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Hey, it doesn't make sense that reading a plaque causes me to drop out of invisibility either, but that change is going to stay.

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I think that one is obvious - your stalker has bad eyes, and the mobs all hear you pulling out your reading glasses.

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It's called blaster taunt. You aggroed them simply by entering the building. Then rumor spread that there was a blaster in the building. Soon, every mob in the building is on the lookout for "the blaster". These guys may have simply been running away from the crazy scrapper and saw "the blaster".

Some people think blaster taunt is only a myth....like unicorns. But it is reality. We are only now seeing it in greater effect since guantlet is broken. Blasters just scale higher than any AT on the aggro scale.

Take a team with every AT on it. Run them into a mob spawn with no toggles on, and make no attacks. Most of the mob will spot the blaster and rush in to take him/her down.

Nerf blaster taunt!

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I don't know if you are joking, but I most definately experienced something similar. I was fighting the Envoy of Shadows, I was a scrapper, and my energy blaster friend was there too. I beat on the EoS for 40 seconds straight, taking the agro as expected. The blaster fired *one* blast at the EoS, and the EoS beelined for her. She had to SJ across the map to escape before dying, and the EoS came back to me, only to repeat the experience of me attacking for 30+ seconds, and 1 shot from the blaster drew instant agro. Admittedly, I was not using the Taunt power, but you'd think all that damage I was doing would account for just a wee bit of agro, but I guess not.

I would definately call that unjustified "blaster agro". No way should 1 blast draw agro after another was attacking for 45 seconds.

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Just because I'm a total pedant and cos that mistake had me stuck for two weeks when I was a student...

I still have nightmares about it..

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That's funny. It was never 2 weeks for me, but that was always a fun mistake.

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So THAT'S why I have 2 to the 1.68 million power free costume tokens!

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I dunno, would it really break immersion to have a big arrow over an AVs head?


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How about a big [vulgar reference done with the hand] directed at dominators that floats over the AVs head? Only the dominator would see this icon though.

Just a thought. That would get the point across well to the dominator, and make them enjoy the AVs demise all the more. Really, who doesn't enjoy the demise of someone who just flipped you off non-stop for the past few minutes?

Woo hoo!!

I was just out keeping the streets safe, and I didn't even see the person with the camera snapping away. It always feels good to be appreciated by the citizens of Paragon City, even if I'm not saving the world, only keeping some organized crime off the streets.


(In reality, my friend took the picture. She was a winner in the Contaminated contest, Bedlam Belle. I had taken *her* winning shot in that contest. We had best be careful or we might raise suspicions of paying off the judges.)

Realm!

Me and my friend are the 2 short elves in black and green. I love the silly faces you could get by just inching forward on the screen sometimes. We ended up hanging in a room with 3 strangers who looked like they were Mom Dad and big sis, and we were the little brother/sister, so we took a picture, thus the "say cheese" comments.

Ahh memories. I love CoH/CoV, but occasionally it's fun to think back to Realm. (And our "toons"! Had to keep this on topic)

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Wow, I found someone else who played The Realm....awesome!

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You found 2.

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The first place I heard 'Toon' used was on The Realm many years back, where it was common. Apparently, the 'toon' vs. 'character' thing largely depends on what your introduction to online gaming culture was. There isn't really much of a difference.

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The Realm!!! That was my first online game, and it was a fun time, though it was a lame thing compared to anything today.

And I agree, me and my circle of friends used to call our characters "toons". We got away from that when we moved over to UO and subsequently EQ. Maybe it was because the game was almost cartoon like in its graphics that led to the "toon" usage? I don't know, but we did call them that.

We had some fun times there. Maybe we even ran into you _Castle_ If you were a roleplayer at all, we probably did.
Honor Among Thieves (HAT) coleader here.

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Also, did you *really* want me to tell you to go fight Malta?

cheers,
Arctic Sun

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Actually, yea.

What, no screenshot contest for the Malta? Boo-hiss! Trying to come up with some good combat shots of them was starting to get fun.

Woot! I'm the one who took Bedlam Belle's screenshot! It worked out that my shot of her was the best one she was in, and the one she took of me was the best of Lektrik. Was really neat when the page loaded to see the shot I took as one of the winners! Too bad they spelled her name wrong. It's Kimberley, not Kimberly.

The original of ours is here: Bedlam Belle

(Well it's a smaller version, which is all I have access to on this computer, but it's the full color version at least)

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You can not delete a storage item that has stuff in it.

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What about deleting the room by mistake?

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You can't delete a room which contains a crafted item. I'm sure the same will apply to a room with a non-empty container, as that would cause the storage item to be deleted with stuff in it.

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Costs for a 10-slot inspiration bin? 1million!

Cost for a 10-slot enhancement container? 500K!




I'm just afraid to even ponder how much these things will cost.....Everything even remotely nice is priced so that small groups can't get them. I'll wait till it hits test to see if my SG has a chance at ever owning one.

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Just so you all realize, the prices Lektrik wrote are completely made up.

Everything in this issue will be "reasonably priced". It doesn't make sense for us to set out to help small supergroups and then charge large supergroup Prestige for the items.

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The man has spoken. Sorry if it sounded like I was quoting factual information. I was just hypothosizing based on past frustrations at base costs.

Good to hear that they'll be attainable.

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Costs for a 10-slot inspiration bin? 1million!

Cost for a 10-slot enhancement container? 500K!



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I really, really hope they don't cost that much. I'll be very disappointed. Can't non-hardcore/smaller groups have cool stuff too?

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I hope I'm wrong, but past experience says that they will be so expensive to almost prohibit a small SG from owning one. That would be sad too, because it would be very easy to make a win-win situation with these things: make them come in many sizes, for different prices.

Small SG: doesn't need huge containers for their limited members, so make it relatively cheap. (But don't make them TOO small)

HUGE SG: They need humungous containers for their members, so they can pay dearly for it.

Medium SG: you get the idea. In between.


All I can hope is that they have at least reasonably priced ones for smaller SG, not a 1-size-fits-all, uber-expensive one, or overpriced for its capacity.

*Lektrik can be seen moving his lips, but no sound comes out, lest no one be confused* (unless they're a lipreader) It seems to resemble totally uninformed guessing at costs.

*Lektrik electrically unmutes the volume in time for the rest of his speech*






I'm just afraid to even ponder how much these things will cost.....Everything even remotely nice is priced so that small groups can't get them. I'll wait till it hits test to see if my SG has a chance at ever owning one.

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2) There are no progress bars for the influence/infamy badges. Doc Buzzsaw is unlocked via the 1st infamy badge which is very tough to attain prior to level 30. If you don't get the badge by 30 you miss out on content. My suggestion is either change the requirement to unlock Doc Buzzsaw or give the influence/infamy badges a meter.

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The placeholder for that badge at least needs to say "Earn this badge by gaining Infamy". It says "???" and the second one references Infamy after you get Bling. It would be almost impossible for an uniformed player to know Doc's clue points to a badge if there's no indication of an Infamy badge.

Though I still don't think Doc should unlock with that badge. It's either automatic, or darn-near-unattainable-in-time. Let us *earn* the special content, don't use a badge that's produced as a side-effect.

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Actually there are several ways to get the infamy badge before hitting level 30.

1. Do SF's after you outlevel them.
2. Exemp
3. Street sweep in Bloody Bay at level 26+*
4. Perma-debt

I've been doing #3 a lot lately. Usually really late at night when there aren't so many people around. Plus there are several hunting badges you can work on at the same time: Shivan, CoT, Freakshow, and Longbow (which I believe unlocks another secret contact you need before lvl 30).

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I'm confused about #3, sweeping in bloody bay at 26+. I specifically tried that at 28, after reading that as a suggestion, and was still earning experience. Actual, real experience, not just debt payment. If I kept doing that, I would hit 29, and not knowing how close I was to Bling, I gave up and went back to perma-debt till I got bling, which I did about 4 bubbles into 28.

Even though You're auto-levelled to 25 in bloody bay, I was definately earning experience at 28. This was about early February, for reference.

The requirement of Bling for a 25-30 contact is definately a bad idea though. I was in perma-debt from 10-28.4 and only barely got Bling. Keeping in perma-debt for half your career, or doing SFs after you out level them, shouldn't be required to do a contact.

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Anyway, I miss all of you (well, okay, most of you). Oh, hell, some of you...
-Gil

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That reminds me of Bilbo in FotR. And sounds about the same sentiment!

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve

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Any hero that has the one year anniversary badge and logs in during the next anniversary event will receive a special gladiator badge.

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Wait, so there's only a reward if you were around last year? Or will newer characters at least get a badge similar to Celebrant for the 2nd anniversary?

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Yes, newer characters will get an Anniversary badge.

The gladiator is for having BOTH Anniversary badges.

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What!! No hints at what it could be!!!



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It's The Count from Sesame Street. He just stands there and says "One! Two! TWO years of being a CoX member! Ha ha ha!!!"

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Since it's an NCSoft event, not just a CoH/CoV event, it looks like there are a lot of people coming who play their other games.

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They make other games?


But really, you might be right, but the point still stands: Pictures!

Remember, anyone who's going, 3 words:

pictures....

Pictures...

PICTURES!

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If we don't see _Castle_ and Statesman in the same picture, then we KNOW that they're the same person!
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I think the way this goes is if you HAVE the temp power you get dropped in the right spot. That's been my experience, and seems to agree with the posters who are all saying "but I don't have that power"

This "feature" really needs to be fixed. People tend to camp around the dropspots and whack unsuspecting players as they zone in. This is not fun.

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For fun, I zoned in to BB, and appeared mid-zone, made my way back and zoned out. I zoned right back in, appeared at the base, zoned out. I zoned back in, and was at a different spot mid-zone.

Never had the shivan power on any character at that point (though I did go around and earn it at that point, just for kicks even though I'm past the usefulness of it).

This was on a villain character fyi.

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Are you going to make it possible for more than one team to get the badge then? Or just intentionally screw whichever team doesn't do the most damage?

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Currently the badge is given to ANY team or player-not-on-a-team that does 25% or more damage to the Giant Monster.

When Giant Monsters get tougher (Issue 7), this number will drop to 10%(or more), encouraging more teams to fight them. The rewards will be increasing as well.

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The whole World Wide Red storyarc is about how expensive the Kronos was to put together and how there were only two of them, which the heroes take out over the course of the arc.

I don't think we'll see another Kronos on the villain side just so we can get a badge.

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Phaw, money is of no concern to the likes of Lord Recluse. If he decides to find the plans and build the robot, it wold be built.

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Lord Relcuse could easily go back in time and bring one of the Kronos to the present, and use it in his plans. Even if he doesn't have the ability to do it now, he will in the future perhaps. Which really means, due to temporal mechanics, that he already has the ability....

I think.....


Anyway, you could explain Kronos being in CoV from a number of angles, including the "escaped" one from CoH, as well.

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We aim to please (or misbehave, can't remember which now...).

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Firefly ftw!