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I'm fairly sure we weren't meant to be. Not that I'm complaining, slightly less of a wait for me to pick up Street Justice.

Great, now he'll be in a whiny sulk for months.

Don't think it is, or at least not to this week's patch - a week or two ago I saw someone comment about their lava immunity (in the context of completing the entire arc without using an attack power).

Ah, I didn't talk to the guards, so that's probably it. Now I think about it, one of them said something to me, but I just ignored him as insignificant (redside).

Also, Numina should really encase Tommy's skull in a bowling ball or something.

I saw you comment on this earlier, but I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Any level of Premium can already send tells - I was only thinking with regards to blocking/allowing the haven't-spent-anything-yet players (as in the first of the three classes of player: free, premium, vip).

My reason for preferring that option is that personally I'm willing to put up with the RMT spam (I was here at its worst, so I know what I'd be letting myself in for) in order not to have any complications or workarounds for my full unfettered communications, however slight those complications may (or may not) be. But I know that others would find that to be totally unacceptable, so I'd just like to be able to opt in for myself and let others stay as they are now.

I super-speeded into his office and he immediately fled (and then the guards went aggressive). He seemed to just be a normal civilian type with the white targeting box rather than an interactive one.

First thing I did when AE came out was made an arc involving cloning Hardcase just so I could kill him over and over and over again (with a neural link between him and his clones, just so he could feel each death).

Yeah, this is basically my stance.

I don't *really* care much what a free player does and doesn't get, not in terms of "Oh the poor free players!" or anything like that.

What I care about is that it's impeding my own paid subscriber communications because a) I don't know if the person I just sent a tell to can reply, and b) I have to jump through extra hoops to get those who can't reply onto my teams. Maybe not by a huge amount, but when you play off-peak hours every little helps (or hinders, as the case may be).

I also happen to think that a side effect of the compromise suggestions* would be to increase the likelihood of a free player sticking with the game long enough to start wanting to buy stuff in the store and/or subscribe. But that's an added bonus rather than my primary concern.

*Personally I favour a menu option to let players choose to accept free player tells, but a one-for-one reply allowance works too.

To be honest, if you've got four of them you don't really need the double Maneuvers. Four Crab/Bane TT:Maneuvers will get you to just over 60% defense even before considering any personal +def powers (Widow/Fort TT:Maneuvers won't, but they'll actually get even higher once you add in Mind Link). Once you throw in CT:Defensive, Farsight, and optionally pool stuff like Combat Jumping or Weave (nevermind IO bonuses), I'd say pool Maneuvers is an unnecessary endurance drain.

VEAT builds can be quite tight (and short on endurance) so personally I'd go with all 3 Tactical Training powers plus power pool Assault and call it a day- use the other power slots for attacks, debuffs, and other utility powers.

I didn't think waiting would get them anywhere as a Premium? Thought it was only months *subscribed* that got you reward tokens.

The % varies depending on which power you look at. At least that's what I saw on a brief check of the detailed info which I have now forgotten the exact results of

I want to say it's about 15% for Charged Shot, ~20% for Lancer Shot, and a bit higher still for Penetrating Ray and Piercing Beam (I forget how those two compared, though one is direct damage while the other is DoT). Unsure about Cutting Beam's bonus DoT.

Essentially though, it seemed the heavier hitting attacks get a higher % of base as their bonus damage.

Single Shot and Overcharge don't get bonus damage at all though (they get -regen and mag 3 stun respectively, instead).


Typically I set up disintegration on any Boss+ enemy (sometimes Lts too, depending on difficulty settings, team performance, etc) because the extra damage it provides subsequent attacks is worthwhile on a target that'll last long enough. I don't worry so much about spread though - if it happens, great, that's a bit more damage from my cone (which I often hold back until I do see spread), it'll wear down the spawn a bit if the difficulty/team isn't resulting in a dead spawn within seconds, and it might save me having to set up another disint when my current target dies.

I don't bother with the snipe on either of my BR characters though (tried it a while and respecced out of it).

I'm wondering if maybe the game distinguishes /reply from /tell.

The actual keybind version of reply (backspace by default, I think) essentially just goes "/beginchat /t $lastpersontotellyou, ", which would be the same as if you manually typed /tell, and thus treated/blocked the same way as a regular tell.

But then there's the actual typed out /reply command, which ultimately has the same end result, but is maybe viewed as a distinct separate command by the game and so potentially usable by free players?

Or those Freems were just mistaken somehow, I dunno.

They could be like bullet casing on the gun-based powersets. At the end of an extended battle you're up to your ankles in teeth.

And then someone activates fly or somesuch and teeth all swirl up into the air.

Same. Even at its worst the RMT barely registered with me (and it didn't really bother me in other games that had it FAR worse than CoH ever did).

But I recognise that some are bothered by it, which is why I favour the idea to give us a menu option to allow tells from free accounts. As a subscriber I'm willing to take my chances if it removes roadblocks from my own communications, while those who can't stand RMT could just keep them disabled.

(it's good to see the idea seems to be receiving a more positive response here than it did in beta)

Everything you posted was pretty much my concern about the free player chat restrictions, and this was my thought on a solution too. A large part of my motivation was making things easier for me, the VIP player, rather than giving these guys something for free.

At the absolute minimum we need a system message informing us that the person we just sent a /tell to cannot respond.

In the meantime I'm looking at /friend as a kind of clunky, less private version of /tell.

Yeah, on my Corruptor I slot it for damage primarily for the extra Scourge damage - it's a decent chunk of damage when it's not stretched out over the full DoT duration.