T_Immortalus

Actually, you are exactly the "we" I was talking about....the people who would never use one of the "practically useless" freebies and thus "WE would not bother visiting the store to claim them".

I just thought I would clarify that point.



If they are trying to get people to visit the store then it will fail if the items they are giving away are so rarely used, or so very short duration as to be a "save for an emergency" or "save until you know the exact right time to use it"(which end up being "never use" for me because that time never comes or passes by too quickly....like the Self Destruct power goes unused by me), that people can easily say "I won't use it so no point in even opening the store".
That is the point.

You need to entice people "enough" while not giving them "too much", but "enough" needs to have some below it that are "not enough".
The inspirations and SINGLE xp booster are "not enough" because they are "not useful enough" or "not long-lasting enough", thus they are about as enticing as a free piece of candy to a child who already gets more candy for free from other sources(i.e. inspirations and xp drop like candy from the game, the store boosts and inspirations are just a little better but not worth paying for if you have access to AE).





Again, I'm not complaining so much as pointing and saying "that is a failed marketing plan".
It just won't work the way they want if the items are "not enough", but they do not need to give away "too much"(like the enhancement trays and server transfer tokens would be). The best option would probably be a single costume piece or maybe 5 sets of 10 patrol xp bars. It just needs to be "enough".

FYI, the checkbox is currently bugged:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...87#post4237187

It changes color depending on what you mouse over. with an already multicolored flashing screen, that just makes it easy to lose it.
It would probably be better if it stayed one color and just changed shape for certain things.

The best option would be to reduce the complete overload of effects in the game though, but that won't happen as it would require likely reducing the amount of powers available and reducing the amount of clicks and toggles in favor of auto powers.

Maybe they should just give up and type out the word fr every symbol.
For example: percent instead of %.

They seem to handle the alphabet better.

I went form memory and knew it would be faulty. The point was to give a general idea of how it looks.


It seems the problem is the % sign. Either it now truncates the info or they are using the wrong symbol or code or something(instead of % ) which truncates the info.

Well then, is perception affected by level difference?

I swear, I can walk up to Deathsurge with just Super Speed and Stealth and make faces at him without gaining aggro. Deathsurge used to be listed as level 20 while he would still con purple.

That would explain the issue, but, either way, I know that it used to be easier to sneak past, or stand in front of, every giant monster and monster that didn't specially ignore stealth.
The 100ft stealth value seems new.

I would think the problem with Corruptor attacks showing nothing but(just made up numbers):
....would be rather bad.

Just look in character creation or in game detailed info. It just stops and doesn't show any of the secondary effects and their values beyond that "2.5% chance to scourge per..." line.
This is most obvious for ice primary that doesn't show all the slow values. It is as if the set doesn't have slows.

1) It seemed he was open to a fire secondary or primary, not just fire/fire. I gave suggestions and my own opinions.

2) Immobilize is great in general for stopping melee attacks for every character.
You know what melee attacks have more of? low mag quick mezzes to turn off toggles and higher damage than ranged by quite a lot. Some enemies don't even seem to have ranged attacks at all while some definitely don't.
Immobilize is definitely great especially since damage is balanced to not be as good as it needs to be for your suggested playstyle, except on a Blaster or Stalker character which is designed to rely on damage almost exclusively.

Anyway, I'm just offering a differing opinion based on my experience, and I prefer safer play so immobilize definitely makes me safer or I wouldn't suggest it.

I'm not surprised. Every other game I have ever tried has always performed better than City of Heroes, with better graphics.

I would probably even say the Hero Engine performs better than City of Heroes sometimes.

"Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most 'ironic' of them all?"

I could not resist.
FYI, I didn't take it as a personal attack, but it does look like you made a personal attack now that I review it. Interesting how you started the whole off-topic attack roundabout and blame it on others.





Edit:
All I said was I was unimpressed and disappointed, not "give me something better NOW" or even any angry insults. I just said it does not look like it will accomplish the goal they created the program to accomplish.
That's perfectly civil and apt, unlike the "complainers complaining about complaints" which are completely pointless and nothing more than "grumpy old man" syndrome.


Honestly for all your complaints against negative comments, I have seen a lot more negative comments, especially snarky "general attacks", from you Forbin_Project.
When do you ever post a single neutral or positive thing that stays on topic without attacking others for no reason?

That is the last I'm saying about that, no matter how much you will inevitably attempt to goad me into more.

Oh, great....

#3 in the edit above still is broken though.

Yeah, if he wiped all the software then it's likely a hardware issue, unless he reinstalled broken software.

If you want to try reinstalling again then just install the absolute necessities and add back things one at a time until the problem happens again. If it happens with just the bare minimum necessary software then it is either that software or the hardware. If it happens after installing one thing, when it worked fine before, then that one thing is likely the issue.

I see a lot more, in life in general everywhere, of the people who complain about complainers like some old man saying: "in my day we got nothin' and liked it you young hooligans /shakecaneshakily".

And honestly, you're the ones blowing it out of proportion and making it sound like we're protesting inside the NCSoft offices when I made exactly 3 posts on this entire topic and only in this thread.
I just said my piece and promptly went about my business, while you have to come back and complain complain complain about "imaginary anger".
You just invent a reason to complain, which is much worse than just a simple "this is disappointing" post.

Hell, I just complained about you complaining. LOL


That's it for me on this topic. Either they give a bit better thing next time or we don't even bother checking after a month of "next to nothing".
Game developers never learn. You can't give too good of an incentive or too little because players will tire of both and end up pushed farther away from whatever the developers want them interested in than they were before the incentive was added.

They need to give something a little better than "a single one of their cheapest and most unfulfilling consumables", but not something too good.
(Edit: How does Firefox not know that "unfulfilling" is a word when it knows of "unfulfilled"?)

Stealth = Super Speed = 35ft each
Mask Presence = 40 ft

70ft(Stealth+Super Speed) vs 75ft(Mask Presence+Super Speed)

How much extra perception do those monsters have? enough to see 70ft from 30ft away while not seeing 75ft right in front of them?

Like I said, something does not seem right. I was just asking if anybody else noticed that enemies may have seen them when they should have been perfectly hidden.




As an aside, it could have been the fact that I was using Chrono Shift and Farsight at the time. Maybe those had their "enemies will not notice this" part broken or some even more strange bug.



Edit:
FYI, monsters, and even giant monsters, do not arbitrarily have extra perception. I used to stand in front of Deathsurge in Cap Au Diable and try to take pictures of the him when his ghostly face pulsed in front of the electrical graphics of his head.
Enemies only have increased perception under special conditions.

Edit 2:
At least last I checked, monsters and giant monsters had the same perception as everythign else, but this was back in issue 21 that I last went around any GMs before now.

I guess you have never heard anything about Hamidon then?


It was a scientist named Hamidon Pasilima who managed to unlock incarnate power through science, altering himself into a giant form of the most successful form of life on the planet....a single cell organism.

The developers and community people have said he was an incarnate at least a few times.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Hamidon

1) We're "super"-people. We're supposed to completely out-class minions and lieutenants and even bosses.

2) I can't mez every enemy at once so the others will still be able to come after me.(Edit: as gravity/time they can mez me as well and I have no protection from it at that level as a gravity controller, except inspirations which I would need a whole tray of)

3) good luck finding a team for help villain side for that clone army mission, especially if doing it through Ouroboros such that you need a team for the entire arc of actual villain alignments(rogue included).

4) Hamidon is an incarnate. That makes some sense that this powers would be unique, but it also makes sense that we could get a similar amount of power(example: Emperor Cole/Statesman/Rularuu/Lord Recluse/The Honoree/etc...).



I think it would have been best if players were equivalent to a hero/archvillain class enemy such that we could solo them while fully incarnate players would be equivalent to incarnate AVs/Heroes and giant monsters(which the Hamidon is but is actually an incarnate).

That way we would feel "super" when going up against small groups of elite bosses, larger groups of bosses and huge groups of everything lower.
(Edit: The best example of this is the Positron TF part one, the new version. You get 8 boss doppelgangers for 8 players, and it is a lot of fun.)



And anyway, it would be much easier to maintain balance all around if NPCs got the same powers and numbers as players so that problem powers would be more obvious and reported more often.
Of course, enemies ranked lower than AV/Hero would get fewer powers, similar to how AE custom enemy groups work.

It makes sense if you don't fall to the excuse of "bad AI" which can be designed to be a bit better and is already compensated for with "more enemies".

FYI, it's actually a $1 or $1.50, and it's maybe 0.0001% of their profits just from XP Boosters.

The "spitting out $20 bills" analogy doesn't fit this situation at all, but that is why that analogy is "hyperbole".