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Quote:I dunno about your gripes with the help channel.Originally Posted by SlackTech
I am one of the people that gets frustrated when a 'tf/sf' channel gets flooded with 'who's yo mama?' type comments or, what I've come to see lately, the /help channel being flooded with 'lft' or 'is this good for pvp?' or 'that power is so gay!' type comments.
LFT I can understand, because quite literally, they are looking for help with content, may not be the best place, but it's not too harmful
Is this power good in pvp, I think should be perfectly fine in help, it's a question about powers.
That power is so /hurtful term/, isn't cool because it's a disparaging remark, but in terms of "That power is so weak", I think it may be a fair bit of actual help in terms of discussing various power balance. -
Quote:Hmm, screen frozen is a different issue that the system lag.Originally Posted by OnyxPaladin
Does anyone still have these league issues, even after the fix to the fix, or is it really just me?
I just did a BAF, got two warnings twice and I wasn't even doing anything because my screen was frozen black, or white, or yellow...
This is making me insane. I have been around and around with support on this issue, and nothing they have suggested has made a difference.
I'd suggest making sure no background programs going on, and also maybe worth a sanity check to see if you have chat logging turned on with combat logs visible. You may getting hit with that annoying chat-log bug. -
Quote:Depends heavily on thresholds. There are points where burst damage's value out paces the value of sustained damage. Although it does allow for alternate content design theories to be applied that may alter the relative balance of those two traits on their own. Burn/Execute phases for instance come to mind, especially when coupled with long endurance phases.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Most choices would be either equitable or qualitatively obviously explained. If you deliberately choose to take little or no offensive options and load up on defensive ones, you would be a more defensive and less offensive character. You may kill a lot slower, which would affect your performance relative to more balanced characters. But it would be a blatantly obvious decision on the player's part.
Similarly, if there was an ability that increased your frontloaded damage but did little for sustained damage, and another ability that increased your sustained damage by a lot but didn't frontload that damage, those abilities would say, specifically, that they did those two things. This one increases your immediate damage by a lot, but averages out to a low overall damage. Your kill speed only goes up a little, but you kill more stuff faster at the start of combat. The other increases kill speed a lot over time and you will kill more stuff faster, but you won't kill very many things up front so you will have to deal with more punishment at the start of a fight. You get to choose, but the choice is presented in an obvious manner. What's better: increased kill speed or increased frontloaded kills? Depends on what you want, not on what's "intrinsically better."
The problem being, while you can say they are balanced, depending on how much players can control their encounters, different balance realities will emerge.
The basic point example of difficulty is easy to show with your example. If your burst/frontload damage is able to down the enemy in 'one cycle', then it doesn't matter how much sustained damage you have. That is in the hands of encounter design to avoid, or at least balance, but that is a far more organic process since it does deal with a sort of emergent system. -
Quote:So, how do they manage to play after a patch?Originally Posted by Seschat
"Launcher"? Sorry, most of the folks I know personally that play this game use the desktop shortcuts they set up right after the launcher came out, to help minimize the time it takes to restart the game after a crash.
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Quote:Different tolerances for lower minimum framerates. Also quite possibly, some people running with chat logging on, but that should really only be relevant if you're suffering from that lag bug with logging.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
UMMM holy crap!
What the hell kind of system must the OP's The Beast be, if what you posted above has issues?
In other words what kind of scray skynet type system are folks who can run ULTRA MODE running?
I have a similar system [i7, gtx 285, 12gb ram instead (triple channel)], and it runs at 'default' ultramode in the Trials...
There is also a lot to be said about system optimization, the less junk you have running that you don't need, the better. -
Quote:To be honest, I just assume that most players don't pay attention with regards to the temps. They assume that they didn't get the temp power since they did nothing special to get the temp power. It's frustrating, but oh well. Of course, I'm often one of those just standing around doing nothing since I already used my acid and want my pets to be awake for Splat-Time.Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy
Outstanding work of translation. Now it is all so clear to me. LOL
If you have room add...
Check your temp powers for acids we need to close those portals = stand around doing nothing cause you don't want to admit.... "I don't know where to look for that dude!"
Team 1 and 2 to north choke point Team 3 to south = Wait What? which way is north again? Hey am I on team 2? Oh look that guy is running away for us! Wow those PRISONER HAS ESCAPED letters are really BIG aren't they?
Oh and ...
Unless you have mez protection stay away from the doors = Hey why are all my pets attacking me? And the other guys at this door?
I have had the Team 1 and 2 to North choke before, that was ... amusing and confusing. That usually results in a nice bit of confusion because everyone is assuming 2 teams go to South instead [and really should
]. Most of that confusion though happens when teams shuffle [although inevitably, I notice some players just do whatever task they prefer doing instead].
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Quote:I just go by Prestige personally, but then again, I play on Virtue, so I know the number prestige sg is the bestestOriginally Posted by Forbin_Project
You can even ask if they have a website that you can check out what they are all about..
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Quote:There are two different points in the queue process.Originally Posted by McNum
You can't. The window explicitly says that using any full screen interface, like tailor and respec, is not possible while waiting.
If you just queue up and hope for a group, that's the waiting queue. You can access full-screen interface items there [Tailor and Enhancements]. I'm not sure what'll happen if the dialog box comes up while you are there, but it's possible.
Once the league has been assembled by the LFG system, the 'Press Enter to enter' screen shows up. That's when you can't do Full-screen window stuff.
However, you are unable to do missions while in the 'waiting queue'. -
Willing to take Second Measure's word that they just want to break their record for highest consecutive user count on a single server.
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Quote:The reason the 'average wait time' is broken is that it includes the pre-fabs who form up first, then hit the LFG queue. Since the vast majority of folks form up pre-fabs, it averages out to a really low 'average wait time' that isn't meaningful to those using it.Originally Posted by Acroyear2
I agree with everything the OP has stated, but especially the quote above. The LFG system is a failure, IMO, as it has never once worked for me. What's worse is that while you wait you cannot even do missions as doing so will kick you from the LFG immediately.
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Now, I feel like a tool, this got said just a few posts above too. Ya, point/laugh at me.
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Quote:When you start talking about powers, yes, when you're talking in general, no. This is more specifically discussing the balancing of the weighting of the various attributes at a meta level.Originally Posted by LVConvert
Resistance sets generally have a heal power included, while defense sets generally do not, right? I want to say universally but that would require me to look it up...but anyways, doesn't that have to be taken into account when scheming to change how these powers work?
Also, there does exist areas where it's just a flat +res, or flat +def [IO Set Bonuses come to mind, as well as Inspirations]. -
Quote:Or potentially even need to have a person there to 'man' some of the participants. Like the CoV Beta Event or the [I think] 5 year anniversary event.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Chances are, YES.
The invasions are for a limited time because likely a community rep is going to be manually sitting there, logged in to the server, spawning in waves like how they spawn in giant monsters to the Pocket D during Dev get-togethers.
They're not a programmed event as such like the Rikti invasions or the Banner events or Zombies.
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Total Radial Freem is going to the power you slot into Omega.
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Quote:I'm not positive, but I think it's still at the newspage.Originally Posted by Bramphousian
dammit, what'd I miss?
Account-wide badge good, trying to bring Freedom to it's knees on May 27th, bad.Quote:Please note that as a gesture of appreciation and recognition, a special account wide badge will be given out to everybody taking part in the Freedom Protection effort on Friday, May 27th! So enroll early, whether you're a super-hero or a super-villain, in order to get your just reward! -
Quote:Hmm, pretty slick, never really [well noticed] a problem with that happening myself. But it's a good idea. And in general, I like the idea of breaking the crowd away from RWZ.Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
My friends and I prefer to use the Studio over pocket D, actually.
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Quote:I'm actually rather curious to see how the transition from Praetorian Raid content to Next Thing will be handled.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
According to Positron, the Omega slot is "awesome", and "worthy of the name" - although there are also further increases in our power beyond it, as these 10 slots aren't all we're getting - the Incarnate system is designed to be endless
There is a very real power inflation risk at play, and then the subsequent question of catching up. Should be interesting to see how it plays out. -
Quote:Actually, I think that may be a good case for having the 'effective' softcap be different from different types of content.Originally Posted by Kelenar
You'd have to be very careful about the interplay between these two. If you kept a relatively easy-to-attain defense softcap, this would let you, say, have a FF defender buff a high-defense tank to 40% above the softcap, then let them herd up three or four groups in relative safety. Not the end of the world, but I can see it leading back to i0-2 'sit in one place and let the tank herd the level' gameplay.
It'd be fine, as an example, to be able to 'easily' get to the soft-cap for solo content on your own. However, when you start looking at group content, it should require some sort of additional support from the group to reach. And again another step up when you start talking about 'raid' content. -
Quote:Exponential functions are actually pretty easy for computers, a consequence of being base 2. And actually almost all math is determined through a derivative of exponential functions with computers.Originally Posted by kusanagi
... So you want to replace one of the two most common calculations the server has to perform from a simple multiplication to an exponential function and you call it "mathematically easy"?
While I feel the explanation is clumsy, I do say that a slope of defense effectiveness can be useful, other games do it as well, but they'll label the state as a defense rating or score, and then derive a percentage from that to show the player. The consequence of that is it's harder for squishy characters to stop being squishy. -
Quote:Melkor would like to have a word with you.Originally Posted by Ironik
...and all you nerds will get beat up. After you drop your inhalers from your silly slap fights.
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Quote:They're all going to be Mimes.Originally Posted by Steel_Shaman
Now that I think about it, I could get behind branching if it happened earlier, and didn't force a respec. Let the first few levels have common powers all characters of the AT share, and maybe every few levels open up access to different pools, allowing for further customization of the character's abilities. Perhaps choosing some pools would lock access to others and unlock still others. It could be interesting.
A good point. The Devs seemed determined to have the Red and Blue epic AT's possess a unique "schtick" no other AT had: shapeshifting with Kheldians and branching with the Soldiers. I could see a third epic AT having something completely unique if they followed that premise. -
Quote:To be honest, I mostly just listen to the audio stream of it anyway, but that's usually because I'm raiding during the broadcast.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Bingo bango, although we've had some suggestions about possibly recording the audio portion and hosting it elsewhere. Not sure how compelling listening to audio of me bumbling along would be.
And, the added advantage of an audio feed is I can sync it to my phone or something to listen to when I should be working. -
Quote:You sorta can. There's an inf->prestige converter at the sg registrar. The rate isn't that great, but well, it's enough that Crazy 88s can top the sg charts solely from itOriginally Posted by CommunistPenguin
So I had an idea... What if we could buy base items with Infl, only in order to balance things, you do not get the infl back if the item is destroyed? this would allow smaller sg's to get a functional base earlier but still encourage playing in sg mode to allow for experimenting with base designs..
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Quote:Ah, that's what he said. Thank for correcting me*takes the AoOOriginally Posted by SDragon
I swear I asked if there would be generic Lore pets and he confirmed there would be. But they wouldn't be customizable. Because customizing pets is still a long ways off.
*, was in a Lam during the stream.
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Quote:*expends an action point to further frustrate SDRagon*Originally Posted by SDragon
GOOD SIR.
Pistols at dawn.
Muwahaha.
Protean was pretty well guarded about his answers, as he said, he didn't want to be the one to announce anything.
Ah, one other bit from Black Scorpion, 'generic pets' would involve significant additional tech, so it's not likely to be on any sort lists.
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I was wrong, my statement about 'generic pets' applies to customizable pets. There should be generics.
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Quote:They really aren't. The lag issues are actually the reason the BAF and LAM are 2-3 group leagues instead of larger.Originally Posted by Noyjitat
Yes I'm very much aware of that. That's why I'm asking that they don't stop here and pretend that the original lag issues that have been complained about for years don't exist.
Taking the time to fix this for trials atleast is great but I don't want to see it stop there since it was a problem way before issue 20 in shipraids and hamiraids.
At least, that's what I got from coffee talk.