The_South
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Yes, I literally used no enhancements all the way to 50. I'd been playing a long time and use to slot stuff every couple of levels like one would usually do, but in the last year or so I just decided to stop as you scrap many of your older enhancements in the future and decided to wait til 50 for all my newest characters including this one. I played on and off so it took a few days.
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I had heard as much. Anyway I don't mind spending some in-game cash to get some of the decent enhancements. Where should I start though?
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Well, I wouldn't mind pvping one day. So whatever works there.
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So do I need to craft the decent enhancements/get them off the auction house or are the the ones in the lvl 50 zone stores any good?
I tend to hear how you need lots of money to make a good set, so always figured the cheaper store bought ones wouldn't be as good. -
When I said standard store, I meant the the in-game stores. The kinda that take your play-money.
I just meant like the kind you can buy in any regular lvl 50 zone as opposed to crafting and auction house stuff.
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How good are the standard store bought enhancements compared to the expensive ones people are always talking about?
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Yeah someone else mentioned the alpha slot. I don't know much about it, but it sounds like a good idea.
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I dunno anything about 50+ content as I've always been making new toons over the last 4 years and never leveling them all the way up.
I've not slotted any enhancements either, as I wanted to wait til 50.
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I was starting to think that, but like I said, I am absolutely terrible with math.
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Cause I'm absolutely terrible with math.
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Cause I have quite a lot of points, but don't know if I want to spend them on enhancements if they're trash in comparison to most of the ones in the game for free.
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He's using windows vista so there's no tool box in the search menu.
Nevermind, found it. Deleting the VStore folder didn't fix anything. He got the same error. -
No virtualstore or anything of the sort on my friends computer, so this won't fix his problem.
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It doesn't. My friend looked everywhere and didn't have the store folder. So why he's getting that error, I have no idea.
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I got these screencaps from him.
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I got him to screen cap these since he doesn't have an account here.
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Well the follow idea I got from a similar thread from some time ago and it works pretty well for up close characters, in fact them auto following them as they try to run actually ended up being a benefit. Just, it's not really gonna work at range, cause I don't want to follow them.
Anyway, I'll try some stuff, and suggest a targeting option. -
No ideas on a similar follow command?
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So I was thinking, follow eliminates this problem pretty well as that's what I learned from a topic I made like this about a year ago, however I made this topic because I'm playing a ranged character now. While follow locks your focus on the enemy so the camera can do whatever it wants, which fixes the problem of seeing around big characters, it also makes you naturally follow the enemy. As a ranged character, that's somewhat of a problem. I'd prefer to be at range with a ranged character naturally.
Is there a bind of some kind or key in the options that has a similar effect to follow minus actually running after the enemy? The face target option didn't work, as the camera follows you the second you attempt to turn another direction. -
Quote:Guys I think you're misunderstanding me here. I said heroes and villains, not superheroes and super villains. I didn't mean comic book folks specifically. I meant anything. I figured everyone at some point wanted to try to make someone that already existed. Just for fun at least.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Pretty much this.
ESPECIALLY with some of the idiotic moves being made by DC and parts of Marvel.
For the first time in a long time I want absolutely nothing to do with 90% of the characters of either universe/company.
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Quote:I wasn't actually planning on making anything marvel or dc. I just meant fictional characters in general. Like even some really unknown character from Bomberman 64, or some other very underplayed game.Originally Posted by Chris_Zuercher
It doesn't really matter if you're making money off it or not. If you're using one of Marvel's or DC's trademarks to create something that can compete against their products or their officially licensed products, those companies have can issue a complaint against you. And given that these days Marvel has a game where you can play as Spider-Man, Captain America or Wolverine along with other players, they probably have a stronger case for protecting their copyright than they did when they made their lawsuit.
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Quote:Surprised this thread took off. Figured I'd just get a few answers cause that's all I needed. None the less I'm glad to finally get the whole story on the marvel lawsuit. I'd only know the very basics previously.Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Correct.
This gets into the murky gray area of trademark law. Many times, a company doesn't have to WIN any damages in a lawsuit during a trademark case, they just have to either get the unsanctioned use of trademark to cease or have a judge decide that the act in question is not actually infringing.
Either way, if you'r sued, you're out thousands of $$ in court costs unless you settle early. This is an area of law where it is virtually impossible for you to countersue for court costs if you win.
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Now, Marvel comics doesn't sue cosplayers for wearing non-sanctioned, non-licensed spider man costumes, but they may sue the person who makes and sells them. That's why they went after NCSoft/Cryptic... arguing that this was equivalent to people selling unlicensed versions of their costume.
NCSoft / Cryptic argued that their costume creator was equivalent to giving out a "box of crayons" to the players to express their imagination in-- saying that this was like Marvel suing crayola for letting kids draw unlicensed spider man costumes.
What was telling here was where much of Marvel's case started to unravel. All the examples Marvel provided the courts showing how well you could copy their characters was done by Marvel agents (employees or employees of the law firm) tinkering around in costume creator. NCSoft argued that since these were sanctioned Marvel employees that had the permission to make these characters, then there was no trademark infringement shown, and therefore, no facilitation on their part.
That put Marvel in an awkward position- to PROVE infringement, they'd have to identify an actual infringer (probably by identifying the character and server and requiring NCSoft to supply the contact info for that customer to the court. Marvel would then have to name that person in the court case -- and get really really bad PR for essentially targeting a fan that's cosplaying their trademark character online.
This didn't kill their whole case, though, so NCSoft still had some risk of judgements against them if they pushed this ahead in trial.
Instead, both parties agreed to settle with undisclosed details. We can suspect that these included some assurance from NCSoft that they'd show some diligence in preventing infringements by players and some permission from Marvel for them to do certain things. Money may or may not have changed hands. All this is speculation.
What we know is that NCSoft was happy to NOT get a potential cash judgement that would damage their business, plus get clear rules that will keep them out of lawsuit mayhem going forward from Marvel, and Marvel's happy because they have established that they're still protecting the trademark.
The only ones that aren't happy are those of us that hoped for clear case law defining what users can and can't do to avoid lawsuit in the future. -
Quote:Well, for one, to test the limits of the character creator. Making someone original based on what what the game has doesn't push it as much cause it's a character designed for this game and it has the parts you want, for the most part. I kinda like to see just what it takes to make someone from something outside of the game.Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
No I don't, I want to make my *own* heroes and villains, otherwise what's the point?
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Shame. Kinda figured with a lack of money being made off of characters resembling other characters, it'd be less of a problem.
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All stuff I already thought of, but not exactly a real way to fix it. Thanks anyway.