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Unless you're shooting for the 45% boost over the 33% boost with more that ignores ED, but yeah in general the very rares may not be worth it depending on what you're going for.

On a side note, everyone I know has either gone radial for the recharge or cardiac for the end reduction. I have yet to meet a damage/accuracy person at all. Sadly some of these bonuses just don't excite me or are even wanted outside of the uncommon slot but you gotta do at least the rare to get the level shift.

Kind of tough to run it if you don't know the target anyway. They really should have the newsie npcs shout out what it is for that week or have a menu that tells you when you click on them....and make sure there's a newsie in the rogue isles, I don't remember ever seeing one.

I agree remove the randomness and keep people happy.

common = 1 shard (really give people 2)
uncommon = 3 shards (really give people 4)
notice = 6
favor = 12

Artificial gating sucks.

1 Day for a Rare

4 weeks to get enough notices then to make a very rare to make one from scratch, 2 weeks (really 3 weeks) if you have all the other stuff to make one normally. City of Sit on Your Butt and Wait to Advance.

And yet Positron stated that there would be a solo path for people to do incarnate content when they first came out with incarnate content. Black scorpion did say they were looking into a way to do that in issue 20, this is issue 19.5 so we'll see.

Foolish to have content that's supposed to put you on par with statesman that isn't soloable imo, then have some big team stuff that's real incarnate threat like cole's invasion compared to just bobcat and neuron, or some non incarnate pansy malta punk, who aren't even incarnates and shouldn't provide a huge threat.

it's easy enough to move the abs in a little and fade them out a bit so that they don't look so manlike and yet still look strong. Something like this...

Which they've decided to do with these new weekly task force targets where you get double the rewards once per character for said task force.

I think the reason you don't see mid level sets as often is people race to L50 and now that there is more L50 content coming that is ONLY level 50, that's just going to get worse. Levels in sets imo is the real problem here.


That too can be a problem. There are so many sets that are pure crap or mostly crap that people just don't slot them. Going through and removing junk like debt protection from a set and adding in stuff people desire more (rech, def, dmg boost etc..) would help these weak sets get used.

That would just lead to off market trading, just like you see in this forum for the more desired pvp IO's....of course this may be WHY you'd like that cap in place heh.


Oh on my earlier suggestion with just removing IO recipe levels, you'd also need a nominal crafting cost. Perhaps one that increases a bit with each salvage item needed. The devs overcomplicated the Inventions system and it's caused a mess.

Market/Invention idea

• Make all recipes work at all levels and scale with said level.
• Make all recipes drop at all levels, except purples.
• Either merge all salvage level tiers and update the recipes to reflect that or just have all salvage drop at all levels.

That should fix the screwed up mid level range supply issue. It would also let sets continue to work regardless of level and still not invalidate having a purple recipe as they have far higher bonuses then any normal set recipe out there. It would also balance out the amount of salvage on the market.

Just because you can add a system to an existing system doesn't mean that you must make it as complex as possible for it to be good. KISS has merit.

As for ingame Money Sinks....

More Buyable temp powers:

• Temp Costumes (last 1 hour of game time)
• Temp Powers (like rez self, rez other, team teleport, snowballs) balance with low charges and higher costs. eg. team teleport 5 uses 500k inf or something
• Temp Auras

Other Money Sinks

• Ingame buyable costume/weapon unlocks with inf
• Ingame buyable emote unlocks with inf
• better inf to prestige conversion to promote burning inf into prestige
• more base functionality to spend inf/prestige on

Whatever would be done has to be "fun". That is paramount to a good game.

Another longer more expensive route, that can be frustrating to accomplish, though there are good guides on said subject in the players guides/marketing forums, is to set IO out your character shooting for +def to ranged to help with those ranged mezzers.

Ranged defense means they'll miss far more often and you'll be held/slept far less often. Shoot for at least 30% and try to get softcapped at 45%. Ask in the specific AT forum for help on this and download mid's hero designer from http://www.cohtitan.com/

outside of having to redo the base editor to add that functionallity, it would be great to be able to use custom maps for bases or sections/rooms of custom maps.

Be nice to use one of the large office rooms for a meeting hall and then toss in your own plants/tables, or a praetorian tech lab room for your power & control center with all the mainframes and generators in it, or that spiffy orenbega style room with the statue for your teleporters....

Would also be great to be able to add functional npcs to your base even if they were mostly static. tailors, stores, trainers, fateweavers etc...

How cool would it be to zone into someone's base and have someone by the portal they could click on that would tell them about the base/supergroup in a menu you could choose options from? Think AE npc for starting missions with more choice options on the menu


Currently my bases are nothing more then large storage units for crafting and holding IO's. Sometimes they even get decorated nicely when I have the prestige and the porters are nice but rarely used.

I'm glad you like it . Didn't get any replies when I posted it and figured people just didn't use it / want it.

I converted the ingame colors from the sliders (0 to 100%) to 0-255 rgb values....then I found a website that made adjustments to the 0-255 values easy in a nice visual manner. Once you have a color it's easy enough to add it to the menu list I made.

Example:

"color/character name" "window_color rrr ggg bbb xxx"

rrr = red
ggg = green
bbb = blue
xxx = transparency of window from what i remember


here is the website for easier color adjusting. Also you can screen capture that perfect green, then using the eydropper tool in something like photoshop or mspaint get the rgb values or a website hex value and punch it into the calculator below

http://www.drpeterjones.com/colorcalc/

I still do this all the time To me belts hold up pants and thus should be WITH pants you know? though in the creator they are influenced by tops as to what style works as they have to deal with clipping etc for tops.

For the fact we had co op zones before oro was created, I just don't see why they didn't make oro a co-op zone from the get go. They have the tech to keep villain only contacts from talking to heroes and vice versa so?

Ah now that does make some sense, they could just have 2 oro portals close to each other. with a hero symbol under one or something to denote them, assuming that you are correct, or they'd have to add said technology to only show the correct zones based on alignment.

I've been saying for at least a few years now that we need a thigh slot for upper leg accessories, such as holsters, pouches, armor etc..

Costume creator needs an overhaul as it's one of the biggest draws to this game and is getting long in the tooth.

• neck slot
• thigh slot
• detail 3 slot (both lower & upper face/helmet items in one category)
• more costume proliferation. Stop the costume segregation in sections & body type (all baron, tattoos for females etc..)
• back items (backpacks, jetpacks that turn on/off as you hover/fly/jump, particle accelerators etc..)

I do hope that this isn't a case of npc's getting cool items that the players, yet again, don't get access to. So Tired of the npc's getting all the great looking parts.

The current mutant pack had some great looking player parts, lets keep that trend going and also some that are just ingame to get instead of more not-so-micro-payments, which ncsoft is fond of. Art department did a superbly fantastic job on that pack, outside of organic armor not having a tops with skins option, it's amazing!

Personally I agree too if people didn't get that from my posts. I'd rather not have to try and game the system in various ways to be able to have a smooth progression to base building. That being said, it was a suggestion as to how to deal with that particular hurdle until bases are looked at.

We can only hope that a small sliver of dev time is given to bases to help the base issues out sometime in the near future. As it stands it has been years since bases have received any attention.

And yet there are things the developers could do to smooth out the progression that would cost very very little developer time, such as the addition of attachments to the P&C unit. That's a database change to the P&C unit and utilizes items already in the base editor. It's not a perfect solution to progression but it would help out a bit.

This.

The devs added the power/combo unit and oversite center to help out smaller supergroups and to smooth out the progression a little bit. They also have changed the rent costs at least 2x in the past.

I'm betting, Fulmens, that bases are a smaller portion of the game content and thus receive less attention with the things that benefit the regular player base more and the fact that bases are "old" content. They don't draw in new players as much or entice back players who have quit, unlike Incarnates and Market Merges. They just don't warrent as much dev/time/attention as we'd like.

I do believe that bases could be made far more enjoyable and functional with some additions and a little developer time, perhaps even putting an intern/new employee to work cleaning up some of the base items and adding more base items by pulling pre made items off of maps and touching them up, then moving on to adding a few more items.

We can only hope that the developers can spend some programmer time to give us a true xyz movement tool instead of the workarounds that we must do to stack items in order to change z-axis heights.

Now I know the OP hates to craft/market but if you can save up 2 alignment merits (4 days of play doing tip missions), you could spend that on one of the recipes like a miracles unique or something that sell for 200 mil or so on the market. Sell that recipe and then turn your 200mil into 400k prestige. That would push you over the hump from tiny-not-quite-functional supergroup base into small-just-making-it functional supergroup base.

the level would only matter if you wanted to slot it on a low level character.

That's as possible as them reducing ticket drops I just know that last week before the last 2 patches I was getting far more for the same mobs I've been killing on and off for months then I am currently. So I figured I'd ask to see if anyone else saw the same thing or had any ideas. I'll kick up the levels and see if that makes a difference.

Groups. Not enemies, groups.

In order to maximize your ticket intake you set your difficulty to 0x8 and go to town on each group, which has about a dozen foes in each group. So you're looking at around 140 foes by the time you've hit a dozen groups.

That easily gets you, or did get you 750 tickets....on ANY standard dev created foes. I personally used carnies and rikiti and a few others as I mentioned above.

EDIT: I'd be happy to take a screenshot to show you the group piles on the map if you'd like while solo.


Solo and teamed, small teams of 2-4.


Interesting. Are you sure? What foes were you fighting?

There were far more then a dozen groups It is just that you'd almost always have 750 tickets by the time you've finished off a dozen groups, now you're lucky to have 300 from the same dozen groups.

In the past I have ticket capped on a dozen groups many many times. Then I go buy salvage for myself to use in crafting