Lady Arete

Did join the 1200 club some time ago (just forgot to post). Currently 1208 badges with about 51 months

A friend of mine is also experiencing crash on start-up. Nclauncher works, but then when CoH is started it seemingly crashes.
Any tips that I can relay to my friend?

Great advices you have been given.
It helps to know your character, who he/she is. The more fleshed out the character becomes the more alive he/she becomes.
f.ex. I started on a trial account and made Lady Arete for the first time, sure I did not know much about her. But one thing I did know. She hated the Circle. Once I began asking why, her story unfolded for me.
Much later, after a time in a sci-fi mmo, I came back to CoX and played it proper, by this time the backstory was all there.

Cyrene on the other hand (emp/son) was my first proper rp char. She developed through gameplay. I joined a rp supergroup with her and through interaction with other playes and creativity, her story began to unfold as well.
And everytime I now play her, I feel all bubbly and fuzzy. She is a happy char for me
While Lady A, is the serious hero with a grudge.

Yea, I enjoyed the meeting up and War Witch coming and Emperor Marcus Cole's speach to Primal earth.

(In future events always try to get someone with roleplaying abilities to "play" the bad guy, it just gives the extra added touch!
So even if it was not 3 hours monster bashing for me (as it was on Union) (I logged early as I wanted some sleep), the speach of Emperor Cole made up for that.

Did not have too much lag.... wait wrong story.
I had created my little namesake on Freedom and only had 2 levels. So yes I was standing in Atlas park and waiting for trouble to arrive.
The unionites gathered into a nice little league (I wonder how many instances of Atlas park it became in the end).

Having 3-5 powers (vet powers as well) was well not that fun with the power lag that issued.
BUT what was great was War Witch and Emperor Marcus Cole's speeches. I really wish they would have given those speeches on every Surge.

I did not have much movement lag, i can only imagine what kind of lag I would have had, if I'd been in a higher level zone. With more costume parts, more auras and more power animations etc.

I wish I'd have been able to join you in Pocket D afterwards, but 4am (my time) is a tad late for me

Did get the badge and I think I was amongst the first that shouted "Badge" in broadcast.
They manually awarded the badge...

Sometimes getting it while on the Incarnate trials, and its usually the error I see if i've been doing a trial 2 times before. I have chosen my reward and click exit and bam...
The pigg file error crash and no way to tell the devs about it.
I did see it 3-4 times during the Union praetorian surge aswell.
Its just something rotten about praetoria...

@Impish Hopefully, if they reported it. In my case the automatic crash report did not appear and in one case I had 2-3 piggs error messages i had to click through to go back to desktop.

Indeed. I favour the current strategy. Plenty of astral merits and as long as each team sends a blaster to the adds team, then hey it works allright.
I'm actually pleased that the Master of Baf can be made through one session.
... The Mo Lambda on the other hand 3 Times is just... grrr (specially if you make it once, when you have defeated Marauder without using acid nor granades. (But got to to it two times more)

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Hmm very weird. *scratches my head* That much ram, no problem.
Only thing that I can think of are thus that it might be windows 7. But that should not be a problem!
(ponders more)
Do you have the same ingame settings as well? (like Tsumiju mentioned maybe there is a different set up there)
I guess your son have updated to the latest drivers (it may be a video driver issue?)
I feel I'm a little out of my league though, so I think its best to put the question on the tech board AND better give support a little note. Just remember to ask how to get the info and they will provide the solution to your problem as they are wizards

Hmm.. how old is her pc. Is it better or older then yours?
(And how often does she do maintenence on it (yes misspell).
F.ex do some nice clean up of garbage (ccleaner springs to mind), and defragging the pc abit.

It sounds to me that her pc is not quite up to scratch to see the base in all its glory (i assume it might be a big base?)
So here is something that I have to do when i edit a base..
I go into first person mode and look down at the ground. Then I put up the map (so i can see where i'm going) and press Edit base.
Then I travel to where I need to edit and start the editing. The important thing is.. NOT to look up, until you get to the place of editing.
It could also be alot of light or things near the entrance that just makes her pc crash/lagout etc...

Well I plan to log in on my already made char. Sort of good that I cannot participate much (level wise). And i fear that if I had a char enough (to be more fun) I would see them various crash messages, that i am unable to copy/paste (so far) and report to the Devs. (Like I had on Union and a few times now in the lambda's)
There are some piggs that just do not like my computer

Only thoughts I come about F2P here is the system that Anarchy Online used.
That game had a total of 220 lvls, where the last 20 where shadow lvls.
They made the 1-200 game a free to play (we called the new influx of players Froobs (free to play noobs, but there was no name calling about this).

That worked because you had zones and you had content and levels way past those 200 levels. The Froob was just limited to the main world of Rubi-Ka. You had the shadowlands and alien warzone and such stuff. And.. plenty of buffage such a F2P player did not have.

Many of the Froobs when playing (and getting into a good group and getting to know people) upgraded the Froob account to participate with the Alien raids (and get reasearch points for buffage) and all other stuff.

Now if this should be transferred to CoX then there must be a viable and great game past the lvl 50. Plenty to do, taskforces to do, zones to visit, buffs you need to do the other game.
Lets say it was only Paragon City or Only Rogue isle zones. Meaning Midnighter club, Cimerora, Oroboros, Praetoria and incarnate stuff was unavailable.
I would not recommend Praetoria only, no chance to play with veteran players.

The bad part about Free to play (big minus) players feel they can do what they want, say what they want and there will be no consequences.
Unless you have a very grown up playerbase etc.

So far though F2P is just not viable. (Moar Content!)

Hmm cannot remember many goofs. Since they where around 1 year of Coh. Had a trial account on the NA server and left to play a sci-fi mmo instead. So most of my goofs probably went there instead

I probably had the wrong entrance to the trainstation goof.
I know I had the Exit mission goof and wondered how on earth did people get out so quickly. Dang their are fast runners!

In the sci fi game (could have happened here too) I was scared trying to walk past several purple coloured critters. I had fought similar ones. (did not occur to me that these where friendly )

Used Fire Rain like crazy on my fire/ice blaster, spreading chaos and yes.. in team. (She later became my main on EU (pure fire) and I avoided that mistake)

Using Hover to travel across the Hollows - Check. Man that was SLOW!
Used to do the Hollows on my first chars, never heading to Kings until much later. (Now i finish kings then do the hollows... to get the contacts so my chars can host the hollows trial)

Silly me on the Aragorn thing
Just got a little message from a kind gm. Apperantly another reason might be the movie Eragon (I do not understand it either).
Oh well, heres to getting the overaggressive filter killed, burned and eradicated and another more sensible brought to life instead.

Found out what was the Copyright stuff of my arc...
I have a Paragon Protector from Crey in my arc...
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Seriously Aragon should never have been on the list of copyright stuff at all. Sure its a char from Lord of the Rings, but it was also an old spanish kingdom before Spain was united. Seriously!

Not seen any Eva, but as long as the Thors do not run around in the same outfit as the marvel char, then there is no copyright infringement.
Cause fortunatly you cannot copyright mythic names.

Came in, checked whats going on on this issue and I'm almost speechless.

@Bleak Well written comments.
@Wrong Number ... Ouch

Have a weird one myself. Arc is still playable though, but when I try to fix a little spelling error I get the error that it contains profane or copyright text.
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Its only called "Trouble in the Music Buisness" (and have been so since the start of Mission Architect)
So I'm doing a little head scratch here, what is possibly profane or copyrighted there?

Yes apperantly the channels are getting filled up.
Sals and Union taskforce both have the similar problem.

So I hope for a quick solution from Red names and Devs.


What I hope is that players will either join Sals or Union Taskforce. Seems we have to do this for now, BUT those already members of both should post in both for taskforce/trials etc.

Until the timeout command gets activated (for name purge) that is one workaround we need to do.

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So that means the 14 days I set will not work?
(GAH)

But if we set it to 30, then in 30 days the purge will take place of all inactive accounts?

And then we have to set the timer to a new amount (say 90 days). For it to wait for 90 days to purge of inactive again.

(Just checking to see if I understood it all correctly)


[Wishes for an op command /chan_purge <channel name> X
Which simply purges anyone that has not logged in for X amount of time. This command was given to help the player population get in to the various global channels after the Server list merge.]

Dang the channels gets filled up quickly then... O.o
Soul, you'd better do a /chan_timeout too (and notify it).

SteelDominator, have you managed to join Sals? (since you cannot join Union Taskforce)

To all who has Angelxman81's dilemma.
As said, I've put the timer to work, if you have been previously unable to join the channel after those 14 days (well 13 and some hours now) and still unable to log in OR able... Do give me a tell or post it here.

I need to know ANY result on this matter so that we the OP's can quickly get some temp solution or permanent solution to this.

@Everyone (In Sals and Union Taskforce), For now, keep posting events/TF requests etc on both the channels and remind others do to so as well.

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Wonder how this will affect Union Chat...

*gulp* Your telling me it might not work?
*Crosses fingers* Here is for hoping it works..
*Folds hands together and with wide (deer) eyes "Could we get feedback on this dear Devs / Rednames? Pleawse let it work!"


Well we will see in 14.. 13 days and some hours. I hope those that are unable to log in now can tell me or any of the OP's at that time, if they are able to enter.
(If not the two channels Sals and Union Taskforce must just work closer together (which is wise in any event ) )

@Roderick. Will do. I will post it here if it works or not in any event.

That was the one I used.
Set 14 days so as to give players a chance to not having to rechan_join too quickly.
Had I put it for one day then all who where not logged in that day would have been booted (and I have a feeling there would have been more howling and gnashing of teeth)

I hear ya Angel.
Sals and the channels are sort of my sg now, so I can relate to that feeling. I just hope alot of tfs etc gets announced on UTF as well as on Sals and that users know of the predicament.

Best thing I could do on short notice.
In hindsight we should have done that before the server list merge, but I doubt many of us knew... or would have guessed.

Now I hope UTF gets used like crazy as well, to keep all players busy, part of our community and in the fun!

Did not think that would happen, but according from what we know the channel met its cap with the new influx of players
and
not done a purge of names since ... apperantly ever.

So to spread the word. If you use Sals badgehunters and know people who do, make certain you are logged in during the next 14 days.
Every player that is not logged in will be purged from the list and will have to manually /chan_join
the channel again.

Now for those without access to Sals, stay in there people just for 14 days. We will try to be more active as well on Union Taskforce so you should hopefully not be missing out on stuff.
Then when 14 days are up rejoin our channel

Wishing you all fun.
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Chan_tim...ash_Command%29
was the command used.