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Let me pose a couple of questions.

• Question #1: Let's say the developers lengthened the buff time on buff powers.
  
  What would stop a team from inviting you to the team, taking the long term buffs, kicking you, then hopping in a mission without you?

• Question #2: Let's say the developers made all buffs toggle based with zone-wide ranges.
  
  What would stop exploiters from making buff-bots, sitting them at the front of a mission, then clearing the map with absolutely no danger to the buffers?

As Memphis Bill indicates, this question gets brought up a lot. The developers basic answer is that the short-term buffs balance practical gameplay. The developers are exceedingly uncomfortable with increasing the duration times or the method of operation on those buffs because of how powerful the buffs are in relation to the strength of a player's avatar.

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/ser...er_status.html

always check the main site first.

I suspect a large number of players would like to see officially cross-licensed or cross-designed content. For games such as Guilty Gear / Blaz Blue that address a completely different gaming market this can often be beneficial to a small game... or help a niche game find a larger market.

e.g. Shin Megami Tensi III: Nocturne saw US sales of the title increase on the stength of including Capcom's Dante from Devil May Cry.

CoH tends to not do so well in the Korean / Asian / Japanese markets, at least by NCSoft's public sales numbers. Having a cross-over with a franchise that does very well in such markets, may be something Black Pebble might want to pass along to the NCSoft Overlords.

You just need to run the cohupdater.exe file

depending on your version of Windows and version of the game this will be located at:

US
C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\cohupdater.exe
C:\Program Files(x86)\City of Heroes\cohupdater.exe

EU
C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\cohupdater.eu.exe
C:\Program Files\City of Heroes(x86)\cohupdater.eu.exe

For a full listing of graphics cards that are capable of running Ultra Mode, please see this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=248474

Specifically, this post: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...7&postcount=11

most good fans have an arrow indicating the air flow.

If you haven't pulled the old fan off of the heatsink, just look at the direction the fan blades are pointing, and match that direction with the new fan.

no. they do not.

GC has you do arcs primarily set in Galaxy City.

AP has you do arcs primarily set in AP.

Granted, most of these arcs are relatively short, and you'll eventually get fed into the contact origin contacts and the Hollows, where play experience start to merge together.

*ships over a plate of catnip-cookies for this*

I can just see it now. Cole is playing with his Colendo Hamiwii console, and he throws the Hamiwii-mote right out his tower into one of Anti-Matter's reactors, causing the entire Island to go into melt-down stage.

*agree*

Something else to keep in mind is that the Primal Earth characters can come and help you now. So don't be afraid to hop on a global channel, shout "praetorian team getting together, running Her Majesty Queen Bobcat's missions, looking for team-mates"

You'd notice a significant difference in performance with the following cards currently available to purchase on the retail market:

RadeonHD 5770
RadeonHD 5850
RadeonHD 5870
RadeonHD 6850
RadeonHD 6870
RadeonHD 6950
RadeonHD 6970

Geforce GTX 460
Geforce GTX 470
Geforce GTX 480
Geforce GTX 580

All of these graphics cards should be capable of driving City of Heroes with maximum Shadows, Environmental Reflections, and Water Effects. Your frame-rate will vary on Ambient Occlusion.

You'll get more value on AMD cards right now. Case in point, the 6970 trades blows with the GTX 580. The 6970 has a street price around $375. The GTX 580 is on the other side of $500.

The Geforce GTX 460 can be a good buy, you just have to be careful on buying. The card originally launched with two variants, a 768mb model and a 1gb model. The 1gb model will run you around $185 with rebates. However, there is now a GTX 460 SE model that also has 1gb of memory and sells for around $140 with rebates. The GTX 460 1gb is a good competitor to the RadeonHD 5850 which will still top $200. However... it's not such a good competitor to the RadeonHD 6850... with a street price of around $185 with no rebates.

So, if you want to buy Nvidia, go ahead. That's your choice. Just be aware that Nvidia cards use more power generating less frame-per second performance while costing more money.

Something else to keep in mind is that Shadow calculation is processor intensive as well. You do need something with a bit of grunt in the processor department. The breakpoint for processing speed on Dual Core processors is somewhere around 2.4ghz~2.6ghz. Quad Core's tend to have a lower breakpoint, around 2.2ghz~2.4ghz.

heh. Who knows? Maybe Arc System Works would be open to a marketing partnership with CoH with a Guilty Gear inspired Booster Pack... say $20, with Yo Yo Melee, Anchor Melee, Guitars for Sonic Blast and Sonic Resonance, and Guilty Gear costume parts...

Guys can still look good in shorter skirts and dresses!

doh! I forgot about those two options! Thank mew!

That knockback proc also reminded me: one can go in Boxing

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.91
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Level 48 Magic Defender
Primary Power Set: Storm Summoning
Secondary Power Set: Energy Blast
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Electricity Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Gale -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Power Bolt -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Power Blast -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Energy Torrent -- Empty(A)
Level 6: Steamy Mist -- Empty(A)
Level 8: Freezing Rain -- Empty(A)
Level 10: Power Burst -- Empty(A)
Level 12: Hurricane -- Empty(A)
Level 14: Hasten -- Empty(A)
Level 16: Super Speed -- Empty(A)
Level 18: Sniper Blast -- Empty(A)
Level 20: Whirlwind -- Empty(A)
Level 22: Thunder Clap -- Empty(A)
Level 24: Boxing -- Empty(A)
Level 26: Tornado -- Empty(A)
Level 28: Power Push -- Empty(A)
Level 30: Snow Storm -- Empty(A)
Level 32: Lightning Storm -- Empty(A)
Level 35: Explosive Blast -- Empty(A)
Level 38: Nova -- Empty(A)
Level 41: Thunder Strike -- Empty(A)
Level 44: Aim -- Empty(A)
Level 47: Charged Armor -- Empty(A)
Level 49: Power Sink -- Empty(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Vigilance
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Health -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- Empty(A)

Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_u...inty_and_doubt

The term has been around for... well... decades really. It's only grown in prominence over deliberate disinformation in the computer hardware and software markets. Cases in point. Microsoft DOS versus DR DOS and the Microsoft backed SCO lawsuits.

As to the original post: MajorPrankster, I congratulate you for having the guts to post that. Be prepared to start flagging lots of posts for moderation deletion as those haters and trolls start sniping you with single line posts and declaring that you are automatically wrong, or that you are usually wrong.

if you want OMG levels of knock-around...

make a storm summoning / energy blast / Electric mastery defender.

Storm Summoning has 4 powers that have a knock-effect: Gale, Hurricane, Tornado, Lightning Storm

Energy Blast has 8: Power Bolt, Power Blast, Energy Torrent, Power Burst, Sniper Blast, Power Push, Explosive Blast, and Nova

Electric Mastery's Thunder Strike also gives you a knock-effect power.

Total number of powers with knock effects: 13

I think he's referring to the new Batman Beyond Comic series launched this month rather than the Animated show: http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/10...ng-in-january/

I agree about Batman Beyond being one of the best DC animated productions. I also keep in mind that it's continuity was written long before the currently on-going Batman stories were even thought of. So deviations from the Batman Beyond continuity and the on-going stories, such as Batman Inc., are largely to be expected.

However, this is DC, and when all else fails, there's the RetCon Cannon.

Which hopefully will render Batman Inc. into a rubbish bin.

Um. Kinetic Melee attacks do a damage -debuff: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Kinetic_Melee

It's tagged under: Foe -DMG

So I'm sorry. What I typed:

Is correct. I'm right. As usual.

Nice try at trolling me though.

One of the kinetics powers is repel. It violently forces all enemies away from you.

The kinetic melee power set absorbs enemy damage as an effect debuff, and powers up your own attacks.

Ergo, a Kinetic Armor set, in keeping with the taking something and sending it back, would be about bwoing fwipping. Attacks against Kinetic Armor would bounce back and affect the enemy.

This could actually lead to some interesting armor possibilities with the tech system used in powers like Electric Control's jolting chain, where one power effect can generate a completely different power effect.

A kinetic Armor's damage aura would be based on the type of incoming damage. Smashing attacks generate smashing damage. Lethal attacks generate lethal damage. Fire attacks generate fire damage. Cold attacks generate cold damage. And so on and so forth.

Some other interesting capabilities could also be added. A kinetic armor's anti-mez could turn around and influence the melee attacks, similar to how fiery embrace boosts melee attacks. So if a kinetic armor gets hit with holds, sleeps, immobilizes, or stuns, their attacks gain a chance to do that mez effect back on an enemy. The higher the mez count on the kinetic armor power, the stronger the chance for a mez effect on the attack power. This could be accomplished... I think... through the connection link :: Mez Power in-coming = 10% Mez Chance -- stacking allowed :: So getting hit with 3 hold powers would generate a 30% chance for melee attacks to generate a hold.

For armors, the set would probably be in the range of Dark Armor resistance, with emphasis on smashing / energy as the strongest native resisted, based on the presence of Smashing / Energy in increased density.

For a self heal, the player gets a weak pulse, sort of like Dark Regeneration. The more enemies in range of the pulse, the more health is pulsed back. Where this would differ from Dark Regeneration is that all team-mates within melee range would also benefit from the pulse, giving the kinetic armor the ability to heal team-mates as well as themselves.

I'd probably do the same with endurance recovery. A weak pulse with a to-hit, but team-mates benefit from the pulses as well as the kinetic armor user.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0gm0R9I1aQ

(bwoing fwip)

Eh, it's priced right for what it does.

And dropping carrots before they were ready worked out so well for Going Rogue's January Beta, it's planned April Release, it's announced July Release, and then it's actual release in August. Then there was the Loyalty program announced in 2009.

I suspect that Second Measure, Posi, and War Witch are going to be real careful about announcing or promoting actual content that isn't already in their git repository and ready for deployment to the actual servers for testing.

*head tilts*

Warshade on Crack!!!

Actually, your concept sounds like it would be useful for a Plant based armor set.

You cause your armor to grow and cover your body, and the armor takes on the appearance of tree-barks, leaves, and the like. As you take damage the leaf-shields get blown away, and then the bark, and then the roots.