Ironblade

This has something to do with tribbles, right?

OMG OMG OMG! I probably would have bought it just for Dual Pistols and Electric Control. (I don't like MM's and I haven't tried Kinetic Melee yet.)

Will there be bacon involved?


P.S. It's not abbreviated at all on my screen. It may have to do with font size and/or width of your browser window.

"Pigeonholing" is a very negative and biased term.

What I said was that differentiation of the AT's was important. If everyone has mez protection, then that is one less area in which they differ.

The two are close enough in level that the 'value' is essentially the same. Sales volume is low enough that the last 5 prices have a high degree of randomness.
i.e. There's no real difference between the two.

Plenty of people have. I've only gotten to about 6,000 reward merits and 7,000 Vanguard merits on one character. On the other hand, he has less than 200 candy canes. He did get to 9,999 brainstorms and he has 97 of each Halloween salvage.

Let's keep in mind that there is no such thing as being INHERENTLY "morally ambiguous". It's YOU that's putting that label on it. You're discussing activities of which YOU disapprove.

I can not stress enough how nuts this is. Anything that would be even a SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE if you lost it, should be backed up.

The overwhelming majority of computer users have the wrong mindset. Most people need to understand that they will be using computers on a regular basis the rest of their lives. It simply is not a question of *IF* you will have a hardware failure causing lost of data. The only question is *WHEN*.

More than acceptable, I think it's vital to differentiation of the AT's. Defenders are DESIGNED to help the team and generally be very limited in how much they can help themselves.

I think that giving mez protection to the other AT's would be a terrible decision and very bad for game balance. Fortunately, since this is clearly not part of the design intent, I think it is extremely unlikely to happen.

I think there are two steps in which there is a noticeable improvement in performance. The first one, as you indicate, is going from generics (or SO's) to frankenslotting.

However, I think you can get a second step of dramatic improvement after that as long as you are aiming for something that is common/cheap. By that, I mean a set bonus that occurs in a lot of sets and is the first bonus - either regeneration or recovery. By slotting pairs from various sets, you can easily exceed 30% recovery bonus or 200% regen. 30% recovery should be noticeable on any AT and 200% regen is certainly noticeable on a tank (the only place I do slot that way).

This certainly costs more than frankenslotting, but it's only tens of millions (and the low tens, at that), rather than hundreds of millions or billions.

I have not met (in person) anyone that I know through CoH.

However, I have exchanged emails ('real' email, not CoH email) with quite a few; I am friends with several on Facebook; I've chatted on Skype, the phone, and also videoconference.

The reason for this is that everyone lives so far away. Back in the OLD DAYS (i.e. 2400 bps dial-up days), I was a SysOp on a BBS system. Just about everyone who dialed in was doing it as a local call so they all lived in the same area. We used to get together about once a month, sometimes having 30+ people show up.

Your comments may, or may not, be accurate. However, they are completely irrelevant. The forum is BUGGED. It logs people out repeatedly and at random intervals. I do not have the forum remember me. I LOG OUT every time I finish reading. And it logs me out whenever it feels like it, while I'm reading.

No, it's a bug. This was confirmed by one of the community reps. Definitely a bug.

um... wow. Are we visiting the same forums? I'm not seeing any of that. The forums seems as vibrant, active and friendly as ever. Certainly there is some (justified) complaining about the logout bug, but I don't see that, or anything else, crippling the community.

What you're talking about is fantasy. In any MMO - *ANY* MMO - the player who is willing to engage in specific high-return activities, be they 'grinding', 'marketeering', whatever, will ALWAYS have greater assets than the 'typical' player.

This is the nature of the INDUSTRY. It is most certainly not a 'shortcoming' of this game.

This suggests a pattern. You feel that 2 billion for an enhancement is people griefing. Now you say that people attacking you in a PvP zone is also griefing.

Just because YOU don't like something does NOT make it griefing. The devs have made it perfectly clear that both of these situations are 'working as intended' in their eyes.


They do, and they have. The type of play they wish to encourage is NEVER BEING FINISHED. When a player feels that they are finished, they stop paying for this game and move on to another.


You do this repeatedly. You state that your position is for the benefit of the game, while those who disagree with you are greedy and selfish. Your 'debating' tactic is contemptible.

Isn't that a circular argument?
If you want to buy stuff on the market you have to "play the market minigame" (i.e. sell stuff on the market).

You mean, aside from when they said they are aiming for Nov 16, right?

Considering it is on the BETA server, yes, they seem to be bypassing the Test server. And, since it's currently in OPEN BETA, Nov 16 seems on track.

Well, my understanding is that it is short for Mobile OBject. If that is correct, it would be an acronym. If not, then not. I don't claim any expertise regarding the origin of the term.