Grouchybeast

Archie has been farming the wall on team size 1, difficulty 0.

All good ideas.

I'd like to add to the list the ability to click on a recipe in a slot and pull up the equivalent crafted IO in the search results. It would save a lot of time when checking through recipe drops and trying to work out which ones are worth crafting.

Ack! We're both really sorry, guys. We were away for the weekend, didn't get back until quite late, and then just completely spaced on the fact that it was Sunday and we had the team. We'll see you tomorrow.

I liked the system they had in Hellgate: London, where characters could pay gold into a pool, and when enough accumulated it applied a random server-wide buff for a fixed period of time to all characters online. Characters who donated especially generously had their names announced in-game, too, I think.

I don't know how well it would work in CoX, but it was definitely used by the players in Hellgate.

Good luck with uni, and hope to see you again, soon. And thanks for the fun teams :-)

Good luck for the future, and thank for all the events you've organized for the server. Hope to see you around again sometime, when RL permits!

Hey, all!

I have a message from Archie to say that he's very sorry, but won't be able to make it to tonight's team. I'll be around, though, and we'll both be here for tomorrow's team.

For work-related reasons, Archie and I won't be able to make it for the team tomorrow, I'm afraid. Sorry about that.

Also, I'll be away both Sunday and Monday next week (16th/17th), but Archie will be around if the rest of you want to have fun without me :-)

I like 2, provided that there were sufficient safeguards in place to prevent griefing - i.e. other players can't cause a mission to become uncompletable by destroying objectives, killing enemies, repeatedly teleporting enemies away from players, etc.

Either of 1 and 3 would probably make me leave the game, as I've found games with across-the-board scaling enemies very boring in the past, and I have negative interest in PVP, so obviously not in favour there :-)

There's a common problem with the EU client which causes it to set up the icon on your desktop to point to the US updater. Very annoying of it. You need to change the properties of the updater to point to the EU updater instead.

Have a look at the instructions here and see if they solve your problem:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=165253

(The quick summary - in the shortcut properties, the last part of the target for the updater should be CohUpdater.EU.exe NOT CohUpdater.exe.)

If that doesn't solve the problem, come back and we'll try again :-)

And welcome to the game.

I'm trying to think of the game I played where the enemies scaled to your level in a really noticable way...I want to say 'Oblivion', but I'm not sure.

Anyway, probably part of the reason I don't remember is that for me it ultimately made the game feel very flat. Everywhere you went, the challenge levels were the same. There was no sense of risk exploring the world -- no worry about finding yourself in an overwhelmingly dangerous area or running into a terribly powerful NPC. Sure, as you levelled your equipment got shiner and you got more spells, but the difference was relatively small. There was never a time when you had to retreat, and come back much later as a more powerful hero to overcome the challenge which had been too much before. There was no big stuff and little stuff.

(Nostalgia moment -- I really loved Darklands. There was such a feeling of accomplishment at finally killing that first raubritter and nicking his rusty chain mail. And no longer having to run like heck if a flock of gargoyles showed up.)

I like the feeling in CoH of finding an area dangerous as I level up to it, and then everything conning grey when I go back at a higher level. I like the idea the the bad guys know not to mess with my character. I like being able to swat a pack of them with massive overkill and get thanks from a grateful citizen. If the bad guys in Atlas Park were still giving me attitude and kicking my **** if I didn't pay attention, I wouldn't feel as if the character was getting anywhere.

Superman might stop to save people from getting mugged, but it isn't a challenge for him. He just deals out some justice in an entertainng fashion (like KBing muggers halfway across Atlas, heh) and goes off to fight the world-endangering conspiracies. It wouldn't be very Super if Lex Luthor ruled the world because a handful of muggers had sent Superman to the hospital at the critical moment.

Perhaps it would help people fill teams slightly quicker, but at the price of hugely spoiling a part of the world flavour that I really like. Especially given that with AE there's now already a mechanism in place to allow teaming over wide level differences.

I find it hard to read the text on the repeated fading backgrounds. Luckily, a quick style sheet change in Opera fixed that, but I'd rather not need to.

All the links in the Guides section are broken. Maybe this was inevitable, but its a PITA.

Generally, though, congratulations on getting the move done so quickly and generally painlessly.

I really, truly hope this is all ported over. We will make an AWESOME first impression.

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Actually time is irrelevant!

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Lunchtime doubly so!


(I know. But it's close enough.)

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Orthographical.

I feel strangely free knowing that all senseless spamming will soon be wiped away.

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I stand in awe of your prophetic powers! ;-P

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Anarchy Online with their Eden expansion thought of a global research option. Every player gave part of their money that would otherwisely have dropped to a progress bar of their choice (given choices ofc). Through this the players would gain various perks that affected their character or their faction.

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Hellgate: London had a nifty, and quite simple, system, where players could donate gold to a central pot, and when a certain amount had accumulated it triggered one of a selection of buffs to all characters on the server for a short period of time (half an hour or an hour, I think). People who made especially large donations had their names announced, too. It was fun, and also a sink to remove gold from the game.

In CoX, it could be set up so that characters could make a donation in the name of their supergroup, too.

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I was wondering if the Hellfire Whip might be something along the lines of the Carrion Creepers in the Plant set. But I haven't seen the whole quote from BaB.