Starsman

Well, I moved 6 of my biggest guys from Triumph to Virtue. No much story here other than being forced to rename a character. It hurt me a lot to rename Starsman, but the choice was a bit natural (for me) and I renamed him Starsman Prime.

Re-rolling the name in Triumph to keep it for myself, though. I'm greedy like that.

I guess here is a story: I used to be part of Global Heroics in Triumph a long long time ago. Got kicked due to inactivity, not to fit more players but to fit more alts. The character requirements for GH, though, meant that my character now was out of place (naming convention was Ms/Mr Countryname) for her concept so I retired her until I was able to justify renaming costs. With this, I just moved and renamed as the name was already also taken. That character may see resurrection and run the rest of her way to level 50 now (stuck at 47.)

My current group already has a Virtue branch so I'm just consolidating all my active characters there.

I used up all my 2 free Virtue slots and my 4 remaining vet reward slots. I still have more characters I will move but can't move any more for 6 more days so I will be holding on that for a week.

Oh, and yesterday was my birthday, I think the devs knew!

I would love to see a list of the entries myself.

The worst thing here is not that they wont let you transfer from euro to us servers...

The worst thing here is not the obvious impending doom this foreshadows...

No... the worst here is that we can't copy our beta level bumped characters to the live servers!!! :crazy:

In all seriousness: bye bye Triumph, hello Virtue!!!

Enough with the logic, lets all start singing the doom song!!!

I forgot something I posted before, way way before and should be noted here too: there is one more thing I would change on EM besides tweaking Whirling Hands to conform to the damage formula:

Give Stun the Clobber treatment. This means lowering recharge to 16 seconds and upping damage to 2.92 scale. Result is an attack that does a bit less DPS than the old Energy Punch but is up way less often. My basic calculator also says this would make EM "tie up" in single target DPS with Stone Melee.

That brings another note: I think powers like Stun have no place in melee sets. At least not for scrappers, brutes or tankers (stalkers are a different issue.) This means I'd give the same treatment to Martial Art's Cobra Strike.

Although it crossed my mind at the time, I doubt ET was nerfed due to PvP issues. The PvP changes of I13 were definitively forseen by the time ET got nerfed and the changes just made sure that ET remained the same under the PvP changes where all attacks do damage based on animation time instead of recharge.

Just think about it a bit and you would realize how big of a nerf ET would had received with a 1 second cast time in the current PvP.

As for farming, at least high level, all you have to do is take the right epic pool.

Low player base makes the looking for team window not work as intended?

Short one:

I know many have different reasons to have two accounts and although I can think on a few reasons, I would like to hear what is your reason to do so. I'm sure some one will have a reason I would had never thought about before. Oh and paying for my kid's account does not count, unless you also use it for some other reason.

Also lets not restrict this one to this game, I know the uses for dual boxing can fluctuate based on game so, if you dual boxed before in another game, please share your stories on that and the reason for it there too. Off course, I do still am interested mainly on the reasons for this game.

I don't dual-account in this game but will my previous dual boxing experience: I used to dual box on Final Fantasy XI with a ranger and a healer. The reason was that as a ranger I was able to fight enemies that could not move. These had still damage that i would not stand if not for a healer, this allowed me to "solo" in that game (contrary to what many thought, duoing in the game is very effective if applied to different encounters.)

So, how about you?

Ah forgot about this thread, noticed it before my move and didnt had much time to reply. Bumped into it again today.

I realized that I didnt made ever a dedicated AoE guide to back up my AoE calculation. I passingly explained it many times during discussions about my numbers but never actually posted my approach.

Let me explain how I do it in my spreadsheets:

First thing I do is to calculate the area of an AoE, I treat them all as cones (sectors) for simplicity. Won't get into the formula but you can go here if you need it.

For an example, Foot Stomp is a 15ft radius attack, being a full circle and having a 360 degree angle, i get an area of 706.86


Now comes the fun part, figuring out how many critters fit in there. For the most part, the average humanoid critter has a diameter of 3 ft, some are bigger (tarantulas for example.) So we get to calculate the area each average critter covers too.

Before jumping to that though, I also take into assumption that foes tend to leave 3.5 ft in between each-other. The number is really guesswork more than analytic and I keep it as a variable in my spreadsheets I can dynamical modify. Herding situations, for instance, may set this spacer to zero.

So this means that I consider critters to have 6.5 ft diameters, or 3.25 radius, therefore take 33.18 ft in area.

The next is simple: divide the area of my AoE by the area of the critters and we get how many critters the AoE can really hit without too much maneuvering. In the case of foot-stomp, we talking about 21.3 foes.

Ah but wait a minute, there is one complication that requires an exception: PBAoE have ME at the center meaning I take one spot. This spot must be subtracted from the foes that fit, turning our 21.3 into 20.3. This is not an issue with cones, as I have confirmed with the devs in the past that all cones start at the tip of the extended bone (hand) and not at the center of your entity.

So far we got AoEArea / CritterArea - 1 (if PBAoE)

Now I add one last touch: target caps. Foot stomp will simply be lowered to 10 foes since that's the true max. At this point I may multiply damage by "True Max Cap".

This all may seem redundant since I just ended with the foe cap, but that's just because FootStomp is huge. Let's try any whirling attack, that are only 8 ft, and we see a difference. The area of an 8ft radius PBAoE is only 201.06 and that yields 6 before substracting yourself from the equation for a total of just 5 foes hit in average.

Frozen aura is another interesting case as it covers 10 feet. That adds up to 314.16 square feet covered, or enough to feet 9.5 critters. 8.5 once you exclude yourself from the area.

And finally a cone example, one I like due to it being full of Fun: Crowd Control. This one is 8 Ft radius and has a 180 angle, making it's covered area 157.08 square feet. That's enough to hit 4.73 critters in average, being a cone it does not suffer from me being at the center. Blasts don't suffer this either.

Shadow Maul, with it's 45 degrees and 7ft radius will have a hard time hitting anything more than 1 (hits .57)

Off course, you can always maneuver and get a better hit count, but should your goal be to see how much you can cram in you can always set Foe Spacing to zero. At zero foe spacing Shadow Maul can hit 2.7 foes comfortably.

There is an additional artifact but it's mostly an outlier. In the game engine, things will be hit even if there is just a hair-thin inside the area of the AoE. This means that, aligned properly, 3 foe max can easily become 5 hit max (push half of the leftmost to the left, then squeeze half a new one on the right, play the same on other angles and voala, 5 foes,) but its mostly so hard to do intentionally that it's better to not even consider them when you are just benchmarking average performance.

Is there any chance we will ever be able to select lobbies for our contacts? The current hologram system feels too artificial. I would love instead for those cylinders to be teleporters to a lobby where the contact could feel more at home. Things like a small office, a police station, a dark cave or a lab come to mind as potential lobbies.

I popped my head on this forum by chance and noticed this thread. Got curious and read through it. Am shocked no one has posted this, normally I would not but the case here is very serious.

Unless the guy has moved, you can find full home address in his whois profile.

It seems the address has not changed from the time he registered mmoart.com and the time he registered kindredconcepts.com.

The profiles also list his phone number, both show the same number, but I would not be shocked if some one that has such a bad handle on money would have his number canceled and forced to change upon reactivation. Note his address is in an apartment complex, it's easy to move out of those.