danomal
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Well that's good at least. Thanks for the info!
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Dog. Stupid cellphone double-posted. Sorry!
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I haven't found an answer among the many goodbye threads . I love this game and would love to see it survive but perhaps more realistically, I want to enjoy it while I still can. Do I have until nov 30 as VIP if I only paid for a month of time in late August?
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I haven't found an answer among the many good bye threads . I love this game and would love to see it survive but perhaps more realistically, I want to enjoy it while I still can. Do I have until nov 30 as VIP if I only paid for a month of time in late August?
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Thanks for giving me something to hope for. I have little in the way of computer skill but would happily donate some of my discretionary funds if it will help keep the lights on. Paragon wiki has always been there for me and I would love the chance to support you in this.
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Thank you Zwill. Your enthusiasm and effort as community manager kept me interested in a game I likely otherwise would have walked away from. Thanks to everyone else on the team as well. Paragon Studios was a special group that impacted a lot of people. City of Heroes was a great ride and one I won't soon forget.
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Quote:Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
It's odd that you say that because the fact that I have to pay for powersets doesn't make me feel like a VIP either: it makes me feel like a PIGS! Person of Inter-Galactic Significance, that is! With a mere several mouse clicks, the forces of nature come together at my fingertips, bending to my every whim! An electrical signal is sent from my mighty brain through my highly evolved nervous system down to my stately digit, crushing the unsuspecting button into submission. In its understandable urgency to kowtow to my designs, it then relays a signal through a series of tubes, in real time. At the local pumping station, NCSoft collects my pronouncement and from it gathers that my unflinching wisdom and unstoppable potency have come together to make them an offer that they are powerless to refuse: "Give me your power sets," they imagine me intoning, "and nobody gets hurt and you get ten dollars." Hurriedly they uphold their end of the bargain, knowing full well the consequences of dalliance. Behold: I have gained the ability to hit a robot with a stick without the merest exertion of my callipygian form.
Now would somebody PL me plz?
Dude. Write a book and I will buy it.
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Quote:you killed it.... with logic. Again.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
If you're gonna be able to have perma-insta-snipe, don't even bother with a Snipe Set -- there's no need to have Interruption Reduction.
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Quote:Nobody wins when you publicly criticize people you don't know.Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Hey check this out... the superlative description for the new Panther stealth power really takes Paragon's marketing to the next level.
You can read it here but look at what they've done in the description:
How's that for an amazing sales pitch?! Two neat paragraphs only three short sentences. No extraneous guff or irrelevant details just a simple "this is what it is, this is when you can use it and then an entire paragraph dedicated to telling you what it won't do.
Perfect: No unrealistic raising of user expectation, no unwitting exhortation to rush out and buy the product (because now we know what it won't do, we're going to buy it on impulse, right?) There's no unnecessary hype - or even a waste of space outlining the features and benefits of said travel power cuz... it's a panther stealth power and it turns everything off when you use it... that's all you need to know. EVER!
Brilliant stuff Paragon Marketing. You have finally excelled yourselves! Black Pebble, I salute you! Superlative work that leaves us other professional marketeers dead in your wake. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
While I have zero idea if this is true, the fact that so many in the community think it is true gives me smiles.
I wonder if Jack didn't ask Positron to kill off his characters because he didn't like them being used in a game that he wasn't a part of. Maybe posi was doing states a favor? This seems more likely to me than killing his old friend's characters out of spite... -
Quote:1) make the hover function at actual hoverspeed or run speed instead of essentially the speed floor .Originally Posted by StratoNexus
What is your solution to this?
2) provide +stealth instead of +fly
3) make the hover optional. TP was not impossible to use by any stretch when it did not include the hover. The average COH user likely has a much faster connection than s/he did in 2004 and lag is probably not the problem it used to be. I know it rarely happens to me and I play on high population servers.
4) make it shorter - less time immobilized would help. It is longer than it needs to be. I realize this is an opinion. Some people are not fast at executing powers.
I see I was unclear. What I should have said is that in a single application, for short-range ground teleportation shield charge and spring attack are better and faster than teleport. I didn't consider anyone would think I was actually proposing they were travel powers of some sort.Quote:Originally Posted by StratoNexus
Now you are just being silly. Neither of those powers will continuously TP you anywhere, therefore they are NOT faster and better than TP. They have slightly shorter animations, which is a very different thing. I'd still be happy if they reduced TPs cast time, but making ridiculous statements isn't likely to help the cause.
Their animations are not only 'slightly shorter' (25% apparently) they do not root you in place after you teleport. These are not insignificant advantages when mobility and flexibility are necessary.
Please don't call my ideas silly. I know this is the internet and all but you know, this is a good, friendly game with a good, friendly community. -
The dissenters in this thread seem to be putting forward the argument 'teleport has uses, and therefore should not (can not?) be improved'
I think the point is not that teleport is useful, it's that teleport in this game does not reach the level of fun and general utility that the other travel powers do as a result of a few potentially alterable characteristics:
The forced hover - a band-aid added in years ago to prevent people from falling in dangerous zones that makes you virtually immobile after you teleport (aside from teleporting again). This is a clunky fix that helps teleport for long distance zone travel, sometimes, on lowbies. The cost is not worth it in my mind as it makes teleport considerably less versatile indoors and hampers you when you try to fine tune your navigation.
The long animation time: compare to shield charge or spring attack - powers that teleport faster and better than teleport itself. Standing there, flexing your muscles for two seconds and then appearing somewhere else essentially unable to move is just less than a teleporting superhero should be capable of. At least in my opinion. -
Quote:I was going to start the same kind of thread. Inspired by he sky raiders and tsoo I was going to make a teleporting brawler. The ridiculous forced, long hover made my toon look ridiculous and feel about as super as a bag of earwigs. The slow animation is pretty terrible as well. I think the hover was a sloppy fix to a non-problem that was introduced and never revised. It is a holdover from a different (and less fun) era.Originally Posted by android33
i don't know about anyone else, but CoH's teleport is very underwhelming and somewhat difficult to manage. IMO it would be awesome if the Devs could make teleport fuction the way Champion's Online does.
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Quote:Originally Posted by EU_Damz
If its anything like the invasions we get now, oh can you imagine the veng they will get
I imagine the number of lieutenants dropping veng. will be adjusted or the invaders will likely win more often than not. Or the resistance will involve large groups of heroes hiding until the red-glowy-head aura wears off. -
I recently finished the incarnate arcs at x8 with my wm/shield toon and I had maybe a few tier one or two incarnate powers. She's aggressively io'd but I didnt even bother for the incarnate softcap. A little bit of strategy and timely use of insps made it just the right level of challenging.
The incarnate softcap is hardly necessary on any toon imo. certainly on trials there are so many buffs that you will often be softcapped with minimal personal defenses and the solo content just isn't hard enough to need it if you pay attention. Plus there's a ton of auto-hit patches in the solo content so capped defense isn't necessarily a guarantee of survival
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I bought one of the procs because they are better than the in game version. The rest of the set will come as the result of converters and a little patience. I am considering buying several of the procs to stockpile at the lower price.... I am not sure if the shame shame bit is a joke or not but I understand that this is the direction this 8 year old game needs to go in order to stay alive and relevant.
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The fact that PVP seemed to come down to who was better at running away and attacking at the same time pretty much killed any interest I had in it. The fights seemed to consist of someone speeding by, attacking once and then jumping out of range in a bizzare figure-8 pattern.
It didn't really fit with my idea of comic book battles.
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Quote:I couldn't agree more. I would love an apiarist (?) power setOriginally Posted by Pauper
Beast Mastery is awesome, because you get to ATTACK YOUR ENEMIES WITH BEES!
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the pumicites, specifically the Magmite boss with the flaming, volcanic-looking skin. It is so intensely awesome I would just sit, look at my toon and giggle if I could look like that.
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Hey, thanks a lot for all the feedback! I have tomorrow off so I will probably decide what to go with then.
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Quote:thanks! I like the look of MA better anyway so i think i'll go that way with it.Originally Posted by RaikenX
Limitations? No and no.
I've only ever really done airborn MA before...and it's been a good while since i've played that toon. So...I can't really comment on a comparison. -
I have an itching to play a flying brawler. With SJ or MA are there any limitations on airborne executions of powers? i'd hate to get to level 32 and find the powers only work on the ground. Any experience with which set looks cooler from the air?
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I'm interested in your recommendations for my 1st tank in about 7 years. My original toon was ss/inv back in 2004 but I've been mostly playing brutes, scrappers and well, everything else ever since. I really like the new ATios and want to try the new tanker one. I'm also tired of getting beaten down by arachnos at x8.
Survivability and being able to tank for teams at +2 or better are important to me. Having enough damage to run 0/8 solo and kill Ebs on my own (in under 10 min) is important too. I am done with Ss for now so that is off the table. I was thinking about sr/tw, shield/dm or maybe something with ice but I am open to suggestions and would appreciate your recommendations. Inf is plentiful so no restrictions there....
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I won't miss statesman much but i liked Sister Psyche. I hope she isn't really dead.
Manticore seems on his way to becoming a villain/vigilante. I hope he gets more powerful and a new look too. -
guess my idea wasn't so good. thanks for the info