Ultra_Violence

It seems the rewards are still linked to how much damage you do. I thought they removed that after all the complaints in Beta. They were trying to prevent leeching. From what I've seen the players monitor that fairly well by themselves.

I was wondering my my Corruptor with /Pain was getting only commons/uncommons while all my other incarnates regularly got rares/very rares. After 30-40 trials (I got to Tier 3 in all 4 using nothing but Commons/Uncommons and 1 rare I got from a UGT where it had to give me something good) I decided to test it.

I did a BAF and ignored all my teammates and just let them die. Just spammed attacks, no active buffs or heals (just toggles). What happens? A Rare.

It's hard enough getting people to work together on trials. Setting it up so that they may benefit from NOT working together is bad design.

Can anyone else verify it still works like this? Am I going to regret pointing this out to people? lol

I agree with original poster but not for quite the same reasons. From my post count it is fairly obvious I am not exactly an introvert. I do however prefer playing the game solo. I would like to also say it is nice to see that MOST of the replies were the same old sad song "It is a MMORPG you have to team or you should be playing off line games!"

The difference is for one they aren't CoH which really does rock. The other is that if I install a game on my PC like Diablo or Dungeon, which are a fantastic games - I eventually get the point where I've been there done that and need a new game because there is no expanding content (well a sequel every 10 years or so). So I can keep playing and every so often have new things to do.

Personally I have leveled every AT but Bane Spider/Crab Spider to 50 solo. My 2 SOAs are 41 and 34, so soon soon. If I didn't get so easily distracted I would have done it long ago.

That said I realize there is a limit to what Devs can do at one time (unlike some people) so when trials came out and Devs said "There would be solo incarnate content soon (C)" I put up with it. And what do you know Issue 22. It is still massively hard to get shards solo though.

Many parts of this game work much better solo than in teams IMO. Solo SGs are extremely cool. Sure it takes a while to build a fully functional base but THAT IS THE POINT! Once you have it it isn't fun anymore. Combat solo means I can use strategy and tactics with my powers. Most players have no concept of those terms, which makes teams extremely boring. Half the time you can't even get people to wait for the tank to go in first never mind any real strategy.

I don't like to die in game. Dieing means you failed, but many players are like moths the the flame of death. For Incarnates there is effectively no punishment at all for dieing. First law of economics is "If it is underpriced it will be over used." So teaming is no fun in COH. I enjoy teaming in games where you have to actually fight together, but this isn't one of them. Not anymore.

Got everything except the Shard Gun in first 24.

No wolf in 48 packs but as far as I'm concerned that means I came out ahead. Even a dual inspiration is better than another worthless pet. Especially now that you can only have 1 pet, I am one of the people who gets a lot of use from Vet support pets. Some of my builds can keep them alive almost indefinitely (except against AoE heavy mobs).

Found the problem in general.

Problem is related to Webroot Security. I do know know which specific option occasionally causes this problem but if you disable this virus scanner character mapping works again.

Only QoL improvement I need is the ability to email SG invites. Give me that and I will be a happy camper.

It is unlikely they will allow the use of powers while in any other form. It takes a humougous amount of effort for this to happen. This is the same reason why no motorcycles/web slinging etc. Using a power when in another other form requires new animations, and not just a few animations. It would require reanimating every single power in every single set. That is no small task.

Perhaps at some point they will come up with a new means of transfering animations between forms but it doesn't exist at this time.

What WOULD be nice with any new travel power/form is to create a new inherent power which is "Memorize Toggles" so that when you turn on your flying carpet your 8 toggles are turned off but memorized, then when you get off you have 1 button with no animation which puts them all back on again. Disable in PvP zones because they abuse everything. But I might actually buy these new powers if this ability existed. Turning on toggles over and over again is NO fun.

This isn't unbalancing that I can see and it makes the new powers much less invasive.

Please, Please, Please!

Sometimes I find power tray 1 has worked it's way all the way to 6 or that it changed to 2 and I just turned off all my toggles.

Just disable those nasty arrows by tray if possible.

Thanks I had same problem with new mouse and this solved it for me too. They should sticky this or something.

Well said Zombie Man. Although it won't do any good.

Costume pieces take a long time to design and the weekly schedule means something has to come out each week. So don't expect every release to be perfect (in your opinion).

The interesting question is "Are the Devs working on Male versions of the pieces and how will those be released when done?" A second CoL Man package? Add to the existing package raise the price and tee off everyone lol? Or not work on it at all because they can't really charge for it now or include it in an issue without making people more angry.

I would think a request thread asking for specific pieces that are the most popular might get them to port a few of them and just add them to the package, but 10 pieces times 2 forms is a lot of effort.

LOL no much worse than that. Every key stopped working and if I went to the keyboard bind screen it didn't recognize any of the keys there either.

Very odd lasted for 1 day then went away on it's own. Support thinks it was a background process possibly some automatic download (although that SHOULD only be Windows) Could also be virus scanner run amok. Webroot can be very annoying when I wants you to respond to something (and then ignores your response lol).

Suddenly while playing all my keyboard keys a-z and 0-9 stopped working as keybinds. No WASD nothing. Arrow keys and special characters still work but even after rebooting or changing characters no joy none of my characters are now playable.

I went into the keybind screen and clicked in an empty bind and when I type a letter, nothing happens. But I can type messages and stuff in globals so keyboard is working and it is working with CoH. (I typed this with same keyboard).

I even tried 2 other keyboards but with no success. Something is buggered up and I don't think it is my keyboard at least.

Rather then increasing Tankers DEF/RES cap permanently could they make due with a "Alpha Strike" power that gives you 100% res for 10-15 sec and can only be reused after X minutes (not effected by any recharges enhancements).

Certainly makes running to fights safer, then hopefully team will break up mobs, debuff etc.

Just a thought. I use my vetran pet to take Alpha when solo is what made me think of it. lol

Poodles that jump through hoops as part of a Carni MM set that doesn't have any of the minions in it that they wanted Carni's for! lol

I'm sure they are already thinking about MM animal set. And I am betting it won't come with a whip which actually would have made a lot of sense.

Biggest problem I see is for a Melee set if you fight more than 3 minions you will already have people getting behind you. Also means all PBAOE attacks become too hazardous to use properly because you can't just run into the middle of a bunch of mobs, you would have to constantly watch where bosses, etc are so that they don't get in wrong place.

This would actually be a more interesting concept for squishies than melees.

Besides if they are going to put new player logic in I would rather see reflective damage where some of the resisted damage can be reflected back to attacker or into a aura hitting those in melee range.

Yeah and while you are at it you can adjust female chest but your male "package" while on display in tights doesn't adjust! Statesman looks like he's been castrated.

Just helping saving time. These posts always devolve down to their lowest possible denominator fast.

There is no reason no to give women/men items from past they didn't get but there is one big good reason not to ever do it. You can't sell a "all the stuff we probably should have done the first time but are charging you for now" costume package. Well you can but paying for it won't be popular with players.

Some of them could be done as weekly updates though, Head Tatoos are a good example of something you could sell as one of the cheap weekly updates. Tats in general could be an entire new area for COH costumes.

While I'd like female pets I kind of agree with Devs on this one. I know a number of people who only want them so they can dress like Pimps and go around pretending to mistreat them. We get enough of that 12 year old stuff already, we have WoW for all the immature players.

Well I get the drivers out of date message for NVIDIA and as far as I can tell they are up to date. (shows nvlddmkm 8.15.11.8640 I can't figure out how to paste graphic file here). Game says file version is from 07 but both NVidia Control Panel and GPU-Z disagree.

The only thing that does look out of date is the NVidia Control Panel which won't update. Don't see why that would effect the game though. Is game checking Control Panel? I do show the control panel driver as being 07, but update just says "Failed to load" and ends.

The best way to tell if a game is failing is when they start giving away the store and giving you powers/abilities that they always said were too powerful for the players or unbalancing or don't fit the game.

Every MMO I've watched close shop (and there have been a few) went through this the last months. "We've increased the drop rate 10X permanantely!" Things like that. (oddly in Auto Assault 10X the drop rate was STILL nothing lol).

They are still investing in the game so I don't see it going away any time soon.

The one I find odd is WoW. Subscribers down approx 10% two years running and they start giving away Diablo III? They still have 10 mill subscribers and the only ones that are gonna sign up for annual sub are probably ones would wouldn't have left anyway. Who buys a subscription specifically so they can play another game? Seems dumb.

I would agree the monsterous legs work for some builds but not others.

Mother One comes to mind. Cybernetic legs and arms but definitely did NOT look like a monster (except maybe to prudish).

In a 30+ person trial you are going to be griefed by 8 people? Got news for you they can do that now.

As I said only a certain percentage have to exit like 60% how they heck can any one person grief that that they couldn't do now?

Also as stated it is fairly easy to finish first level or so much like BAF/LAM. But you have the oppotunity to push your luck as a group.

Personally I find the die all you want we'll make more trials pointless. Likewise the I took over the facility but have to give up now because my mom is calling idea of rigidly timed trials doesn't impress me either. I'd rather there were consequences for running slow rather than automatic shutdown and possibly a chance for those who want to to push further.

If you have to role play a Hero, does that mean in real life you are a Villain?

Instead of all the missions where you know you are going to win (or should win) going in how about a true RAID where you know you can't win, the goal is to get in, achieve as many objectives as possible and get out before you get caught.

Think of raiders like Vikings where you land kill local resistance, grab everything no nailed down and have to escape before the real army arrives because you don't stand a chance in a stand up fight.

Picture the reactor trial where the attacking groups of mobs increase in number and level over time (with scripted AVs), there is a definite point where you have outstayed your welcome.

Combine that with a building that lets you decide if you want to move to the next instance of the building or end trial by all clicking on exit. If you go to next instance of building you have to achieve all objectives in that building then face the same decision again, another instance or run for it?

To end Trial everyone must click the EXIT (sorry no exit button) If less than 60% (or whatever) of original trial doesn't click EXIT you fail the whole trial and no reward.

If you exit successfully rewards are based on how many building instances your cleared. I can see right there competitions to see who can get a league through the most. But you also have the advantage that a small League is just as capable of doing the Trial, a smaller league just can't go for the bigger prizes.

This sounds like fun and a good excuse for some massive battles. Also it is a trial where some thought and planning helps but everyone doesn't have to have downloaded a script before they can play.

To my the biggest problem with AE rewards is that as an incarnate there really is no point in doing non-Dev choice missions and even those it can be questionable (given the shard drop rates and how hard it is to get a full team that wants to do any AE arc).

So I see two problems, normal missions just don't produce shards (TF at least gives you an item at the end) and lack of interest. Lack of interest is indeed because Arcs don't work or because they are mislabeled (often badly).

If game tracked both the flags set by designer AND those set by people playing the arc you would have a bit better chance at choosing an arc. Worst example I can think of is the many arcs labeled "Soloable, Easy" which contain multiple Archvillains or filled with EBs. Hey not all EBs are soloable - at least by all ATs. Scrapper/Tanker/Brute only Soloable is not Soloable, Easy and annoys people expecting to be able to just go through an arc to experience it.

This would also allow you to add a broken flag other can search on. Although the problem there is LOT of people don't understand the game. I have a Arc Mail Strike! where the goal is to destroy mailboxes but a few are painted on the map and not targetable. I get 1 star arc is broken messages, each of which of coarse ruin a bunch of 5 star ratings lol.

Maybe a last revised date works better instead of a created date. I started adding that to Arc description.

There is so much dreck out there it seems like they should unpublish any arc that hasn't been played all the way through or republished in last X months (3, 6 months?). If everyone has been warned there is no reason they can't republish before it happens to prevent losing ratings.

Holding down exploiters and powergamers is hopeless IMO. For them they aren't interesting in playing the game anyway they are only interested in proving they can level fast/make money. This is especially true now with incarnates (before there really was no reason to get to 50 quickly). So I don't know what you do with them.

Also unlike other sample games given out with systems like Windows, CoH is huge client side. This means time to load it to the drives (things are fast these days but all time costs) plus customers not happy to have to deinstall it to get space back.

Windows games that come with system are tiny and pretty much worthless. You mean someone thinks you might actually like them?