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Wow, that is just amazing.

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Very nice BuckeyeStar. Otter thumbs up! I love the cartoon style of Belle.

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Properly done ambushes can be very dangerous. And a proper -travel penalty WILL suppress ALL travel enahncement, even the speed in swift.

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Uh, no.

Not unless you're taling about a SLOW effect - which will have non-swift-ers getting outright screwed, chugging along at stupidly slow speeds, less than non-sprint walking!

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Which is what I thought. Add in the extra spice of say, Stalkers, or just PvP in general and things just would not be fun. The only people who would even try to get a shard would be teh elite players. Casual gamer? Yeah, don't even bother trying to get a shard.

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No offense but the way this is phrased it makes it sound as a "nerf his experience not mine"

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I hadn't thought of it that way, but I guess I am. But to be fair, the OP is kinda asking for that. =>.<= Also, it is a far cry better then making getting the shard nigh-impossable. Normally I really like your ideas Starsman, but the travel-power supression one isn't that well thought out or good, in my oppinion. Mind you, I don't think mine is any good either, not that it is really mine. Other people tossed it out long ago. >.>

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You skipped the part about the ambushes, which would be a true "risk" if you cant run away from them with a travel power (I include sprint as a disabled travel power btw, so you would not be able to outrun the ambushes)

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Slotted swift. And again, it's still not really risk, just agrivation. Avoiding the meteor ambushes, and random shivans leaping from the sewars going 'boo' was exceedingly easy for me. Sprint was unslotted, and swift at the time had just a flight speed in it. I honestly don't see this as a solution for the 'Shivan problem'. A better solution is to just reduce the uses to one or two. If you only have a one or two shot use of the shard it will balance out in the 'prep' time, even though it's really back to agrivation not risk. People who use shards all the time to solo EBs or Avs (gives Ultimus a sideways look) will find temselves spending more time getting the shards then doing the missions. For the rest of us who use them only now and then anyways it really wont trouble.

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My biggest concern is one other people have brought up, and that is the fact arcs can not be repeated. The hole this will create in the economy is going to greatly skew trading. Unless people make character for the sole purpose of getting and doing arcs just to give/trade the recipe then re-roll the charater. There is already a problem of people not playing much into the late 30's-40's because of the 'grind'. Putting together a complete set of recipes will be an option only for a small amount of people with enormous resources to draw on. At least, that is my fear.

Having Safegaurd/Mayhem missions have a chance on completion of dropping a Story Arc recipe would prevent, hopefully, this from happening, again as others have said.

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Disable travel powers while carrying meteorite samples.

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Bloody Bay is empty most of the time. So I'll just walk from meteor to meteor instead of superspeeding, big deal. What difference does that make? 30 minutes instead of 15?

I'd prefer the acquisition method be kept as-is, but the power limited to one charge.

Villainside I don't have über power builds, and getting a shivan has been the only way for me to get past EBs solo.

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OK, then disable travel powers AND add frequent Shivan ambushes towards the carriers of the meteorites. Also suppress all stealth powers.

I do think no travel powers may make things a bit harder though, there is a HUGE difference between super speeding from one point to the next and walking it, time wise.

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/em looks sheepish.

Uh, Starsman, hun, hate to break it to you but I have had characters who lacked a travel power in BB. It was a rather sad build for my Fire/Fire brute and I was finding myself at the time trudging through BB. Other then the added time of sprinting from meteor to meteor it is no different then right now. And that would seem to be, if the change was done, not trying to make risk = reward, but aggrivation = reward. Are we annoyed enough trying to get a shivan shard for how good it is? Not how I like to think of things, and not really a good way to think about balance. And no, I am NOT saying that is how it is done now.

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I suspect we'll get -some- kind of rough map to follow for this stuff, though it may not be Dev-provided or available during the first week.

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I actually wanted to go with Drops II: Drops Harder

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Hmm. A faint odor of a positronic suit, there. Must be my imagination.

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No way, I would have gone with Drops II: Attack of the Drops.

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If you'd said Drops II: Secret of the Drops I would've given you so many bonus points.

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Drops II: The Drop Strikes Back. Much better Star Wars movie to reference IMHO.

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But bad nerd form. You can't use "The Drop Strikes Back" until we get to the Drop V post.

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Unless the prequel never happened. They never happened! I know of no prequels! There are only 3 Star Wars, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Laughter of the Ewokes... er, Return of the Jedi. >.> Why do I ignore the prequels? 1) Podraces, 2) Force = Space Measles?, and 3) 'Anakin, I have the High Ground'.

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I am listening to your ideas, but a Flashback system is simply not something we can implement in a timeframe you would all be happy with.

Instead we are looking into other options to get you the Pool B choice so level 50s don't feel gimped.

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What about tied to the PvP Rep system? The higher a person's rep when defeated the higher the chance for a drop to the person who killed him or the like. Or atleast tie it to certain PvP zone conditions, such as zone capping Sirens or RV.

I know this breaks the PvE mold but it DOES help reward PvPers outside of the temp powers where most of them you don't even need to have PvP to earn.

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Bad idea, very bad idea. There are many of us who do not PvP regularly, or even at all. I've only started dipping into PvP these last few weeks after being very staunchly anti-PvP. PvP for recipes or salvage, no thank you. Having PvP the prime or only method of getting one of the tiers of recipes is a sure way to get a large portion of the player base up in arms. I'm not sure about the percentiles of players who PvP are, but I know it is relatively very small.

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I'm sorry, but I DO NOT BELIEVE anyone who says they can solo AVs with anything but specialized builds, level 50's exemped down slotted with HO's, and a mammoth tray full of inspirations.

The bump to the AV regen rate alone has made the DPS requirement on the player out of the realm of possibility for most builds.

Brutes have an easier time than most, but I can't see a Blaster/Defender/Stalker accomplish it.

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Have you seen my Tanker and Brute threads?

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Yes, and they make this Otter laugh and point, then shake my head and wonder just HOW your doing it. Then other people point out trays of Purple Pills, Shivans, Warburg Nukes, yadda yadda yadda. Still, I really would like to see you do what you claim to be rather trivial for you. My Fire/Fire Brute is 45 and on Freedom, hint hint.

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Hmm. A faint odor of a positronic suit, there. Must be my imagination.

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No way, I would have gone with Drops II: Attack of the Drops.

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Star Wars reference; +3 Points. Reference is a prequill, -11ty billion points!

Better would have been; Drops 2: Return of the Drops.

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The Drops Strike Back?

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I was just thinking that too just after I posted. I refrained from doing a ninja edit though. Yeah... that's right... <.< ... >.>

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*sniff sniff*

Hmm. A faint odor of a positronic suit, there. Must be my imagination.

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No way, I would have gone with Drops II: Attack of the Drops.

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Star Wars reference; +3 Points. Reference is a prequill, -11ty billion points!

Better would have been; Drops 2: Return of the Drops.

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I hope your kidding about the safeguard missions....

You only need to defeat like 4 minions 2 lts and a boss if your set to heroic.

Mayhem missions are tougher due to the ambushes, but even then....

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No, I can believe it. Some builds can't solo worth a tailless squirrel. No harm in that because they do very well with teams.

As for Ultimus and his Fire/Fire brute going around soloing AVs and what-not, How the frak does he do it??!! =O_O= I have a fire/fire and I feel like a psuedo-squishy! A boss looks at me funny and I'm on my kiester, let alone an EB or AV. Soloing an AV? Bwahahahahahaha! I could have all 5 shivans out and i'd still be spanked. Build has a lot to do with it, as well as just how good the player is. Ultimus is in a very very verrrrrrry small minority. The game should not be balanced around the annomalies like him.

PS: Ultimus, my Fire/Fire is on Freedom and I'd love to tag along on one of your AV runs just to see how you do it. My global is: @Tundara

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What's Valium?

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Wha?

Hrm... a nice relaxant, similar to Xanax and Klonopin.

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Uh huh, uh huh.... what are they? =O.o=

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Gah, I am in like, super-ignorant-of-common-drugs mode. >.< I suppose that they make you mellow. That should work. Makes sense. Right, move along, nothing to see here.

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Thanks AntiGravity_Man! That's super swell of you!

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See, he has a sense of humor. I love that. The single most important trait any of the mods/devs need in dealing with us.

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And here I thought Valium was the most important tool when dealing with us.

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Valium works I suppose. I use a combination of caffiene and pain killers when I deal with myself for a long period.

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What's Valium?

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*whacks Tundara*

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**Gets Whacked**

Oook, shoulda seen that comming!!

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and, wohoo, 5k posties! Go mew!

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But.. but.. you're an otter, not a mole! Unless... you're just a spy infiltrating us! That'd make you a mole!

And congrats on 5k!

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heh ... And here I was already to ask her if she saw her shadow today

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First mole, now a groundhog? =O.o= What's with all teh insults? =T.T= I'mma go sulk now by bopping some CoT onna teh noggin.

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*whacks Tundara*

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**Gets Whacked**

Oook, shoulda seen that comming!!

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and, wohoo, 5k posties! Go mew!

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Anybody else wanna play Whack-a-mole right now?

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I know I do.

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Lighthouse worked for Sony, whom removed his soul and sent him over to us, which is why he is the way he is.

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No, hours upon hours of playing EverQuest and PlanetSide did that (not to mention all those other games that I shouldn't mention, cause well these are the CoH forums). But then, I don't design the game, so you are safe!

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I shouldn't laugh.. but I did.



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It's alright to laugh with someone. We are laughing with Lighthouse, right? He looks like hes laughing there. >.> And, Oh SNAP, he went and edited he posty! O_O There's more then just the sony games that sucked out his soul. >.< I am now so glad CoX is teh only MMO I really play. My relationship with DDO being Hot/Cold. The instances are so nice and interactive. Everything else is meh.

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Awesome, thanks for linking that. Interesting to finally see the origin of the Cryptic Studios name. I'd never seen that explained before.

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"City of Heroes was very tightly focused on moment to moment combat," Rogers says. "The Marvel game will have more big components to it. It's going to be all the stuff we wanted to put into City of Heroes, and you'll get to run around in Marvel costumes. We've got more money now and more people. We'll add more depth. We want to take it to the next level."

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Thats a bit disheartening for CoH players. We're the reason Cryptic has more money. The quote makes it sounds like the plan is, put all the awesome ideas we wanted to have in the old game into the new game.

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"It's pretty much whack-a-mole," Rogers says of his role as a manager on days like these. "Everybody is running around wondering why Captain America's shield doesn't go up when he gets hit. But on a usual day, it's people at their desks with their heads down making stuff."

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Looks like MUO is getting our shield sets.

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Perhaps not, but likely. It could just be a costum costume piece for Captain America.

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Statesman's on VICTORY??!

YAY! We officially rock.

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Or, you know, he could be on Virtue.

Wow, WW and Castle sure have played a few MMOs. O_O

And isn't today so neat! =^^= I think that's 4 of the devs so far that have posted, in this thread alone! Then there are all teh other threads! Nice.

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And to be perfectly honest, I'm actually a little relieved what with States, Posi and the rest posting so much all of a sudden. I like it when they're vocal with us. So sue me.

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Ditto. Makes me feel like things are going smoothly on their end, so they have time to address our silly speculating and maybe play a bit more.

*stalks the servers that start with a V*

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Yeah ditto. It is is so much FUN to just hang out and chat with them and goof around. Today's been a good day.

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Oh - and I'd love to do a giant mech game. Love it.

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You have my complete and total support if you do. Complete and Total!

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[City of Heroes] isn't going anywhere.

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Isn't that the sad and unintentional truth?

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That made me laugh.

In a sad sorta way.

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Come on fellas, stop being negative Nellys! =^ ^=

*Breaks out in Song*

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I just want Cryptic to develope a MMO based on Mech Warrior.

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Oh. My...! I would be all over that like cheese on fondoo. Or is the cheese the fondoo... Well, who cares! Mechwarrior is one of my most favouristist games EVAR. I used to be able to bullseye the cockpit of a Masakari with guass rifles at close to 900 yards or feet, or whatever the measurement was. >.< I keep hoping and dreaming of another MW game for computer, but so far, nadda.

**grumbles about Microsoft being ebil**

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PS: Tundara's favourite Mech, the Dire Wolf (Diasha if you prefer) loaded with 3 LBX 20's. Don't get close, she bites. BOOM, insta kill, BOOM, insta kill.

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Sorry, not CoX related, I know. >.<

*Waves Statesman flags again*

Go Cryptic!? =O.o=