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We'll just lock Cole in the hospital.
Hospital doors are stronger than Incarnates. -
My random observations, some of which have already been made in this thread:
-Raiding a military facility and rescuing brainwashed prisoners is not amazing epic content. Blueside, you've been doing that since level 20. It feels like content from the 30s, not Incarnate content.
-Shutting down a reactor before evil forces can make it explode? Since level 24, blueside.
-The Underground Trial would have been spectacular if it had been balanced as an 8 member taskforce. I loathe it as a 24-person raid.
-Praetorians are not and should not be the only Incarnate content. I understand the devs want to tell a story, but the Incarnate trials should be balanced. For every one Praetorian-oriented trial, there should be one of something else - some other world-shattering threat. Army of Rikti poised to land an invasion force on our Earth? Epic. Rularuu the Ravager preparing to devour our world? Hequat preparing to return to our dimension and wipe out the bloodline of Mu? Crey's latest Code Merlin is REALLY BAD? These are situations that call for Earth's mightiest superpowered beings.
-I just listed off a bunch of heroic epic examples. There should be roguish or villain-oriented Incarnate trials as well. Preferably pro-active ones.
-Don't tell me that facing off against a guy with a couple of guns for PR purposes is somehow epic.
-Even Apex and Tin Mage are better as Incarnate content than the trials (in terms of feeling epic.)
-You want a ready-made epic battle that's already been alluded to? Read the Ouroborus lore over again. Remember the unknown agency changing the past that the Menders are fighting against? Remember the mysterious influence of Nemesis, who is breaking the rules of time travel when he appears as Mender Silos? Remember that there are 12 other methods of time travel, and eras other than ancient Rome?
If you can't make Incarnate content out of that, you're not trying.
-In my Incarnate content, I want the feeling of surmounting insurmountable odds. Give me a team of Archvillains that work together. Give me an army of Rikti. Don't give me one dude I already soloed drinking some Enriche - that I need 15 friends to beat up. That's insulting. It's like claiming that I should feel special that I soloed a Council minion, just because his flavor text says that they're as good as an entire commando team.
-I've played this game since launch, and I loved the 8-person teaming mechanic. It was just right to give an Avengers team feeling. 24 people is ridiculous, unwieldy and doesn't fit the genre - outside of truly cosmic threats (I'm looking at you, Anti-Monitor from 1985) 24 superheroes going against one guy is just silly. Especially a guy with a pair of pistols or big metal gloves that are ESTABLISHED as being the guy with the metal gloves or the guy with the guns.
-Likewise, 8 persons on a team generally gives everyone an opportunity to shine, to throw in a witty quip, or to do something else memorable. 24 people? I don't remember anyone I met running Incarnate trials on my main (though I did run into a handful of old faces.) Likewise, the trials are so focused on their unique mechanics that I found it virtually impossible to stay in character while running them - and I'm a seven-year RPer from Virtue running my main. Staying in character with him is practically second nature.
-Want to make it interesting? Bring in characters from the past who are starting to get their hands on a little Incarnate power. Frostfire. Alexander. The Envoy of Shadow. Hardcase. Maestro. King Midas. Duke Mordragar. An Incarnate trial centered around the Golden Giza and featuring Hardcase as the antagonist would be a great thing. Likewise, the Striga Island Incarnate Trial should be spectacular.
-The mechanics of the Incarnate Trials are decent enough. The window dressing sucks. And there need to be a few 8-person trials to counterbalance the horrendously bloated 24-person trials.
-Don't make me do something ten times, then make me do it again slightly differently another ten times, then make me do it ten more times yet another way. That's bloat. Keep the trials lean and story-focused. The mechanics should serve the story.
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Melt Armor is not worthwhile from an APP.
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It makes precisely as much sense as "only women eat yogurt."
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Pick one:
Inv/DM
WP/DM
WP/MA
DA/DM
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ohgawd... he also covered Iron Man...
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Ice/kin is the way to go.
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Quote:Blackthulu lies dreaming in his sweet crib in Ry'leh?Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
We cannot allow Blackthulu to get all up in this hizzy! -
Musculature is defense debuffs, not defense buffs.
Might consider Spiritual - recharge buffs (more shield charge!) and you'd get full benefit from the stun enhancement on all your mace attacks. -
How, exactly, does one jump a shark when one has no legs?
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I am entertained.
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I'm waiting for Fitocracy to push out another update or two.
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Quote:But he's not terribly good at it.Originally Posted by Black Zot
What's wrong with Michael Bay doing a movie about war machines and stuff blowing up? Last I checked that was the only thing he was good at.
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Yeah, I got mine early too.
My points were nominally due on the 28th, as that's my renewal date.
If it's a point of interest, I'm on a year sub (as opposed to actually renewing monthly.) -
It's a bad build.
Reset Energy Drain for one target, then try again. -
I'm fond of Radar Men from the Moon. Commando Cody didn't win a single fistfight until the last installment.
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I saw the thread title and said to myself, "That's Phoenix Jones, isn't it?"
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Quote:It doesn't get better anytime soon...Originally Posted by Obsidius
<Rimshot>
Seriously though, all of the positive things I'm hearing about this movie make me want to see it. However, having a two month old is rather detrimental to me seeing movies these days (movie cost + babysitter costs) :/
Will have to put it in the Netflix queue when I can
My wife and I have seen one film in a theater since my daughter was born, and she's two-and-a-quarter now. Grandparents are only an option when they live close... and an hour away and deep in the rural ain't it. (Yes, that means driving an hour, dropping off a kid, driving BACK an hour because that's where the nearest theater is, then making the round trip again to pick up the kid....) -
Quote:http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=273138Originally Posted by Dark One
Au contraire...
Game of Thrones is being adapted into a comic book. First issue was released in Sept. being published by Dynamite Entertainment.
And this is exactly why that rule about tv shows was lifted. So that there was no Six Degrees of Separation games being played. But I still find it funny that every aspect of say, Batman, from merchandise to comics to movies to cartoons can be discussed, but that one aspect can't exist.
Okay, so it's actually the *new* set of forum rules that haven't yet taken effect - the key wording in there is that:
(emphasis added)Quote:The City of Heroes Freedom forums are primarily for discussion of City of Heroes Freedom. However, we do allow a wider a variety of non-disruptive, off-topic discussion in the Comic and Hero/Villain Culture forum, and on server forums. In order to provide a safe and constructive environment for all of our forum members, certain topics of discussion are not allowed on the Official City of Heroes Freedom Forum. City of Heroes Freedom is rated T for Teen, and this rating extends to our forums. Some examples of topics which are prohibited to discuss on the Official City of Heroes Freedom Forum include, but are not limited to:
Political discussion
Religious discussion
Inappropriate discussion of the aesthetics of the human form, subject to moderator discretion
Real world topics including current world events and sensitive historical events
dedicated discussion of video games other than City of Heroes Freedom and/or limited discussion of other NCsoft products, including posts that compare and/or contrast City of Heroes Freedom with other games
As Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, as television series, are rated TV-M, and the City of Heroes: Freedom boards are to be rated T for Teen...
I've already had a thread removed because I linked to an "appropriate for all audiences" trailer for the new prequel for The Thing, because that wasn't T for Teen. It was a trailer for an R-rated movie.
It's not the six degrees of separation game. -
I'd just like to point out that Primal Earth's mightiest heroes dipping into heretofore unreachable sources of power in a cosmic power-up race...
...are being held back by a couple of hospital doors.
Conceptually, it's pretty darned stupid. All we have to do is to lure Tyrant into the hospital and keep the doors closed, right? Hospitals>Incarnates. -
I'll just take this opportunity to point out that threads about the Walking Dead or Game of Thrones may well be out of bounds under the new rules.
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Quote:Because NCSoft doesn't trust you and your good intentions enough to shield themselves from potential liability.Originally Posted by BrandX
A name like Inferno, or Ricochet doesn't fall into the same category, because they are simply words.
If you create a Ricochet that does not have the same look and backstory/powers as an existing character, there is nothing that can be done about it, because you cannot copyright or trademark a common word.
This is what was said. Wolverine and Phoenix are simply words, words that have been in use long before people ever thought of a computer. So, I was asking if they can't be copyrighted/tradmarked, why block them? I could easily make up concepts for these names that have nothing to do with the Marvel versions of them. -
Yes... those of us who have the (mis)fortune to live in more rural areas don't always have the choice... the nearest Barnes and Noble is a two-hour drive from where I'm at.
We don't have a local comics shop - again, that's a two-hour drive. We do have two gaming stores up here, but one's a brand-new one that caters mostly to a high-school age crowd and card gamers, and the other is a scary little shack that feels like it'll fall over in a serious wind.
It's a fair drive to even make it to a ferry that goes over to civilization - hour and a half one way.
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Quote:Other video games could be seen as a direct competition for your gaming dollars, which Paragon and NCSoft would like to have. I disagree with the ban and think it's been harmful to the community of this board, but I understand the reasoning for it.Originally Posted by Kyasubaru
In this context, it would mean that talking about games such as Batman: Arkham City, X-Men Destiny, or Spiderman: Edge of Time would be OK, since they're all directly based off of comic book characters. But as far as I know, it's still not OK to discuss these games.
The same goes for any older games, like X-Men Legends, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Marvel vs Capcom, etc. And what of games that are not comic book-based, but have comic book tie-ins? Mass Effect springs to mind, and many game series such as Metal Gear Solid, Legend of Zelda, and Halo all have comic book adaptations or tie-ins. Do these count enough as being connected to comics to allow discussion? Is it only OK to talk about just the comics, or can we talk about the games as well?
And what about series like Sonic the Hedgehog, whose comic book has been going for well over a decade now? The publication spun off in its own direction years ago and aside from having a well-known video game character as its lead, has almost nothing to do with the games themselves. But is it OK to talk about it? It's still loosely based on a video game.
I guess what I'm getting at is I just don't understand why we're not allowed to have discussions about any other video game. Not being allowed to discuss other MMOs is understandable, really. Other MMOs are in direct competition with this one, and even though I disagree that limiting those types of discussions is necessary, I can understand the reasoning. But limiting discussion of games as a whole just doesn't make sense to me. They're a form of entertainment very closely linked to the namesake of this very forum: Comic Book and Hero/Villain Culture. If they are considered to be competing for your precious COH playtime, why aren't discussions about things like movies and television also banned? They compete for time just as much as, if not moreso, than other games.
My suggestion to Zwil and the community team is to ease up on the game discussion ban. Again, I can understand if not agree with the banishment of MMO discussion. But can't do the same for other games.
Realistically, this is the only rule on the subject I think we should have:
- Talk of other massively multiplayer online(MMO) games is prohibited, except those published by NCSoft (Guild Wars 2, Aion, Wildstar, etc.).
We should have a nice edition war about DnD, though - that should still be allowed under the current forum rules. The rule in question (found here) reads as follows:
8. Compare/Contrast and Off-topic threads.
All of these forums fall under the general topic of City of Heroes. However, we do allow a wider variety of discussion topics in the Comic and Hero/Villain Culture forum and on the server forums. We encourage non disruptive off topic discussion in those forums along the line that fits with the community of posters who frequent them.
Political,
Religious,
The aesthetics of the human form (particularly that of models, actors or actresses),
Real world topics
or any videogame (aside from City of Heroes) topics are not allowed.
Also, please do not compare or contrast City of Heroes to any other game or product, as that is a violation of this rule and is not allowed.