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LoL, I'm currently levelling a Warshade, and somehow managed to forget that Gravity Well is taken. How about Black Hole? Wait, no... I dunno, call it Grav Pulse. LoL.

Edit: RE: Natsuki: Even without the inverse repel, I think an AoE slow/knockdown would work well with the set. But, at this point, it's wishful thinking anywho. Guess that's why I have my Grav/Storm.

If I could take the game, put it in a box separate from everyone else, and change one power in the set, I'd swap Dimension Shift or Propel for a power named Gravity Well. Targetted AoE, 25ft. radius, 90-second recharge, 20-30s duration. Creates a reverse repel effect, drawing all foes toward the center, along with a slow. High chance of knockdown throughout the duration, ala Freezing Rain. A readily-available AoE knockdown would synergize perfectly with Crushing Field, thanks to its lack of a -kb effect.

'Course, it would require totally removing an existing power, which probly just ain't gonna happen.

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suicidal blasters and scrappers, but that just added to the thrills.

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I said I didn't see the patrol....

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LoL, yar, that room in the office building that, under ideal conditions, has two spawns close to each other. And we had a patrol in there too. Good stuff.

Bah, had a fun time on a Sister Psyche with him over the weekend. Was a little concerned that we only had one troller and no defenders on a team of suicidal blasters and scrappers, but that just added to the thrills.

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So, that’s the background. There is no other solution that we are currently able to implement at this time.

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You could implement the status quo. Somehow we've gotten by for almost five years now with the players being pretty happy with it. Now it's a crisis demanding a change? Not just a change but a detrimental change.

You're not improving the game with this change. If you need some constructive ideas to fill your time with, every single AT forum on these boards has lists of things that really are broken and can be addressed without nerfs. How about knocking that stuff out instead of throwing yet another "it's for your own good even though it's detrimental" spin job at us.

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I'd be happy if my Bruiser and Grave Knights would go into freaking melee w/out forcing them w/ macros.

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if they fix yours, I want bots fixed. but since that would be beneficial to players it wont happen.

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I don't see anything wrong with bot-*trips over seeker drone*

:P

As for the thread at hand, this changes some of the plans I had for my Fire/Storm troller that's currently at 34. But, at 34, she's still great fun and devastatingly effective, so there's no way she'll wind up mothballed over this change. The only other character I have with pets is my Bots/FF, who I slotted with Blood Mandate for the defense bonuses (so no recharge buffs on them). It sucks for those who invested heavily in recharge for their pets, and I hope it works out for the best in the long run.

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I tested it last week myself. CoX ran great, except for one room. I was running the RWZ arcs, and the one room that takes you underneath the Rikti mothership had issues with objects disappearing. Other than that, very stable with great framerates.

Core2Duo E8400
4GB Memory
GeForce 8800GTS w/ drivers from Windows Update
Windows 7 x64 dual-booted on my Vista x64 machine

So, the following assignments are issued:
Push for an offensive
Defense and Triage
Destroy drop ships
Lay low and prepare to repopulate
Protect our intellectual wealth
Get some McDonald's and hole up in a bar

And guess which one we get? ;-)
If I didn't know any better, I'd say we're being RP-ed as people that don't care about RP-ing. =P

(Although, I do think it's weird that they're treating the shards as if we're all together in one big game world... I mean, they ordered all the heroes to leave the cities on Infinity, wouldn't that just make everything ripe for the picking there?)

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After years of sending out those emails, I used to keep wondering, "When are these fools gonna give up. No one is gonna fall for this, at least no one with enough money to make the work worth while..." I was wrong.

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I just lost all faith in humanity.

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The real victim in that story is that woman's poor husband. I like how she says she's not a "sucker or an easy mark". I guess I can understand losing 100 bucks that way, but when does it dawn on you you're being had: at $1,000? $10,000? $100,000?

Damn, just... damn.

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LoL, I know. "I'm not a sucker, I just mortgaged my home, car, and sold off my husband's 401k because someone sent me an e-mail with my last name in it telling me to."

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After years of sending out those emails, I used to keep wondering, "When are these fools gonna give up. No one is gonna fall for this, at least no one with enough money to make the work worth while..." I was wrong.

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I just lost all faith in humanity.

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I'd like to try this, but I don't have an iPhone, I have a HTC TyTN. It's a Windows Mobile 5 device with a 240x320 display.

What's the display resolution on an iPhone? Will this work similarly to an iPhone on my device, or will resizing cause too much distortion?

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iPhone is 320x480. Not sure if it'll work well or not, but only takes a few minutes to try.

If tapping the screen emulates a mouseclick... then I'd wager you could.

That's what I love about VNC: If it has a screen and a keyboard/keypad, it can probably use it.

And I swear my above post wasn't pertaining to using this technique on my work computer.
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So are you saying you're using the iPhone to run the Co* client, or are you using the networking capabilities of the iPhone to provide the internet connection?

Because one isn't very impressive, but the other would be....a very good reason to buy a iPhone for me...

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Looks like he's running CoX on his home computer, and using VNC to remote in and control/view it from the iPhone. I've contemplated this extensively myself, for playing away from home on "graphically impaired" computers. Your home computer is doing all the rendering, all the one you're sitting at needs is a network connection and video.

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I have never heard of Sister Flame before, but this is probably one of the sweetest things I have read in awhile.

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Required Reading Material

A long thread, but full of goodness.

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This stopped being funny around page 2. Now it's just

OMG IT'S STILL FUNNY


SERIOUSLY


WHERE YOU GOING?

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And yet, it's still worth your time to stop in and post this.

I just wanted to post a quick update:
Pendulum is now knockdown power instead of knockback. Also, Gash and Beheader had their animations switched.

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can i have my money back that i paid for cov then?? cause this is kinda a slap in the face for those of us that bought cov.

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I'm gonna assume based on your reg date you bought CoV roughly when it came out. So there you go, you paid that money to play redside a couple years earlier than those that only bought CoH.

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Mmm... nachos...

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One of the game's design flaws is that too much of the mission text is only exposed to the team leader.


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QFT.

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I have fun with this... when I play with my RL friends, we use Vent. As the team leader, I read the mission description in a dramatic voice. It's particularly entertaining with missions from female contacts... my friends think it's a riot.

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Everything is fun, OR ELSE!

Seriously tho, try heading to Ouroboros and doing either one of the Task Forces, or a flashback arc. You can even set specific conditions, like the whole team being debuffed or getting the arc done in a certain time limit. Pick an arc with a cool name and have at thee (of course, stop to read the text during and between missions... that's half the fun).

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Custom story arcs... this is the best birthday present I've gotten yet.

This is fantastic. I really love the free slots up front, as well as the Vet Reward structure. The prices are pretty reasonable too.

So, when is it *shoots self*

Seriously tho, it's pretty rare I look at an update and say out loud, at work, "Holy hell."

Holy hell.

Heh, I played said game for a while as well. At first I was having a pretty decent amount of fun, and the game was, well, shiny. What stirred me back to reality was the first "Go kill this habitual troublemaker" mission. I journey for a few minutes, find what looks like the spot, to see 6 people standing in a line to nowhere. It's then that I realize, these people are waiting for said monster to spawn so they can have their turn to kill it. "Oh crap," I thought to myself, "this is just like another (IMO) overrated, massively populated MMO I once played. RUN AWAY!"

Hello fellow Victory forum-goers, just thought I'd drop a line to let you all know that The NightShift is now recruiting Heroside. We're a rather active, fun SG with several active, close-knit leaders.

<ul type="square">[*]We are a top-30 SG, and accept any AT [*]We have a fully functional base, including Teleporters, storage, empowerment stations, and resurrection capabilities [*]We love teaming with SG-mates, and are all very helpful with missions and such [*]We highly promote playing in SG mode, so leaders will often give free prestige away after level 25[/list]
If you're interested in joining or would like to learn more, please contact @fixxxer07 or @Beer Pig. Thanks!