Captain Fabulous

I ran the Punchdrunk farm many, many times using nothing but a tray full of purples to keep my Fire Brute softcapped on defense the whole time, making me "practically unkillable" for the entire mission. Is this an exploit? Should the devs now nerf lucks so this clearly aberrant behavior which allowed me to perform feats so miraculous that they simply must not be allowed to exist be snuffed from existence?

Hmmm?

But why now after 6 years? I guess it could have been an oversight, something they just forgot to do years ago. But it just seems odd to do it now unless they have something cooking.

True, but still not an exploit.


I've played plenty of MMOs over the last 6 years and none of them seem so focused on controlling player behavior like this one does. Yes, all MMOs change, and evolve, but CoX takes it to the extreme.

So how long is appropriate to get a character to 50? An hour? A day? A week? A month? What exactly is the precise benchmark? If I wanted to make a character specifically for purple farming and wanted to get them to level 50 as quickly as possible, how quickly is too quickly??? Is it rational to say, "oh, you did it in a week, that's ok" versus, "oh you did it in 3 days, well that's clearly too quickly". If my goal was to get to 50 so I could begin to collect rewards only available to level 50 characters, why should anyone care, and why the hell would anyone call it an exploit?

Yes, cause leaving them in clearly broke the game. Another example of dev batshittery. At some point I really wish they stopped trying to micromanage every little thing we do in the game and just be thankful that after 6 years there are still people playing it.

Well NCSoft has just trademarked the name. Seems unlikely they'd bother unless they had a plan.

Stop calling it an exploit. It's not. And exploit is when you take advantage of broken mechanic or bug. This is not the case here. The system was designed to allow allies to help you. This is not by mistake.

This is a nerf to curb what the devs deem to be undesirable behavior. It's more of them telling us that we can't play the game we pay for the way we want to, only the way they want us to.

They set up a situation that requires certain behavior to attain goals they have purposely made difficult to get, but then constantly nerf and nerf and nerf whenever we get creative in finding ways to quickly achieve those goals.

It's like hanging a carrot in front of a horse and chiding him for knocking the stick down and eating the carrot instead of blindly following it till he drops dead of starvation. If you don't want people to farm stop putting **** in the game that requires farming to get. 6 years of this never-ending cycle you'd think they'd be done with it by now. Well you'd be wrong. Some boneheaded dev mentality I guess you just can't break no matter how many years pass by.

Why bother with CoH 2 when you clearly haven't learned any lessons from 6 years of CoH 1?

Yup. That pretty much sums it up. At this point they should just shut the whole thing down and consider it an utter failure. They clearly spend way too much time datamining and policing it, time that would be better spent improving the game instead of finding ways to break it.

Well since it's obvious you think AE is the root of all evil in the CoH universe why not just have the whole system removed? That'll really make the AE farmers rue the day they dare attempted to earn XP thru a system created by the game developers! What unmitigated GALL those farmers have! How DARE they?!?!?!

No, they're done.

I hate it when immigrants come in droves to ruin my fun too. I have an idea, maybe we can build a big wall around Virtue to keep the "unsavory" types out? Cause we wouldn't want them taking away all our task force positions, clogging up the hospitals, and NEVER paying any influence!!! And you know what happens once they're here. They'll create new characters and call Virtue their home for good! Then we'll never be able to get rid of them. And I'm just sick and tired of seeing them all hanging around PI begging for farms. Damn day laborers

I hear Champions Online has a very low immigrant population. Maybe you could go there?

It's 6 per one-week period. Each token comes back a week after it's been used.

Pacific actually. But you got the time right

I guess they could be sticklers and say that page doesn't state the prepurchase will be available on the 2nd, only Dual Pistols. And the patch this morning did indeed put Dual Pistols into the game.

Sooooo...

Yeah, no patch yet.

They clearly haven't fed the hamsters this morning.

I'll save them the trouble. "It'll be available soon™"

Yeah, I noticed that dual pistols is greyed out

I'm sure the store will open soon, probably by 9 AM PST.

How do you get 35% defense on a /Fire brute??

Tremor and Fault.

So are you now going to add something useful?