SeriouslyEvil

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Damn you, I was going to try to work that into one of my posts tomorrow.


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I've been trying to figure out good powersets for a Phil Ken Sebben Villain...

"HA HA! Cookies on Dowels!"

heh good to see you still going tpull, loving the entries as always.

Any plans to start a villain journal or just tack on those entries to this one?

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Grrrf.

My wife liked the costume generator... but she's not into the gameplay.

It'd be cool if she was... but...

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Same here...she has some heroes on Triumph but never got any past level 6.

But hey, we both have our seperate hobbies (CoH/CoV for me, jewelry making for her) and our together hobbies (taking care of animals and anime).

It works out quite well.

Anyone else see the pattern in the charts?

Up in Summer, down in Fall, up in Winter, down in Spring. The numbers themselves seem pretty stable if you take those rises and lows into account.

And just for Gits and Shiggles I'll say that I predict in Summer 2006 CoH/CoV numbers will be higher than this last Summer.

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Will we lose customers because of ED? The answer is yes.

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All hail Creskin, forteller of the future!

Can I have this Saturday's Florida Lottery Numbers?

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but if you think I should have to have tough and all my Inv powers

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Whatever makes you effective. Personally I'm just fine without Tough on any of my characters, including my INV/SS Tank.

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Balance is one thing, but trying to ensure the Harry the Chimp over there who picks powers and enhancements at random is just as effective as EvilGeko who takes the time and effort to think about and plan his build is not only irrational but idiotic.

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So what could have been, or could still be, done differently to find this balance you speak of?

Personally, I think that there is a good amount of challenge and spark in the game now and that "random" builders of characters will find it very hard, but not impossible, to play on heroic, while more experienced players can turn up the difficulty meter and find more of a challenge. Some things still need to be tweaked, yes, especially things like ED's impact on Hover and other power pool powers that only accept one type of enhancement, but I don't see them as so game breaking as to remove all strategy or thinking when it comes to character building and effectiveness.

It's the difference between communism, where everyone is the same by design, and a balanced economy where a man who sells his own artwork on the street and a man who designs computer programs that sell millions can both live happily and have what they need to survive.

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My snipe does 30% less damage (from 78 per to 53 per).

Umm, this is horrible

mt

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That's what happens to powers with more than 4 enhancements of the same kind (I'm assuming damage since its an attack).
Have you tried anything else in the place of the damage enhancements to offset the loss of power? Does the power have a secondary effect that you can boost, or do interrupt reducers work on it so that it can be fired easier in the heat of battle?

If your only option is to leave it as it is (or with fewer slots) run a few missions the way you normally would and report back how it is effecting you, is it crippling your character or can you work around it because you can use those slots in other powers and make them more effective?

That is the kind of feedback that the developers need from us.

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So...why just S/L damage?

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My guess would be because it's hte most prevelant type of damage in the game, and when you're dealing with +DEF, it uses whatever you have the best DEF for. So having good Smash/Lethal defense will help you even if the attack coming at you is only a little bit LETHAL and a lot FIRE.

well if he keeps raising them and Cuppa keeps locking them, eventually there will be no more to rez. So he's doing a civic duty really. :0)

oh and in before the lock. +1

DIE ZOMBIE THREAD DIE!
*shoots it in head*

I am a huge fan of you and your team's writing, the stories in this game have entertained, horrified and touched me more than I thought a simple video game would.

My questions:

Are there plans to eventually have an AV for every villain group IN GAME.

Have you ever used any ideas from outside fans (such as at conventions, or from the suggestions and ideas forum) that you've eventually implemented storywise?

on a related note, might there ever be a contest to write or help write a story arc or taskforce that will actually be put into the game? (I've got ideas I tell you!)

What's your favorite story in the game right now?

Will we be seeing more story driven events like the fifth column takeover anytime soon? Meaning events not directly linked to the release of new content per say.

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SheBoom is right. We don't have to roll over and accept the table scraps that are thrown at us as if we were dogs.

Also, there is ONE more difference SheBoom forgot...appearance...we have CoH fashion game. The costume contests are probably going to be the most exhilirating thing to do in this game. Other than that and travel, it is exactly like every other freaking MMO out there except one...and I am enjoying that one. This game SO needs a new development team it is palpable.

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You are entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to think it's stupid. If you're so unhappy that you're going to spend the one single post you get in this thread to bash the game and its developers, go play that other game and good riddance.

Name one other powerset in the game that can effectively use one single power to replace an entire secondary set.
My friend made a fire/ice after he heard about them...he's 27 now and has been on auto pilot since he picked up ice slick and burn. The game has no challenge to him, there is nothing he cannot defeat, even outlandish things like +10 enemies are possible because burn is autohit, although ice slick does require accuracy to knock them down.

Now is this the correct solution to this problem? Probably not by itself. However since we have not heard any response from the devs on 1) if the fear effect will be reduced or 2) if this is all they plan to do, it is hard to judge at this time.

A better solution might be to simply make burn no longer auto hit. If all enemies in the burn patch were not automatically dealt so much damage there would be no need for such a strong fear effect or such a long recharge time.

Perhaps:
PBAoE High Damage Burst + Moderate Damage DoT
Gives the user protection from immobilize and knockback/down
Moderate Recharge (with Hasten max recharge of 20 seconds)
Fear effect only to those effected by the DoT and only until the DoT ends.
power would accept accuracy, damage, recharge redux, end redux and dmg resist

Makes sense to me.
But then what do I know, I'm thinking of this logically and not flying off the handle like a 5 year old who's told he can't have a new toy.

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Since the devs don't seem to pay any attention to thousands of messages with negative feedback about ongoing nerfs, one can only wonder why they would ask. How they could continue nerfing everything when they get all this negative feedback, on top of the simple FACT hardly anyone uses the Arena anyway... One can only wonder. Maybe the devs have Guildwars and CoH teams mixing up feedback or something.

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just gonna ignore the times that player feedback has actually made them change their minds huh...or when player datamining has led to a re-evaluation.
Wait a minute, why am I even bothering. I could throw all the logic in the world at you people and you'd still moan and complain.

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Fortuitous clearly wasn't the word I was looking for. Beneficial is even worse. I think prudent is what I was looking for I think that while having addtional content at all levels of the game is a good thing, alienating your high level playerbase is going to be bad for business. Considering that half of my original SG quit out of boredom, more things to do at endgame is needed to keep people playing long-term. There is a very large number of heroes with nothing to do (level 50) and everyone else 1-49 with plenty to do. Any content that you can do between the level ranges of 1-49 will not be accepted as level 50 content.

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Then I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your SG mates were going to quit eventually anyway, sooner than later.

Lets imagine if Issue 3 had included a new lvl 50 Taskforce with cool reward (something like HOs are now), already the same people complaining about no content now would be here complaining about no OTHER content.

What keeps a game fresh is REPLAY value, not PLAY THE FIRST CHARACTER I MADE OVER AND OVER value. Yes post 50 content would be nice (although I still haven't finished all the 45-50 stuff yet) but I don't think it is asking too much to expect people to REPLAY the game to see the new content added now while they wait for it.

On the other hand however, I think it would be prudent for the developers to go back and tweak the Shard and PI a bit. Add roaming mobs in PI, some that enter portal corp square of their own accord (not being pulled) and give people a reason to see the other islands there, like badges or even Trial like missions (clear off Monster Island anyone?) and the Shard could be given a new variety of missions, but with new kinds of missions being introduced in I5, maybe the Shard will get some of them.

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I have more or less given up posting on this forum for a variety of reasons, but I feel the need to say two things:

1) Issue 5 looks quite interesting.

2) Some of you whine a lot.


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agreed...I think I may have to give up posting here and simply go back to enjoying playing the game.

Can't wait to see all you whiners in the CoV beta!

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No incentive to play a defender anymore unless you want to play Dark/, /dark, /psionic. At 80% funtionality between the two there is no point. Heck just hit 41 and you get ranged damage then also.

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yeah cause my three defenders are just useless when I'm teamed with a controller. BULL-[saving moderator8 the trouble).

You want to go to the trouble of getting your controller to the high levels though 32 levels of hell just to pretend he's a defender you go right ahead.

Cause lets face it, once you get your character to 40 we're pretty much all the same anyway (Blaster's have a gripe and its being looked into thankfully), we're all really powerful heroes, and it really doesn't matter who you team with.

You wanna itch and moan about it so much, go PM Cuppa to make you an Official Thread.

"Serge! Make me even more famous! I came to this world to be a star and baby that's what I am!" - Stellar Force

Stellar Force in her Radical Defenders colors...because the best Offense is a great Defender!
edit: forgot the server - Liberty!
Another angle

Die zombie thread, DIIIEEE!!!!!
*shoots it in head*

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I personally liked kcirrots DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM posts.

Though he became someone else now..

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yes I believe he is now the one and only EvilGeko

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That just seems kinda sad to me. These are by far the rudest, most flame-filled boards I've been to.

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where else do you hang your board hat? cause while my online experience is limited to early AOHell and livejournal, these boards seem pretty tame and normal to me. Compared to some chat rooms and the debate community in LJ-land, the people here are saints.

May I be the first to say...


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

*ahem* ok...now that thats out of the way, I will really miss the personal touch you brought to the game and these boards Vyv. I remember my shock when I saw that I had a PM from you thanking me for one of my board comments...I was stunned. That kind of personal attention connected me to this game and these boards more than any other game or message board I've ever been a part of.

I hope the players in L2 treat you as well as we tried to. :0)

I love it when people insult people over the internet with bad names like jackass and a-hole making it seem like we're back in middle school.

But I gotta go with Dogpile as the most Doomy as of late...he had a couple posts last week that were just Doooooomerrific.

I'm sure Manticore would be the man to PM this to, but before that I'll put it out here.

Whats the best way to break into the writing thing? I love to come up with stories. I'm writing a novel, I write D&D adventures that could be computer games they're so detailed, and everyday I just seem to come up with more and more ideas.
I would love to have Manticore's job, but how does one get to that level? Where do you start at in a company? Or do I just hope that I can get my book published and become famous enough that you guys will beg me to come write for you? heh.

Die zombie thread die!

but seriously, i say another year before any max level ups.