Master-Blade

Was this fairly recently as well? I'm wondering if that's part of the current geometry bug as well.

Since we now have 2 separate unrelated objects losing transparency, I'm willing to bet it wasn't intentional.

Since you use photobucket, here's an easy thing to do:

The url you posted, simply use as a hyperlink, but also include it within IMG tags. Then, put a "th_" prefix before filename. That will give you a little thumbnail to click on and link to the main image. Luna's way is good too, but her way basically links to the album page for that picture instead of just the image itself. I guess it's just a matter of preference whichever way you want to do it.

Example:
[url=http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz139/Roxona1/Citadel.jpg]
[img]http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz139/Roxona1/th_Citadel.jpg[/img]
[/url]

Will display like this:



On a side note, URL images will always fail for people who have forum images turned off. They will only be linked to the thumbnail image. For people with images turned off, the above code would only display this:
http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/z...th_Citadel.jpg
..so it's good to also include text in your link as well, so those people still have a link to the larger picture (like I did in my sig).

Example2:
[url=http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz139/Roxona1/Citadel.jpg]
[img]http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz139/Roxona1/th_Citadel.jpg[/img]
Roxana's Citadel TF Team 8/24/2009
[/url]

Will display like this:

Roxana's Citadel TF Team 8/24/2009


And for people with images turned off, they will still have a link, and it will display like this:
http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/z...th_Citadel.jpg
Roxana's Citadel TF Team 8/24/2009

I hope that makes sense. If not, just use Photobucket's link the way Luna said. lol

PS Luna- Just an FYI.. You might want to add some text in your links as well because even your method is broken for people with images turned off. They just show this:
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...forCitadel.jpg

And now I'm curious if anybody in the Horde, or people who view our threads even have images turned off anyway. lol

But:
- You wont get debt by using the [Self Destruct] power, or being defeated by a player.
- You get less debt by dying in a mission, than you do being outside, with the exception of RWZ.
- You don't get debt during Rikti Invasions either.
- Debt changes from level to level.
- Badge credit is earned by paying it off, not just by dying.
- If you cap your debt, and die again, nothing will record that.

"Using debt as a quantifier" with any kind of accuracy would be harder than simply keeping track of it yourself on a notepad. lol

Not to mention, he added text to the signature below it, which makes it look even bigger, lol

For future reference, here is the EU Server Status page:
http://eu.cityofheroes.com/en/news/server_status/

This is probably why I thought that they went off anyway. I admit I'm not thinking clearly tonight. lol

I only have one stalker, and I don't know how many of these I even did with her. Everybody else I have used pretty much sets them off anyway (I haven't tried with Ill's Superior Invisibility).

On a side note, they are easy to avoid anyway. Even while clicking, you can usually just hug the wall against the "glowy" to stay off the alarm's path.

Hurricane works very well, as long as you are careful not to knock the Repairmen back into previously downed towers. The Repairmen will reconstruct the towers if you don't keep track of them and kill them in time.

Well I just went back and checked.. and somebody will probably kill me for the versions I'm about to report, but it's not a computer I ever use at all, so there isn't any real reason to keep it updated.

I pretty much use it to play web videos on my TV. Missed television episodes that I didn't DVR actually look great fullscreen on a 42" monitor. Sometimes I forget I'm even watching from the computer and grab the remote instead of the mouse. lol. I also use it to entertain cousins/nieces/nephews that come into town, by giving them flash games or something to mess with online. The wireless keyboard/mouse come in handy for that. lol

Also, I will note that this computer and the settings below were last used from before I even registered for this forum, and before I would have taken the ATI sticky under advisement, so they might not have actually been ideal anyway.

The old system's CoH_Helper:
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.8---

DxDiag gathered at August 24, 2009 00:01 (-04:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
System Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model: VT8367-8235
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
Memory: 1536MB
.Net Memory Report: 1202MB out of 1535MB available
Page File: 3244MB (191MB currently in use)
C Drive: (SAMSUNG SV3063H) 18023MB out of 29188MB (61%) free
D Drive: (CREATIVE CD-RW RW8439E) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.2180 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Default Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: VisionTek Radeon X1300
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter AGP (0x7146)
Video Memory: 512.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6599
Driver Date: 1/24/2006 11:52:48 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Vinyl AC'97 Audio (WAVE)
Driver File: vinyl97.sys
Driver Version: 6.14.0001.4170
Driver Date: 8/10/2006 6:32:14 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer:
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: VT8367-8235
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Name: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: VIA694 - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20050602000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1280x768
3D Resolution: 1280x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 9768
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: None
Anisotropic Filtering: 2x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Low Quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: Low (with world bumpmaps)

World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.589

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 590351 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 17.20080821.9T4
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

Nothing is set in stone until the release is live. So far, it appears the mission-holder will still be getting credit for thee badges. Also, it may still be possible to sk normally while street-fighting.

On a side note, it's so weird seeing people refer to me by my global now. I'm still used to "Mateo" from my previous forum handle: Mateo_06, or "MB" as my global nickname. I keep forgetting it's changed. lol

The ghosts have a form of Invisibility, and their powers have a -ACC, but I don't think they have any sort of +perception.

The alarms in side missions are not really foes you can defeat or hide from. That's more of a positional detection mechanic which triggers an event (ambush). Just like any other positional mechanic (some boss cutscenes like Rom in ITF), they will trigger based on your position, regardless of your current state. Being invisible or phased will not prevent them from triggering. Phase might work on the alarms by design, but I'd have to test to be sure.

Using the Temp Power: Power Analyzer mk III, I found Rikti drones to still have the standard 45ft radius. It's possible they simply ignore your stealth completely and simply see you anytime you come within that 45ft distance anyway. I am not sure anybody has found a way to make them 100% ignore you.

Other "+perception foes" that come to mind would be the Overseers (the giant eyeballs from the Shadow Shard). I'm pretty sure many others can have increased perception to some degree, but they wont completely ignore your stealth like these would.

Sorry. I should have said "standard" meaning a 4:3 ratio. Obviously there are several other resolutions that are native to different monitors, but CoH standard is 1024x768, which is also a 4:3 ratio. I was just making sure this ratio was used by others who have tested because it's the only one I was referring to.

I just got done testing on my old system. It took a while to load (haha), and of course using fullscreen mode on the widesceen tv had the issue, but using 1024x768 in windowed mode didn't at all. I also tested 800x600 (which is also an exact 4:3 ratio) and had no issues with that either.

I don't know how to explain my different results, but for comparison.. it has an old VisionTek Radeon x1300. Maybe I have some other hidden tweak that I haven't found yet, but anyway.. point is... YMMV.

^ no. Our system works differently than WoW, so they are not even comparable. A level cap is just a number. It doesn't mean anything. Technically, CoH could easily be converted to a Level 500 cap (using each "bub" as it's own level), but it doesn't mean anything in the game would actually change or be better because of an UBER-Cap. lol

This ^

IIRC, that was part of the GR survey. It was an idea to give us 10 "global" enhancement slots that would "essentially make a character lvl 60", actually raising the cap.

Not sure if they are implementing it or not. Seeing how power customization was also part of the GR survey, but we are seeing it in i16 instead... you never know what's going to happen.

Also, any pets can also kill the repairmen before they are targetable by us. I've run this several times since i15 (when the AI change hit), and in all honestly, I've only had an issue twice. The first time was the night of release when this was discovered and reported by our scheduled 3-team STF. The only other time was weeks later while trying to do an all-defender STF where we just couldn't get past the healing (or hold LR long enough to get the tower halfway). They were not a problem in any other attempts, including 2 successful MoSTF runs.

To avoid LR using his -end attack, DO NOT ATTACK him. Simply using Taunt should be enough to hold him by your side, and the less you actually attack him, the less he will attack you.

There are usually a few teams, each in a different level range, all doing their own thing. We usually figure it out once everybody is there. Just bring your favorite tank and an idea. lol

This was the first villain I ever made. I pretty much stopped using him 3 years ago. I will be sure to sign up for "How to use the dark side.." lessons if Luna is giving them! rofl

The type of monitor you have shouldn't matter. It was the resolution difference between the game window and the unchanged fullscreen enhancement window. If you are using a resolution with the same resolution as that screen, you should not have the issue. 12x10 is not standard rez = you will have this issue.

I currently use NVidia, and don't have this issue, but my old system had ATI and did. I ran the game fine for a while until I upgraded to a widescreen monitor (and therefore changed to a widescreen resolution), and suddenly had this issue.

There were no other changes to the system other than the resolution change. Before changing the resolution, the cursor did not have an issue (but the screen was stretched on fullscreen mode). While using Multiple instances in Windowed mode (and scaled correctly), it worked fine as well.

That system was lowest of the low (which is why I finally built a complete new one) and it was still able to be worked around. Unless there is a different reason causing it on the newer cards, it should still behave the same way. I still have the old system if anybody wants specifics later, but I don't have a new ATI system to run similar tests with. I'll have to just have to believe that nobody else can get the same results I did.

I suppose YMMV.