We tried a "mixed" team trio redside (villains and freshly-converted-to-evil Heroes) last night. We blitzed thru the pillars and the initial AV spawns easily, but even with several doses of the -res nuke (Chemical Burn), we had ZERO impact on the AV's health bar. I know there were at least two debuffers on my team; can't vouch for the others, but you'd assume there'd have to be at least 2-3 more, and I know we kicked off those nukes. Still, nada.
I'm willing to try this again, to collate more concrete data than anything (well, winning is good too 
). If you know of anyone setting up a run redside, holler @Turgenev and I'll bring my guns.
@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE
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Last night(8/24), the "Prophets of Supremacy" SG lead another successful CoP run. This time they were able to do it in less than 9 min.s 30 sec.s. Yeah, that's not a typo.
By my count the Prophets have done 3 of these Trials successfully, and the entire Red side Freedom server has yet to do 1! I find this both disturbing and at the same time motivating.
Last night I was also chatting to the person who put together a Red side CoP run on 8/23 or 8/22, and he voiced his concerns over the Trial failures. This @MrsLott went on to say how they had a lot of trouble with the AV. I got the impression that he was looking to run this sucker again but under different team conditions. MrsLott is associated with Freedom's Chronos... VGs.
At this time I would like to answer a question I posted earlier: What will it take for the Red side to successfully complete the *new* CoP?
After running this Trial a total of 6 times now, I have one part of the answer. All the players doing the CoP must be on Vent. I'm not saying all have to have mics, but there are just too many directions and timing commands that need to be relayed to the teams. I firmly believe that Vent is a must for a successful CoP run.
Voice comms aren't an issue for me. TALKING can be, depending on the time of night, but realistically, only the team leads need to be doing the chatter anyway.
Time for a signup sheet for VoIP-capable redside players to get this one done? I have a Chem nuke reacquired and waiting for orders.
@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE
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Yeah thats how we did it on our AION Raids.
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Originally Posted by Turgenev
Voice comms aren't an issue for me. TALKING can be, depending on the time of night, but realistically, only the team leads need to be doing the chatter anyway.
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@MarvelatMee and @COL Burn
24 - 50s
Too many ALTs
When I bothered to log on a 50 and try CoP, the biggest issue was communication between the teams. The last time I was on an attempt, there were too many people saying "go" and "stop", but nobody listened anyway. I chalk it up to Freedumb living up to its namesake.
Fist the hub
@MarvelatMee and @COL Burn
24 - 50s
Too many ALTs
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Originally Posted by drogoh
... I chalk it up to Freedumb living up to its namesake.
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I was monitoring the chat channels Thursday Evening when I see this: "CoP forming up in RWZ". Immediately, I found this odd because why would someone form a Trial in RWZ? But nonetheless, I headed to the zone on my MM - ya see I'm hard-up to do a Red side CoP. So, I get to RWZ and go to the SG Portal. I find a small group of folks hanging out like they are forming a team. I ask for an invite and get teamed with a Brute who is leading. I find that I am on the 1st team. The members of the team start chatting about how they have never done a CoP and that this fact should make it more fun. I am just about to ask for Vent info when I take a gander at my teammates. Sure enough one of them is only L42. Without comment I log off.
I would say a good 1.5 hours later, I see someone complaining in one of the chat channels. Apparently, this CoP Trial could not start because the dude leading it did *not* have a mission computer in his absolutely huge base. From what I gather 20-something players combed this guy's maze of a base with 3 control rooms, and found no computer to start the Trial.
The player complaining in the chat channel could not believe that someone would waste the time of 20 players on such an ill prepared event. There was also some mention of the Brute leading the Trial being an E-Bay player, to this comment I do not fully understand.
Today I chatted with a player who has lead a couple Red side CoPs.
This dude's Global chat handle is @Ghoul Slayer. I can tell you from experience that this guy runs several TFs a day and is a strong team leader. I partook in one of his CoP runs recently - which was unsuccessful.
Anyway, Ghoul Slayer will be running another CoP run come Monday at 9PM EST.
While chatting with this guy, he mentioned that he was coalitioned with this player who plans on running the Trial on Saturday. Ghoul Slayer did not know the time, but told me to contact an "iceunshackled" if I wanted more info. I tried several time to contact this character name but was not able to get through.
I mention all this as a "FYI" to all of you on Freedom that are as desperate as I am to get a successful Red side CoP trial completed.
I did another Red Side CoP tonight(8/28) on the Freedom server. The event was hosted by @Venam99 - ButtahCup - of the VG Strikeforce Infinity.
We loaded OK into the Trial's map and while bringing down the Obelisks most of the players crashed out of the game. I did not crash myself, but I was told that the game crashed very quickly and without warning. It crashed to the Windows screen. I know that 5/8 players on my team crashed in this sudden manner.
I have not been on a CoP yet that has had this bug occur.
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An "eBay player" is a new player who bought an older account off eBay.com so that they could appear to be a longtime player. It's usually rather easy to spot one, they're usually the morons broadcasting they're a 60- to 72-month Vet -- as if that makes them an instant invite -- or using their Vet status as proof that they're correct in their incoherent ramblings.
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Originally Posted by LIinfinity
There was also some mention of the Brute leading the Trial being an E-Bay player, to this comment I do not fully understand.
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8/30
Another big Fail on the Red Side CoP. This time the Trial was spearheaded by @Ghoul Slayer. I feel real bad for the organizer because he spent 2 days helping folks get Nukes for this run.
So what went wrong? Well, for starters, we only had 5 players on Vent. Now this should be the other way around; we should have maybe 5 players NOT on Vent while doing the Trial. I think the lack of communication between the teams was the major hurdle for our Trial. We also seemed to lack enough damage on the teams, this was evident with the 1st attack on the AV.
I'm feeling pretty disheartened with this CoP for Villains. It seems written in stone that Freedom's Villains cannot succeed at this mammajama. I will not attempt one for a while.
I know the Blue side has successfully completed the Cathedral of Pain(CoP) at least once on the Freedom server. But what about the Red side?
I got to thinking about this simple question last night when I heard that the Villains had attempted the Trial again, and failed. Not only did they fail, but I heard that they did not do any significant damage to the AV. I've heard this exact same thing on a prior attempt.
Next question. What will it take for the Red side to successfully complete the *new* CoP?
Side Note: The one time I was on a successful CoP team, it was lead by the "Prophets of Supremacy" SG. And no, this is not my SG.