Zombie Man
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I was making a joke.
But, the more I think about it... if any movie needs a reboot, it would be one where computer architecture has advanced so much in 20 years that a movie based on leaping inside it would need to be redone. -
Quote:I'd change the respec interface so that it would accept a Mid's character block cut and pasted in.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Oh and one more thing I would change:
The #@!?* respec system. I'd make it more like Mids, where you can choose "dynamic mode" (to move a slot or two or replace a single power) or "level up mode" (if you're making major changes and don't want to screw up). And it wouldn't touch your power trays except to remove powers you no longer have. -
Quote:Or, sourced a bit further back.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
I don't think it's explicitly made clear, but the previous lore makes it sound like the Coralax summoned the Leviathan because Merulina wasn't helping them out much against the Mu. Either she was sleeping (cause you know, if you're going to rip off Lovecraft you have to have a weird alien god sleeping under the sea somewhere) or otherwise incapacitated.
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Clearly the next TRON should be a reboot.
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1. Revamp all the legacy content and TFs with a heavy editing out of redundant missions, FedEx missions, and kill-all missions. This includes having just one contact give out the arc and not three random contacts (so that players can easily cooperatively auto-complete the arcs together). Move all their non-arc one-off missions to the scanners.
2. Finish power customization with all the pools.
3. Revamp the costume creator so it's more logical. Each piece should have the same set of texture overlays (cloth, rough leather, shiny leather, spandex, flat metallic, high shine metallic).
Quote:I'm impressed you're able to keep it stained free over the course of three days like that!Originally Posted by Navy Spider
Hah! I defy you to find a food stain on my wife-beater. -
Quote:You had that many MMs and no one had Team TP?Originally Posted by gameboy1234
This is pretty much what happened that time we had 6 masterminds on a team, and ended up on a narrow cave mish. Three people quit immediately afterwards because they couldn't even get to the enemies.
When we have that much crowding in narrow map, I tell the MMs, "Put 'em on Aggressive," and I Team TP the whole crowd down the hallway. It's a teleporting mound of doom that wipes out all in its path.
Or, you know, they could have split up. -
Quote:K, I copied that to another file since if I can't get to the forums, I can't get to this post to see what I need to do.Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
Run the following from a cmd window:It won't appear to be doing much, but give it 4 or 5 minutes and it'll return you back to the prompt and if you check your desktop you'll have a text file with all the info you need to provide in it.Code:
pathping boards.cityofheroes.com > %userprofile%\desktop\coh.txt
FYI the reason for dumping to a text file rather than outputting to the console is that pathping typically outputs lines that are too long for the standard console width, which makes it hard to read.
Also, you can just run:but Pathping provides more information including things like packet loss.Code:tracert boards.cityofheroes.com
But for now, access is back to normal. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
I have no pity.
This is the endgame the devs made, because people let them. Expect more of the same.
The Tanker you worked hard making nigh-unkillable, to never have to run from anything, is now slaughtered by cat girls and runs from blue bubble patches. Soon, they'll also be slaughtered by guard towers and run from mass-produced household cleaning appliances.
This is your crowning moment of awesome: being a scratching post for a lazy cat girl or getting stuck down by a Roomba while beating up abused prisoners/mental patients.
It's like my comic book dreams come true...?
tl;dr: "I'm not invincible like Superman. QQ"
Which is the tl;dr version of every post by JB. -
Quote:So, you're spoiling for a rutabega v. turnip fight, now, aren't you?Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
ROTFL!
Seriously, why can't we all just say "I'm like 51, but not".
Honestly I couldn't care less if someone says they are rutabega as long as they aren't a total moron during a tf. -
Quote:That is definitely a reference to the Omega aura.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
auras/male/preorder/evil.fx
The current Omega aura is hard-attached to the character model: when you move, it moves.
Some Auras are location based: they start where your model is, but if you move, they either stay where they are, or they move to catch up to you.
E.g., in the first iteration of the Tarot aura, the cards were hard-attached to the body. And so, when you ran, the cards immediately moved and bounced along with you, which looked horrible. It was changed so that when you moved, the Tarot cards floated behind and moved toward you... much more aesthetically pleasing.
So, I'm guessing the first iteration of the Omega aura was the floaty-behind type and got attached to the OP's model. Then, when the new version was made, which is of the hard-attached variety, the character lost the ability to select the old Omega aura and it's 'permanently' stuck on her. -
Quote:Excuse me, but if a level 50 minion does enough damage to kill a level 50 character but not enough to kill a level 51 character and you die, then yes, that means you're still level 50.Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
Excuse me what does a level 50 minion con as to a 50 +1?
Yes that makes you a 51. -
Quote:Heh.Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad
This sums up my first encounter with her with that particular tanker nicely.
Best moment? When Zombie Man said "I'm not touching that thing. Tanker, you can pull. I'll rez you."
... and meant it.
Anyone else taken by surprise by her first time tanking?
That was after I had pulled and alpha absorbed and Dark-Def-Tanked everything else in the TF thus far (I was simply leading). I like to scare Tankers with that line.
Tankers survive longer than Fluffy giving me time to debuff her with -Dam and -ToHit.
Yeah, even Fluffy can't tank her!
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While it's no big deal to say one is '51' rather the '50+1' it is a big deal to think one actually is level 51... one is not.
If you're Level 50 and you fight Kraken who is in reality a Level 15 Giant Monster (though its /info doesn't reveal that), then because of the damage scaling code for GMs, 'the purple monster code', you attack Kraken as if you were Level 15. But, who would say while fighting Kraken, "I'm now level 15!" You're not. You still have all the attacks and HP of someone who is Level 50 -- you are not fully exemplared down like you would be on a Positron TF (and even then, you have access to Level 20 powers).
And so, if you're Level 50+1, you attack foes as if you were Level 51. You get attacked as if you were Level 51. But in every other way, you're still Level 50. -
Quote:For players who advertise they need a Healer on their team.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Then why are there handicapped bathrooms?
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Had to flush the dns a few times to get on. Similar to what happened here...
Quote:Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I'm getting periods of 30 to 40 minutes with forum pages hanging and refusing to load. And then a few minutes where they're working ok. During that time when I can't get in http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com is saying that it can find the page OK.
For the past two days I've been experiencing immediate "can not find page" where the browser isn't even looking. That gets fixed with ipconfig /flushdns in a Command Window.
But the hanging on loading doesn't get fixed with a DNS flush.
Switching from Firefox to IE doesn't help, either. -
Quote:Miscellaneous.Originally Posted by Zamuel
What would be the appropriate thread? Alpha was technically part of I19 plus I'm not sure how much of this would be considered opinion.
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Quote:Because of Zger's reference to it, I hunted it down to hear what I was missing.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
"Friday". It's a terrible song and will get stuck in your head and will never leave and eventually you will claw your own eyes out because you keep singing/humming it and then everyone around you starts singing/humming it and eventually everyone will be dead from eye-clawings.
<shudder>
I was able to keep the trite melody meme from becoming stuck in my head by focusing my rage over the overuse of autotuning in that song leaving me suspicious whether that girl's 'talent' is anything but.
Turn to the the Dark Side. Let your anger drive out the meme. -
Quote:There is nothing he could have said about the Lore slot which would not have placated those who hate it and it would have just been fodder to be picked apart by every rhetorical device possible over the course of twelve separate threads... to add to the current thirty threads about it.Originally Posted by Serva_Obscura
Yeah not a word on the Lore slot, not even "We had very specific ideas about this slot to to backstory contraints that have yet to be revealed"
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If they did that... it's to stop afk PvP IO farming.
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Without multiple Sniper sets, you couldn't Frankenslot.
Quote:Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Sniper powers is a good example of something you might want to Frakenslot because there are so many aspects that you want to enhance: ACC, DAM, Interrupt Reduction, Range, Recharge, and even some Endurance Reductions. But the Sniper sets don't cover it all (at least, not as much as I want it to). And so, if you use the triple aspect IOs from different sets, you give up you Set Bonuses, but you gain *a lot* of enhancing.
E.g., my Dark Defender has the snipe power, Moombeam slotted,- Extreme Measures: ACC/Interrupt/Range
- Extreme Measures: ACC/Range/Recharge
- Executioner's Contract: Damage/Range
- Executioner's Contract: Damage/Recharge
- Sting of the Manticore: ACC/Interrupt/Range
- Sting of the Manticore: DAM/Interrupt/Range
This gives:- ACC: 63.6%
- DAM: 73.7% (pre-ED 74.2)
- Interrupt: 76.4%
- Range: 52% (pre-ED 54%)
- Recharge: 69%
That's 334.7% worth of enhancement.
Six IOs (ACC, DAM, Recharge, Range, 2xInterrupt) would have only been 252% worth of enhancements.
Sting of the Manticore would have been 293% worth of of enhancements looking like this:- ACC: 47.7%
- DAM: 91.78% (pre-ED 95.4%)
- Interrupt: 50.9%
- Range: 12.75%
- Recharge: 42.4%
- End Redux: 42.4%
Which is a lot less Range, Recharge, and Interrupt Redux that I wanted (with a lot of Interrupt Redux, a snipe can be used often in battle rather than just a lead-off shot).
Besides, my Frankenslotting still gives me the bonuses of: 1.5% Recovery; 2% Recovery; and, 12% Regeneration. That extra Recovery is worth not slotting for End Redux. -
Quote:Might be a P-String which means it won't be found client-side.Originally Posted by TheUnnamedOne
Odds are the exact text is still buried somewhere in the game's client-side files. They almost never take anything OUT of them, they just add new stuff and don't ever reference the older stuff anymore.
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Question comes up regularly.
As a general rule you have access to capes and auras early (from creation onward) if you have purchased them or they're a Vet Reward. Otherwise, all the standard auras and capes including new freebies that are part of an Issue release (such as Snow and Fireflies) have to wait till that character unlocks them at 20 for capes and 30 for auras. -
When my tab of /tells, team chat, and broadcast was scrolling so fast that it was difficult to keep track of the /tells, I created a separate tab just for the /tells. This way I could keep track of the order the /tells came in.