Grue

Hello. I've been a City of Heroes subscriber for a long time now, and I've been constantly bugging a friend of mine in Germany to get an account for most of that time. He got one as soon as it became free-to-play, and he quickly found he liked the game and sought to purchase some paragon points.

However, that's when things went wrong, it would not accept his paypal, which is currently his only means of payment. So from my location he gave me his username (***********) and password (not repeating it) so I could use my own personal credit card to buy him paragon points. It turned up a "Suspected Fraud" alert.

This is a problem, it's not letting you take either my money or his money in order to gain him paragon points. If you'd like to continue to recieve my money, I suggest you rectify this somehow. I'm willing to pay $15 american or the 14.40 euros to get him the points legally.

Companies that make it difficult to give them money don't tend to be very successful companies I find. I eagerly await a response either here or by email.

The server status says everything's still down...

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3: You will have NO AoE (except assaultbot's flamethrower) until level 32. When you upgrade your robots. Then you will be drowning in it.

4: Robots, especially after being upgraded are noisy... Not a game mechanics problem... more just a personal thing I've noticed.

Why did the Devs remove "Witch Bare" from Monsterous botoms? Now in order to make a demoness you either have to have no hooves, or deal with your pants ending at your calves. It's annoying.

This isn't a full guide as my character isn't a 50 yet so I don't feel qualified in writing one but here's just a few things I've noticed about my Robot/pain-dom build.

1: You will have at least 1 attack power and that's okay. Given the choice at level 4 between "Share Pain" and "Pulse rifle blast" I'll take the latter even if I never slot or use it mostly because moderate damage to self is NOT a fun thing to have especially when someone aggros the wrong thing and all your robots die faster then you can heal them as well as being completely useless solo. Not to mention the pulse rifles are awesome looking and are half-decently useful early on as a knockback control.

2: Robots take damage. It's true, they do. Being very control light (except knockback which they have in spades) robots mostly tank their targets. Due to an AI that would rather use bash then wait for it's much more useful/higher damage range attacks to charge, they will charge near-blindly at foes occasionally (especially before you get Equip).

I've got 3 quick ones.

1: Will we ever get more Ancillary or patron power pools? I'm in favor of a few new patron power pools to cover other player origens besides Arachnos based ones. They also make less sense for a "Rogue" aligned player in general.

2: Will Pulse Rifle ever be made into a blaster power set? I would love it if it was, the pulse rifle is the best part of the robotics set.

3: This is a general question of policy more then anything else, will the servers ever be given "Official" designations for their type? Like Virtue becoming an official roleplaying server?

I mean really, It just would be awesome in general. Arachnos certainly has it's bases covered as far as magic based villains are concerned (Mu *AND* Soul mastery) but us tech villains only get mace mastery. Science villains get nothing...

I had a random thought that I think would be an interesting addition to the game.

Dr. Aeon gets promoted to a Patron, and starts granting a patron power pool. Science Mastery.

With science based powers and your very own shiny super-pulse rifle!

What do you guys think?

... The entire west coast server farm is down... Did it get hit by a meteor or something?

Virtue's down again! yaaaaay!

still down :-(

STILL DOWN... argh.

Not sure if this is spicifically a virtue issue, but I've been running into several "BOSS DISPLAYNAME" named bossess in missions on virtue. Seems there's a database issue as well.

That seems to have not worked since it's been down for the last hour too...

The one thing I want is a lieing down emote... That's all. My characters in SGs that have their own rooms wanna be able to use those beds.

Consider a moment.

Your modem pulls 1-5+ megabytes a second depending on the broadband you pay for and stuff.

Currently: Characters take between 10-20 kilobytes.

Average city-overworld map will have 10 characters in the "Load-zone" where you have to download their graphics (Assuming their not in your cache) that's 100-200k. Not bad, can get that near-instant at 1-5 MBPS

That is when you consider events. I've seen 50+ people in Atlas park under the statue for contests. I've also seen more in the D on peak hours. That makes you pull 500-1000k just for characters. Again not too bad at 1-5 MBPS.

now what you're saying would probably make individual character files take up 1 meg on average. This means that you are pulling between 1 and 1/5th of a second on EACH CHARACTER only characters.

yeah...

For 17 I want to see bases be revamped and make it easier to invite people into them for base-building contests and such.

Oh and all this doesn't count loading positions, just raw graphics. Double all my estimates for that.