Master-Blade

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Lol MB, I should have added 'yet'!

/sticks large 'NB: Dont whine' note to monitor.



Eco

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Fixed.

Extra credit: Where does the abbrev. "NB" come from? Don't google it, I want to see if anyone knows this. :P

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So how long did the first ITF run go? Just curious.

Luna

[/ QUOTE ] The Heroic ITF was 50 minutes and some change. Then a few of us stayed around to clear most of the map.

It didn't quite go as fast because we did have a couple lowBs, and a few people stayed at the entrance taking out ambushes instead of sticking with the team. I don't blame them, the team was mostly squishies. It was also a couple people's first time trying to run it that way, so that made it a little harder to manage as well. Technically, we didn't have enough strong melee toons to do it the way we attempted to... but we still pulled it off...

Whenever we were all together, we were really kicking butt though! 50 minutes is still a great time (considering some PuGs still end up with 90 minutes these days). Nice job everybody! If you want to do a "regular" run sometime (with a non-crazy kitty), I'm certainly willing any time. You know where to find me.


MK's Invincible ITF was 52 minutes and some change. Again, a few of us stayed to kill some more.
I think the difference here is that the team was made up of several melee toons who can take a beating, and everybody was taking part in pulling foes and plowing through the higher level with ease. We decided to just bulldoze straight through the whole way. Fun times as always.

And WTH! I didn't get one good recipe drop the entire night! Somehow I ended up with ONE lonely [Brilliant Leadership: Accuracy.20] but that was it! I'm wondering if somebody dropped it on me as a joke? lol

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Don't suppose you've gone into the power and display settings in the control panel and turned off the sleep, hibernate, and screen saver... Surely you have, I'm sorry, I'm silly for even asking, I know.

There's nothing, really, in that log that indicates what the issue is, beyond the fact that it's an HP, and therefore there *may* be another software running in the background or a bios setting that could be doing it. HP is some weird re: power stuff.

Post up a Hijack this, and maybe we can figure it out with that.

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If you want to cancel your game subscription over something that is the fault of your own computer's poor programming, that's your choice, but I suspect the same thing would happen if you tried to watch a full length movie on it too. Are you going to throw away your DVDs too?

Check your powersaving settings.. disable them as a trial and see if the problem goes away, then adjust the timers/preferences as you see fit.

If the problem persists with the powersaving options disabled, I'd look into it maybe being a heat issue or other problem instead. The game takes more resources and puts a strain on some systems. You'd encounter issues that you wouldn't normally encounter without playing. That doesn't mean the game is broken. Also, because of dust, age, normal wear on the device.. these problems can manifest over time.. so just because it worked fine yesterday, doesn't mean it should work fine today. Electronics eventually run down and fail, but hopefully that's not the case here.

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Given how MCM always asks on Freedom's global channels how he should roll and in which pool for best bang for your buck recipes, I slightly doubt Cavatina's rant was aimed at him specifically.

Or maybe it was a comment you made a million years ago

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No. it was mostly a jab at how one time him and me got into an argument in the MA arc finder channel over how "unfair" the market was.

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dunno what fraction of a million years ago that was, but I have absolutely no memory of said 'argument' lol. As far as I recall, I've always thought that the Market was more tedious than unfair, so I'd put cavs recollection down to a misunderstanding rather than a clash of ideologies.

I whine about farmers and I whine about pvpers ganking mr when I'm badging in wb and I whine about farmers and I whine about not being able to duo TFs and I whine about farmers, but the Market, I don't whine about that lol.

Eco

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The updater was doing that last night also. It appears to be fixed... probably a while ago, but I just now woke up and logging into the forums. haha

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GJ everyone! Thanks for the team!!

[/ QUOTE ] Our pleasure! It wasn't exactly streamlined, but it was still a lot of fun.

After this ITF was over, I joined MK on an Invincible "non-speed" run, and we finished in just about the same time. lol

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And Perez Park is anything but soloable. I find that zone simply pointless.

[/ QUOTE ] It's super-fun on a kheld. Just fly above them and spam AoEs.

That's where I made a fortune on low level magic salvage.. back in the day.

MB's Mendor Silos TF Team:
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1: Phanta-Rad : Ill/Rad Controller
2: Max Shields : Shield/SS Tanker
3: Flu-Shots : Emp/Arch Defender
4: King Sac : NRG/NRG Blaster
5: Super-D : Ice/NRG Blaster
6: Angelic Goth : Elec/Elec Blaster
7: FistV : Kin/Elec Defender


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+ 10 Reward Merits
Finished in 1:02:06
4 deaths.

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Is there anyway to automatically use a specific size on client start?

I don't see any values in the registry or the UI to save the render size.

I'm using a 1280x960 windowed mode and using a 1900x1425 rendersize to oversample the graphics. Id like to make it peristent if there's a way.

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For example:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -screen 1900 1425 -renderscale #.##

but I don't know how well the scaling would work. Only one way to find out.

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Also, you forgot powexecname soul extraction.

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I didn't forget it. I realized that the OP would want to wait to activate it until he actually got in range of the pet

[/ QUOTE ]If it's not in range, it'd simply queue the power... meaning it'd automatically activate once in range, when seemed to be the what the OP wanted (until he realized that the range of the power was long enough that he really wouldn't need the follow most always).

[/ QUOTE ] This. TY.

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I'm not even sure where/if this is mentioned anywhere in game, to be honest. Anybody know?

[/ QUOTE ] Other than the entrances are on the map.. and a possible reference to it in the mission text of the Sewer Trial.. I am not sure either.

FYI, the contact images aren't really plain images, they are frozen 3d environments with the contact standing in a blank instance and a camera directed at their head. That's part of why it took older computers so long to load the contact list... having to load so many more 3d environments at the same time.

There are bugs that actually place other items within that instance too.. try viewing it from your SG base for example.

The costume images work the same way, but it'd be impossible for them to have an image for every costume combination... so that's not likely to change. lol

I agree, if they stopped messing with how they worked, or converted the contact pictures to plain images, it'd be a lot more consistent.

Bonuses work off your base value, not the value you have with other powers.

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lvl 50 wp/ss tank Gen. Gintoki.
lvl 50 fire/kin troller Kuchiki Rukia. (still squishy)

what ever one we need more i will bring.

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Since we have a tank (who is fantastic at this TF) and a brute already, how about you bring the Fire/Kin? I'll try my best to keep you alive, but I'll be a lowbie, so it might be a bit rough.

Luna

[/ QUOTE ] Actually, I'd be totally willing to step aside to let Gintoki Tank. He used to be with me every night on my multiple ITF runs, and apparently Tabby inspired him to make a tank in the first place. I've seen him do well so far, and I'd like to see how he handles the ITF.

Either way.. doesn't make a difference to me. We're kinda hijacking Whitefox's TF at this point anyway. I'll go with whatever everybody wants. haha

[i]And ty for the compliment. I'll add my standard disclaimer that Tabby turns into a crazy-kitty on the ITF and it does not necessarily reflect my normal tanking style. lol[i]

Because there isn't a defeat badge for it, it's a gladiator badge.
Gladiator badges do not have progress bars.
You'll have to just keep killing until you get it.

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Soon™

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Fix'd!

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Double Fixed.

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I stand in awe of your superscript abilities.

[/ QUOTE ] It's not really superscript, it's an actual character... alt+0153
(or you can copy/paste the one at the bottom of the forum page. lol)

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What gets me is that Aett_Thorn didn't make even a single one of the responding posts.

[/ QUOTE ]I was watching Hulu for 6 hours. Presumably Aett has a similar excuse.

[/ QUOTE ] It appears Aett doesn't post during the weekends at all.

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Rikti drones


http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/o...0-01-41-39.jpg

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TIME OUT!!!!

Alt...Joe...dude!!!! Your confusing me! LOL!!! Everytime I come to the boards you have a new name, and I get all confuse-ed and stuffzzz! (Which probably isn't a hard thing to do but I digress). Hon, pick a name and stick with it. We love you just the way you are.

[/ QUOTE ] I've already thought ahead and decided to just give him a new name of my own and call him Bob from now on. You can join me if you like. lol

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Reminds me of the time I was trying to get cheat codes to work on Unreal Tournament. I typed "Allow-cheats-codes-God-damn" out of frustration. Godmode: On.

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But I think that was just to enable cheat codesin general.
Then you had to use "I-don't-want-to-die" for God Mode.

(I really have no idea. That information came from Google. lol)

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Having more than 1 realtime AV is a bad recommendation IMHO.

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It may be beneficial to have more than one program that you can use to manually scan your drive with on occasion, but having two programs actively running simultaneously trying to protect your system usually ends up with one of them detecting the other as a problem and/or disabling an action the other program is trying to take to protect you.

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Installing a second client is wasteful and messy... unless you need it to run the EU client... and even that uses the same files too. lol

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The only reason to have two installations of the client is if you want to have the current version of the game and the test server version.

[/ QUOTE ] Bah.. I forgot the Test client as well. Points to you. lol

I know that both the US and EU clients use the same files, and you can easily convert versions without having to redownload the full client directory.. but am I right in assuming that both clients can use the same installation directory without having to convert anything other than using the separate EXE files and registry?

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As for the OP's problem, people post this issue every so often and I don't recall there being any consistent solution. I never had a problem running two instances.

[/ QUOTE ] Neither have I. The only consistent solution I've seen is lowering graphic preferences and using the /maxfps and /maxinactivefps commands, which the OP claims to have already tried.

Hopefully there is something in the CoH_Helper and HiJackThis reports that will point us in the right direction.

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I'm holding out for the "going teal" expansion.

[/ QUOTE ] Teal Tabby, FTW (see avatar)

Btw, I already went Rogue a long time ago too.. Robin Rogue

lol

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Some arcs give an unusually large completion bonus. Also, were you playing a hero or a villain? Some villain arcs are considered "mini-arcs" despite their length, and give a smaller, if any, completion bonus.

[/ QUOTE ] I had not thought about the difference between mini-arcs and Major-Arcs. That could indeed be the difference right there.

OP: Do you remember the exact arcs you ran so we can check?

Because of base changes, I find that many people are creating their own SGs these days and enjoy using their creativity to build a place of their own. It seems most people meet friends and regular groups off global channels and joining events in this forum instead.

I am not trying to discourage you, and I hope you find an SG that meets your needs.. There are still a few great active groups out there. I just wanted to give you other options.

I'd invite you to my SG and VG.. the bases have everything you'd ever need.. We have more prestige than we'd ever need, so we don't even use SG mode anymore. You are free to do anything you like. The only downside is.. we aren't active anymore either. A couple of us are on every day, but that's about it. lol

If you decide to make your own place, you can certainly coalition with me and use my teleporters while you get started.

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Were you Solo both times?

If not, were you inside the mission when the last one was completed?

Were you on the same difficulty scale for both of them? (Heroic.. Invincible)

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Yes I solo both times, difficulty was the same, and I was not inside the mission.

[/ QUOTE ] If you were solo, how were you not inside the missions? Did you "Drop Mission" at all?

Or did you mean the arc was completed upon talking to the contact (which wouldn't happen while inside)?
If so, was the first arc the same circumstance?