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Quote:And that typically works pretty well. Especially with all the rentable jets for dealing with places like Grandville and the Shard.Originally Posted by GibsonMcCoy
Honestly, even before inherent Fitness, when my builds were so tight I couldn't, and most times wouldn't, take a travel power (which I still don't untill I absolutely run out of useful powers to take) I bunny hopped everywhere. And I still do.
Maybe it's something leftover my FPS gaming days, but it's a lot more fun in this game. Toggle on Sprint and jump away! I usually do it while singing "The Gummi Bears" theme song.
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However, the oddity at hand is that in theory Swift and Hurdle should be comparable. I think what may be forgotten in the discussion though is that Swift increases Flight speed as well. Whereas Hurdle is pretty well focused on the jump travel speed only.
You can make a good argument that the two benefits don't really ever apply to the same character. In that, if you're using hover, you're getting no benefit from run speed. And if you don't have fly, the only benefit you get from fly speed is from temps [I'm not even sure on that].
This was far more relevant of issue when you had to choose one or the other, and they should be roughly balanced. Currently, not so much.
There is the logic issue of generally being able to jump faster than you can dash/sprint. Which is significant, but personally I find the difficulty of justifying Superspeed as a travel means to be more core to the issue. -
Quote:Yes, and as I mentioned, it isn't necessary for any content in this game.Originally Posted by Nihilii
The thing is, it's relatively safe to assume if you can play this game you can read and type. Same can't be said for voice chat ; there's people with hearing disabilities, people who can't afford to be cut off from real life by using headphones nor making noise through speakers (i.e. single parent).
But that's how they want to play, and it's better that the two differing views not group together. Forcing them together would be more awkward than a bromance between Positron and Captain Mako. It's better for both sides to just not intersect
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Exactly, don't try to force it to work if you don't want toQuote:Originally Posted by Diggis
If they are recruiting through the voice chat then they won't get non users joining. If they are recruiting through the in game chat, then they need to accept some people aren't set up for voice chat and either state you must have it to join, or use the text chat too.. Given that there's not built-in voice chat for the game, the sharing of details must happen at some point for it, which is as good a time as any to resolve such differences [preferably before action actually starts].
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Quote:Can't say I experience this. My last logon for many of my chars was 200+ days ago, and their layout is the same.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I've been logging in characters what have been inactive for some time, and I'm starting to see that anyone over, say, 100 days inactive has lost everything that was in his or her trays. All they have is the Winter Event powers (the presents) in slot 1 and slot 2 of tray 1, and that's it. All other slots in all other trays are empty.
This is at best a minor inconvenience, since I can just replace the powers back down to their slots, but it's annoying in that if I log a character in for just a few minutes, that character is almost unplayable without major maintenance.
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As others said, the problem wasn't vent, the problem was the player not paying attention.
Similarly, if someone was running a group or whatever and they were using voice-chat to set it up and arrange it, it'd be really annoying if someone refused to get on voice-chat.
Sure, voice-chat isn't necessary, but that's how they want to communicate (and I imagine it'd be better on both sides if you don't try to force people to communicate in a means they don't want. And can make a good argument that even text chat isn't really necessary for a lot of content either.
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Quote:Bit of suggestion re Dragon and Dungeon, they still exist, just in a different format now. It's an online only distributed magazine as part of the D&D Insider program. It's not the same though, but far fewer 'outside' ads, just the traditional D&D ads 'disguised' as articles.Originally Posted by SuperOz
Being a tabletop gamer, seeing the venerable Dragon and Dungeon magazines just shut up shop made me very very sad. It feels like niche interests and hobbies are becoming homogenised and 'cleaned up' for mass consumption. I kind of like the rough around the edges feel these things had.
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Quote:One frustrating note is on 'hollow' glowies [plant the bomb missions] is that while they hum, they don't hum as loud as other glowies, and many of their shapes can be difficult to see in the in City of Villains color schemes.Originally Posted by Diggis
Glowies also hum so make sure your sound is on. When I first started playing I didn't realise this cos my laptop speakers don't generate this noise and it wasn't untill I put headphones in one day I discovered it.
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Quote:Prolly my biggest problem is if you fail once, you have a ridiculously large upward battle for subsequent attempts as he'll continue to pop up his minions around the place.Originally Posted by NarfMann
I really don't understand the whole Trapdoor thing... I've soloed him a dozen times, and have yet to have any real problems with him...
I wish I knew what you were doing so wrong as to have a problem with him, so I could help
For me, the problem tended to be getting enough damage on the clones and keeping my bots in my aura range. In the end, I ended up dropping a HVAS to hold his attention while clearing out the twerps and eventually pushed him into the lava and said screw it.
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Quote:Thematics as the story progresses.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, it's more important than actual testing, because the devs will adjust enemies to fit the lore and the mission and arc stories
It doesn't matter how powerful Longbow, Vanguard and Arachnos are in the game - if the devs say that they all need to join forces to defeat the IDF, then that means that the IDF are the toughest group
Much like a comic book, a new enemy is freaking hardcore. Then as the story develops, they become less and less exceptional.
More specifically, it's the start of the conflict, as it goes on, the relevant sides will discover how to utilize their strengthes against the enemies' weaknesses. -
Quote:I dunno, I had issues where I had a post moderated just to add a smiley to it.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I've generally had positive experiences with Support. Back in the old days, I'd have to wait for a response for half an hour to 45 minutes, but hey! I was just glad someone could come help me out This was at the time people were talking about response times in EQ being measured in months. At the launch of CoV, I got a bugged mission, but CS were so backlogged it took them two days to tell me it would take them some time to get to me But that's to be expected.
Minor inconveniences aside, however, CS have been great. Maybe I'm an easy mark, but just being able to ask for help and budge someone off his chair to kowtow to my simple problems still makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. And their responses lately have been quick, to boot, especially on Stuck petitions. I still remember a whole team of tech support guys taking turns to help me enable 3D sound in the game (ironic, considering I16 disabled it) and even a guy working his *** off to help me figure out why the Microsoft Language Bar was crashing the game, even though he said it wasn't supported.
Now community reps... Those have been a mixed bag. Everyone seems to love Cuppa, and she did help me out once, but I don't think she ever really did much to enforce the forum rules. Ex Libris tried really hard to be "one of the guys," which ironically makes me cool down on people who try too hard, and she handled the Suggestions and Ideas "problem" incredibly poorly, historically banning jranger. But even in ban and exile, the spirit of /jranger lives on. She could have simply, you know, done her job by moderating, locking threads and deleting posts, but no. Let's ban a bunch of people and make things easier! I don't remember who it was that locked one of my Tech forum threads without actually reading anything past the title and then snobbed me when I complained.
On a more positive (and controversial) note, I loved Lighthouse. When he took over from CuppaJo, plenty of people got burned almost instantly, and I dare say people who should have been burned a long time ago had Cuppa actually enforced the rules. He got a bad rap because he was heavy-handed, but I wouldn't say he was ever unfair. Plus, I loved his SuperMod idea. I really liked Mod8, back when he still posted, for the same reason. It seems that almost every time we get a new mod, he or she will take part in the community, disseminating information, addressing issues and handling problems. Then give them a month or two and they pull back and start only ever posting announcements.
Anyway, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
Was so bizarre, oddly enough, one of the things that made me quit for a while due to how it was resolved.
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Quote:Something I may suggest here, load up the driver software and change those keys specifically to left-shift+Appropiate. Pretty sure the driver software got updated to let you define the keypad finally. This will free your left hand up from being on l-shift. Since if you already have your left hand on the keyboard, there's really not much to be gained by having the bind on the mouse [except perhaps if you really need L-shift 7 ,8, 9, 0, -, = ... depending on hand size].Originally Posted by Masked_Prodigy
Just to chime in on the subject:
I recently purchased a Razor Naga Mouse. and I must admit, I love it. I agree, out the box its functionality for CoX is very limited, to say the least. but I found that the keypad on the side of mouse is good for, in my case, a very specific usage set: key binds.
KK, heres what I do: the Naga in basic 123 mode corresponds to the same keys as your keyboard numbers. What it also responds to is keybinds made with those numbers.
What I do is make all my powers that I want as keybinds as lshift+# versions. I then open up a new powers tray, vertical it, make space for it on the far right of my lower right UI, and put all keybound powers in that tray corresponding to their number. Anything over in that tray ive trained myself to know is accessed by pressing lshift + the corresponding number on my Naga. Since its essentially the same buttons used on your keyboard, the keybinds work, from the mouse, without having to click them physically.
It works pretty well for me that way, and makes me love the Naga for it.
Hope that helps!
The goal for the mouse-thumbpad should be to free up your left hand.
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I personally have my naga sitting around doing nothing since the mouse is far too small for me, and with it's claw orientation with the thumbpad really hurts my shoulder.
Also was more than a tad disappointed in the 'naga' hotkey interface pretty much just being a new hotkey bar. And it rather failed to handle being switched to numpad mode entirely. Ah one other thing the Naga UI mode ends up pre-empting your ability to actually alt/ctrl click other powers, so if you need more than one tray open, you're going to need to mouse.
Given my playstyle [specifically with MMs] I've determined that I'm better off using another mouse [I like the shape and feel of the G9 honestly] and use the keyboard or a keypad [g13 or nostromo] for additional buttons. -
Quote:Dr Horrible has the perfect solution to such problems.Originally Posted by TsumijuZero
What most people don't realise is that Statesman is in actuallity, a complete raving moron. Piling into a Rikti Ship face first (no flyposes for you boy) then muttering extremeties to himself as it flattened all the people below (who were up until 10 seconds ago thinking "we're ok, Statesman is here").
However as powerful as his Zeus abilities are, his ability to do ad-hoc speeches and keep a straight face while saying "I meant to do that" are far more earth shatteringly amazing.
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Quote:It was a discussion on a suggestion...Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
This thread is not a suggestion, nor an idea.
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And while there are those who would claim it wasn't an idea, I'm going to have to say, that there are several ideas covered throughout the thread.
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Quote:Well, the last few times that NCSoft has done a name purge, they sent out a lot of emails to their former customers informing them of this.Originally Posted by tanstaafl
You think people who havent played for years, will hear about a possible name purge, and care enough to pay NC money to keep it? Really....
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Quote:Well, it got heavily discussed on the forums mostly due to that other game out there. And while I do acknowledge that the majority of people attending HeroCon are impartial observers relative to the whole Paragon Studios v Cryptic Studios Super Hero Games, there is the Anti-Jack factor to consider.Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
As for the comment about the HeroCon attendees having a knee-jerk reaction lacking any thought behind the question posed. Those same attendees are the same ones that have been on the forums discussing this same issue, on the occasions that it comes up. They (me included) did not have to think about their answer when responding at the Con, because they had already thought about it.
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Quote:Well, it wouldn't just free up the 'Very Common' names either, it'd also free up the mid and not too common either.Originally Posted by Kiken
Which are exactly the kind of names that many people wanting multiple use of names will be picking...
I'm sure there won't be an onslaught of "Commander Pwnage"s on Virtue for instance.
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Quote:See, me, I'd fraps it and post it on Youtube.Originally Posted by Jophiel
At the same time, if I was reading a Batman comic and he came across a guy fighting crime named Batman@MichaelKeaton who was teamed up with Batman@AdamWest and they were off to find Batman@ChristianBale to help them defeat Catwoman@MichellePfiffer and Catwoman@JulieNewmar, I'd probably set the book down. On a lit stove burner.
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Quote:Of course, since you are talking about a global channel. It's similarly possible to occur with characters on other servers anyway. And on the same server now with lllusions. One thing though, the system must know the global to gignore. Which means the player can potentially know as well.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Wrong. People don't need to click on the person's text or on the character to /gignore them.
For example let's say I'm in an global channel with Hyperstrike and he tells me and everyone else about this jerk he met the day before running a character named "Johnny Butane". An hour or so later I see you on your character named "Johnny Butane", and I say in my global channel, "Hey here's that guy that was a jerk to Hyperstrike. Someone in the global asks me what your global name is and I tell them. Just like that you've been added to 30+ ignore lists and you don't know why your having trouble finding teams. -
Quote:It'll help treat the symptom at least. Most succint one word names were snagged during the preorder reservation period anyway. The feedback from the prior purges tends to show that it doesn't free up that much. Perhaps because the second effect of a purge is a small subscription hike for a month.Originally Posted by Jophiel
There's someone who posts in these threads (sorry, forgot who) who mentions that his low-level trial character ("A Guy With Bots"?) is still alive and kicking after nearly a thousand days. So it's pushing three years at least since even low level names were purged.
I'm not deluded into thinking every name under the sun will be opened up but likewise I don't see any good reason to have trial account names from three years ago still be locked up. -
Quote:The cost, is as you said, lost opportunities with recovering players.Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Yeah, this is what people often say.
I'm not deluding myself about it.
There are some solid names that will never be used again by long dead inactive accounts of ex-customers who will never return and I see no reason in keeping it that way. That's all.
If it is a hassle and costs too many resources, then it's not worth it. I just doubt (standard code rant) that it's that costly. I could be wrong about that aspect though.
They made the name purge cap at... level 6 was it?
That's silly, in my opinion.
I think a full level purge... even of 4 years, would definitely open up some names.
Of course... they'd probably be gobbled up by alt-crazy vets and rarely played... but still... it'd be fun for some while it lasted.
I think the last line pretty much sums up the issue at hand with unique display names. Fun for Some while it lasts.
Right now, I'm in the grumpy situation of trying to find a name and then fit a costume to it, instead of being able to fit a costume to a character then make a name.
I disliked spending an hour coming up with a name I'm ultimately not that happy with for my scrapper in Praetoria :/.
One thing about the name stalking issues, that, in itself a big reason why it's something difficult to add mid-step. If it existed initially, far more folks behavior would be aware that display names weren't unique and global id was what mattered for "Player is a tool". However, I'd like to think most folks just /ignore tools instead of visually ignore them.
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Quote:No, it's not an excuse, it's merely pointing out that one of the criticisms of a suggested change already occurs within the status quo.Originally Posted by Jophiel
True, but you're still the only Amazing Man. There's no realistic way to stop derivative versions of your name but that's not an excuse to just say it doesn't matter and let everyone share it.
I'm an advocate of name purges but that's secondary to why I'm against Name@Global style solutions. -
Part of it needs an update to the mastermind file. Mostly to include acknowledgement of the Demon Summoning powerset.
Right now though, I'm somewhat grumpy, confused as to what exactly to use as the minpow, ltspow and bospow for Demon Summoning. Right now, using demonling, demon, and demon prince respectively, but not too positive if that works.
This doesn't fix the bodyguard mode [and the drop box really too] being unselectable, but I'm not trying too hard on that end.
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Quote:Someone did provide a very nice list of some power pool selections, and while I question some of them as being worthwhile at 1 slot, it is a helpful list of utility powers.Originally Posted by Mr_Grey
I suppose you're right about it being a "Cake" argument, but you're wrong about it being against Inherent Fitness. I stated quite clearly that I'm not against it.
I'm against it being a simple shift, because it's going to damage builds more than players expect it to.
And no, not every powerset requires four slots to be effective, but if you intend to have a lot of powers that do more for you than a temporary boost to your effectiveness like Aim or Build Up, then you're going to want to maximize your effectiveness, and you won't be able to do that with the slots you have available to these three new options.
In general, I think the issue is that they don't really want this to be a case where it lets a character add another attack into their rotation [at 50]. It's more to free up the characters to select more of their attack powers before 20, and open up a few more utility power selections which were what the fitness powers really were before anyway. -
Quote:Ah, presumption. No it doesn't have to show in every scenario. It should show in every scenario where it matters.Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
There's one difference between the two scenarios: You will generally only see certain names reworked with punctuation, leet speak, or intentional typos. (though, some names, such as my own, may suffer unintentional typos) However, a system where Global names are visible would effect EVERY name no matter how many people may have it.
There comes the tech overhead if you want to limit it. Consider if the chat-box only displayed a distinction when there was one? It would still need to maintain knowledge of the distinction [perhaps through mouse-over. although that is admittedly a level of annoyance in terms of the user] should the situation change (the name was unique in the zone, then someone zoned in and it became non-unique). Difficulty with that becomes the 'trailing' end. And that can impose a bit of a heavy impact on the tech requirements.
Me, I like the idea of simply generating the color-hash from the global handle as a primary distinguishing factor, with say a mouseover the name for 'more details'. Just have to deal with the overlap of the color-hashes. -
Quote:I must say that In the Pits is a cool name though.Originally Posted by Dysmal