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The results of my testing of the ally XP nerf:
What counts as an "ally"?
All "Ally" mission objectives, all "Release Captive" objectives, all "Defend an object" objectives, and all "Escort" mission objectives.
What does not count?
Allied patrols and fights where one side is an ally, "Fight a Boss" objectives where the boss is an ally, as well as the obvious ones: "destroy an object", "fight a boss", etc.
Does it matter if the ally objective is mandatory or not?
No.
Does it matter if the ally is a custom mob or not?
No.
Does the difficulty of the ally matter?
No.
Do the powers of the ally matter?
No.
How much is XP reduced?
Each additional ally removes 10% of the XP for a defeat, so the formula is: RewardXP = BaseXP * (0.9 ^ NumAllies). For example, having five allies would reduce the XP for defeating an opponent by 41%.
Are ticket drops reduced?
I haven't tested this, but I assume so. I expect the formula used gives the same results as the XP reduction formula. -
Quote:No. I'm still testing, but what counts vs what doesn't count is strange:Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
the AE change made it so any critter considered an ally (ie blue box) will decrease rewards
this includes:
- allies
- escorts
- captives
- ally bosses
- allies in a battle
- basically anything that has a blue box that does not attack you
- Ally objectives count
- Escort objectives count
- Release Captive objectives count
- Defend an Object objectives count
- Allied patrols do not count.
- Allies in a "battle" objective do not count.
- Allied bosses do not count.
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Quote:According to the Google study, an operating temperature of 50C corresponds to a 20% chance of drive failure after three years.Originally Posted by Demobot
My hard-drive gets as hot as 50 degrees Celsius and I haven't seen it go lower than 47 degrees, even while idle. How concerned should I be by this?
It's their "20% time" policy: Google engineers must spend 20% of their time on something other than their main job, which leads to all sorts of odd things being done -- in this case, a study of the failures of the hard drives in Google's hundreds of thousands of servers.Quote:Originally Posted by Mid_Forever
Wow, Google has a hand in *everything* now, don't they?! -
Quote:I'll disagree here. Modern GPUs are designed to run hot -- as long as you're not getting graphical glitches, it's perfectly fine for them to go as high as 100C.Originally Posted by Mid_Forever
Vid Card = 75c (I'll give a little extra here...GPU are suprisingly resiliant)
I'll disagree strongly here. Google's drive failure study shows that failure rates are greatly increased if the drive temperature goes over 40C.Quote:HDD = 55c -
Quote:Seconded. He's already shown that he knows how to write for games.Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
Raymond E Feist please.
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That means City of Heroes isn't getting the keystrokes at all. If the numberpad doesn't work in Linux programs either, it probably means your keyboard map is incorrect; if it works in Linux but not Wine, I don't know what's going wrong.
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Assuming you've got a typical Wine install, I'd move the "bots.txt" file to /home/justice/.wine/drive_c, and use "/bindloadfile c:\bots.txt" to load it.
As for the numpad issue, what happens if you hit "enter" to start chatting, and then hit the numpad keys? Do numbers show up on the chat line? -
I know of four solutions to /bindloadfile not working on Linux (and suspect there's a fifth), but without asking questions, without knowing what you've tried, and without knowing what error message you're getting, I can't tell you which one to use.
For the numberpad not working, the most likely cause is that numlock is off (if you're using a desktop) or pad lock is off (if you're using a laptop). -
By "less than common OS", do you mean MacOS, or do you mean Linux? Knowing will help people give better suggestions, and maybe figure out why /bindloadfile and the numberpad aren't working for you.
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Quote:The exceptions you're most likely to encounter are toxic damage (there's no toxic defense type, so you can only defend against it using position defenses) and certain mental attacks (which have the Psionic damage type, but no position flag).Originally Posted by Desmodos
Most (as in like 98%) attacks have two flags attached to them: a position and a type of damage.
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No, no, and no.
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ED made IO sets viable. Was it done as preparation? I don't know.
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Quote:On the other hand, there's nothing quite like duelling a boss while watching a half-dozen minions go flying past in the background, with a tornado in hot pursuit. :-)Originally Posted by Fulmens
For newer players I'd stay away from teaming a Scrappers with a Storm defender/controller or a Blaster .They can work, I've done them, but it's not as simple a playstyle. The reasoning, if you care: Storms build a lot of chaos, including lots of knockback in arbitrary directions and disoriented enemies staggering off randomly. The playing "Fetch!" can get old.
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Quote:I know what my forecast for a market merger is: something very similar to the economic effects when East Germany and West Germany merged.Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
I still wish I knew what the devs forcasted.
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Quote:Put a price cap on market transactions? That'll just take the high-priced goods out of the consignment house, reducing market efficiency, decreasing availability, and increasing prices. The ability to purchase things will no longer depend simply on how much you're willing to pay, but also on who you know. We're seeing this already with the high-end PvP IOs, where prices have gone above the current market cap of 2 billion.Originally Posted by RagManX
I, for one, have been calling for caps on the market for a long time. I propose a much lower cap. Maybe 20 million? 25 million? I am certain that I, for one, would be able to get much richer much more easily if we had such a low cap. I'm totally on board with any effort to implement market caps of any sort.
Quick fact: in all of recorded history, price caps have never reduced prices. They've either resulted in prices going up or goods becoming unavailable. -
Or, to cut through all the dithering and tangental issues, yes, there will be a downloadable version of Going Rogue with all the goodies.
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Quote:The absurd levels of recharge he's got permit the use of the GD > GC > SD attack chain, which (IIRC) does about 30% more damage than a more common GD > DA > GC > SD > DA > GC or GD > GC > DA > GC > SD > GC chain. Of course, that requires enough survivability to drop DA from the attack chain, which he may or may not have. Having Energize near-perma and Power Sink up every 20 seconds (and slotted for endurance drain) may make up for the low defense numbers.Originally Posted by Postagulous
You don't have to be so massively recharge crazy with Katana.
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Quote:You were probably getting drops at the normal rate of about one recipe and five salvage per mission.Originally Posted by Wooden_Replica
I would rather an increase in supply side,
Example I logged onto one of my 50 alts that haven't played since before the changed how difficulty worked, so it was set at the default lowest setting. Until I really cranked up the difficulty I wasn't getting ANY recipes much less set recipes. Having a streak breaker mechanic would be nice for drops -
Quote:Easiest solo run I've had was when I attacked after he summoned his pets: my controller fired off Seeds of Confusion, then stood back while his imps shredded him.Originally Posted by Ad Astra
Frosty isn't really all that tough if you bring a few Insps like MB suggested AND you get to him before he gets his Fire Imps.
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Quote:Calling the Wolf has a fairly nifty animation, so I could see taking it for style reasons.Originally Posted by Postagulous
If you want Calling the Wolf, roll a Tanker. Taunt is much better. No one, ever, takes the taunt power in a scrapper. Their job is not to pull enemies off the squishies. Their job is to kill kill kill.
Grounded is where you get your endurance-drain resistance. There isn't much that does serious end drain, but it'll make the few that do much easier to handle.Quote:I suggest lose Grounded and pick up CJ.
I'd build towards Ranged/AoE, but I haven't checked to see which is easier to get, especially since BotZ is going to be nerfed.Quote:OK, I threw this together so some slotting is awkward. I did as I felt you should, build toward ENFC def and get all the resistance you can.
To give you an idea of how much "everything" is, on the Hess TF, I was tanking Burkholder and his surrounding mobs using only SOs. (Well, it wasn't so much "tanking" as "I was standing there with full health, slowly taking down the surrounding mobs with AoE attacks after the rest of the team faceplanted".)Quote:Actually, the Melee and Lethal will get rid of most everything. -
Quote:If you handle things right, you won't be fighting single targets very often. Once you get Seeds, increase the spawn size as much as possible, so you don't need to fight as much to level. Further, keep an eye on the health levels of the enemies you're fighting: careful use of Strangler can usually cause the last two enemies in a group to drop at the same time.Originally Posted by MaxLongstreet
If, on the other hand, you're going to be soloing, this build looks ugly for damage at the lower levels, particularly pre-Creepers. I understand that with Seeds, you're not going to need to do tons of damage, but you will need to do some, and there ain't much here. Killing that last guy is going to take a LONG time if you're simply hitting unenhanced strangler over and over again.
Roots is one of the powers that really needs to be frankenslotted. Mine's set for 2.5 accuracy, 2.5 damage, 1.5 endurance, 1 recharge, and 0.5 immobilize.Quote:Originally Posted by ketch
I agree with what Max has said about Roots. It is definitely a damage source, and given that you'll be spamming it immobilize duration isn't as important. I like your original slotting of 3 damage, 2 accuracy, 1 end reduction though you might find it efficient to reverse your accuracy and end reduction. -
Three Cytoskeleton Exposures and three Nucleolus Exposures:
Acc: 94.9%
Dmg: 94.9%
End: 94.9%
Def: 56.0%
I can't think of any reasonable attack chain that requires recharge in Divine Avalanche but doesn't provide enough global recharge. -
The more I look at that build, the less I understand it. I'm guessing you took the principles of a Blaster solo build and applied them to a Scrapper, which just doesn't work.
The basics of any katana/elec build:
1) Divine Avalanche: This provides incredible melee and lethal defense starting at level 8, if it hits.
Since DA doesn't give a defense bonus if it misses, you need to slot it for accuracy (it should have a 95% chance of hitting in any situation you plan to be in). If you're selecting set bonuses for defense, you should build for AoE and then Ranged (most ranged attacks are either Lethal or Energy, which your regular powers already protect against).
2) Power Sink: At level 35, your endurance worries go away. Fire it off with three enemies in range, and your endurance bar will fill up.
Because of this, Stamina is nice rather than essential if you don't plan to exemplar below level 30, Physical Perfection is only good for the regeneration bonus, and Conserve Power is useless. -
Quote:This is a bug. You're not supposed to get defense buffs from Enzymes, so don't be surprised if this changes in the future.Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar
I think this is still the best slotting anyway, since the Enzymes give 33% Defence whereas level 50 IO's only give 25.5%,
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Quote:Google is famous for it. Guess when Gmail was announced?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I really don't think any type of company or organization would make any announcement on April 1st.