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Man, I tested EF in the arena yesterday against a spines/regen and got my [censored] whooped! Before the changes, the match could go either way or tie depending on the player, but combind the extra crits by scrappers and the nerf to Enervating field, Radiation infection, AND Lingering radiation, my whole build has fallen to pieces slowly but surely. Very sad, sad indeed. Honestly, I cant wait for CoV to come out so I can drop CoH like a bad habit.

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Positron, they aren't TF badges, but can you let us know when Arena Tournament badges will actually work? Are tournaments fixed in issue 5? Is this is priority?



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I seriously hope they dont ever release arena badges. The rating system is too flawed to reward honest pvpers. As it stands now anybody with 2 accounts could artificially boost their rating. Not to mention, there are a few other ways that come to mind. They need to reset everyones ratings and make the system work like chess rankings. Then award badges.

Heya Posi, something comes to mind. Is it at all possible to set-up an NPC in game that us players can talk to who would recognize, say souveiners, and award us with badges based on them? Similiar to Jack Wolfe with the respecs. I'm not a programmer so I have no idea how much work that would involve.

Hey you know what? If it takes nearly 2 years to datamine for a freaking badge, it is understandable, very. Just to put myself in their shoes, I wouldnt waste that time and energy either, honestly. CoV and I5 is coming up, there are bigger fish to fry. It shows ya what little we patrons know.

I couldn't give 2 [censored] about any badge other than the one that require 15 hours STRAIGHT of my life. Everything else is minor. I don't care about finding monsters again of doing 4-6 hour tfs. Its the Quatermain tf that erks me. That thing shouldnt even exist. Like a poster about said, make the thing a story arc for god's sake.

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Also - after much pushing and shoving - we were told that there will NOT be data mining for TF badges. So if you did a TF before I5 - when I5 goes live you will not get a badge for it auto-magically.

I know - it stinks - I'm sorry about that.

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Yeah, it stinks...like a 3 day old corpse in the sun. I really don't mind doing the last 3 Shadow shard tf's again, but QUATERFIELD!? Come on! Throw us a bone here! I spent 12-15 hour with nubs on that one and a crapload of debt to boot. At least meet us half way here, give us the Quaterfield badge. And there was absolutely nothing exciting about the last mission for that TF (ie AV, special objective, etc..). Please dont do this.

Yeah I think ppl are confusing hero's residences with an actually sg base. Constantly using Batman and Superman as examples isnt quite realistic. We are talking on a much larger scale here. Sure a few villains out there would like to turn the Batcave into a crater, but I really cant see the Batcave as "raid content" either. There is a huge distinction between a lone hero's base of operations and an sg's HQ, like the Avengers mansion or the Watchtower. There are hundreds of heroes out there that have NOTHING remotely similiar to what Batman has, they dont have anything at all. He is an extremely rare case.

For one I like the Prestige idea. This will make more sg's visible in the game. The only thing that concerns me is say an sg decides to farm Prestige full time, strictly 8-man sg teams as much as they can, I think the greater populace will get alittle xenophobic. Will these sgs wanna pick up the random person as a team filler? Or will they be worried about their prestige intake going down?

Another thing as far as costumes go, they should implement an sg option to maybe only have a small sg icon with the assigned colors on the symbol appear on a hero's outfit, kinda like what appears on some of the robe and female tops in costume options, not a full chest symbol. I think that would be a little more palatable. Let ppl keep their image, just stamp them.

I think Prestige is a fantastic idea! I'm sure some serious tweeking is in line, but just buying bases for influence is a HUGE problem. Here's my thinking on it:

-Powerlvlers: Both me and you know there are plers out there with hundreds of millions of influence on their toons. I personally know about 5 ppl with over 250 million alone, each. Now what's going to happen? Depending on the value of bases, these ppl can potentially accrue multiple bases for that one person, depending on how many alts they have. And if bases are limited to 1 base per person, nothing is stopping ppl with multiple accounts and/or hooking their friends up.

The pler example can be streatched in many ways. A person like myself with multiple 50 toons can also do the multiple base thing since I have alot of unused influence. I also belong to an sg and run an sg. But what happens to that new, large, but very active sg that deserves a nice base but just don't have the influence b/c they dont pl or have toon at 50 yet?

Other grey areas arise too. Considering a person in a 75 man sg. Eventually most of the member hit 50 and they get "shelved", and the person moves on to an alt. New sub-divisions of sg are made. Its hard to keep a single sg active unless there's room to invite alts. Most sg move shelved toons to a retirement home sg and keep their new active alt in the main sg. That may be a way to keep the prestige up a bit. Also does a higer lvl toon get you more prestige? And what is a motivation outside of the small interest in Hami-raids or future base raid for ppl to log their 50's on all the time? In addition, with CoV coming out, I'm sure even less attention will be given to CoH alts/toons.

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Since the number of monkeys has been reduced on test, will there be epic defeat badges?

So, those that have the 10K for Zookeeper would have 2 badges (1K and 10K)


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There was talk of adding one... but it would be beyond reason for anyone to attain the 10,000 Monkey badge at this point. The reason the badge was lowered in the first place was to compensate for the increased difficulty in getting to 10,000.

If we made a 10,000 badge now, we'd have the same problem all over again.

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How about a badge for 12 monkies?

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They would need liscensing for Brue Willis's face for that badge.

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We are continuing to look at the set. Being one of the new sets in the game, it is going to be scrutinized beyond just the Training Room server.

If the set continues to prove itself sub-par on the Live servers, then some adjustments will be made.

This was one of the hardest sets to define. It falls out of line with the "normal" Defender sets. It isn't a buff set, its a debuff set. Its really a different playstyle than Defenders have had before.

For those who complain that the Archetypes who have the fewest sets were overlooked... the next planned powersets are melee based.

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I really thought it should have been a controller set from the get-go. But then your faced with the probelm of all the Green arrow/Hawkeye wanna-bees having no access to the Archery set as a secondary.

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Please datamine all the other TFs, particularly Calvin Scott which can't be redone.


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There is no badge for Calvin Scott.

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Just curious....Why wouldn't any TF have a badge? Is there a specific reason why some TF get badges and some don't? Or is it just something the dev team will EVENTUALLY get to? I'm wondering how hard it is to include a badge upon releasing a new TF on live as a complete package?

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Why not make burn light enemies on fire, so when they run out of the patch, they'll take some DoT... I don't think this would make it overpowered, and it makes sense... Who can stand in the middle of a fire, and walk out without some part of their body on fire afterwards?

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That is what the power should have done from the start. It's the most logical effects that can be implemented. 5 stars 4 u!

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Basic Stealth Powers (Pools, temp powers, and Powers not in a Defense set like Blaster Cloaking Device, Controller Illusion Invisibilities)

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Yeah, you see this is the part I don't understand nor agree with. Illusion's invis powers are lumped into this group when its clear to me that Invisiblity is a PRIMARY function of the set. Two out of nine powers are invis. Maybe this rule can or should apply to group invis, but Superior invis? It kinda takes the edge off of the name. As it is now, Superior invis is the best functioning invis power in the game(minus Phasing), why would it be in a inferior category?

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Jack, there's a big difference between being brutally honest and being a snake oil salesman.

You are an EMPLOYEE and a REPRESENTATIVE of the company you work for. You have an OBLIGATION to be professional. As much as you'd like to spout your "aw shucks, I'm just a gamer like you" excuse, you're a freakin' professional that should know to temper his "gamer-ness" with some damn common sense. I know your intentions behind what you said may have been innocuous, but you make your bosses look bad. I'm pretty sure they don't appreciate it.

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I believe he IS the boss....

I dont think he makes his bosses look bad if he IS the boss, even if he's telling the truth at least its not some PR B.S.

By not spinning, I believe he is making better PR.

I cant believe some people actually dislike Statesman's honesty.

Professionals who tell you how it is, is the best professional out there. They dont spin B.S. and try to make you throw money at them. Now they want the money, granted. ( Who doesnt? Lets not B.S. ourselves ) but at least they make you feel like someone gives a damn.

Statesman, I respect you most as a developer, I keep telling my online buddies about Cryptic from how you handle things. They're frankly sick of me harping praises of Cryptic.

Dont ever change the way you do these things, its what makes you guys the best devs out there.

I hope Cryptic is up to other video games in the future, I will definately be buying them.

and last but not least: I hope your brother makes it home.

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Boss of what? I'm sure States has to answer to someone. Unless he owns Cryptic. And I don't know, perhaps he does. Good for him. If he is the boss (and hell, even if he isn't), he should be concerned about the customers and how he interacts with them. The "well, I'm only a gamer, just like YOU" doesn't wash with me. I may be a "gamer," but I also know how to talk to clients. Sheesh...it's not like he's some wet behind the ears kid out of college at his first "real" job.

And there's honesty vs. raw honesty. I'm not asking for PR spin. I'm asking for professionalism. I'm asking for some thought as to how to say things before a random clicking of the submit button. I'm shocked that I even have to point out that there is a middle ground between "whatever comes to mind right here, right now" and "smooth marketing/pr blah blah."

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One of DOIDD's finest.......Why am I not surprized with this response?

Jack you don't have to justify your absense to anybody. People forget that there's a real person with a life behind the persona (i.e. Statesman). Point black, honest remarks is the only way to go. You can never go wrong with the truth.

On another note, you got thicker skin than me with all the mud-slinging going on with I5. But ppl fail to realise, there is new content in the works, new issues, CoV, et cetera. You and your design team see a big part of the picture in the overall balance of the game. We don't see all the factors, since we dont know what's in the works. You made a radical decision with the wide overhaul to the system. It was brave and neccessary. I have faith in your decisions and so should everyone else. Don't sway in your vision. This game is more of your "baby" then it is ours. It obvious with the dedication that you show to the community.

BTW....Godspeed to your Bro, in fighting for our Country. I'll keep the devil off his tail.

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I think people misunderstand why developers interfere and make changes. I could care less how fast someone earns influence. But I am concerned when someone is doing something "unfun" in order to gain levels quickly and there by bypassing other, more interesting content. Admittedly, "fun" and "unfun" are completely subjective, so people can disagree.

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I hate to say it, especially since I HATE p'lvling Noobs........BUT I have near 3 lvl 50 toons right now and have experienced the game content 3x over, and I mean ALL the game content. Now what is a person in my shoes supposed to do to lvl fast in a "fun" manner?

Yeah the respec TF are totally screwed nowadays. I must have tried to do the trial with my PB over 10 times against the sky raiders and no1 finishes. I'm lvl 32 now and I refuse to do the respec til the boss changes are rolled back.

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Course, now that that's hammered out... *nudges him towards Kheldians*

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Done! Just playtested today!

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Ok States.....spill the beans. What exactly was playtested? The khelds with your new proposed changes from the Observations thread? Or the khelds in their current form? Or something totaly new?

The easiest solution to bosses 1 shotting more squishy AT's is you can add a gloating/taunting aspect to the encounter b4 the boss actually attacks. This would add flavor to bosses and also give us a chance to back up a bit b4 getting whalloped by them. Have the bosses talk alittle "game" b4 he does his business.

Heya States....any tweeking to the EATs?