Starry Night

My first 50 is a magic-origin sorceress, and she is fond of wearing "Faultless Mystic".

I think you're onto something. I haven't seen a "can't login" on my iPad, but I have had the "can't stay logged in" problem on both my iPad and Macbook Pro. But I started coming in via boards.cityofheroes.com (the top) rather than my bookmark to the English top level, and I've been OK since then (iPad and laptop both).

The lag in the RWZ is pretty much only in the base. Once you're out in the zone, it's like like any other outdoor zone.

I'll bid:

two million -- Infinity villain
ten million -- Virtue villain

I'm @StarryNight.

Note that the section on zone events on that page is out of date. The new Halloween and Winter events also have merit opportunities (look up the 2009 versions on the wiki), mostly in the form of giant monsters (if I recall correctly).

Thanks, that worked for me, too.

Some people (including me) reported this problem in the Mac forum a couple weeks ago, including the apparent time-dependence. It stopped as mysteriously as it started. No other info for you, sorry.

I haven't, because I haven't had the problem since Monday. I wonder if Someone Did Something About It?

That's a paraphrase of a great quote by James Nicoll from Usenet (in rec.arts.sf.iforgetwhichone): "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse *****. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll for the uncensored version.

I'm using Verizon DSL, northern Virginia.

I've noticed it, but I can't recall the exact pieces I was using. In my case, something black was taking on a deep blue tint.

I'm still seeing this problem after the May 4 patch. Anyone else?

As for mouse settings, the only thing I see in options is the section on the "controls" tab. Those I have left all at their default values. I can list all the values if it's helpful.

If no one else is seeing this, I'll report it through channels.

Interesting side note, on Sunday afternoon when Virtue was "yellow", there was a point in time when (visible) villains slightly outnumbered heroes (if I recall, it was 672 heroes and 677 villains). No doubt this is an outlier, but still strange to see.

That's great, thanks for the information. It's not a big issue in the short run. About the worst effect is trying to find the active slick target on merit vendors and salvage racks.

Out of curiosity, though, where is the "Mouse Cursor" setting? I couldn't find that option when I looked. Which tab is it on?

Has anyone else been seeing a generic system pointer instead of the game's context-sensitive pointer? I'm seeing the black system arrow all the time. It never changes to (eg) the hand pointer over a glowie or door, the double-arrow pointer near the edge of a resizable UI element. This started with I17.

I'm running OS X 10.6.3 on an early 2006 Macbook Pro, Core Duo processor, Radeon X1600 w/256M, 2G RAM overall. My graphics are set to "performance".

"Just get out of here! And I'm *keeping* the horse you rode in on!"

Actually, the first useful thing I did with my iPad is check the wiki while looking for history plaques. OK, maybe not useful, but at least purposeful (not just messing around). And honestly, I'm not sure what I would want besides what I can get with Safari (the wiki, vidiots maps).

(Yes, posted from my iPad.)