EU_Damz

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Combat capable allies.

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If anything wouldnt they be kept IN? I hate missions with strong allies (as my team found out yesterday when we had THREE AV allies, oh i cursed a lot at all the kill steals!) since it becomes a case of "lets watch them npcs duke it out!".

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They've already taken force field generators away from us. What's to stop you replacing them with a FF defender or empath or other kind of buffbot? Combat doesn't have to mean offensive combat... The MA doesn't make any distinction there, does it?

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Thought its impossible to make a pure buffbot? Has at least one attack usually? "weakest" buffbot i found to make was a mind/emp, though if what you said is true then they are really making a huge mockup.

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Combat capable allies.

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If anything wouldnt they be kept IN? I hate missions with strong allies (as my team found out yesterday when we had THREE AV allies, oh i cursed a lot at all the kill steals!) since it becomes a case of "lets watch them npcs duke it out!".

Police drones

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The apocalypse zombies use the invasion code for scaling, which makes them unlikely candidates for the MA. I think that they all have an actual level of 25.

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Wouldnt it be minimum of 27 since they drop level 30 recipes too?

Today is the day when golden girl strikes back!!!! Bravo GG!!!! Well said post!

Long live heroes!!!!

(i am actually quite scared now though)

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Actually chances are you'll be swapping Soon with Soon, if you see what I mean. (if not I'll spell it out. At the moment the grass seems greener on the other side but the chances are when you get there all there is is fresh dirt, some seedlings and the grass will be coming 'Soon')

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100% agree with carnifax here, the way its been hyped up is way over its head. From the screenies and attitude of the game i wont even be getting a trial account on it.

You log onto the game now and you can almost guarantee someone is talking about trying it out, but then again almsot every person i've heard say that has also said they'll more than likely come back. To me it seems its going to be a "filler" game and not a major sub stealer (DCUO will be bigger), also can bet after the first 2 months people on there WILL get highly annoyed and come crawling back in which case the noob buster will greet them all with broadcasts of "BUSTED!!!!".

100% havent come across it on my screenshot travels so far.

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The farming and PLing thing is a separate issue really, as many players have been finding the quickest and easiest ways to get inf/XP for ages now

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Team A: Join a team with normalish xp and possibility of a level or 2

Team B: Mega xp with mega levels.

Hard choice to make !!!

Unless of course your team C which offers something different, make a team fun to make people want to team with you.

My teams? Full of carnage and random chatter = good fun!

Teams i avoid? **** has joined the team. *1 hour of silence* *cough* who made a noise?!?!?

Edit: Just to make my post a bit on topic, i dont mind either. I dont farm loads and i dont powerlevel loads (though i have had a few friends powerlevel me a few levels now and then). I do what i perceive as fun to me, which can be a mixture of things. Whether its getting the most enemies possible on a map and seeing just how long i can survive (push yourself to the limit carnage style! Easier to achieve thanks to MA!), finding new and hidden ways to get inf quick (my record is STILL 1.2 mill earned inf (not drops)in 10 mins with no fills), giving money away and most importantly have a good time you miserable sods!!!!! ( and thats my signal to leave!)

This thread has been noob marked. Next person to post will be officially noob busted. You have been warned.

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Let the wild nights out commence

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Welcome to my world You'll love it!

*sigh* im going to have to upload every single one up now arent i Took me a few hours just for those lot. Don't expect it until sat when i have a day free!

Have a good birthday mate! May you be a noob forever!

You all do realise atlas park isnt the ONLY zone in the game right? Im sure not ALL new players stay in just the one zone.

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You suggesting issue 15 is here? You know something we dont know?

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I know you suck for causing someone to post on Mothership Raid Channel I was lucky I saw you two having your couples arguement in the Help channel.


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That ended up to be a joke in which a few people took a bit TOO serious . .. . . . . . . . Just ask anybody in atlas at the time, i got slaughtered!

You suggesting issue 15 is here? You know something we dont know?

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Unfortunately ma is just a huge farming area and the devs brought it in

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The obvious solution to killing farming in them is to remove the XP and Inf. which I suggested might have to be done for it not to be horribly exploited when the idea was announced.

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Any xp/inf change and the majority of players wont ever use it again.

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Question: I have made an arc that is designed to be a constant ambush mission (still needs tweaking) of insane high numbers. If you are strong enough to take the damage and dish it out then the rewards are immense, would you consider this a farm or a fun and entertaining challenege?

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Simple way to stop extreme PLing. Make trainer visits mandatory before you can start earning xp towards your next level. Done.

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sewer teams no longer happen
people will stop teaming mid-way through missions
taskforces like the ITF wont have as many under 49s
would kill any teams basically

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I think the devs have probably been a bit taken by suirprise by some of the MA exploits that are being used right now - the beta testing was mostly to make sure the actual MA system worked, so I think most of the testers were looking for bugs rather than exploits

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They shouldnt be really, off the top of my head i can think of many ways to "abuse the system" with the right AT, a lot of them are obvious too.

Anyone have any knowledge as to whether accounts are going to be reactivated at all for issue 14? Went searching but couldnt find any information on it

Lets conspire . . . . . where has she gone . . . . . .

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your going to get total noobs joining who havent got a clue how there toon works how to use the powers and havent got it enhanced

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Noob buster reporting for duty!

Oh i wont be the one writing it (english is POOR!) as my friend wants to have a go at the MA before he subscribes to it, so he said he'ld do the dialog and everything as long as i get ideas/ambushes etc all sorted out (though i'll get the rewards but hey thats the price to pay for being a friend of mine!)

Been getting together a few ideas for my first real serious arc and so far this is the one that has struck out to me the most.

Your contact is a book (THINK you can use it? If not easily replaced) and basically your reading the story with you the hero as the main star. So basically it'ld all have to be third person wording with "media style controlled" sequences/events taking place.

Do you think that'ld be interesting enough or back to the drawing board? HONEST answers please because want my first real arc to be half decent

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Dying in your own dream isn't a great idea when you're supposed to have some semblence of control over it.

[/ QUOTE ]If your ego gets in the way when doing author insertion, maybe you shouldn't do it at all. Just a friendly tip here.

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Cant remember off the top of my head but are you able to insert dialog if the ally dies? (does it count as losing sight of him/her?)
Would make an interesting twist/dialog to have such low self confidence you have another hero save the day (thinking about scrubs when JD in his own daydream is the sk).

You'ld have lots of small single missions out and thus increasing the amount of arcs Harder to find the good ones then, until they sort out the search engine its /unsigned from me sorry.

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And the idea to make MA buildings unusable for high-levels in Atlas and Galaxy is perfect.

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Im against this, i know i broadcast a LOT of garbage in atlas but to me its a community talk zone. Some of my funniest times in paragon have been from random times there.

It keeps me from getting bored and theres always a chance you'll meet someone there you know randomly, so while im against the constant blind invites/lvl 1 lff broadcasts, im also against banning high levels access.

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I added an ally as an EB to help squishier characters out, that of course makes it a lot easier for melee toons so you can't win really

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I mentioned about people putting in strong allies on the MA channel earlier and i must admit, im not really one for the + column about it. Anything above a lieut as an ally is too strong for a MA mission, especially if its a custom made one.

Take for example this: Earlier i was in a mission and was able to rescue 2 allies, one troll and one custom. The troll wasnt doing too much damage but enough that it was helping me (positive), the custom was 2 shotting everything in sight and thus reducing my rewards GREATLY (negative).

If the allies fit the storyline as a strong hero then great, however at the moment it does feel like they're put in just as a "ooo shiny" feature If a mission is too tough the player NEEDS anything from boss and above as an ally then i feel the mission needs toning down a bit.

^^ The above is the opinion of damien and damien only.