DaShuk2381

I see you copied my post from another thread but was just curious as to where in there you see that I was "crying doom" lulz Please do not try to use my simple response in a much larger thread to throw out accusations of spreading rumors, crying doom, or WTF ever else you put in your OP here. There were at least 15-20 other posts you could have used to prove your point of people fear mongering but mine was probably one of the least likely among them.

The main issue I have is I don't play the game much, maybe 3-4 hours a week at most and that is mostly on Fri/Sat nights. I have a core group of people I play with that has been built up over the past 5 years of playing COH. Now about 90% of them are gone and quite honestly I have had next to no luck finding new people to team with and I don't play enough to really make the effort.

The game is still fun for me, no where in my post was I crying doom or saying OMG lets boycott and leave COH, just stating that if enough of my core group leaves I am probably going to find some other game to play. Johnny still has the weekend TFs that I will probably stick around for, but who knows. The past couple of issues have also kind of been "blah" content wise which is another reason I am considering cancelling in the near future.

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My subscription expires within a few days. I'll be leaving the game. I enjoyed all of my time with all of you. I thought Infinity had a great community and I was able to explore aspects of the game with all of you I might never have gotten to otherwise, like strike forces and PvP and raiding. I enjoyed the joke threads and the events and all of it. I'm not sure I'll miss the game, but I'll miss the people.

Take care, all, be happy.

Love,

Sins

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Ow

It's like someone sucked all the awesome out of my day

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Yeah at this point I'll probably end up leaving the game at some point just due to the fact all the people I team/teamed with seem to be taking off. If Vit and Laylia leave that's pretty much it for me, haha.

I still want to be able to pick up cars and swing telephone poles like baseball bats with SS...lol.

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My subscription expires within a few days. I'll be leaving the game. I enjoyed all of my time with all of you. I thought Infinity had a great community and I was able to explore aspects of the game with all of you I might never have gotten to otherwise, like strike forces and PvP and raiding. I enjoyed the joke threads and the events and all of it. I'm not sure I'll miss the game, but I'll miss the people.

Take care, all, be happy.

Love,

Sins

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Nooooooo!!

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The sets would need to have Taunt, as you say, and I suggested it might be inserted in place of the usual Snipe attack. Beyond that, I'm not sure what you mean. The Tanker could aggro them and then take them apart one at a time? Isn't that what happens now? As I say, this confuses me a bit, could you elaborate?

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He means the tanker could aggro at range and then pick off the enemies as they are closing to melee distance from the taunt, hence meaning they have no chance to attack the tank.

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We both have many friends that we keep in contact with, and regularly engage in pick-up groups. Neither of us has personal knowledge of anyone who has been banned from the game, let alone masses of innocent people. If there really were a lot, I simply cannot imagine that we wouldn't have run across someone.

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I'm sure there are BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of them. My global list is huge, I run 3 SG's and I have spoken directly with exactly ONE person so far who got nailed (and freely admitted he deserved it).

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My global list is moderate-sized, I run two solo SGs (my own alts and maybe a smattering of others'), and I know... let's see here... at least ten people who had accounts temp banned.

Your experience is irrelevant. For every person that claims they didn't know anyone who got banned, or knew maybe a few people, there's going to be someone who knows large numbers of his friends got hit.

Was the moon landing faked because only three people actually went, and the TV broadcast was staged? If the entire population of the US had been present, would that have made it more believable? We have a name for people who don't believe the moon landing happened: crackpots.

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I wouldn't call them crackpots, the evidence against it is actually fairly compelling to anyone with an open mind, but this is not somewhere to debate that, lol.

What you said about the player base comparing their experiences is absolutely true though, we have no clue who has seen what given that there are so many servers and players in this actual game.

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He had Tough and Weave (I checked). Maybe he just didn't have them toggled? Shrug.

As for sets, he had *some* set bonuses but not a lot.

But he's not the first Fire Tanker I've seen get dismantled in an ITF. Sure its S/L, but they are large alphas. Having said that, most groups I've run that TF with have been the rush through variety, often times expecting the tank to be able to clean up their "wake".

Having said all that, it's been my experience that most (not all) Fire Tankers tend to build and slot for a scranker build over a tank build.

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Yeah I agree, one of the main reasons I took SS was because of rage and the fact it would allow me to focus less on damage output and more on survivability and better slotting for defense and resistances from IO sets.

Because ranged damage is for wimps. I'm a tanker, I like to jump in the middle of the fray and punch people in the face and get punched in the face and laugh at them for thinking they can hurt me.

Iron Man is not a tank in any way, shape or form. As someone else mentioned before, there are not a lot of superhero "tanks" that have ranged abilities. The game tends to follow the comics along the lines of those that do greater damage are also more vulnerable to attack. It's a trade off. I mean sure there are guys in the comics like Apocalypse that can do ranged attacks and are damn near invulnerable, but you have to be the most epic of badguys, etc. in order to get that.

The game tends to follow themes set forth in the comics for each AT and that is just the way it is.

Also another tip is try to get a couple sets of Healing IOs in different powers. I think I have at least 4 in HO, AB, RA and maybe in Health(can't remember, has been awhile since I looked at my build), because you get the overall healing bonus that you can use from up to 5 sets.

For example if you slot 4 Numina's in 5 different powers I believe you get a 30% bonus to healing powers. (6% from slotting 4 in one power)

My Emp/Rad was my first 50 so of course I really enjoy those two sets. I recently rolled a rad/rad and sonic/dark. The sonic/dark was more of a double xp weekend experiment but I quickly fell in love with the combo and it is probably my favorite defender thus far.

Sonic gives you great team buffs and excellent debuffs, coupled with the -acc debuff in the attacks from dark, plus you get an immob, stun and self heal power. I just hit 38 and picked up my nuke last night. Strolling into a mob and firing off Liquefy followed by the nuke is a pretty site, I can't wait to get them both 6 slotted. This is also a great "team" defender as you make it much easier for your team to "arrest."

So Sonic/Dark is my current favorite, but my Rad/Rad is also a lot of fun. Both are great "team" defenders and I never have problems finding a team with either which is another reason I like the combo(s).

So far agree with what everyone else has listed. I currently have it 6 slotted with Training IOs, 3 heal, 2 recharge and 1 end rdx. I am looking at either doing Doctored Wounds or Numina's as a full set, although I can't really afford Numina's at the moment.

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Fire/SS

I don't tend to play a lot of TF's so a reasonably tough but very hard hitting tank suits me fine.

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Same for me, just because it was my original tank and it gives me the chance to prove the "fire tanks are squishy and suck" crowd wrong every chance I get. It's also a very easy tank to play with lots of utility powers and great with managing aggro.

Human Torch and Hulk were also two of my favorite comic characters as a kid so it kind of gives me the chance to have aspects of both in my toon.

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Ugh ... I wish the Fire/Axe Tanker we had in our ITF last night was the "prove you wrong" kind.

But no ... he went down faster then a sub with screen doors.

Constantly.

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But ITF is mostly physical, thats weird. My fire/fire has 71% resist against that and 25%+ defense to range / melee /AoE with Multi-Strike, Titanium Coating and Red Fortune in everything. Even I new tank can afford a full set of those IO's as they are pretty common.

I tanked ITF many times and the only thing that mildly hurts is the AV

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Yeah that is odd, he probably just wasn't slotted up well or maybe didn't have tough/weave.

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Quit speculating and wait to see what happens. Given that there are currently two ideal sets redside for farming (Fire/Psi Doms and SS/WP or SS/Fire brutes) and that Castle is going to be looking at Dominators next issue, I have a feeling that if the developers are as anti-farming as some paint them to be, they will severely nerf PSW in i15 and rage in i16. The key word is severely, and would be paired with clear anti-farming posts on the forums.

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Not to mention the riot that a rage nerf would cause on the tanker forums, lol.

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Man conversation around here is going to suck farts once you guys quit.

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I concur

/e kicks self

I really need to work on one of my villains and get them lvl'd up so I can do fun stuff red side.

Not sure Redside, but would suggest hanging out in Peregrine Island and Founders Falls Blue Side and also check out here for weekly events and task forces. Johnny and the Taxis usually do several events and run a weekend TF just about every week for different level ranges. They are always well organized and fun, and I have never had a bad experience with any of them.

I'm just curious as to the whole thing the Devs mentioned about what they consider "leveling to fast" and all that jazz. Key example is last night. I run an AE mish with some SG peeps and a couple of other friends. Keep in mind the toon I was using just hit 37 and has been shelved for awhile(due to my altitis) so I had almost an entire level's worth of blue xp bar.

Anyways, I can't remember the mission we did but it was not a "farming" map or anything like that. It was a custom enemy group that was pretty friggin' hard, but to make a long story short, we run the mission in about 30 minutes. I get 7 bars of xp and 6 AE badges plus about 700k in influence and almost 700 tickets. I was actually concerned they might "look" at my account because I had gotten so much from just one mission, but it was clearly not a farm mission and as far as we could tell there wasn't anything violating their policy.

Team had to break up after 1 mission, but we could have honestly run this all night and gotten several levels, influence, etc. Hopefully I won't get my account messed with because I got 7 bars of xp in 30 minutes.

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Tony, I'm sorry man, but your logic is flawed. I don't know what the other peoples reasons are, but the reason I'm not 'GO'ing is because I want to make the most of the money I've given to the game. I've already paid my money for the subscription up to November (was on a 6 month program, or whatever) and to leave any earlier than that would be throwing that money down the toilet.

Doctor_A_Science, I'm afraid your analogy is a bit off. Censorship of children isn't the same as deleting the opinions of adults. It's not even like this is happening so much that it can't be addressed by the Moderation/Dev team. They simply won't have any of it. It is what it is. A man, who created a game, is telling another man that he shouldn't have an opinion about the negative aspects of that game.... and then... literally... taking his voice away from him. If you want to make a game good, you have to be able to accept negative feedback. But that's not what they're doing. They're telling us they are making the game the way they want to make it and if we don't like it, we should pick up and move on. So that's what we are doing.

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I am probably going to get a lot of blast against me for this but keep in mind that this is not towards anyone or am I defending the game, or the company but just a reasonable opinion. COX is not paying me for saying this.



City of Heroes is a Service Game. This means that they are in the field of servicing. Although we pay to play this game we also have the right to quit as well as City of Heroes has the right to delete any accounts they feel that customers are abusing, “right to refuse services to anyone” or change anything in the forum if they see that words are being misinterpret or incite hateful conduct. The Forum is free to the public but keep in mind that it still belongs to City of Heroes and City of Heroes are responsible for that Forum and its contents that are being put in there.

For Example: Let’s say I go into a Starbucks and order a cup of coffee and it’s done wrong or I don’t like how it is done. I paid for it and I go off on the employees or even the company and make a big scene. People who are in Starbucks enjoying a quiet time or even the atmosphere are ruin because of my anger, frustrations, and yelling. Believe it or not because of what I am doing in there I CAN ruin or EVEN affect other people’s enjoyment, atmosphere, and even changes their emotions, anger can arise from them, or they can ignore it. Of course, Starbucks employees can say “I am sorry but you are going to have to leave or say “we have the right to refuse services to anyone.” And I said, “I paid for my drink, I can say whatever suggestions or opinions I want and you can’t stop me.”

It’s the same concept as what CoX is doing. They are “Refusing the Right to Services Anyone” they feel that is ruining the game for other people.

Suggestions and opinions that they see is harmful or create chaos in the long run must be stopped before it is started. How many of us read some of the forums topics and misinterpret the words. A simple farewell to the game from a long time player has turned into chaos. And I think this is what CoX was trying to avoid.

Accusations start flying, anger arises and hate comes across. Words that are written have many misinterpretations and interpretations. As I sit here and write this and people who reads this, many interpretation can derived from what I am trying to point out. Some people may think this is reasonable, some people may think, “oh geesh Doc is taking this too serious” or “Doc is being hateful” and others may think my god it is just a freaking game. And you know what?, I can understand how a simple words, ideas, or even suggestions turns into something bigger that was never there in the first place.

However we interpret this keep in mind that we are all different people and that’s how this world is made up and because we are all different people we all have different thinking, ideas, opinions, suggestions, understanding, and interpretation of meaning, words, or even phrases.

Rock again sorry to see you go. I guess tonite will be our first time teaming. Good Luck wherever your life takes you.

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Well said and thought out. I think another thing that people tend to forget is that your right to free speech doesn't apply on an internet forum. A mod really needs absolutely no reason to edit, delete, ban, etc. Being a mod myself on two other internet forums(automotive and sports) I usually give people the benefit of the doubt, but in all honestly, the mods could be 100 times worse with some of the stuff that is posted on the COX forums.

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I don't quite understand the "you were fun on tequila night AND on russian roulette night" part. Is that kind of like saying I was fun through good times and bad? I hope so... Because I don't drink and i certainly wouldn't (willingly) put a gun to my head. lol.

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Possibly was referring to some of the "Russian Roulette" style missions/teams that she ran, haha. My catch phrase when she was team lead was a line from ALIENS...."The Sarge is dead, let's get the **** outta here!!"

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Sounds fun, looks like it will be out around the same time as the star trek mmo so ill have to try both

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Yeah I am def. going to check out the ST online game if they ever get it finished. Not a huge ST fan, but the whole "having your own ship" thing is kind of cool and I've always been a fan of space battles. I saw the SW one they were working on and that looked pretty sweet as well. I tried WOW for a few months on and off(old college buddies got me to try it) and just can't get into it.

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VIT! <3 *tackles* how are you?

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*shakes it off while laughing and pops another vicadin*

I am good - had a case and a baptism to be a Godfather at - was given the whole Witchblade anime dvd box set as a gift so I am looking forward to watching it - haven't seen any episodes - sad to hear about all these folks leaving though. How's Jersey treating you? I will be around this week so I will try to find you and Turt and get into trouble...and if you two leave as well, then I am just going to have to...

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No more leaving! I don't need anymore of my global list to vanish, lol.

The reason the devs are taking so much flack is because this issue could have been a non-issue in beta. From everything I have seen they clearly knew these exploitable areas were there in MA and did nothing to fix it because they wanted to rush out the new issue to the player base. Then all of a sudden they realize the epicness of their failure to listen to people in BETA and they bring out the atom bomb instead of just dealing with the issue in a reasonable manner.

It does cause some fear in the player base, I mean how are they going to react if something else happens? Honestly in the overall scheme of things this was a fairly minor thing and they could have easily fixed it by saying, "If you do it going forward we will find you and take care of it and you will be punished accordingly." There, end of story. Instead they went insane and decided to go overboard with the punishment. If you are going to punish MA people, than why not punish those who still farm in game? The Devs have been very selective in this whole process and have overreacted to a problem they created by not paying attention to the warning signs and what they knew in the beta test.

The whole "leveling to fast" thing is also a concern. Do I have to worry about losing my blaster that I gained 10 levels with in one night because I was sk'd with my SG leader who was lvl 50? I wasn't farming, I wasn't PL'ing, but I might have "leveled to fast." I think it is just the overall reaction to the situation by the developers that is scaring the player base.

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DaShuk!! you are back!!! So sad Dom Delouise is dead - watched Cannonbal Run movies like 50 times in his honor. We must team soon...

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Yeah I have been back for a bit now, but it has been really quiet Infinity side it seems. I will look for you in-game!

Yeah, sad about DD, I almost made a Captain Chaos character in honor

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I heard that in the next (and final) end game content they plan to release is you fighting a jacked up version of Positron. Posi has capped resistance and defense to all types of damage, 1000% debuff resistance, and is perma-phase shifted but can still attack you. His attacks consist of throwing random fruits at you from a giant, non-targetable fruit basket.

When Positron is at 50% health he exclaims that you've obviously PL'd your toons using MA and everyone is instantly dropped back down to level 1, losing all inf and enhancements. 2 minutes later you are booted from the server and issued a 72 hour temp-ban for egregious abuse of playing the game.

If by some stroke of luck you manage to defeat Positron before your account is temp-banned, everyone's reward is the same, a level 1 Damage TO enhancement.

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OMG, that is just epic lolz.....awesome answer Joe

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Agreed, lol.

It seems to me the main goal of the people who make their custom mobs is to make their mission as hard as friggin' possible. I might just be getting bad arcs but the few I have played with custom groups have all had LTs in them that are harder to kill than an AV(bit of an exageration but they have been tough!).

This arc I did last night had LTs that were Bots MM set to extreme + some electric powers that take your end in like 2 shots. There were 2 of them with every mob so you go from fighting 4 to 10. I ended up quitting after my 7th faceplant in less than 10 minutes, lol.