CaptainMoodswing

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Subject: Super Booster II: Magic Details!

[*]Mystic Fortune Power:

Ever wanted to have your fortune read in game? With the Mystic Fortune power players will be able to offer to read each other’s fortunes. Having your fortune read gives a power buff based on the Major Arcana of the Tarot, and can give a positive or negative effect on that character for the next 20 minutes.


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I sure hope the effects of this power are deletable before 20 minutes ... I don't want some terd I don't know, running up to me, using their power, and now i'm debuffed for the next 20 minutes with no way to prevent it/remove it.

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The effect is NOT deletable, however, you are given a confirmation as to whether or not you accept having your fortune told. If you say 'No,' you get no fortune and the person who cast it now has to wait the full recharge time to try again.

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...so it's a power that's never going to get used because nobody's going to want to chance getting a bad debuff for 20 minutes that they can't remove. Awesome!

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I can see griefing with this one. I really do.

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Given the confirmation dialog, I don't. But I still see it as being useless. Unless the debuffs are minor and the buffs are really good, but that'd make it too good for an item pack power.

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Imagine this: you are invited to a Lady Grey TF and don't know what to bring. You get your fortune read on your brute, and it's negative. So you log out and bring your rad instead.

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Can I assume from what I'm reading here that the butt cape is the only new costume piece included in this issue besides the unlockable ones from doing new architect missions?

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The unlockables are for your custom creations in the architect, such as enemy groups and contacts. They are not for your player character.

I seriously doubt that other game will have more costume options than COH has right now, at this moment, but that's just me.

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I didn't see it, maybe I missed it, or maybe it wasnt changed, but wasn't there to be a change to base storage?

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Yes, storage bins have their own permissions now. Set by the Super Leader, I think.

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'want to run a (INSERT SF/TF)? Nah, I'm making a Mish.", "Oh, OK. I'm gonna log and play a game where there's actually people playing."

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It never ceases to amaze me how people demonize extremes to make their point. This example suggests that because one person is pre-occupied making a story arc, that there aren't hundreds of people just idling, looking for something to do. Why does it always come to extremes with these examples? lol

How about this:

'want to run a (INSERT SF/TF)? Nah, I'm making a Mish.",

"Oh, OK. I'm gonna ask some of the other 38 people standing around the market if they want to run a mish, surely 7 of those 38 is up for something."

Gross exaggeration ftl.

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OMG! Day jobs will reward people for not playing the game!!!

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How can anyone say this isn’t great?


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How? I’ll tell you how.

First, it will deflate the population of potential teammates. Want to run that Sewer Trial for the badge, and for the fun of it, because you haven’t run one in forever? Want to run the 2nd respec task force to re-do your character’s slots or powers? Want help taking down Infernal? Well, guess what? Your pool of participants will be reduced by the MA in a real, and not-insignificant way - those potential teammates who could have joined you are working - whoops! I meant to say “writing” - MA arcs and aren’t playing as characters..

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OR that pool of participants is gone anyway, because they have done everything and don't care anymore.

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Heres another interview, from Allakhazam, some nice insights and apparently the devs will be using the MA to make missions in the future (and that when they get new tools for it, they will be passed onto the players).

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So wait, if they start giving the playerbase 100% content and creative control, then what will be the reason for us to pay $14.95?

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Just as you are free to stop paying $14.95 per month, NCNC is free to stop allowing you access to their servers.



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It is not that simple and both you and I know it.

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What exactly IS your point, if it isn't "why pay 14.95 for the game that already has 4 years worth of content and is only adding content I won't use this time"?

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As they've said many times before, closed beta helps them get things fixed better and faster. Rather than having a few thousand people on who just want to play, they have a smaller number who are actually interested in testing and helping make it better. Besides, it's not like it will stay closed all the way until release. You'll have your chance to try things out sooner or later.

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Because everyone in beta is a good tester, amirite? There are testers who might log in a few times just to keep themselves eligible for betas (and keep getting invited), and at any rate, logging in a few times to fiddle around with things isn't really testing.

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I don't think it works that way.

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I'm a little... disheartened at the '1000+ votes at average 5 stars.'

This sounds very much like 'have fun with 3 arcs forever.' I mean, I think I can make some nice arcs, but getting 1000+ folks to vote 4-5 stars, and hope there aren't griefers or grumps dragging it down?

Sigh.



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I tend to agree with this.

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It won't be so bad if it is a running cumulative total, like you can unpublish without resetting your tally, and republish later.

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"At the high level we allow you to create your own stories and share them with others in the game."

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What does "At the high level" mean?

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From the 20,000 ft view.... The overall arching vision... etc.

Just a figure of speech. He's not referring the character levels.

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This reminds me of when my brother was working tech support, and someone complained that "Windows has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." The person asked what they did that was illegal, since she owned stock in microsoft. :P

Breaking knives gave 9 before, not 3.
This was no increase.

STF versus LRSF is outrageous!
Sorry, that's just all. I've defended deb decisions in the past, but this is insane. Why are heroes rewarded much better for a vastly simplified easy mode version of the villain counterpart? I am beside myself honestly. This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder why I bother.

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That's the explanation for MA?????

I'm going to pretend I never read that. It never happened. Seriously. That's incredibly immersion breaking and doesn't fit at all.

/facepalm

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Then it only happened in an alternate reality. :P

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Someone really needs to look at those COV family though. The untouchable badge requires CoH Family bosses, they are sparsely scattered in missions and in Nerva, and some of the Family bosses in Nerva give credit towards gangbuster instead. Ask Phil and the people that place mobs to look at the family bosses for Marcone in the description (placed mobs in Nerva and Sharkhead). Also when the rewards were removed from the infamous family farms, the family bosses lost all progress towards the Untouchable badge.

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I really agree with this. Ideally, Untouchable should be made unavailable for villains, all Family bosses would count for Gangbuster, and the weapon options that unlock for Untouchable would also be available for Gangbuster.

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Sure, lets take badges away from people that worked hard to earn it, so you don't have to. Clearly we have different definitions of "ideal". lol

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I hope and pray they don't allow side flipping. Let hero-side be hero-side and villains be villains.

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I agree, although I understand how badgers would like to see side-switching happen.


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Unless you are a villain with all possible badges earned.
Then you suddenly go into the big pond, with goals that include badges that are impossible to get like the first anniversary badge for hero side.

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9. Ability to combine mission types?


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9 could you give more detail on this question?



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I think what is meant here is the ability to combine objectives in your mission.

For example "Find the clue, kill the boss, escort out the prisoner, oh, and you have 12 minutes."

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Um. I think it is, actually. I was at the panel, and I remember that very distinctly they said you can have multiple mission objectives.

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[*]Builds can now be renamed: the select build screen at the trainer includes an option to rename your build.

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Does it? I'm looking for it, and can't seem to find it anywhere. Is it invisible?

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I think with a 30 minute timer it would serve its purpose a lot more. And it may entice people to run more of those long so called epic TFs in the Shard.

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You don't think it won't do that anyway? Imagine a full team with it and assemble the team.

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Am I the only one that feels 2 hours is a bit excessive a cooldown for the Mission Transporter power?

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Obviously.

Unless, of course, you read the thread or something.

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That's right, we here at the City of Heroes/Villains community welcomes everyone who has a Mac to come try out the wonderfull game we PC Users have been playing for the past five years.

Yep. All ten of you.

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Thanks. I'm familiar with the game, though.

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Fixed issue where players could cause Lord Recluse to get stuck behind the tower during Statesman's Task Force mission.

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So, have you guys given up on fixing the RSF? That tech has been broken for way too long.

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I thought the Hostage was fixed?

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I wonder if they are RPing a server merger or two?

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I kinda doubt it.

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Thanks for the reply, Brawler!

If I had to choose between shields (which I love) and walking, I'd have chosen walking! I might be in the minority.

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You don't think we move slow enough as it is?

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If I had to guess I would say that NorCal is in a bit of upheaval right now over the direction the game is taking and we, as a community, are going to suffer from its implosion.

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Yeah, I'd say that's quite a stretch of the imagination.

Thank you for the Bug hunter badge!
Good luck.

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This is what i want to know. A friend of mine plays COH in her Mac through Bootcamp and she's dealing with crash issues. Will she have to rebuy the game to get the Mac version or can she just download the mac client from her account page?

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She can download the Mac client for free when it is released.

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Do we still get the in-game items?

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Not unless you buy the box or the item pack from the online store when they release it there next year. (Which is just how, for example, the GvE box works.)

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So, here is my situation. I own all the special editions, and all the in game packs etc for my acocunt. I currently play on my MAC via Bootcamp. So...

If I put COH on my MAC OS, with the game packs I already own, will it automatically unlock the Valkrye items, or do I need to buy the game for the MAC and "upgrade" all over again?

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I believe it's the latter. You have to buy the mac client to get the exclusives, but when you log in, you will still have all the exclusives you already had.