Memphis_Bill

I wouldn't. And I wouldn't encourage anyone to do so.

Not saying I haven't done quite a bit, but I'm not a money pit, and if something (such as the Party Pack) comes along that doesn't seem worth it to me, I'm not just throwing money at it "because it's COH."

While they have a good bias on my part (I'm more likely to consider it positively,) it's not a 100% free pass into my wallet. (Full disclosure: I have everything buyable *except* the party pack and however many day it is jet pack, on both accounts.) If they started charging $1/emote, for instance, I highly doubt I'd pick them up. That's a level that would just get irritating.

In general, they do better than other games. Yes, read fast before it gets modded. Aion? $9.99 last I looked for *a* weapon skin, or pack of dye, or pretty much anything in the store - which can only be applied to a single character, and given you can upgrade (read: throw out the old) weapons/armor/etc, it's something to ignore until you're at max level and fully "tweaked." Now that makes sense for some things like server transfers or name changes, but it's too steep for a pack of dye. Or the various item-stores you see in other games - I don't like them, and won't send money their way. Their existence (and I mean when it's widespread in game - pages on pages of "Buy this! Look, a character! A single costume! An emote!") will generally turn me away from playing the game.

Right *now* I think COH has the right balance, for the most part. Anything you buy is generally rather extensive (several costumes, an emote or other power, etc.) and gets applied account wide. Most seem worthwhile to me.

Yes, there are times it's actually *appropriate* to mention other games.

"COH - Paid Expansion in 2005 and 2011."
"Game 1 - Paid exp. in years 1, 3, 6"
"Game 2 - 3 in year one after which everyone quit in disgust."

Kind of hard to do that without actually *naming* other games (for reasons such as "So other people can look for themselves and confirm the data.")

Some policies need *common sense* when applied, as opposed to "ZOMGOTHERGAMENAMEDELETEDELETEBURNWITHFIRE!" Then again, well, I seem to be getting modded a fair bit for the same things that got passed over, now that I've been criticizing the direction of the game and dev team more and more. *shrug* I have a feeling that my relationship here is going to be at the same <sarcasm>wonderful</sarcasm> level it was with Ex and Lighthouse.

First - we don't know.
Second - Cole killed Markus when they found the well, so no.

The character select screen typically won't be captured. You CAN use the snipping tool - but otherwise, you'll need to manually paste it into an image application (like paint.)

Perhaps with the default directory they are.

Running Win7 x64 here, my install directory is d:\games\city of heroes. They just go right into the \screenshots folder.

Can always just search for screen*.jpg, too.

Yes, you do. Even a single user machine has a username - which probably *is* "Owner." Head to control panel, users, you'll see it there.

Ahh, reminds me. My shield/stone melee tank. Hurl's impressive with two hands, ripping up a chunk of road to throw at someone. On shield? *One* handed. And it still knocks someone back into the wall.


>.> My SS/WP Brute - with bright pink hair - has Kick from the fighting pool. I have won both NPC and PVP fights with that as the last attack. And yes, she's *just* the right height that you're pretty sure someone's singing soprano now.

Eh.

I like grav - several doms and controllers with it (including a 50 grav/kin,) but it does have a few other drawbacks. Biggest issue tends to be the animation time, especially with Wormhole and Propel.

Still, having seen some gravs in the trials, I can't see them as being bad there. Singy definitely helps.

Utter BS. My SO-only/common IO characters are perfectly useful on teams. I have yet to have anyone so much as *notice* they're not IO'd out.

Also, if you *want* IO sets, you have multiple ways to get them. Incarnate abilities? Grind the same trials over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over *or* try to get the shards together and pay a ridiculous amount to convert to IXP and create the components.

You do realize you get XP whether you're teamed or solo, right? If the people I want to play with are on, I join them and get XP, drops and the like. If they're not, I pick a mission and get XP, drops and the like. I end up leveling both ways, unless I turn off XP for some reason in the menu.

And no, his friend does not "need to broaden his scope." He has a chosen way of playing that doesn't affect you. You need to broaden yours if you can't accept that.

-Well,- Michelle, you -just- have to be -sure- your -keyboard- is -up- -to- -the- -task!- Having a minus key -fail- in the -middle- of your -dialog- would be -just- -so- -embarrassing.-

You've never heard of "bunker buster" munitions? A freeway would be nothing. And given the types of potential "super" threats in the COH world, I'm sure designing weapons with quite a bit of penetrating power is commonplace.

Something like this:



would do some damage regardless... and that's not fictional.

People put procs in Confuse. It's not broken, it's a choice. Those procs - if they fire - turn aggro (once the confuse wears off, if anything's alive) back to the user.

People put procs in Flash Arrow. Again, not broken, but a choice, and one that causes aggro to a non-aggroing power.

Your *choice* to use a damaging DOT along with a sleep power is the same thing. And Mezmerise is not just "a sleep power." It is an attack. It causes damage on its own. That damage is what triggers the effect, not just the use of the power.

There's a bit of a difference.

I'd say the person complaining is a bit off - because, unless the devs introduce a new "currency" for the last five slots (they'd never do THAT, now, would they... nah, they hate introducing new currencies....) people will still be working on them - and having a few more trials in rotation could keep them fresh.

Plus, of course, we don't have a finite supply of 50s. Even if everyone today filled out every slot - let's call it a server glitch, every 50 has every tier of every power available to slot and all the slots unlocked - there'll be more 50s.

On the other hand... the ITF gives a very generic currency (reward merits) that can be indirectly traded by turning them in for recipes and the like. Incarnate "rewards" are tied solely to the character earning them. Once I have my Omega Supreme Zomg Uberpower, what use do I have for the trials any more? I can't run it on a character that's strong on them to give a "weaker" character a boost. I can't put Threads on the market. So there's more reason to keep running an ITF, even for someone who's not an altaholic.

I do see their point, though. The devs chase after new shinies like a dog after a rubber ball, and I do expect to see attention on this fade. It's the big thing now. Remember when AE was the big thing? We'd only have a few slots, but it didn't matter because the devs would pick arcs and free up slots, etc, etc, etc? When's the last time that happened? And there's the statement from War Witch herself about essentially not wanting to deal with "old" stuff to add to or revamp (like Dark Astoria) and just keeping adding "new" - which leaves the game really fractured and leaves systems behind to rot.

/signed. I'm really surprised they didn't address this before (or while) adding the current two trials. It's been an issue for years, since people did Hami and costume contests. Not sure what *needs* to be done, but it really, really needs attention.
Likely won't happen, as an anti-botting measure.

I *believe* we've been told part of the reason we can't is that these aren't pre-rendered cutscenes (such as in Guild Wars or Aion.) The models are there and running through a script. When (for instance) Breakneck jumps down and rushes whatsisface, the NPC model is actually doing that.

The solution for this would have to start with creating pre-rendered videos as opposed to the scripting they use now.

Tiny bit of work...

As for my five, QOL specific:
1. Lag, as mentioned above.
2. Let me manually move contacts (like the architect studio manager) I'm not actually interested in to "inactive." Seriously. I've done the tutorial. Leave me alone.
3. Recipes - keep "Memorized" closed unless I open it, thanks.
4. Let me hide and reorganize salvage tabs. I have 280 characters or so. I'm reasonably sure at least 200 of them have no base salvage at this point.
5. Labels/whiteboards in bases. The MOTD is nice. Labels and such would be more useful.

Unless it's digital, in which case it's just blank.

Trick Arrow is not dependant on Oil Slick Arrow. Oil Slick Arrow's utility is not dependant on being lit on fire - its ability to be lit on fire for damage is only part of what it does (-dmg, knockdown.)

He's making a full mountain range out of an anthill. If he finds Trick Arrow completely useless other than OSA, or has nothing in his secondary to do damage (his complaint, after all, being that he cant' use OSA for damage) then his problem is *far* greater than a temp power not being available.

No, you didn't. You purchase access to the game. You are not paying extra for Taser Dart. Much like how specific capes are available at level 1, but not all, or specific auras are available at level 1.