Wisp Aura Incentive?
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Posted on: 2011-03-03 09:46 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I still had the launcher downloaded from back when I tested Aion. I never had any issues with it then, so I don't know if it's supposed to be bad or not. I just updated it and ran it. It was smart enough to list all three of my CoH installs (live, test, beta) and tell me which ones require patching. No more having three icons on the desktop and check them periodically. That's pretty nice.
Seems to download pretty fast too.
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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There are options to automatically exit the launcher once you launch a game and to disable it opening at startup. Both options work just fine.|
Originally Posted by Casual_Player
I honestly don't care how much faster the new loader works. What I care about is how much memory it eats and if it tries to stay resident on the system after it's done. Basically, how much damage to my system am I being expected to endure in the name of NCSoft's marketing department?
/edit- the timing of posts makes it look like I'm being snarky to Spacenut, but I'm not. I'm being snarky to what I've heard about the new loader. |
It's nowhere NEAR as painful an experience as some of you think it's going to be.
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Also on topic, the new aura is cool. Already using it for my Plant/Earth/Fire Dom. She now has fireballs swirling out of her lava mud pots. And goes well with her fire armor.
I can see it working good as fire, spirits, or just general magicy aura. One of my friends used it for an energy/psi toon that looks good.
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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*logs in EVERY character* why couldnt it be a global unlock . . . . . yes im moaning about those minutes im going to lose! 
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It asks if it can run it the background, and you can set it as well in the options. So it's actually pretty good so far. No complaints at all really.
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Originally Posted by Casual_Player
I honestly don't care how much faster the new loader works. What I care about is how much memory it eats and if it tries to stay resident on the system after it's done. Basically, how much damage to my system am I being expected to endure in the name of NCSoft's marketing department?
/edit- the timing of posts makes it look like I'm being snarky to Spacenut, but I'm not. I'm being snarky to what I've heard about the new loader. |
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
*logs in EVERY character* why couldnt it be a global unlock . . . . .
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So, there's going to be a point where future characters *don't* get the aura?
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Originally Posted by NuclearToast
OMG really? <starts deciding which characters need it>
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Wisp Aura unlock is account wide.
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Actually I strongly suspect this is not a "one time exculsive" but rather something more like "we were going to toss this new aura into I20 anyway so let's make it an early preview to encourage people to try the new launcher now" deal. This was likely something everyone was going to get anyway. |
Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
So, there's going to be a point where future characters *don't* get the aura?
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Originally Posted by treboreleets
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Ah good, wish it doesnt say "aura unlocked" then everytime, made me think that i had to alt every single character
*stops at character 9*
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Well, the launcher just runs the same cityofheroes.exe as the old updater does, so it must somehow communicate to the client that it's being used so the client can tell the server to unlock the auras on your account. Long story short, the decision to unlock is ultimately made on your computer, so in theory there must a way of telling the client to do it without actually installing the NCLauncher.|
Originally Posted by Futurias
Not or Note? Because Note is more accurate. You have to use the NCLauncher to get the incentive.
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Surely it's not as simple as running "cityofheroes.exe -project coh -launcher" or something silly like that.
Not that it really matters if people can unlock it without the ncsoft launcher, since eventually we'll all have to use it to get patches anyway (without which you can't even log in).
Oh I just *love* this launcher.... NOT
The lousy thing is causing a complete download and system check of CoH.
I could understand if I hadn't ohhhh... say... just played it YESTERDAY!!!
Geezus NCSoft.. get your collective gear together will you!
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OK,
Downloaded it and reset the preferences to make it as unobtrusive as possible. So far, so good, looks simple enough. With any luck, I'll have a chance to try it out later on tonight.
My old desktop icons didn't go away though. Should they have?
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The Aura looks awesome, by the way! 
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Mine all stayed. I can still use the old CoX only launchers via those icons or the NCsoft complete launcher. The more I use it currently, the more I'm liking the NCsoft launcher--especially since it keeps test and beta versions up to date at a glance.
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Originally Posted by Casual_Player
OK,
Downloaded it and reset the preferences to make it as unobtrusive as possible. So far, so good, looks simple enough. With any luck, I'll have a chance to try it out later on tonight. My old desktop icons didn't go away though. Should they have? |
It's also much more intelligent about Windows 7's permissions, and asks on non-administrative startup for permission to modify files that may cause Windows to ask for said permissions via UAC. Thumbs up there.
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Pretty soon the old updaters won't work, so we'll be deleting them off the desktop anyway.
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Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
Mine all stayed. I can still use the old CoX only launchers via those icons or the NCsoft complete launcher. The more I use it currently, the more I'm liking the NCsoft launcher--especially since it keeps test and beta versions up to date at a glance.
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Originally Posted by Chonos
It's also much more intelligent about Windows 7's permissions, and asks on non-administrative startup for permission to modify files that may cause Windows to ask for said permissions via UAC. Thumbs up there.
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Since I have a slightly non-standard permissions setup (non-standard but perfectly valid -- a Games group rather than simply granting Full Control to all users), it prompts me on every startup to change permissions when it doesn't need to. If it would just try to update the files it would work fine. Even accepting the changes doesn't work because I have UAC disabled and my non-admin account can't change permissions on that directory.
Filed a bug report, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Amen to that. I have a laundry list of gripes about the NCSoft launcher, but am glad that it actually launches the correct browser unlike the old one.
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Originally Posted by Daemodand
The fact this launcher respects browser choice alone makes it worth using. Huge improvement over the old launcher.
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You can't just download it again?
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