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  1. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Leo_G View Post
    Rylas, I hate your avatar >_>

    Every time I scroll down in a thread you post in (also, that other poster with the avatar of all the pokemon stacking), my laptop hiccups for like 3-5 seconds when I get to your posts...and it happens every time, even if you posted twice on one page and after the page fully loads.
    1.2MB animated gifs have that effect.
  2. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    1. That number right there is impressive enough already.

    2. You forgot to mention pool powers. I'd imagine figuring out the combinations from just that alone would be a headache.

    3. Counting blank slots... do we really need to cheat at this point?!
    1. Yep!
    2. Actually no I didn't. I just forgot to paste them in from another document. It's fixed now.
    3. I know. It's absolutely insane how customizable this game is.
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    Okay,

    We talk, over and over again about how extensive the character customization is. And most of the time we're talking about the costume editor.

    Let's do a bit of "back of the napkin" math to run up a guesstimate of possible build combinations.


    As of right now on Live.

    14 Archetypes

    Blasters have 13 primary and 7 secondary sets
    Controllers have 9 primary and 13 secondary
    Defenders have 13 primary and 13 secondary
    Scrappers have 15 primary and 10 secondary
    Tanks have 10 primary and 15 secondary
    Peacebringers have, essentially, 1 primary and 1 secondary
    Warshades have, essentially, 1 primary and 1 secondary
    Brutes have 16 primary and 11 secondary
    Corruptors have 13 primary and 13 secondary
    Dominators have 8 primary and 8 secondary
    Masterminds have 7 primary and 11 secondary
    Stalkers have 12 primary and 9 secondary
    Soldiers, at final level, have 2 primaries and 2 secondaries
    Widows, at final level, have 2 primaries and 2 secondaries

    1281 Primary/Secondary

    9 Primary powers (EATS and VEATS have more choices)
    9 Secondary powers (Again, EATS and VEATS have more choices)
    4 Inherent Fitness
    3 Static Inherent (Brawl, Sprint, Rest)
    1 Origin Inherent (One of 5 origins)
    4 Ancillary pool choices (10 pools, 4 each powers deep, plus 3 additional "third tier" powers in the travel pools)
    1 Epic pool choice (9 pools, 5 powers, varied by the 14 ATs)

    24 Power choices


    67 Assignable slots

    73 Alpha combinations (including "blank")

    46 Judgement combinations (again, including "blank")

    73 Interface combinations

    118 Lore combinations

    46 Destiny combinations

    37 Hybrid combinations

    Granted, a significant fraction of these are legal-but-broken-in-play or illegal configurations.

    But I haven't even begun to delve into possible enhancement combinations, and we're already talking about numbers in the tens or hundreds of QUADRILLIONS.
  4. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stone Daemon View Post
    Is that all it is, a text file? Why not just take screenies?
    Because a single screenie won't give you all your costume info, badge info, build info, etc.
  5. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07 View Post
    Yeah just uploading the screenshot in the "earliest screenshot" thread, I found out it tagged everything down to the map I was on. Didn't know about the teammates, but I guess now I get to go looking through my TF screens to see who all was there.
    The fields are size-limited. So you won't get "everything". But they give you a decent list. Especially if names are short.
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    This is my earliest screenshot in the game.

    From July 4th 2008.
  7. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Henri View Post
    Hey guys, can't tell you how sad it feels trawling through all my old screenies. I know MMORPG's don't last forever, i've been through this once with EQ, but this was such a big shock! Kind of 'here today, gone later today'

    I did find some old screenies i thought might be worth posting, though this was early days... excuse the costumes It's a bit like being a self-respecting adult and your mum gets the childhood photo album out, lol...

    K, this was my first ever screenie, taken before i'd even actually moved an inch in the world, don't remember the toon name but he was claw/somet scrapper, deleted him half way through the tute...
    Okay, the screenshot function has, for a while now, encoded character names into the metadata of the image.

    This toon's name was Chancing.
  8. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal View Post
    Today? Seriously, TODAY, was the very first time I'd seen that the screenshots that COH saves ENCODES THE NAME OF YOUR TEAM MATES in the shot.

    >_>

    Maybe it's that I'm using Windows 7, and not XP. I never saw that info on XP, is this something that I would never have known because I wasn't using a different OS?

    I mean, it's back on ALL the screenies dating from 8-31-05 onward.

    Did Globals go live that day? It wasn't my computer changing, because I'd lost a video card somewhere in there and gotten a new one, but these are a constant stream of shots and then BAM on that day all the info is now included. Did some back-end thing change about saving?

    Yeah. It's part of the metadata of the screenshot.
    It bloats the size of the image a little (and can be stripped out if you want). But it's really nice. My screenshot gallery actually benefits from the metadata a bit. If you click on one of the thumbnails to get the full-size image, you get a subtitle underneath with the metadata string.
  9. Hyperstrike
    It's probably that cheap because it's using integrated graphics.

    Honestly, performance of these systems are going to be somewhat "meh".

    What kind of budget are you playing with here? We might be able to suggest something only marginally more expensive with a slightly better performance profile.

    Also, if you're buying a CyberPower system, I'd look at going directly to their site and working up a system in their configuration matrix. It'll help you dial in price and options you want more easily.
  10. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
    The end was a bit shocking too.
    I dunno. I wasn't all that shocked by Mr. Williams' choice of lunch spots. And the hook-up was pretty obvious if you ask me.

  11. Hyperstrike
    Shot a tweet off to Jim Butcher as well. Let's see what magic Harry Dresden can work up.
  12. Hyperstrike
    Sent copies of the main costume that I normally have him in and a copy of his original costume, plus the cape I added to it the second I unlocked capes.
  13. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
    Greed runs the world. Don't like it? Quit buying ****.
    Pre-ZACTLY!
  14. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mercykilling View Post
    Totally left out the part where I said I have done -everything- suggested so far to help save this game. Way to go. I've even printed flyers with the site addresses for the petition and titan network's plea and the call to boycott NCSoft products and handed them out at PAX in Seattle recently.
    So...do NOT accuse me of not trying to help.
    I didn't say you weren't trying to help. I said that an overtly hostile attitude towards NCSoft could wind up having you **** in someone else's cornflakes. That, in and of itself would NOT help.

    If you wanna be angry, fine. Just know where to draw the line.
  15. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mercykilling View Post
    I enlarged and bolded the pertinent statement here.

    This is the reason why we should start fighting back. Because it's common practice now for corporations to commit social injustices, environmental atrocities, and even yes...kill. Perhaps not go out, buy the gun and the bullets...put it to a head and pull the trigger...but yes, through actions and policy...kill. Perhaps not people...but certainly end things for assorted species.
    Okay. The whole "escort them to the door" started BECAUSE people couldn't be civil.

    Second. Where has NCSoft committed some "social injustice"?

    They closed down a property THEY OWNED.

    They haven't, to my knowledge, committed any environmental atrocities.

    And as far as I know, they haven't killed anyone.


    So acting as if they're Dynatox Industries, going out and dumping nuclear waste on seal pups and laughing about it (while uploading it to a web video) is a HUGE overreaction.


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    And the ONLY justification a corporation can give for doing all of these things is MOAR MONEY FOR ME.

    As will anyone in business that isn't a charity. And even for charities, there's a certain amount of that.

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    /WE/ can change this. /WE/ must change this, for corporations certainly won't change it for us. Not as long as we're content to sit aside and let them get away with it.
    Attacking them accomplishes nothing, save creating resentment for the community.
    With with and, if necessary, around them.

    Quote:
    Edmund Burke said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
    NCSoft is NOT evil though. They're a bunch of people trying to make a living in the gaming industry. And, in most cases, they're beholden to investers, since few companies have a rich sugar-daddy as one of their founders.

    Know how to make a small fortune in the gaming industry?
    Start with a larger one.

    If you wanna be angry, more power to you.

    But please try to be somewhat civil. Otherwise, you could do or say something that could severely hurt others' chances for helping the game and community out.
  16. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by StrykerX View Post
    NCSoft may have done a lot for us in the past, but they also shut down Paragon Studios and tossed all of their employees out the door without notice.
    They shut down Paragon Studios. Yes. Business decision. This is why NCSoft isn't a tax-free charity.

    They didn't toss their employees out the door without notice.

    Friday WAS the notice. If you watch the last Coffee talk from Wednesday (as I did last night), Zwill was talking about the job fairs they have coming through for the employees. They're getting severance packages, and some people are on board until the company shuts the servers off.

    In the real world, companies don't give employees 2 years's notice.

    Quote:
    They didn't just decide to close down the game, they fired everyone on the spot and shut down everything but the actual servers without notice.
    Well, if they're not developing the game, why is NCSoft paying them? Oh yeah, severance.

    Quote:
    That isn't something I'm prepared to forgive... not just because I'm mad that the game is ending, but because I feel for the entire studio of people who showed up to work on August 31 only to find out that they no longer had a job.
    I'm fairly certain there were inklings of what was happening prior to the 31st.

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    Maybe that's normal procedure for large scale layoffs. I neither know nor care.
    No. You just want someone to be angry with. That's cool, and understandable, and yeah, real life sucks sometimes.

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    I just know that I would be angry with any corporation who did it ("everyone else does it" is not a valid reason for being total jerks) and when it also means my favorite MMO is going away, then yes... I'm even madder.
    Being angry with NCSoft accomplishes nothing. And, if people are rude and antagonistic towards them, it could toss a wrench in certain efforts to salvage some or all of this game.
  17. Hyperstrike
    It gives you a nice XML file.
  18. Hyperstrike

    Screeeenshots

    POST-ACTION

    http://www.cox-supergroups.com

    Tons of screenies there.
  19. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by EepEep View Post
    Hey Arcanaville,

    I swear I never did anything *that* bad on my play accounts. Most of my characters are on Justice, with my main characters : "Eep Eep" (notice the space) and "Captainblade". If there was another guy running around as "EepEep", that wasn't me.

    Btw, I'm glad that I was able to finally meet you that one time before. Too bad that the Going Rogue Launch Team Dev Wall that I asked you to sign will probably end up in a landfill.

    -Jesse
    Get pictures. As high-res as you can.
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  21. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by HI IM A UNICORN View Post
    Every time I have something to say thats slightly realistic and not as delusional as all of you I get called a 'troll' be serious with yourself. You guys have COMPLETELY lost it, NCSoft is a business they are never ever going to care about a 10k customer base when they have millions in other areas. They're not going to save this game themselves or do anything to help anyone else in doing that because it serves NO interest to their business. Get a grip, all of you.

    Just because someone says something you don't like doesn't instantly mean they are trolling, you just see it as trolling as its uncomfortable for you to face a lil bit of truth every once in a while.

    The problem is, it's not so much WHAT you're saying it, it's HOW you're saying it. A small modicum of real tact can take one a long way.
  22. Hyperstrike
    I suffer all fives stages simultaneously. That's why I'm such a basket case.
  23. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Archiviste View Post
    I appreciate the sentiment, Stale, but, as TonyV pointed out, there's still that 1 chance in a million that another publisher pick up the game so...

    I would hate to see you on a street corner with a cup in your hand:





    By the bye, I'll be there with both my accounts

    The poor Cylon! Forced to write in Comic Sans!
  24. Hyperstrike
    Basic instructions:

    1. Log into CoH on the character you want to capture.
    2. Open up your Info window so you can capture your badges too.
    3. Start up Sentinel Plus, it'll capture your character.
    4. Alt
    5. Click ENTER to capture the next character.

    Some things to keep in mind.

    1. It's essentially a command line app. No buttons. But, all you need to do is click ENTER for each successive capture after the first.
    2. If you want to capture the same character again later, simply repeat the process. If you want to keep the original capture, rename it or move it first.
    3. It's currently Windows-only. They're trying to come up with options for Mac/*nix players. But given the time-frame, some may need to bite the bullet.
    4. Some early reports are saying it gets a bit tetchy after running a few toons back to back to back. Best recommendation is, if you're trying to capture them as seamlessly as possible, every 4-8 characters, shut down both the game AND SentinelPlus, then restart them.
  25. Hyperstrike
    Guy Perfect, your product is: