WanderingAries
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Quote:The positive being that the game continues to live. The world of MMOs was much smaller when this all started and now there is more than just the standard competition. CoX isn't as "pretty" as some of the newer games, nor does it have entire countries gold-farming on VIP-type accounts to keep its bottom line padded. No sacrifice is ever a joyful occasion.Originally Posted by Daia_
we're losing our language and some of our friends who don't speak english. and we should see more players on our serveur but i can't speak like I do with french people.
If Vigi Players wanted to see more players, they would create toon on another server.
So, negative: lost of our language, lost of some friends
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Quote:I just did some testing and have atleast confirmed some basics.Originally Posted by Kailure
The target for the launcher-created shortcut looks like this for me:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft\Launcher\NCLauncher.exe" /LaunchGame=CityOfHeroes
I tried adding to the end of it so that it looks like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft\Launcher\NCLauncher.exe" /LaunchGame=CityOfHeroes -screen 800 600
A black window of the correct dimensions shows up during the blue [Loading...] bar
Firstly, launcher game tags use the -GameTag format while the shortcuts use the /GameTag format. This is why you got that wierd error.
I tested the launcher properties and found that the -fullscreen 0 didn't seem to do anything as the game would load in an 800x600 window automatically. I attempted to use -windowed 1 and that gave a similar error that the -screen tag in the shortcut did earlier.
A ray of hope!
Try this on your shortcut:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft\Launcher\NCLauncher.exe" /LaunchGame=CityOfHeroes /screen 800 600
An odd note, Windows XP shortcuts don't require the quotations in the shortcut paths that you list here. Infact, I get an error when I tried it. Hopefully this solves your issue and gives us a better idea as to how to solve this stuff. Maybe an updated guide to the launcher shortcuts is in order? -
Quote:*snickers, goes to grab camera* this'll be cool :-pOriginally Posted by Zombie Man
Start with Skyway and map the tracks there.
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Honestly you'll likely find many people online during that time nomatter the server (granted the EU servers apparantly have smaller populations) as there are just as many people from around the world who play this game as there are U.S./EU players. I find it quite often that I'm speaking to someone from say Australia or even South America during the early AM hours EST on Pinn.
You might wanna give us an idea of the type of play you enjoy and how casual a gamer you are. Some people are hardwired to the game (I swear the RJ45's soldered to their spine) and others pop-in once a week/month. Another thing to look at is server load when you login. You don't even have to waste a character slot for this test. You can get a good idea as to how active the server is by looking at the color coded list during the time of day you wish to play. Red may be a bit much or just what you want. It really depends on your playstyle and lag tollerance. -
[QUOTE=Kid_Whip;4178035]@T_Immortalus: It could possibly be my mouse, since it started opening three firefox windows at once a few days after I first encountered this problem, but this computer won't recognize any other mouse.
Could you clarify a bit on this? Are they USB, wireless, BT? If you plug any USB device in (IE: wireless mouse dongle, jump drive, etc) does it recognize the event? -
Quote:ExactlyOriginally Posted by T_Immortalus
Well, other guides can go in "player questions". This one is specifically technical.
And, I know I always look for the technical forum whenever I have a technical question, not to mention all the posts I have seen asking "need advice on new gaming computer" here. -
Quote:From someone who's actually attempted to use google translate for realtime conversation, I can see how this would have caused issues from the start. That and the latter sounds alot like many programmers I've gone to school with.Originally Posted by Nos482
More like having to let the guy go who used google translate on the content... or simply deleted stuff he didn´t want to work on altogether.
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Quote:While I have no spawnage...I still likes!Originally Posted by Hit Streak
New featured items in the Paragon Market™!
Coming in April to the Paragon Market is a whole slew of new items for your characters to further customize and differentiate themselves with, as well as some unique items like we have never offered before!
Custom Power Set
Purchasing this item will get you a phone call from the designers at Paragon Studios who will walk you through the process of creating your very own customized power set of unimaginable power. You decide the Archetypes it works with, what attacks and buffs it has, and what the animations and effects are supposed to look like. Please allow up to 8 months for the power set to appear in the game.
Price: 750,000 Paragon Points
Babysitter
Want to get in that Shadow Shard Task Force without worry? Need someone to watch Junior while you blaze through the newest content update? Purchasing this will allow you to schedule a four or eight hour babysitting session where one of several Paragon Studios employees will come to your home and watch your little one(s) while you play City of Heroes. (Maximum four children and eight hours at a time).
Price: 250,000 Paragon Points for 4 hours, 450,000 PP for 8 hours
I can has 2 each? -
Go here and see if you can login. Once you get through that and can see your old account info, change your password to something you'll remember. Use this login info to get into the game making sure to choose the "link to account" option on the login screen (keeps character placement, etc).
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Quote:Go into the launcher, right click the game and there should be a "create shortcut" option after which you should be able to customize to the listed specs. I say this realizing you had already created a shortcut, but did not specify whether you followed these steps or created it on your own manually(drag/drop/make shortcut).Originally Posted by Kailure
My installation does not allow me to do that. When I try to use the shortcut, it says I must run it through the NCsoft launcher instead. Is there a way around that?
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I "think" this could be related to you not retaining VIP status. If you have the $15 and nobody else corrects me, then you could sub for a month and notice the major differences. I do know that there are a number of end-game type differences between VIP and Preem/Freem to encourage subs.
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if you're VIP, then there's a player weapons request thread in the devs section (can't remember right off my head atm).
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After you do all that run a scandisk using the "fix bad sectors" option checked on all drives so that it will check everything on the next boot. Hopefully the reformat cleared up the issue, but you never know.
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Quote:More like the Player Guides section is VIP only while this one is for anyone. Hense why I put My guides in here too.Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
Maybe we don't have a general technical support forum, so this is the first place people look for technical help, including building new computers.
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There's been some general UI issues since i22 (as usual), but it's possible that the "lock power trays" (I think it exists) option is selected.
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Quote:Because it wouldn't make sense to waste the effort and lead to confusion to those returning players who considered those as their Home servers.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
There are no plan to rename the servers or to remove the FR and DE tags.
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You'd be surprised what people have created in the base editor! Someone posted pics of a tank while another posted pictures of the Millenium Falcon. All you need is a little Dew and alot of time.
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Kheprera, I'd be willing to bet that if the devs put forth the effort to recode the bases and add more content, then there'd be an influx of players as I'm sure there are many that gave up over time due to things like storage changes and other stuff that my half asleep brain can't come up with atm. What many of us wouldn't give to have an issue dedicated to SGs/VGs/Bases. There was alot of excitement when CoV was released because of things like RAIDS and base customization. Sadly that's taken a backseat to things like AE and incarnate stuff (to name a few).
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Honestly I wouldn't even attempt to throw that much data into a zip file. I might trust it with an ISO (DVD backup file), but that's about it as all it takes is one bit to flip and the whole thing's dead.
EDIT: Remember, with every patch posted after the backup the game will need to be updated after migration. -
Quote:*snickers at hemispherical pun*Originally Posted by IronYeti
I don't know, but people in Australia seem to manage it just fine.
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something like this was mentioned elsewhere and apparantly a system BIOS update fixed the issue. Am tired so no links atm.
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The windows installation CD should be able to repair the boot manager files. Do a repair instead of an install.
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From a Resource-Logistics standpoint it makes sense. Not having to go through every line of new ingame text (as it gets updated) and translating it into multiple languages could lead to more effort being put forth to things like smoothing out actual ingame issues. It's annoying to those non-english native users, but like mentioned above there's a higher percentage of English speaking (native French/German speakers) than French/German speaking (native English speakers). Well, atleast in the U.S.A. that is.
As for Dark's suggestion, I'm pretty sure that's how it works now. The point of the post (that I got atleast) was that they're removing the ingame translation services while preserving native language tech support to VIPs. -
This has been mentioned elswhere in the forums as an issue that many players (and I'm sure the devs by now) have come across. Try clicking the "Link to Account" option on the new login screen(what could be the culprit).
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Quote:This is more especially true in the case of laptops as the heat distribution is not nearly as efficient as a desktop. For easy access/repair, RAM/Wifi Card/etc tend to be located in the same place on the board.Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
Glad you could find a solution.
I guess I pegged it right on with the overheating of the network hardware, even though I pointed to the wrong hardware.
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Actually, it's probably just failure due to general wear and tear over time. Network cards were, and mostly still are, onyl meant for web browsing and the occasional heavy demand, not prolonged heavy demand from a game that uses bandwidth fairly inefficiently.
Be wary of issues with your laptop though. They run hotter than desktops and have a tendency to shed the heat onto other components, resulting in failure faster than desktops.