Zombie Man

Ebil-o FTL June-21 & Feb-22-2010
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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vega View Post
    Does Super Sidekicking apply to SF's and TF's as well?
    Presumably, everyone will Super-SK to the leader of the TF. It is unknown if you can use Super-SK to bypass the TF minimum. You can't use SKing now to do it, so, probably unlikely.

    I'm not sure I want seven Level-1 toons Super-SK'd to a 50 and attempt a Recluse or Statesman TF.

    I'd even begrudge just one member of the team being level 1 and Super-SK'd into a level 50 TF. What are they going to do v. a +2 AV with just Brawl and a level 1 attack?
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
    Not really, you'll still need to be high enough to get Levantera's missions to earn the Vanguard Recruit badge before you can earn Vanguard Merits.
    When the Mission Transporter allowed access to the RWZ (that ability is currently removed on Live) lowbies were still barred from joining the LGTF and they weren't high enough level to start the Levantera arc. And even if they were SK'd into the Levatera arc, it didn't allow them to get the Vanguard badge (which lets one get the Vanguard Merits) since only the mission holder got the badge.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by jwbullfrog View Post
    Another thought, If the auto SK applies to RWZ and other similar zones that currently have level requirements, and you are in one of those zones when the team leader selects a mission that is owned by a player that is not that minimum level, are you all dumped from the zone?

    This might sound trivial but it is something to think about.
    Hazard Zone restrictions are going bye-bye. Level 1s are getting into the RWZ not because they're super-sk'd up, but because the level requirement is gone.

    It's no different than level 1 toons walking into Grandville or Peregrine.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Umber_NA View Post
    Cool, eagerly awaiting the youtube video of someone running a L1 hero to the Storm Palace
    You mean to the Shard where level 1s can buy a Jet Pack now?

    While you're waiting for a Youtube journey of a level 1 to the Storm Palace, enjoy this YouTube gem of a runner getting to the Terra Volta reactor door without fly or special jump powers.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by random_person View Post
    also, sometimes you get an annoying mish youre tryin to finish real quick and grab a lvl 50 to finish it for you. it sounds like this new super sk feature gets rid of that.
    It does sound that way. However, if you've gone through the mission and spawned everything and then bring in a helper, then you're now twice as powerful as before and have a much better chance at clearing the mission.

    Also, you can bring in several people and multiply the force.

    Also, if you're asking someone a higher level than you to help, they'll always get xp from it (unless they're 50). I know the times I've helped someone I've said to myself, "Great. No xp from doing this."

    Also, you can ask more than one lowbie to help you and they'll all be SK'd to you and be able to help, thus greatly increasing the pool of possible helpers for a stuck mission.
  6. Zombie Man

    Invites

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zanddara313 View Post
    I am wondering if i get an invite to a team is there any easy way to find out where the main party is on the server.
    Along the top of your chat window is the word 'Team'. When you get on a team, that should pop up a team window automatically showing you and your teammates. If it doesn't, clicking on 'Team' will toggle the team window.

    Along the side of the team window is an arrow. Clicking the arrow will pop out a status report of your teammates showing their buff icons and what zone they are in.
  7. Zombie Man

    The CoX Client.

    That happens occasionally. It's a very old debugging routine of which the general consensus here is that they don't use anymore. So, ignore it unless it start happening regularly.
  8. Converting problematic urls to tinyurls also works.
  9. Sounds more like a problem your end.

    First, reboot your computer and see if it's still a problem. If yes, then check out this thread, Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines


    Then post the results of these two programs:

    • CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
    • HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.
  10. It's because.. umm.. I'm from the other side of the international date line.

    That's it!
  11. It's nice to be able to move some of the long time (and newer) bugs from the problematic list to the fixed list. Many of these fixes are stealth... no patch notes to indicate that they're fixed. Check it out:

    http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Known_Issues
  12. Zombie Man

    A String of Bugs

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rainbow_Avenger View Post
    Anyone else see this issue with disappearing emotes?

    Send an in-game petition.
  13. You'll need to get our forum html GreaseMonkeys who know how to do that to write a script for every link that references the old boards and flag it someway. Doubt Paragon Studios would put the effort into that.
  14. Zombie Man

    Changing Names

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn View Post
    Changing your global name, if you have the ability to do so, can be done from the menu bar -> Change Global Name
    And can only be done once in your account's lifetime, barring any major corruption of server data which has granted us two extra global name changes over the course of 5 1/2 years.
  15. Zombie Man

    Dev Digest

    Excellent! Thanks.

    Now, here's your new assignment. Closed Betas have never had their own Dev Tracker, which is, of course, different from the regular tracker.

    Fix that.

    Kthxbai!
  16. This should also work:

    /unbind RBUTTON

    Which should reset your right button to default. If it doesn't, then try:

    /bind RBUTTON ""
    /bind RBUTTON "+mouse_look"
  17. The best way to stabilize FireFox for these new boards is:

    1. Delete all CoH cookies: with both city* and coh* names.

    2. Disable CoolIris.

    3. Reboot to clear all caches

    4. Enter the boards with the http://boards.cityofheroes.com address.

    If it still doesn't work... don't know why.
  18. Zombie Man

    Crashing Nooby

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by jerrylanierspc View Post
    i downloaded the 14 day trial and was wondering if the reson i crash so much is pecuse it is a trial?


    and if i buy the game will it fix that ?


    because i am seriosly thinking of buying it but if it crashes every 10 minuts or less why get it you know what i am saying

    thank you
    Go to the Tech forum and check out this thread, Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines


    Then post the results of these two programs:

    • CoH Helper - it will show us basic computer settings and your CoH configuration.
    • HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.
  19. Won't respecs fail (or maybe can't even be started) if done on a TF? This would prohibit respecs in Ouroboros missions and AE missions and even outside them as long as you're still in 'TF mode.'
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
    While looking at the main index of the forums, and the HUGE list of Who's Online, I saw this:

    Red Skeleton

    Anyone have any idea(s) who that is?
    Someone with an administration title that got registered in June of 2008 [Edit: oops, typo.. 2007] (right about the time NCSoft is negotiating to buy the CoH IP from Cryptic).

    So, no idea.

    More than likely the 3 posts are in a mod/dev-only forum. Maybe someone from NCSoft.

    That's it, it's Richard Garriott!
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU View Post
    I'll take it as you going into the office to work on giving our avatars moving hair, becuase you just couldn't seem to relax until this task was done.
    How close am I to the truth?
    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ir#post2096877
    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ir#post2071988
    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ir#post2093306


    And so... it begins...
  22. Zombie Man

    Locking up

    1. Update you graphics driver.

    2. Put in 2 GB of RAM in there. Otherwise you'll be doing a lot a memory swapping to the hard drive which is slow.

    3. 20% left on your hard drive is starting to get low-ish. Get it into shape by...
    1. Go to control panel and then Add/Remove Programs and get rid of any programs you don't need any more.

    2. Go into Windows Explorer (not the Internet Explorer) and right click on your C: drive and chose Properties. Under the General Tab, you'll see a button for Disk Cleanup, run it and get rid of deleted (recycle bin) and temp files.

    3. Under the General Tab, make sure Indexing is not selected. Unless you need to do quick searches of your documents on a regular basis, you don't need this. It may take a while to propagate the un-indexing to all the sub-folders.

    4. Go to the Tools Tab and click on the defrag button. Run the defragger. It may take an hour or two to defrag. Make sure the computer doesn't power down during it (you'll find power options where you change the screen saver -- right click on desktop...).
    4. Shut off bloom. ATI cards don't work will with bloom, depth of field, water, desaturation, and anti-aliasing on CoH.

    5. Post the results of HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.