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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    Same thing with computer parts. The first major purchase I made from NewEgg, I had to jump through lots of hoops. Once everything was verified (they actually called the credit card issuer to confirm the phone number where they reached me appears on file), it has been smooth sailing ever since.
    That's the difference. When I buy things occasionally I'd have to call a store, send proof of ownership of the credit card, whatever. It would either work, or I'll get a reason it doesn't ("we only accept credit cards issued in Canada"). Buying from the NCsoft store I have no way to know why my credit card or PayPal is declined, nor am I invited to do anything to verify I'm buying legitimately.
  2. I agree with macskull. It all depends on how much you're willing to pay, but if $200 is in that range, these are good choices.
  3. I think it would be interesting if the devs did a small test, temporarily offering rent payment for say 100 PP. You buy that, your SG rent is paid immediately regardless of how high it is. No need to go to the registrar. I wonder how many Premium and how many VIP players will take advantage of it.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by gameboy1234 View Post
    I'm not sure why this wouldn't work. Too many "my friend can't use any of the several methods already provided" here for me to guess what's really going on. I've sent money to folks with just an email address using paypal. They'll send money to anyone.
    The problem isn't PayPal, it's the security measures at the NCsoft store. If it suspects you for any reason it shows an error that doesn't tell you why, and you're stuck. I had a problem buying with PayPal too, and managed to buy once with a credit card but not more without support intervention.

    If you look at the thread where people tried to buy the packs before they stopped being sold, quite a few people there ran against security measures. Things like buying more than twice a day, using the credit card on more than two accounts (which can happen for family accounts), having an old address on the account that doesn't match the billing address, geographic location (for some reason South Americans can't buy). Lots of stuff can trigger it. Problem is you never know what the problem is, and they won't tell you.
  5. Broke into sections, added supergroup details and discussed the second build solution to IO's a little more. Comments are welcome.
  6. Officially no, in practice the limited editing I tried worked. Haven't tried with the latest patch.
  7. I don't want to get in on the argument, but I want to say something to Death_Badger:

    Never say never, and certainly don't take the advice of giving away all the stuff on your main account. Decisions about what to give to Premium players can change over time. I've seen it in another game. It may be that a year from now the situation will be different in this regard.
  8. I remember years ago that my main female hero's face changed to the worse, but haven't noticed anything recently. I did recently have to change a face on one of my heroes when I went to the tailor, but I think I found one that looked the same.

    I've played games with faces I liked less, but I agree with ChaosExMachina that more choice of sympathetic faces would be good.
  9. NCsoft is known for having draconian security measures for their store which prevent many legitimate attempts to buy. NCsoft support may not be able to fix the problem but can remove the measures temporarily for a specific account the account (in my experience they gave it for 24 hours), and so allow him to buy the points.
  10. To nit pick: he'll have access to the First Ward zone, but no contacts.
  11. Do 'alt-enter'. This will switch to windowed more. You can then resize the window and play (and change to your desired resolution inside the game).
  12. But it was nicely said, Wing Leader.
  13. I have to ask did you get two character slots? I'd like to verify if the common knowledge that you don't get them really is true.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ImpulseKing View Post
    1. What's the best way to install the game? I'm bringing over my up to date copy and the NCsoft launcher on a flash drive. How do I do the install so that the launcher doesn't try a fresh download?
    Install the NCsoft Launcher.
    Copy the game directory to where you want the game to be.
    Choose to install CoH from the launcher, use 'customise' to point it to the game directory you copied.

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    2. I gave her the Architect Edition box set as a birthday gift some time ago. Will that box set alone allow her to use AE?
    As people said, AE access is unrelated to that edition. However, all Premium players can play on AE (but with rewards only from reward level 4 or by buying a license), and all players (including Free players) can create and test stories, and even get badges while testing them (but only publish them if they're at reward level 6 or by buying a license).
  15. It can be a communication problem with the server which keeps the reward status. If this doesn't correct itself after a while and a re-login, I guess the place to go is support.
  16. There was a discussion on another thread about the abuses of the help channel and helper / help me titles. I like helping others but personally I don't like sitting on the channel or marking myself as a helper.

    What I would like is forum-like system where players could ask questions, which would go into a help window, and where I could select to expand by title, and answer if I want. The player will be alerted to an answer and once he sees a satisfactory answer he'd press a button and the question will be removed from the list. The question will also be removed if the character logs out.

    I think this would make it easier for people to find the questions that need to be answered, something that's not easy just occasionally reading a chat window, and would cut down on chatter.

    It may also be nice to have a helper badge for people who help a lot (and whose answers are accepted), but that would have to be manually judged, to prevent abuses.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jagged View Post
    I do the early Kingsrow missions without a travel power. Although they are available at 4 I find I am not picking them up until later. Plus Twinshot doesn't make you do much in the zone. I think the risk is minimal to zero in all honesty
    Maybe, but I can tell you that if as a new playerI had to do that Twinshot mission at level 2 I'd get a really skewed idea about what the game was like, and probably won't want to play much. Getting introduced to a level 5-10 zone at level 2 isn't what you want to do. Far as I remember even when I was a new player at level 5 I didn't like getting around Kings Row.

    I'll grant you that it's not impossible, and that we've never had travel powers at 4 before, but I think that moving the powers down to 4 was done to take away that unheroic long travel and squishiness that was the staple of the low levels.
  18. I don't think that the arcs can be taken as is and moved down. I agree that talking to the trainer is level 1 mission, but the followup traveling to Kings Row can't be undertaken safely by a low level character. In fact that kind of requires the travel power selection at level 4, and characters who haven't taken that will be at a disadvantage, wasting quite a bit of time for this mission, and possibly dying as they try to navigate Kings Row.
  19. Agree with the OP. Would also suggest selling enhancement slotters.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Justice_Bringer View Post
    Sadly, the 570 doesn't include WiFi. Which means a bit over 400...
    Can't you use the WiFi adaptor from your current PC?
  21. I logged out to the login screen, then logged as another account. The scroll bar for the servers was at the bottom, and it took me a few seconds to understand why I wasn't seeing the server I last logged into at the top. I think that the scroll bar position should be reset when logging out.

    Though frankly I don't see the point of a scroll bar. With 14 out of 16 servers shown, why not just trim some spaces and show 16?
  22. From my testing on an AMD E-350, my impression is that CPU power is more important than graphics power, and this laptop will have it in spades. It also has faster graphics than the E-350, so you should be able to run settings at well above the minimum and get playable frame rates. Can't say about raids, but my guess is that it's a matter of CPU power there, too.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    • I would like to take a second look at guides. I feel as though there definitely needs to be something done to encourage more guides to be produced, especially in light of all the new and returning players that will be coming into the game.
    Two thoughts:

    I think it's a good idea to make this one of the forums Premium players will be able to post to. These are the players which will have a good perspective on playing as non-subscribers, so will be the best source for such guides.

    You could put links to selected guides on the CoH site. This would both encourage guide writers, who could get exposed to a larger crowd this way, and provide another method for players to get acquainted with the forums.

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    • Some general suggestions on reorganization of the forums so that the structure makes sense.
    I think that just a reogranisation, without removing forums, could help make the forums more accessible.
  24. Just tested the E-350 on an 1920x1080 full screen window. That little chip rocks. Same frame rate as on the smaller display, meaning that it's the CPU that's limiting it, not the graphics side. As long as the world detail is set to 50% I'd consider it very playable. Atlas Park seems heavier than King's Row these days, by the way, after the graphical revamp. Anyway, looks like the E-350 PC can be a decent choice if you're not too demanding.

    The Dell that Hyperstrike suggested is a better deal in the long run, though, because when you get a little bit extra money you could upgrade it with a better graphics card. Doesn't come with a monitor, though, unlike the HP. So (assuming you can get the HP for that price, it said out of stock) your choice is between a good looking all-in-one with a weak CPU and a decent, upgradable desktop PC with unimpressive but upgradable graphics. Either should be better for playing CoH than what you have now.

    And of course there's the choice of spending under $100 to upgrade your current PC, which would also improve your current situation, but is a little risky on the graphics card front (since there's a chance the upgrade won't work).
  25. I don't know what happened, but I'm getting ~180K/s download for the latest patch, around the max my 1.5Mb/s connection can give. That's compared to 30K/s previously and 300 bytes/s on the old CoH Updater.

    While the NCsoft Launcher still hangs all too often, this certainly makes up for it.