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Click the spider...

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Or: Disable flash

But Positron's Wheeeee is pretty funny.

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Internal servers or live?

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Of course it is not live. The real question is not that, but what patch, how close to live, is the server he used?

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Memo to: Statesman, Loki

Date: November 21, 2005
Re: Castle

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When is this guy getting promoted? Attentive to the customer, brutally honest, sense of humor. Get on it!

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Seconded. Castle is already edging up on CuppaJo for favorite red name.

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Indeed

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hmm, 1 shield protects from Teleport and Repel.

E/E Stalkers FOTM PvP now

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I beat the FOTM - had mine since Beta.

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hostages not being able to follow you whilte stealthed is supposed to be intententional, although i can see certain builds (stalkers primary) think that's unfair.

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I pretty much only played a Stalker in Beta and constantly Bugged the fact that 'hostage' would blindly follow you and worse: follow you through the ambush and other NPCs who should have at least stopped the 'Hostage'. It made escort missions to easy for Stalkers. When they finally made it so that NPCs would cause the Hostage to stop and the Hostage to not follow you when Hidden, I was happy - it added more realism to the game.

I don't really see this as unfair at all: clear a path to the hostage from the exit and then, once you free the hostage, ambush the ambushers. You may have to catch the Hostage again - if it is a mission where there is a delay in the Ambush, but that is rare and they seem to stop when they reach another group of NPCs.

So is Josh Responsible for Professor Echo's line: "I'm going to have to spend all day in a tissue regenerator now." Quickly followed by "One to Teleport" before he is defeated.

So, what you are saying, is that our ability to cry Doom has been somewhat nerfed by the hard cold numbers?

Nice changes. Thank you

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The servers aren't yellow because they had their capacity increased before CoV was added to the existing servers, unlike companies like SOE they don't like to see the servers buckle under the pressure of players before they decide to fork out the cash to upgrade them.

If there was actually a number counter for the active population you'd find that the number of players has actually risen quite sharply.

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Ding! We've got a winner!

We substantively increased the number of CPU's in our servers to account for new players....We've hit new highs in active concurrent in the past 24 hours.

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You guys certainly are wise to brace yourselves before rather than add after. I've noticed the Zone lag on Virtue, as a villain, to be very tolorable. Say, any idea if/when new servers will be added?

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I can't think of a reason why the devs would want to "avoid" having level 50's generate extra prestige. It sounds like a perfect reward for maxing out your character, to me.

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Why would you want anything other than level 50's in your SG then?

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People in a Super Group will always be making alts. Also, most Super Groups (yes, an assumption), most likely will not kick you if you are not level 50 or require you to be level 50 to be a part of the Super Group. One might as well ask why allow Influence to be converted into Prestige at all? "Oh, you want to be part of the Super Group? Please provide 1mm/10mm Influence before joining".

It feels lame to be level 50 and see that you essentially get the same Prestige as when you were level 1. Maybe if it were at least twice the value, it would not seem so bad.

At present, I know the Super Group I am in (there are five of us playing and we average about 2.5 hours of play time a day with an assumed 10,000 prestige per hour combined) will take about one year to accumulate 9 million Prestige. That does not factor in any Base Rent or any repairs to a damaged base. Being small certainly does have it's limitations.

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Other mobs can break my placate on another target. Or that a mob can attack while placate is animating, still be placated and I lose my chance for a crit.


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Any more detail on this so I can get QA to try and replicate it for me? Are there certain critters that do this, or is it a general case? Do any special circumstances need to be met?

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I have noticed that it is not NPC specific (it is general). Anytime placate is activated and a target is starting their attack placate will follow through but their attack breaks the 'Hide'. So I'll still be standing there with the Foe placated while waiting for the normal timer of Hide to kick in (if I wait or there are no other NPCs attacking me).

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Stun is very weak when compared to Total Focus and Bone Smasher. Can the magnitude of the disorientate, or the damage be increased on this power?


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Possibly. I'll talk to geko and examine the numbers. I don't think there is any problem with the power offhand, though.

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Personally, I would be happy if the chance to Stun could be modified by the Stun duration enhancements. But as i have yet to get to a level where I can take Stun as a power, I will keep my mouth shut.
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Word of "Ninjitsu" is wrong. Word of "Ninjitsu" does not exist in Japanese. "Ninjutsu" is right.


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A quick web search shows the spelling as virtually interchangeable, even by schools which specialize in the form. Not likely to be changed.

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Some people are too picky. You should borrow Weaver's Massive Orbital Laser Cannons of Death.

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At higher levels Brutes get the power to summon Synapse and throw him at enemies as a range attack.

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WOOT!!! We're holding you to that or crying STEALTH NERF!!

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Wow, that would be a great addition. I certainly hope you are not toying with our emotions here.

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Yep - this is the AI change to "fix" herding...

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I remember, just after City of Heroes release, people who would pull scores upon scores of Hellions, CoT, Skulls, and sometimes Hydra to the Atlas Park Gate in Perez Park. It was an incredible sight. Course, the unsuspecting were thus griefed, but the massive battle that took place was incredible to watch. At the time my character was at a low 12, so I would hover in the air and heal or ressurect where needed. But it was something.


Havn't seen such action like that since post release, but the memory is terrific yet fond.

Perfect. Ziddori will be there.

Fusion, do me a favor and check the Tech Support forums for Checksum.

The simplest way to fix it, if it is a problem, is to delete the file manifest. There are other solutions there depending on your specific issue. Also, you can PM Alexa or _Awry_. They deal specifically with CoV.

So predictable, I don't have to be a Mystic to see it coming.

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Newspapers? For heroes?

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Sure!

Jewel of Hera on display - curator expects "no unusal security problems..."

Bippy to accept key to city - "Although the Zig let Dap Dap escape, we're sure that he wouldn't dare interrupt the ceremony..."

Lecture at Founder's University "The Occult and You - an immortal perspective", by Akarist

All of those seem like perfectly normal headlines for Paragon City - but I suspect you could hang a mission on them anyway

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Not likely to be related to existing story arcs, but generic one shot missions. Maybe they can lead to mini-arcs, but hmmm.... that would be interesting.

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I know this is off topic but i see red names replying to post here but why won't anyone relpy to the issue regarding the CoV updater and why it keeps "checksumming"

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I've seen responses to this issue in the past. It is not the first time it has happened - nor will it be the last. There are are various methods that it can be fixed... but... this is not the right forum for it.

Cool beans. Glad to hear the newspaper tech will make it over as well.

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I don't see the newspaper working quite so well for us...

'I see in the paper that the bank was robbed yesterday. If only I'd been there in time to do something about it.'

Nah, a police radio or something of that ilk is a much better idea.

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Actually, if they do the newspaper bit for Heroes it would be more like: "Hmmm I just read there was a new Museum Display over in Talos on Ancient Magical Atifacts. I bet the Circle of Thorns will be interested in it. I think I'll keep an eye out for them to make a move." The Radio Scanner is a good one to. Maybe that would work more along the lines of intercepting PC Villains in the act of robbing a bank?

Hmmm... so, so many possibilities.

It is purely optional. So if you and another teammate have the same mission, they can opt to not have the mission complete apply to them. Thus, if you are worried about running out of missions, you can simply make sure you say no when the pop-up appears asking if you what to share the mission complete credit on someone elses mission.

Hollows missions may be fun again: yay, no more Frost Fire 8 times in a row with the same team!

And yes: please bring some of the newspaper missions over to CoH to fill the 35-40 mission gap.

Wow!

Nice... Here is a question tho, since you are making some reductions:

Since perma Hasten and near perma AM will not be possible after the ED goes live, has there been a mention of a recharge reduction in these powers (or any long recharge powers for that matter)? I can think of quite a few powers that had their recharge times increased to prevent them from being perma'd with Hasten and lots of recharge reducers (Controller AoE holds for example) so will there be a corresponding reduction in recharge times?

Thanks Positron!

Welcome, enjoy your stay.

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If you do (or are on a team that does) 25% or more of the Giant Monster's HP in damage, then you (your team) will receive the badge for defeating the Giant Monster.

So up to 4 teams can get the badge off a single Giant Monster, if each did EXACTLY 25% of the Giant Monster's hit points (not likely).

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Huh? Wait,... huh!? Did I just read this right or did I miss a recent patch note? I was under the impression that the team that does the most damage will get the badge, so now it is any team that contributes 25% or more damage? This is better, not exactly what I would love to see, but better.

Oh, as for the "Let him heal back and all teams do 25%+ damage" question: I suppose it is his accumlated total health; including health healed back? Or is it just based off of his total health; his max heath?

Good luck Gil, wherever you go. It has been a pleasure reading your work.

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Ok, so we were told that we would be getting bases when CoH came out, and all these great things would be coming.

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Being that I was here from the beginning, I can promise you that bases were NEVER promised. NEVER. It wasn't on the box, on the website or in any promo material. The most we ever said was - "someday we'd like to do bases."

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I was only here from the last week of Beta, but yeah, the only time I really heard concrete discussion of bases was after CoV was announced. Bases were a requested item (player housing and vehicles were the more common requests when I read the boards) but they were not 'expected' material.