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I'll stick with my earlier suggestion to add a small +res or +def to all but psi for every target hit with Energy drain. Make it work just like that almost identical power in Ice Armor. Hell you could even make that taunt the targets hit too.

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I didn't see that they fixed the character select screen yet. I can't seem to get mine to retain the order I arrange them in, even with my "remember account name" box checked.

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you may want to check the permissions set on the folder the game is in. Since the game creates a new folder named the same as your accout and a new file is created in that folder with the order your characters are in. If for some reason the game does not have full read/write permissions it can't save your character order settings.

I ran into this issue with Vista. but it's possible to have it with XP and 2000

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I only noticed one tinny lil problem....you marked June 20th as the beging of summer. isn't it supposed to be the 21st.

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This year, summer starts on June 20th.

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The catch this year is that the actual solstice is at midnight GMT on the 21st. Which makes it 3pm on the 20th here on the west coast.

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No it can't it mussen't....my birthday is supposed to be the first day of summer...not the day after....

/em raises fist

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!

*hangs head*

fine you win

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Move to England?

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nah, I like soCal

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I only noticed one tinny lil problem....you marked June 20th as the beging of summer. isn't it supposed to be the 21st.

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This year, summer starts on June 20th.

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The catch this year is that the actual solstice is at midnight GMT on the 21st. Which makes it 3pm on the 20th here on the west coast.

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No it can't it mussen't....my birthday is supposed to be the first day of summer...not the day after....

/em raises fist

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!

*hangs head*

fine you win

I only noticed one tinny lil problem....you marked June 20th as the beging of summer. isn't it supposed to be the 21st.

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So....since you're answering all sorts of other questions Lighthouse, what about being able to transfer across accounts under the same master NC account with this? If you don't know, just an 'I don't know' would be nice so we know at least someone's reading the posts and know its a concern

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We're aware of the desire for cross account transfers. However I don't have any public statement on it, nor would I hazard a guess if or when or under what conditions it would be implemented.

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That way lies madness.

Imagine the possible DOOM. One player steals a character from someone else's account to their own. Characters either lose or unfairly gain Veteran Rewards. Players buy old accounts and transfer their best characters to it, in order to gain the advanced Vet rewards. Players circumvent account bans. Players trade characters, but one of them cheats on the deal and the otheer gets a crappy character or less loot/cash than they bargained for.

Worst of all - far more players would be tempted to subscribe to PLing websites. Most people don't buy levels from websites because handing out their account password jeopardises any other characters they own on (and of course the account itself).

If the websites could PL their own characters, on their own accounts, to level 50 and THEN transfer those characters to anyone who paid enough cash...that would just be catastrophic. With renaming and server transfers now set up, there would be nothing to stop a rich kid buying instant level 50 toons, over and over, with no risk.

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Eh? None of that can possibly happen if NC restricts the moving of characters to accounts that are under the same master account.

For example, I have 2 City of accounts under my master login. I can't sell one of those accounts because I'd have to then share my master login with another person who could then steal the other account - all they'd have to do is change the passwords. Oh, and then they can get a chunk of my credit card info, too.

Honestly, I think moving characters from account to account with the master account restriction is a great idea. Many people get their spouses/parents/kids involved by letting them try on their own account, but are then forced to reroll when they buy a second.

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if they were to make account to account character transfers possible, they would more than likely make it so that you can only do that between accounts that are part of the same master account.

on the same note if they were to allow it between any account I'm fairly certin there will be a disclaimer reliving NCNC of any transfers or tades wtih other people that don't go the way the user expects it too

I'm having spasims of joy

*hugs his new empty slots*

can i put them in now, pwease

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I'm only being half-sarcastic, b/c there really is a disturbing number of people that this appeals to.
...And also b/c alt-tabbing out to C.o.data is a real PitA for a game that uses as many resources as this one, and I already play it in windowed mode! (hey maybe they can do something about that next? ...a little RAM optimization never hurt anyone except for the guys who make their money selling RAM)

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I don't understand this 'alt-tab' you speak of.. at the Valley house we use ctrl-f12 to task-switch to Firefox on Ubuntu, and at Home, I just mouse over past the edge of the CoH window.

resource wise, CoH is lightweight. Excuse me while I order another 4gb of ram - I'm going to try and play Crysis again.

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Alt+tab is the keyboard command to switch tasks or programs in Windows. When running the game in full screen mode, assuming you have one monitor you need to use Alt+tab to switch between the game and a browser window

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I see steampunk in the list of costume sets. I wonder does this mean we finnaly get boots and gloves that match the pants and chest for that set O.O

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Don't we have gloves? Like, the super-big ones?

Boots, though. That'd be nice.

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good point I forgot about the Giant Robot fist has a steampunk option. but I was refering to something that would go on all the other glove options as well.

and deffinitly the boots

I see steampunk in the list of costume sets. I wonder does this mean we finnaly get boots and gloves that match the pants and chest for that set O.O

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I mean sure Earth is good but its kinda... ugly...

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I've wanted to change the way earth-control looks for so long...

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Just compared to Plant and Therm is so ugly. I guess thats why I wanted Ill more, its not so visually hideous.

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If villains get Illusion, most likely it will wind up looking like Malaise's Dark Illusion.

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and it'll be a Mastermind primary =O

Personly I'm a little dissapointed that tanks or scrappers didn't get elec melee and elec armor. I was looking forward to rerolling my will/em tank to an elec/elec scrapper or elec/em tank.

ofcourse now i have to decide if I really want to reroll my grav/em dom to a grav/el dom or not.

lol

the LEB from the dumpster was the best!

I love me power thrust!

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Well They're rapidly running out of time if they wish to release I11 in Fall of 07 instead of Winter.

So is it Fall or Winter for Issue 11?

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Winter begins Dec 21. It's all Fall up until then.

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what he said

da...er...um...*head explodes*

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Link to official myspace page.



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thanks Ex.

I must have missed the post that is an annoucement with a linky to the CoH Myspace page...so since my myspace search foo sucks. what the hell is the link to the CoH myspace page so the rest of us myspace illiterates can find it

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Cameos begin!

Cameos conclude!

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I have a feeling that Castle really is like that in the office >.>

V want download comics now!...make 'em put them on the download page

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I used to get together with some friends once a week at a local Chili's to discuss our results/plans for the turn of Middle Earth Play by Mail wargame we were on. Imagine a couple guys in suits and ties, and a couple guys in T-shirts & shorts, all with briefcases sitting around eating chips, and discussing how best to assassinate the Witch-King of Angmar and mobilize troops to protect the southern flank of the Greenwood from the Dog Lords heavy cavalary.

I think we got the best looks when we pulled out the full size grid maps of middle earth and began putting pins and markers out to plot troop movements.

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that's not as bad as sittign in a crowded bar with a half empty pitcher of beer talking about this game...or maybe it is

oh that's what those big doors are for...

the DE just kinda disapear in the hive whe hami spawns

ya know Bill, you or I and other poeple in this game maybe well of enough in our knoledge of game stratagies our characters abilities to not need a Shiv or WB nuke to complete every task we set out for in this game.

What you half to consider is not everyone that plays spends most everyday playing or may not be as good of a player as we are. Now who are you to say that someone that doesn't have the same skills in playing that you do can't be able to go run off to a PvP zone take 20 mins to an hour avoiding [censored] in a PvP zone to get a very nice limited use temp power.

As far as the RSF and STF are concerned SHivs and Nukes just make that last mission go so much more fast. There are alot of poeple out there that don't want to sit and try to pull or make rush after rush of all them AV's making that last mission take hours. And hell Shivs still don't mean your gonna get all of them in one shot.

for the record I only use shivs on the RSF at this point.

I just did a run on the STF...Not one of the AV's defeated dropped a +3 SO. I really hope that's not how it should be

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I'm of the opinion that defiance damage should be a separate floating number, like criticals. That way, blasters can actually see the defiance boost in a way more psychologically satisfying (and perhaps a bit more obviously). This was done recently for defense: the various "dodged" and "deflected" messages which show that defense is actually "working" were added purely to give a psychological boost to the visibility of defense. Defiance damage should probably get similar treatment.

*Especially* since defiance is one part numerical buff, and three parts psychological buff, its important to make sure its highly visible to get the psychological boost its intended to provide.

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nice number crunching.

personaly i'm of the opinion that more AT's need to get big words that appear over targets heads when their inherent does something. Like haveing Defied float over the targets head when a blaster hits them with less than 40% health or something to that nature.

In my playing of blasters, i have 3, i've noticed that in the high level game (30+) defiance seems more trivial and not used so much since i seem to have a higher average health. And in most cases targets die faster than they can damage me. while at the lower levels fights can be drawn out and more dmg taken. even to a point close to death where i manage to hit that last minnion with defiance at 99% and defeat him with one shot.