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This is not a thread about speculations. Its more of a question to people in the know and people in the business.
I understand not having any more updates etc... I understand not marketing the game anymore...
But why pull the plug how much can the software and the one guy to reset the servers once a week actually cost?
Why not just let the game go unsupported? Just let it go that way... Why actually pull the plug?
is there a reason that we know in fact? Is cox loosing money?
Just kinda wanted to know. If its making money why do anything. I unsderstand letting go the staff to save money etc... in hard times you got to do what you got to do. But i was prepared to spend more money id keep playing. -
Quote:yes. I still dont get why their ending it. I understand no more updates etc... but pulling the plug. How much can one dude in korea pressing a reset button on the servers a week, and some bandwith actually cost? **** im paying 100 a month as it is for some accounts and points.Originally Posted by HotFlash
Just a thought..............would you be willing to pay up to $19.99 per month to keep the game going ? ? ? I know I would. Let me know and maybe we can start a new petiton to show how many players would be willing to pay more to keep the game alive and maybe just maybe if NCsoft saw that they would reconsider with all that new cash coming in every month. -
Quote:ahh sweet anarchy... tell me more but say it slower....ah...Originally Posted by Rylas
Now that forums rules have probably gone out the window, and I don't care about burning any shi++y @ss bridges, I'll just say what I would have loved to have said every time I saw you post.
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Quote:to the people that are disagreeing with this comment. What the hell are you thinking.Originally Posted by GenericForumName
Do you remember all the people who said "The more superpacks we buy, the more we let NC nickle and dime us in the store, the more content and fixes we'll get"?
How are those people going to explain the shutdown?
Do you remember the apologists who insisted that CoX was not dying even when it went F2P? Why don't we hear from those people today trying to do backflips to explain why this game is going belly up if it is doing so fine?
Next is for the devs.
Remember how often when the base building community, or the badge community, or the pvp community, or the AE crowd, etc., told you during the BETA testing of an issue that certain things were wrong, or problematic, or downright disasterous and you refused to listen?
There is a real cost to not listening, isn't there? If your vision and approach were so darn right, why has CoX been bleeding customers in a way that even F2P couldn't fix?
When developers hurried to fix things that benefited the players and yet let inconveniences and bugs linger for months or years, when developers were slow to accept responsibility, slow to change, slow to fix, rarely if ever apologize, when developers sealed themselves in a forum bubble where the most fanatics and devoted live, this is what you get.
I'm sure a few will try to rationalize, or argue. But there are no better rebuttal than the fact that they are shutting this down. If their vision and the way they were doing things were so right and correct, then this product would still be profitable, wouldn't it? There are far older MMOs out there that are still going and thriving.
So Posi and folks, hope you learned the lesson here and use it in your future endeavors. To the apologists and sycophants making excuses for bad behaviors over the years...you get what you rightly deserve.
We Told You So.
the game is done
profitable? who the hell closes a profitable company...
get your head out of the sand its over and its over for some of the reasons this poster stated and more.
saying its not doom. is just not accpeting the facts. its over. Get over it.
And well i am as pissed as everyone 7 years in and its a ****** way to end it.
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if you want a sucky worthless toon i once made a force feild/electric defender.
The only thing it was ever good was buffing heavies in rv and staying in PFF.
I mean this toon was and still is worthless.
i have over 40 50s and this is still by far the worst sets i have ever seen in combined on this AT. -
is there a way to increase the proc trigger?
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its a push.
I do both depending on my mood.
there is no sure thing
i have run 9999 tickets in a day and got crap
and i have run 3 days of purple farms in a row and got none.
whats more fun and what can you handle best is whats really the question.
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Quote:I dont mean multiple procs per castOriginally Posted by Aggelakis
Patch/pseudopet powers check once when activated and once every ten seconds after that. If the duration is 9.9 seconds, you only get the one check. lol
i am refering to the new proc trigger in i24
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Quote:Then what about powers like Burn? It hits once when the power is fired originally but this power has no check to acc if i am remembering correct. So thus 3 or 4 procs in here should fire off every time with the new mechanic.Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid
The procs only work if the power hits. From there, the procs have their own percentage of activating. The procs are not their own additional attack, and thus do not have their own accuracy. Instead they are just an addition to the attack that hits.
so you could in theory get a huge spike in dmg on this power on every use. If you had say an oblit, eradication, and a apoc proc in burn with 3 recharges its ready for every mob sometimes twice.
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Do the procs hit only if the power hits?
Such as blazing aura. If my power hits do i get a chance to proc-dmg or does the proc work independently of the power its in such as an additional attack?
Does that additional attack have a to-hit of its own? Or a base acc?
Or does it use the numbers of the attack that its in. Insofar as my blazing aura has acc of (x) so my proc would hit with (x) or is it on its own scale?
with the new Proc mechanic is it not somewhat smart to put in 2 or more procs in a power such as blazing aura?
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Quote:Did a baf, lam , and mag in a row on Freedom and it was a fight to get in them as there were so many people to invite to them in PockD.Originally Posted by B_L_Angel
Protector is always talked about as the tiny server but we manage two or three sets of trials a day.
In fact there were 2 bafs and 2 lams forming at once. (almost every night is like this) and its all night long. I only played for an hour.
Quote:Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I can't speak for other servers, but with the exception of this last weekend, Triumph is almost a ghost town at this point.
More people are leaving the server than are coming to the server.
I spent 4 years on triumph. I loved that place but I agree with Snow. He isnt making it up. Its a ghost town. I remember when triumph was the best at pvp ran hamis every night for months and there would be 200 in zone and it would crash your comp. Now i bet you cant get 200 on a night on red and blue side.
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Thank you to Arch@#*!
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Quote:that will do it.Originally Posted by scott2hot006
100 billion is more or less my savings account. When my marketing toons hit the influence cap i email it. I either spend it, put it in "savings" or give it away in multiple ways.
I often give away 500 mill for kill shots of AVs in TFs and such. I pay for people to form TFs for me and to help for badges. I IO out builds for friends.
I play 2 accounts 1 with over 70 Marketers the other with 30ish. I earn about a billion a day on average. I log every marketer in twice a week usually.
I stay away from most things that have high volume/more competition. Im all about volume and having every wentworths slot put to use.
i am always amazed that when i log in a marketer toon everything or almost everything is sold. Or even more amazed when i bid on a stack of recipies for cheap they all fill in 2 days.
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I never ever let that much build up. And I spend a lot of time giving free farms, purples, and pvp ios away.
I bet in the last month alone i gave away 10 billion. The average is probably 5 bill a month i just throw to friends and even strangers.
Its so easy to make influ in this game. And once you dont need any more it seems so much easier to make. The first billion was very hard, the 10th meh, and the last 80 or so billion i dont think i actually did anything except throw up bids and wait then sell and wait.
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thanks for the info
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So that is the question is there a cap on -res?
I just finished a def to all t3 incarnates its sonic sonic with the incarnate -res power
am i capped out in -res have i taken too much -res? Can one cap -res?
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I just tested mine and its sooo insta its way better! And the blaster is so much better now all around.
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I say there are many ios that are terrible
I think
Detonation-TOTAL junk
All the slow movement sets.
Ranged dmg almost everything-low level
LOL cleaving blow only 4 pieces in a lvl 50 set.
crap of the hunter.
essence of curare.
and more....
not sure how the market will affect anything but i put in some lowball bids that cost me nothing so if i buy 50 of each set that i think stinks and they turn out to be in a little better i made all my influ back
We will see....
Also i think that the power pools being upgraded will mean a lot of people taking new powers and sets bonuses that will go into them so fear sets may spike etc....
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of course it all comes down to how you want to play. What you want to do.
I always try to get as much Rech as possible regardless of build. However i do not try to alter the build and not take powers i want just to have more rech. Its less important than say a final attack or a last control power or heal.
And for KB i find KB mitigation is less important in the game unless you pvp. I think 8kb is usually enough for 99% of things in the game these days. If i get to a point in a build or in a character and i see that that character has one power left thats a toss up. I might usually take it.
Unless i did not take Jump power pool than i might not. (only on 3 characters has no jump set powers) If no jump i might take a tp power (friend) or Hover. If the build im working on cant get acrobatics then ill usually use the Defense KB io since combat jump, leadership manuvers, stealth, hover, and many epics can all take them. I seem to have more defense based toons than resist.
Again to reiterate i only put kb on toons that will need it have the slots over acro. A tank wont need acro, a scrapper, brute, stalker etc... one io maybe will be enough. -
At last count(10 mins ago) I have 16 solo toon all t3 o t4 all the way up to hybrid. This is for a teaming toon.
I love the solo ability for reg missions for hero/vill merits. But this is a teaming toon for me. As for the viability of soloing im sure its somewhat possible but its no fire psy blaster or fire elec tank brute or a scrapper with the right misson.
this is only a teaming toon. I have way many more options for solo.
Im trying to find out team builds, and the experience that people have had with this at and these sets.
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Thanks for the great feedback. I am going to definitely make this a teaming toon. Mostly for iTrials and tfs. I have plenty of solo, farm, tank dmg toons. The other teaming toons i have just seem kinda boring, buff, heal, buff repeat.
I like the attack chain i can get staying ranged and debuff from range. Kinda like a blastroller.
I couldnt see the links on "page 2"?
If someone could post a link or something I went to defender page 2 and there was nothing on it about sonic.
I was thinking only taking the 3 ranged attacks all the debuffs, all the buffs,leadership(all 4), plus sprint hover and stealth grant invs(had one more slot).
Ill try to update mids and post a build for advice.
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Are there any builds avail?
any opinions?
I rolled one out was thinking of how to build it. I like all the -resist
Whats the defender crowd opinion?
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Quote:do you have end issues? or regen issues? phys/perf has proc ability for that. However the grant cover has proc ability i think for you too in the def catagory. Recharge, to hit, kb etc....Originally Posted by jose2390
My Broadsword/Shield scrapper just hit lvl 44. My question is, which power should I choose? I always play pve and I always prefer to play on a team. Is Grant Cover a good power to have? Based upon the description, it can boost up my team mates defenses. Physical perfection looks interesting because of the endurance modification. Suggestions please! Thank you
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Grats! to you! Hope you had a fun ride.
Now that your 50 keep having fun that is all.
there is lots to do, but do what you want. It took 4 years to get your first 50 your not in a rush for anything it seems so keep on keeping on.,,. -
Quote:I guess that is what im figuring out. Its a different game with sos vs all the other goodies in the game thats all was saying.Originally Posted by Agent White
This is a question? I mean, really, is it?
This is comparing apples and atomic bombs. Who needs this comparison?
IOs let you break the game in various ways by giving you absurd advantages when you can stack enough of them, particularly when it comes to global recharge (allowing for shenanigans like Perma-Phantom Army or Perma-Doms) or soft capped defenses.
Incarnates give you end game nukes, perma-buffs, universal stat boosts and procs, and some of the best pets in the game.
Mind you, the game was playable and still is -without- it, but it's a completely different ballpark adding them in.
Quote:Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
My NRG/NRG Brute on my current account (during the period when I was Premium) and my SS/WP Brute on an alternate totally-free account both ran content at +1 easily on SOs. What are you doing that you can barely handle -1?
Subscribed vs. Free doesn't matter for Incarnate content, since that's VIP-only and is supposed to be harder than regular missions.
thanks that is my question what builds can handle high level bosses etc... and still are f2p. I know that incarnates and the ios make them way better. Im looking for farm toons and builds that can play with just sos this seems to be your response and i appreciate it.
If there are any other types of toons or builds i would appreciate having some input int owhat there are...
sorry if iw as not clear earlier.
i am looking for so builds that can farm or play at a high level. (clearly not as well as an incarnated purpled toon) just at a very high level.