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Quote:I think what Je_Saist meant to say was; "Marketing CoV as a stand-alone was a huge mistake." Most would agree with this statement. CoV Never should have been treated as a stand-alone, we wouldn't be having these problems with CoV content if they designed the content so that you could complete it two ways... as a villain or a hero. And then branch out to more heroic and villainous content from there.Originally Posted by IanTheM1
I would really love to know where you got that from.
I find it humorous how cryptic manages to make the same mistake twice.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tamara2
In the 1940s, the black people were afraid to speak up because of the possible consequences...
I stopped here when you made an appeal to emotions and compared my skepticism to the fears of a minority speaking out during the civil rights movement..really? Going to make a holocaust allusion next?
My statements weren't made on a platform of fear but of sober skepticism. i'm a base builder. If i'm not marketing i'm spending 2 hours or more planing out my base setup and design, implementing new things in my base,etc. I Mostly come onto the base building boards to get ideas and there are some FanTAStIC bases out there.
Look at the track record. i13 PvP, AE, market UI, Hamidon Green mitos, Base Raiding;
Consistently when players have asked for the devs to "Improve" or "fix" something of the game they enjoy the players wind up with far less than what they began with or something that's completely broken. -
Quote:Yes, it should bug you if you enjoy City of Villains. Unfortunately the devs are of the mind that since CoH has a much greater player density than CoV, it makes business sense to neglect CoV for updateing and adding new CoH content.Originally Posted by Zamuel
Redside has much less content than blueside yet it is generally better designed. General consensus is that older hero content needs to be revamped while villains need more content overall. I17 brought us a much needed revamp of the Positron Task Force. However, villains didn't get a new SF, they merely got Silver Mantis moved out to the zones and it wasn't that hard to find someone with a Mission Computer before this. My worry is that blueside will start getting improvements while the already unpopular redside will continue to lag behind in content.
Now, I'm not ignoring the new clone arcs. They were well done and I think the one for villains was better than the one for heroes. However, it still leaves villains with a lesser amount of content in the end.
I guess my question would be, is my thinking unjustified? Am I letting it bug me when it really shouldn't? Or do others feel like this?
As has been stated before it's not that the Devs "Hate Villains" it's that they don't have enough incentive to care.
Some speculate this lack of content will change come GR when side-switching is allowed and new coop content is added. But I'm not the type of person that smells ******** and calls it roses.
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Quote:PvP got the attention PvPers were begging for and they got i13. AE got the attention many designers have asked for and they recieved nerfs to awards and limitations to their design capabilities.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Question for those who consider themselves Base Builders (rather than those who just threw together a functional base and haven't touched it since. I fall under this category, though with more tools and more variety I would be happy to be included in the designers category):
Any of you show up to a Con where Devs were present and try to talk about these things? HeroCon, PAX? Anything?. Sending PMs and missives and creating reams of threads pointing to other threads doesn't seem to be working. Any of you trying to communicate in person?
Base Builders aren't the most ignored/abused/whatever you want to call it group in the game. Ask a PvPer how they feel about the attention they got recently. I'm sure they'd gladly change positions with you. Ask the people who use the Architect regularly and have to make change after change to their arcs due to exploit fixes and other things. I'm sure they'd love to be ignored rather than have to constantly be editing arcs to keep them playable. Careful what you wish for.
That being said, keep calling attention to what would be good for the Base Building community (and even better, for those who might wish to join that group, but are put off by the learning curve), but keep the demands and the entitled attitude to a minimum. You might get further with the Devs that way.
I don't think the question the Base Builders should be asking is "Do the Devs care about us." I think the question base builders should be asking is "Do we really want the Devs attention?"
Please don't touch my bases Devs. it's one of the few things I still enjoy in this game. -
Quote:Zone is the special olympics of PvP.Originally Posted by Kayla Rae
Fly? I usually hear fly isn't good in PvP cause a lot of people have powers with -fly in them.
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Quote:Go Grav/TA take flight and Teleport. Slot for range and recharge.Originally Posted by Kayla Rae
I've PvP'd a couple times and I like zone PvPing more than arena, so I was just wondering..
what are some good Defender, Controller and Blaster Zone(SC) PvP builds?
I'm not really into melee types. And how do you think a Grav.Storm would be?
Thanks for the help, in advance.
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I have 2 IO tables filled with high-end purple crafted IOs and PvP IOs. I have 5 toons on virtue and each has about 3bil on them and at least a billion invested in the markets.
I'm not sure how much I'm worth and quite frankly I don't care.
My measure of ebil isn't how much I'm worth but how much high-end in game loot I get to delete once I finally decide to leave. -
Quote:Statesman dies or is killed, disappears. Recluse of primal earth leads the fight against Tyrant the man who murdered recluse in the praetorian universe and Recluse becomes primal earths reluctant hero.Originally Posted by Steampunkette
That can be what the giant web is doing! Calling down the Shivans. Statesman finds out and goes after Recluse while the heroes and villains are fighting against the Shivvies. At the end of the Invasion event (you know that's what it will be!) have a big TF in which both States and Recluse fight to the death!
There! Project Destiny AND The Coming Storm both resolved along with the death of States and Recluse!
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Quote:Based off your avatar, I'm Not sure whether you're trying to be kinky or domesticated, Leo.Originally Posted by Leo_G
I was actually thinking the collar, myself. We only have the 1 spiked collar and it sux...that one's got a kinda chain leash thing going...
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Quote:If we get more collar options I want a leader and a dominator crop assault set, rahr!Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
I just want a collar that doesn't have spikes on it. Is that too much to ask for? Oh, and plain elbow gloves too. The only ones we have right now have that bat wing motif.
More latex options please for us vegan fetishists. d;D
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Quote:NPC costumes annoy me to the point of frustration. I hate Carnis for their boots, garter belts and masks...just, grrr! *snort* I want!Originally Posted by flashrains
Heck, we just need more thigh-high boots in general. WHY, devs? WHY can't we have the outfits from that one fashion show mission (minus the one belt that has two cape systems)? WHYYYYYYYY do those completely inconsequential NPCs have to be unique?
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Quote:... We are of two minds, Brandy. I want the leather opera gloves too. d;DOriginally Posted by BrandX
Yes. I want those boots too! Can those be in the mutant booster?
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Quote:/Rad is terrible. Only downy kids play /rad. You don't want to be a downy kid do you?Originally Posted by KillfanB
I've never had a Corupter before and I am planing to make it for PVP
So what's a good Kick butt primary for /Rad?
( If something better than it go ahead and tell
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Quote:FF/TA/Storm in no particular order. Team oriented builds.Originally Posted by Weather
Hey! I really wanted your opinion(s) on which Mastermind secondary is the best for PvP. I'm PvP at mostly Sirens.
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Quote:There's a new MM Exploit in AE. Probably patching for that...Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Thought it was done on a thursday usually?
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Quote:This is why I moved Terminal Lad to Freedom. Virtue's Server seems like it's on life support and slipping...Originally Posted by ROBOKiTTY
Grandville go boom right before raid time. >=E
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Quote:I have a Mind/Energy dom called Ms. Foxglove. Her costume is fox ears and a tail (Like cat-woman or Squirrel Girl) you can have a tail and NOT be a furry.Originally Posted by Duncan_Frost
I don't really get why people think tails are a "mutant" feature. SexyJay also hates furries so I doubt we'll be getting them any time soon, he needs a shower after doing those animated ones...
This is a furry:
Creepy, no?
Oh, I would love a fat-slider with the mutant pack.
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Quote:hmm..I'd probably still keep a petless DS/Poison MM... I <3 them whips!Originally Posted by Bocus_King
Ya I'd kick a kin with no SB, just like I'd kick a mastermind with no pets. I don't get why people play certain sets when they don't take they key powers that define said set.
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Quote:^^This.Originally Posted by Kioshi
Oh don't bother with that, if they're out of range, too bad for them. No need to go chasing them. I only 'chase' people out of range when someone is dying and I'm on my emp so I can cast a Heal Other+Fortitude (or AB if it's up) - that is, if it isn't like a fool scrapper going off to solo a 8-man mob alone at the other side of the map lol.
But not on my kins, it's not like SB will save anyone's life in 2 seconds.
Don't chase people to SB them. Designate a point-man (Usually a scrapper, tank, brute) if the teammate isn't following that point-man they don't get SBed. -
Quote:Hi Gypsy,Originally Posted by Gypsy_of_Paradox
It's why I ask, it seems people forget Kin is more then SB. On my brutes, I'm always waiting for FS not SB. I have the 1-8 as macros, but could bind them to my numpad as well. It's more really that I want to be blasting things then buffing endlessly. I would still bring to team everything else Kin has to offer.
The question actually came up when I showed my wife my toons build. She has an Earth/Kin troller at 50 and was surprised to see it in my final build. She said I'd hate buffing the team. Granted I solo'd a lot and lvl'd on smaller teams on his road to 50. Things are less intense on paper missions as opposed to SF/TFs.
It wouldn't hurt my build to leave it in honestly, I was just curious the general consensus.
This is the way I see it. If you plan on teaming often, take SB, people will five star you if you keep them buffed and invite you to the next TF tthey run and they'll tell their friends how much a great asset to a team you are.
To be perfectly honest if I were a team leader and I invited you on a "team" as a kin I'd expect you to have SB. If you didn't take SB I would most likely one star you and pass you up for another kin with SB the next time I make a team. -
Quote:If the Devs have a cautious attitude regarding hoarding they have a backasswards way of showing it with i17...Originally Posted by Canine
One of the things that comes up occasionally on these boards is players expressing a desire for recipe storage items in their bases.
And the developer response that comes up is always 'it would starve the market of supply and encourage hoarding'. (paraphrased).
This is a huge (5Mb) image I put together from all of my characters' recipe and vault screens.
Bear in mind, this assorted mountain of shiny things has been accumulated by one player. On one account. On one server. I sell most of the things I get, but if the price is over a certain arbitrary amount and it looks like something I could use in the future, it gets classed as 'too shiny to sell' and kept.
Of course, this all falls down on the minor fact that I find the number crunching and faffing around to get a fully IO'd build to be so tedious that I tend not to bother... (OK, so I'm an idiot, sue me :P )
I think the cautious attitude regarding hoarding may well be fully justified, at least regarding my behaviour.
What about you lot?
But then the backasswards approach seems to be what the devs do best...PvP, Market UI...AE exploitation...AE rewards... -
Quote:^ This, this soooo much!Originally Posted by LISAR
Squirrel and fox tails....pleeeesssee squirrel and fox tails.....
I would LOVE squirrel and Fox tails or simply a generic fluffy long tail model with seperate templates (Stripe, alternating color between trunk and tip of tail, none). I would also like the option to have these as animated and non-animated.
oh, face tenticles for the cthulhu inspired concepts and mutant aura's and new skins.
P.s. OMG, i've been quoted. d
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Quote:Thank-you Castle. When can we expect this change to be implemented?Originally Posted by Castle
Actually, I dropped it to 10.
Oh, PvP could use some luvin' too. I hear Psi for blasters casting and recharge times are a bit unorthodox in comparison to their damage output. -
Quote:*takes the above statement as gospel.*Originally Posted by ConFlict
Phase is only good in zones
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Quote:I have to disagree with the above statement. I built my rad/rad and she is all kinds of fail.Originally Posted by iLostCountBarrier
the only way your rad will suck is if -divine built it.
But thanks for the input, fire/cold seemed to have great parity..oh well.