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Think of it this way:

They're making you look awesome!

Hell, I've been at this for about a year, and I look like a grizzled veteran compared to these kids...

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Well, that is true. They do make me look like a god in comparison. But unless I'm playing one of my Tanks or Brutes or Scrappers, they also make me dead quite often. I now check Vet badges when I'm forming a team. If you don't have at least 3 months of time under your belt but you are playing a level 50 character your off my team.

If I'm playing my lowbes I'm all up for helping out a newbe at similar levels. But for my highbes you must know how to play the game. I can't take time to teach you when I'm fighting AVs.

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At the rate it's going, not CO... At least, I sure's hell hope not.

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So you know, sure's is not a proper conjunction. The words sure and as should never be combined in such a way. Your sentence should read, "I sure as hell hope not."

For future reference.

Why was the sound effect for this changed? It used to have a nice deep bass boom. Now it sounds like a wussy snare drum. Please fix it. I can't even stomach using the emote as it is.

No thanks.

If they introduce a variable advantage to powers based on origin it will pinhole people into only picking certain origins to get the maximum benefit of their boosters. There is no need.

Also, many (if not most) of my characters are actually multi-origin (they have a mutation that is enhanced by technology, (hello, Positron), or they have a magical power that is weak so they use natural weapons and training to enhance it, or they are a dead mutant who was raised to undeath by use of scientific chemicals and magical rituals). The game doesn't account for this kind of thing in any way, therefor Origins should never be tied into bonuses for powers and game mechanics.

The Bane and Crab pieces are the same pieces. The only difference is that Crabs have the back piece with the legs. The other costume bits are all the same.

If you look at the NPCs you can see that they are the same too, just on different models and using different coloring schemes.

Last I heard they were working on figuring out how to create a new anchor point for back piece items. No word on any progress yet. Just be patient. When they figure it out we will get them.

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Superspeed has Flurry, Flight has Air Superiority, and Leaping has Jump kick. I gave my pool a simple low damage punch to try and follow that setup.

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Note how each of those actually ties into the power pool somehow? Flurry is a barrage of super fast punches. Sounds like Super Speed to me. Air Superiority? Um, duh. This is completely obvious. Of course a flier should have this attack. And Jump Kick? Well, the pool is called friggin Jumping. How does a Jump Kick not fit in?

Sorry, but adding an attack just for the sake of having an attack is not the way it works.

As for the rest of your comments. It makes no difference. This is not a NEW travel pool. It's just a mishmash of the other pools slammed together in a way that you would like to be able to select them. You can get all of the powers you suggested already in one way or another. Mixing up and combining old powers does not equal new powers.

If you want to suggest a new travel pool you should come up with something that would actually be new.

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In the 6 months I've been playing, Freedom is the only server that's ever been marked as full. Only Freedom and Virtue ever reach 2 dots, and they do so daily. I have 2 active toons on Victory, and it's almost always a ghost town. I could easily see Freedom's non-AE population exceeding Victory's total.

NCsoft Really needs to look into merging a few servers, IMO.

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You know, for someone with that moniker you are awfully pessimistic.

I play on all servers (including Victory) and never have trouble finding teams when I want them. If you are just standing around broadcasting in Atlas and expecting to find a team not doing AE, maybe that's your problem.

This thread is full of suggestions for how to find good teams on any server. Use them.

1. The area of the Atlas map available during a Mayhem is to the West of City Hall. The AE building is to the East. The only way to possibly include it would be to at least double the size of the first Mayhem mission map for low level characters. Not a good idea.

2. The resulting explosion would need a metric ton of graphics as of yet uncreated to make it look good and the sheer amount of particle effects it would have would be likely to lag players more than a Rikti invasion.

3. Buildings cannot be explained to be destroyed and yet remain perfectly intact in the very next Mayhem 20 minutes later. Paragon Construction Inc. is good, but they're not that good.

If we're going to add more destructibles, I say they should be added in AE. At least there there's an explanation as to how a building or landmark can be rebuilt so fast. It's not real.

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How am I combining Fitness and Fighting pools?

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You've added a melee attack to a pool that's based on Mobility. How is a punch helping mobility?

You've got a Sprint toggle that apparently would stack with Sprint and gives you a defensive boost and immobilization protection, replacing the need for Weave or Combat Jumping.

Then you've got a power that nearly directly replicates what Swift and Hurdle already do. That's two powers for the cost of one. Yeah, that part of it is new.

And lastly you've got a power that duplicates what Hasten does combined with a buff more powerful than Aim and Build Up combined.

Actually it's really a combination of Fitness, Fighting, Super Speed and Jumping with Blaster powers sprinkled on top.

Sorry, never going to happen. If the devs ever make a new travel pool you can be sure that it will be a NEW travel pool, not a mishmash of other pools slammed together so that you can make the tightest build possible.

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The only new travel power I want is some sort of swinging power.

Largely cuz I want a grapple gun like Batman had in The Animated Series.

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I took a look at COs Tunneling travel power. That is easily within the limits of this game to do. I wouldn't mind seeing that.

CO has Swinging too and there do appear to be places where there is nothing tall enough to swing from (a big disagreement on the suggestion here). I guess they assume players can back up a travel power with another travel power if they want to. How about that?

As for the OP suggestion, no thanks. It just seems like you are trying to combine the Fitness and Fighting pools here so that you can maximize a build and skip a pool choice. This does not equal a NEW travel pool.

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Running through the sewers to get 8 fast levels is farming, pal. Sorry to break it to you, but that's the truth.

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What a curious new definition of farming.

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farming (in games) - the act of using an easy device or exploit to progress through levels of a game or to gain in game valuables in as fast a way as possible. (see also PLing)

Wait a minute...

Did you purchase the Good vs Evil edition or the Architect edition?

Good vs Evil comes with the Pocket D VIP and Teleport, the Jump Pack and the Sinister and Justice costume sets. These can be accessed immediately upon applying the box code to UPGRADE your account.

The Good vs Evil edition does not come with Booster pack choices. That would be the Architect edition.

Architect edition comes with a choice of either Super Booster I: Cyborg or Super Booster II: Magic. In that case when you apply the box code to UPGRADE your account it should ask you which booster pack you want to apply.

Welcome to the game and the forums.

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Sorry to sound rude if I did, I'm just disappointed that little perks like that should cost 10 dollars USD. I found out I couldn't access it when a friend tried to take me into that part of the D.
But there's also the matter of I have no credit card. I apologize to those who found me to be rude.

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Check out your local Big Lots. For a while now they've been selling copies of CoV CE, CoH CE and GvE for 10 bucks each. When you factor in the free months of play for each of those in addition to the goodies you are actually making 15 bucks and getting the goodies for free.

... that you don't actually have to find the key or unlock the "Back Room" in the last mission in the level 10-14 arc: The Clockwork Captive?

The captive Wife and Daughter are always in the unlocked room to the right, instead of in the locked back room to the left.

I guess someone noticed because it's in the wiki. I do find it odd though.

But what about this...

Has anyone ever noticed that the name given in the description for the last mission in The Vahzilok Pollutant Plot arc never actually matches the name that appears on the mission itself?

Last night I finished this arc with three characters. Each time the mission was described by my contact with one name (Stop Infusion from drugging the water) and the mission came up with another (Stop Mayhem from drugging the water). They were not Infusion and Mayhem all three times either. They were also Butcher and Bile and then Surgeon and Defiler. It seems there's some kind of random name choosing device working here. It just can't seem to sync up between the contact text and the mission text.

Do the devs know about these problems? Is there a fix in the pipeline sometime in the future?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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what if there's no lag.

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Then /bug it. If the game is not showing Info for same faction characters that are standing right next to you that is a bug. There's no selection with which players can hide that info.

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When looking at peoples' builds in game, sometimes their info appears and sometimes it doesn't. This happens in zone or not in zone, even if in same faction. How do they do that?

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You're saying that sometimes when you right click a character and click Info you are not seeing any Info?

Well, this happens normally between factions. Heroes cannot see Villain info and vice versa. As for this happening when in the same faction, I've never seen that happen before.

Could you test this and give more specific details? Check info on several different ATs and tell us your AT and the zone you are in so that we have more info to work with.

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I was playing nice earlier. Here's the deal. I don't like teaming. So when I do it is for a specific reason. If I feel the team will not help me accomplish whatever goal I'm going for, then I will quit. I won't give notice or anything. I'll just quit the team. I personally don't care if it is a PuG radio team or a task force. If I don't think the team directly benefits me in the way I want, then I'll just leave.

Do you know why I will do it that way?

Simple, because I see teams as nothing more than fillers to use as I see fit. When they are no longer useful, I leave. That simple. If the leader has a problem and demands an answer, I'll let him/her know. But I won't be nice about it. I will be extremely blunt and critical.

But Munki, why be so mean? Simple, because I play this game so I can have fun. As long as I'm not breaking any rules, I don't give a crap about anybody else. If somebody's day is worse off because they ran across me, I don't care. I see all of yall as nothing more than fillers on the way to accomplish my goals.

edit: The people that feel they deserve some sort of explanation are self obsessed losers. That simple.

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Then your parents should be punished for poor upbringing. You are an inconsiderate, unmannerly git. I hope I never have the displeasure of teaming with the likes of you.

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So instead of gimping my graphics, you suggest I gimp my actual character.

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Um, you don't have to run around with Shadowfall on constantly, dude. I don't see how not using Shadowfall while you are traveling is considered a gimp.

Running through the sewers to get 8 fast levels is farming, pal. Sorry to break it to you, but that's the truth.

Separating the farming spam (be it AE or Sewers) between zones isn't going to make it any better. And I prefer Galaxy City to remain the quiet zone it is, thank you.

How about you try running a mission team there sometime instead of asking for Sewer teams to have the ability to ruin the tranquility of the zone by inflicting it with their own variety of spam?

You could also try turning it off.

Try a /Shield using the Darkness elemental shield. Every time Active Defense goes off (I have it perma, of course) I have a dark blur obscuring my vision while flying for several minutes.

Don't worry, when power customization (i16 is coming soon) comes you can make it a lighter color and tone it down yourself.

Sorry, another "no way" here for your suggestion, PP.

I'm all for the zones evolving but there are other zones that need evolution far more than Kings Row. Kings Row is perfect for its intended purpose. If you don't like it, you can always go to the Hollows or bypass that whole level range in AE. Leave Kings Row alone.

Of the zones that need evolution, Boomtown is top of the list. There has been a mission about the Boomtown reconstruction on villainside since the introduction of CoV and yet there is no construction going on.

Steel Canyon and Port Oakes need to finally finish constructing whatever they are working on. Port Oakes should finally open that tunnel to Cap Au Diable too. Terra Volta could use some reorganization after all of the Trials that have saved it again and again. Dark Astoria could use a bit of a makeover too as the heroes have taken back the streets over the years.

There's a lot to work with without destroying one of the key zones in the early development of new characters and introduction of new players to the game just to give you a fiery thrill ride.

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I may have missed it but has anyone asked whether or not Epics will be able to "go rogue"?

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OMG I hope so, I totally already have planned for my Warshade to go villain.

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Why wouldn't they be able to? That would be kinda stupid. Everyone can side switch except for Epics.

What I'd like to know is for the Arachnos if you switch sides then you would technically no longer be allined with that faction so why would you have their uniform? Can an Arachnos gone good change their first costume slot? Or are they going to play it off as "I'm just keeping it for old times sake" maybe have some kind of story arch where you're required to wear it as a hero because the Arachnos aren't aware you've left yet and they want you to go undercover and find out as much as you can before you turn in your regignation.

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Arachnos Soldiers already get an extra costume slot to accomodate the armor. Why would they get yet another? If you don't want to wear your uniform anymore, don't. You aren't losing anything.

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They do? Err...Is that a bug, or is it intentional? I haven't seen that for my Soldiers, though looking at the Wiki, I see you are right. Is this a recent development?

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Nope, always been there. It's just kind of tricky to access it since it doesn't come up in the costume UI. I'm sure it's intentional because the devs gave SoAs an extra mission to earn a costume slot while they didn't take any of the others away. They must have known what the result would be. If not, they don't seem in a hurry to fix it.

Also, before scaling your UI windows you may want to try resetting the resolution for the game to match your computer monitor. It sounds like you've chosen the wrong resolution. Otherwise the Chat UI should start out pretty big and easy to read by default.

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I just was wondering, does anyone else get irritated when u finally get into a team, u do 1 or 2 missions, and then u have the "Incredible Shrinking Team" happen? What I mean is u do a couple of mishes with a really good/well-balanced group, and then the people whose mishes u did just leave, without saying anything, yer team just shrinks. To me that is kinda disrespectful and irritating. I am sorry, i had to vent.

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God forbid people have lives outside of the game....

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It's not that they have lives outside of the game. Its the fact that they have no manners and do not even bother to say goodbye. Politeness is the mother of civilization. We shouldn't discount it just because we are interacting in a game world.