William_Valence

When you go between zones if your henchmen are out, the henchmen will get stuck at the location you zone in on. For example the situation you quoted, I used the CTA to go from Neutropolis to Imperial city, when I finished loading Imperial city my henchmen were all at the location I zoned in at. The henchmen won't move or execute an order, but will make the text responses to the order.

So if you give a goto command, they'll say "going" but won't move. The biggest problem is that they won't dismiss. If you dismiss them, either through a bind, slash command, or right click they will make a text acknowledgement of the order and disappear from the pet window, but remain in the game world. Zoning after that returns them to the pet window. The biggest kick to the sack is that logging out and back in doesn't work as, unless you stay out of the game longer, the game remembers the setup you had when you logged out so the glitched henchmen are still there when you log back in. Zoning into a mission or hazzard area, such as the praetorian tunnels, seem to fix them.

I don't have any masterminds blueside yet, but I'm guessing they have the same issue with the trains as praetorians do with the CTA, and villians the ferry. Sometimes it will happen when going directly between zones, I.E. the bridge from Nova to Imperial.

Anyway, Soloed the great escape once to get the tantrum emote. Managed to get Lauriate and Ghoulflex with the super helpful participation strategy of follow/aggressive and spaming secondary despite how unneeded it is. Now I just have to scare people away from the protest event so I can solo that one. I must have gotten lucky getting the badge the first time I did the Syndicate takedown.

Rewards are counted individually, so it can and has happened where some people on a team get access to all reward options while others get the lesser reward options. Of all my attempts, considering players who participated from the very start of one of the events, I've only seen Masterminds not get the higher reward options.

It's infuriating durring protest events, because its incredibly hard to start the loyalist side of that event because you have to kill 6 protestors to one seer. Then you get the problem with the resistance side of the event, as it has too few enemies that die too quickly to get off enough debuffs. Damage isn't even an option with a hand grenate temp power, nemesis staff, and sands of mu.

Maybe if I add in brawl and tranq dart.

And awesome, I was typing this while playing and forgot to desummon my henchmen before zoning to the Imperial City.

I'm sad now

Of course! Masterminds give up personal powers in return for henchmen who execute powers in their stead. So it makes all the sense in the world to not count those henchmen when considering a Mastermind's participation in a zone event. How silly of me.

Ridiculous

This needs to be fixed soon, hopefully at the same time the pet AI bugs that plauge MM's will get fixed as well, and the zoning bug. Considering both of those cripple Mastermind performance, I would hope that these are priorities that will be fixed in the immediate future. I mean how long would a bug last, that caused a blaster to randomly run into melee before activating one of their ranged attacks? Or how about a bug that randomly shut off half a character's powers after zoning and then didn't allow you to use them again unless you enter a mission? God help you if your contact gave you a street sweep. There are game breaking issues with masterminds, currently, and the need to be fixed asap. It just seems like issues that crop up for masterminds are dismissed apathetically. The henchmen don't count as participation, nonsense, is just the latest issue to add to the stack.

Oh, but you were wrong my friend. So very wrong.

Not as wrong as the op, but that sill leaves a LOT of room to be wrong.

So I deleted the mhd.mhz file, but it didn't fix the problem. Still doing the looping thing unless I Run as Administrator.

Shield charge from the Patch Notes/2010-08-16

Brute Version: Damage broken into 2 stages -- stage one has a 5' radius and does scale 1.8 Stage 2 has a 20' radius and does scale 1.275
Tanker Version: Damage broken into 2 stages -- stage one has a 5' radius and does scale 2.04 Stage 2 has a 20' radius and does scale 1.445
Scrapper Version: Damage broken into 2 stages -- stage one has a 5' radius and does scale 2.7 Stage 2 has a 20' radius and does scale 1.9125

And if you want a giggle, look up the effects for /poison's noxious gas in real numbers or oil slick arrow, for that matter.

Maybe I'm just transposing recipe prices onto salvage. I just know when coming back I thought to myself that rare salvage was much cheaper. I might have been wrong on that.

I think it's farms. Players are getting 50s and an immense ammount of inf, but only have tickets to show for it. No salvage is being created through their play creating shortages due to more characters creating more demand, but play is not creating supply. Most of them are obviously unaware of how much money the tickets could save them on common salvage. So when they go to slot their character, they need salvage. Being incapable of waiting, as evidenced by the use of the farm to begin with they pay ridiculous ammounts for it driving the price up.

Also, I was on break from playing for a while, coming back I was suprised. Since when has rare salvage been so cheap? Lots of rare salvage has more supply available than common. If I actually tried, I could probably jack the price of stabalized mutant genomes up to 1,000,000 instead of just 500,000, yet some rare salvage is going for less than 10,000. I thought some rare salvage (Chronal skip, enchanted impervium, mu vestment being some iirc, but I might be wrong on the actual ones) used to be 100,000,000 each. There going for 1,000,000 each. It's wierd to see.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Are you saying that you don't want to discuss a thought experiment concerning those with emotional and cognitive disabilities and issues, because it pertains to players of other MMO's? That makes no sense, please explain what you mean. Also answering the question would be nice.

Dreams are created through activity of the nervous system which is formed from cells, which are guided by genetics. A human adult has upward of about 100,000,000,000 neurons. Dreams are had durring rem sleep where certain neurons are more active, while others are not. So a dreams would "have" somewhere less than 100,000,000,000 cells.

To be honest though thats as stupid way of putting it, as the cells form the body, which acts based on stimuli. DNA causes stimuli based on stored information causing the body to act in specific ways, and can be independant of environmental stimuli. Environmental effects cause stimuli that reach our senses which can cause action. That action itself, can be influenced by genetic stimuli released as a cause of the environment.

Though thats an incredibly simple way of putting it that doesn't to justice to the actual workings, and is only intended to illustrate process.

Stalker Willpower get reconstruction instead of RTTC.

I tried to make a PnP verson of that type of system once when tinkering with some diceless rpg ideas. Personally I prefer skill trees.

One thing I have to say I've noticed with ideas for straight point buy systems balanced in the mentioned micro power method; which is just saying effect x is base, effect two is worth 3x, three is 1/2x... and a point buys you an ammount of effect times the balance modifier, is that they tend to be like the Costume creator. Endless ammounts of options, but most choices are very shallow in reality as they end up being all too similar with too little difference. Take a look at a costume contest, and you'll see a lot similar stuff while every once in a while you'll get something stunning. Similar stuff happens with point buy power systems, when you give those options to players.

When you take the building blocks away from players, those 50 or 60 micro powers, you can build the best, most compelling stuff. Though adhearing to strict balancing equations usually prevents breaking convention else you screw the pooch everywhere else. Gated point buy systems let you screw around a bit. Thats one of the biggest things I like about them. Not to say a straight point buy system couldn't be made to work, I just believe there is more margin for error, more diversity, and more freedom to act when building skill trees as opposed to just skills.

Though there will always be a need for proper encounter design with any system. In fact I always felt that to be the biggest failing of CoX. I mean, from what I've seen, in the begining it seemed like the developers where suprised at what powers even did when people started using them against the designed content, and PvPs biggest failing has always been the lack of any encounter design whatsoever preventing any workable structure or balance.

In my perfect world, Power designers and encounter designers would be practically married. They'd argue, fight, and get on each others nerves every so often, but at the end of the day they'd cuddle and make beautiful gameplay babies with the best attributes the both of them have to offer. I believe this would make any system work beautifully.

So let me be sure I have this correct. It's ok to get hit with 99% of your health then finished off with 1% but not ok to get hit with 1% and finished off with 99%?

I made one character based soley on the idea I had for how powerset proliferation worked. I made up a whole story for how proliferation worked and made a character based on it simply because I liked the story. This is allowed, it's your character's story, so change stuff to fit. Your allowed. 80 ITF's might be run in one day, but when your character's team does it, they're the only ones that can, have or ever will. It's your character's story, make it what you want.

Tech: You invent a device that siphons the power of the well allowing it's use as a new energy source for your tech, supercharging your devices. Yes, the well is the catalyst, but that's all it is, it's the tech that harnesses the power and makes it usable otherwise the well would be like a batery with nothing to power. The well would exist, but without the tech it would do you no good.I.E. your character does what he does because of the tech not the well. Any power source at that level could have worked, the well was just convinient.

Mutation: Your genetic structure undergoes a secondary mutation due to proximity to the well. Again the well is a catalyst, similar to the spliting of the atom which is science itself, yet was catalyst to many mutations. The mutation is what allows you to actually do anything. Again, the well would exist, but if it weren't for the mutation the well would do you no benefit, additionally such a mutation could have been triggered by another source. In this case, however, it just happened to be the well.

Magic: Abracadabra, the well makes you stronger.

Science: After rigorous experimentation on the well you develop a way to generate water matching that of the well of the furies within your body.

Natural: You made it to the well of the furies, but you didn't take a drink because you weren't thirsty. Such a display of badassery sends you to a new level of enormity. Stay thirsty my friends. You needed the well a lot more than I did.

Nothing will ever be perfect, but most issues can be fixed with enough creativity.

Oh and just something I want to ask, where is it said that the well of furies is magic and not a fundimental part of the natural order, and the functioning of the primal earth's universe? Where has any origin been given to the well, or incarnate powers for that matter?

In case anyone wondering, the first place winner was one of the green guys, either the guy with the nuke chest symbol or the glowing one. It was hard to tell as everyone stormed the center to self-destruct when the winner was announced, but I think it was the glowing one. Second place was the girl in red with the crown symbol, and the zombie chick got third.

Also, love the picture names.

Also, also, I see me one of the pictures you took!

First, powers are indeed balanced for endurance use. For damage dealing powers the rate is iirc 5.2x the damage scalar of the power.

Defenders will do less damage yet use the same endurance, because endurance and endurance cost work together to act as a limit to the volume or amount of effect that can be used before needing to stop and take a break.

This is similar to the idea of recharge, which is a limit to the frequency of use that a power has.

It is an added nuance to the game intended to be either a limiter or an advantage for a powerset. One powerset might be able to do more damage with its attack, but that attack can only be used a specific number of times before needing to stop, and only at a given frequency. Due to having a multitude of attacks, these attacks can be chained together one after another. This would be a way to get around effect per action limits if you only had recharge to worry about, as you would simply fill the frequency gap with a different action that accomplishes the same goal. This doesn't become an issue, though, because we also have endurance. You are still limited to the ammout of effect available consecutively, allowing a standardization that creates the opportunity for balance. Customization in the form of enhancements allow these expected values to be modified slightly allowing for a player to compensate for playstyle, weaknesses or both.

An energy blast defender will be able to perform the same number of actions as and equitably built nrg/ blaster. In order to keep the ATs unique and prevent one AT from being truly better than another, when it should simply offer a different playstyle, each AT is given modifiers that changes the potency of the various effects of an action.

In the energy blast example, a blaster is better at dealing damage with it's ammount of actions due to a higher damage modifier, whereas a defender has better secondary effects with it's number of actions, due to the higher buff/debuff modifiers. While you may not like which AT is better at what, this is cross AT balance, each has their own strengths and weaknesses relevent to the number and frequency of actions available. With customization available that can focus on either the specific effects themselves, allowing for more of the effect in the same number of action; or a larger number of actions with the same value of effects.

This is because inherent Fitness is not intended to solve the issue you have presented. Mostly due to the presented issue not being anything that has been proven as being a problem. Therefore no method is needed for dealing with it.

It has been demonstrated multiple times that there are sufficient resources to dealing with endurance issues at those higher levels. Due to the claim being made, I would ask now for you to please provide examples and demonstrations of those resources being ineffectual.

I have provided an argument showing that, while there is a difference, there is no disparity between ATs and Power Sets. I would now ask for you to please provide a rebuttal to that argument.

How much would you have the global recovery rate increased? The same ammount as stamina? More? Less? What purpouse would endurance serve after the change? Would you rather remove endurance alltogether, and modify drains to work in the same way mezs do? I would rather having three new powers as, to me, compensating for endurance is much easier than getting in all the powers I want.

Again, considering endurance costs being calculated at a rate of iirc
5.2x the damage scale, what do you think would happen to powerset balance, if one power (stamina + whatever innate recovery boost you said you thought would be better) made it so that the game gets to the point where players are: "not needing to worry about endurance" without modifying the potency of effects? Effects such as damage.

It is true that you have not offered any evidence of anything in this thread, but it is not true that you have only offered your opinion on a new change. I assume you mean the upcoming change to fitness when you say new change.

First you have referenced a change that will be made, and attempted to link it to an issue you proposed where it is not relevent to do so. As improving the resources available to low level characters is not relevent to a supposed imbalance between powers and ATs.

Then made a claim that the issue you proposed is one that is in need of attention.

Next denounced the change, hoping for it to be reconsidered, on the basis that it did not properly address your proposed issue, despite the fact the change isn't intended to address the issue.

Then finally proposed a different change to address the issue you proposed, to be used instead of the upcoming change, with the claim that it better addresses the issue.

Again without regard to the upcoming change not being intended to address your proposed issue.

Also without evidence backing the claim that the proposed change is better than the upcoming one, or evidence that the issue you proposed even needs addressing.