Master-Blade

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next Saturday will be my first ever MoLRSF attempt!

Come join & watch it fail horribly!

[/ QUOTE ] Keeping the first mission organized is key to this. Usually, people run around and do the tasks separately, and can end in disaster early on. lol

I'm sure we can fine tune things once we run it a few more times and see where the weak areas of the SF are. I don't expect the badge the first time either, but it'd be awesome if we did. haha

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I believe all of the SKs leveled during the TF and after finishing off the Unveiler Badge, Marvel (or was it Xort) & I were rewarded with the Freedom Phalanx Reserve Member accolade!

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I've always noticed that Lord Recluse has a pistol on his belt. What's it for? Is it just a normal handgun or does he have something "special" to use it for?

You can see it here in this wallpaper: http://www.cityofheroes.com/images/w...a1600X1200.jpg

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[Lord Recluse.Channelgun]
Ranged, High Damage, Energy, Foe -Endurance, -Recovery

Maybe he uses it when his Crab backpack breaks down? rofl

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Aside from the trolling, you should try to post on the Mac subforum for better response if you think it is a mac specific issue. As far as the mac client is concerned, I have seen a non responsive enter key or inability to chat so far.

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What kinda crazy stuff is that Avatar, Pum?

[/ QUOTE ] Maybe he wants the Male models to have a bigger "package"? lol

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females get a chest slider

males should have a "duffle bag"


boioioioioioioing

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I recently subscribed for City of Heroes paying with a maestro card, and i just recently found out i downloaded the wrong client (i downloaded the american version), however whenever i try to download the european one, the updater just says 'Connecting #1' untill at one point it went to 'Connecting #550', how can i fix this? -.-

[/ QUOTE ] If you are on these forums, you probably have a US account too. If the US client you downloaded allows you to log in, the EU client certainly wont. You'd need a EU account to use the EU client.

(That doesn't really have anything to do with your "Connecting" problem, but I figured it was an important detail to point out.)

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My friend has already decided that he will not be coming back to CoX, he is tired of playing it and actually likes CO. I do appreciate your concern though MB. Either way they will still be happy, because it will probably be next week when she turns hers back on, so either I pay for his or hers they still get two accounts I'm paying for

[/ QUOTE ] "Transferring" is included in that rule too. Just be careful, that's all.

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As for the influence, not worried about it, all of my toons are set where I want them and it's not hard to get it back, I left a million on all of them besides my level 14 since he is for the next wave of Task Forces.

[/ QUOTE ] No problem. I certainly didn't need the money either, but I don't mind holding onto it for ya. Maybe your wife (or a new toon) could use it sometime? Well, whatever you decide.. it's here for you any time.

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Yeah I probably should change all of those names, huh?

[/ QUOTE ] Well.. like you said.. people might not recognize who you are if you change everything all at once.. I'll consider this a transition period. lol

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Aside from the trolling, you should try to post on the Mac subforum for better response if you think it is a mac specific issue. As far as the mac client is concerned, I have seen a non responsive enter key or inability to chat so far.

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What kinda crazy stuff is that Avatar, Pum?

[/ QUOTE ] Maybe he wants the Male models to have a bigger "package"? lol

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my wife will be on our friend's account from now on

[/ QUOTE ] I'm glad you got things switched around so you can continue to join us, but I have to comment on this..

It might not always be a good idea to advertise things like that, because:
10. You may not advertise the intent to or commit the act of buying, selling, trading, sharing, or transferring access to any City of Heroes account. (Don't worry, I wont report ya. lol)

Obviously many people do it anyway, but I'd hate to see you (or your friend) get in trouble for it. Even though they say it's for our own protection, they really just want the money for the extra subscriptions.. otherwise it'd just be a strong suggestion, not a rule that can "result in the permanent termination of an account". lol

By the way, if you want any of your inf back, or need a hand in any way, just let me know. I knew you shouldn't have given everything away.. so silly.

(And you forgot to change your forum name to match your new global... haha)

And Welcome Back Alt.. I mean Joe! See you Monday!

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is there a slash comand to exit a mission

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Not that I know of, but you can click the big blue EXIT button after completing the objectives.

Also, you can actually just type "/e" before the emote, the "m" is optional.

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The "/e" is optional also.

I find it easier just to use ";"

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Since you bring it up...

Am I the only one who's ";" key is coming up as a "/" (slash) when the chat box isn't active? I "/unbind ;" and the default comes up as ; "show chat$$slashchat" when I save out to a bind file. Easy enough to fix, I know (/bind ; "show chat$$beginchat ;"), but just a bit annoying.

[/ QUOTE ] AFAIK, "slashchat" has always been the bind for that key. An old file that I created after i12 (when we were given that option) shows the same thing.

I agree that it doesn't act the same was as it used to though. Maybe the actual function of slashchat wasn't necessarily to start the chat with a slash, but to simply "Start chat (Include Keypress)" (as implied by the keymapping option). The recent keystroke issues must have borked the way that works as well, or they changed that function to accommodate one of the "fixes" for it.

As you mentioned, the bind can easily be fixed/replaced with:
/bind ; "show chat$$beginchat ;"

If you are an alt-a-holic, it might be a good idea to change it in your default keybinds.txt file (along with taking the F-keys out of the file because of another unrelated issue).

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What do the Rikti Dropships count as?

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is there a slash comand to exit a mission

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Not that I know of, but you can click the big blue EXIT button after completing the objectives.

Also, you can actually just type "/e" before the emote, the "m" is optional.

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The "/e" is optional also.

I find it easier just to use ";"

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Stripping a character's badges off when switching sides would defeat the purpose of the alternet names some of the badges have.

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For all we know, we might only be able to earn the badges for our own faction, but we'd have the alternate names once we switch sides.

It may be possible some badges will cross, but certainly not all of them. I'm sure many of them, especially accolades will still be restricted to the specific AT classes.

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I found the old 7.11.13 drivers and installed them. The game now recognizes the card BUT whenever I set it enabled in settings and apply, it just reverts back to being disabled. Kind of like the problem I have with my resolution changes not sticking unless I use tweakCOH, but that has no setting in it for Physx.

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I don't know if this would work or not, but give it a try and let me know:

Add "-aegiaon 1" to your shortcut.

For example:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -aegiaon 1
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"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project coh -aegiaon 1

(I am basing this guess off the registry info, the actual function for this preference might be named something else, or not even available... and I don't have a PhysX card, so I can't even test it myself. If it works, that'd be a hell of a thing! lol) If it doesn't, maybe you could manually change your registry every time, or just have to deal with re-enabling it every time you start your client.

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Haxi2

Don't use the 186.xx drivers. If you did, download the 185.xx drivers, uninstall the 186.xx, run DriverSweeper, and reboot. Cancel any Driver installations that come up, then install the 185.xx drivers instead.

The 186.xx drivers are causing problems for Windows 7 and Vista users. Another user downloaded the 186.xx drivers on XP and had no problems, so XP users should be fine.

The problem that mulletman has is different, especially since he is using the newest drivers for his video card already.

I'd recommend trying to run the game in Safe Mode to see if that will let you into the game. If it does, go into the Menu > Options and on the Video tab set it to run in Windowed mode.

If you can't get there using Safe Mode, download Tweak CoH and use it to set the graphics settings before loading the game. You should be able to set it for Windowed mode from there.

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Repectfully, one problem with the above....CoH/CoV is the only program that these drivers are causing problems with under Vista. Haxi2 has about a dozen other games (including other MMO's) which are not having ANY problems with the new Nvidia drivers. This is a CoH problem and not a Vista an Nvidia problem.

Frankly, I would not have advised anyone to download the new drivers since they are so new. This usually happens when new drivers are released. I doubt NCsoft has had a chance to see what the problems are that they have to address yet. Hopefully, they will release an update soon that will fix this issue. Haxi2 will not be rolling back his drivers for only one piece of software that does not play nice. If NCsoft refuses to fix the issues from their end then he will be cancelling his subscription as will I.

[/ QUOTE ] That's a very silly thing to say considering you can easily get it to work just fine by rolling your driver back with little effort and little to no loss of performance in the other games.

You admit that glitches in drivers happen from time to time. It's no big deal. The next version usually straightens things out. Case in point.. the NVidia 177.79 that can completely screw up this game as well. CoX didn't do anything to fix that problem either. We just wait for the next driver to release, and in the meantime, we just roll back to the previous driver.

Sure, CoX may have it's issues, but for all we know, it may require reprogramming the whole client just to get it to work correctly when these driver issues happen. CoX doesn't even support the use of Windows Vista or Windows 7 ... and this is probably why. Don't expect there to be a fix from CoX on this one... at least not until they officially support your operating system. If you want to cancel your accounts over it.. that's your own business... but I would hope you don't do it over something as silly as this... especially since the driver in question is only a few days old at this point. Like you said, anybody obligated to fix it wouldn't even have a chance to do so by now (which doesn't include NCsoft anyway), so implying that NCsoft (or anybody else) would "refuse to fix the issue" is premature at this point.

Easier thing to do.. use the drivers that make everything work, and stick with them... read feedback on new drivers before you upgrade next time, or be willing to roll back when things don't go your way.

MB's Sara Moore TF Team:
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1: Midnight Meow : NRG/NRG Blaster
2: Seigi no Akuma : Spine/Dark Scrapper
3: Unsere : Fire/Shield Scrapper
4: Blackest Light : WS
5: Sub-station : Fire/Elec Blaster
6: General Gintoki : WP/SS Tanker
7: Paragon's Wrath : Plant/Rad Controller
8: Ven Infinity : Dark/Dark Scrapper


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+ 63 Reward Merits
+ Destroyer of Strength Badge
Finished in 2:17:41
56 deaths.

Well it looks like we didn't need the defender after all. With our damage, we just steamrolled over everything... but we certainly still had deaths. lol

Nice job everybody.. great times as always! See you Monday night for LGTF!

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Vista 32
8800 GTX
PhysX card

Nvidia PhysX drivers version 9.09.

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If you mean you have a second Aegia card also, then you might be able to get it to work by using a very old PhysX version, but I've heard the benefits are minimal on today's hardware. You might also have to go into the NVidia control panel and disable NVidia's PhysX in order for the dedicated card to work correctly. I'm not sure though.

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But I still maintain that we "usually" get a free costume token during the holiday season. Looking back through the Announcements section of these boards, costume tokens were awarded:

11/30/07
Shortly after 11/28/06
and "soon" "once a bug fix is ready" according to a moderator post on 11/07/2005

That seems pretty consistent to me.

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Well, you may be technically right, but it still doesn't prove or disprove that their intent was to have people put on the Stocking Caps for free.

Those dates still coincide with issue releases:
The beginning of December 2008 (Issue 13)
The end of November 2007 (Issue 11)
The end of November 2006 (Issue 8)
The end of October 2005 (Issue 6)

Just sayin... Consistency would have been issuing a Holiday gift at the same time each year, at the beginning of the Holiday event, instead of right after issue releases (before the Winter event even started). There is not enough official information to definitively assume we will get one this year too.

For CoH, you can simply move the updater file to the desktop and run it from there. It will ask you where you want to install the game, and you just point it to where you had it before. You shouldn't have to redownload or lose anything you had before (except for a few graphics preferences that were stored in the old registry).

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You can run http://download.cityofheroes.com/US/CoH_NA_Setup.exe to install the registry for you.


Once you get it running again, you can make a back up your CoH registry if you want to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
> SOFTWARE
>> Cryptic
>>> Coh

Highlight the Coh directory and Export it to a *.reg file.
You can then use it to manually install the game at a later date with the same resolution you had before (and other preferences that are stored in the registry).

On a slightly related note.. that happened to somebody on my Katie TF team one day. Somebody else on the team was on an MA arc and crashed out while the rest of us were in 2 separate instances of the mission. We left to reform but the task was still on my screen, so we went inside after I re-invited everybody. The mission actually loaded, none of us were EX'd down, Mary was only an EB, it let me invite new people to the team during the mission (including a lvl 1 just to see if it would work), and we still got the badges for defeating her.

Once the mission was over, I talked to Katie and started the real TF again. lol

I /bugged it of course.

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I also didn't intend my little two sentence post to generate controversy. But I guess people will jump on you for anything in these forums, even when you're right.

[/ QUOTE ] Well you did say "They usually give them out..." which makes it sound like it was some kind of a trend.. which it isn't. But that's not a big deal. I was mainly referring to Golden_Avariel's post anyway...

He mentioned getting 4 separate free sessions granted during this year's holiday season, which was also wrong. I didn't mean to imply that YOU implied the free session at Valentines.. Golden_Avariel's made a personal interpretation of your post, to which I was originally replying to... not yours directly.

The only reason I quoted your last post was because the link you provided supported what I had previously said. I wasn't trying to argue with your two sentence post.

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No, he means there was a free costume token handed out to everyone during the Christmas and Valentines events. It wasn't part of a mission or something.

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I know what he meant, but he's wrong. If the Tailor tokens were given as part of the event they would be listed in the event details on Paragonwiki. There are no Tailor tokens listed as a bonus for any of the past events.


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No, Blackavaar... YOU are wrong.

Link to announcement.

[/ QUOTE ] Like I said above.. that was 2 weeks after i13 came out..

I guess I was wrong to assume it was related to any costume bugs, but maybe because so many people were wondering where their freespecs were after i13, the Devs wrapped it all up into a holiday gift to make people happy.

Either way, that's still only one free session for that time period.. just like I said.

And I still don't think we got one on Valentine's this year either. Maybe last year when the Wedding Pack was released... I'm not quite sure.

Also, I think I can safely guess we'll be getting another one soon.. seeing how they are adding about 20 new character faces, and a couple more costume themes with i15.

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5. Copy the original installation over the new installation

[/ QUOTE ]Installing a full version and then immediately overwriting the installation is quite a messy way to do it. The updater file itself can easily install the registry properly, which is all you need. Besides.. not everybody has a "hard copy" disc installation.

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This way you'll keep your screenshots and your demorecords.

[/ QUOTE ] If they are in your CoH folder, and you copy the folder, you'd keep them anyway.


For the experts who are comfortable changing their registry:
You can export your CoH section to a *.reg file and then import it onto the new OS registry. That will transfer over your client graphics preferences as well. Providing you put the files into the same directory you had before, you shouldn't have to make any manual edits.

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It worked, sorta. Explorer was throwing fits (not Iexplore... the actual filesystem browser) and locking up as I was trying to burn the game files to a DVD... Apparently about 807MB's got corrupted. all the sound and music files... why couldn't it of been smaller files that got hammered mid-burn?

Meh, guess I should consider myself lucky any of it burned at all. lol. But its downloading the other files, the ones that did burn checksummed properly so theres no issues with that. but 807MB is alot better than a 2.8GB download on a phone-as-modem connection through sprint anyday. lol

[/ QUOTE ] I should have mentioned this before.. but I found it beneficial to use a USB flash drive instead of burning DVDs. You should be able to use a 5gb drive fairly easily.

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Yeah, my 2nd account expired right at midnight last night, and it should have expired around this time tonight...

[/ QUOTE ] It must be quirky then. The one time it caught me offguard was when my card was expired and I didn't update my billing info yet.

I logged in around 3pm when I got home from work, and played just fine for hours. I was denied access when I relogged for a TF around 9pm. I originally subscribed between 7:30 and 8pm, so I assumed that's when it canceled me as well.

My Veteran Rewards every 3 months are now awarded the first time I log in after 9pm (the time I resubscribed) on the days listed on my account management page.

I'm on Eastern time, in case that's a factor in anybody's calculations.

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Well, it does give an AT. However, if I type [dark embrace] on my blaster, it says "as used by level 27 Blaster". That, of course, can't be correct.

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It usually defaults to the AT you are currently using.

If you click on the AT name, it brings up a menu to let you select any other AT you want to view the stats for... regardless if that power is currently available to that AT or not.

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OK, I see that now. Knew it was probably staring me in the face. Thanks, Mateo.

[/ QUOTE ] BTW, in case you didn't see it, there is also a slider to change the lvl...

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Well, it does give an AT. However, if I type [dark embrace] on my blaster, it says "as used by level 27 Blaster". That, of course, can't be correct.

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It usually defaults to the AT you are currently using.

If you click on the AT name, it brings up a menu to let you select any other AT you want to view the stats for... regardless if that power is currently available to that AT or not.

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No, he means there was a free costume token handed out to everyone during the Christmas and Valentines events. It wasn't part of a mission or something.

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We also got one for the i13 release the beginning of December so that was like 3 free costume changes on all those characters in a 3 month period.

In fact... was it 4? Wasn't there one handed out shortly after because of the tailor issue we had about then.

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Right after i13 I got my 6 month badge and tailor cost concerns finally became a thing of the past for me so I may be misremembering.

[/ QUOTE ] You also might have been thinking of the free tokens you get as veteran rewards. The free sessions we are talking about are separate from those.