Killcannon

Hey Gil, make sure that when they change your forum account from a Dev to a player that you don't loose your name/post count or avatar. You don't want to be GenericXDev003 or somethin.

Thanks for what you've done. Luck on your new projects whatever they may be.

Folks, I have a feeling that the idea is that in CoH and CoV we have equal time to earn prestige.

So I can see them turning the feature on at the same time in both games.

Otherwise, if they datamined CoH, the SG's in CoH would have a year and a half worth of Prestige and be able to get SG bases too strong, that no Villian SG would be able to beat them.

The thing that makes me laugh till I have tears on my face, is that you are nerfing Burn to keep people from PLing with it.

Well, you know what? They don't use Burn Patch for PLing anymore.. The Newbs to PLing do, but those that you are trying to stop?? You know. The ones who PL all week? They don't use burn.

They use Trip Mines. And it goes 10 Times faster. I've sat in on a few and watched. It's TERRIFYING.

BUT WAIT.

THAT'S Wrong. Something the PL's 5x Faster????

ohhhhhh I get it.. we're useing another AT to help us. So as long as one AT does the herding, and the other does the killing, it's working as intended. Teams needed.

But, burn isn't being used to PL anymore. So for those of us who solo, can we have it back please.

If you MUST leave it as is, could you at LEAST make the patch bigger?

If each mob is only going to stay in the patch for 2 seconds then run, can you PLEASE make the patch the size of our other AOE's Make it BIG, eg the size of Controller Ice patch. The mobs will still scatter, but they'll have a larger burn patch to run through before they're safely away.

Then they'll run back to attack you, and you can wait till the next burn comes up, then use it again.

BOOM. leveling is slowed down, but we're still useful.

And we can still solo.

You know, that thing people do when they're NOT on a team...

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I did say one other thing - that dropped Enhancements are useful only for what you can sell them for - because everyone purchases their Enhancements at the store (or at least most of them).

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If this is true, then heres a suggestion.

Tweak the drop tables so the enhancements that are dropped fit more into the middle range between the "5's" .

We all buy the lvl 5 at lvl 2, the lvl 10's at 7 and so on.

So make it that the drops are more in the *3 and *7 range..

So if I'm lvl 31 and still have 30's, but can't buy 35's, make it so at that range I pick up a lot of 32-34's.

This way I can combine them instead of selling them.

Becuase I end up haveing all 30's, then 35's, then 40's.. But not much in between.

Once i hit the 40's, I tend to buy enhancements every level. So I have 40's, 40+, 40++ then 45's, 45+, 45++ and so on.

Theres no way to buy 43 or 44 enhancements for example.

Nope, the audio clip they used changed. It's harder to determin the direction of the blinkie now then it was before, but they still make sound

Play with sound people. You can actually hear the DIRECTION of an attack. Very helpfull in a crowded area.

tpull, just read this here thread of yours from top to bottom. Keep it up

Wish I'd done this for myself. Though I'd NEVER be able to remember peoples names after a play session.

In one of your posts you stated you wish you could have made a demo. Check for info on the in game demo function.

Once you've made a demo with what ever you want recorded, you can use software to actually record it so others can view it with Windows Media Player, or Winamp, or VLC or something.

OR you can just export you're ingame demo record of it.

uhh. folks... Some of you are taking this a little too seriously.

This is a GAME. The reason the option to schedule an SG Base raid is there is so you CAN schedule it.

What happens if the Hero's of Harmony WANT to have a good fight against the Heinous Harmony Squad? What if they WANT a large # of people there to fight. What if they WANT a good challenge.

Most of you are looking at this as an RP thing, becuase it'll ruin your imersion in the game, but news flash, a LOT of people don't RP.

I don't want my SG base being raided when noone is online. What's the fun of that? If you want to fight the computer, then go play PvE, not raid an SG's base.

Grats on lvling up.. I mean the promotion.

(no Dreck mission here. Move along.)

Uhm.. CoH and CoV will be completely different games. CoV will not be a patch on CoH. It'll be completely seperate.

So if you have CoH installed, then you'll also have to install CoV into it's own dir. They won't share any files on your computer. A patch for CoH will not work on CoV and vice versa.

2 Completely seperate games.

Gotta ask what aspect of the game he(Will assume he till proven wrong) works with. I mean, if he does sounds, then he should have a name to do with the sonic powers..

If he's more into hardware, then something technical.

If he's an artist, something to do with that.

Call him Burnt L.E.D. Maybe he worked for Statesman at one time in the past, had a mental breakdown and now works for Lord Recluse.

There is one thing that I see consistantly happening.

I don't think it's an intentional thing, but it happens.

The Devs make a post about a change they think is nessesary. They seem to do this change with a Fun/risk/reward kinda logic.

Risk in all forms is the spice of life. But a LOT of people don't want a lot of risk. Some folks just want to get on, and beat some bad guys up for the fun of it(I know, something wrong with humanity here).

This seems to be the reason we see so much "Adjusting" to certain arch types. The Thing is, a LOT of us LIKE being a little over powered. A lot of us LIKE the rush of being able to herd large groups of mobs. Some of us LIKE the feeling of power when we can lock groups of mobs down.

The Devs seem to consistantly try to tell US what WE find fun.

I came to CoH becuase it was a combat centric game. Becuase it was something I could pick up and play right away with very little learning curve. It was a screen shot of a tank I think herding a few dozen mobs that got me hooked.

All the other MMORPG's I've tried out(6 at last count) you are more of a 1vs1 combat type. Or at most 3vs1.

You see, being able to go up against 20 minions and win is what I wanted.

In the early game it's 1-3vs1 is the norm. Skilled players can take on up to 5, but most don't till the teens. I expected my ability to handle mobs to raise as I lvled up. I figured if 3-5 in the 1-10 range was good, then at 40 I should be able to take on 40+ and at 50 75+.

Tanks and scrappers seem to be the only ones who follow this. I expected the Blasters/controllers/defenders to have powers that would blossom as they got higher in lvl so they too could take on large groups of mobs. Maybe not 75 or even 50, but I figured that in the 40's a defender should be able to take on 20-30 even con minons.

You see, we start the game feeling like someone's sidekick. We have the potential, but not the experience. As we progressed, I wanted to feel like I'd went from Robin to Batman to Superman.

This game is all about PERCEIVED power. If we don't FEEL powerfull, then we don't have as much fun.

All these "Adjustments" are making some of us feel like we're being lowered back down to side kick levels.

I still dont' see why the devs keep looking at the people who've rushed to the top, instead of the people still back at base camp 1, only 30% of the way up the mountain, and help THEM.

Even if you only brought them up a little, ANY love there would greatly improve the joy in the game for many people.

The devs keep looking at the AT's that are played the most. That lvl the fastest. That Die the least.

Why don'y they look at the AT's that are played the least, that lvl the slowest, that die the most. HELP them, instead of hindering others.

If you lift them up, once they are near the level of the rest, THEN you take down the tanks and scrappers.

You'll have a shorter trip then if you brought them ALLLL the way down to where the rest are now.

Ok. I gotta stop this rambling. In Short, help those who NEED it, those who DESPERATLY need help, not "Adjust" those who don't want it. It whould cause SO much less greif, and build SOO much love for the dev team.

Remember. This is a game. We're supposed to be haveing fun, not screaming in frustration.

One person asked why anyone would use SJ or SS in combat.

Well, if you've played a scrapper, or tank, it's a must.

For scrappers it's how you get from mob to mob fast. Sure, I can slot up Swift or sprint, but then I have to put slots in it, that detract from my regen alilities(I'm a Regen scrapper, non-Mog).

For my Tank, I use Blazeing Aura as a taunt, and use SJ to jump from group to group. You land, wait for BA to hit, toss of a single taunt while you're doing that and move on.

Now I'll have to land, turn off SJ, taunt, turn SJ back on, and SJ away. Where I used to have 2 key strokes, I now have 4.

This means instead of looking at the next group of mobs, at what mobs are trailing behind me, at my team mates, their health, I'll be looking at the mobs around me to see if I hit them with my taunts.

It's like this.

The devs seem to have this idea that for the game to be "Fun" I have to be smashing buttons all the time. They want me to be constantly hammering away at over 20 buttons in combat.

I don't want that. I want movement, maybe 6 buttons for attacks/buff/debuffs/holds..ect and a few buttons for insp's and heals.

I came to this game for the simplicity of the combat.

Seems they want to make it more complex.

I remember when everything in the game was new.

I remember getting lost in most zones.

I remember feeling like a hero the first few times you heard the music around the Atlas Statue and Ms. Liberty.

I remember when the Green line was a scary thing.

I remember the first time I saw Freaks(not the SG on Liberty) in talos.

I remember the first time I saw a tank herd 10 mobs(That was HUGE then)

I remember when the Sewers in the south of AP was considered the hunting grounds of the high lvls.. Those around lvls 5-10.

2. After analysis, Scrappers CAN NOT reach the same levels of resistance as a Tank. Regeneration, though, is a small concern.


From my experience...

lvl 1-10. So-so: No real damage, no real defence/rejen. Fast attacks though.

10-20. Very Hard: No real rejen/defence, but mob damage ramps up. Spent lvls 7-19 perma debt. can you say GRIND.

20-28. So-so. Got integration, so bypasses a lot of greif. Still easily 2 shotted by mobs.

28-35(As far as I've go so far) Cake walk. Solo purple boss's easily. Anything under lvl 40 I can kill(almost, a few are not fun, Paragon protectors ).

I've heard and read that post 40, regen scrappers go back to so-so.

I'll wait and see.

Basically, lvl's 1-27 were HARD. LOTS of debt. LOTS of greif. Only in the 28+(Instant healing) Did I REALLY feel like a super hero.

If you want to change scrappers, make it a little more even over all the levels.

The smart way to do it would be this.

If you want to play CoH, pay your 15$.
If you want to play CoV, Pay your 15$.
If you want to play both, then they should release a special addon that you can get that allows you to have both installed, but only be logged into one at a time.

You would STILL have to buy the other game, and maybe pay 5$ more a month for a total of 20$ to play both.

For me, 20$ a month is nothing. That's 3 Trips to Mc Donalds, one pizza, 2 movies rented. For how many hours of play. Lets see.

5hrs a night, plus 2x10hrs on days off, that's...45hrs a week, x 4 = 180 hrs a month that I play(plus or minus 10hrs) so lets see.

15$ devided by 180 = 8.3 Cents per HOUR of game time.
If you did BOTH, it would be
20$ devided by 180 = 11 Cents per hour.

Dunno about you guys, but that's the cheapest form of entertainment I've ever seen.

1 movie rental = 2hrs of movie(average) cost about 4$. So 2$'s per hour.

Go see a movie at the theater, about 10$ for 2 hrs, that's 5$ and hour.

Go out to a bar to pick up women.... WAY too much..

Personally, I'll gladly pay for it. Will I play CoH at the same time, doubt it, so I'll just be paying my 15$ a month @ 8.3 Cents per hour of game play.

Thanks NCsoft and all associated with it.

Well, this is what my SG did tonight. We got a bunch of players together, and found a set of 2 doors side by side that wern't in use by others, and camped it. We rotated through so everyone could get their badges.

Well, after 15 min of this, someone came up and clicked on the door we used. No biggie, except that our 2 blasters had laid Trip mines in front of the door. So the mobs went boom.. and ...were arested...

Player moves on, no biggie. 10 minutes later, he comes back. Does the same thing, with same results.

He hangs around though. So we stop dropping trip mines, so if he clicks the door, the mobs come out for him.

We alternate for a bit, and he runs off.

Few minutes later, a group of lvl 34 minions run by. No biggie.

We keep going.

After 15 min, we eventually notice that this kid is training mobs on us, and has been for last 10 minutes or so. No biggie, we don't attack, and almost none attack us. Those that do attack us, we ...Arrest...

This goes on for about 15 minutes, us dodgeing trains, and then one of his SG mates comes by, and they start this.

They relise that what they're traingin on us isnt' killing us. I'm a lvl 34 Regen Scrapper, so I'm at my most uber at lvl 35(Apparently I'll be nocked down a few notches in my 40's I read). So they get one of their higher SG mates to come SK one of them so they can train bigger stuff on us.

How do we know one was SK'd? When they run by with a train on their tail, they'd click the door, and a Trick would come out 2 or 3 lvls higher then the person who clicked it.

This goes on for another hour. Us haveing fun at their inability to train kill us. We eventually get tired of it, send off a group of petitions, and move to a different set of doors a few blocks away. They come over and continue the training.

goes on for another half hour, and we move again.

They follow us AGAIN.

THEN they train THREE of the big Pumpkin head guys and their minions on us. we give up and log more petitions, and descide to log for the night.

All in all, the halloween event was fun, even the deaths, but it was ruined by this group of 3-4 players who just could not find something else to do.

Sigh..

Off to bed

Time to break out the emergency stash of 25 Cases of Coke Classic.. Time to camp on the computer. WAITING for something to happen.. Ohh wait... Got a job.. Ohh well.

Scrapper Unite, A scrappers only SG that I posted above died in it's infancy. In the week that it was going, noone wanted to join, so I started a new one. This one is centered around the Support AT's.

It's called


SG NAME:2nd String.

Send a message to either
Radiation Storm, Storm/Rad Def(Leader, Me)
Red Hot Kate Tanker(LT)
Eternal Fury, Claws/Regen Scrapper(Me)

For Controllers, Defenders, Tanks and scrappers. We're here as a means to group. From lvls 1-50(none that hugh yet).


We're here to help people. We're here to group if needed. I play in game and have char's from lvl 1-20. Higher,lower lvls welcome. No lvl range.

Send a /t In game.

SG NAME: Scrappers Unite
LEADER: Eternal Fury

This super group is dedicated to helping the scrappers.

I'm looking for people who have scappers as their primary toon. Looking for people who play daily.

Any scrappers welcome.

Scrappers by nature and design are loners. So we'll play alone some, but if you're bored, your hitting a wall, just want to have fun, tuff mission, wanna do a TF, other scrappers are there for yah.

We DON'T KS. we help where we can. If we have TP, and someone is asking for TP out of the Forest, we invite them and TP them. We're here for fun and support.

Send me a /t or in game email. name of Eternal Fury.

Recruiting any scrapper that is lvl 10+

/t in game
in game email me.
Or real Life email me.
killcannon@hotmail.com