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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    I don't WANT to have to kick anyone. But if I'm playing with a group of players who for WHATEVER reason don't want to run a league with the maximum number of players we should be able to do that WITHOUT having to worry about kicking innocent LFGers. Is that really so hard to understand?
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    Why should my choice to run on a less-than maximum sized league be less important than the desires of a LFGer?
    You are still not forced to kick people.
    You are choosing, that is "WANT" to kick people for whatever reason that you think is justifed.
    You are not forced too.
  2. tanstaafl

    New zone?!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    Good point. I saw the lack of armor and figured they were Barbs but I guess they're just using a homebrew armor system.
    They must be old school though, if they still roll for HP
  3. Hi,

    So I know shards are meant to drop from all content now.

    Particulary for the purpose of doing a lower level tf/sf. I've gotten them a few times that one already, which is nice.

    Do they drop from any foe that gives a reward/xp? So running missions at -1 on a 50, fighting level 49 foes should drop shards?
    Or is it still level 50 foes only unless you are super side kicked down?

    Do they drop from devs choice arcs in AE? The arcs that give real rewards not tickets.

    thanks,
  4. According to the kotaku poster image about 7 year ( http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...eros7years.jpg ) there is 40% of city's population is on redside.

    There was a lot of clearly wrong info on that image, so this might be just as inaccurate.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zamuel View Post
    AE has fundamental problems with using it for Incarnate unlocks. The noble concept of running regular mission arcs is shutdown by the ease of making a farm and running it repeatedly. The cynic could comment that you already have to farm iTrials but it is unlikely that the devs would see it that way. Not an impossible concept--I'm brainstorming some things right now--but it'll take a fair amount of planning to come up with an AE option that's feasible when all factors are taken into account.

    Furthermore, AE is currently suffering from a massive glitch that broke most of the non-farm arcs so this would cause more problems with using AE for Incarnate content.
    Thats the glitch that stops you having paragon and the like in your arc? Not fixed yet?
    Soooo crazy.

    AE has proven to be too easy to exploit (& not just farm) to be used for real drops.

    Hrrmmm though Dev's choice should be dropping shards now, right? Might have to test that.
  6. My mind/thorn is my fav character.
  7. tanstaafl

    Rogue Magazine

    Really nice. Perfectly done.

    I'd like to be able to download it without having to sign up to yet another website though.
  8. tanstaafl

    Death penalty

    Players do give drops, from inspires to 3 billion inf recipes.
  9. I'll be trying the EU servers, mostly to see whose on during aussie play times.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by King_of_Kings View Post
    Lets all send positive toughts so that the merge will be a success!
    I know I am ;-)
    I will keep my toughts to myself.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
    And i've entered! . . . . . . .wait did i just propose to a website?
    It will be tricky if the website says yes.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mokalus View Post
    To be honest, I kind of ignored this thread when it first came up in the redname tracker, because the title sounded so innocent and uninteresting. "New Security Update" can only be a good thing, right? So I didn't even bother opening the thread and went along on my merry way.

    Fast forward to today, I thought I might try to activate my second account again, which I don't have on auto-renew. Username and password entered, and it throws up some random security questions at me, which I genuinely can't remember ever supplying to NCSoft, but ok, whatever. I try to answer them, it rejects my answers? Maybe it was a typo...but no, I try again a few times with no joy.

    Then I come here and I find out the details of the situation and just....wow. Really?

    ....wow. I'm genuinely at a loss for words.
    As long as you kept the emails of booster pack updates etc, its not as bad as this thread would lead you to believe.

    An email with those details will get it fixed within a day or two.

    Its still false happy feel good security, and damn annoying when you are on dynamic IP addresses.
  13. I'll be trying union and defiant, seeing whose awake during aus play times.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hero_of_Steel View Post
    I have a question about the Going Rogue sale going on (if anyone here knows the answer):

    http://goingrogue.cityofheroes.com/e...mestopcom.html

    If I order the digital version, Will it provide a code that I can apply to my account? Or do I need to do the download?
    You will get the option to apply your code to an existing City of heroes game account.

    You wont need to download, but make sure you upgrade your account, not start a new one.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Caulderone View Post
    Well, I'm glad for the acknowledgement of small-group and solo option desires for Incarnate progression. However, this doesn't say "is coming eventually", this says "looking into" and "considering".

    That means, realistically, that this stuff isn't in the development cycle yet. That means it's well over a year out and away, if not more, as past info has shown us how long the development cycle is and can be (and we know there are multiple trials already in the pipe).

    This causes me a staggering reality check in my Wait and See mentality.
    I hope it is done in far less than a year, but at least the dev team seems aware of it now
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ura Hero View Post
    Normalize the sound levels across the powersets. Some powersets blast my speakers off the shelf while others I can barely hear.

    Demon summoning; please, oh please make them not roar so often. With sugar on top even.

    Glowies/Zowies; when the sound volume was reduced back many issues ago to make them not quite so loud through the walls, they went too soft with it. Now at times I have to be right on top of one before I can hear it. Please increase the volume slightly.

    Give us an option to turn off personal power sounds such as Practised Brawler. I really hate soloing while hearing Vroom, Vroom, Vroom for hours on end. Just one example. Arctic fog with the foghorn is another annoying one. I would love to be able to turn those off just for myself. On others it doesn't bother me, I can always move away out of the effect range.

    Wentworths/Black Market; I would love to see this become a power free and sound effect free area.

    I would love to see some of the Giant Monsters and AV's actually say something during the fight. Give them a voice. Even just one or two sound bites that get triggered at a HP level would be cool.

    Thanks for asking for feedback.
    Agree with normalize the sound volume.

    Please do not make the went worth/black market areas power suppressed. I would miss not being able to use base teleportor, portable crafting station. I would hate to lose dom, spend time retoggleing etc.

    A section for power supressed markets like studio B would be much better.

    Even better would be a temp power/allocade to interact with market away from it like the recent vet power.
  17. tanstaafl

    Fixed Rewards?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nihilii View Post


    That's a good point. I will admit that I read their message that way - "the 10 threads table is for leechers, exclusively", and so do most people I've talked with. If it is intended to be part of the random reward, it might be better if they mention it specifically in whatever next announcement we get on incarnate stuff.
    I think they need to clearly state if the door sitter prize is part of the reward table or not, not just if it is.

    But I also think they need to explicitly state how the participation puzzle works.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan View Post
    There's no way that could cause the game to crash. Disconnect, certainly, but crash? Nope.
    Yes it can. When my connection is flakey, it causes crashes. Most likely from trying to read data on its way and only getting half or some such corruption type issue.
  19. As above, you really need to find out about global channels to see the bulk of teaming that happens.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Sometimes I imagine Mother Mayhem sounding like Gloria Gaynor singing her dialog:

    Mother Mayhem: First I was pleased, the project stupefied...
    Mother Mayhem: Kept seeing more of my children here by my side
    Mother Mayhem: I spent so many nights correcting where they went wrong
    Mother Mayhem: I made them strong
    Mother Mayhem: And now their ready to move on
    Mother Mayhem: And so those rats
    Mother Mayhem: in their resistance base
    Mother Mayhem: When will the children run amok and wreck their plans
    Mother Mayhem: and shoot them in the face?
    That's wonderful
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    Yes. And that fact irritates me. Not so much because of the cut scene itself, but because other players dive in on the mobs before the rest of the league assembles.
    Got to rush for your perceived participation reward.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BackFire View Post
    I can't tell you how much I'd giggle when playing til he got name-nerfed
    awww thats sad he got generic'd for that name
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    I hear there is a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale.
    You read my mind.