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3 hours ago, Luminara said:
In bed.
I feel like this is a setup...
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3 hours ago, Shred Monkey said:
This is a great game and stuff... but compared to the MCU and DCU, CoH will never be more then a footnote in a footnote of an underappreciated text stuck in a drawer and never read by anyone. We're experiencing the peak of this game right now.
Sorry, IMNSHO, longevity and survival count as victory.-
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11 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:
No. City of Heroes cannot "save" the superhero genre.
It's not really endanger to begin with, but I suppose that you're specifically talking about the MCU and DCCU. They're movies that were watched by billions of people world-wide. Not anymore though, which is why superhero movies are now failing at the box office. The 100k or so people who might end up playing Homecoming aren't going to be able to buy enough movie tickets to change that. Period. It's simple math.
But the genre itself isn't going to cease to exist.
At a certain level, the fatigue is real.
But mostly BECAUSE the current offerings are such shit.
But not entirely.
Do I think CoH si going to "save" the genre?
No.
What it'll do is change how the superhero genre accumulates (and loses) mind-share for a while.-
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5 hours ago, Snarky said:
They came close here….
Now I have a mental image of vamps trying to say "Thqueal Like a Piggeh!" around fangs...-
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On 2/1/2024 at 5:34 PM, nzer said:
Permitted by who? The devs? By that logic nothing you have in the game belongs to you. If you're gone for a year I should be able to take your
inspirationsenhancements, your influence, your supergroup, and all of your characters, because they don't actually belong to you and you're not using them. Right?
Yes. By the devs.
All the name DB is is a trace of random characters by pattern. And the main rule is "No dupes".
You can rant and rage against that.
Unless you have a fully working, drop-in example of code to fix that, you are essentially pissing in the wind.
I know. It kinda sucks. I'd LOVE to have copies of my main on all the servers.
However, some people managed to sneak in and snag those before I did.
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If you're simply building without even using the other forms?
The main problem is that focusing on that you're cutting your own balls off. You're limiting performance still.
Now you don't HAVE to sacrifice. You can plan your Nova build around an almost identical build.
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And in case it isn't obvious, this build was put together around Level 40. Hence the non-L50 pieces.
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22 minutes ago, Kaoticken said:
Ooohh - Ork'n it up sum are we... gonna give it more Dakka?
No, because that intimates we're blowing things up.
NOT something we want to do with an expensive server.-
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2 hours ago, Ridiculous Girl said:
can someone explain this to me like i am a five year old? 😄
Also known as "Throw hardware at it"
Like swapping in an LS7 engine into a Volkswagen Beetle.-
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38 minutes ago, Lockely said:
Sometimes games have to go down for extended maintenance, especially MMOs. It's cool. At least the beta servers are up!
Better extended downtime than half-ass "solutions".-
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50 minutes ago, kanga said:
Friend of mine updating is rig, giving me his 'old' components, a 12900k, Z690 motherboard and 32Gb DDR 5 Trident Z memory. nice upgrade from my 10900k. my question now is if my Aorus waterforce 360 aio will fit that different socket.
Considering all the issues with 13X and 14X, that's a nice, solid upgrade.
Depending on the unit, you might need to get newer mounting hardware.
https://www.gigabyte.com/CPU-Cooler/AORUS-WATERFORCE-360/sp#sp
Check your socket type vs the specs listed above.-
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1 hour ago, Number Six said:
Don't worry, we have a couple people on the infra/admin team who do enterprise SQL server tuning for their day job. We're very well aware that it will try to consume all available system memory for page cache. 😉But the reason it's so critically important to run SQL on a dedicated host separate from dbserver and/or other game components is exactly so that it can make use of all that RAM without having to artificially limit it to a much lower cache size to accommodate a variable amount of memory demand from other processes.
That and dbserver is extremely sensitive to latency. It can't handle a stall if SQL is monopolizing resources and something gets paged out or has to wait on a kernel mutex.
Say no more.
I don't know enough about the way the machines are tuned to do more than just really basic advice. -
2 hours ago, Story Archer said:
Gotta listen to a man who'll use 'ameliorate' in casual conversation. 🙂
No you don't. I'm a well read spelling bee champ.
And there's always the chance I could be an idiot.-
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Additionally, pursue your Accolades.
Portal Jockey/Born in Battle is +5% Health and +5% Endurance
Received the Atlas Medallion/Marshall also grant +5% Endurance.
These don't sound like they give you a lot.
They don't.
However, they give you just enough to COMPLETELY change the performance profile of your character.
Throwing in the Performance Shifter Proc is probably the easiest and cheapest way to quickly bump your Recovery. As it's roughly equivalent to an L50 EndMod IO in Stamina. And after the first two slots, is BETTER than an EndMod IO due to the effects of Diminishing Returns. -
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Ryzen 5950X (Water Cooled)
64GB RAM
4TB (2/1/1) Samsung SSD
NVIDIA RTX 3070Ti
PSU: Seasonic Prime 1000W
(Currently have a 1300W EVGA unit as an emergency backup. Before my EVGA points went away...)
UPS: APC BackUPS 1500 (ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY! Power in my place can't handle the draw and if the USP is disconnected, the machine just resets itself.)
Fans:
2x 200mm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZP46RNR
8x 140mm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KF7O58GRadiator: 360mm Corsair Hydro H150 (Had all the LED crap removed)
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On 1/4/2024 at 10:39 AM, Thornscale said:
Congratulations! 🎉
This is so exciting that it's honestly a bit dizzying!
Every time I hear a variant of this term, I'm immediately drawn to this:
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8 hours ago, Dacy said:
I think I was talking about that with someone who has high rez monitors and it wasn't an issue for them, so it may depend on perhaps the graphics card? I know, for instance, Discord doesn't play well with systems that run certain types of system components. It's not out of the realm of possibility that the engine for COH isn't so compatible with some of the newer components, either. That's what I remember, anyway, tho I don't have more details than that, perhaps someone out there can confirm if they are running a high rez monitor and are able to use their whole screen in edit mode.
-Dacy
I'm running a 3070Ti.
Had the same behavior on the same system with a 2060.
Tried it on both Win10 and Win11.
Now back on Win10 because of Microsoft idiocy.
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Well, considering you're hitting all three of the hardware "gotchas" (sufficient CPU (speed and total processing power), memory and solid state drives, here's hoping this upgrade will fix (or at least ameliorate) the issue.
And yes, I'm preaching to the choir. But look at how much memory gets held onto (Properties/Memory - Minimum Server Memory) before clearing the DB.
If you're set to default 0 MB, this can cause slowdowns as the system tries to dump memory and can actually cause processes to hang.
Worse, with zero, it can sometimes cause the service to choke itself out (memory starvation),
Try 256/512/1024.
I've run into this on several clients and have gotten beneficial results.
If this doesn't appear to be your case, feel free to file my suggestion in the bit bucket.
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2 hours ago, Apogee said:
Are people generally running Gold-side content at +4/x8? Is that what I am missing?
No.
As I said, they're demonstrably tougher.
But missions using the whole "ambush wave" mechanic?
Remember, bumping level and enemy size will ADD difficulty.
But ambushes MULTIPLY it.
A standard group is going to be about 4 enemies.
A x2 makes it 8.
An ambush wave takes it from 8 to 24 -32-+
How many enemies can a Level 14 ANYTHING fight through?
"You're supposed to run away..."
*Wipes bum with this possibly-true but still unacceptable answer.*-
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My only real...well...OBJECTION...are the frequent and rather unrelenting nature of the ambushes in such missions.
Seriously. We're in our teens and early 20's, and things like Recovery are VERY hard to come by. There's even a couple such missions in single-digit ranges!
So here! Have an ambush or two! Or three. HELL! HAVE FOUR! STACKED!
Oh! Stealth! WUZZAT?
With the way the missions balance out, being able to bump difficulty, which is fairly dependable Red/Blue side goes from "Tough" to "OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!" with almost no notice.
These kinds of shifts are why I normally don't play Gold Side AT ALL.
So I've got a couple of characters I've gotten into the side switching.
But I've got more which are more or less permanently gated Gold Side because trying to advance them is nearly as fun as a do-it-yourself Orchidectomy with a shop vac and a saws-all,-
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This build doesn't really require Hover, as the Defense numbers are already in the "OMG STOOPIT!" range.
The only reason I do it this way is to get the prerequisite power selections for Rune Of Protection to jack up the Resist numbers.-
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3 hours ago, Nintova said:
I desperately want to view Hyperstrikes Mo' tough builds but my up to date Mids is being a bastige.
Data outside bounds of array.
What tha wha?!?
Any ideas?
Yes. VERY unhappy with the state of Mids.
Crippling a functional, but not always stable sharing system for a new system that's simply non-functional.
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36 minutes ago, Grouchybeast said:
"With NCSoft finally acknowledging their past franchise, perhaps now, more than ever, it’s time for City of Heroes to return, not only as an MMORPG but as an ambitious IP that planned to expand into movies and television."
I mean, I love City of Heroes a lot, but lololololololol...no.
Come on! You KNOW you want the Sister Psyche reading a pervy van's mind and grossing out on film!-
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Updated Superman builds
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Last I checked, you can only complete two actions at a time...
Flypose, Autorun and Toggle are three.