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This mission cannot be set to auto-complete. It is one of the missions that is modded by the player's chosen faction.

So no, it does not need an Auto-Complete option, and it will not be getting an auto-complete option.

"A man can never have too many lists" - Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear, Season 2, Episode 1.

how do we know that Pohsyb didn't knock Tele out and take over Tele's keyboard?

I got some ideas....

When I19 goes on test, I'll be testing it.

Never.

Nvidia Physx is largely a dead-end for several reasons.

• First, it is limited to Nvidia cards only.
• Second, Physx running in software mode is deliberately much slower than running in GPU mode.
• Third, the future of Nvidia, as a graphics card company, is seriously in doubt.

I've been over this particular subject, PhsyX, so many times I'm ready to puke.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...32&postcount=1
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...42&postcount=3
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...7&postcount=26
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...01&postcount=7
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...4&postcount=10
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=379
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...15&postcount=2
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...03&postcount=5

If the developers want to implement hardware accelerated physics, their best bet is the OpenCL API, the Industry Standard for cross-platform GPGPU operations.

The fact is, a much larger percentage of the player base is going to have computers with hardware that can accelerate OpenCL calls than hardware that accelerates Nvidia PhsyX.

There is no argument anybody can make that Nvidia PhysX should be implemented in any game. It's already been admitted by game developers that the reason many of them implemented PhysX to begin with is that Nvidia was offering cash incentives, and Nvidia simply does not have the money to keep bribing game developers to use PhysX.

Now, what should replace PhysX? Well, I've already made the thread suggesting that the developers look at the Bullet Physics Engine: http://bulletphysics.org/ :: http://bulletphysics.com/Bullet/BulletFull/

Given that current Graphics Partner AMD is already throwing their considerable weight behind Bullet + OpenCL, it's highly likely this will be the solution Paragon Studios will look at: http://www.blendernation.com/2009/09...opencl-bullet/

Moving to the bullet engine could have several advantages. The first advantage is pretty obvious:

• OpenCL + Bullet will hardware accelerate physics on pretty much everything including Nvidia.
• OpenCL + Bullet will likely be faster than PhysX in hardware acceleration mode
• OpenCL + Bullet will be faster than PhysX in software acceleration mode

Like I said, there is no argument, at this stage, for using PhysX to gain hardware accelerated physics.

Now, if Nvidia wants to accept patches to PhysX that enable optimized hardware acceleration on Intel graphics accelerators, AMD graphics processors, or performance optimizations from other vendors? Yeah, sure. At that point PhysX might be worth looking at.

Till then, it is not. Period. Stop.

Gonna respond to some of these...

Never going to happen. The potential for abuse is too great and opening up the controls beyond super-group rankings is just asking for trouble.

One of the reasons the developers won't do this actually.

It wasn't, but what you suggest would simply make it easier for players to create and engage bank SG's.

Never going to happen. I think it's been officially commented that the developers have no interest in duplicating projects already being run by the community. As of right now then a MIDS type tool is not on the list of things for the developers to look at.

There also are some problems with your respec screen idea. While the respec User-Interface is probably in for a semi-overhaul, with the ability to move powers around by selectable levels, and the ability to manipulate slots in a respec per level, there are still several mechanical actions that need to be taken by the player, such as placing each enhancement.

Never. Going. To. Happen. This isn't quality of life suggestion. This is how can I break the game some more suggestion.

No.

The developers policy is to leave existing content as existing content. Case in point: Old Positron Task Force, old Maria Jenkins Arc, old Tina McIntyre arc, and Calvin Scott Task Force (I19).

The developers policy is that they will design new content with new stories using new tools. Players who want to re-write old content are free to do so through the Mission Architecture System. In many cases, Mission Architecture will give the players more flexibility on older arcs than the developers had themselves.

Oh hey, an actual Quality of Life Suggestion!

Yes. The Titan Origin enhancements drop range does leave players with a gaping hole in the mid-40's. However, the Titan Origin enhancements are exposed to the player through the same system that Training, Dual, Single, and Hamidon enhancements are exposed through, and thus have a limited level range.

Should the Titan enhancements be given an unleveled status? Well, since the Eden trial is the only way to get them, that probably is not a half bad idea.

The Eden Trial starting bug is a known bug. It will be fixed when the developers can track down the bug and fix it without breaking other sections of the game.

Never going to happen. This is not a Quality of Life Suggestion

This is a how can I kill network bandwidth suggestion. The point of fact is, the developers limit the number of movement capable items on avatars for a very good reason. The extra character detail chews up network bandwidth and creates a larger processing load for the server.

Never going to happen. The developers already ran into the problem that players treat the email system as Global Storage, which was in and of itself an entire can of worms.

Known bug. Not sure what the problem is, but I think it's been passed on to the NCSoft web-crew.

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Yes.

Whoever came up with the party pack and it's price point was dipping into the catnip.

Baumtown has long been scheduled for a rework. The big question here becomes developer time. During the ending cryptic days, the development staff did not have the resources to actually do anything with these zones. With Going Rogue finally out the door, and a fully trained development staff, there's a good chance that some of the plans for these zones will be carried out.

Now, will they be carried out in the life-span of the current game? Will those plans be carried out in a sequel title if NCSoft plays the CoH2 card? At this point, nobody knows.

What we do know is that Miss Melissa (War Witch), likes taking old and annoying zones and making them places you want to go to (like Hollows). So there's a high chance with her in the Lead Design spot that some of the staff will be tasked towards coming up with things to do in the remaining Hazard Zones.

It's dead.

Not so much quality of life suggestion again. Noble Savage has several threads on this topic.

Please see this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=240616

Probably... not.

The big issue here is the point of Epic Archtypes. Several years back there were a whole range of Epic Archtypes planned. The primary reason was that the developers could do power set combinations in Epic Archtypes that wouldn't fit in the original 5 Hero Archtypes, and then the 5 Villain Archtypes.

Case in point:

• the Kheldians have shape shifting
• the Arachnos have careers
• the Avians had wings

Don't remember the Avians? that's because they never actually made it into the game. Somebody figured out how to rig wings on all costumes, and instead of creating an epic archtype whose only purpose was to give wings to the players, the developers just gave wings to the players.

This is one of the reasons why the subject of Praetorian Epic Archtypes is such a hot button issue. If the developers come up with some gameplay concept that simply won't fit in the current archtypes, then yes, they might make an Epic Archtype to expose that concept to the players.

Unfortunately, the Longbow and the Vanguard are pretty stock enemies, and the potential to do something unique with them that isn't able to be done in the existing classes is pretty much... nothing.

Um. The arcs in the Ourobous Crystals are already arranged by the level you would do them at as a player. I have no idea what you are on about with this request.

Let me rephrase what you want in three words.

GAPING SECURITY HOLE

No. City of Heroes does not need User Created Addons, and I will fight every chance I get to keep anybody from thinking that this horrible idea is in any way, under any condition, of any form, in any presentation, resembles anything that looks like a good idea.

It is not a good idea. It is just asking for trouble.

Lack.. of... content... in 30-39? Um. Okay.

(*looks around at the rest of the forum: anybody else going huh?)

Um. Again. Ouroborus lists arcs at the levels players can access them. Rikti War Zone missions are listed in the level 50 range due to the Ouroborus missions not actually being the same player initiated missions.

While they do give the same reward, the Rikti War Zone missions are both Co-Op exposed, and some can be started at relatively low levels.

So, no issue. Working as intended. This is not a quality of life suggestion.

Already shot down as a never going to happen.

Often requested. Biggest problem is rekeying Safeguards and Mayhems to different unlocks. This is probably one of the lowest priority changes to be made to the game, and will likely only get implemented if something other than a Safeguard or Mayhem requires additional work to expose through Ouroborus.

It's met with I19.

Really. Most of these suggestions are not suggestions. Many of these are requests for stuffs the developers shot down, either at conventions, on the old forums, or here on the current forums, on the beta server, on the test server, or on the live servers.

I'm going to be blunt. If many of these changes are your idea of quality of life changes... you probably are going to consider City life downright miserable short of Sony Online Entertainment or EAMythic buying up City of Heroes and replacing the entire dev team with monkeys.

Actually, Nvidia HAS been active in Tessellation: http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPU...chapter07.html

They actually have at least one patent on Tessellation technology, and that was from 2003.

Now, I don't know why Nvidia never really pursued Tessellation as a gamer benefit. Nvidia isn't exactly known as a reactive product company. They generally don't wait for a competitor to make a product, then build something to match the competitors product.

Nvidia has never had a problem with simply throwing hardware at a problem until the problem goes away... which actually is one of the sources of their current issues. Nvidia's G80, G90 respins, and Fermi architecture cards are massive monolithic beasts. Given that Nvidia's entire product strategy focused on tossing as much hardware as possible into a chip, and then figuring out at a later date what bits could be cut out to make a cheaper product, one would think they would have been on the Tessellation Freight Train ahead of everybody else.

Again though, Tessellation, at least as it's exposed in OpenGL 3.2, is pretty much too large a performance hit on anything weaker than a RadeonHD 5750. In that light, it is theoretically possible that the older AMD RadeonHD 4850, 4870, 4870x2, and 4890 cards might be able to run OpenGL 3.2 Tessellation fast enough to be usable in a game... I just somewhat doubt it.

actually, tessellation has been around for years. It is not a new technology, and it is actually extremely mature. Just look up ATi Truform: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...deon-8500.html

It just hasn't been used largely due to politics. Up until DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3.2 there was no industry standardized method or implementation of Tessellation. This meant that the developers implementing Tessellation had to use a vendor specific software development kit and make vendor specific API calls.

It also is possible that Tessellation is already in the CoH engine, or at least internal Paragon Studio builds. Some time ago Tele cracked that the dev team was doing things in OpenGL that weren't even supported in some driver sets. The implication is that Tele already had a build of the CoH engine running under OpenGL 4.0 targets.

The reason why the current UltraMode engine does not have Tessellation is that it is built against OpenGL 3.0 targets, and Tessellation is only exposed in OpenGL 3.2 or higher.

Yes, AMD did actually have the same Tessellation setup engine across their entire RadeonHD lineup, and in theory, all RadeonHD cards should be able to leverage Tessellation as exposed in OpenGL 3.2. Nvidia, however, did not. Tessellation, as exposed in OpenGL 3.2, is only available on GTX 400 series graphics cards from Nvidia. So if a future version of the CoH game client exposes OpenGL 3.2 Tessellation, in theory, all RadeonHD users should be able to benefit from it.

In reality, well, I'm not so sure. Tessellation, while making an image look better, is a huge performance hit, and UltraMode settings are stressful enough as is. Cards that can get max on UltraMode settings now might easily be brought to their knees implementing OpenGL 3.2 tessellation.


bleh. complete and total brain-numb when writing. Truform was ATi's name for their Tessellation engine on the 8500. Smoothvision was the name given to their new Anti-Alaising technique at the time. Shows what I get for grabbing an old 8500 AIW box and glancing at the buzzwords.

not to mention there was never a GTX 250 release.

There IS a GTS 250 though.

Ai. As far as I am aware Apple has access to the types of documents that X.org Driver writers have with AMD (http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/) and Intel (http://intellinuxgraphics.org/) graphics, and that Apple writes their own drivers for the platforms. Apple is also heavily involved in the development and publication of the Xserver and will reportedly be using Xserver 1.9 as the base for the next XQuartz: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=ODUzNA

Transgaming's in-house tech can leverage some types of SLI and Crossfire acceleration as is, so in theory, as long as SLI / Crossfire are enabled in the X.org driver, support should be exposed to the resulting application.

Now, will Apple take the time to actually add SLI / Crossfire support to their XQuartz system? My gut reaction is not likely on SLI.

As of now Apple is selling Crossfire enabled MacPro's with 2x RadeonHD 5770's. According to Wikipedia (I know, not the most reliable source of information), all other previous multiple GPU factory systems were using Quadro cards, which do support SLI. However, the Quadro drivers are not optimized for single-pass fast rendering, which is what video games leverage. The Quadro-Drivers are optimized for accurate target rendering, and really use the second gpu for General Processing, or GPGPU.

Nvidia's done shot themselves in the foot, repeatedly, with Apple and other vendors, and it's highly unlikely that outside of Nvidia getting bought out by another company, that Apple will use them in the high-end systems again. It's also likely that if Bobcat lives up to expectations, Nvidia will be loosing the MacBook Air contract as well... and as well known with the Ipad, Apple went with their own A4 system instead of Nvidia's Tegra... another slap to the Nvidia company.

The reality is that, as a gaming system, there are enough MacPro's in circulation with consumer HD 5770's to justify Apple and AMD making sure gaming Crossfire support works for gamers with OSX.

There is not enough, and probably won't be enough, MacPro's in circulation with Nvidia's Consumer graphics cards to justify Apple adding gamer SLI support.

SLI is supported on OSX, but only on Quadro Cards: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvi...i-os,7434.html

and Crossfire support as well? Or is AMD still getting that sorted in the OpenGL 3.x+ driver?

Dark Armor is really set-up to be used with Dark Melee.

You can use other sets, but you'll be hurting on endurance recovery even with physical perfection and conserve power from the epic pools.