Discussion: Live Patch Notes - 4/7/10

Agreed. I was running the Westin Phipps arc with the teacher and freaks on my 44 fire/fire brute and it was very annoying to kill a group then wait while they rez to even target them. What's even more annoying is their ranged attacks would go off while I'm unable to target them at all.

Originally Posted by Nights_Dawn Hazy is right

you mean 100k - 110k people playing the game. I bet the devs wish there were 300 to 400 thousand people playing this game.

Think it might be closer to 80-90k, but as long as they have enough to remain solvent and there is about 1k logged in at the same time as me (I generally find this number resulting in nicely populated areas and plenty of selection for the full gambit of activities) then I'm happy enough. It is the latter requirement that never comes true these days (rarely blue, and never red).

They still seem to take damage even though you can't target them. Fire off FSC and they should be hurting and ready for targeting by the time it is done. That of course is assuming they aren't rezzing at staggered times, but that depends on if you mowed them all down with the same aoe or not.

It is a pretty annoying "fix" though, especially because they are definitely targeting us during their rez and fully able to do damage.

Are you taking advantage of Fulmen's offer to match prestige puchasing?

No. I just like to burn is all.

But why should we have to do that? They are staged in that area most likely for us to fight them there. Fix the lag and we wouldn't have to pull them anywhere to avoid the lag.

seriously, I cant afford to pay him. everything I have in game atm is invested in this effort. I don't have any spare change that doesn't get converted to prestige.

Otherwise I would have done it a while ago.<edit: unless of course I'm misunderstanding something, and that's often the case with me.>

What I *wish* I could do, is shut down all these huge sg's that I have ll over the place, and transfer the prestige to the Virtue sg.

THAT would help.

If you want to bring that SG over to Guardian, I can give you a hand building it up. Even have a few friends that would probably be willing to help and I'll throw in a coalition to boot to give you some TPers to use til your base gets set up proper like.

I think you are misunderstanding. Fulmens is simply offering to match inf --> prestige conversions. Whatever inf you convert to prestige, he'll buy an equal amount of prestige for you, up to 100 million inf per time. So, if you're already buying prestige with inf, he'd just be doubling the amount of prestige you'd get for it, at no cost to you.

Details can be found here. I don't actually know if he's doing it at the moment, but it can't hurt to ask.

/starwarsed

The patch should absolutely NOT be rolled back until they find a permanent solution.

I would think anyone who claims to care about the longevity of this game would understand why the devs had to put an end to people like me who made farms that turned AE into a shooting gallery.

I would hope for the long term benefit of the MA system people would be understanding of the temporary solution even if it hampers their ability to create original content.

I don't think it would be in anyone's best interest to roll AE back to a shooting gallery so some folks can fully express themselves by creating a mission with multiple hostage allies that would most likely not get played by more than 500 people.

Limiting your creativity in the short term to benefit MA in the long term seems like a very easy call to me.

But what do I know, I'm n00b.

I've only had an account for 21 months now.

So basically you want to let only those who can afford awesome builds farm. That's cool. This change does NOT affect my ability to farm one bit. I'm still capping on tickets and selling salvage for profit. This change is not hurting people who want to farm.

MA is on life support, I support putting it out of it's mysery. Yank all the XP out and let it only give Infamy, tickets, and inspirations only. That won't stop the dedicated farmers either.

"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho

Length of account time is stupendously irrelevant to this discussion.

I'll leave it to AE authors who are well known to explain why this patch is is not a good idea.

Oh, and this didn't really limit the farming.

This, and just a note I evaluated the farm missions I was doing with allies without the allies, and my speed to cap had actually gone up by over 15% (15 minutes without 18 minutes with). Mostly because I wasn't worried about managing the allies.

Yes it should be rolled back till they find a good solution. The permanent solutions tend to be worse than the problems.

So you're already passing judgment on the permanent solution that hasn't been implemented yet? That's...well, that's about par for the course, actually.

I hope i17 goes open beta this week, just because it will probably bring a bit more variety into these death-spiral threads. I will need to get more popcorn, though...

I would do the opposite but judging by the content in this post you would probably not read it this time either.

It limited the farming that was abusing the exploits that were plugged by the patch. I'd even say that it stopped that kind of abuse completely. The normal kind of farming isn't affected, and wasn't targeted by the patch.

If the solution is good and soon well enough. If its like the fix for Energy Melee well maybe not.

Two birds, one stone. Farming does not equal powerleveling to me. Not even the slightest, you try convcing people on these forums that they are not one and the same and get back to me OK.

Oh, and YES!

I will PL my second account while ticket farming if I feel like it.

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Come to think of it, powerleveling IS farming. You are farming for XP.

"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho

This makes me want to give everyone a big warm fuzzy hug.

apparently I'm having another one of my scatterbrained fits, when it passes I'll be in touch with him.

edit: THANK YOU!

yes, it fixed it in the same way you'd have a solution by throwing out the baby with the bath water.

obvious is obvious.

so there wasn't a patch that made "allies" eat up a lot of xp in ae missions?

So there wasn't a post from a dev saying that this is the temporary fix and a permanent solution would be coming right around the release of i17? Oh wait...there was.

Relevant parts bolded.