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Blasphemy! NCOs are the core and backbone of the military branches. They are the ones that get down and dirty and are largely responsible for the well being and training of all enlisted members. Despite what Hollywood portrays Officers are mainly administrators. While some Lts that serve as Platoon leaders may hump it with the troops, as far as many enlisted soldiers are concerned they just have to make sure we get our beans and bullets.


For this I would suggest a Warrant Officer, Specialist (or E4 equivalent)

I honestly think for such a small group you wouldn't need more than two officers. I take it this will only be a platoon sized group.

I'd have it as:

High ranking officer in charge of the group overall and dealing with bureaucrats.

Officer in charge of field operations, this would be the Platoon leader.

Platoon Sgt (Usually a SFC or MstSGT)

Squad leader, one for each squad (Usually a Staff Sgt but could be a Sgt or Corporal)

Squad members (E4, E3, E2, E1)

With that said the beauty of your idea is that it's your idea and you can choose to implement the structure as you wish, especially considering the basis and that this is a new military branch.

And I was going to slot this hopefully tonight after I replace my MB and CPU! I'll wait to see what the end results are before I respec my toons.

What are your settings? The more bad guys you fight the better your odds, but it's completely random.

I've gone weeks without getting one, then in a span of 4 days I'll get 5 or 6, yet I have toons such as my Elec/SD brute that has gone through literally tens of thousands of bad guys and has never gotten one, although he gets a lot of Respec recipes.

Then I've heard players that have gotten two on one mission.

/This

See my sig...

Two weeks ago to the day I asked this question:

Currently there are only 5 Targeted AoE sets, Air Burst, Detonation, Positron's Blast, Ragnarok and Javelin Volley as opposed to PBAoE which has 7 sets and Melee which has 12 sets (ranged also has 12). Out of those 5 there are only 3 "normal" sets in Targeted AoE, the other two are Purple and PvP, to make matters worse none of these sets give decent inherent recharge. Any plans on adding more Targeted AoE recipes to give the players more options?

But according to whoever posts for CoH on Freedom Fridays "They have no plans on adding TAoE recipes anytime soon."

I really don't know what they thought by giving so few options for TAoE and frankly I don't know why it's taking them so long to add more. It would be a lot easier to understand if we knew their thought process behind the decision, but as it stands it just appears to be one of those things they just don't care about.

You've only been playing a month... I wouldn't suggest farming at all even if you purchase the license.

You will be better off experiencing the game "naturally", and it's an excellent way to meet other players which to me is the best part of CoH.

Not sure of the differences between Premium and VIP but...

IMO I wouldn't farm until level 30 or 35. By that time you have your staple powers and they are nicely slotted, the drops you get that you won't use are also highly sought after by people like me that like to use level 35 IOs.

But unless you turn off XP you'll eventually out level this area.

Some will do the opposite, farm with their main if it's built for that in order to fund alts.

Others like me with severe altitis have no "main", we may have toons that have the same global or forum handle but no "main character" in the traditional sense. Instead we have what I call "projects" so farming of some sort is extremely effective.

For example last month I decided to roll a StJ/SR Scrapper, then I decided to roll a Rad/BR Defender, but then I thought about Scourge+EF+Disintegrate and decided to roll a BR/Rad Corruptor.

The previous month it was WM/EA Brute as well as another combo which I forget (too many alts).

When I22 hits there are already 3 combos I thinking about making (who am I fooling I know I'm making them); Staff Fighting/SR Scrapper, Beast/Dark Mastermind, and Dark/Dark Controller.

Farming will be the best way to finance what I need for these toons.

It isn't a waste if you're farming for recipes that can be use don other toons, or sold for big bucks on the market. You could also farm for salvage another toon needs.

In fact if done right I'd say it's very efficient.

For example I'll take my Elec/SD Brute on the Council map 53/46/46 Ranged/Melee/AoE defense and in 15-30 minutes depending on what level badguys I want to fight I'd be done with an entire map set to 8 players. One and done (unless I'm PL a toon on my other account) then it's on to something else.

I'm just thinking in terms of how much children and possibly grandchildren can cost. Those little crumb snatchers...

I doubt he's pass up a check.

I think a third installment is coming too late. They could have capitalized on the 2012 end of the world thing and made it 3D.

At this point they might as well just remake Ghostbusters entirely like they are doing everything else...

/Agreed

I tried a few times to get in on this but missed it due to work. I finally got to ask some questions a week ago. I can't believe I went to lunch late just for that.

It's a good idea, but questions rarely get answered.

I'd suggest they just have more regular updates. I'm sure they have development meetings, maybe filter the notes through marketing and update us every two weeks.

Edit:\

Thank you Zwill for answering some questions. It wa smuch more time effective to take 2 minutes to read your post than the hour it takes to read through the run around on Freedom Fridays.

No one seemed interested last year...

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=277637

And it's even better if you choose to pick up Shadow Meld

I think you'll still have PL beggars because I don't think free accounts have access to AE. But you do have a point about the recharge on the portal as it has happened to me in the past. On most of my toons it's not an issue because I use Super Speed, but having to fly to the Tram, venture to Talos, then fly Talos to PI is time consuming, but not without it's advantages as you can go get something to drink and be back before you reach the PI ferry...

I wonder what would take more coding time, placing a train in PI or removing nonsensical fedex back and forth missions such as the one you encountered?