Hyperstrike

Try giving us your CoH Helper and HijackThis results (see my sig for the howto).

I just hope they've learned from the mistake of the CoP and don't make the raids an all or nothing affair the way the CoP is.

You also need to segregate out those who play solo for good reason.

Like myself. When I'm at work, I can still manage to get on and beat the occasional face in. However, I get called away to do "stuff" at irregular intervals.

As such, it's patently not fair for me to join teams or TFs. I hate being forced to AFK in a mission (that isn't just me soloing) like poison. Moreover, while the company owners don't mind me pulling on the spandex at work, they WOULD object (and rightfully so) if I let it interfere with my job.

While I don't begrudge others AFK'ing in my missions on occasion, it CAN be problematic when we're held up because the mission is complete and the person is AFK for half an hour after.

Were I a betting man, I'd say that you alleviated it to some degree by pulling notorious system resource hog Norton off the machine and replacing it with something that isn't as resource intensive (Avast). Freeing up processor time, memory space (and by extension disk I/O due to frequent swapping of heavily loaded memory).

Chucking more memory at it should actually create a rather drastic improvement and reduce swapping to disk considerably.

Also, since this is a desktop machine, you could throw an extra hard drive into it and move your paging file (swap space) on that drive to further reduce I/O contention. Just remember to remove the paging file from the primary disk.

Hit it up on Hulu.

It's plodding just a bit, but it's a decent "super" series.

It's possible that they were experiencing database issues.

I've had a couple problems logging into the game because the DB server is unreachable or tossing off random errors.

Thorn Caster: Shut the door! SHUT THE DOOR!
Thorn Wielder: But why?
*Cue "King Kong" moment as big rocky hand shoots through the door, grabs the Thorn Wielder, and drags them, screaming, outside to a horrific end.*
Thorn Caster: THAT'S why you dummy! *SLAM!*

Yeah. Ice/Ice (BABY TOO COLD! *AHEM!* Sorry!) is starting to really grow on me...

After the first mish or two I found myself going scrapper-mad and charging one group while aggroing the next.

If you're noticing that you're seeing mobs insta-run on dropping Burn again, then it's a bug. Please /bug it so the devs can hop on it and beat it into submission.

/this^Infinity

You know that's a double-negative right there don't you?

Welcome to the game!

Well, there are people who've been subscribed for 7 years STRAIGHT for a reason...

There's a LOT to do in this game. A LOT. Plus the fact that you're not limited to a single character or server in the game gives you TONS of room to try out just about any goofy little concept you may want to try.

If you're one of those people who were playing another game and wished you could play it out with different powers, here's your chance!

Graphics are not the game itself. They're window dressing. And while the game may not be as polished as some of the newer games out there, it's still plenty schmexy.

As to missions, there's tons of them.

A lot of the newer, Praetorian stuff is very well done. Some of the older stuff is a bit flat and kinda stale (though probably not so much for people who're running through it for the first time).

Overall you'll note several types of missions:

Get the glowie(s) (either click on it or destroy it).
Kill all.
Kill the boss room.
Hunts (Kill # Enemies)
Patrols (A modified hunt where you're running all over hell and back to hit mission objectives.)
Escort/Kidnap missions (Rescue/kidnap an NPC in the mission and lead them out.

Then there are the hybrid missions (combining two or more of the above) where you have to complete all the mission objectives either in parallel (do them in any order) or a serial progression (a lot of the newer missions have additional objectives that are hidden until the last objective is completed).

And there are literally DOZENS of enemy groups out there. Each with their own challenges.


Here they're referred to as "supergroups" (or sometimes "villain groups"). SG/VG for short.

This allows you to group up with a bunch of players and know when they come online (though their is a two-tiered friend system (local to the server, and global across the game) as well).

Moreover, supergroups have the ability to build bases. These are a combination of storage locker for excess loot, crafting stations, and transportation platforms to various points around the game. There's also the ability to build a medical center into the base as well. This way, if you die, you have a one-stop shop for re-supply before heading back out to beat some more buttock.

Has something like this been posted before? Almost certainly. But it's always a nice way to welcome new players into the community as well.

Now there's bad guys out there that need their butts beaten. Get to beatin'!



Addendum: Also going to give you a couple VERY helpful links:

First and foremost. The Paragonwiki

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

THE site for just about any fact in or about the game.

Additionally there's City of Data. Red Tomax's site.

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/

This is a more nuts and bolts, hard-numbers site.

There's also a several build planners available, to allow you to construct a full-on CoH build outside of the game to look at the performance numbers without going to the time and expense of actually building it in-game. Available in an online version and a downloadable/installable version.

http://www.cohplanner.com/

The one you'll see everyone posting builds to the forum from is Mids. The downloadable version.
Suckerpunch's Planner is the online (web-based) version.

For data monitoring tools there's a couple.

There's the Titan Sentinel. This app tracks your badges, stats, etc in-game and can upload them to the City Info Tracker site. A REALLY nice feature is that it allows you to actually download your ACTUAL build from within the game and export it to Mids.

http://cit.cohtitan.com/download

Here you'll also find the HeroStats app too. This app allows you to look at the statistics for how your in-game avatar is performing. Damage output, damage taken, etc.

Just as you're expressing your own (flawed) opinion that resurrecting Defiance 1.0 would be a Good Thing <TM>.

Starting a discussion on the boards and then dismissing people with "it's just your opinion" is about as productive (and mature) as slamming your own head in a door. Repeatedly.

Sorry, but no. I don't want to have to be beaten down to 1 HP just to be able to have maximum damage output.

This kind of bonus just gets an already squishy class killed far more often. Moreover, it severely hampers other teammates ability to support them, as you have this dichotomy between support classes trying to keep you alive and you running yourself ragged trying to "almost" die just for a few extra points of damage.

In short:

Depends on how you build.

Yep. Had a couple of brand new guys tonight while we were running +2x8.

Needless to say, they leveled shamelessly upon us!

The old "this is my dad and his brothers ..why are you running away?" treatment.

/This this thissity thisthis.

I'd actually rate the RSF last mission harder.

The villains in the STF, if accidentally group-aggroed don't RETAIN group aggro. Once you group aggro the heroes in the RSF, you pretty much HAVE to fight them all.

I've had two failures in the last week on the RSF because our team wasn't durable enough to stand up to that kind of pounding.