Schismatrix
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Dark Servant has never accepted damage enhancements, and when IO sets were added all pet sets were disallowed because it is designed to be a support pet that primarily provides debuffs, healing, and control. Pet sets are designed around enhancing damage. Regardless of your opinion of that decision it is not a bug and it was never "supposed to" take those sets.
Basically you're complaining that it's unfair that DS restricts bad slotting decisions for a particular bad decision you want to make in pursuit of a specific IO bonus.
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Running around the Perez Park swamp fighting Hydras was fun. Especially with multiple teams hunting them down almost faster than they could respawn. The best part was when the Devs froze over most of the water in Paragon City and fighting Hydras on ice. Especially since my main at that point was a FF/Rad and playing Hydra hockey with Force Bolt was hilarious.
The early Hollows wasn't bad except that for a while it's all anyone did, so it was harder to get people for some of the fun badge missions in the lower levels. Well, that and the wonky spawning of mobs in the Hollows that would sometimes have 10-12 purple mobs suddenly appearing around me without warning. The most memorable was when my WS paused to rest on a rooftop while flying around nuking groups from orbit in Nova form and having a large group of Outcasts materialize next to him about ten seconds into starting Rest. That was a quick trip back to AP.
The addition of the Jet Packs made the Hollows a lot easier, but it's the revamp that fixed the general progression and timing of spawns that really made it easier in my opinion.
Still... Hydra hockey. i wish the Devs would freeze over Perez Park again just for that. It was great fun when you had multiple people with KB powers because you could actually play hockey with them. Of course you had to occasionally replace the puck. -
Quote:The whole problem with your premise is that it never worked like that.Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence
It seems the rewards are still linked to how much damage you do. I thought they removed that after all the complaints in Beta. They were trying to prevent leeching. From what I've seen the players monitor that fairly well by themselves.
I was wondering my my Corruptor with /Pain was getting only commons/uncommons while all my other incarnates regularly got rares/very rares. After 30-40 trials (I got to Tier 3 in all 4 using nothing but Commons/Uncommons and 1 rare I got from a UGT where it had to give me something good) I decided to test it.
I did a BAF and ignored all my teammates and just let them die. Just spammed attacks, no active buffs or heals (just toggles). What happens? A Rare.
It's hard enough getting people to work together on trials. Setting it up so that they may benefit from NOT working together is bad design.
Can anyone else verify it still works like this? Am I going to regret pointing this out to people? lol
Still, do it another dozen times or so and then compare results.
As long as you have no issues with being a selfish jerk that is.
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Quote:i'm still holding out hope for cyborgs being able to wear the metallic top, but this is still great news. Dink is the awesome!Originally Posted by Dink
Metallic top has been added to Shirts, Robes (Sleeveless also), Jackets (Sleeveless also), Trench Coat, Magic Bolero and Unique Tops and will be out soon
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Quote:Maybe CoH could license Dr. Dinosaur from Atomic Robo as the "mastermind" behind it all.Originally Posted by KnightofKhonsu
Well, I believe the best zone for the dinosaurs to appear in is Eden. That place is perfect. Then Devouring Earth can battle for supremacy with the Dinos for control.
I would love to see them begin the rebuilding process on Boomtown and complete it in Faultline. Enough time has passed that these should be the case. Boomtown's potential is great and there is all kind of possibilities for new storyline mission arcs there. That is what I hope to see in the next few years. -
Quote:Well, i think you're overlooking one tiny detail: The Development staff is not made of genetically engineered Omniversal Game Developers who can switch roles with a moment's thought.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
I expect this is probably the reason. I'm not sure quite why it's the reason, because it seems like all that balancing and power development would be harder than writing TFs and story arcs and even raids, but I do suspect it is.
That guy or gal writing the storyline for a new arc? They almost certainly do not know how to develop and balance powers or write the code to make them.
That gal or guy developing the new powerset? Most likely they are also not a professional quality writer or programmer.
That programmer currently fixing a bug? i think you know where this is going...
For example, there are some comic artists who also write the story. Some are quite good, but most are like Rob Liefeld. Regardless of whether you love or loathe the rather unique style of surrealist anatomy, random light sourcing and semi-abstract geometric backgrounds he tends to employ in his art his writing is incompetent at best. An eight year old with severe ADHD playing with action figures tends to have a more coherent story with better characterization and dialogue.
That's pretty much how a development studio is: the vast majority of the team are only especially good at a certain type of work. Also, i suspect most studios' writers tend to be overtaxed in terms of material needed. They're expected to write original, engaging stories that are consistent with years of the setting's canon writing. -
Quote:Oh i know that, i was making fun of his stating the painfully obvious, not disagreeing.Originally Posted by Rabid_M
While oddly worded, Rodion's actually telling you the truth. Our eyes are close enough together that it's not long before the distance between them isn't enough to create a 3-D effect. Our brains rely on other things to help construct our "map" of things in a 3 dimensional setting.
When I watched Avatar, I felt like my eyes had been shifted a yard apart. Things were in 3-D well past the point where they should have been, which made the movie very painful to watch by the end.
Past a fairly short range most 3D perception utilizes parallax, subconscious assumptions about scale, and to a certain degree lens focus. Actually it's the disconnect between lens focus and stereoscopic range finding that causes the most annoyance for me with many 3D movies. My eyes try to adjust focal length to match the stereoscopic cues and the two conflict. It usually takes a little while to adjust to the disconnect and then it makes most 3D actually feel faker than standard 2D film since the conflicting inputs are a constant reminder. -
Quote:That and the 2D showings are usually afternoon matinees, which are traditionally lower priced.Originally Posted by Black Pebble
It's usually the theater management that determines how often a film plays in what format. Considering the markup on 3D films, I would guess that technical or logistical conflicts would be the more likely cause for not showing the film in 3D.
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Quote:How exciting. Ooh, tell me about how we don't actually smell objects, but only sense the aromatic molecules released by the object, which may be very different from the molecules that actually make up most of it.Originally Posted by Rodion
Nobody actually sees in 3D. We all see with two 2D "cameras" spaced a few inches apart. The brain then integrates those two images into a facsimile of 3D that quickly becomes a 2D image the further the object of interest is from the beholder. Only objects in the near field of vision are "real" 3D in normal human vision. Beyond a certain distance the images the left and right eyes see are effectively identical.
Then perhaps we could digress into a discussion of the commonalities and differences between taste and smell.
All a-quiver with anticipation here. -
Quote:How can that be? Demetrios died fairly early in the First Ward storyline IIRC, so any appearance in Paragon City or Etoile Islands or Pocket D, especially post level 30,would be totally non-canon, no?Originally Posted by tanstaafl
/getglobalname Demetrios Vasilikos
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Quote:i have a Dark/Archery Defender and i have to admit that being able to launch Tar Patch, Rain of Arrows, and Dark Servant from around a corner always makes me smile. Great for softening up groups with virtually no risk. Then step around the corner and finish off the weakened foes face to face.Originally Posted by Bionut911
I'm liking the sound of the Dark/Archery defender. I'm a huge fan of that tar patch, and with the arrows it would stack nicely.
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Quote:Just a minor point: The Pet Damage sets came out when the Invention System was first introduced and the Recharge Intensive Pet sets came out some time after. Pets being made immune to recharge altering effects happened well after all that. So the Pet Damage sets having zero recharge bears nothing out considering that the change to pets was made quite some time after they were introduced.Originally Posted by Master Zaprobo
Absolutely - well aware of that but I had it in my head somewhere that it was changed so that there was NO benefit in Recharge at all. I'd test it but I'm at work right now
The fact that the Pet Damage sets have zero Recharge (and there's separate Recharge Intensive Pet sets) seems to bear this out.
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The MM ATO set's not terrible, but it's not nearly as appealing as most of the other ATO sets. -
Quote:First, there are many people with multiple game accounts, and they've been around since launch, so there's no reason for the store to deny you the purchase just because you have an already existing account.Originally Posted by Dr Abyss
Great, so now I've got a useless paid-for account. Why they can't simply apply the status to the account is beyond me. It's not as if there's something physically stopping them. They simply use up the serial code and apply VIP to an account, it's not rocket science.
This, in my mind at least, is tantamount to theft since if you click on the "Buy Now" it doesn't give you the info that "it cannot be applied" it just takes you straight to the sales screen. And besides which, the serial code is displayed whenever I try to apply a serial code to the existing account.
Still, nice to see their customer support is so supportive of PAYING customers. I guess the P in VIP stands for Payment instead. As long as they get paid, who cares about the customer, right?
Second, it says in bold that it can only be applied to new accounts. An account that already exists cannot be new in any meaningful way.
Third, yes VIP accounts are paid accounts. If you're not paying a subscription with either time cards or direct payment you cannot be a VIP. That is the requirement to be a VIP. All other accounts are either Free or Premium.
Fourth, "Why they can't simply apply the status to the account is beyond me. It's not as if there's something physically stopping them. They simply use up the serial code and apply VIP to an account, it's not rocket science." Standard Code Rant. i suppose that technically you're correct, since computer code isn't actually physical, but otherwise your assertion fails. -
Quote:Uh... Yeah, i guess you have to pay in points or tokens to win whatever's in a Super Pack since that's the only way to get them, but otherwise your statement is... uh, well actually it's kind of dumb. At least in reference to the Super Packs. Everything except the pet and costume pieces can be acquired through other means.Originally Posted by Deathless
Welcome to Freedom where you gotta pay to win.
The Elemental Order pieces are rather nice looking, but hardly required to win anything. i've won costume contests using nothing but pieces available since Issue 6.
i'll be spending a few reward tokens on these packs just to see what i get, so i guess there's that. -
Quote:...Originally Posted by Healix
OH MY!!!!! Dink, you are the BEST!!!! I wanted those SO bad!!!! /em praiseandkissfeet
Uh, what everyone else already said.
It's less embarrassing than describing my actual reaction that way.
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Eh, here's one of my overly-long-by-the-OP's-rather-dim-and-puerile-standards bios. In this case a DM/Elec Brute named Thunder Locust.
Quote:It's not a character i play very much anymore, but the bio does pretty much adhere to canon.Jeri Hallaway was a linguist/semantician involved in the early efforts to reverse engineer Rikti Technology. A way to interface Human and Rikti control systems was needed, and the team Hallaway was a part of came up with the idea of using neural mapping to create a learning system interface to translate between the two technologies. Hallaway's work in studying Rikti semantic structures made her mind an ideal candidate for mapping.
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Something went wrong and the project was quietly shut down and buried. The equipment sealed away in a secure storage facility.
3 years later Thunder Locust emerged from a Rikti autofabricator in an Arachnos lab as it was destroyed by a massive power surge.
"So swarming covers you,
oh, but you thought you knew,
the warning heeded not unfolds
beneath an acid dew.
This ticking in your brain,
hard strikes the writhing rain,
you feel a million sets of reaping 'cisors clamp and chew."
-"Locust" by Luxt
Honestly though, CoH lore, with the enormous number of alternate dimensions and alien worlds, is pretty open and flexible as long as you don't actively contradict established canon. -
Quote:Ignoring the obvious chronological issues i can see your point if you're referring to the original Cybermen, but not so much the newer version, and far less so the Daleks since their origin and goals are so different from the Borg's.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I think you mean Cybermen are Borg on a budget. So are the Daleks for that matter.
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Quote:Which is irrelevant since you've stated that they are soulless machines blindly following preprogrammed responses. So obviously the whole thing is just a joke set up by their makers. Only living things gestated in a womb are visited by the Soul Fairy and given a soul at a specific but unspecified stage of gestation, right?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
No soul=no consciousness. And inorganic things have no soul. It's a rule which GG made up. -
Quote:Only if he's also a vampire space pirate ninja monkey. That way Paragon city will have a space pirate ninja robot monkey lesbian vampire.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
That should totally be Citadel, with the double reveal that he's not gay... But is A LESBIAN ROBOT. That's right, citadel is actually a female robot too!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Shakin' bacon. -
Quote:Ah!~It's Zwiebacker! He's been lurking and watching us! Quick, everyone look busy!Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Hey guys,
Just checking in to let everyone know I'm still alive and breathing, albeit pretty slammed this week. Right now I'm working on planning for the upcoming Player Summit, getting things ready for the new Assistant Community Manager joining us (more news on that in the coming weeks
), and other stuff I'm not at liberty to talk about yet.
Yes, it's secret, and yes I'm an evil man for saying that.
I'm checking in on things and reading the forums on a daily basis, but just in case you don't see prolific amounts of posting from me over the next few weeks, now you know why.
I'll see you all on Ustream tomorrow morning! -
Quote:There's this checkbox in your account profile that you can check that (like the "Remember Me" checkbox for the forums) apparently doesn't actually do anything (most of the time), but if you check it there's a slight chance that you'll receive an email newsletter from Paragon Studios whenever one happens to be sent out.Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
There's a newsletter?
For most intents and purposes the most accurate and succinct answer to your question is, "No, no there is not." -
In the nearly eight years i've been playing i think i might've gotten one of the newsletters about six years ago. Never really worried about it since normally anything of consequence in the newsletter is also posted on the forums. Apparently this week's WTF is the exception. Maybe the Mods got locked out the announcement section?
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Also, does the "Remember Me" check box actually do anything?
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Quote:Spoken as if you have no idea how markets work, especially the consignment system CoX uses.Originally Posted by Slazenger
Maybe some people prefer to be ripped off by Ncsoft for enchancements, rather than ripped off by other players market prices?
It is nearly impossible to be ripped off in CoX unless you deliberately set up the transaction that way yourself instead of using the consignment house. Software glitches or typing errors aside it is literally impossible to be ripped off when using the consignment house. And even then a typing error is you ripping yourself off.