Jack_NoMind

Pfft. What with all of us buying the magic pack, you'd think they could get a few new octal-core server processors. ;p

Neato! ...but, you might want to put it over here, so the guy who does costumes will actually take a look at your idea. Masks are, indeed, costume parts.

This belongs in the Silly Ideas Thread. =P

However, I'm all for (graphical only) dance hall emotes with shiny flashy effects.

He wants to force every spawn of NPCs in Mission Architect missions to have at least one NPC with ranged attacks, and disallow "custom enemy groups" which import only a single NPC that summons more NPCs, like the Rikti Comm Officers.

This is to stop there from being extremely large numbers of NPCs which can be hit with Immobilize and then destroyed from range with no risk.

(Given how successful demon farmers have been, I'm not so sure forcing NPCs to only have at least one ranged attack would make much of a difference. I think making custom NPCs have a third mandatory power pick, essentially twenty varieties of EPP With Ranged Attack, might be a bit more effective... but only a bit.)

A bit more specifically, I'm referring to the fact that amount and coinage are meaningless; all that matters is what you can get with what you make.

I'm making inf hand over fist right now because the Dowleys of our game are spending all their MA tickets on recipe rolls rather than uncommon salvage, which has consequently shot up to 500K on the market -- a market, incidentally, glutted with all the recipes they didn't want.

And the marginally brighter folks have, btw, also created a vast surplus of rare salvage. As soon as they finish kicking themselves for over-investing, they'll catch up to me and the market prices will equalize. They might be numerically higher than they were before, but that's irrelevant (see above).

Which means no more million inf-a-minute MA runs for me, but I'm not that dedicated to being wealthy anyway.

I just wonder if anyone's going to figure out what I meant by it.

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With cloudy eye and a struggling intellect he fetched this out:

"Marry, I seem not to understand. It is proved that our wages be double thine; how then may it be that thou'st knocked therefrom the stuffing?—an miscall not the wonderly word, this being the first time under grace and providence of God it hath been granted me to hear it."

Well, I was stunned; partly with this unlooked-for stupidity on his part, and partly because his fellows so manifestly sided with him and were of his mind—if you might call it mind. My position was simple enough, plain enough; how could it ever be simplified more? However, I must try:

"Why, look here, brother Dowley, don't you see? Your wages are merely higher than ours in name , not in fact ."

"Hear him! They are the double—ye have confessed it yourself."

"Yes-yes, I don't deny that at all. But that's got nothing to do with it; the amount of the wages in mere coins, with meaningless names attached to them to know them by, has got nothing to do with it. The thing is, how much can you buy with your wages?—that's the idea. While it is true that with you a good mechanic is allowed about three dollars and a half a year, and with us only about a dollar and seventy-five—"

"There—ye're confessing it again, ye're confessing it again!"

"Confound it, I've never denied it, I tell you! What I say is this. With us half a dollar buys more than a dollar buys with you—and THEREFORE it stands to reason and the commonest kind of common-sense, that our wages are higher than yours."

He looked dazed, and said, despairingly:

"Verily, I cannot make it out. Ye've just said ours are the higher, and with the same breath ye take it back."

"Oh, great Scott, isn't it possible to get such a simple thing through your head?..."

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-- Mark Twain, [u]A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court[u]

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It's more akin to a general consideration. The reward should be equivalent of the risk. Less risk, less reward. More risk, more reward.

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I don't really think so. MMOs have, since day one, been more about time investment vs reward. Getting the best gear, the best build, etc, always depends on how much prep time the player is willing to invest into it. Consequently, the goal of a player has pretty much always been to minimize time investment and maximize reward.

More general: Any system complex enough to be suitable for an MMO is gameable. The question we want to deal with isn't, "How do we stop people from exploiting the system?", it's, "How do we make the ways in which people exploit the system predictable?"

Think about it like protecting a house. You don't encase the entire house in a block of ugly steel that keeps anyone from getting in or out. You don't even wire up the walls with alarms -- because who's going to dig through the walls when there are windows right there?

That's adorable, Thorn.

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Risk v Reward. This is a common formula in every mmo that a player looks at.

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I'm gonna have to call "citation needed." What makes you think that?

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1) Increase exp from Contact missions.
---> Make it so that, while in a mission given to you by a contact, all exp is increased. You can do this by either making it so that there is a set 25% bonus to all or every enemy you defeat gives exp as if it was actually +1-2 levels higher than it really is.

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That... kinda seems like the opposite of risk vs reward, if that's your paradigm here. It's more like, "Hey! Free reward!"

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2) Get rid of defeat x enemies in contact arcs.
3) Change newspapers/radios. Details below.
4) Eliminate all exp gained from AEs and instead replace it with a form of 'build-up' experience bonus.
5) For redside only: Eliminate or decrease the massive number of longbow that occur during mayhem missions (at least in early levels).

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In fact... none of these really seem to embrace that idea. What it seems more like you're asking for is a streamlining of non-MA missions and the removal of all MA rewards (since you mention at the top that you're using 'exp' to refer to experience, influence, and prestige) except tickets... which, you know, pretty much guts it. That's especially odd considering your initial line -- some MA content is among the most challenging in the game.

Plus, none of that really accomplishes what you set out in the title. Farming missions still exist -- the demon farm, the pantheon farm, freak farms, etc -- and these are all Contact missions. Your initial idea would increase most rewards from those by 25%!

So give it a bit more thought, and clarify in your own mind what exactly you're trying to accomplish.

Under Rule 5:

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No thread necromancy. Necro-posting is responding to an old discussion thread and is a form of thread ‘bumping’. If you wish to discuss an considerably older topic, create a new post and link to the older discussion.

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Of course, under the same rule is

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Bumping posts in order to keep them near the top of the list is also prohibited. Likewise, the use of "/signed" posts are discouraged in that it doesn’t engender constructive discussion.

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and we see how often that gets obeyed.

The official "good practice" is: Search for similar posts, but if it's an old post, create a new one and link to it.

Of course, how old is "old"? Nobody but Mod 8 knows.

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Personally? I don't give a flying [censored]. If people want to present their idea, I don't care if it's been presented thirty times before -- it's new to them, and the worst it'll do for the forum is inspire someone to make up a new boilerplate. Likewise, as Zekiran says, there's plenty to be gained with a thoughtful necro.

Searching is good form, but it's not the sole keystone preventing the collapse of all civilization into chaos.

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Flight and hover just got buffed in I14.

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I'm not sure everyone read it the first time, so just to repeat.

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give me one good reason, not because you want it or it would be cool, that this would be needed.

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Give me one good reason, not because you want to or that it is cool, that you play City of Heroes.

Well... there's a reason it didn't show in your search. Costume suggestions are generally handled in SexyJ's Costume Request Thread. Hit that up -- IIRC, Jay's said he won't read suggestions not in that thread.

I'd be happy with most of the Head 1 options. Horns! Glasses! Monocles!

Monster heads are boring without character. =/

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Ex Libris is going to join Cuppa and Lighthouse in the big CS house in the sky. It is sadmaking.

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I will really miss you Ex. /cry

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Whoa, whoa, guys! Ex isn't dying, she's just getting a new job! She already said she'll keep playing. ;p

Besides, think of all the great puns this opens up. Now you can call her "ex-Ex Libris," or possibly "Double-X Libris."

Of course, if she were to come back at some point, she'd be an EX-ex Ex Libris, which would mean... Oh dear.

I feel like this is neglecting one major facet of institutional implementation, which is that it has to be someone's job to design and install the filter, and that they have to be given that job by someone with the authority to do so. Barring unforseen internal emphasis, if this ball got rolling now, the system might be in place in, oh, three to four Issues. And that's being optimistic about estimations involving hardware requisition and setup. This is not going to make it to the top of anyone's priority list.

Speaking of which:
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spam gets held for manual review

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Not likely to happen.

About three-quarters of your post is irrelevant to the topic and shows no research beyond Wikipedia to boot (failing to check even the sources Wiki cites, as I suggested). There are plenty of stupid things that are "controversial."

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And you'd be wrong. I used to have 4 accounts and now I'm down to two. Why? Because I was able to buy extra character slots on my main account and recreate the 20 characters I had on those two accounts on my main account. If they allowed us 48 slots I'd have cancelled all three extra accounts.

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So in other words, you have already shut down two accounts, and even if you could transfer your characters between the two you have, it wouldn't help any because they're both completely full.

So how does that make what I said incorrect in any way?

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I'll take the word of the American Psychiatric Association and the British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

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The American Psychiatric Association and the British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence have concluded that the procedure does not cause brain damage in adults.

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Hey, man, if that's your standard for excellence, keep on keepin' on!

(Before you take Wiki's word on "most effective treatment" -- a statement not endorsed by the APA -- y'might wanna read the rest of the article, like the parts where it contradicts itself. "ECT on its own does not usually have a sustained benefit - virtually all those who remit end up relapsing within 6 months following a course, even when given a placebo." And y'might want to check out the sample size and distribution... as well as what the article actually says... on the citation they give for that line. But that's more a general "caution, Wiki-users" line than anything related to the OT.)

Edit: Oh yeah.

And with this lesson on proper Wiki-use concluded, and whatever the relevance of ECT depression treatment may be to the ECS behavior modification re stupid post ideas, I'd like to further add that account transfers would not likely lose NCSoft any money. People who keep multiple accounts active usually do so for benefits above and beyond the additional character slots; it seems unlikely they'd cancel an account and lose those benefits now that so many more character slots are available, if they haven't already.

Shy of symbols for hate groups that would be used by young teenagers whose grasp of their meaning was "sure makes some people mad!", me either.

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But in that case, I have a solution.

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I too have a solution for communicating with friends!

AIM, Yahoo, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Xfire, Gmail Chat...

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Heres the thing though, for every author who uses it properly for story line enhancement (causing people to turn this option on), you will find a bunch of 'special' people who use it to do just what you say you wouldn't do (i.e. turning the PC into a large purble dinosaur thingy)

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So you click "quit mission" and 0-star it. I mean, the worst they could do is mildly annoy you and waste about 90 seconds of your play time.

Or better yet, as many people have suggested, the "Mission Contains" line could include "Costume Alteration."

Doing a Freedom Force sequel/mod kit for CoX would be pretty sweet.

Or a squad-based game with building that simulated base raids if base raids worked.

I don't see a problem with offering a Platinum Class roll that gives you a random purple recipe at 10k tickets.

(You might want to think about this for a moment if it seems game-breaking to you,)

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It would also be pretty awsome if you could make it a side bar with say 9 favorite emotes of your choice.

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That'd be totally sweet! Good thing our developers are precognitive, right?

You can open a new "floating" tray with the + icon on the powers tray. Find an empty one and you've got 9 spots to fill up with macros -- say, /macro fbook "em floatbooks", for one of my personal favorite 'waiting around' emotes. And a horizontal tray is too much of an annoyance, you can select it to be partly or fully vertical, or just force verticality by docking it on the side of your screen!

Now, adding, say, A-Z trays and the option to make floating single buttons would also be pretty handy. It's possible to write extensive macro/bind files that alter your existing trays to work just as well, but, well, I'm way too lazy to do that, and I'd say less than a quarter of the player base even knows it's possible.