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Originally Posted by Cyber_naut

Of course not, the perception would be that the set was pitifully slow, because it's best powers are... pitifully slow.

The set was playable with one, fast, glorious power. Now that said power has been neutered, you're left with a set filled with mediocre to poor powers, which means it vastly underperforms vs the competition, which results in lots of players complaining about it, especially the ones who used to enjoy the set.

And even with a power that was certainly one of the best in the game, and on its OWN arguably 'overpowered', EM as a whole set did not overperform in overall pve performance (it did overperform in the old pvp format, but ironically, would not now with the new format, in fact old ET would do pitiful damage in pvp now...). Why? Because EM was more balanced then than it is now, because all of EM's mediocre to poor powers were balanced by one glorious power. Old ET would be 'too good' if you stuck it in another powerset that had more good to great powers than EM, but it worked in EM because EM as a whole was already underpowered.

That is why nerfing ET without proportionately buffing the rest of the set has left EM an underperforming MESS.

Originally Posted by Steele_Magnolia

Every single one of my characters has desired powers they just couldn't fit into their builds. For some it's primary or secondary, other's it is from power or epic pools. Even just a single slot in most of these will make a big difference.

The most important thing about inherent stamina is that every single one of my characters will be picking up Recall Friend.

About six months ago my mother started playing. She's 64 years old, never used a computer before, and had never played an arcade or console game. Learning to play COH has been a challenge for her, but she loves it. She gets lost sometimes, particularly in caves or maps that have multiple levels in a room. Recall Friend will make it easier for both of us.

Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master

on toons that i am planning to respec, most will just be getting the stealth pool for LOTG slotting or picking up recall friend and 2 things from stealth pool

Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan

Very true. And again though I would appreciate an open naming system myself, I see the most justifiable reason to develop and implement such a system would be if it helped alleviate any logistical challenges with a new larger game experience changing mechanic, such as the cross server teaming you mention.

Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan

Thanks for articulating those thoughts Chase. Gotta say I agree with all of them except I come down on the other side of the fence in favor of them putting some dev resources towards developing a system. Even if it doesn't make it into CoX, the ergonomics could be translated for the (inevitable?) successor to CoX.



As far as this stuff goes, all of you are correct that many people would likely still try to slash command ignore people.

The only way I could see them speeding the retraining of the player population would be to GMOTD the heck out of this issue along with disabling some existing slash commands. When executed, the disabled commands would bring up a popup reminding them of the new system and that for the time being one needs to click to report or ignore offending names.

There are drawbacks to either system.

Note that though I'm in the camp of "I'd like to see open naming explored," my desires for the game do have priorities. This falls far behind incarnates, new costumes, graphical updates to old zones, unique mission maps, revamps of older content, revamps of older zone events, a few new unique zones with highly unique climates and features from what we currently have (outer space, moon, arctic, tropic) and even removal of some or all of the war walls. It's pretty far down that list. So though I'd like to see it explored for this game, it may be something more fitting for any next generation successor to this game.

And if it is worked into a successor game, I'd personally like to see the system even more robust allowing for secret identities and temporary aliases for mission specific content, i.e. seeing your name change to Arbiter Pink or some such were you to go undercover to infiltrate an Arachnos base and then revert back to your hero alias once the disguise comes off. Again all the immediately above being fantasies for a robust sequel to CoX, not features retroactively introduced and woven into existing content.

Originally Posted by Talen Lee

The set was only fast because of one attack, which was too fast. The set wasn't fast - one bugged power was fast.

Originally Posted by PhroX

Yep. As soon as you hit 41, you have access to all your AT's APPs regardless of alignment.



Rogues should be able to do it too, they have access to all other villain content. My dominator certainly didn't lose the arc (she was halfway through) when she turned Rogue, and they unlocked fine when I finished it.

Otherwise, yes.

Originally Posted by twelfth

You know, the next few times I see people in the AE, I going to just ask what they are playing/building. What does it hurt?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

It has nothing to do with pandering. If you want to target a niche audience, that's fine. Just don't spend a hundred million dollars on something that targets a niche audience: that's stupid. And don't expect people to go see it just to subsidize your taste, no matter how smart or well crafted it might be.

The problem is that geeks aren't honest about geek culture. Sometimes it has crossover appeal, sometimes it doesn't. But they (we) rarely admit it. I had a pretty good idea that Scott Pilgrim wasn't going to be a $200m movie, and even $100m was going to take a miracle. Its crossover potential was iffy. Even Inception wasn't well received by everyone, but I had a pretty good idea that Inception was going to appeal to about ten times more people, even though it too was a fairly intelligent and well-crafted movie that wasn't typical summer blockbuster fare (turns out the number is more like thirty times as many, not ten).

It shouldn't be hard to understand why a movie like Star Trek did so well and a movie like Scott Pilgrim didn't. And its not because the movie going audience is "stupid." They sometimes are, but that's not the reason. That same stupid movie going audience turned out to see Gran Turino, they turned out to see District 9, and they even turned out to see Coraline. And I think the fact that it *is* virtually impossible for some people to come to grips with why Star Trek did well against the geek backlash and Scott Pilgrim did poorly with the geek support tells you why Scott Pilgrim failed. Its because people don't get this that they can't ever learn from it.

The bottom line is that Scott Pilgrim's audience was presumed, but Scott Pilgrim isn't even a wide-audience item in the geek culture. Its a subculture of a subculture of a subculture. Its basically a replication of the Speed Racer mistake.


Still, I think the final verdict on Scott Pilgrim isn't in yet. I always thought the very audience that would most want to see Scott Pilgrim would probably buy it on DVD or Netflix the thing. If it does exceptionally well in the home and rental market, it could yet end up being ultimately something of a success.


The amazing irony is that the reason why it isn't connecting with a cross over audience seems to be, at least in my experience, the characters are almost totally unrelateable to people outside the subculture. And that means if you aren't a fan of the work, and you can't connect with the characters, the movie is a bunch of random special effects with no story. Ponder that the next time someone says a big budget action film is just "pandering" to the stupid sheep movie going audience by just having dumb action stars blowing stuff up. What does it mean or matter if you write the smartest script in the world and its about characters so alien to the movie going audience that it might as well be about saguaro cacti.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

Optimally yes. But you have to wake them from their stupor first.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Considering it's so patently obvious how events are just so arranged that it isn't the same, yeah, it isn't the same. But that's my point - why couldn't it be?



Maybe she will. Or maybe she won't. Maybe Cleo is one of the actual good guys in the resistance, maybe Cleo has a bit of honour and dignity left in her. Maybe she'll just cut her losses and flee. Or maybe she'll attack me and force me to kill her. That's fine. It's still the same effect, but I still get to CHOOSE different.

Or maybe she'll prove to be the dirty Crusader that Washington thinks she is, run to her boyfriend and try to rat me out. Then I'll get jumped by the PPD and forced to find evidence to clear my name, eventually exposing her and either killing her or arresting her.

As I said countless times before in relation to City of Villain - I'm fine with facing consequences as long as I'm allowed to make the choice which causes them. I want to flip Arbiter Daos the birdie and help Ghost Widow defile the Red Widow. There are other ways to retain status quo and keep her a ghost. And I'm fine with being tossed into an Arachnos brig for it and having to break out. Several times, if need be. But, of course, the cop-out excuse is "they can just turn off the reclimators," which thankfully CoV seems to discount, if you believe Dr. Steffard.

Why am I always using someone else's reclimators, anyway? Why can't I dig myself a hole in the sewers where no-one knows about, steal myself a reclimator, buy myself a cold fusion generator and have my own hovel where I don't have to worry about spawning in a PPD cell or a Resistance brig? If this is about grey and grey morality, why can't I be allowed to make mistakes and suffer the consequnces? Why must I kowtow to this faction or that faction or that faction over there.

In fact, you know what I'd have liked to see? Option 1: Kill Cleo. Option 2: Kill Washington. Option 3: Kill 'em both and claim that's how you found 'em. But I can't, can I? Because which faction would that put me with? "Me?" Such a faction doesn't exist. And it should. I've been saying that for five years, and even the "City of Ambivalence" expansion STILL doesn't let me work for myself without being somebody's dog of war.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

But you do need enough people interested to *form* those teams.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Go for both. Portable tied with - oh, I don't know, the day job, and one in the base (along with a market interface, please) as well.

Originally Posted by Substrate

I'd blow the money asap for that just to get the option.

Originally Posted by Dz131

CAn we get some?

Like special effects when we kill someone with certain types of powers.


Also can we scale fall damage up tons so when people get kicked off 10 story buildings they actually die? The damage only applies when you're being KB'd off a buldings, so you don't die from accidently walking off.

Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel

So, as I asked earlier, is there an official thread I should go to or should we try to make out own unofficial Tips and Morality mission suggestions thread?

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

And I agree with that. The 40-50 hero morality is a dream for farmers. Takes about 5 min. The agri-business side of me is kinda annoyed that people are complaining about it. I wish they would hush!

Originally Posted by Captain Fabulous

These are all what I called "half-*****". If you're going to give an AT mez protection, don't do it half-*****. If you're going to buff Stalkers or Kheldians, fix the real problem, don't throw a band-aid on it. In a game that has HUNDREDS of enhancements, recipes, and salvage items why on Earth would you introduce an email system that only allows you to mail *1* item at a time with a 15 second timer!?!?!? And seriously... if you're going to "reward" me for getting to level 41 by giving me access to powers I can't normally get at least try to make them worth taking. Focused Accuracy was the only decent APP, and now it's nearly useless, and certainly not worth the end cost.

Seriously, are you so accustomed to the devs throwing you a tiny tiny bone every once in awhile that you see any little improvement as being the most bestest thing the devs have evah done? I'm sorry, but I am reserving judgement until I see exactly how this is gonna pan out. History is NOT on their side here. Again, I hope I'm wrong. I really do.

Originally Posted by OPTICAL_ILLUSION

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Originally Posted by Captain Fabulous

Only partial mez protection and less damage than we could do before.


Try mailing more than one item at a time. Oh, that's right, you can't.


Giving mobs tons of DoT AoE damage that essentially neuters Stalkers.


You mean those watered-down not-even-as-good-as-the-tier-1-versions-other-ATs-get powers? Those? Oh yeah, and don't get me started on the "improved" version of Focused Accuracy.


Do people still play Kheldians? I haven't played my PB in over 4 years. It's just too painful.



I'm not looking to start a flame war, I'm just expressing my cautious optimism. I hope I'm wrong and this change comes with absolutely no strings attached.

Originally Posted by Blood_Beret

The slot opening was not the grind. The grind comes in making the enhancemets when all components are non-tradeable

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

It's definitely not a Boomtown revamp. That's not Boomtown on the cover.

Cross server teaming would be nice, and fantastic if it can be done, but it's not necessary to implement a auto-teaming function.