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Im sure blasters must work in pvp,though I have a theory it depends on the map.

In bloodybay I was able to hunt quite well, and had lots of room to move around and keep at range,picking my targets carefully, in sirens its more close and personal and anyone with a hold power can dominate Spurr..

And if they havent got a hold/stun power,then they usualy have a good few more hits/defence than Spurr and can just walk up to him and turn him into a novelty glove puppet

Im waiting to test my empath/rad defender in sirens to see if proton volly combined with SJ works..and Im slowley building up Vaacume my grav/kin controller to unlease holding death upon the squichy humans!!!

I like Sirens call, and I'm a novelty knife scabbard for every stalker within 100yds (think I died 15 times last night).

I know I dont stand a chance but I certianly dont run, sure I guess some people do but then that is their right to retreat/run away.

Last night there seemed to be a good mix of numbers,equal Vs and Hs and little bad feeling.
The only problem I had was when I got dropped by a hoard of Tsoo who were invisible 'till I landed in their midst, but thats most likely just down to my comp.

Other than my getting to know the hospital staff really well, I managed to mock several Vs and cause them no end of dry cleaning problems with my arterial spray

Damn flying stalkers.... There I was lurking around the BB smokestack at the Vs base, watching to see if anyone wanted to talk safe in the knowledge that I was hovering 100s of yds in the sky safe from stalkers.

Why did I even think that??!
Talk about shocked when the big AS flashed on the screen lol, and to make matters worse the only stalker I could see was down in the base..So I then spent an hour running in terror from the stalkers with their ranged AS....must have looked funny to who ever was lurking behind me invis lol.

In some ways it would suck.

In other ways, if the enhancments were made so you could remove/swap items then it would make much more sense, but only a few enhancements can be removed others such as mutations cannot really be removed at will...
"ooh I'll just un-mutate a second, and then mutate a bit differently".

Though I'd rather see more done to integrate pvp and pve as one game, not seperate them even more.

Behave exactly as you would in the PVE zones, this is all ment to be one game not two stuck together.
And be prepered for someone to whine about something you do no matter what. (I got whined at for not fighting back ).

Rules I go by in game:

1: If someone offends/insults me I assume its an IC (in character) insult aimed at my character first.

2: If I think someone is offended by something my char does I try to let them know that it is my character attacking their character not me attacking them.

3: Be polite,offer pointers to people on how they can improve, congratulate them on a good kill/escape/use of power...If you go by the comics Hero-Villain banter is rarely "You suck Noob!! pwned!!".

Short question:

Base raids, are they COV Vs COH or SG Vs SG ?

Is it heroes raiding the bases of evil doers (and vice versa) or just another excuse to get heroes fighting each other?

(If it explains in the COV box, I apologise but Im not even opening it till I get a new comp).

But people allready are "mercing", when I first started in the summer there were people who would only help if given XXXXXXXX amount of influence.

But like many things it would only work well if you could be sure that it would not attract idiots,and thatpeople would not act outside of the spirit of the game.

But then that would require people to treat each other with respect and tolerance...
Respect and tolerance, ah how our gaming experience would be improved if we all had those 2 traits.

But surely the trust issue is one that exists allready with SG members, especily as a large number of groups do recruit anyone and anything to get prestige.

The various SGs Ive been in and left, have never had any great feeling of group loyalty, especily amongst the new recruits who all know that in truth they are just prestige cows to be milked, this lack of loyalty increased recently when lots of people shifted over to COV so suddenly all us peasents were left in SGs where the ranking members had all bogged..but still asked us to keep grinding the prestige so there us peasents are, earning the rent for peoples bases with little chance of earning group rank or recognition.

But then a lot of this harkens back to the culture of scorn that exists on the net regarding new members/recruits/noobs.

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Back to the security issues:
1: Improve relations with your SG members.
2: Ask for mercs/freelancers to not accept contracts opposed to your SG for a set period,or to give good notice if they do.

I have not built a base of my own , and have not looked into doing so as my chars dont need one yet.. But can you not move your defences around?

Nice idea, I've met a few chars that only join team ups for a price so its not that diff from that.

I'm starting to have bad feelings about the base idea, the phrase "dedicated players" is poping up more and more when SGs are recruiting and clearly indicates that they dont care what char joins as long as they are going to log on as much as possible and get as much prestige as poss in that time.

Makes me question how many SGs actually care about their members, and how many just see them as cattle to farm, certainly from the few SGs Ive seen it does seem that you have a core group to the SGs and then the "chaff" they recruit to pay for their base.

pointless powers.. How about all of the secondary powersets.

Why cant blasters have more ranged attacks for their second set?
As ranged attack ATs why on earth would we want to go into melee combat, it makes no sense that all we get is a shed load of melee options.

Tankers get defence stuff, Scrappers get defence type stuff...Defenders get ranged blasty/buffy stuff, as do controlers.

Sure the power sets are useful, but they dont fit the concept that well..

I've seen a lot of that style of play recently , got frothed at by some fanboys when I pointed out to them that they're "fantasy wargaming" not rping.
I was quite suprised as I thought that form of rp fell out of fasion years ago in favour for more in depth wargaming or dedicated tabletop rp.

Ah those misty days of getting shouted at for breaking the swords off my uncles latest Ral Partha minitures.....

Hi, I have a number of chars on Defiant (yeah I chose it as my primary server for the name too ) and I try to get as much rp in as possible.

Though I'm fairly flexible with my team ups and dont mind teaming with non rpers ( I just ignore any OOC stuff they mention).

So if you see any on of my heroes around give a shout (most my chars dont mind exemping down either).

Spurr (sonic blaster)
H-Bomb (empath/rad defender)
Vaacume (grav/kin controler) (rp only char..hates humans)
Green Hydra (spine scrapper)
Albion Flame( I/F Tanker) (rp only char,not the sharpest tool in the box).

Ive only been playing a tank in my spare time, and I must admit I was suprised at how easily they drop.
Albion flame is a I/fire tanker ,and he cant take on the same odds thay my blaster , empath,controller or scrapper could at that lvl.

I expected to be able to take serious punishment and leap into combat and mash hellions to pulp (like my scrapper but with less withdrawing to heal and longer fights due to less damage).but after my third trip to the hos in Atlas I've given up playing him for a while.. Hell Now I understand why my empath ends up welded on to the teams tanker on missions

but now my tp works on hardly anything....red circles everywhere

ah no the sarcasm hits me...must be slow today

this a joke? please say it is.

I would have thought the more the merrier, after all there are few huge super groups in other sourcers most seem to settle for a roster of between 4 and 20 members, with a high turnover of people into other groups.

I try to be as active as I can with my chars, but I am also sticking to current health guidelines with regards to computer use, coupled with server downtime and repairing my system/altering it after every patch/update means that if I am pushing it I can only get maybe 7000-9000 prestige per week.

Sure no doubt people out there can afford to stay online 24/7, or really dont care about their health but is that a reason for people to get so narcy with each other over this subject?

Yes it does suck that at present solo players or small groups cannot get bases that work with the ease that larger groups can, in the hero genre there are numerous heros with bases/hideouts.

All a lot of us are asking for is somewhere to dump or use al lthis salvage we pick up,not an indestructable fortress of good.

Remember its a game, we play it for fun and use these forums to ask questions ,learn, and talk about problems..
So play nice people..play nice.

heheh, I'd hate to play in a lrp where spell vocals were that short. was not much of a fight either. did not see if the weapons were "boffa" type or the better moulded foam/latex ones..ah well.

yeah tp with hover is the way to go. great for emergency running away too
But then I think tp must have hover to make it viable.

Even then beware, the skys are not a safe haven I've had a few running low lvl skirmishes in pvp.

I love this power, I just wish there were more like it perhaps an area effect.

I have not played my empath to much since ED but I did notice that Iseemed to spend longer not being able to be healed.
Makes it tough to keep the tanks up and running (which is priotity 1 in standard missions for me), that coupled with my heals seeming to do less ( I did not have much stuck in them in the way of enhancments anyway,I dont play the numbers game)...

At the moment I'd say it seems fairly even from my point of view.
Both sides have groups that are very close to being "base campers", Both sides are totaly ruthless with regards to getting kills, Both sides have issues regarding the enemy or specific powersets..Which lets be honest is not a problem if all powersets and ATs were ment to be equal then why bother including different types of them??

Controllers/master minds are powerful, yep... But they still can be defeated.

Stalkers are more of a natural hazzard than a threat,like tripping over or getting a cold or herpes.
"I was running through BB when I got a nasty case of stalkers, hurt a little but I managed to shake it off...thanks to vitamin C,sorry insights.."

I hope I did not cause offence, but its true to say that a newbie getting dropped into all of this might be deterred, hell I dont know any of you, dont know what any of this is about (as its not my concern) but the first thing I thought when I looked in at this thread was "uhuh, looks like the spectre of rp politics has reared its ugly head again..shame"..All to often in rp games we tend to let minior issues grow into titanic proportions,when really the the only problem tends to be one of mis-communication.

Its a game, we're here to have fun and play/rp not judge each other

Greetings,

The Hollows.

In detail, I shall be forming a group to aid and teach those heroes who travel through that zone.
I intend the group to have a fluctuating membership, as people leave once they have grown tired of the broken land it is, but have a core member of mentors to assist the new heroes.

Perhaps then we may be able to claim this area from the scum that infest it.

Now I have seen many groups forming ,seemingly so they can get the backing and funds for a base.
We will not be having a base!

Why should we have the comfort of a home when the innocents of the Hollows live in ruins?

At some point I may consider looking into getting a med bay..maybe.

All heroes who wish the assistance of the group will follow a small list of rules.

1: If anyone calls for a hero for aid, you will respond! I care not if that person has lost a cat in a tree, YOU will RESPOND.

2: Share and spread information amongst each other!!

3: Never fight each other while members of the group.

4: Everyday you are active check to see if others in the group need assistance,then and only then go about your own tasks.


Regards.

Spurr, Chosen of the Vanir.

And this bickering is one reason why a lot of people think role-players are mooks, or that certain types of role-play are inferior to others.

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Back to topic, there is rp on defient from my limited observations of both servers Id say theres about the same amount.
..roleplay but judging from my post no spelling