Adeon Hawkwood

Bill's a poster on the forums. I can never remember where his original guide is but the wiki has the same info (probably copied verbatim):
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Test_server

Very true, and I think the ITF is a good example of this. When it was new the most popular tactic for Rommy (or at least the most popular tactic based on Virtue PUGs) was "pull him to the grass, separate the healing nictus with a second melee character and pound on him" now it seems to be "charge the steps and gank him". As people become more familiar with content it becomes easier to do and there's less concern about tactics.

The forum does have a French section you know and the software almost certainly uses the same filter for all the language sections. I'd be more surprised if it didn't censor French swear words.

While I don't think the blanket change would be good I would support changing things so that pet damage IOs work in all of a pet's powers. The fact that they don't really work the way one would expect is, IMHO, bad. There are already quite a few 'gotchas' with slotting and IOs in general, decreasing them is always desirable. But in the meantime as you say there are enough useful HOs to cover the gaps (especially with the HO slotting bug).

I agree. I min-max a bit but it's not my primary focus (most of my characters have power-sets that are considered second rate and my main is an AR/Dev Blaster) and I still find Dual Pistols to be lacking. The problem I find with it is that the animation times on a lot of the powers are horrible which makes the set feel very clunky to play. In particular Empty Clips and Bullet Rain have very long animation times for what are quite weak AoEs. Executioner's Shot is also annoyingly long to animate but it's not quite as bad since it does at least hit hard. In any case the net result is that playing the set feels like all flash and no substance, you get pretty animations but it doesn't feel like you're actually doing anything.

Since it's a multiple of 10 I'm going to hazard a guess that setting a bomb (which awards 10 merits) awards merits to people without the badge in at least some situations.

While I agree with your general points this one is somewhat valid. A lot of people use Hover to fly at just above head height. At that level the patch will hit people on the ground and become harder to see unless you zoom the camera out quite a bit. Even if you fly higher it can easily result in someone jumping up into a patch they didn't see since their camera was angled downwards. "No Flying" isn't required but keeping the patches grounded does make it easier for everyone to spot and avoid them.

Since his latest antic consists of necro'ing every thread mentioning downloading the game from the last 6-months or so I'm going to say: yes.

Nope, check the toilet doors in the base editor (and a couple of world locations as well). "Huge" is considered a distinct gender in the CoX-verse.

Ok, this is bugging me. It looks like you've necro'd every thread (in multiple forums) for the last month or so that mentioned downloading for the purpose of asking what their time was. Why are you so interested? Wouldn't it be more efficient to start a new thread and ask if anyone has recent experience with download times? You'd probably get more replies that way since people like the OP of this thread tend to come onto the forums to get their question answered and then leave (as evidenced by his/her post count).

EDIT: If it's really important I'll try and remember to do a clean install on a computer to test it but I'd like to know why you're so anxious first.

The problem is it's only useful if the responders are a representative sample of the total player-base which I don't think would be the case.

Yes.

I have an AR/Dev and a Traps/AR. While I do like the Blaster and enjoy playing him the Defender is a lot more useful on a team and has a lot more defenses out of the box. Obviously the Blaster's does more damage but the extra toughness of the Defender means he can take on a lot more stuff.

I think Fulmens is just talking about cash Inf. While economically speaking crafted IOs are a resource and thus contribute to a player's "net worth" they are not a factor in the amount of Inf in the economy.

If you solo it's pretty hard but if you run TFs it's very easy. The new Apex and Tin Mage TFs are pretty bad from the point of view of getting shards (in terms of shards/time) compared to the older level 50 TFs (which tend to involve killing more enemies plus give the option of a component at the end).

In general one or two of the older TFs will give you enough for your basic boost. ITF is probably the best, the large number of bosses and elite bosses means you tend to get quite a few shards and the component it offers is the Ancient Nictus Fragment which is used by three of the four basic boosts. It's not uncommon to get 8 shards on the ITF which combined with the component would get you a boost in one run although if you are unlucky running a second TF will usually do it. LGTF is also quite good if you fight through it rather than speeding although it takes longer (I got 16 shards on one but that was VERY lucky).

Here's the full list of TFs/Raids and what component they offer (note that the component is instead of merits):
Kahn or Barracuda: Dimensional Keystone
ITF: Ancient Nictus Fragment
LGTF: Hero 1 DNA Sample
STF or LRSF: Essence of the Incarnate
Cathedral of Pain Trial: Penumbra of Rularuu
Hamidon Raid : 4 Shards (which could ten be converted to a single component of your choice)

In addition you can convert 150 Vanguard Merits (from a Mothership Raid or just randomly fighting Rikti) into a G'Rai Matter component.


On the subject of Apex and Tin Mage TFs, yes if you don't have a boost slotted you are debuffed 4 levels which essentially means you are fighting against +8s. This makes any powers other than ally buffs essentially useless (they are at 5% effectiveness) and gives you the toughness of a wet paper towel.

I think it's mostly a matter of personality. The devs who did post a lot (primarily BaBs and Castle) posted because they wanted to and not because they had to. While I do wish the other devs would post more I can understand why they do not, we aren't always the easiest people to get along with.

Well most of the powers that summon a true pet (as opposed to a pseudo-pet) now list the pet's actual powers in an expandable list inside the power window. Also, as a practical question how many pets actually have different accuracy modifiers for different attacks? In general I think most pets either only have a single attack or have accuracy of 1 for all attacks.

Alternatively, since the accuracy of the "summoning" doesn't really matter the devs could simply change it so that the main power has the same base accuracy as the pet or pseudo-pets primary attack.

Yep it'll work until someone comes up with [cool new feature du jour] which they didn't account for.

Player: "I keep crashing when I use Taunt, why is that?"
Customer Support: "Are you using direct neural interfacing?"
Player: "Yes"
Customer Support: "It's a bug caused by using direct neural interfacing and Taunt, it turns out that since the Taunt effectiveness is based on volume yelling to loudly causes the Taunt magnitude to go out of range and crashes the game."