Dollymistress

Ebil-o FTL Jan-11-2010
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  1. Yay!

    I'm not sure how to use the time though. I think somehow I missed most of the last time but usually I take an alt from 40-50 as my main achievement.

    Running the ITF constantly on a good team with my 50s or anything level 35+ sounds like a good plan.

    Oh! Now I have a goal for next week - get my final CoV lowbie level 32 up to 35!
  2. I paid $20 for a preorder code off evilbay back in Feb 2006. My first Stalker and WS have always sported the Wolf Spider helm (now with fun lights!) on one of their costumes.

    I am however, not bothered at all by Vets getting the helmets too. It's about time this particular reward was applied to one of the veteran badges, really.

    Not too impressed by the 54 month reward, but since I won't get it for...hmm...3 years, I don't feel like complaining.

    All I still want is a lifetime membership option, or the ability to buy time (and thus vet rewards) in advance. If I could preorder game time the Devs would instantly make about 27 months worth of cash from me.
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    Hopefully, the helmets will be male and female.

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    No.. Only the Widow helm is available for females.



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    That's misleading. Females can use all four helmets. Males and huge can use 3 of them - they don't get the Widow helmet but instead get the red version of the Wolf Spider helmet.

    That's why "redwolfspider helmet" is listed in the article instead of "widow helmet" - as usual the Devs has written things with male characters in mind.

    Of course, what with Issue 12 and the equal opportunities introduction of "Widowers", males might very well be given the Widow helms. I doubt it though.
  4. Widows need stilettos.

    Widows need butt-capes - this is absolutely critical!

    It would be nice is they also had the reflective texture on their tops/pants.

    Widow collars can clip with your neck on a female model.

    Soldiers need colour options on their capes.
  5. Hey, that's so awesome that you figured this out, it was driving me insane last night.

    I kept making a Roman costume for my main and every time I clicked "Accept", nothing happened.

    Please note that the current situation permits a nifty workaround for the "one uniform per VEAT" situation. If you want more than one type of Arachnos Uniform on your VEAT, all you need to do is prior to unlocking your next slot, edit your first slot to what you want the new slot to be.

    When you unlock a new slot, it will duplicate the first slot. Then you simply need to go back and revert the first slot to what it used to be and voila! Two (or three, or four, or five) different uniforms!
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    Really long hair

    Um...guys?

    The Bridal Veil could very very easily be retextured to look like hair.

    It wouldn't look perfect, but with a hair or ponytail texture, a bit more thickening and some tapering added, I could see the veil as long wavy hair.
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    So....since you're answering all sorts of other questions Lighthouse, what about being able to transfer across accounts under the same master NC account with this? If you don't know, just an 'I don't know' would be nice so we know at least someone's reading the posts and know its a concern

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    We're aware of the desire for cross account transfers. However I don't have any public statement on it, nor would I hazard a guess if or when or under what conditions it would be implemented.

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    That way lies madness.

    Imagine the possible DOOM. One player steals a character from someone else's account to their own. Characters either lose or unfairly gain Veteran Rewards. Players buy old accounts and transfer their best characters to it, in order to gain the advanced Vet rewards. Players circumvent account bans. Players trade characters, but one of them cheats on the deal and the otheer gets a crappy character or less loot/cash than they bargained for.

    Worst of all - far more players would be tempted to subscribe to PLing websites. Most people don't buy levels from websites because handing out their account password jeopardises any other characters they own on (and of course the account itself).

    If the websites could PL their own characters, on their own accounts, to level 50 and THEN transfer those characters to anyone who paid enough cash...that would just be catastrophic. With renaming and server transfers now set up, there would be nothing to stop a rich kid buying instant level 50 toons, over and over, with no risk.
  8. "lets you re-organize your character list by Drag and Drop"

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    Duly noted and fixed on my doc!

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    Fixed. You Americans and yer spellings
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    Historically the badge window has been for a month, give or take a few days

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    Thanks, that was a minor panic where I couldn't remember what happened on previous years. Phew!

    It will take me a month to log in all my alts.
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    Is the anniversary april 24th?

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    April 28th actually!

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    The badge isn't just for that one day is it? I thought it lasted for about a week or two.

    I'm away on the 28th!
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    recovery aura > the entire thermal set

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    All the endurance in the universe won't debuff that AV the way Heat Exhaustion and Melt Armor can. Just sayin'.

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    thermal isn't needed to debuff. Rad, cold, dark, poison, traps, and sonic can debuff more effectively than thermals can. People don't invite thermals for debuffs, they invite them for shields/forge/mez protection and heals

    I'm pretty sure while thermal will thematically be cool for controllers, it will still get dwarfed by empathy as far as overall effectiveness.

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    Yes so sad that people don't realize this, some of them not all because they're still trying to find an excuse for the devs not porting over empathy..

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    I agree. Porting Thermal over to Heroes is redundant, because Empthy is better. However,, particularly in PvP, Heroes will now benefit form BOTH Therm and Emp buffs, with villains stuck with the lesser of the two.

    I really don't mind any of the other Power Proliferation stuff, especially with more to come. I'm sure Psy Blasters will be nerfed into oblivion during Beta. VEATs will be awesome. It's all positive for me, except for villains losing their unique healer and giving Heroes two
  13. What is with the name "Subdual"?

    Is it Subdue? Or a joke on Sub-duel but spelt wrong?

    Is it two subdues? It sounds like "Subdue-Twice" at the moment...
  14. They way things are going, a Kinetics MM will be created. for Heroes.

    Even if PSW did zero damage on a Blaster, the disorient alone (slotted with Stupefy KB too!) will make these new guys godly.
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    In case you got this far (or only found this through the Dev Tracker)...

    Visual Sounds are NOT going into the game. We are NOT deleting all your sounds off your hard drive. This was NCNorCal's internet prank for April 1st, 2008.

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    Almost as funny as those ridiculous fake "Flight Poses" you said you were adding in.

    Oh wait...
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    I'm guessing the numbers behind the Psi/Mind powers will be tweaked downward to balance this set.

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    Fixed that for you.

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    So unless you are talking like less than defender level damage I just dont see how. Damage will suck so bad no one will want to play it anyways?

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    Psychic Shockwave for Dominators is an AOE power which does damage as it if it a single target power. For Blasters, this will not be the case -- the AOE divisor will be in place. In other words, divide damage by 4.75.

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    masterfully done castle (not being sarcastic, i swear). now, im curious, does this signal a nerf for psw in doms :-(

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    that would be the *end* of /Psi Doms, at a stroke. It's on a par with removing Hide from all Stalker sets.
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    I'm guessing the numbers behind the Psi/Mind powers will be tweaked downward to balance this set.

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    Fixed that for you.

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    So unless you are talking like less than defender level damage I just dont see how. Damage will suck so bad no one will want to play it anyways?

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    Psychic Shockwave for Dominators is an AOE power which does damage as it if it a single target power. For Blasters, this will not be the case -- the AOE divisor will be in place. In other words, divide damage by 4.75.

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  18. My only worry about this is that later down the line, if only a small minority of players opt out, then someone will reason that it might be okay to make the Ads mandatory - trading off the revenue from say 1,000 customers for the higher revenue from guaranteed advertising.

    I don't think NCNC is that mercenary, but the Ad company might point something like this out to them.

    As it stands, not bothered by it at all. I plan to opt out though, cos I really like the current billboards espceially if the adverts will cover up Arachnos recruiting posters or the Crey billboards.
  19. Happy that Mind/Psi has fewer issues than in the past. A part of me is *still* annoyed about the downgrading of the Shockwave animation and sound effect though.

    One thing not on the list. Maybe it;s not a bug, maybe its just me - but is Psychic Scream now *worse* than it used to be?

    I remember using it a lot in the past, but over the last six months it's just seemed so lackluaster and surplus to requirements. I hardly ever bother with it. THe cone is very narrow, especially in comparison with the other Mind and Psi cones. The damage is "meh", and the animation time is painfully long.

    When the power was last worked on (when the huge activation pause of using it while flying was fixed) it seemed that Psy Scream was deliberately given a longer activation time to balance the shortening of Mental Blast (which to this day is *still* the skip power of the Psi Assault).
  20. Can we include a Batfink super-sonic-sonar-radar Prestige Power?
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    Oh sure, give heroes Thermal heals and Empathy heals - Thermal buffs and Cold Domination buffs. And villains get.... /storm... twice over.

    *throws hands up* I give up. Obviously the devs want everyone to play blueside.

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    No one I know wanted thermal. Everyone of them wanted a real secondary to be added that didn't just act as a grab bag of other sets already available. Dark, Cold, Traps, would it have killed them to add a controller secondary that someone may have wanted?

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    As a reminder of the scope of Powerset Proliferation, it was to port existing powersets, not to create new ones. While some people consider the Blaster Psi secondary to be a new one, it's not - it's pretty much Dom Psi moved over (with balance tweaking).

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    please don't tell me you gave blasters psychic shockwave....

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    That would be an actual crime. I'm calling the cops now, just in case.
  22. So okay. Villains.

    Illusion? - no.
    Archery? - no.
    Empathy? - no.
    Ice Armour? - no.
    Broadsword? - no.

    Plus we are given Electric, but it's red.

    LOL at Elec/Elec Stalkers, Earth/Elec Doms, and SR Brutes. An even bigger LOL at /Storm MMs. Corrs are the only set that got anything decent.

    But that's not all. A signature Villain set, Thermal, goes to Heroes along with Dark/Dark and the onset of Psy Blasters.

    I'm trying to think of a worse combination of trades for villain ATs, but I can't. There simply is no worse way this could have gone for us.

    Heroes will be in RV buffed with Fortitude AND Forge, CM AND Thaw, both at the same time, WITH Fire/Plasma Shields.

    PvP is over for villains (even I can see this and I don't even PvP!).

    Villains MUST get at least Empathy and Illusion. It just isn't fair otherwise.
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    well at least it's obivous that you guys hate the villains now.

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