Krush

Oh. I feel kinda silly now.

I'm not sure that PnP RPGs has Zodiac signs.

Happy Birthday, DnD.

I set a cupcake with a lit candle in front of my Player's Handbook and when I came back 6 hours later, the candle was out!

Not to steal your thunder, Lord Recluse, but I turned 28 last week.
Good to know that CoV is being handled by a fellow Libra.

Happy Birthday!

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just as a quick point about why the person might have been pissed off. I was in boomtown once with a group, hunting 5th. All of a sudden, we could not find a single group and we were wondering why, eventually we say a level 50 dude jumping around leading off all the mobs. Because of him, we could not gain xp for like 20 minutes cause he just kept gathering all the mobs of around our level to him. Maybe he didn't think you were leading mobs to kill the other people, but mearly leading mobs away from people legitimatly trying to fight them.

Rheticus

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No. This could be true. The door mission was the entrance to one of the larger buildings and I ran behind the building and collect two groups from the narrow alley by the zone barrier. As we stood by the mission door, there were at least 4 groups of mobs standing un aggroed whithin sight range.

Even if that had been the case, I really don't think that would justify a rude tell with name-calling and a petition filed for greifing. I assume, Rheticus, that you did not file a petition against that lvl 50 in Boomtown.

I realize that griefing is a problem for some people, but I feel like people that are quick cry, "GRIEFER!!" isn't far behind.

I relate it something my parents told me:
They own some apartment buildings and when they recieve a series of noise complaints from the same person, they find that it's often the complainer being too sensitive rather than the offender being too loud. Often the complainer complains about several of the adjacent renters while none of the other neighbors complain about the alleged noise makers. When a person genuinely is being too noisey, they often recieve several complaints about the same tenent.

The way I see it, if you're very sensitive to noise move into a house. You can't live in an apartment and expect absolute silence. By the same token, if you're very sensitive to being "griefed", play an offline game.

I think greifing is better defined by the griefer's intention and not the griefee's reaction.

I have an interesting story to share on the topic of greifing:

When my Rad/Rad defender was around lvl 25, I was on a team of 4-5 people also in their mid 20s and we recieved a mission in Perez Park. The flyer in the group decided to stop and sell so we had been waiting for several minutes. So we were standing around the mission door waiting for the team to regroup before we entered. We were standing around boomboxing, dancing, playing with emotes and socializing... generally just doing whatever we could to entertain ourselves as we waited.

In an effort to entertain myself and my team, I herded some of the lvl 7-8 Hellions or Skulls(don't really remember) over to my teammates using my Radiation debuffs. They found it quite amusing. I was standing in the middle of 20-30 debuffed mobs using emotes and some of my teammates joined in and we were "surfing" on the mobs heads. Then the final member of the team joined us, so I killed all the mobs with a single AoE, which is pretty amusing and we entered the mission.

After we'd been in the mission for 5-10 minutes I recieved a tell from someone I'd never heard of calling me a jerk-off among other less pleasant things. So I reply asking who he is and why he's messaging me. He responds with more profanity and asks why I decided to come all the way to Perez just to greif the newbies. I tell him I do not and have not ever greifed anyone. He responds that it doesn't matter that I'm lying because he had taken screenshots of my alleged griefing and reported me, telling me that I will soon be banned for this "griefing".

So I ask what exactly he had screenshots of, and I get no reply. I had figured by then that he saw me herding mobs and leading them over to my team. He probably saw my level and figured that lvl 25 would only ever come to Perez with the intention of harrassing lower level characters. I just wonder if he noticed that "griefed lowbies" were also around my level and that were surrounded by mobs not dying or being injured, all the while not making any attempt to run or fight back.

I would have explained all of this to him, but he refused to reply questioning as what sort "griefing" I was guilty of.

Please note that all of the mobs I aggroed were on my screen the entire time and there was no possible way that they injured or killed any players. Had I noticed my mobs starting to aggro a toon that was low enough to be injured by them, I would have killed the mobs long before it happened.

Point being is that this guy saw me herding mobs in a zone that was too low for me to hunt in and made a stupid assumption that I must be greifing. My opinion is that no one has a right to file a greifing petition on behalf of another player and that only the player who was allegedly greifed has a right to file that petition against the greifer. Even if one witnessed death or several due to an alleged greifing, they have no right to file a petition based what they assume to be an unpleasant experience for that player.

I was peeved that he verbally harrassed me. I was peeved that he had the gall to ignore me before before I explained myself. I was assured by my team and other friends who were online that the time that nothing would happen to me, but still there was a nagging feeling that I couldn't shake off. I couldn't get it out of my head becuase I wasn't sure how his screenshots would portray my actions. I wasn't sure how persuasive or misleading his petition might have been. And it was certainly possible that an overzealous GM might see the screens and ban my account.

It was an extremely unpleasant interaction that left me troubled for several hours and reoccurred for several days whenever I thought of it.

If you ask me, I was the one that had been greifed not anyone else.

What's frustrating is that I'm the type of hero that goes out of his way to help lower level heroes. I offer a buff or a heal if it looks like a hero is havinga tough fight. I offer a rez to people that I see dead. Sometimes I'll use my debuffs to help a hero take down a group he wouldn't normally fight. Note: not doing damage so thus not leaching XP or kill stealing.

I wonder if someone will post here saying that I shouldn't have been herding those mobs simply for amusement. I would reply that if I shouldn't be allowed to play with lower level mobs, then I shouldn't get missions in Perez Park at level 25. You can't send people to lower level areas and expect players to tip-toe around being careful not to interact with their environment.

What do you guys think of that experience?

First off, I want to apologize for my tone in my first post here. I was in a bad mood and I could have easily disagreed without the cheeky, arrogant name-calling.

Sincere apologies for that.

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The trip mines are considered a pet and do not get your current buff


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I have easily taken out entire groups of 5th column ORANGE cons with a fully slotted trip mine. With 5 DMGs I can still do it with the help of aim.


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Is it obvious to anyone else that both of these statements cannot be true ??

I have never had anything slotted in tripmine but dmg enhancements. I know several other device blasters that slot 6 damage in their TripMines. None of us have a problem hitting. Occationally I missed 2 or 3 in a group and then notice I accidently toggled my TripMine off.

I don't understand your "TripMine is a pet" rational. It's an unlikely assumption leading to false conclusions. You said yourself that Aim works on TripMine. Are you saying that Aim would work with Turret too?

Aim(self buff) works with Tripmine, Rage(self buff) works with Tripmine, but does Targetting Drone(self buff) work with TripMine?

I have plenty of experience using TripMine with TG on and I can say that rarely ever miss, seldom enough that I'm sure I'm at the 95% acc cap against =lvl minions.

So today I ran around PI using TripMine on stuff with Targeting Drone off. Did I notice a huge difference? No, not with most groups. I was mostly using it on -1 to +1 lvl mins and it's pretty hard to tell if the difference between 75% and 95% accuracy when in both cases, most things in the radius end up getting hit.

Though after a couple dozen groups, there were a few that had some extremely unlikely ratios like 3/9 hit and 4/8 hit. Ratios like that would be expected after a couple dozen groups at 75% accuracy, but at 95% the chances are of that are astronomical.

I also stopped and asked a Fire/Dev blaster what his experience was with it and he replied that TG does not affect TripMine and thus had slotted his TripMine with 1 Acc and 5 dmg. So I told him about this thread on the boards and he was a helpful and curious fellow, so we ran around PI for a bit using TripMine and observing the results. Me with TG on and no acc slots, him with TG off and 1 acc slot.

So had your arguement been true: He would have had a better hit ratio than me because he had that one acc slot while I had only TG to affect my acc.

So what was the end result?
I'll just say that there is one more hero in Paragon City with his TripMine 6-slotted with dmg.

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And your attitude is especially puzzling considering you obviously don't know what you're talking about.

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Ditto.
Run a test for yourself please.

Targetting Drone does affect TripMine.

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I've taken out groups of purple cons with multiple TMs.


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Right MULTIPLE TripMines.
One TripMine will not one hit kill anything Orange or Purple.
Aim+Tripmine could, I wouldn't know:

AR/dev lvl 42

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The biggest problem with it(tripmine) is that your targeting drone has no effect on it.


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Not true.

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Fully slotted with DMGS, I will take out oranges...


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Shall I be polite and simply state the non-truth of this statement?
... or just call you outright liar?