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Quote:Huh, that bit, I never knew. Never really needed it on my Thugs/Poison, since I just made special binds to drive my Bruiser around punching things by himself, and my own debuffs and holds could take out any trouble things he couldn't get. Nice to know.Originally Posted by Muon_Neutrino
On a side note, while bodyguard *does* stop working if you hit your attack/defensive macro, they'll only be out of bodyguard until that target dies. Once the target of an attack command drops dead, the bots will automatically revert to following you - which puts them back into follow/defensive and bodyguard. -
Quote:"I am Ohmman! Your electrical weapons are useless against me!"Originally Posted by Smoking Baby
I saw a guy who can withstand way more electrical voltage than a normal human, not sure how that's useful, but he basically let a ton of electricity run through him on camera and didn't fry.
"... but our guns still work?"
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Quote:Villainside has quite a few: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Technici...e_Nemesis_ArmyOriginally Posted by joebartender
This
Never seen a mission that contains an AV or EB that doesnt contain the "you may need to get some help" info in the mission text.
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Dr._Forr...om_Widdershins
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Quote:The really brain-woggling thing is that it's apparently semi-canon for PCs to be able to become Arbiters and Marshal. Particularly the latter, where the badge title outright says that you've been granted that title. Doesn't necessarily mean I like the idea of characters doing it, since we'd have ten billion characters per server with the titles if it were recognized, but still.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Claiming to be a Marshall would be a huge no no. Arbiters? Well, they seem to have a lot of them in places like GV and whatnot. I personally avoid Arbiters now as I said, but if anyone can play 'em well, so let 'em.
I hold with the general consensus--Having your character related to/highly important to a canon NPC is generally bad form. Your character has a crush on Indigo or once had a few drinks in a bar with Synapse? Fine by me. You're Indigo's lover or Synapse's son? Now you're pushing it. -
Quote:Well, Shockwave shows your character tossing a giant bladed thingy at your enemies. Focus, yeah, is a little weird, since it's just a little glowing ball. I just say it's a throwing knife.Originally Posted by DrMike2000
Focus and Shockwave. I have no idea how my claws character can knock people over from 40 feet away using his claws. They're great powers, but why this set gets ranged attacks is beyond me. This bugged me enough to start a thread on it once.
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Note that if you put a damage proc in Flash Arrow, I believe it will aggro guys if it does damage.
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Quote:Yeah, this. If a big defining part of a character is how they relate with their wife, or the ruthless rivalry they have going with their partner in crime-fighting, or whatever, having that other person suddenly not around can really hurt things. Retconning the person away is equivalent to throwing months or years of RP out the window, often with character or plot progression that went along with it. Saying they're busy or whatever is the best solution I've found, but it's still lacking a lot of the time.Originally Posted by Kai
The problem with retcon is a lot of times those relationships have defined the character in many ways...Sadly I usually just end up playing different characters. Guess that could be a weakness too, I am far more inclined to play the characters with social connections than the ones without.
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Quote:And thus we return full circle to "Agh! Yudkowsky! You were supposed to keep them from making Skynet!"Originally Posted by Lothic
The real trick won't be making selfish robots.
It'll be making them just selfish enough to be productive members of society without being sociopathic.
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I'd just like to see more different enhancement combinations. Take a look at stun sets, for example. Every non-purple set is:
Accuracy/Recharge
Endurance/Stun
Accuracy/Endurance
Stun/Range
Accuracy/Stun/Recharge
One other thing.
Having every set give the same combos of pieces is a bit annoying, and it makes some entire enhancement categories annoying to use for frankenslotting. It makes the choice between sets based purely on their bonuses and costs, instead of needing to also consider which one gives the best enhancement values for the power. It also makes you pretty much need to frankenslot some powers--if I want my stun to recharge as quickly as possible, any of the existing non-purple stun sets are subpar to six-slot.
This change probably couldn't go in to existing sets, but I'd love to see one or two new sets in some of the categories that don't offer much meaningful choice outside of set bonuses. -
Quote:My guess (and I can't read the article at the moment to see if this is mentioned) is that it's not intended to be something useful by itself, but a stepping stone toward building true AI. Selfishness and deception are part of intelligent life as we currently know it.Originally Posted by McNum
Seriously, though, I can't think of why you want a deceptive robot, except for use in combat drones. Am I missing a possible use here? Well, it'd make a mean AI for video games, too, I suppose.
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Quote:If the mule is intelligent enough for dyslexia to be an issue, I'll take it.Originally Posted by SuperOz
This is a shout-out to those dedicated folk that make our Supergroup Bases...well, super. Given the tools that they have (and from all accounts, they are like a stubborn dyslexic mule to work with)
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Quote:Yeah, I hate this. I bought multiple copies of items a few times because I'd place a bid on it... and the bid wouldn't show up in my window after about 30 seconds, so I'd place the bid again... then suddenly both bids appear, filled.Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
Along with all the points other people have mentioned about how the interface actually works, my single biggest complaint about the new UI v. the old is that I find it so ridiculously laggy. I understand that some people got horrible lag with the old system and the new one fixed it, and I'm very happy for them, but I find it incredibly frustrating to use, now.
The most annoying part it that most of the time it's clearly the UI, not the connection to the AH server. I can SEE the transactions happening just fine in the chat window, while the UI lags and flails helplessly around and pops illusory items in and out of the list and attaches sale prices to the wrong item. And I grit my teeth and try to do everything sloooooooooowly, and then I get careless and list an Apocalypse Damage for 226000 inf and ARGH RAAAAAAAAAGE SMAAAAAASH. -
Quote:I believe you just redo the mission that grants them in Ouroboros.Originally Posted by flashrains
Wait, please tell me how to do that?
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Quote:And incidentally, it's all pretty awesome up to this point. I highly recommend that people read the first seven chapters just for monkey shenanigans. There are free English translations all over the internet--Wikipedia can point you at one. Past the seventh chapter, it's still fun, but I had to read it a chapter or two at a time--it's very episodic after all the disciples show up.Originally Posted by Lycanus
Journey to the West, one of the four classic Chinese novels along with Romance of the Three Kingdoms
one of the central characters is Sun Wukong, aka Old Monkey, aka the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, aka Handsome Monkey, aka The Monkey King
He is born from a stone and leads the monkeys around him to settle a kingdom and fights off or establishes allegiances with the demons, tigers and monsters nearby before going off for a time and seeking the secrets of enlightenment from a sage.
Then death comes for him and he fights his way off, invades Hell and erases his name and the name of many of his generals from the books of Hell insuring that they will live forever. Then he acquires the rod that was used to measure out the oceans and rivers from the dragons, terrorizing them in the process.
He causes so much trouble that heaven sends down a representative to invite Old Monkey to become a minor functionary in hopes that it will calm him down, but he doesn't want to be a minor functionary (takes care of the Jade Court's stables) and wants to be equated to the highest of titles and causes no end of trouble in heaven, rebuffing all the gods and immortals, stealing the peaches of immortality and drinking of them, ruining the holy peach festival and breaking the walls of heaven and defeating the armies of heaven
It isn't until the Jade Emperor calls upon the help of Buddha that Old Monkey is finally humbled and trapped under five elements mountain until such time as the seeker for the scrolls should come by at which time, Monkey was to become his disciple and aid him in his quest to the West for the holy scriptures. -
Quote:This'd be nice. Not being able to do all of Faultline on my Praetorians annoys me.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Either the Faultline arcs need to be retuned, or all four arcs need to be opened up to the entire 15-25 range. Or AT THE VERY LEAST Jim and Penny's arcs need to be extended to the end of the zone's level range.
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Quote:Force Field Generator gives about 2/3 of Scrapper mez protection values to Hold, Immobilize, and Stun, so I've never really had a problem on my Trapper. I have about the same thing going--I pretty much won't solo a character unless they have mezz protection.Originally Posted by PsyriusMalenroh
Corruptors: I have a Corruptor at 38 as well, Sonic/Traps. Quite fun and very powerful when I know what I'm doing. But same problems as Blasters. Squishy and no mez protection. I live off the latter.
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Quote:Yeah, I have a few of those. It felt kinda weird to be playing Kae when her family and close friends were all just not in the game. You build up this entire context that the character lives in, and then it can all essentially vanish while IC'ly remaining there, unless the people kill off their characters when they leave or something. Yeah, you can still play them with other people, but after a while, it feels a little weird ICly talking about their family and friends who never ever show up... or having the character outright avoid mentioning them. Plus, if the character has any ongoing plots or anything, that also means that most of the people who were involved with them have left.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
A unique weakness that I'm sure many of us share--too many connections.
You have those characters who have made friendships and relationships and pacts and families with other characters of other players...who have since left the game. Now you're left with a character with a huge extended family...who is suddenly an orphan. How do you deal with that? What do you do? Thoughts?
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrMike2000
I've never been a huge fan of true nukes - I always felt they were a bit underwhelming considering the penalty of 20-30 seconds downtime afterwards. I much prefer the half-nukes like Full Auto.Agreed with both of these. I usually skip full nukes on most characters that don't have both a way to leverage them for extra damage (whether -res or Aim + Build Up) and a way to get the endurance back without waiting for half a minute. Even then, they're usually not my first pick unless I'm on a Blaster.Quote:Originally Posted by Fulmens
I think giving Scrappers and Brutes half-nukes was probably a design mistake, no matter HOW much fun Lightning Rod has given me. One more thing that used to be blaster-only...
As for melee quasi-nukes like Lightning Rod... well, my problems with them go beyond just taking away from the uniqueness of Blasters, but that's certainly one thing. I think they were probably altogether a bad idea, but it looks like they're here to stay. -
Quote:Yeah, I had this same problem. I switched sides a time or three, but when I reached Penny, I'd never run into Metronome before. I had a few problems like this--it seems like some big reveals (like the truth of who's funding the Destroyers) can also happen at different level ranges, so I'd find X out on a level 10 Loyalist arc and reveal it to the world, then go to a level 15 Resistance contact and have them go 'WE MUST LEARN ABOUT X.'Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
I'm playing thru the Praetorian arcs with my first toon, and I've chosen to take the Warden Resistance path. I've totally avoided any Crrusader contacts, and not done any Loyalist stuff at all.
I got to Penelope Yin without any beef with the narrative, but during her arc I was a bit perplexed to see someone called Metronome being mentioned as though my character had heard of him. I hadn't been fed any narrative prior to that about Metronome, but I assume that other paths may offer up the 'missing' backstory. -
I'm actually with Maestro here--I deleted my old ninja MM after I would give them goto->attack commends into melee only to have them run up to the enemy's face... and shoot poison darts at them from a range of 2 feet. (Well, okay, having one of them run 300 yards away after getting hit by a Scrapyarder fire bomb, while I was spamming orders for it to go passive and return, didn't hurt.) Now that they sound like they'll actually melee, I might need to reroll.
It's still annoying as hell on my low-level Bots/ MM, though. Apparently 'stay' means 'sit here unless you feel like boxing today.' -
Quote:No, no no. I don't find it a coincidence that an ice-buffed drone takes on a cross shape. It isn't a doll, it's a sign of favor from Abominable Snow Jesus. My ice defender had to go on a long and perilous trek to get his blessing.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
We've made it a point, at times, to buff the pets just to see if we can get them to make it through a mission. To the point where they're shielded and have as much HP as a player (sometimes more.)
Plus it's amusing to see this little ice-doll-thing floating around when you buff a Wisp.
This pretty much sums up all of my problems with AE. I have one character I leveled solely on AE story arcs for about thirty levels... and jeez, was it a pain. Finding good content wasn't too hard at first, since most of the higher-ranked stuff with more than a handful of votes had earned them legitimately. But once I exhausted those? Dig through 3 pages of arcs with descriptions like "teh catgirlz r attackin atlus u have 2 stop tehm" and "manticore wants to beat up all the hellions so help him do that this arc is so cool." Or was 1-54 custom enemies with extreme powers. Or had a custom AV as a level 1-10 arc. About a third of the time when I found one that looked half-decent, it was broken by a patch, had things that floored my xp/time (missions with no enemies, I'm looking at you,) or was just plain dumb. Sure, I had fun on the arcs that actually didn't suck, but even before you factored in all the time I spent searching for good arcs, the XP was noticeably worse than just running contacts.Quote:Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Because it seems a lot of people are about speeding through things as fast as possible and getting as much XP as possible in the minimum amount of time. That....doesn't really work with AE. Authors don't necessarily follow the devs' unwritten rules for mission creation (Anything important is at the back. Objectives are marked as "Defeat bad guy" and "get the thing" in the nav bar. "Seek clues" and "get the thing" means a blinky. Reading anything is unnecessary, the mission is idiot-proof.) The newer missions we get in Praetoria and tips break those boring old rules, but AE authors were doing it first. Plus you get no mission complete XP and no patrol XP.
This doesn't matter if you're 50, since tickets are a constant, steady source of inf; to (mis?)quote Nethergoat: AE allows you to print your own money. This does however require that you have some idea how to spend those tickets and how to use the market.
And we come to the last hurdle: Unless you read the forums or are a member of the MA Arc Finder global channel, finding good arcs to play is a massive pain. You find something that looks interesting, click Play, and it turns out it hasn't been updated in a year and you get creamed by the named boss and his five clones in the first room. Or it won't even start. Or the author has no idea how to design a custom group balanced for the arc's level range (tip: If you see "level 1-54" and "Enemy group: custom" in the same arc, skip it) and you die horribly on the first spawn. Or the author has taken lessons from the crappy, outdated i0 Dev content and the first mission is a lead-out on a four-story lab map with multiple elevators. And you only get that outdated, poorly balanced, poorly thought out arc after sifting through four pages of farms, spelling errors, Extreme everything, one mission one-note jokes that aren't funny (usually containing the aforementioned 1-54 custom group) and "look how cool me and my SG are." -
Quote:On a somewhat related note, I almost always like 'the other girl' over 'the main girl' in romantic comedy love triangle movies/series. The main love interest tends to be really bland to appeal to the widest range of guys, whereas the other girl can actually have some personality.Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
The subplot where the Professor's AI hoverbot thingy falls in love with him...is actually vastly more interesting than the main plot of the movie.
Kick-***: I would totally watch a Big Daddy and Hit-Girl movie. Not that I had any problem with it as it was, but they were at least as interesting as he was. -
Quote:And the bread-making anime is far, far, far, more interesting than it has any right to be.Originally Posted by starphoenix
Anime and Manga are purely a literary style. Comics are the same, but most of it is superhero based. If you can think of a particular subject, then you can find an anime or manga that deals with it. The same thing can't be said about Comics. I have heard of a bread-making manga/anime, but I have not heard of a bread-making comic.
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Quote:http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/new...ummary_of.htmlOriginally Posted by Baracca
i'm sorry but what do you mean inherent? did i miss some patch notes or something?
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When I see somebody's stack of lowball flipping/crafting bids slowly filling and know that I just need to bid 1 inf higher to get it pretty cheaply and reliably.
And when I run a few missions and find that I got a bunch of junk recipes, most of which are still worth millions if I just toss some salvage at them and craft them.