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Stop. Talking. To. Him.
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But... but ... my postcount.
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about the sales example your right.but to scroll back .Thats the reason why i said more at's powers would be welcome or the epics would be real great. So basicly i gave your contructive criticism.
and i am paying them and they aren not paying me. If they want my adivce they can always contact me. But thats just my point they wil not contact anyone or listen.
and no do not lock the threat i am always up for discussion :P
love your admin line btw zaldor.. funny 
lol alvan :P
Sadly it's been said that we won't see villain epics until early next year... so probably 2 issues away... 
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about the gimped : Well, in my eyes Energy Blast has always been gimped
i rest my case and check the patch lists if you need to know all the things that happend.
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I always check the patch notes. No gimping to be seen. See, that's your problem: You claim something but strictly refuse to back it up with anything but vague ranting.
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About the original ideas. Sure i am willing to give them loads of original ideas but that aint my job. Or are you willing to pay me ?
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So, you want to keep them guessing what you would like, so you can keep on complaining if they don't guess right? Clever... not.
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btw the fries can be delivered closer then you think. Germany right ?????? :P
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Exactly. So, if you think it's close enough just send the cash in advance and the fries will be sent to you. 
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plus why should i make suggestions if they arent listening. HAvent you noticed that there are a few ( verry verry verry verry little ) that react to this.
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Is that true? Did you really fail to notice that the majority of new things implemented in the game comes straight from the forums? Of course, suggestions along the lines of "give me more stuff" are a little bit tricky, so I am not surprised if little good comes from them. However, post an idea that actually is an idea instead of a simple demand for more stuff and the reactions are usually plenty (which in turn draws the attention of devs to that matter).
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and about contructive criticism. If you have an issue about something. For example you dont like the tv they are showing you. Do you say " well the tv is absolutly great and the screen is amazing clear. ohhh and look at the great design" or do you say " hmmmm not sure if thats the right one for me. Maybe someone else would like that design" as an suggestion to the sales person. ?????? so he would learn from your visit. Basicly i think that cutting straight to the point is better then using a dozen side ways.
Further is my criticism in that sence constructive. I am trying create some more content in the game. But i am not gonna run around and skip straight to the point what i think could be "wrong" in the game it is today.
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So, you don't know what constructive criticism is... In your example with the tv set you would walk away without a tv set and think the salesman is an idiot for not knowing what kind of tv set you are looking for. You are not getting straight to the point. In fact, you are getting to no point at all.
I would use constructive criticism and tell the salesman what I like about the tv set he shows me and what I don't like and generally try to give him an idea about what kind of tv set I would buy. I get straight to the point about what I want instead of letting the poor salesman guess what I might want.
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but i was trying to make a statemnt ad if you dont agree i can only respecced that. I hope you wil not get bored at it as some of us are.
as i always say. enjoy and have fun.
And there is now way you can change my thoughts if thats what you are trying to do
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Oh, feel free to feel bored, I am not going to argue about that. However, I feel that your way of complaining is hardly efficient. You hide your few and vague constructive suggestions under a huge heap of baseless ranting.
You see, you said you want more contacts. What is wrong about Faultline and the Rikti War Zone? What kind of contacts are you talking about?
You want epic ATs and you should know that this is already work in progress. I guess the devs will make the release of villainous Kheldians a separate issue, somehow story-wise connected with the secession of the 5th Column from the Council. If this is not what you want how about telling us what you want?
In fact, most things you mentioned are work in progress. Maybe not in the way you imagined, but since you really don't tell us what you imagine we wouldn't know.
I don't want to change your thoughts, but it might be helpful if you changed your way to express your thoughts, so that others might even have a chance of understanding what you are trying to say.
If it has eyes, you can blind it, if it has blood, you can make it bleed, if it has a mouth, you can make it scream.
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/patch_notes.html check it out Sitriel.
Here are some examples :
Fixed an issue with several 'cage' powers which gave them longer than intended durations in PvP. Detention Field, Sonic Cage and Black Hole are affected by this change.
Oh and dont forget the Ghost widow power.
Tanker and Brute Super Strength Rage: Fixed a bug in which would allow players to bypass the Endurance 'crash' at the end of the power's duration. - huh why remove if someone found a way to bypass it ???? if you slot it correctly (or found aother way ) that just means you know how to play with our character.
Brute Secondary powerset attacks were generating Fury vs. high rank targets too quickly. This has been adjusted and these power now have the same bonus as the Brute Primary powers.
Brute Patron Powers bonus Fury vs. Players and high ranking critters has been lowered to the same amount given by normal Brute attacks.
Earth Mastery Hurl Boulder: Base damage reduced from scale 3 to scale 1.64
Fire Mastery: Fire Blast: Base damage reduced from scale 2 to scale 1.1
Fire Mastery: Fire Ball: Base damage reduced from scale 1.6 to scale 1.05
Ice Mastery: Ice Blast: Smashing damage reduced from scale 0.8 to scale 0.2, Cold damage reduced from scale 1.2 to 0.8
Psionic Mastery: Psionic Blast: Base damage reduced from 2 to 1.
Psionic Mastery: Psionic Tornado: Base damage reduced from 0.35 to 0.175.
apart from some changes that they added some +dam or anything else i think you get my point. basicly they ahve messed aroun enuff wioth the at's powers dont you think. bug fixes like animation i can understand. This help the performance as well. Great thing to do btw. But dont yah think they lost track after all these changes ?
Have fun reading.
*shakes head in disbelief*
You, my friend, are a troll.
Or have no idea what Balance means.
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you know.... reading it al back i think this is an endless discussion.
but about balance. thats just what i mean. We keep pulling it down to create more balance according to the eyes of players that to my opinion are sadley enuff to blame powers for there way they play.
Good players knows how to work around most stuff and use it to there advance.
If you read it it also states a brute against a higher shouldn't build rage up that fast........ Why. you need everything you can get to defeat a higher lvl foe.
But i have bin thinking about these discussions and i think we can go back and forward for day's this way.
So i am calling a truce. I have stated my way of thinking and you yours.
Lets just hope it can work both ways.
and i gotta thank you guys....i realised that i am having a discussion that series about a game. :S
i know enuff thx.
Bloodforce, I have to give it to you. You went away and came back with a wide range of recent nerfs to powers, just like you were asked to in an earlier post. But, I'm not sure that this is your real issue here. You've said it a few times in this thread; You're bored. Nerfs don't really take away the entertainment value (at least for me) from the game - they are only numbers. You get to shoot laserbeams from your eyes in this game; if you enjoy doing that then it shouldn't really matter if the laserbeam does 50 damage or 500 damage.
You mention that your not happy that there have been no new ATs or powersets in a while, and that villain epics haven't been added. TBH I'd love to see all these things, but I'm patient enough (and enjoy the game enough) that I'm prepared to wait for them to surface. They will turn up eventually - In the meantime I'm going to give the Rikti a bit of a kicking and carry on collecting my IO's.
The fact you've mentioned a lack of new powersets tells me that you're probably an altoholic? If that's the case you can't seriously tell me that you've played all possible powerset combinations available both in CoH and CoV to a reasonable level??
I've been playing just short of 2 years now and I'm nowhere near bored. Sometimes I can log into the game and feel a bit uninspired, but to be perfectly honest I think that that is down to me, and not the game. When that happens it's pretty obvious that I'm not in the mood for playing and I do something else.
You say you've tried taking a break but although you love this game you are bored.
How about doing something else?????
well everytime i get bored or feel im getting bored. i go watch some city of villains/city of heroes music vids on youtube, n bag im insired again lol
Yup after some carefull thinking.. Your right. And yeah i am an Altoholic. But i got several lvl 50's. So i know what i am talking about.
But i just canceled my account and i am playing BF2142 now for the good old times. Maybe i will return. But the changes are slim.
Cya all
Can I have your stuff?
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I had hoped there was a place I could talk about my boredom, but I also see that it is pointless..
Oh, actually we are looking for a replacement for Bloodforce. So, if you want to bring up a list of bugfixes and whine about all the now gimped powers or do similarly stupid things, go ahead. This would surely alleviate some boredom... although not necessarily yours.
But seriously, if you have something to say, say it. Because saying that you'd rather not say anything seems really pointless.
If it has eyes, you can blind it, if it has blood, you can make it bleed, if it has a mouth, you can make it scream.
Nothing to do with bugfixes or whine. Ive just lost touch with whatever it was that made me enjoy this game. It has become mere repetition of beating down same mobs over and over.
Sarcastic remarks that you'll propably make will only make matters worse however. And even if someone was genuinely wanting to help (which I doubt) all that people can really say is "take a break". That's why I said talking here is pointless.
Oh, don't get me wrong: I really like sarcasm, but your statement is not exactly an invitation for something like that.
You sound a little bit downhearted and it seems as you would really like to enjoy this game further, but for some reasons you can't like you used to.
Since I can't look into your heart from here I can only speculate and talk about what works for me:
Something about your statement leads me to the assumption that you have lost quite some friends who left the game for various reasons. I can understand if this saps away some of the enjoyment. For me half the fun about any MMO game is the contact to other players. The funniest conversations via TS or chat seem to be separate from the game itself, but in fact the game serves as a kind of catalyst. (For example, I love listening to a friend inventively cursing about some of his team members. Pure comedy, especially since he has a known 'unlucky streak' with PUGs! 
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I don't know if you regularly use TS, but imo it changes a lot about the gaming experience if you have the right people on your TS server.
The other thing that saves me a lot of boredom is my altitis and the way it manifests for me. When I build new toons I rarely build something I have seen or read about before. Instead I try to think out of the box, whip out my planner and build something original. It's just my preferred playstyle: The more offensive and the more complicated a build is the more I like it. Otherwise it would be quite likely that I would also feel like beating the same mobs over and over by now.
Often enough these two points merge and I end up building a kind of "crazy super team" with some friends full of toons who are quite good in itself but form synergies of unholy proportions when teamed together (and played cooperatively). And I just love seeing picked up team members saying something like "Uh, oh, this will never work" before a mission and "Whoa! That was easy!" afterwards.
Well, yes, if all else fails I think a short break might really help. I have tried this once in a while and after two to three weeks my head was bustling with new ideas for CoH/CoV again.
Whatever you do, stay tuned for I10. We need every hand in our fight against the Rikti invasion.
If it has eyes, you can blind it, if it has blood, you can make it bleed, if it has a mouth, you can make it scream.
the thing that cured my boredom was to leave the game for a year wich i know regret because i only have 9 months when i could have 21months badge
the thing that cured my boredom was to leave the game for a year wich i now regret because i only have 9 months when i could have 21months badge
heres a trick that might give you some enjoyment. get a friend to stipulate a concept and some boundries and then you go ahead and roll the toon and see where it goes
Sadly I fear there may be no cure for what you have. Its like a switch and you have just been turned off. Happened to me. But there I was in a book store some time later, picked up a grapic novel (INVINCIBLE) and bang I was hooked again, it was like I had just been Tangoed That may be an answer pick up a stack of comics, after all it is the source. Good luck
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I have two accounts worth of alts, but im not really having fun with any of them since its the core PvE gameplay thats the source of the boredom. Maybe I play in too good teams as combat seems to be severely boring. Not saying that mere increased difficulty and danger would make it more interesting (like devs seem to think) since the combat it self is extremely simple. All PvE combat in a 4+ team will just reduce into a gray area of AOE effects and then its on to next mob spawn. I was on STF twice, nice TF, we tanked all AVs at once, not much of a challenge. (edit: when done right)
I have to say I always considered PvE play as extremely simple and boring, it used to be PvP that let me carry on, but now Im becoming severely disillusioned with the whole thing. Arena has only the few same opponents over and over, zone pvp is nonexistent, Im not being let into base raid teams which seem to happen like once in a month or so anyway, and worst of all, everybody seems to be deserting to Union...
And I just CANT be arsed to grind anymore pvp toons.
My stupid advice is pretty much what's already been said here. Find a gimmick that's counter-intuitive to how one normally plays the game and make it work. I've got a friend who made a Corrupter that's a Kinetic Scrapper (outheals enemies, found out scourge inherent applies to melee attacks), I've got a Petless Mastermind thing that was a blast (and really difficult), and a couple folks have melee-only dominators running around out there. I don't know...it does increase the difficulty but it seriously changes how you'd play the game. My petless MM had to cat & Mouse his way through certain enemy groups...but it was never boring. And there's a sense of accomplishment when you achieve something that every else things is crazy.
Just my 2 cents.
Stop. Talking. To. Him.