RogerWilco

I'm running the Mac client. Looks like I'm out of luck as far as the HeroStats tool is concerned.

As I said, I don't mind so much for the cooldown on the powers, with the growing circles it works well enough. It's just the buffs. For the inspirations it's just a bit annoying, for the Rage buff it means living or dying in a challenging fight.


Thanks for the replies anyway.

Hey everyone,

I'm a new player, and I was wondering if there is a way to get timers on things in the user interface? I can live with the slow growing/ballooning of the stuff in the action bars, but I now have Rage on my Super Strength toon and it's very annoying not to have an estimate ho long it will last, until it starts blinking for the last 10 seconds or so, especially because it gives such a large debuff after running out.

Hey, I'm new to the game and I have observed something in the costume designer that's either a bug or me not understanding something. I'm hoping someone can clarify it for me.

I had made a character and saved the costume before I entered the game (about 2 weeks ago). On reaching level 20 I got the second costume slot and wanted to add that.

In between I unlocked some new costume options, for example the Magic Bolero.

My problem: I first wanted to experiment with the costume options by clicking on "create new character" then load the design I saved earlier and mess around. I could then save it and once at the tailor just load it and apply it. But to my surprise, after loading the saved costume, I didn't have the Magic Bolero option any more. I can get it when creating a fresh character, for example by selecting the Witch premade, but it's simply not in the list when I load an older save.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

I first need to figure out the chat interface. I find it confusing. I probably just need to get the hang of it.

I have some other questions:
I was unable to register our Super Group as "The Conclave" because it already existed. If I search for it, it only has 80000 reputation. It looks like it's never been used with only 4 characters in it. Is there a way to find out who might own this and if they might be willing to give it up? As we're new players we wouldn't have anything to trade for it I think. Given that our community has been called "The Conclave" since 2002, I was wondering if there is a way.

Thanks for the explanations on the Trial. Is it similar to the Story Arcs in how it works, or is it more like a single mission with multiple elevator levels?

In general, what would be expected when joining a trial as far as archetypes performing different roles? I'm used to the traditional Tank/Healer/DPS groups from WoW. It seems to map onto some of the Archetypes, how does this work? Does the Archetype matter or start to matter from certain levels.
I notice that even within an Archetype there are big differences in how well you can play a role. For example my Fire/Fire Brute is much more single target dps than a tank than my SuperStrength/Regeneration Brute. This might change at higher levels and depending on what Powers you choose in the PowerSets.

Do you need to have 8 members in the team? I often see 6/8 or something like that advertised in Help. Do you need a full team, I was under the impression that the spawns scale with the size of the team.

Me and a friend had a look in Pocket D yesterday evening, but it seemed there were only a dozen or so level 50's idling there around DJ Zero. Is that the place to go, or are there other places, like the Atlas statue seems to be for Heroes? Is the dance floor area what's referred to as "Blue side in Pocket D"?

Hello Union,

I've just started playing this game last Christmas, and a few friends have joined me. We had started on Infinity but have decided to move to Union as we're all from the Netherlands.

We're part of a large internet gaming community, The Conclave, and I'm trying to get a few more members to join us, but we'll see how that goes.

For now we've started a Super Group on the Villain side named "TheConclave" and are trying to find our bearings in the game. Our highest level characters are now level 21.

We might get more involved in the community once we've settled in a bit. Given that some of us are pen-and-paper role players we might also get involved in that. I already got some pointers from when I made a thread on the European Lounge subforum.

In this respect it would help if someone could explain to me what things like "Sewers blue side" and such mean. People have already asked me to join that but I have no clue what it is or what would be expected.

I've been told to get on global channel "Union Chat", which I probably will do once I get the chat interface completely figured out. (I haven't used chat much yet, some of the buttons seem awfully small).

Any advice is welcome at this point.

We've decided to move everything over to the Union server, as we're all based in the EU. We mostly have VIP accounts, so it wasn't a big deal.

Thanks for all the friendly and useful replies anyway.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

We've decided to move from Infinity to Union based on your input.

I have used the in-game store to buy points in the past, but I got this error. I tried both PayPal and Mastercard.

I then tried the NCsoft website, where I could buy points using PayPal and didn't get this error.

So for now I've worked around my problem, but I wanted to report it anyway as I find it odd that the in-game store would not work, while the website does.

I don't have a solution to your keyboard problem. I just run the OSX version of CoH. This works fine, so might be a workaround.

I'm running on a recent Macbook Pro (2,2 GHz i7, Radeon 6750, 512 MB GDDR5).

I just want to report that it runs the game very nicely, with nearly all settings at max. Ultra. I can run with everything on max. but then the machine gets hot enough for the laptop fan to rev up and become quite loud. With just below max. Ultra settings, the laptop keeps quiet.

Thanks for supporting Mac.

Edit:
More specific info: I get 20+ fps with all Ultra settings at maximum. If I move Ambient occlusion to Balanced it goes up to 30+ fps, which is what I usually play with. This is on OSX Lion 10.7.2, 1680x1050 display.

So anyone considering a 15" Macbook Pro should be fine if you want to play this game.

We've played on Union a bit yesterday evening, and it seems to be similarly populated to Infinity (In Atlas Park and Mercy Island) with the peak indeed being a few hours earlier in the evening. We did experience lag a few times on Infinity, on Union we didn't, although that might just be luck, it is a consideration to take into account.

We have a meeting this evening to discuss moving. One of my friends is on a free account but none of his characters are above level 10, the others have at least 2 VIP transfers which would be sufficient for the level 10+ characters we have. All our character names are available.

Thanks for the input. Any more advice is always welcome.

I've used a gaming mouse on my MBP, but I've switched to a simple Logitech optical mouse.

The problem with the gaming mouse was that it had much higher resolution and sensitivity than the Magic Mouse or built in trackpad. In OSX you can't set the sensitivity separately for each mouse, so either the trackpad would be really slow, or the gaming mouse would be very jumpy.

Having a normal mouse with comparable sensitivity to the Magic Mouse and trackpad makes that you don't have to adjust the sensitivity each time you switch mouses.

Greetings!

I am a new player, just started last Christmas with some friends and I like the game a lot. I've started on Infinity as that was the name of a MUD we used to play on in the nineties.

I have since found out that there used to be a difference between NA and EU servers but that things were merged last summer. I also found that Infinity used to be a NA server.

My question basically is if the difference still matters. I already noticed quite a few CoX events get organized at times that are after midnight for me (the Netherlands). This might just be because the EU community is much smaller or that I'm not on the right server or not looking in the right places.

I only have a few characters yet and so do my friends, and given VIP status, we might move servers at this point. Can you also move a SuperGroup? We're playing villains b.t.w.

I am mainly looking for advice on if we should move to one of the old EU servers. Any tips on what events exist that are EU timezone compatible is also welcome. In general what should an European player do to get most out of this game?

Cheers

RW