Zombie Man

Limiting it to fiction is an unnecessary qualifier. The -icon ending is not unknown, especially used for collections, anthologies, and reference works. It's use predates Lovecraft. So, if someone uses the -icon ending for a book (fictional or non-fiction), why would you assume it must be a rip off of Lovecraft and the Necronomicon?


Satyricon - ~190
Poeticon Astronomicon - ~200s
England's Helicon - 1600
Panegyricon (various collections) - 1600s
Synopticon - 1952
Cryptonomicon - 1990

The Event has traditionally started the second to last week of Oct. Last year, it was scheduled to start the 20th, but started early on 18th during HeroCon. The year before that, it started the 22nd. And the year before that on the 18th. HeroCon is a week later this year (starting the 25th).

I'll be mildly ticked it they wait for HeroCon to start it.

And considering the competition... I think it's likely they'll start it as early as they can.

The icons under the health bar report only the buff number from that power, and in the case of flight, is completely wrong.

See here:

Travel Power Status Icons

When you right click a travel power icon under your health bar the 'real numbers' that display are not necessarily understandable or reflect your actual Speed. However, the 'real numbers' concerning travel powers that display under the Combat Attributes and Monitor windows are correct. Here's a breakdown of the numbers shown by the travel icons:

• Sprint: The Running Speed shown is the base running speed plus the buff the Sprint power is adding. It does not include other RunSpeed buffs the character may have.
• SuperSpeed: The Running Speed shown is the base running speed plus the buff the SuperSpeed power is adding. It does not include other RunSpeed buffs the character may have. Since this may be over the RunSpeed cap, it can be a much higher speed than what you are actually running.
• Flight: The Flying Speed shown includes the base flying speed an extra three times, making that number ridiculously high. This happens more than likely because, internally, there are an extra three buffs/debuffs to flying speed which normally cancel each other out and each one is adding in the base FlySpeed to the final buff equation.
• Hover: The Flying Speed shown includes the base flying speed an extra two times, making that number ridiculously high. This happens more than likely because, internally, there are an extra two buffs/debuffs to flying speed equation.

Base RunSpeed is 14.32 mph. The buff to RunSpeed from Sprint is 10.19 mph. Thus, the Sprint icon under the health bar shows 24.51 (14.32 + 10.19).

Base JumpHeight is 4 ft. Sprint is giving you a JumpHeight buff of .4 ft. Thus the icon shows 4.4 ft.


Well, 3 sets at 15% does equal 45% (.45). However, if you do have 4 sets of 9% (.09), then that should be a bonus of 36% and not 18%. So, that's screwy. Were you exemplared at the time and two of those sets lost thier bonuses because you were more than three levels under the level of the IOs in the set?

You're base Accuracy modifier is 1 (100%). You multiply that by your chance ToHit (I'm simplifying things a bit). So, the game gives you a 75% chance to hit an even-level minion (with no other buffs or debuffs in play). You multiply that by 1 (100%), and your final chance to hit is 75% (.75 x 1.0).

With your IO Set Accuracy buffs, you Accuracy is now 1.63. Which means that your chance to hit an even level minion is now .75 x 1.63 = 1.22 or 122%. Of course, the game clamps that down to a maximum 95% to hit.

You can have 400 GB of RAM, when the game starts using more that 1.3 GB, it becomes unstable.

If you're using Windows Blinds, disable it. If that's not the case, then go to the Technical forum and start a new thread and then post the results of these two programs:

• CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
• HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.

Check out this thread, Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines

There's your problem. The 36 should not have picked up the mission. It would be wise to reinforce that message at the start of all TFs.

You can reset the mission, but for the TFs which have a hard level (the 'signature' TFs of the Freedom Phalanx, e.g.; but not a respec trial), resetting doesn't change the level of the mission.

I wonder if the SSK Anchor of a TF team can be reset by logging? Everyone would need to log off and then the correct leader logs back in first. And if it does work, how long does everyone need to log off to reset the SSK Anchor?

Announced over a month ago here in these forums.

This has already been answered by the mods: By giving exclusive head-start info to fan/professional sites, the sites are more likely to feature the story. That's free advertising.

Also, those sites have readers who are not CoH players, and seeing a feature article about the game might bring them into CoH.

Really, Paragon/NCSoft gets yelled at for lack of marketing, and then when they do market, they get yelled at.

On a different note:

"Algonquin Hate Table"

That's awesome!

Guide for Moving CoH or Installing Test

Did you all know: You can use the little up arrow next to the person's name in a quote (or quote pyramid) so as to jump to the post? Actually, I'm sure many of you did.

But, did you all know that if you use that little arrow to open up a new tab (in FireFox, it's CTRL+click) you can click on the to tag it and then close that window and it will still be tagged to show up in your posted reply? This way you don't lose your place in the thread you're reading.

Here's a little primer I posted in another thread that shows the before and after coding:

Nested quotes:

Use the multiquote function to tag each post you want then hit any 'quote' or 'reply to thread' button.

Each tagged post will show up as a series of blocks... and hey, if you got that going on, is there really any need to 'nest' them?

But if you're set on nesting them move the second-to-last block right after [quote=name] tag of the last block and the third-to-last block right after the [quote=name] tag of the second-to-last block and so on. Raw tagging in editing looks like this...
If the above is posted, it will look like this....

turn the above multi-quoted post into....

It's happened before.