Energizing_Ion

I was thinking about doing a DS/Poison but...I don't know...having an AoE heal (as well as a heal that heals you the caster) is so nice to have.

I just wish Noxious Gas didn't have a 5 min recharge timer on it


Who wants to try to sway me to make a DS/Poison when i17 goes live? :P

Hello

I wish I could have stayed with the group for the posi tf part 2...ah well :/

Good video though

Click on start -> Run and then just put this in it:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project Coh -renderthread 1

That should work...


For me (on XP) for test I use:

"C:\Program Files\CohTest\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project CohTest

and works fine.

Hooray, Richmond, VA represent! heh...

Congrats to all the winners.

Well I did count 8 moves/powers from that Kinetic Melee set. Only one that wasn't shown...unless it's just alternate animations... *shrugs*

I'll toss my vote in again like I have before for choosing to revamp/re-do old zones and not so much creating new zones.

One poster said it best: CoH: revamp zones, CoV: add zones.

And revamping a zone doesn't mean a full tileset/layout different like Faultline had done to it (although something Boomtown would need some work on it done)....but, like others have said, just add some contacts/story arcs, maybe a small TF of a sort and 'bam!' much better! Now people would have a reason to go there beyond getting sent there to do a defeat x mission.

I think base raids were fun....to a point. It was fun just to raid different bases to try and win. You 'won' by a few conditions: 1.) steal the Item of Power if the other SG had one or 2. Blow up 6 'dimensional anchors' that were in the other SG's base.

It was usually # 2 since I think only a very handful of SGs had IoPs (because the CoP trial was taken off before base raids were). CoP trials were taken offline first because of buggy-ness with 'em...sometimes people couldn't zone into the CoP trial/zone and sometimes they could....and sometimes people could zone into a regular mission which would mess up that team's ability to enter the CoP (If I remember right).

So it was fun a few times that I have done a base raid with sg peeps. Being the attackers was neat because we'd all zone in and just spread out and try to find the anchors and blow 'em up. There was at least one time that we didn't think we could make it (oh and there was a time limit for the raid btw)...but one of our PBs popped a few inspirations, zoned in and then phased (PB phase power) and then blew up the last anchor and we won


The few problems I had with base raids were as follows:

1.) SG base layouts. There were quite a few 'exploits' or tricks or whatever you wanted to call them. If you were "smart" enough the defenders could build a "jail" in their base and have someone teleport foe into the 'jail'. This jail was a construct of multiple base decoration objects and basically made it so that you couldn't escape (unless your teammate tp'ed you out...which usually didn't happen since they were either being attacked or didn't have recall friend). I was 'lucky' enough to be tp'ed into jail once on my main (Kin/Rad def)....couldn't jump/run out...didn't have tp, but even if I did, there wasn't a way to tp out... /stuck didn't work....had to /kill yourself to get out....yeah ...not fun.

The other issue with SG base layouts is that the way a base was laid out there were only certain entry points where attackers would spawn. Once you knew where they would spawn, the base builder could just lower the floor and raise the floors/tiles around that spawn point so that you couldn't just walk/run up the stairs...you had to jump/tp out. Doesn't sound like an issue right? Well....it's not; until the defenders are spawn camping those spawn points with Tar Patch or Quicksand or any other various powers that do -jump -spd....ta-da....insta-death! Not fun for the attackers.


2.) Each team member (remember you could have more than 1 full team of 8 attacking an SG base) of a team of 8 could spawn at different spawn points. Not a 'huge' deal but...if you're being attacked and killed repeatedly it's hard to have your teammates heal you when 5 out of 8 spawn elsewhere.


3.) Of course the 'biggest' issue was scheduling. Sure a base raid was fun....but if your SG is spread out across different time zones....it was hard to try to get everyone together to raid and/or defend the base.


I'm definitely looking forward to a re-vamped CoP trial and/or base raids though!

Just thought of it....I should have asked the newsarama man to ask the devs, "how many free char. slots are we getting in GR?"

Ah well. :P

Happy Birthday