I16: Super-Sidekicking Explained

I thought it might have been because he was maybe more of an ideas person, and maybe he'd announce something publicly before he'd sat down and gone through all the game balance details it'd bring up?

If your feedback is off, so be it. I'm just saying that its a good idea of having some way of people leaving MA feedback. I have yet to notice anyone play my arc's, not to mention no feedback at all. Interestingly I dont really care either way, but If someone does stumble upon one of my arc's, i would like to see something even if its "Lolz U not m8k tem gudz, U sux"

Cause someone might actually say "Thats a pretty interesting take on recreating the Carnie Party Mish, but instead of adding <secret> you might try <something eles>"

BTW the Arc Ive been working on is a recreation of my fave Mishes with a bit more to them. Its heavily work in progress.

Tell me your arc ID and I'll play it

I hope you don't mind... I'd like to give you a cyber hug *hugs*



Passion can come through in different ways... sometimes in rants, hehe.

Anyone who holds anything against someone for maybe making some ill conceived (or ill-delivered) comments is being silly themselves.

Didn't want to make this long, but anyways, I love seeing people stand up and be real.

*hug*

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

As was already pointed out, some of us managed to do both. (Edit: Generally not at the same time, though there was this one girl...)

Now i'm not really sure why you're responding to my reply to Biff's post about how CoX is a ripoff of Champions' setting. Unless, of course, Biff is your second tr...awling account. Even so, my post was about Biff's post regarding the setting...
"...the names of certain groups/people were change to, ya know, avoid being sued or something" is not a reference in any way to power customization or the teaming/xp/power system. It's a reference to the setting and characters, and all of the major organizations and characters in CoX were created long before Champions Online was a twinkle in Cryptic's eye, so it would have to refer to the PnP game setting. Reading comprehension is useful.
In fact, the CoX setting bears much less direct resemblance to the Champions setting than much of the Champions setting does to the Marvel and DC universes. Attempting to argue from ignorance by responding to things that were not said or even relevant to the post you replied to is sort of dumb. Carry on. (i'm just saying that because i know you will anyway; i actually rather wish you wouldn't.)

Relax kiddo, clearly I see which you prioritize first between real life and video gaming, but it was never my original point , just a comment that struck you're nerve.

your*

Make sure you don't confuse the two next time.

No, Sir, he says no such thing. He says that the amount of spam is an issue and that the number of people affected is lower than they had thought. In fact, he refers to the level of spam several times throughout the post, stating that it will no longer be necessary to bother other people to pad your team.

if this thread is any indication, I would say, based upon the amount of cheering versus the amount of complaining, that the data mining was accurate. Most people who have replied want the bridging removed.

Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".

I would guess it's both.

Give 53230 a try!

Don't confuse your homonyms or you're going to regret it!

Actually, I think I've already played that one on the advice of a friend...

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Really? For starters I'm not a "kiddo" - I'll be 35 in October. And the time period I was joking about was around 89' to 95' or so (roughly 15 -20 yrs ago), and having a date was always an acceptable excuse for not showing up to a game.

Still, those first two lines were (mostly) a joke - I just couldn't pass up the 'humor opportunity' there, sorry.

What REALLY "got my nerve" - Was the assertion that Jack had all these "original ideas".
And that's what the rest of that post particular post was about (like 90% or more) - that nearly ALL of those "ideas" existed far before MMORPG's, there were some MUDS and stuff back then but that's not really the same thing...

Well, except for the "con'ing" targets system, "mobs", "agro", and all the other ideas/things that the first 'graphics-based' MMORPG's - (pretty much) blatantly ripped-off, from a couple of the various/more popular MUDS that proceeded them.

I love the game, but I'm hard-pressed to think of anything that is particularly original. The character costume system is very notably exceptional - it is pretty awesome and was shockingly 'spiffy' 5 years ago.

I just don't feel like Jack, "hung the moon" - the way you seem to think he did - based on your post about all his "original ideas"...

Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.

If this means what I think it doesn't not, I... I love you devs, you know that right?

What in *doG's* name took you so long???

Actually it's more like using your nitro boost at the beginning rather than the end when you might actually need it (41-50 could do with a little extra too).

That's what disappoints me that there is little content being added to these issues. I've played a couple of arcs using existing characters, maps and mechanics and we have the watered-down version of the MA tool. The last non-TF content was the new midnighter's arcs and since then we got the pathetically simple AE intro. Then there's the TF and SF that came with i15 which was underwhelming (and disappointing to do the TF at least).

No doubt the first response to that would be that GR will have tons of new content, blah, blah, blah. That's all well and good but what about the people who can't or don't want to pay a surcharge to play new content? The Magic Man arc was one of the most inventive arcs I've played in a while mostly because of the final boss fight but it also made creative use of the dialog pop-ups to tell a decent story without being as intense as 'the world is coming to an end and only you can save it'.

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Your new to the game aren't you. Well let me spread some lvl 63 wisdom on ya kid.

"Issue" is a term for a large content update but does not necessitate a major zone addition. Really their are 3 kinds of updates in this game: Hotfixes (this happen in normal patches), world shakers (adding cimerora or Orboros, or Archtect) and large combined effects (like issue 16)

16 isn't a issue like adding Midnighter was but its combined changes are more robost, sugnificently, then a hotfix so it gets the Issue moniker because when it laughes your look at probably 70+ megs of data as opposed to 5 with a hot fix.

Right cause their are NO story arcs in AE at all.

You know just last night i was in Cap on my Widow nd there was a broadcast for a 15-20 story arc and not one broadcast for a farm, despite several people looking for one.

But of course MA is NOTHING but ALL FARMS ALL THE TIME

If Issue 13 PVP is any indicator: once these people have their mind set on a super cool feature, they don't go back despite any amount of dislike for it. Now before you nerds start tweeking out, obviously this feature is liked by many (unlike issue 13 pvp), just saying these guys are pretty set in their ways with features.

Sure they change up bugs, but other than that? Might as well be talking to a brick wall, or me. See: Purple Patch, ED, GDN, Issue 13 PVP, Aggro Cap, Target Cap, etc.

Anyways, glad you guys think this is an awesome idea, but if you think this is somehow going to solve the 'problem' that AE has been 'creating' lately, it won't. Hell, I don't really mind whether or not I'm doing AE or regular missions, but lately I've just become so damn lazy I'd just rather do AE stuff than run around a zone. Some toons now I don't even have to take a travel power! Tickets are also really sweet; it's nice being able to replace/add Enhancements as you need/get them by using tickets instead of destroying your bank roll trying to buy them, or hoping that you'll get the one you need off a enemy. I can effectively keep my slots from going broken from about twenty something to 50 without having to spend a dime. (I don't usually bother buying enhancements early on, since I'm ripping through those low levels so fast I end up breaking up my Enny's within one or two runs.)

Now, I know they wanted AE to be some sort of alternate route to maxing out your levels. I don't have hard facts, I can't data mine. The Devs can and I'm more than certain that more people are using AE as their main form of leveling than regular content. In fact, I'm damn sure.

I'm not if the devs really care if people are doing more AE than regular content, but if they wanted to balance the scales, kind of, they would need to make regular mission-ing a bit more attractive. So, whats the main reward advantage that regular mission-ing has over AE? Purples. AE is being used more because you 1. Level faster. 2. Get tickez. 3. Purples are hard to come by (for me at least, has to be some other people that don't seem to ever get them [pre-Ae, shut up]) and cost a **** ton. If they made Purples more accessible, then maybe people would be more willing to go out and do some regular mission stuff every once in a while.

Sure, the new option to set team size to 8 and solo farm is a good way to do that; that maximizes your chances of getting one. But your casual player isn't really up for that, they like to team.

How many of you are familiar with the Streakbreaker system tied into Defense? Bueller? Bueller? Basically, the more times you successfully dodge or avoid an attack, the greater chance the next attack will hit. Why not incorporate a Purplebreaker (Copyright me) system? Basically, the longer you go without getting a purple drop, the better your chances of getting one.

Reading comprehension is important starting now.

Obviously, this could be abused if done incorrectly. You couldn't base it off of 'real time' as players would just park their 50's for the correct amount of time to maximize their chances; we'd want this to be more active, not like day jobs. I'm not sure if this would be 'feasible', but since the devs datamine for time periods, I'm pretty sure they can track how many of what somebody has killed. And there's your answer.

No? Ah, well it works like this: The game keeps track of how many "Purple drop qualified" enemies you've defeated. The longer you go without getting a purple from these guys, the better your chances of getting one. I'd probably keep the minimum level to start this system like 45...47? As level ones can get level 50 recipe drops if they're teamed up with a level 50 team. (I'm not sure if that 'qualifies them, under the current system, to get purples, I'm guessing not so, bear with).

Example: Player has killed zero qualified enemies, chance for purple 2%. (I don't know what exactly the drop rate is, I'm just using that figure for this example).
Player has killed 500 qualified enemies, no purple drop, chance for purple increased to 5%.
Player has killed 2000 qualified enemies, no purple drop, chance for purple increased to 8%
Player has killed 10 billion qualified enemies, no purple drop, chance for purple increased to 20%
And so on. Obviously, the number of qualified enemies needed for a drop rate increase would need to be carefully picked at to make it feasible, but not downright easy to get this. Once you've got your purple, your chance to get resets to base value. This would entice your casual players to venture out, knowing that they will MORE THAN LIKELY get a shiney every once in a while, and also (hopefully) keep farmers happy knowing that they're still getting about the same rate of drops anyways.

(I'm not Arcanaville, so I'm not exactly sure if that last statement is true...lawl)