Smurphy

So far I have received a total of 32,382,000,000 Inf from a total of 26 different people. Any amount, big or small, is acceptable. Please don't send me multiple billions at once. Feel free to send 1 billion wait for me to respond, then send another or give me a heads up that you want to do huge amounts.

Current Rates:
Smurphy's Inf Exchange Rates:
Your Influence --> 95% my Infamy
Your Infamy --> 90% my Influence

*EDIT*
I was just told in Freedom Atlas Park (a haven of knowledge and world's greatest place to get advice on City of Heroes) that my exchange service is doomed when Going Rogue comes out. The person went on to explain how one could simply buy salvage or other items, change side, and then sell them.

I decided against explaining to him how my services might be more beneficial than his idea and simply told him I'd copy down his global and comments for entertainment purposes once Going Rogue comes around.

Change the difficulty settings to -1?

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=207366

This thread has some good info on the topic. The last post in the thread (my post) explains about keystroke going to multiple instances.

My brother, Chriffer, who may or may not be seen in this video has reached level 38 on his one-life-to-live, perma-death, or "hardcore" City of Heroes" character. Diablo 2 had a "hardcore mode" where if your character was defeated via any circumstances that character became dead forever and unplayable. Any circumstances include lag, disconnects, your little sister logging in, cat on keyboard, stupid teammates, exploits, or War Witch spawning Hamidon on top of you.

Chriffer is playing a Storm/Cold defender. He only joins PuGs (pick-up group, only people he doesn't know) that he doesn't start, he doesn't hold the star, and he doesn't offer tactical advice. He rolls with the tide and sticks through thick and thin with the "bad teams"... well... maybe not ALL the bad teams. (Check out Bad Team Bingo which we should update soon). Now that he's reached the upper levels he has to play more conservatively. He's received 85,000 damage and been held/slept/etc. for 5 minutes. He's had some close calls and all his teammates have died a few times but he's been able to eat the candy tray and bail out. He just got Vengeance at level 38 and it really helps

He's promised to join one of my Imperious TF runs if he reaches level 50. Here's hoping I can rub his face in the dirt once he reaches 50. I know of at least two other players who have reached 50 undefeated while playing the game and not simply standing in a corner. Great work to them! Chriffer may be among them eventually. Hopefully, if he goes down he goes down swingin'. Better to see an awesome defeat than die to disconnect. Maybe I'll give it another attempt as well. My last defeat came when my team of 8 opened a door in a Council cave I knew was hot. I backed up because I could see the robot arms and legs sticking out. Naturally, when the door opened the entire pack shot me, not my 7 teammates standing next to them, and I died instantly. There passed Smurph, level 28 Controller.

If you are interested in giving this a try feel free to roll up whatever and join some PuGs. If you'd like to team with fellow one-life-to-live characters head on over to the Iron Eagles on Justice/heroside. We'd love to have you aboard!

I thought I was going to have a period of unavailability in the upcoming weeks. I was mistaken. I will be available.

New rates:
Smurphy's Inf Exchange Rates:
Your Influence --> 92.5% my Infamy
Your Infamy --> 92.5% my Influence

I take 7.5% either direction.

Designate a column as the "eating" column. Try to keep that column empty.

*EDIT*
If anything, I eat too many inspirations.

Exchange closed at the present time. My e-mail box is full so I cannot receive further funds. Those e-mails sent to me will be auto-returned.

Someone should host an AE contest to have skilled people make cool Task Forces like those.

Players believe it is a bug that the bottom pane does not display bidders/sellers.

Thursday was fantastic. We all flew along the levels. Very enjoyable and Frostfire was a piece of cake. One person disconnected as we started fighting Frostfire. We mauled the pack and didn't even notice he wasn't moving.

Tonight we had an impromptu team that got up to 5 people. Levels flew along. The only even close to "close-call" was me due to player error/stupidity. I backed up, ate my candy tray, exited the mission for a second, slapped myself, went back into the mission and all was good. Good to be reminded now and then not to be an idiot.

We were discussing difficulty settings and I was talking about how "95% chance of success isn't good enough for Iron Eagles". Of course, while I'm typing the Outcast I Darkest Nighted started running, aggroing guys at me, who leave toggle range and aren't debuffed like everyone else. I start getting shot at and not by enemies who have -40% ToHit.

Neither is specifically good or bad with the Claws set in mind.

Willpower is generally "easy" mode. Virtually every power in the Willpower set focuses on survivability and is either a toggle or an auto power. Willpower let's you turn on your toggles and go to town. There's pretty much no buttons to press or anything to think about. Quick Recovery helps with the endurance and comes early. So Willpower is great for survivability and super for "I don't have to do anything".

Fiery Aura has damage potential but will require some effort to get it to work to full potential. Fiery Aura lacks knockback protection which means you will either want KB IOs or Acrobatics. Healing Flames is a big part of Fiery Aura's survivability. It requires you to push a button to use. You may or may not want to do so. Consume is a late power that gives endurance is also a button click. In general, Fiery Aura will be less survivability (which does not necessarily mean you will die more nor that you can't do the same things) as Willpower. In general, Fiery Aura will make you put forth more effort to get it to survive some situation where Willpower would have just stood there and survived. In compensation for making you actually do stuff, Fiery Aura gets a damage aura, Burn, and Fiery Embrace.

If you want to simply ignore your secondary and go smash stuff -- Willpower.
If you are willing to use inspirations in a cunning way, be quick and prepared with various click powers, and receive some cool bonuses to damage for your effort -- Fiery Aura

Welcome to the game Feel free to ask lots of questions.

This link: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Servers

...should answer your question and lots more that pop up

Next meetup -- Thursday May 13th. 8PM Eastern Time until we get tired, might be all night.
You can setup your own meetup times and play whenever you like, of course

I'll be rolling a new character. My other one is still alive so don't worry I know a few other people will be bringing lowbies as well. If you want to give this a try feel free to come out. Shoot me or Sailboat a tell, a PM, or post here, or just show up in /chanjoin Iron Eagles

Since my change in rates to 1-->.95 for your Influence to my Infamy and 1-->.9 for your Infamy to my Influence I have received 3.249B Influence and 3.549B Infamy.

Since Issue 17 I have been sent a total of 17,352,000,100 Inf.

Actually, I've been sent a little more than that. One person sent me near the e-mail cap of Influence and I returned the appropriate amount in Infamy. A short time later the same person sent me near the cap of Infamy. A few quick tells sorted out the 2nd e-mail was a mistake, the 2nd e-mail was returned, and all was good.

The moral of the story is "yes, I do want to take some of your money" but I will only take what you explicitly and intentionally consent for me to take.

There's also the "team?", "team" and the notorious "?".

Issue 17 has really hurt my ability to play multiple instances on one machine. I use the same graphics settings as I did previously, actually I use lower settings, and I have decreased performance graphically on my computer. You may experience some difficulty running multiple instances on one machine that you normally should not. I believe this graphics issue is a "known issue" and is being worked on by the Dev team. The issue has various negatives for various players and one of those negatives is one's ability to play multiple instances on one machine. I can still do it but not to the ability I could before.



I can't do that anymore without seeing major problems.

Speed Boost has a 1 second animation. So SBing a team of 7 people shouldn't take more than 10 seconds out of 120. There's no cause for alarm to chase down people who run far away from you. If you haven't brought your time SBing down to 10 seconds you simply aren't pressing the buttons fast enough.

*EDIT* Of course, some people may not want to, or may not be able to, get SB down quite that fast and spend 10 of 120 seconds working fast fingers.