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I too have concerns regarding I13... I got the feeling with I12 there was a distinct move away from the classic superhero comicbook game with Cimerora, clearly trying to cash in on Frank Miller's 300 and the subsequent movie.

Whatever I13 brings I truly hope it doesn't depart from the basic tenets of the game. That said, I've enjoyed every issue from I8 onwards so let's hope things continue

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I don't know; time travel back to Wild West/Medieval/Roman/Greek times is a fairly standard trope of superheroics.

The original Ouberoussos addition didn't really provide that, just time travel back to near-enough contemporary settings, so Cimerora's just bolting on to that in an internally consistent way.

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/Unsigned.

How would those of us that have characters on all 4 servers play them if they were hidden?

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Well, in the OP it did say it would be optional.

Even so, also completely unnecessary, so also /unsigned.

And, on completely practical grounds I can't see them ever doing this - there'd be no point in having it on the 100% English US servers, so it's very doubtful they'd do it as an EU-only change.

Happy womb escape day, SteelRat!

May your birthday be Stainless and your cake multitiered!

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and the Ghost Slaying Axe misses half the time due to the undead using dark powers with -acc!

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...as does any other power you care to use against them. At least the Axe does double damage if it actually hits!

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Let's just say the word 'offline' is meaningful .

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Hmmm - free bottle of whiskey every time you get a Mapserver Disconnect?

Talking about bottles of whiskey (waddya mean we weren't!?), get chance to grab anything for me in Duty Free, GR?

Back in the realer world, what about a steady flow of Prestige from offline SG members? Would help offset rents, wouldn't be too unbalancing at a toon level and would fit in with the SG-friendly nature that I13's rumoured to have.

Generally pick Sands, unless it's either a Natural origin toon where the Axe fits the concept better or - as Dante says - a Negative Energy-based toon that could use something to put the wind up undead mobs.

Hmmm, a good point, and something that hadn't occurred to me.

Looking at the numbers it's not 100% clear that this would be needed; for insp storage let's say it's 20 bytes per stored item (4 bytes for bin ID, 4 for storer toon's ID, 2 for insp type, 10 for "other stuff" and overhead), average 100 items per base and 10,000 bases per server, that comes down to 20MB. Not huge in terms of size, when even laptops come with several hundred GB of capacity, but possibly searches start becoming a bit of an overhead when you're looking at a million-entry table.

Is there something in the existing room that would block the corridor if it were created? Bookshelves against the wall, that sort of thing? Even something moderately close to the would-be-new corridor can prevent it appearing sometimes.

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Kheldians, The hero epic's get locked out of 2 power pools whereas the villains epic's are not...

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Erm, no - Kheldians are locked out of one of the Flight/TP pools; half of the powers of the other pool they get completely for free and they get 1 more available as a pick from their main power sets. Air Sup and Group TP they don't get access to.

All in all I'd say that's balanced, compared to the villain epics that get an unlimited choice of pools but absolutely nothing for free.

You can effectively do this already with binds - see here, for example.

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So, what's the spec of the machine? What OS are you using? What drivers are you using? Have you tried CoH in safe mode from the launcher? I really can't help you without more info...

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Don't waste (sorry, waist) time asking for specs, FFM - just help the guy!

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NCSoft has bought a brewery and starts rewarding every 50-ding with a keg of beer.

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/signed while continuously drooling

wait a sec...what about the under 18s? what do they get...Ribena?

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They get a keg of beer too, but it has to be held in trust until they ding 18 years

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I'll look after it for them!

<hic!>

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Need some help? >.> <.<

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Shure I do...sit down here, yore my bestest friend.

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NCSoft has bought a brewery and starts rewarding every 50-ding with a keg of beer.

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/signed while continuously drooling

wait a sec...what about the under 18s? what do they get...Ribena?

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They get a keg of beer too, but it has to be held in trust until they ding 18 years

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I'll look after it for them!

<hic!>

Cough

If you want people to use all the available powers, not just the obviously best one, then yes.

Not that anyone's even hinted that this is a PvE-only thing.

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i never said anything about making it faster, i just suggest for a small speed bonus when you are high in the sky, so it doesn't waist time getting to the other side of the map.

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As others have said, the relatively slow speed of Fly is the balancing penalty to make up for it being so flexible.

That slow speed's only a significant factor when you are getting to the other side of the map (a small increase when you're flying up to a balcony in a misson wouldn't make any real difference, after all), so it's unlikely anything like to change that will get added.

(And that's leaving aside technical issues like deciding how high you are in the Shadow Shards... )

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And Hardrider through your toys out the pram FTW mate! only telling you cos I love you though don't shoot the messenger.

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Eh? What on earth are you talking about? Hardrider made a perfectly reasonable "don't like it, so no" post.

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So I was supposed to just post nothing while someone insults me?

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Yup, near enough:

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[GhostRaptor] What to do if you see a problematic post

On multiple occasions over the last few months I've been told that an abusive post was made in self-defence and only because someone else started it. As I have noted above, this is absolutely unacceptable. For future reference, if you see a post that you feel is against the forum rules:

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* If you feel further explanation is necessary, or simply wish to discuss a forum-related issue with me, you can send me a Private Message or an email to ghostraptor(at)ncsoft.com.

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Ok, it has been suggested before that team leaders should be starred in the search function. Or that extra tabs can be added to show what ATs leaders are looking for? etc...

My suggestion is :- When a team invites an 8th member, there should be an automatic lock out? This would work by excluding PMs for any team member, that contained the following words? [u]lft, room, join, team, free or space[u] as it gets frustrating trying to politely say no free slots whilst fighting during a tf etc.

This would stop any questions like :-

I'm looking for a team
Can I join your team, lvl ??? (AT)
Do you have any free spaces
Any room in your team for a (AT)

As soon as 1 or more people leave, the lock is removed.

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It would also stop questions like:

Hey, how's the team going then?
You still up for the respec team after the TF?
Want a free KB resistance recipe?
Added that new room to the base yet?
Want to join a boss hunt after that mish

/not signed

An even later followup gratz, Max!

(Or _Max_, or MaX, or... (I get confused very easily...))

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It wasn't so much they were "Talking behind my back" it's just every move I made or didn't make they talked about it on Skype.

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How do you know they were talking about your every move behind your back on Skype, out of curiosity?

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Well, normally when they say "We are on skype, if you have something to say then say it in team" It means when I either do something they say or do NOT do something they say It's most likely going to be that they will talk about it on Skype and it really makes you feel I can't describe the word but made me feel Alienated from the rest of the group.

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So they might just have been making the occasional comment, or even saying nothing at all? You were just assuming they were talking about every last thing you did?

If you were uncomfortable with the situation the only real alternative would have been to drop out as soon as you found out everyone else was on voice chat you couldn't access. To join, stay in when you found out what the situation was then complain (initially with a "they were talking about be behind my back" slant) after the event is throwing blame their way that doesn't really seem warranted.

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And I will be truthful, I can acept players not playing as good as they should be, but when they are risking small amounts of debt of the other 7 toons, then I get somewhat annoyed,

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Edited to reflect actual risks involved.

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I can say I have seen aggressive players in-game - the main problem with these people is just that they can't accept the truth. If you tell them what a power can do, they may whine and grooan and spam "You're wrong" all over the team chat.

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Of course, there is also the small matter that in this particular case the OP was wrong.

In addition to what other people have said, if contacts are offering you missions way below your current level you may have one or two old story arcs open. Check for little book icons next to contacts' names to indicate this.

If there are any, you'll need to grind through a few missions to finish the arcs, then your current contacts may start offering things again (you can't have more than 2 "main" arcs open at once, so having old ones on the list can block out new ones).

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Hey peeps

So does anyone else want the lvl cap increased to lvl 60?

I would love for this to happen!

I need the extra few powers and enhancement slots thats for sure

But it would also be a nice change!

Any agree/disagree?

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When you say "I need the extra few..." I suspect you mean "I want a few extra...", as presumably you've been able to level your toon all the way to the current cap with the current allocation of powers and slots?

Essentially, disagree - adding 10 extra levels, with associated new powers, new maps, new story arcs spanning the entire extra level range and probably new villain groups would be a hell of a job, and twice the size of anything they've done before. Too big a job to be feasible, IMHO.

I think they'd be far better slotting in new sections of content (c.f. Faultline revamp, Rikti War Zone, Cimerora, etc...) to the existing level range, and new power sets, as and when they can. That gives you the chance to see new areas and play with new powers, only in far more manageable (from a rollout point of view) chunks.

Curse you for your faster-than-me YouTube skills, DW!