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Just to clarify:

Anything that is a reward "can" be made with the invention system.

This does not mean everything rewarded in the game is Inventable.

This means that, if we wanted to, we could have an Invention that gave out XP. Or Prestige. Or a Costume Piece. Or Infamy. Or a Badge. Or an Enhancement (we do a lot of Enhancements with the initial implementation of the system).

The invention system will not have all of this to start, but I am very excited with the sheer power of the system, as is Jack, which is why he touted it so positively in the earlier interview.

And also:

Start submitting your questions for me here. I am going to take a good sample of the more popular questions and answer them in a future update. After that, you will see other developers bios and a thread where you can ask them questions. The bios will help you ask appropriate questions of the appropriate developer. That way you don't ask Jay about what %'s Invented Enhancements give and you don't ask Castle why the Witch Hat has no hair.

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Um, youre the people that think doms are just right and keep adjusting domination......so in other words we will be inventing training enhancments and will cost way too much to justify the cost.......

Thanks for nothing

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Quote from the clip

"We are what we pretend to be..."

I hope to be able to master imps soon so I can PWN the world.

/em boggles

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If i could figure out how to get jack frost to kick Jack tompson.........then id rule te world first!!!

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but doesnt that make it an exploit too according to some?
Nice, so skill is an exploit, and usuing powers as designed is an exploit......... Guess leveling is an exploit!!!!!



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Maybe you should actually read Castle's response before going off the deep end.

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Oh no, this is in response to people like Tic Toc, and jennikins, you know people that think skill is an exploit, I grabbed Arcanavilles post to highlight the absurdity of "EVERYTHINS AN EXPLOIT" that people like to go to when the chips are down and they didnt think of it first

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just got a reply.
"It is NOT resisted. This is as intended."

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is it intended that it kicks ice/ in the teeth while the other sets get a poke with a stick?

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Invulnerability gets hammered pretty well. Most of that set's non-S/L mitigation comes from Invincibility. Slotted up and surrounded by enemies ( needs 10 to cap it ) gets you right around 30% Defense. When Rage drops it is a -20% to Defense. The Rage drop causes Invincibility to stop effecting mobs so it stops granting the Defense bonus. This takes you from 30% to -20% Defense. I'm not sure about Ice but if that set gives you 30% with your armors you would still have 10% Defense.

Rage can amount to up to about a -50% Defense Penalty for Invulnerability Tankers.

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Keep in mind that another part of the damage mitigation in the Ice set comes from the Chilling Embrace damage debuff, which also stops affecting enemies during the Rage crash.

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Theoretically, Ice Armor can duck the rage crash by hibernating. Since you can't affect anything else anyway, there's no cost to hibernate, and you are invulnerable while hibernating. And it cycles fast enough to be available every rage crash, with appropriate slotting.

Also: hibernate has +recovery. My guess is that ten seconds of hibernation gets you close to a full bar of endurance.

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but doesnt that make it an exploit too according to some?
Nice, so skill is an exploit, and usuing powers as designed is an exploit......... Guess leveling is an exploit!!!!!

Devs made tanks into tauntbots......know your role!!!

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Cuts at NCsoft? No cuts at Cryptic at all? (Where's Geko, for example? I remember this being asked before, I think the answer was he's on another NCSoft game)

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Geko is on another Cryptic project.

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uh huh.....welocme to maintenence mode people. Marvel is the new money maker and we were the test bed

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This seems an ironic thing to say the same day a new issue goes live (and with inventions coming in the next issue).

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Inventions are an IF and a very big if.....hell i can code inventions to be exactly like Titan So's....right no one knows about those because they truly suck. ED was balanced around the fact that we would get new enhancment types....except we suffered ED and havent seen but a glimpse of inventions.......
Inventions were also scheduled way back when, i4 i think but got put off because of the not fun factor......which is Dev speak for "we couldnt make them suck time out of you guys".....conjecture was because the dev team couldnt make them suck enough to be worthless and take up timesink hours for people to try and get them.

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Cuts at NCsoft? No cuts at Cryptic at all? (Where's Geko, for example? I remember this being asked before, I think the answer was he's on another NCSoft game)

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Geko is on another Cryptic project.

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uh huh.....welocme to maintenence mode people. Marvel is the new money maker and we were the test bed

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Good in theory, not so much in reality.

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Bingo. That pretty much nails our design on bases. We're slowly but surely making additions and changes based on feedback & data. We'll get there...I think bases are a case study where a design didn't mesh well with actual gameplay! For some odd reason, some posters have thought my Serious Games speech blamed the players; heck no! Bases are 100% a DESIGN problem. Not a player problem.

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How about making the base teleporters teleport you to where you want let you choose a set waypoint? thats a design problem

and yes you blame the players for not loving your "cool" ideas

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Long and the short of it, while there are some small PvP thingies getting some attention (like _Castle_ posting about Brute Fury in PvP a few days ago) there are not any big PvP issues on the nearer term feature lists.

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That is the best thing I've heard from a redname in a goodly amount of time. No offense to the PvPers, but imo the devs have already invested way too much time in what is at best a minority interest.

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QFT

-- War

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I'm offended. Suppose a red name wrote they won't be spending time on badges (minority group) or bases (another minority group)? We all have opinions on what we'd like the devs to spend time on, but I think it is absurdly rude to come into the PvP forum and essentially kick all the PvPers in the head when a red name has just told them that they don't matter.


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The intention of my post was not to dash all hopes of any change in PvP, but to help illustrate why those changes hadn't been a hot topic with design. I know that a lot of their time, when it isn't currently spent getting Issue 8 out the door, is working on some of the very broad and exciting stuff coming in issue 9 that will add a lot to the game over all (inventions + other goodies).

I do really like the suggestion about trying to re-use the old event where everyone got a level 40 on Training Room to come PvP with. That sounds like it might have some good broad appeal and make for a pretty darn fun weekend. Of course, I haven't investigated it with the dev team and it might not be possible, but still a good idea to follow up on. Besides, I'd like to play a few different Archetypes myself at lvl 40 with a hord of other folks to blast at or along side with. Let's try and focus the discussion on things we can do under the current systems?

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Like forgetting pvp ever existed and make the pve game more fun??? Thats a good start.

Eliminating all the temp powers and bonus xp in PvP zones then adding debt back in? That would be wonderful.

I could go on, heck the dev team is making quite a few of those come true to deter people from the pvp zones.

Zomg shivans and temp invis is uber powerful......nerf it

I pulled with nova. Twice. Didnt die either time. Was funny and i didnt kill anything.....or even really hurt the antimatter bots........+4 or more to me.


Good times.

Bases cost too much. As usual Jack you overvalued bases and devalued players.

A minimal base with just teleporters and a rez ring is astronomical....considering for 24 lvls we get 13 prestige a kill......or less.

The items that dont affect game play (costume like options) cost 1000 a piece....take up space. Teleporters are glaringly huge. You have to almost be a puzzle master in some rooms to get anything looking decent to fit inside.

The medbay with its 2 by 2 room....Looks awfully huge when you can really only afford to put one rez ring in there. Which is all a small base needs................but why in the hell is the room so freaking huge? Why is a teleporter so huge but a rez ring so small?

That last point goes on to many other things, Workshops. The workroom that can hold 3 things or so is over crowded, but the the next size up can hold 4 things and is almost 3 by 3. Its a hodge podge and you know it.

Actually look at bases, dont belittle the player base with your snide remarks and think were stupid. Were not the stupid ones......its you thats come back time and again with your half baked plans like boss changes, AV regen rates and that damn Regen scrapper video that clearly shows you dont have the foggiest clue whats going on in the Live version of the game.

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New T-Shirt

http://www.arscoh.com/v/Gideon+Fonta...f+MeT.jpg.html

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Make that of Statesman laying in a pool of his own blood and Id pay $50 bucks for it

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I want to say that this seems really odd, but after other tanker changes over the past year or so, it's pretty much par for the course.

What do the devs want tankers to do? Not supposed to take aggro from a full spawn, not supposed to hold aggro on GMs and AVs. What is a tanker's purpose?

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hopefully to be replaced by doms....at least the devs are trying to buff them up to a purpose.....

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Most of all I would like to thank the players, the die-hards and the casual. Without you, there would be no Paragon City.

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Yeah remember that next time you and Statesman comes up with some crazy scheme that involves 'toning down' a powerset....which actually means cutting all benefits in half and upping the end cost

For all you dev butt kissers......two words...Hover snipe. Guess what guys, you can hover out of range on many low lvl foes...snipe rinse repeat NO RISK/Lots of reward. PVP 3 slot Hover with Do's....it aint fast but damn its manuverable......Now that Sj and SS have an Acc penalty....go with the Hover to keep out of peoples reach blasters will be the kings again. Good job Statesnerf With your constant effort we "no nothing forum whiners" are still one step ahead of ya!!! Maybe its time you stop beta testing this game and actually release it on the market....oh wait

PS: I know most of these changes will be rolled back....the guys that pay his bills...ie the casual gamer....is gonna be boned by all these changes...cry foul and States will have to wake up from his dreamy nerfherding.....it will be beautiful

Count me in too. I dont give a damn about arena....leave it to the 12 yr olds that think they are "teh uber 1337" cuz they "pwnz h00ct 0n Phonics". Is there any changes to PvP that hasnt affected PvE? There are WAAAAAYYYYY TOO MANY NERFS because of Pvp Affecting PvE. Are some reasonable? Maybe fear. Are your code monkies that incompetent that you cant get the game to recognize "Arena" and "PvE"? Maybe its time you hire a new staff.....you know, one that will cut the mustard...instead of sheltering them like youre that fool manager on dilbert....

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ok someone PLEASE translate for me. OH and while you're at it.. tell me who RUNS Assault/Tactics on a */da?! or an invul for that matter

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Its the conserve power....no other way to run it....and fight.

Sweet now i know i can take out 20+ minions at 30.....so as soon as my scrapper hits 30, im gonna bug it everytime i goto the hospital....do i get my debt reset?
Also noticed there was alot of 0's in the boss spot...does that mean the boss whacked the tester?

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I went away from the computer to check on some CoV stuff and *wham* I received 5 or so PM's asking "what is the Blaster's role?"

Answer - Ranged damage. Now, the issue is more specifically - what does a Blaster do that a Scrapper can't already do? Or, even worse, is a Scrapper inherently "stronger" than a Blaster. We want each Archetype to have a well defined role, and part of our Scrapper testing is aimed directly at this.

Secondly, I have no intention of removing melee attacks - it's just a "perception" by some Blasters that some of the Secondary Sets aren't as useful as Devices or Energy Manipulation. This is a rather frequent refrain in PM's (and the occasional forum post). This is something that we should also explore...we want all the Secondary sets to be fun.

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and they are all fun States, the min/maxers are the ones that dont find any fun with certain things....
Blasters are currently balanced even against scrappers. The only issue is the rooting on alot of the powers or long activation times.
Im sure the min/maxers or wanna be tankmages want status protection, higher damage, the ability to turn on god mode and just level like mad....but lets be real, Blasters are glass cannons...They dont need all those melee attacks, and ranged people do avoid them like the plague, but hey not every set has ultra 'teh uber' powers....look at force field to find that.
Blasters currently have the highest damage output in the game, do they really need more? How much more damage do they need? Why not give them so much damage they always one shot even con minions with thier lowest level aoe.....and scale it up from there.....oh that would be awesome....no risk/ lots of reward....woot

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Instead of the first five levels being debt free, the first TEN levels will be debt free.

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Ghetto Hospital 'Port for the win!

Just kidding, I can't bring myself to kill my character purposefuly but people will get a kick out of this.

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When I play in the hollows, Its the only way to travel!!!!!
done it so many times i cant count....of course its another reason for me to stay away from the hollows. Missions always spawn at the back of the zone now.

I ask, more from confusion, than anything else. When was this a problem? Why?

Manuevers 3 slots of even lvl So defense =10% def vs everything
Tactics slot to taste.
I have found that without at least an end redux in them both together use quite a bit of end on my toggle invun tank.....but my regen scrapper with 6 slotted Qr and unslotted Stamina can function fine without the extra slot.......

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I think all this effort into curbing powerlevelers is a waste of resources. Plvlers will find out how to do whatever they want with the tools at hand. This hampers a few plvling techniques, but exacts a tangible cost to players in terms of freedom to play how they want. Overall, I don't think this will have any real effect on plvling. They'll go do their outdoor mission maps, and players doing content will have to do their "Kill 150 Crey" hunt missions in a big group because you wanted to fix a problem that doesn't exist.

I don't buy the plvling hurts the game argument because what it really comes down to is "Is the content interesting enough to curb Plvling?" For a lot of players it is. For some players, it doesn't matter, they'll always plvl. For some, they have half a dozen toons over lvl 40, and they've done every mission, badge, story arc, TF, trial, etc. 3-4 times, and they just want to play with a new AT/build.

You're trying to tell people how to play the game, even though they're playing well within the confines of your world. If its not griefing, and doesn't violate the CoC/ToS, either leave it alone, or make it an exploit. To me, tram plvlers are like RP'ers in Galaxy. Its not how I chose to play the game, but it doesn't bother me one bit. Some people are going to do only missions for their xp (until mid 30's when you start running out) because it makes them feel heroic. Some are gonna roll up a Taxi Bot and recall people all day. Some will host a play in Perez Park, and some will sit all day while getting plvled by a friend or 2nd account.

Lastly, a quick question: How does this effect badge credit? I NEVER do hunt badges within 300 yds of my teammates, often a mile or more away. Like many players, I've put a lot of time into collecting my hunt badges, solo and in teams. I currently have all of them (except for isolator, which I did not have the option of getting). If I had to stay close to teamates to get badge credit however, I definitely wouldn't have bothered with many of them.

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You have nailed it on the head, i can only add that Extra code means extra bugs/lag. This is Thick headed. The plers have already given fine examples of how to circumvent this.....What exactly are the devs trying to cure now?

Its amazing how people will say "this sucks" without giving a reason why.....heck an Empath sucks if said emapth doesnt have his heals slotted and just went and slotted super jump.

Manuevers stacks.... 6% fully slotted gives about 12% per person running it (assuming low 1 5 slotting and white enhancments) k, lets assume 10 % per person, more for defenders less for everyone else......10 times 4 (good easy to manage group) equals 40% defense vs everything. ITs a buff, not a debuff so it doesnt get the double shaft. Thats like having two bubble defenders in your group double bubbling everyone and if you have a bubble defender it just makes defense even more insane(vs everything but psi). Now lets go extreme......8man team. yep 80% and all you have to do is stick together, and heal the odd hit or wait for your natural regen to take care of it, because unless your fighting more than +4 to you, it just isnt hitting you that much.

Yep Manuevers sucks its the suckiest power in the game no one should ever take it or slot it.....but for those of us who team i suggest everyone should get it....when you do its the next big nerf

How dumb. Magic (alpha beta and Arabian) was the best card game, and the last.

another shining example of the devs not knowing how the game works....who codes this thing, Kmart employees?