seebs

Moving from handles to real names.

Really, I can't think of anything else that would do it.

To clarify:

Are these changes only on chance-to-X procs, or are they also on stuff like Kismet +6% and such which currently have a 100% chance to proc regardless of recharge rate?

I theorize that one reason we've never heard anything about a roadmap specifically is that if they announced a plan to reveal one, then couldn't for some reason, the meta-complaints on the forums would probably open a rift in the space-time continuum.

Same as it's been for a long time now, pretty much:

• Enter the little-known Bulwer-Lytton Cash Shop Contest.
• Randomly refuse money transactions in online store, with misleading explanations.
• ???
• Profit!

(Tell me the Paragon Market doesn't make more sense as a contest entry.)

I would argue that /ignore does not really do anything to solve the problem of trash-talkers, which is that by the time you ignore them you are already having unfun.

I don't like PvP. I suspect it's a cognitive processing abnormality or something, but basically, I can't experience hostility between avatars as a friendly thing, and I don't like unfriendly things.

I would like to suggest an alternative path:

If you need better performance than you get with SOs or common IOs, but don't want to deal with the madness of fancy I/O builds focused on set bonuses:

Frankenslot. Just pick up whatever combos of things give you the bonuses you want. Four acc/dam/end IOs from different sets will give you roughly the equivalent of 2 each acc, dam, and end, for instance. In just four slots.

And honestly, outside of boutique builds, that's plenty. It'll move you from "pretty amazing" to "WOW DID THAT JUST HAPPEN?!?" without being nearly as expensive or complicated as fancier builds. You won't get perma-dom with it or anything like that, but you'll get enough pluses to make up for a lot.

Honestly, most of the time, the extent of fancy IO slotting I do is a kismet +tohit proc (it's really +tohit, not +accuracy), a -KB proc on characters that need one, and a steadfast protection res/def if I have a resistance power somewhere to slot it in. Past that, a lot of what I do is just look at the enhancement modifiers and ignore set bonuses.

Hello, and welcome to the law of unintended consequences. Any cap you impose will just make it worse.

FWIW, I have been overall pretty happy with an ASUS G53 gaming laptop for Running Games. Play CoH and Rift on it, works fine, and really CoH is a MUCH more impressive game when you can turn a bunch of stuff up and still get a good frame rate.

My robot is tech origin. (Also non-sapient, but that's more a character concept than anything.) My basic sense is that "science" origin means some kind of weird underlying principle not widely known, while "tech" is just really good use of physics. You know, like how Iron Man was so powerful because his armor used "transistorized" electronics. (No, really! I had some of the comics back in the 80s or so, and that was the handwave back then.)

Not to mention the admittedly-situational insane degree of mitigation you can get from caltrops! I have been known to take caltrops before defense powers because I can be close to invulnerable if I have caltrops and a corner.

I am still a bit unclear on the thesis of this thread. Were scrappers underperforming? Underrepresented in play?

I would have thought he would have died enthusiastically, or cheerfully.

Or maybe regrettably.

Until recently, the Cosplay Policy (section 4.1 of the ToS) was at best a minor deterrent to play; people would ask, but you could just point out that it was completely unenforced, and they would ignore it. But today, the GMs have started enforcing this policy, and the fact is, it's a stupid policy, and I think it should be dropped entirely.

There are a number of flaws with the Cosplay Policy. First, cosplay can be expensive, and not everyone can afford good costumes. Secondly, this is particularly punitive for people who have a large number of alts, and you don't even want to think about alt-hopping to check for a particular enhancement; if you thought the 30 second logout timer was long, having to completely change before logging in is ridiculous.

Furthermore, the cosplay policy unfairly penalizes some character concepts more than others. "Guy in trenchcoat with two guns" is easy, "giant robotic exoskeleton" is... not easy. A lot of people have a lot of time and effort invested in characters that are very difficult to pull off, and at least one GM wasn't even letting people go to the tailor or a trainer to pick a new costume!

The fact is, I think a lot of us have been playing CoH in our normal clothes all along, and I think the game was plenty fun; I am not at all convinced that I needed extra help getting into the spirit of the game, and really, when it's implemented as pushy enforcement like this, it's mostly just intrusive. It doesn't create immersion, it just creates resentment.

Frankly, if the cosplay policy isn't dropped, I think a lot of people will stop playing CoH entirely. At the very least, I think GMs need to be a lot more forgiving of amateur-level costume efforts.

Whoops, silly me, left some miracle +recovery up for >100M despite converters.

On the other hand, one of them sold for 800M so I don't have to feel TOO bad about it.