Neuronia

PvP Bootcamp Mentor
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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    I'm sure Television's eyeballs bugged out of his head when he found out he should be making $100/hour in salary and benefits, but even at more conservative industry standard estimates a powerset is bound to cost between $30k and $50k to implement, if not more.

    Right, so I'll be getting these at $10 then and not crying too much.
    Hopefully the costume temps (heard these are being released) are 60-100 points or so.
  2. PvP Booster

    Accolades unlocked account-wide for Arena and PvP Zones ONLY.
    Auto-level to 50 in PvP zones/Arena ONLY. Basically one of your builds starts at 50, but is flagged as usable only in PvP areas.
    Three tokens redeemable for a random PvP recipe roll at an Arena vendor.

    $10 sounds good. >.>
  3. Hey Masque, against us on Cargo I noticed I was getting the Earth hold on me (on Emp) then damage would go onto the Stalker or one of the Blasters, then another damage packet onto Cherry or Trickster. Is that a strat to split up the heals or bait someone to evade so they're off target...or just pop greens or force a phase? For example, throw a hold on Emp, maybe they think damage is coming in so they phase or pop greens, meanwhile spike X, then spike Y.

    TLDR: Do spikes get spread out just to cause disruption among the other spike team and to throw Emps for a loop, or is it just switching?
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by all_hell View Post
    Like you, I'm old enough remember when color TVs were expensive too.





    I cant believe anyone has a VCR still.
    I have one! It doesn't get used much but the parents wedding is on VHS as were some news items involving my late dad (he was in a train bomb incident in Montreal ((as a victim, he survived!)) On September 3, 1984, a pipe bomb exploded inside a Central Station locker, killing 3 people and injuring 30 more. But I also have tons of old stuff like cassettes, a few random 8-tracks, LPs and such heh.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
    Interesting article. I'm kinda skeptical only because they used 2005 data, "The most recent available" and 2009 RECS data is available. Maybe it wasn't when they started writing... I'm told that pawnshops have been doing a lot of business. We've got six million extra unemployed, most for at least a year at this point and not counting the ones who've given up looking. (I'm only considered unemployed because after I graduated I started looking for a job...)

    But yeah, we have a lot of stuff in this country.

    EDIT: Did some math. Two 24" TV's plus DVD player, new, around $500; to put it another way, under 10 tanks of gasoline at current prices. Or one car repair if you're lucky.
    Yeah, my own definition of "poor" has changed a lot. I remember going through a rough stretch with family growing up when dad was between jobs and mom did some sewing we basically had to stretch food for weeks at a time and so on...and support dad's smoking habit (heh). Now poor is "not having spending money for luxuries like the new NHL franchise on X-Box" or something that someone really struggling would consider appalling. Even at the worst I haven't seen real poverty like my grandparents did (raising 10 kids on a forest ranger's/mayor's budget, being one of the few with a TV, mmhmmm.... )
  5. Neuronia

    Purple Futures

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
    Or you just don't care. I only turned a profit because I'm greeeeeedy.
    I basically just deleted or gave away everything since I'm too lazy to list something if it doesn't return 30-50 million a sale minimum. Even then it's kinda "meh". That's why I'm hoping we get new stuff we can sell, there's always the initial greed rush for stuff like the new inspirations and whatnot.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by EvilRyu View Post
    As much as I would love to see that I would be kind of pissed though especially after going for field crafter. Thats alot of inf to blow at once. Personally I do not see this F2P thing working out well at all. It just turns CoH into farmville or some other F2P game like say dungeon runners. I am mainly worried about the level of spam we will be getting especially since they have said absolutely nothing about what they are going to do to prevent it. Right now its not really worth their time to do it due to you only being limited on trials to lvl 14 or so but once trials can go to 50 that means they will be spamming every where more hardcore than before.
    Spam can be solved on two levels:

    1)Game stops it for you, chat disables for two minutes.
    2)You can ignore the person or spamignore them.

    F2P looks awesome so far. I'm probably going to drop $20-$50 on the first day to unlock new powersets and reward tiers, then I'll see. I begged Zwillinger for purples and PvP IOs for real money but he basically nixed it.
    Which kinda sucks as people are buying this stuff off RMTers (along with Inf) so it's odd that Paragon wouldn't just want to undercut them, though I do see the balance issues/Market issues.
  6. I'm in depending on date/time, I have a team pvp thing at 8:30 pm Eastern on Sundays.
  7. The Community Team in the past 6 months or more has done a bang-up job:

    Zwillinger has been spending a good part of his Fridays on the PvP Boot Camp on Victory.
    Beastyle has been seen on Pinnacle, according to a famous and elite poster, chatting it up.
    Freitag has been helpful as well as Admin during zone events.

    They've all done a ton of Ustreams and have been invariably patient, helpful and communicative to the entire community, leaving no stone unturned to answer questions or address concerns, even partaking in "reindeer games" on the forums. We haven't had this kind of cross-pollinated support from them since the days of Ex Libris, though CuppaJo was certainly in a class of her own.

    Thanks Z, Bea, Freitag and everyone else for the extra time and effort you've put in. It's thankless work most of the time, but it'll go a long way toward a few more Paragon Points at this end. Who knows if the direction for this approach is from NCSoft or internal, but it's quite enjoyable to see.
  8. Good job Fubaphants on your wins and great work Double Fubtendre on the teamwork, we'll get them next time!
  9. Interesting strategy but why not use Team Teleport?
    As soon as you see the green stuff you recall the team out, then send them back in. It's a little clunky and would require people to turn prompts off but....
  10. Cardiac is awesome. Have it on my MasterSpider VEAT and am running seven or so toggles with no end difficulties at all. Such a great Alpha.

    The Incarnate stuff overall is crazy. The BAF and Lambda are somewhat to little challenge now with T3d characters, Keyes still hurts as of persistent damage aura, but I imagine even that will be overcome soon enough...
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by The_Masque View Post
    Matches tomorrow!

    We will run 4 so we can make sure everyone gets a chance to play.

    Lets try to minimize the resets. If I am not stuck at work I will list all the matches.

    For those people not playing in each round we can do a quick KB or something while we wait.
    We had discussed that each team be assigned a colour for speed.

    FUBaphants would be "Red" while "Double FUBtendre" would be "blue" to speed things up. Is this still ok computer?
  12. Neuronia

    Purple Futures

    Attendee at the con announced uncommon recipes will be available for Paragon Points.

    Thoughts if this is correct?
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Organica View Post
    IMy goal is about 15 LotG IOs, 5 Numinas, 5 Miracles, and maybe a few new Celerity Stealth IOs.

    Because I was able to convert a lot of regular merits, I've moved very quickly towards my goal. And I feel like Gollum when I look at all those beautiful shinies, so I just had to share/show off (first photo is from about last Sunday):

    [[/IMG]

    In a way it'll be kind of sad to use these... I kind of like just having them there to look at.

    (Meanwhile... still haven't run an iTrial on Trinkets, I've been too busy doing this )
    Sorry about the ITrials

    Why don't you play the market to get your stuff? LOTGs aren't that expensive at 150 mil a pop...seems like it would work out quicker than grinding merits?
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
    I don't think the Market Forum regulars have many new insights to discuss, no. I've thought that for a long time. I know I haven't seen much posted here that was ... enlightening? for a while.

    .
    I know I've been whining a lot less due to the new currencies and such.
    I'm "middle class" with my current holdings (several times inf cap) and am making more money daily. No niches at all. I have a MM parked at 33 that sells five pool Cs every two days and my 50s cash in Reward Merits in the 35-39 range or random roll Hero Merits in that range. Everything else gets crafted and sold

    I could probably make tons more but I'm too lazy to care.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Another_Fan View Post
    What after the crazy 88s ? Going to try and bribe pvp teams to rig the ladders ?



    The only time I've seen something similar was during the Freedom ladder, our team could play kingmaker. If we beat a team, the current team kept their number one rung while if we lost to said team they got the #1 spot.
    Peril told us he'd give us all glad jav procs (value around 1 billion each, more or less) if we got it done. We did win by the skin of our teeth, was a great match from our opponents too.

    Not sure if you could get enough players to throw games though...and whether you could find ANY to do it to begin with, given that rep carries some weight in those circles. It's also worth noting PvPers don't need inf, they need IOs...so you'd have to start at multiple glad jav procs, panacea heal and so on per player then see where the agreement is reached.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snowzone View Post
    As long as we can switch it off. I like having my own music on in the background, I don't want terrible voice acting to ruin that.
    This x 1,000,000. I like not hearing anyone ingame, plesae give me the option to shut it off.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    AAAAAAaaaaaaaa!
    Sam encapsulated my feelings perfectly.
    The game doesn't need voice-overs.
  16. Neuronia

    Purple Futures

    I just got a stun triple PLing my new Controller in RWZ heh.

    I don't expect purples to hit the billion each mark just yet, if ever. Apocs will always be higher than other sets due to their breadth while others will waver between 50 million to 300 million.

    Of course, the Devs can choose to sell any loot through the Paragon Points system. Don't be surprised if this happens as other games do offer this...FPS systems come to mind. Devs have only a cursory care about the market's health overall and characters are terrible overpowered compared to content difficulty (close to nil) as is.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by hemmingway3 View Post
    Aww I can't farm Pixel now

    Welcome to the Elephants though!
    This can be arranged if we add Deceive/Confusion to our builds.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Come back when you find a league with the discipline to cover everyone with stacked t4 Barrier in succession.
    Obvious troll is obvious.

    Pretty sure players capable of IR gathers and Veng gathers can do the same for Barrier. But hey, feel free to sign a team for any of the upcoming leagues though.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PoisonHeart View Post

    how can you take down a tank that uses barrier over and over again?
    Drone 'em.
  20. Tier 3 (All powers Tier 3):


    Shrouded Kara Ill/Emp Controller Champion
    Newton Loves Kara Grav/Ta Controller Champion
    Mark it Zero DP/Traps Corruptor Infinity
    Crystal Clear Kara Sonic/Sonic Corruptor Infinity
    Spidery Regrets VEAT Infinity
    Relentless Pursuit Mind/Fire Dominator Infinity
    Coldly Logical Kara Mind/Cold COntroller Pinnacle
    Spirit of Kngs Row Kat/Regen Scrapper Pinnacle
    Fast Fists Frankie MA/SR Scrapper Pinnacle
    Kara Caducaea Emp/Psy Defender Victory
    Eroded Mind Kara Rad/Psy Defender Pinnacle

    Tier 3.5 (Some tier 3s not done, only Alpha Tier 3)

    Tundra Ted Stone/Ice Tanker Infinity
    Neuronia Mind/FF Controller Champion

    Bold indicates Tier 4

    Bring on next powers please.
  21. Neuronia

    Oooh

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    Manticore is going to die so Sister Psyche can move on!
    Manticore is the first to go in LRSF anyway, dang arrows are a PITA.

    While I like the idea of the signature arcs, how are they different from someone creating an arc in AE with the signature heroes...will they have "real" impact on the gameworld? If Manticore "dies" does he disappear as a Task Force contact in Brickstown?
  22. War-Nugget, check your ingame mail, sent you a Glad Jav triple for that awesome poetry.

  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smallzies View Post



    @Kara, yes. I will be capt for fants and ringer emp for MP. u and pixel R benched!


    You can't bench an elefant, we break them in half!


    Also compadres, I talked to a Ventrilo expert and he told me you can make text-to-speech binds, so I made one saying:
    "Kara is TKd", which sounds like "Kara is Tee Kay Dee" lolz.
    See you in the Arena.

    Gl Friday.
  24. Has the ringer emp situation resolved itself?
    Waiting to see which pompoms to take out of the trunk.