The_Alt_oholic

Thankfully, this is one game that hasn't given in ultimately to greed.


to the OP -

Money CAN NOT buy everything in CoH.

Why not?
It is simply unfair to a subscriber (especially a veteran) if others can buy things in game with real world money that others spent "time" to obtain.

As far as I'm concerned that includes inf, levels, vet rewards, etc.

It should be obvious by now that the DEVs of CoH have taken a great amount of time to thwart the influence of RMT's and others that would exploit/cheat in this game.

There should be no expectation that you would be able to buy vet rewards, inf, or levels in this game - EVER.

If you do manage to purchase these things with real world money, you are doing it through methods that could lead your character/account/you to be banned, canceled, or (in case of a character) deleted. If you don't believe me, check the EULA and Rules of Conduct.

Play to play. Don't bother trying to pay "to be cool".
Go some place else if you want to buy your way to the top. It seems to work pretty well in the real world - good luck out there.

PS
QED - Mr Mister is ignored.

So you can rez your non-pet, "actual" team mates?

PS: Curses! I thought I had turned this into a "Twilight Howl Rulez" thread!

Because no AT with Pets can rez pets.
Instead ATs with pets "re-summon pets" when they fall in battle.

I'm sure you would like to be able to use "Twilight Howl" to suddenly rez a room full of dead mastermind pets, but ...

Very smooth. Good work.

You can also hold 20 things so you can hold 30 enhancements for one of those times when you hit say level 17 and suddenly want to drop level 20 enhances's on your character on the fly.

It's also a great recipe book - something that A LOT of us have been wanting.

I have to say from a multi-server/side alt-oholic point of view, this makes moving gear around between sg or vgs on various servers near effortless and definitely without risk of through-market-interception.

Have you run all the non-farm level 50 arcs in the AE yet?

That's the new trick "back hand" attack. It fakes out the enemies so they don't see the attack coming until it's too late.

Honestly, the first time it went off, I thought it was some kind of crotch-rocket attack because of my view distance. It took a while to figure out what was going on.
So yeah, I've seen this as well.

Well, the villains should finally be happy that the markets haven't merged.

I'm running a GeForce FX 5600, and I haven't noticed a notable decrease in frame rate. That being said, I already had my setting turned down quite a bit.

The first thing I would do would be to turn FSAA off.

Go into the custom settings and tweak things down. (try lowering particle count first, then tweak down the other things that are least important to you first.) One of the settings (I forget which one) influences how far away you start seeing things in detail (most notably signs); I would imagine that tweaking that down would help quite a bit as the farther out it goes the the more the computer has to render (and scale as you move).

During huge events, I find it best to hide names, sg, ratings, health bars, etc for players and enemies (you can still set stats in the team window and targeting window). This helped me dramatically - I forgot about this during the events on Monday and someone reminded me about it before the events on Tuesday - this made a huge difference. (makes me wish we could store and name a couple of option set-ups so I could quickly toggle to an event set of options for Rikti Raids, Zombie Apocalypses, Banner Events, etc.)

Honestly, I have too many great memories of things going on in CoH that I can't pick out a favorite.

I can, however, talk about the one that was most memorable to me.
It was during the first year of CoH.
I'm running my Eng/Eng blaster and I turn the corner and there is a Malta Zeus standing there with all it's Malta Support Units.
Big robot! So cool.
So what do I do?
I blast it of course - before it can blast me!
Well, I was in Steel Canyon and level 12 or so. That was back in the day where high level ambushes would be littered about all over the place.
Of course, the back up units never had a chance to fire at me - it was also still in the days of the one shot - blasted into oblivion by the Zeus before they could even react - yeah, those were the good old days - oh, did I say I was on the way back from the hospital from being jumped by level 15's at the mission door?
Man, that was a so cool! That robot was huge!

It was a long time waiting for vengeance against those guys, but you better believe I try to wear down some Titans and let them merge into a Zeus as often as I can pull it off.

And then I finally saw the Cronos Titan...ah, but that's another story...
And then ran the Hess Taskforce (or was it the other way around) ... that's another story too...
And, finally, the Impervious TF...(where's Mazinger Z when you need him?)

Gotta love giant robots....

Did I say that there was too many cool things to just pick out one favorite memory?

There is a price to pay for being evil.
These posts are always about the "evil" side getting shafted. So here we go again.
Once more to explain why evil shouldn't benefit from the hard work of heroes.

That's Infa not to be confused with Influ.

By "robust side" you mean to take away the fact that Influence is for Heroes. It isn't Red and Blue. It's Hero and Villain. Good and Evil.
Yes, it pays to be "good". At least here in our comicbook game world.

I'm not sure why there is any difficulty involved with e-mailing Influence to a character that has decided to join the heroes and the "strait and narrow path". You can send your self e-mail and if you have a Hero they can open up an e-mail with Influence in it. No problem there.

Once again, you try to demean being a hero or a villain. This isn't red and blue. This is Good and Evil.
There are plenty of other games without Good and Evil as definite alighments. If it is really so hard for you to deal with the fact that this game is about Good and Evil (and soon a gray area separate from the two) then maybe one of those other games would be more desirable for you.

The "draw" to return to the "path of darkness" is to be a villain. I would figure that is why some players are playing villains rather than playing heroes. Their incentive would be to return to playing a "dastardly evil" character rather than a "goody-two-shoes" hero.

I'm not trying to pick on you. I'm being perfectly serious.
Super hero comics are NOT about neutrality. Sometimes villains switch sides and sometimes heroes "go rogue", but you can almost always tell when it is intended to for a character to be Good or Evil at any given point - that is pretty much the basis of the comic book hero genre.
I really don't know why you expect villains to be rewarded for work done by heroes in a comic book super hero game - and that is what anyone that wants to see the markets merged - or implying that they should be - is asking for.

If the villain side turns into a waste lands, then maybe that is for the best.
It isn't even clear if you can get villain contacts to run missions in the Isles if you are a hero going rogue. If you are going Rogue and running "evil" missions - I'm assuming you won't be earning Infamy until you flip that corner and become a villain; I'm assuming that you won't earn Influence for running "evil" missions either if you are still a hero.

I certainly hope the DEVs just leave it alone. That would be the reasonable thing to do in this genre. Yes, this is a Superhero Genre game. If you don't like the polarity then find a game where there the sides really are only distinguished by the color of uniform that they wear - aka "Red and Blue" (though most of those games the side that you are on is Blue and the enemy is always red - or, at least, that has been my experience)
Those that pick the path of Evil deserve their just rewards - which by your guesses will be a big pile of nothing! Yeah! The Villains loose. Boo villains! Boo!


The "repair" isn't needed.
Go for it. Crash the villain markets and soak up all the glory of your villainy.
Evil is as evil does. And you deserve what you get if you relieve yourself in your own swimming pool.

Face it. You are villains.
Heroes worked to fill the hero market full of stuff.
If the villains want a market full of more stuff then they have to work for it.
Why should evil get rewarded for the things that Heroes do?
They shouldn't.

I think we have been over this time and time again.

If it is so bad to be villain, the maybe you should stop being evil and become a hero.

I'm certainly not going to give up trying to be a good person in real life simply because it seems that those that lie, cheat, and steal on various levels seemed to be getting ahead in this world.
I certainly hope I can come to a comic book game and expect to see that the lines are drawn and I can stand tall for my heroic actions and not see my hard work go to the benefits of evil (characters).

Of course, I'm still for stripping characters of all enhancements (and everything else) and starting them back of at "square 1" if they go "darkside" or "finally see the light".
There should be a massive price to pay for switching sides in a game that is THE game about the Superhero Genre.

Don't come crying to me if your Mastermind becomes a Defender when they finally become a hero.

I'll back the Fitness Pool. What's more Natural than to be fit?

I have a character that got along fairly well with just the Fitness pool until the GvE jump pack came along (makes going vertical easier) and the various teleports, fight, and jump packs when they came out.

I guess the OP is going for Super Strength or Martial Arts with Willpower (or possibly Regen if the SFX colors were turned off). I don't know any other sets that would make a character look like they were completely Natural and not using some kind of devices (that includes axes, swords, rifles, pistols, etc.) or powers (ice, fire, electricity, darkness, etc.)
If this is the case than Fitness definitely fits in with those power sets.

Does this mean that the OP will refuse tps to missions?
I guess they are out of luck on refusing "mystic fortune" at this point.

I guess it's a matter of asking yourself why I (and others) asked you those (same) questions.

I don't need to dig through to find those answers because those questions were for you. I didn't need the answers.

I enjoy playing AR/Dev blasters when I play them. I don't find any deficiency when I play them. I think they are fun to play. I'm not mini-maxing or exploiting. I'm playing the game to have fun. I'm not scared to play on the servers (I do NOT like to team with exploiters so some server(s) are just no fun for me because they have just become rotten-with-exploiters and isolationists as far as I'm concerned).

If you think some other set is so good, then just don't worry about playing AR/Dev blasters any more and play something else.
We all know that the power-sets aren't balanced. We all should know by know that the archetypes are lack balance (compared to one another) even worse than the variation of balance of power sets within an archetype.

I don't need to jump in with numbers. You're the one "claiming" numbers. Generate them.
I could care-less about the numbers. I'm here to have fun and number-crunching and mini-maxing isn't part of my fun-equation any more. I have better things to do and playing with an AR/Dev blaster is one of them.

I don't have a problem with knockback. I enjoy it.
So far - I've never been kicked from a team for using knockback. (I have a level 50 Eng/Eng blaster - they do way more knockback than AR/Devs do)
However, I don't take the grenade-launcher power or bean-bag for AR either.

Of course, I'm not into farming or lug-nut tank-chasing. I like to play with a little finesse, tactics, and style which is often a drag on the mini-max, dps, bull-in-the-china-shop players. To each their own.

I don't need number to prove to me that playing a AR/Dev blaster is fun.

It sort of already is like DP as it does different damage types already.

AR/Devs are more of a finesse blaster. It takes time and strategy to use them to their potential and they can control the area of battle a lot more than other blaster set combos. No other blaster secondary set give you invisibility or smoke grenades.

The Targeting Drone is a toggle that constantly buffs your ACC - and, if you really want Build-up, you could slot a Gaussian Fire-Control :: Chance for Build-up in it.

If you can't keep up with the team, then try to get ahead of it and set up for the next group while they are fighting the first one. (If you can't figure out how to do this, it isn't worth my time trying to explain it to you.)

Your tactics are lacking. You can adapt. ... or maybe not ... it seems you have made that point clear.

No reason trying to convince you otherwise.
Have fun hating your AR/Dev blaster.
I'll spend my time enjoying mine (Trip and Timer).

huh.
So 200 slots on one server would be okay with you?

And money rule$?
If you have all that phat loot, get a second account and you can buy and fill up 36 more character slots on that server as well.
Heck, buy another computer and team with yourself. Buy 7 more accounts and fill up all those 36 character slots - and 7 more computers and make a full team with just yourself.

Are you really that scared of the other servers?
You are scared of them, aren't you?
Xenophobe.
I bet you are scared of chatting on channels except for supergroup, team, tells, and private global channels as well.

[Getting under your skin? Wake up call!]

Seriously, I somehow think it would be cheaper just to transfer characters that you aren't going to play much to other servers, make your new characters on your "home" server, and then transfer characters around if you want to play them on your "home" server.
Will you loose your name? Maybe.
With i17 you will be able to e-mail inf and items to yourself - globally - which means that any characters that you have "parked" on another server, can still craft and send stuff back to your characters on your home server.

Somehow I see extra slots on one server to be a boon for exploiters.
They definitely would be for the xenophobic.
There is life on the other servers - and, apparently, you have plenty of free slots on all of the other ones - you're just too scared to use them ... or is it time to buck up and be a hero?
Bust outta that shell.

I think they are referring to the AE.
It appears they have a disconnect from playing the "the actual game" (aka "anything but AE missions") - none of which has taken nerfs to xp or drops.

I think what they meant to say was ::
"Me AE baby. Mean DEVs am make me cry. Why am DEVs so mean!?"

There is a world outside of the AE. HELLO! You can even leave Atlas! *gasp*
Really. You won't fall of the edge of the game map if you try to leave the AE building or Atlas!!!

I think the sad part of the original post is that there are probably far more players that are/will be glad about the changes to the AE (or don't care at all) than those that are going to be getting upset that their exploit-train has been derailed again.

Seriously, I don't know what the exploiters have to whine about. They will have a new way to exploit the changes probably the day that i17 drops.
Oh, wait...I guess they will have to take time to figure out their new exploits -

[satire]
I'm so sad for them.
[/satire]

I have no compassion for the players that play only to exploit the game.
I don't want to team with them and I would really prefer that they found another game to abuse.

Be a hero. Go fight some crime.