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A Day In The Life Of A Hero On My Computer: i17 Style. - One LCTM At A Time

DarkInvado

By DarkInvado,
Posted on: 2010-05-03 11:59 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

Posted

Uhg, time to get up. Everything is black but I am hearing the sound of a car trying to drive over my head. Sounds like a badly tuned V8! I wake up, no car (and the sound is gone too) but I am on top of the Train Station. Now how the hell did I get here? Last thing I remember was jumping across Talos... OK never mind time to get to work! I fire up my Global Communication Network and see who is on. What?!? There are NO Global Channels? Odd. OK well comm issues have happened before so I will check back later when it's back up.

I try to fire up all my subsystems (I am a cyborg after all) but my deflector shield doesn't seem to want to fire up and then all hell breaks loose in my visual cortext processor and the phrase "Lost Connection to Mapserver" flashes up. WTF? I have never seen that before. About 10 seconds later two of my systems fire up, the Battle Agility subsystem and the Deflection system. Then that annoying Lost Connection message flashes up, and I am no longer able to initiate my subsystems. OK? Well, uh? Two more systems fire up, Active Defense and the AAO routine.

Then little black squares start zipping across my view screen. Really? What else can go wrong?!?! Ignoring the little black squares for the moment I initiate the TG and PF systems and then try to engage the transportation system.

Lost Connection to Mapserver

Oh come on! Screw it, I have stuff to do I am just going to head to Wentworth's. No dice, I can make the world spin but no forward motion. The message winks out of existence and my travel system engages. What follows is really hard to explain and I think I am gong to need to have a full system diagnostic done as soon as possible. I jump from the roof of the train station down to the door to WW's only to experience some sort of reverse time flow and I pop back to where I started. ::Blink, Blink:: Did that just happen? No couldn't have.

Jump, pop.

Again? Sheesh!

Jump, Lost Connection to Mapserver. What?!?!

About 3 or 4 trys gets me into WW's. A few more and I arrive at the WW's rep. She informs me that I have no bids or sales and all my stored product is gone. OK come on now! One of the other patrons lets me know that WW's is actually closed for business and I should come back later. Hmmmm, she certainly seems to think they are open but, OK, I will come back later.

I then proceed to make the torturous trip to AE for a little training to see how bad my systems are messed up. What the hell did I do yesterday that has me so messed up? Nothing I can think of... Oh wait did I download a new update? Hmmm... Scanning the update registry I see a new entry, i17. Nothing else, no changes besides that. Hmmmm.

After about a dozen -

"Lost Connection to Mapserver"

events I arrive at my AE contact. Just a short mission a few mobs nothing hard. I zone in, run down the hallway about 10 times, run down the stairs 3 times round the corner and fire of my trusty Nemesis Staff. It snaps out upside down, merges into the floor and I have to do a back hand flip while it shoots to get it back out. Hmmm, thats odd and I would say the laws of physics have been violated with that floor trick. Think I will stop using the staff and I hope I don't see that little oddity again... About 10 minutes later, dozens of Lost Connection to Mapservers I pop back into the realworld. Uh scratch that, I am IN the data stream. Sigh, this is bad! Don't ask me how I got out, there were a series of time events, a spinning room, my systems crashed and next thing I know I am out.

OK, maybe I will take my mind off of this for a bit and head over to the costume shop and do some shopping. (I am a female cyborg after all) I work my way to the Founders Falls shop, I can't count how many

Lost Connection to Mapserver
Lost Connection to Mapserver
Lost Connection to Mapserver
Lost Connection to Mapserver

messages I get to read and how many time I experience that time hop event but I eventually get there. I choose a nice roman armor plate to put on my chest. I exit the changing room... No plate? What I just bought it, where the hell did it go? I try a nice Vangard chest piece. Nope it disappears as I leave the changing room too. Hey! Those cost me 500K! None of the reps will help me however.

OK I am headed to the Super Group base for a check up!

Lots of Lost Connection to Mapservers + time hops (feels like I am connected to a big rubberband) and I enter the base. Sweet home sweet home! Well except that my systems always seem to really slow down here. Add that to the Lost Connection to Mapserver and rubber band and I realize I have to get out of here! So much for home sweet home. I decide I will head to Cimerora and pick up a chest plate there. Maybe it won't disappear.

I spend the next few minutes trying exit the base via the secret entrance into Croatoa and cross it to the Midnighter's Lounge.

Lost Connection to Mapserver, rubberband, Lost Connection to Mapserver, rubberband, rubberband, rubberband, Lost Connection to Mapserver...

Whew! I finally make it to the transportation crystal that will take me to Cimerora. Maybe going back in time will sort all this nonsense out. I active the crystal...

Aaaarrrrrgggg!!!! WTF ?!?!?I am encased up to my knees in solid rock with my head in a big crystal! I can turn and hear the sound of water (never mind the sound of the water is coming from the rock which I am now encased in) but I can't get free. It is one thing to see your Nemesis Staff merged into the ground and yet quite another to see your legs there. A minute of this or so, a few

Lost Connection to Mapserver
Lost Connection to Mapserver
Lost Connection to Mapserver

and then... "Self Destruct Sequence Initiated!" No, no, no, no! Not that! Sparks are running up and down my arms and legs. Big red numbers are counting down

10
9
8
Lost Connection to Mapserver
7
6
5
4
3
2
Lost Connection to Mapserver (At this point the suspense is killing me)
1
Lost Connection to Mapserver (Really?!?!)
Boom! (Ah that's better)

I then find my self reassembled - how is this possible? - not a dozen yards away...

Lost Connection to Mapserver

Oh hell it is going to be a long day...

Lost Connection to Mapserver

 

Posted

It's funny because it's true.

@True Metal
Co-leader of Callous Crew SG. Based on Union server.

 

Posted

Actually it is funny. I was told by CoH technical support to run a Network Logging program for 30 minutes while playing the game "even if the game isn't playable". So I figured I would go to all the hot spots and see what happened. And there you have it - my hero's not so easy day all in 30 minutes. I think it was 33 actually.