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Quote:Again, You only hear about the bad because the good expiriences won't be talked about for fear of being banned.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
True.
They do have farmers, but a lot of what they sell is stripped off of accounts that paid them to PL their characters. Which are then used to spam other people until they get banned.
They also engage in the practice of selling the credit card numbers they get on the black market to Russian or East European criminals.
And as I previously mentioned, the vast majority of them are in China, which makes it impossible to prosecute them. Basically, once you've been dumb enough to let yourself become a victim, there is nothing anyone can do to help you.
Buying from RMTers is just stupid, but plenty of people do it anyway, which is why they're still here.
Hilarious how people will spend more buying influence than they would have spent unlocking the features they could use to earn it themselves. And then get their accounts banned when they get hijacked to spam people with.
The funniest part? When that happens they blame the GAME for it instead of their own stupidity.
I still believe that if they change their stance from, "your account will be canceled if you're caught buying and selling" to "We know these sites exist and warn you never to use them. The people that have had good expiriences will be able to tell others.
P.S. There is no law, except what CoH/NCsoft has created, that makes buying/selling of "gold" illegal. -
Quote:Marking a moving target so it can be seen on the nav or mini map while it moves is much better than [here]Originally Posted by Chyll
I was responding specifically to the suggestions in the earlier post.
While they do not show as markers on the map, while going room to room in Lam hitting the macro and the proposed effect isn't drastically different. Most certainly with the BAF - wide open area of moving targets. Macro far superior.
(Ignoring the fact that the objects in Lam are always in the same place, and doesn't take much to memorize them.)
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And, (LAMBDA) I have too much lag to memorize the locations. I blip through the maps in those rooms. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Trilby
I've had an idea.
Devourer
Kheldian's get their power from team mates. You get your power from your enemies. Works a bit like a cross between a tanker aura and a kheldian buff. The more enemies around you, and according to their powers, you receive a buff. For example, if you have 2 people with empathy type heal powers and 4 with big dps abilities like a blaster you get a moderate regen bonus and a high damage bonus.
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When I saw devourer, I was thinking the buff would be based on enemies defeated, as if you ate them or at least obsorbed the remaining essence somehow, for a short time.
I was also picturing it being a moderate resistance with moderate regen and a moderate def to melee. each enemy "devoured" would buff the regen and recharge buff on the character. Kinda like a vampire. -
I believe the OP idea was to have each player have one marker they can place, for emergencies, and a leader have unlimited markers
These markers would show up on the mini map and on the nav as objectives.
Leader example: LAMBDA_Have the best video card/most survivable players as team leaders. They go into the "granade" and (forgot the other) areas and they run through marking all the containers that need destroyed, so the other players can find them.
Member example: BAF_If a prisoner is escaping, a player can target them. -
Quote:Maybe those that have had good luck don't say anything in fear of having their account deleted, where as a concept of a game account being deleted is minor compared to RL issues.Originally Posted by Hopeling
All companies? No, certainly not. All inf-selling sites, yes, as far as I've ever been aware.
Allowing and having a forum for just this issue would reduce the theft outcomes and help the sites that do, JUST sell the "gold" and have no "side" business. -
Quote:You're assuming all companies steal money?Originally Posted by Hopeling
And when you're manipulating the economy with stolen money?
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In the long run, I could care less. I'm just stating a concept idea that might make (area specific) local chat and some global chats less cluttered. But, if the idea isn't accepted, then lets drop it. But, We'll all have to live with it the way it is.
P.S, manipulating a market isn't illegal or unethical ... it's just annoying, to those that are manipulating the market in their own way. Also, to those that just want to buy what they need at a reasonable price.
After thought, how is the "haves"(those that know how to work the market) for personal use better than the "haves" for monetary value any different? -
Quote:With the recognition of the act (which is OBVIOUSLY happening anyway) They could set up a forum (players would post to) to post feedback on good sites/warning for bad, and a warning in the service agreement and at the heading of the posts stating information isn't founded on research and to puchase at your own will.Originally Posted by Bramphousian
So, they've heard that a company engages in criminal behaviour. No one is prosecuted, because, really, try to get a foreign government to comply with American law. What do they do now? Ban an account? A new one is created. Ban an IP? Use a proxy.
I just can't see there being any honest, hard-working powerleveling/gold-farming companies out there. I don't know if the practice is, in fact illegal (I would doubt it), but opening the game up to allow such behaviour would be a bad thing.
An example of this is ... FactorFiction.com. Bad things happen, having a place where you can go and read reviews on it, Is a good thing. Like I said, It's obviously happening anyway.
The only other way would be to lock "gold" and other enhancments to the (global)player that earn it. But, PLing would still be out there. There is no winning. -
Quote:Yeah, and many other existing companies don't have slaves or nearly slaves either? ... I bet much of the products most people buy is made in this way. Obviously CoH/NCsoft would remove all sites that don't adhere to human rights, anti-slavery, and ID theft laws. BUT, this would require the companies being caught. If they aren't caught we can't assume they're guilty or we are breaking our constitution, innocent till proven guilty.Originally Posted by Bramphousian
These are not humble, small business owners. These are, in several cases, companies that steal users' personal information. There was an article some time ago about how they employ slave-labour for their gold-farming.
I don't think that Paragon Studios and NC want to promote forced-labour, identity theft and other such criminal acts.
No, you can't. From the Rules of Conduct:
- 8. You may not market, promote, advertise, or solicit within the City of Heroes, City of Villains, or Going Rogue game or on the official City of Heroes website.
- 10. You may not advertise the intent to or commit the act of buying, selling, trading, sharing, or transferring access to any City of Heroes, City of Villains, or Going Rogue account.
- 11. You may not advertise the intent to or commit the act of buying or selling items for cash or trading items from one server to another.
From the User Agreement:
Section 2:
(iv) sell, sub-license, rent, lease, grant a security interest in, borrow, lend, loan, network or engage in any activity that could in any way transfer or provide others access to any Service, Content, Software, or parts thereof, including but not limited to any serial code number, access key or the like.
As far as the, agreement CoH/NCsoft has, they reserve the right to change it. If changing it so the "companies" can be recognized and funneled into one chat can improve some gamers expirience, then that would be a good thing.
I still think it would be better for them to recognize: this is an aspect of the company we can't remove. So, we opted to allow it, so we could keep track of it. If all the game companies did this, the owners of legitimate honest companies (not performing identity theft, and not being caught inslaving people) would actually be able to be honest about who they are, and set up accounts as such. -
Kirsten: FYI, anything that has pets is VIP only and/or follows the same Rules as MM and controllers do currently. Refering to many of your concept ideas. They either have MM or Controller based powers.
I like many of them.
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Quote:I like the concept; though, I would also like them to fix Hib so that it is tanker friendly.Originally Posted by New_Dark_Age
I think Ice Armor is a cool set even though I never really play Tankers anymore. Nevertheless, I wanted to point something out and advocate a logical change.
The thing that I have noticed is the superiority Icy Bastion seems to have over Hibernate as a Tier 9th power. Icy Bastion would be far better on an Ice Tank than Hibernate with its ability to temporarily plug Ice Armor's weakness of lack of resistance. In addition the added resistence from Icy Bastion would stack with Ice Armor's Fire resistence and better allow Ice Tankers to absorb the Alpha Strike.
Hibernate on the other hand works against gaining aggro since it locks you in a block of ice. So by phase healing yourself , you are not Tanking and cannot protect your team. In addition the phase nerf made Hibernate a shadow of its former glory. The Nophase timer just seems long and many Ice Tankers never use Hibernate often anyway. The Ice Tankers who do have to use Hibernate often would find they would not need to if they had an alternative power to plug Ice Armors gaps, a Resistence version of Shadow Meld in a way, although with a longer duration and longer recharge time
Stalkers by the way get access to both Icy Bastion and Hibernate while Tankers cannot so I do not see a balance problem with Tanker Ice Armor getting Icy Bastion instead of Hibernate. Stalkers can also get Shadow Meld combined with Icy Bastion too.
As such, I am suggesting to replace Hibernate with Icy Bastion as the Tier 9th power in Tanker Ice Armor since the latter is more useful to Tankers and more logical to Tanking Philosophy.
Thanks
Concept: Make tanker Hib a pet: It would have it's own HP (4000) a larger taunt aura and taunt mag, and 90% resistance to all. (optional) at the end of Hib, or when you click, it converts the remaining HP to AoE damage when you break out of it.
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Quote:I know ... but I was inputing a healthy alternative concept. Not just saying "self insta-kill" or "I don't like your idea".Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Yeah, the power the OP is suggesting would kill Tankers off. Right now, they trade nothing for using Build Up. This new power would mean that the guy taking most of the hits, in order to do more damage, would have to sacrifice half of his primary. There's no need for that.
Want some alternatives? See the Consolidated Tanker Suggestions thread in the Tanker forums.
OP concept: I'm spending too much time on the defensive, I need to spend more energy attacking.
Maybe he can't post there.
Give the concept some thought.
Fire: [inherent]For every 5% health lost, fire attacks have one more DoT of fire damage.
Electric: [toggle] moderate endurance concumption, adds a building DoT damage with each attack.
Ice: does a building buising effect for each attack(including AoE and cones) (10%) builds up to 30% lasts up to 15seconds.
all natural attacks: [inherent] stackable minor damage buff per hit with an attack
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Quote:I do for the same reason the Dev's are. That being said, I would like them to make a "liar" option in bases. It's upgrades could be paid for by time spent offline in your lair (like you were working your day job to pay for it, or each day job contributes). Then the soloers could have an option.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
And don't let this discourage you from posting future suggestions. While the devs are against this idea you aren't alone in wanting it. We aren't shooting this down, they are.
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IMHO ... CoH should embrace the sellers -to an extent-. Make a chat that they can use, and give them an account they can monitor. example: CoH advertises "In an effort to promote small business owners, We are making account changes so "gold" traders can advertise without harrasing." Then they ask all new accounts if they are a "gold" trading site. If they answer yes, they are allowed a F2P account with a limit to only one chat (advertising chat) and the ability to RESPOND to tells. The advertising chat is so they won't post on all the other chats. those that are interested and would purchase "gold" can go there, all the rest can remove that chat from the list.
If CoH and other MMOs used -embrasing trade- they would keep and keep happy all players.
Side note: They work for the "gold" they sell too. I don't see why they can't sell it. I could sell my account (should I choose too). CoH sells enhancments ("gold" is used for) for $, why can't those sites sell "gold" for $ too. -
Quote:HMMM ... I didn't see a helpful alternative in there.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Uh....why do you want to turn something useful into a 'Kill yourself' button? Because that's exactly what you are suggesting here.
Tankers work. They are the number 1 Immovable Objects, and always will be.
I think he means that all tank attack sets should have a similar buff as SS. notice I said similar
fire could have an inferno (like the DoT damage of burn), and could be health dependant.
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I agree with the Dev's on this one. It's not a SG if only one player is in it. I like the idea of personal lairs.
/signed for personal lairs w/ with the ablility to ($)buy additional space.
Another options, make a ($)purchasable account storage where any of your toons can save items there and they can be used by any toon. -
Quote:Signed. I'm cool with that and hope they would do it. /signed. No all we need is "the powers that be" to apply this fantastic idea.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Not really. The devs could program it so when they want to beta test new content they can disable the 1 week auto delete.
They also have two types of test servers now days. The old test server could be used for testing the IO's and have an automatic timer that deletes characters after a week, while the Beta server could remain as it is for testing new content. They could also give Free and Prem accounts to just the old test server.
That way everybody wins.
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Quote:They could always give a 1 slot exception. and an exception for the power set types like TW recently.Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
That would be pretty annoying for people who were actually using the test servers to test upcoming content.
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First power set the popped into my mind was KM.
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either the defenses need to be the same as scrapper with less HP, <-- The one I would like.
Or the defences less but with higher HP.
IMO: The defenses should be higher 2X the normal numbers and last 2X as long for the caster and they should be PBAoE clicks, or, the same numbers and should be toggles that can't be detoggled. I don't care if I (can be) mezzed, as long as my toggles don't turn off and heals can still be used. The detoggle effect should also apply to abilities that effect enemies. -
Quote:I'd give them trick arrow ... then tack on a minor M/R/AoE defense to all the powers. Have M/R/AoE be 10/30/20% def buff respectively(with all powers taken). Ranged Def and AoE def would be due to having his eyes at range for the arrow attacks. Ranged would be picked up in powers teir 1-4. AoE would be picked up powers teir 5-7. Melee would be just from combat expirience and would be picked up with teir 8-9 powers. Like SR all powers would be required for the full benefits.Originally Posted by BrandX
Damage, same as Corrs. No Scourge. The extra damage is made up for by getting a small amount of Mez Protection.
Personally, Im not even thinking of replacing any of the melee attacks with shields, that can be obtained in an Epic pool. I'd say their defenses would be the buffs/debuffs that come with the buff/debuff set.
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Quote:Perhaps add a little variety to warburg. I like the concept of meteors falling from the sky, like the apex (I believe) TF. Add burning building missions and have shivan's explode out of the meteorites as they hit ... FUNOriginally Posted by Cathulhu
The zone you want for all practical purposes exists. It is called Warburg and most of the time it is deserted. So much so that a few weeks ago I spent some time in this PvP zone opening Christmas presents so as to avoid fighting over presents with players in PvE zones. (Now thats Irony)
It has 2 of the three groups you want, fighting it out for control of nuclear missiles. It has confusion where anyone can be against anyone. It is unused and unloved by most of the players and if not for the Free Nuke Temp Power and badges I doubt I would ever see anyone in there. Unless there is some concrete evidence that by adding a third faction we will suddenly see this zones population boom, I don't think the Devs will feel it is worth taking resources away from developing parts of the game with proven demand.
If you don't believe me about Warburg being the zone you describe, I simply changed a few names in your description (Statesman for Cole, Rouges for resistance, Hero for Praetorians) and as far as I can tell we have a near perfect match.
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Quote:Imagery. Dated, but still applicable.Originally Posted by Kirsten
Recluse has a mustache?
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Agreed. I would really enjoy this. have one of your soul assending. when an awake is used, you go back to your body kicking and screaming.
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Quote:I'll accept that purposed change.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I believe they make people pay for access to the beta/test servers right now. I think it's only available to VIP's.
Your idea itself isn't bad. I do think that changes could and should be made to the test/beta servers (one or the other) to make it easier to do the things you'd like. I just don't see them making a third test environment.
I think the problem the devs have with giving players that kind of access is that far too many would decide to use the test servers as a live server where they could simply trick out uber builds and ignore the rest of the game. Not to mention the screaming and hollering that would constantly go on when stuff gets wiped or locked out for testing new features/content.
To the P.S.: If my memory serves we had just Test up until GR. I think they made the beta to test Ultra Mode and work on Freedom in complete secrecy. Players could still use the old test servers and there was no possible accidental leaks between the separate test environments.
Have a 1 week life of transfered toons to the test or beta server. after that time, they get auto deleted. Add unlimited enhancments to WW/BM. How does that sound as far as options?