RogerWilco

I know a lot about programming and a little about game programming and I know that making good AI is one of the hardest things to do. One of the main problems is that the server has to run all AI, which might be thousands of mobs or more. Anything that makes the AI smarter thus has to be very efficient in CPU cycles, or it easily becomes something that slows down the server.

Everyone can come up with smart AI. The problem is coming up with smart AI that's also very CPU efficient. I know that in a game I once worked on (a decade ago), that the server spent most of it's time handling the mobs. It's usually very optimized code, and thus often hard to understand and change.

Yeah. And it's really hard to figure out what is and isn't in a costume bundle. The Paragon wiki usually only has pre-Issue21 information, referring to Super Boosters and such. (I assume it's pre-Freedom, I've only started playing in December).

It seems they are trying to make the store confusing on purpose, so you buy the same things multiple times and spend more points and thus Dollars/Euros. It's the only sane explanation I have for the way things are set up.

The store does know what's in a costume set. It shows you a list after you bought it.

Sorry that I keep asking questions, but with the double XP weekend I'm now quickly approaching on level 35 with my first toon (The SJ/Regen brute) so this discussion has a lot of interest to me.

Can you explain why Darkest Night makes Soul Mastery good for survivability, compared to Energy Mastery? The latter seemed a lot more survivability focussed.

I have to agree. I'm a new player, and having more than 2-3 players in a supergroup rapidly decreases how useful it is.

I'm only level 32 and have a SG with 2 friends. We find the storage racks the most useful thing of a SG base, but only if each player can have several racks.

The Teleporters are occasionally useful. In another MMO I've played, items of the same type would stack in the "Guild Bank" up to a certain point. Something like that would be useful here as well. (also as global mail attachments).

Thanks for the reply. Something else that's unclear to me: Can you pick powers from both an Ancillairy Power and a Patron Power, or are they exclusive? I've read on the Paragon wiki that you can choose only one Ancillairy Powerset, but I can't find if that rules extends to Patron Powers as well. I'm playing Rogue, so I have access to both once I reach 35, right? I need to do one of the Patron unlock missions to gain access to the Patron Powersets I think.

I'm playing SJ/Regen.

What makes Gloom so good?

Agreed. I for example had no clue what was going on, until I just happened to read this thread...

I'm not an entirely new player, but have mainly played Villains.

Any advice on what would be good options from Power Pool, Ancillary Powers and Patron Powers would be to give more AoE options?

I really like the animations on Street justice, they fit well with my Rogue's background story. It's now my highest level toon!

I'm a new player, what's so great about them? I understand they allow for six destinations instead of two. but even with the current telepads, you only need 4 or so to go everywhere you'd need. Mercy Island, Port Oakes, Cap au Diable, Sharkhead, Nerva, St. Martial, Grandville.

Or am I missing something?

I agree. Even the 800 pound gorilla is struggling with game updates as these things get harder the more existing content there is.

I have only been in this game since Christmas. They are new to me. I've searched the Paragon Wiki, this Forum and the Vidiotmaps site before making my post. None mention it in any way. I've taken the liberty of making a page for it on the Paragon Wiki, if there ever is another hapless soul like me who can't figure it out.

My gripe about the Valentine event was more about what I needed to do to get to the point where I could get my first Tip mission.

1) I was level 12 Resistance when the event started. I did the missions from Gaynemede, the second one with help from a friend on a Villain.

2) Then I was stuck until I found a thread on this forum mentioning that I also needed to help a Villain complete their mission to progress. After that I could do the Snaptooth mission.

3) I didn't get any Tips and figured out from the Paragon Wiki that I needed to be level 20. So I levelled to 20. Still no Tips. Talk to DJ Zero. Just the Snaptooth mission. Talk to Scratch, no longer Gaynemede, he gives me a new mission to talk to DJ Zero, which still only has the Snaptooth mission.

4) Then I get a hint from another player that I need to speak with DJ Zero in person, not use the call button in Contacts. This works and makes me "Attuned". I now receive messages that I'm getting Tips but they don't show in the interface.

5) After more digging, I get to hear Praetorians don't have a Tip window tab. I need to finish Praetoria and choose Hero or Villain to see the Tips I've been receiving.

6) So I take a day to make up my mind what I want to do and then go Villain like my friend and my other characters. All of a sudden I now have this tip window full of Valentine and Alignment Tips. I then try to do my first tip and I get the choice to deliver to two Praetorians (according to Paragon Wiki): Siege or Anti-Matter. At first I am lost, because from the wiki and the mission text I understood that you can't actually go to Praetoria after you leave it.

7) Then someone points out that this is not true and you can go though Pocket D. I spend the next hour searching for Siege until I made this post. I even tried what the mission said, to board the transit. The only transit I know is the Cole Transit Authority. Apparently there's one in Paragon City as well, but my character is a Villain now. I have one low level Hero but he's only been to Atlas and Perez Park, I understand it's the monorail thing from the wiki.

8) I get a nice quick answer from Justaris and can finally complete my first Valentine Tip mission.

Without Paragon Wiki, these forums and a lot of help from more experienced players in game channels, I would probably not have figured this out. There are too many things where the game itself doesn't give you any clues.

Do you mean that OSX has specific support for the different models of MS mice, or that it defaults to the generic mouse, like it did with my Logitech?

Can you use any extra buttons on the mouse, can you set the sensitivity and acceleration separately from the standard Magic Mouse?

A gaming mouse has a much higher resolution than the standard Magic Mouse from apple, or generic office mice. I found that at least for my Logitech mouse, it didn't work well with the default OSX control options.

If what you're using is just a generic 3 button/scroll wheel office mouse, then it will work.

If it was that simple, it would have been fixed ten minutes after Zwillinger talked to the guys. Usually the complications aren't on the technical side, but on the organisational side. Probably after someone messed up the website years ago, every minute change now has to go though a lot of read tape to be approved or something like that. I've seen things like that happen, especially in big companies.
I can come up with a dozen plausible stories.

I'm not saying that I don't think it's sloppy. Any update should automatically update both, or preferably not even have separate content.

I will LMAO if my prediction comes true.

I you really live in Seattle, why not go and ask?

Oh. Thank you very much.

I've been trying to find this guy for over an hour.

It finally worked when I boarded a Ferry. Going from one area to another in Praetoria, or using the Cole Transit Authority there, or using the teleport at my SG's base, or going to Pocket D didn't give me anything.
Only when using the Ferry did I get an extra option.

Thanks. Someone in Union Chat also just pointed that out to me.

This is totally not obvious. For example the Paragon Wiki has an explicit Editors Note with the following warning:
And the mission itself says:

Thanks for the lengthy reply. It's exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for.

I wasn't not planning to use the stories of the missions directly as background for my character. My problem was more with not being able to return to Praetoria. It's so much nicer than Mercy Island or any of the other Rogue Islands and even most of Paragon City. (at least what I've seen so far).

And I find that it if you would follow the in game story it makes no sense. I can make up my own like Nitro did, where it does make sense never to go back to Praetoria, but not with the standard story.

Oh, and I didn't want to have anything to do with any of the Praetor's girlfriends. Cleopatra, Bobcat, my character didn't want anything to do with them. (there might have been more, those are the two I found).

I was already doing the First Ward missions.

My problem is that I could not do the Valentine Event stuff, because as a Praetorian you don't have Tips. I get the message that I received one, but it's not in the user interface.

Because of the Valentine stuff I felt pressured into making a choice, while I wasn't really done with Praetoria. That more than anything was what ticked me off.