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Quote:Only cos' some idjit suggested something other than chocolateOriginally Posted by Eiko-chan
Oh, come now. These are the suggestion forums. Someone will say "no" to just about any suggestion, including "let's give the devs a giant cake to show our appreciation for all their efforts."
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Quote:Where does it come from? The animation, that isOriginally Posted by Forbin_Project
Yep.
I've been wondering since it showed up as your avi
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At present, the Arachnos Flier is a real headache to try and nail down. It spawns as soon as the message goes up, and has three stop off points.
Then it bails out.
We tried to grab it last night at behest of a channel friend. It wasn't that we couldn't dent the thing. With only half the team making it to Grandville in time, we still started sratching the health bar. But by the time everyone got there, it was off and away.
Which, I think, is a shame. Because it was actually really fun to fight. You're hitting a big, pseudo-hightech flier with teleporting Bane Spiders and big pew-pew lasers, flaring lights and rocket batteries; what's not to like?
My suggestion would be that, once the flier spawns on patrol, it persists until downed. Then the compulsory cooldown, until it spawns again. That way there is at least time for people to gather a team and hunt it down at the drop-zones, rather than arrive only to see it fading off the map. -
Quote:See, what bugs me is this; say I'm on my Technology Tanker, levelling up. Im fighting Rikti, for want of an example. I go through, merrily hitting. Yet, the enhancement 'rewards' I get are all Science origin. I cant actaully use them. Despite, y'know, Rikti having high tech as well...Originally Posted by Leo_G
Just checked my rep (not that I actually care, just curious) and my comment asking to 'leave enhancements alone' gets a -rep + simple 'no.' response?
Lol okay, go ahead and mess with the enhancements. Oh wait. You can't! To bad for you ^^
PS: I actually like the enhancements, pics and names on a lot of them. Makes me feel I'm actually finding stuff rather than generic item #461. For other characters, simply ignoring the names is not asking for your first born's blood.
Now, sure, I can sell them...for an absolute pittance, even at an unbiased store. An enhancement you cant use is worth practically next to nothing.
Why not simply drop enhancements based on your origin, not that of the mob? That way, whatever you are fighting, you at least have the chance of recieving enhancements beyond TOs that you can actaully slot and get some use out of, without being locked into absoultely having to fight, say, Freakshow and Skyraiders (I think they drop tech?) which gets very dull after a while.
If it's too much of a leap for people to try and accept that in an RP viewpoint (Bear in mind, this is coming from an RPer), then surely it would make sense for your character to trade whatever mugjuggin they picked up for something they could use. Either with the contact or with someoen they know.
Something a bit fairer than paying the smirking Longbow Ops/Arbiters peanuts for stuff that is basically so much junk to you. -
Quote:Well spotted.Originally Posted by Bubblerella
Oh ****, I'm a troll now :P
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...Yeah, what Luminara said
Personally, though, I don't boot people unless they are being an absolute little streak of dog doos. And I've only run into them a few times. Once was a guy who was insisting that I invited his friend, pre-SSK, and refused to understand just why it was a terrible idea to invite a guy so much lower than us, and why I refused to make every else have to support him. He got rather pissy...at which point I dissengaged all safties and went rather explosive on his organic self
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The only 'compromise' I've really made is on my Shield/SS Tanker, where I stuck in Tough and Weave later in his build to crank up his armour, and skipped out on a travel power, because it suits him to be a bit slower, but rather tough.
That, and Ninja run makes up for it mostly
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Quote:When you can't get a Dev; Arcanaville. The closest thingOriginally Posted by Castle
That's what she said...and it was pretty darned accurate both in the original post and the followup. The truth is there isn't one balancing factor but dozens; many of which Arcanaville pointed out.
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Cool ideas...
But there are now about 4 seperate threads on this now
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Quote:Ye gods, this ^Originally Posted by NovaFactor
Sounds good to me . Also add a option to remove hair from ball caps or other head wear
Been wanting to remove the hair on my stalker, who basically wears an officers cap over his gas mask. He should not have visible hair. Yet he does. And it drives me nuts at the back of my mind, even if it is coloured black. -
Quote:Amen to that.Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
-Common sense post-
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/Signed
Some of the older hair options look really, really dated now. Some of them look worse than just dated.
And options where they make sense too. I was trying to get a certain set of gloves on robes, and I couldnt. For no good reason. (Roman gloves, was experimenting in AE) -
Ho man, that's tough...
I think first place has to go to my Warshade at the moment. Never have I cackled so much while levelling. He's just great fun.
Second has to go to my namesake, Alpha, the Bots/Traps MM of doom. Still my highest diff setting character, who chews up large mobs under a hail of firepower. Great fun.
Then anything with Shield in it. Shield Charge is just so destructive its incredible, especially on my scrapper
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Quote:Some people just can't stand being shown upOriginally Posted by Ironik
I was once kicked from a team because my Scrapper was killing more efficiently than the team leader's Scrapper.
Stupid people are stupid. </em shrug>
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You know what makes me laugh? A lvl 50 Recharge red recipe....sells for over four times the price of a Hecatomb recipe at an NPC vendor. I just stared at it for a while.
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Pretty much what Sam said. Nightmare to code and balance, but...it do look nice that do
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Quote:It's a fair point, yes. They could have been more in depth on stuff. But I really think it's better they be vague than copying our 'beloved' former Head of Studio, Jack Emmert, and promise stuff for certian times and then have to renage on that due to, y'know, he didn't actually bother asking the guys who it concerned if it was actually feasible in the time frame.Originally Posted by GMan3
I don't know Techbot Alpha, I went back and read the posts by those two and while they were a little over the top, they have some good points. I wasted an hour on-line that day, my fault I admit. I was amazed by the fact that they were answering questions that had already been officially posted and by the lame "Who would win in a race?" or "Do you like Vodka?" questions they decided to answer. Actually, amazed is a little lacking in color but I am trying to be polite here.
I counted about 64 questions and was only impressed by the answers to about 5. I will admit that the dodge they gave for the drop date of Issue 19 was funny, but I think they could have chosen better questions to answer.
Honestly, I think most of us would be happy if we had a little more detail on what or when things are planned to come about in the game. If they had said PvP is in the works, but not until at least Issue 20, I think most would have been happy with that kind of answer. While some would have complained, most would say Ok, we have a guess-timate at least. And if later on they had to move it back for reasons of complexity or other game content again, the grumbles would happen, but I believe overall people could accept it.
I will tell you a lesson I learned in my 13 years in the U. S. Marines. Any information was better than nothing or vague ways of the hand, and changes are expected. Either Marketing or the Devs (maybe both) seem to have not learned that lesson yet or forgotten about it.
For the PvP question, it's pretty simple really. They are working on it, and will be coming to it. When and what timescale is quite possibly something even they don't know yet, due to the fact they seem to work on three issues at once nowadays, and GR is probably taking major precedence over anything else.
And who knows what marketting thinks, at the best of times. The Devs =/= Marketing, either way.
Finally, don't get me wrong; I know there is still some what I'd consider broken stuff in game. And yeah, PvP is one of them. Base editing too, and (for me anyhow) the majority of Blueside content and this morbid obsession with 'New shinies is better!' when, really, the game chassis (the majority of content) could do with a polish.
I just object to being typed at like I'm an idiot
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Quote:Originally Posted by milehigh77
Right, you obviously missed my point mr drama queen.Quote:Originally Posted by milehigh77
Anyway, this argueing for arguement's sake is getting old pretty fast.
So I'll end it.
I'm wrong.
You're right.
I lose.
You win.
Moving on.
Oh, wow...Excuse me while I snigger.
And;
Perhaps because the games graphics haven't changed in Five years? So, it wasn't needed? Whereas now the graphics will be updated for the first time in said five years. So, its now worth doing. And David obviously took a few to rustle up some new ones we can apprecaite when it hits live.Quote:I still don't get how some still fail to grasp my point. If a monkey can make new loading screens, then why hasn't it happened more often in the past 5+ years? -
Quote:Originally Posted by DaemonicVisions
-Snip-Sheesh. I think I nearly drowned in entitlement there...Quote:Originally Posted by GuessWhosBack
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Quote:Do you know any Hugh Females?Originally Posted by Shadow Wail
"Any chance of there being a hugh female? by Luminous13013
[David Nakayama] Sorry, no."
Why? Why can't I have a Gigantica or giant female?
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Quote:Black mark design-wise right there. You always need examples.Originally Posted by Far_Realm
I admit I didn't know about Marrow. I don't actually need examples to make my point-
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Quote:The Cat can sum it up better than I can;Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Consider the source. (Why he keeps paying for a game he apparently doesn't like... and wasn't he one of those looking forward to the 'promised land' of CO?)
Does the face look bothered?
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Quote:Way to blow it hugely out of context?Originally Posted by milehigh77
Seriously...the pictures that display while one zones is significant??.....if this is priority for the great majority of the player base as well as the devs......wow...& WOW.
I was curious wether they would actually get around to re-vamping the loading screens, which havent changed since launch, to include the new shinies of Ultra Mode. I got an answer, one I did not previously have, by reading the Q&A. So, all those going 'Waaah, want naow Entitlement!' saying that this was pointless and there was no new answers; there were. Admittedly not all of them, but a number. If you dont find them meeting your standards...well...tough? You are surprised at the marketting department after how long of them being just like this?
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Quote:....Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I still haven't "rerolled" my MA/Regen Scrapper as a MA/WP. First they made changes which killed Regen for me, then they made WP which was more what I wanted in the first place. Yet my Scrapper still sits there languishing at level 35? or so, because I don't want to take that particular character through those 35 levels again. I'd like to play him all the way up to 50, but I can't stand Regen for very long these days.
It's not really a *bad* idea. I'd go for it. But it's largely rejected by the fuddy-duddies around here due to the largely terrible reasons in Bill's copy-paste, and unlikely to get implemented in any case due to the only important statement in Bill's copy-paste - that the devs have unequivocally said "no".
PPpppppppffffttttaahahahahahahahaha!!
Sorry, but...'Fuddy-duddies'?
Seriously, someone has a severe case of cranial-rectal reversal syndrome here. -
Quote:Did indeed like it a lotOriginally Posted by David Nakayama
Cool, man. Tried to drop some confirmation for you guys, and I hope you enjoyed seeing the new hospital design as well.
One quick semi-artsy question; Any chance of a cinematic intro to the game? I feel the team really missed a trick with that; the cinematics for CoV release and suchnot were really, really cool, as was the GR one. Some manner of intro cinematic, which could also be used as a 'general' promotion for the game, would be great, imo.
And, really off-topic; gizza job?