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Quote:Bull****.Originally Posted by Durakken
They all Share the exact same environment for most of his life which would produce, the exact same person or close to.
And I repeat BULL****.
While they share a couple of bullet point moments (in a roughly 100 year timeline) it does NOT mean their environments were "the same" or even CLOSE to it.
Again, as we're talking about very small pinpoints of similarity, there are vast tracts of time that could account for major divergences. Both before and after the salient event of the Well of the Furies. -
Quote:No Durakken. You're wrong.Originally Posted by Durakken
je_saist. You're simply wrong.
Plain and simple. Simply because Statesman and Reichsman both share the name and lineage of Marcus Cole does not mean, in any way, shape, or form that their formative years and experiences are in ANY way identical, outside of the knowledge that both happened to have found the Well of the Furies.
It could be as simple as brainwashing, or as complex as a bunch of hairs-breadth differences in experience that much the Reichsman Cole down a more malevolent and self-serving path. It could also be that the difference in experiences are a lot more than "hairs-breadth".
Indeed, this version of Cole could believe he's still doing his level best to help people. But, at this point, whole classes of people have been denied the basic acknowledgement of "humanity". As always, it's a lot easier to do monstrous things to people if you lie to yourself and deny they actually ARE people in the first place. -
Quote:Good idea! That'll work!Originally Posted by DevilYouKnow
I got a toon (field crafter) on Liberty who can cheaply craft Common I/O's so I will just slot some level 15 IO's. I'll take a look at the build notes and see what I can still do.
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Quote:What kind of budget are you looking at for this too?Originally Posted by Yorukira
Perfect.
I just got a perfect reason to spend my money and upgrade this pc.
Thx a lot you 2, your advise really is helpful. Will start checking Ebay and such for the hardware to get Ultra Mode Max potential (On my budget...). Also finishing updating all my drives so this **** don't happen again >.<!
Thx again.
Addendum: JEEZE! Just looking at shipping on Newegg for Puerto Rico. Roughly 50% of sale price! -
Quote:Originally Posted by Protean
Man, its good to finally be able to show my face around here!
Target acquired! FIRE FOR EFFECT!
Hehehe. Just kidding. But not really.
You DO understand the amount of pain you're letting yourself in for here right?
Oh, you have the bite block and gimp suit already...good.
Nice arcs and I liked every one of them.Quote:Some of you might know me by Mercedes Sheldons Midnighter arcs from Issue 13: The Dirge of Chaos, The Devils Timepiece, The Crown of Glory, and The Deadmans Deck. As my first foray into adding to the robust and amazing world that is CoX I have to say that I had a blast writing those missions.
Welcome to the forums. Try not to get TOO perforated by the bullets.
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Quote:Also, 12 gets you into DO range. While if we do a set of Positrons, you'll outlevel them disgustingly fast, they'll make things enormously easier.Originally Posted by DevilYouKnow
Good tips. I'll try and get to 12 before next Monday.
Also, up-thread, I noted a basic build guideline. There's lots of room in there to specialize however you want, and a couple suggestions as to things that could be helpful.
Big thing is to three-slot AM as soon as possible. Slotting out Hot-Feet quickly helps too. -
Quote:Try rebooting the machine.Originally Posted by Yorukira
I download it and run it, it just finish restarting the computer.
CoH still freez up every sec.
Check it the version, now is 7.14.10.1504
Do i need to donwload something else, or i need to do something else after finishing running the installed wizard?
Also, try starting CoH with it's safe mode settings. See if you get smooth movement there.
From there, gradually raise your settings.
Note: Thanks for noticing that lousy lingo BackBlast. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Yorukira
I try downloading the last update of the link you posted Ver:9.6.0.1014
When i try to installed i don't find the .exe file for 64 bit or 32 bit. the file i donwlaod is the f6flpy96x86.zip.
What is wonrg?
Thx for your help/advise
You have to unzip the file and then use the installer.
I'd also recommend uninstalling the existing drivers (if you can find an uninstaller for them). -
First off, your graphics drivers are well out of date.
Here's a link to the appropriate driver page.
Just select the appropriate version of Vista, and Drivers.
Current driver version is: 9.6.0.1014
This may or may not help, as Intel graphics have always been marginal at best. -
Quote:One of the big things. Make sure to slot for hold, stun, and disorient in your various attacks. Damage is important. But HotFeet is your big attack (believe it or not). Drop a Char on an enemy and he can't move, then get right up on him and let HotFeet cook him.Originally Posted by DevilYouKnow
Hi all! I have a fire/rad that might like to try this. He's only an 8 tho' I could use the tips on playing them.
If you chance across a -KB IO, craft and use it. -
Quote:The problem comes when Rube Goldberg comes back from the dead and asks for royalties on the system so implemented.Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
A thought. Might it not be more elegant to leave the merit store as is, and instead divide current merit rewards so that some portion are kept as existing merits (character-level, stackable, used to purchase items from the merit store) and some portion are switched to "roll points" (account-level, trigger random rolls as soon as threshold is reached)? This allocation could be done a number of ways - split half and half, or up to the first 20 merits as roll points, or arcs reward roll points and TFs reward merits, or whatever.
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Quote:Note to others. Do some research on the product before installing (let alone buying).Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
I have been suffering thru all of the rubber banding and lag of Issue 17 and having seen the creeping memory leak - I decided to try and fix this myself if possible. So I downloaded Memokit from www.cnet.com and so far - lag free!
I will let you know if any other issues arise.
This program an be very much a YMMV thing.
On the CNET review page:
Some people report that it helps.
Others report that it eats more memory than it winds up freeing while not really assisting in speeding up system performance.
Others report that they're not getting unsolicited popups after installation.
And some report shady dealings with the parent company (no support for paid version, backup-copy CDs never sent, etc).
Not saying don't try the app. Just exercise due diligence. -
Quote:Again, their property, their business. Does it suck for everyone else? Sure.Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
One of the probems with market supply is that people can (and do) WASTE 230 merits buying a single recipe.
What do you do when a millionaire decides he's going to spend all his money on hookers and blow instead of donating to charity or investing?
Is it a shame? Sure. Is it any of your business? No.
Again, upon rereading your original posts, I find the system proposed kludgy but workable.
A couple things that haven't been addressed:
- What about recipes that go for below the 240 merit mark?
You've set the benchmark for the spec-buy token against the highest valued recipes. But there are other recipes available that could be bought in multiples for the price of the one "expensive" recipe. Or are all spec-buys arbitrarily now 240 merit-equivalent recipes?
- Again, is this system automatic? If so, what happens if a roll is triggered when their recipe inventory is full?
I'd also ask the programmers how easily something like this could be shoehorned on top of the existing system. For myself, at least, there's a certain threshold of difficulty and tradeoff I probably wouldn't accept. I wouldn't implement the system "regardless of what else it hampers/stops/kills". I can't directly define what this "pain threshold" is, as I don't know what the options currently are. -
Quote:I would guess so. Honestly, while it doesn't help the market any, I believe that if someone wants to hoard merits in the current system and use them to buy a single merit-expensive IO, that's their business.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I don't see a problem there.
Of course, I don't think people should be able to hoard merits to buy specific pieces of loot so we're probably dealing with an unbridgeable philosophical chasm.
Granted, if the devs are able to reliably engineer a secondary "spec buy" token mechanic as outlined, I'd probably think it was a reasonable compromise. -
Quote:But it's so CUUUUTE!Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
Man do you love hyperbole.
Quote:Not anywhere in my post have I ever said that anyone is owed the fruits of someone else's labor I would ask how other players are screwed by player "@ScrewUMarket" spending his earnings how he wishes? Are you screwing other players when you vendor your vendor trash?Quote:Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
This player is essentially screwing the market and all the other players out of 11 recipes that otherwise may have made it to the market.
In there is the basic assumption that @ScrewUMarket owes it to other players to perform in a manner most beneficial to the market/them.
This may not be what you meant but it is more or less implicit in how you said it.
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Okay! Had a longer reply worked up but actually took the time to go back and re-read the original again. Not sure if I just missed it, blocked it out, Alzheimers or what. But I completely missed the "freebie token" secondary mechanic.
Yes. I was dropped on my head (extensively!) as a child.
Given the secondary mechanic, I could see this working better. Still kludgy, but workable.
My main worry is that this tracking metadata is increasingly abstracted from the main game system and I worry about tracking so people don't get screwed over. I mean, I've had count-tracked badges (Isolator and Zookeeper to name a couple prominent ones) revert counts and the badge disappeared from my list. This would be another level or two more derivative.
You'd be wrong.Quote:Given your posts I doubt that you wish to repair the market. You seem to only want self determination to remain in the destructive mode it's in, and I highly doubt that you've gven it much thought.
Don't make assumptions. A simple misreading of your post sent me off on a snipe hunt here, and I seriously doubt you're any better or worse than I am. So I would ask that you not deign to speak about my ersatz "nefarious" motives
My position (and dislike) of the merit system, if the posts haven't been purged, has been established since before the system was implemented and my predictions for effects on the market pretty much born out if you're looking at the current state of affairs. -
Quote:This! Before the implementation of the Merit system, I'd asked SPECIFICALLY about this. Make it a choice at the time of award.Originally Posted by Fulmens
I personally wish you got an "opt-out" system to roll 20 of your new merits when you finished a 20+ merit TF (it pops up a screen saying "Do you want to roll a rare recipe?" immediately), because the system imposes penalties of convenience and knowledge on any action other than hoarding merits. If ignorant people* rolled half the time, it would put an enormous amount of lower-level rolls on the market compared to what we have now.
* I wish I could find a term less insulting-sounding. What I mean is, ignorance can be cured, and we were all ignorant once. -
Allrighty then!
We had a fairly productive night tonight (amazing what a few extra hours will do).
Myself, Main-Sequence, and Therm O'Dynamic were in early (around 6PM Central). We ran a quickie radio mission to see how we'd handle +1x4 with bosses. We wiped the floor with them.
About this time, HellJumper signed on and he'd been looking to pull a Positron. So we got Posi 1 knocked out at +1x6. Task Force Fusion. How appropriate!
We did okay. Took the ambushes just fine. Made the mobs just inside City Hall's doors our [BLEEP!]. Then got our collective hiney kicked by our doubles. Blind SUCKS! Probably need to rebuild Trolla so Tactics comes in a bit sooner.
We finally managed to beat them down and annihilated the last mob.
And if Azuria loses anything else while we're logged off TOUGH [BLEEP!]!
- Main-Sequence
- Flamin' Trolla
- Hell Diation
- Therm O'Dynamic
Anyhow, at that point, Hell had to log. But we were able to pick up Swagga for a quickie Radio before he had to go.
- Flamin' Trolla
- Swagga
- Therm O'Dynamic
- Main-Sequence
At that point, we were butting up against the regular Fire/Rads meeting time.
We actually held off until nearly quarter to the hour before starting just in case we had stragglers. At that point, we had a full team and no extras in sight.
And we did Sister Psyche.
And we did Sister Psyche.
And we..did..Sister Psyche.
A combination of a couple dumb mistakes on my part and some truly atrocious zone loading times turned what should have been a 60-90 minute TF into a 2 hour and 38 minute trial.
Everyone was really good natured about it. And I'd like to thank them for that. I'm sure the urge to grab me and shake me (while trying to simultaneously beat me about the head and shoulders with a stun baton) was fierce at times.
Honestly, I was getting 3+ minute zone loads. On every...freaking...zone...
Yet EVERYONE stuck with it. And we stomped a mud puddle into Clamor's backside with a quickness. My comment. "Uh...what AV?" She literally got like one attack off and then spent the rest of her minute or so of life choking to death.
- Kaylee Foxtrot
- Greased Wheels
- Nuclear Fyre
- Flamin' Trolla
- Riches
- Rubeus
- Main-Sequence
- Therm O'Dynamic
Swagga was able to return later as we were doing the SPTF. Unfortunately we weren't able to hook back up with him again. He was able to go pick up a team of his own (not all Fire/Rads, but we won't hold that against them...will we?)
As always, the main gallery of our exploits is here (flip to the last page or two to see the most current screenies).
As to the rest of you guys who posted either in the Controller thread or the Freedom thread. Thank you for showing interest and sorry we weren't able to team up with you this week. But don't let it discourage you. We'll be back again next week!
And since this thread is getting a bit longer, I'll repost the specifics of the Superteam event.
- Title: Freedom Fire/Rads
- Server: Freedom (Well duh?)
- Meeting Location: The Hill in Talos Island
- Time: 9 PM Eastern/8 PM Central/7 PM Mountain/6 PM Pacific
- Host SG: Mid-Level Crisis
- Host: Hyperstrike (Usually.)
- Contact Info: @Hyperstrike1
- Alternate Info Venue: The TheMarket global channel.
- Preferred AT/Powerset: Fire Control/Radiation Emission Controller
- Policy For Non-Preferred AT/Powerset: Will we accept other controller types? Depends on how loaded the team(s) become. Fire/Rads always get preference. If you want to attend with something OTHER than a Fire/Rad Controller, it should be a Controller and should have at least one of preferred powersets.
- Who is welcome?: Anyone who shows up sporting the appropriate AT/Powerset.
Thanks again to everyone who showed up tonight (or tried to). -
Allrighty then!
We had a fairly productive night tonight (amazing what a few extra hours will do).
Myself, Main-Sequence, and Therm O'Dynamic were in early (around 6PM Central). We ran a quickie radio mission to see how we'd handle +1x4 with bosses. We wiped the floor with them.
About this time, HellJumper signed on and he'd been looking to pull a Positron. So we got Posi 1 knocked out at +1x6. Task Force Fusion. How appropriate!
We did okay. Took the ambushes just fine. Made the mobs just inside City Hall's doors our [BLEEP!]. Then got our collective hiney kicked by our doubles. Blind SUCKS! Probably need to rebuild Trolla so Tactics comes in a bit sooner.
We finally managed to beat them down and annihilated the last mob.
And if Azuria loses anything else while we're logged off TOUGH [BLEEP!]!
- Main-Sequence
- Flamin' Trolla
- Hell Diation
- Therm O'Dynamic
Anyhow, at that point, Hell had to log. But we were able to pick up Swagga for a quickie Radio before he had to go.
- Flamin' Trolla
- Swagga
- Therm O'Dynamic
- Main-Sequence
At that point, we were butting up against the regular Fire/Rads meeting time.
We actually held off until nearly quarter to the hour before starting just in case we had stragglers. At that point, we had a full team and no extras in sight.
And we did Sister Psyche.
And we did Sister Psyche.
And we..did..Sister Psyche.
A combination of a couple dumb mistakes on my part and some truly atrocious zone loading times turned what should have been a 60-90 minute TF into a 2 hour and 38 minute trial.
Everyone was really good natured about it. And I'd like to thank them for that. I'm sure the urge to grab me and shake me (while trying to simultaneously beat me about the head and shoulders with a stun baton) was fierce at times.
Honestly, I was getting 3+ minute zone loads. On every...freaking...zone...
Yet EVERYONE stuck with it. And we stomped a mud puddle into Clamor's backside with a quickness. My comment. "Uh...what AV?" She literally got like one attack off and then spent the rest of her minute or so of life choking to death.
- Kaylee Foxtrot
- Greased Wheels
- Nuclear Fyre
- Flamin' Trolla
- Riches
- Rubeus
- Main-Sequence
- Therm O'Dynamic
Swagga was able to return later as we were doing the SPTF. Unfortunately we weren't able to hook back up with him again. He was able to go pick up a team of his own (not all Fire/Rads, but we won't hold that against them...will we?)
As always, the main gallery of our exploits is here (flip to the last page or two to see the most current screenies).
As to the rest of you guys who posted either in the Controller thread or the Freedom thread. Thank you for showing interest and sorry we weren't able to team up with you this week. But don't let it discourage you. We'll be back again next week!
And since this thread is getting a bit longer, I'll repost the specifics of the Superteam event.
- Title: Freedom Fire/Rads
- Server: Freedom (Well duh?)
- Meeting Location: The Hill in Talos Island
- Time: 9 PM Eastern/8 PM Central/7 PM Mountain/6 PM Pacific
- Host SG: Mid-Level Crisis
- Host: Hyperstrike (Usually.)
- Contact Info: @Hyperstrike1
- Alternate Info Venue: The TheMarket global channel.
- Preferred AT/Powerset: Fire Control/Radiation Emission Controller
- Policy For Non-Preferred AT/Powerset: Will we accept other controller types? Depends on how loaded the team(s) become. Fire/Rads always get preference. If you want to attend with something OTHER than a Fire/Rad Controller, it should be a Controller and should have at least one of preferred powersets.
- Who is welcome?: Anyone who shows up sporting the appropriate AT/Powerset.
Thanks again to everyone who showed up tonight (or tried to). -
Just an FYI. I'm in with Therm O Dynamic and Main-Sequence right now. If you want in, shoot a tell in my direction.
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Just an FYI. I'm in with Therm O Dynamic and Main-Sequence right now. If you want in, shoot a tell in my direction.
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Quote:However, my point was that instead of simply giving someone rewards, when you have a currently free-choice system in place, you're essentially telling someone that they now cannot save up for a specific purchase and MUST take whatever gets doled out to them when they get X number of merits and trigger a roll.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Which is my point.
Disparaging a proposed system for 'telling people how to play the game' ignores the fact that EVERY change to game balance does the same thing.
Also, what happens if their recipe list is full when this happens? They get auto-rolled, get a "full" message and get nothing?
Sorry. As much as I dislike the effect merits have had on the game, I can't get behind such a setup. Because, at that point, it's taking everything that sucked about the original system and everything that sucks about the merit and ticket systems and giving us the amalgamated suck while throwing out the best features of each of the systems. -
Quote:Uhm. No. They were given a choice to do things with merits (and later, tickets), or to acquire what they wanted randomly through drops, or through the market.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Adding merits in the first place "told people how they should play the game", i/e relentlessly grind certain TFs that reward merits efficiently.
Essentially auto-rolling a person's merits for them is not the answer.
Or you can just mish and level up like normal and accrue several hundred merits that way. Or you can do Ouro missions. Those don't require contiguous time blocks either.Quote:Players like myself who don't have the time for that sort of gameplay were cut completely out of the system.
Or, as noted, you can opt to work outside of the merit system and still rack up the stuff you want.
Honestly, merits HAVE hurt the market. However, there's enough of a contingent that wants to be able to operate independently of the market (and other players) that removing merits and AE tickets is about as likely as a black hole opening up spontaneously and swallowing the earth...yesterday.Quote:The real solution for merits is to delete them from the game, but alas that'll never happen. -
Cork, Fallen. Welcome to the both of you!
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Quote:Bulldinky.Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
2) A player hates the market and only saves up to buy specific rolls. This player is essentially screwing the market and all the other players out of 21 recipes that otherwise may have made it to the market.
Those players are not owed the fruits of said player's labor. What if the player used them on his own (or other) toons? What if the player hated the market so much he just vendored them?
Oh yes and what if they were crap rolls nobody wants anyhow?
See above. This is dangerously close to telling these people how they should play the game and what they should do with the fruits of their own labor.Quote:3) A player rolls randomly until they get almost all the recipes they want for a build and then saves up for the specific ones they need. Not as bad as 2 but still extremely wasteful.
Please note, I'm displeased with the effects the Merit System has had on the market as well. But if you're going to be awarding points to someone instead of a true random drop at the outset, I believe it's up to the player to determine how they spend their own currency. Jacking it around until it's nearly identical to the old system of automatic awards (by way of Rube Goldberg) is Just Plain Awful.
MA also doesn't allow you to spec-buy recipes.Quote:As far as the MA. Let's be honest. The MA over rewards, period. Mainly because of a higher level of self determination that isn't available in dev created content. Tickets concentrate your earning potential and skew the rewards produced.
How long does it take to run say, 5 Synapse TFs to get up the 240 merits for the most desireable recipes? And if said recipe is going for multiple hundreds of millions?Quote:In the time it takes me to generate enough merits to roll a Pool C in dev created content, I can make far far more inf rolling bronze from the amount of tickets earned in the same amount of time (and have done so frequently)
In an equivalent time, how many tickets could you rack up? Now how long does it take to actually PROCESS all those recipes generated? And if 99% of them are vendor trash?
I'd like to repair the market. But I don't think this is the way. -
Quote:No. PERIOD.Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
Increase the merit cost of a random roll by *5 merits (to 25) [bear with me and don't freak out there's a reason].
Eliminate hoarding by causing a recipe to be rolled everytime 25 merits (or a multiple thereof) are earned. This will increase the supply of low - mid level pool C recipes.
One of the benefits of Merits is it allows one to spec-buy IOs for themselves.
You completely destroy this ability while only flooding the economy with more vendor trash.
