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I suppose that is one way to get around the "female pets" issue for Masterminds. Just create your own, complete with new powersets.
If you were willing to buy some PPs on a few accounts, you could pick up the Team Transport Power. 30 min recharge would give you pretty much constant up time over eight accounts.
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I am, and your explanation is mind blowing (at least for me). I really need to sit back and think on what you've said here. It sounds so uber-intelligent yet so utterly lonely. I don't know if I should team with you our just give you a hug.
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Storm.... .. now I want an all storm defender team!
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I hated not being able to tell the L/l difference in the game, so I changed the font to Tahoma...much better for me!
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When the game went F2P, I was like ooo, I am gonna make 7 accounts with Masterminds! But they were smart and made you had to play 3 years or buy them =P
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The sheer number of people that would have been running full teams of MMs would have melted the servers' hardware.
Set all the pets on aggressive and the PCs on autofollow with FF and Sonic as the secondaries and you'd move through the zones like a swarm of locusts. Get 9 or 10 people all doing that and the zone will be moved into its own instance.
Makes a lot of sense now.
Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
Well, this thread intrigued me so I went and made a single freebie account, made a character, went to mercy, and then started a 2nd instance with my ViP account, took one of my Incarnates to meet him, and teamed with him. Got him to lvl 18 in an hour just doing radios...
First time I ever did dual-instanced, so it had that newbie coolness factor, but it sure is clunky. Can't see why people want to do it it a lot.
Did get me to wondering though, about soloing TFs. If I get a TF started, padding with volunteers who then quit, and I have my free account as the one non-quitter, do I have to leave that Instance running, or can I end it, and as long as that Character doesn't actually quit the TF I can still run it solo?
I have a pretty high end machine but it still feels like it's pulling alot of juice when running two CoH instances so I'd rather not.
Well, this thread intrigued me so I went and made a single freebie account, made a character, went to mercy, and then started a 2nd instance with my ViP account, took one of my Incarnates to meet him, and teamed with him. Got him to lvl 18 in an hour just doing radios...
First time I ever did dual-instanced, so it had that newbie coolness factor, but it sure is clunky. Can't see why people want to do it it a lot. Did get me to wondering though, about soloing TFs. If I get a TF started, padding with volunteers who then quit, and I have my free account as the one non-quitter, do I have to leave that Instance running, or can I end it, and as long as that Character doesn't actually quit the TF I can still run it solo? I have a pretty high end machine but it still feels like it's pulling alot of juice when running two CoH instances so I'd rather not. |
With multiple instances I take no chances and run everything on minimum. Theres also a command to use less graphics resources on inactive toons (/maxinactivefps 5) or something. Someone help me here!
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"Just cause you don't understand what's going on don't mean it don't make no sense
And just cause you don't like it, don't mean it ain't no good" - Suicidal Tendancies
Well, this thread intrigued me so I went and made a single freebie account, made a character, went to mercy, and then started a 2nd instance with my ViP account, took one of my Incarnates to meet him, and teamed with him. Got him to lvl 18 in an hour just doing radios...
First time I ever did dual-instanced, so it had that newbie coolness factor, but it sure is clunky. Can't see why people want to do it it a lot. Did get me to wondering though, about soloing TFs. If I get a TF started, padding with volunteers who then quit, and I have my free account as the one non-quitter, do I have to leave that Instance running, or can I end it, and as long as that Character doesn't actually quit the TF I can still run it solo? I have a pretty high end machine but it still feels like it's pulling alot of juice when running two CoH instances so I'd rather not. |
Theoretically speaking if your PC can launch eight game clients, even if they don't run well at all, it only needs to run them for long enough for you to start the task force, and then you can log them all out and terminate those game clients, leaving one client running to solo a task force that requires eight players to start. You don't need fillers at all (although you do need to level alts in those free accounts to a high enough level to meet the minimums of the task force, and there are task forces and trials that require multiple players to take simultaneous action: those are much harder to multibox for obvious reasons).
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As long as your second account doesn't literally quit the task force, you can log it out (and quit the entire game client if you want) and your first account can solo the task force to completion.
Theoretically speaking if your PC can launch eight game clients, even if they don't run well at all, it only needs to run them for long enough for you to start the task force, and then you can log them all out and terminate those game clients, leaving one client running to solo a task force that requires eight players to start. You don't need fillers at all (although you do need to level alts in those free accounts to a high enough level to meet the minimums of the task force, and there are task forces and trials that require multiple players to take simultaneous action: those are much harder to multibox for obvious reasons). |
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I'm a little scared to try 8 instances though. I *think* my machine might be able to handle it - but it might also blow up in my face. I'll try the volunteer route, bribing them if I have to
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When someone multibox-solos a hamidon raid... THEN I'll be impressed.
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