Mighty

Good Lord, Maldini! The guide, the Hami raids, the incredible avatar... is there nothing you can't do?!

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Best solution to TP foe I've heard: 5 seconds of intangibility after the port (as they're pulled through the dimensions). The target gets time to run, if they react quickly. Won't change PvE much, and will prevent a good chunk of the TP foe nonsense we're seeing now. No more porting people into minefields, full groups, or placate/AS.

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I know this is pages and pages ago, but I just had an idea that I had to say.
1. I love the above idea. It's too long though - suppression kicks in at 3 seconds, and it's still possible to get out of a bad situation. A 2 second phase shift would probably still yield the desired result, without completly ruining the power.
2. This can apply to "one-shotting" as well. If a single person does X amount (90%+?) of damage within X amount (1 second) of time, they cannot cast *any* powers for 2 seconds (this wouldn't apply to already running toggles). It won't stop team ganking, but I don't think anything will.

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This won't stop AS. It will merely make a stalker time their blow better. Remember, the stalker has to initiate the attack and not move but the target can go wherever they want and they will still take the damage after the animation is over.

The situation would be: Stalker tp's foe, foe is intangible. Foe realizes what's going on. Stalker pauses the strike until the foe begins to leave then hits AS. Foe runs and becomes tangible. Animation on AS ends, foe dies.

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Easy! Make the Civilians targetable in CoV, then, when they annoy you...blow them away!

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Best... solution... EVAR! (yes, it's mispelled on purpose :P)

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I personally don't gank in the hospital, but I've been ganked in the hospital. I don't fault anyone because I know going into the zone that it's a PvP free-for-all. That leads to some creative gameplay and I actually like to see how people get around the various challenges.

And I don't lose anything when they do it... no debt, no material. Maybe it's just that I don't mind getting killed in the PvP zone that I haven't thought about this much.

But back to the main point, if something was keeping you from seeing, targeting or leaving, make sure you bug it.

[/ QUOTE ]You will say this until the day comes when you are ganked, and find that you cannot leave the zone. Many players get stuck in a gankcrew who tp foe and never let their targets live long enough to exit the zone. When they "Go to hospital" they rez amoung the ganksters or where the ganksters can see and tp foe them back to gank them repeatedly. For some, the only way out of this, is to log out and wait and attempt a login in hopes the ganksters have left.

At that point, it is no longer fair game play, its greifing. It is interrupting someone's ability to play the game.

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Take it easy. I'm not talking about gankerbands. I'm talking about a single person who has figured out the bot range and line of sight and hits you once.

What you described has happened to me (and from "heroes" in a prominent RP group on my server no less). And you're right, those groups are griefers. No doubt. But those aren't the people I'm thinking of when I say what I said.

I like creative gameplay, not gankerbands. Those crews take another solution because no matter the workaround, they will find a way to chain-gank someone. It needs to be categorized as griefing and dealt with by customer service.

On the flip side, one of the reasons I dislike the idea of a safe zone in a PvP zone is the bounty system. I spend a decent amount of time in Siren's and quite frequently the person with the bounty is sitting in the hospital. That guy deserves to get hit in the hospital.

Basically, I'm not defending ganksquads but I'd like to see an appropriate response, not Fort Knox spring up at the gate so someone can attack and retreat at lightspeed.

The best option I've heard so far is to make the hospital a non-entry place and make sure the gate out is right next to it.

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In CoH Beta, players were able to push NPCs rather than the other way around. Quite reliably, players would then herd the NPCs all into a small area, causing AI issues and horrible server lag.

I hate being pushed around, too, but I don't believe it will change any time soon. (NOTE: I could be wrong!)

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I've been informed that whoever told me the above misinformed me (well, the language wasn't quite that polite. ) In any case, the true reason appears to be physics collision checking (Players check collision, NPCs do not.)

I apologize for any confusion!

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Solution: Decrease the number of NPCs.

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No. The presence of the NPCs is what makes Paragon City come alive. If other heroes are all that we see, then we're just protecting a ghost town.

Keep the NPCs.

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1) I never said eliminate, I said decrease.

2) This is in reference to the thread, not Paragon City. The thread is talking about the heist missions where there are an overabundance of panicked NPCs running around, clogging doors, and pushing PCs around when they're trying to fight.

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In CoH Beta, players were able to push NPCs rather than the other way around. Quite reliably, players would then herd the NPCs all into a small area, causing AI issues and horrible server lag.

I hate being pushed around, too, but I don't believe it will change any time soon. (NOTE: I could be wrong!)

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I've been informed that whoever told me the above misinformed me (well, the language wasn't quite that polite. ) In any case, the true reason appears to be physics collision checking (Players check collision, NPCs do not.)

I apologize for any confusion!

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Solution: Decrease the number of NPCs.

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The problem is going in the other direction as well. The other day in Bloody Bay a stalker attacked me in the Hero Base in Bloody Bay, didn't kill me, got zapped by a drone. He did this 4 times killing me on the forth attempt

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I'm really not trying to be snarky, I am curious why you let him attack you four times in the hospital. There's some things that don't make sense about that and if you couldn't see the stalker or fight back, there was a bug.

With all the drones in the hospital you should be able to see through stealth+hide with no problem. If you couldn't, make sure you bug it.

Also, if there was something preventing you from leaving the hospital (I don't know what, but I'm assuming there was if the guy was able to rez and run back to get another shot 4 times before you could make it out of the zone) you need to bug that. Nothing should keep you trapped in the hospital.

If you were using the hospital as a "safe area" then that's another matter. The only "safe area" is out of the PvP zone. That's why they moved the contact outside the PvP zone and put the warning in red text.

I personally don't gank in the hospital, but I've been ganked in the hospital. I don't fault anyone because I know going into the zone that it's a PvP free-for-all. That leads to some creative gameplay and I actually like to see how people get around the various challenges.

And I don't lose anything when they do it... no debt, no material. Maybe it's just that I don't mind getting killed in the PvP zone that I haven't thought about this much.

But back to the main point, if something was keeping you from seeing, targeting or leaving, make sure you bug it.

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Seriously Manticore, I mean Longbow have "bow" in their _name_ and they're not stupid enough to use them. Someone give these poor schmo's a real weapon.

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In a fit of true oddness, you will see Longbow operatives practicing with bow and arrow on the island they control in Nerva. It's pretty out of place looking, since they don't use those in everyday action.

Maybe they're studying Zen practice.

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In the initial stages of training, Longbow operatives are taught how "long" it takes to kill anything with a "bow" thereby drawing their name from the lesson so many heroes in the past have failed to grasp.

Then they are issued laser rifles because they have failed to learn the "stormtrooper" lesson and mindlessly fall to my MaliceMechs.

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They're not? A bunch of crime-fighting archers, named after a mythological beast, and they didn't immediately make that connection? My villain is smarter than the entire Phalanx put together?

Have you read the Top Cow comic?

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Not since it became downloadable instead of portable to my workplace thereby diminishing my reading material at lunch.

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Re (1): doesn't matter, Defender and Controller buffs are so strong, and the differnece between Scrappers and Tankers defenses is so narrow that when viewed in terms of buffs that can be applied, the difference becomes a non-issue. When it takes just as much buffing and/or healing to keep a Scrapper alive to accomplish the same task, which is where the game is right now, the difference in initial values and caps become meaningless. So the Scrapper becomes the better choice because they can contribute more damage.

Re (2): But the question isn't does he manage agro better, it becomes does the fact that the Tanker can manage agro better matter. And the answer again is the fact that he can becomes meaningless.

It is true that pre-I5 a Tanker may have overshadowed both Controllers and Defenders too much. But now Controllers and Defenders overshadow Tankers too much, and are also capable of making other ATs overshadow Tankers too much.

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Hear, Hear!

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<--Holds breath waiting for a response...


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Edit - Hooray for board freezes and double posts! Huzzah!

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Well....some of the badges are now fixed and others are bugged.

I just bagged over 100 Fortunata's through missions in BB. No Gladiator

friend didn't have spider smasher, no badge after 20 missions


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Was this for a villain or hero?

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I'm confused. Can a villain in BB target Arachnos? I've never been able to. I'm pretty sure that makes this person a hero.

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My name is Chad

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THE Chad or just Chad?

I can't believe I've never seen this post...

I'm 32, a soldier until 2004 (all source intelligence analyst), currently doing government sponsored activities , and going to school. I have three kids ages 8 (Gwyn), 7 (Thoryn) and 2 (Ethan) and I'm married to a 24 year old Colombian beauty with a mind to match her... well, let's just say she's pretty damn smart.

Places I've lived:
Born in Michigan and then to: Missouri, Arizona, Wurzurg Germany, now in Alexandria Virginia (Washington DC).

Places I've been more than a month, usually for war:
Macedonia, Kosovo, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan

Places I've been to, usually for the army:
Slovenia, France, UK, Bulgaria (what a hole), Belgium, Netherlands

Places I've landed but not stayed:
Crete, Greece, Djibouti (Ja-booty...hehe, I think it sounds funny)

Units I've served with:
First Infantry Division - BIG RED ONE! (101st MI and 1-4 CAV)
18th Airborne Corps - 1st BCD
USAG - What a joke of a unit

Jobs I've had:
News/Sports Reporter - Oscoda Press
Entertainment Editor - Varsity News
Co-Owner of NERO Michigan
Co-Owner of NERO Indiana
Co-Creator of Shifted Lands, since copyrighted out from under me by a loathesome human being while I was in Basic Training
Cost Reduction Workshop Coordinator for Ford Motor Company
Grillboy at McDonalds
Delivery Driver for Domino's in Detroit (I've been under fire in wartime and I wasn't as afraid for my life as I was in this job)
US Army, intelligence analyst and NCO
Beta Analytics (bad company, government money vacuum)
General Dynamics (Awesome company)
NCIS

Schools I've attended:
University of Detroit-Mercy (English/Education)
City College of Chicago (Undeclared)
University of Maryland (Undeclared)
Northern Virginia Community College (GS, AS)
George Mason University (English)
Colorado Technical University (Criminal Justice)

Final interesting note:
I have 1 published poem called "Cool Jack Kirby" - Payment of $500 (WOOT)

And now you have all the information necessary to officially know too much about me

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Good. Glad you realize that not every SG is massive.

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nor needs to be too manny people vanish with sgs id rather keep it simple it almost feels like workwhen dealig with prestige when it need to me simple like influence but not as simple

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Whoah.

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PVP zone related badges (text bugged)
Reinforcement - Clear a PvP zone mission to buff your side.

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VVolf - Thanks for all the work.

Small error - The Reinforcement badge is for offing 20 heroes in a PvP zone. I got it a couple nights ago!

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No, re read what he wrote. The text description (or the award conditions) of PvP badges are bugged. That badge may say kill 20 players, but you don't need to do that to get the badge. He is correct when he says completing a mission of that type grants the badge.

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Well, I did my first PvP zone mission with my toon last night and got Agent Provacateur. Two nights ago I killed a guy with Assassin's Claw and received the Reinforcement Badge.

I immediately sent a message to my SG due to my excitement. I remember precisely how I got the badge and it was before I had ever stepped foot in a PvP zone mission. I don't know much about text bugs, but I do know exactly what I got and when.

I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, just saying that the text on my badge matches my accomplishment and is appropriate to what I was doing at the time.

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PVP zone related badges (text bugged)
Reinforcement - Clear a PvP zone mission to buff your side.

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VVolf - Thanks for all the work.

Small error - The Reinforcement badge is for offing 20 heroes in a PvP zone. I got it a couple nights ago!

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How can I make a NEW character, run up to PRISONERS in breakout and miss 10 times in a row?

Explain that one please. If you need a fraps recording I will be HAPPY to provide this proof.

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If this actually gets a substantive response and resolution here in the the forums from a redname, I will:

1) Eat my own booger on video and post it.

or

2) Wear a Batman costume for an entire day to include a shopping trip to the mall and dinner with my wife. Heck, if you send me a CoH bumber sticker I'll tape it to my [censored].

Dev's choice...

From three separate posts:

_Castle_ said:
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Streak Breaker (I just talked to Poz about it
If you miss three times in a row, then your next attack will always hit.

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To which da5id replied:
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Calm down guys. Castle has it wrong.
Here is what I got from Pohsyb a few weeks ago:
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The streakbreaker will force a hit if there has been a long series of misses (only for heroes)

ACC / Length of miss streak before we force a hit
>90 / 1
80-90 / 2
60-80 / 3
30-50 / 4
20-30 / 6
10-20 / 8
1-10 / 100

The random number is calculated simply by the C stdlib rand().

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Now there are a few things that are unclear, such as is streakbreaker stored for each attack, when is a streak considered broken (any attacks hits, or just when that attack hits etc.)

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All of which was preceded by Bland saying:
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How about we assume _CASTLE_ knows his job, please?

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And followed by _Castle_ replying:
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I stand corrected.

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First, thanks _Castle_ for talking to us.

Second, thanks for stepping up when you make a boo-boo.

Third, this is why people question Devs in the forums and don't take every red name post as the word of God. It isn't that they don't know their jobs, it's that they make mistakes, too.

No sense in coming here to slam people who think they have a problem.

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I must report that in the past my energy defender would fire off an Aim or BU and then fire off a snipe --- and miss. Enough for it to be noticeable. He should've missed once in 20 against most things he was fighting. It certainly did not feel like that.

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I notice this most with my claw stalker.

Slash's Description: You perform a Slash with your claws, dealing a high amount of damage, but with a long recharge rate. This attack can reduce a target's defense, making him easier to hit.

From experience, I never ever lead with this attack anymore. The follow up will miss 3 out of 4.

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Q4: Do I start with any Prestige?
A4: All supergroups get a "kicker" of 20,000 Prestige per member up to 15, for a total of 300,000 possible "free" Prestige. If you have gotten this free Prestige and your supergroup membership drops BELOW 15, you will lose 20,000 Prestige for each member that departs. If your membership increases again, you regain the 20,000.

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Apparently there is a bug that makes this not happen. I have 4 SG afilliates and none of the mstarted with any prestige, while a friend's SG had 300K. I have bugged it several times, nor am I the only one this is happening to.

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You sure that's not a BOSS targeted bug, Myr?

I hear you have a U-nique member U-sed to holding U-niversal dev aggro. If U see him, tell him it's U-nanimous and spoken U-navoce: some spicy flavor left with him.

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I've seen more than a few people crying for Ice Tankers to have their own place to give feedback. And since we've already planned to change Unyielding some, a few think we're ignoring Ice in favor of Invulnerabilty. So I wanted to start this thread.

Here's a couple of changes coming that I think will help:

Reduced Accuracy of Minion level Turrets from 75% to 58%.
Reduced Accuracy of Lieutenant level Turrets from 94% to 65%.
Reduced Accuracy of Boss level Turrets from 113% to 75%.
Reduced Accuracy of Snipers from 75% to 65%.
Reduced Accuracy of Archvillains from 90% to 75%.
Reduced Accuracy of Giant Monsters from 90% to 75%.
Reduced Accuracy of Monument Minions from 75% to 58%.
Reduced Accuracy of Rularuu Bosses from 90% to 75%.


BIG thanks to Circeus, for his tireless devotion to all that is Ice Tankerish. Hip hip hooray!

PLEASE keep the discussion limited to Ice Tankers. Anything else will be removed.

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"Crying for Ice Tankers?" Nice.

Just a little question... how do all those nice changes above help ice tankers? That's a lot like saying "we upped xp across the board to help ice tankers."

The changes help everyone. Woot. Yay for everyone.

Now what about Ice Tanks? Where's Captain Obvious when you need him?

He couldn't have been PL'ed too much... he's still hiding behind Statesman's cape on the comic book cover.

Any chance of a revisit to this? The 2nd CCFA of 1952 deals with Supergroups and deputization. Anyone?

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It was only our third event (if memory serves)...so we're still learning.

Rikti invasion was nice...Halloween worked well...and the Winter Lords had some good stuff.

We noted our errors and will rectify them next time.

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Just had to say I appreciated the WL event a lot. I'm a pretty casual gamer and a team with some solid planning could get characters up to the 20s in a day which allowed me to build, test and delete several guys.

Unheroic? Well... teams of heroes organizing to battle the menace sounds heroic to me.

PLing? Let's see... I died several times... looks like risk, so there should be reward. It's not like anyone was getting to 50 fighting WLs.

Left a lot of crappy level 20 players out there? Yup. They joined the ranks of all the other crappy 20 level players.

As a guy who's only able to play an hour or two a day the event increased my funfactor 10 fold because I got to try a lot of new things. Can't say I'd like it to be around forever but I think you did a swell job for a special event.