Blue Rabbit

Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain

and Why do you want it so much?
Would googleplex be a number beyond how much you want ultra mode?

I mean, I am sitting here with a brand new Nvidia 295 hooked into my gameputer, just sitting here waiting, trying my bestest to be patient...

What are you looking forward to the most about Ultra Mode?

Originally Posted by Miss Chief

I'm still trying to work out what the 'remember me' button on the forum does. From what i can make out it's little more than false hope that the next time I visit the forums it'll maybe, possibly remember that I'm logged in. And it does. For the front page. Soon as I click on any link at all, no matter where it takes me, I'm logged out. If I open another tab to view something without losing the main forum page, i'm logged out. if I view the Dev digest (which ALWAYS opens in a new window, no matter what I try) I'm logged out. If I look at the forum funny and decide to visit a thread I've never been to, I'd be willing to guess what would happen. I've deleted all my cookies (wasn't fun, you try remembering a password to a forum you set 12 months ago and haven't used again since!) and even installed a new OS (windows 7 64 bit) but it still doesn't work. I've tried my laddies laptop (Vista) AND the PC downstairs (XP home). It makes no difference. I used to contribute on the EU forums all the time. Now I don't even bother.

It's come to the point where I hardly contribute or write anything and just lurk and read, because I really can't be bothered logging in again knowing there's little point, because I'll just get logged out again when I come back.

Please, PLEASE, fix this. Perhaps it's a security thing, perhaps it's because I'm an EU import. I don't care. When i say 'remember me' I want it to. PLEASE?

Originally Posted by Casual_Player

The heck with the romans and their Chimer... Cimor... er... whatever it's called zone.

We need VIKINGS!!!

Warning: large pictures ahead, full of awesome vikingness plus horses that are braver than I am, friend.

Someone needs to send a memo to the 5th Column- their next time fortress had better be viking infested, or they're in big trouble.

Originally Posted by Roderick

Or perhaps Avatea posted that the issue had been resolved approximately 12 hours before you posted this?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

OK, OK... I'll do my best to breathe deep and not use the kind of language that will get me banned off the forum for all times, and just restrict myself to exclaiming: This blows!

Let me explain. I live in Europe, but I've been a subscriber to City of Heroes since before there was an EU version, so I never switched over. As such, I still play the US version of the game, and would very much like to be routed to the US versions of sites pertaining to the game. Now, it's bad enough that the PlayNC store insists on routing me to the EU store every time, constantly trying to trick me into buying EU booster packs that won't work for my game. That I can deal with, since they're labelled as So and So (Europe) and a "US version also available) link in fine print still exists. It's annoying, it's insulting, but at least it's manageable.

But what the HELL happened to the main City of Heroes site? Why the FFF does it forcibly redirect me to the European version of the site? Yes, it has the little flags up top, but they DO NOTHING! I knew it there was something odd about it today, but I didn't think much of it. Well, today, I can't connect to City of Heroes (likely a connection problem) and I go to check server status. I go to News -> Server status and... What the hell?!? Defiant? Zukunft? Vigilance? What the... I don't care about these servers! I CAN'T PLAY on these servers, why the HELL would I care if they're up or down? I want to know whether Victory and Pinnacle are up or down, but I can't! Only then does it dawn on me what site I'm actually looking at: eu.cityofheroes.com. What? No! That's not what I want! So I do the obvious and go to www.cityofheroes.com, but in the back of my head, I know what's going to happen. And it does. As soon as I hit enter, the URL shifts to eu.cityofheroes.com and it loads the EU site again. Luckily, we only have one set of forms now, or it would have probably shunted me over the the EU boards to.

Well go to hell! I HATE HATE HATE localisation of sites! HATE it like you wouldn't believe! I don't CARE about local variants of the services I'm ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR! And I really, REALLY do not enjoy being locked away from sites just because a crappy localised version of it exists, especially when it GOD DAMN DOESN'T HAVE WHAT I WANT!

Argh!!!

Look, at this point, I'm willing to cheat. I'm about ready to flip PlayNC a birdie and just somehow cheat my way into the site for the game I FRIKKIN' OWN! Is there something I can change about my settings, like my location in Regional and Language settings or some such that would make me appear to be in the US? Is there some way I can make an exception for a particular site? I pay real money for this game each month, and I DO NOT APPRECIATE being routed to sites that ARE NOT FOR MY GAME! Is there anything, ANYTHING I can do to fix this?

Originally Posted by Westley

I'm not sure whether to take that as an insult or a compliment...

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

This would work so much better if it was a backgroundless PNG. Seeing it against the red villain background makes the joke pretty worthless. It's a good joke for the blue boards, though.

Originally Posted by Westley

Okay, I've noticed a trend on the board lately... people who had registered either recently, or within the past 2 years (around the time that NCSoft bought out the game from Cryptic), that have less than a dozen posts... coming "back" to the boards and posting negative things.... or asking pointed and/or rhetorical questions about the status of the game, the age of the game, and whether it's "dying" or the servers being "ghost towns".

I won't name any names here, but if you look around you can see them. People with extremely low post count who come out of nowhere and suggest strongly that the game is DOOOOOOOOOOMED.

My conspiracy theory? That they are either employees of "that other game" or are hired by that other game as some form of corporate sabotage in an attempt to alter the general mood of the playerbase and to try to "kill" the game by attrition. By creating a negative environment and alter the discussion about the game in the direction of it "dying".

They also almost never respond to anyone after making their original posts... and sometimes just make another thread in another part of the boards saying something similar instead. suspicious? I think so.

This I strongly suspect.

Originally Posted by ReclusesPhantom

What benefits would you receive from being a student though?