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Also, to charge up a badge power you have to earn the badge first. This means logging in to get the badge and then having time logged out for the badge power to charge.
If it takes 21 days to get a badge and 10 days to charge it. Being logged out for 31 days will *not* get you a fully charged badge power. You have to log in at 21 days for the badge to 'ding' and be applied to your toon. Then another 10 days logged out to charge the power. -
It's been fixed on Test. Coming Live... Soon.
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Solo Task Force.
Consider that phrase carefully. Who can tell me what's wrong? -
Most of the story-arc-zones follow this rule: The first two contacts are in a five level range, and the next two are in the next higher five level range.
Hollows: first two are 5-9; second two are 10-14.
Faultine: first two are 15-19; second two are 20-24.
Striga: 20-24; 25-29
Croatoa: 25-29; 30-35 -
The red arrows are the tunnel entrances, the green are the dam entrances. The map that shows the tunnels comes from www.vidiotmaps.com and their map pack is highly recommended.
I agree that this one is a bit tough to find, and there are a few others like it where there is a mission door in an undergound tunnel or waterway. You'll find the waypoint for the door pointing to 40 feet directly underneath you and you have to circle around to find the entrance to the underground area. Faultline has an underground garage. Sky way has underground watercourses. And Brickstown also has underground areas.
It doesn't happen often in CoH, and compared to other MMOs that don't even give you a waypoint for a mission, CoH is very generous in this regard. -
Quote:Nor their speed... zooooom!Originally Posted by Thirty_Seven
To clarify, the recharge of the pets' powers, not the recharge of the player power that spawns the pets. -
Quote:1. Choose to love, don't give in to hate.Originally Posted by HeroJunkie
I hate my new brute. His defenses are weak, his attacks are few, his endurance is low, he has no travel power, he is so annoying to play. I keep on having to stop and rest...terrible.
2. Brutes kill before they can be killed.
3. Put Brawl on auto.
4. With 'begginer's luck' and fury, don't slot for ACC or DAM, slot for End Redux.
5. At level 1, go to Grandville and buy a Jet Pack.
Limburger is the appropriate choice here.Quote:And I've no cheese to go with my whine!
And go down?Quote:Seriously, though. I wonder if the whole leveling thing is essential to a successful MMORPG. I'd rather just start at 50. -
Quote:<hits Fleeting Whisper over the head with a SCUBA tank>Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
You're right, it's an abbreviation. If it were an acronym, we'd be saying something silly like "Vanguard Dee-Poh" instead of "Vanguard Dee-Pee-Oh"
It's not an abbreviation formed from initials. -
Quote:Continuous connection with a continuous flow of data back and forth between two devices on the Internet is always tenuous at best. If you've ever seen a streaming video, such as one on YouTube stop to buffer, then you've experienced a stoppage or disconnect. There are protocols for reestablishing connection and resending dropped packets, but even that's not perfect.Originally Posted by Maldeus
Even as I write this, CoH is telling me that the connection to the mapserver has been lost. I think, once I hit the "submit new thread" button it will become readily apparent that my internet connection is just fine. So what's up with CoH?
The fault could be your computer, your cable lines, your router, your modem, your ISP's cable, your ISP's server, one of the many connections along the Internet backbone, or the game server.
It's not uncommon to experience a few mapservers 'pauses' in one night and even a full disconnect. Just logging back on usually fixes everything.
This is normal. -
Quote:Hello, trojan. That has to go. Go to the forums of Malwarebytes and follow these directions and post your HijackThis log in the HijackThis forum and those more knowledgeable than me will help you from there.
O4 - Startup: santa.bat
You also should get rid of all that other junk in your start-up registries. They may be 'legitimate' programs, but did Microsoft Messenger, Yahoo, AOL, QuickTime, Java, nVidia, Punkbuster, Apple, AIM, etc... get your permission to install themselves in your start up registries? Probably not. Which makes them *illegitimate* intrusiveware.
Cut and paste your HijackThis into this site for an analysis: http://www.hijackthis.de/
Then go to this site for an explanation: http://pchell.com/support/hijackthistutorial.shtml
Or, you just might do well to go the clean slate route:
1. Make sure you have a Windows OS install disk. (Or wait a few weeks to upgrade to Win7)
2. Back up all your data.
3. Reformat the hard drive.
4. Reinstall Windows and update it. Update all drivers including your motherboard chipset/CPU (go to manufacturer's website).
5. Reinstall your apps and keep running HijackThis as you do so to see who's secretly insunuating themselves into your startup registries.
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Quote:Yeah, that shouldn't be happening.Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
Okay so I'm on my lvl 19 Fire/Earth Assault Dominator just now and one of my sgmates is on his lvl 42 corruptor. He has a mission in Ouroboros and wanted to do it with me. Guessing that I couldn't use his Ouro portal but we verified to be sure. He summoned his ouro portal and I clicked on it, sure enough it says, "you have to be lvl 25 to use this."
So I have him set the mission and I use the mission teleporter power just to see if that works. He sets it and I use the power...sure enough I zone into Ouroboros. This kind of surprises me but I'm there....got the exploration badge and got the ouro. portal for myself....not sure if this is intended or not (and not sure if it has been reported or not)...but I /bug'ed it in game just in case and felt like posting it here to see any responses that I'd get.
Was the mission your leader set a flashback mission or a mission from one of the Ouroboros contacts (Lazarus, Pilgrim, Silos, etc..)? -
Quote:umm...Originally Posted by NordBlast
*headdesk*
It wasn't.
===Quote:undocumented changes to TFs lead to bugs...big surprise
Oh, irony, you little rascal.Quote:As I type this for the fourth time, it looks like you seem to be forever stuck... -
To summarize:
The premise of this entire thread is completely wrong. It posited that there were undocumented changes because the Devs are mean, uncommunicative, and sloppy testers. And those undocumented changes led to bugs.
The fact is that they're simply bugs. Not intended at all. Not a result of secretiveness. Not a result of a plot to get the speed runners.
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Quote:The last map of Numina has both rooms. You have to get past the figure eight room to get to the layer cake room.Originally Posted by je_saist
Sooo agreed. I thought the change to Numina's last mish was random, but the last 4 times I've run it, it's been that nice BIG cave that makes more sense for a Giant Monster to be in. All it needs now is a big Door in the back so it's obviously Jurrasik's little den that you busted in the back door on.
Also: I thought I was the only one that called that 5 level disaster "layer-cake" ... Glad I'm not the only one. It's the most annoying Blue-Cave room, followed by one I just call "the toilet bowl" ... you know, where you go up a hill that's atop a large cave, over and around above the large cave, then down and across under hill top.
That figure eight room is so evil... the continuation of the cave is an entrance overhead that is so easily overlooked.
While the new cave is easily stealthed, well, so is the layer cake one to anyone who knows the 'secret' of the figure eight room. -
Quote:We'd be rescued by Wikipedia if it wasn't for the fact that DPO isn't an acronym.Originally Posted by Archiviste
That would be DPOPO, would it not ?
Wikipedia to the rescue:
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Quote:Originally Posted by Wuigly Squigly
Slightly less dangerous than the regular flu.
Slightly more spreadable than the regular flu.- Slightly less dangerous than the regular flu to healthy adults.
- Significantly more dangerous than regular flu to infants, children, elderly, and those with pre-existing conditions.
- Slightly more spreadable than the regular flu.
- Vaccine not widely ready.
Considering that schools are the number one vector of the spread of colds and flus, points 2 and 3 are particularly worrisome. -
Depot:
- A storage installation for military equipment and supplies.
- A station for assembling military recruits and forwarding them to active units.
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Quote:They used to be sorted by zones and the zones sorted alphabetically. But I just checked and now there seems to be no pattern at all to the listing of exploration badges.Originally Posted by KianaZero
That's one QoL feature I really want added in, badges sorted by zone (and hopefully a small gap between zone sets)
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Quote:This is what I have on my main D3.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Or use the dual builds feature. One capped out with level 50 Sets for running at 50, another build entirely designed around exemplaring.
The high level build is based on level 41 IOs so that I don't loose any IO bonuses when I go to Warburg. And level 41 IOs provide plenty of aspect enhancement that is still better than SOs.
If I'm exemplaring lower than 38, I use my low level build which ignores going for bonuses, but instead over-franken-slots all the pre-30 powers with 5 or 6 slotting. This way, when I exemplar down to a Posi TF, the attacks are enhanced as if I had access to SOs at that level. This low-level build also works very well at high levels because all the post-30 powers I chose are utility powers that don't need multiple slotting to be functional.
So, here is the low level secondary build that uses lots of IOs (for the frankenslotting, not for the bonuses):
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Level 50 Magic Defender
Primary Power Set: Dark Miasma
Secondary Power Set: Dark Blast
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Teleportation
Power Pool: Leadership
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Twilight Grasp- (A) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50
- (3) Siphon Insight - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
- (3) Cloud Senses - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 30
- (5) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Healing: Level 50
- (48) Theft of Essence - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge: Level 30
- (A) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50
- (5) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
- (7) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 50
- (7) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50
- (9) Decimation - Chance of Build Up: Level 40
- (9) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage: Level 30
- (A) Impeded Swiftness - Chance of Damage(Smashing): Level 30
- (11) Tempered Readiness - Accuracy/Damage/Slow: Level 50
- (11) Pacing of the Turtle - Range/Slow: Level 50
- (13) Pacing of the Turtle - Endurance/Recharge/Slow: Level 50
- (13) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (17) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (A) Devastation - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
- (17) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 50
- (19) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50
- (19) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
- (21) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 50
- (21) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage: Level 30
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (23) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (23) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (25) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (25) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (A) Jumping IO: Level 50
- (A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy): Level 50
- (27) Impeded Swiftness - Chance of Damage(Smashing): Level 30
- (27) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (29) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (29) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (31) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
- (A) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%): Level 10
- (31) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 10
- (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery: Level 50
- (15) Miracle - +Recovery: Level 40
- (15) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration: Level 30
- (50) Healing IO: Level 50
- (50) Healing IO: Level 50
- (A) Quickfoot - Endurance/RunSpeed: Level 50
- (31) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance: Level 50
- (33) Winter's Gift - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance: Level 50
- (33) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50
- (33) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50
- (A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy): Level 50
- (34) Trap of the Hunter - Chance of Damage(Lethal): Level 50
- (34) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage: Level 30
- (34) Accuracy IO: Level 50
- (36) HamiO:Centriole Exposure
- (36) HamiO:Centriole Exposure
- (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End: Level 50
- (36) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50
- (37) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50
- (48) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50
- (A) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance: Level 40
- (37) Karma - Knockback Protection: Level 10
- (37) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance: Level 50
- (39) HamiO:Cytoskeleton Exposure
- (42) Kismet - Accuracy +6%: Level 30
- (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up: Level 50
- (39) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance: Level 50
- (39) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Endurance: Level 50
- (40) HamiO:Cytoskeleton Exposure
- (40) Rectified Reticle - Increased Perception: Level 20
- (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
- (46) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
- (46) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
- (48) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
- (50) HamiO:Nucleolus Exposure
- (A) Glimpse of the Abyss - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
- (40) Glimpse of the Abyss - Fear/Range: Level 50
- (42) Glimpse of the Abyss - Accuracy/Fear/Recharge: Level 50
- (42) Glimpse of the Abyss - Chance of Damage(Psionic): Level 50
- (43) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage: Level 30
- (43) Nightmare - Fear/Range: Level 50
- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%: Level 30
- (43) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance: Level 50
- (45) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance: Level 50
- (45) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance: Level 40
- (A) HamiO:Enzyme Exposure
- (45) HamiO:Enzyme Exposure
- (46) HamiO:Enzyme Exposure
- (A) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 25
- (A) Calibrated Accuracy - Accuracy/Range: Level 50
- (A) Kinetic Crash - Accuracy/Knockback: Level 50
- (A) HamiO:Endoplasm Exposure
- (A) Range IO: Level 50
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Quote:This is also the reason why Castle said that if he had his druthers, there would be a diminishing returns mechanic for PvE as well as PvP. But he noted the time commitment and the... fallout... for doing such a thing makes it a no starter.Originally Posted by Ironblade
Sorry, no. You are mistaken.
Castle even discussed an example of this once, specifically mentioning the Repeat Offenders group of SG's. They build highly optimized superteams that can tear through any content in the game in record times. This is absolutely "cleverly leveraging the mechanics in a legal way". Note that I did not put your bogus quotes around the word legal. It's either legal, or it's not. Even Castle acknowledges that. You can build a team that leverages the mechanics and it is in no way, shape or form an exploit.
However, I'd be willing to bet that if the stuff that Repeat Offenders do became so common place that it would turn the game into City of Repeat Offenders (with huge numbers flocking to such a practice like they did to AE farms), well, the Devs would find the fortitude to put their foot down on this and we'd be looking at DR in PvE.
Leveraging mechanics to break the design is something any game designer tries to prevent, and if they fail to prevent it, try to correct it. -
The integrated video chip is below minimum specs, and so, there may be no solution unless this laptop can somehow accept a graphics chip upgrade, although some people are able to run CoH on the minimum settings on such machines.
Go to the manufacturer's website and see if they have an update for the motherboard CPU/chipset drivers.
You can also clean out your start up registries... some of those background programs might be causing interference, especially since Toshiba has loaded what looks like a shadow-OS onto your computer with all their 'helper' programs.
If you cut and paste your HijackThis log here: http://www.hijackthis.de/ then you'll get a report concerning all those registry items. Go to this site to help interpret the report: http://pchell.com/support/hijackthistutorial.shtml
What's a concern with your registry is that lsass.exe is usually a missing file on Vista machines (but normal for XP). But on your laptop, it appears three times in the start up registries. Seems odd.