Davpa_CoX

Alright, sorry about the wall-o-text, but here is where I had launched the game, let is sit, and then logged in. So it was more like 3+ hours. I did watch a bit of TV. I told you I forgot all about the fact that I launched the client! Don't judge!

Hope something in there is useful. Looks all like gibberish to me.

Alright, I have no idea what I am doing when I look at the Console program. But this is after the crash and my relaunching of the client, which went back to the Black Screen issue:

Notice how it says it can not find the F drive?

Somebody code smart make sense of that. I saved my Console log, so if you want it, just tell me where to email it.

I will do that as soon as I can. Once I logged on, I wanted to play. After about several hours, one failed Lambda run, one failed BAF run and one successful "The Sky is Falling" TF, the client crashed. I am not waiting for the black screen to go away again on this new relaunch.

I blinked!

Alright, I launched the game, got to the black screen and then walked away. I did some errands and watched some TV. Totally forgot I had launched the game and when I went into the room, what did I see? A LOG-IN SCREEN!!!!

I was gone about 2 hours. So somewhere in that 2 hours the black screen went away. I have not logged off since I got on, but I will see a bit later if I can restart the game and how long it takes to sit in the black screen.

But I am playing right now, so it will go away....maybe in 2 hours

I've tried the Safe Mode tactic. No good. Normal or Safe Mode, after you hit "I Agree" on the Launcher, the screen goes black instead of going to the splash screen and never gets you to the Log-in screen. Once you hit "I Agree" it goes Black.

NOBODY calls me "mature" and gets away with it!!!!

/e writes name on his "List"

The game is "running" but since it goes to that black screen after you hit "I Agree" in the launcher, you never get to the Log In screen to enter anything. So yes, it is running, but not logged in or anything like that.

Does that clear it up?

Yeah, i did that. Ran 3.0 before i installed Mids. But I get blank buttons. Anything else you can think of?

What else needs to be installed in that bottle? I created a new bottle, installed .NET 3.0 and Mids installs, but when you run the program you start out with a runtime error and all the buttons are blank in the program. I then tried installing Flash 10 and DirectX9, but nothing so far.

I had tried to run Mids in CrossOver Games prior to release #10. You could view it and such, but it was very unstable. Any edits caused it to freak out. Nice to see that v10 is "stable" outside of my issue of not having text in the buttons.

While I agree with avoiding Pocket D, as 99% of the time it is a leper colony, you need to take a stab at it once in a while. I ended up making friends with one of the strongest RPers I've ever met because I started, ICly, taunting a hero-looking character. We just free-formed RPed and it turned into this gem that is still the cornerstone of our IC relationship.

So while Pocket D for the most part is slime, there are RPers out there looking for other RPers. Take a chance and do a little RP and find each other. Otherwise, good ships can pass in the night.

Is this Thursday Night CoP still going on? Any info would be appreciated.

My VG, the Entropy Legion, has the capacity to "host" a CoP, but I have personally never led one, so I don't know how I would do. If there is someone that wishes to lead, we would be more than happy to provide the door into the Shadow Shard.

Sorry I'm late, are all the hors d'oeuvers gone.....drat. *eats a piece of wilted lettuce*

Going through the posts before, there are a lot of good points, a lot of flying off the cuff points, and a lot of cheese whiz. We are going to ignore the cheese whiz right now, because I don't know how you type with all that cheese on the keys....but I digress.

First, let me answer the post of Gorblimey. The Entropy Legion is an active RP VG. We hold regular events weekly, Mondays and alternating Wed. We have a full calendar on our Guild Portal site (http://entropylegion.guildportal.com) as well as a forum section. We welcome ANYONE to post on our forum about villainous ideas or material. Not all of the forum is visible for non-members, but if you request you can be an Associate of the Legion and that will open things up. Even villains need friends.

In one way we do things "classically" of villains of the past. We do have a few unique points that separates Entropy Legion from others too. First, the classical format. I think of us more like a Silver Age villain group. While we do have some gritty grim villains, I would say the stylings of most of the villains are of that Silver Age genre ((semi-flashy costumes; the dialogue style; the plot ideas)). In some ways we function like the Legion of Doom: one member comes up with a Plot (usually a story they created in AE) and the rest of the villains help (or sabotage or belittle) that villain achieve the goal, that will be beneficial to everyone.

That is where we stop being like other villain groups. The main difference in Entropy Legion is we have figured out a way to allow more comedic elements into our story line when we feel we need or want it. The element that allows this our NPC construct The Union of Dire Ambition. The Union is the Virtue Universe version of the The Guild of Calamitous Intent from the Adult Swim program, The Venture Bros. The Entropy Legion is a group under the protection and service of the Union, so they have to perform many tasks for them. Some of them are comedic, while there are some very serious story lines. One of the serious Union story lines is that the Union is trying to prevent an all out war between Arachnos and SNAKE, a self-created Cobra clone, because such a war will disrupt the Union's plans.

The big problem that I have found was that, as well of a job that Devs did, the red-side is very one tone. That one tone is very dark and gritty. That is great, but it can wear on you. People can only take that for so long. So I created the Union of Dire Ambition to allow more of a spectrum to lighten that dark and gritty that was constantly present in the red-side stories. So the Legion has a lot of conversations and RP that is similar to things you see in Ventrue Bros: people bickering, people misunderstanding each other, people not really having a clue about things. It has been surprisingly delightful. It has added more depth to characters and their role-play.

I'll take my character, Radium Blight. He started out very simple: a man transformed into a radioactive monster who is taking his anger out on the world. Classic villain archetype. With the RP going, he has transformed into a slightly paranoid, middle-manager style person who gets frustrated with the other villains around him. And the other villains follow suit with their own quirks. Everyone has developed nuances and quirks not as a forced thing, but as a natural evolution of playing with being a dysfunctional type of person that decides to put on spandex in response to their world not being exactly as they wish it was.

Anyways, that is a sample of some of the things going on in the Entropy Legion. If you have interest, check us out on our Guild Portal site, or give a shout. There is always room for people to join in on Monday and Wed nights. Check our calender of when we are "officially" on. But most of us are online at any given point and we RP when we are on.

But I will admit this: The Legion always seems to take a backseat to player's Blue Side play. That is just the nature of Red-side. The Legion is looking to change that for some player, and in many ways, it has. My Radium Blight is by far my most played character.

I'll get into the other posts about activity and such on another post.