RogerWilco

Hi, I was trying to post some 4K images (CoH runs really nice on my 6900XT 😁 ) , but they seem to get resized to a much lower resolution? Am I doing something wrong, or should I link from an external image site if I want to post full resolution images? Thanks.

Je vois des joueurs francaises souvant au Reunion. Leurs noms and desciptions sont en Francais.

Ah right. That explains a lot. Clearly wasn't developed and marketed in Europe a lot back in the day. (I used to write software for various European customers in the early 2000s, and we designed multi llingual support into the application from the start. I got to improve my German and French quite a bit in those days...

Some iTrails pictures. Can you find your character?

Some Hamidon fight. .

Mothership raid mayhem last Sunday. (Not a huge lagfest for me on my new shiney Radeon 6900XT, even at 3840x2160 and 200% details, although I'm not getting 60 fps.. 😄)

Nice guide, thanks.

So, the ones I'm aware of at the moment: Friday iTrials starting 20:00 CET in Dark Astoria near the hospital. Saturday 20:30 CET Hamidon raids Hero and Villain sides. Starts in The Hive. Sunday 19:00 CET Mothership Raid, starts in the Rikti War Zone (SW of the crash site.) Sunday 20:00 CET iTrails for badges. The times might actually be BST for some, which leads to some confusion when the continent and the island switch between summer time and winter time on different dates. See also Li Sensei's post below. Organized by some of the nicest people on the server. 😉

I never use XP buffs, except maybe above level 45 to make the last levels go a bit faster. I do find that at more than +0, I out level the content, but the fact that I rarely play alone and often have "blue xp" saved up might play in to that. For example, going though Praetoria and then First Ward, you will reach level 20 and then 30 before the stories end. Ouro is a hassle and doesn't feel as nice as getting the stories from the NPCs in the areas they are in. We don't really roleplay, it's more like reading an interactive book with a few friends.

I checked before I made the post, at least at Icon in Atlas park. I find that if you go higher than x0,+0, then you get a lot of XP, and you outlevel the content you're doing before the stories end, so you have to stop XP gain. I prefer getting less XP and going through the content at the intended speeds, but with less of a challenge/struggle, or with quite sub-optimal builds. We're always on discord, so the mission owner just reads the texts out loud. Better team mission sharing and voice overs is one of the things that I miss in CoH compared to more modern MMOs.

I don't think that before level 50, you can easily earn the inf needed to upgrade everything, if you have only SO's slotted. I know I can't, but I don't focus on getting inf when I'm levelling. Unless I donate inf to my toons/alts, they have nowhere near the inf needed to just "push the button". I have a few racks with stacks of common salvage in the SG base, and some storage with all of the more common generic IO's of all levels. My characters just pick what they need, and I have one crafter with all generic IOs memorized, who crafts some new ones if we run out. All characters dump their salvage in the base and that's usually enough to keep everything topped up, except for Boresights, Human Blood Samples and Luck Charms. I spend a few minutes restocking ever month or so. I use SO's when I get them and can use them, and don't worry about slotting everything as I level (certainly below level 30), except for Accuracy. I find that as long as you have enough Accuracy, the rest doesn't matter much while levelling, at least at +0 x0. I am in no hurry to get to 50, I like the stories and the missions. I store the more frequently used SOs in the base if I have space. (Accuracy, Health, Recharge, End. Mod., Damage) with the pile of crafted IO's that I keep in stock. I really don't find the common generic IOs much of a hassle with my set up, my base more-or-less functions as a vendor, I just have to restock occasionally. I use SOs if I have them below level 30-35, above that level, I think IOs have the math in their favour any way, and the prices go up, and levelling slows down.

I thought you could just talk to the plastic surgeon at the back of the shop? On the villain side as well. I do a lot of the things you do as well, except I level almost exclusively doing missions at +0 x0. I still haven't seen all the stories this game has to offer. I do a lot of them together with friends, often in a "fixed" team so we follow along in the stories together. I have a few toons that solo or PuG for when none of my friends are on. I have about 40 alts, of which two are level 50, most are below level 40, but slowly getting there. I usually play until I run out of blue XP and then switch to a different toon. I read all the mission dialogs, clues and such. So, really not every unusual, mostly how I think the game was meant to be played back then. A lot of it is still new to me.

There was a bug a year ago where it would "edit" the .sh file it uses to launch the game when you click the blue arrow in Island Rum and add a few random characters. Making the file read-only was a work around. This created the same behaviour as you describe: starts Wine, then doesn't understand what to do next. I don't have time to go and debug now, but maybe something like that is happening here as well. There are a few files that get rewritten by Island Rum every time before it tries to start the game, to give Wine the correct install location to find the files.

Als mensen een invite naar onze discord willen, stuur me dan een PM. Het kan soms wel even een week of zo duren voor ik reageer, ik kijk niet iedere dag op het forum. Laatste paar maanden tijdelijk veel minder vanwege familie omstandigheden. Maar we zijn nog steeds met een paar NL meerdere keren per week online.

The IO sets take quite a bit of investment, but just the general IO's only take common salvage and will work well enough, even for quite a bit of level 50 content. I have level a 50 toon without any IO sets. And sometimes you can get some things cheap on the Auction House, people craft these things just to level up and then dump their inventory. Just put out a few low-ish bids and usually you can get what you want in a couple of weeks. No need for even crafting the generic IOs. A few will be hard to get this way, like Accuracy, Health and Endurance Modification. I take forever to get to level 50 (I have nearly full incarnate level 50, and one that doesn't have any incarnate powers yet). I have like 30 alts. But I don't PUG much, I mostly play with a fixed set of friends, with whom I also play other games. There are quite a few groups on the server with their own discord channel or server, join one of those. Unfortunately the Super Group doesn't really work that well in City of Heroes as a guild or fleet does in other games.

Yeah, they give a bit of a Tank Top Army from One Punch Man vibe. https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Tank_Topper_Army Intended to be heroes, but a bit rude and inconsiderate to anyone not buff and in a tank top.

In my experience these things happen with such hardware. I haven't received a data processing cluster yet, where there wasn't some issue before we could fully use it. ( we once had to send 100 motherboards back to Taiwan for them to actually replace a component.). And it doesn't really matter with supplier: HP, Dell, Super Micro, IBM, Lenovo, etc. We once had to write our own network card driver to get the full performance of the hardware. It's nice if a service like OHV ends up with the costs for such things, but that's in the fine print of the contract. And delivery times are all over the place right now. Thanks for keeping the City running, we had a blast last weekend doing the Halloween stuff.

Thank you for keeping the lights on!

I do not agree that dedicated bike lanes in densely built areas are impossible. I think that they actually help. If you build bike and pedestrian infrastructure, and mass transit, and make it faster than the same distance by car, you will see that densely populated areas are actually perfect for getting people to not use the car. The result is that even for those that do have to use a car, the experience is better than if there was no such infrastructure. NotJustBikes explains it quite well: If driver do not see other road users, your roads are designed incorrectly. Stop blaming the individuals, start improving the system. It has worked in a lot of industries, most notably the airline industry.

I might at some point muster the courage to respond to @Luminara 's long and thoughtful response. Thank you. Unfortunately I have a lot of other things going on in my life. In the mean time I will just post a few more videos from NotJustBikes, as he keeps making awesome videos about the comparison between Dutch and North American infrastructure. Cheers.

Star Trek: The Voyage Home. and the Hogfather movie.

Didn't Buffy the Vampire Slayer have some spin-off series like Angel? There is also the Highlander movies and series. There is the 1960s Bewitched series and its spin-offs. There is Dr. Who with Torchwood and such. Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_shared_universes_in_film_and_television

Are you talking about a Pen-n-paper RPG, or some computer game?

I usually watch a person play a bit of a game before I buy it myself. I also watch some Youtubers/Twich streamers off and on, whenever they are playing a game that interest me, or there is a new release/DLC. These are usually people much more skilled at the game than I am, where I hope to learn something, get some inspiration, or find the way they tell stories/play the game interesting. A few examples: DDRJake: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8b4hCq0aHQbl0v2il0tR_A Especially his Paradox content. He also has unwatchable stuff, but some of his games are the best strategy gameplay I have ever seen. A quarter of a million people have watched his world conquest as Ryukyu/Okinawa, all 68 hours of it. Etho: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKDEp9si4RmHFWJW1vYsMA Because he is just the best Canadian in the world. The Mighty Jingles: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpnjlvS2zxhbNJuGNo_TxkQ For his humour. Quill18: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbx1TZgxfIauUZyPuBzEwZg For the hats, inspiration and variation. I am not sure if Kruggsmash counts: https://www.youtube.com/user/kruggsmash But his stories in Dwarf Fortress are very good.

I wish er well and hope she recovers. The medical procedures you describe are very serious.