Schismatrix

Being malevolent? No. Trying to act malevolent and failing miserably? Oh yes.

That's a good point, but making the players take a train would help introduce them to mechanics of using the train stations, which is the whole point of the suggestion. Still, a police van would also work as a way of introducing zone select menus and transport use in CoX. Possibly also a note about how you can use your map to find trains, gates and automobiles...

Personally i was one of those who didn't think the way it was done looked all that good. Now i may not have the same amount of time here as you, but i do still play the game. (My forum registration date is not the same as when i started playing CoH. i didn't join CoH until a little bit after Issue 1 was already on the training room for testing.)

i would like to see a video of banking in flight as well. i know it's probably not as clunky and odd-looking as i remember. Now this might be wrong, but as i recall the banking animation caused issues with the player camera rotation or some such? It's been a long time, but i recall there was some issue with it that was problematic beyond just the appearance.

Which doesn't really make it that much less puzzling.

Much like many of the later and/or newer contacts do when you get into their level range. i second this.

Oh ye hothouse flowers with little exposure to what's outside the walled garden... You've been so consistent with your "i know almost nothing about the larger outside world and am doing my best to stay that way" schtick in multiple forums and threads that i'm actually starting to believe you're serious.

Viscous cycles are a bit too gooey for me.

i wasn't taking him seriously. Just pointing out that some players actually view that as the stereotype of the average CoV player. Which is just silly. i encounter more arrogant, unpleasant jerks blueside than redside. And i mean that proportionally, not just in terms of numbers.

Fixed? You went all semantic wave motion gun on that sucker.

And yet somehow my Dark/Archery Defender performs rather well both solo and on teams. Rain of Arrows is especially fun since you can launch it around corners, just like Tar Patch.

My Dark/Ice skipped Freeze Ray and took Dominate at 41. So far all my Dark Miasma users have been easy to play, but i find Dark Miasma makes almost any set it's paired with look good.

My DP/Dark Corruptor is a blast to play. The -res from Tar Patch is a big help, and i received the defense debuff set -res proc (whose name escapes me at the moment) as a lucky drop in the teens and immediately slotted it into Pistols.

There you have it. One more reason not to play redside. Mind you, i know enough to realize JJ is not in fact typical of redside players, so i play redside anyway, but JJ is the sort of person some stereotype as being the sort of person who plays redside, not realizing that just like blueside only some players are petty, juvenile, narcissistic jackholes.

(i suppose i should say the attitude JJ affects in his post. He amused me, but his post did fit the stereotype of a redside jerkhacker.)

i don't think that means what you think it means.

Are you sure one wasn't a brute or something? You can go to base and other zones as long as all members of the team are the same faction, red or blue.

Keep in mind that the fire DoT is bonus damage in addition to the normal damage for no additional endurance cost at all. Generally speaking i use Fire ammo for some extra punch against any enemies not resistant to fire, regular ammo for better solo mitigation and enemies who are weak against lethal, like Carnies. Chemical ammo against nastier enemies on teams.

i almost never use Cryo ammo, but it is sort of pretty to fire it off every now and again. Even against enemies who are weak against cold its combined effects don't seem useful enough to use it over any of the other ammo types.

Uh, which dev forum are you talking about? Am confoozled.

i wouldn't mind a "ninja run stance", but i don't think the game coding currently supports it, and i don't consider it important enough to spend a lot of time making. Maybe make a zero endurance, zero movement boost, zero movement suppression, but otherwise identical to Ninja Run "Ninja Walk" toggle.

Sounds yummy! i bet i could come up with something worthy of the name.
*runs off to get cookbooks*
Hmmm, jellied larks' tongues in aspic... i think that could be adapted to use puppies in place of larks. For the other one... Well,they were both airborne, so i think we can stick with the birds for now.

Hopefully there will be enough available of the theme ingrediants for multiple dishes a la Iron Chef. What's the yield on a Bismarck Bomb again?

This is most of my alts. At this point though it's usually more about trying out set and Archetype combinations that i haven't played before that seem like they'd be fun.

Agreed. As already noted adding 70+ employees is not equal to adding 70+ developers, developers, developers. That's a Microsoft thing.

Still, i would accept a position as developer at Paragon Studios even if it was Developer in charge of Coffee, Tea and Snacks (Dev: CTS) as long as it paid a decent wage. If nothing else it would be an amusing resume entry, and i think i've already developed some rather tasty items in those areas that would could be easily ported to Paragon Studios.

i come up with my own builds as well. Yes, i use Mids', but it does not decide which powers i will take, i do. (In fact, other than loading other people's builds into Mids', i don't know of any way to have it make a build for you.) Although i usually don't bother using Mids' to plan a build until the late 30's or so, and not even always then. i have a completely IO'ed out Dark/Ice Defender that i still haven't gotten around to reproducing in Mids' for those who occasionally ask for a Dark/Ice build or advice. (Dark/Ice seems to be a somewhat uncommon pairing for Defenders.) Of course i don't expect anyone to follow it exactly when i finally make it available, but it may spark ideas in others.

Powersets are not archetypes, they subsets of archetypes, powersets of those archetypes, even. There is no Fire/Fire Tanker archetype, only the Tanker archetype. Just a nit that i'm picking for the heck of it. i mean it's not like you see the archetype list every time you go to this section, or even the word archetype at the top of every single page in this section, right?

Does it matter whether you're acute or obtuse?

Physical location or travel is not the sole determinant of that. You could live in downtown Manhattan and have almost no contact with outside thoughts or cultures if you maintain a barrier between yourself and the larger world. Just keep the windows rolled up and your eyes averted as you're driven from one enclave of people who think and act like you do* to the next.




*While in your presence. It's altogether likely that they get up to some really freaky stuff someplace out of sight where it won't give you the vapors.