seebs

I recently did a fairly comprehensive writeup on topics related to my experiences playing CoH, as contrasted with another game I used to play. The crafting thing certainly stands out. And here's the thing. I loved crafting... But I know a guy who viewed the lack of any kind of crafting or gathering as a big selling point of CoH. So I think there's people who really don't enjoy that, and I guess it makes sense that some games wouldn't try to provide it -- especially since, if you don't enjoy it, it's a pure distraction from actually playing the game.

Yeah. I had the same problem in WoW, where I was just as bad an altoholic. I'd totally forget how to play various classes.

I don't know about the other sets, but I did a /nin stalker, and had a rough time of things in Praetoria... until I made level 10 and got caltrops.

Then I pretty much just laughed at stuff, except for some of the Very Fun missions.

Basically, I took the ranged defense toggle, and then used caltrops and walls to avoid meleeing more than one thing at a time. Ranged attacks tended to miss, and things in melee tended to die. Problem solved!

What happened in my case was, one of the demonlings died, and when I resummoned, I cast equip... and noticed that all but one of the other demons got their little equip animation. Then I realized the other one was out of the area of effect. Then I realized why everyone had been sucking.

And I filled up on recipes during the adventuring, so that character's WW slots are now all full again for a while, so it'll be a week or so before I play with the little demonlings again...

On the bright side, got the big demon a second acc/end/dam enhancement, and also a chance-for-smashing-damage proc to go with all those slows.

Last night, after a long interlude of not playing my demons/dark MM, I played her for a while.

It was rough going.

Finally, about five missions in, I remembered:

1. I usually keep Shadow Fall up for defense, resistance, and better positioning through stealth.
2. That "enchant demon" power is not purely decorative.

Things improved a lot then.

I doubt there was "a guy controlling the market", I suspect prices were just high for a while. You may find this hard to believe, but when prices are too high, some people won't buy -- which can cause supply to increase.

Sometimes the market doesn't actually process a listing, cancel it and relist.

What's a "reactivation weekend"?

Downloaded it, it failed. Tried deleting the existing directory completely, then installing, same behavior.

Initial error is "There was an error reading the database. Attempt to download replacement?" Selecting "no" just ends the program, selecting "yes" gets "Enhancement Database file isn't how it should be (Too many bytes in what should have been a 7 bit encoded Int32.)"

Tried again on a different machine, no problems observed. I don't immediately know what the significant difference is; both hosts are Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit. In both cases, the program was installed as admin (since the installer doesn't work otherwise), and run as a regular user.

... Nevermind. Turns out that the default install leaves the program unable to run except as an administrator! I haven't tracked this down more specifically yet, but so far as I can tell, once installed, Mids still needs to run as admin to have sufficient access to files. (If you try to install it without admin privs to begin with, it fails dismally because it can't write to Program Files. I don't know enough about Windows to suggest what I should do instead.)

Edited again: More messing about, and if instead of installing in the default location, I install in my home directory, it seems to work fine.

A while back I listed some level 25 accuracy generics for what turned out to be far too high a price -- asking 650k. They haven't sold. It's been at least a week or so.

But...

In the last five sales, there were THREE for a million.

Meaning that, at a time when at least some accuracy IOs were for sale for LESS THAN 650k, people were bidding 1 million. WHY?

I actually tend to make at least a few at levels 10 and 15 because it's much more effective than TOs/DOs.

Aim+Snipe = that one critter I did not want to deal with is probably dead.

Good enough for me.

eryq2, lighten up. The entire thread was a joke; I can see someone interpreting your suggestion to just get the silver by non-market means as an indication that you had not understood this. I think in this case that was "friendly" teasing, rather than unfriendly teasing.