Clave_Dark_5

I'd like a "random passersby" menu to populate a map - Paragon City street pedestrians (they wave to you heroes, run from villains), RI (back away from you villains) and mayhems (target-able and running around like chickens with their heads cut off), etc.

Even having those ghosty ones from Dark Astoria (I think) would be cool too.

Not to add fuel to a fire, but haven't the devs said that a large majority of accounts don't even have a 50? I can't imagine they'd create a whole expansion for only a small number of long-termers and then try to sell it in a new box on the shelf to attract new customers. "Don't worry new-comer! After you grind your way to 50, you can play the new material we've added in this box!"

Can anyone suggest some things to check afor this problem?

Lately I've been suffering the dreaded rubberbanding or stuttering of the game. My toon's walking along when suddenly he pops back a couple of paces. If I'm still holding down W he can sometimes seem to take one point five steps back for every step forward. It also drops or lags tray-button clicks so it seems as if the AI is a touch slow on acknowledging everything that's going on.

It doesn't happen all the time or at an even rate. It normally doesn't seem to happen when I first log in, but comes later, say after an hour or more. I'm pretty sure it didn't happen while I was playing a cd on the puter, but it did today, if that might be related.

I said something about it on a team and a player suggested first /sync (which I had been doing and wasn't helping) and then /unloadgfx. That did the trick for a bit but then it came back. Today it would help for maybe all of a few seconds and then the stuttering came right back.

Nothing with my system's been changed or upgraded recently, except for i16 maybe, but this only started say five or six days ago and up until now my system's been handling the settings fine.

I'm wondering if maybe my graphics card is wearing out, getting slower, or if maybe there's a prob with my cable modem or... maybe it's a Nemesis plot, I really have no ideas and I'm not very techy.

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

I've only taken two toons to 50 so far and they pretty much stopped getting played after that. What usually happens to me is I start a new toon and get all excited by that one and tend to shelve the rest. I recently realized I had nearly two servers full of toons that I loved but had never taken past say 35 on average and I should concentrate on them.

Since that time I have started at least three new toons. :P

Not very much! :P As usual my weekend was filled with time spent with my GF and her kitty - oh when will the horror end?!

I did start up a new Mind/NRG Dom that looks delightful already at merely 11th level however so all was not wasted. I also did add a couple of levels to my LOLITROLLU Fire/Emp troller with pink powers. She's now about half a level from Fire Imps! Now if I can just keep battling back my "Heroside seems so dull" affliction, I might be able to get them soon. I dunno why, as I have a 50 on blueside and have given heroes an honest shot, but villainside just seems to feel more like home to me.... but I really do want to finish her off as overall it's a fun pairing of powers to play imho.

This one seems worse on low level toons, but does happen a lot:

No matter what build you're using, the enhancers that drop will be for power types you don't have.

Brutes getting Hold enhancers for example.

My question would be if the graphics engine is getting an update or not.

Bah, you heroes have it easy...

I'm facing this issue but on redside. 'Parently there's only the occasional few that spawn on a beach in Grandville (at about 50th level or so) and the Television missions.

I was hoping to get my AR/Kin Corr the unlockable rifle sooner than that... Still, he's at 39 right now so it's not that far off I suppose.

I can make it sometimes on Sunday for a few hours so I'll check my server list and see if I have anyone on Triumph that can join.

Triumph's one of those servers outside of Freedom and Virtue that I may have stuck my head into at some point, tossed off a toon or two that got to maybe 3rd level and then never went back to, so this could work out well. Failing that, I'll just make a new one - always room for another alt.

Edit: Turns out I had no one there so I created a new scrapper. I'll hop on on Sunday and hope to run into you guys there!

Well nuts, I thought we could only submit one arc at all. Of course I find this out after midnight of the last day...

I submitted my TOO MANY BUNNYGIRLS! arc because it's the most refined of the three, being the oldest and most-commented-upon. My second probably could have gone in too, but it would have been in for the same category, non-canon story. My third one's still in the "getting comments and making changes based on them" stage.

I have no idea if I can win or not as I know there are a lot of talented folk out there (and I'm only averaging a four-star rating on all three, no five-stars), but I'm guessing the devs are using this contest as a way to look for some new Dev Choice candidates, so I wanted to get my foot in the door (or my mouth) for that!