Universal_Therum

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quote]My Rad's heal is Vengeance. I even got the first Healing badge with it

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Uhm...letting your team mates die when it could have possibly been avoided by a heal is generally a bad thing, FYI.

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The AT can throw the heal to save someone but as stated through out this thread should also help with defeating the groups.

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What's so odd about using the proper term for the AT - defender, corrupter, mastermind, or controller - that you go so far out of your way to say 'healer'?

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I do agree that if someone advertises themselves as a "healer" then you can question if they will do anything else.

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I have no problem with Empaths, Thermals, Rads, Darks, or even Stormies. But, honestly, I find the term 'healer' a distinction that is not necessary, and is a hold-over of games where The Holy Trifecta (Tank-Heal-DPSx3) is the one and only true path to getting anything done, and woe betide you for trying otherwise.

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I can agree with this statement also. Everyone on a team should be able to carry themselves no matter the AT they are.

Not in direct response to the one I replied against

I love it when these posts come up and all the "healer haters" come out of the woodwork. I agree that when anyone takes one attack and the rest are nothing more than heals and pool powers that are non-attacking it is a waste of space on a team.

My empath defenders are great with heals and still contribute to the team by attacking more than 1x per mob. Not EVERYONE plays their "healers" like a noob on drugs.

To the OP, if they have a way to heal a member of the team I would say they can say they are a healer. If your looking for an empath then you should be looking for someone that advertises themselves as an empath and not a healer.

To all "healer Haters", I have seen teams run perfectly fine without a healer on. Healers are not required but certainly makes life just a tad easier. So lets lighten up on the healer bashing and just plain say there are some of them that can contribute more to the team than others.

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Can you actually purchase the CoH Collector's Edition online like you can the Mac edition, in order to get that particular power?

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No. However some Big Lots may still have copies for sale or if you don't mind an over priced copy you can check out Amazon.

I would have to say if you can't solo the mission then you should not publish it as is. This is a terrible idea since you would not be able to guage the difficulty by how many times you died trying to get through it yourself.

If you want to make insane to impossible missions to solo then you need to find a team to test it with.

I don't think the person that starts the SG should EVER been auto demoted. This is just crazy!

This is the aspect I have always hated about this game. If the founder AFK's for any period of time he could leave someone in charge but not lose control of what he built up. If members do not like this fact they should leave and start their own.

For this very reason it has always been just my girlfriend and myself in our groups across all the servers. This way we know nothing will happen unless it is a game bug.

I feel for this persons feelings as I built up a group by myself and know how much work it is. So all of you doing nothing but bashing get a life. This person has the right to the feelings he has regarding this matter and as the person who started it should never have been auto demoted....the developers need to fix this as it isn't fair to that person.

I hope the OP gets control of his group back. Happened to me once and I got lucky that this person didn't log in for the 45 days. Promptly kicked this person once I could to ensure it didn't happen again.

Sounds more like you want another WoW.

Paladins, Rogues...ect.

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No doubt Gold Miners were part iof the problem; you can;t sell tickets, but you can sell the recipes and salvage they can buy.

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Actually while the "abuse" was happening I was getting only 1 RMT email per day. Once the Developers put a stop to it then they jumped back up to 20-50 per day on each character.

With the tickets obtained at the old rate the RMT peoples business was hurt quite a bit.

Makes you wonder doesn't it?

I have to say the idea of the MA system was a good one. Allow people to tell the back stories of their characters and/or other stories.

The problems with the "Farms" being created is on that even the devs should have been able to predict. I for one saw it coming. The only REAL solution to end farming in the MA system is to remove xp altogether and just issue tickets and badges...will not stop farming but will stop xp farming. Then the MA system can return to what it originally was meant for.

Since MA has been introduced everywhere I have been has been a ghost town (on pinnacle, freedom, virtue and triumph) where I can not find anyone running regular in game missions. Why bother when you can get from 1-50 in a couple days.

I will wait it out a month or so but really do not see this game as one I can actually continue playing since the core missions are slowly being phased out with no post 50 content of interest being added. Certainly hope I am wrong in this and that they work more on content instead of systems that will most likely be used as exploits with most of the player base then completely empty once it can no longer be taken advantage of.

This of course is just my opinion and feedback to the developers.

Not to add more drama to the mix over this new rank. I really do not see a NEED for this. I already think it is insane the founder of the group, the one who actually started it, can be auto demoted due to a real life moment that can arise at any time causing them to be away from the game for an extended period of time.

I started my own groups because I disagreed with how many other groups ran and telling me how often I need to play and how often I needed to group and what I should be doing when online. Since then I have invited other people into my VG that was looking for a no pressure group that teamed often.

I have found my attention diverted from CoH for reasons like this where larger groups have struggles of power internally and thus it can be taken out on the smaller groups who may lose control over what they worked extremely hard to build.

If they did choose to come up with this SL position it should be like any other game where that person only loses it voluntarily and not by force due to a 45 day inactivity rule I started my own group to get away from.

This of course has given me the thought of booting every member out of it to ensure I maintain control of the group that I myself worked very very hard to build. No one helped me do it I did it alone.

I certainly wish NCsoft would put more energy into more pressing matters in this game, like stability, than in something like this while it was working for everyone as is. CS only has to tell members that all matters concerning SG matters need to be handled with its leadership and if they are not happy then the option to quit and start their own or join another is always there.

This is not a QQ, but, definatly not fair to those people who built up their bases from the ground up and decided it a good idea to invite others with similar gaming ideas as they do to lose it to someone else that does not even play in sg mode since I do not enforce this.

Of course I am out on vacation the week this game goes live so it is extremely likely I will come back and have to fight for control of my own group back. A fight like this would not be worth it of course so I would just find something else with less stress.

And sad to say, this is why I think they should end the level pact part of the game. Greedy people.

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When the spam is an e-mail, please remember to leave the e-mail in your inbox when you report it. I don't know this for sure, but the logs might not keep a record of all sent and received e-mail that's easily accessible. Every time I've reported a spam e-mail, I've left it in my inbox. The GM deletes it out for you when he or she gets to the petition, and the character that sent it goes away.

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Really?? Good to know. I've been trashing them!

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Definately good to know. I was also deleting them after I sent a petition.

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uh...ok.

I'm not talking about the missions you missed. I'm talking about the taskforce missions. They are brand new.

...and, if you never did the other missions, then you WOULD still gain experience from them because it is still your characters first time doing. Handleling a new situation = experience.

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You stated "flashback time travel missions" which do put you into a TF style setting to ex you down, but, is not an actual TF.. Was unaware you meant the regular TF's.

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Is it possible to make it so we still get xp while being exemp/maled down for ther Ourobus time travel missions? All the TF ( which are great BTW) are set so low I can't get any xp for doing them with half my characters. Just wondering if it is possible to make time travel exemp different from regular exemp and still give xp. Either that or raise the max level to the low 40s instaed of the low 30s.

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You are traveling back into time to change things you wanted to complete successfully (badge missions) and to do things you wish you had (other badge missions or story arcs). There is no way to benefit growth wise on something you have done in your past, but, you can still earn the influence from what you had done whether you didi originally or not.

If you want to earn xp then you need to move forward and do contacts in your future..or flashbacks within your level range (not sure if that is possible but would be an option).

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Quick question. A couple of people in here have wondered, but no one has responded. And I have browsed around and can't find an answer.

Is this constant invasion an event that ends shortly? If so, when does it end?

I saw some posts that led me to believe that it will end...but then future waves of invasions will be triggered by people completeing part 5 (of 6) in a TF??

Thanks.

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If my understanding of this event is correct...it was supposed to last 3-4 weeks of invasions automatically, then, it is triggered by the Lady Gray TF in the RWZ after that. So for awhile there may still be ongoing invasions till people tire of it.

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It's annoying because it bumps the chat you'd actually like to read. Personally, I think they should take the 'friends' channel that I've never seen anyone actually use past the first week of the game's release and remake it into an 'events' channel.

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/signed

I think the invasion event is just "OK". I find these red admin messages to be annoying when I am trying to communicate with my teammates, SG mates and local chats in general. They should have implemented the message in a better fasion..even if that meant to delay the release.

What I like to laugh at are the most of the people who say "deal with it" are the same ones who don't like the big read "inspirations full" or "Enhancements Full" messages flashing for the split second they do.

Upon further thinking they could always use a scrolling message in the nav bar when invasions are going to happen. many games use this when they don't want to use a chat channel.

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It gets you hooked!

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The problem is I am already hooked on the game...making things like costum pieces near impossible to find unless you grind for 12-16 hours a day only aggrivates someone like me who really could live without the additions of the inventions system.

just an fyi

i9 could have been alot better. Drops are not as frequent on the salvage as they should be. Market prices are completely out of control (coming down but still nuts). I have chosen to only be involved in the inventions with items I find and selling the items (list them for 1 inf and let the purchasers rip themselves off). Other than that I could do completely without the inventions system. Especially since I only have had 1 constume drop in 72 hours of game play.

I have stood in the base myself in order to get the badge for my toons. I usually announce every so often that anyone who has me for a bounty to meet me near the base and let them collect it.

I suck at PvP right now so not quite ready to get into the thick. Definatly if people want nothing more than the badge...let the ones with your bounty take you out. Not like any debt is collected.

This is my 2 cents on this subject.

Find it funny that now heroes are complaining about this. Heroes camped the Villains base on Pinnacle until they fixed it with additional arbiter drones.

I agree that base camping is horrible, maybe they will put additional drones around the hero base to keep that from happening.