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I tend to think that female toons who don't have physique and waist both fairly far up look... really disturbingly unhealthy.

Problem is, a lot of female jacket pieces then bulge noticably outwards around the still-not-bulging actual torso, and nearly all the belts clip badly.

So I use a small number of belt pieces nearly all the time on female characters, because everything else clips badly.

But what about my silly question about bots? I seriously want to know what I'm missing if other peoples' bots are staying at range.

Side note: Some people have issues with ATI's current (11.8) drivers, but the 11.4 drivers seem pretty stable.

Yes, it really is as simple as "create a folder there". I just made a folder called "games" and installed stuff there.

Your bots stay in one place?

... At what level? I noticed that mine were more likely to at 32+, when they had enough ranged attacks. Otherwise, they'd fire their lasers, then go punch things while their lasers recharged.

Can't reach login servers as of around midnight PST. Not totally surprised.

... and they're back up.

Interesting! I don't have that NCLauncher thing in Classes. I do have some under Microsoft\Tracing in Wow6432Node, but they have longer names, like NCLauncher_RASM32PI or something similar (it's not on screen now so I can't spell it right).

I did notice that it WORKED anyway -- if I just said no, it launched CoH fine. But I still get the UAC prompt, so I must be missing something.

Note that I have allowed it to run a few times, so if it wanted to create that NCLauncher thing, it should have done so by now. So I have no idea what it wants to do, but being told "no" doesn't seem to prevent it from running the game.

ETA: Yes, I've been using "give the directory to that specific user", it seems like it's less trouble, and this isn't really a multi-human machine, just multi-account to try to mitigate the security stuff.

I'm sorry! I didn't know that quip about you guys buying Geek Squad protection for your servers next time would offend you so much that you would have to shut the servers down RIGHT before I could get a group together for the Hollows stuff.

But I know you did it just to spite me personally. And also every other person who was logged in and complained that your timing was bad.

Seriously, shutting servers down at a time when like 80% of the population is asleep? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? 7:30PM Pacific is WHERE IT IS AT, MAN!

You are the reason my peacebringer's karma -kb aren't selling. :P

Of course, I'm telling you exactly how to have fun: Do things you enjoy.

I am not telling you what those things are, because I don't know what you enjoy, but I can tell you that you will have more fun doing things you enjoy than things you hate. This is a super advanced concept for most MMO forum posters, I admit.

Why on earth would you play the entirety of any decent MMO? The entire point of the modernish MMO design is that the entire game, pretty much, is optional. You have dozens of choices, so you can do the ones you enjoy.

I'm a fan of CoH. I've never yet gotten anyone past 44. I have a second account due to running out of slots (and yes, I bought some slots too), and I still never quite get around to it. For me, buckling down and focusing on levelling a character might extend as far as trying to play that character at least once a week.

This isn't just CoH. Not comparing with other MMOs, but I'm a pretty big fan of RIFT (like, I have a special forum title over there)... And I haven't yet gotten anyone to level cap on either of my accounts.

And yet... I'm having a lot of fun. I had fun in WoW, too, even though I did maybe 10% of the endgame content that was ever around when I was. And I've never PvPd in any of these games, even though that's a huge hunk of content to many people.

That, you see, is because I understand that the point of the game is to do things you think are fun. I tend not to be well-suited to stuff like trials and leagues and whatever else, because I don't deal well with large numbers of people. I'd rather play in small groups, doing stuff like 5-player SF/TF runs. So I don't see a lot of the game...

But the parts I do see? I enjoy them. I have fun. I have gotten to be pretty firm about that one policy: If I am not having fun in an MMO, I go do something else. There are no rewards that make up for Not Having Fun.

MHO, but MHO happens to be backed by many years of having a great time while forums were full of people complaining that the game was ruined for them.

I do a lot of antiflipping, which is to say, I buy stuff for more than 1 inf, and list it at 1. Sometimes 1-2 hundred things.

So I have 150 of something up for 1 inf. And someone bids 50k, and they get one. You see that they sell for 50k, so you list yours at 45k... But I still have 149 of them up for 1 inf. Mine will sell first for whatever prices people choose to bid...

Yeah, I just gave up on trying to find one for Roarity, although Twilight Glitter could get away with Rhino under a top hat.

Can anyone tell me SPECIFICALLY what the launcher needs access to? According to MS, it is possible to give specific users write access to specific hunks of registry.

It's Windows 7.

With the old launcher, I went in on an admin account, and changed the ownership of the entire CoH folder to the games account -- this was enough to allow that account to write to that folder, and I never had admin troubles again, because the launcher never needed to do anything that required admin privs; it could, of course, write to a directory owned by the logged-in user.

I'm guessing the problem is the HKLM registry writes, and I was hoping there was some corresponding trick to allow me to do something like:

* Have the launcher use user registry, not machine-wide registry
* Otherwise bypass this

Because it really seems like giving a program that downloads and runs updated copies of other programs complete, total, and absolute access to every aspect of a machine is not the wisest first step in maintaining a secure environment. Software has bugs. I would rather run with the absolute minimum privileges necessary at any given time.

I am amazed. I had noticed the graphical corruption (but not hangs) on my laptop.

But mostly I am amazed because I have been playing MMOs for many years, and this is the only time I've ever seen an MMO vendor get involved beyond saying "make sure your drivers are current".

I have a dark/dark, the big thing I found was that once you got to DOs or lowbie IOs, it became QUITE effective. In particular, I could kill small groups by standing in them.

I settled on Rhino Horn + Top Hat. The top hat hides the second horn, and Twilight Glitter is now ready to learn about the magic of friendship, with her friend, Pinkie Pyro. (Yes, I am doing four more "soon".)

Back with the old launcher, I found instructions for setting up CoH to run without admin privs. Basically, you could do this as long as you gave the CoH directory to a user account, at which point the updater could modify the game files without needing admin privs.

Without getting too far into "comparing to other MMOs" land, I will point out that I play other games which have updaters that are able to use the advanced technology of "files owned by the current user" in order to run without admin privs.

Is there any possible way to configure the new launcher to stick to modifying files/registry entries/etc. which are writeable/modifiable by the current user? Basically, the entire reason Windows has user accounts which are not admin accounts is so that you can set things up so that a user has sufficient privileges for that user's things, and doesn't need absolute power over the entire system. This is what, well, basically everything else I do that has updaters does.

If it can't be done, oh well, that's the point of a dedicated game machine. But it really seems like it ought to be possible, since it was perfectly possible with the previous launcher. (And with, well. Lots of other launchers and updaters.)

Obviously, if this has effects such as "other users will not be able to use the game", that's fine by me; there's a dedicated user account for playing the game. (Paranoid? ME? That's ridiculous. Who told you that?)

Digression:

I've found that you can do most of the regular content in the game pretty easily with SOs, but if you want to start running solo at higher difficulty, you will want IOs. So, for casual purposes SOs are fine, but for all intensive purposes you want IOs.

Any suggestions as to how one would get something that looked vaguely like a unicorn horn in the costume creator? Rhino Horn would almost work if I could figure out how to remove the rear horn.

I should probably update my sig to include my link to l2p, noob!, the site I'm working on to help people get over MMO burnout.

Here's the thing:

If you want to play a game, you have to get away from concepts like "the endgame" and "the option for future advancement". Set goals, pursue your goals, but always remember that if you're not enjoying working on a goal, it's probably not a good goal; having stuff isn't fun, getting stuff is.

I'm hoping for a level bump on the beta server so I can see whether a stone/elec tanker is fun at 38. If it is, then I'm going to level one 1-38, because I enjoy playing the game -- I just want to know whether my idea that LR and Granite will be complimentary pays off.

But mostly, I log in and look for people I know who are doing stuff, and ask them if they want help. If they are dying too much, I bring a defender or tank. If they are bored waiting for things to die, I bring a blaster. If they are finding navigation too easy, I roll a /kin MM so I can speedboost them and block doorways with my pets. Whatever the team needs.

I think there's a sort of tradeoff.

It's obviously desireable to be able to ensure that something is SOME kind of threat, and people with 85-90% resists are of course not much threatened.

If I were trying to solve this, I think what I'd probably do is make the damage, say, half unresistable and half resistable of some normalish type, so that resistances provided some benefit, but not as much benefit. So if a 1k attack was doing, say, 650 damage instead of 100 damage to a res-capped tanker...

I got an ASUS G73JH last summer to play CoH. There's a new G74 model that looked quite nice and then disappeared from stores immediately. Still listed on the US web site:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ASUS+-+L...2579&cp=1&lp=1

What a horrible URL. Anyway, I've heard people say good things about it, and it's $1100 US, so it might be within range -- but on the highish end. (The Best Buy version is cheaper than the other models, and has a lower-rez screen. I used my old one with a 1920x1200 monitor and it was silky smooth in Ultra.)