FloatingFatMan

2 changes badly needed in team search.

1) Team leaders should be starred
2) People on full teams should be flagged as such

I must say that the message does seem to be getting across mostly though.

I've had a LOT of tells lately asking me if I want to team, many of them fairly polite and the majority with a "thanks anyway" if I've said no (many I said yes too).

I even had quite possible the politest ever PL request the other day...

"Hello, I'm <heroname> and was wondering if you could maybe spare some time to help me level my new character? It would be greatly appreciated"

I told him, quite politely, that sorry, but I don't PL people, but wished him luck etc and got back.

"Oh, thanks anyway. Terribly sorry if I bothered you and I hope you have a great day"

I was, quite frankly, astonished! Almost made me feel bad that I said no!

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Shadow Shard
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Nemesis

are the top 3 ppl i want to have a war zone on lol

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top... three?

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Yeah... Three! That top one isn't a group, it's a place.

It's been suggested many times over the years. The reason it does this is for one of security, which seems eminently sensible to me.

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They definitely need to come after shoulder capes, in my opion.

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Oh, why do you think that?

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That's fairly obvious really. Shoulder capes aren't a "full" cape, they're more like a trainee cape. Thus, it would logically follow that you'd get access to them sooner than FULL capes.

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I'm getting pretty fed up seeing the word censored in square brackets on the forums and seeing stupid censorship of totally innocuous words in the game. If we have to have a global 'one size fits all but pleases nobody' auto censor, can we at least have the ability to turn it off?

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Forums censor posts at time of posting, not at time of reading, so it's not possible to have this as an option. As for the words it censors, that's because our boards are hosted on the same server as the US boards, with shared censorship filters. This topic has come up from time to time over the years, and the answer is always the says, they can't change it.

Got my level 41 fire/ice blaster to 50, so that's me well chuffed!

Yeah.. Wait until the end of DXP, when the number of concurrent users will return to normal and the lag will go away.

Happy boozeday Gangrel! Coffee is on standby.

Have you checked motherboard drivers, made sure they're up to date?

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if its playable on wireless and 56k it should be playable on mobile broadband? right right... or am i missing summat

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Yes and no... The speed of the connection isn't the issue, the latency is. 3G connections have a terrible habit of having quite high latency (your ping); but you won't really know until you actually try it.

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Yup, it appears to be a leak from the magic pack, especially since the rest of the outfit and the other variants (i.e. lace, top with skin) aren't showing up.

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Magic leaks huh? Well the welsh will be happy

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That was TERRIBLE!!

*Holds Scarlet's coat*

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very very hard to predict as it depends entirely how you spend that hour.

Soloing it prob won't be much, teaming and hanging out in city zones it's gonna be alot more. I would guess anywhere from 50-200mb per hour.

Whats the download limit?

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Whilst I don't know the numbers, there's no way is it even remotely close to that number. CoH is designed to be playable on 56k dialup, so there's no way can it be sending and receiving that much data. I doubt it's more than a couple of meg.

Perhaps a list of practical limits should be posted up?

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Of course they could say have your tommygun and have your capes. But then I still cannot create two gun kid or medusa girl who can turn her opponents to stone and bite those coming close with her poisonous snakehair.


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There's a world of difference between something that isn't actually possible in the game, such as your 2 gun kid or medusa girl, and something which is only limited in game due to an artificial restriction, a restriction which the devs themselves have decided to bypass. That's the point here; the devs have conciously broken the game lore here with shoulder capes, the valkyrie cape and combat aura's. Seeing as they've done that, then they should remove the game restriction completely from standard capes and aura's.

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One other point about it "stifling creativity", is if anything it promotes a different kind of creativity in thinking of a reason why your character has to wait 'til 20 and 30 for capes and auras.


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A limit is a LIMIT. ANY limit, by the very definition, limits something. In this case, it's limiting what someone wants to do with a character concept. Sure they can adjust, and have too, but that's NOT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO, so their creativity is being limited, restricted, stifled.

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Problem with arena events is that they disable emotes and you can't talk to anyone outside of the arena.

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Yes, you're right - I'd forgotten about that. So, why is that? I'm having trouble understanding why it shouldn't at the very least be optional. With the Arena being the white elephant it is, you'd think someone amongst the devs would have an idea to release as many turn-offs from it as possible and encourage casual use of the feature, rather than continue to deter it.

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The no-chat thing was supposedly to prevent cheating with people watching matches, not that it would make any difference really, what are they going to say? The emotes, no idea. I can't think of a single sensible reason why they should be disabled.

I think they should shift the mission levels for them actually... Capes should unlock at level 10, and have the damn City Rep call YOU rather than the other way around. I've lost count of the number of times I've answered the question "How do I get my cape?"

Auras move to level 20, and change the stupid explanation so that it's more in fitting with the character's origin.. Something like:

Mutant - Your mutation has progressed
Science - The incident that gave you your powers has worked further changes in you
Technology - Hey, here's some new technology for you, look what it can do!
Magic - Here's a new spell for you to learn
Natural - I picked up this gadget that looks neat, want to try?

We have branching mission text now, so this IS possible. Anything's better than the current stupid explanation though.. Excuse me? Pacemaker? My skin is invulnerable, how're you gonna get that thing in there?

I don't have a problem with capes at 20 and aura's at 30, I just wish that the missions were more INTERESTING and that, in the case of the aura, the explanation wasn't so.. URGH!

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Now I'm wondering what that kind of stasis protection would look like

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A giant fan.

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Naaaah... Yip Yip Aliens. Guaranteed 100% protection from Stasis.

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I always forgot to turn on my stasis protection when I was playing a scrapper for the first time. That lasted about 30 levels.

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You should tell Fire Guardian. If Stasis has been stalking you, he'll sort her out for you.

Problem with arena events is that they disable emotes and you can't talk to anyone outside of the arena.

CoH's updater works on a series of different ports. I nominates a new one each time you start it. SOME of these ports are often incorrectly identified by some ISP's as being used for bittorrents, and get throttled. If you have a slow connection, you can usually resolve it by closing the updater and restarting. Any download you had going should resume.

It MAY take a few restarts to get an unthrottled port.

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valantine?

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Ah, now there's a thought... Could it be, possibly a NEW event for Valentines? God knows, I'm sick of the old one... Kinda like I was sick of the Baby New Year mish and didn't bother running it even once over Christmas. Events should be NEW each year, not recycled!

Backslash, Shad... Not Frontslash! You noodle!