SteelRat

Can understand your point Dave, but you and I both know what the mentality is, or at least seems to be, with an ever increasing section of the player base, so it's not really surprising that 90% of the MA stuff out there is unimaginative rushed rubbish.

However, on the flip side, whatever other failings MA might have, it's biggest plus and largely why it's so popular with so many people is that it is genuinely the first issue that fundamentally gives us all something entirely different to do.

Every issue since day 1 is centred around (and I realise this may sound a bit stupidly obvious) going to a contact at point A, travelling to point B beating the snot out of a group of enemies and returning to point A for another one. In a nutshell that is what all MMOs are about when it comes down to it.

All of the other features we've had in the past like new powersets, bases, inventions, even CoV have given us something different around that central theme, but those features have all been secondary to that. With MA, I feel that the mission creation is central to it, and the combat is the periphery.

Servers Up! (honest) :P

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but dose a DPS set have a place as a stalker set all primaries should work with all secondaries IMHO if they don't there's a problem surly and yes while elec is sub par its not that sub bar that a have way decent primary should not work with it there for leading me to think that both claws and elec are sub par but are sufficient to work with other sets (claws more so than elec) but when combined are really bad.

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No, they shouldn't. The only way you could ever really achieve an ideal like that is if every corresponsing power in each set had the same effect and did the same damage. If you want that, we'd just have the same powers with different effects. In short: Not going to happen.

It's a fact across ALL ATs that some sets will work very well together, some will work, some will be a challenge, and some just won't. It's just the nature of the beast, and nothing is going to change that.

With the vast numbers of combinations and possibilities, I'm sure if you're that unhappy with the way your character is performing, a reroll to something else isn't out of the question. We've all had to do that for precisely the same reason, I'm sure. I have two accounts and probably 20 characters, across both servers on each. I've probably lost count of the number of characters I've deleted because the sets didn't really work or simply because I just didn't like them very much. (interestingly, one of those was a claws / sr stalker back in about i9 which I deleted at level 33)

I do see the point about saying "claws and elec must be sub par seperately if they perform so badly together", but claws isn't "sub par" at all, just the WAY it deals it's damage, i.e. "a little, very often" rather than high burst damage doesn't suit elecs relatively low mitigation performance. ( I have to admit, I've never rolled an /elec toon, so I can't honestly say how it does, but I do have several claws toons and love the set).

Perhaps if anything needs a buff, /elec does?

Or perhaps more accurately what's good about claws doesn't cover up elecs short comings.

Claws are fine as they are. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

/Unsigned.

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I just want the option for metal spines rather than the current ugly ones, so

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Surely that's power customisation..

I don't think I've ever made a character based on what the stats and numbers looked like, for precisely that reason. You concentrate too much on how the character is likely to perform and you forget the one reason that we're all here. FUN!

Most of my characters have been "That sounds like a cool concept, what power sets would he be?" and gone from there.

Go back to that (or maybe even try that if you haven't already) and the magic will flow back. Every time I've taken a break from CoH, I've ended up coming back to it for precisely that reason; had an idea for a character and a compelling urge to try it out!

He is.

Just the noob at the controls is the one that needs the help

Not sure that's entirely true, after all we do get "basic" and "metal" versions of some of the shoulder parts. And they're options within the one model rather than seperate costume parts.

When in Cimemora...

Not seen any crab spiders being cutified yet, would you be able to "do" Arak-Atak for me please?

Arak Atak closeup

Arak-Atak full shot

Thankies

Possibly the most over used quote from a film, but for some reason when ever see stuff like this, it always makes me laugh..

In other words..

None. The lightbulb isn't faulty, it's working as intended.

This has taken most of the day to compile, but I've taken a photo of every cossie, of all of my characters across both accounts and put together a little slideshow for you (120 odd pictures!), so sit back and enjoy...

Cossie Pics!

2 to say that the light bulb is too easy and should be buffed
3 to say that the light bulb is too hard and should be nerfed.
7 to say that you musn't click the light bulb box glowie because it makes changing the light bulb harder
4 to say that their mate reckons leaving the new lightbulb in the box decreases the lightbulbs regen.

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I have read the feedback it seems as tho there are people who have unlimited £6's to pay for a respec, or people who have enough time to constantly farm to enough influence to buy a respec recipe from what I can gather.

Theres nothing negitive that could come from allowing us to re-earn a respec once we've used the one(s) we currently have.

Your best excuse seems to be that people should use more careful planning, however like anything, you dont know what the build is like until you play it.(which you cannot do one the test server) For example, your endurance recovery could be ample to take your power usage chain, so then you can see you can sacrifice one IO & its 2.5% recovery bonus being granted from a certain power, however your melee defense can be improved by 3% if you where to shift 1 slot to another power to gain the bonus by adding the next IO in the set...

What I'm saying is, I plan my builds quite well & carefully, however like with everything...my views on what are best for the character evolve with every new issue & every new IO set etc, & most importantly...how it plays

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I don't fit into either of those categories you mention for the record.

A 2% change to recovery or a 3% change to defense is going to make diddly squat difference in PVE. Given that I don't farm, very few of my characters have very many orange recipes let alone purple ones, and personally I see the set bonuses they give as icing rather than cake. I can honestly say that IO sets give very little noticeable difference to the way a character perfoms, unless it's something really obvious like a KB prot IO, than they would if they were slotted with SOs.

I can imagine, however, if someone spends a lot of inf on high end orange recipes and purples that the bonuses add up and they DO notice a difference between that build and an ordinary SO'd one. The thing is tweaking that build to get an extra 3% def here or a bit more recov there isn't going to be noticeable either in the scheme of things.

If you think otherwise, you're deluded.

And once again, you mention "changes per issue". With every issue, each character gets a freespec. Problem solved.

FREEM!

Big botnet virus is rumoured to go pop tomorrow folks too, so make sure you're fully updated with Windows Updates and your AV software is up to date.

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I dont know why some people are against the idea

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Then read the thread again. You have put your suggestion forward. Some have agreed, some have disagreed.

That's what happens in a Suggestions forum. Putting the same idea forward again but rewording it isn't going to change a thing.

/signed.

If, as in an earlier interview with Posi suggested, there are going to be some graphics updates, it makes sense that there should be some sound updates that go hand in hand with that as well.

Completely agree about the taunt sounds.. maybe some "yo momma" jokes ?

Y'know what I miss?

Everything. All the time

Need to slot more Acc me thinks.

Firstly, if the powers are affected that much between patches, then a freespec is usually offered anyway.

Secondly, dual builds have only been available since i13, so this point is moot.

Thirdly, I did say "could be seen" as an exploit. The fact that this exploit is limited de facto by the number of enhancement slots in the tray means that it has sufficient limitations in it as it is for it not to be "fixed".

Shadow, awesome work. I'm glad I'm not the only one with zero artistic talent, but kudos to you for posting your efforts

Seriously though, Knightly, really incredible stuff. My only criticism would be the expression. Surely it should be winking?

Additionally, do you do commissions ?

Sorry, I don't understand the point you're making.

Why would you put an enhancement that you didn't want in a power?

And if it was a power you wanted to respec out of, why would you spend loads putting IOs into it?

Some yes. And given that you only have 10 slots in your tray, it allows for the fact that you may do a respec with a tray full of enhancements. Those are put in the pool as it were and you're given the option of selling them, using them or putting them back in the tray.

Working as intended.

If it's just a question of freeing up IOs, maybe they shouldn't be locked into the power once they're placed there, so that a player can move them about as and when they like. That's not something I would like to see, because I think it devalues the whole thing, but I think it'd be a preferable method of dealing with it than messing about with respecs.

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I find this odd. I'm a 33 month veteran. I'm not sure how many respecs off the bat that entitles me to (at least, without looking it up) but since the vet rewards were introduced, I've never done a respec trial, nor have I ever bought a respec recipe. Why? 'Cos I've never needed ones that weren't supplied for nowt.

I'll say again, if you're burning that many respecs between vet rewards and freespecs, you really need to look at the way you're doing things rather than ask for the game to be changed.


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48 months here and on my main PvP toons i haven't got a single respec. While i do use mids it can't help me to foresee huge changes like the ones seen in i13.


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but i13 came with a a free speck so that shouldnt have cost you a actual respec

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While I don't agree with the "as many full respecs as you want" idea, Rent did go on to say:

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Yes we get a free respec with every new issue but it doesn't solve the problem of swapping more than 10 enhancements. I've used up to 7 respec's to totally clear out a toon of enhancements before deletion.

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...so in that light the I13 freespec wouldn't do the job on its own.

With Set IOs in I can see the need for some way to transferring more than 10 enhs off a toon; ideally with some sort of relatively accessible cut down respec, that would let you (say) move as many enhs as you had AH slots for into there to deal with later.

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Except that using a respec to free up enhancements is not what they were designed for. If anything, this could be seen as an exploit, and rather than facilitating that process, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a hole that was plugged by one means or another. Rightly so in my opinion.

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Your deadly wrong on the "careful planning arguement", with the IO sets there are quite literly hundreds of ways you can slot your toon in a way in which you are gonna get the set bonuses that are most benifitial to you.

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Which is why Mids is out there as I said in my original post. You can explore all of those variations with that without using a single respec. In fact Mids will give you one thing that a respec wont: exact numbers for your set bonuses on the fly.

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I rebuilt my tank "Super B" Super Strength/Invunerable on mids at the start of i13 & have spent a good majority of i13 gathering all the IOs & recipes I need to make it a reality. However now nearing the end of i13, I have tweaked it even further, the power choices are all the same, however I need 2 or 3 slots shifted about in order to get the full benifit from the set bonuses I am aiming for that will make him even better as they are in line with the similar set bonuses Ive already picked up.

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So you've planned it using Mids, and tweaked it again. Well there's a good chance that i14 will see a freespec, so you can use that can't you.

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Of course this is an easy thing to impliment

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I know little about game coding etc

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Classic. Just classic.

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are you seriously trying to argue against that taking the limit of earnable respecs would be any harder than some of the more useless & equally small changes we've seen implimented over the last 4 or 5 issues..

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Yes. I don't know anything about coding. Even if I did, I've never seen how CoX is coded. With those two basic pieces of information, what possible basis could I have for saying otherwise?

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I agree with Renty & Princy as well, & in a similar way in clashes with this idea as well, as I have 1 set I'd like to remove from my build. Belive me 1 day there will be people who find themselves on the same boat as me, there favourate main character will be respecless after using all 3 of its earned respecs & all 3 of its vet respecs, & then find a way to better their toon. Or they might find they have 200m worth of IO's in 1 power, then find out they could use another set & get something better out of the bonuses availabe for 1/5th the cost & need to find a way to remove the particular set..

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I find this odd. I'm a 33 month veteran. I'm not sure how many respecs off the bat that entitles me to (at least, without looking it up) but since the vet rewards were introduced, I've never done a respec trial, nor have I ever bought a respec recipe. Why? 'Cos I've never needed ones that weren't supplied for nowt.

I'll say again, if you're burning that many respecs between vet rewards and freespecs, you really need to look at the way you're doing things rather than ask for the game to be changed.

While you're in the BIOS it might also be worth seeing if there's an option called something along the lines of "Primary Video". Older boards had the option of making the primary video card PCI or AGP, so you might have an option that says "PCI-E" or "Onboard"

If you disable the onboard card completely of course, this option might gray out anyway. Worth a look though.