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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    I'd imagine it is the same for both male and female. Only the player character changes in the cut scenes.

    Also you can go to your account page to "upgrade" your account with more character slots... $10 USD each. Yeah, the sticker-shock got me too.

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    Oh, for new players, I'd -highly- recommend the following post:
    TSWGuides' "My first 60" Point starting builds

    Glad to here I can get more slots when I want them. The price doesn't surprise me tho. I've been defending what Paragon Market charged us for stuff compared to other games for many months.

    The price does leave me feeling disappointed. I splurged and put my budget into the red to pick up TSW and I only just got it back into the black. Hopefully I was successful in juggling some of my bill payments so my next due date will be after Nov 1. If not I'm gonna get hit with late fees and overdraft charges come the last week of Oct.

    So high market prices means I won't be spending a lot on this game. I just can't afford it.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bonehead View Post
    I played a bunch yesterday on the last day of my trial. I'm really liking the Pistols/Chaos combo. I went through the other factions intros. I liked them all and was really surprised at the consequence of picking a female character for the Dragon.
    No damnit I am not going to let you trick me into letting my curiosity spur me into making a female dragon to find out what you are talking about.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    All this is very true. Though there are some rumblings that the art people are trying to find time to separate the pieces. On the other hand they aren't Dink.
    Even if they are successful I doubt they'll open up the faction and gender restricted costumes pieces to every character.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by War_Hawk View Post
    you can make all the consents on one charter.
    No I can't.

    I'm talking character concepts not power/skill builds.

    Certain costumes are restricted to faction so you need different characters to get access to them, and gender also requires creating different characters and has it's own restricted costumes.

    Also from what I've seen costume "sets" don't have interchangeable costume pieces. Which means we can't take something we like from one set and use it with something else. It's all or nothing.
  5. As long as they increase the number of characters allowed per server so I can keep all of my existing characters I can live with three servers. And as Hyper pointed out about the virtualization, the number of servers is a almost non-issue these days.
  6. GODDAMMIT!

    So many character concepts, and so few character slots.



    Damn City of Heroes for infecting me with Altitis!
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
    I wasn't implying that the victim is the problem, but rather questioning whether the stalker is responsible for their actions if they are irrational or suffering from a mental illness.
    Yes the stalker and bullies are responsible. If it weren't for their conscious choices to pursue and persecute the victim, this tragedy would not have occurred.

    Actual laws were broken, which included distribution of child pronography, and physical assaults. People need to go to prison for what they did to that poor girl. Sadly the bullies will be ignored and the stalker may never get caught.


    Edit: And in case anyone thinks about making a what if justification. It's not relevant. "What if's" have nothing to do with what actually happened. Stick to the facts.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    Why do you look like Seth Green trying to look cool?
    Gotta admit that until you mentioned it, I didn't even notice that. I still like the way my character looks tho.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    PVP all the time.
    And that killed all of my interest in the game.

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    Originally Posted by Black Zot View Post
    PVP-exclusive leveling game.


    Not worth the hard drive it was programmed on.
    Amen brother.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slaunyeh View Post
    That depends a lot on playstyle. Do you like your current build? Do you feel you are missing something? Then you might start looking into the outer wheel skills for shotgun and assault rifle to see if there's anything that would support your current build, or cover a weakness in your current build.

    Or, if you're tired of it you could start digging into something else that sounds interesting. Personally, I think you can't do wrong with starting off with unlocking all inner-wheel skills for all weapons. There are some really nice stuff in the outer wheel, but it's not essential for a solid build through most of the game, and later you will earn enough AP that starting on those skills doesn't feel like such a huge deal. Also, you get a snazzy chest piece. But, again, depend on what you hope to get out of it.

    I was originally running chaos/shotgun, and felt I was lacking a solid AoE finisher, so I went deep into shotgun for the Shotgun Wedding skill, which is an absolute riot.
    I decided to unlock the rest if the inner wheel. I love Shotgun but the Rifle is leaving me feeling like I'm not performng at my full potential. I'll experiment and see what happens with Melee and Magic.

    Not sure I care about new costume piece for this character as I'm pretty satisfied with what he's got on now.

  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by War_Hawk View Post
    For me I unlocked all of the inner ring, and now I am working on the outer ring. as doe the sp up grade weapons as need and fill out the talisman ASAP the most bang for your buck early in the game
    Color me stupid but for clarification, when you say you unlocked all of the inner ring, do you mean you unlocked every power i.e. chaos, blood, elementalism, shotgun, pistol, rifle, etc., etc., etc.?
  12. Looking for advice. I have 10 SP and 40+ AP to spend and I'm not sure what to unlock next. I'm running a Shotgun/Assault Rifle Dragon with all the basic powers unlocked. hould I continue unlocking the outer circle or start something in melee or magic. If so which would be the best choice?

    All opinions appreciated
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkCurrent View Post
    If I had a picture of you flashing me pre-facebook how would I have gotten to send it to everyone?
    Emails, chatrooms, forums. You know all the internet stuff that existed before Facebok launched in 2004.

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    If this girl was an adult and all this happened would you say she 'should have known better'?
    No. Victims of abuse are not responsible for the actions of their abusers.

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    Do you think teens are mature enough to handle the power of social networking?
    No, and any adult blaming the victims for being abused are even less mature than the teens using social networking.

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    If I was a creeper trolling for nude teen pics where would I find them pre-facebook?
    Emails, chatrooms, forums, websites. The same places on the internet the pervs and bullies were using before Facebook launched in 2004.

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    You can sit there and yell at me all you want. The fact remains that this type of deviant behavior and the calamities that can result are due to the ability of people to send/access personal info 24-7.
    No it isn't since these crimes were occuring years before social networking was invented. Only an idiot would argue otherwise.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BellaStrega View Post
    I seriously doubt that Tenzhi is a psychopath.

    I can think of a much better candidate but he hasn't been here (as far as I know) for years.
    I agree. But I wouldn't be surprised to learn that his apparent lack of empathy is a defensive mechanism related to the trauma he himself suffered at the hands of bullying as a kid.

    But my theory could easily be dismissed as armchair psychology and quackery.
  15. All I'm gonna say is that in my opinion anyone that lays any blame on that poor girl are worse criminals than the pedophile and bullies that drove her to commit suicide because they are encouraging these things to continue happening by making excuses.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Next_Spirit View Post
    I am sorry but this game looks like crap.
    Little to no customization.
    Weak animations.
    Mind numbing game play
    Stiff atmosphere

    Just horrible. I've been watching gameplay videos of it trying to get into it and I will never even try this game from what I saw.

    Just my 2 cents.
    And I've read posts made by people that don't like CoH saying the exact same things.

    You are entitled to your opinion. The games simply not for you. Thanks for sharing.
  17. Forbin_Project

    Dishonored

    Looks interesting but I don't see a trial offered. Not risking $60 bucks if I can't test the game first to see if I like it.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast View Post
    Which then begs the question: Why not sell it to recoup some costs and or get some profit????

    While revenues may have been slipping...that does not mean CoH was still not producing a profit; albeit obviously not a large enough profit for NCSoft.

    BTW I hate the title of this thread. "Murder" is a pretty harsh word for a business decision imo...a bit on the dramatic side.

    Why not sell it? If they sell it then they can only claim it is worth what someone else paid for it. By refusing to sell it they can use creative accounting on taxes and claim it is worth whatever they think they can get away with.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    Turn on sprint get a couple steps running jump. It helps to have one or two sprint speed increases (you can buy them in your faction's HQ after certain ranks). There might be another extremely late game option that you'll eventually have: there is a rocket jump called "death from above".


    Took me an hour (and a couple of youtube videos) to catch the trick to those.
    Having Sprint on was what I needed. I was able to finally get those last two lore objects in Seoul on my main. I should have the technique perfected by the time I finish getting them on my other three characters.

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    Originally Posted by BellaStrega View Post
    Unless you're watching behind you it can be really hard to tell who's leaving and who's joining the chase and it really can seem like you're being chased all the way across town. It is annoying.
    While auto run was on I did spin my camera to look a couple times to get an idea of how many were on me but I wasn't watching constantly so some may have left and were replaced by others. But it seemed to be in the numbers of 10-15 townies each time I checked until I was finally swamped in front of the church steps.

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    Ah, that makes sense. You may have collected a volunteer fireman or two as well, and they can hit pretty hard.
    Very possible but I couldn't spot any amongst all the townies. Only the big guy from the beach stood out.


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    Ah, so it was more of an analogy? Sorry about confusion.
    Yeah, analogy and also part immersion breaking. The immersion thing because it was Zombies. Another monster probably wouldn't bug me as much (still annoying but more of a goddammit instead of a WTF?), but in my mind zombies are relentless attackers that ignore all but killing blows. Breaking off an attack is so out of character it disrupts my train of thought, and that annoys me when I'm enjoying a game.


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    There's an early tooltip that tells you about sprint that I saw once - on my fourth character. I learned about it by seeing other players outrun me and checking keybinds.
    Missed the tooltip, and I assumed faster players had unlocked a speed boost, or simply got faster as they got more experience

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    In time you may come to rely on the mechanic. I know I do.
    Yeah I think that'll fall under learning to adapt.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MentalMaden View Post
    Mark my words, before this is over we'll have him converted to the militia. Hard to believe? Dumb? Maybe, but just you wait and see. Then Santa will be admitting old Mental was right all along.
    Being right won't get you off Santa's naughty list tho.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dr_Illuminatis View Post
    You also have to realize that City of Heroes basically bombed in their target market (Asia). Since this refocusing seems to be along the lines of focusing on the Asian market, it's not totally out of the blue that they would close CoH, because it doesn't fit in with their long term goals of expanding the Asian market.

    Crap, I've been taking lessons from Mojo Jojo again, darn it....
    Uhm you need to check your facts before drawing conclusions about cause and effect.

    1. CoH Korea bombed back in January 2006 and never launched.

    2. NCSoft didn't purchase City of Heroes until November of 2007, nearly 2 years later.

    That's right CoH Korea bombed when it was still owned by Cryptic.

    So yeah it's safe for people to say the decision by NCSoft to shut down CoH 6 years later was totally unexpected and out of the blue.
  22. Reading this thread makes me so glad I gave up on that show when I did.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slaunyeh View Post
    Some of the draugr will chase you forever, which is probably a bug (I've had a pair of sea witches chase me from the beach to the MorningLight camp, once). I haven't experienced that with townie zombies though.

    There used to be an issue with the Ak'ab as well, that would chase you endlessly. But this was actually caused by another bug... once you aggroed an Ak'ab, it had to trigger it's charge first attack on you, which somehow overrode the leach distance (technically, I don't think mobs have leach distances in TSW, it's some other mechanic). Which meant that an Ak'ab would chase you clear across the Savage Coast, hit you once, and then leach back (unless you attacked it back, or someone else hit it on the way in which case you could end up fighting it).

    On top of long aggro range, and a fondness for eachother's company, this made Ak'ab a bit of a pain (especially if you just needed to cross through their lands). Thankfully they aren't terrible difficult to fight, and they will teach you to use that dodge, too!

    I remember a similar bug in CoV, too, for that matter. There was an issue where street mobs would never lose aggro. Poor hellions chased me from one end of Port Oakes to the other, and then back again.
    I hope what I encountered was a bug. I haven't had it happen except on very rare occasions


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
    It's really bad in TERA. Over there they have huge enemies that can potentially take 45 minutes to an hour to kill. These enemies often have dashing and jumping maneuvers. Imagine spending 30 minutes whittling down a HP bar to almost nothing, only to have the enemy jump or dash out of its own designated aggro area and reset its HP to full.
    ... Gee ... You're just full of good news.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid View Post
    As far as I know you can't increase your jumping distance. Those two are VERY annoying, but it can be done with regular old jump. It just takes some precise timing and a lot of luck.
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    Originally Posted by War_Hawk View Post
    have sprint on, and up graded and yes thoes 2 suck ***, be on the wall thing
    Just knowing I'm not the only one makes me feel a lot better about this.