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Sure, that leaves one more space (I found another scrapper behind the sofa in the SG base, my adding up isn't that bad).

Ideally, I could do with another support character for the final spot. Three seems to be a good number for safe and speedy completion, and I've only two at the moment.

My supergroup is planning on running the Statesman TF on Friday evening at 8:00pm UK time and has a couple of spots free.

Teamspeak users would be preferred but it's not essential. It just makes life easier

Anyone up for it?

Please shout here or drop me a PM if so. Cheers.

Thanks for the reply.

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As to whether I'm surprised by the standard of behaviour in-game, I can't say I am, for the simple reason that I very rarely encounter any problems in this regard when playing my personal characters.

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At the risk of being rude, I'd guess from some of your casual comments about PvP in the past that you probably do not get the sort of k/d ratios that a couple of our regular two character teams do. I have this stubborn refusal to stand still get stunned and die, well, except when very drunk or hungover, and it really annoys people quite a lot as that's essentially what my AT is meant to do in zone PvP as far as I've worked out.

I think I've probably done this to death for today. I do disagree with the policy, but can do nothing about it. I don't think it will change, but I will keep criticising it while I see it not working. I don't think I can make my point without posting links to the forums of screenshots which break the forum rules. I might drop you a PM tomorrow if you don't mind.

I don' t think it's just a case of whether people personally bother you or not. Do I care what these people think? No. Do I care what they say? On a personal level most of it doesn't bother me, I'm quite hard to offend, although sometimes the sheer volume gets a little wearing and it does render any in character conversations quite hard. However I do think it has a massive negative impact on the game and there are certain lines that shouldn't be crossed and frequently are.

In more "persistant" online games you have a certain level to which you have to answer for your actions and the actions of those you associate with - CoH doesn't have this. It also has one of the lowest standards of behaviour overall I've ever seen in a game, and I play, in addition to MMOs, a variety of FPS and flight sim games. I have to put this down to a combination of idiot plus anonymity of the internet plus the knowledge there will probably be no come back.

Killing them is not a deterrant, although it's entertaining obviously, that's generally what seems to generate abuse in the first place.

I have a couple of questions for you/your company regarding abuse/harassment policy (largely unrelated to the initial post).

For about three or four months myself and a member of my SG have been getting a torrent of abuse, swearing, sexually explicit tells, sexually explicity comments on broadcast, and general nastyness from someone, over and above the usual swearing and childish comments that we get in PvP zones.

1. Do you think it's right that it's taken 4 months and several petitions plus chasing up petitions to make sure they actually get read, from both of us, for this to stop (at least temporarily - I don't know if it is him that's been banned, but he's at least gone quiet for a little while), yet if I posted his name or screenshots on the forums it would be instantly deleted and I'd be told off like a naughty child for breaking the forum rules? Can you see how this would be incredibly frustrating?

2. Given that everyone knows (or thinks they know) what a complete joke the ingame rules on behaviour standards are, and how rarely and weakly they're enforced, are you surprised at the standard of behaviour ingame?

3. Do you think that a certain amount of abuse, swearing, and comments of a sexual nature are acceptable in a PvP zone?

Due to PvP being consensual in CoH there's really no ingame remedy for this sort of problem. Either the game has a policy on this sort of thing, or it doesn't. What's the point in it being there if it's not being enforced/being seen to be enforced? Where is the deterrant for those people who want to act like this?

Just to add to this.

The set bonuses that give +healing also appear to be affected by the same bug that affects Power Build Up. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Thanks for joining us, it was a nice team mix I thought, had it's shaky moments but the key bits of the last mission were a doddle - I liked how that character went with the team. Plus all the well slotted tactics made Mako very easy - even with just the one rad I had no issues hitting at all without the Geas accolade.

We're talking about running another tomorrow at 7:00 if I can put together a team for it - will let you know, if not I'll be sorting one next weekend.

Knockback is one of the two major annoyances I find when playing my Kinetic.

I would get incredibly annoyed with myself if I had energy secondary.

Rad and Elec both work well and are pretty easy to play. Elec if you want a sapper, Rad just because the defence debuffs compliment a primary that requires you to hit to be effective. Rad also has a completely awesome nuke (so does Psionic). I also think Sonic would combine well too (I've never seen a Kin/Sonic, but on paper it's a good mix) combining damage buffs with resistance debuffs for all round great damage output.

Unfortunately, of all the secondaries, Energy is probably the one that has least to offer with Kinetics primary.

Running this again this evening at 7:30BST and have one space free again. AT is not particularly important with the team we have this time, TS user would be preferred. Please shout here, or drop me a PM on forums, if interested. Cheers.

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I've /bug reported it too many times to remember now - each time I get the standard 'blah de blah' automated response from NCSoft and never any follow up - I think that every /kin defender who's picked PBU has /bug reported it but to no avail. Even after all the different 'mini patch' updates it's not been properly fixed. Here's hoping that I9 will bring that fix.

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Since I9 I've had one Power Boosted heal work correctly (although admittedly it was a nicely timed one) and all the rest have not - not very precise I realise, but I play that Kinetic a lot, the percentage working is not good at all.

Irradiate is the one with the good def debuff of the AOEs (off the top of my head, around 36 or 37%).

Yeah, wasn't exactly an optimal team to be running it with character wise and was never going to be easy, should have just played to the advantage of the team all along (bunch up, heal and buff like crazy, bash stuff) when taking out Recluse rather than trying to do clever stuff, went OK once we did that.

Enjoyed it, liked the story, enjoyed having lots of AVs.

Thanks for joining us clau.

(Edit: Just tried to post on our forums, did they fall over?)

Most fun I've had while soaking up debt. Cheers for joining us, was a laugh.

Wyx (the drunken one tonight).

Yes, well done, it was quite a good evening's fighting - I'm not generally a big Warburg fan, I hate the way everyone congregates on the beach, and last night was worse than normal for that although still provided some fun fights.

The new builds you're using obviously helped a lot. I think you managed to take out one of our two Defenders for only four or five losses on your part, and were certainly making life quite difficult most of the evening.

We look forward to more fights in future. Catch you around again soon.

Wyx/Buffem/Prima Donna (the member of OV you managed to get ).

We've a full team now.

Next time we run it Amber, I'll let you know when. I'm sure there'll be plenty more soon - we do have one or two characters to get the badge on.

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I am in, if the spot is still available.

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You mean we didn't scare you off after you ran the last Shard TF with us?

Yes, the spot is still available Clau, we'll see you at 7 on Sunday.

My supergroup is planning on running the first villain SF on Saturday evening at 7:30pm UK time and has three spots free for a few brave souls. The TF starts in Cap au Diable and is given by Virgil Tarikoss.

Teamspeak users would be preferred but it's not essential. It just makes life easier

First refusal for one spot goes to Lord Amber as I know he already expressed an interest to Ohms.

Anyone up for it?

I'm sure this will be a common theme over the next few weeks, however:

My supergroup is planning on running the Statesman TF on Sunday evening at 7:00pm UK time and has one spot free for a brave soul.

Teamspeak user would be preferred but it's not essential. It just makes life easier

Anyone up for it?

Saturday is currently looking more likely, will give you a shout when we've sorted a day/time Amber.

(Also, I will be proving that I really do play a villain from time to time ).

I'm finding the same issue on my Dominator as I have on my Blasters - too many pools to pick from - also too much stuff I want in general!

Fitness, Leaping and Medicine I think are pretty much decided on, just a case of deciding between Leadership and Speed. I hate not having plus perception - not to mention the tohit - but possibly will want Hasten more once I've had a play around with it.

I like flight, but find it's not as useful overall on most characters as Leaping/Fitness/Speed/Leadership/Medicine (although my main has it). Too much does -fly, and with no other travel power I'd then feel like a bit of a sitting duck - probably with very good reason.

Well, yes, so I'm idle.

I blame it on the company I keep.

Ah, I thought that was broken too - we should get ourselves sorted and finish that off in that case.

Boredom?

If you build for zone PvP Kin/Psi works very nicely (as does Kinetics in general as a Defender set) although has some serious issues against defence based sets, for the arena I'd probably go with Elec (or simply make a /kin controller).

I've used hibernate to do this before on the clockwork king (psychic) when there's been noone there who could handle the alpha, but not with taunt (or provoke - was playing a blaster). Just fly over the top of him, and then hit hibernate and land next to him. Once he's nuked the tanker took agro and I skulked off. Not a concept I'd build around though really, just something that was useful at the time.