gameboy1234

Interesting. I also don't care for having to retoggle after visiting the Praet. trading house. It's annoying and not really much fun. I also agree that it's OK to make a quick stop sometimes with everything running, I do it often myself.

However I do empathize somewhat with folks who don't care for people "rocking the aura" constantly at the various auction houses.

May I propose a compromise?

Take *some* of the auction houses and add power suppression. Leave others alone for those who want to make a "quick stop" or who don't care about auras and such like.

For example, Talos and Atlas Park are traditionally more busy because of all the traffic in those zones. Leave those alone for "quick stops." Add power suppression to the WW in Steel Canyon and King's Row. SC is close to the University, so it's quiet for folks who are actually crafting. KR is ... well no reason, just trying to split it 50/50.

Same with Black Market. Leave the BM in Mercy and Cap alone. Cap is the main "grand central station" redside. And for crafting I know there's an Abandoned Lab close to St. Martinal BM, I use it often. So the the BM in St. Mart could be used by people who what peace and quiet and want to actually craft. Sharkhead BM is ... again just Shark. Trying to split things 50/50 again.


Just a thought....

I have a level 37ish Fortunata in Paragon City and everything seems to work fine, no issues. I haven't actually tried to level her up at 24, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. As the other have said, you're really just picking pre-determined menu items off a list. The actual type of trainer doesn't seem to matter.

I totally agree with this. The RNG seems to be missing its R. I'd love it if the devs would talk to us about how it works, or at least agree to double check it and make sure everything is kosher.

I haven't had as bad luck as some of the folks in this thread, but there's been plenty of times when I notice a long streak of misses, for example. And I normally have the combat logs open or I monitor "Last Chance To Hit," so I know if I've been debuffed or not.

I really like my level 50 Bots/FF. With Alpha slotting and Power Boost, I can soft cap a teammate from 0. I think I'm at 44% right now. As soon as the Strike Pack hits, I expect to be past 45%.

Those little bubbles are a big convenience too. Folks don't have to huddle under your Dispersion Bubble to have a good amount of Def. They can head off and have the Def anywhere they want.

Traps is still an excellent set, just not quite as +Def friendly as FF. Traps is great solo or small teams with a ranged MM set, because all the pets almost automatically group under the FFG's bubble.

But FF can be a force multiplier on small teams too, if you take some of the trickier powers in the FF set. With two builds now, it's easier to maintain a small team and a large team build.

Just make sure to skip the "chest protector" on the male (it's an optional costume piece). They look really silly on men. I think just the regular costume pattern on the males look fine.

I don't think this can be done.

If work has *every* port blocked, how can you contact the proxy? You might be able to do it with a machine inside the fire wall, and one outside too, but I don't know how to set this up other than custom programming on both.

Does anyone know what port(s) CoH uses?

What is a "SNIPE?"

Purchase where?

The Crucible/Fort Trident has a slider you can set the recipe to the level you want. This is kinda counter-intuitive imo since you actually have to use this slider to see recipies outside your level. E.g., for a level 50, you won't see recipes that max out at level 40 or 30, even though they are available. You have to use the slider to "scan" the recipe levels to see what is there.

At the AE, you get reward rolls for some recipes in level ranges. Level 20 - 30 range for Bronze recipes is a popular choice. You get the recipe in that range, regardless of your level.

I can't think of too many other recipe purchases. At the University (or abandoned lab) I think you only can buy recipes of your level. Not sure though.

Dark Gob is right on, it's F9. Just don't press that and you're good.

Hmm, several of the Function keys (F1, F2, etc.) will do things like this. F7 is "Ready" and F9 is "Wait" and F10 is "Battle cry!" but I haven't seen the "LFT" one yet. Let me check it out.


What you should put in your team comment is "Trial Account, just invite" because Trial Accounts are greatly restricted in their ability to send messages to other players. You can't reply if someone asks if you want to join a team. But if you don't want to team with other folks, just your friend, then your current comment is fine.

Yeah I have a Microsoft mouse too, and it has the same problem. Microsoft uses different values than everybody else, for the codes they send for mouse wheel scrolling, so their mice often don't work as well as you'd expect.

Just use the keyboard buttons Home and End for zoom, it's what I do.

The problem with "the best combo" is there are so many of them. Really, you should play what tickles your fancy. It'll probably be just fine, and you'll have fun. Don't think that any one power set is required to play. All of the sets are good and you can play any of them with success.

That said, some ideas do occur to me:


Villain Side:
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2 Masterminds, of any sort.

1 Mastermind, plus one of anything else.

1 Thugs/Traps mastermind, 1 Thugs/Thermal mastermind.

1 Dark/Invul Brute, 1 Fire/Rad Corruptor

2 Veats, of any sort

2 Crab Spiders in particular would be strong.

Hero Side:
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1 Invul/Dark Tanker, 1 Fire/Empathy Controller

1 Fire/Shield Scrapper, 1 Dark/Dark Defender

The content being added right now doesn't seem like something that would mesh well with F2P. I think it will be at least two years, and only then if CoH takes a big hit in population numbers and can't recover.

All the newest TFs and other content all feel like something which encourages paid subscriptions, rather than micropayments. I saw Champions Online add stuff to their store for quite a while (nearly a year) before they went F2P. I assume any MMO game would be similar.

Hmm, not sure. I run CoH from the Program Files director:

"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\cohupdater.exe"

You might want to check and see if you have a copy there, the updater may have installed things differently than you think.

Otherwise: What other symptoms do you see? Does the down load restart? It shouldn't, there should be a quick check and then a license agreement to click through.

If you are really unsure of your new settings, try starting in Safe Mode, which is a minimum settings & resolution mode so you can get back into the game and tweak stuff.


That's about all I got. Try posting in the Technical Issues forums, those guys are pretty smart and can spot problems quickly.

Oh, the obvious would be for you to post your system stats. OS version, video card, memory, video driver, etc. It'll help get things started.