Schismatrix

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU View Post
    That's exactly what they *want* you to think...
    So far it's working on me.
  2. Schismatrix

    Coh crashing

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by KingOfStars View Post
    Do you know when they released the latest driver? Because maybe they will release a new version soon.
    The latest drivers are only needed if you use some other software with a more serious issue that a driver version past 11.4 fixes. Otherwise 11.4 is the best version for a CoH player at this time.

    (The 6950 is also the nicest card i've ever owned, but it barely fit into my case. As in a couple millimetre gap between the end of the card and my drive bay.)
  3. Schismatrix

    Coh crashing

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by KingOfStars View Post
    That sucks...what should I do?
    Uninstall and clean up your current drivers and then install the 11.4 drivers.
    The thread in the tech forum section gives most of the required info.

    11.4 has been working fine for me.
  4. Schismatrix

    Coh crashing

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SerialBeggar View Post
    ATI drivers v11.5-->11.8 have been causing a lot of trouble with the game. See the recent thread.
    Pretty much this. i ended up rolling the drivers back to 11.4 for my new 6950.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Paranoid personality disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. Those with the condition are hypersensitive, are easily slighted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions to validate their prejudicial ideas or biases.
    Thus confirming my lack of credentials.
    You make a compelling case for a paranoid diagnosis.

    However the page does validate my reference to anti-psychotic medications even if it was more a less a bit of flippant humor:
    Quote:
    Treatment

    Because of reduced levels of trust, there can be challenges in treating paranoid personality disorder. However, psychotherapy, antidepressants, antipsychotics and anti-anxiety medications can play a role when an individual is receptive to intervention.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Justice4Ever View Post
    Ok, so I was moving influence around on toons, and I forgot that there is a 2 billion limit on a character. My toon was up to 1.7 billion, and I tried to move 525 million. Well, I hit claim...and everything seemed fine, so I DELETED THE EMAIL! Then...and only then did a message pop up telling me that I would have too much influence and it could not be claimed. The toon is back to 1.7Bn and the toon it came from doesn't have the missing 525 mil, and the message is not in my email. Tell me I didn't just lose 525 million.
    Please.

    Think the devs would be sympathetic?
    Well, the Devs don't actually do that. That's the domain of the GMs and other support staff. i would try petitioning it on the alt that sent the lost inf giving as much info about the situation as possible. It's possible a GM could verify and refund the inf.

    Edit: Ah, cool. Glad it worked out for you.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Rx10 was technically paranoid, not psychotic.
    i thought the difference between neurosis and psychosis was whether it kept you from being to function in society.

    He was also rather obviously delusional and very irrational. i didn't read all of his posts, but my impression from the ones i read was usually that he would develop a bizarrely flawed premise and then insist despite all evidence to the contrary that it must be right.

    So really more delusional than psychotic or paranoid in my opinion, but then i'm not a psychologist.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DragonSire View Post
    I've looked but haven't seen anything. If they did announce anything awesome, I haven't seen talk about it.
    i'm half expecting another upcoming powerset, costume set, or enemy faction to be revealed.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade View Post
    They can flap their flaps at you menacingly. And if you get too close this could result in a nasty papercut.

    As mentioned above they can spin in place. and with those reinforced corners can bruise your shins.

    never underestimate the power of the corrugated cardboard box.
    Thanks to you i made a new Stalker named "small cardboard box".
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by joebartender View Post
    I do believe that he actually left the game in a rage quit and went so far as to delete all of his toons and post screens of the deletion process.
    Right, disregard the anti-psychotics part then.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
    no, basically anything with a melee tag on it wont take range enhances
    This. A while back melee attacks were specifically flagged to ignore range enhancements, buffs and debuffs.
  12. It's luck unless you're Rx10. If you are Rx10 then it's proof that the $archetype you're playing has a superior chance for drops compared to all other ATs. Of course if you're Rx10 then the same thing is true of the mission type, time of the day, phase of the moon, and how long since you last took your anti-psychotics when it comes to the odds of getting better rewards.

    But for you, since you're not Rx10, it's just luck.
  13. Cones are affected in that the length of the cone is affected, and the range that ranged attacks can be used at are affected. The spread/degrees of cones are not affected, and the AoE radius of attacks that have a spherical AoE are not affected. So, while range enhancements will allow an attack like Fireball to be centered on a target farther away from the caster the size of the affected area is constant.
  14. Schismatrix

    Tips

    Oddly enough i seem to get the most tip drops on tip missions.
    While it's technically true that random is random, unless the system is really bizarre the actual probability of any given rank of enemy dropping a tip should be a fixed value. So the question is not meaningless, but since there is no streakbreaker for anything but attack rolls you could theoretically go any length of time without a drop despite the odds. The best bet is to join a tip mission team. That way you can earn alignment points regardless of your own luck in getting tips.
  15. Schismatrix

    Any way too...

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blackleviathan View Post
    Yes to transfer a toon that is on beta to the freedom server that is already live. Not the VIP server
    Yeah, no. It should be enormously obvious why this will not be happening since most of the reasons have already been covered in this thread.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lyrik View Post
    I once wrote a short story with this as an idea about a Jedi and Sith battling near an ancient temple somehow getting warped to modern day earth. Both their lightsabers were broken so they had to learn to fight with alternative weapons. The Sith gathered a bunch of punks to do his bidding while the Jedi found a Force sensitive female who he made his padawan while she learned him stuff about living as a human being.

    I somehow still like that idea, even if it sounds cheesy.
    So you reversed the normal (mandatory even) story dynamic mandated by Lucas?

    i must admit the Sith must be a pretty impressively badass species/civilization leftover to require that only two ever exist.

    Okay, i'm lying. i always thought that was the dumbest thing the post-Sith species wannabe Sith like the Emperor and his predecessors could have decided to do. Or has that been changed? i don't pay that much attention to the ever shifting details of Star Wars canon.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EvilRyu View Post
    Not really when all it takes is for the AV to break wind in our direction and the whole team is dead. I see the AVs as holding back due to their egos.
    Apparently i've not been fighting the same AVs as you. Which, considering the sort of attacks they use, i'm rather grateful for.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
    i think they are mostly immune to mez lol
    i'm pretty sure i've confused cardboard boxes in mayhem missions. Of course seeing a cardboard box confused was pretty much a mutual experience. Confused cardboard boxes really can't do anything except glare at each other, what with being immobile and not having any attacks.
  19. Just finished Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks. Been on a bit of a Banks binge the last couple of months. i've bought and read six of his novels in addition to my regular acquisitions.

    Just started reading the Exalted Second Edition book today after finishing Surface Detail.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Devin_Wilson View Post
    Gee what a surprise.. The servers have been down more in the last two weeks than they have been up. Way to impress those of us youre trying to bring back to the game.
    Oh, and the thought just occurred to me that NCsoft must really be toying with you because the servers have been up far more than they've been down for me. Seriously, it's been far, far less than one hour out of forty-eight that i've seen the servers down. If you've been seeing the servers down more than up the last two weeks i suspect someone's been blocking your access.

    There is also the slight possibility that you're using over the top exaggerated hyperbole to make yourself look like a massive twit with no sense of perspective, but who would deliberately try to make themselves look like that? No one, that's who. (OTOH, that could be why someone would be blocking your access to the servers most of the time if they're players or GMs who don't like you.)

    Obviously it's a conspiracy. (No, not a Nemesis plot; it's someone else for a change.)
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by necropsie View Post
    The excuse that drives ignorance, starts wars, and crashes economies.
    ....

    Yeah, no. i suspect this one is serious which means there's no way i can be. Laters!
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TrueGentleman View Post
    If the old ruling class in America were WASPs, shouldn't the equivalent in CoH be VIPERs? (Or would that offend the Children of Enos?)
    Wait, if they were the old ruling class who is the ruling class now? Because i'd wager that 95% or more of the "ruling class" look the same now as back then.

    i'm going to overlook Warden's post except for giving a chuckle and a snort at how he must be making ming feel. Oh, and maybe the usual facepalm.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5 View Post
    You don't vote for kings...

    but everyone votes for a dictator.
    It's true that everyone votes for dictators. To make it easier the candidates are usually "Current Dictator" and "Yes I Would Like The Secret Police To Come And Execute Me". Sometimes they add a real second candidate, but the results of those elections tend to get thrown out for being flawed.
  23. Schismatrix

    East Coast Quake

    Didn't even know about the quake until i was leaving work. i work in Connecticut, so it wasn't very close to the epicenter. With assorted power tools going and a compressor that vibrates the building slightly by itself no one in the shop noticed the quake at all.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by zildjain View Post
    i got the code and everything works fine. thanks everyone
    Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.