hours. ;-)

Hello,
I remember reading a post by a non-redname that explained an easier, faster way to copy the COH folder and then have it prepped for going onto the test server, without having to download EVERYTHING all over again. I searched and looked, and can't find it for the life of me. Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you

I remember on trial making a bunch of toons, not knowing how to play them. I kept making and deleting toons, going to different servers (some of those toons still exist in limbo somewhere), eventually settling on Triumph, with a ele/fire blaster. I was running out of cool name ideas, so named him Cruxhshadow (after the band). Managed to hit lvl 14, FINALLY got flight, really dug him and then realized, i wasn't getting any XP anymore. So, i bought the game. I played him hardcore. I teamed, i did TFs, i learned how to play the game, through trial and error, asking questions, and whatnot. I remember PROUDLY declaring that i had stamina fully slotted and enhanced (n00b!). Earning my 3 month vet trenchcoat (and rushing to the tailor to put it on, along with my Roman shoulder pads from the 10 ITFs i've done). Finally I was on some mission, lvl 49, the LONGEST YARD, i hit 50. I'm a very vulgar person and the string of curses and allusions to orgasms that came out of my mouth would have made Andrew Dice Clay blush. Finally, i hit 50! I was giddy.

Switched to Redside, same thing with my robot/bubble MM. I was giddy.

I'm now about 8 months i'd guess in the game, have one other 50 (a scrapper). Sure, the euphoric high isn't quite there anymore, but the sense of pride is. I was teaming with a vet who had an insane list of vet badges, who said she had 14 total 50's. Also on the team was someone with NO vet badges, who told us he made 12 50's over the double Xp weekend. This pissed me off. IMO, its an insult to those who have struggled to get to 50, its an insult to those loyal players who have been in this game since beta, it has completely ruined the way i look at 50. I no longer look at a person's level to know how they play. I look to see how many AE badges they have.

Some anecdotal stories: I now am playing a controller (lvl 44). Besides the usual putting together a PuG team that iddn't know how to go to a zone, insisted on TP because they chose flight and the 600 yards was TOO FAR AWAY and would take TOO LONG to go there (nevermind that during this argument, she would have been there. and 600 yards is covered in about 15 seconds, i've counted). But when i was around lvl 34, i had a pug team along with some regular friends i've played with, a SG mate, etc. CoT mission, inside their lovely caves. 6 of us total. We kept getting team wiped. One person's fire imps would go wild because he insisted on leading the charge, another would "accidentally" let loose a tornado, we were getting aggro of 3 mobs on average every encounter. Then one of them says "I really should get slots for my toon." I asked ... "You have no enhancements? How do you get to lvl 34 w/o enhancements??" His reply, he made that toon that day, and just got out of AE when i invited him to team. So, I kick him off the team. He's a useless toon, that is only causing aggro and getting us killed. His friend gets upset, i kick him too. So now we are down 2 people. 4 ppl in a six-man spawned CoT mission. And wouldn't you know it, we end up mopping the floor with them? No accidental aggro, perfect control, great damage, clearing mobs like NOTHING.

Oh, and my 50 blaster, that i still play on occasion, has turned into, quite unintentionally, into a blapper upon his last respec. Between my epic powers (self rez, fire shield), and the AoE powers i have, and that i have Short Circuit turned into an endurance SAP (and fast recharge, 2 of those, and anything lower than an AV is down to nothing). He has gone 1v1 with cyclops and Minotaurs, and lived. Somehow, i don't see the AE kiddies who hit 50 in a day or two being able to do that. Not when they still don't know what power does what, and do the button mash thing. Not when some people have their rest, sprint, brawl, and origin temp power in numbers 1-5, their attacks 6-0 and then the 2nd tray, and don't have the sense to reorganize.

This post turned out longer than planned ... but in short, I agree with the original poster. AE farming pisses me off to know end. It was meant for stories, got turned into farms, and nothing is being done about it. Take the XP earned, and make it into patrol XP. So the people have to go into the actual game world and play to get anywhere. After all, everything in AE is holograms right?

When people spam broadcasts (instead of using the AE channels that were CREATED) saying lvl 45 PB LFT in AE-park---- er, atlas park .... that's a problem.

That may be an update for the program that checks the server status. I do know when they page does indeed (somewhat) correctly show the current server status. Bare in mind, they may go up and down during the maintenance. Usually before its up officially, it'll be a few minutes of "unknown."

I remembered my mouse game a program that programmed the buttons, so i ended up making button4 and -5 into CTRL and ALT. Works great!

Thanks for replying :-)

Hello,
I've been trying to get my side buttons on my mouse, Button4 and Button5 as they are called ingame, to work like the Ctrl and Alt keys to activate my 2nd and 3rd tray when I use the number buttons. But... its not working. Either Button4 acts like button5 or visa-versa.
I tried editing the keybinds.txt, and i've tried doing it in the keybindings under options, which won't even let me use button4 or 5 in a combo. How the hell do I get this to work?

DOH, 6pm eastern.

Your avatar is frightening :-/

I could be very happy if many of the stone items in arcane had bottoms, so I could make stone floor (without using the stone blocks). Also, just stuff that already exists in game. The Teardrop shaped green crystal, for example. And .... to be able to rotate items at 45 degree angles, rather than 90.

Tuesday July 21st at 6pm, the Web of Destiny Supergroup will be hosting a Costume Contest at the feet of Galaxy Girl, in Galaxy City! There will be prizes, and if my SG is any indication, there will be comedy

How about LBx2.0 ?

My 50 blaster is an ele/fire, So like you Fulmens, Large group around tank, Nuk'em, swollow a little blue pill and then Consume from the survivors. I announce before hand i'm going to nuke, so that no one ends up scattering the enemies, and they know, i'm gonna be useless for a bit. And always, buildup before the nuke. And it really is satisfying to just watch the people shiver in electric shock, and then drop.

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I personally liked kicking the snot out of the Mitochondria AE grinding missions. Good exp and good influence.

News flash some people like to farm and it's fun for us.
You don't like it that's fine the gaming world does not revolve around you or me.

I pay my monthly fee I'll play how I want and personally I am sick of always running all over the zones to farm missions.


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Seems like your complaining about what the devs are doing to AE to curb the mindless xp exploits.

Also, true, you may pay to play and your play any way you want, but in the end, its not your game. Its the Developers' Game, and you'll play how they let you.

This just saved me a ton of trouble, and made my base so much easier to navigate (I was able to add extra storage racks to a room, on the 2nd floor, while freeing up the general clutter on the ground floor). The lamps and floor-tile trick is GREAT, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Oh O_O Guess i never noticed no one had images in their sigs. Ha, silly me >_> Thanks guys :P

Why is this not working?

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<ul type="square">[*]Supergroup Name: Web of Destiny[*]Website (if any): None at the moment.[*]Leaders: Ulfgeirr, Sexy Kitten[*]Recruiting: any member[*]Preferred Method of contact: Ingame /t or Ingame Mail.[*]Guild Description: A group of active players that prefer real missions and TF's, and teamwork, as apposed to AE and soloing.

We're an easy going group (cursing is fine, no hardcore weird rules), we expect you to be active though. No Trial accounts, minimum lvl 15 to join. Sense of humor required. We expect you to know how to play the game somewhat, so no Warshades in squid-form trying to tank .... (Yes, i've seen this).[/list]

Thank you

My Global is @Ulfsark ....

Hey,
I just recently started playing on Liberty. I have a question though; other servers have a channel meant for LFT/LFM, TF/SF, badge hunting etc etc etc, all rolled into one big channel (and usually mindless chatter too). I tried hunting for that on liberty, found two channels that almost seemed promising, but no one replied when i spoke in there. So, is there an active channel for Looking For Whatever type stuff?
Examples, Triumph has Triumph Watch 2.0 &amp; 2.1, Champion has BMT of Champion, albeit invite only.

I do know that the Champion is located in california, and I myself am in New Jersey. And I use a DSL connection.

This seems to be happening more frequently, and not just to me either.
Happened a bit on Triumph, but I recently moved to Champion, now its a common occurrence. To quote that ever versatile phrase...

WTF?

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Ulfsark