PhysicsGeek

Gotta say i'm severely dissapointed with the huge amounts of downtime that this game has been dropping lately.

I've played almost every MMO out there on the market and frankly only the first years tweeking their bugs get more downtime.

I like this game because of several reasons thats why I dont just "Leave to play another game" but in all reality this is one of the more simplistic MMO's out there.
Whats the reason for this downtime?! I do realize that M-W-F they do backups, but on many of the games its 60-90 min in lengths, CoX is typically over 120 min.
Why are we going down on Tuesday?! Its not like this stuff couldnt be put in during Mondays downtime, or heaven forbid, its not ready for Monday, then PUSH IT BACK A DAY! and give it to us on Wednesday.

Silly little things like this are why we are losing player base and to continue with this silliness will kill the game.
PS if you havent noticed there are several games on the horizon that look top notch and are designed to clearly pull people away from the current MMO's.
So please, PLEASE, get your act together and start acting like a company that gives a hoot about its player base!

ok help me out here...
Since the new boards have come up, i havent been able to see any of the guide links. Is it my system? or the board?

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It's the attitudes, for example calling them "AE babies", "braindead children" etc., that I feel works against what you hope for. Some already have a negative feeling toward anyone who has participated in AE, right or wrong.

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You are absolutely right about that, and I apologize if I offended anyone who I called a braindead child, but the fact is that you think it repeatedly lately. For example, we ran a Posi TF yesterday. About 30 min into the TF, 3rd mission, one of the members said "how long will this take?" I replied, we're on #4 of 16, so maybe 90min or so depending on the group. He replies, thats too long, i'm outta here....BAM drops group...30 seconds later, the healer says yeah this is really boring, not like the real game....BAM drops group. Later in the day, after the TF, I load onto one of my low level toons in AP and do you know what I saw? Not just 1 but both of them screaming in Broadcast for high level AE missions! Did I say anything to them? no, was I thinking anything....YES.

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I don't know what the best way is to "fix" whatever is wrong how AE is affecting this game. But the attitudes toward the players vs. the mechanic doesn't do the game community any good.

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Second that!

Has anyone thought about why AE was created in the first place?
Dont get me wrong, I leveled my 2nd hero to 50 through the AE system mainly because I was learning the AE system itself (creating arcs, looking for badges, etc)
I just remember that when HEATS came out many of us veteran players were still stinging from the massive change and fallout that occurred from ED, stack that on top of unlocking a new AT instead of creating large amounts of content for level capped Heroes was just a bad idea and everyone told them so on the forums.
Now here we are years later and they invent this new way to unlock those level 50 toons even easier. It sickens me to the core that we're arguing about braindead children not willing/wishing to learn how to play the game when, I believe that the Devs really don't have a grasp on what the hardcore CoX players want from this game.
As for the OP, did it make bad players...YES. Will some of them get better....YES. Will this bring more people to the game....YES with a caveat. Instant gratification does not last and neither will these braindead children. What we need in this game to make it last is delayed gratification and with the AE fiasco present, this will not happen.

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Removed Mending Mitochondria from Devouring Earth enemy group.

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I would have preferred they merely be stripped down to zero or near-zero XP and left in, but it doesn't affect me personally.

Any chance of giving us a rough count of how many characters have been or are about to be deleted for exploiting this? This exploit ran wild for a long, long time, the number of people abusing the heck out of it can't be very small.

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Although I agree with you that it ran far too long, how can you blame any players for exploiting a weakness in the game? No one should be banned for this, Dev's should be fired before players are banned.
If you found a bug in the game, sent an in game /bug message and after 3 patches it was not corrected, then why in HELL would you ban a player from using it?
Piss poor coding is no reason to remove players, its a reason to replace developers.

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[*]Removed Mending Mitochondria from Devouring Earth enemy group.


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*giggles*

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Thank Goodness, they need a fix and overhaul. Those Chain healing Globs were broken. Once they hit you, self healing inspirations and powers don't work at all. They also jump around and move after you push them with a force field.

Rikti raids will be back in full swing with the explosion animation fixed too.

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Everyone around here that was bashing the mending mitochondria, did you ever stop to think about why they were so lame? I'm seriously dissapointed in the devs. They must be incredibly lazy not to test this wierd phenomena out.
For those who wanted to know why a Hammi mob would not attack back would have tested it to find out. It turns out with just a little tweaking, that it was a bug on the MM. If you made the mission with lvl 50 hammi's they actually fought you back.
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If you lowered the level cap to 49, then the bug kicked in and the only thing that the Hammi could do was to heal itself and others.

Personally, I would have loved to see the Devs not remove the Hammi from the AE but fix it.
How funny would it have been to see these lazy people gather their 8 hero/villan groups and venture into a Hammi easy kill mish only to get close enough to get blasted back to the entrance zone?
NOW THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN JUSTICE!

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Edit: two mins after this post servers now back up.

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On another note, its kinda funny watching the server page spaz out. Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down, been doing this for about 30 minutes now lol

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For some reason, the Server Status page keeps refreshing back to yesterday afternoon (Check the date and timestamp in the bottom-right corner of the page). The servers are not actually up yet.

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OMG I didnt even see that, mine says last updated 6/24/09! Feel like i'm in Ouroborus!

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Scheduled Server Downtime for City of Heroes/Villains
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City of Heroes and City of Villains undergo server maintenance daily from 8:00 am to 10:00 am Central Time. During this time, the servers are not accessible as we perform maintenance and make any updates to them. We may also perform maintenance on additional game-related servers, such as the web servers, message boards, or login servers.
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On Mondays and Fridays, this maintenance always includes restarting all North American game servers. However, maintenance does not always include "server downtime," the servers may also be restarted on days other than Monday and Friday, but this occurs on an "as needed" basis.
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Please note: While we are reserving this daily two-hour period for maintenance updates, they will not necessarily require the entire two hours and additional updates may be scheduled outside this time-period as needed. Also, the maintenance window may sometimes need to be extended. Deviations from the normal maintenance schedule are typically posted on the official news page, patch notes, and/or message boards.
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We appreciate your patience as we work during these time periods to provide our players with the highest quality of service in City of Heroes and City of Villains.

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Referencing what I highlighted in Red, I agree with the OP... them announcing what downtime is for is hardly "typical". We aren't asking for specific information regarding what bug they are fixing or anything, but even a little message saying "Please wait while we fix a bug/exploit" would go a long way.


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I have no problem with the servers going down for regularly scheduled backups as I understand this is a necessary evil with interenet, but today it was at 7:00 AM central.
If you are going to post a general message on the boards and make it a sweeping gesture, at least make it broad enough that ALL of your general maintenance times fit within your time constraints.

Of all the MMo's that I play, the thing I like most is crafting. (could be my age) and I loved how EQ2 had player housing and now guildhalls you could create stuff and decorate as you wanted.
That being said, its why I really want to play around with my base.
That or maybe NCSoft (hint, hint!) could come up with some form of player housing? That would take the edge off of creating a base.
From what I read on your post, 450k is about all your going to get from 1 to 50 which means you would need around 10 lvl 50's to get the mats needed for a good base. I dont powerlevel so that would require a lot of time and I want the base to be useful for my lower toons to pop in and out of the different zones.
I think i'm really gonna have to think this through. I like the game concept and prefer it over the others its why I find this upsetting

Ok not a newb question but an old fart returning after several years.
I have my own SG base with 12 toons in it. I am probably the only one that ever plays in the SG (2 other people in it but they hardly play anymore).
When I last played Prestige flowed freely and I could do some fun things with the base. Now I've just leveled my controller to 30 and have a whopping 50k prestige to show for it.
On this board everyone is saying "no problem, a nice base costs only a few million prestige..." WHAT?!! There has got to be a way to make prestige in this game, right?
Please tell me that this isn't some kind of Planet of the Apes nightmare where I cant have a nice base to myself unless I level all 15 of my slots to 50 then farm for the next 2 years because the monkeys took over the controls of how money (inf) is distributed.
Any Ideas to earn the prestige fast would be helpful.

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Yes I want to play the game, No, I dont want to AE it all the way to the top, boring waste of time...

Anyone know what the best AoE stalker is? I like the idea of AoE and I prefer a stalker although I could be persuaded to play a brute if need be.
Just looking at the primaries, I dont see any really good AoE stalker that stands out above the rest.
Anyone help here?

I agree that true healing is like lipstick on a pig, and as such, I was hoping to contribute to the battle as well.
On our server when you get a group together you have very little in the way of any healing and just that little extra would be a great addition to any team.
That being said, I tire of MM's very quickly having an MM that is a healing secondary sounds like a yawner to me....Send pets out, watch them kill, heal them if you need to...rinse and repeat....I'm old and frankly I would rather watch the seconds tick by on my death clock.
I was hoping a corruptor would give me the opportunity to challenge my soloing abilities as well as perform the healing duties of the VG.
I like the /pain list of skills, and dont want to play with fire anymore, 3 of my 50's are fire based. sorta hinting at the whole package here

If this has been posted before I sincerely apologize.
My VG is having problems with a lack of healing. Many of us are Doms, Brutes or Stalkers.
Since I have a lvl 50 already, (Dom), I eagerly volunteered to create a pure healer type.
After searching tirelessly on the boards I havent found any AT that compares to a true healer like the Heroes Empathy. So any of you villians out there that know the answer to this, please help me out...and no, I dont want to play an MM, I'm thinking corrupter at this point.

Yes I realize its on the hat category, It just doesnt come up on this toon.
Thats why I asked if mine was just a random bug

Silly question....
But on my one toon I really want the santa hat I got it on the first try!!!
But when I went to ICON, I could not find it, is there a level requirement? or is this a random bug?