Schismatrix

What do you have against urban renewal?
Sure, it looks like conquering, pillaging and razing to the current inhabitants, but after it's finished you can get twenty times the old rates for the newly opened up properties. Mostly trading on the cachet the former residents had earned the area before being forced out, but that's just good business.

The world... wait, no it doesn't.
Oh well.

All enhancements work like this.

So Mace, Axe, Knife, Shield, Sword, Pistol, Rifle, and so on. Fair enough; after all it's not like comics ever depicts those weapons or their users as having superhuman properties.
Although i have to admit i've never known of any weapons dealers, legitimate or not, who operated their business by the airport. Must be a regional thing.

Edit: Wow, this thread has had its ups and downs, but i have to credit Wing_Leader for dragging it to a new low. The really disappointing thing is that i half believe he's serious.

When the rest of the Staff Fighting set comes out. According to what i've read that will be after Issue 22 comes out, so not the day the new issue launches but probably shortly afterwards. This may change between now and the launch of Issue 22, but it won't be released before the new issue. Also, it will not be a free set.

Nah, i cut like a razor to the wrong conclusion. No muddling about. After i realize it's the wrong conclusion i apologize to the person whose conclusion it is and then awkwardly back out of it. It's actually a lot like muddling but with more conceptual property damage.

Good list, Steelclaw, i thought you were overdue.

For example he'll now be able to puke feet and then stomp in the puke to splash all nearby characters with his feet.

[Vomit.Feet] and [Vomit.Stomp] are among the new powers. There's a roughly .5% chance he'll use [Toy Bat] instead of his other attacks. After he uses [Toy Bat] he'll be locked into an animation for ten seconds where he rolls around on the ground convulsing. (With laughter?) i think there's also a .07% chance he'll use [Kill Monsters] on a randomly selected player within 30'.

Righty right.

Moving on then... as far as people waiting patiently for a TF to form it really does vary depending on the TF and the players involved. My general rule is that if we have the minimum number required and no one else has shown interest after five minutes of waiting for replies i'll start the TF as long as everyone else is okay with it.

The only people that really annoy me on the ones who insist on waiting until they have a full team before entering regular missions. In that case i usually give them five minutes to get it together before i leave to go solo some missions instead unless i'm having an interesting conversation or doing something else to prevent boredom.

Well, CoH does have Brawl and the ranged origin power from level 1 on, and they both recharge in a little more than the time it takes to execute most attacks. They also don't do a lot of damage, but by the time that becomes a real problem you should have a variety of powers to use. Brawl doesn't even use endurance, so it can be spammed infinitely.

It sounds like rooting is mostly what makes it feel slower to you. Which makes sense in a way, but isn't something i think about since i haven't played other MMOs very much.
Amusingly enough, not that long after introducing more combat where mobility to avoid doom even at the lower levels is important they introduced a powerset with fairly long root times. Titan Weapons hit like a truck, but it can prompt a moment of nervousness when the warning animation of a location-based attack appears just as you're starting one of the ponderous initial swings. Especially on my Brute where i tend to set one of the attacks on auto during combat.
To me that is definitely one of the best aspects of this game. That and most ATs being able to fulfill multiple roles on a team with no set makeup being necessary.

Overall i've come to love how fast-paced combat is at the higher levels as well as the ability to mow through masses of enemies.

Indeed. Preach it, Brotha Butane!

That doesn't really change the fact that the point of the thread, and most of the posts in it, is not that people hate getting tells asking them to team, it's that people hate self-centered, entitled idiots who insult you and/or demand you team with them anyway when you decline for whatever reason. You seem to keep avoiding or ignoring that rather central theme of the thread in your replies and picking away at anything peripheral to it that allows you to ignore the main theme.

So far your posts have mostly been in support of the "But I don't care if you don't want to team right now, you're obligated to do it anyway because it's what I want!" camp to the extent you don't avoid addressing the primary topic. That may not be your intent, but it's certainly the result.

Edit: Now that i think about it, you're pretty much the only person in the entire thread who is even trying to defend that sort of behavior. Also, Twixt isn't stupid as such, just a jackhole with little to no regard for other people, academic integrity or the scientific method.

i'm pretty sure she was referring to the rule specific to the spelling of Arcanaville, not the more general grammatical rule. The fun thing about most grammatical rules are the exceptions to those rules and the rules that apply to the exceptions.

Y'know i thought it was obvious that CaptainMan was objecting to the arrogant assumption that he was somehow obligated to invite a random jerk to his team just because some random jerk wanted it since it was obvious to me, but if PR was really somehow contorting his understanding of the initial posts to that interpretation his responses make more sense even if his initial assumption still doesn't. His assertions in support of his misinterpretations are still way off base since they still came down to insisting that you are always obligated to invite anyone who asks to team with you regardless of what you are doing. That's just stupid.

It is a resistance and defense debuff. That's why apparently ordinary citizens are sometimes two-shotting many characters, including Tankers.

It's just ineptly handled. If the seers are that devastating when supporting ordinary angry civilians it makes no sense to not have a telepathist squad in with the heavy troops working the same mojo to make sure the invaders are annihilated in seconds flat. The whole thing with psychics debuffing defense and resistance while civilians throw rocks is a poor way of handling the story because in the end it still looks like your supposedly godlike character who normally shrugs off antitank missiles is getting pwned by some schmuck with a rock.

As in Arcanaville has three "a"s and one "e". (Also an "i", but that goes without saying.)

That's a surprisingly plausible explanation.

Well, that or the Devs intended Praetoria to be a hard mode that players would play for the sake of playing the game on hard mode without any increased rewards for doing so. But that sort of thing tends to appeal to a smaller segment of the playerbase, so that's not really all that plausible for the amount of work they put into it if it's not intended to appeal most of the playerbase.

Although i will admit it's also been quite some time since i saw anyone in any of my global channels or friends list mention Praetoria. In the last couple of months i can only recall a couple of friends who'd been gone from the game for over a year playing in Praetoria, and even then it was just a couple alts and all the rest of their new alts since then have been in Paragon or the Rogue Isles. Strange, that.

This. i've joined a number of teams with alts i wasn't planning to play that day just so they could start a solo TF and then logged onto a character i wanted to play. See, the whole thing about soloing a TF is that it means there's no need to have anyone else from the team logged in to do it. It's been that way at least six years too.

Good point. i think it's really the much rapid release of material now that's made it more annoying for some. Personally i have no problem with it, but i do sympathize with those who do. It would be another "first to do it, and do it better" for the game if CoH did become the first MMO with really good in-game documentation of market material. i think that's a matter for the people implementing the Paragon Store, so...

Not much. Normally Blasters dish out slightly less damage than Scrappers with far less safety. The fact that Blasters generally have greater range to their attacks doesn't do much at all to offset the lower survivability.

Not only do i have multiple windows set up for chat channels i also have multiple tabs in some of those windows.

Amusingly enough most groups with strong fear and general mez protection tend to have no confuse protection.

"I ain't afraid of nothin'!"
"Well your friend says you are."
"What?! I'll kill him for that! RARRRRRGH!"

Not being the sort who likes to read the announcements or go to the official site is a solution? Or are you just saying "suck it up, Buttercup" to anyone doesn't want to spend a lot of time reading the forums?

Not really true, but i like that excuse. i'll have to suggest it to some of my friends when (in)appropriate.