JAG-01

I concur. First 50 was a bots/pain. If you slot 'em right and play 'em right, they can be pretty nasty.

The /pain secondary really comes into its own during the tougher battles. Normally, my bots are a pretty solid wall of damage. If I dismiss the Battle Drones and start throwing heals and buffs onto the Assault Bot, suddenly all my team's support is concentrated on the group's heavy damage dealer. Now factor in any Incarnate boosts and procs the MM might have.

In the last BAF Trial I ran, my A-Bot had to switch AVs repeatedly because he was grinding away hit points faster than the team attacking the other AV!

Carebears don't leave trails of rainbows. Robot Unicorns, however, do.


(Alllwayys!) I wanna be with you!
And make believe with you!
And live in HARMONY HARMONY
Oh, love! (Allwayys!)

(I wonder if we'll have hellfire rainbows?)

Yes. A tradition honored and kept by many a pinball wizard. *ba-da-dum-tsh*

Pin! Ball! Heroes! (With stars in their eyes!)



I guess it's one way to get your Bills knocked out...

DEAR GOD THIS.

This is one of the top reasons I hate Speed Boost with a passion. People keep throwing SB on me in places where being SB'ed does more harm than good, like CoT cave maps. And then they get indignant when I ask them to stop because I KEEP CRASHING INTO WALLS.

I'm about to the point where I'll quit a team the moment a kin responds with my request to stop with "No, I'm doing my job, shut up and be happy." Hey, they asked...

It's the first arc in the Power Loyalist storyline. The mission in particular is the "final round" of your initiation into Praetor White's group of "Top Dogs."

Or, for scifi buffs such as yours truly...

Fiber optic hairdo. For when you just need more cyberpunk in your City of Heroes.

I have some experience in computers and 3D modeling, and I can tell you this isn't necessarily true.

The "glow" is not "baked into" a texture on a computer-generated 3D model. The computer renders "glowing" or "full bright" textures by default. This is how a computer prefers to process graphics; solid, clean, and uniform.

What's "baked in" are actually the options governing shadows and lighting effects.

You can see this in action in the game; depending on how fast your graphics card is, you'll sometimes see walls and objects light up like a Christmas tree for about a second while the lighting effects finishing loading.



If that were the case, your computer would have to redraw the pattern texture every time you moused over a new base option, causing your system to take a performance hit and possibly causing it to crash more often. More points of failure is BAD for any game, least of all an MMORPG with enough performance issues as it is.

The pattern graphics appear to be on their own layer rather than tied to the base texture. If that is true, then they could just copy the existing color patterns into new ones with the options for rendering shading and lighting effects turned off, then code them back into the game as normal pattern options.

From there, the player should be able to set how bright they want their costume to glow by simply selecting brighter or darker colors from the existing pallet. The closer the player gets to that color's "true" value, the brighter the costume pieces effected will appear to glow.

What, only hair?

I'd like to see a "Glowing" option for all costume parts, particularly for Tights patterns. Resistance gear and Mutant Pack options already prove that it's doable.

An easy way I see to do this would be to have the option apply to the primary/secondary colors for each costume piece. Put it under the color swatches, next to the "Link Colors" toggle button. When checked, it produces a slider bar so you can set how brightly you want that option's color to glow, from "noticeable in the dark" to "neon-bright."

Might be good to add a few options with this feature in mind.

When I follow, I assume that the leader of the team/league is going to be mature with his leadership. If he assumes I know what's going on and then adopts a "moar l33t than u" attitude when somebody doesn't play EXACTLY like they do, I'll quit the team immediately and one-star-ignore him.

No.

"Enough warning" would be in size 1200 font, made out of neon lights, mounted on the side of a hill, and surrounded by stadium lights. "Enough warning" would also have stadium-size loudspeakers blasting the CoH theme songs for Heroes, Villains, and Praetorians, with controlled explosions going off behind the whole display to serve as a bass line.

Related: "Make sure you have league members active on your map" can go one of two ways: "Ignore the map and ***** about being unable to find anyone" or "ignore the 'league member' map setting and ***** about only having three people on the map helping you fight mobs."

Or at the very least, actually display the required level for each power in the set/pool. I get tired of asking "what level does <power> unlock at again?" in Vent or global channels. If I mouse over a power at the power selection interface, the description should read "Power available at Security/Threat Level ##." If I right-click a power in the Powers window, I should see "Unlocked at Level ##" between the power's name and effect types.

And while we're at it, I'd replace the "minor/moderate/etc" verbiage with actual base numbers, the attributes displayed depending on what type of power it is I'm looking at.

For example, if it's a click single-target attack power, I should see the attack's base numbers for damage and accuracy. If the attack has a debuff or status effect attached to it, I'd expect to see the debuff's/effect's base magnitude, duration time, and chance to proc. This is all without enhancements, and assuming you're attacking a target with average defense and minimal resistance (say, around 5% at the most?).

I agree. Something must be done about this. All those people having fun just aren't taking this video game seriously. Having fun and enjoying oneself should be against Terms of Service.

Good call, Reverend Killjoy. Good call.

/sarcasm