LISAR

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

A few weeks ago I saw the same group of characters standing around a certain contact spamming LFT for a specific mission for 45 minutes to an hour.

Another time I've watched half a dozen "Stand and Spam" LFTer's whining to each other about how the server sucked because no one was running DfB's.

Before Freedom they'd SaS in AP for MA farms, and before that they'd SaS in PI.

And every three to four months someone comes to the forums and complains how such and such server is dead, or suggests the servers be merged because they "can't" find teams.

So I have to disagree about hyperbole being used. Of course it is possible that the people making those complaints are exaggerating about how hard it is for them to find teams, but if we say that to them then we are the big bad internet bullies.

Originally Posted by dugfromthearth

a roleplayer flag would be nice

what use is local besides roleplaying?

Originally Posted by Dr. Aeon

Hello everyone!

I appreciate the feedback you’ve all been given here and on the beta forums. I’ve just made the following changes:


1) Statesman’s Pal will remain Statesman’s Pal and will be given out when completing ‘A Hero’s Hero’, the original Maria Jenkin’s arc, in flashback

2) Positron’s Pal will be given out when completing, ‘A Hero’s Epic’, the new Maria Jenkin’s arc

3) Sister Psyche’s Comrade will remain the same and be given out when completing Psyche’s task force in flashback once Issue 23 is launched.

4) Penelope Yin’s Friend will be rewarded when completing her new task force

5) The Task Force Commander badge will be rewarded by having either Penelope Yin’s Friend or Sister Psyche’s Comrade

Thanks again for all your feedback!

Dr. Aeon

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

You still stink at following basic beta rules.



Ohhhh I laughed.

Originally Posted by Sigium

Also a fair assessment. However, doesn't the existence of just one set mean the devs had to, at some point, have said "Well, here's the deal... This could cause the server some severe problems if too many people wear it at once. Let's put it in game anyway."?

I don't see a multitude of people walking around with said arms, but they're still available- couldn't it be considered non-game-breaking to implement something like that on a larger scale?

Once again, I think the CoH server capacity/hardware capabilities has improved since launch- I don't think there's that same risk of lag, or other associated problems from loading more textures.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

Both players must be of exactly the same skill level

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

There's a rifle, pistol, claws (hand blades) and all swords option. (not sure if there's a mace or axe in there, sorry guys).

Moving forward, and ClockworkO1 can confirm this or correct me, all sword like objects will be built on the Titan Weapons measurements. This allows them to be easily scaled for use with all Sword types.

Originally Posted by Bosstone

Asked and answered.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

(or, to what I take as LISAR's point, some conditionally better way to deal its damage than another set).

Originally Posted by UberGuy

That would not likely become a relevant advantage in bot-on-bot combat because CoH AI sucks at using travel powers.

Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer

-Not, trolling you Z-

If only we could get the same representation for bases.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Well the reason I'm not interested in that is that the point was very much not to discus whether those two powersets are balanced. The point was to counter a claim that if they don't both having benefits of some kind that people actually value, that's fine, because real balance is impossible. That's not valid. If one powerset (or AT) doesn't have any benefits people actually want, then either it should be given some or the system adjusted so that the capabilities it has are more valuable.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

That is a Ignoring how it might step outside AT roles for a moment, what if AR dealt lower damage (or at least more-resisted damage), but being hit with all its attacks severely gimped its target's ability to travel?

Originally Posted by UberGuy

But AR was consistently viewed as largely under-performing in pre-I13 PvP. In that context, high accuracy was less meaningful since there was no Elusivity for Accuracy to strongly counter. Moreover, damage resistances were not normalized across types, and L/S resistance was the one resistance type all ATs could get. I that context, that left range as its only real advantage, which, while useful in pre-I13's high-speed PvP, was not seen as sufficiently useful to counter the degree to which it was resisted.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Again, "balance" does not mean what you seem to think it means. In fact, it is completely possible to make a powerset do something that makes it desirable. AR need not do as much single-target DPS as Fire Blast, but it should do something that makes people want to use it instead. If it is considered suck-tastic in all functional regards, then something is, in fact, wrong with it, and it should be changed.

Originally Posted by The_Masque

Reposted the link. Thanks, I typed up the wall of text on a word program and it copied over all messed up.



Caustic attitudes of PvPers... idk... man. I see a lot of it going the other way as well. Also, not ALL PvPers act that way. I don't think I have ever flamed a PvEr.

Originally Posted by Zortel

London was formerly Londinium. Languages changes over time and so do place names, so perhaps somewhere someone thought "What's a Mot? Maybe they meant moths. I'll mark this as Moth Cemetery on the map."

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Actually, it does - NW takes place before DA.

Originally Posted by Zemblanity

The tag spoilers in this thread is clearly directed towards spoilers taking place *before* Dark Astoria. Things currently in beta should be off-limits.