Ex_Libris

"A crime is being commited at these coordinates! Run to the nearest pay phone and call the police within four minutes before they get away!"

Actually, thats a good point. Errand missions have always been pretty boring. Maybe we could tweak that idea a little. Maybe minigames, or finding creative ways to save people, while not revealing yourself.

Actually, thats a good point. Errand missions have always been pretty boring. Maybe we could tweak that idea a little. Maybe minigames, or finding creative ways to save people, while not revealing yourself.

I'm going to agree with that. 1000 words is like a summary of most things I write...

Not bad... not bad at all.

Though I personally would have liked to hear how Jon went from hearing about his dad's history to fighting the good ol' nazis, I enjoyed the story. Bring on the rest

RSRobinson:

Thanks again for the feedback.

If you toss a smoke grenade into a pack of mobs, do the ones that is "misses" aggro on you? If so, that sucks. If they do aggro, will they aggro even if you have SS and CD on?

If that is the case, then it seems its better to just use SS + CD to drop trip mines and not even worry about smoke grenade. Is that an accurate assesment?

From my limited use of energy torrent compared to my use of fire breath + fireball on my fire blaster, it is definitely true that torrent isn't enough to make an energy blaster into a good AE blaster. However, when I group my energy/dev blaster with my wife's ice/dev blaster, torrent + frost breath generally takes out entire packs.

Would you say that any */dev blaster can be good at AE as soon as they hit level 31 (5 slots in trip mine)? The question then is how good at AE are they until then (fire/ar being the tops).

Well it would definately make it easier on the gamers if you didn't have to have a secret ID, but at the same time, would you really WANT one if you knew other people without them didn't have all those in-game responsibilities? You mentioned rewards, but they'd have to be pretty worth-while to attract people to the idea. I'm not saying it's a BAD idea, I'm just saying that may not be the best take on the idea. There are other ways to implement the secret ID without the delivery missions and the errands that have pushed people away from other MMORPGs.

If only writing professionally could make you a nice living...

I mean it can, but its not easy...

Lobe followed quietly as the group made their way to the Green Line. His worry for Lady Deth grew with each outburst from her unconscious form. He was so focused on her that he didn't recognize the homeless man he bumped into as they passed him on their way to the tram. After mumbling an apology, the homless man walked over to a shopping cart, crammed with junk, and began pushing it down an alley.

A question about AoE farming. Perez Park was great with finding large groups of minions. But now at lv12, they've all turned gray. The only gang that have any color in them are ones with multiple bosses or lts. I've been finding similar gang setups within the park itself. When I visited Boomtown, I found that each gang has at least 1-2 bosses and 1-2 lts. Now were the large gang of minions at Perez Park the end of the quick and easy gravy train?

In response to Immortal's problems, I said that not everyone would have a secret identity. If you didn't want one, then you could just be a superhero. The problem with having you recret identity being you true identity is that if it is discovered, real superivllans wont attack you on the streets, and people won't mob you for autographs. Also, You can quit the game at any point to go to a meeting, but with my suggestion people won't be able to just leave a hughe battle to go to work.

"Hey Haunt...yea, I've got a place here...don't use it much though. I've been thinking of getting a place closer to the office actually. You here to get a bit of free room?"

RSRobinson:

Would you agree that if an energy or ice blaster takes DEVICES as their secondary, they can also become a very good AE blaster by adding trip mine to their repetoire?

Trip Mine + Energy Torrent + Nove

or

Trip Mine + Frost Breath

Either one of these will wipe out entire packs of white to yellow minions.

I haven't had a need to yet, but I'd just keep a slot or two open so my characters could have their alter-egos ready.

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I hope someone finds theses useful.

Cheers!
Falstaff

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Falstaff, awesome, thanks! I was going to do this do, but my knowledge of batch files is a bit limited, so I was gonna try a VB solution. This is much better.

I'd be interested in whether you can add mouselook options to Az's version? Just a thought.

Well, I already know what Statesman would say, and I partially agree;

This is a game about being a super hero. Not about being a regular joe. There's always real life for that.

I don't think they want to take up their time and resources on something like that when they can enhance already-existing aspects of the game. Plus, nobody wants to have responsibilities like that in a video game. Games are for getting away from that stuff. It'd be more stressful than anything.
"I really think this mission would be fun, but on the other hand I have SO many people I'm supposed to see! My boss would be furious!"

BUT, don't get me wrong, having a little secret ID stuff in the game WOULD be fun...to a point. I'm definately going to use the new Tailor feature to create normal clothing for my heroes. And it would be kinda cool to have to do some missions 'under cover' as your secret ID in order to avoid detection, but I really wouldn't want to make it into something so big as what you're suggesting.

The golden man held his arm up and willed the armor to melt back.

"Its more of a second skin...and I sleep standing up. As for the hole...yea, we'll blame the hellions." He looked toward the pair as they went into the woman's room.

"I think I'll go complain to them again. Hope that...uh...cold or whatever made you sneeze like that gets better."

There'd be very limited appeal for that idea. You have to know where to draw the line between RP-friendly and game-breaking. If you were hurt to the point that it made the game harder and potentially less entertaining, many people would lose interest.

All of a sudden, Danny vaguely hears an oddly quiet, but out-of-place sound somewhere behind him. A chill runs up his spine and he feels as if something very wrong has just happened. He has a sudden urge to turn around, but the rest of the group is moving rather quickly and appears determined. Not wishing to be a burdon, Fyre simply moves on with the others.

It was at this point the door to the room with the newly formed hole opened, revealing a slightly annoyed, 8 foot tall man in gold armor.

"More annoyed than pissed, seeing as I'm trying to find a better place."

He looked at the hole and sighed. "I'm not even going to try to get that fixed."

hmmm...that gives me an idea...

To everyone who's preaching the greatness of fly over superspeed, you're all forgetting one things. His guide was not designed to create the best "all around" blasters. It was designed to create blasters with the most focused and economical builds for the highest possible damage output. Considering that the average character only takes one movement power, and that Super Speed's prereq is the invaluable Hasten, it's clearly qualifies as a better pick than Fly in that particular build, regardless of whether or not fly is practically superior. Super Leap is the only arguable alternative, since its prereq is Combat Jumping which he also suggests taking.

I never said it was LIKELY, but I'd be willing to do some of the programming myself if necessarry. I think if enough of us asked for this, COH might do something. Being hopeful isn't illegal or anything!

I posted something about this before, but it got deleted, so here it goes, again.

I think it would be really cool to have Secret Identities. The Game would have to support this, of course, but I think that it would be worth it. Not everyone would have a secret identity, but it would be fun for RPing, and, possibly, it could bear rewards.

My Idea involves HS and SIS. HS, or Hero Score, is gained every time you win a fight. It gets tacked along with everything else in combat. It would probably help get new, secret abilities.

SIS, or Secret Identity Score, would be gained every time you complete a secret identity mission. A secret identity mission could be as simple as showing up for a birthday party. They would appear at random times, and the character would have to accept or decline. Also, Secret Identites could hold Jobs. So maybe they would have to deliver Pizzas or (at the risk of being cliche) reporters. If they don't complete their job after they accept a mission they could be fired, and, thus, loose a lot of SIS. SIS could be traded in for homes, normal vehicles, and possible gadgets (we all know of heros making gadgets in their homes).

Thats the game plan. What do you all think? Questions, comments, sugesstions, praise, and worship put them all right here.

It would work for RPing, but if you accidentally aggro'd something, you'd be kinda screwed. Also, I often see that time is of the essence.