Ura Hero
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I remember getting up early on Sundays to farm that single Isolated spawn in RV. While I was waiting I would work on pillboxes. Lou was nearly always there, cranking away for his badges. Now I am really sad that I accidentally moved Ura with no way to get him moved back home.
I'll be here till the lights go out for the last time. You all made it worth it in every respect. -
Several years back you did a line art of Ura sitting in a tree under a full moon. I have been wanting that piece colored in. Looking for it in my backup folders now.
Edit: found it!
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You can find me on Steam as ura_hero. In World of Warcraft on odd occasions on Drenden as Fayell. Most other places I am ura hero or ura_hero if spaces are not allowed in a handle.
I'm not sure where I will end up MMO wise. I haven't found any place comfortable to settle.
For those who I sent Facebook or Google+ requests to in case you may not know my real name, it is Richard Palmer. I'm not terribly hard to find, just look for Oolong. -
Too many to list River.
The world first MSTF that I got to be a part of. I think that eveyone had a clutch moment on that TF to get the badge, I know I did. (This is arguable that it was the first, but it certainly was the first reported to Badge-Hunter as verified by Janlee.)
Any Badge event.
Badge, Ish and the goat.
All of the folks who took a powerset and made it theirs. (Looking at you Tricky and you Rasta.)
Most of all it was all of you folks that made this server home. -
There are so many things I will miss. CoH was my first MMO and has always been "home" regardless of where I have roamed.
It might seem somewhat silly to be so emotional over a collection of ones and zeros, but that the game itself is obviously not the reason for the sadness. Each and every one of you has made Protector special to me.
I came here for the craziness and stayed for the family. Thank you for all of the fun times we have had and the fun times to come. I'll be here until the lights go out for the last time. -
Signed up. Thanks SV for taking this on again. I wish now I had participated last year. It does liven up the holidays.
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Happy Birthday!!!!
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Happy Birthday!!!
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Quote:Now, I could get into the idea of once you get to tier 9 you have an option to convert tokens to some amount of points, say 100 or 200. There really isn't a lot on the tier 9 schedule that I am interested in at the moment.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
What balances VIP status is the monthly tokens, Incarnate content, SSAs and superbases. But after Tier 9 the monthly tokens no longer matter. I still haven't spent all of mine, and I don't feel like gambling on sketchy 'super packs'. If Incarnate content does not appeal to you then VIP status gives you nothing. (You can purchase the SSAs off the additional points you get from going Premium.) Superbases are the only thing I treasure as a VIP, and I can't even invite my own characters into a super group; as useful as it is, it's a bad and abandoned system. -
7 years on Labor Day weekend which is in about two weeks. Never thought that I would be playing an online game this long.
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I made about half a billion on the market without really trying by selling off some low level IO's that I had laying about. Got my Stone/Electric tank to 48.5 and got a couple of levels on some other stuff.
Spend most of Saturday morning and afternoon trying to get my secondary computer to dual box without freezing up. Ended up upgrading it to Windows 7 x64 and running to Fry's for some extra memory. Works perfectly now.
Sunday morning was spent getting exploration badges for my supergroup since I had been putting it off for the past year. Upgraded all of the porters to the 4 zone model, bought a bigger plot and re-layed out the rooms with all of the extra prestige from Saturday.
All in all it was an enjoyable time, with the exception of the Sutter TF where Primal Duran refused to stop porting around like a ninny even after killing off the clone. Ended up logging out and resetting to clear whatever bug was happening. Finished it quickly after that.
Fun times had by all of the Masters of Debt! -
Quote:This will not award any points. I tried this a few weeks back. I got all of the items that were included in each release, but no points which was ok because it was still cheaper than buying a VIP subscription.Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
Hmm.. not sure how it works now but... On Amazon you can get Going Rogue: Complete, CoV: Collectors and Architect Edition for $25.35 (so free shipping). I assume all the old stuff from that is still valid, in which case thats $25 for 3 months worth of subscription (and so 4 reward tokens, I think). Combine that with the refer a friend program, to give them another 500 points (and a free month for you).
Anyone know if that would work?
Refer a friend might have worked, but I didn't think about it. Darn it. -
My two cents, having leveled a Willpower/Fire tank and spent about 4 billion on IO sets:
Put in standard IO's while leveling. Level 30's will last you all the way to 50.
Once you hit 50, go to the scrapper forums. Find a build that has all typed defense soft capped and respec your character to match the build. Build a set of generic level 50 IO's and slot them up. Add the Set IO's that are specified by the build you selected as you can afford them while playing.
Play the character as much as you can to build influence along with selling everything that drops. Do the alignment missions, task forces and the WTF to get merits to trade for the more expensive IO's.
It takes time to build a great character, but Willpower is a wonderful power to base it off from. I wish my scrapper had been able to start off as Willpower. I would enjoy him a lot more than I currently do. -
Typically the way drop rolls happen based on other MMO's who have described the process in some detail is that all of the loot types are rolled for success and type of drop, then the number of loot drops per type are rolled assuming multiple drops can happen, then the game rolls for each drop among the group's individuals based on who is eligible. So if the drop happens to be two shards and you roll high on both of them, you get both of them.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Sooner
So many problems would be solved here if the devs would have added levels gates to the trials so the people trying to lead the trials don't have to police it - and end up the bad guy for doing it.
So much this. I understand they want content to be viewed. If they want new content to be viewed, gate it and speed up some of the stuff that no longer needs the long gate times like shards. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I'm not a mime.
Oh you said meme. Carry on. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Demetrios Vasilikos
Not to call you a liar, but I dont think your trying to optimize your limited play time if your struggling to even get +1
You can get your tier one alpha running 3 short TFs, that is if 12 shards really seem that rare. I usually use threads for tier 2 alpha since a single WST notice can be converted into 40 easy threads. You can get shard drops from any lvl mob when exemped so run some for fun mid lvl tfs to help lowbie friends, such are packed with kill alls that can be plowed through. you play an hour a day, knocking out optimal content like TFs, Story Arcs, Tips and the like and you will rake in shards while doing other fun things.
Sound impossible? Its not. I have a character who hasnt run a single incarnate trial, has his tier 3 alpha, only left with Destiny to unlock, and tier 2s in the unlocked slots. His entire concept just doesnt fit incarnate as it is implimented so I outside of technically Assissting a fellow hero with his initial unlock arc, he hasnt done anything but convert shards as he finds them to threads, and earn notices every week if the WST is one he is fun for, and hey someday if he does have to be batman aiding the JLA against ol crater face so be it, least he wont be walking in without a plan.
*sigh* I didn't say anything about optimizing play time or even trying to. Heck, I have been gone for over six months now, probably closer to nine. There is a ton to catch up on. I didn't even know about the mailables in Ouro till someone mentioned it in this thread. I hadn't even gotten to the point of knowing that the DA arc was repeatable. The patch notes could be a bit better written and make this stuff a bit clearer.
The point was, this game is pretty daunting to get your character incarnated. More so when you come back to the game and have missed a lot of content. The devs seem to think that everyone has an abundance of play time. I was attempting to point out that this was not the case. Apparently I failed. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Zaloopa
You may be interested in checking out This Thread, in just under a month, less than 1 hour in dark astoria per day, you should be able to get up to +2 level shifts. If you took 5 weeks, like your example from the other game, you should be able to get the full +3.
Thank you very much for that thread. So it isn't quite as bad as the RNG seemed to be making it last week. I'll drop a few more hours on it and see if it improves any. -
Quote:Possibly. But the truth still remains that only having a short time to work on content a few days a week, you are always going to be playing catch up.Originally Posted by Stone Daemon
That sounds like hyperbole, but even if it wasn't...you can't blame the game for not having the time to level yourself up. It takes less than half an hour to run a Lambda/BAF/Keyes (assuming, of course, you can get one started with relative speed).
Anyway, if you're desperate to check out the new content and you don't ever see yourself making those level shifts, I imagine people will still take you. It might be a pity spot, but I'd like to think most people wouldn't care as long as the league has most of its people +2/3'd.
I'd be satisfied with just having a reasonable rate to get components.
I won't disagree on the requirement, but with the number of slots it is worse than slogging from 40 to 50. Around 7 hours of play time soloing last week and I only made about 30% progress on Lore at best. Perhaps that is passable. Perhaps not. When you add in the amount of loot that has to be gathered to make the components, it is making for extremely slow going.Quote:Originally Posted by Major_T
Ura Hero, I understand your position and I wish you could play more, but I disagree with you.
The iXP requirement to unlock each slot is less than the requirement to get from level 49 to level 50.
Again, you folks are looking at it from the inside looking out. It's hard to judge how slow progress is unless you pass it by on the way to work every day. If you watch it out your window things always seem to be happening. Only giving it a glance once in a while and it sure doesn't seem to move as fast.
Don't get me wrong. I don't want an instant incarnate. I want to earn it. I just want a way to earn it that isn't going to take me months to fill one slot with the lowest level ability. Which at the current rate is about what it will take. All I ask for is gated content with consistent rewards not based on RNG that I can do in a half hour a day where in a few weeks or a month or so I have an ability that is useful. I'll get it to top tier eventually and I'll be able to kick in a few trials and task forces on the way. There honestly just isn't any reason to restrict it to folks who have plenty of gaming time. The hard cores keep the game alive, but the casuals are what pay the bills. -
Quote:No argument that people might be doing older content. For me at the moment it is strictly time. I don't have time to sit and wait for it to form then do the content.Originally Posted by Stone Daemon
But people are doing older content, unless things have changed dramatically over the weekend. Last I checked, Richter was doing nightly iTrial runs spanning most of them that he could. And of course, people form for TF's to get shards all the time.
As maxed out as my Willpower tanker can knock stuff down in a reasonable time frame. Which is pretty maxed out. Dieing is never the issue with him.Quote:What difficulty were you running at? I mean, that aside, doing solo missions aren't going to net you a lot of shards/threads. We have a solo system, yes, but unfortunately as you have seen, it's kind of slow.
The issue again is the wait. I don't have that luxury at the moment. It's get on, do what I can, then log off. Right now that is about 30 to 45 minutes at a shot if I am lucky. If I start a mission and don't have time to finish it, no big deal, no one hurt but myself. Starting something with a group and not finishing it just strikes me as wrong.Quote:You don't need a lot of time to crank out a quick lambda/BAF. Of course,
what time you get on to try it does matter--as it matters in trying to run any team content.
It's just not very practical to wait, then possibly have to leave the trial before it is over. Which was my total point above. Some players just have limited play schedules. Hours to spend on doing a trial just isn't something that can happen.
I honestly don't expect any of you to grasp why this is difficult (not trolling here, I didn't get it until I came back from my hiatus and saw what it is like for the casual player). You are all hard core players. If you weren't, you wouldn't have post counts like you do and hang out here to talk "shop".
All I am saying is that not everyone has time to play like you do. They feel left out and want to see the new content. Not all players are experts. Most of those probably don't realize that they are a drain on the league. Those that do know better don't care, they just want to experience the content.
If there is any blame to place, place it where it belongs. On the designers who made a system that is inherently flawed in that the content ramp is gated too long and that there are no lock outs for places where there should be lockouts.
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As an example of why it is flawed, I play that "other" major MMO on occasion. It took me all of five weeks of solo daily quests (20-30 minutes a day) to deck my two max level characters out with Epic items for all but about 5 slots with two characters. Which seems pretty reasonable time commitment to have the entry level armor for heroic mode content. Which is gated by item level. This meant that if I had time, I could go do that content and be a reasonable contributor.
Now apply this same strategy to the current state of Incarnate content and we are looking at literally years to get the minimum entry level gear for the slots. It's asinine. If they only want teams and leagues to be able to be Incarnate, just say so. Don't tease the player with a possibility of getting somewhere then say "let's shut them up by giving them a method to get somewhere at a snails pace" and then that method is not even realistically feasible to be able to join up to date content in a somewhat reasonable time frame. -
I'll toss my two cents in here.
Incarnate content is gated way to long for people with limited play time. I still don't have but three 50's that have any incarnate progress. They have pretty much just the basics with shards since that is the time I had to step away from the game.
With the amount of playtime that I have currently available and judging by my current progress, it is going to be sometime around 2020 when I get even one of them to any decent place with respect to progress. I just don't have time.
If there needs to be a limiter with respect to what a person can bring to a trial or TF, Paragon Studios should put the barrier in the way and say; "Stop right there. You can't do this because you cannot make a significant contribution." However, this has not happened and likely won't happen. Steamrolling content is well and good. I love it. I enjoy it. It's not a lot of fun to start something and fail due to lack of DPS, buffage, etc. BTDT.
This is one of the issues that I foresaw when they showed the massive tree that is the incarnate path. It's cool. It's meaningful (to some extent). It gives tons of progression for 50's.
Unfortunately, it is also as slow as a snail to progress when you don't have time to play hard core. It would be nice to have an offline "build up" mode to move the bar a bit faster when you haven't been able to play as much with increased drop rates to match.
So, the new stuff has lured another $15 out of my pocket, but I can't join in to the new trials since I have nothing to "help" out with. *shrugs*
Perhaps it is disrespectful to join in with a "light weight", but then if no one is doing to older content how would I ever get my 50 to be incarnate in the first place?
Just to put this in perspective, I ground out several 30 minute solo sessions (around 4 hours total) this last weekend to get two shards. Two freaking shards. I need about another 30 to finish my top tier Alpha slot. On one toon.
I ran the new DA intro mission arc last week to get four threads to finish my second tier two judgement power. Again, it took me about three hours to get the four threads. Absolutely freaking nuts for a drop rate that needs so many to do anything useful with.
My progress on the Lore and Interface XP is just as dismal. I understand the gating and why it is done, but all Paragon is doing is annoying the **** out of the folks who don't have time to sit down and spend 6 or 8 hours at a stretch playing. I've been there. You know I have. I used to sit for 12 hour stretches doing task forces and trials, for both days every weekend and 4 to 6 hours every night after work. I can do it, but I just don't have time. Real life demands some attention. So, I am punished for that lack of time. To be honest, the whole system doesn't engender me to plunk down another $15 for next month. My stable of 50's just sit there looking forelone knowing that they won't ever make it to be incarnates since I can't even get one to the current level.
So the way it currently stands, I know I will still be in the same boat next year sitting out in my little corner of Northeast Talos wondering at all of the water around me but knowing I can't drink any of it. -
Happy birthday!
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Happy Birthday Vorac!
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It was a good day. I see you avoided the traps that I set for you and made it back somehow. The next time I have to remember to let your dog out into the back yard before setting them. I know he ratted me out.
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Happy Birthday!!!!!