Turgenev

Like Fulcrum Shift? Or Speed Boost? Or any buff/debuff that's been in the game since day one?

See, I view Level Shift working on the same principle: It's a buff that elevates your comparative to-hit/damage values without inherently raising your actual level. In that light, it's a buff. Since we get similar effects from ally buffs/debuffs without XP/INF loss, I'm of the viewpoint that this would fall under the same category.

I think I've gotten six actual Purp drops since purple recipes were conceived. Your luck hurts me in my heart. ;(

This. See this link for more info:

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Desdemona

Grats. I should be turning over on my last dayjob/accolade this weekend, but I won't be able to update it 'til Monday (traveling). Maybe the 81 month badge will tick over in a few days too...

And this is why the detractors hate the concept.

See, that's the reason why I felt the newer badges were useful: It opened the zones to exploration and activity to people who'd just avoid the Shard or the sewers, for instance, for lack of anything to do.

What I'd like to see to further exploit this is more established exploration options for a place like the Shard. We did it with Faultline, we can do it with the Shard. Expand the Portal Corp/military bases, make the vendors more sensible rather than the token ones we dropped in there, add more Incarnate TF/trial options, perhaps finally make it a hero/villain neutral combat zone, like how it works in Praetoria...all of these things add to the invitation to players to actually go to the Shard with a desire to play and explore, rather than view it as a transit zone that's best seen as a blur.

So, at least with the Shard and the Sewers, I felt like those explore badges actually DO accomplish something. Enforced tourism isn't a bad thing if it's not hard to do.

Sorry, read the subject off the main server list, that's what came to mind.

Yeah; I read the Dev's opinion on nukes for the COP trial as more of a balancing pass than an exploit fix. It's not an exploit to use something the Devs gave you in a creative and very effective fashion.

I don't think they'll take action on this. Using nukes for one AV in the middle of the TF to make that one fight easier is like the Soviet Union making the Tsar Bomba just for kicks. Sure, they can do it, and sure, it works, but it's not something you can do repeatedly in order to expedite the overall win (for the duration of the TF, not for capitalizing on World War III).

It'll probably go a year or so of paid, then switch to F2P once the playerbase realizes the game still had another six months of development and tweaking before release and start abandoning it in droves. The console market will make it more jumpy too, but...

Oh, wait, you meant COH, not the OTHER other game.

Almost seven years of paid access. I don't think that's gonna change anytime soon. We're the Everest of superhero games. MMOs come and go, but our mountain remains stubbornly in place. I don't think I'd want a F2P game anyway. I like a fixed payment plan, and getting stuff thrown in for free regularly.

My fav toon for most anything: Dr. Turgenev.

I still don't think those attendance badges should be made available retroactively either. The point of them was to show attendance for a particular event. Making them available after the fact kinda kicks the point in the nads a bit.

Keep your ear to the ground on the Freedom globals for these, and check for runs scheduled/organized by the Freedom Horde. It's a great way to get wide-scale support for regular runs w/o being part of a particular SG/VG. Cheers, and see you on the field.

I did mine at St. Martial. I liked it better than Shark for when I did it cuz I worked it up during the Halloween zombocalypse. That corner of St. Martial gets a lot less traffic than the Sharkhead base.

Welcome back, Desire.

Holy crap. WB, Tiggy.

Someone gimme it.



Oh, and Happy New Year.

Kinda the same. I was wrapping up for bed and hopped on around this time, but everyone on my global was in the Hive or in RWZ for some holiday events. Wish I knew this was happening, I'd have gladly punk'd Posi for some nuclear New Year smokes.

No, my angle is pertinent to my distaste with the badge, and not something you can argue around. I HATE that, in order to make progress on a badge, you have to NOT be logged in. No other badge rewards you for being logged out of a toon like that. It's a design breaker. Even the "farmable" badges have a natural path in the progression of the game to achieve them.

Whether I stay logged out for 21 days to get it before you do, or if I take six months lolly gagging around saying it doesn't matter, the fact that you get rewarded for being logged out is dumber than a sack of hammers.

So yeah, I agree with the OP.

Behold, L' Fridge de Turgenev.



Aaaaand, pretty much empty today. Remind me next year and I'll save Pinnacle a shelf.

*My private stock is elsewhere. *