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Quote:This was just asked for on the 8/4/2011 Ustream and Positron said they are not developing power-set respecs because it requires too much work, and changing archetypes just isn't possible.Originally Posted by Wavicle
I would like to see in the Paragon Market in i21 or later and item that allows one character to do the following:
*Change your Primary and Secondary powerset (one or both), but not change your Archetype
*Change your Origin (if so desired)
*Revert to Level 1
*Retain Name, Supergroup, All Badges, Prestige, Inventory Slots, Items, etc.
Such an item would allow for the much asked for Powerset respec for toons that were originally made before the release of more recent powersets without allowing people to skip the lower levels on those powersets. -
Quote:GOOD! That means the Beta testing is working as intended. The devs are discovering game crashing bugs that need to be fixed before Freedom goes live.Originally Posted by Madame Nemesis
I've been a PAYING customer for over a year and am not recognized on the beta server AT ALL.
So stop acting like a petulant 6 year old with entitlement issues. Your subscription doesn't entitle you to anything more than access to the live servers. The Test and Beta servers are a privilege the devs can deny us whenever they like. -
Quote:It's not an exploit. It's working exactly as the devs intended.Originally Posted by rsclark
No, not total BS. He asked how to complete the mission, not how to exploit something to clear the map.
Quote:Farming
It is actually possible to reset the mission, and thus farm a Safeguard mission for badge credits. But some very specific things must be done to make it happen.
Safeguards start with a bank robbery that will start automatically even if the bank is left alone. But it is possible to stop the robbery, in progress, without defeating all villains in the bank. The key is the group of villains milling about the bank lobby. They are part of the bank robbery spawn, and must be defeated to complete the mission. But as long as they are not agroed, and the bank vault is not breached, they will never move from their initial spawn point. So the key to making this work is to quickly slip past the group in the lobby and get to the group at the vault. This group should now be defeated before they can breach the vault and activate the villains in the lobby.
One major hazard in this is that it is very easy to knock enemies back through the vault door. If this happens, barring the presence of TP Foe, there is no way to get at the enemy now beyond the vault, who will proceed to resume working on destroying the vault door. At this point all players should log out for several minutes to force a hard reset of the mission as soon as possible.
If the vault group is successfully defeated, the robbery is halted uncompleted, and the mission will never succeed or fail. Even better, the timer never starts, and the cycle of vandals never start. But the side missions can now be activated and completed, and when all desired side missions are done, the mission can be reset and the process can be repeated. -
Talking about something that the devs told everyone about when they announced CoH: Freedom doesn't violate the NDA. So we can say the store is broke, and that emails are broke. Now if we started discussing specific features/items in the store or how much they cost, that would be a problem.
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Quote:Total BS.Originally Posted by rsclark
First off, on Heroside, always run to the bank as quickly as possible ignoring anything on the streets. That buys some time. But other than that, it's all about kill speed. If you can't finish off the initial door guards fast, then you need to be able to survive both groups at once as you whittle them down.
1st - Run directly to the bank and enter.
2nd - Ignore the mob in the lobby. The only important NPC's that need to be killed are the ones going for the bank vault.
If you are lucky the guys going for the vault will be at the entrance, if not just run past the lobby mob to the vault. The Lobby mob won't follow you.
3rd - After killing the NPC's that went for the vault, exit the bank.
DON'T KILL THE MOB IN THE LOBBY! IGNORE THEM! KILLING THEM STARTS THE 15 MINUTE TIMER!
4TH - Exit the bank and clear the map and side missions at your leisure.
5th - After you have cleared everything on the map ONLY THEN go back to the bank and finish off the mob in the lobby.
Mission completed successfully.
If you like you can stay in the mission as the timer counts down and fight the final mobs that spawn.
The above steps only work for hero safeguard mission. For villain Mayhem missions the timer starts as soon as they enter the mission.
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Quote:Personally I prefer Alyson Hannigan over Sarah.Originally Posted by Head_Kracker
Ah you Sharah Michell Geller fanbois.....I swear.
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Quote:Only the 33 month vet reward gets a damage bonus based on the characters origin.Originally Posted by _ACFU_
I can't find any references to it but I seem to recall that your origin can effect some of the Vet bonus powers. For instance I believe if you are magic origin and choose the blackwand power you get extra damage out of it.
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Although I understand why it might bother some people, I happen to like it right where it is. Of course I like to play with my screen set at that 1050x and my windows at 80% so I don't even notice it until I want to use it.
Oh and Bill's right about where this should be reposted if you want the devs to know about it.
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No that's it. The devs felt that this gave players more freedom to be creative with their characters, and they were right.
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Hopefully that means they'll have the store fixed, and we can claim those dang emails.
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Quote:Your looking at the wrong characters. It was Han Solo and Lando Calrissian that were given instant promotions to General in Return of the Jedi.Originally Posted by mousedroid
Somebody brought up Star Wars, but for all of Luke Skywalker's heroism at the end of "A New Hope," he wasn't declared a Jedi Master and given command of a Rebel Alliance star ship. In "Empire Strikes Back," he's shown to be a captain, and the leader of Rogue Squadron (I think), but ESB takes place a couple years after ANH, so he had time to earn that position. And they could've easily done the same with Kirk instead of that insta-promotion tomfoolery.
Admiral Ackbar: We have no choice, General Calrissian! Our cruisers can't repel firepower of that magnitude!
C-3PO: I beg your pardon General Solo, but that just wouldn't be proper. -
Quote:That's what you think.Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
(shrug) You're not a Romulan.
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Quote:From what I heard th respawn rate on beta was increased to what it is because the devs were anticipating the huge amount of players trying out I21. And even with that I still saw a couple of times where there were more players than the respawn could handle. That's why I started checking if Hellions counted if they were nowhere near the mission marker. (they did count)Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
What bugs me about open world isn't "Griefers" - yeah, I've run into a few (hey, PVP heavy game like Aion, it's almost expected) but the other MMOs "Go kill x of these and bring me 5 bat nose hairs" ... and they're in a limited area, and *everyone* is going for them.
Fortunately, so far the numbers needed are small (defeat 5 Hellions) and they've been respawning *really* fast. (Almost too fast, honestly.)
I don't think it'll be a problem. -
Quote:Then it looks like I'll be making a lot more Praetorians if I want to continue to enjoy instanced missions. This open world crap is why I haven't made a new character in that other super hero MMO in almost 2 years.Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
This. The griefers will come, they will try, and they will get bored. Kill-Stealing doesn't function well enough for them to get enough jollies here.
I see it as a good move on the Dev's part as one of the biggest complaints from new players is the sparse feel of the zones, when they complain the immediate reaction from us is to inform them about how heavily instanced this game is. That knowledge doesn't erase the 'Feeling' of being alone in the zone to new players though.
This strategy gets more and more of us out of secluded instances and back into the streets to be visible at low levels. -
Quote:Not talking about tagging or kill-stealing, I'm talking about players having to stand around in one spot waiting for things to respawn because they don't know they can go elsewhere to complete the mission, and players that aggro npc's in open missions and lead them on top of other players to get them killed. Both of which I've seen happen in the open beta.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Keep in mind that even just tagging an enemy counts. There is no kill-stealing in City. If you do some damage to a dude, you get credit for it; just because you didn't land the killing blow doesn't mean you didn't get credit.
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I'm not buying that his entire crew would blindly follow his insane orders. If I'm on a ship that goes back in time and my skipper starts acting nutty as a fruitcake he's gonna find himself taking a permanent dirt nap.
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Quote:I've tested the first Hellions mission and found that any Hellion in AP counts. New players won't know that kills away from the designated mission site also count. So at the very least tell players in the mission text when the kills count anywhere in the zone. The tiny fraction of players that like to be jerks can't cover an entire zone.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
I've done them on Mercy and it's fundamentally the same thing. I ran into no issues even when things were very crowded. While they lead you to a specific area, the area where there are foes that count is usually quite large with really fast respawn and low perception radius.
I don't deny it's possible, but I'd bet money it's hard to keep people from completing their missions for any length of time. At the very least it won't take people any longer than it does hunting over a wide area for uncommon mobs now.
If it does turn out to "need" a solution then all the devs need to do is make use of the phasing technology so that people beyond a certain level can't even see the mobs. -
The thing that bugged me about the film was already mentioned by someone else. Why didn't that stupid Romulan take his damn ship to Romulus and
A. Warn them about the supernova. and
B. Give them a huge leap forward in technology.
Even if the darn thing is just a mining ship there's a lot of stuff that's far in advance of what the Romulans currently had. -
Quote:Only the first part of the sentence you quoted was about the tutorial.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
How are higher level characters supposed to get into the tutorial?
Not to mention that in the "zone event" section of the tutorial the conditions aren't personal. Anyone makes a kill, everyone gets credit.
Besides, it's not like the tutorial is always going to be jam packed with people after the first month or so.
The rest of the post was about the missions in Atlas Park.Quote:The shared mission in the tutorial is no different than what we've had for years as zone events and fighting GM's
That is why I quoted this part of the OP's post.Quote:however sending players to the same location in a zone to fight regular street mob NPC's is a stupid idea.
The last I checked higher level characters aren't restricted from entering AP.Quote:3. Shared mission areas - there was one mission where you go into a Hellion cave and fight your way to a glowie. Shared mission areas are an incredibly bad idea. You always have competition for mobs and/or objectives, from what I've seen in other games, and you have the potential for griefing.
I'm sorry you found my response to the OP so confusing.
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Quote:Wait Buffy blew an entire town? HOW DID I MISS THAT EPISODE!?!?!Originally Posted by Head_Kracker
I kinda wonder if they will do a buffy and blow the town up in the last season?
Be even more ironic that Jack Carter HAS to blow up the town to save the town kinda dealy.
Oh wait you said "blew UP" . . . nevermind.
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Quote:Don't forget Marcel and his quantum cooking show. The make believe part of the show is that he's a good cook.Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
You forget weird semifake archeology shows and shows about haunted items. What next haunted pets?
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Quote:I think I'm the only person on the planet that wasn't bothered by the lens flares.Originally Posted by Shard_Warrior
How would they see him through all the lens flares?
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Verizon's on strike in my area so we can't switch over at all.
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Quote:How do we know they haven't already?Originally Posted by BrandX
Only if the one of the other universes don't beat us to it.
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Quote:Lothic I was supporting you. The only times I know of instant high ranks is when the country allowed people to buy their rank like the British used to do, or when new technology was being implemented and they needed to fill the ranks with experienced people.Originally Posted by Lothic
And I'll point out that this fellow at least had FOUR YEARS to show that he had the ability to warrant the brevet promotions involved. According to the wiki it implied he received the brevet promotion to Brigadier General almost under the assumption that he was about to die from battlefield wounds. That promotion didn't become official until after they realized he was going to live.
As I said before finding a FEW cases (I concede the point that there's more than just one example out there) of quick promotions doesn't justify Kirk's case - it again only proves that it is highly, highly unusual and even when it does happen there's at least some kind of established track record to legitimize it. Kirk playing cowboy for a week doesn't merit him a captain's chair any way you slice it unless it's a plot mechanic for a movie
Like how Gregory Boyington resigned from the Marines as a Lt. but when he re-enlisted he wrangled a Majors commission because of his experience serving with the Flying Tigers.
So it's possible Kirk could have been made captain of a much smaller vessel like a corvette or patrol ship right out of Starfleet Acadamy but a cruiser like the Enterprise? Total BS.