The CO Community & You

Really? Because City of Heroes has no problems.

*IDEA*

Wait... The server farms for CoH ARE IN TEXAS...

Where are the servers for CO?

Definitely there are exceptions; blocking when in doubt is a good policy. I just wanted to emphasize that blocking isn't strictly necessary as a rule, and perhaps I went a little too far in the other direction to make that point. Generally, I can kill the foe before my lack of blocking is a problem; if they hit me with a control effect, I can usually break free manually (or I just click an active offense that breaks me free), and melt face before I'm in serious danger. If I get in serious danger, I can fall back on my two active defenses and two heal powers. Failing those, you also can use consumables.

Those cowboys are a huge annoyance, though, for sure. And granted, you'll have to block more in the lower level range, when you have fewer tools to deal with bad situations. And granted, ATs are more squishy as a class than free-form characters.

It's just that I prefer to look at block as a supplement rather than a staple mechanic of the game. The fact that you can reduce your damage by ~75% (last time I checked, which was admittedly a long time ago) with the press of a button when you get in a jam is a good thing, unless you believe that the game is tuned for every character to be doing it all the time. The game isn't tuned that way.

Actually, this is probably a better analogy: Block is like inspirations. You can use them liberally or conservatively, but generally you don't need to use inspirations except in rare situations. In COH, when you're in a tough spot as a squishy, you might pop 2-4 Lucks. In CO, you press shift more.

Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze Nice build

Boston, I think my roommate said.

And this is actually a specific area in Texas, but, not going to announce your location on the forums.

No no. It's okay. I'm in the Dallas area. No big secret.

That would explain a lot, though. It also would explain why COH has ALWAYS run extremely smoothly for me. I never even thought about that.

Yep, same here. Small world!

(I say this because me and Atlantea just became global friends last night LOL.)

No kidding! One of the many, many reasons I always felt so spoiled by this game. It's always run smooth as glass!

Ahhhh. Well if you're a Cowboys fan, then I must withdraw the due sympathy I expressed earlier! (I kid, I kid.)

Seriously, though, good stuff from Captain-Electric. Glad to know that at least the problem has been identified. Hopefully it's resolved soon.

Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze Nice build

We had some similar problems, yeah (Time Warner Cable here too), but I'd have to check with the roomie about when that occurred. I don't remember if it was in that exact time frame, and there are always local issues that can pop up if a line goes down somewhere. There's an old program called UOTrace (originally made to trace problems between players and Ultima Online servers, the first MMORPG). But you can stick any addresses in there. I still use it to this day when trying to figure packet loss problems out, and support techs generally appreciate (and are sometimes surprised by) all the data you're able to feed them up front. It's pretty easy to find out there with a Google search.

Anyway, off to work. *Salutes everyone.*

Yeah. One more thing to miss if it goes away.

Me and my SG are going with the idea that Earth is safe, Coming Storm is averted. We all begin to get bored when Portal Corp announces a new world discovered, and we travel there together to help out. Upon traveling there, however, we find ourselves weakened and our powers working a bit differently, and the influence of the Well is nonexistent.

You're using the word "wrong" in a strange way there - CO is Jack's "I was right, you were wrong" letter to the CoH players - condemnation is all it deserves.

Oh shut up you mindless bigot.

I won't miss you come December 1st.

I'd planned to respond to this in a detailed way- this statement is just ridiculous.
... but that's the norm for you, I guess. Nothing anyone has ever said on any topic has ever had any effect on you, so I won't waste any more time with you.

You just don't know Jack.

When the EU forums were merged with the US ones, her US ban should have been retained. She was banned for a VERY good reason.

Edit: She's not worth it.

GG was banned from the NA boards? Since when? I've been popping in to read the defecation that occurs on these boards for....years now. I've always seen his/her/its posts here.

I don't know the details, just that she was. I'm sure there are plenty of folks still around that have the details on it.

To be fair, the lack of aim and short circuit is made up by the set actually being worth a ****.

CoH's electric blast was gimped for its entirely pointless secondary sapper power.

Which did absolutely nothing since enemies don't use energy the same way we do.


Besides, Aim is pointless in CO. You never completely "miss".

Given CO's developmental history, that's an odd statement to make.

Doubly, triply odd when you consider how far CO departs from many of Jack's design opinions on CoH.

If CO is a letter to CoH players from Jack, its a letter he wrote while never holding the pen, written in a language he didn't understand, to people he forgot meeting.

Aim is such an odd power to "miss" in any case, because it's standardized across most sets and is married to the mechanics of City.

Not exactly walk away, but he did shift focus to STO and even admitted it publicly at some point. And at that point in COs implementation, much of its infrastructure apparently came from MUO which was developed when Cryptic still supported CoX, and much of its gameplay was still in flux in beta.

The fact of the matter is that while its easy to invent narratives for people you don't like, the truth is Jack is more of a high level idea guy: as far as I know he simply doesn't know enough about systems design to be capable of "making statements" with an MMO's design. That would be not too different from saying the president of Electronic Arts is making a statement about the evolution of the west coast offense with the stat values of the wide receivers in Madden 12.