seebs

I am outraged! Your decision to make reasonable changes that don't seem to hurt anybody is a SLAP IN THE FACE to people who want to complain on the forums.

As you've doubtless noticed from forum activities, that's the vast majority of your forum-using player base.

Okay, I'm gonna go download those. Thanks for the reports! I had the hangs every half hour or so especially when zoning with 11.8, was stable with 11.4. I'll try to remember to report back.

Consider someone who keeps grabbing and abandoning radio missions to stick to getting council. At that point, it looks to me like farming. Sure, it's not very efficient farming compared to some stuff, but it's a lot more efficient than street-sweeping.

That would be hilarious.

I am rather sympathetic to Twoflower on that, by the way. I will happily run a fire ambush farm a few times to get tickets, but... I have an interest in at most two or three such maps. I have an interest in dozens upon dozens of story arcs. And yet, when I search for them, it's hard to find them.

I really wish the AE system made it easier to find the story content, because the fact is, the story content in AE is some of the best writing available anywhere in CoH.

Nearly all MMO activity is farming. Incarnate trials? You know, the ones people do to get threads and stuff, because when they get enough threads, they get something they want? Farming. There is no real difference between me running five tip missions to progress towards an a-merit and me running 5 AE missions to progress towards a stack of alchemical silver to dump on the market.

I'm not rich like some of the big marketeers, but I recently spent ten minutes alt-hopping trying to remember who'd been selling those five crafted purples. (Stuns, not hecatombs or anything, but...) So I'm not too worried. I think I've put maybe 200M into this so far.

It's a good investment in terms of fun per million inf.

What I've found is...

If respeccing is easy/cheap to me (this can be relative; CoH respecs at 100M are not quite "cheap" to me, but if they were 25-50M I would probably think they were "cheap"), I do it often. I try things that look like they might be interesting or might not.

One reason that I think respecs can be more restricted in CoH than they could in some games is a fundamental design choice: You pick your sets, and then that's your sets. A respec won't change you from a debuffer to a buffer, or a buffer to a tank, in general. (People who tank on blasters because they're IOd out DO NOT COUNT.)

Even so... There are powers I've never tried, because someone told me they were bad, and it's too expensive to grab the power, try it out, and see. I can't try swapping in a different IO set to see whether my napkin-math evaluations of how something would work out would play.

So I end up with pretty conservative specs, I don't take a lot of risks... and I bet I miss out on a lot of fun.

It's like the penalty for dying. If dying carries a stiff penalty, people work harder to avoid it -- and mostly this means not being willing to try crazy stuff. With death penalties where they are in CoH, it's no big deal to set a mission to +3 to see whether the group can handle it. If you can't, no big deal, just drop it to +2 and try again. If the death penalty were stiff, people wouldn't do that.

... and as we all know, the most fun in the game is usually right at the limits of what you can handle. Finding out what you can do is more fun than doing something you're sure you can do.

Finding out how a build would play is, in my experience, a great deal of fun. It's a kind of fun that I basically don't have in CoH because it's too expensive. I suppose I could just marketeer more and spend a bunch of money on experimenting with builds, but it's expensive enough that I mostly don't want to. (Actually, the extra enhancement trays solve one problem, which is "can't afford to replace IOs". If I can stash 30 of them and put them back when speccing back, that's a lot better than if I can only stash 10 of them. We can easily be talking about a couple hundred million inf per spec there...)

And all I thought when I saw the new Barbarian set was "I wonder whether the name Fanservice Lass is taken yet." (It wasn't.)

This reaffirms my desire to reroll Aunt Millie when Street Justice comes out.

She's putting the AUNT back in TAUNT AURA. Complete with boring argyle sweater, plaid knee-length skirt, and invuln/ tanker powers.

Someone must have linked to this thread, 'cuz I've gotten like 10 requests in the last two days.

Gotta start marketing some tears now.

Side note: I am not a laywer, this is not legal advice, but: My lawyer has in the past advised me that, in my part of the US, there is no such thing as "your legal name", a unique thing which denotes you. A name you use which is not used to defraud people is legal. This is helpful for me since, for historical reasons, I have two different arrangements of names one of which many computer systems won't process. So some people know me by one name and some by another.

And in fact, no one who actually knows me except my mom ever calls me anything but "seebs". Spouse, lawyer, friends, coworkers... I'm just "seebs". This name is arguably more real than the one on the government ID.

I see a lot of all-10-at-once at that price, so I'm guessing someone's stockpiling.

Dumped a couple hundred more, got 25,555 for pretty much all of them. Someone seems to have a ton of bids up in that range.