Remidi
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Quote:It seems to be sort of hit or miss, or maybe as Samuel said, linked to what you were doing just before. Every alt I made during the beta had them turned on, yet the live character I started didn't.Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie
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Quote:It's not in your options that you save to a file. It's in the map options, i.e. the list that is in the map screen itself.Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
I'm curious now. I've got 2 new Praetorians, and both of them I had to go and do all their Settings by hand (because I always fail to save a file with it) .... And both of them have these glowies on their maps normally.
If a new player who doesn't have binds or anything in place already comes along, should they not have this on by default then? I'm just wondering, not saying that yours weren't how you said. I'm just trying to figure out what the difference is between my setup and yours, and obviously others, that mine DO default to on and yours did NOT. -
Personally, I find my emps some of my most challenging alts. But I love them for it.
Quote:*sigh* I haven't seen much of the 'defender handshake' for quite a while. I have been on way too many teams where another def/troller/cor completely ignores that I'm mezzed or getting pounded, even though I'm hollering in teamspeak. They're usually too busy chatting with the tank to notice.Originally Posted by ketch
I could toss it on the other emp (who had better return the favor) so both of our auras are up faster. -
Quote:Do you live near a Best Buy? Right now they have a deal where if you order the Complete Collection on the internet then pick it up in the store, they knock ten dollars off. I realize $30 is still not cheap, but since it includes a month of play, it does make it more affordable.Originally Posted by The Lone Hero
Not my subscription. A family member is paying for it so really it's up to her, not me. So even if I let it lapse it will still be up to her if I get GR or not. So really, you should maybe consider that not everyone can pay for the game with their own money.
I don't know your age or financial situation, but is there any way you could ask family to make it an early Christmas present, or birthday? Maybe offer to do something for them, a "If you buy me the expansion, I'll clean out your garage" type deal? Or if that isn't physically possible, some other sort of favor? Believe me, I know how hard it is to want something you don't have the money for right now, but maybe you can find a way to swing it. -
All my characters are on Pinnacle, and that's the way I like it. If I wanted to be on Freedom or Virtue, I'd already be there.
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Quote:To be honest, I'm not certain about a situation like that. But in any case, standing around fully healed people with your aura on isn't going to get you anything but a bunch of one-star notes.Originally Posted by Impish Kat
More specifically, it's the points below the base HP level, isn't it?
In other words, if someone has an IO that gives them 50 more points over their base, you would need to heal 51 points or more & the 50 wouldn't count.
Or am I thinking of a different badge?
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Quote:For an SG like mine, where each player has their own bins, it would be very irritating for a big list of stuff that we couldn't use - because we couldn't be sure where it came from - to have to load every time we wanted to use the crafting tables. It would be super for a one person SG, though, so I wouldn't mind it being an option. I just wouldn't want that to happen automatically.Originally Posted by Emberly
[*]Have base crafting tables automatically look through your base's storage for materials, and use them directly from there. Alternatively, have a single point of access that pulls from all storage racks.
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Quote:I've said for years that I really, really wish those flying green numbers showed how much actual healing took place, so that the cloud of zeroes would show just how lame heal spammers are being. And it might cut down on the idiots in the auction house who refuse to turn off their heal auras because they are 'working on their heal badges'.Originally Posted by BurningChick
You know they're doing something (many people don't seem to get that heal numbers always flash up, even when your HP bar is full).
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Quote:Not as much as you might think. Remember, you only get credit for how much you *heal*. Those flying green numbers don't mean a thing. So if you are spamming heals at a group that hasn't taken any damage, you're not getting any points toward your badges. You're just annoying your teammates.Originally Posted by Sidhe_Blade
I know that some people don't like my emp/dark "spaming" her healing but you know it helps with the healing badges and when people are tolerant of it they stay alive longer!
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Quote:*sigh* Its opposite number is a buzzkill for me - when someone gripes at my emp for *not* making everyone gather. I can't count how many times I've had conversations like this -Originally Posted by Psychoti
One thing that annoys me but is not really a buzzkill is when people insist on gathering everyone for buffs. Yes, it's one thing to do so before you fight the big bad... but every 90 seconds? Seriously? Here's a thought : STAY TOGETHER. Then it won't frickin' matter when you throw one off.
"You fired off your RAs without warning us so we could make sure we got them!"
"Everyone was close to the boss fighting. I was in the middle of all of you."
"But you might have missed me, and I really needed them!"
"Dude, I was standing right next to you. You weren't going to get missed."
"Next time tell everyone to gather."
"DUDE, I WAS STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU." -
I only petition if it is a comic book or really well-known character, and it's blatant. Most things I'll let slide, but Gr33n Lantern or Suuuperman are a bit much. I've also petitioned a couple for offensive names. I don't care about the rest. I thought a Richard Nixon toon was hilarious. Yeah, a Darth Vader would be screaming to be petitioned, but, say, a Miles Vorkosigan? I'd ignore it.
The only one I really, really wrestled over was a toon named after a porn star. The costume wasn't especially provocative, and there was no bio. Since they were level 47, I decided what the heck, they made it that far without anyone complaining. Hopefully nobody who would be offended would recognize the name. -
Like many others, I'm not on Freedom or Virtue because I don't want to be. I like my home server, Pinnacle, and have no desire to move.
But I like to occasionally ponder the imponderable. Server merges would be an absolute disaster, for all the earlier stated reasons. But just to be hypothetical, and ignoring the nail-in-the-coffin attitude the MMO industry would have, it could be possible to reduce the number of servers.
Let's imagine that the devs decided to eliminate a server. Rather than do a merge, they could do something like this.
1-Close the server to new alts.
2-Announce that the server would be closing as of X date.
3-Give all characters on that server free transfers to the server of their choice, except for Freedom and Virtue. They could still transfer to those servers, but they would have to pay the normal fee.
4-Offer to move SGs whole to the server of their choice, base and prestige and all. Make sure the members have plenty of time to decide on a new home, and for members who don't agree with the choice to drop out.
5-After the 'lights out' date, put the remaining characters held by inactive players in a sort of holding pen, so that if the player reactivates their account, the first thing they have to do is choose a new home for those alts.
Like I said, it would still be held in a very dim light by the industry, and would greatly hurt our chances of attracting new players. But something like this would be the only way to reduce the number of servers without setting off waves of account cancellations. -
Quote:Not just people names, either. The town I was born in is named Versailles. However, a couple hundred years of linguistic shift has turned it from Vair-si to Ver-sales.Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
I always find it interesting how people of one language pronounce words from other languages... Mostly in the form of names.
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Quote:This is how I feel about it. I don't play WoW, but after this you couldn't pay me to play it. I can't stand the 'one happy internet' philosophy that so many corporations are trying to push (i.e. Google Buzz).Originally Posted by Arcanaville
They were damned the moment they decided this was a good idea. This is not something you can chalk up to a borderline grey-area mistake. This says something about their core attitude towards player privacy.
Backpedaling is just the difference between attempted robbery, and robbery. You shouldn't get accolades for being a failure at being a failure.
Remidi is my CoH name. I have a fandom name, a professional forum name, a writer forum name, a political blog name, and names for other games. And a few others for my assorted internet travels. None of them are connected to my real name, and I intend to keep it that way. If a company or forum demands my real name, then bye bye that corner of the internet. -
Malwarebytes and Avira have done a good job for me.
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Quote:Originally Posted by pixelforge
Fantastic list Impish Kat! My SGmates have been talking about a number of these issues. Most notably base storage. The 18 storage unit / base max is ridiculous and he 30 item per unit cap is equally unrealistic. The 18 unit / base max should expand as the group invests in a bigger plot. The # items per unit could expand if SG earns some kind of TARDIS technology to make the units "bigger on the inside."
I'd LOVE to see all the fixes and wishes listed here come true... but would be even better if they end up as rewards for completing new SG TFs.
The 18 storage item limit has always stuck in my craw. If the devs should decide to link base size to the storage bins, I think the number should *start* at about 25, and go up five per base size. And the salvage bins should hold at least 100 to put them in line with the other bins.
I mean, what else is there to do with all that room? Right now my SG has a huge base that is mostly empty and unused except for the teleport room and the personal storage rooms. A giant power supply sits in a giant power room with vague plans to 'get around' to decorating it. But even if we do spruce it up, nobody will go in it. We're all in the storage/crafting rooms. -
Quote:Er, not all of them. If I said "if I want PvP I'll go play Call of Duty" it would mean, "And I'm not over there, am I?" There are a lot of CoX players who consider the lack of PvP emphasis in this game a feature, not a bug.Originally Posted by macskull
You'll hear a lot of people say "if I want PvP I'll go play Call of Duty" or something similar, and that's because that game is almost entirely based around combat where you don't need to balance classes because everyone's on roughly the same footing (minus reflexes and such).
That being said, I do sympathize with people who want to PvP here. I figure as long as the devs don't introduce anything that makes it pretty much mandatory to PvP, then I'm willing to live and let live. While I don't think the idea of turning RV into the only PvP zone would work, I think the idea of making the zones cross-server has merit. Rather than it be Pinnacle or Freedom or whoever's Bloody Bay, make it all servers' Bloody Bay, and hopefully the population increase will bring more of the activity the PvP community wants. -
Quote:You don't have to be in a mega-clan to be that sort of player. My SG has five human beings in it, but it contains almost all of our blueside toons. Of the five of us, two tend to play redside almost all the time, where we have a VG, also made up of just our toons. The third always plays solo. Always. The other two of us duo a lot, and when we aren't on at the same time, she likes to pug and I like to solo.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
As far as SG-only goes, I tend to take is as a live and let live situation. Personally, I'm as mystified about this as you are, because I've never seen a SG so huge and active that there's ALWAYS someone on ALL the time playing ALWAYS the right type of character at the right level of the right faction. Maybe if I were part of one of those soulless "clans" I keep hearing about that treats membership like work, I'd see more of that, but I interpret SGs as groups of friends. And just as I don't expect my friends to live at my beck and call, so I don't expect my SG to always be available when my whim strikes. As such, I have to ask - who do these people team with? Do they team at all, outside of SG business?
Personally, my search comment is "Go Away," which tends to work for all but my defenders. But if I were to put 'SG only' it wouldn't be for my SG mates, because they already know my playstyle, but to save other players from wasting their time sending me an invite. There are lots of players who seem to think you owe them a reason for turning them down, and that's just providing one in advance. Saves time all around.Quote:I guess I can kind of understand not teaming at all, but making an exception for your SG-mates, but then that's my stance of not teaming as a base. If you're not going to be teaming at all, then just say so. I look at it this way - if I'm looking to invite someone, do I REALLY need to know who he'll team with when I'm not one of the people he'll accept? And, on the flip side, does his SG not already know he'll team with them? As such, I can see how this would come off as a "Nyah! I'll team, just not with YOU!" comment, but I try not to put too much stock in tone over the 'net. -
Quote:Some of us don't play to be in a constant state of rushing from mission to mission, blasting through as much as possible in the shortest amount of time, which is how most pugs play. We enjoy a more leisurely place, and stick to our SGs so that we aren't bothering others and they aren't bothering us.Originally Posted by Part_Troll
"SG ONLY" (why?)
Well, I guess my SG could invite other people onto our teams... as long as they didn't mind listening to us chat about our day at work, what funny thing one of the cats did, a joke we heard, how our other games are doing, what one of my daughters said about her school work, etc., and just generally relaxing instead of grinding for xps. -
A lot depends on the other power set. I've had good luck soloing (with assorted pets like shivans, warwolves and Amy) using an emp/energy. While knockback can be a hassle for teamplay, it's an absolute Godsend for solo. They can't hit you if they're flying through the air or flat on their back.
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I really think the only justification the devs have left for not giving us an easy way to transfer things between our alts is 'it makes people pay for second accounts.' I know that's why I got mine - because I was sick and tired of pestering my friends for swaparounds. A related issue is the ridiculously small amount of storage allowed in bases. My SG only has five live human beings in it, and there isn't enough for us. Two of us have started personal coalition SGs to use as auxiliary storage areas.
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I am finding the copyright discussion very amusing since my favorite science fiction series started life as a Star Trek fanfic with the identifiers filed off.
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I'm a middle-aged woman, and I don't consider my alts to be representations of myself, but rather characters I create, just like I create characters when I write. I just did a quick check, and I have eight male characters and nine female characters.
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Does that make Blue Steel our Brock Samson?