Texarkana

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  1. Texarkana

    Xmas Geek Swag?

    Inception blu-ray
    Uncharted 3
    Kindle 3g/wi-fi

    And, I bought myself an Asus g74-xc1, plus a crucial M4 128gb SSD ( ' :
  2. So, if it's a heat issue, I propose another test/solution --

    Get a copy of "Precision" from EVGA - http://www.evga.com/precision/

    Run it before you start city of heroes and change the fan speed from auto to 100%. It will probably sound loud, but depending on how loud your speakers are (or headphones), that won't be an issue.


    Edit: I've used precision while running CoX on an old dell with an 8800GT SSC and it seems to reliably address the crashing issue that seemingly afflicts the cryptic engine/open gl based games.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
    Across the board, then...?

    Well, I play City of Heroes at most casually. So while I heartily endorse this direction, it means that, personally, I don't foresee myself buying any new power sets.

    Thank you!

    Well.....if you did go VIP, you would be getting a 400 pp stipend (or 550 points if you're tier 9), which you could then use to pay for it. 2 months of points easily pays for the new set.

    Edit....err, what Errant wrote and I did not previously read.....except he probably should have stuck a semi-colon before "Beam rifle" ( ' ;
  4. Texarkana

    Mouse inverted

    Yep, Jetfighter!, LHX attack chopper, and F16 Fighting Falcon with a mouse......."pulling" down made you climb, pushing forward made you dive. This was back in the early 90s.
  5. Kind of like the Sons of Batman, nifty.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smersh View Post
    They're also public domain in many countries (Not in the US, but the UK and Australia).
    I'd still recommend reading them in the order presented in that table of contents ( ' :

    It's also a fun group of reads after you've seen the movies and are familiar with Frank Frazetta's art -- the inspirations become very clear.
  7. Texarkana

    Forum Question

    I believe it is affected by group membership. VIPs can opt join the VIP group which has the gold coloring.

    Same goes for those titles.

    Edit --
    go to the User Conrol Panel
    Check Under Networking -> Group Memberships.

    By default, "Registered Member" is white, "VIP" is gold.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed View Post
    Those animations make me wish we had a turtle shell backpack piece!
    The green elemental order backpack might have to do in the short run. Start buying up super packs! ( ' ;
  9. Texarkana

    Mouse inverted

    Well, flight simulators come to mind immediately, and I'm sure it's been an opton of FPS' for some time.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker View Post
    content! Hazard zones need something to do
    Content, but also make them accessible to Villians as well, like Praetoria, RWZ, and Pocket D.
  11. Candy canes were sooOOOOO 2010 ( ' ;

    Remember to level up someone to level 10 so you can buy your winter's gift 20% slow resistance for all of your toons ( ' ;
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    Pretty much.

    Edit:
    Oh, and I'll likely be posting my results of 510+ incarnate trials (broken into major patches and trials) sometime this weekend.
    I <3 data ( ' :
  13. Congrats Turg -- You better enjoy all the sleep you can get before Mini-T comes home with you ( ' ;

    Hope everything continues to go well ( ' :


    Edit -- I can't stop giggling at this, I'm sorry.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Turgenev View Post
    Yesterday was the first time I ever changed a diaper. Doing it through an incubator makes it feel oddly like building a ship in a bottle. And if you screw up, you get poop.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    Funny story. Okay, not funny, but sad.

    I get onto the game last night and on Triumph and get a few tells that I've just missed yet another failed BAF run. This doesn't make me feel like running trials. A few friends then asked me to transfer one of my 50s to Virtue and found a lot of trials going on.

    Most of the people were asking for BAF, Lambda, and Keyes, with a single TPN and one group possibly doing a MoM trial.

    To the developers:

    I told you so.
    I suspect the devs data-mining is far more informative than your sample size ( ' ;
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker View Post
    The very best of Primal Earth, laid low with a stone. It's like David & Goliath in reverse, where we are the bad guys.
    Well, technically we are the bad guys in the eyes of the praetorians....

    /cue GG's entrance
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Support View Post
    Here is a New Idea.

    Call for backup!

    Let's say you like to play solo. You are the type of person that does not like to play with other people. I am suggesting you can call in support for your other characters (On the same server), to join you, in a difficult mission. I am

    In other words I have the following characters on one server :

    Character A
    Character B
    Character C

    If I am playing as Character A. If I call for backup, Character B and Character C will come in and provide backup for me. They will work as an NPC and fight alongside me.

    Regulations :

    In scenario above :

    1) Only Character A will gain influence, prestiege, experience, and/or drops as if part of a 3 man team.

    2) Character B and C get the opportunity to help Character A.

    3) Mission will set to a team of 3 people.

    4) If characters are all different level, the other characters will exemplar/SK to your same level as character A.


    I know what you about to say. "You can do this on the Mission Architech." True, if you design it right. However, I would like to do this on regular missions.

    Will this be difficult to program? I imagine so. So I am placing this as a suggestion to see if people like it.

    A variation on this that I proposed some time ago was that any offline supergroup members would show up as NPCs inside bases....making base raids a bit more feasible to defend against ( ' :
  17. For those interested, I highly recommend the Complete Chronicles of Conan, which is likely available at your local library.

    http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Chron.../dp/0575077662
  18. Currently Oni-Guard is only avalailable in Details 2 of the half-helmet section of head types.

    Please consider adding it to the following head types:
    Standard
    Full Masks (As detail 3)
    Hoods
    Hats
  19. Yep, first time logging in since the patch and seeing this issue as well.
  20. Texarkana

    Flying East!

    I think everyone needs to assemble in Pocket D to send you off with a fine farewell! Best of luck on your new adventures!
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stormbird View Post
    This is old, old information. If he had talked about the newest "Who will die" arc, you might have a point. But this is like getting annoyed at someone wearing a T-shirt that says "Vader is luke's father!"

    The alternative is to avoid any and all lore discussion on the forum AT ALL. Which would be ridiculous.
    No one has suggested the extreme of not talking about it at all -- just don't put the spoiler information into a forum title where anyone can happen upon it unexpectedly because they looked at the list of "Today's posts".
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EarthWyrm View Post
    I continue to be baffled by how someone can title a thread with a plot-point they found surprising and not see how anyone else would view that as surprising and thus a spoiler.
    Minor edit just to emphasize the point.
  23. You can sign me up with Zolena as an alternate -- Monday will be a long work day (as has been the past week).
  24. I have to downgrade to iffy -- I just walked in the door a short while ago. / ' :