Zombie Man

At least we now know why they were all shuffling their cubicles around in the December.

OK, War Witch, sorry to do this, but this one's a hard ball...

Now that the Mission Architect interface is in place, we players see how atrociously difficult it used to be to write arcs, but how relatively easy it is now that we have the MA.

When we asked for the legacy Task Forces to be updated (and devs and players agree which ones are sorely lacking), the old response was "it would be too much time taken away from writing new content." And we see that was true.... but not any more.

With the MA tool, we see how relatively easy it would be to tweak existing TFs to make the long ones shorter and the 'speed TFs' longer (e.g., with Katie Hannon we can add ambushes to the save the hostage or create a custom Katie who doesn't fly in the last mission). Or to change Viridian's arc into a Strike Force to give villains parity.

So, with the MA now in place, why can't this be done? Especially with Dr. Aeon being such an expert on arc mechanics?


(And know this...

.>.>

<.<.

I've always supported your policies, My Lady.)

In other news:

Ross "Marketing" Borden was promoted from Director of Business and Marketing to Vice-President of Publishing at NCSoft.

Ron "Animation" Freidman is no longer with Paragon Studios.

Paragon Studios has been averaging 2 new hires a month since August. The rednames we see is just the tip of the iceberg.

And... is Bruce "Horatio" Harlick still with Paragon Studios? The "Web" seems to indicate he left to be a lead designer of Farmville.

Congrats on your promotion.

But... Positron was Lead Designer. So, did you two have a duel for the title or did you alter his reservations to Seoul and arrange for him to wind up in a Siberian prison?


EDIT : Nevermind, just saw EMpulse's post explaining your promotion.

And your interview with MMORPG.com

Here's some videos of my Dark/Dark/Power farming. He's IO'd out not for defense or resistance, but for recharge and endurance.

The routine is:

1. Torrent the spawn onto their butts.

2. While they're grounded, use Darkest Night as an AoE Debuff and aggro-puller.

3. Hide and put down a Tar Patch for them to run into.

4. When they're bunched up, run out and debuff them with Fear, and if there are real nasties in there, Howling Twilight and Dark Pit which is enough AoE stun to stun bosses.

5. Cone 'em! Alternate between Tentacles and Night Fall. Sure, they do moderate damage, but when you multiply that by 15 foes each application... that's a lot of damage. I'll throw in a single target attack now again, especially against bosses or mezzers.

6. By the time the cones hit, their ACC is floored. So, no need to softcap this Defender. There are enough quick deaths to provide all the inspirations I need for break frees and a little extra damage now and then.

7. Coning them to death is sufficient for farming, but every other spawn I'll have Blackstar ready to finish them off.

The video is from the infamous family farm; it's set for 0+/8x/no bosses solo.

Coning them to death.

Blackstar

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Known_Issues

paragonwiki.com/wiki/Travel_Powers#Travel_Speeds

Actually, there are some auras that get drawn before their avatar is and you can see disembodies auras at a distance.

But I think the OP wants the draw-distance of auras on for the sake of identifying what powers are running so you know what you're up against. This is the reason powers have limited customization in PvP, so you can recognize what an opponent is doing.

While a consistent and rational draw-distance policy of combat auras would be nice, I would imagine that this one's at the bottom of the to-do list compared to so much other stuff that could use a consistency pass-through.

Well.... someone turn them into time-traveling MA arcs.

Might want to check out Victory. Before the EU Servers were established, many EU players congregated there and many still are there. They'll match your play times better.

(Not to mention that many vets do indeed maintain a visible presence on the public boards even while in closed beta....)

Yeah, it's a bit ironic. But what I think GM Luminary is referring to is using the same name and password you use here for other sites.

For example, if you go to the forum of a RMT site and put in your name/password as Canine/123abc, well guess what? That RMTer will try to use Canine/123abc in the PlayNC website or to log into CoH hoping that you use that same name/password here. And it's not just RMT web sites that will do that, any attack site, or site that's been hacked will collect your name/password and they're try to use that combo on other sites.

One would assume that NCSoft, which runs these boards isn't going to use the name/password of the forums to hack the account you have with them.

Of course, the problem is that bulletin board software may have security holes and be cracked much easier than the server logins, thus allowing hackers access to your account.