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There is one. It's called a Super Group Base.

I think this is probably accurate.

Back when CoH launched, the reliance on instanced missions was something that was completely counter to the dogma taught by Everquest and Ultima. Ergo, the original game design focused on making an enviroment friendly to Everquest and Ultima players, something I referenced here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...5&postcount=11

The design of the city was also further fragmented. New players today might not know that the Trains in South Skyway and Founders Falls are relatively new. If you wanted to get to Faultline, the only way down there for a long time was to run the length of Skyway... and even after the introduction of Pocket D, it wasn't till the Faultline revamp that Pocket D got an exit into the zone. If you wanted to get to Founders Falls, Eden, or the Hive, you had to walk in from Talos... or pray your Supergroup had a teleporter beacon for the zones.

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Now, while I could be wrong, I believe the separation of the transit lines was originally supposed to be due to the damage wrought by the Rikti Invasion. The transit system we have now is supposedly still being rebuilt, something that's evidenced by going into ruined zones like Outbreak, Eden, or Baumtown that have wrecked monorail lifts.

There's also the problem of working "outside" the War Walls. We, as players, don't really know for certain what lies behind the war-walls of each zone. We can presume that working on re-establishing new or old transit lines is a bit difficult for work crews that can go outside the war walls.

Anyways, Manticore probably would be better suited to answer the lore background, so I'll go throw this in his lore questions thread.

I thought a typical day on the job involved being fanned by giant palm leaves held by interns, and being brought grapes on a silver platter?

and then asked Rob Liefield to redraw it.

The fact is, although you have 8 logical cores, you only have 4 physical cores. Under the restrictions of Hyper-Threading, those 8 logical cores will only come into play when the operating system is handling tasks that are varied. City of Heroes probably is not going to make calls that are varied enough to use those extra cores.

In most cases, forcing HTT on applications like City of Heroes will cause performance decreases... not performance increases.

*Nukes the Puppeh from Orbit*

Nobody controls that which the Feline Fellowship controls.

Rumor has it she was converted by the Corgi Continuum and takes place in secret rituals that involve Ipads and lots of barking.

Um... I'm just going through a list of stuff in my head here of the toggles non-melee's get.

I'm coming up with the Pool Power toggles for Leadership, the pool power toggles for tough / weave, the pool power toggles for combat jumping and acrocatics, the patron and epic pool powers with limited shields, choking cloud from radiation, a couple of AOE resist / stealths, and the debuff toggles on radiation and storm.

Okay, again, I can halfway see your point about some of these being turned off being a big issue for say a Radiation or a Storm which can easily depend on their toggles to keep enemies helpless or at bay.

For the most part, I'm just not seeing a real issue here in a teaming situation, which is what the anti-mez powers are for. If you are on a team and you have an anti-mez power, you probably shouldn't be taking point. Again, as already mentioned, in a teaming situation, you can pretty much forget about having to protect the melee types and just protect fellow ranged players / masterminds.


Okay, this is almost a fair point. My issue with it is that the Force Field sets gives up a lot more for this particular protection. The set has no enemy-status debuffs, and the dispersion bubble is limited in range. Against what each power does, Force Field is balanced for teaming situations.

Now, I will admit there is a fair point in Sonic Resonance having done a better job of handling the anti-mez field. Sonic Resonance gets several powerful buffs / debuffs and doesn't have the auto-skip knockback bubbles that the Force Field set gets, but Sonic Resonance has it's own other balancing, being a resist set instead of a defense set, and lacking protection against Psionics... which Force Field offers.

Now, I don't think I'm going to convince you that the anti-mez powers aren't pointless. My suspicion is that you've probably played a lot on Freedom or Virtue servers and just haven't run with teams that know how to use the anti-mez powers effectively. As I suspect that has been your in-game experience, I'm not sure I can fault you for finding the power choices less than desirable.

Okay, I can halfway see your point on the length of the buff, but all anti-mez powers are like that. Clear Mind lasts for 1:30, Increased Density lasts for 1:00, Clarity lasts for 1:30, O2 Boost lasts for 1:00, Thaw lasts for 1:30, and Enforced Morale also lasts for 1:30.

So, as an anti-mez power, Clear-Mind is hardly the shortest in the game. Nor do I understand the reactive use to be too late. Defenders, Controllers, Corruptors, and Masterminds are largely supposed to play from a ranged position, and allow melee types to take point position. Melee classes come with an inherent anti-mez, although it is possible for several enemy groups to over come those mezes. E.G. Council in the Moonfire Task Force can overpower a Willpower Tanks stun resistance.

Just placing the anti-mez on an ally during this time and poof, they are back in fighting position.

I'm also pretty certain the developers have made it clear that the anti-mez powers are short for balance reasons. Yes, you can keep everybody on the team anti-mezzed... but in doing so you take up time when you can be doing something else... like attacking, debuffing, other buffing, or controller.

okay, this I have to take issue with. Could you explain why an anti-mez power is "useless" or "disappointing"? Or are you just a player who can't stand powers that are for your teammates and not yourself?

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My most useless / disappointing power(s) are:

Burn: from the Fire Aura set. It's just too situational for even my task-force dedicated builds to use.

Electric Blast - Defenders: this whole set. Electric is already one of the weaker blaster sets, and knocking 60% of the damage off turned the entire defender version into a freaking pain. Okay, the new vigilence brings back some of the damage while solo... but on teams I'm still a bit irked that it only seems like kills arive with fulcrum shifted Thunderous Blast

Neutron Bomb - Defender: I'll sign onto this one. Okay, it's a ultra-strong debuff, and the entire rad set is good for racking up some awesome IO bonus's... but it still irks me that it looks like I'm going to deliver a killing blow... only to deliver a water balloon.

Serum - mastermind: Okay. I don't have a mastermind with this powerset. Just looking at the numbers alone though, I'm forced to agree with many players on the forums. For what it does, when you get it, it just seems like there should be something more.

part of me hopes this new server technology is powered by a Penguin and not a New Termite.

super speed and cloaking device generally stack well enough for you to avoid mobs that don't have high perception checks.

If you are using the default controls, all you should have to do is hold down the right mouse button.

Granite is exposed to the player as an overlay costume, like the temporary costumes you can earn during the Halloween event. Due to this structure, the Granite outfit cannot use the power customization system that exposes many of the other powers. According to the developers exposing this functionality would require tech work on the engine itself, as well as tech work on the user interface.

After power customization's initial launch, most of the engineers were tasked to various Going Rogue projects. There simply has not been the development time or resources to implement the underlying changes needed to customize overlay costumes.

Also, the developers are extremely reticent to give out dates for anything. Case in point, the currently in closed testing Issue 17. The developers stated that I17 would launch in April, but that didn't stop several players from being very vocal that I17 was not available on April 1st. As is, there are several threads in the forums encouraging the developers to go ahead and Open Beta the Issue 17 client, even though the actual status of I17 in the closed beta is unknown. There is actually a considered possibility now that Issue 17 may not make an April launch, but could arrive in early May. Presuming Issue 17 does miss it's announced April launch merely adds fuel to the developers desire to keep dates as vague as possible, and not announce any specific plans until the developers are ready for an Open Beta test.

What this means is that you won't be getting a date for when Granite, or Mastermind pets, will get power customization. Until the work has been done that allows the customization to occur, no dates will be announced. You can also bet that it won't be soon. If I had to lay money, I'd say costume overlay modifications be in a 2011 issue release.

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Cats and Dogs living together, it was mass hysteria you caused!