Zombie Man

Bewitched

/suppressCloseFx 1 <--- This turns on disabling of personal graphics effects if your camera is within a certain distance of your character.

/suppressCloseFxDist 300 <--- This sets that certain distance. BAB recommended 300 ft. If you don't ever want to see your GFX, then set it to zero.

The key to good open systems is not to link (too many) stats to each other. If lots of skills are linked to a certain stat, then the min-maxer has a vested interest to max out that whole set of skills, which just brings you back to a class based system.

The other key is to use diminishing returns. It's less drastic than caps, but serves the same purpose: to keep min-maxers from breaking the formulas.

A true open system, and the one that should have and should be built is one where you spend points buying your mechanical advantages: attacks and the amount of damage they do and the type of damage; defenses; resistances; protections; mezzes; buffs and debuffs; speed; etc... on a diminishing returns scale.

Then, for each click or toggle or passive or charge-up attack/defense/mez/buff you have, you customize how it looks. You choose the animation, it's emanation, and it's colors.

Then the Devs build the NPCs and their AIs to function as not-insurmountable challenges to the mechanics the players have available to them.

Done.

Also, another tip:

On my main toon, I used a second build for low level exemplaring: Not built for IO Bonuses, but uses IO Set pieces for Frankenslotting. All the pre-30 powers are nearly six-slotted for going way past ED (so that exemplaring still leaves those powers as if they were SO'd). Then I picked utility powers that didn't need slotting for post-30 powers, which meant that that toon was still pretty spiffy at high levels.

Then my main build used level 41-ish IOs so that I'd still have Set Bonuses in Warburg and on up.

It's almost like it's impossible for human beings and all their constructs to be perfect.

The store window is linked to the scale of the health window. If you resize the health window, all the other windows will snap to that scale. Then you can rescale the windows that can be scaled while all the ones that can't be scaled will share the health window's scale.

See this guide.

The +5 combat power accessibility was instituted because players complained they would lose a power they might have gotten by leveling up in a mission. And so, the Devs allowed us to have access to powers above combat level, but the question was... by how much?

The answer of +5 combat levels came about because in the old system, a player could team up with another player and still be +5 levels and still get XP. At a level spread of +6 or more, then no more XP, which forced an exemplaring. And so, we get +5 combat level accessibility to Powers.

So, this had nothing to do with the -4 and more rule for IO Bonus dropout.

To use your example above, in the old system, if you exemplared from 50 to 45, you'd lose the bonuses from your level 50 IOs. Well, the same is still true. You're exemplared from 50 to 45 and your level 50 IOs still don't count for bonuses -- no change.

Well, you can try deleting or disabling (keep from launching on start-up) the following:


C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WgaTray.exe
C:\WINDOWS\RTHDCPL.EXE
E:\xp\Program Files\ClamWin\bin\ClamTray.exe
E:\xp\Program Files\Razer\Lachesis\razerhid.exe
E:\xp\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\ACD Systems\EN\DevDetect.exe
E:\xp\Program Files\Razer\Lachesis\OSD.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\DNA\btdna.exe (really?! a bit torrent running in the background of a 3-D online game?! )
E:\xp\Program Files\Razer\Lachesis\razertra.exe
E:\xp\Program Files\Razer\Lachesis\razerofa.exe
C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
e:\xp\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe
E:\dnload\putty.exe


R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.hulver.com/scoop/user/bla...20dad/comments
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Int ernet Settings,ProxyOverride = *.local
O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RTHDCPL] RTHDCPL.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SkyTel] SkyTel.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Alcmtr] ALCMTR.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Lachesis] e:\xp\Program Files\Razer\Lachesis\razerhid.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTTask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] "E:\xp\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Device Detector] DevDetect.exe -autorun
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\nView\nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [BitTorrent DNA] "C:\Program Files\DNA\btdna.exe"
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...?1180094908156
O23 - Service: Apple Mobile Device - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
O23 - Service: Bonjour Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe

Double XP weekends aren't that bad. Freedom may hit a few moments of server lock.

What's coming up is a combination of Double XP AND REACTIVATION weekend. Now, *that* will cause Freedom and Virtue to lock down during peak play times... and that's where the queue comes in.

It's never been fixed and always operated in the buggy way you described.

Window Transparency Setting

It doesn't stick. Every time the options window is opened the slider moves toward zero.
Workaround: The transparency of the windows can be set with the /window_color command. It takes an argument of four integers from 0 - 255 each separated by a space. The four integers set the Red, Green, Blue, and Alpha (transparency) values. And so, e.g.,

• /window_color 0 255 0 100 -- would yield very green window borders that are nearly half transparent with the window space on the inside nearly invisible.

• /window_color 200 0 200 230 -- would yield very purple borders about 60% opaque and an inside window about 90% opaque.

Such commands can be set to a bind or macro or popmenu for quick resetting. Or it can be bound to an often used command so that it's constantly being reset without having to think about it.

Kadabra Kill and Sigil would make the better Halloween Event Info Officers -- they're not used as contacts in any other capacity.

I just got a Grey Mackinaw, some Grapefruit from Tampa, and a Cross Cut Saw!

That's a new one.

In case you're still at that screen wondering what to do... go to the Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and close down CoH and then start it up again.

You might want to try a third party vendor's driver like found here or here

You might also try different setting for textures and shader, even if it's a higher one.

Also, see if your manufacturer's website had updated drivers for the motherboard chipset/CPU.