newchemicals

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

So then my idea to implement CoH with the Star Fleet Battles ruleset would be considered unconventional, I guess.

Originally Posted by ShadowMoka

Hello, everyone. I just thought I'd beat a dead horse.

The developers seem very keen to reviving/revamping old content lately. Giant Monsters aren't too popular anymore and I can see why: They're too much effort for too little of a reward. Giant Monsters give the standard of 2 reward merits if I'm correct.
Why not have a reward table for contributing to fight them? For example, it could be:

• 10 Reward Merits
• Non stacking +10% XP/Inf boost for the next 45 minutes
• A single Incarnate Shard(Level 50 VIP Incarnates only!)
• Two Incarnate Threads (Level 50 VIP Incarnates only!)
• A random super inspiration

Not sure if those rewards are too extreme, too little, or just right. I know they're also not AS hard with all our IOs and Incarnate powers but they're certainly not easy.

Originally Posted by Duneman

Still no problems with the 12.4 drivers?

Originally Posted by RedLineage

Are you using the Windows Basic/Aero Theme or have you changed it?

My Alienware came with a different theme on it that caused the same issue on my laptop. I switch to Aero and now it has been working fine.

Also, newchemicals, the video card and driver version are in the log files that were posted above, hence why most people ask for people to post them when they have an issue.

Originally Posted by GoNukemHigh

When I do go inside the University, its usually a good 80% chance of this issue I'm having happening. Sometimes it happens as soon as I enter the University. Sometimes as soon as I start to move towards an Invention table. Sometimes I can get to the Invention table and craft recipes and then crash. Other times I can get in and out without a problem.

I reduced Anti-aliasing from x16 to x2 and ran around inside the University and did not experience the issue...yet. I'll continue to see if that changes anything.

I usually have all my background programs on and never had this issue before.

I did get the temp monitoring program which allows to control the fan speed from Nvidia.

The side panel of my machine is always removed to allow more air flow and venting of heat. I recently air-dusted too.

Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight

I assume this P2 system isn't your primary system, right? It's unlikely it could even start CoH!

I'd recommend thinking about it based on what's most likely to be the bottleneck. A SSD will largely fix the component that's the biggest bottleneck for most users (the HDD), so you should try to set aside enough money for at least a 64GB SSD. From there, it really depends on what you'll be doing with it. Gaming? Then budget out a good nVidia GPU (if you won't use it for CoH, then ATI is also an option).

I'd recommend at least 4GB of RAM, with 6-8 a much nicer amount... but, some use cases would be fine with 2GB of ram even!


Lastly, is SB vs IvB. There's not a huge performance difference, and SB, from what I've heard, overclocks better than current IvB parts. If you're not going to overclock quite a bit or depend on the iGPU, don't go with a 'k' part when choosing a SB CPU (those are the only benefits for it). The 'k' IvB parts get a bonus 100MHz over their non-K cousins, so there's a slight benefit for non-overclockers as well.

Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell

Some of these, I'm sure, would generate more heat than others...

• AoEs would affect everyone in their area of effect, not just enemies. Allies, civilians, everyone. You throw an exploding ball of fire into a crowd, you're not only going to hit the people who don't like you. Need to escort someone out of a mission? If the stalker has to turn of Hide, the fire tank has to turn off his damage aura. And the Titan Weapons brute needs to watch where he swings that thing.
• Heroes should fight villains, and vice-versa. Thus, in my CoH, everyone could go everywhere, regardless of alignment. But if you were in a zone you shouldn't be in (a villain in a hero zone, for example), people who are "native" to that zone (heroes and vigilantes) could freely attack you like you were in a PvP zone. Only characters who were "allowed" to be in a zone could start fights; the interloper could fight back if and only if he or someone on his team were attacked, and only against the attacker or members of the attacker's team. Vigilantes and rogues would be considered "safe" in any zones (except PvP zones, obviously), but could only start fights in hero or villain zones, as appropriate.
  
  Being defeated by another player (not a critter) in a "wrong side" zone would send you to jail, not the hospital. At this point you could choose to bust out of your cell, or "do your time" by waiting 30 minutes (real-world minutes, not in-game minutes, so logging out would be an option).
  
  I'd remove certain features from zones on both sides to "encourage" (read: force) people to go into zones where they aren't welcome. Say, pull quartermasters from most redside zones so villains have to come to Paragon to do their shopping, and shut down Wentworth's in blueside zones so that heroes who want to trade have to visit the black market in the Isles.
  
  I'd also introduce a "secret identity" system that would allow characters to enter opposite-side zones unmolested -- an extra costume slot with vastly-reduced options (similar to Arachnos costumes, only all normal clothes) attached to a toggle power otherwise identical to Walk except that it wouldn't shut off "always on" powers or Brawl. And while it would prevent other players from being able to attack you, it wouldn't prevent critters from doing so. So if you toggle it off to use your powers to defend yourself from those Hellions that tried to mug you, you're now fair game to other players. Secret Identity would have a lockout preventing players from activating it while in the middle of a fight (maybe if you've attacked or been attacked by anything in the last sixty seconds, something like that) -- which means busting out of jail would leave you open to attack from other players again as you trashed the police station and fought your way through PPD.
• Experience debt would be applied when you're defeated, then applied again if you went to the hospital -- medical care is expensive! Being rezzed by any other means (including your SG base) would remain "free." However, debt would all be the same again, whether you're in an instanced mission or not.
• I'd apply the "giant monster code" to every enemy in a city or hazard zone. Maybe instanced missions, too, maybe not. Either way, under me there'd be no such thing as a "level 20-30 zone," only a "+0 - +2 zone" or a "-2 - +0 zone." Civilians walk around on the streets of Peregrine Island without dying -- why shouldn't a level 3 superhero be able to as well?
  
  Nothing would ever con grey, so theoretically, even stopping an Atlas Park purse-snatching would be "worth the time" for a level 50+3 incarnate.
• Tips would only drop outside of instanced missions, and would always be specific to the zone in which they dropped, not only in terms of where the mission door would be, but in the sense that certain tip missions would only be available in certain zones (so maybe a Council-based tip would only drop in zones where Council normally spawn).
• Speaking of drops, salvage would be enemy-specific. Want a Ritki Alloy? You'll only get it by fighting Rikti, and maybe Lost. Need a Mu Vestment? Find some Arachnos and take out the guys wearing them (so, Mu specifically, not crabs or widows or tarantulas). Looking for an Improvised Cybernetic? Those Freakshow over there are probably the guys to take one from.
  
  Combined with my "everyone can go everywhere" pseudo-PvP system, this could be especially interesting; maybe a villain is trying to get a specific kind of salvage by street-sweeping a type of enemy that only appears in a hero zone, and a hero shows up to thwart his nefarious scheme. ("I only need a few more rubies to build my death ray... what's that? Heroes, come to foil my plan!")
• Knockback would cause additional "falling" damage based on the distance the target was knocked back. Powers with knockback would not have their damage scaled back to compensate. Thus, powers that do knockback, and Knockback enhancements, would be much more attractive choices, and enemies would be flying all over the place.
• There'd be bigger differences between alignments, and not just in tip missions. Characters with different alignments would actually play the game differently. Heroes, being altruistic and more concerned with preventing a robbery or rescuing a kidnapped civilian, would see a larger reward at the end of each mission, but a smaller reward for defeating enemies within that mission. So clearing a map wouldn't be as good an idea as simply moving on to the next mission. Vigilantes, being more concerned with bringing the criminals to justice, would receive a smaller end-of-mission reward, but a larger reward for each enemy they defeat within the mission.