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    Who's Missing?

    in Reconnect

    Posted

    I offer this fish to summon a Pengi

     

    ¸.·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º>

     

     

    Let us know if it works.

     

    I got a few fish around here for him too.

    I don't get why this is so much better than CO

    in General Discussion

    Posted

     

    The community in CoX have also never been too concerned with the balance of power, in my opinion. Sure, certain MM powersets might be stronger than the other archetypes, but if you don't find MMs fun, then there's no reason to play one. And in a large group setting, the OP-ness of what you're playing matters less. As you get into endgame and start crafting and slotting IO sets, that balance of power also shifts again.

     

    Ultimately, CoX is a game that's about the journey, not the destination. There's no point spamming AE on your MM and hitting 50 in 3 days if you never had fun doing it, and don't have fun playing the character. One of my fondest memories of the game was making SS/invuln tankers with my friends, making all of them look like Trolls and roleplaying Trolls while running around in the Hollows. Those characters didn't even make it past 20 because they were silly gimmicks, but to me, they were way more fun than playing a dominator who could wipe out an entire screen in seconds (to me, at least).

     

     

    Here are two of my main reasons for liking CoX more.

     

    I tried CO as well.  the graphics turned me off, but then so did the artwork of the Teen Titans cartton as compared to JLU or Batman TAS.  I adjusted and came to love the show.

    That didn't happen with CO.  I enjoyed the freeform powers, but that was just about it.  The game had no heart.  It was just a hastily slapped on re-skin of a Marvel game with equally no heart.

     

    Here, the community, despite the insanity of the average forum, is warm and welcoming once you get into the game.  You feel wanted, like you belong, no matter how new you are.  No other MMO or multiplayer game I have ever tried, short of the original Neverwinter Nights, has accomplished this.  I have more friends in game than I think I've ever had in real life.  Many of them better friends than any of my RL ones.  That's shifting slightly because I've been talking the game up for seven years, so now they want to try it too.

     

    and yeah, the journey.  There are still plpaces in CoX I haven't been.  Eden, Recluse's Victory, I barely touched the Shadow Shard back then.    I took 4 years to get my first 50 and never worried.  Never cared "it's taking too long".  Conversely, I tried STO at start and made 50 in a week.  I proceeded to get very bored with it.

     

     

    In short, there is no "one thing" that makes this game so loved.  It's all the pieces, put together just right.  And we'll be here forever because of it.

    Who's Missing?

    in Reconnect

    Posted

    Ascendant.

     

    The news of his passing hit me pretty hard. Like Robin Williams'

     

    Would upvote this a million times.

    Can we get a statue or something of him in game?  Is this a possibility?

    Calling on anyone who speaks Computer Specs!!!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I've been looking up stuff on NewEgg.com.

     

    Anyone have low cost ideas from that source?

     

    Opinions on if this would work?

     

    Processor & Chipset

    Processor Manufacturer: AMD

    Processor Type: E-Series

    Processor Model: E2-9000e

    Processor Speed: 1.50 GHz

    Processor Core: Dual-core (2 Core)

    Memory

    Standard Memory: 4 GB

    Memory Technology: DDR4 SDRAM

    Number of Occupied Memory Slots: 1

    Storage

    Total Hard Drive Capacity: 500 GB

    Optical Drive Type: No

    Display & Graphics

    Screen Size: 14"

    Display Screen Type: LCD

    Display Screen Technology: BrightView

    Screen Resolution: 1366 x 768

    Touchscreen: NO

    Graphics Controller Manufacturer: AMD

    Graphics Controller Model: Radeon R2 Graphics

    Graphics Memory Technology: DDR4 SDRAM

    Graphics Memory Accessibility: Shared

    To all the Original CoH players

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I absolutely remember Twixt.  He's part of the reason I stopped going into places like Siren's Call.    He was a troll and griefer, plain and simple.

    Social experiments are well and good, I suppose.  Someone has to do it...  But how much of an experiment is it, really, if the observer (Twixt) has his finger on the scale the entire time?  The idea of this stuff is to observe interactions, not manufacture them.

    I call his entire so-called paper on the topic a pile of BS.

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    Calling on anyone who speaks Computer Specs!!!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I went to search for the choices WickedBliss listed, and I found desktops and laptops.  Maybe someone else would have better luck finding the right sort of thing?

    However, it's looking -to me-, like option two should work?  fuzzy answer?  I'm not certain about the integrated video either.  I know it's useless on older laptops, but the newest, more expensive ones just blow right past the problem.  Don't call it a definitive answer though.

    Assuming cost is a factor as to why you can't get the more powerful stuff.

     

    Meanwhile, salespeople will -always- try and get you to buy the most expensive option, plus as many add-ons as they can manage to foist off on you.  It's how they make money.  Don't fall for it.

    Video Issues

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The video drivers are a late 2009 version apparently, and the company (Intel) stopped supporting it at that time.

     

    2009 drivers should still be sufficient for the game.  Ideas on how to workaround?

    Is your mate trying to run the game on onboard video? That might be a problem.

     

    I'll find out, but I don't think so.

    Ascendant tribute

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    In exchange for a box of Ascendant-O's of course.

     

    I don't think that's ever going to happen.  The last I heard, about 2015, the EPA had the remaining cases encased in five feet of reinforced concrete.  I believe they're being kept somewhere about a mile under the Nevada desert.

     

    Oh crap...

     

    Don't quote me on that previous comment.  I didn't see or hear a thing.  I swear.  It's all in my head.  I made it all up.

     

    I heard a similar rumor.

     

    Hiyas Power!

    Virtue Roll Call!

    in Reconnect

    Posted

    Impact here, though I doubt many (or any) remember me.  I was a member of the famous Legion supergroup in beta, but in release most of them drifted away to other games.  I played on Virtue my entire time in CoH, but I left around issue 8 or 9 when the nerfs done to balance the game for PvP became too much for me to bear.  Still, many fond memories of this game, so here I am!

     

     

    I think your group may have been what prompted me to create Shade Girl (my first Virtue alt and Shadow Lass homage), and when I couldn't find you again, I joined the All Star Teen Sentinels and never looked back.

    Status update

    in Announcements

    Posted

    I've been frazzled, frustrated, and upset by the tribulations of setting up...

     

    But hearing that music, flying the skies and seeing -PEOPLE- moving around.  Hearing the chat, reading the silly, and the happy, and the community!  I don't think I have ever been happier.

     

     

    Thank you to everyone who made this possible.  With every fiber of my being, Thank you.

    Video Issues

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    One of my SG mates is having nothing but a black screen with music, and a small white arrow in all versions of the Tequila launcher.  The video drivers are a late 2009 version apparently, and the company (Intel) stopped supporting it at that time.

     

    2009 drivers should still be sufficient for the game.  Ideas on how to workaround? 

    Virtue Roll Call!

    in Reconnect

    Posted

    Who's here from Virtue!  Sing out, loud and proud.  Unofficial RP server fans everywhere!

     

     

     

    Edit:

    Suppose I should add my SGs, but not names.  I had 40 to 60 alts.  Too many to list.

     

    OK, in the interests of claiming my own alt names, here are a few:  (anything not listed is, of course, fair game)

     

    Shade Girl              Eternal Youth

    Lion of England        Gravity Welles

    Rymefrost              Big Miss

     

     

    Proud member of the Gods of the Golden Age, Young Gods, All Star Teen Sentinels, Knights of Camelot, and (briefly) Young Sentinels.

    One of three founders of The Galaxy Legion

    (also sole member of Freedom Flight)

     

     

    (I admit to spending most of my first year on Guardian with my roommate at the time)

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    Game accounts

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Tried that a few times already, once I figured out where it was redirecting me to.

     

    Each time it logs me out of the forums until I hit 'back' enough times to get to the main page again.  Or it says the page is unavailable, or my session timed out.

     

    I'm really just not understanding what the problem is with the forums site here.  A few people I'm talking to can't even register for the forums, a thing a clogged game shouldn't be affecting.

    Game accounts

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    So..  I'm curious.

     

    What's preventing me from even staying logged into these forums long enough to set up a game account?  I mean, independent from the game client, as I don't even have that running.  Just these forums.

    Every time I click the "Game Account" link, I either get an unavailable website, or I get dropped from being logged in, though I can hit back on my browser and magically still be logged in.

     

    What am I missing?

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