Xanatos

Righto.

What a weird thing to say. You post in the PVP forums, arena channel, and RV broadcast all the time.

You're basically a self-harmer right?

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Controllers, defenders, and Corruptors also have melee attacks in their APP/EPP. I know scrappers and tanks that gear towards ranged attacks.

These are largely exceptions.

The vast majority of dominator & blasters attacks are ranged. They're largely a ranged ATs. Breaking them up in this way, FOR THE SAKE OF NEWBS SIMPLE UNDERSTANDING, makes much more sense.

Alright. No more snarky. Do this.

Category: Player Archetypes

Parent Forum: Melee
-Sub-Forum: Scrapper (Melee Damage/Damage Mitigation)
--Desc: Special Skill: Criticals
-Sub-Forum: Stalker (Melee Damage/Damage Mitigation)
--Desc: Special Skill: Assassination
-Sub-Forum: Brute (Melee Damage/Damage Mitigation)
--Desc: Special Skill: Fury
-Sub-Forum: Tank (Damage Mitigation/Melee Damage)
--Desc: Special Skill: Gauntlet

Parent Forum: Ranged
-Sub-Forum: Blaster (High Ranged Damage)
--Desc: Special Skill: Defiance
-Sub-Forum: Corruptor (Ranged Damage/Support)
--Desc: Special Skill: Scourge
-Sub-Forum: Defender (Support/Ranged Damage)
--Desc: Special Skill: Vigilance
-Sub-Forum: Dominator (Control/Ranged Damage)
--Desc: Special Skill: Domination

Parent Forum: Unlockable
-Sub-Forum: Controllers (Control/Support)
--Desc: Special Skill: Containment
-Sub-Forum: Masterminds (Pets/Support)
--Desc: Special Skill: Bodyguard
-Sub-Forum: Arachnos (Villain Epic Archetype)
--Desc: Special Skill: [insert lore hype]
-Sub-Forum: Kheldians (Hero Epic Archetype)
--Desc: Special Skill: [insert lore hype]

Have an actual forum for the parent forum. So random newbies can join the "melee" or "ranged" forums and ask "what AT should I play?" This would allow newbs the very simple task of deciding whether they want to play melee or ranged, before asking for advice. Having three forums (not categories) for melee, ranged, and unlockables, also gives players a place to compare archetypes. This is invaluable.

Have the description of the sub-forums describe the type of characters the AT are. (I.e. "Stalkers! Low health hand-to-hand fighters that attack from the shadows using their inherent power of assassination.") If you give newbies a flavour to work off it'll make things easier to understand. Also be sure to mention inherent powers (criticals/fury/defiance/etc) as this will incentivise people to play them. For the HEAT/VEAT just put in some lore fluff, that's the only way people are going to be drawn to them.

Limit F2P posters to the first two sections. (Ranged & Melee.) They'll see everyone talking about the awesome unlockables and will want to join in.

In each At sub-forum have three stickies:

What is an [insert name of archetype]?
What is [insert name of inherent power] and how does it work?
Player Guides on [insert name of archetype]

If you don't want to write these yourself. I'm sure someone from the community will want to in exchange for the kudos.

In exchange for this most valuable of information. I humbly request you don't merge the PVP forums.

Congratulations on knowing how to use google.

Aye the lag was annoying. This game can't really handle large events of any capacity though. So you have to take that on boards before judging it. Plus this event was largely a stress test...so don't show up to it and expect it to run smoothly. I just took what was given to me and made the most out of it. I would not have stuck with it if I didn't find it amusing.

The Praetorians motives for attacking us were clearly outlined in Admin chat. They were there to clear up the Seedlings...and were going to drop us if we got too close. Duray said it was his problem, and that he wanted to clean it up without our help. To the point of attacking us!

The spawns were frequent for me. I guess you were just unlucky.

Not really disagreeing with you. Just my take on the event.

One thing that bugged me though was Zwillinger. We had Duray basically RPing with us in admin chat progressing the story and all that. Then "NCSOFT_Zwillinger" rolls up. Says something like:

NCSOFT_Zwillinger: Okay heroes & villains! We're Goign to Pocket D! See you there! We'll be handing out Golden Titles to everyone!
NCSOFT_Zwillinger: *going
NCSOFT_Zwillinger: I don't need to know how to spell! I'm invading your planet!
NCSOFT_Zwillinger

Here's some advice in CR 101: Don't treat the admin channel like a yahoo chatroom. If you are sending out a message to every tab of every player in the game make it short and to the point. The people playing the game aren't your friends. Don't act overly familiar. Don't spam. Don't make jokes. The people playing CoH aren't playing with you. They're playing with each other.

In other words: be professional.

You are making the AT forums more confusing. Fact.

Yeah Formspring does that if you answer questions that are not in your inbox.

You have to answer questions via the inbox (i.e. typing in a message in the inbox interface and clicking "post response".) If you do it any other way then your "questioner" will appear as anonymous.

I'd advise following absolutely everyone you can so that you get all the questions in your inbox.

I hope this made sense.

Hell yeah.

aka normal pvp.

I'm just here for badgers.

Well the back of the CoV box still says "base raids"....

This won't happen.

It's because slow-witted players need to have massive flashing glowing lights to show them that other players are moving fast. (Other players moving fast isn't, apparently, a significant enough of an indicator on its own!)

I wish I was joking. The main reason the devs don't want to do this is because of PVP. They (wrongly) think that having the option of turning off power pool graphics will affect pvp. I can understand the concern here. Players would eventually want all power graphics to have a disabling option...which would be a PVP nightmare. But I think if such an option was EXCLUSIVELY given to PPs and nothing else...the impact on PVP would be minimal at best.

There's a lot of talk about the dev team wanting to "not make a hash job" of this and "wanting to do it right". Well I'm sorry, But it doesn't seem like taking their time is really an option. The dev team have even said as such - it's low priority, it's not coming "soon", it' just something they're "aware" of.

If the dev team admits that it lacks the necessary resources to offer customisable PPs then giving us the option to turn their graphics off is the only viable strategy. Yes it might not be the best option. (Debatable - other options not even viable.) But given the direction of the game (chase the shiny/ignore existing content/ignore QoL), it is the WORKABLE solution in the foreseeable future.

Refusing to do this would, once again, be placing developer ego in front of player desire & QoL.

Please note I'm just talking about power pools here. Not ancillary power pools or epic power pools. EPPs/APPs would have all sort of PVP concerns if it came to turning off graphics. (Such as PFF or FoN...although personally I think it'd be more fun to not know what other players are running "under the hood".) I still think that EPPs/APPs should have been customisable a long time ago...but I recognise that turning off their graphics has a much larger implication than turning off...say...the rings of combat jumping or the orange trail of superspeed.

And let's be honest. One of the appealing things about other superhero MMORPGs is that everyone doesn't have hands that glow orange.