Golden Girl

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Next on my list would be the new Roman zone, I mean what is it doing in the context of this game ? Inspired by FM's 300, it still has no place.


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You have played through it, haven't you? And picked up on the general mythology vibe in the game?

What about ultra hardcore wekend? All enemies have their stats doubled

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I'd make the line between hero and villain be decided using a BioWare-esque morality scale based on what you do. With certain contacts requiring you to be of a certain morality. Of course this would require a complete game overhaul and would make the game rather different... it'd still be cool as hell though.

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I'd like that too - there'd be some contacts who'd refuse to work with you depending on your reputation.
You'd start off as "mildly good" as a Hero, and then either progress up to "fully good", or sink down to "neutral", depending on your actions - and the same for Villains, start at "mildly evil, and then either rise to "neutral, or sink to "completely evil" - being "neutral" rep for either side would show how you were right on the edge of being a Hero or a Villain.
Maybe once you'd been at "neutral" for a while the going rogue option could be offered?

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Oh and that "whole shipyard out of range" thing you mention, you're not just looking at the island beyond the zone boundary near the Midnighter cave where you enter Cimerora, are you? The one with the temple on top and the ship in the cave underneath? If that's the one you mean, then it's actually the destination of the very first mission on the ITF - you zone-in on that ship and gradually work your way up through the island to the temple.

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Which I think they might open up sometime - it seems like an enormous amount of effort just for one mission - plus, it's rather unusal to have parts of a zone blocked off like that.

So it keeping the name mght be a bit like the Mark of Cane, only voluntary? It chooses to bear it as a reminder of it's guilt?

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The bases need an upgrade. The base idea is great for supergroups- teleporters are great and its something for very bored leaders to play with.
Having said that i dont think they have been changed (aka. more things to put in ect) since they came about- but i did take a lengthy break from the game and so am happy to admit i may be wrong on that front.
Eitehr way they are still a bit dull- in general they just need more features in them. When it was first mentioned that bases were to come about i had grand visions of something that looked like a CoT arcane base with tunnels, structures and so on- but alas there were set room sizes and nice exciting squares (ok so you can put the walls up but theres only so much you can do with that).
Anyway- long story short- base structures and designing should be made more exciting and flexible.

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You may be getting your wish quite soon
The devs have said that they're looking at bases and base raids, and it's possible we'll see some changes to them in I13.

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you would make no money that way... only the money from the loosing betters would come to you, so the total net gain would be 0 under TG's set up, if no one bet on the loss there woudl be no money to win... there is no bookie offering odds.

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Ok, they split half betting on me, half on my opponent

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net gain, if everyone was betting the same amount... zero

The point is there are no odds, no extra inf is coming from anywhere; the only inf involved is the inf the players are putting in themselves.

I bet 1 inf on each of two combatants no matter who wins I come out with 2 inf. The same 2 inf that I spent on the bets.

Does that help make it any clearer?

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So what's the point of betting if you don't actually increase the money you bet?

The 5th Column seem to use time travel a lot, so it's quite likely they'd try and go back and "fix" the outcome of the war.

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I still very much enjoy the game. But some of the bugs are ....well starting to bug me

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Don't forget the devs team is much bigger now - they've got more time to go through the game and fix a lot of the bugs they didn't have time to fix before.

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It's WHEN shields go live, most assuredly.

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I say 'if' purely because Shields have been 'coming soon' for such a very, very long time and were, at one point, totally rejected as causing far too many animation problems.

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I think most of those problems were if it was being use as a weapon - like throwing it and having it return to you.
The devs have since siad it'll just be a defense power, and they've already started using a version of it with the new Roman mobs.

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P.S. What is this I have heard about Union?!

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I'm sure it's not true - they're actually probably quite nice over there

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you would make no money that way... only the money from the loosing betters would come to you, so the total net gain would be 0 under TG's set up, if no one bet on the loss there woudl be no money to win... there is no bookie offering odds.

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Ok, they split half betting on me, half on my opponent

I said it in another thread, but Happy Birthday again

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I could set up a match, bet a million Inf, invite a level 1 to fight, and share the winnings - it'd be over in a few seconds, then we'd just do it again and again - they'd have to cap the amount you could bet, but it'd probably have to be so low to avoid bet exploiting that it'd be too low to interest anyone.

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You are still failing to read what i said and just talking nonsense.

So once again just for special you:

a) The two players fighting cannot bet and dont receive any kind of influence from the bets.

b)The only influence circulated from beting is only from players.

c)Arena has weight classes.Middlewight,Heavyweight etc.Only classed and ranked matches can have beting which was the original design.So you cant have level 1 vs level 50 like you insist uppon for some weird reason.

10 players bet on player A and B fighting the players that bet on winner share the total amount that placed as bet.

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I invite a global friend level 50 squishy to a ranked Arena fight.
I invite 10 global friends to bet on the match, and give them 50 million each to bet with.
My squishy opponent stands still, with no powers on, and I flatten them in a few seconds.
The 10 betters return 50 million each to me, and keep the amount they won - if the odds were like 10 to 1, then they'd make a nice little sum
We repeat the process.
Many times.
Many, many times.
Once they'd all made a few hundred billion, I an my willing squishy would be given a cut of it, as payment for our work

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I'd probably scrap either Atlas Park or Galaxy City, or combine them into the one starting zone - just so everyone starts off in the same place. You split up enough as it is in the later levels, with many of the zones being the same level range as each other; might as well at least bung everyone together from the start.

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I've been suggesting this for some time - the two zones can be merged, but still keep the unique features of each one

Happy Birthday, JawDropper

And maybe the reason they dropped it was because it'd be very easy to exploit

I could set up a match, bet a million Inf, invite a level 1 to fight, and share the winnings - it'd be over in a few secoinds, then we'd just do it again and again - they'd have to cap the amount you could bet, but it'd probably have to be so low to avoid bet exploiting that it'd be too low to interest anyone.

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Besides there are faster ways to make inf rather than lose a PvP match on purpose.

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Level 1 vs level 50, no level limits? Sounds pretty fast to me
You could get a whole SG doing a rotation system of thrown matches and massive bets

I think an Arena betting system might be open to abuse just a little bit

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I'd like to see more animnated features for our avatars - like hair and faces

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The reason why? It would only cause framerate issues.

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A price worth paying, I think

I'd like to see more animnated features for our avatars - like hair and faces

Welcome back

Using Invention Enhancements is pretty much optional - if you're a hardcore PvPer, then they might be vital, but if you do the normal missions, you won't find them any harder than before - the difficulty of the mobs is stil the same, so you can take them on without the new enhancements, just like you did before - but the new enhancements does make it a little easier
You'll still get lots of salvage and inf at level 50, so you can keep on with your 50s if you like - a lot of the ultra-rare purple recipes sell for more than 40 million, sop you only need to find a few to fund buying the less rare types.

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Brutes are what scrappers aim to be.

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But with so much more sophistication and style

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If by sophistication and style you mean slow? Then yeah....i guess I see your point.

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Scrappers are slow?

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Yes. Very. And use an excessive number of smileys.

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Well, MA just got buffed, so it feels quicker

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Brutes are what scrappers aim to be.

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But with so much more sophistication and style

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If by sophistication and style you mean slow? Then yeah....i guess I see your point.

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Scrappers are slow?

Maybe the offline reward is an NCSoft staff member driving to your home with time cards?