ChaosExMachina

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  1. Undeniable fact is that a significant portion of the potential player base does consider PVP a necessity and COH has lost business due to the lack of PVP.
  2. And within a year the new continuity will be just as screwed up, just like Ultimate Marvel.
  3. ChaosExMachina

    Where's Wall-E?

    Why does it not include Astro Boy, Mega Man, and Chrono Trigger's Robo?
  4. I've wanted to tell randians to go Galt themselves for a while, and hey, they're doing it!

    Will be hilarious.
  5. FINALLY.

    Now I may try an alt that uses the mentioned powersets.

    IMO they need to be balancing around endgame now anyway, so it's possible this is considered necessary to bring the buff sets up to par.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
    If you had it perma, you could move at capped Fly speed with Hover, which...might be a problem? It's kinda borderline.
    It's possible to get hover close to the cap with certain builds anyway, and with the booster there can be ways to make it perma by combining it with certain powers.

    IMO, it's better for boosters to include travel and convenience powers. Due to Ninja Run you can skip the pool versions easily now anyway.
  7. This is easily the most complete pack across the board, costumes, abilities, everything.

    That said it is seriously limited by gender and customization restrictions so here is how it can be even better:

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    Jackets
    • Classic Steampunk (Metal Vest w/ Bow Tie)
    • Victorian Steampunk 01 (Long Coat)
    • Victorian Steampunk 02 (Long Coat and Vest w/ Chain and Ascot)
    • Victorian Steampunk 03 (Vest w/ Chain and Ascot)
    Top priority give them to females too.

    The long coat has a brass lining which is uncustomizable even though the 01 version has a free customization slot.

    Please add them to sleeveless jackets.

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    Face
    • Classic Steampunk
    • Victorian Steampunk
    Forced makeup is a serious issue.

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    Belt
    • Classic Steampunk 01 (Belt w/ Lace)
    • Classic Steampunk 02 (Belt w/o Lace)
    • Victorian Steampunk (Bustle)
    Please give at least the clock belt to males.

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    Sleeves
    • Classic Steampunk (Puffy Short)
    • Victorian Steampunk (Puffy Long)
    The short sleeves should have a color option for the lace.

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    Backpack
    • Steampunk Backpack
    The steam stack top being brass is problematic for customization and unnecessary. Just make it a solid stack no bracer required.

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    Hats
    • Classic Steampunk (Bowler Hat with sideburns and pipes)
    • Victorian Steampunk (Top Hat with sideburns and goggles)
    Requires customizable hair like the female hat.

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    Gloves
    • Classic Steampunk
    The gloves should be proliferated across sexes. Why in the world is the mechanical glove only male and the striped glove only female?

    Positive feedback

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    Emotes
    • Inspiration – An incandescent light bulb appears over the character’s head.
    • /e inspiration
    • Train Whistle – Character yanks on a train whistle, which releases steam and makes a “toot toot” sound.
    • /e trainwhistle
    • Hot Temper – Character looks angry as steam blows from his ears.
    • /e hottemper
    Some of the best booster emotes yet.

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    Steam Jump Travel Power
    Excellent choice of power and I would vote for no recharge too. We're well beyond booster powers making travel powers redundant, and when it comes to travel I'm always in favor of buffs. I like the trend of travel convenience instead of powers included as booster bonuses.

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    Wings
    • Steampunk Wings
    Top wings yet.

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    Skirts/Shorts
    • Victorian Steampunk (Skirt)
    Interesting trick to make a skirt viable.

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    Detail 2
    • Victorian Steampunk (Lacy Choker) - only availble on "Standard" head setting.
    This is better than any lacy type of item so far.

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    New Auras
    • Victorian Décor - Glowing Victorian designs placed at different locations around the body.
    I'd like a lot more of this type of aura with a floating pattern you can add around a costume.
  8. So, this refers to the strong and pretty topic doesn't it? But how does it have anything to do with it?
  9. @ those insp, just how many leagues did you run?!
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by InfamousBrad View Post
    Robotics, balance issue: Protector Bots potentially stack up to mag 14 AoE stun: 2x photon grenade, 8x photon seekers. That's on top of having two single-target heals and granting extremely high +def(all) to every pet and to the mastermind. I can't believe they've been this overpowered all this time without being nerfed, they're the single most overpowered power choice in the whole game.
    1. Thugs defense is higher than robotics defense.

    2. 'Potential' mag 14 stun that can happen basically never because it would require the powers to be coordinated (and I've never encountered that many seekers). I get more stun by howling twilight.

    3. Single target heals that are long to charge and again not coordinated.
  11. ChaosExMachina

    Merge IO Sets

    So many ask for additional targeted AOE sets. How about lower fruit?

    Merge targeted AOE and regular blasts into a single set category.
  12. I'm definitely interested if a GG supergrup is started.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
    Armor toggles (and Shield Charge) do not Critical.
    I suspect they are technically incapable of it unless reimplemented. Fury can work. But those should be added to the list for Scrappers.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Can we at least HAVE a plot, please? Because the City of Heroes I remember was conceived and written up as an exciting fictional world with a game taking place in it, not a meta-game experience with fiction crowbarred in to excuse it. When did we stop caring about the game's writing?
    I agree, but has it EVER actually had a plot?

    A few of the story arcs are well written plots, such as Faultline, but most are just excuses to do whatever it is you are doing.
  15. Dark Servant can't be renamed or controlled. I'd always considered this due to it being a secondary, but it is the only case of AT abilities (controller mag, domination) not applying to a secondary.
  16. Some sets can slot the recharge intensive auras and some can't.

    Especially significant if you consider:

    Ninjas and Mercs are considered the weakest primaries
    Robotics is supposed to be the defense specialist, but Thugs get more due to the auras
    It's among the few benefits mastermind primaries can receive from IO bonuses
    The incarnate trials will demand far more survivability

    Solutions:

    * Let the sets be used by regular henchmen. It's already possible to slot them to recharge with sets and even the regular summon purple set.

    * Add some sort of functionality to their buffs so that slotting the sets is sensible. Especially due to the powers Serum and Repair generally being considered useless. Examples include:
    Adding a miniature robot swarm to repair
    Making repair capable of a rez to further distinguish robotics as a defensive set
    Letting weak recruit ninjas use the stealth of the ninja smoke bomb to spawn and assist their master
    Serum not only adds a buff but equips a henchman with a gun drone
    Add an enhancable buff to any of them (to justify the slotting of an offensive set)
    Serum is a buff to the mind and body so the henchman gets a psionic drone
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EvilGeko View Post
    Before Going Rogue, I used to wonder (seriously, I've spent real time considering the question) how dictators so easily hold their grips on people. I see now it was a failure of empathy. I did not realize how strongly some folks feel about safety and security, as illusory as security is in a police state.
    I interpret it as a belief that authority is its own justification. The most heinous murderers of history are always those who do it legally, but they receive different judgment from a lot of people than a person who does it once.

    See:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt

    To me, CARE is the only important moral. Fairness is important as a subset but in any conflict CARE is the priority. But each of the moral dimensions exists as an instinct and everybody has them.

    There are people who are simply wired by environment and/or genes to listen to those instincts at varying rates. Due to how authority has generally meant 'killing' it's probably adaptive.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rebel_Scum View Post
    The point and the reason for it is not that they don't look good, in a lot of cases they do. The point is they don't look like ice, at least in the eyes of the devs who worked on it. If you want a character with crystal armor, make stone armor. Pick the crystal options. Problem solved, outside of granite armor anyway but customising that is a whole different can of worms..
    These... PEOPLE are creating what they want... in a GAME!

    Whenever I see a person who made a power another concept I am amused and often compliment them.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LISAR View Post


    When I was shown what they looked like I thought they were kinda cool myself.
    Those look fine.

    It sounds like the objection was not that they look bad, but that they look like crystals more than ice.

    Which is silly. Ice can be a type of crystal, but beyond that, people RP their powers as other things often and a major use of customization has been to make them represent different concepts than what the set is intended to be. And that can be a huge asset as a way to add "more sets" without developing more sets.

    It's just railroady.

    Much like how you could not have an emp villain just because it had a word in its name that was considered inappropriate. And of course it is moot now.
  20. Why would Marvel want to restrict their ability to release a standalone?
  21. ChaosExMachina

    Future of CoX..

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    Originally Posted by Amy_Amp View Post
    You can start listing the MMO sequels that outdid the original anytime you like.

    With it's revenue now up over 1,000% since it went F2P? Source
    I've been over at CO a lot since F2P. They got a new dev team that is considerably better instead of the keystone cops they had running it at launch.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    I realize that saying "Just don't go to AP and don't use the Help channel" would not be a realistic solution to this problem so I'm not going to seriously suggest that to anyone. All I can tell you is that, based on my experience, RMTers are not a constant annoyance to "everyone" playing this game. I would hate for the Devs to waste any more effort removing more capabilities from "legitimate" players just to further address this adequately contained problem.
    This.
  23. Every argument against can be resolved by implementing it as a 'rebirth' starting at 1 but keeping badges.

    Any counter to that must be economic IE 'it may be hard to do that because of what happens if a level 1 has X badge.' However beyond implementation speculation there is no reason not to believe it would be a significant improvement to be able to retcon (appropriate name for it), particularly if new powersets become available.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
    The same way they can solo giant monsters. Drain psyche drain psyche drain psyche.
    Wouldn't it work with any mental manipulation blaster, and don't debuffs stop you from doing most of the TFs?
  25. It shouldn't be necessary to enter the account to get the booster unless you need to manually pay, correct?

    I can't, but have an automatic bill.