Rajani Isa

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
    I am missing the poor performance part of this. What about changing the time from X to y is poor performance? What about this needed to be planned out other than, OK, we will put stuff up on the market at time X. Months pass. Time X doesn't work for the new guy, we are changing it to time y.

    That is poor performance? How?
    Especially considering they did announce it before we could panic.
  2. Popular alternative - ask for a VIP to join your SG to pay the rent, give lowest rank rent privileges, and they pay it for you.

    I do it from time to time, especially if someone else is on from my actual SG so they can re-invite me.
  3. Should be able to.

    What controller?
  4. The DEVS are the ones that run the GAME. They live around Palo Alto and are the ones who initiate changes, pretty much. Please note, many companies like to limit who can change money-related things for simplicity in tracking who did what, not because of a lack of trust.

    They do have people on the game 24/7, but their concern is the hardware, basically.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Malice_A4Thought View Post
    If you really want to make that stone brute happy, take kinetics - speed boost on a stoner makes them happy
    You're reading it backwards, i think (although from what I recall, even the melee set enjoys it)
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim View Post
    Done and done. (Incidentally, why doesn't Paragon have one of their own...?)


    You mean like this or this?

    The people who update the market, and the Community team, are different people. Grant you, they normally have the threads up by 10 am Tuesday, which seems to not be the case today.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by crooked View Post
    Allright thanks, I had a great concept + costume lined up for either rad/rad or cold/ice

    Not convinced on the defender yet though. I tend to solo alot, and after my earth/fire dom I'm thinking a corr would be more refreshing than a defender considering the corr has offensive spells as a primary.

    edit: kinetics looks like something I could work with aswell, think ill go that way. I once made a mind control dom and really disliked the effects, I thought sonic attack looked the same. It does look rather nifty with the some costum colors, my apologies
    Yeah, sonic blasts with custom colors have some very nice looks.
  8. Do you meant the Praetorian tech lab?
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    I think Paragon's just too lazy to change the logo on the error popup.

    /removes tinfoil hat.
    *sends message to minions to up the Mind Control Ray on Aggelakis, no tinfoil hat means more vulnerable!*
  10. The pessimist argues the glass is half empty.

    The optimist argues the glass is half full.

    The opportunist empties the glass while the other two argue.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kirsten View Post
    I think there were even inspirations dealing with them.

    They obviously never got used, but people have found icons.
    I think they were view-able in the Auction House until that database got cleaned up.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ArcticFahx View Post
    This is going to sound weird, but are you using the select mission button before you try to call Provost Marchand?
    yeah, you have to accept the mission before calling it in to your "handler"
  13. Rajani Isa

    Super Teams

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shockwave007 View Post
    I actually spend quite a bit on other "free" games. I don't mind there being pay items. They are a business. It's when pay items include things I would consider basic function (tells and access to most forums for example) that I have been turned off.

    I'd say that the fact you can join super groups, and that there is a desk that actually tells you a listing of super groups that is disabled would be a perfect example of crippleware. Is the feature necessary? No. Is it something people would pay for? Probably not. But it sure is annoying when that is the first thing people will point you to in order to research groups, because that is the feature in the game to do so.
    The SG registry is a side effect of them limiting SG creation (and both rent paying and initial base creation) to VIPs.

    Unless I'm mistaken, you can browse all the forums. The most important ones (Tech help, in game help, General Discussions) are open to all. The community types are leery of opening the whole thing up to EVERYONE, as they don't want to encourage RMT spammers to hit the forums.

    The tells restriction is again an anti-RMT spam measure, it really sucked when free accounts could send tells to anyone. However, if someone sends you a tell, /r will let you reply.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SerialBeggar View Post
    If you just want to reset your current mission so you can re-run it, first exit the mission. Then from your Missions window, select a different mission. You will get a pop up asking to confirm that you want to abandon the current mission. You can also do this by going back to your Contact and selecting Abandon Mission from his window.
    The pop up you mention says "abandon progress" on the mission, which is different than the abandon button or the abandon option the contact has. Not the same, as you mention.
  15. Rajani Isa

    Super Teams

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shockwave007 View Post
    Since this thread is getting attention. Are there RP supergroups on Justice at all? I see things with theme teams, but I'm not looking for something to make new characters. I just play the one character.
    Try browsing the justice forums.
  16. #3 and #4 are false. So yes leadership can be passed to non-VIPs.

    #4 probably comes from the misunderstanding that only a VIP can create/start an SG base. But once started anyone with permission can edit the base.
  17. Rajani Isa

    Craft IO's in AE

    The Vanguard base map has crafting stations. Go and load up "Crafter's Corner" or "Crafter's Market" - something like that.
  18. Rajani Isa

    Super Teams

    While it is not all about the super teams, we do some (or even just themed ones) in RO (www.repeat-offenders.net)
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer View Post
    Here's another question. If a villain/rogue wants an Epic Power Pool (Not Patron), is it still necessary to choose a patron to select an Epic Power Pool?
    For an APP, no. Only the patron epics have an unlock.
  20. So bug it. Looks like another manual entry for power details
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Roderick View Post
    The Map Pack is not a Mod. The City of Heroes client automatically looks in a certain directory when it starts up, and if it finds properly names files in the appropriate directories, it loads those resources instead of the default ones. There is no modification of the client, so there's nothing bad about using it.

    MAKING it, on the other hand, is a bit of a grey area. The only ways to get the right filenames are to either spend a LOT of time guessing, and hoping you hit the right names, or to extract the filenames from the game files. The latter action falls under "decompilation or reverse engineering of the software" in the EULA, and is not allowed (See the sticky about PIGG viewers in the City Life section).

    I suspect that the devs and community reps turn a blind eye because the people behind the Map Pack don't distribute any modified game files, nor any tools to modify the files.

    This is an unofficial and unsupported feature. As such, none of the City staff can or will provide troubleshooting help if you have problems with it, and threads here asking for help may get moderated. If you need help, asking on the Vidiotmaps forums is your best bet.

    If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say that this functionality is there for the art devs. Once they've got textures, sounds, etc finished, they can load them in this manner, rather than having to submit them to a build and wait for that to be compiled before they can test their assets.
    It does modify the client. It doesn't modify the client's files, but the client you run IS different (changed/modified) compared to a fresh install.

    And I'm not sure they need the ability to leave it open for us for the art devs, but yeah, like I said, it's winked at. They could very easily change the game behavior if they wanted to. And as you said, it probably helps that Vidiotmaps keeps quiet about exactly how they do it.

    It's also the backdoor used to silence/change sound files in game, if any of them give you trouble/headaches/etc.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel View Post
    Well it makes sense he'd stay fit in the flesh (though it must really suck since if he works out too much, his muscles won't fit in the suit either, so he has to keep a fairly exact shape) but once he was energy, how would he count calories exactly? I mean wouldn't it make more sense that DW just restored his form from before he was energized?

    Also, I thought what Sorina saw in him was his biochemical makeup which made for potent pheromones she was sensitive too.
    I think that Michelle means that having been restored, Positron now keeps working to maintain the body shape.
  23. Also, sets you do not own (at least, ones that are not live yet) will not show up in the character creator on beta with a buy icon as it will on live.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    hmm.... I would imagine that the Hybrid doublestrike effect would also not count.
    Anything that is bonus damage, and not a damage bonus, "gets around" the damage cap.
  25. Rajani Isa

    Forum question.

    That's the random log out bug. Seperate from the 8hr or until closing the browser do we part bit.