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Quote:*grins* The fact that you're asking this implies you didn't read their location or signature fields.Originally Posted by Feycat
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Quote:So you do PvP?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
It helps enhance the evil of the Villains, just like First Ward helps enhance the evil of the loyalists - so it makes defeating the bad guys even more fun
After all it's hardly going to enhance, or affect at all, NPC villains. Just the PCs.
The NPCs could be having roasted toddler for breakfast every morning before heading out to kick puppies on their way to work for all you know and the Mercy Island revamp won't change that in the slightest. -
Quote:This.Originally Posted by Sailboat
Even on a speed run, you can drop what I call a "safety mine" at your own feet before you start attacking. Anything that peels off and heads for you gets a nasty surprise, and even if it lives, the knockback may buy you time to react. Aggro management tends to get sloppier on speed runs and you may see more guys slip past the Tankers and Controllers than you are used to.
Last night i was on a BAF run and we were at the point where it's time to take down both Siege and Nightstar. The team i was on was tasked with intercepting the robotic reinforcements.
So i've got the Acid Mortars going *phoont* onto the robot hordes as i alternate Tentacles and Shadow Fall. Of course i'm tossing caltrops under myself and setting up Trip Mines whenever they are ready.
i hear that stealthing noise the Vickies make and see one wading through the caltrops towards my freshly Incarnated little 50(+0) Defendery goblin.
Just as she gets close one of the mines goes off *BOOM* and i see the Vicky go tumbling past and collapse somewhere behind me.
She gets back up and starts through the caltrops from behind...
*BABOOMBOOM* An inanimate Vicky goes flying past me again to land with the rest of her scrapped squad as two or three mines detonate under her.
i spent several minutes laughing after that.
Time Bomb, OTOH, i do not use. While i will set up trap fields to occasionally lure enemies onto my playstyle is usually too mobile and aggressive to make effective use of Time Bomb. Or at least i haven't found one yet. -
Quote:On the plus side, if they make a point of only spending half or less the points they're getting while subscribed they should be able to continue using IOs as normal for months even if they do have to stop spending money on the game.Originally Posted by AquaJAWS
I don't think anyone on these forums falls into the can't afford the $2/month category simply because they are currently paying $15.
I think people are just expressing concern for the future where players may bounce between subscribed and/or paying for the license and going FTP due to circumstances that may be similar to what Claws was describing, and suggesting ways for them 'make do' that is seems more fair than just saying that they either have to delete that character to make a new one in some of their few slots (remember even Premium players will have a more limited number of slots), throw away IOs they may have worked hard for in game, or struggle to play a character that is missing vital enhancements, or wait until they can afford the $2. Some of us would rather those people still be able to play somewhat effectively and have fun in the game than be hindered by their lack of money.
Those who come back expecting access to everything they used to have pay to use and now expect to get it all for free will possibly be disappointed, but access to most of it will still be very cheap. Far cheaper than it was before Freedom launched. -
Quote:Solo the vast majority of your XP would be from mission completions. Doable, but agonizingly slow. Close enough to impossible to solo for me. It's certainly a character i wouldn't be inclined to play since i generally like to solo a good part of the time.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I was actually thinking mind/kin as well. The trick is to make sure it its slotted well for ally assistance but doesn't have credible damage. Technically, powerful confuses mean the build isn't *completely ineffective* outside of teaming, but without damage it also can't really solo, because it would have a heck of a time earning any XP.
I wouldn't solo it, but it would definitely contribute strongly to teams, while basically dealing zero damage (so long as you stay away from Mesmerize). -
Quote:Exactly.Originally Posted by gameboy1234
Which would be extra work for the devs, to benefit customers who by definition aren't going to pay.
Whereas now you're completely screwed over if you can't pay because you can't play at all.
I'm still having trouble seeing how folks feel getting to play for FREE is screwing someone over. If your top toon(s) have all of their builds filled with pricey IOs that you don't want to rip out and replace with SOs, play some other character that still has an extra build to spare.
Sheesh, this isn't hard, unless you're trying really hard to make it hard. You can also buy some of the Premium IOs that don't require a license. Or pay the measly two bucks a month for the IO license. I spent more than two bucks on a friggin' single serving of frozen yogurt just today. Jeebos Christos on a stick folks. I'd be a lot more sympathetic to your arguments if you could come up with something besides "playing for free is screwing me over."
Maybe it's because i live in what's considered a First World environment, but i spend more than $2 *a day* on beverages. Those who whinge about having to spend $2 *a month* to have access to IOs while playing CoX without spending anything more to play the game completely exasperate me. Especially since they're paying approximately 7.5 times that a month to play the game right now.
Anyway, $2 a month works out to under 7 cents a day. If you can't find a way to get an additional 7 cents a day in your budget then playing any computer games at all should probably be one of your lowest priorities. -
Nice! i like number 83; it just seems auspicious to me.
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Quote:Actually i think it sounds so right. It has more pizzazz to it than FPARN.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
For some reason FPAZing sounds...wrong.
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Quote:Are you reading this thread or some other thread? You can drop to Premium and spend the equivalent of $2 a month to have access to IOs and still play almost all of the game's content. You don't even have to pay the $2 a month if you have enough vet badges. How in any vaguely sane world is that being screwed?Originally Posted by Doctor_Bob
the premium player....is basically screwed. you get to keep those crappy vet rewards...woo hoo!, but pretty much after that you get squat!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Giant2005
I'd be more annoyed when a whole team does it.
At least when it is only 1 person you still have seven others helping with the crates. That poor Lam team got no help by the looks of it...There's a reason no one was 'helping'. (It's the bolded part.)Quote:Originally Posted by Leese
...MOLambda team on Defiant I was on was doing the Antacid badge and we finished the sabotage phase with two minutes to spare...
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Quote:As noted earlier in the thread level shift doesn't have any affect against GMs. The Alpha slot's other bonuses to the character still work, of course, but the level shift itself doesn't do anything when fighting a GM.Originally Posted by Warlocc2
My necro/dark MM took down Scrapyard solo, and I don't think I even needed any temp powers. I do believe he was fully Alpha'd out (though he had none of the other Incarnate powers at the time), so he had a level shift, anyway.
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Quote:The Lore pet window has the same basic controls as Mastermind pets.Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Actually, pretty sure you can control the Lore pets as henchmen, Kitsune Knight.
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Quote:It's still in the original Sharkhead location as well as the D. As i recall before the various expansions were tacked on the areas where they are now was just generic warehouse walls.Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Wasn't Monkey Fight Club originally somewhere else? Seems to me it was tucked away somewhere in the Rogue Isles and got moved to Pocket D because blueside-only players (back in the day when that could happen) wanted access to it.
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Quote:True, but i can use all of my Secondary attacks.Originally Posted by Icy_J
Perfectly acceptable. You just can't use any of your Primary attacks.
Hmmm, i wonder if Shouty McYellsalot is taken? -
Quote:i'm thinking of doing the Determinator thing, but i'm going to cheat by using a Defender.Originally Posted by Icy_J
You know, I honestly forgot about running the Faultline arcs. Now THAT is a challenge that'll take some determination!
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
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Quote:Best estimate is that less than 10% of the game's population reads the forums. And that's less than 10% reads them ever, not less than 10% reads them every day. i'd say that they mostly either didn't care or pay attention to what you called yourself. People are like that.Originally Posted by Icy_J
DAY 4 WRAP UP
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"Level 14 Determinator lft, blueside"
Now, I figured that enough people have seen this thread to know what that means, or that nobody really cared, but I got some tells of interest, people asking what I meant, and a lot of positive replies. It made me giddy.
Nice to see that the spirit of the MAN build continues. -
Quote:i like the sequel 'Liquider' more anyway.Originally Posted by Comrade Hero
I keep thinking of a quote from the Kurt Russell masterpiece 'Solider.' Truncated to fit the circumstances:
"What good is this man? All he can do is walk point, and take the first hit!" -
Quote:You first. i'd expect this is the last post you'll ever make, but then i do have to wonder at the depth of your hatred for the world that you've obviously been using and tacitly aiding something you consider so malevolent for decades.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Why would I want to reintroduce modern civilization. Civilization is the most destructive thing ever invented by the human race. The world would be better off without it.
Anyway, infrastructure and civilization are not synonymous. Civilization can both facilitate and mitigate damage to the environment around a population depending on the principles on which it's based. i think that anyone who considers runaway resource consumption and depletion to be solely the result of civilizations should go enjoy one of those ecology crashes caused by wholly natural animal populations or geological events. -
Quote:That's the problem with attempting to apply coordinates from a fictional world with obviously different geology to the real world. Seriously, the coastline and other locations shown for the Rhode Island of Paragon City's Earth do not conform to the Rhode Island of our universe, so attempting to apply coordinates for that universe to ours is non sequitur at best.Originally Posted by Lachlin
...and why do the Vanguard care?
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Quote:i ROFLed and now i need a shower.Originally Posted by Basilisk
So, I'm playing around with my tank last night, when I see red text coming up mentioning the GM spawns in Atlas. Huge crowds are there, everyone's having a good time, and we're all popping War Walkers like they're full of candy. Then I see *gasp* a misused apostrophe in one of Zwill's posts! Well, in the spirit of the evening, I decide to take a poke at him.
It passes and I don't see any acknowledgement of it, so I figure it's just been lost in the broadcast spam. I continue playing, eventually joining a team with a few of my friends. I'm just about to log off for the night, when one of them pipes up with, "How did you get that title?"
Now, I don't play with my personal player name up, so I hadn't the first clue what she was talking about. I pull it up to see this:
So, of course, I tell the story and everyone breaks out laughing.
Good one, Zwill. You got me.
(Technically i needed a shower long before reading this. Wearing tyvek coveralls for four hours while painting sculptures does that.) -
i have to concede that i have an unfair advantage when it comes to downtime: i always have far more things i could be doing than i have time. And that's just the stuff i enjoy doing, never mind things that need to be done at some point whether or not i want to do them. Usually i can juggle it so that i effectively have two or more things going on at once, but there's always more options.
So it's possible i might have difficulty fully empathizing with people who have nothing fun they can do if servers go down. i sorry.
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Quote:*snerk* If that's what you consider a wall of text...Originally Posted by _Velociteh_
Cool wall of text.
For some people anything more than a single brick is an impenetrable wall.
But we still treasure them anyway and pat them on the head and praise them when they make wee-wee in the toilet instead of on the sofa. -
Quote:Two reasons:Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Frankly, with your attitude, why should you get any explanation or otherwise?
1) Entitlement. Perspective is just a drawing and pictures thing that has nothing to do with anything else in life.
2) Located in New Jersey. Being in/from New Jersey means you are the the pinnacle of humanity and human potential. The various shows set in that state in the past decade alone should have made this obvious already. (i was born there, so i know from experience.) -
Quote:They are?!Originally Posted by midgard2
Just like last week, basically half the day wasted and the devs don't have enough common courtesy to let us really know what is going on. Instead they are giving away ridiculous costume pieces on the Beta server.
Dammit, what am i doing here?!
Incidentally, regarding the thread title, has anyone posted the obligatory "pining for the fjords" yet? -
Quote:That pretty much covers it. Very nicely put.Originally Posted by Organica
Being a rogue just means you can team blueside when you want, and start radio missions and TFs. Otherwise, you're still a villain, so you have all your redside contacts and access to a Villain Group base if you're in a VG, and (most importantly) the Ouroboros portal will take you to the villain version of Ouro, which means you can only exit to one of the redside zones (a bad thing if you're running a TF, heh. It won't kick you from the TF but if you're the leader you can accidentally spawn the next mission redside).
What you don't have are any contacts heroside, or access to a hero SG base, or access to the hero version of Ouroboros. That's only for Heroes and Vigilantes (who are still heroes).
If you want to stay heroside, gather up tips and run tip missions there. Your only option on these tip missions will be the hero option, and actually a lot of the missions are tailored for rogues turning hero specifically. A rogue can turn hero by running tips heroside, or turn villain again by running tips villainside, just like a vigilante can turn villain by running tips villainside (where their only option is the villain one) or turn hero again by running hero tips heroside.
The big wheel of life is Villain --> Rogue --> Hero --> Vigilante --> Villain again.
The big advantage for rogues and vigilantes is being able to team anywhere. This is balanced by some of the things only true heroes and true villains can do, such as earn and use alignment merits.
