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And again, I wasn't specifically targetting you, and if you want to make ad hominem attacks and think that I was, go right ahead, but perhaps it would benefit your case to read the second part of the post you just quoted before telling me you were going to report them regardless (I know).

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You claim you weren't targeting me after the fact, because you were called out and suddenly you found yourself in a bad position. It was easier for you to take my post out of context and claim that what I said was somehow what "other people" do. Tell me, how am I supposed to respond to that? I said something, and you equating what I said to the effect of "SEE! I told you some people think this way!" is a pretty clear indicator that you think I'm making your point. Taking it out of context was only the beginning of your mistake.

If you're going to try to debate with me, at least try a little harder.

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No, it doesn't. You feel good about yourself for reporting peoples' costumes when they act like douchebags. Whether you were going to do it anyways or not is irrelevent, because I wasn't specifically targetting you, I was making mention of the type of people who would only do it to "get pleasure out of it" as you describe.

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Yes, it in fact does fail you.

I report blatant violations/obscene characters, as I already explained. Them "acting like douchebags" or not has no bearing on my report and I never said it did. When they get all pissy when their character has taken a hit from the Gen-Stick, that's when I smile a bit inside because I personally enjoy watching when a kid gets punished for breaking the rules. This stems from a disturbing trend I've noticed some years ago about how "disciplining your kids is bad!" and as a result, far too many children are exhibiting their entitlement issues.

But you go ahead and think you're using what I said to make some imaginary point. You're fooling no one but yourself.

Reading comprehension. It fails you.

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And your point? Like you have no bugs? Please. Thanks for your "trolling" of the forums. : D

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My point is

Standard Code Rant

If you can't understand anything about programs, how they work, how they're coded, and how complicated even the most simple program really is, then your demands that "all bugs must be fixed NAO" can not be taken seriously.

Therefor, I dismiss it.

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I get a small amount of pleasure from knocking children off their pedestals that they've built for themselves.

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Just thought I'd quote this to anyone making the argument that there aren't those who petition solely to derive a sense of satisfaction from doing so. People who do things such as this are scum.

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Just thought I'd quote this to anyone making the argument that those who quote out of context in order to further their imaginary points shouldn't do so. It makes you look like a tool. Then again, you don't really need help in that department.

Here's a thought:

Learn something about programs before demanding anything.

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Err, are you attempting irony here, Zombie? I know im partly colorblind here, but your text is nearly illegible on the hero boards without higlighting...

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I believe that was the point.

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I already posted in this thread, but I'm just going to point out that I don't inform the people when I petition them. They read the rules (or should have), so they don't need me to remind them of the rule when they break it. Plus, I don't feel like getting griefed when their character inevitably becomes Generic'd simply because they refuse to follow the rules.

To the person who says "mind your own business", I'll point out that we, as players, were specifically asked to help the GM staff out in this matter. This, in effect, made it our business. You don't play in a vacuum, so get over it.

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Hopefully, I won't see a naming nerf as a result of all you whiney tattle-tellers.

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And really, this sentiment above that I quoted is part of the reason I petition at all. It goes beyond simply following the rules and doing as I was asked to do; I get a small amount of pleasure from knocking children off their pedestals that they've built for themselves. Of course, I've always hated the "I can do what I want, when I want, and you can't stop me!" attitude more and more people seem to have in all the wrong places.

There are rules that you agree to to play the game. Follow them, and you won't have to [censored] and moan about being caught breaking the rules.

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oh and ps... only 1 person in this thread has an earlier reg date than I do... and only by days for the person that brought that up...

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If you're going to play the old "look at my forum reg date" card, can I ask why we are talking about purchasing vet rewards again?

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I looked real close at the forum reg dates on the folks in this thread, and Avani and I have the earliest dates. Reg date has absolutely ZERO RELEVANCE to vet rewards, and shouldn't even be brought up.

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The only person, other than Avani, who brought up used it to illustrate how long they've been an active sub to the game. I believe the words were "Look at my reg date. Add a week." Or something to that effect, anyway.

I believe Avani even claimed to have played "off and on" during his/her time, which only adds even more evidence to the "Reg Date means diddly squat" pile. It sounds like to me, this person has a low attention span regarding this game and is now upset about "losing out" on vet rewards he/she thinks they deserve.

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Well for one i just said in my last post, that no one is making you read what im doing, i have no idea what your 1. is all about....


Second... what did i argue with? you make no sense what so ever, so please...
i was clarifying what MY statement was... not arguing a point about something that i didn't know, and its not my fault that you would get all bent out of shape about it.
when the response to what i said was that... of some one that didn't understand what i was saying (being that they thought i felt there was no drop in prestige when i party with people from my VG and only meant that the drop was null in that i get it from the other people in the group)


but hey, like i said (and for some reason..... you also said... after i did.....), no one is making you read this.



so..... between 1 and 2, you make no sense..



thank you everyone for helping me understand how prestige works (in a better way then i have found on wikis) and for those, who have nothing better to do, im sorry. but still thank you for what you did put in.

and don't forget, no one makes you post, so don't post nonsense, no one cares....


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Well I'm glad we have permission from you to ignore your posts, because I'm going to. Bright red text on a blue background is painful to look at for small periods of time, let alone extended periods where people are trying to search through you BS to find the question/point you're trying to make.

Your question was answered, and you didn't like the answer. Too bad. People say your words are hard to read, but you don't want to change it because "it's easy for you to read". Tough luck. You're typing in an area where MORE THAN JUST YOU are, and if you want people to answer your questions and take you seriously, you'll have to edit your ME ME ME tendencies to make it easier on the people you're asking for help. Refusal to help those whom you're asking help from will get you nowhere, which should be clear by this point.

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Because the half a dozen times I've done this it is nearly impossible to get everyone to click simultaneously. We've tried syncing to the countdown timer as well as "3, 2, 1, NOW!" in team chat. Always seems to take 3 or 4 tries before the group is successful.

Plus if anyone gets bored and quits the Trial before the click phase, it ends up being a waste of time.

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Use the Mission Timer.

At 25:54 the team leader says "click at 25:20". When you see 25:20 on your mission timer (synchronized by the Server), you click along with everyone else. Simple.

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Yeah, I think you overestimate the ability of CoH players to A) follow instructions or B) read. I was on one of these that took something like 20 minutes to complete after everyone was in place at the glowies. One person jumped the gun like 5 times in a row; it was so bad I was beginning to suspect they were griefing us.

Another person kept moving around after they were in place, aggroing mobs and getting killed, which meant the they'd have to travel back from the hospital (at that time in AP) and then the stealth porter would have to get them back in position. After that the moron with poor impulse control would click the glowie too soon, then the jitterbug would get killed and the cycle would start all over.

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There's another way to "avoid" messing up the sync if you have, I think, System Messages enabled in one of your chat tabs. You can see when someone on your team has clicked one of the glowies and you can follow suit. You'd just have to explain to everyone else about that channel for that method to work.

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So how long do you think this guys character will last before it gets hit with the Mod stick

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That is easily the most blatant case of trademark infringement I have seen yet. They did a good job on the costume though.

I would petition that one, and I'm not especially petition-happy (I only petition blatant cases)

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Blatant attempts, "obvious" attempts at trying to get around the rules, or just plain offensive characters (usually relegated to racial slurs/racism/sexism, etc) are pretty much the only things I petition as well. Name, costume, bio... it doesn't matter to me. If any of those things crosses the line as I define it: petition fired.

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do i smell...... rat?

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Maybe. I am roasting some in the corner. Would you like a chunk?

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Ice Armor, but more specifically Ice Patch and Chilling Embrace, is far more effective at mitigating attacks from all foes in melee range than Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom combined due mostly to magnitude limitations on the latter two powers.


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Brute Cloak of Fear affects Lieutenants, by the way, so I am not sure what you mean by mentioning that and magnitude restrictions.

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Because Ice Patch and Chilling Embrace have no limitations.

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Chilling embrace max targets 10
Ice patch max targets 5


Oppresive gloom max targets 10
Cloak of fear max targets 10

I'm not seeing any significant mitigation difference here. In a typical spawn with 1 boss, Cloak of Fear and Oppresive Gloom are going to shut down just about everything. If they are combined with fears or stuns from a melee set, it will be even worse.

In short, I don't believe that an Ice/Ice brute would be any worse off than a Dark/Dark brute as far as significantly shutting down the ability of spawns to counterattack.

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Your addition of Dark Melee serves no purpose, by the way. Yes, yes, "but Touch of Fear!". Won't matter. That power is mostly spot control, so the existence of Dark Melee doesn't matter in your case.

Both Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom have to hit the target for their effects to work, and they both require significant slotting in order to get any kind of appreciable "defensiveness" out of them. In addition, Fear effects break temporarily when the target takes damage, usually resulting in a counter-attack from the target.

Ice Patch and Chilling Embrace require no real additional slotting, don't have to hit the target for their effects to work, and once foes are affected by Chilling Embrace, their ability to fire off attacks can drop so low as to trigger the FLEE! response mobs have.

With that said, I still think the sets should have stayed.

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I mentioned dark melee because of the mag difference which you seem so obsessed about so that bosses could be affected. EM would also work if you wanted to go via stuns though.

In short, I still disagree with you. Having played an Ice/Ice tank to 50 and a Dark/Dark brute to the high 40s, I see no appreciable difference between their abilities to slow down the attack rates of a typical spawn.

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I'm not obsessed about the Mag difference, but your total dismissal of it is amusing. I guess you fail to realize just how important the differences between Chilling Embrace + Ice Patch and Oppressive Gloom + Cloak of Fear really are. Magnitudes guarantee that fewer foes will be effected by the later combination, and Cloak's 50% base accuracy hinders it even further (hence my previous claims of them needing heavy slot investment to get any kind of appreciable defensive return). This alone proves my point, but the additional difference of the latter combination requiring ToHit checks further limits its effects on Fury Generation.

Your experiences as an Ice/Ice tank have nothing to do with Brutes, especially in this case as it pertains to the generation of Fury. You apparently had no experience with Ice/Ice on a Brute during CoV beta (I did). It was a vastly superior tanking combination, but a rather poor combination when it came to doing what Brutes were originally designed to do.

AGAIN, with that said, I still would have preferred the Ice sets to have remained in the game for Brutes, but I'm glad you disagree with me, apparently.

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Brute Cloak of Fear affects Lieutenants, by the way, so I am not sure what you mean by mentioning that and magnitude restrictions.

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Because Ice Patch and Chilling Embrace have no limitations.

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Chilling embrace max targets 10
Ice patch max targets 5


Oppresive gloom max targets 10
Cloak of fear max targets 10

I'm not seeing any significant mitigation difference here. In a typical spawn with 1 boss, Cloak of Fear and Oppresive Gloom are going to shut down just about everything. If they are combined with fears or stuns from a melee set, it will be even worse.

In short, I don't believe that an Ice/Ice brute would be any worse off than a Dark/Dark brute as far as significantly shutting down the ability of spawns to counterattack.

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Your addition of Dark Melee serves no purpose, by the way. Yes, yes, "but Touch of Fear!". Won't matter. That power is mostly spot control, so the existence of Dark Melee doesn't matter in your case.

Both Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom have to hit the target for their effects to work, and they both require significant slotting in order to get any kind of appreciable "defensiveness" out of them. In addition, Fear effects break temporarily when the target takes damage, usually resulting in a counter-attack from the target.

Ice Patch and Chilling Embrace require no real additional slotting, don't have to hit the target for their effects to work, and once foes are affected by Chilling Embrace, their ability to fire off attacks can drop so low as to trigger the FLEE! response mobs have.

With that said, I still think the sets should have stayed.

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Goose?

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So, we were told they couldn't change charatcer height on the fly.

Well now they can, apparently.

And we know Castle has been working on oversized targeting recticles.

We know "Growth" was a power set they presented in the new powerset survey not so long ago.

And giant heroes and villains is something CO does not currently do.

I shouldn't get my hopes up, but I can't help but wonder.



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What's to wonder about? The majority of the game's content is in instanced missions which, more often than not, are very restricted on how "big" your character can get. Unless they're going to redesign every office and cave network to allow for the possibility of 20ft tall heroes/villains, I don't see how there's anything to wonder about.

Note: 20ft is purely a number I made up.

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ill bet a good percentage of the people with long term vet rewards are not even the original account owners... how does that make you feel now :0

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I call BS on this one.

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As do I. I picked up this game in October '04 and I have not unsubbed from it since.

To quote the person you quoted, in response to said quote: How does that make you feel now?

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I want it on a scrapper/brute/stalker.

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You don't want it on a brute.

It was originally planned to be one of the Brute secondaries. In testing though, it self-gimped itself. Since Brutes build up their fury bar when they're attacked, Ice's -recharge slowed down incoming attacks so much, the powerset literally self-gimped itself when compared to the other powersets.

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I remember testing it on a brute and loving it. I don't know why they took it out, to be honest. They have dark/dark brutes, and that has as much control as ice does. In fact, I can only think of tin foil hat types of reasons for why it was excluded, so I'll just keep my mouth shut. >_>

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ToHit Debuffs on the enemy (dark melee) didn't slow fury generation because the foes never have to hit you. Ice Melee would always slow the generation of fury down. Ice Armor, but more specifically Ice Patch and Chilling Embrace, is far more effective at mitigating attacks from all foes in melee range than Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom combined due mostly to magnitude limitations on the latter two powers.

I'm not saying they should have taken Ice Melee and Ice Armor out, but I do know why they did. I know people from beta (I was in it) who would have rolled up an Ice something brute regardless of the "fury problems" back then simply because they wanted Ice, but I'm sure you know how many people would complain about it today. We'd be inundated with thread upon thread comparing Ice Melee/Ice Armor fury generation compared to every other brute set combination in probably much the same way AR/Dev was compared to every other blaster combination.

However, the level of safety and "tankiness" that Ice/Ice would give sounds like a decent enough reason to bring it back, especially with how many players seem to view a Brute as a tank-like character.

I don't have a fire/kin. I don't have a fire controller of any variety. I used to have two fire/storm controllers (at separate times), but they were both deleted for reasons I can't remember. In fact, the only Kin I have is a kin/rad defender, so...

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also for all of you really got something smart to say...don't turn this into a personal issue cause this is just a game..i fight in real life and i doubt any of you kids i would pay attention to.


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This made me laugh. Lots of kids "fight in real life". It doesn't mean they're any good at it, and it also means they're masters of the Art of the Mouth Runner.

Of course, if you want to have a go at me, I'm all for it. My tae kwan do is a tad rusty, but I'm sure it'll do. Where did I put those trophies and medals again... ugh. I always lose those things because I don't bother displaying them. Pretty sure I still have my gi, though, and I do need an excuse to wear it again. I like that thing.

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I think that nc should sell everything and anything that can be bought on ebay (internet)... I would rather see them get the money... and people that got vet rewards should relax... cuz hello you got yours for free (well as a bonus... you pay your subscription but did not pay extra $$$ for the reward)... while a person that paid $19.99 for sumtin laid out extra cash...

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And this would solve what, exactly? We were loyal to the game without any promises of "free extras" outside of the free issue updates, and then we get the whole Veteran system plopped down as, basically, a giant "Hey! Thanks for stickin' with the game this long! Here's some cool stuff!".

You being too damn impatient to wait for items that have no major impact on your characters (and let's get real, here -- those vet powers are nice, but you never needed them to progress. We've been leveling without them for a long time) is no fault of the game that requires "fixing". You don't deserve anything if you didn't put in the requirements for it, and lobbying for a change to the requirements simply because you have more spare pocket change than I is utterly ridiculous and will do nothing to keep you around longer. Not to mention it's not even within the system's stated intent to do so.

This massive sense of entitlement and instant gratification gets under my skin like nothing else ever has before, and I'm sick of it.

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Hey going from level 1 to 26 in 4 boss runs I don't mind the AE stuff. Do you know how much hell it is for a brute without Stam? I never could make a brute and stick with it because I could not have fun.


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/signed - MA is fine because it lets me bypass all the levels till stamina.

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Stamina is, was, and always will be a crutch. Enjoy your crutch.

PS: I have seven of said crutches.

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Depending on whether or not you want "facial features" on this orb-like head, the easiest way to get what you're asking is to use the Full Helmet option and choose the Round sub-option. You can then put a goggle of some sort on that is flush with the helmet, and use the Reaper head detail to "cover up" a majority of the lower portion, giving your character a head that's somewhat reminiscent of Mysterio.

Barring that, I really haven't tried anything else.

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I wanted to make an /SR scrapper to solo AVs with, and having already tried out Martial Arts and Broadsword, wanted another thematic pairing with /SR. I settled on claws as "feeling fast like someone with super reflexes might be", and then decided that a cat-theme would be a good concept for Claws/SR.

Only later did I find out about the reputation of catgirls, and even though I wasn't on Virtue or even RPing at all, I'm too embarrassed to play lvl 50 Claws/SR on teams anymore, even if she can solo pretty much any AV that's not hugely lethal resistant or has auto-hitting attacks. *sigh* I should just stick with cyborgs and wizards and such.

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It's unfortunate that you let other peoples' misconceptions about "catgirls" get in the way of a character you clearly had fun playing.