Leandro

Most likely, I'd round up every programmer and other able person in the forums who's interested in making a server emulator for the game. It'd probably take months just to boot into a city zone with no NPCs, but eventually we'd get it working. And thanks to the AE, there'll never be shortage of new story arcs in the City.

I've been having this problem for a while now: sometimes, when I enter a door that leads to someplace else in the mission map, my character never comes out of the other side. For example, in Tin Mage's TF you enter the Vanguard conference room map, and have to click a door to go to the map proper. Some times, I don't come out of the other side; instead, my screen stays black. This happened again today during the Silver Mantis' TF, in the final mission: I entered the door in the cargo ship, but never came out of the other side.

This never happens if people port me to the new location, only when I go through the door. And a weird side effect is that my movement keys still control the camera: people see my character standing at the door as if he'd made it through, but they can't even use Recall Friend to unstuck him. The slash commands /stuck and /sync also do nothing. When I say I can still control the camera, I mean that I can move around and still see what's going on, but the camera is not attached to my character: I can even go outside the geometry.

It's a weird state that maybe I should record with Fraps next time it happens, because it's difficult to explain how badly the client breaks when that happens.

By chance, I was running the game with the console up today (my loading times have been awful and I wanted to check the reported times), and at the moment I entered the door, the console spit these:

BasePower not found: <0.2.6>
NOTE: this is likely due to a data mismatch between the client and the server.

BasePower not found: <1.4.0>
NOTE: this is likely due to a data mismatch between the client and the server.

I am pretty certain that all my data files are perfectly fine, however. I used the 'Verify All Files' option and it found nothing, and I also ran a MD5 sum and compared it to my laptop's COH installation, which updates separately; they match. So something else is causing this to happen, only sometimes, only when going through mission doors.

I know, this is a rather vague report, but it's all I got. I first noticed this problem when doing the Tin Mage TF when it was first released, so it might be something that broke in Issue 19. Incidentally, this is also when my zoning time got really slow.

Did you just do an Ouroboros mission at low level? Mission that award TOs or DOs as part of the mission completion still give you those at your current level. You can get a level 50 TO easily.

I have had him survive the whole thing before. I really wonder what's the point of having him there.

I proudly just have three characters, and one of them is just waiting for another freespec so I can remove his expensive IOs before deleting him.

Illusion Control is my addiction. I try to enjoy other characters, I really do, but I always end up thinking that my ill/emp is better for any given situation.

Do you know of any OpenGL issues with these drivers on the Radeon 5770? I randomly have texture issues with the card in COH, and only in COH. By 'texture issues' I mean the game will start displaying random textures in places where they don't belong, such as displaying the Vanguard logo in trees, for example. NT6 x64.

Something that I've been thinking about for a while is, why not allow players to buy a piece of salvage that can be traded for game time? You pay $15, you get a "Paragon City Rent Card" salvage which when traded to an NPC, adds 30 days to your account. Make those tradable, and then people who like to organize events can have those as prizes, or have an easy way to keep friends playing. It would mean more money for NCsoft. EVE Online already has something like this.

Sure, if they are freely tradable, they would be exchanged for influence, too. I expect then to hit the 2 billion influence cap in the market and stay there (and even if you could split them into four one-week salvage pieces, they would still hit the 2 billion influence cap and stay there). I don't see this being bad, necessarily: for one, the influence is not being created out of thin air, it already exists in the game; second, it would seriously undermine RMTers, and give that money to NCsoft instead; third, the fees for selling those in the market would result in a lot of influence being drained. It would effectively be an influence sink, and give NCsoft more money to boot (because some people would be buying them just to trade for influence).

With the conversion for Notice of the Well costing 100 million inf, you can expect a lot of people to seriously consider RMT in order to afford all the incarnate abilities. This would give them a legit way to get inf without encouraging RMT.

Also, this would allow some form of free to play; some people would buy the salvage pieces just to exchange them for influence, and others would give that influence to avoid paying for the month. From NCsoft perspective, however, everybody's account is still being paid by $15 a month, though now the $15 don't necessarily come from the account's owner.

One problem would be people who use a fraudulent card to buy those or reverts the payment in PayPal. A way to deal with that would be to make the salvage untradable until it passes a certain window of time; if you buy it with a credit card, you can only apply it to your own account until a week passes and the transaction was fully verified; if you bought with PayPal, you can't trade it until whatever period PayPal has to revert transfers; if you apply a game time card, though, since you paid for it elsewhere, it would be tradable right away.

Thoughts?

Character: Doctor Leo [Illusion/Empathy Controller]
Actor: Michael J. Fox (completely cured from Parkinson thanks to advances in medicine)

Story: Befriending a crazy scientist in town always leads to something interesting, especially when that scientist (played by Christopher Lloyd) creates the Illusion interface, which projects all sorts of things that are not there. In order to make the illusions completely realistic, it releases all sorts of chemicals towards their targets which makes them feel that the illusions actually hurt, or heal. Crey Corporation takes an interest in the technology by claiming it would be of use in the medicinal field, but Christopher is suspicious of them and refuses to sell -- at which point they kidnap him and trash his lab. Now, it's up to Michael, who has the only working prototype of the technology, to rescue Christopher before Crey can use the Illusion interface to manipulate the thoughts of the entire world... if he can only figure out how all of it works.

Can you post the raw data? Google Docs spreadsheet link, maybe?

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Well, what I would do at this point is transplant the missing DLL from another XP system. Unfortunately my OS is in Spanish, so my copy would be no good for you.

Here's a different screenshot, at a smaller window scale (1.2):