Texarkana

Have you tried running it in safe-mode? Check the box in the launcher.

Sounds like a FAAAAAABulous Vet Reward idea! ( ' ;

But, seriously, great sink for vanguard merits.

From Day 1.....

Implement dynamically generated maps rather than recycling the same few;
Launch CoV at the same time;
Encourage base raids around the clock using copies of offline PC characters as NPC base sentries.

Well, City Of Heroes was on my radar for a while. My previous MMO experience had been Dark Age of Camelot for a few years and then a few months of Star Wars Galaxies (much to my disappointment at how unfinished it arrived.) I had been a huge fan of Freedom Force and was keeping tabs on CoH, even back when it was still an open power system. Finally, one fateful day came the beta invite and I've been here just about ever since.

They'll just email you the code, right? Or, atleast, you don't really have to download their stuff, I hope?

Really nice work!

I WANT delicious meat-based NOMS in my City of Heroes game!

Perhaps Neverwinter will have one lone bright spot then, courtesy of BaB's talents.

Did BaBs go to...Cryptic?

His linkedin lists him as Senior Animator/VFX at Cryptic Studios (and doesn't appear to be a reference to his previous employment there.)

So, I've dealt with the the "driver stopped responding issue" on my nvidia evga 8800 gt ssc card for a long while. Followed all of the steps available but it never really went away. Recently, from another thread, I had discovered the EVGA Precision program which is used for overclocking. I installed it with the intention of manually controlling the fan (turning it up assuming there was a heat issue) as well as monitoring performance.

Well, last night, on a 6 controller/scrapper/warshade team with lots of effects going off, I ran fine for quite a while but at one point got that annoying message as the screen went black. I quickly switched over to precision to see what the temperature was, expecting it to have pushed 95+ degrees. Instead, it was still in the 70s but the GPU appeared to have spiked to 100% utilization at that time (and dropped off sharply right afterwards).

General thoughts?

If you're just going to learn to program "academically", you can go with any of the above. If you learn better having a specific objective in mind, i.e., making something useful, you can always try VBA, particularly inside of Excel, to make good stuff.

Sources of inspiration for naming:

1. Old games and role-playing sessions - 'Slickhawk' was a D&D redbox thief, a very unsuccessful one I might add;
2. Song names and lyrics - 'Texarkana' comes from R.E.M.'s Out of Time album, actually an accident because I confused the song with Country Feedback;
3. Homage to people (real-life or fictional) with mashups of names. 'Dr. Barney Horrible', a smooth-talking mastermind with a death ray, is inspired from How I met your mother and Dr. Horrible's singalong blog. 'Dr. Evil Jones' is a demon summoning archeologist with a trusty flaming whip and a penchant for putting lasers on the head of sharks....etc.
4. Foreign Languages - (I studied Latin but there are plenty of translators on the web. I have a buffy the vampire-slayer inspired storm/electric defender that was the next chosen one. She became 'Vis Divina';
5. Phrases! Everyone has a cat girl and, likley a good many of them, she is a Cat-woman derivative (Julie Newmar specifically..meeow), but what to do since I was so late to the party. I started thinking about common descriptions of cats and their actions. My claws/dark scrapper (and alternate universe praetorian demon/dark mm) is named 'The Purr in the Dark' (if only devs would fix the "The" bug in names);
6. Medical Terminology/Jargon - Probably more of a one shot deal for me, but upon discovering of a "Gamma Knife" procedure, I had to make 'Gamma-Knife'. You could expand upon this if you have a theme and are looking for words in the particular topic/occupation.
7. Thesaurus and qualifiers - Synonyms ftw. Qualifers are basically an adjectives/adverbs you can pop in front of a name. Thunder becomes Blue Thunder.

That's it for now. Good luck!

I find that most non-Controller ATs come into their own in that mid-20 range. Consider that you can make a reasonable attack chain, you likely have stamina, and you're, at the very least, upgrading to SOs. For controllers, it's not until 32 when you get the pet, not that you asked ( ' ;

Well, in the first picture, we have an old city of heroes. In the new picture, it's a shiny new city of heroes.... ( ' :