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Hey, Doc. See you finally got out of the bottom of that trench...
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Chat chans are also dropping intermittently, and we're getting the character replacement glitch again, as well.
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I want a pony. With frickin' lazer beams.
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Individual channels are working intermittently, but global lists are dead. in addition, we haz new text error!
The chatsystem has taken to off-and-on replacing the string 'nd' with random letters. For example, jsut recently typing the sequence 'band bandage bandaid'r esulted in:
baar baarage baaraid
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Quote:I suspect, as someone else pointed out later, that it will be far closer to the second idea. For one thing, the data handling would be simpler, I imagine. For another XP is XP- whoEVER you're fighting, you're growing in experience and strength. You're becoming a more powerful character, not villain/hero/neutral.Originally Posted by Sir_Zane
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I think that when the trading places mechanics will be based on xp earned during "typed" missions. Currently, in the game missions are either labeled as "hero", "villan", or not meaning neutral.
When playing a character in Praetoria you earn in essence 3 different types of experience, Heroic, Villainous or Neutral. When you have earned enough of the one type to make the next level you can choose to train for that type. For example, a tank in Praetoria runs nothing but villainous missions and earns enough "red" bars to make level. He can go to a villanous trainer and train as a villain.
They can either make it so that there are three running totals A red xp bar and a blue xp bar as well as the neutral xp bar or a tug -of- war type like the PVP Zones.
I anticipate a single sliding scale that keeps track of hero and villain 'points' for lack of a better term, with neutrals perhaps counting to move you back towards the center but not beyond it in either direction.
It would be nice if your position on this scale determines what contacts are available to you, but obviously i have no idea if that's possible in the system the devs have envisioned and built.
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But if it DIDN'T, then
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Quote:Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe
I also can't connect after the patch. I even turned off my firewall completely and tried it.
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Either run in windowed mode (which kinda sucks) Or add -compatiblecursors 1 to the end of your shortcut.
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Quote:My experience has been that they are pretty regularly back up well before the 2-hour window has expired. Not /always/, but with fair regularityOriginally Posted by RoomTempSC
I used to not mind the server update days...back when they started earlier and they came back even remotely on time. If tried to tell my Director that I wanted to take down customer-oriented servers on the schedule that they do here, he'd laugh and tell me to get my team's tails into the office earlier and remember the concept of customer service. Its just sad.
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Monday and Friday mornings have ALWAYS been server maint times, from 9-ca 11 Am Eastern. That's well-known to the community, and expected. And they announce in-game that the servers are going down, starting 1/2 an hour before. *And* somewhere in the mess of forums there is, in fact, a statement of regular maintainence times.
So calm down.
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Manticore: Spoiled rich kid who has trouble w/authority looking for hot young chick to ooh and ahh over his collection of high-tech toys. Must like playing with pointy things; no red/white/blue outfits, please.
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...romantic invasions? Sounds hawwwwwwwt.
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...and an MMORPG w/o the basic social tools is...uh...what? an...O...RPG?
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Global channels are on a different server, they are a bit slow to come up at times.
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So, could someone tell me what is the best item to use as a floor? What can you use that you cannot see through from the bottom??
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If you want a more sewery or castle feel, you can also use the various sizes of stone blocks from the arcane set. The ones *named* x stone block only- the ornamented tables, altars and things have no bottom texture. ATM there is nothing really 'metallic' that has a bottom texture, AFAIK.
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Or until the world
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Oh for God's sake. I served in the Marine Corps as an AAV crew chief (1833) and small wpns repairman for 8 years, and I could give a crap less what someone calls me. Former Marine, Ex-Marine, old jarhead, defender of our freedoms, that old cranky guy; none of it matters. Usually the people that repeat this old bit of fiction were never in the military and are attempting to gain some sort of celebrity-by-assocation, IMO. Either that or they have a stick up their a** that the First Sergeant needs to remove.
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This can be avoided by running in windowed mode, though that CAN make your screen res a bit odd. There's also a -compatiblecursors1 switch you can add to your shortcut, but for me I find it crashes the game under Vista. So I'm stuck with window mode.
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$20 says the new animations for MA are simply a mixed bag of copy/pasted melee sets.
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Even that would be an improvement over 'kick-kick-kick-kick...oyah COBRA! - kick-kick...brawl.'
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KK...this is not EXACTLY what I remembered, which might be my bad, but this is from a different transcript, and is missing some stuff I seem to remember being there.
From:
http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showfl...part=3&vc=1
04-28-2009 18:33:30 [Local] Sicari: Can we expect to see mor epower proliferation in new issues to come?
04-28-2009 18:33:34 [Local] Positron: Demon Summoning? Dual Pistols?
But please note that the question was asked and answered in the context of PROLIFERATION, IN FUTURE ISSUES, not in paid expansions.
As I said before- an implication, perhaps unintentional, and thus dangerous to argue from.
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It was also a dev who strongly implied (in the European fora) that DP/Demon summoning would be in I16, and NOT in a paid expansion.
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On the road, can't find it right now. About...gah 2 months ago? In an interview, question was asked about possible new powersets. DP and DS were mentioned. Little further down, question was asked about possible sets *in I16*. Response was 'didn't I just mention DP and DS.'
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At least they ANNOUNCED it in advance this time.
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AE buildings out of Atlas, Galaxy and King's Row, yesterday.
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Um...no. I for one don't care if I EVER have to run the lowb blueside content again. Frankly, sprinting through red zones and 'go talk to someone in the Hollows...because we want to show it off' have long since passed the level of boring, and entered the realm of ZOMGnotagain.
There IS the sewer team option of course- ie, turning an MMORP into essentially an MMO3PS. Go hunt. Mow down mobs. Rinse and repeat. *YAWN*
Even though 99.6% of everything on the MA system at the moment is utter worthless crap, the other minute amount of content is enough to make blueside playable again for me at low levels and, I suspect, for many other folks.
I just wish they'd put the REDSIDE Mercy one in a more-accessible spot. But of course, the devs hate redside
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I've even had it on rare occasions when swapping toons. I'll start to type in my password or my other acc't name, and it will insert gibberish.