RobertoLyon

How often do you ACTUALLY Laugh Out Loud when using LOL?

I burst out laughing when I read this - my co-workers wanted to know why - I could only say "inside joke" as none of them play CoH (their loss!).

D_R this is simply spectacular - the mind boggles at the amount of time and effort that must have gone into this.

I picked out a strange moment as my favorite shot - probably unique in this, but I really dug the "red carpet" walk at 2:53 with the limo in the background. You have a wonderful imagination, and WAAAAY too much time on your hands!

Please keep up the incredible "work" - it's very much appreciated.

Edit to add: This YouTube comment made me chuckle, too:

"When it happens to me" it's the leaders' fault?

You make it sound like you're being Kicked on a pretty regular basis.

Personally I've never been Kicked from a team in 5 years of play.

If you're being Kicked that often, maybe you should look at your own playstyle instead of blaming faulty leadership?

Personally I'll give up a teammate up to half a mish Idle, if they've been good teammates up to that point.

If someone joins new and immediately goes AFK without a Team Tell first, I'll Kick sooner.

But in both cases the Kick would be preceded by a Private Tell asking if everything is okay. If I don't get a response - I'll Tell a known player to Tell me when they're back for a re-invite - and just forget about the unknown player altogether.

Totally had a GLEEEE moment when I heard this again, for the first time this season.

Brought back awesome memories of using it to hover in Hollows on my Emp/Rad last year, healing and buffing lowbies, before the Hollows revamp.

I'm also digging the semi-maniacal, yet happy-sounding laughter that echoes through the canyons of the Ski Chalet periodically.

Beyond the seasonal stuff, tho, I think the travel powers, and specifically Super Jump, are probably my most favorite part of the game. Sometimes I just go for Jump-jaunts, parkour-style, seeing how high I can get stringing together bounds off of ever-increasing heights. Steel Canyon is ideal for this.

I also get off on a really synergistic PuG (unlike the gang of misfits I ended up with last night ), where you just wanna roll forever and never stop, and the Mission Accomplished sting makes you feel kinda sad, instead of happy.

Yay thx F_W!

I challenge YOU!

It involves being on your Villain, in a shared Zone (Cimerora, Rikti War Zone, Pocket D), and asking or having someone to Trade with.

Right-click on them, Invite to Trade.

Trade them a sum of Inf for zero Inf (you give them Inf they give you nothing in return).

Log off your Villain.

Log on your Hero (ideally you've pre-positioned them in the Shared zone to avoid long waits for the person helping you).

Find the person you gave the Inf to, Invite them to Trade.

They give you back your sum of Inf. Ideally you allow them to keep a specified amount in return for helping you.

You can do this with a complete stranger, if they're willing, or set something up ahead of time on your Server Forum here on the Boards.

From my point of view you've just been unlucky on your PuGing so far.

I say this as someone who almost exclusively forms and runs my own PuGs every night, and modesty-aside they're consistently very well received from everyone involved.

THE REASON I RUN MY OWN PuGs is that in my own experience, joining existing teams has always been hit-or-miss.

Sometimes you get a leader/group who really know what they're doing, are fun and chatty (not to the detriment of the mission), and won't get discouraged by an occasional faceplant or teamwipe.

Sometimes you get the Leader who Invites, waits 10 mins. before putting up the mish, never communicates, and Quits at the first sign of difficulty.

My advice to you, and it's coming at a good "age", when you're still new and open to learning and improving: Start forming and running your own PuGs. Do it NOW.

It can be *slightly* stressful at first, but like anything, the more you do it, the better at it you will get, and the more fun it will be, and in the end you can guarantee a good time for all, if you're doing it right.

I run my PuGs from the mindset of a PuG-joiner. Here are approaches that have been working well for me:

-NEVER use Blind Invites (/bind L "tell $target, Level $level-ish team LFM - join us?"). I can CONSISTENTLY form 8-man PuGs in *under 5 minutes* using this bind and the Team Search window.
-No one is EVER invited without the mish being set FIRST.
-I take TP on all my TP-capable toons to facilitate my PuGers' travel and keep the pace up.
-I communicate and guide the team, without being Bossy (I hope). [e.g. select your tank/Kheld/meatshield in the Team window and (/macro RG "REGROUP on $target now please!") if team gets Split]
-Use "gratz", "welcome!", and "ok thanks g'night!" religiously.
-Choose the next mish immediately on Exit, or explain why you haven't ("hitting contact stand by for mish...").

-As a specific response to your concern about keeping the PuG on track - IT'S ALL RELATIVE to the team's success/kill rate. If that Scrapper wants to be off by themselves doing their own thing, and they're not causing their own death or teammate deaths, or slowing the pace of the mission too much - LAY OFF. If they're causing headaches - CRACK DOWN.

If the team is split, but each group is doing okay on their own - lay off. If they split and teamwipe - crack down.

If the Controller is locking down the mob before they're well-grouped, but not causing deaths or slowing the team (and the tank isn't getting annoyed), lay off, but a Private Tell with a polite suggestion to count to 3 before locking-down, isn't out of the question.

Etc.

I know many players don't like having the star. I think I understand why. But if you try it, and keep at it, Leading becomes second-nature, and is the only sure-fire way to avoid bad PuGs. It's also a sure-fire way to control the pace of the mission, if that's your goal.

In my experience a team will respond very well to polite guidance or requests (i.e. leadership), if they can tell the Leader knows what they're doing.

Give it a shot. Do it early, get really good at it, and I guarantee it will make your CoX experience much, MUCH more enjoyable over the long run.

And if you're on Freedom, look me up, and I'll give you a taste.

You have a friend that will sit there and wait as you log out and in two dozen times...for a badge?

You have nice friends.

I also agree with Samuel and those who say it's all worth it - I wouldn't go back to the old way for a million inf.

And no, it's not THAT hard to glance at the Health/End/buffs bars, but like everything, it's relative.

Is it "harder" than *not* having to glance at all? Sure. Is it game-alteringly difficult or annoying? Of course not.

In my OP I really had in mind that sub-conscious level of hearing and seeing powers firing off, powers landing, enemies dropping, and you just *know*, without having to check any bars, that things are progressing smoothly and everyone's doing their part.

If it takes me a fraction of a second, then, after seeing a black disc expanding off a baddie, to decipher Was that Transfusion or Transference? *glance at bars - End is still kinda low - Health is topped off - that was Transfusion*...well OMG that took a whole fraction of a second! Totally NOT a big deal, but a bigger deal than if I didn't have to think about it at all.

So, I just wanted to throw this out there for thought and discussion, and we've gotten good feedback on both sides of the debate.

Are you guys speaking in Portuguese? I hear that's a tough language to understand.

Hmmm I used the Google 'n everything.

Still have no idea what he's talking about...

LOL'd my AO

Okay Agge, that's what I figured I'd end up having to do (a rotating bind).

Thanks for the spoon-feed (I really DID look through that thread and used Search and everything - I swear!)

One question tho, re: loading the bindfile, do I have to do that every time I log on with my flyer?

Thanks F_W - it looks like you're saying it IS possible to have all three on one key, using the toggleon/toggleoff command.

Okay I'll keep digging using that as a Search clue.

So I understand that this is turning on/off Sprint, but that doesn't cut you out of Fly/Hover does it?

This makes it seem like it does.

I know I can make two rotating binds that do this, but is there an easier way? The Guides just left me scratchin' mah heed.

This may be a better solution than what I tried - for my only melee character, a Shield/Mace tanker, I bound my normal attack buttons with follow$$(tray 1 2 or whatever) so every attack would automatically Follow first, then attack.

But I find it messes with the camera too much, as the camera swings behind your char everytime you hit Follow.

So I may be trying to look around and keep an eye on other team members or threats, but keep snapping back to default camera with every attack.