FredrikSvanberg
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Quote:And what if you want to check several enhancements at the same time and see their total numbers after ED has been counted in? I know that we can use Mid's and other third party programs to do this but why should we have to?Originally Posted by Diggis
While I like the idea you put forward of enhancements not being fixed in untill the screen is closed (kinda like how slotting works in a respec) you know you can hover the enhancement over a slot and it'll pop up with the numbers right? -
Quote:Occasionally as in "all the time" and "every damn time".Originally Posted by Fomsie
Also, you will occasionally see a glitch on your friends list that shows people in a SG base as being "On Mission Map" for that very reason.
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Just an idea here, I have no idea if this is true but perhaps since such a big part of Siren's Call pvp is the hot spot fighting, and since npcs are stronger in the new pvp because of diminished returns - maybe this bonus is to make up for the DR so people can fight over the hot spots on more equal terms with the npcs?
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Quote:Cuba has never sent its army to free prisoners from US soil. If they thought they had a chance the US would have gone to war. They have gone to war over less in the real world.Originally Posted by Venture
Fixed. Oh, wait.
The Isles and Recluse's "administration" have been legally recognized by several other nations and the UN. As a result the US can't just go in swinging without causing an international crisis at best and a war at worst. -
OPs complaint doesn't make sense.
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Quote:Only the best of the defenses counts. If someone hits you with an energy melee attack (or any melee attack really) it's 30%. If it's a ranged energy attack it's 8%. If it's some other kind of ranged attack it's 0%.Originally Posted by Athanatosis
Thanks guys! I appreciate the speedy response.
One last thing, when I'm working on MIDs and say I have 30% melee defense and 8% energy defense. Does that mean against a melee energy attack I have 38% defense? Or only 30%? If I'm supposed to combine the two then reaching softcap won't be as hard as I had thought. -
35% is still good. It's fine for "normal play", and whenever you're up against something more challenging you can just pop a small purple and hey, now you're soft-capped!
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Makes more sense than most Nemesis plots.
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Quote:Aw how cute, Dragonberry tried to dress herself...Originally Posted by Suichiro
If this is about BURCHEW, then it needs Deebles. 'Nuff said.
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Quote:And yet, still, somehow, it hasn't. You know what my best evidence is? The Rogue Isles are still there.Originally Posted by Venture
That dog won't hunt -- the first invasion was years ago, and the second was much less severe. Not only should the military be rebuilt by now, it should be rebuilt with improved technology.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
Plus, continuity wise, Terra Volta is under near constant attack. It really should be kept separate by the war walls.
In case you haven't noticed, the war walls haven't really helped prevent Terra Volta from being overrun by villains anyway. -
Quote:The US military has been severely diminished ever since the first Rikti war. It wouldn't surprise me if the Arachnos army is one of the strongest in the world. They even have the threat of nukes, in a roundabout way.Originally Posted by Venture
The only reason the whole pirate's den even exists is because other nations have given it recognition for their own purposes -- I'd give the Rogue Isles about twelve hours in an open war with the US. 24 if we're having a bad day.
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Quote:Even easier fixed: Castle wasn't named after a signature hero, his alter ego was put into the game after the fact. Black Pebble could be added too, if someone really thought that was a cool name and a character worth adding. I don't.Originally Posted by Positivity
His sig is a joke on the fact that he's not named after one of the signature heroes like BAB or Castle. Let's try not to scare him off again.
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Quote:The rule of five? What's that?Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Ah, I see the problem now. The rule of five is negating the damage aura if you put a lot of melee attacks into the system.
I also think that defense sets should count for more on Bosses and higher ranks, that would make things more fair. -
Quote:It's a coincidence. They picked your character at random. They managed to buy your DNA from someone else, maybe one of the hospitals kept some and a nurse stole it. When they found out who you were they copied your usual costume, which you happened to be wearing. They just wanted someone else to pin the robbery on, to confuse and mislead. You are the main character of the story so you are it.Originally Posted by Lazarus
Not a good enough handwave. There should at least be some reasons given in the arc itself for how and why they used your DNA, right down to the point of reproducing the clothing you happen to be wearing that day.
Players of such concepts should be used to making up **** to cover for those inconsistencies by now. I know I am.Quote:Actually, the cloning via DNA thing is ridiculous anyhow as it makes no sense for player characters who are robots, magical constructs, elemental beings, or anyone who is Science-origin (in which they would have to recreate the events that transformed you, assuming that it didn't really alter your base DNA).
Sure, that could have worked too. Would probably have worked better. But now it's a cloning facility.Quote:Something even more Sci-Fiey like a malfunctioning teleporter or quantum replication device could have covered that much better and still allow for things like the flawed clone and the nonsense of the 2nd wave in the cloning tests. -
Blue-side: DC - the fun, colorful heroes.
Red-side: Marvel - the faceless dark monolith of evil with a spider-theme. CoV seemed to be a joke at Marvel's expense to get back at them for the lawsuit. -
But then it wouldn't help at all with the hunt missions, and it wouldn't make the zone prettier since it wouldn't be permanent and the changes couldn't be quite as dramatic.
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Quote:Maybe on one of the unused islands nearby to lessen the impact of sudden changes. If the place spawned Carnies reliably those hunt missions would not be nearly as annoying.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I'd like to see Carnie circus tents somewhere on Peregrine Island.
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I haven't heard the sound of the grocery bags yet. What does it sound like?
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Quote:Yes, I've noticed that too. I'm spending a lot of time testing my bosses to make sure they are not impossible to defeat. I've still not managed to beat my Frostfire AV (as an EB) on my Spider but I haven't resorted to using inspirations yet, so he's probably ok...Originally Posted by Lazarus
Plus the system is much more forgiving when it comes to designing minions and LTs, but when designing a Boss it can be difficult to get past 90% without resorting to some rather nasty and annoying powers, depending on the powersets chosen.
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Quote:I'm currently designing my first new custom group since the i17 changes to the powers and rewards system and I have to say that it's not at all hard to make custom critters that are about the same difficulty as regular enemies, and still give 100% reward.Originally Posted by RemianenI
Making custom critters to exactly match those of 'stock' mobs isn't possible, is it? You have to make them a lot more difficult to reach the same level of reward (XP), don't you?
It's however quite easy to go overboard since you can't tell how much more than 100% your character is "worth". If you made something worth 150% it's probably going to be harder than something worth just 100%, and so on. Knowing how much the actual value is (while still capping everything at 100% of course) would be great. -
A few buildings/locations I think the city could use to appear more like a real city:
An airport. Maybe air traffic has been closed ever since the Rikti war and it's only just now been allowed to start up again. Make a bunch of missions around the Rikti, Sky Raiders and heck, Cabal witches disrupting air traffic. Now and then a crashed plane zone event could occur, and heroes have to help put out fires and locate survivors... ok, maybe too much like Champions Online.
A train station and range. Tracks running off into the distance. Trains actually rolling in and out of the station, standing on side tracks, etc. Both monorail lines should come together here. Lots of Family and other gang-related dealings take place there; train-robberies, smuggling, etc. Okay, HERE is a perfect place for a zone event: a derailed train!
A museum. With Family, Council and Sky Raiders constantly trying to steal the precious jewel from the exhibition, or Hellions, Tsoo, Banished Pantheon or Circle of Thorns breaking in to nab an artifact or two, this could be one of the busiest places in town.
A concert hall/theater. Now and then a gaggle of journalists gather outside and limos roll up, letting out well-dressed people walking up a red carpet. A perfect place to stage a huge robbery with all the celebs wearing their best jewelry, or a kidnapping, or an assassination.
How to get these into the game in the most seamless way?
As mayhem/safeguard missions! Instead of robbing/protecting a bank we would randomly get offers to rob the museum, protect the concert hall visitors, assist with the derailed train at the station or hi-jack a plane at the airport. It's so simple I can't believe nobody's thought of it yet...
Other new semi-zones could "easily" be added to the safeguard/mayhems. How about a suburb where villains go to kidnap a hero's family, heroes go to fight off the Rikti and so on.
Crisis at Terra Volta! Another safeguard/mayhem that takes place in the reactor area. Villains are of course trying to steal some plutonium or disrupt the city's power supply for some nefarious plot reason. Heroes are trying to stop them.
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I guess I'm the only one who likes the brutalist architecture in the game then. Discrepancies like not having a flag everywhere could be attributed to a different mindset in CoX US compared to real life US. Maybe everyone is less nationalistic since the entire Earth was attacked by aliens, and a global movement has taken over those feelings. Maybe having flags up around every important or semi-important building turned out to be a bad idea since the Rikti would then know where to aim. Maybe the anti-religious Rikti took out the churches and temples first so ever since then religious services take place in anonymous buildings. Etc. Etc.
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Quote:I guess I must stop enjoying watching Fight Club now. Oh wait, I don't.Originally Posted by Lazarus
While the new villain arcs are pretty good, the 2nd one relies too much on the twists and doesn't feel nearly as cool on subsequent playthroughs. It's like trying to watch Fight Club after knowing who Tyler Durden really is.
Because you're the main character, of course.Quote:I still have a big question though: why the hell was I cloned to begin with? -
I like the buildings in Paragon City. I like the style, and I like the function. By function I mean that all (almost) buildings in Paragon City have tiny ledges on their walls, usually corresponding with window ledges, which can be used to "climb" a building or superjump from. This function is often not present on newer buildings, which is very annoying.
I like the cluttered shanty towns found here and there in the Rogue Isles. I love the huge "older" skyscrapers found in Port Oakes and Cap Au Diable. I dislike all things Arachnos. Their buildings look completely fake. Arachnos "bases" look like Lego models in their architecture. They are the outdoors equivalent of the Office map layouts. Ramps, ramparts, catwalks, bulwarks, walls, towers, spikes - all of it jumbled together without making much logical sense.
One of the best or worst examples is the structure where the Arbiter hangs out in Sharkhead. It's like someone decided that the Arbiter needed shelter from the weather so they put up walls on three sides. The building seems too small to fill any other purpose. The larger Arachnos bases look a little better because they seem large enough to actually have an interior, but they are still a jumbled mess.
And Grandville is of course one of the worst cases. The buildings in the Gutter are really pretty and the Gutter itself looks great. Spider city on the other hand looks like a small Arachnos base blown up out of proportion.
Recluse's tower isn't so bad but why is it surrounded by buildings which don't look like buildings but rather like giant copper tanks, pipes and tubes? It's like Lord Recluse decided to build a huge and very impressive palace for himself, but he put it in an industrial zone and it ended up hidden behind enormous factories belching out smoke.
It's extra jarring considering that just a bit north of Grandville is The Fab, an entire island dedicated to industry. You'd think Recluse could find it within his power to move the factories to that area where they wouldn't block the view from his palace. If the "factories" in Grandville could be replaced with more normal-looking skyscrapers in a similar style to those found in Aeon City or Port Oakes I think Grandville would look a whole lot better.
That the entire city is hidden under an ugly and cluttered web is bad enough, or perhaps a blessing, but I don't think there's much that can be done about that. The Web should have been kept in the Fab too, in my opinion, but it wouldn't make for a good end fight in the Statesman TF.