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Quote:*blinks*Originally Posted by Nibb_Nibb
I'm highly disappointed to hear City of Heroes does not support Eyefinity. While I didn't pick and choose my system upgrade solely on CoX, it's quite a blow to see the game lacking in a feature so many of its competitors support.
Um. First thing Nibb. City of Heroes doesn't currently support Eyefinity. It's also using a graphics engine that's approaching 6+ years of age. Just because CoH doesn't support Eyefinity now DOES NOT mean that support won't be arriving with Ultra Mode. As stated in a couple threads, this issue has only really been brought to the developers attention within the past couple of weeks, and it will take time for Television and others involved at the coding level to rework default aspect ratios and field of views to be consistent across player resolutions.
You could also make the point here that Matrox sold Parhelia graphics cards based on it's triple-screen abilities back in 2002 and 2003. It's featured game was the PvP-Online title, Unreal Tournament.Quote:The idea PvP wouldn't be "balanced" by this sort of technology is laughable; borderline insulting. If that was the case, everyone should be forced to play on Minimum graphics setting to assure everyone has the same viewing distance.
The concept that a game should be limited for pvp-play reasons is insulting, which is why HardOCP and other gamer-centric sites have called for a boycott of Global Agenda.
However, using PvP as a reason for anything in City of Heroes is laughable in and of itself. It is possible that the development staff back in 2005, when Issue 4: Colosseum landed, thought that PvP play was going to become a centric part of the City of Heroes game. I seriously doubt that any of the surviving 15 had any clue that the PvP content would end up being the equivalent of a mill-stone tied around the necks of development resources.
... read the first part of this post again. 6 year old graphics engine, and yes the development staff is aware of the issue. Again, it's going to take time for proper multi-monitor support to be implemented.Quote:What seems quite a bit more plausible is the CoX cannot support this technology for whatever reason. I know the Devs have commented that they are going to need video card manufacturer's support for SLI / Crossfire technology, but this is completely different. I'd love to see a Dev stumble in here and let us know if Eyefinity (or other similar tech) ever plans to be supported. -
While Electric Lamb Orchastra has some potential... if only to cause BaB's AND Castle to both post that infinity face-palming picture...
The very real problem with something like Elastic Limbs is that the game treats all characters as a bubble relative to their surroundings. Avatars in the game don't actually touch other enemies. This animation / bubble effect scaling can be witnessed in sets like Mental Manipulation, where Mind Probe on a short avatar looks really naughty when performed against a tall avatar. The effect can also be seen giant monsters where visible effects applied to pets are animated against the size of the rendered critter.... so if you immobilize say, Lusca, with stone cages... you have drastically oversized stone objects everywhere.
Players are deliberately decoupled from critter visual effects in order to save not just on network bandwidth, but system bandwidth and processing performance as well. If the game had to transmit per-player hit zones on multiple enemy critters, the sheer amount of information needed would make the game unplayable even on the fastest residential cable connections. This is why most games that wind up featuring pixel-perfect hit detection, like games based on Unreal Engine 3 or ID Tech 4 / Tech 5... tend to have a limited number of multiplayer spots available. To date, the only game that has made a hybrid of client-side and server side detection work in an MMO enviroment is Planetside... and as anybody whose been on the receiving end of 6 Jackhammer shots in a row from one NC player can tell you... it didn't exactly work perfectly.
Okay, in fairness, some commercial fiber connections probably could handle the sustained network performance needed to run a fully physics enabled, client side hit detection, and animation modification / deformation in real time.
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Credit to Wonderslug and CapNGeist for this horrendously bad, yet excellent idea:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...37&postcount=4
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...19&postcount=6
The concept of Electric Lamb Orchestra is that you control some over-muscled farm-yard sheep... transformed into your 2 legged monstrosities by MAD SCIENCE! or improper application of Mutant Miracle Grow.
The first tier pets are the Electric Lambs. The first two summoned Tier-1 pets pulled run around and use their static wool to shock enemies into submission. Like the Thugs set, the final Tier-1 pet changes up the pattern. Instead of a Sheep with minor electric melee, you get a Tier-1 pet with a minor sleep effect and a stun component.
The second tier pets are the Rams: Big Bruisers, they wade into a battle and hit hard, similar to the Grave Knights from the Necromancy Set.
The third Tier Pet cues off Necromancy and Ninja, with a pet utilizing Electric Assault.
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For the power upgrades and attacks... bring forth the guitar! Wail away on an electric guitar to charge up your pets and blast the eardrums of your enemies! It's like Sonic Attack! But with a Guitar!
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Okay. Yes. This was supposed to be a joke. And yes, making a Mastermind that plays a guitar is probably going to be too much work for the payoff... and two legged mutant sheep? Really? Did somebody spike my morning milk with Catnip?
That being said, I actually like the idea just for the sheer hilariousness of it. I love the concept of a figure in a trenchcoat pulling out a guitar, starring down an opponent... then calling SHEEP to attack! I love the idea of bringing a sonic effect to the Mastermind primaries... and I love the idea of a set that's a deliberate pun on Electric Light Orchestra. -
Umbral: Don't make the mistake of saying something to the effect of "The only way I'll support this (insert really bad idea here)"
The basic problem is that several players who come up with the really bad ideas take this as justification that something in the really bad idea is worth expounding on or continuing to push for. It doesn't matter if it's just one teensy tiny detail... maybe even a threadjack... some just accept it as proof that they were right all along.
This particular suggestion, the idea of using a Costume Effect to expand Gameplay effect is just one suggestion that's just badly thought out from the beginning, as you've done an excellent job of pointing out. Lets just end it there. -
that's why there are other servers.
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Quote:*scampers in and Dive-Pounces Detra's Cleavage!*Originally Posted by NekoAli
ugh, Monday. Another fitful night of sleep for me, ending up with my waking up at way to early o'clock when I couldn't get back to sleep. So now I sit here, working, feeling all tired and bleh.
Double XP was good for me. I made a DP/Device blaster named Grindhouse Katt and got her to level 11. Then a Necromancy/Pain domination Mastermind named Doctor Zauberei (actual a remake of an old character) and got her to 8. So I'm happy with that.
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Quote:back to ATi.Originally Posted by Mallard
Geez. It was drivers that drove me from Matrox to ATI, and drivers that drove me from ATI to nVidia.
Where to go now?
The driver program has radically changed in the past several years from the detonating disaster that accompanied the Radeon 7000 and 8000 series cards. It's one of the reasons why I get all confused when somebody says ATi is the one with the driver issues. The recent 9.12 release aside, Nvidia's the one with the reputation for bugged out drivers... and to AMD's credit, they had a hotfix out for the 9.12 bungle pretty quickly. -
probably because it's a game and it uses as many processing cycles as it can possibly use.
Okay, I know that's a smart alec response, and I know what you are getting at. You are thinking something along the lines of... "hey, I have a dual-core Socket AM3 processor from AMD with a high clock speed, loads of ram, and pretty powerful graphics card... surely this thing is going to be fast enough to play my graphics intensive 3D game, burn a DVD movie, rip my audio CD's to FLAC, and print out my 500 page essay on the living habits of the South American BotFly... all at the same time."
Well, the reality is... modern computer operating system's don't quite... operate like that. Most applications applications are, in general, not given fixed limitations on how many resources they can take up, or how many resources they use. Most applications will automatically use every bit of resources that is available to them, and simply leave the sorting out of those resources to the Operating System.
If you really are interested in the theory and implementation of how an Operating System and applications handle available resources, head over to http://www.kerneltrap.org/ and do a search for scheduler: http://www.kerneltrap.org/search/node/scheduler
You are pretty much looking for emails involving Con-(man) Kolivas, and his interactions with other Linux Kernel maintainers like Andrew Morton, Alan Cox, and Ingo Molnar over the Completely Fair Scheduler... and then more recent discussions about this topic can be found at http://lkml.org/ when looking up the BF-scheduler. And yes, I know what BF stands for. It's also why I have more respect for Jack Emmert than I do Con Kolivas.
You'd also want to look into assigning processing priority: again, the theory and implementation of processing priority can be found by looking up the *nix nice / renice
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If you aren't really interested in the details on why a single application can take up so much of a processors reported power output... here's the short version:
Microsoft has been on a slow process to emulate a *nix type operating system with it's WinNT operating system for several years now. Among the improvements to the WinNT 6 kernel systems are changes that allow programs to better utilize available resources.
Games, at least under the latest updates to WinNT 6, are automatically given a higher processing priority by the WIndows system, allowing the game to take up more of the available resources.
What this means is that City of Heroes is taking up 90% of your processing power because it can take up 90% of your processing power. -
Quote:What country are you in? Reason why I ask is that $132-$140 US Dollars is about what you should be paying for one of the GTS 250's... the die-shrunk versions of the 9800 GTX. (the 9800 GT is the weaker version)Originally Posted by Quinch
Since my original card is dying {well, technically it's just the fan that's giving out, but since I'll be out shopping for replacement anyway...}, I just thought to check - is $107 a passable price for a "nVidia XFX 9600GT 512Mb DDR3 650M with native HDMI"?
Or, given that hardware upgrades aren't frequent for me, would I get better value {mid-to-long term} for a 9800GT at $132?
Only, the site you listed... doesn't seem to be an American site. A quick search tells me that what I think is kn money signature is supposed to belong to Croatia.
Honestly, if you are in the (USD) $130 market though... well, you are just about $10 shy of where the RadeonHD 5750 sits right now... and it's pretty much fast enough to run DX11 / OpenGL 3.2 features in 1440x900 and 1680x1050 with playable frame-rates. That's really your best bang for buck buy if you have to buy right now... at least in the US.
Since I'm not really sure what I'm looking at on the Diskont site, nor how to properly convert the money, I couldn't tell you if you are getting ripped off on what look like the prices. -
Quote:heh.Originally Posted by Lycanus
yes, and can you tell me how you're getting things smaller?
couple of ways to do it.
The first, and older way, is to host two images on your original image server. One original size image, and one image that's scaled down. Use an external program like GIMP to resize the image and scale it down.
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The second way is pretty much the same as first... Google's Picasa Image hosting service automatically scales an image down for linking in 144pixel, 288pixel, 400pixel, and 800pixel wide formats.
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Once you have your two images:
You link the smaller image to the forum post, then wrap a URL link around the image to make a link if somebody wants the larger image size.
So the structure is <url>original image here<img>smaller image here</img></url>
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So, what I did is:
save your original Deviant Art image to my hard-drive
uploaded it to Google Picasa Web
selected the 800pixel wide google image as the physical image in my post
listed your original Deviant Art image as the to-link URL object.
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As a caveat, as of right now, Picasaweb doesn't allow you to assign a direct large size image link. If you want to see the larger version of an image on Picasaweb, you have to use Google's rather obtuse image scaling system. -
These don't stack.
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*makes a note to link this thread the next time somebody brings up a server merge*
One of the basic problems with CoH's server system is that the more "popular" servers get more players because they are popular. New or recently joined players login, and see a server list that's largely green across the board. Then, on Friday or Saturday night, they might see Virtue or Freedom turn in a yellow or red signal.
Ergo, new or recently joined players head to Virtue and Freedom because they obviously have the highest population, and therefore will automatically bring about a better gaming experience.
The flipside to this is that trolls also understand that servers with higher usage ratings also draw a higher average number of players. Thus, the type of people who frequent... say... 4chan... somethingaweful... or ebaumsworld... well. They basically log into the most popular server(s) because they know they have the highest chance of successfully finding somebody to torque off.
Atlas Park is especially vulnerable as it's the first choice for new players out of training. For those who have been playing the game, it also offers a nice gathering point under Atlas, and has various services like the Auction House.
So, players out looking to make trouble are pretty much going to hit Freedom and Virtue AP's first.
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Now, I'm not saying this doesn't happen on other servers. It does. Atlas Park broadcast tends to be filled with some of the most... I don't want to say stupid because it's insulting to stupid... and I can't say what I want to say since the people who think this kind of trolling is funny or worth doing are a lot like the current majority party in ... I can't finish that sentence either without causing Ocho to have to drop by...
Anyways. This sort of visual / verbal tripe pretty much happens all the time in Atlas Park, it's just more noticeable on Freedom and Virtue.
It's also more noticeable on the Blue Side because of CoV's... well, less than perfect map designs. CoV's lack of of a convenient gathering point has been discussed multiple times in multiple threads. -
Quote:... do yourself a favor. read my entire posts. You missed this line:Originally Posted by Laevateinn
Wrong. Ranged/Aoe and Energy/Negative/Fire/Cold tends to be pretty cheap to get, while Melee and Smashing/Lethal is comparatively expensive (and even then there are usually budget options). Kinetic Combat is expensive because it's a huge S/L defense bonus for just 4 slots, making it incredibly slot-efficient and well worth the huge pricetag it commands.
So... lesse. Scrapper... brute... tank... stalker... Hmm. these are melee types aren't they? Who benefit most from being within melee range... where the most common damage types are... melee, smashing, and lethal!Quote:Since defense boosting IO sets; or more preciously the defense boosting IO sets that can be used in the powers you can get as a scrapper, brute, tank, or stalker; are so expensive to purchase and are so rare to drop...
Cool, I had already covered what you thought I hadn't covered. -
Quote:hey, at least I didn't break the forums like the original poster of that... atrocity!Originally Posted by Shuriken_BladeX
EW!!!!
Please take this off the thread.
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This sounds suspiciously like a corrupted user profile.
Click on the start menu, then type the following command into the search box: control USERPASSWORDS2
Hit enter and this should bring you up to the system User Accounts. Create a new user through here (not through the Control Panel's jacked up User Account GUI).
Also, check the box listed as Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer
This will force you to have to login manually. Login with the newly created user, and check to see whether or not you can log off / restart normally.
If you can, your wife's profile has been corrupted.
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Your best bet from this point is to save her data files, then use the User Accounts to delete the old account.
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Quote:City of Heroes uses the OpenGL API for graphics. It does not use DirectX.Originally Posted by Back_Blast
Well the system specs for CoX do mention DX9 but those specs are pretty old. Also, I think it has been mentioned they are using OpenGL in order to support Mac clients since they don't/can't use DX so far as I know. So I'd expect OpenGL is the key tech for CoX now and for the future GR and UM stuff. But I can't prove any of it.
Currently the only DirectX technology known to be used by the game is for the sound interfaces, however the question has been raised of a conversion to OpenSL ES (Khronos Specification) or OpenAL (Creative specification).
You wouldn't find anything about DirectX 10 because the game does not utilize the DirectX 10 API. The only information you'll probably see on DirectX is that it's a multi-billion dollar mistake for the gaming industry.Quote:just wondering, has it been confirmed in some way that directx 10+ are not used in ultra mode? a forum search suggested opengl was being used to implement it, but nothing redname popped out at me.
i only ask as i idly consider upgrading from xp and dx 9.c to win7 and dx 11 with a 5870 (that will likely be cheaper in 4-6 mos/rogue range for this and other games).
thanks for all the info spread throughout the thread so far.
As OpenGL is crossplatform you will have the same image quality regardless of what Operating System you use, as long as the OpenGL calls used are supported. -
okay. Is this the closed test server you are having problems with?
Or is this the live server?
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he seriously wants tails like... THIS???
Didn't we already HAVE a thread about how horrible CO's tails were?
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I'm pretty confident in saying that pool power customization probably isn't going to be in Issue 17 for a couple reasons.
Let's ignore the I17 announcement, which does say more stuff than what's listed is coming: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=208864
Instead, take a look at these entries from Back Alley Brawler:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...2&postcount=19
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...45&postcount=3
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=503
Mr. Bruce explicitly stated last November the following:
Quote:So, we know for certain that development resources are going to need to be freed up. We also know for certain that those development resources were not available last year. We also know for certain that those development resources were not going to be available until Going Rogue shipped.All of them would happen after Pool power customization, and that isn't likely to happen anytime before Going Rogue gets wrapped up (requires tech and UI work).
We also know this year that Going Rogue won't be released until July. We know that there is an interim release of Issue 17 made up of (what was probably) the free issue expected to coincide with Going Rogue to begin with. We therefor know for certain that everything that is in Issue 17 was content or features that were already in development as of last November.
Thus, we know for certain that power pool customization can't be in Issue 17. There's been absolutely no time for the development staff to work on expanding and modifying the underlying engine resources and UI resources to make pool powers customizable.
Now, it is possible... but unlikely that the development resources taken up in Issue 17 could be tasked to work on Pool Power Customization after I17 launches. I say unlikely because Ultra Mode is a fairly large feature. The guess by many players is that Paragon Studios is trying to get Ultra Mode out in time to make sure that it's working across the widest range of possible systems before Going Rogue hits.
It's also likely that the engineers and coders tasked with I17's content and features will be retasked to focus on polishing up Going Rogue in addition to fixing and addressing issues / bugs with the underlying game.
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http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=14
Quote:I don't think the 196 Nvidia Linux drivers had any time to propagate through to any distributions... as best as I can tell, it's release was just about 4 days ago. So unless you were installing directly, this particular issue shouldn't be too widespread.We believe recent NVIDIA UNIX graphics drivers, 195.36.08 and 195.36.03, are also affected by this. Until the problem is resolved, we recommend that UNIX users revert to the 190.53 web release or the 195.30 public beta.
We are in the process of removing 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 from NVIDIA's FTP site.
We will post more information as it is available. -
Quote:yes and no.Originally Posted by Sylem2k
thank you and sorry my English is not good ,
2nd, I was not trying to be mean...
Is it pointless to pass 45% defense?
Yes, you can easily pass 45% defense with Super Reflexes as a base power set, and yes, there are some enemy groups in the game that can knock your flat on your rump no matter what your defense level is. (cough, Rularuu, cough)
One of the design problems with Super Reflexes, and it's a choice shared by other defensive only sets like Ice Armor or Energy Aura, is that these sets offer little to no damage resistance. This means that if something is able to hit through your armor, it's going to hit for pretty much what is full damage. (as a note, this isn't actually a problem. This is an intentional design choice to keep defensive builds from being overpowered. )
Thus, the more defense you have, the more likely it is that you will not be spending a lot of your time memorizing the floor pattern of the hospitals in the game.
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That being said, as indicated in my previous post, IO sets that boost defenses are expensive to buy at the Auction Houses. One of the more popular sets, Kinetic Combat, tends to run into 8 digit figures, and I've seen some sales top 9 digits. With that kind of money output, you'll either need to farm a lot, or get really lucky with recipe drops you can sell for money. Speaking for myself, I can count on one hand the number of Kinetic Combat drops I have received since the IO system was first launched.
Since defense boosting IO sets; or more preciously the defense boosting IO sets that can be used in the powers you can get as a scrapper, brute, tank, or stalker; are so expensive to purchase and are so rare to drop... it's very possible you won't be able to come up with the in-game influence or merits to Soft-Cap your build for months, if not literal years.
It is due to this time / cost factor that many players settle for just getting to 45%. It just isn't worth the trouble to go beyond the base soft-cap.
There's also another little problem that many players run into. An Empath, Force Field, or Cold Domination buffer can put a Super Reflexes at positional soft cap too... and for that you just need a second player. -
Quote:In City of Heroes there are limits on how much a power can be improved. A Hard cap is the game encoded limit, at which point a power can no longer be improved by any means.Originally Posted by Sylem2k
i now havea Dark melle / super Refelxing scarpper
and i hear sumthing about soft caping def can anyone help me out on what this means?
now im lvl 23
One example of the Hard-Cap is the Rule of 5. You can only have 5 bonus's from an IO set or a non-unique proc. So if you have 5 sets of crushing impact, you have reached the hard-cap on 7% accuracy bonus's. Any more IO sets that have a 7% boost will not benefit that particular boost.
A soft cap the game limit at which point the power can no longer be usefully improved, or further improvements serve no real effect.
One example of the soft cap is the Rule of 3 for single type enhancements. Most powers are close to maximum effect boost with just 3 Single Origin Enhancements. If you slot a 4th Single Origin Enhancement, it's benefit is greatly reduced.
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With Defense buffs, the hard cap, at which point no more defense will help you, is pretty high. At level 50, you'll need to pop several purple inspirations to reach the hard-coded cap.
However, the soft-cap for defense is around 40~45%. Once you reach this percentage in your combat attributes, most enemies will simply miss you.
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Super Reflexes is popular for soft-capped defense builds for three reasons.
First, it's defenses are positional, not typed. This means that you dodge attacks based on where they come from, not what kind of attacks they are. The positional attacks are: Area of Affect, Ranged, and Melee. Compared to other armor sets this gives you a wider range of versatility. Super Reflexes doesn't really have a defense hole accept against the very rare non-positional attack.
Second, the base defense values are pretty high. Each positional gets a base 13.88% defense + 5.63% defense. If you cap the affect of each power, you'll be pushing 28% base defense to ranged, melee, and AOE attacks. (13.88+50% =20.82 :: 5.63+50%=8.445)
Super Reflexes also gets a high percentage of Defense Debuff Resistance. Basically, Defense Debuff Resistance means that enemies have to apply more debuffs to have the same effect. My Super Reflexes Stalker, for example, has 78.75% Defense Debuff resistance. This means that most common mobs will have a hard-time wearing down your defense at low levels... and at high levels, even Cimerorans will struggle to put a dent in Super Reflexes.
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With high positional defense values, and more importantly, resistance to defense debuffs, Super Reflexes is a prime candidate for reaching Soft-cap with IO's.
Certain IO sets give benefits to positional damage. If you focus on using IO sets with melee, ranged, and AOE defense buffs you can easily hit 45% defense ratings relatively cheaply*.
*relatively cheaply defined as: You are in the Zig. You just dropped the soap. Hopkins is your shower-mate. Shortly to be dropping the word: Shower. -
Quote:you... do... know that the developers have been busy working on a complete new expansion for the game... right?Originally Posted by MEdelen
I was looking at the dev digest and I noticed, it's been months since a dev or moderator has posted anything in the other forums. Especially the training room, or player questions. Only the devs truly can answer player questions since the players don't know what this game can and cant do due to engine and software limitations. One dev actually posted an Ask a Dev thread, and got 3 pages of questions with not one answer. Why ask a dev if there will be no answer.
Look through the other sections of this forum, go to the development section, answer the questions in ask a dev. That was just a slap in the face to tell us to ask you a question and never answer any of them. -
Okay. Sev. couple of notes.
NIC stands for: Network Interface ControllerIt is the physical connection in your computer that you connect to the internet with.
Second: you can't disable the Firewall in a Modem / Router.A Router uses technology called Network Address Translation, or N.A.T. for short. N.A.T. is what separates and directs information from the internet side of the router to the separate computers on the computer's side of the routers.
Third: DMZ is controlled by IP address, not by the physical port
A firewall simply controls whether or not ports are open. When a router says it comes with a firewall, this just means that the port controls are exposed to the user through the router.The IP address of your computer is generally assigned by your computers Media Access Controller Address, or M.A.C. address. The M.A.C. address is a hardware number in the actual physical controller. You can identify the MAC address under windows by running the command ipconfig /all through a command prompt. This command will also give you your IP address.
If your router has a DMZ set, you will need to access the router's internal control panel and set the DMZ to your computers current IP address.
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Now, I need some more information here.
First: What kind of Modem/Router are you using?As in, what's the brand name printed on the modem?
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The most common DSL and Cable Modem / Router combination generally sold by the big providers comes from Arris. However, there are Cable Modem / Router combinations sold from both Motorola (the SBG900) and Netgear (CG814M).
Second: What is your IP address on the computer your are trying to connect with?Most routers give the ip address of 192.168.x.x, where the final two numbers change.
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If you don't know how to open the command prompt, simply go to your Windows menu and use the Run entry, or Windows 7 the Search entry, and type in the word: cmd
Hit enter and this will bring up the command prompt where you can enter ipconfig /all
If you are not pulling an IP address, but pulling a number like 72.x.x.x, 68.x.x.x, 112.x.x.x, 24.x.x.x, or so on, you are not running through a router.
This is why I need to know what modem/router you are running through. Some modems can contain a hub instead of a router, and your ISP will simply assign you two different IP address's, one for each M.A.C. address attached to each Network Interface Controller. If this is your setup, there could be an address conflict.
Third: what security software do you have loaded?Applications like Norton Internet Security or McAfee suite are not necessarily turned off when you disable them by their command interfaces. In the case of troubleshooting connection problems, these two suites are generally at the top of the list for most major ISP's for software that needs to be removed before further troubleshooting can take place.
It looks like you have AVG loaded, which isn't known to cause any conflicts with the game. However, if your computer shipped with something other than AVG, traces of the old program could still be in residence.
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Quote:You do realize you are saying this to someone who soft-capped a fire tank, then dropped the soft-cap build for one that focused on recharge accuracy because of constant cascading failures?Originally Posted by Finduilas
No idea where you get the idea that CoD "isn't stealthy". It has the same level of stealth as the power Stealth, the various stealth IOs, and Super Speed. It's not Invisibility, but that doesn't mean it isn't handy, especially if combined with a stealth IO. It also has no movement penalty and unsuppressable defense--the same amount as Weave.
Using your rationale that CoD is worthless because Dark has no debuff resistance would argue against adding *any* defense to DA or FA or Electric or any all-resist set, which is completely contrary to the experience of the many players who have done just that, me included.
To the OP; Rangle's got it right. CoD doesn't hurt aggro since DA has plenty of aggro-generating powers. It has some +perception, which is useful, provides immob protection if you don't want to take CJ, and has the same amount of defense as Weave. I'd say it's a must-have for a player that's not taking CJ or is looking to add some defense to their build.
Sorry, but you are going to have to come up with a much better response than this to counter what I said.
CoD is worthless as a stealth. It's worthless as a defense power. In a fight it's not going to do you any real amount of good. Period. Stop. End of story.
