Things To Do When There are Unexpected Outages
By
Angry_Citizen,
Posted on: 2006-06-10 14:08 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Man, I think I'm the only person here who actually likes Auto Assault.
...And also, this thread should totally be renamed "What to do when not playing with CoX."
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Eh, don't really care one way or the other about AA. The whole buy into TR beta trick just feels like a cheap tactic.
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Yeah, but that was only for the first 200 people to buy a subscription. Unless there is a new promotion I don't know about.
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Nope. It just really struck me as bribery at the time...
Meh, I'll live. Now get rid of that dust crap. It's playing havoc with my sinuses.
down loading Everquest II trial now heh
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Have server outages got you down? Don't know what to do with yourself? Here are some helpful tips from Super Happy Fun Time Labs:
<ul type="square"> Things to do during outages[*] Go talk to those people in your house that say they are related to you.[/list]
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There are people in my house related to me?
AHHHHHHHHH! Run Away!
You could listen to the Wasabi Awards on SI Radio - I have a sneaking suspicion that we won something!
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Holy crap, I didn't realize I was related to Cuppa!
...Wait, I mean... I'm totally not hiding in her closet and stalking her...
>.>
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AMNESIA DUST!
*Tosses white powder into the thread and runs*
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Ahhh-CHOO!
Hey, what is this stuff?
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
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AMNESIA DUST!
*Tosses white powder into the thread and runs*
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Thats not Amnesia dust. That is baby powder from a bottle of baby powder, with the word baby powder crossed out and amnesia powder written in crayon...and amnesia is spelled wrong.
Where did you get that? Uncle Bob?
Torqumada
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Oh, man... now it's all in my hair. I look like a member of the Soul Patrol.
Uh-oh... can't stop my legs...
SOULLLLLLLLLLL
PATROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
<ul type="square">[*]Mow the lawn
Whoops, did that.[*]Go buy a new lawn mower when the old one finally dies on you.
Darn, did that too.[*]Fire up your new gas grill and chrn out some kickin' burgers.
Well, drat. three for three today.[/list]
So much for my ideas. 
Moggie's big forum-brother.
"I'm a tech. I tell it how it is. I'm incapable of the sunshine blowing necessary in their field." - BillZBubba
* Play Axis and Allies and take over the world as Japan, without Germany's help. Go eat a roll, Kaiserhead!!
* Sing as loudly as you can to "Down With the Sickness". I especially like the monkey ooh ooh ahh ahh part.
* Inhale Amnesia Dust.
"I see your words..." ~The most menacing thing a forumite could say
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You could listen to the Wasabi Awards on SI Radio - I have a sneaking suspicion that we won something!
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I listened to SI Radio the last time you guys told me to. You know what they say, "Fool me once..."
Has take care of a baby dove blown out of it's nest and mauled by cats been said yet? It's what I've been doing the last three hours, waiting for the woman at teh rescue center to call back.
My first short story (detective fiction) came out in Jan-2012. Other stories and books to follow, I hope. Because of "real writing". COH was a big part of that happening.
Pick up a copy of The Silmarillion.
Read it.
Throw the book across the room in frustration.
Pout.
Pick up the book.
Read it.
*puts on Repeat*
Current main:
Schrodinger's Gun, Dual Pistols/Mental Blaster, Virtue
Avatar: Becky Miyamoto from Pani Poni Dash. Roulette roulette~
Catch bugs to feed the baby dove. Make a nice warm nest out of scraps and rags that you have around the house. Catch some more bugs, cause it's hungry again. If you're out of bugs, milk-soaked bread will do in a pinch for feeding baby doves.
My to-do list...
Sweep the floor.
Move furniture.
Change the baby.
Sweep under furniture.
Have a Hardcore Cider.
Mop under furniture.
Move furniture back.
Feed the baby.
Mop the rest of the floor.
Have another Hardcore Cider.
Move the fridge...You get the idea.
Check the server status.
Beg husband for backrub when he gets home from work.
@SithRose and @Sith Rose
Permanent resident of Virtue
"Mommy, I need Cthulhu. He keeps the bad dreams away."
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You could listen to the Wasabi Awards on SI Radio - I have a sneaking suspicion that we won something!
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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!
"City of" also won Best Storyline and Best Newb Experience (so far...)
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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!
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Yeeeeeea us! ! ! !
oh and things to do when the servers are down. Read The Freedom Phalanx by Robin Laws. It's a story about this city where people people have all kind of super powers.
Crazy huh?
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You could listen to the Wasabi Awards on SI Radio - I have a sneaking suspicion that we won something!
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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!
"City of" also won Best Storyline and Best Newb Experience (so far...)
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Knew we would - CoH/V is awesome, community-wise. No death threats to the devs like WoW.
I must admit though, the storyline award sort of shocked me, despite m liking of the story. Though hopefully with the zone updates, there will be a more complete and expanding storyline.
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!
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WoW was robbed!!
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Playing WoW right now and having a blast doing it :P
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SACRELIGE!!!!!! DEATH TO THE INFIDEL!!!!!!!11
On Justice
Global @Desi Nova Twitter: @desi_nova Steam: Desi_nova. I don't do Xbox or PS3
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You could listen to the Wasabi Awards on SI Radio - I have a sneaking suspicion that we won something!
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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!
"City of" also won Best Storyline and Best Newb Experience (so far...)
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Knew we would - CoH/V is awesome, community-wise. No death threats to the devs like WoW.
I must admit though, the storyline award sort of shocked me, despite m liking of the story. Though hopefully with the zone updates, there will be a more complete and expanding storyline.
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Yeah, you're so not kidding about the WoW thing >.< I couldn't count how many times people were told they should 'commit suicide because you're useless' for not picking specific builds...
I mean... the worst the CoH community will do is write an angry (but *usually* legible) post about it... >.>;
/groan at WoW
/Cheer at CoH! <^,^>
Go play the Best. Game. Evar.
Homeworld.
Choosing a Controller V2 | Splattrollers | Plant/Rad | Fire/Storm | Mind/Emp & Mind/Rad
Weird Controller Powers | Conf & XP/Time | Controller Damage
Being a Healer | The word Necessary | Natural Concept Characters
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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!
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WoW was robbed!!
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No, I think the gold-farmers just mined it out...
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You could listen to the Wasabi Awards on SI Radio - I have a sneaking suspicion that we won something!
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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!
"City of" also won Best Storyline and Best Newb Experience (so far...)
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You'll notice the awards were for Community, Newb Experience, and storylines. But I've heard no mention of awards for good programming decisions .. aka the lovely lets make AV's and GM's all but unbeatable decision. Of course I may be beating a dead horse here. But if that's what it takes to improve testing and quality control, well .. time to whack away.
Actually what it takes is cash money. If we all poney up $25/month they can hire more people to fix more bugs.
But anyway....
AnotherDeadHero, you forgot to mention DEMOS!!!
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Go play the Best. Game. Evar.
Homeworld.
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I second that. If it wasnt for Homeworld I would have never gotten into PC games and never found the joy of CoX.
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There are people in my house related to me?
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Of course there are, if CuppaCam (www.cuppacam.com) is to be belived. There's Dad Mo Jo, and Mom Flo Jo, and slacker brother PotO'Jo.
You laugh now, but wait till its picked up to be a new sitcom on Fox, then no one will be laughing!
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There are people in my house related to me?
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Of course there are, if CuppaCam (www.cuppacam.com) is to be belived. There's Dad Mo Jo, and Mom Flo Jo, and slacker brother PotO'Jo.
You laugh now, but wait till its picked up to be a new sitcom on Fox, then no one will be laughing!
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Wouldn't that be Fox's new Reality TV show instead?
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Wheeee! We won Best Community! Way to go guys!
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Best Community? In game? Maybe. The forums? You'd have to be kidding. If that's the case then I do not want to go anywhere near their forums. The community here for the most part, with a few exceptions here or there, seems to do nothing but urinate all over the developers efforts. Anyone who either agrees with the developers decisions, or those who don't but understand the decisions and why the developers had to take the path they did will get treated as being less than human. Those that don't understand seem to think that there is some big conspiracy where the developers hate the players and are trying to destroy their own game.
Meanwhile I have seen many players continuously exploit flaws and imbalances in the game that had yet to be addressed. They think this is an acceptable way to play. More power. More damage. More expereince. More prestige. More enhancements. More rewards. To hell with the risk. Take the easy way. Screw the story. Lets just farm this mission because it gives better expereince than the last one. Lets herd these enemies and take them out with an alpha strike and a quick mop up. Everything has to be a fast paced rush to the endgame, except there is no endgame.
Then when they get bored because they killed their own fun they blame the developers for making the game boring. They can't accept the responsibility that they are to blame for their own lack of enjoyment. It's bad enough that they do this to their own fun, but they drag others into it as well. People love to run with the idea that people should be able to play however they want to as it isn't hurting anyone else. Except that only works in complete isolation. Things get complicated in an environment such as the one players are immersed in when playing a massively multiplayer game.
Of course, none of this insight means anything because anything that falls outside of their narrow point of view is rejected or ignored. They'll come up with every insane theory in the book to discredit you and score some illusionary points for themselves. They can't seem to evolve past the primitive concept that rather than better themselves they seem to think it's easier to tear everything around them down to their level.
This is a game about super heroes and yet the only word they seem to want to see is super, because they sure aren't acting like heroes. I'm thankful for those few rare gems here that seem to be able to keep their cool and act reasonably throughout all of the upheavals that plague these forums every time anything happens with the game.
I'm tempted to think that the problems with this game aren't with the game so much as they are with the dregs of the community, those in game and especially those in the forums.
addition:
write an irc script that downloads the server status page and parses the ups and downs. then prints it to screen every 20 seconds
Oh Emm Eff Gee IM BORED
/sewercake?