Djeannie
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sooo you're looking for what? blue jeans / t shirt / sneakers / headband? If you're talking casual you're pretty stuck. Just look at any joe pedestrian on the street and there you go.
Why would you need costume help for that? I really am confused here.
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Quote:It is rather easy to write extremely suggestive text without triggering the filters at all. They do nothing.Originally Posted by Sorciere
Shrug.
It's not that they can do much about that. You stumble upon it, because you're using individual words in context where they are pretty harmless.
Strung together, all these words could be used to write a steamy BDSM novel.
The servers don't have the natural language parsing ability to tell the difference.
Yeah I find it rather funny/sad that God is blocked but satan isn't.Quote:Originally Posted by Bitt_Player
What bugs me about this is, as far as I know, Satan is not censored. So people can discuss the father of evil, but not the creator of all things.
We really need a new filter.
We can't even talk about raccoon now?! How am I supposed to finish my story arc where The Zookeepah and his army of trained Raccoons pull bank heists all over the city?Quote:Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
It's old-timey pejorative slang for a black person.
No, honestly. See also "coon".
That should be "(unless the person being saved is an unpopped cherry damsel in distress, or a southern belle I suppose)."Quote:Originally Posted by Oliin
Most of the filtered issues are easy enough to work around honestly. The problem with a lot of these problems is that the filtered word often conveys a stronger of sense the matter than most of the work-arounds. For instance, "Thank god," always sounds more grateful or emphatic than, "Thank goodness," to me (unless the person being saved is a virginal damsel in distress, or a southern belle I suppose).
or perhaps "(unless the person being saved is an non-destroyed hymen damsel in distress, or a southern belle I suppose)."
what kind of clap trap you sayin' there cracker? (i kid of courseQuote:Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Yes. Yes there are. Many words are already taken, as pejorative slang for white people, hispanic people, asian people, gay people, jewish people, Italian people....you get the idea.
Misappropriating the English language is an equal-opportunity thing.
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FILTER ALERT! you better change that to Pandora's Square Object for Holding Things.... you know the connotations that "box" can have slang wiseQuote:Originally Posted by Thunderspark
Oh dear... I fear that Mr No Pants has just re-opened Pandora's Box...
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To the OP.
The only reason your critters currently could be worth zero experience is if you removed one of the core/standard powers they get during creation. It doesn't matter if you added another 12 powers to them if you've removed one of the ones they get on the standard setting.
The developers have said this is a stopgap fix to prevent potential exploitative farming and by that I mean farming with zero risk of being defeated. eg a creature with no attacks, only buildup as an example.
How To Fix
- Go in to your custom critters.
- Make note of the powers they have and the sets you chose.
- Create a new custom critter and see what that critter would have on "standard" with the same powers/sets your other critter had.
- Add those powers back to your custom critters and they will now be worth experience.
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Quote:The pure essence of a stripper is farming. They farm walking atm machines known as guys.Originally Posted by Kryhavoc
Do lap dances count as farming?
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Quote:the thing with Shield Charge and of course works for all your damage is that you want to saturate AAO for the damage bonus. So using both teleport-damage powers once your IN the crowd will get you the most damage.Originally Posted by NeonPower
I'm not sure about best but i know making an elec/shield would effectively waste the potential on both sets as you have 2 AOE teleport powers, that as far as i know are designed for entering battle, so having two wouldn't be very useful, tho this could potentially give you a free slot if you don't take one.
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Quote:All you need is standard out of the box dev enemies for 100% exp. Only the custom created critters are worth 75% on standard from what i've read/experienced.Originally Posted by Donna_
I have been thinking about it logically... i know not like me :P
What we need, and what you need to get it.
to get 100% xp you need groups of,
Minions hard/hard
Luitenants hard/hard
Bosses hard/hard
I want the highest xp for my lowbie as possible, so I set my missions for +4's and 8man.
So this now leaves us with the question, what power sets would be the easiest to overcome.
I have tested, a few... most effective so far being
AssaultRifle / Fire Assult, no build up, no aim, no rage or extra accuracy.
Spec your toon for Ranged defense, and mobs with all ranged attacks miss the majority of the time, however getting tight groups is a pain in the bumski.
Anyone got further than this?
I could have sworn I saw a custom scrapper mob crit with their attack powers.Quote:Originally Posted by Heraclea
FWIW, the "tanker" and "scrapper" designations of MA critter power sets are there for the sake of familiarity. I don't think there is any difference in damage output or power between the two; so "tanker" Dual Blades is the same as "scrapper" Dual Blades, and the same for each power set they share.
The AI issue with mobs not using their powers has been around for a long time. I wanted to make annoying shield mobs with Phalanx Fighting, but half the time they do not even activate their shield.
I've not had much of a problem yet with my custom shield mobs using shields but then I have the default powers on them too in addition to stuff like maybe tg or phal.
why not set the mission to spawn L47's so they'd be green to you and you could go to town on them with your L50?Quote:Originally Posted by Hart
I've been messing around with this some more. I can't get the standard min / standard lt / custom boss thing to spawn a bunch of bosses, so that's a disappointment. I'd be curious to take a look at your mission and see how it works.
So failing that, I figured I'd try and put together a ticket farm. We can't farm purples in AE, so there's little point in setting everything to 50.
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Quote:maniac slammers have been changed. they are far more severe then they used to be. damage scale is now 2.0 and they pulse a pbaoe confuse power and i believe buff each other when in range of each other too.Originally Posted by Hart
Wow, that's good to know. Customs tend to be MUCH harder than slammers though, so I guess this is going to take some work and testing to refine.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes I suppose a better way to say it is that not only are squishies the only ones devoid of defense
Roughly for brutes its about 40% resist to all and 90% vs energy. For tanks its about 55% resists to all and 90% vs energy.
I'm seeing that I can get about 18% defense (all positions) on my tank/brute without much trouble and perhaps a bit more if I juggle slots around. Glad that it'll make a difference
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Quote:Maniac Slammers?Originally Posted by Judge_Mental
Same enemy, same ae mishes. Sledge hammers stun me, machine guns riddle me. Didn't get hit like this before. Didn't change play style, same attack chain. Looks like I am going to have to respec and/or spend some influence to be more survivable. Have died twice where I would have plowed through these guys before. Something has changed.
Yeah they got changed. Castle added a pbaoe confuse aura to them and some sort of buff your buddies aura to them and upped the damage scale they do to 2.0. from what i remember in the beta forum.
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Those are really nice Pyro. It's really great that you're doing this!
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For people who don't have access to all the parts are they available in the MA? If so you could do your screenshots from there and not at the tailor.
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I've zoned into RWZ to find the dummies gone, only a couple dummies there and the full set. When they're gone I try zoning out to another place (like pi or cap) and then zoning back in and then they are usually back.
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There was a bug in closed beta that may have re-emerged on live where a power color change would not save unless you modified your costume somehow. You didn't need to actually change the costume just change something and change it back then save.
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One thing I'd like to point out is that not all squishies are devoid of +def. Electric Armor underperforms (hence the new heal to help) due to being a pure +res set.
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Quote:That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. I've been on teams with fully IO'ed out Shield scrappers who outperformed and were far more survivable then my Shield scrapper until I spent a few weeks IOing myself out. Now I outperform and am far more survivable then regular SO/Generic IO shield scrappers by far.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Not a myth. I've got several characters without a single IO, and the only way people notice is if they look at my powers tab.
So in my case in order to get my character to be fun and not dirtnap all the time on large teams I had to hit the defense softcap, which was only doable through IO's, or relying on having a bubbler with me at all times. -
Quote:You are slightly incorrect. Widow claws are not customizable. Bane/Wolf Guns/Maces are (models and colors). Crab backpacks are color-able.Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon
VEATs and Kheldians cannot be currently customized. It may be that since they are so closely tied to the game universe they're not intended to be customized, however, I don't believe I've ever seen a post from a redname that explicitly states that.
Because of the issue that prevents Granite Armor from being customized in Stone Armor, Nova and Dwarf forms would not be customizable for the same reason. I consider this a likely reason why Kheldians as a whole cannot be customized. While the other powers in Stone Armor can be customized, it only makes it all the more obvious that Granite is an exception.
As for VEATs, the Wolf Spider machine gun, the Bane Spider mace, the Crab backpack and the Widow claws are all customizable. So their effects could NOT be customizable. (You get one or the other, both is impossible, so says Babs) Fortunatas are the only VEATs that have a non-weapon attack, and thus really they're the only ones who could be customized. (I suppose the Secondaries could be customized)
Personally, I'd allow it, but that's me.
Some VEATs have attacks that could be customizable. Crab energy blasts, Bane energy blasts, bane poison blasts, perhaps even wolf venom grenade and fortunata attacks.
BackAlleyBrawler mentioned that they are on the to do list but down on said list. First they'll work on the power pools, then epic/patron pools then on VEAT/EATS (pending some decisions). Also BaBs mentioned something to the effect that to do just the power pools is 2.5x the work of doing the primary/secondaries that he just did. -
Psygon do you have a list of who's characters you're cuteifying? Would you post it please if you do?
I'd like to know if I'm being considered so I can either keep hoping when you post that my character may be done or I can just stop hoping and just check the thread now and then to see the other cute stuff. I hate hoping because invariably I am disappointed and I need as little of that in my life as it is.
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Quote:This is correct team size overrides individual settings.Originally Posted by Diggis
Pretty sure team size will override task size so if you have it set for 4 and get a 5th person it will scale up. And if you get a 6th you will get AV's
With the new ability to choose any power it was far too easy to create creeps that had no attacks and were nothing more then bags of free experience. The current system is a stop gap until the Developers come up with a more robust set of rules to limit abuse of custom creeps.Quote:Originally Posted by Thunderspark
However... I feel the need to RANT about one niggling factoid. Why oh why did they reduce the XP gain to ZERO for mobs who've had their default skills removed? Bear with me on this. I wanted to create a Ninja group. Easy enough, but I've had to use Super Reflexes INSTEAD of Ninjutsu. The reason? Simple. Hide is a DEFAULT power in the Ninjutsu set resulting in a whole map of invisible enemies all capable of instant critical hits! Removing this power means zero XP gain and my storyarc is less enjoyable to anyone who wants to play through it.However... I feel the need to RANT about one niggling factoid. Why oh why did they reduce the XP gain to ZERO for mobs who've had their default skills removed? Bear with me on this. I wanted to create a Ninja group. Easy enough, but I've had to use Super Reflexes INSTEAD of Ninjutsu. The reason? Simple. Hide is a DEFAULT power in the Ninjutsu set resulting in a whole map of invisible enemies all capable of instant critical hits! Removing this power means zero XP gain and my storyarc is less enjoyable to anyone who wants to play through it.
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it's patching live for me now, so I'd say yes
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ROFLAMO someone negative repped me for griping about CS in the SUPPORT forum, where I'm, you know, looking for some SUPPORT!
CS decided to ignore my last posting to them and closed the ticket. This is why I loathe customer service because I rarely get any customer satisfaction from customer service. It's always "tough crap, have fun, keep paying us".
Thank you everyone for the support and suggestions.
And to the person who negative repped me "Your father was a hamster and your mother smelt of elderberries"
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Quote:Yeah I didn't think it was going to be noticeable really but wanted to be sure.Originally Posted by Shred_Monkey
From what I've seen the numbers in Mid's are correct. If you're only of by a few tenths, my first guess is that you didn't use level 50 IOs everywhere in game?
In the end, no, you'll never know the difference. You can do math and say, "oh, know, I'm going to get hit with 4.4% more damage when being attacked from range.' But no human would detect the difference. (maybe Arcanaville would notice... but nobody else.)
It's the same build I posted about a week or so ago and in that build I had mids set everything to L35, I then went through and put in the exact levels of my enhancers to see if that was the problem, but saw no change.
The thing is that with all powers turned off the numbers are different. The only thing that would be active are the passives. True Grit and Phalanx Fighting. -
So as many of you know I set out to softcap my shields scrapper, and while I'm not quite there yet, I noticed some oddities from the ingame numbers and mids.
In mids I have myself softcapped and am working towards that build. When I was comparing some numbers on softcaps to the one positional that I have supposedly softcapped I found a discrepancy that I can't explain.
Ingame I see this...
21.75 ranged with no toggles on (phalanx and true grit only passives)
44.78 ranged with my ranged toggle/maneuvers/hover on.
Mids I see this...
21.80 ranged with no toggles on (phalanx and true grit only passives)
45.20 ranged with my ranged toggle/maneuvers/hover on.
So why am I seeing different numbers in mids then in game? I checked phalanx and its set to 0 people and the same numbers as ingame. As far as I can tell the sets look to have the same numbers too.
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It's funny you did this. I started injecting some humor into a farmish mission myself just to make it funny and enjoyable Still working on the npc's but the whole premise is that (as it's a ticket farm) you have to go reclaim the ticketz that haz been stolen!
So far I've added some "movie theater" people who have been kidnapped who say silly stuff before & after rescue. There are also boxes of tickets to be collected, with different sayings for a few different box groups etc.. Need to add more theater people and humor.
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Quote:hey there Tinkertanker, naa this is Amaranthian AmazonOriginally Posted by Dr_English
I'm assuming you were my team leader there. (tinkertanker here). I don't think there's really any hope. It seems like they have specific standards to log the events that, even if other valid proof is presented, do not allow them to grant the rewards in our case. Very frustrating of course. My support topic is still open but I think he's tired of talking to me after 7 back and forth replies. If it helps I don't see this as a common pattern with support here. Every other time my issue has been promptly and easily resolved.
Apparently whatever caused us to disconnect after the fight also erased the logs on their side, though they are still present client-side, effectively throwing us back in time a few minutes. We also lost the experience gained during the fight. I noticed this because I leveled from the mob kill on Burkholder and I no longer had the level upon return. The root of the problem (the loss of logs and rollback of our xp/merits/badge) is the very reason they can't validate the issue. Look at my earlier topic "Going back in Time" here for more information on what they told me here. Let me know if you make any headway there. I've pretty much given up.
Maybe we'll run it again come I16!
I've not made any headway at all, though the GM said that some people were awarded the Souvenir for the task force and their logs show us fighting Burkholder. SO I've been telling them that If people got the Souvenir from the task force, which is only able to be gotten upon completion/turn in, and turn in can only happen if you defeat Burkholder, then LOGICALLY we DID defeat Burkholder.
The lack of care from the CS representatives in this matter for something we PAY them to Enjoy is hugely FRUSTRATING!. Makes me want to scream.
I expect them to give me a lackadaisical reply and then close the topic on me, actually, then I'll fill out their little "How was your customer experience" survey and let them know just what I thought of it. -
Quote:tedious, expensive, long recharge, short duration. Thats why you don't see many of them around at all.Originally Posted by cp2_4eva
The WW interface at the SG base would be a nice addition. And I knew about the portable table, but isnt that thing time consuming to get? You don't see many of those around.