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Speaking of cookies, quite a lot of people read my post, so I'd better get baking. Damn.

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Damn right

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The Scrapyarders live, work, and occasionally riot on Sharkhead. Sharkhead is probably the most dismally grim inhabited part of the surface world on display in the whole of the Citygame. (Sure, there are grimmer places in CoX, but normal humans don't live there.) I think it's perfectly reasonable that they can have a fair stab at beating the living daylights out of the supposedly "super". And besides, you have read Marshall Brass's little rant in the Origin of Power arc, right?

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Rioting or not. They are only grunts at works. They are not demons or thugs armed with high tech weaponry and body armor, they are not trained specialists with years of combat training. They are just disgruntled man at work. People like that should be ragdols when they meet a super powered being or even a well trained natural professional.

It feels wrong.

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People always say stuff like that. But how much damage would a big pickaxe swung by a big and bulky miner do you even the shiniest of armour types? A pointy pick is a pointy pick, and even if the villain is made out of rock, its still going to pack a punch. Dynamite is really quite nasty, hell they use it on mountains...

The only reason they havent won more is, A) every villain and his lackey dog have deecided to beat up Scrapyard when he pops up and, B) Arachnos has Arbiter Drones. Arbiter Drones = pain.

Personally, I hope the mission maker might relieve some of the tedium of lvl 50 'servitude'. I admit, you should be able to do something more than the radio missions. Destined or not, we play Super Villains. Where is our supas?

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Whats the stockade? is it like a superhero prison ala marvels Vault or that negative zone place or DCs Arkham Asylum?

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This is what I got when googling for champions online stockade. Doesn't look that advanced to me.

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Looks like a load of bull.

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Fwaahaha! Hah! Aaahahahaha...
Oh dear..kfffffkehehe...
XD

The only point I would make raelly is that they do need to overhaul hostage AI. Its far, far too dim. Yes, ok, the person might try and escape, but that doesnt mean they are actively retarded, which is what the current situation is.

Unless RPing with SG and friends in PD, I find now that GG > PD. The quality and helpfullness is that much higher. Also, im finally getting more RP on my much maligned Heroes.

Ah, right. Took me a while to figure out that sentance

What it says, suggestions for stuff that, while probably impossible now, would be quite cool stuff for the future (opinion)

Character wise;

-Disabled limbs, etc. Theres a fair few accounts of Heroes/Villains fighting without parts of them. While stuff like eyes and cybernetics are easily shown at present, what about wheelchairs/hovering seats, missing arms and suchlike? While wheelchair might well be highly impractical for actual combat, having it as something similar to [Walk] would be nice, for Characters with that problem.

-Zoneless Cities. Suggested before, in CoX2 thread. What it says on the tin.

Anything else anyone could suggest for longterm? Or views on the two so far (brain dead atm, forgot a few that I was going to add)

I thought the patched out the reliance on origin in temp powers? IIRC.

Answered by Points;

1. Heartily agree, although actually implementing it could be a royal pain sans le derriere. A bit brain dead, so out of ideas on how it could work atm, but a nice thought.

2. So very /Signed. Carry them, teleport them, hit them in the right direction, *anything*! Horrible things...If that fails, at least do over their AI, its so appallingly bad.

3. Myeah, agree with Spades on that one. Maybe make it look less like an arena, which is kinda daft, and more like a shady fighting ring, or something. In fact, renovate the original Monkey Bar, make that an Arena?

4;
a) Recluse may be a Tyrant, but, in the background, he does not allow Villains to kill wily nilly. For thugs and snakes and suchlike, he treats that as free bounty. Hitting civies counts as breaking HIS law. Blackmark, and blackguards follow.

b) and c) A bit below Super Villains. Informants and Heroes, yes, avergae joes, no. See above. Also, they could use thugs and NPC enemies anyway, without fear or reprecussions for Arachnos (excpet nabbing Soldiers that is )

Although, on that note, killing or 'defeating' civs in Bank missions should be allowed. Even if its just knocking them to the floor, IC wise, it should happen. Thats Paragon. Recluse doesnt care about that. Certain villains wouldnt care, either. That should be an option at the very least, imo.

Problem is, the Login screen says its the drivers...Yet I've updated every damn one I can find on this thing (which is hard, giving Windows craptastic-ness when it comes to accurate info)
Which monitor is it called?

T'be honest, the War Walls dont WORK. They dont serve their original purpose, i.e. keep the Rikti out. The damn things come on in anyway! duh...

Hmm, people have said that before. Maybe it just is. Bah humbug =[

/Signed. I like the suggestions Re the drones, too.

If they build the whole of Paragon, it would kinda make more sense. For example, Atlas Park is supposed to be the safest place in the city, right?
Why, they, is it filled with bit-players like Hellions and Clockwork Sprockets? For low-level stuff, yes.

However, canon wise, only the biggest and nastiest villains would have a hope in hell of getting anywhere near Atlas (and possibly get the Phalanx dropped on them....hmm, potential missions galore).
So, if the whole city was mapped, the likes of the Hellion and Skulls could be the typical alley muggers and suchnot, lounging around or gang-fighting like they do in Villains or the Hollows.

Personally, Im happy so long as CoX keeps on going, the potential of new stuff is always nice, even if we get a few squibs in our times.

I admit that having one specific group designed to sting more than anything else is rather irritating. And in the past I have found them murder to solo. The real problem is that I find teams rarely on a Kheldian, and not only do I not find solo play much fun, but for me they suffer in solo play. An inherent and an enemy faction that depends on team play, when I cant GET a team? Cut me some slack already

Still, Minion and Lt Voids, even at lowish lvls are counterable. It involves a simple tactic;
GANKTHATSONUVA! -charge-
Unless your running a low lvl mish on harder difficulties. In which case your just overly macho

So, trying to get the graphics to run at a slightly higher level other than Minimum settings. The main problem is either, after a certain ammount of time, the game simply crashes, usually after a blue screen of death, or the cursor dissapears to be replaced by a square made up of various, multi-coloured pixels.

Running on a laptop, HP Pavilion dv6625em Entertainment Notebook PC. Also running Vista. Haven't made any changes to the CoX filenames or anything, or to anything really. Any help?

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I have never ever even noticed you. I just happened to reply to the nearest post. You have never said anything that caught my eye.

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And please don't use me as a springboard for your rants unless you're quoting something I've said which is actually related.

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Now you are on my radar I'll be sure to give you a miss, particularily as you never sem to say anything that i deem worth replying to.

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Complete contradiction much?

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Immersion breaker muchly?

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Yes, but the fact that I have to have my immersive experience through a TV screen kind of breaks it for me. Never understood this 'immersion' thing you all wine about.

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QOL improvement

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QoL improvements are small, require lesser amounts of programmer effort and generally do not actually affect in-game experience at all.

Huge graphics changes do not (amazingly) count as such.


Not that I wouldn't say no to either of these suggestions. However, there's a few million other things I'd much rather have sorted out first.

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Ok, granted.

However, seeing as self-flight, super powers and hordes of robotic minions aren't possible, I have to get my kicks in other ways

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Is the world not about choice and freedom?

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No, no it isn't.

I've heard those that espose anarchy as a form of government use this argument. It fails because it is based on an invalid assumption about human nature: people are basically good.

What really happens under an anarchistic society is the strong take what they like from the weak.

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Why. So. Serious?!

Nuff said, really. That film was scary in a very interesting way. And Epic, of course.

Great, the night I planned on investigating the GG scene
-slaps Doc with a stack of Wanted posters-

/Signed to both. Its *ALWAYS* the same in the city! Oh, and far too fast day/night cycle. Immersion breaker muchly?

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Hehe I thought he was starting a club for all those who used to do the hollows troll missions run with there low pre 14 lvls before free travel powers The good old days

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Woh, woh...what do you mean *used to*?

I've barely ever seen team PVP. From the most part when I've been in zones its 1v1, or sometimes 4v1 Im not saying it doesnt happen, but if the majority of the time its 1v1, shouldnt that be a priority? And, like Praf said, surely teams would jsut slot intto place automatically? (pun not intended)

Yeah, its is a bit pants...
And I thought it was something to do with the Hollows too XD

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Yeah right, it'll be shot down faster than a Longbow Flyer over Grandville.

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What if it was stealthed?

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Have you seen how many enemies have better perception that hide these days? Basic stealth would be gone faster than...a very very fast thing XD
Yes, this IS IDIOCY. They'll be hated by the entire MMo industry and its players if they win...so they need to lose