mightyhyperion

Juggertha get's my vote. Has that old school pulp horror comic feel, and after all CoH is comic based

Alex comes in a close second.

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[color=yellow]& again when clicking on Black Market Vendor:
Date: Feb.14, 16:09pm MST
Character: Ida Widower lvl 48 SoA (Fortunata build)
Server: Guardian
SG: Rogue Isle Marine Corps
Team: No
Occurance: Was at Cap Au Diable BM clicked on vender & under 1 min the "City of Heroes has encountered a problem & needs to close." Message came up, so I added all the above details & came here to cut & paste them also. Though I think the only reason this happens alot with my SoA is cause she's the main toon I'm currently working on.

Man it's getting to the point I'm going to save a WP doc with the form format to make it easier to fill out detail!

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Let me guess, your running an ATI card? If so it sounds like the issue your having is you need to turn on your fast write option under the smartgart tab in CCC. Some older ATI cards crash 50% of the time, or more, whenever you click on a contact, vendor, or try to check another players info, if fast write isn't enabled.

If it's not an ATI card then I guess it's back to the drawing board :/

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Anyone using Windows7 and ati, the 9.1 driver came out today... skip it. Same problems as the 8.12

8.11 is the most recent that I can get to work, that said I've had exactly 2 crashes in however many weeks I've been running it rather than the daily (hourly) crashes in CoX I was experiencing with vista. Both were blue screens but previously I was getting black screens and had to powre off my computer. So yay for windows7.

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Yeah, I had the same issues with 9.1 today I've had with 8.11 and 8.12, the crossfire option doesn't appear under CCC. I'm still stuck using 8.10's for now.

I've been wondering about Windows 7 and ATI myself. Just got a new system, thinking of trying Windows 7 on my old one.

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My characters crash when I try to talk to a contact or look at another players information. Not sure if this is the same issue your talking about, but here is my info all the same.

Characters Names: All Characters

SG/VG: Crime Syndicate, Justice Syndicate, The Syndicates Hand, and Virtue Syndicate.

When do you crash?: When I talk to a contact, store clerk, field analyst, or access another players info.

Does it affecdt all characters?: Yes

Does id affect only characters in one or more SG's or VS's?: No, it affects all characters across all servers, SG's, and VG's.

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I got my issues fixed, it was a video card settings issue which had to be changed in my BIOS. I hope solutions are found for everyone soon.

Got a new system that should be here Monday, as usual one of Billz threads saved me some headaches.

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"If you played enough to earn 240 merits, then you would have earned at least 50 million with the old system. I seriously doubt you did that without doing some tf's."

I did Positron, Numina, and a respec (second one). grand total influence earned via grouping was 1.9 million total. That is with selling normal recipe drops at ah for 100,000 each. If you can make 50 million a week please tell us how. I sure dont know how to do it.

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Wow, so you made 133 merits on story arc completions in a week? Impressive, did you log of at all?

In the old system, you could score 50 million in one 20-30 minute katie task force.

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Now you have gone from trolling to sounding just plain silly.

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Have either of you checked your system's BIOS to see if there's a Fast Write option there for you to enable?

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i cannot find an option that appears to enable fast write. i tried a few different options in bios that i thought would be related to it under northbridge settings, but nothing affected a change.

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Of course, it's also possible that something in the newer drivers has fragged up.

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i think it is more likely i am doing something wrong.

i don't know if it'll help but here is my motherboard's info.

i'll follow it with my bios info in bold.

Field Value
Motherboard Properties
Motherboard Name Asus P4S800D-X

Front Side Bus Properties
Bus Type Intel NetBurst
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 200 MHz (QDR)
Effective Clock 800 MHz
Bandwidth 6400 MB/s

Memory Bus Properties
Bus Type DDR SDRAM
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 133 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock 267 MHz
Bandwidth 2133 MB/s

Chipset Bus Properties
Bus Type SiS MuTIOL
Bus Width 16-bit

Motherboard Physical Info
CPU Sockets/Slots 1 Socket 478
Expansion Slots 5 PCI, 1 AGP
RAM Slots 4 DDR DIMM
Integrated Devices Audio, LAN
Form Factor ATX
Motherboard Size 240 mm x 300 mm
Motherboard Chipset SiS655FX
Extra Features JumperFree, Stepless Freq Selection

Field Value
BIOS Properties
BIOS Type AMI
System BIOS Date 09/07/05
Video BIOS Date 03/10/17

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Probably won't help you, I know the BIOS options can be so different depending on how it's set up, but here is where I found the option on my PC. Mine was listed under the option "Advanced Chip Set Features" and then on that screen under the option "AGP & P2P Bridge Control".

Goodluck and I hope it helps. After I got my fast write to stay on ten I haven't locked up anymore.

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Have either of you checked your system's BIOS to see if there's a Fast Write option there for you to enable?

If there is, enable it there and then try again in the CCC.

Of course, it's also possible that something in the newer drivers has fragged up.

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Just went in and changed it in the bios, now it will stay set in the on position. Thanks again for all the help.

The same exact issue I'm having. I can't get it to stay set to the on position. I did read on another site where you can download a tool to uninstall the SmartGart portion of CCC and then go in and set fast write in the on position manually. I haven't tried it yet, don't want to screw anything up more than it already is. The weird thing for me is that I've played the game for close to 4 years with this card and rig but never had this issue until issue 12 was released.

My characters crash when I try to talk to a contact or look at another players information. Not sure if this is the same issue your talking about, but here is my info all the same.

Characters Names: All Characters

SG/VG: Crime Syndicate, Justice Syndicate, The Syndicates Hand, and Virtue Syndicate.

When do you crash?: When I talk to a contact, store clerk, field analyst, or access another players info.

Does it affecdt all characters?: Yes

Does id affect only characters in one or more SG's or VS's?: No, it affects all characters across all servers, SG's, and VG's.

Well I've stated my opinion about the set earlier in this thread, but haven reached level 39 and having played around with One With The Shield, I can't tell you how disappointed I am with it. I really don't feel it helps me survive much at all for a tier 9 power, especially compared to other tier 9's. I really hoped this is looked at in the near future, along with endurance cost.

Another quick thing that bugs me as well is the taunt effect of Against All Odds. I can't even run it when playing on a team, the aggro it draws is incredible. It's ok obviously when I solo or even duo, but you get on a team of 4 or more and you will take a beat down I promise you.

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Hey is there a guide somewhere for Day Jobs? I tried searching but couldn't find it could someone give me a link for it please?

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I've been using this one at gameamp, I'm sure there is a better one out there but maybe this one will do you in the mean time.

http://cityofheroes.gameamp.com/city...es/herodayjobs

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5. Some day job locations count for two rewards at once. Examples include standing in one particular spot between the Talos base teleporter and train station, and some of the villains' Black Helicopter locations. You only accrue time for one job, but it's not clear which, and it's too confusing to have overlapping job zones.

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Actually, I'm pretty sure you get time for both.

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I noticed that some of my characters have been accumulating time towards three day job badges while parked at the Talos base portal: Monitor Duty, Commuter, and Patroller.

We get Patroller anywhere, but it's interesting that we're able to get that many jobs at once.


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Can also get Duelist, Shopkeeper, and Patroller while logged in an arena.

I like the concept, but they set really still needs some tweaks IMO. I have more scrappers than I care to list but this one seems to really take a beating compared to the others.

My Dark defense and my Fire defense scrappers both are squishy but have something to offer in return. With Fire you have an amazing heal in Healing Flames, this really helps mitigate some of the damage you take. You also have a shield that damages the enemies as you fight them, cutting down on your kill time.

On the Dark side of things you have a ton of damage mitigation by using Cloak of Fear or Oppressive Gloom, or both. Also you once again have a very nice self heal power and a damage aura.

A poster above mentioned that Parry helps to mitigate damage, and as a broad sword scrapper I agree. But what about people who don't use broad sword? You should never be locked into using a primary to make a secondary viable.

The same can be said for endurance usage, I do find it to be a big heavy. I should never have to use IO's to make my endurance consumption viable.

I like the set, have a scrapper in the 30's and have started a tank as well, but really hope that they tweak it some.

I love the leveling pact and the way it's implemented. My fiancee doesn't get to play as much as I do so this has been wonderful for us, when she logs on we are the same level and on an even playing field.

I also like the 5 level rule, I can just see too many people trying to find loopholes if the level was raised much above that for existing characters.

The only issue I have with this feature is how long it takes to switch between builds. I've often been soloing and then get a group invite only to have the team fall apart before they even begin a mission. If I switched to a team build for this then have to go back to soloing I'm stuck in my build. If you want this to be a much used feature lower the timer to 5 minutes.

I like it a lot more than I thought I would. I'm more of a badge person though so that might explain my lack of complaints. I wouldn't want the powers to be permanent, that just seems like it would be too much IMO. I would however like to see unique permanent rewards such as costume pieces, related to each job, upon completion of each job.

Midnight Squad Story Arc: Excellent! Most I've enjoyed a new story arc in awhile. I hope to see MANY more like this in the near future. I know Story Arc material is very time consuming, but if you want to increase the life span of this game more if this is how you do it.

Cimerora Story Arc: Haven't gotten around to doing it yet, been to busy playing my new shield scrapper. Hope it's as good as the Midnight Squad Arc.

I don't think that it's a terrible idea, but in it's current form I don't see it as very useful. In order for it to be more functional I still say that everyone on a team needs to receive some sort of merit award when doing missions other than paper missions. The only other option would be to dramatically lower the cost of items, which to me isn't an option at all.

Also if they implement other items to purchase with merits such as costume pieces and temp powers then it would be more worth the effort. As it stands the time sink to obtain enough merits for an item is not in line with me being able to obtain it through WW.

Server: Virtue
Zone: Kings Row
Character Name: Charlie Chopper
Time: Between Midnight and 2 a.m. 12/12
Location: Mission map/Street
Mission: Paper mission that belong to another person.
Mission Contact: Kings Row Detective

Bug Description: While doing a paper mission I died. When I died I needed a half a bar to level, decided to go to the hospital instead of waiting for the last bar and a rez. Upon zoning into the hospital I needed 3.5 bars to level. I returned to the mission and zoned in, still needed 3.5 bars to level. After the next mob I map served. Upon logging back on I had leveled. Unlike some people I seem to have gotten my XP back, but it was still gone for awhile.

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Against All Odds toggle drops when mez'd

Server: Champion
Zone: Steel Canyon mostly
Character name: Shield Maiden
Time: around 2:30 to 4:30 PST Saturday, Dec 6
Location: various in zone
Mission: various/all
Mission Contact: various

Bug Description: I understand toggles should not drop automatically now, and Battle Agility and Deflection on my Shield Defense tanker do not. However, Against All Odds dropped every time I was held or slept when fighting Lost. This seemed odd; I'm not 100% sure it's a bug, but I thought I'd mention it.

And by "dropped" I mean the button itself went "small" and started to recycle after I got mezed. I have to manually click on the button to reactivate it after it finishes recycling, which is several seconds.

Link to Forum Discussions: na

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Only defensive toggles don't drop, all toggles that are considered offensive still drop. I wish it wasn't this way, but I guess some toggles not dropping are better than none.

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Traps: Poison Gas Trap

Server: ALL
Zone: N/A
Character name: N/A
Time: N/A
Location: ALL
Mission: ANY
Mission Contact: N/A
Bug Description: Prior to the release of the invention system poison gas trap (PGT) held all targets in it upon activation, and periodically held and invoked the vomitting animation for a period thereafter.

Based on the desire to remove the PROC ability of the power, the initial hold and following hold and vomit components have been reduced to the point that PGT is effectively useless as reliable means of crowd control. It not for the -regen component, this once "cornerstone of the set" would not be worth selecting.

Please return PGT to the way it was and remove the ability for the power to take hold sets.

Link to Forum Discussions:
Borked PGT link

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This is a bug how?

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Hmmm... it would appear that i13 was given Live status too early. Probably should have stayed on Test for another week or two. Bad show really... will be interesting to see how damage control is handled (I suppose worst case would be a rollback).

Either that or it's a Nemesis plot. Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnnnh!

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Is it a problem, yes a minor one. Would keeping it on test have resolved the problem, no. It simple wasn't an issue on the test server, I've been on there playing every day with none of the issues. It took me a while to get connected to get the hotfix, but after it downloaded I've been fine since. Hopefully everyone will get through and get it soon.

Name: Mighty Hyperion
Global Contact: Mighty Hyperion
Level of Classification: 50
Origin: Mutant
Super Rank & Super Group: Leader of The Justice Syndicate

I PM'd a Dev and asked as I'm sure a million others have. It actually hasn't been read yet so maybe when they get around to reading it I will get an answer. Maybe I should find someway to tie it into a PvP question and I might get an answer sooner!