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@Jimmy For Project: Hangover, you mentioned that at some point in the near future it will be rolled out to begin replacing Tequila/Island rum (at least that is what I'm interpreting from the announcement), do we have a timetable of when to expect having to download it once it is tested and confirmed as stable? Does Hangover work with Senticon/Paragon Chat? Also do we have confirmation of it working on Vista Potatoes? 😛 (aka Windows Vista) I definitely like the new snapshots and the new stuff, very tantalizing 😄

I was there for the Monster Mash, and got a few attacks in, but right before the pictures were gonna be taken, I got mapserved and I couldn't get back in afterwards... Felt kind of left out... 😞

One of all my favorite memories of CoH was when I was running the Warden Resistance Arc on goldside as one of my Merc/Dark Miasma toons, when I spoke to all the Warden Resistance contacts I helped just before crossing the portal into Primal Earth, including one of my faves: Katie Douglas, and working on several AE Arcs shortly afterwards. It was the only way to endure the hard moments I had going in real life, by being creative and putting emotions into story arcs.

I meant the CoH Client, I'm not 100% confident the CoH server will run on 32GB of RAM and I'm trying to migrate away from Windows eventually, and I like Linux so it seemed like a Good OS to test with.

Here's what I would do in your place (since I got an XFX setup, XFX=Crossfire or Dual Bridged Video Cards), if your temperature has climbed recently, you might want to unplug your system, take the cover off so you got access to the motherboard, and then check for dust particles or dust bunnies which may be crusted either on your motherboard or in the fan grille. Believe it or not, dust wrieks havoc on electronics and can even kill your RAM modules (one burnt out on me due to dust last year) and can even cause stuff to run hot. You can also get an air compressor, hose, and air nozzle to blow out all the dust from your system. You could also take out your video card and blow the dust away with compressed air or the nozzle, and with a little bit of luck your temperatures will go back down. Also make sure to update your drivers, sometimes those driver updates can make a difference in performance. Hope this helps...

@ColdZero Can CoH be run from CentOS 6-8? I'm also trying to experiment installing on a Proliant 365 and an older PowerEdge 2650 but I need to know before I even embark on this

Upon doing a mission in Praetoria, I received a yellow recipe which came up erroneously labeled as "Family_Boss_Defense_12". A screenshot is provided and a ticket has been submitted to alert of this bug.

Yes, you save the day, save dimensions, timelines and even save the city (or cities)... But still, there are things one can't change, and one must remember the previous generation of heroes that came before, never forgetting how precarious the future is.

@Peerless Girl and @Myrmidon Here's where the disconnect and the confusion came from in my last posts: I honed in on the term "Powerleveling" and thought that they were referring to anything an everything powerleveling (fearing they would do away with XP boosts, being able to do radio missions with friends, and making it harder to reach level 50) and I didn't read the rest (I apparently missed the acronym AFK plastered right next to powerleveling). I then saw the whole matter from a "Half glass Empty" instead of "Half Full", plus it's been a semi-stressful week between this quarantine, work, in making heads or tails from the changes coming down the pipe in the game. Part of me has a suspicion of trolls/manipulators causing chaos, and not the norm, because uncommon salvage went from as low as 1inf, shot up to 1k, 10k, 25k, then hovering at 35k for a while, and slowly but surely climbing past 50k. Just a hunch...

I'll take a look just in case there's something else that's been added which I might have missed. Update: Found it! Upgradeable enhancements, early access to DO's SO's and new sets from Mr Yin's store. Not a bad idea, and could help with mitigating the end drain/squish factor some early on. Thanks for that! Update 2: After gaining a fresh perspective from a friend of mine, now I see the bigger picture and therefore have nothing to worry about when it comes to the need for more necessary adjustments to other parts of the game. My apologies for not understanding this better Jimmy, as I needed another set of eyes to help me catch what I couldn't see. This calls for more research on Beta on my part.

1. Speculation has NOT led to accomplishment 100% of the time, be it financial or in any other form, history has examples where it's been disastrous, it is there where I've derived my point from, but that's an entirely different matter altogether and therefore Off-topic. 2. There is a difference between Mastering a game in a limitless manner, and Mandating how a player (or a player-base) should or should not play a game, in this case we're discussing City of Heroes, not a unrelated game, thusly I'm attempting to keep this On-Topic. 3. This topic is about Influence adjustment and reduction thereof, and any additional ideas (like the speculation of power leveling) would fit better in their own separate topic. 4. While a game shouldn't be easy (we sort of agree to an extent here within moderation) it shouldn't also be brutally grindy. They're gonna continue to climb, because it's impossible to narrow the cause down to either superadine addicts from Skyway/The Hollows, or unseen enemy supergroups operating in Khallisti Warf. (Market Crash TF Reference) 😛

Yep, I said that, and I adjusted accordingly. As it stands right now, THERE IS NO STABILITY of any kind, until difficult hurdles have been cleared and new content is developed. NOTHING was refuted (If that's what you perceived), I simply polished my point of view to direct it to what ACCURATELY needed to be said. What bearing Kirby games have on City of Heroes I don't know (nor is it important or RELEVANT in this case) but one thing IS important, making progression more tedious than it already is will not a good case make... Also, speculation leads to disaster, interpretation is the result of one given output from the output of something else.

Win Win always works for me, and if it works for others, even better. 🙂

That would be a HORRIBLE idea, making reaching Incarnate Level that much harder and impossible to reach, that's what THIS sounds like... That in itself is going to prove a near-impossible challenge given the lack-luster impediments of TO's, DO's, small dev team size (don't know if the team shrunk or grew) and lack of new content and development of Goldside (Praetoria for those who are not aware of Going Rogue and left prior to issues 16-20) which is by far more appealing than either Blueside or Redside (I've played almost about every single arc there is on both, and found it challenging if not impossible to even attempt progressing without joining friends in an RP type of story progression). I will say that the removal of power-leveling will do more harm than good, and might make some unhappy enough to leave altogether, but that's just my observation, however dismal it might seem.

I misread your post, that's a mistake on MY part, therefore I apologize. All of that is irrelevant to this particular discussion, so I won't comment...

It is my opinion (key word OPINION, before I get a tomato thrown at me), that the thread is reaching a slightly TOXIC point. It's not even safe to argue/discuss/debate for or against anything, and all of this has or is beginning to become a TOUCHY subject that is breeding ideas for rather unsound and rather DRACONIAN and baseless measures. Now would be a safe moment to simply take a breather, look at the whole picture as is, think before stating something (looking back I saw the need to shift my focus some which is why I backed away some and tried to dig some to verify) and just drop the whole thing for a day or two. And if sane minds can't prevail, I'm in favor of having the thread locked to avoid the creation of Mountain Ranges out of ant hills and accept the adjustment. There's absolutely NO NEED whatsoever to make things miserable for anyone whatsoever. @Crysis I'm going to wholeheartedly disagree with your opinion on power leveling for ONE reason and one reason alone, simply put "You cannot order/force/mandate/tell ANYONE how to play the game", you just CAN'T do that. Edit: I just noticed a few more posts that confirm things have calmed some, looks like sane minds are prevailing to some degree.

Interesting, I'll give this part a look, as it's easy to miss.

Finally! We're making some progress, SMALL progress, but it's a start! DEEP IGNORANCE is not the choice of words I would have used, I would have used "Lack of experience in the usage of the auction house" which is more accurate and sounds a lot less negative. I mainly use the AH to sell salvage that clogs up my inventory and to buy the more "affordable" common salvage when making Generic IOs to put it on the base salvage racks (which I need to put some work into so I can put more salvage racks in there), and I've experimented on a limited basis (with some limited success) with the suggestions on the uncommon or "Yellow/Gold" IOs and salvage, sometimes I get lucky and get Karma and on the rare blue moon I get gift of the ancients, which although sells decently (for 1 mil) its still not a viable way to make Inf without massive losses (buying the converters to switch them around). Sometimes getting an item you REALLY really want doesn't happen, I tried to get one of the new synapse IOs going for 6-7 Mill for 2 and once 3, which is what I believe a reasonable amount (Not too cheap, and not too expensive) only to find out after waiting a week the bid is still there. Normally when I look at bids or items on sale, I'm not able to see names or who's selling what, and therefore if there's bargains being advertised, of course I'm gonna miss out since I'm not able to see who's selling it, only what's being sold. Now, is the Auction House channel ACTUALLY active and being used to advertise stuff?! If not, I'm willing to take a gander at making a tab on my chat window to see if someone's got some stuff to sell or to see if I can catch stuff. I try to avoid using merits AT ALL on anything other than recipes I want, because grinding for them is time-consuming, and sometimes when you REALLY need that one IO that a good build can use, all you got is merits to buy them with, also taking into consideration that I mostly solo and don't team much. The Marketing guide from the feedback I received from a few other folks is not 100% complete, as the super-effective methods are not in there (my take on it is no one is willing to give the gold away), how true that is I'm not sure, but I'll be taking a read at that marketing thread to see what I can find that I'm not doing correct...

Point it out, and don't leave out the important parts when you quote my posts, I feel I've been very civil thus far and I've not disrespected anyone, only defended my point of view as best as I could.

I'm gonna go ahead and stop you right there, because you've clearly missed reading the earlier threads of this post.... These two particular remarks are one reason I would recommend that the thread is locked, as they are a toxic element which is not necessary in this discussion. The change has already been IMPLEMENTED, and there's ABSOLUTELY no indication of a reversal on said change otherwise, therefore making any more comments useless or pointless. HOWEVER, if we can avoid ridicule and disrespect, Provide some FACTS (I've actually been experimenting with some suggestions from Myrmidon with some promising results) and not resort to attacks, then continuation of this discussion is in order, as long as it remains civil. Happy you caught that one 🙂

Sorry but no, it's not spot on, I believe the reference from From Samurai Jack would have made a better comparison, since Veruca has absolutely no bearing on this matter... (and also perceived as condescendingly disrespectful) Here are both clips for YOUR viewing pleasure. Samurai Jack Reference (Finding Balance within inner turmoil) And the Car Reference came from "My Cousin Vinny" This conversation is over... and this has become a touchy subject...

1. Namely because I don't know who you are, or the shard you play on, 2. Following your statement I'm not interested in finding out, as that was perceived as disrespectful and condescending just so you know, 3. At this point, good manners on your part will help immensely, and I'm not your "Bro"... As painful as it sounds, I agree with you Saikochoro, this thread has begun to devolve into something that it shouldn't devolve into. It's pointless, fruitless and useless to continue to even address the matter anymore. I guess its time to lock the thread and discontinue any further discussion... Yep, time to lock the thread. That comparison is as inaccurate as a 1963 Pontiac Tempest being compared to a 1963 Corvette... -.-

You can be sorry as much as you want, and the system you use while effective and useful "For You" is NOT effective or useful to me. Waiting 3, 4 or 5 days for stuff to sell at the price you want it to sell for just doesn't work for me, take into consideration that patience is not a virtue most possess, and THAT is not an exaggeration. The luck of the draw sometimes doesn't work out and its rather frustrating. The only surefire way to even win 150 Mill inf in one shot is to win a Costume Contest hands down, which for 90% of the time has become an unachievable challenge, and I won't elaborate further. An adjustment should definitely not be ruled out, after some careful consideration and some available data, plus being able to see the other point of view.

Easy to play, yes. Easy to make Inffluence without grinding non-stop... No... But I'm happy we can agree on the new content part.

Yeah, the conversion system is just like lightning, it never strikes the same target every single time you need it. Yellows don't convert to anything except yellows, and those few yellows that DO pop up are about as good as a nickel (worth nothing). Karma doesn't often appear, and gift of the ancients is just as elusive. Rares HARDLY convert to something worthwhile until after you've gone through 20-45-50 merits and 80-120 enhancement converters (and THIS WAS the case last year since there was a lot of code adjustments taking place) just trying to get the damn enhancement you want or need for whatever reason you need it for, so I'm gonna have to say the accuracy of this statement is in the 5-8% range IMHO. While volunteering for summer blockbusters is not the difficult feat in itself, I don't team too often. I burnt myself out last year in the summer, fall, and winter on the beta shard (Mostly late fall/winter on the beta shard) attempting to come up with solid and survivable enough builds and trying out as many solo arcs as I could blueside and goldside, Add hours of gameplay trying to figure out the incarnate system and navigating the end of game storyarcs (Blueside Calvin Scott and Redside Mr G). My build research was met with limited success and disaster, and I'm just not willing to do a bunch of storyarc chains like I used to, the diminishing returns are just not worth the burnout. I'm also not a huge fan of having to go on TFs, just not the teaming type... The enhancement converter scheme appears to be but a "Small Bandaid" solution to an Inf problem that might not be resolved, and while it is not a bad solution in itself for now, it is ALSO not the most optimal solution right now, so for the moment I AM limited to a either a vegetable patch, a mission grindfest or a taskforce grind-fest unfortunately. The main takeaway is "What works perfect and fine for ONE person, DOES NOT work for another person" hence why I am pointing it out, as there are many varying points of view on this. I'm more of an AE fan, since I've spent considerable time making some storyarcs (which are sadly still riddled with bugs as of now), but being good on AE doesn't mean squat in terms of earning inf, so I'm out of luck on that particular avenue (since I am ALSO not the farmer type). So I'm gonna close with this, Inf nerfing has introduced more problems than it has introduced solutions for those who are not patient or that don't want to make a full-time job out of playing the game (it's supposed to be fun, not supposed to be work).