Mercury_Angel

Hello all

I left CoH about 4 months ago but thought I'd take a look at the new GR contenet, and finally try and get my second 50 (60 months of game time and only one 50 - how's that for casual play).

Anyway, hello again.

Mercury Angel

Sounds like a top-banana idea.

I humbly submit my first arc for your consideration.

"A new world order?"
ID: 56881
@Mercury_angel

Modern techno-thriller style mission, the heroes are up against a well organised and technically sophisticated group who are attempting to destabilise third world and vulnerable nations to take them over.

I'm open to your interpretation about the poster - the two that leap out at me are a Sepia-tinted Bruckheimer/Bay Bad-Boys style poster, or an over the top montage of clips like the Bond posters of old.

MA

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I currently have over three years of gameplay under my belt, yet I still to this day have only one lvl 50.

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Ah, so I'm not alone then 5 years, on 50... what a slacker I am

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Oh no. I have 48 months in town and i still only have 1 50. It's a less showy and ostentatious way of playing, I feel. All those 50's laying around... It's just so gauche.

I'm Mercury Angel. I don't recognise any of you darn kids and I'm not going anywhere!

MA

Hi there Col

I humbly submit my first arc for your consideration.

A new world order?
ID: 56881
Morality: Heroic
Soloable: Yes, but tough.
Elite Bosses/Arch-villains:
1 EB in mish 2, 1 EB in mish 4
Missions: 4

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

MA

Sounds interesting. You can see my only published arc so far below. Have a look and let me know.

MA

A new world order?
ID: 56881
Morality: Heroic
Soloable: Yes, but tough.
Elite Bosses/Arch-villains:
1 EB in mish 2, 1 EB in mish 4
Missions: 4

Since I14 I have been getting a ridiculous amount of slowdown. The game literally grinds to a halt. I have a decent spec PC, Intel core 2 duo 2.4 with 4gig ram and an Nvidia Geforce 7900 GS, so usually I can run with sliders to the max, but since I14, slowdown everywhere. I'm running CoH with no other programs active on Vista Home Premium.

Any ideas?

MA

Ahh. Good. Thought I was going to have to lobotomise the firewall then.

The lightbulb doesn't need changing. Dark/Dark is a perfectly valid powerset.

G

Hi, I'm Troy McClure, you may remember me from such threads as "Forums go boom!" and "Thread for non reading noobs..."

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Kate Beckinsale in underworld makes me drool...
That lovely outfit and not a single crease in it. It's plain awesome, wish i could pull that off.

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You can. It's called Torture Garden*.


* Forking out hundreds of pounds for very well made rubber and latex outfits. Which are pretty flexible thanks, GG.

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www.Kinkyangel.co.uk - Very reasonable. NSFW!

MA

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All the stuff I'd even consider purchasing is stuff from other/specialist shops I already know about/use. Everything else is ugh. PVC *shudder*.

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Well, quite, buy fom where you are comfotable with

Unfortunatly you need to have a certain physique to look good in tight, shiny stuff. The more.... upholstered frame ends up looking like Daffyd (the only hero in the village)

MA

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Kate Beckinsale in underworld makes me drool...
That lovely outfit and not a single crease in it. It's plain awesome, wish i could pull that off.

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You can. It's called Torture Garden*.


* Forking out hundreds of pounds for very well made rubber and latex outfits. Which are pretty flexible thanks, GG.

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www.Kinkyangel.co.uk - Very reasonable. NSFW!

MA

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Kate Beckinsale in underworld makes me drool...
That lovely outfit and not a single crease in it. It's plain awesome, wish i could pull that off.

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pulling it on would be your initial problem.

I recommend talc and for those awkward to reach places some nice tasting lube

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Water based, of course. Oils will perish the latex.

MA

I'm naked. My clothes are just flying in close formation with me.

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Sitting at my desk with 3 other people in the office from a 150 head company. Snow is settling in central London for the first time in my life (I'm 36).

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c5...snowlondon.jpg

That was taken earlier this morning, and we've had another couple of inches on top of that.

MA

They hang out around the fringes of the RWZ as well.Came as quite a shock when the nice little copse nearly turned me into a nice little corpse.

MA

Aerie
Quantrail
Genralissimo
BGK
Hell Ram
Blue Dragon (who was rubbish)

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I don't see how it could be a farmers paradise, since aside from selecting WHICH villan group you fight, you seem to have no control over what is spawned. So, for instance, if you are designing a mish to farm, say, Banished masks, since the MA decides what groups are spawned where you'll still only get the normal number of masks you would in any other Banished mission. Since we don't have control over what mobs are spawned, or where they are spawned, you can't load-up the mission with badge-granting baddies (or goodies for the villans).

G.

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Because having control over the faction DOES allow you to farm... You can guarantee there's going to be clones of old favourites like Dreck, but with no timer. So NC make doing that less attractive by removing drops, making them only good for farming XP or inf, which is far less of a problem.

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Hmmm. I'm not convinced. Sure, you can choose which villan group, but then you can, to a greater or lesser extent, chose which villan group you want to focus on through radio/paper/contacts anyway. I'm not convinced this is as much of a problem as the Devs think it will be.

Nevertheless, I'm pretty stoked about the idea anyway.

G.

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Oh I dunno......fun?

[/ QUOTE ]but my fun if having and good time and getting reward for it, to me it like telling a kid go play kick ball in the garden and you get a sweet but you play kick ball in the park you get nothing

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Well, you get to kick the ball. Some people enjoy just kicking the ball.

G.

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While in an Architect mission, players will NOT get: end mission bonus, salvage, recipies, or enhancements.

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I like the MA but not the above. The mission bonus and the enhancemnets I can live without but not getting the normal rate of salvage and recipies. Too bad and boring in my op.

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But if you think about it for a moment, they really had little choice; otherwise the MA is just going to be a farmers paradise instead of what it's MEANT to be.

Plenty of people will use it, even if there weren't ANY rewards. They'll use it because of the stories.

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I don't see how it could be a farmers paradise, since aside from selecting WHICH villan group you fight, you seem to have no control over what is spawned. So, for instance, if you are designing a mish to farm, say, Banished masks, since the MA decides what groups are spawned where you'll still only get the normal number of masks you would in any other Banished mission. Since we don't have control over what mobs are spawned, or where they are spawned, you can't load-up the mission with badge-granting baddies (or goodies for the villans).

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How about a .45 pistol? A med/med recharge ranged attack with chance for knockback. Just a thought...

MA

I have it unpinned, but it's also popping when the standard UI isn't visible, during base editing for instance.

I've just shrunk it down to the smallest possible size and stuck it in a corner out of the way.

MA

Nobody? I can't be the only SS/EN in the village!

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I have a SS/EN brute in the low 25's and I have to say, i'm finding it hard going. I'm duo-ing with a dark/fire brute who seems to be better protected, cause more damage and hold more aggro.

Two things I'm considering are adding Hasten, to speed up those snails-pace SS attacks, and aid self, to overcome the lack of self heal. But, that means 3 power slots (1 for hasten, 1 for aid self and either aid other or stimulant) that I'm down.

Any advice?

G.