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Anybody who answers you does so of their own volition and of their own time. It takes TIME for somebody to log in, view your post, and then compose a response. Nobody is being paid to sit at a computer by NCSoft to immediately and promptly answer questions posted on the forums. If you want an immediate and prompt answer, CONTACT THE SUPPORT DEPARTMENT.

Third Thing: Read the Sticky Threads at the top of the forums so you can give us information that is actually useful... say like

• this thread by Hyperstrike: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=231628
• or this thread by me: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219502

Not likely.

From the hints given by Posi, the "end-game" content will be focused towards team events.

Get used to actually having to play with people.

this has got to be the most subtle request for Mastermind Pet Customization I've seen in months.

I give you congrats on that.

On the request itself... well... um...

NO. Nobody else thinks that. Everybody else thinks the Demons are frigging awesome. There are lots of words and descriptions that can be used for the Demon summonings. Ugly? Oh yes. Grotesque? Got that covered too. Well-Endowed? Well that prince certainly is packing a big gun. Silly? Yeah, they are kind a comical bobble-heading down a street.

Meh? Average? Boring? No. Not even close. These words do not belong in the same sentence describing the Mastermind Demon Pets.

Also: a little late to be talking about how they look. They've been in the game for well over 2 months now.

+rep

Not everything in the game has to be about maximizing rewards, or getting the most exp per second, or number crunching till everything is perfect.

One of the most common complaints leveled against Castle, Arcaneville (sp?), and Bill Z Bubba is that they understand the number crunching, they understand the spreadsheets, but they don't understand the Human aspect of playing: the "I do this because it's just FUN!" mentality.

There needs to be a balance struck between the aspect of what is fun, and what is numerically correct. One of Jack Emmert's big problems is that he only thinks in terms of wouldn't this be cool. Early City of Heroes (pre-ed), and Champions Online stand as testements to the poor gameplay that simply focusing on wat would be cool can derive. You can very quickly get classes that are far too overpowered, classes that are far too underpowered, and very specific gameplay moments.

Another one of the aspects of the game where the players themselves can make a dramatic difference in the event. In the case of CoP, some teams full of competent players with tweaked IO builds will struggle to complete the Trial. Some teams with only SO builds will crush it in 15 minutes flat.

• This makes delivering accurate rewards difficult.
• The only way to balance rewards is to do data-mining.
• Data mining takes time.

The rewards team, whoever they are, are not likely to make knee-jerk reactions based on players who whine that the rewards are too low for what CoP is. They aren't likely to listen to players who whine about needing reward incentives to begin with to do content.

They are likely to watch the numbers generated from the number of times teams fail, the amount of average time it takes to complete the trial, and then balance the potential rewards against those factors, the hard-numbers first.

yes / no / not really.

AMD Retired support for these cards back in 2009.

The last driver update to support these cards was the 9-3 release for Vista, and 9-3-1 for Windows Xp:
9-3-1 :: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...?&lang=English
9-3 :: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...?&lang=English

The game still works in the "classic" rendering mode (non-ultra-mode) options against these drivers.

As far as the Radeon 8500.

That was retired back in 2006.

... I salute you who are about to be roasted by everybody who thought it was their Rularuu given right to have character transfers immediately and constantly forever and ever. May your pants be made of alloys that shed heat, and may your torso be covered with the strongest armor, for you shalt be in need when the whining fury of the masses ascend from the darkness in fiery pillars of rage.

Could somebody tell the guy on the pipe-organ to lay off?

Rumor has it Pohsyb was committed to Mother's asylum after the strain induced from the market merge. It may be a while before their database guy is ready to get back in his box.

Remember: Dev Digest and Community Digest are your Happy Fun Time Tree Ball, don't taunt them, Friends!

Dev Digest: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/track...pe=&&language=

Community Digest: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/track...pe=&&language=

are you running any software that overclocks the processor, lets you few the fan speed, modify the fan speed, or view the temperatures the processor puts out?

E.G.: did you install the software that came on the disc with the graphics card.

let me guess.

Nvidia graphics card

Rivatuner or Rivatuner derived program such as "EVGA Precision"

First: Going Rogue only officially launched today. If those servers aren't operational by 12midnight Western time (1am Central, 2am Eastern), then, and ONLY then can you say anything about amount of time with the external servers down.

Second: Going Rogue is playable, today. Right now. If you don't have a slot on your favorite server, tough. Go play on another server.

Same goes for you. If your friends can't play on the server you picked out, move to a different server. Problem. Solved. Not that big a deal. You can always transfer back in later.

Basically, get those bunched panties unbunched.

Bench: read this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=233579

It's covered several times in the thread and I went into it in post #38 directly: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...7&postcount=38

Since NCSoft bought City of Heroes out from Cryptic every issue release has been balanced across CoV and CoH, with no side getting more or less content or features than the other.

that has not stopped people from asking those same questions well after this transcript was posted.

remember: our support group meets Tuesday night on UT'99 Server Rawkhouse. Our opponents will be the bots: Clueless, Did not Read the Manual, and You mean we have a website?

if you are going to upgrade "now" with Multi-gpu in mind, go with the GTX 460 in SLI.

You'll save a ton of cash compared to the 5970... and the GTX 460 in 2X SLI is actually as fast, if not faster in many games, than the almost year old 5970 and 5870 in 2X Crossfire.

The GTX 460 not as fast in games where multi-gpu support doesn't really work... like City of Heroes. In single GPU modes the base GTX 460 can only really keep pace with the RadeonHD 5830, while the 1gb model can fit in somewhere between the 5830 and the 5850. Still, a single GTX 460 1gb is more powerful than GTX 260 SLI.

If you don't mind waiting though... AMD has already announced they won't be doing a product refresh on the 5x00 series line-up. They'll be going straight into the 6000 series... and rumor has it the 6000 series will launch on the 5x00 series one year birthdate... which is next month.

We don't know yet, for certain, that the $200~$230 RadeonHD 6x00 card will be able to keep up with the GTX 460 in multi-gpu modes... so waiting till next month does not mean you'll get a better card for the same price-point.

but my mind wasn't in the gutter! I can't help it if yours was!

hmm...

Recluse ? Statesman
Recluse . Statesman
Recluse > Statesman
Recluse ' Statesman
Recluse " Statesman

Well... if I'm careless with using it, I guess I could have put those instead.

Okay. I'm not really going to touch on the number of other storylines and events in the game that suggest events above and beyond the Teen rating. The hint that Dominatrix "services" Tyrant in every way was something that helped frame them as the "bad guys" Now, if the story needs to be clarified for rating purposes, that yes, players need to get their heads out of the gutter, fine. There are far worse things that the players can do or experience in the game.

I am going to ask where you think that it is a "smoking" gun on Recluse / Statesman being a retcon.

I'm not going to argue, or say, that the Rogue Isles and the conflict between Stefan and Marcus was not an add-on to the story made when CoV first was conceived.

I am going to say that your... association here... makes absolutely no sense. I don't think anybody on the planet has ever thought that the conflict between Marcus and Stefan was something conceived at the start of the game. I think it was pretty clear to anybody who remotely read anything at all related to City of Villains knew that Stefan / Lord Recluse and his cadre was a new creation that was inserted into the story, and that the pre-existing story was modified to account for the presence of the Rogue Isles.

To highlight the events of Praetoria as a "smoking gun" that Rogue Isles was not originally part of the CoH concept isn't just stupid. It's... I think you just managed to insult the intelligence of everybody that has ever played the game.

... that has all kinds of WRONG AE stories written all over it.

... That did NOT need to be taken out.

That needs to be left IN the story.