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Quote:Wow, they really made it a long slog, didn't they?Originally Posted by Garielle
Yep. Just need to train to level 50.
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Quote:I believe it also controls the levels of their drops.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
Every one of these foes has a hidden level, or the level values it's base attributes are taken from. This effects things like damage resistance, defense, hit points, etc, and these values DO NOT scale. It also controls the base damage and number of their attacks.
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Quote:Who's on first?Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper
Much of the community rejects the 'official' nomenclature, and calls it the "Weekly Task Force" for the amusing acronym...
"ITF; room for 2 more!"
"WTF is ITF?"
"yes, it is."
"...?"
BURN!Quote:Originally Posted by StarGeek
Beaten by Ironblade by nearly 3 hours.
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrOctagon
I'm leveling up a Shield/Elec tanker specifically for hosting fun teams with lower level pubbies.Are you aware that you lose all incarnate powers when you exemp below level 45?Quote:
My plan is to level him to 50 as soon as I can (he's 39) and then do as many trials as I can to unlock some incarnate slots. -
Quote:Thank you, Captain Obvious! Gee, we should apply that line of thinking to every endeavor and get everything right on the first try for the rest of eternity. It would make life so much easier!Originally Posted by Magus_Prime
Personally, I'd rather they fix things right the first time around.
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Quote:Or, and here's a bold idea, we could use the existing and well-populated channel that already exists: Infinity HamidonOriginally Posted by RamsestheGreat
You know, we might want to consider making a "Infinity Hammi" channel, which we could advertise and use the message of the day to inform the people of Infinity. I mean, I just don't think enough of us look at the forums here anymore.
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Quote:Good. Then . . . oh, never mind . . .Originally Posted by DarkCurrent
WTF is all I have to say.
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The GMs hate paying customers apparently.Quote:Originally Posted by DarkCurrent
QFT. Let the fanbois ring!
Soon.Quote:Originally Posted by excimer
Any chance of an ETA devs?
Trust me.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Ironblade
One need not be a chicken to judge an egg.
When something genuinely sucks, you can easily and correctly recognize that even if you can't do better.Reading comprehension fail, eh? The discussion was not about offering guidance on how to do it better. The OP was stating that they had a bad experience due to a bad leader. You can judge the quality of the leader without personally being able to do better. Using your own examples, the OP is the guy who never played baseball who can tell you that the Pirates stink. Nothing more was being claimed. To state that they need personal experience to even make that simple a judgement is total BS.Quote:Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
like i just said, lead one and tell us how easy it is. otherwise your perspective lacks the experience to have a valid point. theres a guy who never played baseball who can tell me the pirates stink, and theres a guy who played pro for a few years and can give me real granular details of what they are doing wrong and what they could do to improve. guess who isn't wasting my time.
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How good do they need to be?
To quote a kzin, disdainful of herbivores, "How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?" -
Emergency maintenance. Everyone has been getting that. As of the last update, about 45 minutes, still no ETA for the servers being back up.
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Also, you should set the launcher to exit after starting the game. The launcher has a memory leak.
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Emergency!
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Quote:One need not be a chicken to judge an egg.Originally Posted by SinisterDirge
Until you lead a successful league, that avoids all the issues you present, you don't have much of a platform to ***** from.
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Quote:You still can. At least, as recently as last month. Maybe the market has gone to hell since then?Originally Posted by Minotaur
In the earlyish days of the market if you were patient and poor, you could eventually pick up good stuff for cheap prices simply by leaving bids up for long enough.
I routinely keep bids up for things I know I will need. I consistently get Luck of the Gambler +recharge for 60-70 million inf. -
Quote:Yes, there is a place to look them up. There is an entire page about game abbreviations on ParagonWiki.com, which is a great resource in general.Originally Posted by medic57
Being a new player, I do not understand some common abreviations used on the open chat channels (I refer to the game specfic ones). Is there a place I can look these up? If not, can folks please post a few common ones here?
Unless a task force is planned, the minimum level isn't really an issue. You will be auto-sidekicked up to whatever level the team is operating at. Task forces have minimum team sizes, minimum level restrictions and lock the team in, prevent you from adding people along the way.Quote:For team invites: It would be helpful to know recommended minimum lvl range (for powers), Hero (b)/Villian(r?)/Praetorian(g), and apx. time to finish assuming a full team. -
Quote:You're right; it's not a surprise at all. We're coming up on what is certainly the biggest change to the game since CoV was added, possibly the biggest change ever. There's a big hardware upgrade to get everything ready so, yeah, extra downtime is expected.Originally Posted by Devin_Wilson
Gee what a surprise.. The servers have been down more in the last two weeks than they have been up.
I'm excited!
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This week we will do Maria Jenkins' arc "A Hero's Epic". This is the new Praetorian arc (the old one is named "A Hero's Hero"). This arc will get you most of the Praetorians required for the Portal Jockey accolade. We haven't done this in quite a while.
Saturday, August 27 at 1 PM EDT
A Hero's Epic (Praetorian arc from Maria Jenkins)
Level <see below>
No minimum number of players.
Regarding the level requirement, we may be doing this through Ouroboros which would impose a level requirement and restrict participation to Heroes and Vigilantes. However, I should be able to get the actual arc directly from Maria by Saturday. In that case, there would be no level restriction and Rogues would be able to join us. I'll post in this thread when/if I get the arc.
1. Ironblade - either Al Pine (plant/cold controller) or Chromatic Cat (inv/dark tank).
2. ChrisMoses maybe
3. GATE-keeper - Magius Aegis (ill/storm controller)
4. Ad Astra - somebody
5. Elllls - maybe, if his brother gets out of town early enough
6. AngelicaVenger - somebody
7. Flux Overlord - Cortikal (mind/kin controller)
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Quote:What? Where? Oh.. wait... Atlanta... that sounds familiar. Something to do with Ted Turner, I think.....Originally Posted by ebon3
Va Beach and Atlanta both have populations greater than Miami (according to census data on wiki less than 300k), now a hick town like Charleston SC I can agree with
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Quote:Yeah, the magnitude of the pulse damage is just stupid. I ran the trial once on a character who didn't have top-notch self-healing. ONCE. Never again. Fortunately, my badge toon is /regen so I may actually get all those badges some day. Maybe.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I think the pulse damage needs to be cut by 50%. Sending players to the hospital in a steady stream isn't my idea of a good time.
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Quote:I knew that.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
That didn't faze the world designers of Paragon Studios (which was Cryptic Studios at the time). They came up with a simple and clever trick to simulate reflection - The floor is actually transparent. The "reflection" is an exact mirror duplicate of the building above the floor.
I got under that floor once. I've also gotten behind the counter in City Hall and into the dam area of Faultline before it was opened up. You can also get into the cooling pool under the floor in the Terra Volta reactor room - but that's actually easy. -
Quote:A new peak of cluelessness. Learn about the stock market. And ignore Flea's comment about brokers. I buy low and sell high on the market and (aside from the money), it gains me admiration. I have yet to have anyone show scorn or tell me my actions were dishonorable. To be fair, if anyone did, I and everyone nearby would laugh in their face.Originally Posted by Giant2005
I have a question.
If there is nothing inherently wrong with flipping, why is it so frowned upon in the real world?
Quote:Originally Posted by Selina_H
Taking away someone's ability to insta-buy a luxury item by buying it first isn't immoral.BINGO! That's right, it's your OPINION. You don't get to be anyone's arbiter of morality except your own.Quote:Originally Posted by Giant2005
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Quote:Absolutely BS analogy. Any tangible good has a cost of production. From there, you can actually come up with a 'fair price'. Obviously what's 'fair' is subject to opinion, but the starting point (the actual cost) is fixed.Originally Posted by Giant2005
For what it is worth, I don't blame the marketeers for this. In real life, producers how found a way to protect their goods from such treatment by a middle man. They write the recommended retail price directly on the packaging - we have no protection from such things in this game and that is the Dev's fault not yours.
In CoH, the cost to create the items is ZERO. They drop on you out of the void. There is no cost so there is no basis to determine a 'fair' price. The only factors to determine the price are how many there are and how many people want the item - i.e. supply and demand.
Fortunately, there is no need for "protection" from the devs against these dishonorable gouging vermin. You already have the ultimate protection - don't buy it.
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Quote:BS line of reasoning. They didn't TAKE anything out of your pocket. YOU chose to spend it. If 10 million is too high, don't pay it. The choice is yours. Because you were impatient (in the example), you spent more than needed and then whine about other people being dishonorable. Not seeing much honor, or integrity, in those actions.Originally Posted by Giant2005
If I want an IO and someone has it listed for 1 mil and then someone else buys it immediately re-listing it for 10mil, I have to bid 10 mil if I want it. That is 9 million that is taken from my pocket and placed in yours for what service? You provided nothing of value and took my money. What honor could there possibly be in that?
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Quote:To be fair, it's longer than the other two trials. After all, Dr Q is worth 122 Reward Merits.Originally Posted by Lothic
It'll be interesting to see if people become more motivated to run that trial. Sure it's a little cheesy that the Devs are having to "entice" us that way but it might work regardless. *shrugs*