I finally brokedown...
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Aurelius_NA,
Posted on: 2009-08-13 10:34 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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You can indeed run multiple sessions in separate windows. The most important command I've found to make this easier is /maxinactivefps. I set it to a very low number, like 2 or 3. That means that the window in the foreground runs at full speed but any background windows are hardly updated at all; that dramatically reduces the load on your CPU and graphics card. Don't set the inactive frame rate to 0 if you plan on having a second character following the first, because 0 freezes the character in place.
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Originally Posted by Aurelius_NA
Here's a possibly silly question: Do you have to have more than one computer to run a second account, or can you fire up the CoH/CoV updater a second time on the same computer and log in with a second account, thus running two game sessions in separate windows?
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Freedom: Blazing Larb, Fiery Fulcrum, Sardan Reborn, Arctic-Frenzy, Wasabi Sam, Mr Smashtastic.
Thanks for the info. I don't have the best PC, so the frame rate trick will be useful.
Well now I'm intrigued. How do you buy/setup a second account? NCSoft store? Or do I have to run the setup out of the box again (don't see why I'd need to since its already installed...)?
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Right, just buy a second account at the store. You don't have to install the software again. You just run the software you have more than once.
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Originally Posted by Aurelius_NA
How do you buy/setup a second account? NCSoft store? Or do I have to run the setup out of the box again (don't see why I'd need to since its already installed...)?
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Freedom: Blazing Larb, Fiery Fulcrum, Sardan Reborn, Arctic-Frenzy, Wasabi Sam, Mr Smashtastic.
I have two as well and its very helpful in a variety of ways from transfers, assists in missions and inviting toons to the sg myself and other sg members. Sometimes when busy and someone needs something I will use my second account to help them out with a quick transfer or the like. Not to mention all the other slots it opened up for me to play with 
Where are we going and Why am I in this Handbasket?
I only have one account, but I'm starting to feel the need for a second one. Main reason is inf transfer is getting more and more needed and the founder of our SG isn't around much anymore. And like Clouded, Guardian is getting pretty packed with Jack Power characters by now.
//Jack
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Two here, pretty much since I started playing.
I look at both as primary accounts, as I have mains on both ends. Inf and recipe transfers and SG managements for alts are SO very easy. I have other gamers in the house (wife/teens) so they get used all the time.
Broke down finally and am PL'ing my Stalker to 50. It was just damn near impossible to get any team even prior to the AE. I just about solo'ed him to 44, got sick of him just sitting there and he's now at 49.5. AE leveling is some really boring crap man.
<.< at the moment I have only 2 active accounts with 4 total....I actually got a silly idea and made 4 additional trial accounts and ran 5 instances of CoH on my main right and 3 on my laptop, all at min setting and my internet connection was screaming bloody murder. It was awesome... had em all on follow running around atlas as a color cordinated army of Defenders.
D: Toss me a hai @DarkNat My Fify glory: Renzer Dark/Dark Corr., Renzro Dark/Dark Def., Amartasu Dark/Dark Scrap.Less important ones: Fire/Fire Blaster,Ice/Ice Blaster,Ele/Ele Brute, Mind/Storm Troll,Fire/Kin Corr.,Bots/FF MM., DB/Regen Scrap.
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I have 3 accounts; the two extras are so that my kids can team with me, but I've made alts on their accounts before. The most fun was when I made 3 characters with identical powersets and costumes, all apparently named "Blustery Bill"--I used the trick of capital I passing for lowercase L to do it. I got quite a few double-takes when I had them all standing together. |
Originally Posted by ShadowNate
<.< at the moment I have only 2 active accounts with 4 total....I actually got a silly idea and made 4 additional trial accounts and ran 5 instances of CoH on my main right and 3 on my laptop, all at min setting and my internet connection was screaming bloody murder. It was awesome... had em all on follow running around atlas as a color cordinated army of Defenders.
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Freedom: Blazing Larb, Fiery Fulcrum, Sardan Reborn, Arctic-Frenzy, Wasabi Sam, Mr Smashtastic.
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2 here. I originally got the 2nd account so I could play with my (then) 8 year old who stays with my ex-wife. Naturally she nixed it (because I wanted it?) so we just play together every saturday night when he comes over.|
Originally Posted by Clouded
...and got a second account. I'm running low on slots on Freedom and don't have the urge to try another server. Plus, transferring inf et al is sooooooooooooooooo much easier this way.
Oh and I have a dirty confession...I PLed my first character using my first account (only to level 12 though). :O How many of you have a 2nd, 3rd, etc etc account? |
It is definitely a convienence inf/recipie/salvage xfrs. My home server is Virtue and all of the slots are filled, although I have 5 slots from vet rewards on my older account and 3 (I think) on the newer account.
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i have two as well...didnt use to but frankly was running out of slots at the time and that was before we were able to get slots ....but i happy i did. saves alot of time on tons of things
I've had two accounts since July of (mumble mumble). They're both close to their 60-month badges by now, which is one reason I'm glad I started so early.
Originally, I justified the second account because there were no global handles; you couldn't track down people on other servers. If you wanted to play with your friends you basically had to make all your toons on the SAME server.
I can run 2 account's on 1 computer by firing up a second updater, If I was to try and run the 3rd account I'd be better off having 1 account on a laptop/diff computer
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