Bad_Influence

Actually when I tried to customize Ion Judgement, the tailor interface would only show Cryonic Judgement. Since I don't have Cryonic, well.....

Can we just change colors on Cryonic? Or what am I doing wrong?

I'd be grateful to the point of permanently one-starring a posterior chapeau of this type; and then I would make sure everyone in our coalition knew not only that toon's name, but his global as well. What he is doing is neither praiseworthy or helpful - to the contrary.

Thank God he's not on my server.

Welcome to.... 2008, I think it was.

I have quite a few heroes in my stable of current favorite alts.

I know that some of my oldest and most respected/loved toons: my villains, are not even goingto get a look/see into this content. It will be Old News long before I ever get my two main Heroes kitted out.

*sadness*

Thie thing that irks me is that I am only 87% toward judgement after multiple trials, and soon the glitteratti [i.e. those who do nothing but this sort of thing, all day every day] are going to move on, leaving me with still the need for these slots - and no one to run the content with. Because I actually have a job.

People are figuring out how to run this stuff, but boy I saw some cussing and some ill interactions between the experienced, and people still learning. In one instance the newbies were compared to "monkeys ****ing footballs" because they were new and inexperienced in how to beat BAF. [Does that simile even make sense to you? Not to me, it doesn't.]

Leagues were getting punted out of BAF, and the leaders were reforming in Pocket D, and picking up new people instead of reforming the actual league, evidently out of laziness. Wow. I am incentivized to run this stuff again and again...>! But I have to, if I want the new shinies. Oh yay.

*snerk*

Honestly, how many forms of in-game currency do we have now? About twenty?

I have a full-time job; I don't have time to sit out here and read these forums all day long, looking for other players to tell me what all this means and how to use the new twenty forms of in-game currency, becasue its all so complicated that it would take me a month to figure it out by myself. What the hell is an Astral Merit? What does it do?

I am sure that more content will be added besides the new TFs. But this is all just becoming needlessly and overly complex. Not to mention, I tried to run the new 20-40 TF with the two Durays at the end, and you know what? Even more than BaF and Lambda, that TF is what I would use if looking for a pictoral definition of ANNOYING!!!! were even needed.

That's not fun. Its just effing annoying. Rezzing in the hospital and then instantly being killed again is just annoying. If I wanted to debt-farm I could do that on my own, tyvm. And this insta-death does not happen just once, it happens over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, and then it happens a few more times for good measure.

I suggest you take five.

If there were new pieces included with the new issue, they would be on Test. There are not, so almost certainly we are getting no new costume pieces. This is just simple logic, please do not hyperventilate.

They put the new stuff into booster packs nowadays because this is a significant source of new revenue, not because so many people are using the issue 2 "basics" or whatever.

I have no problem with boosters. My problem is with ***NO*** new costume sets included with a new issue, that we did not pay for. I understand the need for new revenue streams, but throw us a bone every now and then. Some of us have been here for 5+ years. We've sunk a lot of money into this game - including boosters. Must we have to shell out for EVERYTHING?

Rhetorical question only.

This, pretty much.

I don't recall having made the statement "there are no good costume pieces available for free." What I did say was that these days we are expected to pay for ALL of the most interesting new costume pieces. Deny at will, but that's a fact.

Power customization will count as costume pieces for me when I can put hot-pink Cloak of Fear on any of my alts that I choose, just like how I can put Valkyrie on anyone now - from my toughest Tank to my most delicate Controller. Power customization does not appear on the physical-appearance pull-down menus when building a new character, with the exception of weapons. Weapons can be costume pieces. And speaking of that, we need new weapons.

The verbal semantics some of you will employ to try to deny what's happening are actually pretty funny.

Nobody here wears hot pink:
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Your zero-sum argument fails.

I cannot get the best new costume pieces without shelling out cash. If you have a way to get them for free, do share.

Had you not purchased Going Rogue, they'd feel a lot less "free." As in, you would not be looking at them.

When I speak of costume parts, I think of things that I can see when logging in and not hitting a single toggle: pants, shirts, armor, wings, faces .... stuff like that. I'm not stretching the point to include being able to make Dark Armor powers pink, and whee! thats a new costume part! .... 'cause to me it isn't, I can't put that on anyone regardless of power-set.

I CAN put Valkyrie and Mutant stuff on anyone regardless of power-set, so that IS true costume stuff to me.

Having to purchase every last damn cool thing sucks. I say that as someone who has bought almost every last booster.

I would take that further: I really don't give a frankly-my-dear about NPC costumes, the only costumes that matter to me are ones I can put on my characters.

I can't remember the last time we got a great included-with-subscription-fee costume, I really cannot. Perhaps the addition of the new faces, might be the last thing I can think of. That was a while back.

I remember when boosters were new, and people were roundly pooh-poohed for worrying that the era of costumes included with new issues was over, and now we would pay for any interesting costume parts. So far from that prediction being wrong, it seems like that day came to pass a while back.

1. There is an old saying to the effect that "leaders lead by consent of the governed." Not many people are willing to put up with micromanagement in this game, which is entertainment - we get enough of that at work.

I have one-starred many people for stunts like yours. Because you don't lead *me* without my consent.

2. Other people are not your "underlings."

Yes I know that Lucks are very helpful, but in a long, sustained fight - which this was - I cannot store enough Lucks to get me through that fight.

If you are level 50 that is one thing. But level 19 is too low for multiple waves of one of the most powerful EBs in the game. As I have said before, having to repeatedly leave a mission to fill back up on inspirations is the very definition of a poorly-planned encounter, at least to me it is. This type of thing is why I stay out of the Mission Architect, because people think its funny to create bosses with such powers and how about no....?

All I can do is Just Say No. meanwhile Praetoria has seen the last of me, I think. Just like The Distinguished Competition has, sadly.

At level 19 I think I can carry ten? inspirations. Ten Lucks or BFs are not going to overcome multiple waves of the same Elite Boss. If I even touched her green bar she summoned yet another wave of clones.

This is so far beyond the pale of what a level 19 can do that I find it almost funny.

As I mentioned before, had I went in with a team we probably would have ended up fighting 30-50 Vanessas as opposed to the ten. [I stopped at ten via intentional death, because there was no sense in my level 19 trying to overcome that amount of stacked sleeps and mezzes.... c'mon, lets be realistic here].

Praetoria is viciously difficult to solo. I find this to be dangerous in that I don't want the rest of CoX to follow suit with new content. I am in fact leaving the Distinguished Competition over this exact issue: unsoloable [and often badly bugged] content. I really like my characters over there but I find extreme hassle to be the opposite of fun. Nor do I like being locked in a room with an Elite Boss and my recharge/regen STOPPED, yes I said literally STOPPED, but that's another game thank you God.

I can't say it enough: I don't want that developer mindset in CoX. Praetoria has it in plenty and let's us not slide down that slippery slope.

Try it on any flavor of level 19-ish Controller and let me know how you do.

The problem was not that I wasn't focusing on her, its that I can't take hits from 10+ Vanessas on a level 19 character - especially on a character with no shields whatsoever. I can't carry enough breakfrees to protect myself from ten mezzing/sleeping/whatever Vanessas. I would have assembled a team, but in Praetoria that would have meant facing 30 Vanessas, not just ten: I know how Praetoria rolls. Teams just make it worse.

*abandon mission from contact* Finito.