Master-Blade

Just to update, here is my new one for July:

July 2009 CoV Calendar

(By the way, the resolution of my calendars are all 1280x960, which is intended to fit a standard sheet of paper when printed out. As a desktop display, I recommend using the "Position: Center" option, and using dark red or dark blue as the background desktop color. This prevents any stretching or distortion, and gives it a nice "framed" appearance.)

I haven't noticed anything like this at all.. except for also during the ITF where the 4(?) ambushes on the back hill appear almost at the same time.

Lately, we decide to go up there ahead of time and combined with the mob that starts there, we have a heck of a good time. lol

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This is my second account, my wife took over my original after I got her into the game.....

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Dude. You are MARRIED! You should know how things work in a marriage.

What's her's is her's, and what's your's is her's.



[/ QUOTE ] Technically, according to the rules, accounts can not be shared or transferred, which means you should be able to take the account back from your wife at any time. haha

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If there is a mob guarding a glowie.. don't worry.. You only have to be within LoS in order to click it. You don't even have to be close to it at all. Then like Father said, it's only a matter of getting everybody to click at the same time.

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Actually you just need proximity, not even line of sight. In the Virgil Tarikoss Strike Force (Cap au Diable), which uses the same map, I've used fly to get at Glowies that were almost surrounded by mobs. There's one where the Glowie is at the edge of a cliff reaching back over lava at the end of one of the tunnels. I just go to the end of the tunnel in Stealth, float under the edge of the cliff, and click the glowie while they can't see me.

[/ QUOTE ] Well.. ok.. you got me there.. it's not really LoS to your character.. just LoS to your "camera", so you'll be able to actually click it.

As for proximity.. I haven't found any distance that it doesn't work at. You have me curious about it now though. I think I'll try to measure it one of these days and find out.

Well I obviously didn't make it tonight. Sorry

I've got inventory at work in just a few hours from now. I was hoping to have things ready, but it's been a busy week, so there wasn't much time to make preparations and I had to stay very late tonight. I got home right around the time everybody was finishing up with the arc tonight. I probably wont even sleep more than an hour or two tonight and end up crashing tomorrow afternoon. haha

Besides the non-GW patrons, this Cimerora arc is one of the only arcs in the game that I have not yet run. I haven't done the Hero version either.

Well I hope you all had fun, and I'll see you for the MoLRSF on Saturday, and the STF on Monday.

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Can't multiple KB attacks landing at once add together for a higher mag KB?

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, but they'd have to hit in the sam server tick, which is extremely unlikely.

With only one KB IO, you'll still get knocked around a bit, but it will be an uncommon occurrence. For regular enemies, I think it's limited to basically Fake Nemesis (who will also hit through the mag 8 of two IOs), and Storm Summoning Longbow bosses, which I think will stop with 2. (Note that while Storm Longbow can knock you over with Gale, Air Thorn Casters can't... they've got a weaker version of Gale)

Of course, there's also custom critters, I think a few AV/GMs, and Rikti Dropships. (Of course, Rikti Dropships can knock you around even if you've got strong mez protection)

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Out of curiosity..what's the magnitude of the KB caused by a Rikti Mothership bomb exploding?

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Thanks to all for your replies. I believe I understand our missing General. We probably missed the Minotaur/Cyclops accompanying that General. We'll be better next time! Thanks again.

[/ QUOTE ] Just so you know how many.. there are 8 of them accompanying that General... and all 8 have to be defeated as well as the General himself. The remaining generals can all be soloed for credit.

<Spoiler Warning!!>

The 5 Generals are always in the same places. The objective can be a little misleading though... One of them is surrounded by Cyclops/Minataur EBs, and all those EBs must also be defeated before the objective counts. If the EB runs away somewhere, you'll have to look for him and kill him.

Also, the 5th general is actually not a "General" at all, but the Requim AV at the end of the mission. That confuses most people on their first time through as well.


As for the ally at lvl 45.. I don't really have an answer for that other than I've seen many strange things happen on "lowB" TFs as well.

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I would actually put more money on accounts which have been purchaced, *not being played* any more. The kind of love-em and leave-em attitude which would spur anyone to buy an already-existing account would also lend itself to abandoning it once it's boring.

[/ QUOTE ] Well if they sold it while they were still playing it, it wouldn't make any sense.. lol

[/ QUOTE ]He meant that the person that bought it stopped playing it, not the original owner.

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I feel the need to point out something else too.. besides the fact that selling an account is against the rules.

A friend of mine (definitely not me if that's what you are thinking) bought 2 accounts a while back. Probably about a year later, the original owner decided she wanted to play again. My friend got the e-mails alerting her to the fact that she was trying to log in or change the password by attempting to answer the security questions. My friend obviously changed all the info after the bought the account, so she couldn't get in... so the original owner actually called support and proved she was the original owner and claimed her account was hacked or stolen, or whatever.. and got her password reset.. basically stealing the account back.

Since I had the account on global, I briefly called her out on stealing the account back when I saw her come on. She said it was her account and she didn't have the right to sell it anyway, so she had every right to take it back. So i called her out on ebay fraud and said he should at least give the money back to my friend... but since the transaction was over a year old, and there was no "tangible property" exchanged.. ebay doesn't guarantee it anyway.. so my friend was still screwed no matter which way you looked at it.

I told my friend... "That's what you get for trying to cheat the system".. but it sucks she was out like $200 or whatever she originally paid for it. lol

As payback.. she logged onto the second account and did a respec to sell all the enhancements, did "random" costume changes, then took the money off all the characters.. then deleted them all before that account was stolen back too.

Even if the original owner petitioned to get the characters restored, they will probably have stupid costumes, a horrible build, and no enhancements. lol


The point to my story... my friend wasn't even really using those accounts at the time anymore anyway, proving Zekiran_Immortal's point.. and actually.. my friend stopped playing a long time ago as well... proving the point even further. lol

A quick search turned up:
AE Farm
AE Farmaholics
AE FARMERS
AE Farmers United
AE Farming
AE Farming Leviling
CoV Freedom Farms
Fast Freedom Farms
Freedom Farm
Freedom Farmers
Freedom FarmFranchis
Freedom Farming
Freedom Farms

Most of them with no more than 10 members online, or more than 30 members total.

I'm not a farmer of any kind.. but i wish you luck on your new channel.

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I would actually put more money on accounts which have been purchaced, *not being played* any more. The kind of love-em and leave-em attitude which would spur anyone to buy an already-existing account would also lend itself to abandoning it once it's boring.

[/ QUOTE ] Well if they sold it while they were still playing it, it wouldn't make any sense.. lol

I've been doing random runs of this trial on Freedom every once in a while. I've got it down to only about 6 or 7 minutes.. but I admit the average is closer to 9. That's usually when I run into the problem Father described above. haha

Quick Walkthrough: <Extreme spoiler warning!>
Get somebody with Stealth/SS/TP and have them rush to the mission door and TP the rest of the team.

Go inside the mission and the same person goes down each of the 8 trails, TPing the next team member to a glowie. (If there are 2 people who can TP, you only need to go down the left 4 tunnels while the other person takes the right side).

If there is a mob guarding a glowie.. don't worry.. You only have to be within LoS in order to click it. You don't even have to be close to it at all. Then like Father said, it's only a matter of getting everybody to click at the same time.

Then.. rush to the main door you just unlocked and skip right past the boss and TP the team there to save "Sam".

"TF complete" in 6 minutes with only 3 total kills. lol

Then feel free to take down the Boss, then possibly go after the Magma Lords in the main room for the badge. Total time after killing the Bosses.. maybe 20 minutes tops.

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ill bet a good percentage of the people with long term vet rewards are not even the original account owners... how does that make you feel now :0

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I call BS on this one.

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I think that if there was a way to find out, we'd be surprised by the high number of accounts that have been sold.. but percentage-wise.. I doubt that number would be very high at all.

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Slash command:
/Toggle Pet

No need to muck about with the options with that .

[/ QUOTE ] Sorry.. I have to point out that the option must still be enabled in order for that toggle bind to work. You can't open a window that doesn't exist.

However, there IS a bind that can enable the option for you first.
/optionset showpets 1

Then you can toggle it any time you want.

Besides a petition, the foe will usually come out on their own if you leave them alone for a minute and break LoS. Go to the next room or area and come back for them after.

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Ahhh...okay so I wasn't imagining things...that ledge DID exist at one point...so the map was tweaked just a bit then.

I'm with you Warp...I very much miss that ledge also :-(

It was the only way to separate LR from the bane spiders.

Emperor, not sure what was holding us back. I guess, at some point, we'll run it again and see what happens.

The tank had the support, would take LR away from the LOS of the towers, however, LR would then self-teleport back to the center only to get taunted a way again...meanwhile, the rest of the team would be working on the red tower and then have the repairmen to deal with...after awhile it more or less became a "round robin" and we kind of sat there trying to figure out why it was we cruised through the entire task force ...completed 3/4 of the last mission....but just could not take Lord Recluse or the towers. In case anyone is wondering what the diffulty setting was set at...it was set to "Heroic".

[/ QUOTE ] LR only "self-teleports" back to the middle when he's pulled beyond that big statue of himself. If you find somewhere closer to pull him to, you wouldn't have a problem. Most people just use the Doorway and it works just fine. Then you dont' have to worry about Flier agro when it respawns either.

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Wow. So now you literally need help to be able to use the help channel.

Great one, devs. :P

[/ QUOTE ] LoL yep.. Some people have made practice of randomly saying "use /hc to type in this channel" once in a while to let people know how to use it. It usually livens an otherwise dead channel. lol

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The larger problem is that you can't be recalled while resting.

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The way around this is to use Break Frees to negate the immoblize effect from resting. I think someone said it takes 10 of them. That will allow you to walk around while 'resting'.

[/ QUOTE ] Yes.. Rest is also -100mag Immob. All you have to do is exceed mag100 protection, and you'll be able to move again.

Powers like Integration.. and set bonuses will help you get well over mag10 by themselves, and you'll have to use BFs to take care of the rest. You can even achieve it easily with a stacked CM or equivalent buff.

Yes, 10 small BFs (mag10 each) will add up to exactly 100 mag protection and allow you to move... but keep in mind they only last 30 seconds.

Emerge (medium BFs) are mag15. Only 7 of those would be needed (or 6 with active powers/bonuses), lasting 60 seconds.

Escape (large BFs) are mag20. Only 5 of those would be needed, lasting 90 seconds.

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Meh. I'd rather be safe than have some patrol mess up the area.

[/ QUOTE ] That's a good point, but I don't see too many Carnie patrols.. at least not on the missions people usually use this method on.

I guess it's good practice either way (if the foes aren't grey).

It's a known issue. I hope it gets fixed too.

In the meantime, we usually just laugh when we see it happen.

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Earlier post was made typed before reading your info on the nvidia firewall.... I had a brainfart and didn't click "conintue". Durrr.

Anyway, I've removed the Nvidia network bit, I'll see how that goes...

[/ QUOTE ] Yeah sorry, I did stealth-edit it in there after a few minutes. You probably hit reply to me before it was added.

Anyway.. please report back to us what you find out. I'm interested to see if it works for CoH like it does with the other network-intensive programs I found the information on. I really hope it does.. then I can save the info in this thread to help other people again later. There might even be a few active threads still here that could use it.

If it doesn't work, a new HiJack report will be helpful. Good Luck!

The help channel command has changed for some reason, and even stranger.. they didn't change the command in the software to match it. That's why using the channel default doesn't work either.

To speak in the help channel, you have to use /hc every time.

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I'll find the latest audio drivers. Cleanup and scan is done pretty much every week, along with spybot S&D. I defrag every couple of weeks too.

Think running drivesweeper and reinstalling the 185.85 drivers will help?

Thanks for the advice.

[/ QUOTE ] I posted a solution that has worked for so many other people with similar crashing problems...

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Remove the NVIDIA Firewall (or the forceware network manager, same thing). It's a very, very broken firewall.

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To do this, it should be un-installable through the add/remove in the control panel. You should see an NVIDIA drivers entry. When clicking on that you might be given a choice of what NVIDIA components to remove, so choose the NAM (Network Access Manager) and after the reboot it should be gone.

It it doesn't let you uninstall the component by itself, or doens't give you the choice, then yes, uninstall the entire driver package, reboot the system, and reinstall it... but make sure you reinstall the drivers WITHOUT the Nvidia Firewall, Network Manager, or anything that sounds like nVidia Network Software.

I hope that works for you. I have not had the issue, nor tried the fix myself. (This information is being re-posted from information I saw on several other message boards, including one on nvidia.com)

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You can then buy additional spaces up to the maximum of 36 per server.
Also, every now and then new character slots are given as part of new updates and the like. These do not add to the 36 space max. but you don't have to pay for them.

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You sure about that? I thought it was 36 regardless of how you got them...

[/ QUOTE ]I think he was just trying to say that if you fill all 36 on a server, and you get another free slot, it doesn't automatically add to the server and increase the max to 37.

To clarify, the frees slots we are given (and even the ones we purchase) are issued per-account, not per-server, and have to be claimed in an empty slot on a single server in order to create a character with it. As mentioned, there are currently only 36 slots per server, and no way to claim a 37th. If one server is full, the free slot(s) would have to be claimed on a different server when needed.

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Bah...wonder what IS going on then...shall check support...

DAMN YOU NAYLOR! *shakes fist*

Ticket is being escalated but apparently there is a heavy volume of tickets going on (not entirely sure what's causing the heave volume of tickets, anyone care to inform me?)

[/ QUOTE ] Probably the Vet rewards issue that still has not been corrected... and/or splitting the workload with i15 issues.