Snow Globe

What happens to the caster doesn't effect pets. So if you locked the AV, the pets would still be free roaming.

Well if what I seen last night (on my Ice/FF Controller) was any indication, no a single Force Bubble will not help. The blast radius is enough to extend fairly deep even if a bomb is placed at the edge of the Force Bubble.

I don't think that is always the case. At least it wasn't last night.

The mine layers jump and place mines on the tops of the shelves & in the rafters.

Fine. Then the following would be possible within the game.

Put a LONG RECHARGE on the mine power. Add in a LARGE activation time to actually lay the bombs. Put a DELAY between Director 11's summoning of the Mine layers. REMOVE leaping from the mine layers (they have it to get into the rafters).

REDUCE the Area of Effect of the Bombs. LENGTHEN the time between the warning text and the actual explosion. DO NOT allow the bomb to chain react.

Everything I've mentioned in this post is either a critter stat or otherwise within developer control.

Well, I was just on another Tin Mage TF, and several times I wasn't given any warning at all the prox mines were going to go off.

Except any explosive near the exploding mine also goes off, so a good portion of the room becomes a damage zone. And in the time you peel yourself off the floor, another bomb is planted at your feet.

Oh, and during the rezzing process you get the -4 level shift, even if you have the alpha slotted.

I wonder how long until they make the new TFs Nuke-Free zones like they did with the CoP...

The AoE of the proximity bombs is such that it will hurt players on the ceiling. Especially since the mine layers plant bombs high up.

Tell that to the picture that someone posted in the beta thread. The mines are still capable of reaching this level of coverage on live. The mine layers are able to also jump onto the tops of the shelves and into the rafters.



It was actually worse before the developers locked everyone in that room.

If the mine layers are affected by another critter (Director 11) getting held, then they would be highly unique in the game. No other summoned entity gets the mezzed state of the summoner. The only way you'd not be dealing with the mine layers is if you managed to hold the Director before he summoned the mine layers. If you don't, then the mine layers have the ability to move unless they are specifically targeted. Oh right, they can't be targeted. They can't be affected by AoE Damage (likely including all mezzes). Maybe pets can target and attack them, but I wouldn't count on that being the case for long if it is allowed now.

That is the question that I have. They seem to be intent to remove any player tactic that works to get badges like this.

Likely using the tactic of mezzing the invisible pets or using player pets to damage the invisible pets. Or using Warburg nukes to defeat the Director before the pets start dropping the proximity mines.

Given the overly large amount of proximity bombs, it is unlikely that anyone would be able to dodge the proximity bombs. If a single player takes any damage from them, no player on the team gets the badge.

He isn't the one throwing out the bombs. The 3 INVISIBLE critters that CANNOT be targeted are running around dropping bombs even IF the Director is immobilized or held.

Actually I think that the developers didn't want anyone to get that badge. The badge doesn't take into consideration the amount of bombs in play added to the fact that NO ONE ON THE TEAM can even take 1 point of damage from ANY proximity bomb in the encounter. This means that unless players defeat the Director in under a minute they will never get the badge.

What's next? The developer's shutting off the Warburg Nukes again? Quite likely as that will be the next way to get the badge.

Would it be exactly as written? Not a chance. It is pseudocode. That pseudocode works in an event driven environment (ie. this game) though.

Edit:
To put what I said in another way, I present the following.

Make variables for (the max amount of proximity bombs to be "dropped" at one time), (the max amount of time between drops for each Mine Layer), and (when the last bomb was dropped by a specific Mine Layer). If the maximum amount of bombs hasn't been dropped and the current Mine Layer's drop cycle is up, drop a mine, increase the count of the amount of current mines out, and reset the Mine Layer's drop cycle. When a bomb explodes, decrease count of the currently placed mines.

Oh, and I would tread very lightly on these. Discuss it with the Online Customer Relations team before you put any serious effort into doing this. You'll likely not get into any difficulty with the build creator (though you might if you charge for it). However you'll very likely get into legal difficulties doing a costume creator, even without charging a fee.

And if that is the excuse, then there should be a limit/reduction on the amount of mines placed. It isn't rocket science, only bad coding letting the amount of mines out at one time.

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Example code:
varMineCount=0;
varMaxMines=9;
varMaxTimerMine=500;
varTimerMineLayer1Start=CurrentTime+100;
varTimerMineLayer2Start=CurrentTime+50;
varTimerMineLayer3Start=CurrentTime;

IF (((varTimerMineLayer1Start+varMaxTimerMine)>=Curre ntTime) AND (varMineCount<=varMaxMines)) THEN {varMineCount=varMineCount+1; DropMine1();resetTimerMineLayer1();};

IF (((varTimerMineLayer2Start+varMaxTimerMine)>=Curre ntTime) AND (varMineCount<=varMaxMines)) THEN {varMineCount=varMineCount+1; DropMine2();resetTimerMineLayer2();};

IF (((varTimerMineLayer3Start+varMaxTimerMine)>=Curre ntTime) AND (varMineCount<=varMaxMines)) THEN {varMineCount=varMineCount+1; DropMine3();resetTimerMineLayer3();};
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I don't think much of the programmer responsible for the mine layers.

Given that there is a badge that can only be obtained if no one on the team gets touched by any mine in the sequence, this change actively promotes players to bypass any skill and resort to using nukes to bypass the encounter entirely.

Making a "skill" based badge based on shoddy programming is a bad precedent.

Actually this isn't true anymore (well, the expense portion is still true).

Adobe Flash CS5 allows you to make native iPhone apps in Actionscript 3.

Yeah, those two are tricky because you can't go under them. I've always swim up to them, jump onto the bridge, go in a straight line to the other side and jump into the water.

I always have my badge window open at that location (and the others when I do the River Rat badge). That bridge in Nova is the only one I've had trouble with since they activated the Nova river locations.

The bridge just outside that red circle works fine. The bridge fully enclosed by the red circle has (for the most part) never worked, even as far back as GR Beta and as recently as a few days ago when I tried it yet again on a primal character. There might be a hit box that isn't properly aligned (wouldn't be the first time) at that location.

Vista/Windows 7:
Right Click on the program icon, click on the compatibility tab, there should be an option to Run as Administrator. Check it.

Here is the fix:
Oh, and run it as an Administrator.

At which point someone should have informed Aeon that is pretty much impossible for any heroes that switch after level 30.

They need to recognize that some players will not have a particular contact.

You're not the only one. Check out this thread:

Mids' Hero/Villain Designer v1.900
Diellan_

That thread also contains the direct download link (in the first post) to bypass the Mids updater.

No. Different reward tables have different options on them. You need the large reward table to get the badges.

From what I remember, that file was from a few days after that announcement.