Suzumebachi

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IIRC the TFs scale to the highest of either:
* the number in the team (whether logged in or not)
* the minimum number required to start the TF


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It worked this way for a short while, but since the patch in March last year the TF spawns scale for the number of people on the task force, whether logged in or not.

From the patch notes:

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Task Force/Strike Force and Trial Missions

* The size of spawns in Task Force/Strike Force missions will always be based on the number of players in a Strike Force/Task Force, regardless of whether they are logged on or not.

* Spawns for Task Forces/Strike Forces no longer have a minimum size that they will not scale below.

8 Person Task Force Example:

* 8 players begin an 8 player Task Force and then 7 people LOG OFF. The spawns in the Task Force will still scale to the 8 players attached to the Task Force (regardless of whether they are logged on or not).

* If instead of logging off, 6 of the players QUIT the 8 person Task Force, then the Spawns will scale down to the remaining 2 players on the Task Force.


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Great fun tonight guys, thanks for organising that. I've been after a couple of those badges for ages!

I've generally found the main issue in the early levels is having enough endurance to keep going in order to generate decent levels of fury.

Certainly pre-Stamina your slotting priority will be accuracy and endurance reduction. There's little more depressing sight for a brute than watching his fury dissipate as he tries to recover some of that empty blue bar.

Post-Stamina is where brutes are suddenly able to let rip and become the SMASH machines they want to be.

At last I have a chance to overtake B's badge total!

It will be a shame to see you guys go, it's been a blast teaming with you and listening to the terrible jokes on TS. I remember the first time I joined a Scoobys team, running badging missions on a Valentines event. I hope I can team with you again somewhere

Good luck wherever you end up.

Suz.

PS. I'm gonna need a new global friends list now, it's 95% Scoobys

The protector bots constantly get stuck behind their own seeker drones, my Bots/FF/Mu Mastermind has Recall Friend specifically to retrieve them ( a power choice I'd love not to have to take)

I /bug this about once a fortnight, depending on how annoyed it's made me.

It's a shame because I really like the character but after a couple of missions it drives me nuts and I have to change toons.

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If the powers that be decided to give the EU boards an equal dev presence as the US boards I'd expect it to be the last we saw of devs posting anywhere...

It'd be nice, but heck - the devs could end up spending far too much time to even just scan the boards.

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You think? Compared to the US boards the EU boards are a ghost town.

I read the EU boards to see what's happening locally on our servers, or what flamefest JW has kicked off today but if I want info on a particular build, badge, test server patch, pretty much anything, I go read the US boards.

Heroes on Defiant, Villains on Union. All slots full on two accounts :s

Also, what happened to the RSS feed for the news? Has it moved or has it been canned?

Ah, not just me then

Monitors are 1440x900 or 1280x1024 depending on which pc I'm using at the time...but I never have the planner maximised...it's open at about 1070x740 which is enough to see everything full size (powersets set to 3 columns).

You are a software hero!

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I will grumble a lot more if the new forums aren’t small browser friendly.

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So will I. I quite often read the forums or post on my phone/PDA's browser.

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Me too, I browse the forums using Opera Mini on my mobile all the time. I hope you guys have added phone browsing to your testing....

On the Herostats blog recently they posted this to help people track badges.

Badge Tracking HOWTO

The last step indicates changes you can make to the Herostats default setup to help with bind file verification.

I picked up Group Fly on my Bots/FF. I found it very slow and irritating to use.

It's easier to set them to Follow/Passive and let them run/tp after you as you fly.

That was an absolute blast, cheers all I laughed way too much, sorry to all those on TS with me

screenies of the mayhem here...

One

Two

Three

Victorious survivors

It was mad, PI just lagged out as the streets turned into rivers of mobs

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Oh I dunno... If you buy a TV in Dixons one week, and a week later it's £50 less, do you expect a refund? I think we should count ourselves lucky there's ANY kind of refund!

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Yes. I got a £90 refund from John Lewis 27 days after I bought my last tv because the price dropped in the Sony shop down the road "Never knowingly undersold!"

Back on topic: The most unweildy thing about this, along with the fact you won't be reimbursed with the salvage for crafting things, is what are you supposed to do with all the contents of your base bins while you tear everything down and rebuild it. If they've changed the cost of the plots it could be substantial but you'll have to go back to an 8x8 to get the refund before returning to the original size.

Sometimes I'm not sure anyone on the dev team stops to think through the consequences of their ideas

From Lighthouse on the US boards

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Hello Base Builders!

As you may be aware, there are re-pricing changes for base items coming in Issue 13. I've had a couple of inquiries asking about how that will be handled regarding existing bases.

As I understand it, you will be able to sell back stuff you've alredy bought for the price paid originally. Then, you can buy new stuff (functionally identical) at the new price.


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So rather than getting the devs to script a refund we have to tear down our bases and rebuild them?????

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WAR currently has the best team search facility of any of the MMOs I play; click a button and it gives you a list of open teams, with the distance (time to reach them) number of members, and what activity they're engaged in (PvE, PvP, Public Quest), click another button, and you join the team - no invite required.

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Sorry, but if I'm playing with a couple of guys from my SG then I'd be a little put out if someone randomly invited themselves to my team. I don't mind people asking, but as usually we only play a couple of missions I don't want people to join my team to find we are quitting half a mission later. Not fair on them or us.

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Then you don't mark your Team as Open or Looking for Members and it doesn't show in the list.

WAR lists Open Parties, that is Parties specifically looking for members. If you don't want members you set the Party as Closed

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Ah, ok. I've never played any MMO other than this That would be useful here then, it would be handy to filter out those teams that don't want any more players.

To be honest, at this point anything they did to the team search window would be an improvement

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WAR currently has the best team search facility of any of the MMOs I play; click a button and it gives you a list of open teams, with the distance (time to reach them) number of members, and what activity they're engaged in (PvE, PvP, Public Quest), click another button, and you join the team - no invite required.

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Sorry, but if I'm playing with a couple of guys from my SG then I'd be a little put out if someone randomly invited themselves to my team. I don't mind people asking, but as usually we only play a couple of missions I don't want people to join my team to find we are quitting half a mission later. Not fair on them or us.

Heh, I'd just be happy if you could resize the window to actually read peoples search comments

Being able to filter out people on TFs would also be really useful so you are not annoying them with tells asking to join their team when you can't.

I'd love to have a better way to pass items between characters. My main is a badger and a crafter and so does all the enhancement crafting for my alts on that server as he slowly churns his way to Fabricator.

It would be extremely useful to be able to pass invention salvage and recipes to him from the alts in the SG (I suppose if you looked at it from an RP point of view, which I don't really, they all know each other as they are in the same SG) so he could craft items for them.

I was using characters on my second account to pass items across but I have recently had to cancel that account for budgetary reasons

So yeah, I pass items between characters and would like a way to pass invention salvage and recipes more easily.

Mind/Kin (50)
Ill/Rad (22)
Ice/Storm (16)
Fire/Kin (8)
Plant/Emp (4)
Earth/Thermal (3)

Some are random thoughts that salved my altitis for an evening, but I love my Mind/Kin

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It's pretty cool data, actually. The Caption field actually contains all the character names who appear in the shot.

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I didn't know that, it made me go back and check

I think it's actually the names of the team members at the time, rather than anyone in the screenshot. I have some crowd shots with just my name in the caption but some of just me with several names who I assume were my teammates at that moment. Very, very cool.

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I was sorting ALL my screenshots last week which covered EU beta to present day and came across a few pics set ina hospital and I couldn't for the life of me remember where they came from and then forgot about it. Now I remember so er....thanks =)

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If you use an image browser like Picasa then the map name is in the IPTC Keywords of the image (along with the x,y,z coordinates) and it turns out that map is tagged "coh:zone=MOTHER_MAYHEM_HOSPITAL"

I have some 3000+ screenshots from my 33mth CoH career and they are nicely searchable in Picasa by zone name or character name, entirely from the metadata stored in the image.

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I saw that too. However I was in port oaks and I did an assassin strike and the bomb would disappear for 2 seconds and then drop back into place screwing up my attack chain build up combo.

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Not just me then, whenever I AS'd a bomb it would vanish and then drop down again a couple of seconds later and I was having to re-target it.....v strange.