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You, personally? No, you're an insignificant speck, barely worthy of notice, much less drastic gameplay balance changes solely for the virtue of your pleasure (or displeasure, if we want to assume the devs have something against you).
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.....But you, or anyone else here is/are somehow different, eh? I seriously doubt it. Do note for the record that I never made any such claim about myself in any respect or category whatsoever.
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The point that I was trying to make at this point in my post- assuming you actually read it, and didn't simply scan for whatever you could throw out of context to make a few acerbic remarks- was reinforcing your point that an individual is insignificant. Where we seem to differ is that your initial post indicates that the actions of an individual (In this case, you) has no bearing on the game as a whole. I disagree. [ QUOTE ]
LOL @ the idea that what I personally do causes the developers to readjust the entire game[s]; I don't think I'm anywhere near that powerful.
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However, as part of a community then your behaviours compound with those of everyone else- even if you never so much as look at another character in your entire gameplaying career. So, if you PL, then you're part of that x% of the population which PLs. If that percentage gets too high, then the devs may take action against it
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Thank you, Captain Obvious.
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Actually, Basilisk will do just fine, no sense bringing honorifics into the matter. Now, have you actually got anything up your sleeve to dispute my point, or does replying to you just automatically make me wrong? -
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LOL @ the idea that what I personally do causes the developers to readjust the entire game[s]; I don't think I'm anywhere near that powerful.
Please continue with the nerfherding and preaching, I find it amusing. Not real effective as in changing people's behavior, true - but amusing nonetheless.
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You, personally? No, you're an insignificant speck, barely worthy of notice, much less drastic gameplay balance changes solely for the virtue of your pleasure (or displeasure, if we want to assume the devs have something against you). However, as part of a community then your behaviours compound with those of everyone else- even if you never so much as look at another character in your entire gameplaying career. So, if you PL, then you're part of that x% of the population which PLs. If that percentage gets too high, then the devs may take action against it (assuming, of course, that they feel it has a negative impact on the health of the game.)
As far as the PLing argument goes, I'm more or less ambivalent about it. I do think that newbies who get PLed to 50 are doing themselves a disservice, but I don't necessarily think they're wrong to do so. I've started PLing many of my new characters to their 20s, just because I can't stand the low level crap anymore. However, it does concern me that if the devs may go through and gut features that I use legitimately for the sake of stopping that x% of people who go from one to fifty in a week and go "ok, now what?"
Long story short: Do what you will, but don't get your trash in my backyard. -
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What I don't understand is why they allow rare and uncommon salvage to be purchased specifically, but common salvage is a roll. If the intent was to make common salvage the most expensive as far as price goes, this makes sense, but when I think "rare", I figure this is something that should be pricey- particularly when compared to "common" salvage. Well, unless we're talking about a steak.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have common salvage something you can buy specifically, and the rare salvage to be something which must be rolled for? -
From what I understand, "snare" refers to movement slow, whereas "slow" refers to recharge slow, or powers which do both, or at least that was the original intent. I'll admit that it hasn't really been applied consistently, even as early as release.
Others that really annoy me is "Air-Burst", which when crafted become "Air Burst". -
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Not quite, Forbin...
I meant what I said. It's been Westernized to the point of being culturally 'cleansed'. Say what you will but we'll still have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which are about as Japanese as their names.
As for most of the items on that list you're pointing to Western Cultures (or Americanized items). Many of which are predominant portions of our genetic makeup. Irish, Scottish, German, Native American (1/16th, here!). English. Only a handful are African/Middle Eastern. And the items that ARE from the Middle East or Africa are weapons (Khopesh and Scimitar) or symbols of a religion noone follows anymore (Eye of Horus and the Ankh).
Meanwhile if we put turbans in the game you can stake money on how many 'Terror1st' characters will spring up JUST so they can offend someone.
Hell! How many Santa Clauses do you see every year? Now add in cultural bias, hatred, religious fervor, and a symbol of modern pain.
Sure. Let's put turbans in the game right next to little Hitler moustaches and swastikas. YES I'm comparing it to Nazism. Give Godwin's law another tick mark.
But Terrorists are this generations nazi germany. It's the group we can look down on and despise and feel superior to.
Give people the tools to make those characters in the game and you'll see them running around, pissing people off, and reminding them of the reality that they play this game to escape from.
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Right, and anyone who makes those characters will be genericed just as surely as someone who makes a Nazi or any other offensive character. Refusing to allow costume pieces on the justification that some morons might misuse it can basically be applied no matter what you're adding.
Of course, this is all beside the point in the first case because the "classical" turban that you're probably thinking of is more closely related to Sikhism than to Islam. No, they're not the same thing. -
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And yet none of the costume items were released in the context used.
And I find it funny how the rabbi looks nothing like a rabbi. What stereotype are you using for him?
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I went to google images, typed in "rabbi" and tried to amalgamate the first page results into something which could be roughly translated into the character creator. This fella here was more or less what I was aiming for.
I do find it interesting that the word "stereotype" is treated like some sort of nouveau-profanity. You'll find that the imam, priest and nun don't look much like their respective real life day-to-day counterparts either, but you don't seem to have much issue with them likely because they suit your exemplar of what these characters do look like. The important fact is not that you have stereotypes, it's that you don't judge every individual as per the connotations involved with these.
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Judging my judgment...
Pot, meet kettle. Enjoy.
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And yet none of the costume items were released in the context used.
And I find it funny how the rabbi looks nothing like a rabbi. What stereotype are you using for him?
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I went to google images, typed in "rabbi" and tried to amalgamate the first page results into something which could be roughly translated into the character creator. This fella here was more or less what I was aiming for.
I do find it interesting that the word "stereotype" is treated like some sort of nouveau-profanity. You'll find that the imam, priest and nun don't look much like their respective real life day-to-day counterparts either, but you don't seem to have much issue with them likely because they suit your exemplar of what these characters do look like. The important fact is not that you have stereotypes, it's that you don't judge every individual as per the connotations involved with these. -
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For some reason, this was the first thing to come to mind...
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Quite frankly, I find any sort of content filter to be mildly offensive in and of itself. I understand that they likely had to put something in as a means to show that they are attempting to maintain at least a "Teen"-level game atmosphere, but to me a content filter is a way of saying "Hey, we don't feel you're smart enough or courteous enough to be entrusted with the responsibility of using these words." Frankly, For a distressingly large segment of the population, this is likely true.
However, if in my travels through the MA I find something whose content is offensive to me, then I have the power to simply quit mission, and make note never to play it again. -
AE System
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Welcome to Architect Entertainment -- Neutral
Death for Dollars! -- Neutral
Bare Knuckles of Rage (9304)
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Character/Supergroup Origins
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Birth of a Fossil -- Heroic
Secret Origins(Tech) The Snake Women of Epsilon V (42221) - Heroic
Noah Reborn -- Heroic (2370)
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Classic Super-Hero/Super-Villain
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THE BOMBER --- Heroic --- 16607
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Comedy
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The Extadine Lab -- Heroic
MacGuffin Delivery Service (1567) -- Villainous
ParaCon -- Heroic
The new and improved Lord Recluse Strike Force -- Villainous (though I wouldn't recommend against a hero
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The Fire Bunnies - Neutral, They are only bunnies after all...
You Say It's Your Birthday! (3630) - Neutral
Trademark Infringement -- Heroic (2220)
Hail to the King Neutral (34640)
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Comedy/Drama
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A Super Team is Born -- Heroic
Cause of How Some Silly Stealed My Wings #1481 -- Neutral
How to Survive a Robot Uprising -- Heroic (12669)
Dr. Duplicate's Dastardly Dare -- Neutral
It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding (9059) -- Neutral
TURG FICTION: Ghost in the Machine, Act I - Heroic (althoughs romantic villains could try this too
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Rum Runners of Bloody Bay (3691) - Heroic
Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day Kids! (2019)
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Crime/Gangs
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The Bravuran Jobs -- Villainous (16809)
The Monstrous Regiment of Lesbian Hellions -- Heroic (27178)
Win the 2009 Freak-Lympics (2150) - Villainous
Ninja Crimewave! (2142) - Heroic
Whitehawks (Arc 49364) -- Heroic
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Drama
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The Fan Club -- Heroic
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Global Domination
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Axis and Allies -- Villainous (10597)
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Heist
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Celebrity Kidnapping -- Villainous (20161)
Easy Money -- Villainous (31490)
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Historical (Realistic)
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Historical (CoH Lore)
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The War on Superadine - The Regulators in their 1980's drug war (Heroic) (Arc 7959)
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Holiday
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Horror
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Dark Dreams (3615)
The Amulet of J'gara (1709) -- Heroic
Project: Perilous - Into the Chthonian Pit (#3586) - Neutral (Unless you happen to be a mad cultist, in which case, go nuts!)
Small Fears -- Heroic
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Large-Scale Crisis
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A Hero's Halo -- Heroic
This Is War, Part I - the Revenge of Hro'Dtohz -- Neutral
Win the Past, Own the Future - Heroic
The Clockwork War -- Heroic (18672)
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Magic
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The Magical Miss Fitz (5079) -- Heroic
Chains of Blood (5492) -- Heroic
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Military
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Redoubt Operations #1: Fires over Kalago -- Heroic
Red Storm Rising (Arc 4912) -- Heroic
Whitehawks (Arc 49364) -- Heroic
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Misc. Adventure
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The Portal Bandits (3326) -- Heroic
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Mystery
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Blowback (18575) -- Heroic
Dream Paper -- Heroic (13030)
Dream Paper 2: Restless Sleep -- Heroic (16797)
Dream Paper 3: Broken Dreams -- Heroic (13064)
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Mythology
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Anactoria's Descent Into the Underworld -- Villainous
The Seelie War -- Heroic
The Unseelie War -- Villainous
Tales of Cimerora, volume 1 : Of feathers and fur -- Heroic
The Aegis Affair - Heroic
Witches and Warriors (49594)- Heroic
The War of Fate(12220,46722)- Heroic
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Nemesis Plots
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Brass Reaver: Part 1 -- Neutral
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Player-Chosen Outcome
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Hunting the Dark Dragon -- Heroic
Playing Gods -- Heroic (51106)
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Sci-Fi
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Adventures of the Space Marines -- Neutral
Adventures of the Space Marines 2 -- Neutral
Netrunner -- Heroic (14434)
Above Mars - Part 1: The Wellington -- Neutral (13215)
The Final Nemesis
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Un-themed Survival/AV/Time Challenges
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The Meatgrinder -- Neutral
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Hear, hear!
Er... I mean /signed!
Bad jokes aside, I would probably use something like this myself. I have no problems with my hearing, but my laptop's sound card is shot. This would make playing CoH on it that much simpler. -
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A few years back, a change was pushed through the system increasing the rate of lieutenant spawns in a mission. In the process, a bug was introduced where entire missions would spawn with nothing but Lieutenants. I seem to remember someone saying that that bug was squashed, but I've never noticed a change. In fact, I just got out of two back-to-back all lieutenant missions.
So, what's the deal with this? Are all-lieut maps now considered WAI? If so, could we get a revisit on this? Nothing kills my enthusiasm for playing the game faster than running through a mission and fighting the same Night Widow over and over and over again.
Playing on a team or upping the difficulty doesn't help it just turns single lieut spawns into something accordingly upscaled. Two Lieuts and a minion at Tenacious/Malicious, for example. It's not that they're particularly difficult, just repetitive and boring due to the relatively fewer numbers of different lieutenants per enemy group.
It's not even a major game-breaker, just CoH's personalized version of water torture something that's a minor irritation becomes more and more frustrating the more it piles up.
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I just wish they would rename Jump Kick so people who hadn't seen it wouldn't take it expected a normal jump kick.
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This, I would like. Call it something like "Spring Kick". I know that the first time I took Jump Kick it was completely different from what I was expecting. -
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I'M DETECTIVE JOHN KIMBALL!
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I9 it really middle of the road. I like the ability for my lowbies to use the CH to fund their DOs at 12, but the system is screwy. I might have voted for costume pieces as my favourite part, but I'm still strongly against the inclusion into the Invention system of many of the wings. (How on earth can you invent draconic wings? Advanced genetic manipulation? Tech wings, rocket boots, et al, are at least plausible.) The salvage drop rates with relation to the recipe requirements are badly skewed, as has been mentioned ad infinitum. As far as I'm concerned, the whole invention system is not much more than a vaguely irritating distraction.
As far as my favourite feature, I have to say it's the change of regular enhancement drops. No more garbage DOs and TOs at level 40! Now I can run through a mission or two collecting what I want, and not a bunch of junk that's worth less than the inf I would get in the half-second that I spend deleting it. (Not so much because I'm heavily concerned about inf/sec, just to reflect how little high level TOs are really worth to me.) -
He took a sip of his wine, then smiled and nodded his approval.
"The wine is excellent, thank you." -
While he had never gotten her name last time, Rock had a good idea who Narshawn might be. He was going to comment, but Babetta had already continued into her descriptions of the specials. Part of him was tempted to order the steak well done just to meet this "Gal" that she had mentioned, but he had a craving for fish that wouldn't be denied.
"Well, the steak is tempting, but the penguin in me wants to be fed. So I guess I'll take the albacore tuna. Steak'll have to wait until next time, I guess." -
((OOC: Apologies for the delay. I was laid out all of yesterday with a migraine.))
"Nah." He shook his head, smiling, "I tried out a high-tech unie for a while but I found it just got in the way of me fightin'. So, I went back to the spandex, gave it a few touch-ups to update the look a bit and make it more comfortable, and hit the streets. I still keep a coupla techie thingos like the mask, but I try to keep it simple."
He reached out an arm and flexed his hand. A thin coating of sparkling ice formed over his black spandex glove.
"'Sides which, when you've already got powers, anything too fancy just gets in the way." -
Rock-hopper looked up from his menu as the woman approached.
"Good evening," she said by way of introduction, placing a basket of warm bread and a cruette of oil on the table, "I'm Babetta. Would you like to start with something to nibble on or something to drink?"
He paused for a moment, considering his choices before replying, "I'll take a glass of the house white."
He reached behind his head, unfastening the two snaps that held the gas mask which served as a "beak" to his face. He placed the mask on the table beside him, as the rich scents of the restaurant finally reached his nose. Another smile crossed his lips.
"That's the problem with that bloody mask. Keeps me safe from poisons an' such, but I miss out on the good smells, too." He winked, punctuating his sentence. -
((Heh- no worries. RP is RP, right? 'Sides, Rock-hopper is dressed as a 6', 250 lb penguin. That'll draw attention wherever you are.))