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Massive, epic FAIL. Something so profoundly, massively balance altering as being able to skip a travel prereq being doled out as a veteran reward? I thought these were supposed to be perks and conveniences, not ways for vets to ignore the power rules the rest of us have to follow.

Seriously, this is an absolutely insane change to give to just a small segment of the population. Given that this reward kicks in at 5 years, it's frankly unlikely that most will *ever* get to this reward during the lifetime of the game.

And, yes, I'm mostly annoyed that I doubt I'll ever get to use this. I have about 8 billion builds that would benefit immensely from being able to drop the travel prereq. But, seriously, this is by far the biggest thing they've ever given out in a vet reward, and frankly I think it's way *too* big to give out as a vet reward. I obviously can't say for sure how I'd react if I *was* in line to get this - I know I'd be quite interested in the options it would open up - but I'd like to think that I'd find this a bit iffy even then. Allowing just a small portion of the population to ignore such a fundamental rule seems more than a bit unfair.

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Yep.

Things like this will only alienate new players and make them feel like they can never compete or catch up.

Things like this don't encourage me to stay subscribed, in fact, they only re-enforce why I should not waste my money staying subscribed because there's no way I'll ever be able to "catch up" and have access to half this stuff. I'll always be perpetually years behind everyone else, even if I were to stay subscribed permanently right now from this point on.

Awesome video.

Wondering if you have any recommendations on a video or two that would be the best from the standpoint of showing off the best CoX has to offer a player.

A problem I notice with many videos when showing combat is that to someone who doesn't play it just likes a benign lightshow. I would aim to make a video where the combat is more scripted and slower, giving the player a chance to see what is actually happening.

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Thanks! I was going to put a battle sequence at the end, but that was a little too ambitious of a task for me at this point. Who knows - maybe later I will have an alternate ending. The whole video as it stands took a total of 32hours to make in a weeks time.. I'm learning patience

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Exceptional directing work. Was let down by the lack of a battle though.

I also thought it would have been a good turn of plot if this had all backfired on ghost widow by bringing down the hammer on recluse's forces to get the guy back, leaving ghost widow worse off for having even tried.

Great music, what is that? Sounds like nightwish.

Some great shots in there, but I think it dragged on too long in order to fit the song. It could have also been improved by giving more connection between the various shots and battle scenes instead of making it a random assortment.

Damn, that's pretty involved to take so long.
I've got some epic ideas of what I'd like to do with demos and video editing, but it seems overwhelming to try and learn the coding to such a level that I could achieve what I'm thinking of.

A big deal was being made of all the special effects and editing going into it, and voice acting.

I've seen or heard nothing of it since.

Looks like you're got something quality in the works.

Is the PAX always in seattle, or just this year? I might have to miss this one.

I've given up trying to watch all the videos. I'm tired of all these overloud matrix ads spamming me before and after every showing.
This contest has only ensured that I would never consider owning a matrix.

Do you think there's an animation pose for what the Thug Bruiser does with the Motorcycle that could be ripped out and applied to any chqracter for moving making? It might require a lot of point manipulation to make it look like they're using a motorcycle, but without an animation for first sitting on the motorcycle there wouldn't be much point.

Thanks.

For isntance, I want to rip a clip of footage out of a DVD or an AVI file, what kind of program could I use to do that easily? I've looked around over the years but never found one online. I figure someone here must know...

I've never been to a game related convention, but I live near seattle. Is the PAX worthwhile?

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I actually started a thread on this in the tech issues. It is getting to be too annoying to play without some troller or dominator to immobilize all the critters now. It shouldnt come to the point where you need crowd control just to function and not take an excess about of time to kill stuff. At first I thought it was the VEAT debuffs because I been on alot of VEAT heavy teams but thats not it, they even run away on heroside now.

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Lots of MMOs require you have control to function.... How dare dominators have the audacity to think that they should be valued on a team for reasons other than damage mitigation....

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Being valued and being needed are two different things. No AT should be needed in this game. Every AT should be valued.

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You don't "need" to have control on a team to function, even with runners - You simply chase down the runners.

You WANT to be able to function at 100% without the need for control, but that's not necessarily something you deserve to have, because it impacts the usefulness and desire of having a dominator on a team.

You want to have faster killing because of mob placement management? Get a controller/dominator/fortunata.
But you're not required to get one to function, it just makes life easier (which means it's functioning as intended).

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I actually started a thread on this in the tech issues. It is getting to be too annoying to play without some troller or dominator to immobilize all the critters now. It shouldnt come to the point where you need crowd control just to function and not take an excess about of time to kill stuff. At first I thought it was the VEAT debuffs because I been on alot of VEAT heavy teams but thats not it, they even run away on heroside now.

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Lots of MMOs require you have control to function.... How dare dominators have the audacity to think that they should be valued on a team for reasons other than damage mitigation....

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If you HAVE to have a specific setup to achieve any TF or SF.......

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I never said you HAD to have any AT to do this SF.
I said there are ones to AVOID IN FAVOR OF OTHERS if you want to increase the reliability of your speed.
The basis for this is dozens upon dozens of PuG experiences running this SF to naturally find the recruiting strategy that yields the most consistantly fast results with the least hangups or surprises.

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Wrong, the altar's positions are random and so are the spawns.

I use to run through on invis looking for the ones that could be clicked safely, but realized it's faster to just pop purples and superpseed through the whole thing.


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Wrong. The altars are always in exactly the same place (whichever 5 appear out of the possible 9),

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Wrong. They don't.

There are several different patterns that they could be layed out in.

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BTW I've seen Doms stack enough Holds on Bat'zul to hold him almost indefinitely, making defeating me quite easy.

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People who would criticize the guide first ought to have an idea what they are talking about:
The fact is you only need one dom to hold him. Him and Infernal both have very low status protection despite having purple triangles.

So five doms is wasteful overkill.

And you never needed a dom to begin with because corruptors will provides sufficient mitigation/heals for the AV fight on top of having debuffs.

But if you aren't a lead corruptor like myself, you may have no choice but to settle for a dom in the absense of corruptors.
Concidently this is also the only time you'd need to resort to using a mastermind because they bring along the debuff.

The corruptor is a superior invite because they bring both mitigation and debuff into one package, so you don't have to bloat your team up and make things take longer to kill as a result.

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There is so much wrong with this post that I don't even know where to begin.

On the one hand, you want maximum efficiency. Then on the other hand, you use the term "overkill". That's a flat contradiction.

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You need to look up both "efficiency" and "overkill" in the dictionary. They are two contradictory terms.
If you can get something so basic wrong, I won't bother reading the rest of your post.

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I am sure the quide as such is great, however I just don't buy that it is necessary to cut so many ATs out.

I know the OP says Pick-Up Groups, but seriously, if the player knows what he is doing then all AT are able to contribute more or less equally. On the other hand you can just as easily get inept corrupter players, who wouldn't contribute half as much as a well-played dom.

This is nothing more than elitist, mis-guided even, of the worst kind.

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You're wrong, and I've already explained why, if you cared to read the thread before responding.

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He didn't start out by saying that only high level toons need apply,

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Yes, I did.

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And this is after saying in the OP that the leader should be ready to TP teammates who haven't taken a travel power yet! (!!!)

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This is not a contradiction, only a failing of comprehension on your part - Because not everyone who is high level, especially those who are high level, are guaranteed to have access to their travel powers at level 20. Some didn't take it into account when they respecced, or others made a conscious choice to focus more on fitting in other powers in before 20 and put off a travel power for a few levels (especially common with the mayhem travel powers lasting well into your 20s).


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But if his guide is for a really fast Speed Cap, then it doesn't go all the way.

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I never said it was THE fastest way. Nor even implied it, or intended it. It's one pretty fast way that is very easy to put together at any time of the day.
That's the point of the guide - Finding the most reliable way of achieving the same fast speeds in PuG conditions.

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take four Corrupters and tell the Brutes to stay at home because no one has time to wait for them to build up Fury,

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That's why I said take one brute and two stalkers.
Corruptors, as I already said, are like playing roulette for what they'll have access to at level 20 - You could end up with someone who's got a lot of support, or someone who's got a lot of damage, or someone who really just doesn't function that well at this level period. Brutes and stalkers don't have that kind of variability, making them more consistant PuG choices.

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Only add players who've six slotted their pre-22 powers with IO Sets.

Only add players who also have full invis and are 4 year Vets with Assemble the Team.

blah blah blah

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What you're describing would be ridiculous requirements for doing the TF at the absolute max speed possible, but the requirements for putting that together on a regular basis are too excessive - My guide is the opposite, aimed at doing a fast TF under PuG conditions that can be fulfilled at any time.

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I'm not tearing him down for anything other than the fact that he thinks he has the fastest way,

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If you had actually read my guide, instead of just looking for reasons to tear me down, you would have seen I specifically stated that there WERE faster ways to do the Cap SF, but that this was a guide aimed at helping someone regularly run PuG groups reliably at around 40 minutes.

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I specifically said and that his knowledge is superior enough to exclude alternatives

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I never excluded anything. I've encouraged people to post their alternative methods of doing this, but in the cases where they've done so thinking they are trying to disprove the statements of my original guide, I point out why they were either mistaken about the intent of my guide or mistaken about their facts.

I watched this video first without realizing what it was. I thought it was pretty cool.
I then watched it again after having learned it's context, and it was totally awesome.

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Zzzzzzzzz.........

A Doomsday Warning is in Effect

must. sheep. i mean....

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No to be mean, but that's a pretty good description of your video right there - Lots of long stretches of boring pointless announcements and introductions.
You should redo it for the contest and cut down on most of the useless extended scenes.

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that's quite alright.

Thank you for watching and giving me your honest opinion.

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It might have gotten good, but I just couldn't get past the droning on of the announcer. Don't have the patience for it today.

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i wouldn't hate on the ppl only getting brutes and corrs for LRSF but maybe the devs for not making all AT's valuable for that particular SF. also, if you dislike ppl not picking up your MM for LRSF or whatever, then start your own group for the SF.

me personally i don't like having to many lv 30-31's for KHTFs. they don't have their tier 9 primary, and they arn't slotted well. i usually make my own team with higher lvl ppl 40+. if someone lv 30 asks me if they can join my KHTF team, (depending on the lvls, ATs of the teammates i have now, and the AT of teh lv 30, i may or may not say no). if i say no, don't get pissed at me, go form your own group. but most ppl don't like forming their own group because its too much "legwork"; thats their problem not mine. for me its easy because i have a bind set up to my F2 key, asking in a tell if he wants to join a KHTF team.

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I run a similar rule with Cap strike forces. They've got to be at least 30+, but I prefer 40+ to ensure they are going to be well slotted once maled down.

I know from experience that filling the team with people under 25 is just asking for trouble, regardless of their class.

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Just to spite you I am going to take my mind/psi dominator and form a PuG for this...

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I'm glad. Anyone forming more cap runs is a good thing for all villains, so we can get more unique and LoTG drops to drop prices.