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oh shoot me LOL. You do agree that the overall point does include Tankers? In that they are of of the primary melee groups?
And that becoming obselete isnt a million miles away from being obelete?

So did i say anything not pertaining to the question?

Semantics. And those that pick up on them. Sheesh.


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Are tankers obsolete/ obsolesent is certainly a much better topic for discussion, since reasonable arguments can be made on either side, whereas The original "Melee ATs becoming obsolete" is plainly silly.

Unfortunately, it's just so much more fun to wind certain people up than have a sensible discussion.

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yes but not without elmet

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The roman cheek guards are attached to the helmet. Without a helmet they would fall of, unless you glued them to your cheeks.

/No, this is a silly idea.

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make flying down fast, close to falling speed.

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Or you could just, you know, turn off fly!

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improve the animation of archery, it just doesn't use any force on the string.

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Which would make the animation time longer. I don't think so.

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It's amazing how many of these aren't QoL suggestions...

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Yup, its amazing how many people think QoL = major game engine rewrite.

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Well, I'd agree if it were true. I'm putting the argument that you can't get something reasonable at low levels if you are new.

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You slot what drops. Its quite possible to get a fair smattering of common and set IOs doing that. In fact doing this to save inf in the long term is the only real point of slotting low level IOs.

Or you can sell or you drops, which should enable you to be fully kitted out with DOs then SOs when they become available. This was not possible prior to issue 9: I was level 50 before I got my first character fully kitted out with +3 SOs. It was made that way deliberatly so you have to make a strategic decision about what to slot and when.


In any MMO economy high level characters are going to have much higher buying power than low level characters. If they didn't, there would be something seriously wrong. This inevitably makes low levels net sellers and high levels net buyers.


Twinking is considered an explot. Therefore the game is balanced around characters that are not twinked.

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The ops question was "are Tankers becoming obselete."


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No, the OPs question was "Are melee ATs slowly becoming obselete??"

Last time I looked tankers whern't the only melee AT.

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Im not here to insult you or anyone else.

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Cudda fooled me.

If you solo missions, bosses will only normally occur where they are scripted to do so (most commonly, just one, in the end room). If the boss type isn't specified in the mission, it will be a random type (i.e. either a MI or a RM for carnies).

Newspaper/Police Band defeat carnie boss missions spawn MIs 50% of the time.

tried a US trial account.

Soon came back here.

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Darn!
I was hoping I13 would finally give me a lvl 50 spines/WP brute, but doesn't seem like it's worth doing now.

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Oohh, you know the changes that Spines is getting? Tell us please

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From Castle:

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Facts:
I consider the base damage of Spines powers to be roughly where they should be (no spreadsheets here, but that's the general thing I remember.)
The primary issue I have with the set lies with the plethora of secondary effects. If I were to proceed, I'd likely eliminate the Immobilize stacking and tone down the Slows. I'd take a look at the DOTs, too. Range and animations almost certain would not be touched.

A spines pass is not on my schedule, currently...which means it's unlikely for at least a year (schedules can and do change, though!)


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What a curmudgeon! It's a suggestion. I hope it's taken seriously as such by those who might take action, and not dismissed in such a selfish and ignorant manner as Valkryst's.

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And the devs can't act on every suggestion made, nor can they do things instantly. You have to decide what you think the priorities should be. Do you think the devs should drop everything right now to work on your suggeston, and not release an issue until it is done? The dynamic zone changes in RV was one of the main reasons issue 7 was delayed so long. Was it worth the wait?

Oh, by the way, calling someone a curmudgeon is a personal attack, and therefore against forum rules.

You won't see any mention of IOs in the manual: the game was designed to be played with TOs, DOs, and SOs. IOs where a later optional addition. It says that in the in game hints.

Besides which, a +3 TO gives a bigger bonus than a lebvel 10 IO and a +3 DO gives a bigger bonus than a level 15 IO. And an SO gives a bigger bonus than any IO under levele 30.

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And you think Bioware's Star Wars Old Republic MMO (or Cryptic's Star Trek Online, for that matter) will probably kill EVE Online?


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I think KOTORO could kill every other MMO in existance.

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Praf, what do you think would have happened if there was a game based around rhe Star wars universe but not exactly the same? Star battles? And it had a similar theme to star wars. And players played it because it was the nearest thing to Star wars they could get? And it had a sub of about 130,000.

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I would expect that other game would be still chugging along with its sub of 130,000 long after SWG had panicked into making ill judged rules changes and managed to alienate the few players they did have.

No licence will sell a duff product. It may get people to try something, but, contrary to what you seem to think, they are not idiots, and will soon recognise bantha poodoo.


And CO isn't even a decient licence.

Maybe this information would be helpful then:

Time to proliferate an existing powerset: 1-3 months

Time to develop a new but strieghtforward powerset: 3-6 months

Time to develop a new, more complex powerset (e.g. new MM primary): 6-24 months

Time to develop a new AT: 1-3 years

So far, you have suggested enough powersets to keep the devs busy for te next 10 years, without any other new content.

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It is a super hero game. It is set in the iconic super hero universe where you can play along Superman and Batman. Think about that. Superman and Batman.
Its like playing a football game with made up teams and then suddenly a bright shiny new ganme comes out where you can play in the prem. along side Ronaldo. (or whoever your fav is.)

If its even half decent it will hit like a tornado.


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SWG.

It was just about half decent.

Star Wars has many many more fans than either Batman or Superman (and as for the rest, Green who?).

It flopped worse than FFM when his levitation device was hit by an EMP.

Once the avalanche has started, it is to late for the pebbles to vote.

What I would like to see:

More high quality suggestions, thoroughly researched, using the search function, completly developed, all implications weighed up, amount of workload estimated, and trade off value calculated (i.e. what would you be prepared to not have while the developers are working on your suggestion).

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THEN DC WILL kill this game.


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Not if it turns out to be carp, which is quite possible. Just look at SWG or AoC.

I am not a comic book fan. I play CoX because I enjoy the gameplay more than the othe MMOs I have tried. As far as I'm conerned, any new MMO is a competetor for CoX, regardless of genre. DC may have rubbish gameplay. It sounds like CO does have rubbish gameplay. On the other had, by all acounts WAR has excellent gameplay, so maybe that is the competetor that NorCal needs to worry about.

I dunno, it seems that these days people are just suggesting anything that comes into thier heads, regardless of wether it is really wanted/needed.

So, issue 13 is secret because Cryptic are a bunch of rip of merchants...

I think the main reason for a lot of grumbling about MA is it has to many kicks.

So no to this suggestion.

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