ArcticFahx

Completely OT, but I love your sig. Mostly because it's got some truth to it.

Which you can get rid of by moving while you turn it on.

Ummm.... no, you couldn't. It's because of the way they coded the slot sales. They were coded to verify against the store in case of billing issues and because you need to be connected to servers to play in the first place.

You don't see how the online store where you bought the extra slot being down would affected the availability of that slot? </sarcasm>


But seriously, you'll have it back when the online store is back up.

This actually brings me to a new point. Everyone who complains about enemies that mez being "cheap", is basically saying that mezzes in general are cheap. Would you be willing to allow for that and give all enemy groups mez protection too? Because mezzes are cheap, after all.

Except they have to actually get to the enemies to use theirs, so the point is invalid. Melee ATs have mez protection because otherwise they couldn't get into melee.

No idea why that hasn't been changed, probably legacy reasons. I did, however, have another idea for how to do that. All team members, or one team member designated by the leader, should be able to talk to a TF contact. I don't know how possible this would be with the current codebase, but it may be worth looking into. Also, insert "allow star to be passed on a TF" post here.
Would be an interesting solution, but what about non-signature TFs? Is running ITFs at, say, 40 because it's more of a challenge, but still doable, a thing of the past? Or because, hey, everyone is level 40 anyway, may as well run it at 40.

*facepalm*

Okay, I know you're new here, and weren't around for the original incident, but the very reason that Suggestions and Ideas is in For Fun now, instead of Development, is a story of two posters. Let's call one of them.... lkamen. And the other..... NWNGirl.

NWNGirl had a habit of posting suggestions and stating how simple they would be based on the fact that she had coded a few things in Neverwinter Nights, because all game code is, apparently the same. lkamen would infuriate her (and many others who posted outlandish suggestions that had a snowball's chance in hell of making it in the game, like permanent quadruple XP) by posting simply "no". Exacerbating the problem, NWNGirl would click the "report" button on any post that disagreed with her suggestions, no matter how politely, tersely or impolitely they were worded. Eventually, it all came to a head with bannings of the worst offenders in these, including those who would over-report, by reporting non-rule-breaking threads simply because they had a different opinion on the suggestion. The Community Reps and Devs decided that the S&I forum needed to be somewhere "less serious" than the development section, and so moved it to For Fun, in the hopes that people would not take themselves as seriously, and not see every Suggestion posted as holy mana provided from on high, but rather give them the feedback they need to become good suggestions. Or even explain why a suggestion just isn't good.



And because I feel like giving your suggestion some advice:

Tested in CoV Beta, were almost completely incapable of generating fury. It *may* be capable of working now with the changes to fury between CoV Launch and now, but I wouldn't hold your breath too much.
Illusion is a *very* poor fit for Dominators due to the way they work. Since you need to be firing off attacks to charge up domination, and pets don't benefit from it, Illusion only has 3 powers that benefit from Domination (Spectral Wounds hasn't benefited from Domination since I15, when the damage buff was removed from Domination)
I think this one is the most likely out of your specific requests for proliferations.
Castle hasn't said whether his team has any proliferations in mind for I17/GR (BABs already posted, a few weeks back, that I17 will be the GR "synchro patch", much like what I6 was for CoV)

There's a reason you don't see animals in game currently. The creation of a quadrupedal skeleton in game design is far different, and oft harder, than creating a bipedal skeleton. Hence why all MM pets so far are bipedal, they can use the same base skeleton practically everything in this game already uses. Also, since I17 is GR-synchro patch, GR is bringing Demon Summoning MMs.

That was SexyJay/JLove and his talented crew of costume designers. As for the "new costume options", we've been getting new ones with most issues (I16 actually was the first issue not to come with new free costumes in a while, which took me a bit by surprise.

Do you have any specific, or even general ideas? For example, Radiation melee/armor gets tossed around every so often, as does Psionic Melee and various oversized weapon sets for melee (Halberds, Polearms, Staves). I17 will have two powersets from GR, Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning, but we don't know if those are going to require the expansion or not yet.

Old suggestion that's often bandied about. But *why* would Boomtown be a co-op zone? RWZ is co-op because you're in a war zone where the enemy is an enemy that nearly decimated the Earth's population (using the proper definition, to kill/remove 1/10th), hero and villain alike. Cimerora is co-op because you're traveling back in time to prevent Romulus Agustus from destroying the timeline that resulted in you existing in the first place, something most villains are fond enough of to team up even with the goodie-two-shoes.

Also often stated, but the problem is that bugs are not easily fixed. They have the right name, since they can be as tenacious as a cockroach (which is theorized to be able to survive a nuclear war). There are bugs that have been in the game for almost its whole lifespan because they're that hard to track down, either because they're buried in code so arcane and undocumented it consumed 2 interns and a poor secretary that glanced at it as she was making coffee, leaving them all gibbering naught but insanity, and naming various abominations as Cthulhu, or because the bug only occurs intermittently and is thus nigh impossible to isolate (see: chat buffer bug, and what it took to find it in the first place).

As I mentioned with the "new powers" listing, do you have any specific suggestions? Web slinging, tunneling, electric-wire gliding?

And are any of those ideas not already covered by powers already in the game? Tunneling is how many stone tankers RP their teleports, web slinging is more-or-less a "reverse SJ", etc.

Castle and Sunstorm have already said that Base Raids are going to stay disabled until PvP is somewhere closer to where they want it. Will this be next issue? I have no idea. Only the second intern from the code-examination disaster mentioned above has occasionally mentioned the PvP goal, amidst other potentially prophetic things said amongst his incoherent babbling.

Listed in the marketing spiel for GR, actually, so some of it may spill into I17, instead of staying in the expansion alone.

I like this, but again, any more specific suggestions? Would you like a purple set for defense or resistance? More Targeted AoE sets? (Please please PLEASE more TAoE sets. There's only 4, including the purple. There are more Snipe sets than that.) Melee sets that don't have such crappy bonuses as the existing ones?

Some days I wish they did.

"Why are you going in the middle of the mobs! Just sit back and he--" *BOOM!*

Way to fail at realizing what a suggestions/ideas public forum is for. You voice your suggestion, and have the other posters look at it to see if there are any problems with it. Just because a poster doesn't look at a suggestion and go "OMG THAT'S THE GREATEST SUGGESTION EVAR!!! I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES!!!" does not make their post reportable.

Not to mention that the lack of actual details makes whether this OP is even actually a suggestion debatable.

Oh! You mean the kind of spawn that can mez a scrapper or tanker? Because yes, if you get about 3 or 4 Illusionists/RMs/DRMs, you can easily get more than 10-13 mez mag, which will hold anything but a Granite + Rooted. Especially with them using Illusion/MC mezzes that don't have a positional component.

Which you also dealt with at level 8 with Clockwork when they spawn a Tesla Knight/Duke/Prince in every group, or Tsoo at 15 (those sorcs pack Petrifying Gaze, and the Ancestor Spirits have Handclap).

That's the Rikti's schtick. They have mezzes, because they heavily train their psychic abilities. What's the biggest thing you see in comic books from psychics, beyond mind-reading and mental communication? Mezzing.

I solo all of those with my Ice/Ice/Ice blaster and rarely pop a breakie.

Make that any power that grants slottable damage resistance is unaffected by any outside bonuses.

Often? We're down less often than a certain popular one. Which has routine maintenance one day a week, sure, but it's pretty much that whole day. Anywhere from 8-12 hours on Tuesdays. We only have up to 2 hours, usually just 1, on Mondays and Fridays. With a total of 168 hours a week, CoH is only normally down about 2.38% of the time. That's not "often".

Ignoring MM Primaries and Blaster secondaries, too, because they're in the same pool as assault sets, there's still:

Illusion Control, Poison, Ice Melee, Ice Armor, and Ninjitsu. Five unique sets off the top of my head.

You can already do that, it's called mez resistance.



Also, I have more problems with Nemmies and Malta on my scrappers. Because they can't get in and prevent nasty things from firing off. And Nemmie Vengeance vs. Soft-cap is not a fair fight.

Heheh, I accidentally KSed someone trying to do that. I'd been trying to play on mall wireless the playsession before hand and forgot I still had Thunder Kick on auto, and I went over to try to give an insp to a lowbie struggling against a mob.

Whoops.

Yeah, low-damage Crane Kick is a turnoff.

BUT! You could modify Crippling Axe Kick to be the immob for the set. (Precedence? Mental Manipulation Subdue is a 100% chance to immob, Defender Psi Blast subdue is 80%)

Can we please quit using that as a frivolous lawsuit example? The coffee was 20 degrees hotter than standard restaurant serving temperature. It caused 3rd-degree burns, through clothing, within 7 seconds. McDonald's had settled roughly 30-40 such suits before. The lady in question only sued for hospital bills. The large amount she won was from punitive damages defined by the jury that felt that McDonald's refusing to settle for just the hospital bills was indefensible when they had done so mutliple times before.

Summary: The McDonald's coffee lawsuit was non-frivolous. Quit saying it was.

Actually, my Emp/Psi offender chomped a few yellows, and her attacks hit for full damage, instead of the 1 or 2 that other types do during PP MoG. So I can safely state that PP MoG provides defense against them, but not resistance. Now I need to get a Mind Control character high enough to use Dominate on them and see if that's because PPs are getting positional defense for MoG instead of typed defense, and thus technically retaining the psi hole. Alternately, I need to find one to Surveillance with my Bane.

Basically, you pull a Superboy-Prime, and punch Destiny so hard in the face it changes.

I see you run with suppress close GFX.