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But..... It's NORTON!

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I concur. I hate the UAC with a passion, but at least its not Nortons hideous, useless bloatware. Vile, horrible thing.

And lol @ Maels grudge with the woman from the art department

Pe.Ace Rimmer is funny, its got a groanworthy pun in there and you can have all sorts of seafood related puns with the "Smoke me a.." and Lobster and Squid forms

The other is just a direct copy of something off the TV, personally I don't really like that. Reminds me of series one of Heroes when there were a billion* blonde cheerleaders running around. Still, at least you picked a fairly niche character and not the Flavour of the TV Month to copy.

*this may be hyperbole

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The only prob I have is that someone has the cheek to rip off a well known character from another game. /petitioned

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You can't really copyright being bald, in a suit and wielding a gun, unless your name is also 'Hitman' or some kind of copy of his Codename 47.

What should be petitioned is the Ace Rimmer in there. Not out of any sense of legal ramifications, but more because people with such an insulting lack of inspiration and imagination deserve bad things.

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Ace.Rimmer and Pe.Ace Rimmer are my toons.
I didn't make them due to a lack of imagination, check out my other toons for proof of that. I made them because I'm a fan of Red Dwarf and the Ace Rimmer character and wanted to pay homage to them both.

Flame me if you want, or even petition me if you feel the need. I will say though I've received far more tells with a positive tone for the charecter than a negative one.

Honestly, does it really matter?

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Also, do you think I would have been so rudely referred to if the poster knew I was a member of these boards? I think not.

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I think so, it's Khorak for heavens sakes

I tend to agree with him to be honest, wouldn't be bothered petitioning you but I prefer a bit of originality in peoples toons too. I prefer a homage with a pun on or variation of the originals name and theme.

This isn't a flame, just an opinion.

Yep, there was one dangerous route, other than that PI was fine.

I arrived 40 mins late with my level 45 and there didn't seem to be any teams going so I did some drive-by rezzing of the fallen and then got a missions team. Looked like great fun though, nice to see some player-generated events in the zones.

That album in PhotoBucket is marked as private.

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Why does melee actually fail against ranged toons at the moment?


Being Rooted for 1-2seconds when you use a skill

I think addressing that issue would require alot more time and effort but would improve the balance more so than tweaking suppression values, and would allow for suppression to be removed from pvp entirely then just increase the endurance cost of travel powers.

My own little idea

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Theres ways around it. A bane showed me that in sirens a month or so ago. He jumped into hurricane and then jumped out and activated the power as he was jumping out rendering
my max slotted tohit debuff hurricane useless also avoiding the repel. Sure he was still rooted when he used it but he overcame the the problem.


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Hurricanes ToHit debuff sticks around for 10 seconds so there's no benefit in doing that, in terms of being able to avoid the debuff. More likely he had +ToHit & maxed out Acc in his attacks.

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In PvP, if you run through hurricane and jump as you do the attack the to-hit debuff has dropped before you hit so it can't be 10 seconds in PvP.

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It says 10 seconds in Red Tomax too, no distinction between PvE and PvP mentioned so I assume its the same. Easy enough to check with Real Numbers anyway if you've got a handy Hurricaner to check with.

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Why does melee actually fail against ranged toons at the moment?


Being Rooted for 1-2seconds when you use a skill

I think addressing that issue would require alot more time and effort but would improve the balance more so than tweaking suppression values, and would allow for suppression to be removed from pvp entirely then just increase the endurance cost of travel powers.

My own little idea

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Theres ways around it. A bane showed me that in sirens a month or so ago. He jumped into hurricane and then jumped out and activated the power as he was jumping out rendering
my max slotted tohit debuff hurricane useless also avoiding the repel. Sure he was still rooted when he used it but he overcame the the problem.


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Hurricanes ToHit debuff sticks around for 10 seconds so there's no benefit in doing that, in terms of being able to avoid the debuff. More likely he had +ToHit & maxed out Acc in his attacks.

Does Copy-and-paste into fields work in CoH? I can't remember. I would hope it will for this anyway, be silly not to. That's good enough really.

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Can I have your stuff? KTHXBAI!

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What an incredibly original thing to say.

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thank god it was not my Kilt that fell


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What an incredible mental image to leave us all with

Cya Lord Darth. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

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It shall amuse me greatly when Defiant crashes tonight.

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Until we all decide to become roleplayers on Onion instead

"Hi guis, I is catgurl, who will syber wif me?"

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For example putting 3 lvl 50 heal IOs in health is a total waste, 2 lvl 50s would be roughly 90% of the benefit from 3.
Though the default slot is probably all you really need in health.
Sorry for the derailment :P

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Not a total waste. The last one will only give you a 15% enhancement or so compared to 40ish but that 15% could still be useful.

For example my Fire/Rad has Stamina 4 slotted, 3 End Mod IOs. The last one gives only a 15% enhancement but for such a End hungry toon that 15% is very necessary and valuble (4th slot is the Performance Shifter PROC).

Saying "Maybe the criteria needs to change" seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I would suggest that maybe 8pm & 11pm are far better times than 9:30 and 12:30, especially during the week (and especially especially as it'd mean a Zombie Invasion at the same time as the just-announced Defiants PI mass ToTing horde round-up. That'd be amusing )

Nice idea Tuarus! Should be hilarious watching a vast horde of zombies, witchies and so on running along PI

I may try to join ye (as a SKed level 44 if anyone will have me, failing that as Carnie)

My Fire/Rad controller logged on last night to burn vast swathes of zombies on Defiant.

Unfortunately the swathes were nowhere to be seen, so after some rather dull ToTing I went to bed.

PI was nice and busy though.

When you do add the section make sure ye spell "Architect" right

Odd build. You leave almost all your big hitters later than needed, you overslot things with 4 enhancements.

Leaving Freeszing Rain 14 levels late and PA 6 levels late is a big mistake IMO, especially comsidering the powers you get in their sted.

To be honest Ill/Storm is one of the last controller builds I'd pick as a "Scraptroller", your biggest defense, the -ToHit in Hurricane (which you also get too late) repels things out of melee and you're one of the poorest classes in terms of applying Containment. Fissure is a far stronger PvE choice than Hurl Boulder.

Fire is a much better Scraptroller primary, with maybe Mind behind it. Kin and Rad are decent secondaries for it. Fire/Storm is excellent too since you've got great containment and Fire Cages to prevent knockback, turning Tornado into a buzzsaw.

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btw..

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....art=2&vc=1ù

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Hmmm. Interesting, a blank screen.

Your link is ill.

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To clarify, my objection is purely based on the abuse many people put others to if long background fields are available.

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Abuse? How so? It's not like you're forced to read them? I'm confused (again).

Stealth doesn't necessarily mean transparent.

It can mean "lost in a giant mobile cloud of steam / weird dark stuff". Which never seems to trouble the mobs for some reason.

"What was that? Is that a hero?"
"Nah, its just a mobile bank of fog wandering around the base"
"Phew"

*Edit : Oooh. Grav/TA. Nice choice

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Return on effort; presumably they feel there's more potential draw from a revamped, (hopefully) popularaised PvP system than yet another co-op zone or the new, improved Boomtown.

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This is the one that's got me puzzled. The sweeping changes here, the inordenate amount of time needed to create Shields ingame and the delay and publised man-hour "expense" of the Architect would seem, to an outside, to be a relatively poor return on effort. But that's from my PoV as a non-Tanking, non-PvPing gamer who'd like to see some midlevel co-op added to the game to further remove the artifical Heroes/Villains barrier which splits the playerbase.

That's all totally IMO (and offtopic) though.

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last time they gave us any info on it they said there was a few security problems with that but as usel didnt go into detail about if it can or will ever be resolved and then finished

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For the last time, it isn't security reasons. OV_ohms link to GR's post clearly states that it wasn't any security reasoning.

But surely it can't be that complex to wait that long?

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I wouldn't have thought so, technically. I'd guess that 1Damz is right and its stuck in a work queue waiting for the new forums to go up as well.

Who knows.

Even I develop web apps faster than that.

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Thnx for the summary maelwys.

Personally I dont mind some of the other changes. The movement suppr sucks. Zonal pvp is going to be a mess. SS/SJ being a waste of slots and TP being king. Gank squads will rule as it will be impossible to escape. Stalkers will be even more unbeatable.
Even more base camping for heroes.
I truly hope it wont be half as bad as i am thinking but i just cant see it.
And the fact pvp zones arent getting any attention till post i13 doesnt help.



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But all of that will only happen if you PvPers DECIDE to do that. And that'll be your OWN fault.

Movement suppression does NOT mean you'll be immobilized. It means you'll be slowed to sprint speed for a few seconds IF the attack hits, and your attacker will ALSO be suppressed. How is that going to make it impossible to escape?

Sure, TP is probably going to be more prevalent, and it's going to make triform PB's a total cow to lock down, but it doesn't render the other movement powers useless.

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Why is everyone saying TP will be prevelent? It surpresses as well, or at least is most likely to Source

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Oh I dunno... If you buy a TV in Dixons one week, and a week later it's £50 less, do you expect a refund? I think we should count ourselves lucky there's ANY kind of refund!

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Yes, the two things are totally and utterly the same.

Thank you developers for implementing half-baked changes and not providing the tools to make the transition to the new changes quick and easy.

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Weird. What database are they using which is limited to 1024 chars?

I thought Ravens objection was more down to the fact he doesn't like being able to know a characters backstory from just "looking" at them, that it was a roleplaying one.

As a total non-roleplayer and someone who gets bored easily I like reading bios, even the rip-off emo ones, whilest waiting for people to gather at mission entrances so I'm all for this.

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Didn't say database, I said field. It depends entirely on what type of field they're storing the data in, to be honest; as well as what database server they use. In either case, it was said many many many moons ago that the limitation was down to field size. No db admin liked to mess with db schema's if they don't HAVE too.

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It's not exactly rocket science changing / expanding field types. Especially if you test your changes properly.

Splitting it across two fields would be a far trickier and more cumbersome change.