Doc_Hornet

Thanks again for another fun event. My Kheld got her badly-needed respec and the Zombie afters party was fun, too!

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If there's still room, I'd like to join in. Character name will be Sidecar.
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Another resource is Paragon Wiki which, although not a map per se, has in-game screen captures for the locations of individual exploration badges. Sometimes those badges can be tricky to find even with Vidiotmaps (the devs can be diabolical at hiding 'em ). The screen captures help a lot in those cases.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/CoH_Exploration_Badges

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It was a lot of fun. I really apprieciate that care was taken to include everyone who turned out.

Special thanks to Infernal and team for putting up with my poor Tyger Tyger, a MA/Fire single-target scrapper who spent most of the time flat on her back from knockback (when she wasn't DC'd). Despite the Tyger Tyger handicap, we still finished first -- and had a lot of fun in the process!

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I'd prefer new overlays. I really dislike the current preset granite look for my stone tanker. One of the reasons I prefer this game to other MMOs is that my characters look the way _I_ want them to look (especially with I16 -- yay, I16! go, I16!), not look like everybody else's because of equipment. The current preset Granite armor has a feel of other MMOs' uber-equipment-identical-look to it. I'm willing to settle for the Kheld's preset alien racial forms because of canon/story content, but the one-rock-fits-all approach to granite has always bothered me. There is nothing in the game canon that would possilby explain why my stone tanker must look identical to somebody else's.

I would trust, though, that any such change would be done later and not delay I16's rollout.
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Maul of America.

You could use your second build to get Whirlwind from the Speed power pool.
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... Or your character's ability to pull over at a convenience store and buy a Michelin road guide.

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But how else are we gonna solve the Mystery of the Monstrous Mayor?!

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It was old man Haggart, the museum curator... and he would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those kids and their dog!
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In the radio mission I just did, the Lost minions were panhandling with a tin cup and lying around on the sewer grates. Some were lying face down in the poo water. A couple times they "ambushed" me because I didn't see them -- they were underwater.
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Actually, they gave a 60 minutes warning to all us early birds logged in at 3 am PST.
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The Vision _was_ the Avengers at one point in time...the rest of them were just guest stars in his book. For almost 100 isssues (93 through 184 of their original series), the figure of the Vision was part of the title's logo, he was that iconic to the team.

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...that the AE building in the RWZ seems really out of place? I mean, it's a freaking war zone.

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We had Burger Kings, Pizza Huts, and Baskin Robbins in Iraq. (The busiest Burger King in the world in 2003 was the one at Baghdad airport.) What's so unbelievable about Vanguard troops kicking back and playing a little AE in their off-duty hours?

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The logical exentsion of the OPs post would be:

* Keep blueside money on blueside, don't spend it on redside.

* Keep Freedom money on Freedom, don't spend it on Liberty or Pinnacle

* Keep Altas Park money in AP, don't spend it creating new zones.

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Hmmmmm.... Do the Devs care what we think? Let's see if any of these past forum oldies-but-goodies ring a bell...

1) The ability to auto-exempt to play content/get badges a character may have levelled past. (Issue 11 --Ouroboros system)

2) More respecs (Issue 11 -- Respec Recipes)

3) More SG membership slots (Issue 11 -- doubled to 150 slots)

4) Weapon customization (Issue 11 -- Weapon customization)

5) Villain Epic ATs (Issue 12 -- VEATs)

6) Additional character slots (Issue 12 -- purchaseable and veteran award slots, server transfers, purchaseable respecs)

7) More power trays (Issue 12 -- customizable power trays)

8) Put a MASH-type field hosptial and stores in Hollows so you don't have to trek back to Atlas (Issue 12 -- revamp of Hollows zone includes store, trainer, MASH-type hospital)

9) Weed out inactive contacts so they don't clog your list (Issue 12 -- contact category tabs)

10) Secret Identities (Issue 13 -- Day Jobs)

11) Reducing the time for day job badges (Issue 13 -- reduced from 30 days to 21 days during beta process)

12) Multple builds to differentiate between PVP and PVE needs (Issue 13 -- Multiple builds)

13) Shields powerset (Issue 13 -- Shields powerset)

14) Port Empathy over to COV (Issue 13 -- Pain Domination)

15) Cheaper Supergroup Base rent (Issue 13 -- repricing of rent)

16) Put a SG Base teleport in Pocket D (Issue 13 -- Pocket D SG base teleport and tailor)

17) Ability to turn off XP (Issue 13 -- ability to turn off earning XP)

18) Player-created Mission creation system (Issue 14 -- AE system)

19) Ability to create custom foes in AE (Issue 14 -- implementing this delayed AE to Issue 14)

20) Widow waist capes (Issue 14 -- Widow waist capes)

21) Ability to customize permissions for SG storage bins (Issue 14 -- individual storage bin permission feature)

22) Eliminating the 60 days deletion of salvage inventory (Issue 14 -- elminated the 60 days deletion of salvage for active accounts)

23) Increasing Fly speed (Issue 14 -- Fligh speed increased.)

24) Return of the 5th Column (Issue 15 -- 5th Column task forces)

25) More non-co-op COV taskforces (Issue 15 -- 5th Column task force unique to COV)

26) Costume change emotes (Issue 15 -- costume change emotes)

27) More non-booster pack costumes (Issue 15 -- two costumes, several new faces)

28) Changing factions (Going Rogue expansion)

29) Dual-Pistols (forthcoming -- dual pistol AT)

30) More MM ATs, specifically some sort of demon AT (forthcoming -- demon summoning AT)


Virtually everthing in the past several issues have been features that players have been asking for. They may not have been implemented or addressed exactly as some thought they should be, but they do seem to be listening.
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In fact, I'd stop today if there was a badge for it ....

Examples of Heroic Necromancy:

1) Lord of the Rings books. Aragorn summons the dead of the Dead Marshes, a story element undoubtedly drawn from...

2) The legend of Drake's Drum. Legend has it that Sir Francis Drake promised should England ever again lay in peril, just bang on his drum and he would return from the dead (along with the rest of the English Fleet that faced the Armada).

3) The Spectre. There's a reason his skin is white. He's a corpse. A reanimated one. True, it was the Voice (God) who originally reanimated him, but by 1970 the Spectre had gone on to his final reward. Dr. Fate and the Justice Society resummoned him from beyond the grave -- all under Comics Code Authority seal of approval, too!

http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=23696&zoom=4

4) Kid Eternity. His summoned-from-beyond-the-grave minions had a little bit more color in their cheeks than most zombies, but they were deceased parrots pining for the fjords nevertheless.

5) The Purple Zombie, a 1940s comic book hero who was, well, a purple zombie summoned by an evildoer who turned on his summoner and continued to battle evil.

4) Billy Butcherson, the zombie in the 1993 Disney family film HOCUS POCUS.



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My guess (which means nothing) would be mid- or late-October.

1) This would position it for the on-shelf retail store Christmas season. Not too early so it still has a "new shiny" appeal, but early enough to have some word of mouth appeal.

2) This would position it for a HeroCon 2009 roll out. Assuming there's a HeroCon 2009 and its held roughly the same time period as last years.

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Depending on how the new box expansion mechanics work, the only new tanks I'd roll would be for AT unique powersets. Other than that, I'll be rolling brutes for both red- and blue-side instead of tanks.

Nothing to do with numbers...I just really don't like tanking for teams .. too much like being the de facto team leader.

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Ski Chalet is open both on test and live right now.

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Jade Spider perched on top of Atlas globe!

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Event giant monsters are giving out the badges they nornally do (for those that give them). Got one from Adamaster.

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