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Took me a while to figure out what you were talking about here. I was pretty sure that neither Positron or Second Nature posted anything DOOOOOMworthy.

But that....

I could see how some folks might think it leads to DOOOOM for this game. I tried it at ComicCon last year, and was not impressed. Gameplay was almost exactly the same as the game that was supposed to kill us two years ago, except now I could play in stories with characters I care about, like GL or BM. Unfortunately, the console style gameplay does nothing but drive me away.

Maybe, someday, a new superhero game will come on the market with gameplay at least as good as this one along with a bunch of other new shinies, but I don;t expect it anytime soon. Until then...

MAKE MINE PARAGON!

The person who gave you that mission should have been surrounded by them. They will have been non-functional (in that they don't fight back), and they get up again after you put them down. You only have to knock one to zero health before talking to that person again and moving on.

And no one has asked you to forward one of the e-mails you received to them?

This is the easiest way to prove that you received the e-mails in question. It boggles the mind that neither you nor they thought of it.

The content is supposed to be hard. In fact, content related to the Incarnate slot is supposed to be harder than anything we have ever had to do.

It hasn't even been 12 hours. The strategies for beating Honoree have not been widely disseminated yet. How to beat Hamidon wasn't common knowledge when that raid was first released, either. (In fact, the strategy that we players came up with turned out to be a surprise for the Devs. The Devs designed Hamidon with a victory strategy in mind, and apparently, in the four to five years the original Hamidon raid lasted, it seems that no one figured out that strategy.)

You are obviously forum savvy. Why you came here to complain rather than learn, I'll never know. If you just wanted to whine about how hard it is, you could have done that in Broadcast right along with everyone else you are championing, and you might have gotten some sympathy. If you had asked politely in the Help Channel, you might even have gotten some good advice, but I'm guessing you decided to give up rather than go through the effort of learning.

We complain the game is too easy.

They give us a challenge, one that would require many people to alter their normal strategy for defeating mobs.

We complain the game is too hard.

Can the Devs win?

You answer this question, and I'll answer yours.

Gonna go for the low hanging fruit on this one.

Transformers and Transformers 2. The plot is about how Sam Witwicky is changed by and central to this great war between the Autobots and Decepticons.

How great would it have been if the robots had actually been the most important characters in the movies? How much greater if the stupid, one or two dimensional human elements had been nixed entirely and we able to explore the personalities of the robots themselves (and freed them from their own one dimensional portrayals)? And, for god's sake, why are they replacing a pointless love interest for Sam with another pointless love interest? People are not going to a Transformers movie to see whoever Shia LeBouf wants to get it on with that week, they are going to see huge robots duke it out with each other. The money they save on a actress of questionable ability could have been used to give the robots more face time.

As much as I love the X-Men and want to see good X-Men movies made....

I hope this tanks all to hell (sorry, Bryan, I still love your work in spite of the fact that you tried to ape Donner in Superman Returns rather than making your own movie). That way, Fox will agree to sell the rights back to Marvel so that Marvel can make X-Men movies and connect them to the rest of the Marvel Universe.

This sums up my answer. Out of 150 characters, maybe 10. About 8 Defenders with Team / Solo builds, a Crab / Bane and a Bane / Huntsman.

This.

Squirrel Girl > Doctor Doom

'Nuff said!

You have it set to spawn bosses, yes?

As the team size increases, you are more likely to see bosses, yes?

You increased the size of your team, yes?

You got spawns of 1 boss and 1 minion, which is well within the parameters of a two person team, yes? Other spawns that you should be seeing in a two person mission are four minions, and two or three minions and one lieutenant (unless it is Council or Freakshow, in which case you add one more minion to each spawn).

Except for the fact that you got an unusual number of +1 spawns, it all seems to be working as intended. This sometimes happens in missions where the mission seems to be mostly critters of one rank, and rarely do you see a different rank. I enjoy seeing the missions that seem to contain only lieutenants or bosses because they have a higher chance to drop something and they are worth 2-3 times the xp of the lower rank critter.

Did you get +1 spawns all night, or just in this mission?

It sounds more like you have a different expectation of the difficulty slider. If you could not handle the above, why are you telling the game that you can handle spawns set for two characters. If you don't want bosses, either drop your team size back to a level you can handle, or tell the Fateweaver or Hero Corps Analyst that you want Bosses to spawn as Lieutenants.

Minor quibble at best. I've never felt Transfusion to be lacking as a heal. Could it stand to be boosted a bit? Sure, but it's not a major issue, and it doesn't do anything to stop Kinetics from being the most popular Controller Secondary in the game.

And this is why you are receiving some scorn, because you obviously have no idea what the powers do, even though you talk about reading the detailed info. Siphon Speed is also a strong enemy speed debuff and a good enemy recharge debuff, which in turn becomes a strong speed buff and good recharge buff for you and nearby allies.

If you want more Knockback in Repel, slot it for Knockback. Problem solved.

As long as it is in one of the power descriptions, I'm okay. Some things don't lend themselves to the description space available in the Detailed info. Would it be nice? Again, sure, but hardly an issue.

The falling damage you sometimes take while jumping (heck, sometimes you take falling damage while running) is minimal at worst. Since this has been around in the game for as long as I can remember, I'm guessing that this is a persistent or tricky bug. I'd rather the bug hunters spend the time and effort to fight the more critical bugs.

You realize that both of these "solutions" would greatly increase the damage potential of these powers. If your "solutions" are put into motion, then these powers would have their damage reduced, their endurance cost increased, or both, to compensate.

You do realize that these things aren't "snap your fingers and it's done" kind of things, right? Let's look at the last player poll, where we decided we wanted Dual Blades and Shield Defense as our new melee attack and defense powersets. It took a year for Dual Blades, and two for Shield Defense.

David and Jay are always working on new costumes for us. I'll take them when they are ready rather than have them rush it and have the stuff look half *****.

Again, Jay and David are looking into some Bestial options for us, by popular request from the "All Things Art: Booster Packs" thread in the General Discussion forum.

One thing you are unlikely to see is non-humanoid models, due to the amazing amount of work involved for relatively little payoff.

Check out the top of this very subforum. Notice the "Lady Jade's Power Suggestion" thread. You don't need complex spreadsheets to start working on some ideas, and unless you know how Castle and crew format their spreadsheets, any spreadsheet you come up with is going to be incompatible with theirs anyway.

If it isn't worth the work for you to format your suggestions and post them in Lady Jade's thread as a labor of love, don't expect any of us to beg you to do it. You have been playing for six years, and still don't know how Kinetics works, or what makes it good. Why should we take your suggestions on how to improve it, or any other powerset you do not understand.

If I were you, before you undertake your spreadsheet labour, I would go to the Archetype forums related to the powersets you think need improvement and ask the community to explain to you why the powersets in question are good. In a properly worded topic, you will get people coming out of the woodwork with numerical analyses of where the sets rock, and where they suck. Being so informed, you can then embark on your crusade.

Once you reach level 20, your initial contact will have a new Contact for you. This Contact will give you a brief rundown on Primal Earth, and send you to a facility where you make your decision on whether you go to the Rogue Isles or Paragon City.

Except that "the players" don't want it. You and some other people want it, just as myself and some other people would rather the Devs use their valuable design time to work on something else. Neither of us represents in any way the majority of the player base.

So, are these going to be Power Pools, or one-off powers? If Power Pools, what are the other three powers in the set? If one-off powers, how will they fit into the current power structure?

Which would require a completely new avatar design interface.

With these limitations in place, using a power selection on vehicle powers is a trap, relegating it to a power only taken for RP purposes (whereas, Walk is an RP power which everyone got for free, and it was done on somebody's rare "free time."). Anyone who wants to get around the City faster and not have to worry about these limitations will continue to use the current Travel Powers.

Considering the amount of development time that would be required to make vehicles a reality (new vehicle creation interface alone), even with the limitations you propose (actually, making a power unusable in an indoor instance, but still usable in an outdoor instance would require the creation of new tech, too), do you feel this would be a worthwhile use of Development money and time?

I don't.

Here's the overview from the GR site.

Nowhere does it talk about more customization. The only links on the GR site that might have brought you to the conclusion that more customization was a feature of Going Rogue were the Vidocs, in which War Witch and Sexy Jay talk up the amount of customization available to players to individualize their characters in City of Heroes. The thing is, these parts are speaking in the present tense, not future. They are advertising the game to new players in these Vidocs. Us old timers already know that City of Heroes has the hands down, best avatar creation in the MMO world, those parts of the Vidocs aren't meant to draw us in.

So, you log in at mid day on a weekday when most people are at work, and at least some schools are back in session, in addition to it being a beautiful day outside (here in sunny california, at least), and you marvel that there aren't a lot of people on?

Even so, I find it hard to believe that a search only turned up one other person, regardless of day, time, or server. You might have only seen one person "out in the world" on your server, but I assure you that there were many more than that on and playing.

The heavily instanced nature of the game means that most of the people who are on will not be visible to you as you travel through the zones, because they will actually be playing the game.

Even on servers like Triumph, often cited as the least populated server, I have no trouble finding a team when I want one, because I understand how to effectively use the Team Search tools. There are a few guides for how to find teams on the less populated servers. If you like your character on Victory or Triumph, and don't want to pay for a transfer, you might want to look into them. Introduce yourself on your server's board, and then join one of the server channels. These things will make your teaming much easier if you choose to remain in Smallville instead of moving to Metropolis.

It is fairly evident by the end of Scirocco's arc that he needs to be stopped, for the good of the world.

On the other hand, you are ordered to betray Ghost Widow, and not given any sort of choice in the matter. Were it up to me, every character that has taken her as a Patron would let her succeed and tell Arbiter Daos to go stuff it and he can send out as many goons after me as he wants, I'll smoke 'em all. Alas, you are not given such an option, so you can betray her with a clear conscience, since it isn't your choice.

Isn't the Ernesto Hess Task Force all about defeating Archon Burkholder before he can complete the giant robot he is building in the heart of that same volcano?

Wish granted!

That being said, I wouldn't mind more missions where we could see the Doomsday Device being built in the evil mastermind's fortress and it was our job to stop it from happening.

I also wouldn't mind being the evil mastermind coming up with a way to take over the world and following my plan through to the bitter end.

You do realize that you can up your level of challenge?

Using the Fateweavers and the Hero Corps Analysts, you can fight more enemies, you can fight higher level enemies.

If you really want to challenge yourself, you can flashback in Ourobouros and load up on the challenges (no inspirations, no temp powers, buffed enemies, etc.)

You can also build a character around a theme, rather than min/maxing the best build you can. Just because you can solo x8 / +1 maps with a Fire / Kin doesn't mean that you must play with a Fire / Kin. You have the option of playing a Grav / Storm Controller and seeing if you can make it work.

Once you take "fastest xp gain" off the table as your main goal in play, you can make the game as challenging as you like with the options already available to us.

It is worth noting that, while you can buy lots (case lots) of influence through influence peddling sites, you should not, under any circumstances, do so.

In addition to being against the EULA, which you agree to every time you boot up the game, and is a bannable offense under that EULA, buying influence from these people is extremely risky. You are giving your credit card and account information to people operating in another country against whom you have no legal recourse should they misuse your credit card or your City of Heroes account.

It is ridiculously easy to make influence in this game, and nothing is out of reach provided you practice a smidgeon of patience. You do not need to buy influence from anybody.

Long post short. Don't buy influence from influence peddlers. You put your account and credit card at risk.

Accuracy is beneficial for any Archetype that makes to hit rolls against the enemy. Every attack that misses is Endurance wasted, and time lost waiting for the power to recharge to try again.

And the IO Sets are independent of Archetypes. A Resist Damage set can be used by any AT that has access to a power that provides Damage Resistance, which, thanks to Power Pools, is all of them.