Gemesis

Well... gotta say I'm disappointed. And I'm saying this constructively, not to be whiny complaining. Not that I'm saying anyone else has been, since I didn't bother to read anything else in this thread.

But I want to be heard here.

I'm not disappointed that I didn't win one of the codes for the animal pack. I was planning to buy it anyway, and honestly, had forgotten about the give away until right about time for it. But when I do log on, and there are seven instances of Pocket D, and six of them are full, that makes it impossible for me to even get a chance at winning a code. Sure, I could have logged on the second I got home from work, and waited around, and hoped for the best, but what about the other fifty people in instance 7, or the fifty people in 6, or 5, or however many there were that didn't even get a chance at the code because they were given away in the first two or three instances? My beast costume may not have won(I was a yellow chicken doing /em chicken over and over) but maybe mine was better than someone who got a code in one of the lower instances. But to not even get a chance to find out is what's disappointing.

Also... I felt bad for Avatea. She was the one giving out the codes, and then the bad news on Virtue. Most people seemed to be ok with the bad news, but there were a few people who were not grateful for the gold titles. It's not her fault that the free codes were in short supply, but she had the unfortunate job of telling people that they showed up for nothing.

Hopefully in the future there will be better planning, and more codes. Like checking out how many instances there are of the meeting zone, and divide the number of available codes evenly over them.

I can handle not winning, but not even getting the chance to compete...

Didn't see a post about this, so thought I'd ask and see if I was the only one.

On Sunday I ran a Kahn TF(So prior to it being the WST) I had to manually set the missions, rather than them auto-setting after talking to Kahn like they do in every other TF I've ever run. Ran one again today, and same thing.

Not a big deal, or even a slight annoyance, just something I noticed and thought might be a bug.

Court orders like that can be annoying

So with my IRS refund I upgraded and got a new graphics card, and upgraded from XP to Windows 7. Ever since then when I've played CoH my scroll wheel won't zoom in and out on my characters. I've checked the options menu for everything and had it set at default, but nothing changed.

Also, whenever I click on the updater, I get the pop-up to allow the updater to run since it could change things on my computer. Overall I still want that pop-up to help with unwanted downloads from web surfing, but I'm wondering if there is a way to disable that pop-up for just the CoH updater.

Any thoughts?

/signed

I read the patch notes when this came out, AND it was put in the MOTD of one of my global channels for a while... and I STILL can't remember what the colors mean. I'm too focused on having fun to want to bother to pull up a browser, find the patch notes, find that section of the patch notes only to find out what a yellow name means!

I soloed him on my SD/Axe tank by loading up on red inspirations. Soon as he was the last mob on the map, hit a few of them to max out my damage, pounced, wailed, jumped off him onto clone, lather, rinse, repeat.

My first time tanking LR, I was on my shield/axe tanker, and while I was soft capped, I knew I couldn't stand toe to toe with him, and we didn't really have a support to help keep me alive. So I whipped out my old jetpack that I hadn't used in ages, and just taunted the daylights out of him while staying away from the towers the team was working on. I kept him jumping around, trying to get to me. Every once in a while he'd hit me with something, and I died twice, but still a decent tactic. Especially since you hosp in mission.

Also, something I didn't see mentioned here(Though I skimmed) is you gotta keep your eyes open for the Arachnos Flyer. Even if you take it down before you go after Recluse, it still can respawn, and cause you to wipe if you're not prepared for it.

And responding in kind to your second post

1) A good add, and if this system were integrated, then that's probably how the devs would do it. But they'll also consider people who have multiple accounts, and therefore multiple globals. If that could be too much of a concern for people to exploit or not. Really there's no way around that, or just friends doing it with multiple characters. But the devs might not see that as too big of a problem.

2) Then I would recommend that something get added to the missions created in the MA that can be turned on/off by the author that would allow the nemesis to enter the same mission, at a different spawn point. Whomever is successful in the mission hero or villain gets the rewards. Might be that it's more tickets than normal, or maybe it could be treated like Dev's choice missions where you get actual drops.

3) Conceded.

4) For base raiding, it was under used by the players. Yes there are SGs and VGs that did base raiding, but it was a small minority. I don't remember the particulars, but I believe that base raiding was taken down shortly after the PvP 2.0 came out in I13, and that it won't be coming back until the devs figure out how to get PvP working in a way that will satisfy the majority of PvPers, and be able to bring in PvEers.

As for this coming in I21, while it would be nice, the devs do plan plan things many issues in advance. I'm really not trying to poop on your intent, but expecting your new idea to be released in the game so quickly is kinda implausible. But then, I'm not a dev, and if I was, I probably wouldn't be the person who could make those choices. It could be something fairly simple to put in, or it could be incredibly difficult that could take many many months to even figure out how it could be done.

5) Yes, I said as much, that Praetorians can choose to stay and exemplar down to get XP. I don't really see a need to reduce it down to 25. If you want to drop it, I'd say drop it to 20, but I think 30 would work fine.

6) And while this could do just that, I wouldn't expect it happen before a new revamp of PvP comes out, which as I mentioned before, is low on the devs priority list.

7) No apology needed If you'd insulted me, intentionally or not, then go ahead, but this is a discussion, and not everything is going to fly just the way you want. I'm just trying to help by pointing out the problems I see, and what others might take issue with. Now if when you ding 30, you automatically get a nemesis, and have to fight him/her, that would be forcing that I would not abide by. But by making the choice to get one, you should know what you're getting yourself into.

For your additions, I don't really see too much of a problem with them

There is no Zuul there is only... him!

One of my favorites that I was blown away by when I heard it was...

Extra merits for TF challenges.

I was on a team doing a Synapse TF, and we got a bugged mission where one of the clockworks in a defeat all was spawned in the map geometry. We had the red cursor on the map telling us where it was, and so I tried using Self Destruct to kill it. I then got yelled at by my teammates because my Self Destruct put us over the 5 death limit the leader had set up. They were vehement about how if you set up those challenges like the time limit, death limit, enemies are buffed etc etc, that you get extra merits when you complete the TF. I almost believed them.

Just wanted to add on.. that you should be glad that there are some sliders for the model manipulation. In every other MMO I've played, you could change a few bits of their appearance, but not height, not muscles, and certainly not boob size. Would you honestly prefer if everyone had the exact same body type?

Make leveling faster? Meh. I don't mind what it's at now.. but if they make it faster, I won't mind. Besides, if you make a toon on Freedom, and hang out in Atlas, you'll find the latest AE exploit quickly.

F2P? Hell no! Honestly, CoH/V/GR is going to have a hard time keeping me once SWTOR drops, but if they go F2P, I'd just vanish altogether. I've tried F2P games before, and I don't like them. I played LotR before it went F2P, and it lost my interest before that happened. It going F2P did not draw my interest back to it. It didn't make me think that I could enjoy it now that I didn't have to pay for it. It made me think that game was even less desireable now that all the GOOD stuff would be blocked from me until I paided for it.

This is an MMO, not a console game, and your definition of a "casual gamer" is not the same as everyone elses.

Does anyone know if the qualifications for this badge must be made in a single run, or if the three badges can be obtained through multiple runs to get the Master of badge?

That's one thing I've never really understood. You can store enhancements for later use, and you can store salvage for later use, but not recipes for later use?

Could be I teamed by level 30, with some level 50s. The recipe drops I get are going to be 50, but I can't use them yet, and I don't have the salvage to craft them. So I have to hold them for another 17 levels before I can use them?

It just doesn't make sense... but then no one ever said I had to understand.