Bill Z Bubba

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There is another option. You can drop the mission from the contact that sent you to Wincott. You get the XP as if you ran from KR all the way to The Hollows and back, but you don't get Wincott added to your contact list.

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This is the solution I prefer.

Although it looks interesting, personally, I am against all the other defraggers out there.

Granted, it mostly comes from the standpoint of me not wanting to bother with a 3rd party app when the defrag in xp is "good enough."

I can see the difference between 4x and 16X when I sit still and bounce between the two.

But leaving it on 4X, my eyecandy demands aren't upset, and the performance increase is noticeable.

Updated testing here.

Was a good interview.

Dang it... guess this means KOIS gets to stay off my ignore list for another month.

Gorgeous.

Apparently they are charging for it now. I bet a good google search could find someone downloading the free one though.

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Looks like we might have a future Rikti Archvillain...

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That's exactly what I thought. And it also tells us what's going down with Issue 10.

Sweeeet.

That's interesting to me, Arcanaville. I enjoy the fights I get and the feeling I get from defeating EBs without the use of any inspirations or temp powers.

That's not even a possibility with AVs. With ANY build.

To join back into the actual conversation, no, I don't have a problem with it at all.

The more recipes that get found, the more will show up in the market, the lower the cost will be, the less work we'll all have to do to get what we want.

There will always be folks like me that will find something groovy and just give it away. If for no reason other than to annoy those trying to make a profit off of them.

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Map holes are not meant to be used. Shivans are explicitly meant to be used.


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Shivans are an entirely DIFFERENT kind of mistake.

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All right, I concede the point.

Shivans and map holes are completely different kinds of stupid.

Much like soloing AVs with shivans. Much like the current tactics used for the LRSF.

The devs create situations, and players do what they must with the tools at their disposal to get around those situations.

Ultimus chooses to use shivans and nukes, I choose to run on the 4th diff so I don't have to waste my time on the bloated bags of hitpoints that AVs have become.

In that, I'm no different than Ultimus. But be aware, soloing AVs with shivans is no more an accomplishment than lowering one's difficulty to turn them into EBs.

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<how'd you them apples BillZ? I saw you "hmmming" and wanted to take off on this idea>

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I'll buy it. But that fact is, there WERE others soloing AVs before ED/GDN. Catwhoorg was doing it long before Ultimus ever showed up.

I could do it using the knowledge I have of the game's exploits. I don't do it because it's not fun to me.

Soloing missions is fun for me. AVs are a waste of my time.

Finding ways to solo everything this game can throw at him using whatever he has to in order to accomplish it is fun for Ultimus.

I don't know what his actual motivations are, and don't actually care. It won't affect my gameplay, as I'll continue soloing paper/scanner missions and getting everything I need to fully stock my main with IOs.

If I am lacking anything I actually want, I'll find it either through friends and trades or the marketplace. No biggy.

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Using a temp power (Shivan) intellegently is a far cry from an exploit. The entire point of a Shivan is to use it against enemies. Fighting out of holes in geometry is exploiting an unforseen technical error in game mechanics to achive an unfair advantage over the opposition.

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The Shivan Temp Power is AS blatantly overpowered as the Original Nemesis Staff before it was adjusted. Therefore, its introduction into the game as it is now was a MISTAKE in the same way that a hole in the geometry is a MISTAKE.

Using a MISTAKE in the code is the same no matter how you attempt to rationalize it. It's an exploit.

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after 11 pages it only took the first post to realize how full of crap ultimus is

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I doubt he is. I've looked at many of the exploits in this game. I don't use them, because they take all the fun out of it for me.

The use of the shivan does increase your damage output greatly. If you have enough damage mitigation to keep your self alive, such as a good self heal like healing flames and a tray full of large lucks, you can accomplish quite a bit.

The under 30 minutes for an SF is probably an exaggeration, but the accomplishments are doable.

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Horrible misuse of the word "exploit" there.

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How so? What's different about using an obviously broken temp power and an obviously broken hole in the map to accomplish a task? Both are blatant mistakes put into the game by the developers, both are cheap ways to get past something you don't want to do the "legitimate" way.

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You missed his point entirely. He wants drop rates drastically nerfed so that every who isn't an elite farmer will have no chance of getting a rare, and instead will have to buy them.

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hmmmmmmm......

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Since this is only possible for less than 1% of toons in the game the concern over trials and TF's being milked for rare recipes in unfounded, exagerrated, and generally a nonissue.

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I'll concede that the accolades may not make a difference, but do you agree with my above assertion ?

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Nope the quote is pretty off. I don't consider myself some sort of super player. This isn't just one specific build but rather quite a lot of archetypes.

Have you ever read the Mastermind forum?

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It takes longer to set up and upgrade your henchmen than it does to finish a mission.

I've read the thread. Ultimus, your achievements at exploiting the temp powers I've hated since their introduction and your willingness to brag about it 24/7, I applaud.

When you can solo an AV without them, then get back to us. Until then, you're nothing but an exploiter of lousy decisions made by Crytpic.

It's really nothing to be proud of. Quite frankly, I see no difference between what you do and someone that jumps under the geometry to attack spawns in complete safety.

That said, I thank you for once again for bringing this under the spotlight, so perhaps shivans and nukes will be nuked, and the LRSF and Statesman's TF can be brought down to a level that non-exploiting players can deal with.

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I can promise you this, if Pet A.I. ever gets fixed you will see healthier numbers of people playing different powersets instead of the constant FoTM builds.

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I doubt that. I really doubt that.

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Think about this, why do you think there were so many Fire/kin or illusion/rad controllers as opposed to other controllers sets? Because all the non-fire and non-illusion sets have a much slower time soloing. Some people can deal with the sucky pets but many cant. I am not saying everyone needs to level at break neck speed but at the same time it should not be slower than grass growing. If the pets were more reliable in that aspect you have more folks playing the other sets. Ask any earth controller they will tell you the earth pet sucks. Damage is king in this game it is easy to tell that, having very slow or low damage will make folks either team constantly just to level or they will re-roll another set just to solo easier. Look at masterminds for instance you would see more folks picking thugs if the bruiser was not retarded and doing handclap scattering all the mobs out of aoes. Sure you can not give him upgrades but you end up with a bruiser with not a full attack chain. There are just so many possiblities if the pets worked. I think if the A.I. issues were worked out we would see more folks trying out the other powersets.

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Only after 32. Ryu, I can't play ANY controller because of how absolutely boring they are to solo from 1-32. Smarter pets isn't going to change that. Illusion and fire are better even BEFORE 32 than the others. I don't believe anything will change.

I am NOT disagreeing with you except on the FOTM point. Pet AI across the board is pretty bad and long due for some fixin.

Very nice, Graver.

Ok the screenshots are in, the discussions begun... now the waiting.

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Still am not sure if anybody who's having the problem is using a non-linksys router, though.

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I have been having this issue and I do not have a linksys. I believe I have a D-Link wireless router (I'm having a brainfart right now so I'm not sure and I'm at work so I can't check atm).

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I'm using a linksys router and DON'T have crashes... is that what he's looking for?

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This is not an issue with crashing. It's the issue with getting out of sync with the server so everyone else sees you standing still not doing anything, and you see yourself moving around like nothing's wrong....until you can't open a door, can't zone, or the NPC store is missing.

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Ohhh, ok, totally missed that. Thanks, man. No, I've never experienced that either.

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Still am not sure if anybody who's having the problem is using a non-linksys router, though.

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I have been having this issue and I do not have a linksys. I believe I have a D-Link wireless router (I'm having a brainfart right now so I'm not sure and I'm at work so I can't check atm).

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I'm using a linksys router and DON'T have crashes... is that what he's looking for?

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I can promise you this, if Pet A.I. ever gets fixed you will see healthier numbers of people playing different powersets instead of the constant FoTM builds.

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I doubt that. I really doubt that.

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Silly Question:

Do you have to be wearing the cape for it to cause the crash? I often use my capeless costumes, but have caped costumes im not wearing, and I crash.........often.

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I'm pretty sure a cape has to actually be rendered somewhere near you for the cape related crash to occur. I would "assume" capes on costumes not currently in use wouldn't be a problem.

Assume...

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Thanks for the update, but would the cape crash cause non cape wearers to crash? I stopped wearing one and was crashing quite a bit.


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Most likely, the cape crash is caused by the client program trying to render the capes and getting hung up on the geometry between the cape and the character. From what I've seen, it shouldn't matter if you're the cape wearer or someone else is. The client (I believe) doesn't see any difference between your toon and other people's toons, other than the fact that your camera angle is always relative to your own character. So a cape crash can be caused by you wearing a cape, or any other on-screen character wearing one.

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Wait, wait, let me get clear on this-so what you're saying is, even if I'm playing solo on a non-caped toon, that when I 'see' a toon with a cape on my screen, I'm potentially at risk for a client crash (as my comp tries to cope with the goofy geometry stuff)?

If that's so, it might explain the sheer randomness of my crashing a bit more...jumping through a zone, there's a caped hero in my LOS, BAM, crash. Moving through a mish, there's a caped/trenched/winged MOB, BAM, crash. Might make the whole thing make a bit more sense, then.

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You've described what appears to be the case. For those of us that never crash, around capes or not, I certainly don't have an explanation of why we don't.

Glad to see this on the boards again, Positron.