Zombie Man

Please. No animated smiley gifs. Ever.

Try deleting all your old city* and coh* cookies and retry with the boards.cityofheroes.com portal.

See edited noted on first post. The search function is screwy. Trying to find a solution...

Edit: Found a solution, but not as elegant. The links take you to their user page, and from there, you can click on all their posts. The problem was that a search in vBulletin returns an URL with a sequential ID#. This means that the same search returns differing urls, so there's no way that I know of to post a static link to a search result that works for everyone. Thus, this workaround.

I kept it tightly tamped down in the bile of my innards lest it be released and kill again.


Edit: Oh, I misread the title as "What did everyone do with their outrage?"

I tweeted back to BAB to keep in mind that the first upgrade has a 50 foot range. It might not look good if the pet is too far away, or conversely too close.

I doubt any of them would post before the Digest gets fixed. They are all rare posters to begin with. If anyone sees them do so, just link their post here. This is very temporary.

My sister, Fanny, said to our brother, ****, "Let's nip this thing in the bud, and not butt heads over it."

Ah, poor Richard.

Links finally fixed! Thanks to Devian for figuring it out.

Just remember there is a 15 second timer for searches, and that's what each link is: a search of that Dev's/Mod's posts.

Niviene

Avatea

TheOcho

Positron

Castle

BackAlleyBrawler


Note: Previous links weren't working because vBulletin saves searches with sequential id# rather than with a static url for about 10 minutes, then that URL is no longer working.

1. Text on colored gradient is not good, it is more difficult to read than text on a static colored background. This is a fact. And yet, just about every box of text is on a colored gradient.

Just because computers allows text to be easily superimposed on colored gradients or graphics or images does not mean they should be. Just because it's done often doesn't mean that it's good. It's bad. Very bad.

The only time that the background should have a gradient color fill is if the color change happens in the margins where there is no text. That can create a nice effect without compromising readability of the text. If the gradient can't be moved to the margins, then get rid of it altogether. Let the outer border boxes have gradient colors.


2. Width of the reply box is too narrow. I believe I've seen on other vBulletin boards the player controlled option of setting the width. Right now, it's 66 characters, it should be *at least* 80, though, user-configurable would be better. [For those who don't know, you can make the box longer by using the up and down arrows in the upper right corner.]


3. Put ignore user on the drop down menu when clicking a users name. Right now, we have to go to a users page and find a not-so-obvious link to put them on ignore.


4. Get rid of Quick Reply completely. The vBulletin Manual says to administrators:

GPU power ======
To use a current political metaphor, the power of a *gaming* PC rests on a three legged stool: CPU, GPU, and RAM.


[u]GPU[u]


Graphic Processor Unit manufacturers (nVidia and ATI) create a range of GPU chips that range from simply showing pictures and basic video, to rendering the high-end 3D graphics polygons, textures, and special Graphical FX.

For nVidia, the second number of the series number will tell you how powerful the GPU is in rendering high-end graphics from 0 to 9. So, you may have numbers like: 5000, 7200, 6500, 8800, 290. The graphical savvy of those GPUs are, respectively: 0, 2, 5, 8, 9. To do 3D gaming right, it should be 6 or higher. The first number indicates the generation. The current nVidia generation is 9000 or 200. Last year it was 8000, and before that 7000 and so on. For CoH, you shouldn't go back past 6000.

Lastly, the suffixes go (roughly) GTX > GTS> Ultra > GT >GS > (nothing) > LE

Before you get a graphics card, you'll need to make sure your power supply has enough juice to power it.



[u]RAM[u]

If you turn up all the graphical bells and whistles, CoH/V can use up to 1.3 GB of RAM. At the low graphical end, it certainly goes over .5 GB. Thus, the usual recommendation is 2 GB of RAM. Since many claim Vista itself needs 2 GB to run anything well, you'll often here people say 3 GB is needed for Vista, though, on my Vista computer, I've never seen memory usage go over 2 GB.

It's important to have more RAM that the game + operating system use, otherwise, you'll start to swap memory to the hard drive ('page filing'), which is excruciatingly slow compared to RAM.




[u]CPU[u]

For CoH/V if the first two legs above are sturdy, then a previous generation of CPU is OK. Any old Pentium 4 would work or an Athlon 2000+ and up. But, more power is better. *Any* dual core is more than sufficient. The game isn't written to take advantage of quad cores, so there's no advantage there unless you want to run background programs, which usually isn't recommended for intensive programs like a 3D MMORPG, which is what CoH/V is.

I'd love to see the Maniac Slammers be stealthily given just Hurl and SuperSpeed and preference(range). And to stand around AP or Cap and just watch the broadcast channel.

Yep, can't wait for that new Mod tool: Merge threads.

I find it very difficult to bury these old forums. Especially since it's not quite dead yet. <hits forums with another blow from the shovel>

The best buy and sell for SOs for all origins at level 35+ are the stores in the co-op zones: Midnighter; Cimerora; and RWZ. Everywhere else the stores gouge you in some way.

Dark Miasma has zero team targeted buffs.

It has a Stealth/Resist Aura and Heal which is a Point Blank Area of Effect (centered on you) which yourself and your team mates can enjoy if they're close to you.

Everything else debuffs or controls the enemy which benefits yourself and the whole team.