DojhromTRW

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards View Post
    I'm not sure if there is anything you can do about this, but I'll post it anyways:

    The powers Pocket D teleport, Base teleport, and Mission teleport are all getting interrupted somehow. In both animation and power execution. I will not be using anything, not even touching my mouse and the power will fail sometimes. Sometimes I can see the animations getting briefly interrupted and then quickly going back to continue the "casting teleport" animation.

    Sometimes I can do this over and over in a spot and the power will get interrupted, sometimes I can the teleport again and it will work fine. It seems like moving and then casting the teleport helps. It could be that the server thinks I've moved when I have not, or that any offensive auras that are not hitting anything are causing the interruption. A fellow player has said that they must turn off their toggles to get the teleports to work sometimes.
    I have noticed this is well, especially in the presence of an AE building or large population. I start the animation and then the character looks like it is having a seizure. I stopped using my mastermind because he travels via teleport and the animation chokes and I start falling before i can pull the next one off. I do run in windowed mode so I wonder if extra information is being sent to the client like the old chat bug?

    Also when I'm around allot of players, powers like reveal and costume changes also get shortchanged. Perhaps power surpression need to be added to the entire AE building, Auction house, and Black market, a few protective drones in trade would be a compromise to activate toggles when ready to leave the area.
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    Originally Posted by DLancer View Post
    Because I'm not colorblind.
    Ironically, you make an interesting point. A few color blind players need to be in the beta to help create / debug the options that normally restrict those players.
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    Originally Posted by Parsec_NA View Post
    When you use a power that buffs another person, can you customize the color of the effect on them as well, such as putting a red forcefield around someone or green ice armor? I assume it can, but if so, this leads into my second question: what happens when you stack two effects of the same kind but of different colors, such as a yellow and a red forcefield, or blue and green ice armor? Which color takes precidence, the one that was cast first, or the one that was cast last? Or do they both display somehow?
    It's a possibility that it will mix, but I'm sure pink and neon green are going to be very popular as most people just want to be attention getters. The dark colors will be popular in PVP.
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    Originally Posted by Crime_of_Fashion View Post
    I'm pretty sure there are 60 month vets who have never filed a bug report, never joined the forums and never logged onto test. The Closed Beta crew is selected based on unknown criteria to us, but you can be sure it contains those people who contribute to bug reporting and testing (for example, I wouldn't be surprised if the likes of Arcanaville and Liliacae are in).

    If I was organizing a Beta test of a product I would want people who knew what they were doing, not just the people who had been working in the office the longest.
    You would actually want a combination of both, but we are talking beta testing here and the fact is over the past 5 years some of us have changed very much in our play styles as well as time to devote to actual testing. Wife/Family/Job aggro are extremely important to some as that a "beta tester" is purely volunteer time. There is a nice demograpic of folk that have plenty of time to test and do it well, those should be chosen first. I have an easy choice with my extra time... get paid to build rockets or work for free here.
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    Originally Posted by Demobot View Post
    Sig pictures. I'm happy.

    EDIT: And what was so great about the old forums?
    The were faster to load and easier to thread. The more fancy features you put into a forum the slower it goes..I'm curious to see if these are easier to maintain.
  6. Could all this bad connection stuff be related to the Twitter and Facebook Denial of Service attacks? I'd suggest everyone who plays does a clean sweep of all the computers in the home - looking for bugs and the like.
  7. Not too bad, looks too windowish ....lets hope it loads faster
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    Personally, I would like to see these costumes that are given out as Cons be exclusively through the codes for a period of time - say 3 to 6 months. I would then like to see them go into the store for sale - say $5.00 a costume. That way attendees get a cool thing (for free) that is exclusively theirs for a short while, and then anyone who wants it can get it later for a cost much less than on eBay (and the money would be going to game development).

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    This would be fantastic. Seems unlikely to happen, though.

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    I totally agree considering that some people go to each booth just so they can profit off the SWAG. Just look at the details of the ebay sellers.
  9. Be resourceful - use both!
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    I'm thinking it's /coalition_cancel SG Name

    Also, be sure to have coalition edit permissions on the toon you're using to do the command.

    Hope this helps.

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    Thanks for the info. Energy and Control were restored today by the GM's. The above command is the correct command to cancel coalitions, unfortunately it still does not work with mine. I'm pretty much S.O.L. for the time being. I don't understand how it worked with the other coalitions, but it will not work for that particular coalition that will not break/delete. Works for some but not all. Oh well, guess I have to live with having a coalition in my list that I do not want. Thanks all.

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    My advice is to take inventory and screenshots of your Base ASAP and don't edit anything until the coalition is broken, rent cycle is back on track, and power and control fully working. These are all the signs of a pending base crash. The devs ran some scripts to fix all the bases a few weeks after I-14 but if this one wasn't reported it may fall victim to the bug.
  11. DojhromTRW

    Gauntlet 2.0

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    My only Tanker is WP, so I guess I don't see it, except when fighting Carnies and other things that directly drain endurance (especially Carnies, who take pretty big chunks when their death blow hits). Is endurance really that big an issue for other primaries?

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    Roll one up and level via paper missions. Especially solo ... you'll see what we mean *really* quickly.

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    This is a reason why I forced my wife to roll an empath . . .
  12. DojhromTRW

    Gauntlet 2.0

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    Noted.

    I still don't believe anything like this is necessary.

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    I agree, some of us back in beta and the early issues worked hard to get tankers to where they are now by giving really good ideas.

    What this idea would be suited for is perhaps an Arena only accolade.

    Finally, when I saw the title of the thread I was hoping to read items like: "Red Wizard needs food badly" or "Yellow elf shot the potion!"
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    I just was wondering, does anyone else get irritated when u finally get into a team, u do 1 or 2 missions, and then u have the "Incredible Shrinking Team" happen? What I mean is u do a couple of mishes with a really good/well-balanced group, and then the people whose mishes u did just leave, without saying anything, yer team just shrinks. To me that is kinda disrespectful and irritating. I am sorry, i had to vent.

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    If I'm on a task force / strike force I will stay until it's either a win or lose by the leader. (Plenty of red eye mornings from this)

    On a PUG I will stay as long as the dynamics are good and no anchors mooching at the door. (Some exceptions is when I'm told ahead of time) I may run 1, 2, 3+ missions with the group but I will do that first one for sure. If work or the wife calls, I'll announce it and complete what I can and then leave as those two things have higher priority.
  14. Wow way too many Q's there to make it worth while. I have been seeing allot more of this behavior with the AE babies running around w/o travel powers or even enhancements. Honestly, I don't blame either of you for your actions.
  15. Closest thing to this would be the council/ 5th column folks tranforming into a War wolf. I think this would be a great idea to unlock with the Science booster.
  16. I do something a little more exotic, ...eat a pink just before you crash [that' s your mez protection]. Once you crash, chomp a blue, and hop into quantum flight ... hit conserve power and do what you need to do in that form then switch on over to Dwarf form.
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    Nuke whenever it's up and there are at least 10 bad guys! I remeber waaaaaaaaaaaaay back when we would go to Crey's Folly and my tank friend would round up all the freakshow around the Warehouses near the Rikti Crash Site entrance. He taunt them into the shipping container and i'd jump in.... and BOOOOOOOM!!!! there would be like 100 dead Freakshow Minions and LTs and a whole whole lotta pissed off Freaktanks hehehe SQUEEEEEEEE!!!! I miss those days... DAMN YOU TARGET CAP!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!!

    [/ QUOTE ] Ahh the days of dumpster diving!
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    If you're a PvPer, I'd say not to take the nukes, but I don't think you're one of those hardcore people saying I ONLY PLAY PVP. So, w/e xP

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    Before defiance was changed you could eat a few lucks drop down from a high fall [capping defiance] in a group and nuke... killed many villains that way... but I was always un orthodoxed when I PVP'd since I did it seldomly.
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    (do not use Spam for emails with no name as that can cause difficulties when the system tries to ignore someone who no longer exists)

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    That's easily proven false. If you use the spam button on an "empty" name, you'll /ignore the global name that was attached to it. No difficulties attached to it. The empty names are not cases of the account getting banned, it's a case of the spammer deleting the character after sending out the spam.

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    The problem with this is you get a full list and you start cleaning the list of people you REALLY wanted to ignore. This is a problem, period ... no one should have to spend time hiding or tweaking an account to resolve this. The email system is made pretty much useless until the solution is implemented.
  20. I tend to use the combo of: Powerboost, Force of nature, Luck, Aim+ Buildup, Nuke, Blues, Conserve power, Totalfocus on the most threatening boss, mop up the rest. It's a face plant free method. [powerboost will help your resistance buff, tohit buff, and stun duration] At level 32 I think most Nukes are a little weak until you get it slotted so use with caution. Just remember that you will get aggro at the start of your animation and then again after the power damages your foes. You have two builds to work from so play around to which one you are most comfortable with.
  21. DojhromTRW

    Batteries

    They are for base raids, if your generator is destroyed, the battery will supply power up to it's capacity for everything in the room the battery is placed in. I suggest an Aeon Capacitor in your defensive control room and each defensive room with an anchor. Raids are turned off right now but it doesn't hurt to pre plan for some future development.
  22. I agree ... the wait was very long and the only really big groups were in Cap near the Black market and Near Miss Liberty in Atlas, everywhere else was dead. It didn't get the players out of the AE at all. The Transport ships move too fast to even bother getting a group to attempt one. Out of the whole weekend I only saw two unexploded bombs :-(. Fun, but not as much as I was hoping. Back to the War Zone and deal with them there!
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    Not sure if this has been covered, but does "Reveal" reach beyond a certain floor? Like, if I use Reveal on the first floor of an office building, will the other four floors be revealed as well?

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    An interesting distinction to make! When I read this I only thought of the outdoor zone maps, not internal maps. It would be my guess that this is for outdoors only.

    Dev confirmation one way or another would be good.

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    I agree, The Sewer Network is another example ...
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    Lame.

    I am a 63 month vet I have already memorized all the maps. removing fog of war does not in any way help me.

    Lame.

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    Think Going Rogue .... Click! Poof! Oh My!
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    I'd love to know how many people actually qualify for the 63 month badge on the first possible day. (Which, I think discount bugs, would be 7/27?)

    My main account has had an uninterrupted subscription since the 3-day pre-order head-start. (My 2nd account is about a month behind)

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    I lost a couple days when the pay servers went overseas ... my bank saw a large over seas transacation and put a freeze on it...could not do anything 'til that monday.