gameboy1234

I wouldn't think so myself. One attack on auto fire doesn't do as much as a full attack chain being actively played by a determined scrapper. Just the fact that you couldn't pull some of the mobs off the scrapper, who was only running RttC, says to me that a scrapper probably could hold all the aggro if they really tried.


Two things confuse me still.

1) Where the wiki says "Attacks made after the Taunt is applied have their Threat multiplied by 1,000 * Duration ... [etc. rest of formula.]" If that's true, how do I pull aggro the first time I taunt? Because I haven't done damage after the Taunt was applied, and yet mobs almost always veer towards my tanker doing the Taunt.

I wonder if the initial Taunt itself is counted as "damage," thus giving the Tanker (or other taunter) a head-start on "damage" by 2,000 - 4,000 points or so.

2) Ditto on the "pull aggro during an AV fight with Taunt." This shouldn't happen on an AV during a long fight. It seems inconceivable that a Tanker could instantly switch aggro from another toon, without doing damge, with just one Taunt, in a long fight, even multiplying by 1000. Yet it seems 100% reliable. I wonder if cumulative damage is what's being multiplied by 1000, not subsequent damage.

Unfortunately, it would now no longer be unique.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/...urce_Filmmaker

Of course, Valve also has like at least 10x the resources that Paragon Studios has, so I doubt there was ever a realistic chance of beating Valve to the punch on this one.

Just curious: would a random drawing be a better idea? For example: take all comers for 12 hours, then pick 100 folks to receive a code? That at least relieves the need to constantly refresh.

I see your point. I'm going to counter that neither of us knows NC Soft finances, but that in general it's possible to be profitable, but yet not profitable enough to justify the effort. If one is merely making one's money back, what is the point?

(Ignore for the time being that banks are paying pretty durn close to 0% interest, and that for a safe investment "your money back" is about the most you can hope for these days.)

The point is profitable or not, CoH's contribution to NC Softs bottom line is likely pretty small. I'm sure Guild Wars and a few other things need to take priority. It sucks, but if we want to keep CoH around, it's best if all of NC Soft's properties make as much money as possible. So for the time being I'm willing to put up with it and hope that GW has a good launch, and they fix the web problem Soon(™).

I will: City of Heroes makes about 10% of what Lineage and Aion do, and fixing these bugs is lower down on NC Soft's priority list.

Personally I think folks here should be glad that NC Soft has invested as much money as they have in City of Heroes. Things like game resources are much more important to me staying here and enjoying myself than having two ways to log into my account. I get frustrated as well, but as long as I can use my account somehow it's not a total disaster.

While the web interface is nice to have, there's a work-around that is acceptable. This is just the way triage for bugs in software works. If it's got a work-around, then it's lower priority than other bugs that don't.

If you're going to go that route, don't forget VEATS can double up on Tactics. It's base +10% each on my Fort. I assume it's similar for Soldiers.

VEATS are not common blue side at low levels but they're around. I don't think doubled up Tactics is common either, but I did take one power (the Tactical Training version) on my Fort. It's handy while leveling in mid levels, +ToHit is nice while you're still slotting your powers.

Villains do sorta kinda have access to Maria's arcs. They can go rogue and run Maria's arc. Yes, I know that's not at all what the OP wants, but it is a solution of sorts.

Yes!

Partially this, and also I didn't like being segregated from the rest of the group. I don't like being stuck in the vault going "are you done yet?" over team chat. I'd rather have an objective that only I can touch, but still be able to follow along with all of the other action. Interaction with teammates is still a big deal. Make sure too that others can follow me as well. If I must go in a separate room, make sure there's a big window so the rest of the team can watch my action.

Overall I give Casino Heist an A+ for effort, but the final result only gets a C. That's ok, the devs tried a new thing. Sometimes new things don't work out. This particular formula of mission needs a fair amount of tweaking before the devs can just clone it and stamp out others of the same type. But I'd encourage them to keep trying, as I think it has a lot of potential.

Yeah all you folks from Virtue can put your tights back on now. We don't do that on the forums, kthxbye.

It isn't a bad idea to start a new toon and level it up again. That way you at least get to see new features a few at a time, like a new player would. Play the new tutorial, do the intro missions in Atlas Park or Mercy (Villains). Find out what "DFB" is. Etc.

There's no reason not to unlock your 50's and play those too, but having a couple of new toons too could be fun. There's a lot of new power sets available so you can play the same old ATs in new ways.