Cheetatron

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

The /auctionhouse or /ah command was something I earned as a Veteran Reward for 84 months (7 years) of loyalty to the game, well before Freedom was launched.

Now you want them to implement charging me a fee for a reward I've already earned?

That's effectively taking away the incentive to use the "perk" I was given for being loyal to the game and supporting the game for 84 months (7 years) of subscription. The perk being that I have full access to the market without having to traipse across at least one zone and possibly more and then back to what I was doing?

You must be out of your Nether-loving mind to think this is even remotely a good idea.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

I have one that I keep trying to play, but I just never find the time for.

A 13 year old hyperactive boy that has his mutation manifest while watching his favorite saturday morning cartoon. The people with spikey hair that yell the names of their attacks were just getting ready to blow up a planet (again) when he tried to mimic their shouts and blew up half of his house. His parents were livid and sent him to Paragon immediately, where he runs around shooting the bad guys with energy as he shouts and says hi to all the awesome heroes he sees. Because when you're 13 and hyperactive and explosive: Everything is awesome.

His name: Nine Thousand One

Originally Posted by Ultraamann

Mark Millar had nothing to do with Sin City. I don't know that I'd call him a really big deal either. He writes a lot of stuff that's meant to go directly to film, so good for him. Most of his writing makes me think he's trying to channel Warren Ellis and Garth Ennis, but not quite measuring up.

Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid

As much as I wanted an age progression on the team, I am really annoyed that many of the previous cliffhangers weren't dealt with. At all.

Originally Posted by dougnukem

If I'm not mistaken (which I could be wrong in all honesty), I believe Hover is counter-productive to a handful of Traps' powers. Meaning that you cannot active or use them from the position of Hover. Just a small thought.

Someone might need to verify this though. :P

Originally Posted by Roderick

Usually, but not always.

Options -> Configuration -> Effects & Maths

On the far right, you can select the forms of suppression your powers are affected by. Choose "Attacked", and it will show your stealth and defenses based on you attacking or being attacked.

Originally Posted by Slaunyeh

Who's Mark Millar, and why do we care what he want?

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Products within "walled gardens", such as books or movies accessible to Kindle or Nook readers, apps installed via iPhone or Google app stores, or movies from streaming services all can be altered or removed without your consent, assuming you don't do something like root you device and disconnect it from the "garden".

Of course, Amazon or Barnes & Noble would be unlikely to need to "rebalance" the literary works on your device, but they could alter them without your consent. Amazon has, at least once, completely deleted a work from all Kindles where it was installed when a copyright case came up about it. I do believe they issued a refund, but that doesn't quite match the experience here. (NC/PS didn't delete your procs, they changed how they work.)

Originally Posted by Ironblade

orly? When you can put one in my hand, I'll agree it's a "product".

Originally Posted by UberGuy

You might want to keep reading the thread.

Also, please stop calling this "bait and switch". Google it. It doesn't mean anything like this. Selling you a service that changes later is not what "bait and switch" means.

Originally Posted by damienray

The main description of this epic set for the MM still says that it provides "...Fire and Flame to control your foes and to add some much needed armor and defense." But the set only has Bonfire/Fire Blast/Fire Ball/Char/Rise of the Phoenix.
Where is the armor/defense ?
Sorry if this is a known issue... couldn't find an existing thread.

Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar

They're not worth slotting for heal even if that's true, if you're going to slot them for a secondary effect, go for defense.

Originally Posted by Xzero45

Originally Posted by Madadh

Other people have had vastly different results.


To the OP: If it's time that is most interesting to you, and you've decided to pair it with Beam, make it a def. You'll have the cool time powers sooner,and they are more effective. If you mostly want to play a beamer and shoot things, but want the time type buffs too, go with Corr.

Originally Posted by TerraDraconis

One of us is confused here. The only process in hecatomb is the 6th IO that gives a 33% chance to cause moderate negative energy damage to your targets.

There are no other processes in the set. So I'm understanding that your upset that that 33% chance for extra damage will be limited to happening only some unknown number of times per minute after this change? Note it was only a 33% chance to fire anyway a good chance ye 1/3 chance every hit. Nice but ....

Originally Posted by LineNoise

Probably because Alpha is mostly the same as slotted recharge, code-wise, and they'd have to write extra core code to disregard the Alpha +Recharge, and it's enough of an edge-case that it's not worth the programmer time. I highly doubt that they're like "Let's punish Spiritual!"

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Here's the problem. Because how it was "designed" isn't in line with what was "intended", they were screwed. They could make it good in click powers but be insanely good in autos and toggles, or they could make it good in autos and toggles and suck in click powers. Right now they can't make it sensible in both.

How often do you see Performance Shifters in click powers in proposed builds on these forums? Compare that to how often you see them in Stamina, Quick Recovery or Physical Perfection. If they wanted the SBE acted most like they "intended" for the most people, which should they choose to fix?

Look, I'm not saying you have no reason to be annoyed. I say this in just about every thread on this topic . I feel that, across the sub-teams involved in creating and selling them, ranging from marketing to the powers team, the collective handling of designing, testing, marketing and selling SBE procs has not been very good.

But I think it's ridiculous to carry on with seeming insistence that the only explanation for how this played out is that they were out to screw us all, particularly when it comes to focusing just on the powers aspects. The actual changes they have made make too much sense for the changes to be them trying to screw us. Feel free to go on refusing to accept this, but I know that (a) the original PShift PPM piece was brokenly too strong, (b) brokenly too-strong things get fixed, and (c) the fix they implemented has unfortunate side effects but makes perfect sense given how most people use Performance Shifter procs.

Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master

while going through and doing this change, would you also be fixing the broken procs?

right now i think there are still several procs which are just not working period, i think the absolute amazement proc is still not working from what ive heard

Originally Posted by seebs

You are wrong. Long before Synapse posted, many of us were pointing out that the new PPM mechanic was obviously broken. Broken in ways that are characteristic of the sorts of oversight that the CoH devs are a little vulnerable to. If you had told me that the CoH devs were going to invent a PPM model for procs, I would have told you that they would probably do something silly with it; for instance, they might forget to consider the impact of recharge rates, which can be a factor of three or more difference in performance. And they would probably do it in a way which resulted in some well-known procs being either way overpowered or way underpowered in the new format. Because you can basically predict this stuff. I really like the CoH dev team, but they do have their fairly consistent blind spots. (Just a reminder, devs: activation time is significant when balancing powers. Thank you.)

Originally Posted by Justice29

YES PLEASE!!! Specifically the flamethrower!!! I got one once in the PI mayhem mission (one of the side missions) and would LOVE to have it as a temp recipe!!