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Well, either it's wrong, or the Real Numbers are wrong.

Guess which one I'm betting on is right.

The one in the game that spells out Percent Per Second and shows how regeneration works?

Or one that doesn't match up at all with how regeneration behaves in game?

Kitteh on a Pizza! Now this is sounding like a ParryGripp song...

*ISH HUGGLED!*

um... I'm playing a regen rate right now. This is wrong, very wrong. Regen rate is presented as Percent per Second of your Maxium HP.



If you boost your Maximum HP, such as toggling Dull Pain here, the worth of each percentage grows larger.

2% of 100 is 2.
2% of 200 is 4.



You, as a player, cannot increase the tick, which is based on intervals of seconds. All regeneration boosts are pooled into one total regeneration rate. Increasing the amount of regeneration increases the percentage of your health that is regenerated every second, such as shown here with Instant Healing.

*POUNCES NEKO ALI!*

Meow!!!

*ish suddenly caught by a net mid-stalking to demontrate tying kitties up with NekoAli!*

Nuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Ai. Wasserman had some great music.

yes / no / not really.

No: the dual pistols are not actually that wimpy. The advantage to dual-pistols is that they have multiple elemental effects, and cover a wide area of attack. So if you are facing something with an elemental weakness the fight will go quickly.

Yes. It sounds like you rolled a defender. Defenders are WEAK. Even with the 30% base damage boost while solo, a Defender is going to be way down on attack power.

Yes: Dual Pistols give up straight punch in the form of a build up in the form of sustained damage in the form of elemental advantage. If you are not going up against something that you are elementally strong against you will be doing lower average damage.

Not really: Depending on who you ask, the Dual Pistol strengths: it's large number of AOE attacks, half-nuke, and elemental advantages; may not outweigh it's weakness's: lack of direct damage, dependency on elemental advantages.

If you are looking for something that's a good solo power-set... well. Go find something else.

If you accept Dual Pistols for what they are, then they are perfectly fine.

you have no idea how long Super Sentai has been going do you... Try since the 1950's: http://sentai.rovang.org/origins.htm

The first "Morphing" Sentai was in the 1970's, as well as the first instance of a 5-man color-coded superhero team.

Power Ranger's 18th season has NOTHING on the genre itself.

oh... hmm...

tying up VexXxa could be fun too...

*pulls out a ball of yarn*

but I wanted to tie Fey up!!!

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So, those are your options. Which one would I actually buy?

The BFG 260, presuming there was still some stock by the time I actually loaded the site. It doesn't do DirectX 11. It doesn't do OpenGL 4.0. It runs hot. It uses power like rock concert. At $110 though, it'll blow past everything else in this list except the RadeonHD 4870. It's also a BFG, which means that more than likely it will overclock. Granted the XFX RadeonHD 4870 will probably also overclock...

but it won't run on your power-supply. 500watt minimum entry.

With your system, I'd actually go for the cheapest option and pick up the Sapphire RadeonHD 4850. For practical purposes, it can keep up with every other card in the price range. I should now, I have a couple of my own. I also know from practical experience that it can boot on a 300watt power supply. So if you've got something in the 400watt range, it should run fine. So you can save some quid and then go for a DX11 / OpenGL 4.0 card next year when you have some more cash, and can get a new power supply as well.

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You... do... realize that I sort of already went over that before creating this thread... In fact, it was why I created this thread in the first place?

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=230370&page=2
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...3&postcount=26
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...2&postcount=33


Maybe I should have just reposted the relevant posts from that thread here to begin with.

*coughs*

Sapphire = ATi

ATi used to produce their own graphics cards back in the days of the Rage 128. In 2001 ATi adopted a business strategy where Original Equipment Manufacturers and Add-in-board partners could produce Radeon branded hardware. ATi's manufacturing partner for ATi branded hardware was Sapphire. Sapphire also continues to manufacture AMD branded Radeon cards for demonstration purposes, and provided the cards for the Class-Action HMDI settlement.

So, if you buy a Sapphire, you basically buy what is the ATi reference card. Unfortunately, reference cards may, or may not, actually be as good as you'd want them be. Case in point for me, I've got a couple of Sapphire HD4850's. The fans on them are LOUD, as in you know the fans have been turned on.

The tight relationship between AMD and Sapphire means that you generally won't get a "bad card" ... say something like a Diamond Multimedia card that will leave you wondering if it's actually a good idea to even power it up... but you can do better.

*lines the border with Sackbait and Sacktraps*

Shhhh, I'm hunting Sackthingies!!

Thing is, I dual-box Posi / Synapse TF's on a regular basis. I've never noticed a change in spawns regardless of whether or not the fillers quit or log out.

I was gonna image link this comic: http://www.superstupor.com/sust04092008.gif

Except some of the language is quite... coarse.

Anyways, if somebody named Skippy Sidekick showed up at YOUR door, would you take the chance that it's going to be the cake walk you think it is, or what are the chances that they took that name just to throw you completely off guard?

Well, several things. First, brand. PNY is one of the Nvidia vendors known to have been cutting back on hardware quality in order to sell their cards for a profit. Depending on the fan, and the fan controller they've used, your card may not be able to adequately cool itself.

Second: power. The Geforce GTS 250 is a hungry chip. You need at least a 500 watt power supple: http://xfxforce.com/en-us/products/g.../250GTS.aspx#2

Third: Driver support. According to posts on Nvidia's own forum, Nvidia has been pulling back from OpenGL support. No points for guessing what graphics API City of Heroes uses.


What I suspect is happening is this: You don't have the power supply or the cooling to run the GTS 250 you have.

The card works fine on other games because of Nvidia's focus on DirectX. The card is downclocking itself and working power management profiles correctly.

The card fails on City of Heroes because the power-management isn't cutting in, and it's trying to run at the cards full performance against OpenGL.

If my memory is correct the system was further modified so that Task Force Spawns should not go below the starting level of number of players required to start the Task Force. E.G. if you started Synapse with 4 players, and one quit, Synapse would still spawn for 4 players rather than 3.

In any case, using the command line kick should affect the spawns on a Positron Task Force.

Yes. this system will run most Ultra Mode options in High, if it not at maximum.

No. This computer will not run Ultra Mode. The starting point for Ultra-Mode support is really the HD-5750. I've had an HD-5670 through here and it struggled even at low resolutions like 1024*768 with even low Ultra-Mode settings.

Depends on you ask. I look at cards based on multiple factors:

• Driver Support: Windows and Linux
• Product Average Selling Price
• Product Quality
• Product performance for price

Nvidia, as a company, pretty much hasn't been competitive since July 2008. For the past two years their cards have been way over priced for the amount of performance they offered.

Many Nvidia vendors, and I'm singling out Galaxy, Sparkle, ECS, and Palit since I've actually physically have had their cards in hand, have had to drop product quality to try and be profitable. Things like less mylar layers in the printed circuit board, cheaper capacitors, cheaper fans, no heatsinks on the video memory, and so on.

It's only been in the past couple of weeks that Nvidia has actually put out a graphics chip that vendors have been able to spin into something that's actually worth money, and that's the Geforce GTX 460.

Now, would I still buy one? Oh no. I've still got a long list of other reasons I wouldn't willingly spend money on Nvidia, such as:

• Nvidia's 64bit driver support is still way behind AMD's 64bit driver support.
• Nvidia still doesn't have any open-source / Linux plans beyond a binary driver
• Nvidia's driver quality control still scares the living daylights out of me
• Nvidia seems to be dropping or moving away from OpenGL support
• The whole mess with disabling Nvidia GPU's leveraged for PhysX if an Nvidia GPU isn't used to render the scene
• actively paying developers to sabatoge game-code on non-Nvidia GPU's (Borderlands, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Need For Speed)

I could go on for hours with reasons why I wouldn't, and don't, tell people to buy Nvidia products.

However, there are people out there who have had the exact opposite experience than I've had. There's been people who have had wonderful experiences with Nvidia hardware in gaming environments. There's been people who have had wonderful experiences with ATi hardware in workstation / CAD environments. There are some people that will tell you to buy one vendor or another with no regard as to the price / performance / quality or any other factors outside of the badge on the processor.

Case in point: I couldn't actually tell you the last time I installed a 32bit Nvidia binary driver under Linux and had my games suddenly start dropping textures. I can tell you that depending on the application I used, AMD's Catalyst 10.2, 10.3, and 10.5 drivers either worked flawlessly, or I had more graphics errors than Nvidia 64bit drivers. If I confined my experience with Nvidia to 32bit installations, Nvidia would seem like a better, more stable, and reliable choice

On the other hand, I couldn't tell you the last time that AMD released a driver that could physically burn my graphics card out and electrically destroy my computer. I can tell you that Nvidia just did that a couple months ago. So, if I confined my experience with each vendor to that alone, I could reasonably conclude that Nvidia was incompetent and dangerous.

A lot of what your experience with the hardware will be comes down to what you actually do with the computer. My opinion is that right now AMD offers better driver quality, better performance for price, and better physical build quality, across a wider range of cards, and across a wider range of vendors, than Nvidia.

Does that make AMD better? Well, to me it does.

If your not me, that might not make AMD a better choice.

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What in Praetoria made you think Disney was gonna be cheap?

... you need to aim that question at David (Noble Savage) or Chris (Back Alley Brawler). That's not a question the Tech Lead can answer.