Golden_Avariel

Westley's post is pure win. I really like the "Bootleg Edition" idea. Especially if it promoted the villain side LOL

And I heartily approve of your signature pic too Westley

I think it is pretty likely he hasn't paid for a month above and beyond his free month from the initial game I purchased for him (we got tired of the Trial restrictions). He just keeps buying cheap copies of COH he finds around Dallas and applying those... and now his 2 month Referral has expired.

It's just too bad that it has to be a credit card payment within 2 months to get the credit if that's the reason. Plus I'm lazy and don't care enough to pursue it, but I can believe that would be a real turn-off for someone trying to use the system for the reward.

Hate to get off the flaming subject and back on the OP, but I have gotten quite a few people to at least try the game, and most have joined. I have yet to get the refer-a-friend bonus though. I'm not sure what hoop I'm not passing through but even when it says "retail activated" I don't get the extra time on my account.

Not that it matters much. Having another friend to play with is reward enough but... it's a bit disappointing to get promised something and never get it... ya know?

I have a mother/daughter pair, and a sister pair.

One person is both a hero and a villain - the villain is making scouting trips under an assumed name to Paragon city. I try to keep them about the same level (one dominator, one controller). The roleplay with that one is a lot of fun.

Other than that, they all know each other as acquaintences through the supergroups though, with the one exception, none of my villains are at all related to my heroes.

Yeah, I'll probably keep it for the run and hover enhancement although as much as she runs inside missions the extra jump height would be nice and I can always turn on Sprint for extra run speed since she never has endurance problems.

Changing the subject a bit, I very rarely turn on Hover in missions because, as a winged elf, GA has two giant view-blockers glued to her back. That makes the speed for hover a pretty moot point most of the time.

Does anyone else get annoyed with wings for that reason or am I the only one?

I really wish the camera could be set to not be blocked by walls and ceilings. I've played other games that allowed that and I've gotten spoiled.

Thanks guys! That was exactly what I was looking for.

I think I'll go ahead and replace my Swift enhancement with a Run since it isn't doing me any good now. Probably respec from Swift to Hurdle later.

I hate the forum search function *grumble*

Ok, I looked in the Wiki and found that 2 SO's pretty much top you out in fly at level 50. Assuming the same was true for all levels I put a 2nd slot in fly on Golden Avariel who I want to be a fast flier.

She's level 28 and her speed did not change at all when I put in the enhancement and seems stuck at 49.18 mph (wish I'd paid attention to the blue color before I put in the new slot). She's well over the limit now for her level with 41 from fly, 2.5 from swift and a base of over 14mph.

Is the wiki wrong that it requires 2 SO's to hit the cap at 50? If not, does anyone know at what approximate level the 2nd SO in Fly actually helps your speed?

I'd go make a suggestion to raise the fly speed cap across the board to support 3 SO's but I suppose that's been made a million times already? I can see now I should have gotten hurdle for her instead of swift. Ah well, live and learn I guess.

After hunting around some I found the hydra. This was definitely what I was talking about and far from being a GM...

Sometimes it doesn't happen. I rejoice if I get into the screen and the cursor isn't changing to a hand when hovering over something. It works fine as long as the cursor remains an arrow.

Strange and irritating bug.

I like +2 in bigger, higher level teams. However, if there are many side-kicks or the only damage dealers are side-kicks, then I don't think it is fair to expect them to do their job against a lot of +4 bosses... at least not if they are below the mid 30's.

Any bump up under any circumstance before SO's seems like you are just asking for trouble. But I guess I'm just a whimp and probably need to learn 2 play.

But to answer the OP, my duos and solo scrappers usually run at +1 as a matter of course after the mid 20's.

Don't worry Hube02. There are others who like to play just like you do. I too prefer 3-4 man teams where tactics are more important and the "sweaty palms factor" (challenge) is higher.

I do love steamroller teams that are clicking on all cylinders but not all teams immediately find their rythm. The worst teams don't even realize there is such a thing as a sweet-spot speed. They just keep increasing the hurriness factor and then wonder why there are so many deaths or worse, just assume multiple deaths every few minutes is normal. Slowing down, even a little can make a big difference and allow the team to actually finish the missions faster.

But very few ever want to hear that.

I thought this "known issue" was fixed with issue 15's release. I know at least some of the edges in some areas were smoothed out then.

There was no maintenance this morning. At least not at the normal time. Maybe the scheduled maintenance tomorrow will finally turn it off?

Strange. Feels like no one's driving the car doesn't it?

It's a level 30-35 "signature" TF so everything should spawn at 35+. If the boss is spawning at 34 that's a bug. If she's supposed to ramp up (however much) and isn't, that's a bug.

Hopefully when they fix the difficulty settings for all TF's this will get fixed at the same time.

I was attacked by some sort of tentacles once when I accidentally jumped into the water near Doc Delilah. I don't remember what they were called.

That was over a year ago and I haven't seen them since. I'd hardly class them as a giant monster... but it was strange and a bit terrifying when it happened since I was new to the game.

I've seen that room before. Is it the same one used in that RWZ mission to defeat both the Rikti AV and Nemesis at the same time?

That room is awful. The graphics glitches are awful. Stuff disappears when you are standing right next to it depending on camera angle. I was frequently standing on thin air while fighting rikti on the bridges. The lag could be terrific at times too. I'm glad to see I and my team aren't the only ones that have trouble with that room.