Starry Night

Back when we were voting on what would become the guns group, I was utterly convinced that "kinetics" was going to win. B Movie Janet was all set to become a sonic/kin, because movies are just sound and motion, right? I had a handful of good B-movie costumes ready, only a couple of which translated successfully to guns (pirate wench and film noir detective). So now you've given Janet an excuse to pull a season-appropriate B-movie costume out of the closet tonight, for which she is grateful.

And I'm really tempted to make another version of her in the future, if the next team heads the way I hope it does. Because movies are a kind of time-traveling illusion, aren't they?

Not just gaming, anything! I want to love the Magic Mouse and its touch-sensitive surface, but I have the same problem you do. My hand cramps us really fast using one of those.

I use an old wired Mighty Mouse. In one-button mode (right-click disabled), too, if you can believe that.

That sounds like the machine I have (bought in fall 2010). For me, the crashes are due to memory. I had enough, but CoH would crash whenever it used more than around 2.2 Gb of memory (not the magic 2G limit, some other number that varies between 2.1 Gb and I think I've seen as high as nearly 2.5 Gb). Note that more memory in the iMac isn't going to help with this problem.

The solution I use: run in windowed mode. Keep "Activity Viewer" (found in Applications > Utilities) open where you can see CoH's memory use while you're playing. Whenever memory use is around 2 G, in game, use the "/reloadgfx" or "/unloadgfx" command (not sure the difference, both seem to work). The memory use will drop. Unfortunately, it won't drop all the way down; you'll slowly accumulate unfreeable memory.

For old zones (e.g., blueside except for new Atlas, most instance maps), I can run for hours without an issue. For Praetoria or any new maps, I may have to reload every ten minutes. Flying over a new zone eats up memory fast (lost of graphics being loaded). In iTrials, it's the worst. I will end up restarting after two, maybe three trials if I'm lucky.

Last tips: For convenience, I created a macro to put a button in my tray: /macro rld reloadgfx. Also, if I need to reloadgfx, if possible, I wait until I enter an instance. Usually the memory drop is greater there, presumably due to less intensive graphics.

Definitely join the "Justice Superteamers" global channel. That's the only way to keep up. We'll be getting into a supergroup soon, opening up supergroup and coalition chat, but because we have accumulated both blueside and redside SGs over time, they can't all be in coalition. So the only way all our superteam alts can communicate is via the global channel.

Speaking of SGs, my guess is that we'll want to decide (possibly tonight) if we're initially going blue or red, and if we want a new SG or to reuse an old one. Historically, going hero then vigilante has been preferred.