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Quote:They can always copy Bass_Awkwards costumes.Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
Hey now...
Some of us just don't have the imagination
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Quote:I recall the dumbfounded looks of the soldiers. I will have to go back and watch it to see what I may have missed.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I don't know what version of the movie you were watching but the one I saw showed the girl noticing him and smiling when he outsmarted all the big guys at the flagpole.
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Quote:Well, these look to be sets my ranged type can replace the positron blast sets with for better RCH, and over all better stats.Originally Posted by EarthWyrm
I don't have any problem with suggestions or opinions, and apologize if I came across like I did. I just happen to hold a separate but related opinion, that being that providing too many sources of +def(all) creates serious game balance concerns (and not just in AT-specific sets, though I can imagine a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth if one AT suddenly had a 6.67% (=3/45) easier time getting to the softcap for "all" than the others did).
I think both of us have the right to voice our opinions about the value of the set and any proposed changes to it. I'm sure that's why we're getting information at this stage - for our reactions and thoughts on whether the things that are coming are good, and how they could be made better.
So it's not like the set's so terrible.
Before I hadn't thought of it, and just really thought of the single target sets I'd rather use.
Still, I'd rather see bonuses that work for all styles of play...like Blappers, or squishies that need to spend time in melee for whatever reason.
Though on the Melee AT sets it'd be more useful in working around on all sets if it was just made universal.
Though that seems to be only the case for the Brute set so far, as the Tanker set has no +Defense, and the Scrapper and Stalker sets we have no images of.
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Quote:That's what I always thought as well.Originally Posted by Primantiss
Heh, oddly enough I've heard people spamming their "All female SG" over the channels before.. And until I read your post, I always thought they were just referring to the Avatar's gender.
The fact that they might have meant real-life gender really never crossed my mind until now.. They certainly did not make it clear in their ads. -
Quote:Now I'm just curious to how many people instantly went searching for this photo as soon as they read the part.Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko
2: Don't post pictures of yourself everywhere (i break this rule myself, i've even have a nude pic on the net, but i've not gotten harassed over it, i used to long ago tho).
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Quote:Should be noted, the all female channels may not have all females either.Originally Posted by Neuronia
No thank you.
When I get advances ingame I politely rebuff them.
If they insist I report them for harrassment and /gignore.
I can chat ingame with my female friends if I'd like to...or with all my friends. My current best friend from the game is male and we chat offline all the time.
I get where you are going with the gym analogy, but unless someone tracks us through slips of information/IP/address snooping, which is far beyond the scope of NC Soft's moderation, we still control our own environments.
Also, not to take this TOO far afield but I developped friendships with a number of gay women over the past 10 years (they shared an interest with me so we arranged irl meetings in a safeish zone around the theme, in Baltimore Comic Con years ago) and the overriding theme around us was that we welcomed males but made it abundantly clear that advances were unwelcome - either from disinterest or safety standpoints. As Philly expounded, harassment is quite possible and likely from a same sex enclave and is equally as uncomfortable.
There are female only channels ingame. I know Gender Poison on Champion Server used to run one (still does?) and had character meetings too. I thought it was great but had too many channels already and didn't keep up with that group for a while.
Also, Golden Girl, I've vacillated a while in between putting you on ignore or not but you aren't helping yourself with comments in this thread.
P.S. Sinister Dirge is eminently correct in his comment about "check outs".
I remember an incident that happened to someone I know who was asked to join an all female SG based solely on his avatar on Victory Server, and the leader (a female) thought all the female avatars she invited were females in RL.
Imagine her suprise when she found out she had invited males (though still thought he was female). -
Quote:Oh? they were saying things over teamspeak? That actually makes things easier for you! Turn off teamspeak.Originally Posted by Chainsaw_Chicken
We were using teamspeak for a Master of Keys Run. I normally don't go out of my way to tell my gender, but I thought we had good players but I kept getting harassed. You can't ignore someone when you need them to complete something.
I play the game for fun, and shouldn't have to worry about people living in their mothers basement or 13 year old boys who should be in school.
True story. You can get the Master badges without teamspeak. -
To ask again, since the thread seems to have derailed...
Will Epic Pool have the ability to pick any of the first 4 powers as a tier 1? -
Quote:Interresting.Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Y'know, it's weird. I've been playing (with a few fairly long gaps) since the late spring of 2004; I play almost exclusively on Virtue; and I have a number of female characters - and yet I can't remember such a thing happening to me even once.
Looks like never teaming up with strangers is payin' off once again.
Without ever saying what gender I the player am, when I was on Victory I got the following tells "You're my girlfriend now" "Will you be my girlfriend" "You're trying to steal my boyfriend/husband."
And that was with nothing more than a female character, and saying hi, and for teaming with someone multiple times (global friended) "Hey how's it going." "Hey want to team."
My point. This is the internet. And people on the internet can be dumb
To the OP: First rule. Never tell anyone if you're female or male. If you do tell, (and this goes for guys as well) you may have to learn to use global ignore. -
Quote:This is true, in my opinion as well, only if they plan to create more AT only sets.Originally Posted by EarthWyrm
Here's the problem with that bonus being included: It is demonstrably true that people are consistently willing to pay 2bn+ for that specific bonus already. Putting it in as a set bonus in a set where all the other bonuses are reasonably useful (or better than anything short of purples, as with the recharge bonus in the set) creates a set that no reasonable person would, when given the option, choose not to slot.
Tossing more opportunities for +def(all) would be a design error, IMO. I would not expect to see these pop up frequently in the future, if at all.
If it's just the one AT only set, and they have no intention of making any other sets to sell on the market, then I don't see a problem with it.
I think it would be a mistake to make a bunch of sets people can buy and use, but I don't think it's a mistake to make one awesome set people can buy.
For my main and name sake, if the Brute and Tanker versions of the set are any indications, I wouldn't be making use of the set.
Even with my suggestion, it would only be worth it for those who build for it.
If it was 3% Defense across the board, I wouldn't use it, as it would drop my defenses below 45% if I did.
Now admittedly this is just on one of my characters, but If I run into that problem, then I'm sure there's other builds that would as well, nore so when one would likely need to six slot for that bonus.
If the devs don't do it, it's not really a problem. My suggestion was merely one to really encourage it for many different type of builds.
On my Ranged Defense toons, the Blaster set for instance is AWESOME. Use it in place of Position's Blast for instance. Well, actually, it might just be a good set to replace Positron's Blast with period, for the little bit more +RCH, but then I might just think, Positron's Blast I can just buy in game with no real money investment.
So like I said, just a suggestion. -
Quote:Looking at this pic, I have to ask, who makes such terrible costumes?Originally Posted by Stryph
T9 power supposedly: Crushing Uppercut -
also for flare.... SHORYUKEN!!!!! -
I'll have to agree with some other suggestions to just level lock the tier 4s. I know I don't want to take powers such as Stealth or Invis, just to get Phase Shift on my character who has a stealth power in their Pirmary and/or Secondary.
Though I have a question, does this carry over to the Epic Power Pools as well? I know I'd like to beable to grab Epic Shields for Defenders/Corrs at lvl 41 instead of needing to grab a tier 1 first.
Not to mention straight to Laser Beam Eyes on some concepts. Skip FA/CP on some scrappers, and for some Scrappers I'd much rather pick up Fire Blast, Melt Armor and Fire Ball and just skip the immobilize and hold (Melt Armor may be terrible for Scraappers, but it's just way more flashy than Char). -
Quote:We do need a red hair only server! It would be awesome!Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
I would like a server for only people with red hair. One of my characters often gets harassed because of the color of his hair, and it is very sensitive to me since I also happen to have red hair in real life. Everyone who sees my character is obviously aware of this, and that's why they choose to torment me.
Depending on CoH's population, we may actually have a decent sized server! What, 2% of 100,000 (if that's the CoH Population) is 2000! It could be huge! -
Quote:Yeah, the 3% Ranged defense is awesome! If you play at range.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
My Dom would kill to replace one of his 6.25 recharge bonuses with a set that has 8.75 recharge, AND accuracy, AND 3% ranged Def.
I'm not sure what color sparkles you were looking for on your unicorn, but this one is just fine by me thanks.
My Dom is a Fire/Earth, melee defense or S/L defense would be better. Hence the reason I suggest 3% Defense vs 3.75% Ranged Defense in these sets.
Same goes for my Dual Pistol users who get into melee often, because of well, Hail of Bullets. -
Quote:Hmmm...I don't know. Paying real money for them and all.Originally Posted by MajorDecoy
Yes, they are unique, but they're also purchased items (or so I believe because it looks like they have the same border as the set I purchased at Comic Con).
As purchased items, they should be nice, but they shouldn't be awesome. They shouldn't be as good as purples.
I'm not saying have them give the +15% ACC or +10% RCH. So those would stay lower. -
Quote:If they're account bound, and bought through the store, and have the changes I mentioned, I'd consider buying a set for each character.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Unless I'm mistaken, they're only account based because they're store items, aren't they? So they kind of have to be account based, or the markets will lead to them being direct conversions of cash -> influence thanks to the markets.
As it is with the current bonuses, I'd have to take it on a case by case basis, and this is with the thought that the set bonuses are always active.
Like the dominator and troller sets, I may not be interrested in, and could just go use other sets I don't need to pay actual money for (not that the +RCH isn't nice it is, but that's one bonus).
Still all wait and see. Out of all my suggestions I do hope the Defense and Resistance changes happen, so it doesn't limit one to trying to stay at range for power sets that like to get up close, and we could just use some more +resist period. -
Awesome names isn't stuff. Can I haz any awesome names you haz?
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Quote:These can't go into Targeted AOE powers?Originally Posted by Bronze Knight
SOA's?
Kelds?
TBH tho I would rather have more Targeted AOE sets, and Purple sets for the categorys that don't have them.
These looked like they could go into any power that does damage, but limited to ATs. -
I don't think the ranged sets are all that bad.
Look at the popular Thunderstrike set.
However, these are all unique IOs (like the Purple Sets) and I would like to see some changes to them.
First off, all defense bonuses, I would like to see wrapped up into a flat 3% Defense across the board, especially on the range ATs. Blasters get into melee (look at their secondary) and I know my Dual Pistol users get into melee.
Same with Resist bonuses. 3-5% across the board.
I'm pretty fine with the range bonus, but that's because I'm not worried about it either. Though bumping it to 10%, but that's my Mr Monk kicking in on bonuses I don't think will make that big of a difference (I could be wrong on this though).
Same goes for duration on Mez's, like the range bonus.
I'd love to see a +5% Increase on Damage for Tankers, as I just feel when playing them, they could use all the +dmg they can get.
On the blaster set, I'd like to see something a bit different, but that suggestion may be to powerful.
Remove the +DMG, move all the other bonuses down, and then add in +2-3 Mez Protection.
I'd love to see it on the Corrs as well (and Defenders), as a small but still easily beatable mez protection, but that's because I don't think much of the +DMG bonus myself, when one AT is heavy damage, and the other two have debuffs to increase their damage. -
I thought it was a fun popcorn flick.
If that's what you're going out for, and have already seen Harry Potter or Captain America or any of the other summer popcorn flicks and don't want to do a repeat viewing, then it's worth watching.
If you're looking for high art, high storytelling, not so much.
It was basically a 6.5 out of 10 movie (I'm stuck trying to decide if it's a 6 or 7, sooo, I'll go with the middle of the two).
That said, if you're willing to forgo the popcorn flicks, seen all the others, I'd suggest Friends With Benefits over it. -
Quote:2) They could of just not signed the first check and not worked for them anymore. Or signed the first one and then never worked for them again.Originally Posted by tpull
There are a lot of assumptions being made in these comments, and many of them are wrong. I'm not sure if any of these corrections will change someone's opinion, but for the record:
1. "Kirby pitched ideas but never worked on anything unless Marvel gave him the green light."
Absolutely not true. Kirby brought several things to Marvel he had already created, and Marvel passed on them. Some characters currently at Dc might have ended up at Marvel early on if marvel had given the green light.
2. "Now here's the kicker, all these comic book creations were created by people under the exact same condition. They had a contract. They weren't forced to sign it."
Again, not true. The artists were paid by check, and the "contract" was on the back of the check, so they had to sign the check to cash it, and the comic companies said that the signing of the check also meant they agreed to the conditions they wrote on the back of the checks. I don't think any other industry got away with this, and the companies stopped doing it later, but there's definitely some room for legal discussion on the propriety of that, and if you can hold the artist to the "legal contract" he "signed freely."
3. "If you use company time or resources then the company is entitled to a share or the whole thing depending on how good their lawyers are. Company reasources can include any training you might have recieved while working for the company or any potential training you could have recieved if you have open access to the learning materials."
Except on Jack Kirby's case, he didn't work at Marvel. He worked at home, in his basement. He never got any kind of "training" associated with his job. I'm not sure on this point, but I have heard that he paid for all his own art supplies too, which means he worked at home, created stuff on his own dime, and came in to Marvel to submit it. That's a large part of the reason this was not a clear-cut case as with, say, all the CrossgGen artists, who had contracts, came to work, used company supplies, and worked together in an office environment receiving assignments. Things were a little bit different in the '50s and '60s.
The final point I would make is that the families aren't necessarily greedier than the company, and the company definitely wasn't an angel in their business practices, so it's weird to see an entire family thrown into the gates of hell, while a large corporation is upheld as the epitome of goodness. The family didn't do this until Sonny Bono got his law passed through Congress which allowed for them to attempt to take back all of the copyrights for which they had a legitimate claim. I don't see how people following what the law allows (and even encourages them) to do can be automatically classified as greedy jerks. It's a complicated legal issue, and I would say the heirs have (at least) every bit as much claim as a faceless corporation. I'm not sure how I would rule on the issue, but I'm certainly not going to make any assumptions about the character of the Kirby family. Jack Kirby was an awesome guy, and I would tend to think he had a pretty good family, if going by Jack was any way to make an initial assessment of things. But this part is definitely in the opinion area, and separate from thee straight facts of all the other stuff above.
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3) I'm not saying the companies were angels. I just don't see the family having rights to these comic book creations under those previous workings.
Not to mention, what are they going to do with it? Really? Thier plan is likely to take it and sell/lease it back for huge profits.
In the case of Superman, do you think they'd really keep it as huge as it is now? And you think fans hate the reboots now? If they took control of Superman, they'd have to disregard so much of what's been done with Superman.
The same goes for anyone else.
No. I don't like the business practices that were in use at those times. It's great that these practices have changed, they needed to be changed. But that doesn't change that these arrangements were agreed upon by the parties involved to begin with (though obviously they favored the ones with the money over the ones without). -
Quote:That was basically my point. And that's exactly what happened with Kirby.Originally Posted by Dark One
Well...that depends. If you work on it during company time and/or use company resources to develop it, then they can get a share (or the whole thing depending upon what company policy is) if they can prove you did it on their dime.
Now, if he had a better contract, things would of been different, but it was a different time.
Just because times have changed, doesn't mean Kirby or in this case, Kirby's estate, is entitled to the deals that are made today.
To Forbin...I was actually wondering if the family is paying the lawyer or if he only gets paid if they win. In the end it looks to just be wasting Marvel's money only, with the Kirby likely having a lawyer who only gets paid if they win, and a lawyer who's willing to gamble that he will in fact win, and get paid lots of money when he does.
I hope the estates lose in all these cases. At most I can see the companies giving the pensions to the widows (if there are even widows in this case) as the surviving spouses getting the other spouses pensions is something that happens. -
Quote:I hear the -Regen is noticable, and may actually even out witht he +DMG of Reactive.Originally Posted by Jibikao
Yeah, the DoT part is the reason why I go with Reactive on all of my toons. The damage is just too good to pass on. The -resist part is ok. It's only decent on a very large team but in most situations, the DoT part makes the other 3 paths look bad especially when you take AV's resistance to those debuffs.
However, that will only matter on the really tough single targets.
So for that reason, yeah, more benefit from Reactive, at least solo, since last I knew it doesn't stack with other Reactive Procs.
To Sole_Savior, last I knew, Reactive did the same amount of damage no matter what AT, so yes, you'll see Reactive help on single target damage output (this is from a solo perspective).
Really, if built for defense, I don't see why not to use Reactive on any character just to get more damage. Low damage Defender, but build built for survival already, go Reactive! It'll help for normal missioning more. -
Quote:Just build for it allOriginally Posted by Desmodos
Gonna disagree with the S/L defense strategy. Yes, you want to get as much as you can, but it's not the priority. I prefer to prioritize HP, E/Ne defense, and then S/L.
I think folks under estimate how powerful Divine Avalanche is, in terms of survivability. DA alone will make you really tough to kill. While it doesn't cover everything, it's deficiencies aren't significantly improved by adding more Lethal or Smashing defense. Comparatively speaking, you'll get more survivablity from additional E/Ne defense Will Power because you already have a sizable chunk of it, via Heightened Senses.
The only RCH you need to build for is enough to get the damage output you're seeking. So imo, RCH is the least important (especially if you're just building for survival).
HP bonuses you get just building for increased defenses, so I wouldn't worry about that as much either.
Defense is where it's important to build for, at least in my experience, when it comes to WP. And I think you want to build evenly for the S/L/E/N Defenses with a focus on S/L, as like mentioned, WP already comes with a sizable E/N Defense already. -
Quote:Nice how you missed the next part...Originally Posted by Smersh
Because books and works of art immediately lose all value the instant their creator dies, amirite?
"As he was work for hire, what he created was for the company. It's no different than any other creator working for a company."
...there, reposted it for you.
Nope the books and works of art don't lose value. However, if I'm working for the government in the R&D Section and I create some new do-dad, it belongs to the government.
If I create something working some 9-5 job, then patent it, it belongs to me.
Now here's the kicker, all these comic book creations were created by people under the exact same condition. They had a contract. They weren't forced to sign it.
The fact that times have changed, changes nothing on how it used to be. What it does do is get new creators to get better contracts and then provide for their family upon their death if they so wish to.