Scarlet Shocker

Happy Birthday!

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You have too much time on your hands to start a thread about this, spend it better by typing
the full name to things, drop the acronyms and take 2 steps back.

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Well if I have too much time available to start a thread and you comment on it, what does that say about your availability?

Given that the mods are still listed as being Palladium, Ghost Raptor and Moon Witch I wouldn't get your hopes up. I suspect whoever this mysterious person is, they are here more to deal with updates etc and not for moderation. Let's face it, nobody at Paragon Studios actually gives a flying fig about the community this side of the pond!

City: Heroes And Villains

I cna lift heavy things

Yeah it's kinda unclear.

But then given that this post seems to be largely aimed at stirring the pot pointlessly I'd suggest it gets locked ASAP

Nuff said. Post your suggestions below!!!

CoX just doesn't work and is way too open to abuse and double entendres. Let's see if we can't come up with something halfway sensible!

Seriously, I'm sure some people have been put off by the acronym before now so let's do the game a favour!

The title to this thread is just so wrong!

Soft and vanilla. Like ice cream, only not!

To the OP:

I seriously cannot see you having any problem with your account or characters as a result of the game you've played so far.

Posi announced what they might do - but they are all to aware that this is an emotive subject and they aren't going to smack the (for want of a better phrase) "casual farmer." That would hurt their revenue stream far more than just about anything else they could do.

Their target will be the professional farmer, somebody who goes out of their way to create farming missions that exploit the game. That means several toons on a single account gotten to 50 and maybe 2 or 3 published missions that are blatant farms.

There is no way that the MA will be pulled - and in fact I suspect many other MMOs are looking at this quite closely to see what Paragon Studios actually do - but the MA is actually a flagship in NC Soft's portfolio. If they pull it they'd look like the biggest bunch of [censored] in the industry - but almost certainly ongoing tweaks will happen.

Personally I'd say just relax, play your own game and enjoy it for what it is.

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In fairness, Scarlet, I was aiming to help with the requirements as laid out in the first post - "I'm not into melee". I've nothing against Blappers — I need Vengeance targets as much as the next guy ;P

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Fair point. I wasn't being critical of you, just wanted to add the other option. Sorry if you felt I was.

This should be in Player Questions though

I'd go with blaster

One thing that JamieB didn't mention is that you can have an awful lot of fun with a "blapper" - as it sounds a cross between blaster and scrapper. You can roll a blaster with a mix of range and melee, or for extreme play you can go all melee on most builds (with the option of 2 builds per character we now have, you can take your pick.)

If you fancy a blaster with a lot of control (albeit for slightly less damage) electric gives you a lot - some great holds and also the wonders of End drain that can render you virtually invulnerable in PVE (but sadly not so much in PVP.)

Ok if you logged into his machine, in his game folder there's probably a folder named with your global account. I reckon if you copy across to your machine, you'd sort that out.

I think the problem with the question is that until the Devs actually define what an "exploit" is, it's futile to discuss.

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Why the - something - can't they hire some proper PR folks that actually KNOW what they're doing.

I still think this game should be as huuge as EVE, Lotro and some other games out there, even if it's getting rather obviously old. At times I can't stand the game I love because how they handle it.


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This!!!!

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I'm in with the "I love it" camp I'm afraid.

And for all you lovely people who say "they can't do this". Actually, it's their game, and they can do what they hell they like.

I'm glad to see Posi finally growing a set and coming down on what has been the blight of this game for far too long. Sure there'll be a fair few farmers who quit because of it, and good riddance. I'd imagine that there'll also be people who are prepared to play the game how it was intended to be played, absolutely delighted and coming right on back. Me being one of them.

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I've got to say I'm very saddened (but not terribly surpised) by the vituperative comments made by the pro-farming lobby, but I'd reiterate what many have said; that the EULA is there for a reason and the Devs may take whatever measures they seem appropriate to address a given issue.

For those who are concerned my best guess is this: The Devs will not wield their banhammer without caution - the casual player won't likely notice a thing, and if you got a 50 in an evening, well done. But if you find another exploit and do it again, beware.

The Devs know that heavy handed behaviour will hurt the bank balance - but farming will hurt it much more so. It's no secret that I'm not a fan of Positron, but in this I think he's very right - and they are taking pro-active action. More importantly, we have been warned. We now know the collective score.

Nuff said.

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however its not really a fix is it all there doing is pushing farming back underground again farming wont stop it just wont happen in mission architect.


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Which is how it was. As you say, some people will always try and exploit the system - but now it won't be the entire population of Atlas in one massive PLing farm.

It goes a long way to restoring the balance.

This makes me very happy.

Really enjoying this thread. For some reason I've managed to fail to dip into it for an age but there's some beautiful work here. Colour me impressed

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in holland, there is nothing jolly about this day, this day is a day to remember the soldiers and all other fallen in WW2.
SW day is a bit useless compare to something so important.

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Very true

Happy birthday

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Why play through the pretty boring early level stuff?

The arcs that send you through umpteen loading screens, just to talk to some guy the opposite end of the city?

It's not like you could even use the learning to play excuse any way, as post SO's most power set combos play quite differently than when on DOs and TOs

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I don't agree with either point to be honest. I think some of the early arcs have some great (and often underused) stories, Dr Vazhilok & the Hollows for example.

As for the 2nd point it's quite strange. I've never experienced this nor heard anyone else complain about it.

Certainly a lot of toons play better once you've slotted Stamina because end use isn't so critical but that's not the point you're making.

Well the true test from Paragon Studio's PoV is does the MA bring in more revenue?

On the current basis it would appear that is so. Certainly there's a lot more activity on the servers currently, so more people are trying it and a significant proportion seem to be new players to the game.

That can't be bad.

But what will be bad is if they come into the game, get to level 50 in the MA and then leave having decided that the "real" content is too slow and grindy. That's the real danger.

Can this new influx of bodies be persuaded to stick around? That's the acid test of the MA and the whole new direction that Paragon Studios are taking their game.

Yes it's that time again!

Have a good one

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