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The /sync command is much needed and I heartily approve.

I also want to finally get the Rularuu bow for my mastermind. Although, I must say that the mongolian bow is pretty sweet looking as well.

Is anyone else having trouble logging into Test? It is saying my account and password are wrong for some reason. This is happening on both my accounts.

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Now that we have it how do i set it up and use it?

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I don't think we have it yet. It is still a coming feature.

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Yeah, I agree with Talking_Monkey. People need to scale back their expectations. Maybe in the future, we will get to play with some sort of map editor and place spawn points and do cool things.

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Editing spawn points? I wouldn't even get my hopes up that much; those are tied to the map segments.

If anything, I'd expect a base-style mission editor, where you can grab large rooms and plunk them down in some configuration. Hallway T branch here, Warehouse room here, Conveyor Belt room here. And that'd be about the limit of the customization I would hope for in my wildest dreams.

Actually placing the glowies and putting the hostages where you want them? I highly doubt it: you'd end up with missions that are 10,000 XP per glowie, ten of them, stacked right inside the mission door.

Actually placing the spawn points? You'd end up with missions of dozens of Easiest Thing to Herd standing in clusters of 17. And they'd be casting -Perception powers on each other. Standing next to Blue COT Crystals.

I agree: don't count on being able to design the specific location of mission items any time soon, if ever. If it doesn't happen you won't be disappointed; and if it does, you can be pleasantly surprised. It never ceases to amaze me how many players accuse the developers of "betraying them" when what happened, in truth, was that the player himself imagined something so amazing that it couldn't possibly be delivered outside the Penthouse letters.

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I have to agree with you. I was thinking more along the lines of placing the end boss, but you bring up great points.

Yeah, I agree with Talking_Monkey. People need to scale back their expectations. Maybe in the future, we will get to play with some sort of map editor and place spawn points and do cool things.

But for now, we will just pick pre-defined maps, pre-defined enemies, and pre-defined objectives. The only customization will be in writing npc dialogue and mission briefing/de-briefings. That still gives a bit of room for great story development, especially for those wanting missions and arcs specific to their character's origins and background.

But this does not preclude us getting the fancy stuff later. Just not at this time. Have patience.

Hey, the Midnight Squad formed on my birthday! Coolness.

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This is incredible.. BUT.. I only have 1 request. PLEASE allow EBs in the player-created content and put Hardcase in as an EB.. so my villain can spend an entire ARC beating the crap out of that sanctimonious jerk!

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Yeah, that would be sweet.

Maybe Phipps too...

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Here's his accredited work

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So we have Castle to thank for Master of Orion 3?

I think Castle's real life name is awesome! Floyd Grubb. That's pure epic, right there.

Serously.

The branching dialogues sounds cool. I would love to have to choose which wire to cut, or which button to push.

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Yanno the end of Jay and Silent Bob strike back.. when they get peoples addys and hunt them down to kick their [censored]??

Yanno that part..

Well everyone who is whinning and crying and [censored] in this thread.. REALLY makes me wanna invest some loot and try and do it for realz

If you dont like it.. Leave

But srsly I have been freakin begging for more slots at just about any cost for over 2 years now..

Go the freak away if you dont like it..

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Who are you and what have you done with the real P_P?!?

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What are you talking about? She has been asking for more slots forever. I would be surprised if she wasn't totally ga-ga over more slots. And also rabid about protecting the ability to get more slots.

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I've played pet classes in 4 games (AO, SWG, WoW, and CoV) now and my pets have never persisted when I... Oh no it did follow me in AO. Well in SWG and WoW my pets never followed me when I had to go through a load screen to zone, but that was never a problem because I didn't have to buff my pets after summoning for them to be effective. The whole buffing thing seems like an arbitrary time sink for MMs as a counterbalance for the MM himself having less risk. The only problem with that, though, is that it's more of a punishment for the rest of the team than the MM unless we zone into an ambush. People often want the MMs to go in first to set up, but sometimes the MMs want someone else to go in first to distract any potential ambushes.

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Pets persist in LOTRO.

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Flame: Your laptop at home works without wires why not in the car.

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Your kid is figuring out abstract concepts and extrapolating from them. Cultivate it if you can.

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Besides, it's better than her asking where babies come from...

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I really hope this is a joke. This has got to be the worst thing the devs have ever done. Please say it's a joke. Replaceing all the sounds with visual sounds is the worst idea they have ever had.

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It's a joke Serious Sally....but my naming my kid a visual sound effect is not

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Poor little Freem!

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Does any one know why email was made for the game i never use it and i dont think many ppl do too <well but the spammers >

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Yeah, especially since you can't send stuff or influence through the mail. It is of limited usefulness.

Wait a minute. I'm confused. Mental Manipulation is the secondary? Then what will the primary look like?

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sorry if i sound like a noob but whats up with these slides?

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In the frost fire mission there are these sections of ice on the floor and you can slide on them.

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Having not read the entire thread, does anyone else wonder if Powerset Proliferation is being done in lieu of sideswitching?

I've got several villains who were made in the hopes that Sideswitching would be done some day in the future.

And while some ATs are similar in nature, others just wouldn't work at all. My Ninjablade Stalker is a stalker, not a scrapper, and my Ninja MM wouldn't be the same if she had to become a TA/A Defender and lost the ninja who protect her.

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I'm pretty sure the Dev have said there won't be side switching, and that's WHY we're getting Power Proliferation. So, I beleive it's a yes, but I don't have a quote to support this.


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Yes, the devs have stated before that side-switching is simply not going to happen. So, sorry, you're most likely never going to see that.

However, I don't think Power Proliferation is in lieu, per se, of side-switching. Rather, it looks to me as though the devs have really come to understand that access to greater varieties of power options is what turns on the player base the most. The introduction of dual blades/willpower and plans for other new powersets is a part of this understanding, and I believe that Power Proliferation is another branch of this direction the game is going in.

EC

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Actually, I think the devs said that there would not be side-switching in the foreseeable future, due to technical difficulties. Not that it would never happen. The key issue, as is the case with respeccing Patron Powers, is that they don't have a way to remove badges from the game. A hero switching to villain side would need to lose the hero accolades, and vice versa. Plus the villains would need to lose their Patron accolade.

It's not a matter of the devs saying it will never happen, it's a matter of facing big technical problems so it won't be done anytime soon.

Holy Crap!!!

How are people not realizing it was an April Fools Joke!!!???

Of course, when I first read about the in-game ads they will be having, I thought, "Wait, the first was on Tuesday..."

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How come there are no cross powers for Peacebringers and Warshades??? Don't they deserve to be part of the Powerset Proliferation ???

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That would be a nightmare to introduce. PBs and WSs don't get Epic power sets and they also get two powers per level a lot of the time instead of one like normal ATs. Their powersets are a lot bigger than normal ATs. You really can't give, say blasters the PB set and still allow them to get access to the Epic power pools.

And it doesn't make much sense to give PBs the WS powerset and the WSs the PB powerset.

Epic powersets will have to remain out of the running for proliferation.

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Okay I just have to complain here. Of course, haven't read, but this better be an April fool's joke cause this isn't funny. No sound AT ALL??? If it's for people who build their comps, how hard is it to spend another 50-60 bucks to buy a sound system? My opinion, long time player now, this will ruin the game. I prefer to actually hear my Full Auto and sniper fire instead of seeing it. If you go no sound then might as well just play a different game. That's all I have to say.

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i love people that argue without actually knowing all the facts, i though only old ppl and crazy bums did that

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Teens do that too.

But Villains don't get APPs.

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I like PoPr but I am not that much a fan of the power picks
Mace/Elec and Ninja/Storm are the only ones I plan on using


-pls pls pls share APPs between tanks and scrappers and share them with brutes and stalkers.

-Share Blaster and Defender Apps with Cors, Doms and MMs Controller APPs with MMs

-Share Controller APPs with MMs

Yes you read that right give MM players the choice to choose between Defender, Controller and Blaster exclusive APPs. MMs all play differently and as such are one of the most versatile ATs in the game. Those 3 Different AT exclusive APP types would all complement MMs in different ways.


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I'm a little disappointed. I thought the idea behind powerset proliferation was not only to expand each AT's powerset selection, but to give access to powersets the other side didn't have.

Blasters are getting a defender blast, but also an entirely new set
Brutes getting two primaries from tankers
Controllers getting a dominator set and a corruptor set
Corruptors getting defender sets
Defenders getting corruptor sets
Dominators getting a controller set and blaster set
Masterminds getting a defender set


But scrappers are getting tanker sets?
Tankers are getting scrapper sets?
Stalkers are getting brute sets?


What the hell?


There is no electric/electric representation on the heroside, so why not port that over to either tankers or scrappers? There's no ice melee and ice armor reprentation villainside, so why not port that over to stalkers?

I mean, if I want a fire/fire melee hero, I could just build a tanker. And if I want an elec/elec melee villain, I could just make a brute.


I'd really love to know what the reasoning behind the choices for these 3 ATs were.

And no, this isn't just whining for the sake of whining. I'm not entirely thrilled with some of the choices they made for the other ATs, but at least with those they're really spreading the love around. Ice controllers get no love while fire controllers do. MMs get only one secondary while brutes get two primaries and a secondary... I get that there are no other pet powerset ATs to share over to MMs, but at least they could have gotten two secondaries to compensate. Still, at least the one set they got they got came from the hero side and wasn't just another villain set.



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Ninja/Kin
Ninja/Storm
Archery/Kin

would have been some badaz combinations aw well there is still VEATs to keep me interested in I12

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To clarify the person you quoted, scrappers are getting brute sets, not necessarily tanker sets.

But can you imagine the carnage from a MM with all pets out and hitting fulcrum shift? Plus all your pets speed boosted? The devs have said that they are not ready for MM to get /kin just yet.

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Unlike say fire imps that only have one power, fully upgraded MM pets have like 6-10 powers and they're isn't that much of a gap between the end of one attack cycle and the begining of the next

THUS it would not be as powerful a combination as any doom sayer says

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And thus ice armor is bad as it slows down the incoming attacks and thus slows down the amount of Fury built up.

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I was saving that for the advanced class. Don't want to distract them with two different things, it only causes confusion.

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You are very correct there. I've taught martial arts and know first hand that giving too much info at once doesn't help.

Edit: That doesn't change the fact that you will still see folks who want ice armor even knowing that it messes with Fury. I've already seen someone suggest that the slow elements could be removed from ice which is an option of course.

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Super Reflexes really does not make that much sense. How do you build up Fury when in Elude... Duh.

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*sigh*

The same way you do when not in elude: attacking and being attacked. Not being hit. Being attacked. Being missed grants you the same amount of Fury as being hit. Even if they miss you, you get Fury. The amount of defense you have does not affect your Fury generation. Only the amount of incoming attacks. Fury is generated when someone attacks you. Fury is generated if you are hit by the attack. Fury is also generated if you are missed my the attack. Misses generate the same amount of Fury as hits do. If you have 16 people attacking you and missing, you will get the same amount of Fury as if the same 16 people were attacking you and hitting. Only the number of attacks matters. Being hit does not matter. Being missed does not matter. Being attacked matters. Defense does not impede fury generation.

tl;dr summary: Defense good, slow bad.

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And thus ice armor is bad as it slows down the incoming attacks and thus slows down the amount of Fury built up.

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My very own Freem! shirt, made at Zazzle.com Cafepress really doesn't let you add text and lotsa graphics and resize and stuff. Anyway, here's the front, and here's the back. I like having the little logos on the back.

I ain't makin' a profit, so Lighthouse sez it's ok! The total for this shirt on Zazzle, using a woman's distressed t-shirt, was about $30.

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Ok, how do I get one of these? I can't seem to find it on Zazzle.com.

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Apologize if this has been mentioned by someone else, however I have a suggestion for the costume creation screen. A changeable background. This allows us to better contrast colors with the normal environment of City Of..., rather than the blue or red backgrounds. Just a background color changer or even screen shots of common locations throughout the game.

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Isn't that what CoH Splasher is for?