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Smite does more than Fire Blast (mids has it wrong last I checked if you're going by Mids, but also still, Smite does better damage).
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Quote:Isn't Beam Rifle coming with i21?Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
No powersets came with boosters before.
A few powers were included in some though.
Ninja Run from martial arts pack
Beast Run from animal pack
SteamJump from yada yada
Those are currently unavaible if you hadn't bought the pack though, as the store is offline.
Also, in case you are just coming back and hadn't seen. We will soon be getting Time Manipulation with issue 21 as well as a good bit of prolif.
Then, shortly after Issue 21 we will get Street Justice and Beam Rifle sets in the store for purchase. You will have to use Paragon Points to unlock these sets, even as a subscriber.
Also on the horizon is talk of a Staff Fighting set.
And after Street Justice gets released, it looks to be Titan Weapons next, then Staff Fighting (based purely on Titan Weapons being announced and Staff Fighting being an apparent leak). -
Quote:Well I'd say some of the bigger advancements happened recently. And with current trends (at least in the US) of lay people off, work with less people, find out you can work with less people, then not hiring people back when things are going good again, shows more tech equals less jobs. Yes, new jobs are created, but less people are needed to fullfill them.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
If advances in technology meant increasing unemployment, then we'd be at 99% unemployment right now because technology has been steadily advancing for the past 300 years. The current high unemployment levels that we see have nothing to do with a major tech advance, it was caused by economic manipulations.
Tech advances do indeed mean some jobs become obsolete, but they just as much open up new areas of employment.
Rather than structure our hypothetical New Society on low tech to ensure that certain jobs are never made obsolete, we'd be better off investing in vocational schools that teach people how to work in the newly created professions that technological advances create. -
Quote:The problem with this line of thinking is a few...Originally Posted by Durakken
I think the crazy is far more insidious than you think.
Also, anyone who says they are a Marine above all else is far too easily programmed and have faced deeper programming all their lives so i doubt they got away from it.
I'm not saying everyone would just fall apart or that all Marines are Christian, but if we apply population percentages and the likely hood that one of them would realize the opportunity they had and what they could find out... Well the fact of the matter is whether someone finds out there was a dude raising the dead or that it was all made up or somewhere in between there isn't a single person that was genuinely interested in truth wouldn't go and find out what they could... And given the probabilities the christian marines would find out that what they believe is wrong which would likely completely a number of their beliefs in the after life...
It's one thing to believe in an after life and be a soldier and to be one while not believing and given that short time period to incorporate that knowledge and while your on the battle field there would be several reactions from hiding, to suicide, to spastic because they now are hyper aware of their immortality, or spastic based on believing that nothing matters... to little to no reaction at all, but the more likely is one of the former.
If there was a Yeshua those very same christians would like abandon their mission follow Jesus around as might muslims and jews.
Other religions would be unaffected if it is false...
if it's true other religions might convert and desert to follow while some of the more skeptical would likely wonder how it's done and try to ask what how it was done and/or try to test his knowledge to confirm or disconfirm claims, but ultimately be unaffected and just consider it a curiosity...or try to take him back to the present.
1) Even if they thought to look, what makes you think they wouldn't wait to find answers. Get the job done first, then if that doesn't get them home, they can go and look.
2) Right or wrong. Doesn't mean suicide or getting reckless. Plenty people of faith lose their faith and don't become reckless/suicidal about it. Those who gain a new faith if found to be true would then what? Not become a Judas to their fellow soldiers and finish the task at hand.
As mentioned, this is one grasping at straws. Not to mention, we living in the now, have no idea if it's true or not (outside of one's faith) so putting that into the equation, I don't think works.
But if you do, refere to the above. They decide their faith is wrong. Then go on living to make a lasting impression another way. Taking out all those Romans, and changing history, with their names in the books! \o/ -
Quote:I don't think it needs all the suggestions.Originally Posted by theduke24
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For the damage, it's most likely be 50/50.
Pistols NEED a secondary effect
Aoe damage needs to be fixed
either give piercing rounds -res in all ammos, or maybe each ammo could have its own unique effect thats not its usual one?(base:-res Cryo:noticable -tohit Chem: noticable -regen inc:Strong dot) and YES to bigger arc
no opinion on HoB
Cryo should have longer durations, and i think chem should also have a slight -regen(if not put in piercing) too?
EDIT: also, the +def and/or the claws treatment makes a lot of sense too, maybe use all of these suggestions for the set?
50/50 split for sure.
Possibly keeping the -Resist on all ammo types.
Then I'd say either the +Def or the end/rch. Doesn't really increase it's damage but either gives a set that goes witht he idea of move move move (+Def) or Pistols don't really need to use so much END/RCH.
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Quote:Well, I think most players just want a very survivable build rather than a ST machine, that does good on AOE.Originally Posted by Werner
I don't mind Hover scrapping personally. It's nice to see that you can soft cap Psionic as well. I don't know enough about Kinetic Melee to know if the damage output is good. I assume we're suffering a bit due to low recharge? At least we have lots of attacks to choose from.
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Quote:There's plenty of things to do on Redside. And not look nice? I think Redside looks good from a graphics point of view.Originally Posted by DMystic
It relates since I'm sure many players of this game at one point or another thought "Great now I get to play my own interpretation of those heroes I've grown up reading about"
Yes people prefer playing Heroes here, nothing the devs do will change the mind of those people. However there is a significant amount of people that would play Redside if it looked nicer or had more to do.
Or do you mean you want to see a city like Paragon, and not a civilization in the middle of a wasteland look?
If it's the last one, I have to ask. Would a city filled with villains (nevermind that I'm sure you have the villain who cares about the people) that outside of a few strict laws, are allowed to get away with anything they can manage to powerplay away from another, have a nice looking city to live in? -
Quote:Seeing as how this is suppossed to be at the height of the Roman empire, wouldn't they have to wait awhile for that, not to mention, for all you know, they could find out how right they are.Originally Posted by Durakken
Funny thing there might be a massive morale issue that people don't realize...
A lot of Military are religious, in particular Christian. That time period would be where they could easily find evidence or be shown how wrong they are and it is almost 100% certain someone will come up with checking it all out or trying to stop that from happening... This will result in finding out what the truth is and some having their entire world view completely rewritten. How this would play out would have a big impact on the morale of the Marines.
So in this case, I'd say it's best to leave that bit out. -
Quote:You have a point. If you could rebuild society, you'd know such things as technology equals less work and thus more people jobless, and could (untill you died) try to keep it clear from such a trapping.Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
What kinda crazy scenario puts ME in charge of rebuilding society? And why would ANYONE want to rebuild civilization exactly as it is now? What would be the point?
No. And I don't believe that ANY one person could do this either. Civilization forms organically over time due to the infuluence of MANY people. No one person could do that and have it feel like any kind of actual society. -
Quote:How long have those Marines been stuck there?Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
I'm more worried about the fact that the Marines need to boil all their water, and they probably can't eat any food but what they brought with them. Also consider the morale difference. The Romans are fighting for their home and their loved ones. The Marines have to be thinking that they'll never see home or their loved ones again.
The fiction writer is correct that there'll be a rash of suicides in the Marine camp.
I don't think you'd see a rash of suicides at all, not untill they truely thought they were stuck there.
Sounds more like the writer coming up with various ways to make it not look so one sided, rather than going by how it would really happen.
Which isnt bad mind you, it probably makes for a better story. Just I doubt it would happen. -
Quote:I've actually posted a build up of how to do it for scrappers that only had two actual range shots (1 ST blast, the other a short range cone...nothing different than KM, Claws, Spines) one PBAOE, and the rest were melee attacks that involved hitting and following up with a point blank shot.Originally Posted by Soul_System
To be honest they already started breaking down the short-medium range scrapper barrier. Have any of you seen Demon Summoning Whips? Wanna bet a month's sub that they will not eventually make a full set out of it?
There is nothing saying that scrappers could not get a pistol set with slightly different rules than the blaster set and yet use the same animations. Add a melee strike/combo or two (possibly involving hitting AND firing their gun), give them 1-2 ranged attacks like other sets, give them the PBAOE with different values.
Pistols/Dual Wield and the targeted AOE would like be replaced by a couple melee (either straight melee or melee/shots) or short range attacks. Keep Empty Clips in there as it's cone, executioners as a short range hit, keep a modified version of HOB as it's pbaoe. Confront and build-up. Now you have 2 attacks to account for. Either 2 heavy single target hits or 1 heavy single target and something with another cone/pbaoe depending on whether you want to make it a ST or AOE or balanced set.
It would also cut the need to develop new powers for a set down to 4 from 7. Though I'd recommend the Empty Clips animation be cleaned up during the process.
As far DP as a APP set? I just don't see them doing that because that is a very very specific concept to make a APP set.
One attack was akin to Combat Jumping, as you spun ont he ground kicked them up then let off a couple of shots at them as they were knocked up into the air. All a melee attack, it just used the pistols in the attack.
Ive given up on that idea though. This was just a suggestion for the Epic Pools. -
Quote:I really don't think giving redside more zones and more new things, will get people playing redside more.Originally Posted by MisterD
*Big long post*
People already ignore it, even when given to things to do on redside.
People prefere the heroes. This isn't going to change. However, this isn't to say giving more zones/content is bad for players who prefere redside.
Though really, what I like about redside is the lack of so many zones. Why do we need tons of new zones? -
Quote:I had heard people wanting it, but I think the devs learned from CoH, that it really just isn't worth it, not to mention their game world is a bit different (more open) than here.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Also, in that other earlier superhero MMO which crashed and burned too, and which only has hero content, I've never heard of there being any big movement there for being able to play villains.
And as far as CoH content goes, red side gets too much - the majority plays blue side, but the new content is always split evenly between the majority and the minority, so that red side gets more than its population deserves, and blue side gets less - the devs really need to stop being so pro-Villain. -
Quote:And I see no reason a set can't have -resist be it's thing, and not be Sonic.Originally Posted by Leo_G
The -res is *A* secondary effect in a set whose concept is 'street brawling' which utilizes many secondary effects. If every power had -res in it, and it didn't rely on an extra system to use effectively (that hinges on another concept, namly combo levels) then yeah, we'd have a problem.
And why doesn't the OP's knife set have Parry when a good deal of knife technique come from fencing? Probably the same reason the OP choose a Follow up clone instead: too many choices and not enough powers.
But that involves the set power make-up, not the set theme. No blade set can natively decrease a target's resistance.
Admittedly, then a lot of the difference between this Knife Melee and peoples want for a Sonic Melee will likely be Smashing vs Lethal damage, Weapon Set (and thusly redraw) VS Punch People, and likely Build Up vs Follow Up. -
Quote:And this is how almost everyone would do it as well.Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie
It comes down to the trade off of having acess to running taskforces and missions with whoever you want on both sides, and locking yourself into 1 side for a better reward.
I usually choose the reward, but if I could do both, then of course I would.
Why stay hero/villain if rogue/vigilante gets the same rewards AND gets the added bonus of traveling between both sides.
The rewards are perfect as is. Do Rogues/Vigilantes get to obtain Purple/PvP IO Recipes with their Reward Merits? No. But then, those also come with a high price anyways
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The other game started out with equal content, and players had the choice from the beginning on which side to play (something CoH didn't), and people STILL gravitated towards being a hero.
It's just as much mental on wanting to be seen as the hero as it is about wanting to feel like you're winning. Playing a villain means you lost.
Before i21 you kinda start out having lost, as you're breaking out of jail
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As to the OP, fixing redside is going to be harder than you think.
First off, while GG obviously isn't helping with the above post, there is something to be said about her past posts. Namely, it's not all about people wanting go where the crowd is, it's that people generally prefere to roll the hero.
It's a mentality thing. To be seen as the hero as much as heroes win, villains lose (your comic book villain for instance will never take over the world).
Yes, people get vocal over wanting the option, but that isn't the majority. I like playing a Rogue style character from time to time, but I wouldn't call that a true villain (much more the thrill seeker/theif who pulls off heroics).
The best way to get redside active (and you never know, if i21 brings a massive influx of new players, it just might become very active) is possibly for redside players to get active in promoting the game. -
Something like this, is what I tend to go for with WP characters. However changes of course need to be made depending on budget, primary, and power pool picks.
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Quote:I'd still give it to the Marines.Originally Posted by McNum
I was hoping this would be an Asterix scenario. Except replace the Gauls with magic potion that gives superpowers with the Marines.
Basically you give the Marines a base in a village in northwestern Gaul near the coast, and for some reason Caesar himself is ticked off at that particular village and wants it conquered as soon as possible. Multiple legions (six, if I remember right) are stationed around the village and will all advance on the village regularly, but not all at once. Basically when Caesar gets angry or a general wants to make a name for himself by defeating that pesky village in Gaul.
The question then becomes, can the Marines match the feats of Asterix and friends? Can they hold the village indefinitely? Or at least for five years? Going on the offensive is allowed, but the objective is survival, not conquest, and if the village falls, to Rome or anyone else when the time is up, the mission is lost. (As the return portal will open in the village.)
They get all the same resources, with enough fuel to keep each vehicle going for 30 days each and so on.
I like this scenario more, because a decapitation strike on Rome with a starting point in Italy is just playing everything into the Marines' hands. That's what they do. Hit fast, hit hard, go home. It's a much better match if the objective becomes Hold Position instead of Conquest and that they start on the far edge of the Roman Empire. I'm thinking that for long term, it'd be good to perhaps be a bit more diplomatic than the usual approach, which leads to an interesting question: Can any of the Marines speak Latin?
I'm fairly sure the Marines can hold out, but Operation Getafix* is a better setup than the "destroy Rome" objective.
*Getafix is the druid in Asterix that makes the magic potion.
Walking by foot is still something Marines are trained to do. Sniper Rifle in hand, they're still able to take out the important individuals. -
I can safely say that people would have a decent place to call home, minus the electricity!
Now, I could work the indoor plumbing, but would have no idea on how to make plastic pipes, or fashion metal ones, with no knowledge on how to make a torch to weld with!
Basically, people would be screwed! -
I think the fact that the set has -resist in it, to not be a real problem, Leo.
Really, look at Street Justice. Has an attack with -Resist. Yet Martial Arts and Super Strength don't. What makes Street Justice's hitting do -Resists compared to a well trained Martial Artist who would likely learn pressure points over a bar room brawler?
Why can BRaodsword and Katana users Parry, and not a Claws or Dual Blade user, when you can in fact parry with such weapons. -
Quote:Same!Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
As a set, sure. I have no problem. But as a pool, I honestly want DUAL pistols regardless of the set I'm pairing them with, even if that's a one-handed weapon.
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Quote:Because Jim Lee is in charge!Originally Posted by Matrix_Dragon
And one that just doesn't work. I explained that part of the new DC to a friend that's not a regular comic book reader.
"But, it's Superman. Everybody trusts Superman."
Keep in mind, I'm Australian. Even people on the other side of the planet know that you can always trust Superman. Why's DC forgetting it to try and copy Marvel?
Seriously!
Jim Lee was at Marvel, then at Image/WildStorm where the settings had the public not trusting superheroes.
Now, I'm not saying it's a bad setting obviously, as I love Marvel and used to love Image, but it's not really how DC treated their heroes.
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Quote:I don't recall the episode, but it sounds a bit like what they did on DSP with Quarks competition the holodeck night club.Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
Only problem with that is it would have destroyed Fair Haven. Paris created it as an escape to 'a more simple time' far away from the tech and stress the crew was under.
It was the open door 24/7 never shutting it off for months that resulted in the glitch to begin with.
Once the glitch started to spread the crew worked like mad to save the program. The original program. As pretending to be magical creatures isn't what this Holo-Novel was constructed for. Add to that the fact that Janeway was falling for one of the characters (I'll agree her role was all over the place, due to various writers and producers) suffice it to say, the crew was very attached to those characters and that setting just the way it was. If they wanted a Holo-Novel to pretend to be Fey they could just make one from scratch. Janeway had her Da Vinci program and Paris had his Capt. Proton program. This was the crews program.
Still, it was a bit of a mini-arc, getting touched on here and there for 3 or 4 episodes before being the main focus for 2. If you hadn't seen Fair Haven's creation and subsequent overuse... If the 1st time you see Fair Haven was the Glitch episode it could leave you asking "What's the big deal just delete the dern thing and start over" When, for them, it was more than just a holodeck simulation. -
Hmmm...while I certainly would prefere the Dual Pistols animations for Thug MMs...
Pistols would get a shorter animation, but both Dual Wield and Empty Clips would get longer ones.