Squid Vicious

Looks like it was temporary. Was finally able to connect. Glitch in the Matrix?

Gettting repeated 'Can't connect to DBserver' errors this morning. Server status show green and there are no network / internet anomalies on my end that I see.

What's a VEAT?

Consider the Mac. I've recently installed and tested CoH on the 2018 Intel processor model Mac Mini. i7 w/ 32 GB RAM. Intel UHD Graphics 630. Mini gets pretty warm but even during Hami raids, the system seems to render and perform ok. I haven't tested the new M1 or M2 processor minis, but I hear great things about them and how cool these machines perform under load.

I envision the requested feature could/should move up to 70 to available personal inventory and any > 70 would remain in the 'to be discarded' window during respec for now. Increasing maximum storage to 100 (vs. current 70) would certainly be a long-term help.

Respeccing for slight tweaks to optimize slots sure is a pain. Usually, I do these sorts of tweaks AFTER I have sets and don't need to worry about surplus IOs in inventory after moving things around. Where a revamp to the respec process would come in handy for me is when a fresh new toon is about to hit 50. My characters use generic IOs until they reach level 47-ish for sets. I repurpose many of those generic IOs for the next alt I make - storing them in SG base storage until needed. So instead of destroying these expensive IOs, I respec my toons to retrieve them when appropriate. I do like the idea of increasing the enhancement inventory to 100. It's a quality of CoH life thing, for sure. Not sure how hard it would be to add three additional tabs/rows of storage though. Meanwhile, I manage my respecs carefully by ensuring I will never finish a respec with more than 70 slotted enhs - since that's the maximum that can be stored in only 7 tabs/rows of inventory trays. I often purchase a dozen+ unslotters to retrieve IOs to inventory BEFORE the respec.

Can we add a feature to the respec process / screen whereby we can just GET ALL enhancements that have NOT been slotted OUT of the 'to be discarded' window and into available inventory please? IOs and Set Invention enhancements should never be 'discarded'. :) I think it's so tedious to drag and drop all of my Workbench Invention IOs to inventory in the respec process.

Hey JJ! Hope you are well. I may have missed it ... but for at least a dozen pages, I haven't seen a Blaster or Blapper: Storm Blast - Ice Manipulation. I'm mostly interested in a 'Blapper'-specific build, but I would love to consider 'Hybrid' and 'Blaster'-specific builds too. Cheers!~

Thank you very much, AA! So my game directory data folder doesn't have the "texts\English\menus" subdirectories in the 'data' folder. Am I missing something?

I was pleased to support you with my own donation. Thank you all at Homecoming for all that you do to keep Paragon City arguably as vibrant as it was from the very beginning.

Looks like all is back to normal. A temporary network anomaly, perhaps?

Good day ... are we having issues with Excelsior. Haven't seen these login errors in a while. I had to DNS Flush a couple of times just to access game and Excelsior must be struggling ... or is it me? 🙂

Sometime you just need to relax after a day of villain bashing.

This is the most probable explanation (with spelling correction made). Our Homecoming team is probably bound to secrecy about this and the current negotiations until whatever is hammered out with NCSoft is official.

Ha! Take that, Homecoming Servers, LLC ... I was able to donate to you finally! 🙂 Thank you all for everything you do. I look forward to the future.

I love it! Battle and Brew! I've been there too! Who's up for an Atlanta-area M&G in 2020 (after Holidays)? Early Spring? Sooner?

Cool. I know 3 others. Would you all be open to a M&G at some metro-Atlanta location? It could be a dinner, bowling, Dave and Busters, whatever ... but it starts with Hello! Excelsior server - Squid Vicious is my Kheldian main. I live in Lawrenceville. Let's plan something soon. 🙂

Thanks for this. Interesting. So KD is really just KB-lite and level differences affect magnitude of the KB. That's a reasonable explanation. Descriptions are inconsistent still. You've glossed right over point 2. above, however. I should be able to suppress or enhance the magnitude of the KB on ANY power that actually KBs with KB enhancement IO sets. All the powers (with KB) in Street Fighting power set accept KB enhancements EXCEPT Sweeping Cross. That's not a bug?

Windows 7 breathed new life into older gaming boxes and was a fantastic upgrade over WinXP. Windows 8.x.x was terrible. Windows 10 was and still is the best version of Windows we've seen in years.

Fellow SuperHeroes and Villains - Are there enough of us playing in Southeast US (near Atlanta, GA) to coordinate a fan-driven, somewhat regular meet-up of players of CoX? It would sure be nice to start meeting folks in person and inspire the Homecoming staff to hold their own M&Gs all over eventually. 🙂 Cheers!~

Team - 1. The description narrative for Tanker power: Sweeping Cross in the Street Justice: Secondary power set reads: "At combo level 3, Sweeping Cross will also have a chance to knock down the affected targets. But the 'detailed info' screen (in the Enhancement Management screen) shows this power has a "40% chance of a 0.67 magnitude Knockback (KB) on target". So which behavior is intended? The power actually KBs the target. I think it should knock DOWN the target per description and the enh detailed information screen should be updated to reflect description and requested behavior. 2. Also - whether you decide it should be KB or KD, there is no way to change current KB behavior to Knockdown (KD) (via the Sudden Acceleration enh, etc.) AND there's no way to enhance the KB characteristic via KB enhancements. 3. Similarly, the Tanker Secondary power Spinning Strike indicates KD in description; but indicates KB in detailed info. Power currently has varying percentage chance to KB the target (depending on combo level). I think it should knock DOWN the target per description and the enh detailed information screen should be updated to reflect description and requested behavior. 4. Finally, while the description for the Tanker Secondary power Heavy Blow is consistent with the detailed info screen information, if changes are made to make powers in 1- 3 above to KD instead of KB, Heavy Blow should be changed to reflect KD behavior as well. Thanks.

I fixed that for you.

“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” 🥄

I never said it was. I just predicted it was next. 😘

If the server community can come together and adjust to the original Hami design, that would be awesome. There are some good leaders among us! And there are also some folks who may underestimate the importance of clear communication when leading. I had no idea this was a thing, but apparently it was. Can we please agree to reserve the REQUEST chat for raid leaders, for example? This way the rest of us can better follow what our leaders are trying to do. Kkthx The zone changes are just the beginning of a series of ‘corrections’ in store for us on the HC servers, peeps. Up next, the ‘enterbasefromcode’ ‘fix’ for example. You heard it here first! There are other ‘adjustments’ coming too, I’ll bet. (E.G. I don’t think we’ve seen the end of tweaking AE exp or rewards 😎) My theory is: We’re close to an announcement regarding NCSoft negotiations and our HC dev friends will need to ‘fix’ a few more things before big brother begins really observing us and our ‘rogue’ servers in earnest. Got to show our overlords that we haven’t ‘strayed’ too far from the original client as it existed before sunset, I’ll wager. 😇