THIS IS A PARAGON CITY EMERGENCY BROADCAST.
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8Seconds,
Posted on: 2004-09-16 08:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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It was buried (at the end) of another post... I forget where. You'll just have to take my word for it. Or don't. That's also OK.
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http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showf...v=#Post1349862
"PS: The initial scouts testing the defenses of Paragon City are rumored to be expecting reinforcements now that a reconaissance report has been made back through the portals... "
Is this the thread you're talking about?
I say let them take over. They are superior anywho. Chain stun me through US...bunch of BS
Kazarak, the dev post you're looking for is the "Issue #2 update" post. Here's what Gaffer said:
"PS: The initial scouts testing the defenses of Paragon City are rumored to be expecting reinforcements now that a reconaissance report has been made back through the portals...
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Jeremy Gaffney
VP Product Development, NCsoft "
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PS: The initial scouts testing the defenses of Paragon City are rumored to be expecting reinforcements now that a reconaissance report has been made back through the portals...
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i wonder if the invaders told their leaders that 1 hold from a controller completely holds their 'portal', rendering it useless to the enemey, and preventing further enemies from spawning...? pretty annoying.. means i cant be in the front of the fights.
seems like the real meat and potatoes oponents are starting to appear, at least, that is what I got last night when running around steel canyon (lvl 24 ice blaster on Triumph)
they are tough ones. One of their eyeballs almost nuked a lvl 14 tanker of mine out of the sky when I passed them (they were lvl 16, purple to me)
that was way like, scary.
There is one bit of lameness in all this.
The invaders are completely leaving bad guys like Outcasts alone. And no, don't give me this "outcasts are in on it" crap.
These are freakin' invaders from another plane of reality! They don't give a crap what kind of crazy costume a human is wearing. Kill all the humans!
So if they pop thru and a group of outcasts or Tsoo are there, it would be much more realistic, and cool, if they attacked the "normal" bad guys.
It's highly lame, unrealistic, and most importantly, immersion-busting to see some Outcasts AND some aliens beat down on you at the same time. (Not that it hurt, I was a well-slotted 23 tank in Steel Canyon, taking their pathetic level 16 hits indefinitely.)
Still, EQ had a similar problem in one of their very rare invasions -- the guards did not attack the invaders, nor vice versa.
Pathetic! 
"Hey! You knocked generic cola all over your precious D20 books!"
ED: Now I know how Nancy Kerrigan felt: "Why...?!? Why...?!?"
LOL, I'm pretty sure the Crey have come to help the invaders sometimes. I know, I know, prolly just aggrod some tanks. But STill . . .
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It's highly lame, unrealistic, and most importantly, immersion-busting to see some Outcasts AND some aliens beat down on you at the same time. (Not that it hurt, I was a well-slotted 23 tank in Steel Canyon, taking their pathetic level 16 hits indefinitely.)
Pathetic!
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For that matter, how about cops standing around doing nothing while you're fighting criminals, or civilians walking up to you to thank you while you're in the midst of a vicious firefight with bugeyed monsters? Or cars that don't do any damage when they hit you? I don't think any of this is pathetic, but there is some room for some "realism tweaking" in COH... 
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It's highly lame, unrealistic, and most importantly, immersion-busting to see some Outcasts AND some aliens beat down on you at the same time. (Not that it hurt, I was a well-slotted 23 tank in Steel Canyon, taking their pathetic level 16 hits indefinitely.)
Pathetic!
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For that matter, how about cops standing around doing nothing while you're fighting criminals, or civilians walking up to you to thank you while you're in the midst of a vicious firefight with bugeyed monsters? Or cars that don't do any damage when they hit you? I don't think any of this is pathetic, but there is some room for some "realism tweaking" in COH...
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Yeah, but I can see how this COULD be done. Just give them some EYE drones, and give those the code for the Police Drones and have them follow around.
It'd still do nothing for the wandering civilians, but you could always make them RUNLIKEHELL when the Rularuu came around.
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It's highly lame, unrealistic, and most importantly, immersion-busting to see some Outcasts AND some aliens beat down on you at the same time. (Not that it hurt, I was a well-slotted 23 tank in Steel Canyon, taking their pathetic level 16 hits indefinitely.)
Pathetic!
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For that matter, how about cops standing around doing nothing while you're fighting criminals, or civilians walking up to you to thank you while you're in the midst of a vicious firefight with bugeyed monsters? Or cars that don't do any damage when they hit you? I don't think any of this is pathetic, but there is some room for some "realism tweaking" in COH...
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Yeah, but I can see how this COULD be done. Just give them some EYE drones, and give those the code for the Police Drones and have them follow around.
It'd still do nothing for the wandering civilians, but you could always make them RUNLIKEHELL when the Rularuu came around.
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One small problem with all this:
Considering the pissing, moaning, whining, and crybaby attitude people get from other players 'kill-stealing' their ordinary everyday villains... Imagine the temper tantrums should the INVADERS (who are just part of the GAME, whine whine whine) start stealing their ever-precious kills.
Seriously, I agree that they should be bothering the regular citizens AND bothering the criminals as well... I stood in front of a couple Shockers in Steel Canyon the other day and harangued them for a half hour about the invasion and why weren't they doing something to stop it. They pretended I wasn't there. Then again, they usually do. Something to do with being afraid of getting their keisters handed to them on a platter. 
heya any spawn points in galaxy or atlas?
Just when I was starting to believe that CoH would indeed go down as the greatest MMORPG in history. The frustration stems from dissapointment, and I suppose it's my fault for expecting such a great game to stay great.
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Just when I was starting to believe that CoH would indeed go down as the greatest MMORPG in history. The frustration stems from dissapointment, and I suppose it's my fault for expecting such a great game to stay great.
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That's weird. Huh.
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Strange, I thought it was still great.
That's weird. Huh.
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Good for you and your optimism.
That's great. Yeah.
brought down some serious hurt on a portal in KR tonight. Thanks for the help from all the heroes that responded to my call. We shut down the portal and 'arrested' the eyeballs and their guards.
Did get a laugh out of the group of 'normal' villians that just stood on the edge of the battle and did their thing. Once all the eyeballs were gone...I cleaned them up for good measure.
Now if I could just get back to my hero in The Hallows I'd be most appreciative. 
Or maybe this is the game god's way of saying...'Get some sleep you geek!'
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Just when I was starting to believe that CoH would indeed go down as the greatest MMORPG in history. The frustration stems from dissapointment, and I suppose it's my fault for expecting such a great game to stay great.
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is that because of the "invasion?"
cause if it is, the invasion isn't even over. they were just scouts. a DEV even said that reinforcements were coming.
Yum, interdimensional invasion
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I, for one, welcome our new eyeball overlords.
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I concur.
btw is this thing still going on?...any changes or is it still at the level it was on Thursday-Friday?
It's still going on, from what I've seen it's at the same level as before as well.
Plus it's fun!
Level 4 and 5 Rular... Ruula... ugly things are popping up all over Galaxy City right now. Figures it'd happen on the day I start my new controller.
I've been away from my computer since early Wednesday.... all I've been able to do is check the boards. Now heading back home (Paragon City) looking forward to facing this new threat; though a bit worried about the new powerful minions I must face.
Infinity: 50
InfernalMachine F/F Tank
Shaugraun MA/Reg
Burning Force Fire/kin
Rancor DM/EA Brute
Triumph:
Phanatique Lvl:30 BS/Regen Scrapper
Mu Machine Lvl 44 SS/ElA Brute
where is a post from devs of that the rularuu are sending reinforcements?
I kept reading that lots of people thought it was going to be last night at around 9 EST. So i played from 12pm - 11pm waiting and no invasion.
I don't know about you guys, but as long as this "scouting" is still going on I am smacking these things around a bit!
I will be roaming the streets on Champion with Kitty Dawners taking down ANY invaders level 20 or below! If it is still happening when I log on after this I will hunt down a controller to hold the portals so that nothing can come through anymore(if the rumor that a hold will stop it is true).. then clean up a bit.
Been taking on level 16's solo so far.. pretty easy if I am carefull. Kitty is level 20 now... If I do take on even cons you better believe I am bringing a full team for street sweeping these SOBs
Edit: For those of you reporting being held through your status protection(Intigration.. US.. ect) it hasn't happen to me yet. Which leads me to believe this is a bug with the game if only certain people get it while others don't. I think this makes me perfect for protecting those lower level zones. 
A blaster and my scrapper can take down Dr. Vahz and a couple minions in a difficult fight. But twice we are defeated by a group of grey and green con R. Invaders... That doesn't seem balanced to me.
I think the problem is with status effects and how easily they land, even if the user is well below your level. Also, mobs using status effects are not losing an appropriate amount of Endurance. A hero can not repeat-use such powers without losing a very significant amount of END.
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This is the 3rd post I've seen saying the same thing. It's not on the Dev Tracker, at least as far as I can tell it is not. Do you have a link or is this just a rumor?
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It was buried (at the end) of another post... I forget where. You'll just have to take my word for it. Or don't. That's also OK.
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Yureeka! I found it. You're right about it being buried. It was made by Gaffer, here is what he said at the bottom of a post...
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PS: The initial scouts testing the defenses of Paragon City are rumored to be expecting reinforcements now that a reconaissance report has been made back through the portals...
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