Shylar

I understand, and I was also pointing out that you don't have to be 40, nor own cable/dish to know the commercial. Sort of like Mikey.

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Not really. I saw them on ABC when I was but knee-high to a grasshopper, and I am 30 now. They came on during Saturday Morning Arcade on NBC as well. Nick wasn't even a thought in my parents mind til 84.

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That commercial first aired in 1970, so if you have a really good memory, I would say you would have to be about 40 to remember it. Hell, I am older than that and I barely remember it. ( I do still remember the Frito Bandito, and that song.....- ugh)

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But, in some areas, the comercial aired up to the early 80's in the kids section on Saturday morning (back when it was nonstop from 7-11AM kids cartoons). Last I remember it was maybe 82-83, around the time Saturday Arcade was taking off the air (in my area).

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At lvl 25 you should have already have had most of your enchanments should be DO not general unless you have very bad influ management. My good friend just started a brand new MM at the relese of COV, she is now lvl 38 and also the cash cow of the VG, so unless i am mistaken you have just have been playing very badly, and worrying about the wrong thing. And as for your freeze ray again if your missing so much PUT ACC IN!!!

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ONE: Generals used to be all I need prior to i5/ED. Now thanks to the nerfs THEY recieved, I have to upgrade.

TWO: I HAVE ACC IN!!!! 2 SO'S IN FACT!!!!!

THREE: Stop hitting on my playstyle. I too am an old timer (just an altaholic) to this mmo, and came because of it's CONCEPT. I don't like superhero movies where the main good guy has to think on 1 lieutenant, let alone 3 minions. Jeez, this is beginning to sound like a Quake forum. Are you l33T?!

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Glad you can do it at lvl 40. Try 10-40 yet? It's a major grind to build a power up with the pittance on influence, and have trouble with Gen Enhance with white cons, due to a number of misses with the same power. They at least need to look at Gen and maybe DOs and up the percentage a bit, and in turn it'll make the powers miss less, and do better damage/range/defense/etc.

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So what your teliing me is that from the very start things should be so easy that people quit because they are bored.
The early levels help us find what we need if we are missing, then common sense dictacts that we put an acc in.
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If boredom is getting faceplanted on white cons, maybe. I know almost all my Protector toons need major help in the influence dept, and the influence I get is about as good as the xp at 25: Near nothing. We either (a) need more drops, or (b) make enhancements in general cheaper, that might help. Right now, I'm stuck with Generals in most my powers due to little inf drops.



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Ok first of all are you going to the contacts that deal with your type of origin. Second if you are getting face planted by white cons then maybe something is wrong with how you set up your char in the first place. Third are you hunting/miss hunts, or doing actual missions. And finally are you going around in sg mode always cause the higher level you get the less infulence you get for running around in sg mode.

But in all honesty if you are having that much trouble think about what really is causing the trouble, like acc, what kind of damage they are doing to you, what type of AT you are playing, and do not, i repeat do not blame ED, INMHO ED has the game more fun, we were giving all these cool extra abilities, that no one was using they were all trying to do was more and more damage. And i say again this game is not ALL about the damage, but it is about all the other things besides damage we can to do so they dont as you say face plant us. Like with my tank axe does knockback from the very beginning i loved this ability because if someone was running past me to get to the squishies as i like to call them, the knockback seemed to hit more often and stopping the baddy in tracts plus now it is aggroed on me. Now with MM alot of my henceman's abilites have to do with debuffs yes considering the fact that my henceman are mostly a combo of brutes and scrappers i thought about damage until i noticed the types of debuffs that they do and i then relized how benifical that would be to whole team not just my henceman but if i was teamed up with someone as well.

So when you got the time for talking again, but until then figure out what really is causing the problem and stop blaming pour little ED again.

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LISTEN FANBOI: I KNOW how my characters play, They are BLASTERS and DEFENDERS. Defenders I know faceplant easily, But since the ED messed up General Enhancements (yes they lowered the percentage from 9-10% to maybe 7-8% unenhanced), I am FORCED to buy SOs with INFLUENCE, whic is so expensive I barely afford 10 with 200,000 influence! I'm sure this formula can help:

200,000 INFLUENCE + Lvl 25 enhancement = Not enough

Other problem is when going against enemies with 25's like this, acc is shot still, missing 3-5 in a row, which if up against one LT, that can COMPLETELY DRAIN YOUR ENDURANCE BAR, even WITH Stamina 2-slotted, and WITH the end discount. Try using a freeze ray that NEVER HITS ITS TARGET everytime it's fired. That is one important thing taken away from me since I5, and now I6/ED, when the recharges were increased. THIS is why those costs need to come down, or INF/drops need increases: So heroes can upgrade, instead of whine about an "acc nerf/My toon can't hit anything." I simply want my Freeze Ray back so I can take Bosses in the missions I go alone (which is most of the time, since ED is killing my server hero-side).

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I got a question...

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootise Roll pop?



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Three (and if you get that joke, you're old).

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"A-one.. A two-hoooo.. a-thrrrree.." -{CRUNCH}- "A-three."

/feels old

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Hey i remember that comertial and im only 28

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Ah the wonders of Nickelodian and their retro commercials...You'd have to be a fair bit older to have seen the original airings.

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Not really. I saw them on ABC when I was but knee-high to a grasshopper, and I am 30 now. They came on during Saturday Morning Arcade on NBC as well. Nick wasn't even a thought in my parents mind til 84.

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Glad you can do it at lvl 40. Try 10-40 yet? It's a major grind to build a power up with the pittance on influence, and have trouble with Gen Enhance with white cons, due to a number of misses with the same power. They at least need to look at Gen and maybe DOs and up the percentage a bit, and in turn it'll make the powers miss less, and do better damage/range/defense/etc.


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So what your teliing me is that from the very start things should be so easy that people quit because they are bored.
The early levels help us find what we need if we are missing, then common sense dictacts that we put an acc in.

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If boredom is getting faceplanted on white cons, maybe. I know almost all my Protector toons need major help in the influence dept, and the influence I get is about as good as the xp at 25: Near nothing. We either (a) need more drops, or (b) make enhancements in general cheaper, that might help. Right now, I'm stuck with Generals in most my powers due to little inf drops.

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People, People, again why do you think this game is all about the damage, when it is not. That is all they are trying to tell you. But all you do is complain, whaa I cant solo a purple now. SO FRICKIN WHAT!!!! maybe at that point you call some friends and get the job done. Using all of your combined ablities like slow, knockback, burn, etc, etc, etc.

I have tried ED as an lvl 40 ivun/axe tanker without respecing and i went through a couple mishes just to test out ED, i brought along my emp def, friend just incase. You want to know what happened. I was sailing through the mish, and my emp friend actually got so board at some points that he sat down in the middle of a fight with 1 purp/2 red/ and 4 orange Crey.

So please explain to me again why you all are complaining especially you invun tankers.

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Glad you can do it at lvl 40. Try 10-40 yet? It's a major grind to build a power up with the pittance on influence, and have trouble with Gen Enhance with white cons, due to a number of misses with the same power. They at least need to look at Gen and maybe DOs and up the percentage a bit, and in turn it'll make the powers miss less, and do better damage/range/defense/etc.

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So, does this mean you're doing the same thing to the Hollows and Striga? Being forced to go there is just as not fun as being forced into any other zone you have no interest in going to. If we now have a real choice about entering Warburg can we please have the same consideration for the Hollows and Striga?

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Not sure I understand this. What if I don't like KR... I can still get a contact there... how would they know I don't like KR? The Hollows, Striga, and now Croatoa are setpiece zones that players should be exposed to; you *always* had the option to not take missions from the contact once you got there.

PvP is different: some people feel very strongly about it, and while I think it's enough that contacts in PvP zones are in "safe" areas, some people don't even want to go there.

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No it's not. As promptly seen in other boards Like this one PvP can happen anywhere there if they are skilled enough. Personally, I'm more in favor of a PvP switch, so if you don't want PvP, you turn it off (outside the PvP zone), so then you can enjoy the new zones (since i6 had no PVE content) without the worry of PvP (basically you become invisible to PC villains, and they become invisible to you, in a sense). THAT's the better solution (or just add content/zones for PvE in the next month).

Ok, here is a set of questions (some also on my website):

- When will blaster BASE accuracy, damage, and range match the motto of the blaster? Last I remember, it was "Range is a blaster's best defense," but defenders (especially Dark) can easily outdistance us on Snipe (Energy Blaster) vs MoonBeam (Dark Defender), let alone the enemy easily able to outdistance us. We should be able to two/three shot most white cons, and have at least 70% accuracy (had at best 50-60% accuracy accross the board, with 2 acc enh).

- Will tanks ever be what they were ment to be, and take damage, while just dishing enough out to keep a mob happily on him? Gauntlet seems to be a joke with the tanker, and they go down too much, or burn a lot of end. Maybe reducing end costs could help.

- When fighting in missions with cons 3-4 lvls below, you would think bosses would get affected by holds/immobiles, but half the time they don't. Is this a bug?

- Since you added those PVP zones, I knew some that don't want to venture there because of forced PVP, but missions are always eventually ending up there. How bout a system-setting PVP flag, where when you disable it, you won't see Player Enemies (CoV Player Villains and other PVPers), and they won't see you? Then us non-PVPers can enjoy the missions/bonuses offered there without worrying about Quake-wannabes sniping our posteriors. Even adding a 30 second delay (so cheaters don't try to use this to their advantage), or making it permenant til you leave the PVP area work make it good.

- How about actually READING this forum, and taking what some of these people say and discuss it, letting us know the results? We players have a lot of complaints about various issues, and see nothing resolved.

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Here is the thing. Don't wait more then ten minutes with your lfg on. Use find member to find people your level in teams and then send them a tell. Don't wait. Also make sure it is on. It never occurs to most people spamming lft in broadcast that it never gets them a team and a they have to click team and make sure the arrow is at the right course.

Also no matter what in issue 2 and so on it often takes up to 30 minutes and about 100 tells to get a team for it. Longest ever amount waiting was for the shard tfs.

If I cannot get a trial or tf in 30 minutes I go do something else.

People teams don't come looking for you if you are lfg. They know to go for people not in teams and send them a tell.

Most people who solo don't mind teaming but guess what they don't flag themselves as looking for team.

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Funny, I used to never have to wait 10 minutes. I'd turn the team on, and within 2-5 minutes I was snagged. Now, I can finish a mission and still no one snags (if I'm lucky now, it takes me an hour to finish a mission). People on the find member list are either too high or too low (by more than 10 lvls).

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Also - another comment on discounted games - currently, City of Heroes is $29.99. Certain stores can run sales - like Lineage 2 is free with a Guild Wars purchase at a local chain.

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Uh... Not at the largest retailer in the world, Wal-Mart... They have been selling CoH for $19.96 for many months now.

I dont really care much about this conversation, actually agree with Statesman on this, but to say that CoH retails at $29.99 and blatantly ignore Wal-Mart, is well... You be the judge.

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And not only that, but WoW and Guild Wars -still- sell for $49.99.

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After I5, some people were saying the same thing..."the game is a ghost town"...to which my reply was, "but we're gaining customers..." Naturally, my reply was dismissed.

And yet then good ole' SirBruce posted his MMP numbers - and City of Heroes was shown gaining subscribers. Odd, isn't it?

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Then please, I must know this:

1> Why is it when I look on Protector and Justice for teams, I seldom see over 1200 at peak times, where Protector last year was going yellow, with 2-3 clones of the zones? Have the peak hours changed?
2> Why did I hear (just recently) people moving to *gasp* World of Warcraft from CoH, and CoV was just sitting on the shelves, with dust starting to settle? This was at several EB and Gamestop affiliates.
3> Why is CoH $19.99 at the most where WoW & Guild Wars are $49.99, and even Lineage is $29.99? Is it cause the stores are ordering more, or is it cause they aren't selling?
4> Are the concerns voiced even being looked at? What are they?

If the costume options are available to both heroes and villains, that'd be the ONLY reason I'd buy CoV. I tried Beta, and personally it sucked. Reminded me of CoH with Villains. I just want hooved/goat legs, wings, different hairstyles, and better clothing options!

1. I hope some of the minor items (hooves on heroes) be available on CoH without CoV. Bases I care less about.

2. -If- I bought CoV, there is no or -very- small monthly charge if I own CoH.

3. If I don't want to play CoV, I can just use the CD/DVD for the content and not pay anything other than the initial cost.