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Quote:Here's a few stickied threads up in the base construction section that might help.Originally Posted by daveyj3
question, is there a supergroup base requests thread? where would that be? down below somewhere? XD
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=223281
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=126231
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=220395
Base love has been ignored for so long that many in the base community have given up hope of seeing any requested improvements.
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Quote:Only problem is that Posi himself has gone on record saying that if they ever added a feature to allow emailing SG invites they would deliberately design it so we couldn't send email invites to our own characters on the same account.Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence
Only QoL improvement I need is the ability to email SG invites. Give me that and I will be a happy camper.
This was just back in October - November of 2011 during one of those live online web Q&A's they have. Whatever they're called.
They are dead set against making it easy for us to invite our own alts into SG's. It goes against their concept that SG'a are supposed to be multi-player content.
It sucks and it's a policy I seriously hope they change their minds on. -
Quote:Well to cure the lost you have to go to one of the following zonesOriginally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Don't you need to be in Steel Canyon for the next part anyways? Why not just use the crafting tables there?
Faultline
The Hollows
Kings Row
Perez Park
Skyway City
but to enter the Midnighters Club you have to be in Steel Canyon and give the password to the Latin Student at the entrance.
Oh and if the OP isn't aware right next to the University in Steel Canyon is a Wentworth's, and Redside the University and Midnighters Club is in Cap, right next to the Black Market.
So the devs already made two locations in the game with convenient crafting/market access. -
Quote:Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say the easiest, for all I know the graphics could be very hard to get just right. I do think as an aura we'd get more use out of it. As a power we'd be stuck with it as one thing where an aura we could have it propelling a flier, a Dervish on the ground like the Tasmanian Devil, or bouncing around with SJ/Ninja/Beast run.Originally Posted by daveyj3
path aura would be the easiest tho, i know
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Quote:I always thought that was the CoH way of saying they were coming out of the closet, and I fully support their choice of lifestyle as long as they support mine.Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid
So how do you feel about those who say their alignment is Rouge?
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Quote:/This.Originally Posted by Dogma
Here's the problem... you still need a leader, that has always been the issue with the queue. This problem won't go away.
Been playing for almost 8 years now and I can't guess how many thousands of times I've seen half a dozen people in the same zone spamming they are looking for the same TF, and not one of them was willing to be leader and invite the others. I'd run some missions and come back 45 minutes later and the same people would still be there waiting for someone else to take the star.
I've seen frustrated players get sick of the spam and invite them to the TF team to help get them started and leave the TF, only to see the losers themselves quit the TF and start spamming again because none of them wanted the star.
I've also seen far too many pug trials fail to start or have people quit upon entering because the team wasn't maxed out. -
Quote:No I'm not talking about temp power recipes. I'm talking about animated costume recipes that activate when the regular travel powers activate.Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
No more Temp Power recipes please. I would much rather just be able to purchase the ones we have now from a contact.
Wings flap when using Fly or Jump
Rocket Boots ignite when using Fly
So why can't we have a variety of jet pack costume pieces that ignite when Fly or SJ is used?
Or a flying platform for that matter.
A Whirlwind/Tornado could be a Pathing Aura.
These things don't need to be powers. They can be costume pieces/auras that animate in conjunction with our existing travel powers. -
Quote:Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
But how often do you actually play all of those.It depends. Some are semi-retired alts I lost interest in playing and moved off of one server to make room for new ideas. Some others like my Tanks have been created on various servers so I can join Tanker Tuesdays if I'm free on those nights. And some others are decent mid level alts I spread across the servers in case of unexpected server downtime.Quote:Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
Nothing, I was just curious.
And I'll admit a handful (less than 16) are name camping my global name. I haven't gotten around to leveling them up yet.
I just don't see the need to delete an established mid level or up characters. I have deleted lots of lowbies tho. -
Quote:Oh. Thanks for the heads up on that. You weren't the only one posting on little sleep.Originally Posted by daveyj3
thanks for your slightly condescending yet generous and helpful [especially with the title! XD] feedback, Forbin Project.
The chart (our visual representation for the Standard Code Rant, or SCR) is there for everyone, yourself included, to get a smile and gets used when something is described as easy to do, or what made it jump to my mind here your phrase, "give us... a not so difficult to make set" I wish things weren't so difficult for the devs. We'd have so much more stuff in the game.
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Quote:I heard the demons are also female but I haven't been able to confirm it.Originally Posted by Diggis
My protector bots are girls...
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Quote:Over a hundred alts here with at least 1 character on every server.Originally Posted by Stormbird
There have been people with several hundred.
That said, I don't see why people DON'T diversify servers. I'm not shooting down the idea, since I wouldn't argue with more slots, but it's not that hard to get started on another server. Use it for retired characters. Use it for villains or praetorians. Have people you like playing with? Bring them over with you to kickstart a new SG with a new theme. Meet new people.
But that's just me. -
Quote:Also forcing yourself to play a character you aren't enjoying can easily kill your interest in playing the game.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Forcing yourself to get to 50 with a character you don't like is just delaying the inevitable. Make new characters until you find one that you really enjoy, and then you'll see yourself get to 50 by having fun.
By creating alts you can put a character you aren't enjoying on the back burner, and come back to it later once you've recharged your batteries or if your interests have changed.
Personally I've never been a fan of melee characters, then I got talked into participating in Tanker Tuesdays when I have the time and now I have more Tanks than I know what to do with. -
Quote:Even the Ninja/Beast run powers as awesome as they are are non-slottable individual powers and are more of a poor man's travel power. By that they are better than Sprint but by themselves are no equal to any of the main travel powers.Originally Posted by daveyj3
true, about the last three travel powersets, but before that came three 'travel' powers that do not impose the same limitations: ninja run, beast run, and steam jump.
the limitations were due to the fact that the powers that were very highly requested, happened to also require a fixed flying pose and an attatched object, or an entire transform.
though, maybe you are right, and from now on it's 600points for a affect self only cosmetic travel toggle de-toggler. but that would be so sad, and be a sort of shame if they dont expand on the plethora of potential travel abilities and instead stay in the easy toggle de-toggler zone.
(tho Swift/Sprint/Hurdle do boost them)
Steam Jump is just Jump Pack with a new back pack design. They aren't travel powers but travel power boosters and can be used to boost the main travel powers.
Personally I think the devs went the wrong way with these new travel powers. I think they should have done these things as costume recipes. The recipes could have been account bound like enhancements to prevent them from getting on the market and easily sold for 80-100 pts each.
We already have a dozen or so wings recipes, and maybe half a dozen boots recipes, along with combat/movement only auras. So why not sell recipes for:
Animated Jet pack
Various flying object
Skateboards, Roller Blades, Rocket Skates
Sure the new transformation powers would be the same but I think most players wouldn't think twice about buying dozens of relatively inexpensive costume recipes because:
a.) Thanks to currently existing costume recipes we are already used to the idea that costume recipes are one shot purchases that can't be reused once created on a single character. and
b.) We are obsessed with costume creation. (Just look a how many extra costume slots we can buy) We tend to go nuts over getting new costume items. -
Quote:1. Nitpick. Nothing you mentioned has anything to do with Secondary MM power sets. Your thread titles " New Mastermind Secondaries " is misleading.Originally Posted by daveyj3
Hooray for Beast Mastery!!! I sure hope they can find what they need to customize the pets. panthers would be much cooler than lions, IMO.
Anyway! New Mastermind Secondaries, my ideas. The last two sets [the only new sets since the AT was brand spankin new if you dont count Thugs] have incorporated some of the most difficult animations, fx, and models yet in game. whips, and the coveted four legged model rigs.
Why not... give us... a not so difficult to make set that is requested, and would please many?
How?
Count the blast sets not yet incorporated into a MM primary [plenty to choose from].
[this can give you your two single targets and a cone or AoE]
Subtract the two upgrades [easy schmeasy].
that leaves four powers that would need to be made from scratchy scratch:
the three pet tiers...
and one wild card power to match the set.
match the numbers to other MM sets and voilà! A new MM set for all to enjoy.
I'm not saying to scramble together a half -hearted set... but rather... "dont break your backs. we just want new pets."
I have brainstormed a few sets as examples of not-from-scratch-and-not-as-intense-as-whips-or-wolves, as im sure many other players have, and these are some sets i would love to see happen and dont think would be too difficult. organized like this:
SET NAME
-minion/pet basis, models/NPCs used as a base, then edited to differentiate.
-three blast powers.
-wild card power.
[upgrades are not described because they are basically a buff animation related to the set theme, plus pet costume changes and power upgrades.]
feel free to add your own that you think are doable, without painstaking work of whips or four legged rigs that the devs lovingly made for us [and are awesome but seriously, you dont have to do that again. XD]
ok here i go
SWAMP SUMMONING
- altered tuatha models
- toss stump, swamp water [like bile spray cone], hurl boulder
- Swamp Creature [enhance and transform a minion into a living swamp mass of plant and earth matter for a time increasing their max hp and dmg output] example: serum for mercs
PIRATES
- um... pirates.
- pistol, sword cone or net throw, canon
- Treasure Raid - [a series of explosions in a wide targeted area reduce enemy to hit and your pirates raid them with increased dmg and rech] example: ninjas... sorta...
WIND SUMMONING
- storm elementals, dust devils
- three wind blast powers, one could be similar to scirocco's desert winds. a single target, a cone, and a targeted AoE
- a pbAoE windstorm that increases pet dmg resistance and to-hit, example: beast fortify pack
ARBOREANS
- razorvine, rosethorn
- thorn darts, plant immob, fling thorns
- carrion creepers as wild card power, example: hell on earth/soul extraction -ish
MULTIPLICITY
- doppelganger/clones [combo of meelee like street justice and maybe psi for the ranged lt/boss pets?]
- psi blast [you have a telepathic link to your clones :P]
- heal clone, + max HP +regen + recov, example: repair robots
CIRCUS/CLOWNS
-carnie based, six different looking clown/carnival/circus people. clown, strong man, feathery-showgirl-lady, tightrope walkers/acrobats
-ring toss? fire breath? not illusion based. whip would have made more sense here :P
-Main Event - Elephant temp summon with a sonic cone and smashing dmg, example: pet summon like soul extraction. or a bunch of clowns come out of a tiny car... example: thugs gang war
ok done. i think these sets could happen, be awesome and me more than half-hearted compiled sets [and be awesome quality like everything else the lovely devs give us] and wont require an uber hard work at the same time. a few new animations, ya, but not as intense as whips with giant noisy demons or wolves, wolves, and more wolves.
i think a lot of players would be happy, and heck, sell them. more minions, less trouble, happy campers everywhere.
2. Learn to use the search tool before posting. There are plenty of threads explaining what the devs have told us as to why they aren't doing MM pet customization.
Edit: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=281608
You'd also learn whether or not your pet ideas have been suggested before.
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4. There is an official thread that has been stickied by the devs/mods specifically for us to suggest new powers/power sets.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=114961
Guess which one is most likely to be read, the one that has been flagged and always remains on the first page near the top of the suggestion forums, or the occasional random ones that get posted and quickly drop off never to be seen again. -
You should all be thrilled to learn that all the Henchmen in the soon to be released Beast Master MM set (or whatever it's called) are females.
What? Why are you still complaining? You never specified they had to be HUMAN female henchmen. -
Quote:I once thought I was being cheated as well until I went back thru my purchases and compared what I bought to my points and I discovered the numbers matched. I was wrong, I wasn't being cheated.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Account Management -> Billing Summary -> Microtransactions (Last 90 Days).
This shows when you were awarded points. It has to the best of my knowledge never been wrong. The dates that points actually award has often been wrong, but they have always been correctly dated on that page, across many people I've asked (around a hundred by this point, maybe more).
Now keeping track is a simple matter of checking my point total the day before the free points are due and not buying anything until after the stipend is awarded. If I want to buy more points I do it after I get the stipend so I don't get confused again. -
Quote:The point I was making is that the devs aren't making new travel power sets. Their making 1 shot cosmetic/thematic travel powers that have no attack/defenses linked to them and aren't enhanceable/slotable. Restricting the use of all other powers makes it easier and faster for the devs to make them. There are no "pool expansions" because they are not a part of a power pool.Originally Posted by daveyj3
uhm ya. that is correct XD, but that is because they require a specific pose and are flying powers, with a specific object attatched. they are affect self only because they are constant-motion fixed-pose toggle-flys and the devs would be required to create new animations for all the emotes and powers otherwise.
the powers i am suggesting are not flying, and the one that is, is not tied to a physical object, thereby effectively canceling the need for the "affect self" that the hoverboard and magic carpet are forced to use. the fourth power i am suggesting, is a transform and is identical to the new coyote power, except that it is auto flying like the Kheldian Nova form.
yes, i do realize. i thought i explained that XD lol
So while it's very possible we may see some of these ideas in the future, they'll most likely have the same restrictions as Rocket Board, Flying Carpet, and Coyote. -
Quote:Originally Posted by daveyj3
I know that there is a lot we want as players, and little the devs can do without making complete new animations for emotes and powers, etc... so! Here are four of my suggestions, but there are plenty great ones out there!
These would make more sense as individual purchaseable powers, but they could also be expanded into pools with a couple more powers added.
"Sub-Terranean or Aquatic Transport"
-A ground-target-placement based pseudo-teleport power that could have animation options like "tunneling" or "puddle jumping" with the demon summon animation and the coralax summon animations for example. no new power/emote animations needed. NOT AFFECT SELF bc its a tp.
pool expansion? - "Geyser/Puddle Burst" [geyser animation from DFB trial Hydra Heads'attack, as a single target knock up and smashing dmg.
"Whirlwind Transport"
-A fly based power with a tornado, dust devil or whirlwind animation tied in. to make it combat, add a kb or minor +def and minor -tohit debuff like hover+hurricane. no new power/emote animations needed. NOT AFFECT SELF bc it's basically fly with a special aura/path aura.
pool expansion? - updraft [similar to air superiority effect wise, knock up and smashing dmg. has a gusting upward animation.]
"Motor-Board"
-basically the slide power with a motorized skateboard model attatched, or heck even just a skateboard[ish]. with spherical wheels to acocmodate the sideways traveling. have a -fly/-jump built in. WHAM, dont need to detoggle powers and make an affect only. no new power/emote animations needed.
"LargeEagle/Condor/FoxBat/Mini-dragon/GiantButterfly/GiantDragonfly Transform"
-would be a toggle, affect only, transform - LIKE THE NEW COYOTE POWER[best new travel power yet!]. would have an auto fly, like Kheld Squiddies, constant flapping when stationary, wings out when soaring forward, backwards flapping. we have wings, potentially a bird model from the attack hawk power coming. can be done maybe!
ok that's all i have for now. any other not-so-farfetched ideas or ways to improve these? [i.e. NOT riding animals or free players, and not vehicles b/c that has been explained as not do-able many times. XD] thanks for reading!
Uhm just checking but you do realize that none of the new travel powers that have been added allow the use of any other powers while they are on right? -
Quote:Also aren't Ninja and Beast Run just as fast as the max Fly speed when used in conjunction with Sprint/Swift?Originally Posted by Hopeling
It has considerably more than a tenth, and costs the same as either of them individually, not more than both combined.
It... is. It's far superior to Sprint alone. You don't get SS nor SJ by default, you have to spend power picks on them.
I did like the idea of an additional option for a purely cosmetic toggle, though. -
Why does there have to be an upper limit at all? If someone is willing to spend hundreds of dollars to buy slots on one server, who are we to say no? It doesn't affect our enjoyment of the game., and the game makes more money.
And if some dingus is stupid enough to put all his eggs in one basket, it'll give us something to laugh at when his server goes down and he comes here to ragepost.
On the other hand I suppose that it's possible that some nefarious players will use this as an opportunity to name camp all the "good" names on a server and then sell the names to other players and/or try to use it as proof that the devs should get rid of our unique naming policy. -
Yes we all want this. However I think part of the problem for why we don't have them is that it would really tax bases and cause serious lag issues.
A lot of base builders know the more animated items added to bases, heck even bookcases cause problems, the more lag they cause. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Personally, I'd love for both of those to come with a no-cost, no-stats toggle that's just for cosmetics. If my werewolf could run like a beast all the time without worrying about endurance cost, then I'd be more than happy to give up the movement speed and jump height buffs.
I find that one of the biggest mistakes with Ninja Run was to attach stats to it. This made it impractical to run all the time, because then it had to have a cost and be mutually exclusive with a whole bunch of travel powers. I would not miss the extra movement if I could just use it all the time.
Buy and use the new Coyote travel power. Then your werewolf can shift into full doggie mode to run around and shift back into werewolf form to fight.
As to the OP's complaint.
1. Working as intended
2. Do some research before impulse buying. People are more than happy to answer your questions.
3. Beast Run like Ninja Run serve two purposes.
a.) Thematic and
b.) They are the poor man's travel powers for players that don't want to burn a power choice and slot on a real travel power. They are better than Sprint/Swift/Hurdle but not as good as SS or SJ.
The only real shame about the OP buying Beast Run yesterday without consulting anyone about how it worked, is that had he asked and waited for our replies he could have bought it today when it went on sale for 375pp as opposed to the 500pp it normally sells for. -
My house. That way I don't have to let in anyone I don't like.
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Quote:And next time you see that happen file a bug report. As Sam said there should be a waypoint.Originally Posted by darksilver_NA
no after you kill the first automaton on the platform you get no extra waypoint. I finish the story arc after that......
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