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I did a couple hours of editing and the big thing is that your Doorway archs can't house anythng and that raid blocking on most items have incresed by aound 10% [I had to move my Super computer away from the monitor banks a little more.]

if you do this you should be able to edit in rooms again.

I think the idea of this patch was to pull anchors off doorways so you can't eyeball invaders . . .

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Global defense buff

Global Defense change is more appropriate.

Global tohit buff to most Mobs

Their To-Hit is being lowered while their Accuracy is being buffed.

Schedual A to Schedual B for enhancers

One enhancement was moved.

Overall slower leveling speed ...

I really don't see where the heck this one came from.

non defense sets are gettin ~3-5% more damage incoming.

From what? The overall accuracy/to-hit from a mob isn't changing only the way the values are calculated is being adjusted. If you had no defense or to-hit buff you will notice no change. If you had a small defense you will notice a greater effect versus higher ranking and higher level foes.

Server will have to provide larger calculations for combat increasing lag. (it will be harder to take out hammy I bet)

The equation itself didn't change just the variables so no more compute cycles will be used when the change goes through.

MoG, Elude, Overload, PFF, etc will be harder than ever to punch though by players.

What exactly does this have to do with changing of to-hit debuffs?

How about Aim?

How about Build Up?

To-Hit debuff enhancements are supposed to go in these powers?

I'd like to know how much my 3 slotted nova form with 2hit buffs will be reduced and my debuffing AOE attacks?

To-Hit Buffs were not changed, To-Hit debuffs will have a stronger impact on higher ranking/higher level foes but losing a bit of effect on minions.

What about underlings?

Underlings use the same basic accuracy and to-hit as a basic minion so no change to them.

Monsters? Giant monsters?

I believe these both use AV level accuracy/to-hit and as such you will have more effect on them than you did previously.

I feel the relaxing soling days are over ...

I think you are overreacting and drawing conclusions based on nothing.

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Just wait and see when this hits test. Builds that depend on 2hit buff and debuff WITH the defense change are going to have a new play style. Trust me I'll notice the difference in pain on my squishies.. that 3% that gave me defiance will now give me death becuase my buddies debuffs are not as strong. My /SR scrappers will be coming out of retirement becuase he won't be 1-2 shotted for every foot stomp from an AV that comes his way. Glancing over the numbers in this thread the overall playerbase is getting a small nerf. Drawing conclusions over nothing? I've put so many hours into this game that I notice every tiny change, my toons live on the bungie cord of death. A small change here ...and small change there. I remember when I could power thrust minions over the atlas globe, regen scrapper could tank hammy, And I could snipe at 300 yards, it's all gone...by little changes here and there. Watching what the devs do, questioning the numbers, and drawing up debate is what give the average player a chance of holding that meta-human super hero glory. Do a survey and find how many players from CoH Beta are left. Your being nickeled and dimed and don't even realize it . . .

So in summary:

Global defense buff
Global tohit buff to most Mobs
Schedual A to Schedual B for enhancers
Overall slower leveling speed ...

Larger teams will benefit in a narrow range, non defense sets are gettin ~3-5% more damage incoming. Server will have to provide larger calculations for combat increasing lag. (it will be harder to take out hammy I bet) PvP is drastically being effected [I can see why MM PFF had to be changed since it will be harder to hit them]

MoG, Elude, Overload, PFF, etc will be harder than ever to punch though by players.

I'd like to know how much my 3 slotted nova form with 2hit buffs will be reduced and my debuffing AOE attacks?

How about Aim?

How about Build Up?

I feel the relaxing soling days are over ...

What about underlings? Monsters? Giant monsters?

So many Q's, numbers, and tests to do . . .

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Bug… In an upcoming patch, flying entities that are disorient will no longer behave oddly.

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Took you long enough to notice this 'bug' despite the fact that martial arts scrappers and superstrength tankers have had the problem since day one.

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This bug still exists. I used a Total Focus with my stalker on a gold Bricker and I Energy Transfered his wingman. They immediately took to the air and few far as they possibly could doing the druken dance the whole time.

A Followup to the blue house post:


Green House

Will the new Accolades Hurt Badges like the current ones do?

IE damage taken and HPS healed in the "Accolade bonus" HPs never get counted??

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Here's my biggest beef with the whole "I want isolator" thing...
Me, I'd rather see the time and effort put into new content, or fixing the preexisting bugs.

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How about the best of both worlds?

We know Isolator in it self is a flop, we have all tried to stop the outbreak ...but it is still there being fed by villains. So our first career move in Pargon city is still ongoing. A plot that goes up to Arachnos himself. Technically, Positron can work this into the badge text and offer another way to get it we all would be happy campers

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fail to see you in your 4 second animation

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We anyone playing a stalker knows it's not 4 seconds.... but more like 2-3 seconds
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anyone player a stalker knows if you get hit after about half the animation it still conencts..

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Yup and I tested this out. Was with a SG Mate[well our evil side mate] Was wading in the water so I know he was coming. We set the area up so I could not target a Mob while I whamming my brawl attack. He started the animation to AS me and I saw him clear as day as I was continuously mashing the button. I Gut punched him will brawl yet the AS still landed. We were both in shock. AS hass finshed all it's [hit/interupt] checks before the stalker drops hide.

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So... why not use stealth with hide and TP in from above?
You can TP from way more than 75 yards...
And Stealth with Hide gets you to your stealth cap...

Also... Aim isnt a good defense for stealth...
it's a 10 seconds glimpse.

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Your data is way off. First, Hide+Stealth does _not_ take you to the Stealth cap, it takes you to -890 PER, the cap in SC for Stalkers is -1007. CM stacks with itself with a per bonus of +390 for each instance. (note I actually made a mistake in my intial math by not including Base Perception.)

Hide+Stealth = -890 Per
x2 CM = +780
Base Per = 500

The Blappers will have a total +PER of 1280. The Stalker will have a -PER of 890. That means that the Stalker will be visible to the Blappers from 390 feet away (130 yards).

Aim actually provides no +PER benefit, instead its benefit is to be able to cut through your defenses.

So in other words, you will be seen from far outside of TP range.

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CM only stacks perception if it is given by different casters.

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Since AS is practically a melee snipe, shouldn't it follow the rules for snipe attacks and have it's range and line of sight checked twice? Once when the attack is initiated and once when it is resolved. Not like now, when people can start up AS and kill someone 100 feet away because the target moved.

If not, can someone tell me how to interrupt a stalker running Elude or similar powers? It's impossible to hit them even if I can see them perfectly fine.

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This has been brought up a couple times internally. The problem with making AS check Range twice is that it would be virtually impossible to land in PvP. It would also make it unique in that all other melee powers only check range once, so even if your target is running, you will still land the attack, no matter how far away they get.

It DOES check line of sight twice, so if you constantly take routes which break LOS frequently, you can stop Assassin attacks.

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Something that might be interesting to try would be to have a relaxed range check at the end. For instance, 5 feet at the start and 15 feet at the end. Essentially the design would be that if you are moving at travel power speeds you can't be ASed, but if you are moving at sprint speeds you can be. I don't know how that would work out in practice but it might be worth some internal testing.

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Hell I'd like to see this for all melee powers..

1st check at [power range],

2nd check at [power range x 4].

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As for WHY I don't like the idea for Flashback, I explained it in another thread but I'll explain it again here... I don't like the idea of people being able to do "everything" with one character. You shouldn't be able to get all the badges, see all the storylines, and all that.

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OK, so then here we come to the crux of the matter. The apparent reason why you are so vocal in all the threads about the Isolator badge. Why you are such a nay-sayer on this issue.

You want to dictate to me (and everyone else) how to play the game.

I personally want my one main character to experience all the content. If he does so (now listen carefully here)… THIS DOES NOT HURT YOU IN ANY WAY! If you don’t want one of your characters to do everything, get every badge, etc., then DON’T do that with YOUR characters! But it is not your place to dictate what is “best” for everyone else in the game or how they play it. And don't tell me that I "shouldn't" do something with Zube.

I once lived in a little cul-de-sac. One day one of our neighbors decided to paint his house blue. None of the other houses were blue, and this really upset a little old lady living next door. She made a HUGE pest of herself demanding that our neighbor stop painting his house in this “offensive” color. When he told her to mind her own business, she went house to house trying to get everyone else to pressure him to stop. Of course, this being a free country (at least it was back then), she had no success.

Now this woman clearly thought that she was the arbiter of what was “correct” and “right” in the area. She even had a tiny justification, because she had to look at the blue house every day. But you, sir, do not even have that. My having all the badges, doing all the task forces, experiencing all the content, does NOT affect you in any way! You don’t have to look at my badges, and you cannot see my souvenirs. You don’t even have any way of knowing how many alts I have, unless I tell you.

If you want replayability, then replay. Your choice. If collecting badges keeps me playing, that’s my choice.

Granted, I understand that you are expressing an opinion about the game. I get that. But your opinion has, as its foundation, the idea that you get to decide what is “good” for other players and/or the game as a whole. And that is completely unreasonable.

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I'm starting to wonder who in this thread has a Grandmother running a Home Owners Association. The genetic verbose is very apparent!

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Do you acyually play this game or do you just sit in the forums "Poo Pooing" everyone ideas from your Ivory tower? What upsets you SOooooo Much about our badge hunting and Isolator? It isnt Fair!!!!! You sream out, then try to cover it up with intelectuals. Its just a stupid useless badge that I would like to have in my little badge window, I am not asking for the ones come and gone. Every time you respond it seems that you dont want us to have this badge and now you hold IT aloft like a victory over us. Jeez man lighten up.

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Are you attempting to be serious, or are you attempting to be funny with this? Because I can't tell.

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All I can see is Trollism.

LiquidX, you seem to fail to understand the whole plot of Outbreak, Heroes stop it then villains sneak over and keep it going. Those of us from Issue Zero to Issue 2 were never data mined for this badge although we started our careers from it, hell even the Outbreak contacts were different back then. When I went though it, we had the entire Outbreak Zone clean as a whistle and waiting for spawns because so many heroes were in the zone beating the crap out of them [only time I've seen 6 atlas parks], I'd say we earned it [or in this case another chance at it even if time travel is involved].

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IF we were to ever add a way to get Isolator post-Tutorial, it would most likely be incredibly hard to get. Annoyingly hard. Irritatingly hard. There-would-be-a-zillion-people-asking-to-make-it-easier hard.

But IF we were to add it, it would be available nonetheless.




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Harder than soloing a controller to 32 pre-containment?

Don't underestimate your playerbase, Posi.

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I hear the contanimated mutigen is a plot by the Rikti to make Organ Collection an easier process ... I can finally finisih the task that brought my hero to Paragon City - Darn Rikti UFO!!!

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ok, to all you players who made toons before this badge was availaible. I say this oh snap you missed out on a badge... TOUGH!!

I missed out on 8 badges that the Devs will NEVER, I repeat NEVER allow new toons to attain, just because were made after the event, so quit you whining I'll never get Celebrant because I wasnt around, & you'll never get Isolator because you weren't around. plain & simple!!!

So my new toon has ONE badge that your old toon doesnt, so what, your old toon has 8 badges that I'll NEVER be able to get!

is this 'fair' to me, no.
is the dev's giving old toons the ability to acquire the one badge I have that they cant, without me being able to also acquire the badges they have that I dont - no

why is it all the old badgers cant stand the idea of 1 little timy badge they'll never get, when I'm stuck with 8 that I'll never get?

Fair is fair & I think that if Isolator is opened up to older players, then I should be able to get Celebrant & the Winter Lord badge!

repeating my main point again!

a badgin fool

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All I want to know is where or who said that heroes who missed the Halloween badges and or the Winter event badges will never get the chance to get them again?

I swear I never recall seeing or reading this from any post by a redname.

So that would leave it open for future events to happen again, I mean one of the Winter event badges already came back, I didn't see not one person complain about that. It seems everyone was happy.

So until I see a redname make a post telling us heroes we will never ever see these Special event badges again, then i suggest you stop whinning.

As for the annual event badges, these I can see you missing and never returning again, many of my toons, I forgot to log in, and thats my problem, I have never complained about missing them as it was my fault, if you were not a CoH hero when this event went live, then you too have no right to complain.

You were not even here for the event is not a reasonable excuse to say bring it back. Many of us heroes were here for the release of isolator and never had the fair chance to even get this badge.

So yes, we do deserve the right to earn it as everyone else did and does.

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Well Said!!

Yeah the point is, I did kill a bunch of Contanimated on my head start, was it 50? No..but it was sure a bunch of them. If they reduced the badge req. to say, 10 ..everyone would get Isolator except for those who skipped the tutorial, a fair trade IMHO. I'm sure we will see the Halloween, and Winter badges again since the devs have learned the "timer technology" Us vets didn't get any extra badges ..Like "Xenophobe" or something that ties us to the Rikti invasion and pre badge days. The one year badge is for any toon that logged in that day NOT 1 year of fighting crime.

Woah!! Slow down the Video and the Arachnos flyer has troops that dropped out of it....!!!

Tactical Station
Originally suggested by: DojhromTRW
Category: aux/control room
Customizable? N
Type: unlocked & purchased & crafted
This item is unlocked by successfully completing the IOP trial [perhaps link to a badge]
Description: After taking the Item of power from the Shard, you realized your group has opened a pandoras box of trouble. Noticing the advantage of perception used in the IOP battle, the tactical station came to mind. This item will boost the perception of all defenses in the base as long as the station is manned, powered, and operational. Every 60 seconds someone must recalibrate the system to keep the base defenses fully primed.
This will cancel the effects of superspeed plus another 15 units. This item acts as a glowie that needs to be clicked and will make a small klackon noise if uncalibrated.
Limitations: One per base, price 500k

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*waves to Positron*

Will Snowbeast also be fixed?

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Yes. This is given to players who got the Toy Collector badge in December.

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Whoot, I remember sending you a PM requesting a snowbeast gladiator in CoV Beta! So I'm retroactively taking credit for this idea.

Come to think of it... the gladiator awarded with Toothbreaker was on my list, too, and I know I was bugging Recluse for it...

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/sarcasm on

Wow, you took credit for the change to the badge forum, and now for 2 gladiators....what would we do without you? If it wasn't for you the Devs would have no clue as to what to do about badges and gladiators, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

/sarcasm off.

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Now if we had an Instant Base raid system with an option of [Gladiators Only] ...that would be an idea!!

Passport, I have it on live ...


1) What is the true intention of this badge. [The Pigg hackers have theories but we deserve the truth]

2) Since this a bug can I trade it for Isolator

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Kristof Jaeger. Apparently at 33 I've outleveled him, so he must be a 25-30. For some reason I thought he was 30-35.

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He's 25-29, at least according to CuppaJo in another post (and my 29.3 Brute having been able to do his missions).

I posted the story arc name and souvie in the other thread after doing his missions tonight.

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OMG NO. I had my alt sitting waiting for kristof because I thought he was 30-35. Dange nabit and to think I spent 28-30 street grinding grrr. Well time for another alt to get up to that level.

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UGG I saved my lvl 32 for this contact. Kristoff is just like that jackarse ghost trapping contact.. definately in the wrong level range for the task.

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On vacation - first in Indianapolis with my in laws for Christmas, then off to the Fiesta Bowl with my wife to see the Buckeyes. I was back at work last Wednesday, but there was a lot to catch up on.

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States, you know The Sundevil Stadium is about 300 yards from my house... If I would have known I'd woulda treated you to a beer or two at Dos Gringos!

-And I coulda saved ya 20+ bucks on Parking too

Is your LFG tag set to: "Not looking for Group"

and you still get spammed . . .

I have a solution for you!

Pick a language that most players don't use. Russian, Swedish, Latin are all good ones.

When you get those tells reply in that language only. That player should ignore you in no time!

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If you allow mods, people can start modding things that were not intended, giving them an advantage. Even something as basic as a client side mod for skins--what if they replaced all the mob skins with ultra bright colours so they could be seen easier?

This was a big problem in World of Warcraft. They let people use mods, so of course some people start using them to get an advantage. And then everyone else feels that they *need* to get one or they'll be at a disadvantage. And so modders influence the way the game is played.

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Yup this happened in CS, I had a Simpsons mod where everyone looked like toons from the Simpsons, so were people were camping behind crates and windows I'd see a big homer head and AWP through the wall... blam!! Replacing the knife with the trout slap was fun too. ..Mods can be fun but when you have rated games, you get "cheaters"

Stealth Aura now becomes Purple glowie of doom or the flight/foot step movement sounds like a fire alarms [There he is!] No mods is great ... I wish the devs would add more option though . . .

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All these reasons are why they are worth more XP than normal.

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It would be nice to see some Longbow Presence in CoH beside the ones who sell subpar enhancements inside the stores ... Perhaps a few Groups helping the Military in the RCS? Or some Ballista "Guards" out side of the FC buildings? ...

Also which long bow are worth more XP/Prestiege? It seems they range from 8-11 prestiege as even cons on the same mission.

BTW your Avatar Has weather .... where is snow hiding in Paragon City?

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Can you Buy a base instead of renting and where do you go to buy it.

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If your in a Villain or Super Group go to the group Registar. You can select to start a base.

Prestiege is like Clay, the more you have the more you can mold your base. (paper, desks, workbenches, rooms) We all start with some and then Earn MORE while playing the game in Supergroup Mode.

Rent which is due every 2 weeks (what the city wants back from you) comes from this Curve:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../rentgraph.jpg

Base growth requires allot of time. The best groups right now have between 5-7 million prestiege with active playing.