je_saist

Here's something for our wonderful UI guys to look at when they get a chance.

One of the big improvements to City of Heroe's user interface over the past couple of issues has been the ability to manipulate the user-interface and open up additional power-trays. Useful for players with lots of button click macro's, veteran powers, temps, and other things.

However, the solution in the game is still... clunky... Let me explain.

Here I have all of the possible power trays open:



Now, if I'm really careful, I can make it seem like some of the trays are part of a bigger group... like so:



Also, if I get a little creative with box sizing, I can work up some additional power trays that stack out of the way of each other:



Again though, this solution is clunky. I need multiple boxes... and I can't do anything say like... this horrible GIMP mutation:



So... improvements that would be nice to see to the UI?

Ability to stack trays vertically.

Ability to lock trays in place

Ability for external trays to Snap-to each other.

I'd say the general consensus is... no consensus.

Some of the pertinent details have already been brought up, such as the highly instanced nature of the game, the use of various global channels to manage teaming across multiple servers, and so on. There are also external game factors, with multiple other desirable games having launched over the past couple of months, the recent Steam Forth of July sale, and competition with other MMO's, such as World of Warcraft and AION. MMO populations rise and fall, as other things happen outside of the MMO population.

I do want to assuage Bill's worries that servers might be turned off, or that a server merge is in the future of the game.

First, the setup of City Of Heroes isn't really conducive to merging the servers. Too many servers have players with the same name, or supergroups with the same name, or many other factors.

Second, the running cost for a server is actually pretty small at this point in time. The servers have, by and large, paid for themselves multiple times over, and there's money left in the bank to finance bandwidth for a considerable time. Ergo, there's no push to turn off servers due to operating cost overhead.

Also, NCSoft has also committed itself to a multi-year plan with City of Heroes, and I think NCSoft will only revise / revisist the intent of it's multi-year plan if Going Rogue has an extensive weak market performance.

Going Rogue will be launching towards the end of summer and the beginning of the US school year (I think the EU also gets summer off? yes? no?). I suspect NCSoft will be looking at the expansions performance figures over the fall / winter quarters before making any judgment calls over whether or not the game is genuinely bleeding subscribers that won't come back, or if the slow-down is indeed linked to external factors.

Ergo, we probably won't see any major moves from NCSoft over City Of Heroes till next year at the earliest.

If subscriber numbers don't meet NCSoft's expectations within that time, that's probably when we'll see the call on whether or not CoH continues as is, or if Paragon Studios is tasked to get CoH2 out the door while putting the original CoH on standby.

My opinion is that CoH2 is NCSoft's Nuclear option. They'd rather not pull an SOE and fund an entirely new engine / new game when the old game is still very viable for upgrades / enhancements...

couple of questions for you:

First: which server were you playing on?

Second: did the only the game drop? DId you have any other interent services slow down or disconnect?

Have you run the network tool and checked out your connection to the CoH servers themselves?

just wondering since I haven't read through all 25 pages, has anybody brought up the Korean Law that might be behind this move?

http://kotaku.com/5582040/is-korean-...al-name-policy

I already posted about PhysX usage of x87 calls and a possible switch to Bullet in the Suggestions forum: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=228737

Also, ATi cards will do the same Steroescopic 3D Nvidia cards do. Support arrived in Catalyst 10.3: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/..._103_preview/2

AMD is also behind the "Open Stereo 3d Initiative" but there's the catch that as far as I'm aware, the Initiative has no formalized software or hardware vendors and there's no central website documenting the initiative. I'm not saying AMD isn't serious about Stereoscopic 3D... but... okay. I am going to say it. I don't think AMD really cares about Stereoscopic 3D at this point... and honestly... I'd have a hard time arguing with them.

I mean, all insult intended to Sony, Nvidia, and everybody pushing the current Sterescopic 3D thing... NINTENDO GOT IT RIGHT: YOU DID NOT!

I don't want a set of glasses in order to make a screen appear pop to my eyes. I'd much rather see tech developed for head-tracking... so that if I move my head to the left, the renderer understands that I'm trying to look left and lets me look "around" the object as though I was viewing it from the left.

*pulls out a flyswatter*

Hang on Fedor! I'll get that thing atop your head!

*SWATS!*

off the top of my head... I got nothing.

I'd go through the usual trouble-shooting steps:

Run Memtest

Make sure your drivers are up-to-date:

see if the error also occurs on the test-server or just the live server.

12-28-2009, 06:10 PM Starflier

01-02-2010, 09:05 PM Zubenelgenubi

Today, 04:24 PM Anarchist_Kitten

... unholy thread necromancy!

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3dv-sys...echnology.html

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...und_experience

Basically, the Driver is out now, it's been tested, and it works.

If you have a Geforce GTX 260, 275, 280, 285, 295, 465, 470, 480 in SLI, or a GTX 295 with 2 DVI's and an HDMI connector, you can take advantage of Nvidia's version of Eyefinity.

This does give a leg-up over AMD Eyefinity's technology, since Eyefinity doesn't (yet, or maybe won't) work on the RadeonHD 4000 series cards. However, unlike AMD cards, which will do triple-screen Eyefinity on single cards from the 5400 series on up, you'll need to be running your Nvidia GTX's in at least 2X SLI.