Captain_Solaris

By all mean Rage is a potent power to have. Problems with Rage is the comedown afterwards.

In a PvP point of view...you'll find that you'll be unable to do anything offensive for about 10/12seconds and that your def is also reduced. Also when you have Rage with 3 Rechg Redux and running on auto, you won't have the +dmg advantage for the duration of the comedown period.

One question is why people don't take the AoE that comes with Elec armour? With the normal attacks you have in your primary coupled with the continuous ticks with the AoE, it will surely get you up Fury even faster?

Grats on 50 fella!

Almost two years hard slog to get where you are huh? ...you've definately earned it!

Capt





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Pah! Was waiting all night at work for your "Grats to 50 post! .....soooo close now!

With my involvement ingame becoming less and less, I've decided to pass on promotions to more active CoH players in the SG, namely MaXimillion and SchrodingersCat. They've both put in a lot of time and effort in not only earning prestige and doing good work for the SG, but also have been prolific members within the CoH community.

Thank you and congratulations to you both.



GoEH Comic:
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As some may know I'm in the process of developing a GoEH Comic. So far I've written an initial storyline and ahve already made sketches and draft.

I intend to create stories involving Capt and the members of the SG. So if possible, when you have time, it would be great to recieve a little story on how we first met.


eg...

...teaming with number9dream during a Vahzilok mission and later creating the GoEH;
...meeting BLIZZARIA for the first time in a Frostfire mission, but not getting to know her until a few lvls later;
...bumping into a brooding Spectre for the first time;
...being introduced to SchrodinfersCat by Alouqua, Gabriel Knight and Ether Knight;
...teaming up with MaXimillion for the first time through our old ally, Ekallo.

Obviouslt develop the stories a bit and will illustrate them. You can put them on here or send me the stories to my email address captain_solaris@hotmail.co.uk

Hope to hear from you soon

Cheers
Capt

Having a lot of spare time on my hands and the occasional drawings at work, I've decided on making a illustrated story for my SG. Mainly going to be outlining Capt's experiences. From the birth of GoEH; the meeting of prolific members such as number9dream, MOLEY, Spectre, MaXimillion, SchrodingersCat and of course the delectable BLIZZARIA; fallouts and team ups with other SGs/heroes like the FPA and the Contingency.

As you can imagine will be pretty epic, but wil probably condense each story to 4sides of A4.

Still in the early stages. Since I'm not so hot with rendering will start off just in pencil, but once I've done some of the core stories, will consider putting colour in them.

I'll basically scan most of the artwork on the computer and edit, meaning I can either use photoshop etc to render/colour in the work....or if anyone fancies, they can copy the pages and do the colours for me.

Anywho..here's a sample to begin with.




SAMPLE PAGE






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Nicely done!

Is it painted or pure pencil work?

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looks like pastels to me.


nicely rendered fella.

capt

cheers for the comments... [img]/uk/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I've decided to post another sketch done whilst at work last night, then quickly rendered at home today.

Earth Action Poses

Not on a par with Swissy's but still working on it as I've got to touch up on my Photoshop skills.

Capt

Just writing thanks to all the members earning prestige for the GoEH base. So far irs looking good and I'm hoping to upgrade the plot next time around. Think it'll cost us a cool 2mil or so and at the moment, we have about 400k. Keep plugging away, hopefully we'll get there soon!

Thought I'd post some screenshots of the base so far...[*] Base Layout[*] Base Entry[*] Courtyard1 [*] Courtyard2 [*] Control Room [*] Medical Bay [*] Workstation [*] Teleporter Bay A [*] Teleporter Bay B [*] Power Generator

As I'm still trying to get off my bee-hind and decide whether to get a full time job or get a masters I do have a lot more time compared to recent months. Depending whether I jhave free time, I'm usually in the mornings from as early as 7am to as long until I go into work at 5pm! Then evenings most likely midnight until I fall asleep!

Grats on another lvl50 Psy! [img]/uk/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Capt

Well Kara was created back when I first started playing CoH last year by my then gf when she fancied trying out the game.

She made her over in Onion as I had Defiant. Not sure if she meant to base it on PowerGirl herself as she gave her longer hair in-game, but has a costume almost similar. On the sketch decided to give her shorter hair as thought she looked better with it short.


Looked at your guide Swissy, quite comprehensive. I speak a litle French, so was able to understand it to a degree. The illustrations and the Layering at the end helped understand it despite my poor French.

I've seen your work on the forums and they're nothing short of brilliant. Great work Swissy [img]/uk/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

More bored at work sketches! ...and some I've actually got around to render. *gasp!*


Sketches...then rendered on Photoshop:
=============================[*]Earth [*]Krysalis

Other Sketches:
============[*]Urubach[*]Audio Bully [*]Gabriel Knight

Over the past few weeks I've been doodling some of my CoH/V characters whilst bored at work. So not to put them to waste, I've decided to display some of them on here...some of them I've posted before on the GoEH SG Thread in "Defiant - Heroes".


Sketches...then rendered on Photoshop*:
=============================[*]Earth [*]Krysalis

Other Sketches:
============[*]Urubach[*]Audio Bully [*]Gabriel Knight[*]Kara Solaris & Earth[*]Captain Solaris[*]Captain Solaris again


All pretty sketchy, but they're quick sketches when it gets quiet. Now I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets spare time at work, so would love to see other people's sketches done at work also!

Cheers
Capt

*photoshop renders done later when got back home...

Haha..classic. Good to see it again

*copies and pastes onto memory stick* ^^

Pah! Not you! The guy who beat me to the no1 healer spot in the first month of CoH Euro by a little under 1k HP heals!

Always good to see some of the "Old School" heroes come out of retirement and grace us with their presence once more!

Capt

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fire/kin = MEGA fun?

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Ohh and don't take hot feet, or atleast respec it out once you get to fireball...

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Somehow I doubt that .

As you can see Healer, the opinions differ somewhat on Hot Feet. I'm more of a I4 controller (not a word from you Otkon, not a word ) and I can see I don't need it after fire ball. Some think they still do, ymmw .

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Would agree that Hot Feet isn't essential in the latter lvls of your fire controller.

That said, I guess the effectiveness of the power depends on your situation and teams.

With both Blizz and my fire controller having Hot Feet, we're capable of decimating whole mobs without much danger to ourselves and has got us from lvl8-10 in less than 2 hours whilst duo'ing.

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Captain Solaris and myself have just started a pair of Fire/Kin Controllers......
.......to lvl9 in just a couple of hours......dropping great groups of same level / +1's / and Luits in seconds......

Hands down, the most [censored] fun i've had with an AT ever!

I recommend Fire/Kin to everyone

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Shhhhh.....not so loud missy...

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I've seen the devs lurking about...they catch wind of this and they'll nerf us faster than you can say bananna hammock..!


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DO NOT MAKE FIRE/KINETIC CONTROLLERS!!

*flashbacks to issue3 when Paragon City became overrun with Fire/Fire Tankers all over the place*

Not that i'm trying to deter you from making a Fire/Kin *snigger* but...

...you'll find you'll just have too much to do with Kinetics...being a Kin defender is bad enough, but to control and defend too...Just too much hard work.

Speed Boost doesn't last long enough, meaning you're constantly having to buff each and every individual team mate & pet within the mission. Other buffs like Siphon Power and Increase Density don't last long enough. Likewise with SB, ID you'll need to buff all in your team individually also

In the early lvls you're gonna find that Fire control and have to buff your mates is a labour on your endurance and have to wait until at least lvl20 for Stamina, then transference is ages away also at lvl35 for Transference and even that takes a while to recharge itself.

Oh and the accuracy on Fire Control...please! Don't get me started with that!

And more importantly, the dirt you collect with fire controll is just not worth the set at all...think of your laundry bills..ooof, will be sky high.

So please reconsider Fire/Kin...as its horrible and you won't like it!

Afraid not...I've had Krysalis on my account since my ex made her back last year February.

Still only lvl33, but have been considering to delete her for a long time now as I rarely use her. Also due to Jack Frost being one hell of a lazy pet and Ice Control being quite an ordinary Control Set and hardly any damage (I like to hurt people)!

Tried her for PvP, but apart from Holds and slows, it doesn't offer much else. Plus it does drain on your endurance, especially when Siphon Speed doesn't really offer you much in endurance recovery (if at all).

Strongest in PvE, great to hang back and provide the holds and slows in the back. Kinetics will keep you busy with the endless shouts of Speed Boost and the sort.

Despite considering to delete her, she's still there, haunting me..pretty much like my ex is today! :P


So far her current build is as follows:

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder - (http://sherksilver.coldfront.net/index.php)
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Name:
Level: 50
Archetype: Controller
Primary: Ice Control
Secondary: Kinetics
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01) --> Block of Ice==> Empty(1)
01) --> Transfusion==> Empty(1) ...not only provides heals...but helps with end regen.
02) --> Siphon Power==> Empty(2) ...provides +dmg to u and allies...provides -dmg to foe
04) --> Frostbite==> Empty(4) ...group immob
06) --> Recall Friend==> Empty(6) ...erm...handy
08) --> Swift==> Empty(8) ...chosen for map maneuverability
10) --> Siphon Speed==> Empty(10) ...provides you with superspeed...provides foe slows to regen and movement
12) --> Ice Slick==> Empty(12) ...probably one of the best powers in the set
14) --> Teleport==> Empty(14) ...well u have siphon speed to give you super speed. this travel power and hover will get you anywhere and continue attack without much end loss.
16) --> Increase Density==> Empty(16) ...status protection for your allies...also is a good res buff.
18) --> Hurdle==> Empty(18) ...chosen for map maneuverability
20) --> Speed Boost==> Empty(20) ...altho end regen not as strong as empathy's RA...does the job just as well and your allies provides a good boost to their running speed
22) --> Stamina==> Empty(22) ...much needed when controlling
24) --> Hover==> Empty(24) ...coupled with tp. stops you from falling from the sky when you don't have enough end to tp again. keeps u away from those nasty melee'ing foes.
26) --> Glacier==> Empty(26) ...group hold, doesn't last long, so best slotted for holds when get the chance
28) --> Arctic Air==> Empty(28) ...confuses and minor fear enemy altho not so successfully. provides foe slows to regen and movement. practically useless in PvP...occasionally used in PvE
30) --> Inertial Reduction==> Empty(30) ....weeeee, make you and your friends jump really high
32) --> Jack Frost==> Empty(32) ...my first ever controller pet...and i've got to say its the laziest thing on two legs. stronger dmg in melee than blasting, its so passive you have to spawn it inside the middle of a mob.


If I do carry on the following I would go for would be...
35) --> Transference==> Empty(35) ...gotta take as provides excellent endurance recovery.
38) --> Fulcrum Shift==> Empty(38) ...another must have power...lots of mobs...give u lots of dmg!
41) --> Indomitable Will==> Empty(41)
44) --> Mind Over Body==> Empty(44)
47) --> Psionic Tornado==> Empty(47)
49) --> Flash Freeze==> Empty(49)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Containment==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
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I've missed out the following...

Ice Control:
Chillbalin...does better damage than Frostbite, butgiven the option of immob one foe to a large group...I'd go for the large group immob.
Shiver...does no dmg and the slows aren't too fantastic.

Kinetics:
Repel...useless against status affected players in PvP. Effective in PvE, however the endurance it uses to bounce foes away is ridiculous.

As you can see from this, I'm not really too enthusiastic about the set...but maybe it'll help you with your controller.

Good luck!

Capt

Time and again I've mentioned about creating another SG to house all our 50s.

I've resigned to the fact that we're unable to move all 50s across due to accounts no longer being used.

I'm wanting to move all active alts (including the ones in the Academy) into GoEH and fill it up with 50s. As soon as it has been filled, will continue in the Academy instead.

Hero Photo Pictures:
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Also if possible, could people send me individual pictures of their alts in GoEH (preferably screenshots from the Character Creation screens 800x600 at least). I'm wanting to use the images for a collage I'm making also as part of the GoEH website.

You can send in the pictures to me on captain_solaris@hotmail.co.uk

Cheers
Capt

Hehe...thanks guys and gals

Always giood to get another lvl50 under the belt.

Think we'll be working our villains up next time around, however you can never keep a good hero down, so I'm sure somewhere along the line will most likely get another hero to 50 soon.

Cheers again!

Capt

Woots!

Congratulations on another 50 matey!

Capt

Although 1/4 to go of a the last bar in lvl49, you may as well put him on the list as could've lvl'd him 50 yesterday...

Just waiting for a particular person to be there when I do eventually ding...unfortuantely she hasn't been able to come on due to a million squillion things happening in RL! :P


Gabriel Knight:
Scrapper
Broadsword/Regeneration
Dark Mastery

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Since the majority of people interested are in the South of the country, I'm thinking Oxford and most possibly for Saturday 9th September. An afternoon meet up and drinking all day!


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Going to have to scrub this date as I'm going to the Philippines for a fortnight on the 5th Sept. Mainly to resolve a family projects (and also to pick up some nurses for the SG Base too).

Perhaps the weekend on the 25th Aug or 1st Sept. Think Matron and Spec easy on which dates chosen, as long as they're forewarned about it in advanced. Those interested, state which weekend you'd prefer.

Capt

Just had a little shuffle round of the rooms...well, moved the Energy room to the back and put a Vault near the entrance portal.

After just reading the replies...yes...we do need some magic worktables. Will most likely remove the Vault in place for another workshop. Otherwise it'll be a waiting game for bigger plot for our base.

I've given some of the rooms a facelift with a bit more decorative items, unfortunately I couldn't find a pole large enough to support Schro's largish frame when she's feeling fiesty for a pole dance. Also, as Paragon City is experiencing a bit of shortage on nurses, I'm having to employ migrant Filipino workers to fill in...they'll be with us shortly...

Keep plugging hard guys! We'll ahve a base plot upgrade in no time!

Capt.

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There's one more space available on the plot, large enough for another room. So if anyone woul like to suggest anything else for the base, will take them all into consideation.

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A wardrobe for all my cossies

Well, the only thing i can think of, is using it to place that generator we currently have to walk around/into when we enter the base

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haha...its tactically put there for furture base raids! ^^ But yes it does get in the way doesnt it? Will change its positino later today

*Lights a cigerette* So how was it for you?

Overall a good CoH weekend getting Gabriel Knight from lvl44-49, Terrax lvl34-35, Krysalis lvl30-33 and Audio Bully lvl10-13.

I even managed to get from 0 to 7bars into lvl49 for Gabriel Knight before getting kicked out this morning from the servers.


Thanks to all who achieved to get squillions of prestige for our base. I've been able to modify it so we now have the following for use:
[*]Teleporter Rooms: All locations: The Hollows, Perez Park, Boomtown, Faultine, Striga Isle, Dark Astoria, Creys Follyx2 :P[*]Workshop: Basic Forge, Advanced Forge, Empowerment Station[*]Medi Bay:Medi Teleportersx2[*]Storage: Enhancementsx2, Inspirations, Salvagex2

There's one more space available on the plot, large enough for another room. So if anyone woul like to suggest anything else for the base, will take them all into consideation.