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I have been wondering about this myself and so far I have not found any answers. Not even the hint to an answer. It would make sense but would also cost them money in that people are not buying more slots. So all in all, I would say prbably not. If anyone else finds an answer to this though please post it AND throw me a PM.

Oh I get pulled back in because I see I did misunderstand your post there and I have no problem admitting that.

I still just can't understand the hang-up though since a permanent fix is supposed to be coming out with Issue 17. As I said earlier, this all could have been avoided by the devs or fixed earlier, but I understand priorities. I will admit that the heavy handedness of the temp fix seemed rather overdone but since it has been done, I am waiting to pass judgement on this whole affair even though I do approve of it personally right now.

Now, I am done. No more on this please. Here is my *pucker* for the kiss and make up.

Dispari, personally i think you have invested WAY to much emotion into this, but that is your right. I am not going to waste my time correcting your misunderstanding of my post except to say this:

I just got done testing two different arcs that are buffbot arcs (and no other ally types period), with two different toons. I then used the same toons to test an arc that has no buffers, no allies, and no clickies. In short it is a straight kill the leader to win. If buffbots are not affecting anything then why was my reward for a lvl 53 boss about 1/3 of what the non-buffer mission was?


TehHippeh, as for your comments. I see you flame most anyone who disagrees with you as well. Too bad. I do enjoy a good arguement.

Since this thread has degenrated in nothing more than a flame-fest, I'm done with it. The rest of you are welcome to continue though until Issue 17 comes out as is your right. I'm just not investing any more energy into it.

Good suggestion and unfortunately for you I already had done that and then decided to do so again. I particulary like the post from Rodion on page two (post #40 I believe).

Want to know what I found? It seems the majority of people are either neutral to the fix and waiting to see what happens with the permanent fix in Issue 17 or like the fix.

Of the people who did not like it, that seemed to come from mostly farmers/exploiters who are upset they can't solo farm a mission at +3/x8 anymore. I admit that I am drawing a conclusion there, but since few of them complained about specific non-exploitative missions they had made, I feel justified I have drawn a good conclusion. I feel even better since many of these same people have admitted to exploitative behavior on other forums.

The only people I feel sorry for are the ones that tried to set up decent stories that are seriously affected by this fix. One player mentioned a Prison Riot mission that really sounded cool and I would have liked to see that (as soon as I can find it I will play it regardless of the rewards). Unfortunately it got nerfed because of the Allies involved. If the stories are good though, I will still play them with my 50's for fun, and recommend them to my friends, so I don't see that as a problem myself.

I especially do not feel sorry for the ones that tried to make an AV or GM soloable mission by adding buffbots.

Now for the people who try to argue that buffbots are not an exploit, well their arguement is flawed. The Devs would not have created this "fix" unless an unintended exploit was discovered. I will go along with the complaints that they should have seen this and not allowed it in the first place though. I will also go along with the fact that the fix should have been implemented a long time ago, but I won't push that one too hard since I understand prioritizing.

Lastly, Tokyo, I did some further research. It was on you. Why is it that you so often attack people you don't agree with? I am not talking about responding rudely to the people who were rude to you first. I can understand that and have done it a time or three myself, though most times people seem to misinterpret my being blunt with being rude.

I was actually rather surprised to see your Neg Rep after you responded to one of my previous posts since that one was walking the line of rudeness but had a hard tilt to the side of just being blunt. After doing my little bit of research though, I see that almost any time you disagree with someone, you are either sacastic, demeaning, or down right rude. Please try to be a little less thin skinned about it.

To end this on a positive note, even though I dislike farmers, marketeers, and power gamers in general; I have to say your play on the Communist Manifesto was Awesome. Very creative.

I have to agree with you on all accounts Dispari. I also wish they would come out with a Villain Blaster AT and a Hero Mastermind AT to help balance things out. After all we already have:

Tank - Brute
Scrapper - Stalker
Defender - Corruptor
Controller - Dominator

Somehow though a Blaster just does not equal out to a Mastermind and vice versa. I would also like to see Villains allowed into the Shardow Shard in GR.

I do have to say though, I think that GR was intended to help equal out the whole mismatched ATs and unequal zones arguements as well as adding a whole new dimension to the game itself.

I'll take your word on her special knowledge since trying to research anything on these forums is like pulling your own teeth. Well, except that pulling your own teeth is less painful.

Like I said earlier, I just like the way she argues. Most times she is so nice and even tempered but other people get all pissed off, it's funny as heck.

As for wanting AE fixed, your mostly right except for people like me that don't care for AE in general. I saw it's exploit factor on the very first mission I ran in there and was bored to death of it by the third run I was invited on. If anything though I really do think that "fixing" it will be harder than anyone can believe by at least a factor of 10. I do not envy the Devs on this front.

Let's face the facts that, for the most part, the only people really upset over this is the ones that were exploiting it in the first place. Me? I'll continue running missions and Ouro Arcs. They are more fun anyways.

I have to assume from your post that ArcanaVille is a friend of yours since you are defending her and personally I like her arguements myself.

I do have one problem with her though. Her claims to special knowledge of the game is kinda like my own political party members (democrats) crying racist anytime someone disagrees with Obama. It can't be proven, BUT still stops all legitimate arguement on the subject.

Now if she has this special knowledge cool, but until she is given a Red Name or one comes out and admits her special place with the company, I will have to continue to be skeptical.

Still, I do like how she argues her points most times. (I am assuming she is a female for some reason, not sure why.)

Hey if you and Chad are all hyped over this "new tech" go for it I guess. I can understand the appeal of a new gadget. This one just seems lame to me and the limited use of it stifles its application to anything other than "three seconds of cool, then move on to something more interesting".

Ok, this was funny.

If you felt that post was so rude Chad, you may want to check yourself. It had exactly the amount of emotion it that was intended and needed, which was none. Someone wondered why no mention had been made of a lame technology and I told them my opinion. It simply had a "coolness factor of about 3 seconds".

Your post does make me wonder though . . . did you actually design that program? If so, I am sorry for insulting your work dude. I just can't appreciate it I guess, maybe someone else will.

I tried recommending that and got severly flamed with Neg Rep for my efforts. I still think it is a good idea though.

Wow GPBunny, you got some good ideas, I personally don't like number 4 unless you cap the level purchase at say 22, but still, awesome ideas.

The Superstore idea I have been toying with as a request myself for some time now.

Here are some of my ideas:

8) A "debuff" on influence for the next "XX" kills after getting rezzed that would scale with your level. (would drop earnings a little w/o hurting lower level toons overly)

9) Making people buy the accolade powers/badges after they have earned the appropriate badges.

10) Make it so not being in "SG Mode" still costs toons a cut of the influence and earns prestige for the SG (say half of the current rates), but in "SG Mode" they sacrifice a little more (normal current rates).

11) Let people buy their costume slots instead of waiting for the levels. I know I would love this one since I like to have my "Civilian Attire" on many of my toons.

Keep it up folks, who has the next idea?

In a way it already does. Every kill made gives a percentage chance for recieving a drop regardless of who on the team makes the kill. So the larger the team, the more likely the chance for a drop overall. It all come out to the number of enemies killed.

I have some nights that three missions on an 8 man team will yeild me 30-40 drops overall, most of them being inspirations. Other nights under the same conditions though, I will get less than 10.

I agree Lemming, I would like an immediate cell phone Veteran power too, but I would put it way back around the 24th month instead of 75+ months. Anyone else have any good ideas for Veteran Powers?

Mine is changing Blackwand and the Nemisis Staff to a permanent 5% temporary debuff added to all you powers instead of doing damage and being it's own attack power. I love the powers to be honest, but it really does not go with some of my toons themes.

Uh . . . Well . . . I got nothing here. Can anyone tell me what he is trying to say? Not trying to be rude, but I honestly can't figure it out.

I am so amazed at the immaturity of some people on these forums. Seems you can't let your opinion be known, in a non-rude manner, without getting flamed for it on the Reputation side as evidenced when someone posted this on my Rep:

"Ka-pow, more neg-rep for you, Captain Entitlement."

I may be wrong, but I do not believe anyone can make an honest arguement that the CoH website does not need some serious updating. Heck, they don't even list updates on the main website anymore, you have to sift through the forums to find them. What info is listed on the main website is lame duck even.

In the last week alone I tried to get two people to try the game out while talking on the phone with them. Both were actually kinda excited about the game until they saw the CoH website and the COMPLETE lack of information turned them off. They did like the look but as one of them told me:

"The website was pretty and all, but it was kinda like eating a ham and cheese sandwich, without any ham or cheese in it. Just no substance."

I'm not asking for complete powers descriptions and the numbers to match, but how about a general overview of the powers? Updating the enemies might be nice too since that has not been done in several issues. Maybe even zone descriptions and a list of TFs/SFs. As things stand now, I will never send someone to the website hoping to entice them into joining the game. Unfortunately since most of my friends are a long plane flight away, that probably means getting people to join via word of mouth will be impossible too.

As for the new tech thing with using a webcam to change a symbol on paper to a character on your computer screen, well I am sorry but it has about a 3 second coolness factor. I am pretty sure that most people that see this will never try it. Of those that do, I think very few will do it more than once. Maybe I could have gone into more detail, but really, why did I need to.

Put simply, Neg Rep people for being rude or deliberately misinforming others, but not for having an opinion that differs from yours.

Probably because it has a cool factor that lasts about three seconds. I wish the Devs had spent the time wasted on this to update the websites with info instead.

Good Points, then you get people like me who pick there origin based on toon concept (which changes radically for each toon). I still end up as a magic or natural out of sheer habit though more often than not.

I first began playing CoH as a magic toon and learned all the store locations, so magic became my "norm" since I found it easier, then HEATs and VEATs pushed me around a little and a natural toon seemd a good idea.

In my opinion though, the background story of a toon is what really makes it interesting.

If you want to bring that SG over to Guardian, I can give you a hand building it up. Even have a few friends that would probably be willing to help and I'll throw in a coalition to boot to give you some TPers to use til your base gets set up proper like.