Bill Z Bubba

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  1. Quote:
    How would you make CoH lower lvl content more fun?
    I'd make fitness inherent.

    /oh.

    And then I read Techbot Alpha's post. Good stuff there, man. Sorry, bot.
  2. Quote:
    would never say anything like that to my face.
    You would be very wrong.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PumBumbler View Post
    Stop that. Apparently I made a toon last night that someone said, "You look like BillZ". :P
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
    Isn't that a compliment?
    HIGHLY debatable.
  4. Bill Z Bubba

    Inherent Fitness

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ultimo_ View Post
    Perhaps because my first post was about the Fitness Pool, and not endurance in general?
    From first post:
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    As I've said elsewhere, Endurance management is far too onerous.
    Liar.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
    I did not realize this game was called "City of Marketeers'. My bad, gonna need to find a heroes game somewhere.
    I'd ask for your stuff but you've made it apparent that you don't have anything good. Edit: Oops, late to the punch.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
    Yeah. I do not think the vast majority of the posters are feeling me. i am a 42 month Vet. I did not arrive in the cities yesterday. I understand what you are saying about diminishing returns. I am saying, there is no feasible way for anyone to get one toon fully tricked out with purples and PvP enhancers unless they 1) farm all day every day for a year. (farm, not play) 2) buy in game cash from china illegally.

    So, the Devs have set up this situation. the Devs need to fix it. Most people want to spend 3-6 months on one toon, and have something way cool to show for it. if the Devs do not get that then they need to have a serious conference style think tank day.
    I've already proven that what you state is false. It does not take farming all day every day for a year. It barely takes a a few hours a night for a month.

    If you can't back up your statements with facts, no one will ever listen to you.

    I only care about tricking out one character. All the rest collect dust when they hit 50. Your "most people" comment is false. Come back when you have something more useful than whining that you can't afford the Lamborghini when you're not willing to do more than flip burgers.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
    I believe that they are going for 40-45 of the new merits. correct? Call it 40. So that is 80+ days of gaming for 1 enhancer. and 16 months for a set of 6. a little over that if it is 45 per. Yeah, they fixed it. Woo hoo. everybody throw a party. The Devs fixed it, yeah. ROFLMAO.

    If they didnt want them in the game, they should not have made them. if they do want them in the game, they should be available to a regular gamer. on a difficult, not impossible, scale to get. Otherwise they irritate consumers. which is such the intelligent market strategy.
    Wrong. The +defense pvp unique IO is 30 merits. It took me 20 days at 1.5 HV merits per day. Buy one every night, run tips for the other every other day.

    Then I dumped 2 billion on the +dam-res pvp unique IO. Mindless farming, yes, but I had the inf needed in less than 20 days.

    I was also going to get the panacea proc, but realized that I'd lose a good chunk of HP if I slotted it, so I didn't bother.

    I have no idea what the market worth of my main's build is these days. I know I've dumped at least 4.5 billion into it so far.

    The items you want are very rare. Either do what's necessary to get them, or don't and don't have them.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dispari View Post
    Just 1/3, meaning it gives +19.5% at ED cap.
    That sucks.
  9. Even with the uncommon spiritual, I'm short 33.2025% recharge reduction.

    Damnit.

    Edit: Does anyone know whether the Spiritual Core Paragon (Very Rare) - 45% RECH / 33% stun, heal completely ignores ED or not?
  10. I don't know. I just dropped $100 on steam to get Fallout 3 GotY edition and New Vegas.

    The away from game CoH projects I've been working on are now collecting virtual dust.

    I'm on what is essentially my 4th gaming rig since I started playing over 6 years ago.

    I think I'm here out of habit. Like smoking, I see no reason to stop.
  11. I knew I wasn't going completely mad:

    Emily Browning


    Tori Amos
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
    She got another movie. I'm set.

    O.O I didn't realize it was the same young lady. If you haven't seen The Uninvited, you should.
  13. I enjoyed the unmasking of Mysterion and his psychological trauma at finally having to come to terms with his super power.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post
    This.

    For all we know, BaBs may have figured it out before he left and they've been quietly working on it ever since. Since it's so incredibly time-consuming, even if they are working on it, we may not see results for another year or more.

    Edit: They would need to do 42 separate animations for each power that causes redraw. 7 combat stances X 3 body types = 21 X 2 movement modes (standing and flying) = 42 animations. And they would need to do that with every power in the game that causes redraw. So if they fix whatever the issue is with Shield Defense, it is still a LOT of work to do.

    If they do decide to devote the resources to it, it is probably going to take a long time to do, as I doubt they will cease working on other things while doing it.
    *IF* they are even considering redraw removal anymore, and I've heard nothing to suggest they are, I don't think they'd waste the time with that route. *IF* they are, I'm pretty sure that they'd keep on the path BAB was taking with having the combat stance create a situation where the redraw animation is never called.

    So instead of weaponattack, nonweaponattack, redraw, weaponattack we get weaponattack, nonweaponattack, weaponattack.

    My guess is that when attempted, it caused the shield, which stays present in or out of combat mode, to do something bizarre when combat mode was activated. But that's nothing but a WAG.
  15. Bill Z Bubba

    Primary for SR?

    Telperion,

    Hadn't even come close to working out a build. I would have never considered the combo before fitness going inherent because it will be something of a pain on the endurance front, but I think the mitigation from fault and tremor will be quite handy. As you state, body mastery for SC and PP will be a must, I think. Adding darkest night on top with only stamina and a single perfshifter proc may be a rough ride even though you'll be incredibly hard to kill.
  16. Bill Z Bubba

    Primary for SR?

    Stone/SR brute. Been thinking about one myself as soon as I-19 goes live.
  17. Bill Z Bubba

    FA protection

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by docbuzzard View Post
    I do admit I've been thinking about slotting as much recharge into RotP as possible.
    That's what I'm doing with both my fa/fm tank and my spines/fa scrapper.
  18. Which Windows Pro 64bit? XP? Vista? 7?

    I'm running Win7-64 right now with zero issues.
  19. Bill Z Bubba

    Inherent Fitness

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    I wasn't lobbying for anything. I started a thread to say I don't care for the changes to Fitness. Others brought up my "crusades" to balance things, and it became the topic of discussion.
    From your opening post:
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    Part of the reason for this is that the ATs and Power Sets are not balanced for endurance use. As an example, consider the Defender and Blaster power sets for Energy Blast. The Defender version does less damage, but uses the same endurance. Certain ATs suffer more than others for this (eg. Tankers and Defenders).
    Bzzt. You lose and you lie.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Castle View Post
    Happens to me at least once a day.
    See? They are aware.

    ... waitaminute...
  21. Not surprisingly, when I first came to this thread, I was logged out of the forums. I then had 4 failed attempts to log back in. No, I was not mistyping my credentials.

    Whatever interface exists between these forums and the account validation server is beyond flaky.

    Yes, the company that runs these forums, NCSoft, is aware of the issue. How do I know this? Because I posted in the thread the OP links to and then hit Notify Mod on my own post.

    They are aware. They appear unwilling or unable to do anything about it. Nor do they feel the issue warrants any kind of statement about the topic.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SwellGuy View Post
    Did you deliberately omit the 4th thing we "must" do which is #1 on many of our lists?

    Granted none of the zombies trigger that desire.
    That's only required for a species' continued existence. The dead don't care about that.

    Edit: Side thought about that: Get yourself into a situation someday when you are literally starving to death... nookie won't be on your mind.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zyphoid View Post
    Feed did a good job explaining the hunger. They zombies needed flesh to convert into more of the virus to spread.
    I've always thought of zombie hunger as nothing more than the ID taking over. As humans, at our most base level, we eat, excrete, sleep and die. Zombies don't appear to sleep. They'll have no control over their bowels. They're already dead. That leaves nothing but hunger. Edit: It's the last rudimentary desire: Consume.

    The virus business is touched on in a nice way in the written series. I don't want to give it away here, though.
  24. Bill Z Bubba

    Inherent Fitness

    Oh look, yet another thread where Ultimo whines about the AT damage modifiers.

    I wonder why the mods haven't locked/deleted the thread in order to follow their own rule:

    Quote:
    Do not engage in Lobbying on the Official Forums. Lobbying is continually bringing up the same topic repeatedly in numerous different threads or as an off-topic post in official threads to get developer attention. This form of posting is not permitted. We recognize you may be passionate about a specific subject, however this sort of posting is non-constructive and will not be tolerated.
  25. Yeaaaa.... I won't be missing a single episode. Strange being excited about something on tv again.