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Quote:Why revamp it when they can just destroy it like Galaxy city!Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Huh... and the 'oft requested' zone that they are revamping next... Huh, people do actually complain about Independence Port... I hadn't even considered it, myself.
Hmmmmm...
Blueside could do with one less zone, and they can move the sutter TF to Talos! -
I didn't really find covering EA's NE defense to be that hard.
I didn't find Fire Damage to be that big of a deal for IA on my tanker.
there's pros and cons for EA and IA. Between these two, id let it settle on concept. -
Quote:Well, Ice and WP both use typed defenses.Originally Posted by robwigg05
What secondary would be best paired with Elec? I know /nin is a popular choice, but I've also heard great things about /ice (as long as you can fill the hole). What about /wp?
Both can get to capped HP, though WP is more likely to stay at capped HP, while Ice is most likely to rely ont he defense, and use Hoarfrost as a heal (best way to use it imo) when things start to break through.
I dont think you can go wrong with either choice. And Ice Armor I believe is easier to softcap.
Ninja is an option. My only complaint about the set is the DDR seems to low for it, or it could use some S/L Resist to make up for the small amount of DDR (not thinking SR levels, but it does FEEL *ie I could be wrong* less than Shield).
I love ninjitsu, I think it could use some improvements (small amounts) to put it on top, where I think it should be for Stalkers (it is unique to them and it just feels *to me* to be losing out to other sets!). -
Quote:If that's what it takes to get that short of a skirt for my main, sure!Originally Posted by 2short2care
LOL Don't you mean wide belts??? heehee
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Quote:And then how to the devs write new content around that?Originally Posted by Shadow_Kitty
Actually, I don't care what you did. Well, I do care a little bit if we teamed when you do it, but from my point of view, I killed Statesman ages ago before he nerfed himself, no matter what you did to him and when. Because this is my story, in which you are my sidekick at best (or, more likely, recipient of backstab, if our paths ever cross).
But that means that what happened in my story is true, and what happened in your story is false, right?
Wrong. Your story is as true as mine. It's just not real, for me. Your story might differ, but since I can't look into your head or read your memories and I don't read any fanfic at all, I have no idea what you did to Statesman in your universe. But both stories are equally true, from an outside perspective. I'm just not bothered about yours.
Now, this may sound confusing as heck to you humans, but thanks to a professor Schrödinger, the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics comes quite natural to us cats.
You've killed Statesman ages ago! But now Darrin Wade just killed him!
And if you're willing to ignore the story and it doesn't matter to you, then how the devs write the story shouldn't matter to you, as you just make up your own anyways.
I've never said that's bad. So I got your point. But your point doesn't work for writing the stories really for the devs. With that line of work, they could just have nameless character in costume and you can decide who it is, what powers they really have, and just smash away at the keys
Perfectly valid!
But some of us also like to go somewhat with the given storyline. Praetoria happening. Tyrant isn't soloable (anymore) and requires a massive gathering of heroes. ect ect... -
Nicely done!
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Quote:It's for that reason, I try to remember to tell every artist I've commissioned, that my main lacks the most common of superpowers.Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Cool I like em both Hazard.
I had a similar thing with one of my heroes Xllusya,
every time I drew her picture her bust somehow magically got bigger.
"I'm not flat! I'm a C surrounded by DDs!" -
Quote:Then obviously people missed the point of the post.Originally Posted by RavenSoul
Non sequitur indeed. Asking to have more comic book style outfits on the forums of a comic-book-based MMO was uproariously funny. Enough so I may have woken the neighbors while laughing at it.
EDIT: Hey, while I'm here, I should put in a vote or two, shouldn't I? Well, then, in no particular order (since I wouldn't want to upset some of these ladies by 'ranking' them):
People go "I want the stretchy fabric" well if that becomes the norm, we lose out on the body hugging outfits that comics are known for. And which in fact, people complain about being in comics, then makes one wonder, why come to the comic book game if you don't care for the medium?
And yes I know the medium has made use of fabric that stretches as it should. -
Why can't we get skirts that short in game?!
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Thanks for the fun!
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Quote:I think Electric Melee makes out a lot from these changes. AOE with better ST DPS than either of the other Melee ATs with ELM can do.Originally Posted by ricohdah
I think StJ and DB benefit the most from the changes. KM too if you count the Stalker's Guile ATO proc.
StJ because adding AS into the chain eliminates low DPS filler attacks trying to get to Combat Lvl 3 (AS provides 2 Combat Lvls). DB because it makes some of the combo moves easier to use (Sweep and Empower). KM with the ATO proc will help BU insta-recharge more often.
All other primaries do not benefit as much but still get to use the best ST attack in the game consistently in their attack chain. The difference between pre and post i22 will be like night and day in regards to ST DPS for all.
I don't think anyone will prefer to have a stalker over a scrapper on a team but stalkers will not be shunned anymore. Stalker population will multiply by 20 over the next few weeks, just wait until double xp weekend.
Which for those who keep to some of the attitudes mentioned before might turn from "LOLSTALKER!" to "LOLNOTELMSTALKER!"
Also survival wise, some Stalker Primaries aren't that far off from Scrapper counterparts, with the difference only being a couple of hundred HP. Yes, that's a difference, but then the Stalker can dish out a bit more ST damage in bigger bursts.
What Siolfir said is also true. I'll bet my WP Stalker is likely more survivable than equally IOed out FA Scrapper. However, that FA scrapper likely pulled ahead in ST Damage having Blazing Aura going and access to Fiery Embrace (Burn may or may not help ST DPS. Im sure there's probably some Primaries that don't mesh well with using Burn for ST damage, but Im not 100% on that).
But a WP Stalker vs a WP Scrapper with the same Primary, the edge would likely go to whatever the choosen Primary was. -
Quote:Yes. But for the storyline to continue, I believe they need to have it fall a bit to the signature NPCS, rather than the players, for the story to keep going.Originally Posted by Shadow_Kitty
No matter how you do, the story of the game is perceived from your point of view. Doesn't matter if the story is about Statesman, lord Recluse, Reichman, Emperor Cole or anyone else; nor does it matter if it is experienced solo, in small teams or in super large teams; it is still the story told from your perspective.
Now, before you remind me of how Shadow Kitty is not the main protagonist of Captain America, please remember that comics and movies are not interactive. Even so, their main protagonist is actually your avatar, in their fixed-perspective of the media kind of way. You identify with them, and you share their adventures with them through them. I make an investment in those characters, and for a moment I allow those characters to be my projection into the story as a stand-in for myself as Shadow Kitty sadly can't enter the comics pages. (It would be infinitely better if it was possible, but that kinda goes without saying.)
Slight difference here. Here I am Shadow Kitty.
And as much as Captain America is not the main protagonist of Spider-Man or Daredevil even if they happen to share the same universe, Statesman is not the main protagonist of City of Heroes. As soon as I login into the game, even if on team or solo, I am the main protagonist of the game.
And so are you.
Running through the content doesn't have to look like "You're a sidekick" or "You're a flunky" but at the same time, the story wouldn't work if they based it off players choices, as that's just to many variables to account for.
Player versus Silver Mantis (in the players perspective) can easily be...
1) We fought, I killed her, ate her soul, she's gone forever!
2) We fought, I defeated her, she wound up in the zig.
3) We fought, she kicked my butt!
4) We fought, ended up making out and...well...^_^ let's just say we got sticky!
5) Something else entirely!
To many variables for the writers to account for when trying to move the story along.
Now, could go the route of it's your character doing all this, but it loses something in the effect of being an MMO (at least imo) because it's then hundreds of other players saying "I did that too!" or "I did it, not you!"
Example is discovering Honoree is Hero One! That's an event that can only happen once in a storyline.
Of course some of this is from an RP perspective, but that works works whether the player actually actively RPs or just imagines some things while smashing keys.
As a player I'm more likely to believe an NPC is in the spot that Statesman held untill recently than some other players character that isn't mine. But the story also wouldn't go the way I want if my character was in that place, would it?
Katie Douglas being put back into the box. My character never would of put her in back in, and would of gone along the lines of "the good of the one out weighs the good of the many" (to quote Star Trek) in that case.
Now the PC replacing States would work imo, but it would require either a lot more work, or less storylines from the devs to account for multiple likely outcomes and then letting those on the team see the world the PC created through their actions. CoH however doesn't really allow that.
So for the sake of CoH's writing, I do prefere there to be some big heroes like the Freedom Phalanx. Of course, I'd also like for them to give some of these signature characters more depth. -
[QUOTE=Redlynne;4141021]Ghost Widow
*Deleted pic of GW here because it was huge but still it was very nicely done!*[QUOTE]
That art style almost reminds me of the Perfect World's game graphics, which I think would be awesome for CoH! And maybe get people off the dated graphics comments. Now only if they can get that style and keep the sliders as they are (if not improve them). -
I think in most works of art, people see things in them that really aren't there.
But then, I also think the point of some of those works of arts is for the viewer to decide things on their own.
Of course, the creator could have had an idea and the viewer thinks it's something else. Or the creator does indeed have an obvious view they're trying to get across.
For instance, I think a large majority of people look a little to deep into comics. Why I defend it so much. You hear cries of "sexism" when I see "visually stunning/appealing art".
Comic books are a visual medium, so I don't expect them to draw plain looking characters, and if they did, I likely wouldn't be that interrested in the comic anyways.
As someone who loves to write (and used to write more often untill something put a hold on that) I remember writing a 5 chapter intro to a story I was writing. For those who read it, I got lots of compliments. It was also noted for being being quite dark, twisted, and erotic...it was written that way with no real objective of trying to put any belief into anything other than what my economics teacher said in class and I agreed with: "Shock effect sells."
Sadly, if some read it, they might see something deeper in it like "Author hates men" or "Author hates women" or "Author hates priests" or "Author is a sexist jerk" or "Author is an uptight feminist" or "Author is one twisted individual who's probably some evil satanist"
When really it was "Hmmm...how can I introduce the characters in some shocking way to help keep the readers interrested? Oh! That's it! Sex and violence sells! Intro characters someway using one or both of those!"
Basically, sometimes a story is just a story with no real meaning behind it other than to entertain. Of course it seems many people today look for a meaning that isnt there or misread the meaning.
Reminds me of the 80's Rodney Dangerfield movie, Back to School. Kurt Vonegut (sp?) writes a paper for RD's character's about what the meaning of his writings were and the college professor was all "I know you didn't write this, and whoever did has no knowledge of Kurt Vonegut!"
Now what I do like to hear, is people's own impressions. Which tends to happen more in music, when songwriters will have the song mean something to them, but not tell anyone what it was (or at least not at first) prefering people to find their own meaning in the song.
Which can make a song about love and loss to one person (possibly even the writer) be about finding and keeping the love to someone else, for example. -
Quote:I must say I love this one! Very nice!Originally Posted by hazard
So, I was playing CoH this week, and I saw a hero costume that I HAD to draw.
Here is... Black Autumn!
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Quote:I see that as being no different than having to write for every other character they had no hand in creating.Originally Posted by Party_Kake
It makes more sense to kill them off.
offend Jack? He'd probably also be offended if they kept writing stories about "his character."
They're probably sick of having to write Jack's character into everything big.
They're probably sick of his ridiculo-god powers making it hard to mechanically explain why he's sending girls with guns to go fight gods in his stead.
Would you prefer that he be "rebooted" to be grittier and more realistic? throw darts at the diversity board and see what he gets changed to? "Let's see here, you hit crippled, narcissistic, sex-maniac, warmonger, black, and hispanic. Hand this to Tony and tell him to have the backstory written by tomorrow, or we throw two extra darts."
I see that as no different than a comic book writer having to write for a 60 year old Batman or Superman.
So the fact that the character was created by someone else shouldn't be a factor.
And if the problem is him sending heroes off to fight things he could fight, then work around it by saying "OMG! Brand X I have to save the world from a meteor hurling it's way towards the planet! Quick! Take care of Recluse while I take care of the meteor!"
Also, this is no different than every other hero (Positron, Synapse, basically all TF contacts) who hands out missions to our heroes. And suppossedly they're tough enough to handle the situations on their own too.
Oh! Also, not worried about offending Jack This is just me not caring for the killing off of characters because Jack made them.
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Quote:I did think of Popeye, but I don't see how that related to wanting outfits to match comic book style outfits (some of us do play because we do in fact want to play super heroes and want to emulate them from time time to time).Originally Posted by Impish Kat
Really?
Because I didn't get it either.
The "wardrobe malfunction", I got. That was mildly amusing.
But the spinach/iron thing?...
The only correlation to Arcana's second "joke" that I can think of is "Popeye".
And frankly, that IS a stretch, and a pretty poor one at that; certainly not deserving of knee-slapping in my book.
meh
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1) Leaf - Don't know why, it just turned out to be my favorite. Seemed like a heart dropping valentines from the pic and I was basing all my votes on the theme.
2) Master Elemental - Returns to embrace of the love of his life!
3) Liz - So there's the heartbroken, the eternal love, and now...the lusty love! -
Quote:That's just a badge. What I suggested is so much more!Originally Posted by ryu_planeswalker
*cough* Freedom Phalanx Reserve badge *cough*
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Quote:I really have no idea how this relates to my post of wanting outfits that match styles shown in comic books. o.OOriginally Posted by Arcanaville
Spinach does not, as is commonly believed, have high amounts of iron.
WHOOOOOoooooshhhhhh!
Totally went over my head there. -
Quote:But we're not cutting ties to the past, we still have the rest of the Freedom Phalanx, which is from the start of the game, as is Statesman.Originally Posted by Melancton
From the standpoint of dealing with Jack Emmert, I am in no position to begrudge any ill feelings. He may have deserved every bit of hostility ever expressed by anyone. I can also understand Matt Miller's perspective in the sense of "opening up new possibilities by cutting ties to the past" sort of way.
This isn't cutting the ties to the past, if Positron and the rest of the Freedom Phaanx remain alive.
Kill them off, let player characters be the new Freedom Phalanx.
Even better, give players the option of being in the Freedom Phalanx SG or their own created supergroup! The FP will just have an unlimited number of spaces, stops you from joining another, and gives you access to the Freedom Phalanx supergroup chat channel!
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Quote:That means the intro of Penny counters every reason they had to get rid of Statesman and Psyche.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
No, Jack signed away all of his rights, whatever they might have been, when he incorporated the character(s) into City of Heroes. If you read Matt's other interviews, it's mentioned that the discussion about killing Statesman had come up in the past but had been decided against due to the fallout and/or difficulty of doing it properly.
I've mentioned it elsewhere, but I've seen one ex-CoH developer comment on Facebook that people in Paragon Studios had wanted to kill him for a long time.
The difference now is the cut-scene technology, the focus on monthly stories, and a new focus designed to make the player heroes be the pre-eminent heroes. From that latter standpoint, it makes some sense to kill Statesman and Sister Psyche, as they represent god-like power. If they're gone, then there's no deus-ex-machina waiting in the background to save the day. Well, except for the fact that Penelope Yin is stepping into Sister Psyche's shoes and is even more god-like in her potential, apparently. :-|
No, in the end it pretty much just comes down to the fact that the devs themselves were just as ambivalent about Jack as many players have been.
Not to mention we have all the other big time powers in the game.
Recluse, CK...plenty of others I'm sure. -
Quote:Kill him anyways. Then at least it proves they're not killing off characters because of a dev.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
But Positron's still the Lead Developer - he hasn't left
BABs was a dev, he's gone, why not kill BABs off while we're at it?
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Quote:How is a hundred heroes the MAIN protagonist of the universe?Originally Posted by Zombie Man
This.
Which is (one of the reasons) why States was killed off. Our character is the main protagonist of this universe.
And does that also mean future content is becoming solo content, so our heroes can live in their own little world and be the one lone hero who saves the day? -
I think for this, the real thing needed to be done is a change to graphics. Without looking cartoony (the other two MMOs). Maybe in the vein of that Perfect F2P MMO.
Which btw leads me to this suggestion...giant cross backpacks!