Grey Pilgrim

I HATE that protection software. It does nothing but screw up your system, and hackers, etc. get around it anyway.

It's silly, too, as games without protection can do just fine (in the case of Galactic Civilizations II, it was a selling point not to have it, and I know people that went out of their way to buy it just for that fact alone... good thing it was a very good space strategy game, too). Not quite as asinine as the music industry suing ordinary consumers, but still dumb.

Anyway, I hope they drop it.

Ummm, yeah. I never understand this attitude. "I teamed with 'x' Archetype and they screwed everything, why are they all so stupid?"

That's like blaming a perfectly good car for being an accident because a drunk driver was behind the wheel. Blacklisting an AT makes no sense at all. Keep track of the crummy players with your rating and don't play with them again, but pay no attention to the AT.

Kheldians, like any AT in the game, can do some great and amazing things... especially depending on the person driving the Kheldian. I've received positive comments about my Peacebringer when I've run it (heard a lot of "man, you make me want to go play Kheldian"), and played with Kheldians that do some spectacular things. But then I've played with some that make me wonder what the heck those people are thinking, they're that bad.

But that's true of every AT I've played with, which is all of them.

Had fun defending the beaches of Grandville from Nemesis... at least until we had to destroy the mole machines. What an annoying waste of time that was. It was still fun to see the explosions send people flying, I guess. Heh. Still not sure what was up with that group of 5 or so Warhulks that jumped on us, but that was a fun wrinkle... wish that had happened with every machine.

Quick other note on asking questions. Don't be afraid of your teachers... some random teachers are cranky gits that won't want to give you the time of day, but almost all teachers will want to help. I can't think of anyone in my department that is really hateful... a few oddballs, but they're all basically nice people.

I honestly don't know what it is that holds people back from asking questions... I don't THINK I'm "scary" or anything, and I am up front about saying I am willing to ask questions. It's rather frustrating as a teacher... as I said, I've had a lot of students ask questions weeks after they should have, and they could have saved a lot of headaches on their part (and mine) if they had asked sooner. Still, I know from my student days that sometimes I'd be nervous about talking to teachers, so maybe it's just a general feeling everyone has. No matter what it is, it is in any learner's best interest to get the most help they can from their teachers, etc. Go forth and explore! Ask questions!

I've often thought that buffs and debuffs in this game were overpowered, especially after all the "we don't need Tankers, we have tons of Defenders, etc." hate I've run into over the years. It'd be a tough balancing act, as you wouldn't want to punish a team that has a bunch of Defs, Controllers, etc., too much, either. Heh, I rather wonder if the devs have been avoiding it for those reasons.

Though other things in the game are probably balanced somewhat on the prevalance of all the buffs and debuffs. Not sure I'd want to take on Reichsman as he is now with DR.

No matter what, hopefully they go somewhere good with all this.

Des said in another thread that Aion is rather PvP oriented the farther you go, which worries me. In my experience, PvP is rarely balanced in any game (even FPS games suffer from this), and I'd rather not be unable to advance in an MMO because the class I chose is the current whipping boy in the game's setup. I'm not sure what classes I'd want to play in Aion (or if you can have many alts in-game), but I know I'd want to be able to play melee classes, who sound like they are up a creek right now in PvP for Aion.

I know most of us are over the hurdle, but MMO's do have a bigger entry fee than other games, especially if they keep adding stuff with fees attached and still charge a monthly fee. It's hard to justify investing that much in a game unless you know you're going to be around for awhile to enjoy it. I was only able justify getting a booster pack in CoX after a LONG time because we had enough cash and I knew I'd be playing the game enough to make it worth it.

Anyway, that's why I hope both games have some kind of free trial... I want to know what I'm getting into with any game, but especially an MMO.

Yeah, they can't just be thinking of improving a 50's capabilities, as IOs and Purples put that way over anything you're really going to face in game right now. I would guess they're going to give us that and more tough content to justify it.

The only problem there is it still makes older content laughable, unless the universal enhancements or whatever they're working on only kicks in with the tougher content.

I'm interested in all this for sure, as I want to be able to keep running my 50s. I do sometimes, but I generally try not to flashback with them too much, as I don't want to be bored with things when one of my alts is in that level range. But then I'm not so interested, as the thought of improving one of my IO'd out 50s holds no interest if it's just a cash requirement like PVP or Purple IOs... I have to do that enough just getting regular IOs, and the cost of PVPs and Purples makes my regular IO builds look like nothing. And I take long enough to afford those already (and no, I do not want to grind content to afford things... that would be boredom for me).

Now if there is actual content we have to play through to get those improvements, I'm more interested in that idea. Not so much if it requires a big 30 man raid a la WoW, but if it's an interesting and tough TF or story arc (or series of TFs and story arcs), I'd be interested.

Stupid new forums... I didn't even see all these replies... I have to stop looking for the little arrow by threads, as it's meaningless. It'll sometimes be threads where I am the newest poster, and it never showed for any of these.

Anyway, what are the thoughts on the more "cartoony" looks of DC and CO? I can see some liking them for superhero MMOs, but I dunno. I kind of like the more realistic look CoX has. I liked the cartoony bit with other superhero games, so I'm not sure why I like it more here. Seems more legitimate, or something? Heh.

Not seeing anything for codes on Fileplanet for either game, right now.

Sorry to see you go, NancY.

I really hope GR has a LOT of content... I think that's about the biggest thing CO has going for it against CoX, since it's all new stuff.

Can anyone join the open beta, or how does it work? I can't really figure stuff out from their site. I'm willing to see what Aion and CO are like, just to put things in perspective, but that's curiousity (which means I ain't payin'! Heh), so I'd need to get in open beta or a trial if they ever have them.

I've found reading up about MMOs just doesn't fly, as they all start sounding and looking the same, in all honesty. Hence the want to play them.

Voo is running one with his Tuesday TF thingy at 8:30 EST. Dunno if that works for your schedule, but I figured I would point it out.

Few weeks, probably, but I would agree that this can't come soon enough, now. I wish for it whenever I'm running a team and have to think if I have enough SKs and such.

You still have to prove that there is some reason to merit changing things up, which is time and effort on the part of the devs. If Invuln is on par with other sets, especially for the first 20 or so levels you are discussing for these changes, then such a change would not be warranted. In the case of changing Temp. Invulnerability's name, it probably would make sense, and not be that much work, or so I would guess, so you might get something there if you bring it up in a PM.

As it is, Invulnerability is plenty solid for its whole career, and is hardly weaker than other sets prior to level 20. RPD can be nice for times you are low on endurance and don't want to run TI, and of course the two stack quite nicely (unslotted, you're only 7% lower resists to Smash/Lethal than Fiery Aura gets slotted from its primaries). This is even nicer when you think about how much of the damage in those first 20 or so levels is mostly smash/lethal. Sure, a bit more defense would be nice, but all tanker sets don't have all their "tricks" yet at that point. WP can't get defense until 18, either, Fiery Aura doesn't have all its offense (same for Shields, not to mention all its defenses), Ice doesn't get Energy Absorption until 26, etc.

Again, Invulnerability overall might need some regen somewhere, as Castle once suggested himself (not sure what happened to that, if he's still planning on it, or looked at it and decided not to), but other than that, it's pretty solid. My Invuln Tanker is a little behind my WP Tanker in levels (35 as opposed to 49), but I haven't found Invlun to play particuarly weaker, and I'm running most of the same content with him. They just play different, Tanking well overall.

Remember, to get a change, the burden of proof falls on you to proove such a change is warranted. That's how it is.

Just type "/chanjoin " and then the name of the channel you want to join, like "Victory Forum" or something like that. Once you've joined the channel, you may have to adjust your tabs so you will see people talking in those channels. To type in that channel, you can just right click in your text area and select the channel you want to write in.

If that doesn't cover it, clarify what you need and someone will clear it up.

Sidetrack, I know, but the main reason I don't want my students using Wikipedia (I'm a college instructor that mostly teaches writing) is because it's not a primary source. Any encyclopedia gets its info from somewhere else and is also going to be generalist: if you're writing a paper of any sort in high school or college, you should NOT be using an encyclopedia as a source, other than maybe to get a general idea what a topic is about.

From my reading and research of Wikipedia, it actually is pretty accurate, especially if you can see where the info is cited from. I forget what the exact numbers were that one study found, but Wikipedia has about the same amount of errors as the other major Encyclopedias like New Britannica, etc. It's no match for a peer-reviewed journal article, of course, but it can do okay.

It's certainly more accurate than a lot of stuff you see on the internet and in forums.

Talnar, you might have more luck in the Screenshots & Fan Creations section of the forums, though I'm not sure if any of the better artists will spring for in-game currency to do so, of course. Pretty much the only Victoryite I know of that does art and is in this section at all is Lousy Day, and he doesn't post too much. He's a good artist, though.

You'll probably also want to see the artist's style ahead of time, to know they have a look you like.

Not sure what you're looking for when you say "team." Are you looking for a Supergroup? Some people to play with regularly?

If so, I'm not sure why they need to be from NJ... if you're that specific with a group search, you probably won't find what you want. The people in my Supergroup are from all over the U.S., and that's pretty common for any group I've heard of. Themes can make sense, but location in real life, not so much... unless you're just hanging with friends, which it doesn't sound like you're doing.