nightroarer
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Can't say I won't use silly names. I already have Jester Notherguy and Artie Choke.
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My character Milford Whimple's battle cry is "Behave, you hooligans!"
His bio:
Milford Whimple is a chemist at the Paragon Potty Paper Emporium. One night, as he was working on a new sensitive skin formula, members of the Skulls broke in and tossed him in a vat of chemicals. When Whimple emerged, he found he had been endowed with super strength and invulnerability--and a nice lilac scent. He has dedicated his life to safeguarding the people of Paragon City from evil-doers and developing the softest yet toughest potty paper to protect Paragon's posteriors.
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I don't have any alts. Just 90+ mains. In CoH. Doesn't count all my mains in LOTRO and STO.
Someone once asked me how much time I have to spend in games to play all of those characters. My response is that it doesn't take any more time to play 100 characters than it takes to play 1. It just gives me variety in how I spend that time. 🙂
That may be why I don't have any characters at the level cap in LOTRO (and I'm a Founder/Life-timer). By the time one of my characters gets there, some smart aleck has moved the cap.
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On 10/28/2022 at 4:13 PM, MistressOhm said:
As I understand, Experience and mission drop rewards in AE is primarily a Homecoming thing, NOT a Live thing.
I had several characters on Live that I was very slowly leveling up entirely via the AE, so XP was part of the AE on Live. I didn't do any farms, just story arcs. No insta-max levels for me. To me, the AE offered a change of pace and the opportunity to play a bunch of new content, which gave a much more varied leveling experience. While I only designed one active story arc of my own, I was working on a number of concepts, so the creative side was also a blast.
The AE was never an holographic simulator for my characters. From my perspective, the missions my characters took were every bit as "real" as any of the official story arcs.
Frankly, the only major issue I really had with the AE--on Live or Homecoming--was that I couldn't filter farms out of my searches.
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On 7/26/2022 at 2:37 AM, Gulbasaur said:
I kind of agree, particularly with the cape and aura missions. They were kind of character milestones. The only things you really "earn" on a character now are the accolades.
The P2W/premium rewards stuff I could take or leave - it wasn't in the early game so for me it's not a problem.
For me, auras yes, capes no.
It always seemed silly to me to have to wait until such a late level to add a cape to your costume. Capes are a staple of superhero costumes and should be available at character creation.
Unless you're Mr. Incredible, of course. Then "no capes!"
I still run the cape missions on occasion (even on caped characters) just as a change of pace. 🙂
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13 hours ago, UltraAlt said:
But will you admit that A LOT of door sitting goes on?
And since so much of that goes on, how is that "fun"?
I'm not talking about door sitters. I'm talking about the rest of us. The problem with your "solution" is that it hurts everyone, not just door sitters.
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14 hours ago, UltraAlt said:
How exactly is doorsitting "fun"?
It's not; I never said or even implied that it was. I don't door sit, I play missions.
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On 7/19/2022 at 10:26 AM, UltraAlt said:
It might be time to start rethinking about locking the AE to level 50's only.
Holy cow! Why would the devs want to destroy a fun part of the game for their players?
I never PL or farm in the AE. Never have, on Live or on HC. But I enjoy playing AE story missions at various levels so that I'm not just doing the same mission arcs over and over again, with little variation. They are a fantastic change of pace and add to the enjoyment of the game.
On live, I even had a few characters that ONLY did AE missions--and they leveled very, very slowly (because I didn't do farms). It was a lot of fun. I even wrote a story mission myself and have been considering designing new missions here as well. It's great, creative fun.
If I level characters through the AE (slow or fast), it has absolutely no effect on others' ability to enjoy the game. I don't do ITFs or PVP (on HC or NCSOFT servers), I mostly solo or play story content with my family/friends.
If the AE had never existed, I still wouldn't be raiding. The AE changed nothing in that regard for a lot of players. It just gave us other options to play the type of content we enjoy most.
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11 hours ago, Hyperstrike said:
AH HAAAAA!!!!In short, it's got pretty much jack and squat to do with Windows.
The original question was: Does CoH run in windows 11. The answer is: Yes.
Everything I loaded on my Windows 11 PC has worked fine so far.
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My new PC is Windows 11. I'm running CoH, LOTRO, SWTOR, and STO on it with no problems at all. The machine is blazing fast, no hitches, smooth as silk so far.
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3 hours ago, Wavicle said:
But what you can't do is move the POWER button to the left of the Start menu!
Yeah, that's annoying.
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1 hour ago, Shenanigunner said:
Thanks, but that's not the issue. (And there are 500 "how to fix the Win11 taskbar" sites out there with the same info.
Having the icons centered on the taskbar is bad enough; just "different" for its own sake, no thanks, MS.
My complaint, and that of many-many, is that you can no longer reposition the whole taskbar anywhere but bottom edge of your main monitor. Since at least Win7 and maybe earlier, and on nearly every other OS, you can stick the taskbar to any edge of any monitor. Putting it way left or right saves a ton of screen space and gets it out of the way of nearly everything.
But no, it had to get "fixed" - literally - this round.
Ah, this is true. I just liked the bottom left, so it worked for me. I misread that part of your comment.
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On 1/27/2022 at 7:16 PM, Shenanigunner said:
So my turn to update to Win11 came along, just as I was winding down for an evening, so I told it to go ahead. (Short version: I've never hesitated to move forward with OS updates because I use too many high-end, demanding tools to try and hack them into working on old platforms. And I've never had significant problems since the era of having to wait for new drivers—even my WinNT to Vista upgrade was flawless. Of course, I didn't try to use it on a 5 year old Win95 laptop...)
Anyway, I haven't heard anything about Win11 that would make me want to wait, and the increased security and virtualization is a 110% improvement no matter how much it knocks down insane framerates.
But.
My very first experience when the system came up again was that the taskbar was now on the bottom of my center monitor.
Guess what.
You can't move it. At all. Unlike every other OS including Windows back to 7 if not Vista.
You can have it bottom center on your defined main monitor. You can have it on the bottom of all your monitors. And — what the hell am I complaining about! — you can group all the icons in the center, or shift them to the left! And you can make the taskbar hide, too.
There are registry hacks, but they have downsides. There is a lot of furious bitching in the forums. There is silence from Microsoft. And no one can figure out what in the holy hell of the Shadow Shard's ass they were thinking to cripple this UI feature. It's made my day about 10% less productive for a number of reasons.
Other than that brain-dead, oh-dint-we-tellya, BillG's boys are so smart piece of idiocy, though, Win11 is just great. Ooh, and rounded corners again without the total Fisher-Price look of XP.
Sigh.
FYI, you can move the taskbar to the left. I hated it centered too.
Right click on the taskbar and select Taskbar Settings
Click on Taskbar Behaviors (near the bottom of the settings screen)
In the dropdown next to Taskbar Alignment select Left
As for Gaming in Windows 11 in general, I run CoH, LOTRO, STO, and SWTOR with no problems so far.
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A very Merry Christmas to you all!
And, A Cat, for the record: If I am in game tomorrow, it will most likely be with my family. :)
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How do I solo content? Usually by myself.
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3 hours ago, MHertz said:
There's a rumor that somebody is working on a thing, where you go to that one place, and you click something, and then something happens. Or maybe some other stuff happens. But don't quote me on that.
Oops. Sorry, I quoted you.
But you might be right...unless you're not.
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Why do NPCs get to share names? Even in SG bases. I swear that at least five different women have reported to work in the Control Center claiming to be Susan!
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5 hours ago, _Kai_ said:
Globals in character names is a terrible idea. Yeah yeah 'I want my name' yeah yeah 'it solves all the problems', no it actually creates a big problem where if someone's out to harass you they have all they need to do so no matter when, where, or on who you log into. Sure now you can get a global name, but unless the person agrees to be global friends you'd have to sit around and /getglobalname every character you see/can think of to stalk them.
I was in Champions in the dark days between CoH shutdown and HC going public. Never had an issue like this or knew anyone who did. Is it possible? Certainly. Is it likely, maybe not. From my perspective (opinions will vary), the actual upside of the global naming system far, far outweighed the potential downside.
Interestingly, even though I had some characters with "obvious" names, I never ran across any characters with the same name. They were undoubtedly out there, but chance meetings with them never happened.
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1 hour ago, Snarky said:
...you spelled your name Dazl.... which i hope is a attempt at creative spelling on Dazzle. Although it could be an atomic element or a deap sea creature for all i know. But still, sure, if you want to spell your name Snrkie or Sanarki there are infinite possibilities
I have 90+ characters and haven't had to settle for weird spellings, odd phrases, or wacky punctuation. There is only one character with an obvious name that I particularly wanted, so I added the initials of my supergroup after his name as a personal identifier.
Good superhero names are still available. There are many variations available using traditional comic book conventions (e.g., Doctor, Captain, Scarlet, Silver, Lord, Lady, and so forth), not to mention relevant synonyms (the ones that make sense :) ). I may not get the first name I try, but I can keep the name consistent with my chosen theme without too much hassle. The last four characters I created are Obsidian Archer (trick arrow), Whelm (war hammer), Swiftstroke (ninja blades), and Commander Kilowatt (electric melee).
History has shown us that running a name release can have minimal impact. I think if HC does it, the people unhappy about not getting their preferred names will remain unhappy, because they still won't get the names they want. In a few months, we'll see another thread about releasing names again. We saw that on the original servers after they did their name release.
For anyone who is interested, I've attached a couple of docs with potential name components to help generate ideas, if needed. It is nowhere near exhaustive, and I haven't filled in ideas for all power types yet (especially for the newer powersets).
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11 hours ago, Snarky said:
To boil this down to the basics…
please reply. Do you think it is
A) Rabbit season
or
B) Duck season
Yes, yes I do.
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On 2/14/2021 at 8:10 AM, Ankylosaur said:
The text was rougher than I realized. I think I had been looking at it all too long, but that is why a fresh perspective is so valuable. I will apply all of those changes.
As a writer and editor, I can say the most difficult text to edit is your own.
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No alts--just 95 mains, ranging from levels 2-32 (the 2s are only that level because I created them to team with my wife and daughter and we haven't run those particular teams yet).
I solo or duo/trio with my family.
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5 hours ago, KC4800 said:
W pushes you to fly forward. R maintains forward motion, until you tap W again. Thats how I do it, no extra keybinds necessary.
This. If you are just trying to get an autorun instead of holding down the W key, the R key is autorun. It works for flight as well.
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Those effects aren't on sprints, those are auras found in the costume creator.
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If anyone needs brain exercise…
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My family says I'm fluent in Gibberish.