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Quote:OK you're good then.Originally Posted by Jerikko
Well I did start reading the Alaphbet of Manliness again. And I punched my wife so hard that if we have another child, our grandchild will have brain-damange.
In all seriousness, I'm surrounded by women, Wife and 2 daughters. It was either that or Princess and the Frog. If it means anything, I fell asleep 3 times in the movie.
I was worried for a sec there.
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Quote:dude. you will now need to turn in your man card.Originally Posted by Jerikko
If all goes as planned, I will be on tonight; however, the wife bought Princess and the Frog last night and wants to watch it. We would have watched it last night, but the kids wanted to watch New 9&^*&% Moon; sorry vomitted a little in my mouth.
REAL MEN DON'T SPARKLE! man I hate twilight.
agreeing to watch either of those movies, much less both, means your estrogen levels are way way too high.
I recommend quickly eating something wrapped in bacon, and guzzling about a pint of jack daniels. This cure will not erase the bad decisions youve made about how you treat your eyes or your valuable time, but will set you back on the path to righteousness.
You may still need to gouge out both eyes with a rusty screwdriver, but it will probably be worth it if it saves you from ever witnessing something so ballshrinkingly terrible again.
I honestly cant understand why other guys think they need to sit through this crapola with their women... isnt that what their girlfriends are for?
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Quote:Uh...yeah.Originally Posted by Donna_
Do you think that the devs find out about what to nerf next from the forums ?
Doubtful...
Because if they were as smart as the exploiters...the exploits wouldnt be there in the first place.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Ironblade
Think before you stoke, because it doesn't work the other way around.
thank god somebody got the reference... I was beginning to think everyone here was a square.
Or ignoring me...
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I live by the old Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers adage:
"Weed will get you through times of no money better then money will get you through times of no weed."
Therefore I store. Influence means nothing if the commodities you want to buy with it are not available. Better to store said commodities now then sell them and store money which may or may not buy them back when you need them.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Judas_Ace
Tried to play, realized I can't do the same old stale content any more, even if it was 4x XP.
Cancelled account til GR, hoping that it brings a ton of new mission maps and some new gameplay in.
Not a rant about the game itself, but anything that's as repetetive as CoX content is will get stale and boring after 5 years.
I had a similar experience.
Been loggin in lately and realizing I dont really want to do anything in game, so i scroll through my toons and switch up day job locations and thats about it.
Decided its time for a short break until GR, since theres really nothing new going on this issue, since DP preorder did not interest me.
The last couple months have been me paying so i can troll the forums... probably not the best money spent.
So in total during Double XP i got one level from 18-19 on a new scrapper from running one mission with double xp/full patrol xp. Not exactly blazing a trail of glory through the game nowdays...
So I am going to let this sub run out, and re sub in a couple months when GR releases.
See you then. Please keep the place clean and feed the fish while Im away. -
Quote:I guess we can safely say... you love the COX.Originally Posted by Ban_Sidhe
But it's COX I pay the subscription for. It's COX that I will inevitably KEEP returning to. And it's COX that can be held up and used as one of the finest examples of massively "MULTI-PLAYER" online gaming.
He he. Live long and prosper COX. You deserve it!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Chocolate_Bacon
I finally hit 50 on my DP blaster after almost three hours of grinding. It took me so long because after the AE nerf no one is teaming anymore.
What am I supposed to do now? I got the last power in the set and now DP sucks. There aren't any more powers to take. The devs should really make a new power so that I have some reason to play the character longer. How hard would it be just to add one extra power?
p.s. how do I change ammos?
Awesome.
Would have scored a few more points for mentioning how hard it is to purple your new DP because of all the jerk hackers and flippers. The three hours due to the AE nerf was a nice touch. Well played. -
Quote:Originally Posted by MEdelen
I've been playing this game since Dec 26, 2004....I'm a veteran player who does still love this game... What I wanna know is...if Veteran players who know this game inside and out and knows how things should work and how things don't work can't get into any closed betas, how do they pick who gets in and who doesn't?
I used to get into the closed betas when I played 6 hours a day... when my playtime went down the invites stopped coming.
I think they use a few criteria- time in game, time subscribed, past feedback, etc. If you let your sub lapse, you probably lose the time subscribed inroad, if you stop playing the game as much, you probably drop off the list for that too, and if you don't provide feedback in the betas you get into, you likely lose beta invite status as well.
If you have never been invited to a closed beta, you probably do not meet the minimums in one or more of the criteria categories.
My time is just too much in demand these days to participate in the game itself...much less the betas... so I wouldn't be able to accept even if I was invited now, unless they can beat the offer my current employer is paying me for my time.
Betas are interesting and all, but ultimately its just a company trying to get free work out of you. -
Leave those kids alone Pedobear.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Rodion
Yep, you're right. If you know what you're doing it's easy to go from level 1 to level 50 kitted out with decent IOs at the early levels and getting yourself great sets by the time you're 50, and still have 100+ million when you're done.
The problem is that the casual player doesn't know how to do this. They don't have the hundreds -- nay, thousands -- of hours of experience that you have in the best way to accomplish every aspect of this game.
You have to realize that something we think of as trivial is totally opaque to the majority of players out there. The early game steers everyone down the SO road, and IO mechanics are very confusing to most people. And if you don't have Mids, figuring out how to build a character with IO sets is a major project.
So, us telling them that this is actually very easy to do doesn't really help them -- they'll need to spend the hundreds of hours themselves getting familiar with the system to learn all the things you know. And in this instant gratification universe, that's a message that doesn't go over well.
This is a good point.
Take a player who starts the game fresh and plop him/her into the CoH world and say "GO!", and it will take them a heck of a lot longer, with a lot of exploring/trial and error/what do I do now? moments along the way.
Knowing what to do and when to do it are huge advantages that a new or truly casual player wont have, because they will be experiencing content, and generally wasting a lot of time where a experienced player will just skip to the meat of xp/influ/merit gaining.
So its truly hard to define what a casual player is... theres too wide a range of variables - are they new? Do they have a mentor in game to show them stuff? Someone to walk them through the market interface? Experience with Mids planner?
So what took you a hundred or so hours and made you 300M plus a full IO loadout might take a brand new "casual" player a year, because they need to learn so much you already know.
But in general I do agree with the sentiment of the OP- which is: stop crying that you cant purple your ******* warshade... you can make plenty of influ and have all the stuff you need by 50 if you just chill out play the game, and sell uneeded drops. How long it takes will be quite variable, but the end results should be close enough- everyone can have nice things if they work a little for them. -
Quote:Dave and Busters in Milpitas CA.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Huh...
I went to one pre-Con meet up, but I live in California...
It was in oct. 2006 or 2007. I remember you being there. -
Quote:No ****.Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Too bad Castle doesn't seem to see it is the drop rate that is broken.
Cant see the forest through all these trees... -
Quote:Originally Posted by Werner
Back on the original topic, I'm not happy. Granted, I don't read dev stuff, but I've had no reason to suspect that the Numina (and related IOs), we not functioning as intended. Apparently it should have been obviously a bug to me? Well, it wasn't. It was unusual, but everything in that category seemed to behave that way, and it wasn't nonsensical behavior. It's also been that way for years. I very intentionally build taking advantage of that effect. The endurance use on my hyper-expensive Katana/Dark is carefully tuned, and still just under what it should be. I still have to slow down slightly occasionally in long fights. I don't have the Numina in Physical Perfection (it's in a full set in Health), but I do have the Miracle. I assume that's next. And although we're only talking about a difference of 0.17 EPS, that spells doom for Scrapper challenge play, so it'd be time for an overhaul or retirement. I HATE overhauls. I also hate retiring a character after only having them up and running at full strength for a single issue. No, I'm not quitting over this. I realize that it's a basically trivial change that just happens to impact me significantly. But it definitely goes in the "I'm getting tired of CoH; maybe it's time to move on" column of my life.
I feel the same way.
Nerfing something thats really not breaking anything in game, or really doing much of anything exept improving play for a character who is end game slotted seems like a waste of dev resource and only serves to annoy the playerbase.
Annoying a already small playerbase never seems like a good business model for a game that is competing with many other time sinks for players time- people tend to move on due to "the straw that broke the camels back" effect.
So the short version is devs: fix the stuff we ask you to fix. Dont go on crusades against HOs, or fix "bugs" that really arent hurting anyone, and in fact make many players game time more fun. Fix the stuff that really needs fixing, and spend your development time wisely.
I am not a I quit!!11!! type either, but the additive effect of too many changes (read: nerfs) is a real turnoff to me putting what limited time I do have into playing this game instead of something else.
The respec system is awful, and when I am forced to respec each issue/patch it takes away from me enjoying actual gameplay, and worse yet, I know that I will just have a few months to use the newly respecced build before something else is changed and I have to do it all over again...
Each patch is like a scheduled root canal to me. Not something I look forward to. -
Quote:Loose lips sink ships.Originally Posted by UberGuy
This wasn't really widely exploited until quite recently, when Physical Perfection was introduced. I think that's why it's been left alone until now.
You could easily make use of this with Regen Tissues in powers like Health, but it was really Phys. Perfection that made the practice what I'd consider fairly common knowledge.
Also, the devs themselves may not have picked up on this until it started popping up on the forums more, which again started with the introduction Phys. Perfection.
If only we could block the Devs forum access...
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Quote:I know all about it.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
Sounds to me like you don't know about the shift+click teleport bind.
/bind shift+lbutton powexecname teleport
Hold shift, and teleport to wherever you click!
TP is still rough to use as primary travel.
without that bind it goes from rough to completely useless. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
It's an indirect defense power. Most minons that run up into melee range will take a second or two to turn to hit another foe--an attack not used on you. It even better if that enemy runs away from you to attack--all time not hitting you. It may not seem like much, but it has served me very well.
Minions? really?
They are all dead in two button pushes with my blaster, so they would never reach me to be in the aura. If you are worried in any way about minions on a blaster...you are doing it wrong.
Now if it worked on bosses or Lts, or even had a chance to confuse them for a few seconds it might be of some use, but as it stands a mag 2 confuse just aint useful.
Like I said before, the proc in the purple set is actually more useful then the aura itself, you are much better off just killing the mobs quickly and moving on.
The most use I have gotten out of this power is running into the middle of a large spawn while stealthed with SS/stealth IO, then going afk and talking on the phone while the minions beat each other up a little at a time for my amusement.
So if you are looking for a jokey fun power, or a set mule its not too bad, but if you really are trying to use it for damage or mitigation, its not too good. -
Teleport: Anywhere in game.
Teleport is such a cool power, but to use it as your primary travel power sure is tricky...
And inefficient for the most part.
I wish they had a jaunt TP for combat ports that you could use through walls and around corners... then I might take TP once in a while.
As it stands I have something like 20 superspeeders, 2-3 flyers, and 0 TPers. Its just too much of a hassle to use and it doesnt have hasten as its pre-req pick
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Quote:Do you like capped run?Originally Posted by Spoil Sport
Has anyone tried this? I've never made a kin that survived alt-itis after Ninja run so I was wondering how does this pair with siphon speed and inertial reduction? Is it possible to be able to do better than super jump or super speed? Especially since those two powers will not work with Ninja Run. I would love to see a Ninja Jump animation while flipping over the zones. Or do a ninja run at blinding speeds.
Thanks for the viewpoints
Do you like capped jump?
Then you will like NR+ Inertial reduction + siphon speed.
Throw hover or fly in there and you can cap all three move types. Maybe not capped with hover, but pretty damn fast with 2-3 siphons.
And yeah, the ninja flipping is just the icing on the cake. -
Quote:I think you will be very happy.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I pulled the trigger. $1244.04 spent. Went with the Sapphire card with the vapor-x cooler and slightly higher clock speed.
Also grabbed the coolermaster 212 cpu heatsink from FX's rig recommendations so that I can OC some in safety.
Said fark it to the hard drive. If I want to go nuts later on, I'll grab a solid state drive for ludicrous load times.
Thanks for the help everyone.
And as for the overkill comments upthread, I agree- there is no such thing as overkill since we really dont know how much pull we need to power all of the ultra mode features at full settings.
Cant go too far wrong with a good case/cooling system, nice power supply, and good Motherboard, then upgrade as needed for your vid card, or hard drive.
Im not sure the i7 is really necessary either, but I went with one and overclocked to 3.75Ghz which is screamingly fast now, and hopefully stands the test of time fairly well.
Load times with a 7200RPM drive are still just around 6 secs. Sure beats the 30 sec-1 minute loads I was suffering through on my old machine... my "speed" Posi's were less speed and more wait...
They say patience is a virtue, and after a couple years of slow loads I feel like a saint. -
The only reason to take it is to mule the purple confuse set.
Then never turn it on.
Its that bad.
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Quote:damn right.Originally Posted by LiquidX
No, I'd state my views and THEN go home to catalog my celebrity nipple shots.
Those nipples arent going to catalog themselves. -
Quote:This would be my choice for pairing energy blast too...Originally Posted by Catharctic
Try /delete.
Reroll to fire/mm, fire/em, or arch/mm for really good times.
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Bill,
I run a very similar machine as of last week, and all I can say is...yes. You will be happy.
I have the exact same processor, same memory specs, 1000W Power supply, the only significant difference I see is the drive I have is only a 7200 RPM 1TB drive, and a 285GTX card.
It is total and complete overkill for CoH. Max out your settings and enjoy your 5 second load times between zones
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Quote:TL : DROriginally Posted by Ozmosis
I just posted this on Facebook, thought it deserved some repeating. It's in response to someone calling me a big kid (not in the good way). *COUGH*exgirlfiend*COUGH* :P
"Seriously...
Lately I've been trying to grow up. Thinking that I'm immature... or maybe even childish is some of my interests. Thinking I should maybe get rid of all the video games, and comic books... and just try to be an adult.
But you know what... I DONT WANT TO! If video games and comic books mean I'm a big kid, then so be it, cause you know what else being a big kid means?...
It means that in my thirties, I'm not afraid to get down on the floor and pick up an action figure to have a play fight with my 2 year old nephew while saying *CRASH* *BOOM* *POW*...
It means that in my forties, I'll be happy to lie down on the floor while my futur 2 year old daughter dresses me up like a princess....
It means that in my fifties, I'll be kicking my nephews butt old school style on Mortal Kombat 3k or Street Fighter Infinity Turbo XYZ on the PS23...
It means in my sixties, I'll be pulling pranks on all the neighborhood kids during Halloween, just to keep them on their toes...
It means that in my seventies, I'll be reading my grand-kids bed time stories while making sound effects and shadow puppets on the wall...
And once my body starts to fall apart, and my strenght fails me... I'll still be laughing. Cause when Father Time comes knocking on my door, I'll tell him straight to his face: My body might have gotten old, but my heart never did, SO I WIN!
Tho keep in mind, being a big kid doesnt mean I'm immature... the proof? I just stepped up and admitted this in front of the world..."
Less soul searching.
More getting drunk.
Just kiddin- happy birthday dude. Stay young at heart.