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Quote:Me too. Not your work, obviously. That'd be creepy.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
I'm at work, and still here.
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Quote:Given the noticable decrease in OCR activity on the boards as well as overall Redname participation here it seems someone in NCSoft decided that the forums needed to be taking up less resources.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
i'm guessing a staff switchup of some sort at NCsoft changed who creates the policies a couple months ago. Perhaps a Chinese government minister was hired to set forum policy.
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Quote:I concur with those sentimonies!Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Well if that is what he means, then see my signature.
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Quote:1) Huh?Originally Posted by Residentx10
I saw a post here and on Blizzard for people requesting unified play.
This sounds attractive in theory but is difficult due to a well known problem called latency. I'm bring this up not to support unification but to understand this movement.
Latency is a real issue it reduces the quality of play for everyone involved.
1. I hate having my sessions held up because your almost a day away from me.
2. When companies create regional servers, they feel there is enough business to support it. Play and support your region! Show your intelligence and purchase your regional copy. If I hear another lame excuse like " I accidentally bought a NA edition." I'm going to puke...we can see your through your lies. People are not a dumb as you think. We trained you better than this. Don't embarrass this fine community with your ineptitude.
3. Why would Koreans want to play with NA? I'm just using this as an example. There is a 12 hour difference. I'm getting up, your going to bed.
4. I get plenty of regional spam now on CoH. Why would I want global spam?
Why? Why? Why?
The comment line is now open.
2) I got fed up of running Brutes solo EU side, so I switched to the US where there are more players meaning PuGs are plentiful. This was around 9 months back and chances are the EU side has been busy recently but I'm not dropping my current alts, I'm enjoying them too much.
3) Because #2 failed in their case, the regional servers were closed down and all Koreans do play US side (or maybe EU side). As do the Aussies. So what if you're gone to bed, they can play with others from their region instead.
4) How exactly do you know the difference?
And ironically I tend to get less latency from Dublin to Virtue than I used to from Dublin to Union. -
Quote:Aye, they bring me tankards of rum and are a fair and buxom lot to look upon!Originally Posted by Mystic_Fortune
Unified Field Facade is awesome... I must have this!
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Oh, and as an Euro-in-exile I would LOVE for F2P to become an option so I could revisit my old stomping grounds, since a unified US/EU system seems to be something NCSoft couldn't give much of a toss about resolving.
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Quote:As I posted above the F2P model has been applied in situations where "close to dying" has not been the case.Originally Posted by Lothic
Cry Doom much?
CoH has been a solid game for approaching 7 years now. While there may be a chance it'll go F2P sometime in the future that's not something that'll likely happen anytime soon. That's the kind of thing games do when they are close to dying. That "other" game has been close to dying almost as soon as it launched.
Sure it's sad when a game lays off people and it is a matter of concern. But people like BAB have been at this game for many years. For all we know he accepted the layoff willingly as a means to move on to other projects. Let's just say it's far too early to be assuming this game is dying any day now.
I reckon it's a business model NCSoft are looking closely at. Of course with the plethora of expansions and optional packs they are churning out over the last few months they do have their cake and can eat it for the moment.
Given the lack of splash GR seemed to make overall in the gaming community I wouldn't be surprised to see it announced at some point. -
Quote:I dunno, there may or not have been other examples, possibly featuring wee hairy-footed types, which seemed to have been pretty healthy too but which also may or may not have gone down the same route and may have been recently reporting that now they are even healthier.Originally Posted by LISAR
I think we may be healthier then other things so that model may not be applicable at this time.
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I'd edit your post to remove the mention of any other game here. The Community bods are allergic to other games, it makes them break out in hives. Alternative you can switch to a telepathic channel, or possibly mention a steakhouse, although Mod12 apparently hasn't read that memo.
Raising the fees is probably a non-runner, I wouldn't be surprised to see NCSoft announce a F2P model sometime in the future as a response to forthcoming "external pressures". -
In the specific case of Static Field it won't work at all for you, or rather it will but it will try and heal the invisible pseudopet at the centre of the field which is radiating the Sleep effect.
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Quote:Originally Posted by rsreston
NO! I've just died AGAIN and my bonus XP bars ARE disappearing!
WTF?!?!?
Your Patrol XP is disappearing?
As far as I knew the Invasion Code in general (and Rikti Invasion code specifically) is supposed to switch off debt while it occurs.* -
Quote:1) Yes. They're scaled level 30 enemies, and rather tough ones compared to say the Banished Pantheon. They are a PITA for a lot of lowbie characters, especially pre-SOs.Originally Posted by rsreston
Are the zombies supposed to be *that* difficult? And am I getting XP debt/loss of XP bonus everytime I die from their attacks?
2) I don't think so, Debt is switched off when an invasion occurs as far as I know. -
Quote:Oh please. Now you're just talking crazy.Originally Posted by Chyll
Couldn't be that someone added her into the scene in our current era, just for the grins....
The simplest solution is obviously that some lady travelled back in time, got herself into Chaplin movie premier footage and then decided to ring her boyfriend to say "Hey, guess where I am. Try sticking on that DVD of the Circus, go to the Extras and forwarding to 0:58 mins in... Got it? Good. HI THERE DAVE!!" -
I don't think I've seen any other Elec/NRG Domis around at all. He's great fun though and excellent at soloing at a decent pace.
I think a lot of people still think NRG is as it used to be and don't realise it's one of the heaviest hitting single target Domi sets going or know how excellent Power Push now is.
PB and Conductive Aura is amazingly effective as well, and being able to knock a particularly nasty enemy into a wall and quickly follow up with a hard hitting melee attack which has a good chance to stun is excellent.
He is my third attempt at running an Elec Domi though, Elec/Ice felt like I was pelting them with ineffective snowballs and Elec/Thorns could have been interesting but the redraw was driving me mad and I was worried about the DoT interfering with Static Field. -
Quote:Reading the entire sentence it's pretty apparent he meant tickets, not merits.Originally Posted by Biospark
HuH !??? I am assuming this was a typo.
If not, please enlighten me as to how I can earn 200 rewards merits in 15 min.
The best I have managed is 30-50 in a 2-3 hour stretch. I am sure there are folks doing better, but 4X better ??
Quote:200 merits takes like literally less than 15 min to get in most cases, and a single map can make up to 1500 tickets, which nets to almost 7 reward merits by your formula -
Occasionally. My first Resistance Praetorian, a Broadsword/Fire scrapper called De Flambe, was inspired by the Frothers from SLA Industries, so he has a cyberpunk highlander warrior look to him which I got right from the off. So much so now that I'm at a complete blank with what to do with his second and third slots now he's level 30.
My Plant/Empathy has the opposite problem, she has 5 cossies, all different and all right for her, she's ridiculously easy to generate costumes which feel right for. She did need a visit to the Steel Canyon tailor to get her Burnt Wings before she was right initially though.
A number of my other characters are devised after the costume was made and saved, for example my Elec/Energy Domi was given a cossie I made when messing around with another characters 2nd slot. It didn't work as that 2nd slot but it fitted a brand new praetorian tech Domi perfectly. -
Quote:Yes, I love the way Consoles don't have any DRM at all, much handier.Originally Posted by Dark One
Mass Effect 1 - 5 activations, SecuROM presence, online activation
Left For Dead - Valve game requiring Steam which is DRM
Fallout 3 - SecuROM but it is removable
Dragon Age - All 3 released at the same time
And tell me, why would I play most of those games on a PC when there is the much, much simpler method of "Insert Disc" for a console? Rather than having to deal with Error Message XR2892B-Q for the hundredth time. The exceptions being those that support extensive modding like Fallout 3.
Steam is technically DRM, but pretty much unobstrusive DRM. Given the number of CDs and DVDs I've had scratched beyond use over the years it's a godsend for me.
Especially when I decided to upgrade my laptop and was simply able to leave it run overnight to install my games and saves on it.
You mean those figures which do not include Digital Downloads at all? Like here? The ratio is 6:1 and refers to physical downloads only. No Steam sales in there.Quote:Fallout: New Vegas...according to the numbers I've found, it has a 360 sale-rate of approximately 10x (850k for the 360, 460k for the PS3, 90k for the PC) that of the PC for week one. Now, one cannot verify if that was because of the DRM requirement for the PC or not.
If PC Gaming was indeed dead then PC Gaming companies wouldn't be bothered writing / adapting and supporting games for it. They aren't a charity.
It's not dead, it's not super-dooper-fabulously-massive figures. It must be somewhere in between... -
Quote:Actually reading that there isn't, which supports what Gilia says in his testingOriginally Posted by ultrawatt
So it must have been dropped again. Interesting...Quote:((The following information regarding Suppression is no longer current)) -
Quote:Ah I'm used to it too, he's #2.Originally Posted by GMan3
Been there twice now. The absolute BEST and WORST of times all wrapped up into one really confusing package. Now that my kids are 14 and 16 years old though, I can warn you it gets a little better and a whole lot worse. Yet somehow it is more than worth it and I would not change it for anything.
My congratulations to you for the addition to your family and my sympathies as well.
I just thought the usage of the phrase "Sleeping like a babe" was (bitterly) ironic and whomever originally coined it obviously had never actually been near a sleeping baby for a prolonged period of time
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Quote:Dechs guide is a good place to start. Also accept that your first few powers are mostly useless and will probably end up unslotted and unloved.Originally Posted by seebs
Huh! I hadn't thought about it that way. I'm used to assuming that I can pretty much tell in advance which powers will be important, but with WS, I'm stumped. I guess I can rule out the nuke, just because I never use nukes -- my "might-need-it-later" instinct means that rarely-used powers are mostly worthless to me.
It does seem as though I should probably just ignore pools, at least thus far; I can see being able to pick two powers to drop, but more than that seems ridiculous. I'm trying to figure out what things do -- part of it, I think, is catching on to the similarities between some of these powers and things in other sets. (Inky Aspect looks like Oppressive Gloom with the serial numbers filed off...)
After that really it is up to you. Personally I went along the "Squidy is for blasting, Dwarf is for tanking, Human is for other bits route" and picked accordingly (so skimped on the human form blasts and toggles and focused on the controls and self-buffs more).
Respeccing at 12 (to preload your Squid form with extra slots thanks to the early slotting "feature") and 22 (to do the same with Dwarf form) is very, very handy too. -
Quote:You sleep for no more than three hours at a go and wake up having fouled yourself and screaming for food?Originally Posted by GMan3
If YOU choose to feel all warm and fuzzy because you're doing the right thing by arresting the bad guys or only beating up the good guys when you play a villain, then good for you. You might even sleep better at night for it. Me . . . I try to ground myself in reality a bit more and I sleep like a babe.
<-- Father of 3 month old. -
Quote:Yep, the suppression period from firing it off in Footstomp would blanket them outOriginally Posted by Doctor_Xaxan
So if my footstomp goes off every 10 seconds (10.1 actually, in this build I'm working on in Mids) and assuming favorable results, it would be a waste to slot more procs in other single target attacks?
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Quote:1 in footstomp, because it is an AOE and it will be fired off every 10 seconds or so (which is also the time the PROC causes a Surpress effect on itself once it has been tested for in a power).Originally Posted by Doctor_Xaxan
The build is SS/SR. How do I maximize my uptime on this thing? I took a look at the wiki page but it caused me to make this face: @_o
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Quote:Originally Posted by Donna_
If I used Shockwave while flying, would this cause Knock Back or down ?? I've heard while flying it's changed..... Anyone please?
Oh! and another thing... the Call of the Sandman Proc, if it hits a group in say Sirens Song would you only get 1 application of 5% heal to self like the +recharge proc from Forced Feedback, or would it check on all the mobs hit to gives stacked heals like a damage proc...
:P confuesd myself there almost lol
It's not changed when you're flying, it's just that the knockback is directional, so if you fire it from almost above them you're knocking them directly down into the ground.*
Call of the Sandman works like a damage proc, it'll check against everyone you hit and I think it can trigger more than once to provide multiple heals (I think, haven't managed to see that happen myself). -
In terms of just not being in the way all the time Zombies >> Bots.
Bots are a nightmare in any tight map, and noisy to boot. Personally I'm always much happier to have a Necro MM on a team with me rather than the bulky, noisy doorblockers which are bots.
Mind you Demons are the worst of all. Wretched things.
In terms of overall damage bots >> zombies, but they are much more annoying to me if I'm teamed with them. Zombies are much lower key.