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BrandX hit the unspoken problem on the head.

A good number of players in the game go out of their way to create names with double meanings; copy existing trademarked or copyrighted characters; or just plain by-pass the word filter.

The only way NCSoft would be able to avoid the inevitable lawsuit would literally require having to hire somebody's whose only job would be to sit at a computer and make sure that every name and costume used by such a system met with the content guidelines of officially produced content. NCSoft would be ultimately responsible for any infractions making it through into the game.

To go ahead and shut down another avenue of idea, AE is not an excuse to do this either. The developers can flat out stick a player created content sticker on AE and if anybody threatens a lawsuit, point to that boilerplate sticker saying an actual player did the infraction, it was not developer created or endorsed.

Such protections would not apply, in any way, shape, or form, if the development staff were to call up the data-base on players directly for content outside of AE.

heh. Nice tongue-in-cheek flatline there.

I think the problem for US (CoH) players is that over here we have baseball and american football... while outside of our borders there is Cricket and Football / Soccer. Tends to create quite a cultural disconnect, combined with marketing companies eager to toss world-wide onto sports (E.G., World Series, but last time I checked Japan wasn't exactly invited to participate, and they've got a pretty good baseball system).

Anyways, for those who are used to Baseball and look at Cricket with complete and absolute confusion (like me), David Morgan Mar has a pretty good write-up of Cricket when compared to Baseball: http://www.dangermouse.net/cricket/

The effect of the power of the Alpha Slot, I believe as described by the developers, is that it should be the equivalent of adding a Single Original or Crafted IO origin enhancement to your power.

So if you power takes a standard Healing Single Origin Enhancement, then the Spiritual Radial Boost should act like a standard Single Origin enhancement in that power and give you the exact same effect that a standard Single Origin Enhancement would give you.

Well, except a Single Origin enhancement doesn't ignore E.D.

Alpha Slots... do. To an extent.

... is Cricket even a proper game?

*hears a knock on the door, opens it, and is assaulted by cricket bats*

ow...

Okay, I really didn't have anything to add to this thread except for the I don't understand cricket line of jokes. Yeah, I do think the Original Poster is well off his rocker for a variety of reasons, most of which I think have been addressed. That being said I'm not entirely sure the Original Poster understands what lipstick on a pig means, much less having a firm grasp of time.

Just because a game is old does not mean it is bad. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Valve (Steam) are still posting rather tidy profits from old games made available through their various download services. Games that were taken off the retail market years ago, like Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic, still sell.

I guess I'm left wondering if the original poster really understands what they want or what they are asking for. If they want a new game because they don't like how CoH plays, well, why even say anything to Paragon Studios? All information so far suggests that if NCSoft decided to have Paragon Studios work on a CoH2 title, Paragon Studios will continue the game balance and mechanics already in the existing game. So if they want a different play experience, they aren't going to get it from Paragon Studios or NCSoft.

Updating this game isn't putting lipstick on a pig. Now, if the original poster really wants examples of putting lipstick on pigs, I'd be more than happy to give the forum moderators a list of examples they would no doubt have to delete.

If the original want a new game because they don't have anybody to play with... well, then there is the entire issue of they are in Australia, they are playing after midnight their time and before whatever time it is in the US. One of the... things... I tell new players to CoH is to spread out across servers. I tell new players not to get too hung up on being on just one server and having all their characters on that one server. Ergo, it's my opinion that if the original poster was even remotely interested in participating in the game's community, they should try different servers, see whose up when they are playing.

One of the facets of an MMO is that sometimes, believe it or not, content is designed for teams, and requires players to be online to run that content. I don't agree with the notion that everything should be solo-able. I think this point has been addressed already. Why would somebody play an MMO if they were not interested in forming a team and playing with other people.

Okay, in all fairness, MMO's can suffer from the availability of players. Real life events like the economy, school, national holidays, other video game releases, and so on, can have a dramatic effect on the visible population of any given game. While CoH does have a large number of casual gamers, hard-core games like Donkey Kong Country Returns and Kirby's Epic Yarn are still going to pull a visible portion of the player-base away. Then there's stuff like Call of Duty: Black Op's which will also put a dent in the number of CoH players.

From a long-point, this is why MMO companies generally don't base performance on the game on a narrow section of time. The indication has been that CoH is running a healthy number of subscribers, Going Rogue met sales expectations, Issue 19 made it out only a few months after Going Rogue, and so on and so forth.

Looking over the thread, I don't think I'm the only one that is genuinely confused by whatever viewpoint the original poster has. The impression I get is that the Original Poster has the same entitlement / I want it nao attitude that permeated that thread claiming the Incarnate System was an insult to skilled players.

you need to take this up with Nvidia.

Paragon Studios did nothing special (that we know of) to the game. Running in SLI was entirely an Nvidia driver tweak, as evidenced by those updating drivers and having SLI work before Issue 19 was launched or any other patches were made.

You can get in contact with Nvidia at www.nvidia.com

I'm saying this because when I took my 51+ and 52+ HO's off my fire tank and gave them to a friend, they retained their +'s... and that was... I12 or so.

I'm kinda glad this got dredged back up.

Um, if you give them to somebody, the +/++ should stay, that won't do anything to strip the +/++ off.

To the OP: good luck, but I really don't think you are going to have much luck on this.

Gladiators Javelin would be a PvP IO set: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Pvp_io

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Gladiator%27s_Javelin

Now, as far as I am aware, none of the PvP IO's are UNIQUE

So yes, the effects should stack.

What you are experiencing is probably a bug in MIDS

Remember, MIDS is not an official Paragon Studios Product. It is developed and produced by community players. Just because MIDS says or presents one thing, does not automatically mean that what it presents is accurate or true for the game itself.

Forgetting for a moment NCSoft's policy of not naming, talking about directly, or conversing about other games using their proper-names, Lord of the Rings is a horrible example for you to use, and proves my point.

Here's why: http://www.lotro.com/free.php?

LORTO had to change their base business model. Yes, LORTO has made that business model work. They offer a good quality product with relatively low entry costs compared to other games in the same genre that is saturated with competitors, one of the few places where going Free-to-Play can offer a market advantage.

They still failed at their original subscription model. Life-Time Subscriptions were still a very bad business move.

Life-time subscriptions have universally been proven to be bad business operations for any MMO. Just think for a second what happened to the two most recent games that attempted to try and use the business tactic.

More information would be helpful than limited screenshots that don't show any particular system information:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219502
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=231628

... huh?

No they don't.

That would be you using your OEM's driver rather than a proper driver: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=245920

Avast and Avira are currently good choices, and I wouldn't fault anybody for using them.

For me, I prefer the Immunet spin on SourceFire's ClamAV: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/about/win32/

Thing is though, an Anti-Virus can only protect you against known threats, and even then, it won't protect you against all threats. Tools like the aforementioned Spybot Search and Destroy will help close up other entry points that malware uses to enter the computer.

Then there is also the software you use to connect to the Internet. Microsoft's gained a lot of press on the upcoming IE9 since it (finally) is adhering to W3C specifications. I still wouldn't use it.

To connect to the internet, use Mozilla FireFox, Opera, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, KDE Konqueror... anything but IE... and your realistic exposure to malicious software is cut down.

That being said, there isn't much you can do about another vector point being leveraged these days, Adobe Flash. While there are Flash replacements such as GNU Gnash and Lightspark, Windows development isn't exactly a priority with code contributers.

This is the thread that never ends, it goes on and on my friend. Some people started posting not knowing what it was, and it keeps on going just because... This is the thread that never ends, it goes on and on my friend

*Is interrupted by Castle kicking in the door and throwing a Hamidon at Sai!*

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That being said, you aren't entirely S.O.L. without purchasing a copy of Vista or Win7 for your notebook.

AMD's desktop drivers for Windows Xp will still work on your laptop: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...eon_xp-32.aspx

You just need Mobility Modder: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/modtool.php


So, instructions from before still apply.

Run Driver-sweeper and get all of the existing driver files removed.

After running driver-sweeper, follow the instructions from Mobility Modder to install the updated graphics drivers.

... that's a bad thing.

That driver is probably way out of date and is doing more harm than good.

Again, we need your OS information and what graphics card you have to help you further.

bleh. probably something screwy I did on my end creating it, or differences in MIDS versions.

Okay, here's the forum export version. As I said, it's just proof of concept, so the slots for each recharge set are keyed out, but I only grabbed the first IO in each set to identify each power for what set it is supposed to receive. Slots for each non-recharge power are not keyed out, so those are the ones that you'll probably want to sort through to get forms or other powers you want.

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.81
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Level 50 Science Warshade
Primary Power Set: Umbral Blast
Secondary Power Set: Umbral Aura
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Leadership

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Shadow Bolt

• (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
• (3) Empty
• (3) Empty
• (5) Empty
• (5) Empty

Level 1: Absorption

• (A) Empty
• (46) Empty
• (46) Empty

Level 2: Ebon Eye

• (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
• (7) Empty
• (7) Empty
• (9) Empty
• (9) Empty

Level 4: Orbiting Death

• (A) Obliteration - Damage
• (11) Empty
• (11) Empty
• (13) Empty
• (13) Empty

Level 6: Shadow Blast

• (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
• (15) Empty
• (15) Empty
• (17) Empty
• (17) Empty

Level 8: Boxing

• (A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
• (43) Empty
• (45) Empty
• (45) Empty
• (45) Empty

Level 10: Gravimetric Snare

• (A) Empty

Level 12: Sunless Mire

• (A) Obliteration - Damage
• (19) Empty
• (19) Empty
• (21) Empty
• (21) Empty

Level 14: Shadow Cloak

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (50) Empty

Level 16: Combat Jumping

• (A) Empty

Level 18: Gravity Well

• (A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold
• (23) Empty
• (23) Empty
• (25) Empty

Level 20: Essence Drain

• (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
• (25) Empty
• (27) Empty
• (27) Empty
• (29) Empty
• (29) Empty

Level 22: Stygian Circle

• (A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod
• (31) Empty
• (31) Empty
• (31) Empty
• (33) Empty
• (33) Empty

Level 24: Dark Detonation

• (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
• (33) Empty
• (34) Empty
• (34) Empty
• (34) Empty

Level 26: Gravitic Emanation

• (A) Kinetic Crash - Damage/Knockback
• (36) Empty
• (36) Empty
• (36) Empty
• (37) Empty
• (37) Empty

Level 28: Unchain Essence

• (A) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
• (37) Empty
• (39) Empty
• (39) Empty
• (39) Empty

Level 30: Tough

• (A) Empty
• (46) Empty

Level 32: Weave

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (48) Empty

Level 35: Quasar

• (A) Empty
• (40) Force Feedback - Damage/Knockback
• (40) Empty
• (40) Empty
• (42) Empty
• (42) Empty

Level 38: Stygian Return

• (A) Empty
• (50) Empty

Level 41: Eclipse

• (A) Empty
• (42) Empty
• (43) Empty
• (43) Empty

Level 44: Maneuvers

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (48) Empty

Level 47: Assault

• (A) Empty
• (48) Empty

Level 49: Vengeance

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (50) Empty

------------
Level 1: Brawl

• (A) Empty

Level 1: Sprint

• (A) Empty

Level 2: Rest

• (A) Empty

Level 1: Dark Sustenance
Level 1: Shadow Step

• (A) Empty

Level 10: Shadow Recall

• (A) Empty

------------

okay: I got the following:

Shadow bolt: 6.25 : Decimation
Ebon Eye: 6.25 :: Decimation
Shadow blast 6.25 :: Decimation
Dark Detonation 6.25 :: Positron Blast
Unchain Essence: 6.25% :: Positron Blast

Orbiting Death 5% : Oblit
Sunless mire 5% : Oblit
Essence Drain: 5% : Doctored Wounds
Stygian Circle: 5%: Efficacy Adapter
Boxing: 5%: Crushing Impact

Shadow Cloak : 7.5% : LoTG proc
Combat Jumping: 7.5% : LoTG Proc
Weave: 7.5% : LoTG proc
Manuevers: 7.5% : LoTG Proc
Vengeance: 7.5% : LoTG Proc

Gravity Well: 7.5% : Basilisk's Gaze
Gravitic Emination: 7.5% : Kinetic Crash
Quaser: 7.5% : Kinectic Crash

Total:

31.25
25
37.5
22.5
=====

116.25

Add that to 3 slot hasten and you should be golden.

Proof of concept build in mids .mxd format.

Hey, I agree with you in almost everything mathematical.

I just think you don't have a firm grasp on the definition of what is fun and what is not :P

*hear's a knock at the door, opens it, and is clonked on the head with a marble rolling pin*

okay... I asked for that...

Interesting. Wasn't like that a few weeks ago, but I'll stand corrected.