What NOT to do in CoX

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??? In what universe does skipping 12-16 levels of EXPERIENCE in one night teach you how to play the game?

Give a man a fish he feeds for a day. Teach a man to fish and he feeds for a lifetime. You're not teaching, you're giving.



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I'm sorry, I know this is completely off topic, but anymore, every time I hear that "give a man a fish" saying, I'm reminded of something similar I read (I think it was in someone's signature on these boards). I still find it funny and I'd like to share, so here it is :

"Build a man a fire and he is warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life."

Sorry, I had to share. Continue!

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??? In what universe does skipping 12-16 levels of EXPERIENCE in one night teach you how to play the game?

Give a man a fish he feeds for a day. Teach a man to fish and he feeds for a lifetime. You're not teaching, you're giving.



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I'm sorry, I know this is completely off topic, but anymore, every time I hear that "give a man a fish" saying, I'm reminded of something similar I read (I think it was in someone's signature on these boards). I still find it funny and I'd like to share, so here it is :

"Build a man a fire and he is warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life."

Sorry, I had to share. Continue!

[/ QUOTE ] Give a man a fish he feeds for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll spend all day at the lake drinking BEER

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??? In what universe does skipping 12-16 levels of EXPERIENCE in one night teach you how to play the game?

Give a man a fish he feeds for a day. Teach a man to fish and he feeds for a lifetime. You're not teaching, you're giving.



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I'm sorry, I know this is completely off topic, but anymore, every time I hear that "give a man a fish" saying, I'm reminded of something similar I read (I think it was in someone's signature on these boards). I still find it funny and I'd like to share, so here it is :

"Build a man a fire and he is warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life."

Sorry, I had to share. Continue!

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Yeah I've read that before on here. Always makes me laugh.

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Do not trust scrappers to act properly in groups.


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HEY!

Ok nevermind, it's true =)

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It's called scrapperlock, I believe. /me GUILTY!

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Guilty, almost refused to leave a completed mish because there were still some mobs to fight.

IN CoX, DO NOT:
-Not do the tuorial, then ask what everything in the blasted game is.
-Invite a character above level 8 onto a beginning sewer team
-Attempt to cross Grendel's Gultch below level 14
-Go to Faultline without a travel power
-Get Vahz hunt mishs, especially if they require you to go to Faultline
-Play an invincible setting mish with a 5+ person team that less than 2 melee characters on it.
-Take any AT for granted

1) Do not assume that, when I have "not looking for team" indicated in my search screen, that I "forgot" or that I might want a team anyway. If it's turned off, I don't want a team.

I might be waiting for my SG, or for a friend, or for my wife who also plays CoX, or I may be logging on to run a few errands and will be logging off again in five minutes - or I may just be feeling cranky and wanting to just solo for a while.

But "not looking for team" generally means "not looking for team." Polite tells are answered politely, of course, but still.

2) If I have "looking for X team" on, and as always "please send tell first," for crying out loud, send a tell a teeny bit more informative than "Party?" followed instantly be a team invite. It only takes a few seconds to type "lvl 36 team, want in?" or something like that.

3) I can't speak for anyone but myself on this one, but I don't respond to tells in l33t or stupid internet slang like "do u wan 2 do mish?" Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I think it's lazy and stupid, and not worth my time to reply.

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1) Do not assume that, when I have "not looking for team" indicated in my search screen, that I "forgot" or that I might want a team anyway. If it's turned off, I don't want a team.

I might be waiting for my SG, or for a friend, or for my wife who also plays CoX, or I may be logging on to run a few errands and will be logging off again in five minutes - or I may just be feeling cranky and wanting to just solo for a while.

But "not looking for team" generally means "not looking for team." Polite tells are answered politely, of course, but still.

2) If I have "looking for X team" on, and as always "please send tell first," for crying out loud, send a tell a teeny bit more informative than "Party?" followed instantly be a team invite. It only takes a few seconds to type "lvl 36 team, want in?" or something like that.

3) I can't speak for anyone but myself on this one, but I don't respond to tells in l33t or stupid internet slang like "do u wan 2 do mish?" Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I think it's lazy and stupid, and not worth my time to reply.

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On the flip side, if I have "Looking for any team" turned on and DON'T say "Please send tell" in the comment...just invite me, unless I'm in a mission.

When someone sends me a tell asking me if I want to team up, when I CLEARLY have myself on the "Looking for team" list, I have the urge to reply: "Gee, do you think THAT might be why I have "Looking for team" turned on?"

When NinjaMonkey runs in a room, and runs back out 3 seconds later. DO NOT go in, it's guarranteed to be a horde of at least 500 psychic empowered ninjas following soon.

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1) Do not assume that, when I have "not looking for team" indicated in my search screen, that I "forgot" or that I might want a team anyway. If it's turned off, I don't want a team.

I might be waiting for my SG, or for a friend, or for my wife who also plays CoX, or I may be logging on to run a few errands and will be logging off again in five minutes - or I may just be feeling cranky and wanting to just solo for a while.

But "not looking for team" generally means "not looking for team." Polite tells are answered politely, of course, but still.

2) If I have "looking for X team" on, and as always "please send tell first," for crying out loud, send a tell a teeny bit more informative than "Party?" followed instantly be a team invite. It only takes a few seconds to type "lvl 36 team, want in?" or something like that.

3) I can't speak for anyone but myself on this one, but I don't respond to tells in l33t or stupid internet slang like "do u wan 2 do mish?" Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I think it's lazy and stupid, and not worth my time to reply.

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On the flip side, if I have "Looking for any team" turned on and DON'T say "Please send tell" in the comment...just invite me, unless I'm in a mission.

When someone sends me a tell asking me if I want to team up, when I CLEARLY have myself on the "Looking for team" list, I have the urge to reply: "Gee, do you think THAT might be why I have "Looking for team" turned on?"

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That's the best thing about CoX; to each his/her own, eh?

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When NinjaMonkey runs in a room, and runs back out 3 seconds later. DO NOT go in, it's guarranteed to be a horde of at least 500 psychic empowered ninjas following soon.

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QFT

Similarly, when the tank, whom you just watched go safely AFK while auto-taunting Rikti bosses, rounds a corner and immediately starts backpedaling, don't just blindly barrel around that same corner. It's probably worth a moment of your time to stop and find out what's up.

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When NinjaMonkey runs in a room, and runs back out 3 seconds later. DO NOT go in, it's guarranteed to be a horde of at least 500 psychic empowered ninjas following soon.

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QFT

Similarly, when the tank, whom you just watched go safely AFK while auto-taunting Rikti bosses, rounds a corner and immediately starts backpedaling, don't just blindly barrel around that same corner. It's probably worth a moment of your time to stop and find out what's up.

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Wow. Can I quote you in my sig?

@SpaceNut - My 50s, AE arcs and current projects at ParagonWiki

When you've spent 15 minutes assembling a team, don't quit on the mission halfway through. Especially when it's *your* mission full of purple carnies.

If you've asked someone if you can join them on a mission and been accepted in, don't turn around and demand the star so you can invite your buddies along. If you want to team with them, TEAM WITH THEM.

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If you've asked someone if you can join them on a mission and been accepted in, don't turn around and demand the star so you can invite your buddies along. If you want to team with them, TEAM WITH THEM.

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also if you've asked to join don't immediately go afk for 10 minutes after doing so

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When NinjaMonkey runs in a room, and runs back out 3 seconds later. DO NOT go in, it's guarranteed to be a horde of at least 500 psychic empowered ninjas following soon.

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Similarly, when the tank, whom you just watched go safely AFK while auto-taunting Rikti bosses, rounds a corner and immediately starts backpedaling, don't just blindly barrel around that same corner. It's probably worth a moment of your time to stop and find out what's up.

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Wow. Can I quote you in my sig?

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Feel free.

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This could be solved easily. "Do you want Speed Boost?"

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I've got a kin defender, and quite frankly, I usually have better things to do than to ask everyone individually about who wants SB. If someone wants me to play by their rules, they should state them before I join the team. If I don't get an "I don't want SB", I SB you. I don't mind not SBing people after they've told me when I SB them (since I usually SB the group on arrival due to "Why haven't you SBed yet!?" irate comments from many other groups), but not telling me that they don't want SB and expecting that I ask them is kind of... well, jackassish.

Anyway :

DO NOT -

Invite a toon 5 levels lower just because he's LFT if you have no intention of sidekicking. I may hate blind invites, but I still accept them when I've been standing around with nothing to do (that usually means I've been calling LFT for a while, so I kinda have to accept them).

be a jackass back to those that are a jackass to you. (I've had people join a team, ask for the star, and kick the guy that blind invited them. That was funny, but it made for stupid troubles)

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This could be solved easily. "Do you want Speed Boost?"

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I've got a kin defender, and quite frankly, I usually have better things to do than to ask everyone individually about who wants SB. If someone wants me to play by their rules, they should state them before I join the team. If I don't get an "I don't want SB", I SB you. I don't mind not SBing people after they've told me when I SB them (since I usually SB the group on arrival due to "Why haven't you SBed yet!?" irate comments from many other groups), but not telling me that they don't want SB and expecting that I ask them is kind of... well, jackassish.

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DO NOT -

Invite a toon 5 levels lower just because he's LFT if you have no intention of sidekicking. I may hate blind invites, but I still accept them when I've been standing around with nothing to do (that usually means I've been calling LFT for a while, so I kinda have to accept them).

be a jackass back to those that are a jackass to you. (I've had people join a team, ask for the star, and kick the guy that blind invited them. That was funny, but it made for stupid troubles)

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And THAT is why I am immediately suspicious of someone who keeps demanding the star, instead of just telling the team leader who they would like to invite.

...If you think anyone's going to be impressed by a Stalker's PVP kill count, no matter HOW high it is.

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DO NOT...
...refuse to use a rez just so you can soak up 'no-risk' XP's. I hate debt- who doesn't? But if you just bought the farm, chances are some or all of us are pretty close to dyin' too and we NEED you!
(some guy actually said this was the ultimate technique for xps- he said his SG had been tporting a dead body around for a month. Please- say it ain't so...)


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actually the one SG i'm in sorta does that... well we dont port the corpse around for that long, just long enough to pop a few vengence/fallouts but still.. and our motto is 'if you're afk, you're the suicide monkey' gotta love recall friend...

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If you haven't done a single one of your missions since your character was created, and you're level 40.


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. .. you might be a force field defender.

My personal suggestion:

When people are scattered all over hell's half-acre, e.g. in the Atta mission, and you are teleporting them back so you can renew their force fields [plus, they're scattered. . . ], PORT THE SIDEKICK FIRST.

Oops.

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No no. Teach them with tough love. Teams that are scattered all over hell and creation don't GET reshielded. If you make a decision to run off on your own away from the main group, guess what? You're on your own.

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A SG mate got really fed up with that type of thing.

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To the community's credit, that kind of garbage seems less prevalent. I made a new toon last night, clearly in the mostly-nekkid school of costume design (tiger stripes with matching skin color and leather accessories). I was being checked out by one toon in particular (you know the signs, come up close and spin 360), so I turned and popped claws at him. *SHENK* He ran to the corner of the room and executed the cower emote. I gave him an /em goaway and ran off to my mission.

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His latest female character is named "imreallyafathairyguy".

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Heh. The only person I know IRL that has done this is female. She made up a rather repulsive personal profile in her Background and she refers would be lechers to it. They go away fast.

Thus:
DO NOT make gender assumptions.

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Oddly enough, I play female characters a lot. I get a lot of people making lewd comments. So, as an experiment, I ran a male character, something not of my RL gender.

No one asked about my RL gender when I was my male toon. That's an awfully odd double standard. In game gender is non existent anyway, it's pixels and polygons, people. So ... I began asking people if they were really males who played males. Most replied with Of course, or Yeah, or Duh ... but you know, I found a ton, (or a lot at least) of females avoiding that annoying RL gender question by just playing male toons.

Or at least, people who said they were anyway. Like it matters at all in the first place.

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No one asked about my RL gender when I was my male toon. That's an awfully odd double standard. In game gender is non existent anyway, it's pixels and polygons, people. So ... I began asking people if they were really males who played males. Most replied with Of course, or Yeah, or Duh ... but you know, I found a ton, (or a lot at least) of females avoiding that annoying RL gender question by just playing male toons.

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Who'd hit a male toon? "My, your package sure is blocky and polygonal!"

Don't taunt Hamidon off the designated tanker and get yourself killed. I've never seen so many orange names in my whole time playing CoX.

Getting a blind invite and excepting it because you've been waiting for an invite for so long only to find out the team leader is inviting every level range they can find. "You're a level 5, I'm a level 25, you don't see a problem here? Go play with the other kids."

Do NOT and I repeat do NOT, call yourself a puller...run out in the open, fire off your blast AND STAND THERE. Cut a damn corner, get out of line of sight. Especially if your fighting ranged enemies. It baffles me how some people dont understand this logic.

Then complain when they're kissing the floortiles, 'why didn't you guys help me?'

I never boot noobs for being noobs, but man they can try your patience.

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I've had people join a team, ask for the star, and kick the guy that blind invited them. That was funny, but it made for stupid troubles

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You know, that is funny as F**K. Damn im almost tempted to do that next time....

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Don't taunt Hamidon off the designated tanker and get yourself killed. I've never seen so many orange names in my whole time playing CoX.

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But aint Orange such a lovely color all grouped together against the green backdrop.