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I'm suprised to see maintenance today, and being a veteran, it ticks me off. I guess the devs don't see this as an actual holiday.

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It's Memorial Day, not Veterans Day. Now, if you were an undead Vet, I can see you getting worked up over this.

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What about us Veterans of the Zombie Wars?
And you, Zombie_Man? What say you?

I like it!

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Yeah they screwed the pooch on this guess they figured everybody bbqs today.

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I BBQ in the afternoon, not in the morning.
'Course, it's only 0700 here.

I'm expecting that it'll have some tradeoffs.
Like being somewhat short-range, but getting lower end costs and/or recharge. Sort of the "Claws" to other sets "Broadsword". Both sets are good in thier own way, but for different reasons.

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I am, as always, strongly in favor of client-side filtering. Something like:
Accept email from:
o Friends
o Global Friends
0 Supergroup
o Teammates
0 Coalition
0 Any


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Agreed.
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Why not keyword filtering (blacklisting?) Well, say I'm spamming from www.infspammer.com. I can tell you right now, just from *regular* email experience, that the second you block the entire name, it's going to get changed. www. infspammer. com is not the same. Block infspammer? 1nfspammer. i n f s pa a m m e r. in fs pa mm er. And if you finally manage to blow all that time and money setting up and testing the blocks for all the permutations of that - I spend five bucks and get buymyinf.com, and you get to start all over again. A blacklist is just more work for less gain. After all, years after the huge push from overseas, I still get the occasional creative spelling of "viagra" showing up in my own (whitelisted) junk mail filter.


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The RMT spam email I've been getting has already been using creative use of extra spaces in the websitename. Even though I don't think we have added a keyword filter yet.

How big would you want it to be, and how much would you want it to do?
Can you be a bit more specific?
Just decoratve or actual vendors/etc.?

Here's an idea:
Ever play redside and do the "Rob the casino" mission from the newspaper? Uses a very small map, not much bigger than the DO/SO stores blueside.
Perhaps a few of the storefront doors on the normal city maps could open up to things like this.
When Faultline was revamped, I would have been interested in entering some of the buildings in there.
Or perhaps a bowling alley map, accessed by the bowling alley fronts in Steel Canyon.

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I would like to give them a suggestion to Kill Farming In-Game. Here it is;

Set a time limit on how long a Mission can remain in a players Mission Tray.

This will work for the G-Ville TV Missions, and Most every other Farm Mission in the game.

But this would Kill Farming.

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I sometimes play characters that have trouble with certain EB's. So what I end up doing is simply switch over to another arc, get a level and come back.
Your suggestion would kill this.

No thanks.

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Here is an idea how about being able to go on a break to a bar or something like that! You know when your Hero wants to take a load off his by taking a break and enjoying a nice drink or something like! lets make CoH/CoV as real as possible! Its just idea btw!

Plz tell me wut you think if this is a bad idea or a good one!

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How about if the bar was accessible to both red and blue side, but no combat, just a place to hang out.
We could hold events there like a Winter event, a Valentines event, etc.

We could call it Pocket D, and on certain servers, it would be quite busy.

Check your map.

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Purist - Definition: A CoX player who gets all secondary and primary powers, along with two powers from a travel pool and four APP/PPP's.

I just have a thing for a full set. Is this bad idea? Both in general, and on an Elec/Dev/MM blaster?

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It's rare that I find a Primary and Secondary that have 9 really good poers each.
That Elec/Dev blaster for example: I'd skip Time Bomb, and probably more.

You can build within whatever parameters you want, but everything I've played recently has had skippables within the Primary/Secondary.

Brutes/Scrappers: I usually don't need the ST taunt, and find self-rezzes pretty useless (other than RotP, you get killed during the power animation by the foes camping your corpse).

I have little use for builds that ignore large chunks of either thier Primary or Secondary (Examples: Defenders that ignore thier Secondary, Corruptors that ignore thier Primary, most Petless MM's, etc), but I've never felt a sense of loss for skipping Fire Armor: Temperature Protection or Electric Melee: Thunder Clap.

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[*] Add a "Looking for members" option to the search interface for team leaders.


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Sure, why not.
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[*] Sort badges alphabetically in the badge window, or at least badges that have no other logical order. (Defeats, gladiators, etc.)


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Good luck. Apparently, they're in some sort of order than makes sense to Positron. What I'd rather have is a toggle similar to the show/hide recipes you don't have the ingredients for.
{Show only complete badges/show only incomplete badges / Show all.}
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[*] List store value of items in the auction house and let people sell items there for that price.[*] Add option to set drop thresholds. (E.g. "I only want uncommon recipes and above, I only want level 2 or 3 inspirations.")[*] Add a game_time command that tells you what time it is in Paragon City.[*] Add an npc_stuck command that runs the /stuck code on spawned NPCs in an instanced mission. If you have to, limit its use to every ten minutes. Or hour. I don't care, but we really need it.[*] Add an option to autopay the base rent instead of having the base go dark. In fact, consider making this the default. No matter how stupid your SG leader is, the only time your supergroup base would go dark is if you literally don't have enough prestige in the bank.[*] Reduce the time between costume changes to once every 10, 15, or even 20 seconds.[*] Add the ability to buy inspirations and enhancements from completed Ouroboros arc contacts.[*] Suppress powers in auction houses.[*] Allow the team leader to kick offline task force members.[*] Allow us to switch from full screen mode to windowed mode and back without having to restart.


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I was struck by the fact that people tend to request teams in broadcast while inside the AE. I mean, these folks are standing 20 feet away from each other and spamming broadcast. I think that the broadcast channel should not be selectable for sending when you're inside an AE building. Local works just fine and would have the benefit of reducing the annoyance factor for folks outside AE.

Of course, if this was done, people would probably start spamming the Request channel instead of Local. *grumble*

[/ QUOTE ]Let me guess......no more than 5% of those spamming <channel-name-here> with thier "LFT" were actually flagged as LFT?

I've taken to avoiding anything that is (Unique Map)+(Custom Critters, especially within a tight level range)+(only one mission in the arc).
100% definative of "Farm"? No, but it's just something I've been avoiding.

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But then Moderator 08 would never get any sleep, having to lock every "OMG CAN WE HAZ VEHIKLEZ NAO?!" thread that would spawn of it.

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For next years April Fool's event: A used car lot with a non-functional contact "Salesman Bob" is placed in KR. Forum hijinks ensue.

It occurs to me that if the 5th Column were to try to make a comeback, they might want to build some armored vehicles (in addition to the MekMen and Valkyrie robots). Would be sweet to see an invading tank column rolling through the streets of Paragon City, supported by an infantry unit escort.

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If anyone who is actively playing the game would like to post their opinion I would like to hear from them as well. Fighting over the star, LOL, when did you last play? 2007? 2006?

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And I have seen plenty of teams sit around wasting time trying to pad the team size up to the maximum when they had a decent AT balance already.
Of course, with the right players, two can be a pretty effective team.
This idea would exacerbate the "waiting for more" problem.

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the AE buildings are useless eyesores right now, why would you want to put more useless junk in pocket D?

Put something USEFUL there instead.

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There's already useful stuff in there. A Vault, Inspiration sales at the bartenders, last I heard, and I think they upgraded War Witch to a trainer.

But no, the OP was talking about making the AE work like a Clone of Pocket D, not to actually put in into Pocket D.

So you could, say, enter the St. M AE building and team with folks inside the Cap Au Diable AE? And not have AE's LFT spam mixed with regular zone broadcast.

I thought of an AT idea a while back (only got 75%-ish done, so never posted it) that would have Melee-type Defences, but a mix of ranged and melee attacks.
The attempt to balance it was:
1) It wouldn't have very high HP.
2) The Melee attacks would be mostly Smashing/Lethal, while the Ranged attacks would have a mostly Energy component and..........
3) All of the Defensive toggles would have a Self DeBuff to outgoing Energy Damage. So to do good ranged damage you would have to turn off your toggles. With toggles having an activation time, you couldn't just shoot and instantly be at full defences.

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There's a Hello Kitty Island adventure!? Now where's my credit card again?

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http://www.hellokittyonline.com/us/

You're welcome.

And perfectly functional 4-person teams get no XP/Inf/etc. as they sit around waiting for 5th and additional members.

Of course, in CoH the optimal team size is any number between 1 and 8.

Agreed.
No sense in cluttering things up.
Also: remove the double-posting of arcs. No sense getting listed twice just because the author double-tapped the button.

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I just want to be a part of something special.

Yes. They should give level-bumps as Vet Rewards to the Blue-side Masterminds on the newly-consolidated servers so that they can more easily reach the raised level cap.

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Can we get the ability to remove enhancements and move them around at free will, it sucks that I have to delete one enhancement to replace it.

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From the Dev's attitude that giving us the ability to pull (up to ten) enhancements out of a build during a respec and sell them was being "rather generous", I wouldn't expect this ability to ever see the light of day.

That being said, I'd be willing to do a lesser (easier, soloable) version of the respec trials to get a "Mini-Respec", where you can swap around enhancements completely (as per a regular respec), but cannot switch out any powers.
My idea for the mini-respec arc blue-sidewould be for a story arc (all timed missions) where you have to get the Shield Generators running before a seperate hero team goes into the reactor to fight the SkyRaiders/Freakshow/etc. and rescue a few of the reactor technicians. It would tie into the trial's story concept, but represent a lesser role and a lesser amount of radiation exposure, which would be the reason why your powers were not altered quite as much as the main team.

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BBQ_Pork had a good idea about how to include the rest of the SG into the rename process. My suggestion for it (which I cooked up several years ago predating the super leader rank) was that any rank 5 leader could propose a new name that would viewable by the SG but it'd be on "probation" for a one week. This would give the rest of the SG a chance to review the new name. Any other member could at any time during that week actively vote it down. If no one during that week voted the new name down then the new name would become the official public name of the SG. This scheme would mean that the entire SG would have to at least not object to the name change which makes it about the fairest method I've seen proposed so far.

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This makes the assumption that SG's are meant to be run democratically, when in reality with the implementation of the super leader it's more easily a dictatorship. The only difference is the players still have the right of choice(EDIT: in terms of being able to stay or leave the group). A smart leader would probably wield their given power to satisfy the majority, but that's still up to the leader to make those kinds of decisions at this point. For the devs to enforce such rules would take a little away from the freedom of the players to form and run their groups how they see fit.


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I'll admit that my idea wasn't thought out in much detail. If the Super-Leader really wanted the name change to be without SG review, he could demote the tier 5's (other than his alts, if any) into the tier 1-4 catagory and set the voting permissions at "Tier 5 only". Truly a jerk move, but within the boundries of the setup.
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I do think, however, that there should be something that allows a group to rename itself, but with certain limitations... perhaps giving all new SG's a rename token, and once that token is used that's it, no more are given out. Just one and only one token.

[/ QUOTE ] I'm pretty agreeable, and I could go with this. However, I can think of at least one older SG (consists of my buddy, myself, and three of his other friends/family) who would like this very much.
So hopefully one token per newly-formed SG (have it only appear in the Super-Leader's pocket after the SG has been open for a while? Or right away?), and one handed out to each existing SG.

Also, a poster named "Skullhead" (might have renamed or might not be around anymore) used to campiagn for SG Renames, as he was unsatisfied with his, and wished to be able to change it without re-forming and losing all that prestige and of course, the base. If he's still around, he'll hopefully swing by here.

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Fifthly, by keeping this on the front page it's easier to grab the Cut-N-Paste reply to put in the inevitable identical thread. I think a Mod should start a "Not Merging the Servers!!" thread consisting exclusively of the Cut-N-Paste answer, lock it and sticky it at the top of the forum.

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You think people would read it? Lol.

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Well, being stickied at the top of course they.....oh, yeah.