plainguy

Well at this point its bugged in game, posted as a bugged on the i21 forums and posted in the Suggestion forums. Not much else I can do without the address of a developer and the hours they travel to and from work.

Yea I just gave up and made a new Huntsman character.

Quoting myself, bit weird.

Just to make it clear part of my work is doing computer forensics. Pretty much all our machines are Macs, my home machine is a 27" all in one Mac. At work we do bootcamp because some of the tools we use just do not work in a VM environment. But when we can, we try to run our forensic tools in a windows VM machine. It just makes working on cases much easier. But when possible I export items to the Mac machine just to preview and printing out emails and such to PDF which the Mac does natively.

So I am a big Mac fan, but I understand windows is needed and just about 92 to 95 % of the community is running a windows box as well in corporate as well.

My gripe is not with Mac but with city of heroes client and how the developed this piece of software for the Mac. I clearly understand that many would not have had even a clue if they explained the whole thing anyways as it was probably a bit technical to explain for many. But at a minimum they should have at least mentioned or posted it up in a clear place for those interested.

And then I would imagine someone would have posted it up here so when someone like you comes along they clearly know what they are getting into. Basically give you all the facts and let you decide.

But beyond this game Macs run very well. They do not have the issues of the windows registry and all the hooks that some software require to work sometimes. With a Mac for the most part, again for the most part.. You want to uninstall something you drag the folder into the trash and its uninstalled. Backing up a Mac with Time machine alone is amazing. Straight simple, if you never did it before and just started looking at a time machine backup you would understand it. The only learning curve with a Mac is getting rid of window habits. But once you get the concept of the Mac its the same across the board.

So for frustration sake with THIS GAME. I would boot camp your drive and have your laptop running windows and Mac. But beyond that you can stick to the Mac side for everything else. Another issue will be mids. You need windows for mids. Though I read they are going to HTML5 eventually for Mids which means it will work on windows and Mac but I think that is some time away from now. I use a windows virtual machine to run mids on the mac side.

Again Boot Camping is not a bad thing. For me I just decided I would find a Mac way to do things. I know windows for the most part and I wanted to get accustomed to working with Macs for work reasons. I also want my kids to know both windows and mac. Many parents decide to buy their kids a mac laptop for college after they dealt with windows for the last 18 years of their lives and then the child has 2 issues, getting accustomed to college environment and the Mac environment.

Things just run much smoother on Mac, when they are build for the Mac. Cox client was not. That is NCsoft fault and not Mac. I have played MoM ( turn your head upside down for that one ) on the Mac and had zero issues and it ran like a charm and on top the image was even crisper then on my windows machine with a high end video card.

Some are saying double price for half the performance. I'm not trying to be a wise guy here, but there are many things that come into play here. Cuppa clearly mentioned some of it. But when people are biased for the reason of just being biased its because they lack some technical knowledge.

But hey look at it this way then, 600 dollars gets you a nice windows laptop. 800 dollars gets you a mac laptop that can boot camp windows. So for 200 dollars you get both. I think its worth the investment.

So I hope I cleared up anything that might have been misinterpreted by some.

I purchased everything but the wedding pack prior to i21. Which includes both clients windows and mac. I was able to select items I already purchased. I didn't check them out because I just wasn't confident in gaming company in trying to fix it afterwards.

It would be nice if the store interface were a bit larger then 6 inches by 6 inches.

I don't know, you would have to explain what you mean by lost its luster.

I find it amazing that Poison Traps with 1 IO proc can hold over 10 mobs in combination between the proc and the power itself.

I can place a trip mine ( NOT Time Bomb, even I agree TB is no good ) pretty much at will only being hindered by its recharge rate.

I find it amazing that I can positionally defense cap any toon with traps.

I happen to have rad, dark and kin. I will admit I might not be the sharpest or have the highest technique of tactics. But those secondaries really cannot handle 4/8 farm as easily as my Traps can. If only for 1 simple reason they require an anchor to place debuffs on and then you have make sure you keep the anchor near the rest of the mobs. Just not that easy even with Darks 3 holds ( 2 powers and 1 pet ). On top once the anchor dies the delay in power recharge leaves you without defenses for a short time which ends up being disastrous sometimes. Where as with Traps your big issue is FFG getting clobbered. Luckily FFG is durable enough to handle general AV attacks.

So again I'm not that bright, but I certainly don't think I'm that dumb that I would have 2 Corruptors, 1 Defender and one Mastermind all with Traps that can solo 4/8 settings and Tank AVs and GMs.

I will agree to this, Traps can be some what of a setting up before a fight build depending on what setting your running on solo. I solo 2/6 or 1/8 with just FFG and main attacks and maybe poison trap. So yea on a 4/8 setting I set up before fight. I make sure my FFG is behind me or around a corner out of LOS when possible and I sometimes do admit it gets so crazy with double or triple pulls of 4/8 spawns that my pets, which FFG is considered do get some aggro. So those can be very bad if I can't find a way to isolate my FFG from the mobs. If I have ceiling height I might pop a few purples and fly up to get out of the way and regroup. If not I try to make sure where the choke points are so I have an idea where I need to retreat and regroup to, perfect example of this is the first door during the crey fire farm, its narrow and I can set up there and pull to there with minimal amount of issues of mobs getting behind me . I usually have a phase shift power temp for those moments as well

I sort of disagree with this. For the last 21 years my job has pretty much dictated my life to some degree. I've worked on holidays MANY, MANY, MANY holidays when others were home. I've worked for days on end. Just recently I worked 12 to 15 hour days, 6 days a week for over 30 days. My one day off which was never the same day of the week I was inundated with phone calls.

I've worked in all sorts of environment rain, sleet, snow, hurricanes, floods. I did not have the luxury of saying I can't come in when my car is blocked in with 2 feet of snow all around it and all mass transit is NOT working. They expect me to get up earlier start clearing that snow and make my way in.

End result, you want a game that people pay a lot, you want a game that people pay to play. You want to have a pay check and support you family. You do what is necessary.

I also want to add I could have retire and collect a good pension and moved on to a different career in the computer industry and I'm still there.

And I guess I will add that being in my current position I deal with many software companies. Everyone wants to say our organization uses their software. When we test something out and it doesn't work we give developers enough time to fix what we find faulty or lacking. If they don't we drop them. They hate when we do that. When we buy software, one its not one copy and two the software is so industry specific its thousands of dollars. So they make money and get "street cred" when dealing with us.

I'm NOT a programmer but I will say this, having to tag market items as "1 of" and "2 of" shows me something about the programming or the limitations in the code being used. And I think anyone who is a programmer can clearly understand what I am talking about. Nutshell I am pretty sure that is something they could have done and tracked on the back end and not hard code into market items.

I find that people give too much leeway to game developers because it is entertainment. Imagine if you will this was the program that ran you business and put food on your table just to find out every update put you out of work. Or even better imagine if this was the OS that ran your computer and every time you had some big service patch it would crash your machine.

Regardless of what this might be business or pleasure it should be working and I shouldn't be dreading every time I see an new update because I know what comes along with it. Add on top of this I play on a MAC so its even worse.

If anything I can say welcome to the world that MAC users have to deal with everyday in this game.

And I know some will say or are at least thinking if it's so bad, then why not leave. All I can honestly say is I am truly considering it. I know it doesn't matter and I'm not gonna break any hearts leaving. Matter of fact I am pretty sure the Devs and Mods would be happy to see me leave as I have never paint them in a good light. I think they are a biased lot and enforce rules as they seem fit and is convenient to them and I have said that to them anytime I had to interact with them, which was very limited. I don't considerably think this company handles it customers very well over all.

Some are complaining about being down for 4 hours on a Saturday. MAC users on i20 were down for over 10 days with ZERO compensation.

In i21 BETA we couldn't even play. By the time they got stuff fixed BETA was closing out. While many were on the BETA servers getting free giveaways, I couldn't even get in if I wanted. And only through the very knowledgeable players that were kind enough to help out on the MAC forums ( CuppaMaga to name one of a few ) were players able to even get in when i21 went live.

Am I going to die because I didn't get a free costume code ? Please of course not. But being down for 10 days you think you could just credit my Credit card a few dollars or even the month ? Are they that tight for money ? If so then they have bigger problems.

Again at this point of the game giving away even 50 merits to an account is not going imbalance the game and would just give customers a good feeling. Its about perceptions, I can screw you over but if my overall perception is I am helping you out then its all good. Again anyone who knows someone in Law Enforcement or is in LE will understand this concept immensely. That is how confessions are obtained many times.

I just don't know really. I think this game is a gold mine but they are just so short sighted sometimes.

Just started doing this as well.

Oddly enough how it all works out. I just placed those bids on the IOs I needed and waited, eventually I picked them up. I ran AE missions for the salvage and placed it in my vault in the meantime. Within days of posting I pretty much picked up every positron IO needed.

I did learn one lesson and not posting things so fast at what the prices are at atm. I didn't know the going price for a crafted IO and I made and listed 10 for the listed price. Sadly within days I discovered that price I had seen was an inflated price. I left it on the market for about a week with nothing selling and the prices not rising even close to what I seen the day I posted them.

End result I took them down and posted them for around the price I've been seeing for the past week. Lesson learned know the real going rate before posting a bid.

Don't get me wrong still not making big money, but its slowly coming in, better then nothing I guess

LOL, good one.