Hello - Here's me with some questions

Hello all.

I have played CoV a bit(1-2 weeks) some months ago, paused a while, and now I'm playing again. My main character is Thugs, a Energy/Dark Brute who is level 24(And just passed 50 badges, yay me) right now. I also play Dr. Minder, a Mind/Energy Dominator and also have one each of the other arch types below level 15.

This will not be a 'one line' post as I would love to get answers on several questions, if possible.

- Villain Group

During the last week I have been invited to one VG after the other, some totally anonymous for me and others from people whom I teamed with. As I don't know many people and most people don't know me, I have basically declined all invitations. I thought I'd make a little presentation here and state that I am looking for a gang(VG) who I can chat with, team up with and do fun stuff on a, for me irregular, basis. I'd prefer an established VG with members that have been around a while and will be here even next month or two.

As a side note, I'm way past level 35 irl, married with children, working from home, with a pc that has no need for an OFF button. When I am in game I am mostly available but as I am damaged from other mmo games I cannot adapt to the Must play XX hours per day between X-Y hours, and when Boss calls, drop all you do and come!! ideology .

I play very randomly, sometimes longer periods and sometimes just between work hours. Sometimes I just log in to finish one mission or just to smash a few heads. Now and then I log in to do a mission or two and find myself AFK because real life demanded my attention(Family guy.. Stuff happens) I like teaming, though it sometimes feels like 'rush rush new mission, hurry xp xp' when I find myself in a team and that's not really me as I like to go slowish and find those badges hidden everywhere. Sometimes I just want to run around to find stuff and check out areas I never seen.

So basically.. Anyone care to adopt a 'stray cat'?

- Building a character

I have tried to keep up with infamy and buy enhancements to make my characters viable when doing missions, but it seems I'm always on the short side of infamy, except when I got a pressie in form of loads of infamy from another player(thanks, you know who you are).

So question one would be 'Is there a way to get more infamy per mission/instance?' perhaps by increase difficulty?

Question two is about builds. I've seen different builds on the forums and I assume most of them are including these 'SO' enhancements. I don't understand what the numbers mean though and how I can adapt my building(with DO and training enhancers) to the lists shown. The numbers I talk about is for example(Taken from a build in forums):

Punch==> Acc(1) Acc(15) Rechg(17) Rechg(40) EndRdx(43)

the numbers here(1,15,17,40,43)... Are they the level of enhancements? Which types and how many in each slot?.Are there limits on how much of enhancements one can put in each skill/slot?

- Badges

I've found that my main interest is, besides getting to 50, kill big stuff, and maybe try pvp some, to find badges. Right now I am missing a bunch from lower levels(Like to get them before I level up more). I'm told I can 'level down' to team up and get them, and once in a team I was told I was invited to a 'badge channel', then nothing happened. I think I missed something there...

Is there a badge channel where I can get help to find badges and where I can yell out when I do a mission for a badge someone else might need?


Thats about it, thanks for reading this far

// Thugs

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Question two is about builds. I've seen different builds on the forums and I assume most of them are including these 'SO' enhancements. I don't understand what the numbers mean though and how I can adapt my building(with DO and training enhancers) to the lists shown. The numbers I talk about is for example(Taken from a build in forums):

Punch==> Acc(1) Acc(15) Rechg(17) Rechg(40) EndRdx(43)

the numbers here(1,15,17,40,43)... Are they the level of enhancements? Which types and how many in each slot?.Are there limits on how much of enhancements one can put in each skill/slot?

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SO's are more effective enhancements, and those numbers signify what level the enhancement slots are added to that power.
The thing where you become low level temporarily is called "Malefactoring", a.k.a. MF or MFing.
You ask a person which are 3 levels or more to malefactor you, they send an invite, and if you accept it, you become their level until you un-malefactor.
When malefactored you get money instead of XP, so that also answers one of your questions

Every odd level you get two new enhance slots. So EndRed(17) means you get the slot at 17 and put Endurance Reduction in it!

Ah, so the ()'s is to display which skill to choose to put those slots in while levelling I guess. Myself, I just tried to put slots equal in all skills I have..

Having 1 respec to go I figure I wait until I know more, and can afford to slot up with what I plan for .)

Thanks, both of you

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Is there a badge channel where I can get help to find badges and where I can yell out when I do a mission for a badge someone else might need?

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There is indeed, its called Union Badgehunters. In case you don't know, select one of the numbers above the chat boxes, and right click the tab on it. Go to Edit Tab, then Join Channel. Put in the name above and click OK. This should automatically put it in the list of selected channels, and set it as the default channel. If it doesn't, select it from the list of channels on the right hand side of the edit tab screen, and move it across. Set it as default. Name the tab something helpful, and okay out of that screen.

Then whenever you want to see whats happening badgewise, click on the tab and have a look-see. If you want to chat on it, select the "A" chat button (just above where you enter the text, its the one on the right if your graphics are too good to read it), open the "UBH" tab (or whatever you called it) and click on the name of the tab. The chat entry bar should change from "global" to "UBH", enter your message and there you are.

If you want more information on the different badges, try going to City Info Terminal and the useful Vidiotmaps.

Hope that helps.

@orht

Thanks, I'm on that channel now. already made use of it by offer team when I did a badge mission .)

You're quite welcome to join our VG "Legion of Evil" if you want. We are fairly smallish, 25-35 members. Majority of people are like yourself, in that we play irregularly. Usually 3 or 4 on most evenings, and we have a good banter. No pressure to earn prestige, as we promote people who add to the whole experience rather than just prestige gatherers. If you are interested send me an email ingame to @Nine Claws. I am generally on most morning between 6.30am to 8am (before work) and most evenings between 6pm-7pm. Would be good to hear from you. If you do join and don't like the VG, then there is no pressure to leave. I have 4 alts in the grp between 8 and 38...so always happy to help if I can.

In regards to badges, if you download the Vidiotmap ingame maps, then it automatically shows exploration badges and plaque locations on the main maps when the black areas are uncovered. City Info terminal also gives good advice on co-ordinates and requirements for other badges.

Thank you for the offer, Nine_Claws.

I got an offer from a person who have helped me ingame and who I've teamed with some and am now a member of the VG "Violators".

I will check the in game maps thing.

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...if you download the Vidiotmap ingame maps, then it automatically shows exploration badges and plaque locations on the main maps when the black areas are uncovered...

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This is AFAIK considered modifying the game client, and thus violates the EULA, so you might not want to use it...

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Every odd level you get two new enhance slots. So EndRed(17) means you get the slot at 17 and put Endurance Reduction in it!

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actually its bit different, up to lvl 30 you get 2 slots every odd level and a new power every even level (with the exception of lvl 1 obviously ) at 31 you get 3 slots, 32 new power, then its new power at 35, 38, 41, 44, 47, 49 and 3 slots at the other lvls.

As said before the number is when you add that slot to a power. Also these are almost always SOs yes, this is because its a build to lvl 50 most of the times and SOs are the most effective enhancements (well.. apart from hami-os, but thats a diff story). You can always adapt the build to training enhances and DO enhances. However it should be noted that training enhances barely offer a boost in efficiency. Basically it's 2 training enhances go in 1 DO, and 2 DOs go in 1 SO. I would suggest when you are lvling up with training enhances to just focus on 1 thing with the slots, most of the times accuracy, then adjust your slotting once you get access to SO and DO

-Villain Group
Not happy with the Violators? You can always join The Dark Lords. Defiant. Mystic of Horranda will send you an invite when you want!

-Building a character
Oh noes I'm no good with that skip it.

-Badges
I'm a really big badge hunter, so I'm in this. My suggestion is to go on ''Help'' or ask a 50 who's got every single badge(or most)and I haven't even heard about this ''badge hunter'' channel but I sure want to join it! And yes, I do snoop lower levels badges!

Thanks all who responded. I've tried to reply several times but the forum ate my comments so I'll make it short this time