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According to a post from the new dev, Horatio, the gun is only needed at the start of the fight to make it so you can hurt Reichs, turn off some mean debuff he has, etc. If you hit him before using the gun, you'll get a bunch of ones for damage... after, he takes normal damage (except when he hits that lame Unstoppable of his). So I don't know that the gun does interrupt it... unless that Horatio is intending us to figure it out on our own. I hope not, though, since he was responding to all the confusion about what the gun does.

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Dersk, if your team got him to 50k, then to 26k around his activations of US, your team should have been able to do it. It took my team a long time (we had one jerk go AFK the second mission and not come back, so we kicked him before the final mission when he wouldn't respond), but we did slowly get him down. Was annoying as heck, of course, but his HP did pendulums around US, but always with a downward trend.

[/ QUOTE ]The gun *seemed* to decrease his resistances when we were facing him on my first run. (Team was Dark/Regen/Darkness scrapper, Rad/Rad/Dark defender, Psi/MM/Force blaster, Grav/FF/Primal controller, Ill/Rad controller, Mind/FF controller, Earth/Kin/Stone controller, Mind/Emp controller, so debuffs were fairly constant except when we had to split on the AVs). I'd notice the damage on my Propel drop significantly, but after a few blasts from the temp power, it was back up. (In the range of 50 damage at bottom (post initial blast) up to about 300 at peak (both numbers pre-containment, because that sucker was immobed).

Amazingly, the real difficulty we had with it was Gyrfalcon, but that was also because he was unleashed around 4 minutes after the fight started, and we'd not noticed the bubbles dropping. ^_^

(This really was a "take what you want" TF, too, but the first four listed are the 4 mains of my SG's main players, including myself, so I guess a "take what you want" TF from my SG really isn't as much of one as most peoples' ^_^)

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If you keep RotP, frankenslot it to save slots for other powers. For example, Numina Heal/Rech, Numina Heal, Efficacy Adaptor EndMod/Rech, Efficacy Adaptor EndMod. I know people say to skip it, but I'm always a fan of a self-rez for convenience. As others said, replace Acro with a couple Steadfasts (which are cheaper than Karmas). Tough is a good choice to go for, and Boxing is decent. If you're running into end problems, a pair of Impervium Armor provides 2.5% recovery bonus (though is a touch on the expensive side, having just bought a few for my Dark Armor tanker).

It also provides psi defense and resistance at 3 and 6, respectively, helping plug up that hole in Fiery Aura's defenses.

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Just finished it blueside. We had 2 BS/Shield Scrappers, 1 Katana/SR, an Energy Melee tank, 2 Controllers, and a Defender. Kin, Rad, and Storm. We had another person who dropped early on. We had no trouble taking him down, including all the AVs he called to him. We finished the whole thing in 1:20, and we weren't rushing and none of us really knew what we were doing, so we could've been done much faster.

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I'm in favor of allowing people to choose how they want to do it. Some will use it, some won't. But I would put money on the torrent users downloading a lot faster. At least for the first few days.

[/ QUOTE ]Ugh, no BT patches in this game, please. I tried the "10 million subscribers" game, got a corrupted patch from it that completely hosed my Windows install. Not to mention that with the way the patching process works on CoH, we *can't* do BT patching without a complete overhaul. Currently, when you patch in CoH, the game files are modified directly. In that other one, the patches are actually downloaded piecemeal. If you update to 1.03 from a fresh 1.00, you have to download and patch to 1.01, then restart, do the same for 1.02, and restart, do the same for 1.03. And if CoH were to start using BT to push patch downloads, we'd have to do the same thing. And frankly, that sucks. When installing fresh on that other system, I was downloading for 2 days and still hadn't been updated enough to play when the bad patch from a seed system killed my OS.

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melee gets neither resistance

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There's no such thing as melee resistance. Resistance has no positional components.

[/ QUOTE ]Not just that, but it makes no sense, either. "Hah! I'm almost entirely immune if you try to shoot me with an arrow, but if you stab me with the same arrow, it'll kill me!"

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Currently, the character models don't have the anchor points for this.

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*stares at infernal*

He's just a dumb huge model in the most uncommonly used armor.

[/ QUOTE ]No he isn't. All Signature characters, and most npcs, really, are static models, not dynamic with attachment points like PCs. Look at Tsoo robes, and why we can't have them, for example.

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So it's dumb to respond to the frustrations of hundreds or thousands of subscribers? I don't buy that argument.

I'm no guru, but I know you can add to server capacity. Maybe that kind of hardware can be rented.

The problems are as predictable as death and taxes. Fix them now before they happen and maybe this will be fun this time.

[/ QUOTE ]Hundreds? [censored]. It's about 50 people, max, who complain about it. The rest of them do that thing the game makes easy, you know, ALTING ON ANOTHER SERVER.

And I play on Virtue, which goes grey almost as much as Freedom does on DXP. I usually just refresh the server screen, and I'm on in under 5 minutes. Or I play an alt on Infinity, Liberty, etc.

There's an old saying, "heaven helps those who help themselves". It means before you go around asking for concessions and help, you should see if you've done everything you can to aid yourself.

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"Seriously? Someone mentioned that they had to fix it 4 or 5 times in beta. Is this right, because if it had actually been fixed in beta, it really shouldn't be borked hitting the servers. It's shameful and sad."

That's why I added this line. If it was fixed 4 or 5 times, like I heard, then it was brought to Dev's attention before live. In the instance of something this horribly broken, there's no way that this didn't get reported. If it didn't get reported, what is the testing for?

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, if it was fixed 4 or 5 times, which means that some other bit of code broke it.

And if the most recent build had no flags about "the power that helps take down Reichsman most is broken" in the bug report pile, the devs wouldn't necessarily know it was re-broken. Coding is a pain, and sometimes (often, in some codebases) fixing one thing will break something completely unrelated.

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And 9? Why not upgrade to 11 for Cimerora-style goodness?

[/ QUOTE ]Because I had a CD for 9 lying around, and didn't want to download an whole OS

(Actually, I think I've got a Knoppix CD around here somewhere, too...)

[/ QUOTE ]Ah, Knoppix CDs. How great they are for salvaging data when an OS gets corrupted.

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I'm normally pretty forgiving of little bugs that can creep into a live issue when first released, but the bug with Black Scorpions temp power is inexcusable. First day of release and a temp power to help defeat Reichsman, who is a beast to start with, is bugged?

This is an epic fail for the Dev's IMO.

[/ QUOTE ]Was it reported as bugged during the last Beta build? Was it bugged during the last Beta build? If it was never reported as bugged since the prior beta build, it's not the devs that failed, it's the beta testers. If it wasn't bugged at all, then sometimes code just acts weird, especially in something new that the devs are trying like this.

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Still don't know what sound to replace to disable that horrid activation sound.

[/ QUOTE ]I suggest the NBC chimes. I actually, on a lark, did that for Hasten before my computer needed a complete reinstall of windows. Was *really* amusing.

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I think what LuckySamurai meant was that he/she doesn't know what the name of the Peacebringer shield sound file is, and thus can't disable it.

[/ QUOTE ]Ah, right. Don't remember that one, since it doesn't cause me problems.

I still stand by my suggestion to use the NBC chimes for it, though.

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Still don't know what sound to replace to disable that horrid activation sound.

[/ QUOTE ]I suggest the NBC chimes. I actually, on a lark, did that for Hasten before my computer needed a complete reinstall of windows. Was *really* amusing.

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Alot seem to think it's issue 15, so lets go with that.

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(telephone game)

I heard i16 is going live. Is this true?

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I heard that I16 is going to jive. Is this blue?

[/ QUOTE ]I heard that Pi-fifteen is getting to five. Is this a rue?

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Why is that so funny?

[/ QUOTE ]Because they're spinning up Freedom laser.

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karma

[/ QUOTE ]For what, successfully defending himself against spurious claims brought against him by money-grubbing parents who told their child to lie under oath about the whole thing?


Seriously, the Court of Public Opinion crap *really* torques me off.

all servers are at unknown except Infinity, which is down.

I forgot to respec one of my characters, but I got the one that was actually ready for it.

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Kuji-In Retsu, as it's called, has a recharge time of 16 mins 40 secs.

Why?

I'm not very used to these "god mode" powers, as I generally play as controllers and defenders, but it seems IIRC it takes much longer than the tier 9 power in super reflexes.

[/ QUOTE ]It's exactly the same stats as Elude, but Ninjitsu doesn't have Quickness.

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It's one of the best powers available to Doms. Definitely pick it up!

[/ QUOTE ]I totally agree here. Most of the other power pools have garbage. I always pick mu mastery on doms. Its got the only pet worth a damn, resistance to one of the hardest hitting damage types in the end game NRG and a mini-unstoppable for when things go wrong. I dont think it get any better than this. Many folks hate the -end aspect of it at the end. But seriously which would you rather have, your hp dropped to zero because you die or just all your endurance gone but you survive the encounter?

[/ QUOTE ]It's basically an armor-set Tier 9. What Tanker/Scrapper/Brute/Stalker skips their tier 9? (other than soft-capped /SR, or those that don't have a "true" Tier 9 - Dark Armor and Fiery Aura)

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They won't take it now, but i15 on test changes that. Once that goes live you can slot it, so hang on to it until then.

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Will do, and thanks.

[/ QUOTE ]Fluffy won't take it, but Ghostie (Soul Extraction) will.

Fluffy won't take it because it's not a damage pet.

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Most of the MM Pet names I've seen are homages.

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At least, a bunch of mine are.

Slave Driver's zombies are named after the characters in Office Space.

Neko Mecha's robots are named after cartoon cats.

Rotten Johnny's thugs are named after punk rockers.

Bot Torrent's bots are named after old movie comedians (Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, and Groucho Marx).

[/ QUOTE ]I do that with some of mine. My ninja MM did that for 4 of his pets. One of his genin (the one that usually dies first) is named Niiro Shatsu (a literal translation of "red shirt). His Jounin are named after a friend of mine's ninja character in a wrestling e-fed, and the second is Higure, named after the Magic: the Gathering card. The Oni is named after another friend who has a fire-based gimmick in the same e-fed.

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Congratulations! You just won the award for Worst Analogy Ever!!!

/em presents ArcticFahx with a trophy that looks like BadAnalogyGuy from Slashdot (whatever he looks like). Inscription on the plaque reads: Minding one's own business when it comes to violent and potentially life threatening activity is to minding one's own business when it comes to potential trademark violations in an MMO as pomegranites are to drywall screws."



[/ QUOTE ]Thank you! Thank you! You really love me!

/em bows
/em raises trophy


Yes, I know it was a [censored] analogy, but the poster I directed it at wouldn't listen no matter what.


Better analogy: Bobby steals Susie's favorite pen. Susie tells the teacher, who calls Bobby's parents. Bobby then complains about Susie being a tattler.

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First off why would you even report someone who did nothing to you. Obviously mommy and daddy never told you being a tattletale is wrong unless you have been hurt in some manner.

[/ QUOTE ]The kind of person who uses the word 'tattletale' is the kind of person whose mommy and daddy said 'Get away with whatever you can.'

Some of us were raised to respect rules and principles, and to think that when a person agrees to a behaviour, they should actually do it.

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True that.

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Its called minding your own business. I mind mine but seems some people like to run around a virtual world and police it. Let the devs worry about it not take it upon yourself to ruin someones good time. Don't try and put a F'in twist on my words and state something stupid like " well going out on a Saturday night and drinking a few beers which is a good time, then getting behind the wheel of a car (censored)FACED.

Whoever said that Land of the Lost isn't a copyright infringement because its a name or words just shud up. So if i were to start a pizza joint called pizza hut BUT didn't server pan pizza, didn't have a red roof, didn't look like a hut then there is nothing that could be done, PLEASE!!

Even better how about me making a game or something for facebook call it "City of Heroes" but not super heroes but Policemen or Firemen were the stars of the game and they were stopping crime and rescuing the occasional cat in the tree. NCSOFT would send there high priced attorneys after me in a heartbeat.

"Land of the Lost" is a trademark which mean that it cant be used unless permission is granted. Google was recently sued because the OS they use for their mobile phones is called Android which could have lead to confusion with the registered trademark Android Data.

[/ QUOTE ]Guess what. "Mind your own business" and "don't snitch" are the mindset that allows murderous gangs to run rampant through certain areas of cities. That cause cases against Bloods, Crips, Mafiosos, and Yakuza to never get off the ground, because no one will come forward for fear of being "a rat". So take the grade school playground "don't tattle" [censored] out of here, until you grow the [censored] up.

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Can the Market Teleporter temp power please be changed to only use a charge if it actually goes off? Right now it uses a charge even if it is interrupted, which is very annoying. Thank you...

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The devs pretty much don't tend to answer here.
So, maybe I can try to answer for them . . .


Can they tweak that? Maybe.
Will they? . . . . . . . . Maybe.
Do they have a reason for the way it is now? Maybe.

In the mean time, now that we know this, what should we do?
Try to avoid situations that might interrupt it,
so you can avoid annoyance.

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[/ QUOTE ]Actually, I don't believe they can, because all interruptible powers have to pay their costs to activate, whether they're completed or not (see also snipes, assassin's strikes, LRM, Physician day job power, medicine pool)

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Hrm. Yet, I coulda sworn that contacts worked on combat level.

[/ QUOTE ]Nope. I was working on my PB a while ago and dinged to 15, so I went straight back to Sunstorm, who wouldn't offer me his next arc until I actually saw Ms. Liberty and trained. Contacts definitely work on security level.