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Heh. You CAN teach an old dog new tricks. I've been around since 3 months before my forum reg date, and I did not know that.
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Quote:Not the case. I've had it happen solo.It was suspected at one time that if teamed with someone that couldn't get shards and the game rolled thay they would get one as a drop it would go to the eligible toon but I don't know if it was ever proven and I've never noticed it myself.
Maybe there is the possibility for a Shard drop on more than one table?
I know you can get a salvage piece, and inspiration, an enhancement, a recipe, and a temp power recipe all at once. Maybe the same thing is happening here.
I've only heard of it happening very rarely though, so we don't really have any way of knowing for sure. -
Quote:Worked great for the Silent Hill series.It's kinda sad to say this but I'm not going to miss the old DA. It was a noble attempt but the idea that you enter a zone and look around and the entire world is just grey in every direction is just not good design.
I imagine the idea behind the zone was similar. Fog is creepy when there are zombies milling around in it.
The bad design part was the fact that our characters travel at a significantly greater speed than walking. -
I'll look at a build when I get home today.
It should be pretty similar to building a Broadsword or Katana for positional softcap, which I've done (he's awesome) -
Quote:There was never supposed to be a way to enhance the defense values of Active Defense at all. The fact that it doesn't accept defense enhancements illustrates that nicely. It was a completely unintentional side effect of the way Hami-Os were originally coded.Yes but what I am trying to clarify -- there does not appear to be any other way to enhance the defense values of AD
I'm sure the developers said "Ah, crap, I was hoping they wouldn't stumble across that" when the first person figured out that Membranes would increase the amount of DDR Active Defense gave you.
I'm also pretty sure that the use of Membranes in that way is one of the things that prompted them to work on this change sooner rather than later. Shield wasn't meant to be superior to SR in every way, and the only reason it had the same DDR is because people were using an exploit to get it. -
Leading with Shockwave is a HORRIBLE idea. It's a powerful cone KB power that deals very little damage. It will knock everything out of range of the rest of your cones, and scatter them to the side as well so you won't be able to hit the ful spawn with the rest of them.
And I wouldn't use Siren's Song as the closing power. It also deals very little damage and if you start the chain again you'll just wake them all up. It's better used as an opener before your single target chain. Wake them up one at a time with Screech and you'll never even be targeted by anything, let alone damaged. -
Quote:Not necessarily.(although Assault Rifle is mighty specific about its origin)
You could be your basic mercenary/military type.
Or you could be.....
.....a mutant with the ability to create a tiny pocket dimension to store your equipment in. When it's out of ammo you put it back and pull out a different one.
.....a mage who has an enchanted assault rifle.
.....a being created entirely of nanomachines who can create extensions of their body in any form they desire (who happens to choose as assault rifle)
etc.
Just because you use an assault rifle doesn't mean your origin is set in stone anymore than it does for any other set. -
Quote:I generally assume that most people will play both sides of the game at some point or another. So if you decide to try out hero side, at least you have an idea of what to look forAren't those for Heroes? As I said in my post, we're playing Villains. This is the kind of advice I'm looking for, but I don't think the Heroes version is any use to me.
Villain side I usually just bang out paper missions and run whichever contact sounds like a good idea at the time, so I'm not much help there unfortunately. -
Aggelakis explained it pretty well, I'll try it too and see if my explaination makes more sense to you.
As a VIP player, you have 12 slots per server automatically.
If you purchased, or otherwise earned enough slots to have 36 on a single server as a VIP, that means you have ADDED 24 slots.
Now, Premium players only get 2 slots automatically (total), PLUS whatever you have purchased or otherwise earned.
So, since you don't get 12 slots per server as a Premium player, it is only taking into account the additional 24 slots that you acquired in order to fill the server. 24 + 2 = 26.
It's working exactly the way it is supposed to. You are keeping the slots you paid extra for, but you are losing the slots that come with being a VIP (which you did NOT pay extra for) -
I recommend the storylines that are found in Striga Isle and Croatoa.
I don't know if you've noticed it or not, but in your COntacts tabe there is a button that says "Find Contact". When you hit level 20 a contact named Stephanie Peebles should have shown up under that tab, she starts the Striga Isle storyline. It's a series of 4 contacts that have a continuing storyline all contained within one zone, much like the Hollows if you ran that earlier (which you should do if you have not yet). After the Striga arc, another contact wil show up in your tab named Gordon Bower, he starts the Croatoa arc.
Those are older arcs, they've been around since Issue 5 or so, but they're still good ones. There is so much to do between level 20 and 30. I also recommend Keith Nance's arc and Roy Cooling (both start at level 20 and can be done up to level 30, so there's no hurry on them)
Also, run the signature Task Forces while you're at it. Doing all 6 of them gives you an accolade that will give you 10% more HP and 5% more endurance. They are: Positron (found in Steel Canyon, level 10-15), Synapse (found in Skyway City, level 15-20), Sister Psyche (found in Independence Port, level 20-25), Citadel (found in Talos Island, level 25-30), Manticore (found in Brickstown, level 30-35), and Numina (found in Founders Falls, level 35-40) Note that you do not have to be within the level range of the TF in order to run it, the only requirement is that you are above the minimum level, it will auto-exemp you if you're above the max.
You might want to run the Moonfire TF while you're in Striga as well, and if you run the entiore story line a TF will unlock that wraps it up (Ernesto Hess is the contact for that). Croatoa culminates in a TF as well (Katie Hannon is the contact for that).
That should keep you guys busy for a while -
Quote:Oh, I'm sure there will be a pay wall of some kind.Yeah, they didn't do all this work on 4 legged rigs to give us this set for free. You're kidding yourself if you think it'll be free lol.
I was just saying I hope there won't be more of a pay wall than there is already. -
The $64,000 question is: Will it be free to VIPs or will it be a pay for everyone set?
I hope it's a "Free for Everyone" set. It would be kind of a dick move to make Premium players pay for Masterminds and then pay again for the Beast Master set. It would cost a Premium player who doesn't have MMs unlocked yet 2,000 PP, or $25 to be able to play this set.
Just my opinion of course, but I think since MMs are already locked, their primary sets should ALL come with the unlock (with the exception of Demon Summoning, which is part of Going Rogue) -
I made the most annoying enemy group ever in one of my AE missions.
Minions with Ice Armor and Icy Assault. With all 18 powers.
If you're fighting 10 of them, you have: 20 copies of Chilling Embrace stacked on you, and no end because they tend to all fire Energy Absorption at the same time.
Oh yeah.....they fly too
I put them in a mission advertised as a fire farm......they were the ambush
The comments I got on that one were HILARIOUS. Imagine the havoc they would wreak on a Fiery Aura brute, with almost no resistance to Cold damage.........
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Quote:The chances of ME buying it are exactly......0%.Give me more ways to obtain my Glad proc what are the odds i spend 2.5billion to buy yours?
I can build my characters just fine without it.
You know, there IS another option to deal with prices on the market. Learn how to build your characters cheaper. Why would I spend that much on a 3% defense IO when I can take Maneuvers for free? -
Quote:Not even CLOSE to the same thing.That's like saying that inflation would go away if people just stopped spending more money for things.
In a real world store you have the option of A) paying what the store is charging for the item you want, or B) not getting the item you want.
In CoH's market, the item goes to whoever is willing to pay the most for it. It that environment, you can pay the "I want it NOW" price, or you can guess what the average set price is and place a bid, and eventually you will get your item for the price you are willing to pay.
In the real world, inflation is caused by many things. In CoH's world, it's caused by the players throwing a pile of money at something until they get it. The devs and the game have nothing at all to do with how much players pay for items in the auction house. -
Someone actually BOUGHT that name?
I might roll a villain on Freedom just so I can find Arbiter Death and laugh at him for paying 2 billion for an unoriginal and completely ridiculous name. -
We've never gotten single missions in Ouroboros unless they are badge granting missions. That mission gives you the Agent badge, so it's in there.
The rest of them don't give you a badge by themselves, so they aren't available as single missions. -
Quote:First off:Better?
The reason I am having a "hissy fit" is as I explained CoX is dieing, I am willing to do what ever it takes to keep it. I love this game, but I don't think we have long to play.
CoH is NOT dying. Our population has been holding steady for quite a long time. So we don't have 10 million people playing. So what? Not having 10 million people is not an indication that the game is dying. In fact, that is an aberration, not what MMOs should be measured against. Before the 10 million subscriber game came out, 100,000 players was considered wildly successful, and is still a good benchmark. We have been over that mark pretty consistently for 7 years now. And there is no signs of it dropping off anytime soon.
Second: Consolidating servers WILL NOT SAVE A GAME IN TROUBLE. It pisses off the current players, and new players will stay away from it because they take it as a sign that the game is on it's way out.
Seriously, stop and think about it. If YOU were considering trying out a game and you found out that game just shut down half of its servers, would you still play it? The overwhelming majority of gamers would answer "No, I don't want to get involved in a game and start enjoying it, only to have the game shut down right when I start having fun"
There is a reason you are getting these responses in your thread. It is, quite simply because shutting down servers in order to force people to clump together is bad for the game.
Do a search of games who shut down some of their servers, and tell us how many of them still exist. I'll be very surprised if you come up with more than a couple that shut down some of their servers and didn't shut down the rest of them shortly thereafter.
Your entire mindset here is getting very tiresome. The whole time you have been telling us that since we're playing an MMO, we HAVE to want hundreds of people around us at all times. That is so far from the truth it would be a long distance charge to CALL the truth.
The simplest explanation for this whole thread is: You're just flat out wrong and can't accept it.
You want more players around you? Move your damn toons to Freedom and stop trying to get MY server shut down because you think I should have to play how YOU want me to.
Aett has a good point: You are insisting that everyone must play how you do, and WE'RE narrow-minded. Does the term "irony" mean anything to you? -
Oh, and I checked Pinnacle's population at 6:30 Central.
243 people online in the places I could check.
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I'll say it one more time.
I play on Pinnacle because I WANT to play on Pinnacle.
Force me to move against my will because the server is being eliminated and I will be quitting the game. Immediately.
It's that simple, and I am not the only person who feels that way. In fact I'd say that probably half the people who play on low population servers feel similarly. If they wanted to play on Freedom, they already would be.
I'm not part of the giant throngs of people on Freedom by choice. Don't force me to be so YOU can play the way you want.
You already said you have your names saved on other servers. Use your free server tansfers and move them your damn self, instead of trying to get the devs to ruin the game for hundreds of people so you can be lazy and impatient.
Or you can pay $10 each if you want to do it right this second. -
Forbin, your screen shot only showed hero side. It left out the 12 on villain side.
It is a good point though. 40 people on in the middle of the day, before most people are off work or home from school.
You should post another from around 8:00 PM tonight. -
Quote:If they buy a boxed copy of Going Rogue and apply the serial code, it should indeed unlock Praetoria and the Alignment system, which are both things you get to keep if you have Going Rogue and drop to Premium status.So in my quest to recruit new players, one asked me yesterday: "What happens if I just buy Going Rogue? It's $15 at [some random store]. Will that unlock Praetoria and the Alignment system for me, even though I'm still a Premium?"
Honestly, I didn't know how to answer. The discrepancies between what you buy and what you get just confuse me--and as a VIP I can't test this out.
Can anyone help me help my friends?
Thanks!
Additionally, it will count as applying a serial code for the purpose of obtaining an extra Reward Token. -
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HELL NO on shutting down "dead" servers.
I play exclusively on Pinnacle, because I LIKE IT THERE. I like the fact that I'm not forced to deal with throngs of people at all hours of the day when I log in. My computer is not top of line by any means, and huge crowds of people cause my system to lag a LOT. If I had no choice but to play on servers as crowded as Freedom, I would have no choice but to quit playing altogether. Unless you think it is fair to force people to spend money they don't have on a new computer so they can play a game they could play just fine a week ago.
I also enjoy the community on that server, and I would rather not see it spread out amongst all the other servers.
You seem to have forgotten that a large number of people A) Stay hidden at all times to avoid blind invites, and B) spend most of their time inside missions where you can't see them. When I logged in on Friday afternoon there were 120 people logged on in my global channel alone.
10 transfers for each server will be enough? Not even close. I have 27 characters on Pinnacle. If Pinnacle were shut down and I were only given 10 transfers, I would have 2 choices: Pay $170 to move the rest of my characters, or have 17 of them gone forever. Now, if I don't have the money to buy a new computer, what makes you think I would have the money to spend on something as relatively frivolous as moving characters in a video game?
Shutting down servers will NOT bring in more players, it will just create the illusion that there are more players because they're all being crammed together on a smaller number of servers. It will also stand a good chance of creating a net LOSS of players when people get upset that their server is being taken away and quit.
I'm not the only person that feels this way. I'm quite sure this thread will explode with people saying variations on what I just said.