Another_Fan

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

If you want neg-rep, find something in CoH that is being abused and say in the forums it's an "exploit." And boy, will the neg-rep nerd-rage flow your way. People who cheat don't like being called out on it and will try to force the language to disguise their behavior.

Of course, doing that just to prod that nerd-rage is technically trolling, and I'd have to call you out for doing that.

Originally Posted by black_barrier

i dont think they will.

melt armor is on such a horrid timer that it would require a huge buff before you see a nerf to heat ex.


thermals are only op when they are elec/therms.
same thing as kins are only efficient farmers when they are fire/kins.

i wouldn't expect a nerf.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

I don't know many people who combine a desire to have IOs with that sort of laziness. If they're really investing the time in figuring out what to get and slot, nearly every one I've met has taken the time to look for lower level IOs if they understood when doing so was "better".

Originally Posted by UberGuy

There are some things where the lowest-level version is the most expensive. However, it's common that the highest-level one sells at a far higher rate.

Some things, though, a lot of people either don't care about exemplaring or they don't understand the (admittedly convoluted) rules, and people go hog wild for the level 50 version.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

When merits first came out, I was anti-rolling. However, I don't think it's a bad strategy anymore. It's still not necessarily the best way to make money. When recipes find themselves floating into the 100mil range for 200-240 merits, I'm generally of the opinion that buying is a lot safer.

I've rolled the 400+ merits that my last two 50s earned on the way up. One made out like a bandit, the other did fine, but a bit less than what I would have earned anyway.

The next one up will buy one Blessing of the Zephyr -KB (Because they're getting harder to buy by the day it seems), and roll the rest.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

If it's an oversight, it's one of those "we just never thought about it hard" kind of oversights. They know it works a specific way, and people have complained about non-selectable randoms since IOs were introduced (even back when you got them outright instead of merits).

In short, I have no idea what the rationale is, of if there really is one.

Originally Posted by SonicBang

AR is actually similar in damage to Arch but the thing is that AR's cone nuke can't hit everyone like Arch pbaoe nuke can. Oh and, with fire you need to be in melee while with AR you need to be at range for the cones so they don't really synergize at all.

Originally Posted by Heraclea

My unscientific impression of the purple sets is that they're all of a kind. In no particular order, they offer regeneration, recovery, hit point, endurance, and recharge bonuses. The only difference between one set and the next is the order in which these several bonuses are acquired.

I don't believe there are any purple set defense bonus; there is a PvP IO that offers global defense that I am aware of. It's unlikely I will ever own one, because I don't do the sorts of things that drop them, and if I did I'd just be letting them drop for others rather than getting them myself; nor will I ever have the kind of inf needed to buy them.

The purple sets generally do not interest me. Only a few of the bonuses they offer are things that I prioritize, and I generally take care of those things in other ways.

Originally Posted by je_saist

Group Fly, nor the Pets, are broken at the system level. However, the behavior of both is not in line with the behavior Another_Fan expects. The event is NOT a Kludge as Another_Fan calls it.

Something Another_Fan doesn't seem to realize is that Group_Fly has been around a heck of a lot longer than the ExpandAlone City of Villains. It, and the Tier 4 Teleport Power, were designed for a different style of gameplay and with different intentions, than they wound up being used for. Group Fly wasn't ever intended to be used as a Travel Power for Mastermind's, and the base power-system never really has been modified to account for the gameplay changes City of Villains brought to the game.

What Another_Fan expects is to be able to activate Group_Fly, hit the Heel Button for the Pets, and have all of them keep close proximity to him as he flys through the air. However, the travel logic of the Pets means that even if you just casually walk down the street with Heel on, the pets don't actually stay preciously with you. They also generally travel at a slower rate than you. So it's very easy to out-run, out-jump, out-fly, the pets. Part of this is down to the basic pathing of the game. As most of us realize, NPC's have next to no AI. They simply pick a path, and follow-it.

Because the radius of Group Fly is limited, it's very easy for pets to fall out of the radius of the cloud as the player flys, simply due to the limited pathing knowledge that forces the pets to avoid impacting with each other in casual travel, and the lower travel speed caps.

The result is that there's no simple Fix, as Another_Fan expects.

First, the developers would need to implement context specific recognizing capabilities in the pets. Thus the pet system would be able to recognize when the MasterMind's Group Fly had been activated.

Second, the developers would need to implement more advanced following NPC follow routines, in order to insure that all the pets moved together as one at the same speed of the owner of the power. This also means buffing or modifying the pets to have the same fly speed caps as the player.

Now, there are a couple of quick fixes that could be implemented. One option might be to implement a speed-check for players with fly. A Mastermind might be able to hit a button and only travel at 10% increments of their maximum speed. This might be possible without having to rewrite or create entirely new sections of code.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

...I might just make 2. Or, with dual builds for epic choices, aura selection, toggle management and costume change binds, may be able to roll that into one character that can switch who's holding the pistols and who's the guns....but I *might* want to make one a female demon so that would mess that up...

...hell, maybe I'll just make them both female!

Originally Posted by Ironblade

It was the EASIER solution and able to be implemented almost immediately. The devs have already said it is only a TEMPORARY fix.

Originally Posted by enderbean

You would still need the minimum number of people to start the TF, but then have all but one quit (so there are two left). The other person would need to log out but not quit. You have to have the minimum 2 people so the TF does not disband. You would then be able to solo the TF. However, one of the recent patches made TFs ignore the difficulty settings as people were getting Mo badges on -1 with no AVs and it was felt this was cheating the system a bit.

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

Okay, what the hell is up with the redside market?

I've had some stuff listed since last friday that just won't move. And this stuff is like selling for a fraction of what the last 5 was.

Is the population of redside THAT low?

During the AE farm area I seem to remember stuff moving the next morning.
Could the lack of more 50s be and lower pop be having an effect?

I also see some items listed with hundreds for sale and ZERO buyers.

Originally Posted by Redlynne

Easy and common solution to this problem:

• 1. Put all pets on Follow.
• 2. Select *a* pet (doesn't matter, too much, which one).
• 3. Have your mastermind Follow selected pet.
• 4. Issue Goto command to selected pet (and only selected pet!).
• 5. Repeat step 4 until you arrive at your intended destination.

The reason why this works is that the pets are all following YOU, and you're following A PET which is the only one who is receiving commands to Goto (somewhere). You follow the selected Pet and the rest of your entourage follows you (through the sky). Because your mastermind is following A PET, you (the mastermind) don't travel any faster than any of the pets do ... meaning that no one falls out of the Group Fly PBAoE radius. Everyone flies at the same pace ... which is what you really wanted to have happen in the first place.

Originally Posted by Novella

Nope, no PVP here. I know softcaps me at 45.2%, but I fight a lot of groups with debuffing so the extra defense never hurts. With PB applied it gives me 91.6% which is overkill, but when fighting enemies with Rad powers such as Praetorian Clockwork, hanging out at the Path of Rage in the Shadow Shard any little bit helps.

I do fight a lot of DE because I like doing the Eden trial and I run Numina one every 24 hours for the easy merits.

I know its reaching, but I am really trying to find reasons to not have to drop it because I hate respecing characters. I generally have my builds planned out perfectly so that I can just bank my respecs for those rainy days.

Originally Posted by B_L_Angel

Gave the bronze rolls a try/ got some mixed results


I was working up to level 30 and didn't want to burn tickets on the way so I bought some salvage that was selling for around 2 million and listed it on the market


BBOE 1,755,555
Mil cyb 2,500,000
Pangean 2,000,000
soul trapped gem 2,111,111

Or about 4000 inf/ticket


Here are my results for rolling 30 rolls in the 10-14 category

I was planning on working my way up but the process of rolling checking prices and recording them was taking too long and I have an early day tomorrow. I will do some of the higher level ranges then.

10-14

You received Unquestioning Loyalty: Acc/End (Recipe). 16 sale 0 bids 25k
You received Explosive Strike : Knockback/Dam (Recipe). (20) 0 sale 1 bid 1500
You received Curtail Speed: Dam/Slow (Recipe). 1 for sale 0 bidding 1000
You received Triage: End/Rech (Recipe). 9 for sale o bidding
You received Horror: Acc/Rech (Recipe). 14 for sale 0 bidding
You received Cleaving Blow: Dam/Rech (Recipe). 1 for sale 0 25-35 k
You received Paralytic: End/Hold (Recipe). 14 for sale 0 bidding 1k
You received Befuddling Aura: Acc/End (Recipe). 8 for sale 500, 1000
You received Neuronic Shutdown: End/Hold (Recipe). 1 for sale 0 bidding 100k
You received Discouraging Words : To Hit DeBuff (Recipe). 1 for sale 100k-150k
You received Bone Snap: Acc/Rech (Recipe). 2 for sale 10k-25k 1 outlier 500k
You received Salvo: Acc/Dam (Recipe). 0 for sale 50k or so
You received Paralytic: Acc/Hold/Rech (Recipe). 7 for sale 10k or so pricing
You received Bone Snap: Dam/End (Recipe). 3 for sale 25k
You received Far Strike: Acc/End (Recipe). 15 for sale 3k to 10k
You received Commanding Presence: Acc/Dam (Recipe). 100k to 300k
You received Befuddling Aura: Confuse/Range (Recipe). 1k
You received Triage: Heal/Rech (Recipe). 2k
You received Unquestioning Loyalty: Acc/Dam (Recipe). 2k to 10k 2 for sale 1 bid
You received Bone Snap: Acc/Dam (Recipe). 25k 0/0
ou received Air Burst: Dam/End (Recipe). 10k
You received Eradication: Acc/Rech (Recipe). 1,000,000 4 for sale
You received Razzle Dazzle: Acc/End (Recipe). 555,555 -1,000,000
You received Stagger: Acc/Stun/Rech (Recipe).1000- 5000
You received Far Strike: Acc/End (Recipe). 3k to 10k
You received Unspeakable Terror: Acc/Rech (Recipe). 900
You received Air Burst: Dam/End (Recipe). 10k
You received Befuddling Aura: Acc/Confuse/Rech (Recipe). 4k
You received Salvo: Acc/Dam (Recipe). 50k

Call it 2 million for 1800 tickets ? I vendored most of the cheap stuff and listed the more expensive items.

So that gives about 1,111 inf /ticket

Its a small sample and I may be having hard luck.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

I have thought long about this comment, and I'm not really sure you've shopped at either store.

Perhaps you could elaborate on this concept?

Originally Posted by Ironblade

The irony is strong with this one. Talk about not hearing. From what I see, all those people you quoted know exactly what is meant by 'price cap'. It just looks like you're creatively misinterpreting them to make some alleged point.

Originally Posted by Starsman

One thing that will happen for sure uppon merging is that most heroes will monopolize purchase of high demand items. Heroes have more money than villains therefore they will pay more and easily hoard all the rares and epics.