Zombie Man

Ebil-o FTL June-21 & Feb-22-2010
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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
    True, but the rewards aren't there so why bother?
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    Originally Posted by macskull View Post
    Without any extra reward for running on a higher difficulty? No thanks.
    Well, the OP was complaining about wimpiness of the task, not the dearth of reward.

    If you're all about the reward, then you *don't* want to increase difficulty under the 4XP system.

    A team of 8 for a TF has spawns for a team of 8 whether you have the 4XP system set to x1 or x8.

    If you're bumping the level of the foes to +2 for reward... it does nothing for reward, just makes the TF harder and longer.

    So, the 4XP system applied to TFs has little to do with greater rewards.

    The OP wants the 4XP system back so that TFs will be more challenging, not necessarily more rewarding. I pointed out there already is a system for making TFs harder and I got negreppred for doing so and people are grousing about my suggestion because they're mixing in the off-topic point of "where's the bigger reward?!"

    The Devs have said they're working on fixing 4XP so that it will work with TFs without people exploiting it for the -1 level Master runs. The OP is impatient waiting for the change. In the meantime, the OP's longing for a more challenging TF is solved with mechanics already in place.

    To those who want more rewards for choosing a higher difficulty setting with 4XP or with the TF challenge mechanics: I'm with you. But, that belongs in Suggestions, and I believe the Devs are considering it. So, let's stop confusing the two issues of someone simply wanting more of a challenge and those who want a greater reward for taking on a greater challenge.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sigium View Post
    I think after the 2nd time you'd be petitioned for griefing.

    Funny as hell, though. :P
    It's only a 30 second delay. This gives most of the people in the zone to catch up. And once the Black Hole drops, the GM is down in less than 10 seconds. (And besides, no one knows what Black Hole is, anyway -- no one but me takes it.)

    Now, get a bunch of people Black-Hole-ing over the course of several minutes... now *that* would be griefing.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper View Post
    Hmm, maybe I'm wrong about GM's inherent protection to untouchable.
    Black Holed the Greater Mystic Aspect three times in a row on Live. Black Hole's mag is just 3.

    GM Resistance doesn't offer any extra Untouchable (neither does Archvillain Resistance), so, they both rely on their inherent protection.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GibberingLunatic View Post
    I'm a WP/SS Tank, no stealth here.
    Well, there is the Stealth pool.

    Try deleting checksum.coh in the CoH directory. Reboot. Open the client and let it re-verify. If that doesn't fix it, then /petition it.
  5. Zombie Man

    Hamidon Is Real!

    Lenticular? Does that means it only eats fish nebula on Fridays?
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bright Shadow View Post
    I'm trying to use the /windowscale command to create a new chat window, with a tab inside it called 'Combat'. I then wanna put this window on a corner of my screen. But I don't want to be too obtrusive.

    So, I want to decrease its scale compared to my regular chat window so that it could have a smaller font.

    After looking up ParagonWiki, I'm only assuming the way to do this is:

    /windowscale chat1 0.7

    ...but it doesn't do anything! I can the same command on any other window and it works! For instance 'chat0' and 'chat'. But It doesn't work on chat1, chat2, chat3, or chat 4 (and yes, these are all seperated from the main chat window).

    What am I doing wrong?!
    Nothing. Congratulations! You've found a bug!

    I wrote the Wiki guide on /windowscale, so, I'm a bit familiar with it.

    And I just tried to make it work on chat1, and it's not.

    /toggle chat1 works just fine, so, it's not an issue of 'chat1' not being the correct name of the window (anymore).

    And /windowscale chat works just fine.

    So, it must be that chat1-4 no longer work with /windowscale.

    I'll bug it in-game. Until then, here is a workaround:

    1. Click the blue button to re-dock Chat1 to the Chat window.

    2. Issue the command /windowscale chat .7 and that will scale both chat and chat1 to 70% size.

    3. Click the blue button to un-dock Chat1 and move it where you want it.

    4. Issue the command /windowscale chat 1 to return your main chat window to it's original size (or put in whatever size scale you want).
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GibberingLunatic View Post
    It's me ding-donging, but I'm moving out of LoS so my minions can wipe them out like a good merc/pain MM should. lol. I have 2 attacks personally. One that came with jump and the other is burst. Thats all. The rest is all heals.

    New bug, Halloween costumes. In Ouroboros, I was added to a badge team, Me and another guy in our SG coalition. checked my powers to see how many I lost. well, I lost the usual, no surprise there... oh wait... Why the heck are the halloween costumes greyed out?
    I attempted all 52 costumes, all grey. I aquired them all at level 50. So looks like theres a level set to these costumes to the level you got them at. This seems a bit wrong to me.

    Had star passed to me so I'm level 50. Costumes are still greyed out in Ouroboros.
    Costumes are considered a Stealth power and click-Stealth powers are mutually exclusive. Did you have some other Stealth power running?
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SunGryphon View Post
    I hate that bonk noise.
    How to Silence Specific Sounds
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper View Post
    I don't see how this really helps, since the highest possible magnitude for a capture power is 7.something, and GMs need over mag 75 to get captured.
    On Test, I successfully Black Holed the Greater Mystic Aspect and kept it from harm.

    Let me try it now on Live...
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by StarGeek View Post
    Just pointing out that there's more to defeating the banners than just debuffs and damage. Each banner has 0-4 symbols on the ground when they become vulnerable. The more symbols, the harder it is to hurt. Also, the color is supposed to indicate the type of protection, according to the wiki, though no one seems to have figured out the meanings yet.
    Purple glyph - [Glyph of Defense] ~2.5% Defense per glyph.

    Orange glyph - [Glyph of Resistance] ~10% Resistance per glyph.

    Red glyph - [Glyph of Might] ~25% Damage buff to nearby Defensers per glyph.

    Green glyph - Unknown. It doesn't show up on the Banner or the Defenders using the Mk III Analyzer. I'm going to go out on limb and guess it buffs the Regen or HP of the Banner or Defenders.

    The more players at a banner, the more glyphs show up. I've never seen all four circles be filled with glyphs. Also, the glyphs are all the same at a particular Banner... there's no Red Glyph showing up with a Green Glyph at the same Banner.


    Also, the Banners have very low Regen. Just a single Twilight Grasp can shut it down. But they do have lots of HP.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5 View Post
    That "rare ghost" thing last year was just a bug, not a WAI effect. The devs only found out about it when we did (when the event went live) and announced that they were probably not going to be able to fix it in time for the rest of the event last year (and they didn't manage to).
    Ummm... I told them in Test that the Spirit spawn was too low... twice.
  12. Blasters have limited amounts of control and debuff powers... stack them 8 high...

    I know that 8 Ice/Ice Blasters could hold Mary even past the PToD.
  13. Choose foes buffed and players debuffed. That'll wake up your team.
  14. Zombie Man

    Kindred spirits

    Each of us is truly alone in the world. An isolated island pretending to belong to a mainland because we can send messages in a bottle to far off inhabitants whose souls we can never truly touch.
  15. ZOMG! What are the chances for three numbers to come up 6 - 6 - 6?! Besides, you know, one in a thousand?
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GibberingLunatic View Post
    Speaking of Jack-in-Irons, I got a gripe about it. Paragon Wiki says theres a 10% chance that Jack will spawn instead of Eochai... Welp, After killing ole' pumpkin head THIRTY times... (do the math on that percentage) and still no Jack, I've given up for tonight.

    Oh, and good Ole pumpkin head Hax! He's flying.... so Ground-based PBAoE's aren't hitting him.
    What zone were you in? Jack doesn't spawn in zones lower than level 20.

    I hope someone /bugged the flying Eochai.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LaserJesus View Post
    Yeah, when I crashed, by the time I got back in global chat had pulled it's act together. However, that was a very surreal 15-30 minutes.
    Unless others online were saying the same thing was happening to them, the problem is with your computer or connection and a reboot would normally solve it.

    There's a known memory leak right now that will eventually crash most people into having to restarting the client.
  18. paragonwiki.com/wiki/Halloween_Event/Giant_Monsters

    There will be a spawn of either Eochai or Jack in Irons in every zone in which the event is active. Once one is defeated, another of the two will spawn in the same zone within a minute or two. For each spawn, there is a 90% chance that it will be Eochai, and a 10% chance that it will be Jack in Irons. Additionally, Jack in Irons only spawns in level 20 and up zones.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Justice Blues View Post
    It is possible to make the banners vulnerable without having people at all of the banners fighting. I was in a group in Faultline the first night and almost everyone was at the purple banner. They became vulnerable with about 5 minutes left, and everyone proceeded to quickly take them down, getting the last one with about a minute to go on the timer, so we all got all 4 banner badges in one go. Eventually that alt will get the GM badge. Maybe.
    How do you know there weren't other players at the other banners?
  20. While the Wiki address that has 'titan' in it isn't currently working, this Wiki address is:

    http://paragonwiki.com
  21. For MMs it's free no-effort XP. Make yourself a sandwich while you go up half a level.
  22. Zombie Man

    Power Trays

    And you need to right click on the extra tray to close it if you don't want it.

    Also, drag and push the extra trays up against the side of the window and watch them bend!