Lightbender

Copying the piggs folder helped loads.

Kinda funny: I ran the installer as normal, and it said it was only going to take 30 minutes. It really only took about 20, and I was like, "holy crud, that was fast!" I completely forgot about the "quick launch" thing that only installs the character creator initially.

Once that was in place, copying the piggs over was a snap. Thanks everyone.

Setting up COH on my laptop. I would imagine there are a number of files I could copy from my main machine to make downloading the client much quicker. Can anyone give some pointers or a link to a thread discussing this?

I thought I read somewhere that the the VIP Tier 9 Reward options where going to be changing from time to time. As in, the 3 Celestial costume options would eventually go away, and we'd get some other "VIP Only" item for Tier 9 for a limited time. Now I'm wondering where I got that from. I don't have the game in front of me (at my job they frown on that for some reason). Perhaps it's in the description in game on the VIP Tier 9 level?

Bonus question: How does the UI handle displaying that you chose a "repeatable" Tier 9 reward? If I dropped 2 tokens into the Enhancement Booters choice, does it have a little "2" in that spot or something, so you know where your tokens went?

This patch was to patch the incorrect patch notes from this morning's patch.

So this was a fake patch? I smell Nemesis.... Real fake Nemesis.

Awe man, from the topic I thought we were getting new Incarnate Lore pets! I was interested in what the "Shivan Buffer/Healer" would be like.

I recall that there were a bunch of summoning powers (which, if I recall correctly, LR technically is) that don't work off the ground. LR was the only one to get a "retro-fitted" explanation as to why it doesn't work. Apparently, it made more sense to someone that a lightning bolt jump from the ground to a another point on the ground (or terminating and exploding in mid-air, as you pointed out) than have it strike between a point in the air (like a cloud or a supercharged character) and devastating a point on the ground. They also didn't bother explaining all those other lightning-based powers that worked just fine off the ground (like, um, Lightning Bolt, heh).

Anywho, unfortunately that horse rotted long ago I think. Just curious if they fixed all these powers as, I recall, they fixed shield charge. It would be nice for those of us who like to use our powers without random restrictions.

After a particularly grueling project at work, I'm finally getting some free time occasionally to do some gaming after about a year of being away. I'm curious of the status of two bugs (or "bug-like" issues, depending on the viewpoint I guess) that was affecting my two favorite chars:

- Contagious Confusion proc was occasionally causing allied pets and NPC to become confused.
- Some powers just didn't work if you were off the ground (even if you happened to try to activate them while stepping off a 6 inch curb or running up to an enemy in a rocky cave or the rough floor of a crumbling building). For me, Lightning Rod was the most annoying of these, being a tier 9 power. Has this been looked into, at least to prevent the "you're 1/4inch off the ground for a 10th of a second, so your powers suddenly don't work" issue?

Really looking forward to blowing off some steam. Too many long weeks over the last year.

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I believe it should be as well - I know I just saw it, reasonably sure it was a lvl 17-18 character.

Edit: Nope, unobtainable via ouro according to the wiki.

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Jeez, I saw that page like 10 times and everytime I read it as "obtainable". Thanks for clearing that up for me.

I thought the Gold Bricker rocketpack could be aquired in the flashback missions. I'm looking at the 15-19 range (and the others), but I don't see it. I ran thru Marshal Brass's missions, just in case, but still didn't get it. Any ideas on this?

Yes, they are apparently too busy making new stuff to fix the existing stuff. Of course, if something in the new stuff doesn't work right, they'll pile more "new stuff" on that too, hoping that no one notices....

There are plenty of bugs here and there (So DARN many powers that don't work while hoving....GRRRRR....), and the longer you play and the more you try to play with unique builds the more you run into them. I bugged this one pretty much every time I played my Dom. Since there was absolutely 0 feedback on this obvious BUG, I've mothballed my Dom. It's just another dead character I chalked up to a dev-ignored bug.

Edit: Heh, I just realized I had a post with the exact same title about 2 months ago.

I am not a bum! I'm a jerk.

Hi, my name is Saul...

Ouch! What's with that light?

Hi, my name is Paul. Saul? Never heard of him. Mean guy, I've been told.

Hello. My name is Joe. And I work... in... a button factory.

"I am the god of hell fire, and I bring you..."

(Now THAT should show some age!)

I'm filled with tinier men!!!!

The OP is on the right track to increasing the chances of costume drops, but is misleading many people by his or her phenominal luck. For example, I can tell people that Blackjack is the best odds at a casino and that I made $10,000 in just one hour. While it might be true that it has the best odds and I may have made that much in one hour, it does not guarentee that someone will make anything even after ten hours of playing. It's luck.

The key to costume drops is simple: kill things over lv 10 that get you experience. Doing that faster will increase your chances to get a drop in a shorter period of time. Street sweeping, missions, whatever your character can handle and you don't get bored with. Killing things that are closer to lv10 can give you a better chance to get a costume piece when a recipe is dropped because the pool is smaller.

Personally, I've had 1 costume drop in CoV. I had a "street sweeping" character go from level 17 to 20 while in perma-debt killing god-knows-how-many grey and green ludites in the hills behind the university over days of slaughter and never got a single piece. I ended up getting the costume on a new "throw away" character that was simply doing missions within about an hour of going over lv 10.

In short: it's still random. Don't tell people it will get them a costume piece "in two hours" or they will get "tons of drops" when it's simply not true. Unless they are also unbelievably lucky, too.