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In the way of the Fey you have a deal struck - often the deal does not go the way you would like it or expect it to

Mab grants you knowledge and then with too much knowledge she will not let you go. Now everything twists with favors upon favors - while Nuada does get his hand back due to you - it is Mab who pulled the strings - Nuada being of the Fey understands his favor is owed to Mab and not you!

So you will have a favor due but beware collecting

When you ASK someone to review your creation it is subject to his/her views and prejudices.

Personally I am sick of the entire Star Trek - lets go back/forward in time again instead of exploring an endless universe theme they have.

That's just an OPINION.

The people submitting Arcs for review have ASKED for Ventures OPINION. Then they complain when he gives it.

Seems rather silly to me.

Ran Time Loop and it was fun

Will try some of the others as well.

Feybound Arc 186129 Auto 50.

Mab Queen of Winter is known to be one of the most clever of the Fey.

She asks if you are sure you wish to learn more about the Fey?

1. Since you do..........she sets you up. You find a book about Nuada Silverhand and the plot begins to thicken.

2. Mab now says you know too much to stop now and "asks" you to help Nuada find his hand.

3. You do so and now Nuada returns to his kingdom of the Tuatha De Danaan to best Logh in a fight to once again take his throne since with his hand he is without blemish.

4. Now Nuada owes Mab a favor and showing her cleverness Mab has you, Nuada and herself to face down Aurora Summer's Queen as she tries to extend the warmth of Summer all year. Logh was working for Aurora and now she faces being "balanced" into the normal seasons again.

For a twist - if you are on Virtue you can ask Mab Queen of Winter to come and help you as repayment of her favor.

**Edited for fat finger spelling.

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Mab Queen of Winter asks you if you want to find out more about the Fey. To do so you accept her errand. After you have a rare book - she tells you you are too far involved now to stop.

She "asks" you to do her a favor and she will owe you one in exchange.

You have to find the Silver hand of Nuada and free him. Once he is free he challenges Logh for the right to be King of the Tuatha De Danaan.

With your help he wins and you find that Aurora Summer's Queen is behind the whole plot and she was seeking to weaken Winter enough to extend Summer thru the year.

Now you face Aurora and her minions along with the help of Nuada - who now owes Mab a favor.

If you succeed - Mab owes you a favor in Paragon and you can ask for her help sending a message to Mab Queen of Winter or to @Iron for help - once

I made a tribute to Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series.

Arc 175675 - A Princess of Mars.

Custom Green warriors - Auto level 50 for the first 2 missions.

The last mission I used Romans as another custom group of Zodangan warriors made it too large.

So you can help John Carter save Dejah Thoris.

Warning - Green Jeddaks hit HARD.

I wish I could have!

I created the best Green Warriors I could and you have to fight Tal Hajus in the first mission. You do get John Carter to help you

The second mission is rescue Kantos Kan to tell you what happened to Dejah Thoris.

Third mission - Rescue Dejah Thoris! You have to defeat the Zodangan (had to use Cimerorians) army on the way to Sab Than and again John Carter will help!

I had made the Zodangan army but adding Green warriors made it too large

I will be using them in another mission soon to be announced!

Now that Edgar Rice Burroughs is public domain:

Arc 175675 - A princess of Mars.

Take a journey to Barsoom (Mars) to fight along with John Carter against green warriors and the Zondangan army to rescue the incomparable Dejah Thoris.

Rats in Space.

I made it as a level 1-20 primer in place of having to do Sewer runs.

With all due respect - the Sewer Trial used to be the favorite way to level in your mid-30's to 40.

They nerfed Krakens and now no one does the "content."

So I have to say again as I said at the time - If you make something so undesirable to your players it goes from 75%+ are playing it until no one is playing it - is it still content?

Surely your in game data mining shows you no one even bothers with the sewers now. It also likely shows rarely is the Eden trial done.

In fact many players likely even know it exists.

Blue Steel's Avatar must be Wilford Brimley.

A quote from Cocoon:

Ben Luckett: Blue steel. Cat couldn't scratch it.

I will take this moment to be completely overjoyed.

I truly felt if Cryptic had kept this game it would have been so overshadowed by Marvel Online that it would have had a short life.

Now it is being adopted by a group that has DEEP pockets and wish to BUILD on the games success.

I am happy to say I am glad this game has gone form the Americans to the Koreans (for those that still remember)

this what happened in the last game i played hackers ruined it for everyone dupin rares and gold and just anything to cheat there no extened maintenance there trying to catch the hacker and we pay for it so unless people don't let GM'S know of wrong doing's in the game it we ruin it and there we not be a COH IT WELL BE GONE TO THE AMERICANS!!!!!!!

Also, We are from the Government - we are here to help.

Tundara, to use one of the 7 habits for effective people:

Some things are of concern and some things are within your influence.

Things you can't influence directly - should be of a lesser importance to you. You can share your Concerns here and with the Devs. Concerns are items you personally can't influence.

You can Influence:

That you have fun with /ice melee.
That you learn how the powers are most effectively used.
That you share the uses of these powers with us.
That you suggest IO slotting and various strategies.

In short you can HAVE FUN and still show both influence of your surroundings and of our community.

Tundara, you apologize for not doing the Devs work?

Unless you are a red name you do not have the power to make any changes. I have seen the wisdom and creativity of tankers largely ignored for over 3 years and have yet to see a red name comment on whether Ice secondary is even being looked at.

We designed the Brute if you will recall. Yes, right here in this forum and instead of giving it to tanks - they gave it to Villains.

So no, I don't log onto test and I don't try and change something unless as with blasters Castle steps in and says:
Give me some ideas.

Until then - it is working as designed - until its not working as designed.

Go to here and get help

http://www.gamedev.net/

Check out the forums:

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/

They can help you with everything from programming to music and including all graphics engines.

Jousting was the problem cited.

Suppression was the solution we got.

Statesman did not say in the post Suppression and I did not say he did. He said jousting in PvP was a PROBLEM. This led to Suppression after the -acc was discounted as not being a fix for characters with Buildup + Aim could circumvent it.

So PvP Jousting did lead to Suppression. Then once it was announced as "the fix" suddenly all the NPC's in Paragon complained that if Heroes in PvP had Suppression they wanted it too! (uh sarcasm if your detector is broken)

I did read in a thread that has been removed about Jousting in PvP that Statesman replied to.

I am sorry I did not save it now - why? It was the death knell for smoothly flowing travel powers.

In the thread Statesman was discussing an arena battle where scrappers were jousting and landing Crits and running. He said then something would be done - it was SUPPRESSION.

Uh, for the apologists - Malta, Tsoo, CoT and all the other mobs in the game do not start 100 threads on jousting being unbalanced.

PvP players did.

If you have ever played a blaster you would no jousting was not and never has been "safe." As for suppression in Flight - Statesman quoted "Hover Sniping" as being unfair and guess what? You still can Hover Snipe just fine.

PvP in this game is awful - yes my opinion but then again out of the 20+ friends I had at one time start this game all are gone and won't return citing nerfs and terrible PvP as the main causes.

2 nerfs that are dismissed now but were critical for my friends leaving:
1) Purple Patch
2) Regen +8 server fiasco.

We lost 10 of my friends the day of the purple patch. We lost 6 more over the +8 one shots on the Dev test server. Since then a few returned saw what Enhancement Dysfunction did to their characters and never looked back.

I said in another thread that if the Devs had waited to introduce the huge nerfing of Issues 4,5,6 and ED and offered a replacement - namely inventions - the anger and screaming would have been far less.

2 years of nerfed play and the XP and INF has not been buffed to account for the slower game play. The 30-40 levels are flat out boring.

The changes to "Content" like the sewer Trial and other similar changes has resulted in no one doing the content now. How is this an improvement?

I understand it now though. CoH was beta for CoV and Coh/V is beta for Marvel MMO. I get it.

Folks this Hamidon raid is MORE open to griefing.

How?

I take my group of Uber players into Hamidon and we set up camp there. We defeat Hamidon and STAY there. 50 man cap and no instancing means grief city.

If I refuse to leave even tho' I get no reward I effectively grief others.

As far as no holding making it more fun - how's that Sewer Trial doing now? Yes, no one does it. I am not encouraged by the description of this encounter.

The game needs to have more immersion. I would do this thru making STORY PANELS LIKE IN A COMIC.

You are assigned the arrest of Frost Fire and a small still scene pops up with 4 - 6 panels showing where Frost Fire has made his home.

You defeat Frost Fire and a small 4 - 6 panels pop up showing Frost Fire being lead away and your contact saying - THANKS!

Is this a comic book tribute game or not?

You have such a wonderful vehicle and you just touch the surface.

For costumes add a STENCIL option. Now you can have completely unreal variations. You can stencil your selection just like a chest design.

I voted Bad guy groups. I love the Freaks, Tsoo, Sky Raiders and Nazi's when they existed. After a bad day nothing satisfies like slamming nazi's.

You know what would be great being able to SG invite thru Email.

Unless you have 2 accounts if you want a base for a solo SG you can't invite your other guys.

I played PvP for a very short time in CoH/CoV and it was enough to see there is NO DIRECTION.

Look we asked for from day one the Arena came out:

1) Capture the Flag
2) Escort/Infiltration type missions
3) Maps like Dustboel in TFC/Quake
4) Maps like 2 Fort or similar

Random blasting of people over and over again means the PvP is pointless.

Have any of you guys EVER played Soldier of Fortune 2? Unreal Tournament? Any of the classic PvP games like TFC/Halflife?

For crying out loud you have the perfect world to implement awesome Infiltration (briefcase) maps. Make instanced 8 man a team maps and you would have leagues starting.

I am at a loss why you have not removed your heads directly from your nether regions. You have such a game and you could make ONE server PvP like many of us said. Set that server to allow picking from ALL powers.

Balance? If every player can pick whatever powers he wants and set his guy at level 40? OMGBBQ you would have them FLOCKING TO PvP.

Many players myself included explained at length why PvP in this game can't work as it is. If any left still remember when PvP was first set in the Test server only - IT WAS PACKED. It went live and like almost everyone predicted - the Arena was empty.

YOU NEED A PvP SERVER.

Then you can have differing rules. Don't give me the garbage - we don't want different builds on different servers.

You currently have at least one Internal test server, the public test server, Live US server and the European servers. All of these have different builds.

Now if you ever want PvP to be more than a joke implement some of these things.

A point I have never seen made:

If you are a new player and you wish to join an SG as a selling point to join it they advertise - A FULLY EQUIPED BASE.

If it is complete and the design is finished the ability to customize and enjoy playing with the design as they do playing with the design of the costumes is gone.

Nerfs.

I am completely at a loss as to why these folks get a chance to interview someone and then just lob softballs at them.

The entire puzzlement by Statesman that people say they are leaving and we don't see it - is completely negated by the sales reported in the quarterly report. Is Statesman saying that report is either in error or false?

Why is it he never seems to "understand" his audience?

I could give a list that would go on for pages on items they did not "understand" and bases is just one of them. Among the worst EVER ideas they had that showed the disconnect of Devs vs Players:

1) The entire Regen scrappers soloing +8's on the internal server.

2) Boost Boss damage so the players that didn't have a problem before that weren't affected and the ones that did have problems were 2 shotted.

3) Suppression and the fly slowness finally being resolved YEARS LATER

4) No Influence being earned in exchange for extra Prestige. This leads to a game based on Twinking which Statesman flat out said he disliked and set the personal exchange at 9999 max then he reverses himself and says thats how he WANTS the game played.

5) Burn

6) The Sewer Trial

7) Giant Monsters

8) Tankers

I could go on but they NEVER in these interviews actually ENGAGE the Devs they just allow spin to go on and never point out inconsistant answers. Issue 5 being the last MAJOR change to gameplay and powers immediately followed by Issue 6 and ED.

The suggestion in Issue 5 to players that they will need to 6 slot powers for the desired effect and then stopping 6 slotting?

I know people feel honored by being granted an interview but they should have some form of responsibility to the players of said game as well.

Not just be a marketing opportunity.