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I may have missed a couple

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"Horror" was on the list too.

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that fact that their zones are not limited to cities and are more diverse.


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I don't think its a coincidence that that list was posted bofore certain people left the CoX team for (what is now) CO.

And nothing changed with the servers last week either. They are the same servers we had two weeks ago.

The servers are fine. I was around a few years ago when they tried replacing the servers, and guess what? No change.

There has never been a time without european node issues.

EU net infrastucture has been screwed as long as CoX has existed, but since no government or corparation has done anything to fix it, it just gets worse and worse as traffic increases.


And people have been made redundant. that doesn't mean they stop work instantly. The GMs and support staff are still there until they have worked out their notice, and then the support will be moved to the US.

fact is, there is nothing (bar moving the servers) that they could do about the poor internet connection before teh reduncances, and nothing has changed now.

We jsut have to hope we are transfered to US servers, as this is the only thing that will solve the problem (even then people in central europe will have problems, as they have to come through all the mess anyway).

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Light Form has a manky crash.

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Just let yourself be defeated, use your self rez, and switch to dwarf, and you are strieght back into the battle.

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it's something that's been going on for such a long time surely someone would have considered moving the damn servers to a less crappily routed location?

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I'm sure they are considering it, but have you considered what is actually involved in such a move?

1) You load the servers onto the back of a van and drive them to the new location. The servers are closed completly for about a week, by which time all your customers have left.

2) You buy new servers at the new location and copy the data across. the only problem is NCSoft can't afford to buy new paperclips at the moment, and the banks sure aint lending.

And how do you decide where to move them to? Most of the Internet in Europe is on the brink of collapse due to a lack of investment.

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Ok. The section of NCsoft that concerns us, then.

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The whole of NCSoft concerns us, because if it goes belly up there will be no more CoX.

I soloed a couple of AVs on my illusion controller in the 20-30 level range (Maestro, Arkhan), but that was before the AV buff.

I've soloed all the EBs in the faultline arc several times with different characters. So long as you use plenty of insps, and are prepared to risk being defeated occasionally they aren't that difficult.

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It just caps your resists and increases recovery, while blocking the use of forms.

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Just thought I better mention that Light Form also gives mez protection.

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And Eclipse is better than Light Form anyway.

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To subjective. You seem to be basing this conclusion on Light Form blocking form shifting. Not a significant drawback if, like me, you don't play a tri-form.

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I dont see why it is suddenly becoming unbearable.

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It's clear that one of the internet nodes in Germany has started malfunctioning badly in recient days.

Of course, it's not a matter completly out of NCSoft's control: at least in the long term, they could change th physical location of the servers.

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Prime example is my Bane who will have to face Calystix.

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I soloed calystix with my bane, it was much easier than with my dominator.

But that mission is easily avoidable anyway, CoV has plenty of content in that level range, I never manage to complete all the sharkhead contacts on one character.

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An EB at that settings is just to much.

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On the highest available setting the EB will only be +1/+2 to you anyway (since it would be an AV on Invincible). Still easily beatable by most characters with a few insps.

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My point is that an EB should NOT be the deciding factor if a mission is challenging or not. I want every mob in the mission to be a threat.

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Make all mobs that aren't EBs into bosses? I would vote for that.

I don't think it was outdoor maps which won't be in at launch, I think the comment was about outdoor missions. I.e. talk to, patrols and outdoor ambushes which take place in the shared game world.

MA will give us a chance to do something different with those maps.

Look out for my "find 37 glowies in the Eden Spire" mission.

I believe it is mag 1, which on its own will only stun an underling.

You missed something.

Even if you don't like stories you could play for the challenge of trying to beat FFM's meatgrinder mission.

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run a mission at a setting that is challenging

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Invincible isn't all that challenging. they only remotely challeging things in game are EBs and AVs.

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an eb is not something you can deal with.

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You must be playing a real team orentated character if you can't deal with an EB.

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bumping into an eb every od mission

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A massivle exageration of the frequency of EBs.

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It'd also be a massive nerf to Dominators control inside Domination (since Containment doesn't do anything for Control)


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Just give doms the duration and critical mezzes that controllers currently get to go with it.

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Its not the ISPs

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No, it probably isn't. That's not what I said.

Your ISP just connects you to the internet. After that the data passes through at least half a dozen different nodes, all owned by different companies. If any one of those nodes isn't working properly it would cause the problems we are experiencing. The closer the dodgy node is to the datacenter, the greater the number of players who will experience problems.

You can prove that this is what is happening, as it is possible to get round the issue by forcing your data to take a different path through the internet.

My inclination would be to remove the +damage from Domination, and increase base damage, say to 1.1 melee, 1.0 ranged. But ymmv.

Or just swap Domination with containment.

Scrappers are good EB soloers, and tankers are okay to, but just about anything can solo an EB with a few purple insps.

I don't have any objection to an easier difficulty setting, although I wouldn't use it myself, however I think it would be more useful to get rid of the purple triangle power on AVs downgraded to EBs.

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We also need a system to get an idea of what for party is required. Most obviously designed for solo play or party play.

I am not overly enthusiastic about bumping into an AV every mission I enter or for that matter even EB's when I solo.

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Hopefully, Mission Architects will put information like that in the opening dialog; but it would be nice if we can set a series of searchable flags so that people can filter on what they're looking for...

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When I write the mission briefing I intend to include as much info about the mission/arc as possible. Hopefully in character.

The version seen at hero con certainly alowed multiple AVs in a mission.

I've seen nothing official to suggest you are limited to one.

MA missions are stored localy, so it should be possible to e-mail the file to your friend and just let them modify the mission you have already made.