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Account-wide crafting tables would hugely increase the cost of crafted generic IOs.
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Quote:Very good observation, matches my own experience. This game is, once you've learned the basic mechanics, mostly pretty easy, and that is by design; after all, if you want it hard, the level and spawn size adjustments are there.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
There are some players that appear to be "slaves to numbers" but in my experience most of the good min/maxers that know what they are talking about are not snobs about it: I've seen few people actually good at number crunching tell people you *have* to in order to be good at the game. In fact, I consider that a warning sign the person you're talking to *isn't* good at min/maxing in this game because a good min/maxer would know just how little effort it takes to become competent at most or all of the content. -
Update:
Quit completely to desktop, restarted game, closed ncsoft launcher, game now working correctly. -
I have two machines. I have some enhancement unslotters. How many?
Well.
If I am on one of the machines, I can't tell. On the other it displays normally.
This is machine-specific, not options-specific, so far as I can tell; if I relog the same character on the other machine, it toggles, so the laptop always shows the "Available: N" and the desktop never does.
All other aspects of email seem to display fine on both systems. -
I am in some strange way cursed, such that if I think about buying stuff from the ncsoft store, I tend to trigger the "as a securit measure we limit individual purchases of online codes" things, and once I've triggered it, it stays triggered until I file a petition.
In theory the point system should help, except that it doesn't help if I can't buy points, either. But wait! Not only can't I buy points, but the entire section of help messages about this, while still just as useless and vague as before, is also now wrong, because it is all about "serial codes". I'm not buying a serial code. Serial codes do not figure in to this.
Based on previous experience, I know that if it's been three days since a purchase and I get the throttle message, the only thing I can do is file a petition. I also know that the claim that they "cannot override this" is a 100% blatant lie, as they not only can but do upon receiving petitions. *sigh*
Paragon folks, please find a way to get ncsoft to sell you to someone who does not have some kind of abiding religious objection to the idea of engaging in commerce. -
Okay, clearly this is not working as intended.
So far I'm up 400M on the deal.
To clarify: You are NOT required or expected to send back a ton of extra inf later. It's a gift, not a loan at 30000% interest. -
Someone in-game was claiming that if ALL of your builds are bane spider, you can lose the pack. I do not know whether this is true.
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Quote:I never saw that show, but I'm glad you got to meet some celebrities!Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I, however am posting this while having breakfast with the family from The Original Pancake House.
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Quote:If it's not, there's another door within 3 feet that I can't see.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Check the distance on the waypoint as you approach the door to really make sure it's the right door.
As I got to this part of your post, the timer hit zero. And sure enough, that fixed it.Quote:Otherwise, try relogging.
Ahh, City of Mysterious Bugs. Maybe for the Dark and Mysterious costume contest, I should go as "the CoH Code Base". -
Doing an arc, I have the mission "Retake Fort Darwin". The mission pointer thingie brings me to a door. I go up to the door, I click it. "You cannot enter."
I... have no clue? I don't see a way to get around that. I've looked around for other doors into the same building, and I can't find any that work. -
Thx, bug report sent.
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Yes, I know, /bug. I have done that. It's still there.
I don't know whether I could use this to crash the server (or client). I don't really want to find out.
There is a bug in a few places in the game, among them the auction house, which could cause arbitrary hunks of memory to get overwritten in... well, let's just say I hope it would only affect the client. (Would be most obvious when bidding on things or listing them.)
Is there some way to get a bug report to someone who knows what a stack is and why it is bad to treat a random hunk of it as an address and write to that address? I'm trying to find the line between "make it clear that this is serious" and "avoid giving bad people any ideas". -
On the one hand, that's pretty much four of the six hours I usually spend hanging out with the people I hang out with the most on Saturdays.
On the other hand, fixes are a good thing.
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Quote:Define "casual"?Originally Posted by Wing_Leader
It seems like the only discussions on AT builds and play strategies to be found on these forums are relevant to power gamers who are intimately familiar with "the numbers" and have seemingly unlimited access to every IO in the game, no matter how rare or expensive. Am I the only casual player who also isn't a complete newbie?
I play a fair bit of time, but in a bit over a year of play, I've not yet gotten even one character to 45.
Marketeering.Quote:How does one do this without farming or spending three years playing the same toon every day?
Sure.Quote:Is there still room in this game for casual players who want to experience the max-level content, but who don't want to turn farming into another life's career just to obtain the necessary IOs to be useful on a team nowadays?
Thing is... You don't really need to be IOd out to be a contributor on a team. And most teams seem to do just fine with a couple of people who aren't very enhanced.
Mostly, though, money comes from a certain amount of marketeering, or selling a lot of drops. -
Well, tell ya what.
Any rednames reading this:
Can you tell me what I have bought through the paragon market, and when? I'm (@Seebs Dot Net) in game. You are hereby permitted to look this up and PM me or post it.
The questions are:
1. Which actual things in the store have I purchased?
2. When did I purchase them?
3. How many distinct checkouts was that?
From the information I have seen so far, I simply have no evidence that anyone at NCsoft or Paragon can answer those questions. Obviously, the information should exist... But this store has been a running series of gaffes which no one could possibly make.
If someone can convince me that ncsoft really does have transaction records and history, I'm inclined to buy some more points and fill some stuff out. But without that history... I'm not super comfortable buying things through a store that may or may not leave any record behind except the observation that character slots are marked unlocked and my account has fewer points. I want to have some confidence that, if that data gets screwed up, there's records to allow recreating it.
I'm really loving this game right now, you're doing great things... I just don't have any confidence whatsoever in the people doing the store. Like, if you told me that they were running an internal competition to see who could get a listing on the Daily WTF, I would consider it a better explanation than any I currently have. -
I have seen tons of RP in AE -- organized through other channels, because if you try to start it openly, people get mad at you for not farming efficiently.
That's not because there's more of them, so much as because they can't read. -
Which is to say:
As soon as the game allows us to eat our opponents, and eating some of them damages us, it will become important to distinguish between "poison" and "venom" in the game.
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Well, my assumption was always that Paragon was basically sane, but ncsoft corporate had the sort of surreal total incompetence that made Dilbert so popular for being "true to life".
Outsourced is plausible. So is "ncsoft just sucks at computers".
This store feels like the same sort of idiocy as the existing online store and the new launcher, to me. It's got that thing going where with practice you can sort of predict the kinds of ways in which they will get things wrong. -
Go to account management, and change your *game* password (to what it already is), and you should be able to log in again within 5-10 minutes.
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Quote:I don't see any logging of point expenditures. All I see is a point total which has been modified. My purchase history shows when points were added, but not when points were removed.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
It occurred to them to log when you spend points. It just didn't seem to occur to them to have a way to show what you spent the points on. Which to be honest seems more retarded than completely forgetting to log it.
So. I started with some points. I bought some points. I now have fewer points left.
I do not see anything that convinces me that ANYONE at ncsoft can say with certainty whether I spent those points on Wednesday or Thursday. Maybe they can, but I don't see any evidence of it.
The store does have that "outsourced" feel to it -- you get the feeling that there was a checklist of features but that there was at no point any kind of design.Quote:Honestly, I have to be frank here. The last time I saw something like the Paragon Store's implementation someone outsourced development to a sweatshop in India. I bet I could write something better in PHP in a weekend. I don't even know why its written in an Ajax toolkit when the store pages seem almost completely static. Coding a store in Ajax and having back buttons not work right is like chartering a 747 to take just two people from San Francisco to Los Angeles and then driving it down the interstate to get there.
Given ncsoft's history (store, ncsoft launcher, etcetera), I think they are probably being run by people who figure that saving $20k on a programming project is a very important deal, and losing $20m of income because your store is unusable is insignificant.
(What really got me was the discovery that the launcher doesn't actually have to be run as admin; it is able to run updates, install games, and so on, without admin privileges. Rather, it merely requests them unconditionally without even trying to do anything. You can just click "no" and, if your system's permissions are reasonable for the purpose, everything runs without difficulty.) -
True, it can be used for some things. It just does nothing to tell me, say, why I have a different number of points on two accounts when I thought I had bought the same things on both. Or whether my next salvage purchase should be 2/10 or 3/10. Or whatever.
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SO'd might be okay, but Premium can never do Incarnate, period. So it wouldn't matter; you can't be able to do Incarnate trials and unable to use IOs.
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Quote:Or, if you're me:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
After you execute that command, find the log for today in C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\logs\game (C:\Program Files (x86) for the Win7 and Vista people),
C:/Users/games/appdata/roaming/ncsoft/City of Heroes/logs/game
Side notes:
1. The AppData directory is hidden. You just have to know it's there.
2. Yes, the game really does display this with forward slashes when showing that path (say, after /wdwsave).
3. If you check Properties of the game in the launcher, and then click "Browse...", you see this directory, but not the files, because it has spawned an Explorer window which shows files only if they are named CityOfHeroes.exe.
... But yes, you can extract it from there and look at the utterly meaningless data. I like that there is more than one thing I'm listed as having purchased which has EXACTLY the same name. (I have two things labeled something like "Wedding Pack - Bridal Tights". They have different product codes, though.) -
Quote:Not exactly.Originally Posted by Cende
You can, in a chat tab, type /mypurchases and get a list of ALL the purchases you've ever made.
You can get a list of unlocks.
It is not a list of purchases. It's a list of things unlocked. It doesn't show you when you got things, or whether you spent points on them.
Note that if you have chat logging on, it's a big fat block of HTML which something like Firefox can render. But...
It's not a purchase history. A purchase history would show times and amounts of points spent. Having seen ncsoft running a store in the past, I am assuming that this is because it never occurred to them to log such things. -
The stories are WAY different past that first mission. I've found them rewarding.