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Quote:Now I'm tempted to do an MA story arc where Little Marcus O'Cole gets stuck down the well and you've to send your love down to him, with the aid of a hack-clown and an earnest faded 80s rock-star.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Yep. It's all getting tied in with Marcus Cole and the Amazing Insane Dancing Well.
Ze boo et le hiss!Quote:Probably the best argument FOR a delay I've ever heard. Illusion doms... ugh. -
Gotta agree with this. My level 21 Warshade was teamed with a Stormie recently and it was amazing. I alternated between being a Dwarf with a number of capped resistances and a Mired-up Nova who was two shotting spawns thanks to Miring myself and then firing into Freezing Rain. Talk about a power multiplier.
I think Freezing Rain has got to be up there as one of my favourite powers in the entire game.
My first character was an Illusion/Stormie and I'll never forget what someone said to them some time in the mid-30s about 4 years ago.
"Wow!! Storm is a real box of tricks!!"
Storm in a small room is one of the funniest things in the entire game IMO. -
Quote:I agree with the lizard.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
Don't like the pets, but no delay.
A delay means other stuff gets put on the back burner. Since LORE pets are a power that means the powers team is wrapped up redoing LORE and not giving me Illusion Dominators. So no delay.
The Powers team has been tied up on this Incarnate stuff long enough, set them free so we can have more proliferation. -
Quote:Dr Spock was a childcare specialist who wrote a groundbreaking childrens care book in the 40s.Originally Posted by Silent_
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Quote:Goods. AE was a bug and exploit fest and a massive waste of developer resources. A massive, massive misstep for Paragon Studios, and especially it's lead designer at the time.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
As has AE, from the looks of things.
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Quote:I've never seen anyone doing these event. Ever. This probably explains why.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
They didn't want them farmed. Theoretically, a MM can camp the spot and if his pets are capable to defeat the enemies, he can step away from the computer and level up without doing anything. Events produce infinite foes to a single spot. And since they use the scaling-battle code, the player will never outlevel them.
So, all the rewards were moved to the reward table at the end of the mission.
Good job on creating content no-one bothers with Devs. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Silent_
Hellos,
In our place of work we like to all dress up for special events to help raise money for charities - Now the theme this time around is 'Asylum' (nutty nurse, crazy doctors, that sorta thing)
These are the 'doctors' that I came up with, can you think of any more?
Doctor Spock
Witch Doctor
Doctor Emmett Brown
Doctor Who
just a normal doctor...
One of the puppet nurses from Silent Hill 1, complete with parasite hanging off your back
Or one of the ones from the later games (there's lots of cosplays for them on the interweb)
Work will love it!! -
Well I managed to get in on attempt 4, after trying 4 different variants of the "Girlfriends name" question and hoping I actually added it correctly 6 years ago.
So immediately the first thing I decided to do was get the system to email me those Serial Codes which aren't already in my Email logs (ie all the retail boxes) so if/when I do lock my system I can at least jump through the hoops like a good little doggie and retrieve my account.
Oh look. You can't do that!
As I've said before. This is an inane system dreamt up by someone with little idea of actually how to go about implementing a system like this and ensuring the transition doesn't cause undue hardship on the paying customer or lock valid accounts simply because someone can't remember the questions they filled in 6 years ago.
Hopefully the aforementioned designer(s) will be read the riot act, as this is no way to go about implementing and introducing such a system to a long standing customer base (and this is said as someone who designs E-commerce systems for a living). -
As a former eu player now playing us side which support am I meant to contact? And am i expect to provide every serial code across the board? Actually given that it was 5 years and 2 houses ago I don't even have my Eu serial codes.
This is inane.
Edit : And yes. I'm locked out, because apparently I don't know my girlfriends name. Way to go NcSoft web team. Just when I thought you couldn't get more useless.
Idiotic. You can't decide 5 years after the event that certain personal questions which had no meaning are suddenly critical to access your account. -
Quote:Have to agree here. This is inane.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I just found out that it is based on IP Address, which means that on some ISPs that a player whose ISP changes their IP Address on a daily basis (or even every time they connect to the ISP) will constantly have to re-verify themselves (I've been with ISPs that do this).
This brings up user hostility in the name of security to a whole new level.
I have to repeat this for emphasis. This was a poorly thought out and quickly implemented idea that should NEVER have happened in the first place.
Does anyone consider "what is your mothers maiden name" a secure question in this century?
My Ip address tends to change every few weeks, I've no control over that. 3G devices (like say iPads and laptops connected to 3G dongles) tend to give different addresses per connection. -
Quote:^This. A lot of placables use a pseudopet with a PBAOE Toggle to fire off their attacks. In those cases the PROC will check every against everything in the AOE 10 seconds. Things like Rains, Bonfire and some mez patches do this.Originally Posted by Krogoth
Sleet uses a toggle to attack, Lightning storm has an attack that it fires off, they are different.
However with some placeables the pseudopet fires off attacks instead and Lightning Storm falls into this bracket (along with things like Volcanic Gasses, although that's even slightly more complex as the Gas patch spawns Vent pets which fire off single target hold attacks every 6 seconds or so). This means it fires off with every attack.
Then you've got things like Spectral Terror which has a PBAOE fear and a direct fear attack. So it's got a chance of firing off with every single fear *and* every 10 seconds from the pbaoe.
So really it's down to how the power is coded and whether the effect is a PBAOE Aura type toggle or if the pseudopet involved is attacking directly. -
Quote:Welcome to side Filthy Neutral.Originally Posted by Steel_Shaman
I'm not overly thrilled with I20, but I'd hardly call it outrage. I was hoping for another round of powerset proliferation to be honest. Since I'm not really all that fond of the Incarnate System that's the sort of thing that would keep me happily churning away on various characters like I've always done.
I may try an Incarnate Trial or two, but if it's as laggy as I suspect it will be, it's not the sort of thing I'll be doing often. I'm also not a big fan of TF's so while I may try the new 20-40 TF's, again it won't be something I'll be doing often.
So for me it's more like Issue 20: Meh?
Here's your beige flag and low level apathy. -
Quote:We got the wonky sinking one recently (which is really cool)Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I didn't really see any ship exteriors that I haven't seen before, at least not from the screenshots, but the ship interiors are pretty dang good, I must say. And new, that's probably the biggest part.
I keep wishing some of that would make it back to the older ship maps. We've had the same three or four container ship maps for years now. -
Quote:All I know is that my gut says 'maybe'.Originally Posted by The_Overlord
I think there aren't many neutrals like us around here because everyone who's in here's all up and angry about someone else, but a guy like me doesn't really care enough to post anything either way most of the time, heh. Oh well, we can be neutral buddies.
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Quote:Can I have half and half please?Originally Posted by Kelenar
Issue 20: Outrage for some, miniature American flags for others.
As usual I'm neither outraged or overbrimming with excitement over i20.
I know. Filthy Neutral. -
Quote:Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
You see I was hopeful about this, until the whole NDA that actually hid, sweet bum **** all.
The same type of mind that uses 'secret' as a ploy to create hype, won't let a server list merge occur, because it might result in bad PR "City of heroes merges server lists ZOMG CITY OF HEROES IS DYING!" Is the kind of response that is possible, and thus I don't think they'll let it happen.
How exactly do you know the NDA has hidden nothing? I mean whatever required a physical NDA may not be part of this overview for some reason.
I also completely disagree with the idea that NCSoft / Paragon Studios would see a Server List merge as being them admitting the game is dying. More likely is that the infrastructure challenges facing such a merge are the sort of challenge which the Powers That Be haven't given the green light to solving. -
Quote:It is. The main issue is the fact that the Global Names system is split into two regions.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Am I mistaken but isn't the current Market (Wents/Black market) cross server with EU?
EDIT: Honestly they need to merge the EU list with the US list and offer you guys free transfers, so that you have at least SOME characters that can get into teaming when your home EU servers are ghost towns, at certain times. -
Quote:Well hopefully Paragon Studios / NCSoft will actually do it right if/when it occurs and any Cross Server play also includes a Region/Server List merge.Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
Not really going to help us EU players though.
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Quote:Actually a lot of this stuff reminds of the MMO based on the IP which the market leader originally ripped off back in the 90s, as do things like the in-zone Praetorian events.Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
Encouraging is fine, forcing it when you haven't done so for seven years is complete bull ****.
Frankly this raid stuff, I think is massively detrimental to the game, why are the devs trying to be more like the market leader, instead of focusing on what made the game unique on the market?
I mean the AE, pretty cool but it has been done before, and the same effect can be had in 'market leader' with the right add ons.
The character creator? If they are going to slow down on adding options to it, or making all the options paid for, then the 'former studio' of this game will catch up with their options, and slightly better layering options.
The league finder? 'Market Leader' did it over a year ago, the latest competing game launched with one in place.
Multi-party fights? Been done since the beginning of the genre.
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This game used to be very alt friendly, but now it is becoming like a generic 'fantasy' MMORPG, choose one toon as your main and do your dailies and weeklies to gear up, don't bother rolling an alt because you'll progress at half speed.
The problem with that approach was that in that other game a lot of those Events were basically always empty and unused, especially in lower population servers.
Just like the Praetorian Zone Events are now basically (about 3 months after they came out).
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Quote:^This basically. The exact same principle works for Hami-Os (you can get them relatively quickly running the relevant TFs / Raid or you can grind Inf and/or a-merits to earn them), PvP IOs, Rare Recipes in general and a lot of the temp powers like Shivians and Nukes.Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
Or, you know, just don't do the raids. Yes, you'll miss out on content and it'll take you longer to get the stuff that you want, but the same could be said for pretty much *any* aspect of the game - hell, a lot of MMOs wouldn't give you the alternative route to getting the Incarnate slots & powers.
Hell some of the badges and accolades you have to do specific arcs and take down specific EB level nasties to get them. -
Quote:How exactly have you slotted your Stone Melee attacks?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
What I'm running is... Basically everything. That is to say, Rock Armour, Brimstone Armour, Crystal Armour, Minerals, Rooted and Mud Pots, all single-slotted for Endurance with the exception of Mud Pots, which is double-slotted. Your appraisal of endurance cost is probably close to what I'd see, as you didn't list Mud Pots but did list Tough and Weave, which should come up to close the same number.
Interestingly, though, I think the problem isn't JUST Stone Armour, but also Stone Melee, because its running cost is quite very high. It's a set with relatively strong, expensive attacks which nevertheless have pretty fast animations, adding up to a LOT of cost.
I finally got my *** in gear and finished my interactive spreadsheet, so I've gotten some more interesting numbers.
I went with Common Inventions (the ones you can buy from the University racks), as well as Stamina, Superior Conditioning and Physical Perfection, and with all Stone Armour toggles and a gull Stone Melee attack chain, that still wasn't acceptable unless I multi-slotted powers for endurance, which I don't want to do for lack of slots. However, with even just the Common Alpha Cardiac, that was turned around into actually a pretty decent cost, I'm surprised to say. Better than my benchmark by a fair bit.
So I guess the solution is to dump all of my resources into endurance management and overengineer this guy, at the cost of some raw performance and conceptual fun. Oh, well. You can't always get what you want, but if you try hard enough, you might just get what you need.
I've found in the past if you're sticking to SO / Common IOs then you're better off skimping on Damage slotting in favour End Reduction and letting Fury pick up the slack. Getting Acc, End Reduction, Recharge and then Damage was the best way I found of slotting them. This also means Build Up becomes more important to you as well in terms of adding spike damage every 45 seconds.
So 4 slots I'd personally do one of each rather than 1 acc, 3 damage. That helps to mitegate Stone Melees two main problems, huge End costs and a slow attack chain (Air Superiority helps with the chain too though).
Of course with my Stone/Fire I ended up going with the most efficient slotting path, but you're allergic to that so I'm not going to even mention it (oh wait..) -
Quote:Now this is pretty impressive in terms of content. Doesn't suit me really yet(although I've vowed to give up my altisis ways in order to get at least one character in a position to play some of these) but in terms of "ooomph" it's pretty darn impressive.Originally Posted by EU_Damz
SPOILER DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANT TO KNOW!
One power gives 90% def to all + rezs to fallen allies [Edit: When the devs used this it affected everyone near him, and was a lot of us so not sure if it has a cap or not and wasnt in a league at the time]
One power increases regeneration and other stuff
The four attacks which i think most people have seen so far [each one looks . .. yeah]
The pets which go up in power/level as you go up the tree [by that i mean you get different upgraded versions]
Effects added to your attacks
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Quote:Originally Posted by EvilGeko
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam..._overview.html
Confirmation for one, and a clear tease that the other will work outside the trials at some point.
This would be brilliant, if it's in i20. If not then we're back to jam tomorrow, which annoys me. I don't particularly want to wait until i21 in August/September to get it.
It's the turnstyle system I want, and have wanted for a long, long time.Quote:The Looking For Group / Turnstile system is only working for the two Incarnate Trials (BAF & Lambda) of Issue 20. Individuals as well as teams or whole Leagues can enter the turnstile to join an iTrial. When they finally do enter the iTrial, they will be grouped together in one League.
Leagues can be formed anytime, even outside an iTrial. Leagues will work for Cathedral of Pain Trials or Lord Winter's Realm in an instanced mission; or out in open zones for the Hami Raid; Mothership Raid; PvP Zone battles, costume contests, zone invasions (Rikti, Zombies, deadly apocalypse); or zone events (Steel fires, Sky trolls, new Praetorian zone events). -
Quote:The huge mechanic improvements to actually apply to grouping and not just running the two new trials. That'd do me actually and be a massive improvement to how I play the game.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
Two Co-Op trials; a hero and villain specific TF; huge mechanics improvements to grouping. What the heck do you folks want?
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So far so meh. Overall pretty mediocre with nothing really jumping out at me.