GrinningSpade

Buffing is a terrible job. Healing however is challenging when the group fights slightly above their competence but fun to do. Problem is Empaths cant solo even one tiny bit. As I solo 90% of the time due to the emptiness of our servers and my dislike to beg people for a place in their group I only dust of my empath when there is a call going out for one which only happens in tf's.

So yes, imo the empath is dead on the EU side. As is every toon that cant solo well for that matter.

A policeman is a person doing his job protecting the street. He is not a superhero. If policeman could do a superheroes job they wouldn't need us to do the dirty work right? In fact they would downright forbid us being vigilantes. It was only after heroes had shown that they could do things the poclice could not that the superhero act was signed.

So I don't see a policeman archetype as a viable one. If the policeman feels like beating up villains after office hours though. He can pick up his cape and do so in his own free time like any other hero. This will of course be nicely covered in i13.

Indeed one zone at a time is more then enough. Dont bother about of prime time either. Especially on villain side. Unopposed Raids are a bit pointless and 90% of them are.

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they already stated that they want to make the mission creator complete or not at all, so if the enemy creator is in, i don't think they are gonna leave out the mission map creator.

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This is another one of those, "yes, and the resources required to achieve it will be significant enough to delay the Architect into 2010," conversations.

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Putting on a stern face:

So stop requesting things that will delay the deadline back to i15! I want the mission creator even if it is not avle to do everything i dreamt of.

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On one of my 44's I got bling slightly after I reached 30, on the other after L31. Now that I am more aware of unlockable contacts I probably can get it sooner; that is, if I don't forget. Having said that, I really wouldn't mind if the contacts were simply available.

One contact I tried to unlock but got annoyed/frustrated with was with trapping ghosts.

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Ah yes Veluta. The ghost trapping thing is something of a trial and error and a lot of luck. BTW it is also part of an Accolade. So there should be some people willing to do this one.

I am not that favourable.

This is not about joe the beat cop on patrol. This is about superheroes and villains. Normal humans should not be in the picture except as people who need to be rescued.

And yes, I hate the manta, the scrapyarders and the normal police officers as well. For me they are wrong.

Indeed. The trouble we are in now because of the faster xp gaining makes unlocking additional contacts even harder and less rewarding then before. So people are forced to level up through the same boring old contacts as they did before. Resulting in boredom. Opening up these contacts would give the players a bit more choice and more fun.

Checking out my wallet here. This will be so expensive. I need 10 cossies for each and every one of my characters!

The wise person in me tells me to say no no no. But the fashion victim in me says:

/SIGNED SIGNED SIGNED

Sigh.

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Eh, which good content is this? the only unlocked contact that is particularly interesting is Doc Buzzsaw, and she is easy.

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Johnny Sonata, Television, Slot machine, Viridian all not worth doing? I disagree fully on this but everyone is entitled to his own preferences of course.

And yes, I would like to do even a tedious contact like 204. In fact I like to do every contact available. So wehn i level a new toon I can follow another path then the previous ones.

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But isn't that how games work? Achievement points on the Xbox? Getting 100% at a really hard game (Spider-Man 2 - one of the best games in the world :P )

Isn't the point of badges that they are a symbol of what you've achieved, so that you can wear them with pride?

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With badges sure. With badges that unlock something nice like a weapon or contact, no. It is a waste of developers time to make something that will be experienced with less then 1% of the playerbase.

Just to add to the speculations...

Isnt it after 1700 hours in the UK? If so what is our good Ghostraptor still doing in his office? Will we get an anouncement in 30 minutes??

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I know this isn't what you mean, but I'd like to see recipes for weapons to equip on weapon weilding powers. So a Bow recipe drops that you can add to the list of weapons your archery blaster already has.

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You mean like unlockable weaponcustomization recipes?
I would love that.

Impressive. Most impressive, a feat I cannot say I have repeated. But I never doubted that there are amongst us that are willing to go to the challenge. Die hard badgers and all. Just as there are persons who pwnrz everyone in PvP or can do Positron in less then an hour or the skislope in a badgewinning time.

However, not everyone one is and I will be neither of those persons. And it is a shame that good content is almost never accesed by a lot of the playerbase because the challenge to fullfill the requirements to be able to are so hard and tedious to get.

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Ooohh well done! Now we have more to worry about!!!


grabs some popcorn.

This will be worth viewing!

I concur. He IS evil. You got to admire a mastermind at work here. Bravo!

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Ta me ag dul go dti an siopa
Ceannaigh me IOs. Is maith liom IOs.


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My mother is a what??? <<Whistles harshly and thugs come running along>> Right boys beat him to a bloody puddle please!

Roleplayers these days, no respect. Thats what you get, no respect!

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So they still see GW/LA2/CoH as their core 3 games, with TR/DR as 'lower'.

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LA2 just had a huge server merge a few months ago........
Accorcding to friends who are doing that game it improved gameplay a lot. Interestingly, a lot of players in that game are from the former eastblock. It is the american servers that has gotten the shaft while the euro servers are crowded.

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Excellent. Now there just needs to be a cartoon about griefing roleplayers.

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Role Players

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LOL nice find

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Makes me happy that in our game we don't have to speak old style gaelic or something.

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Number 204. Kill huge amounts of Toxic Tarantulas. Fly around for a few hours in Grandville and try not to outlevel contact before you get it. I am sure this is a nice contact. Never managed to do him though.

Viridian. Well for this one you need to kill left and right. Crey, rikti, freak tanks, lost bosses and lets not forget 200 Crey protectors. Hope you like farming missions for this one.

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The only one i've yet to do is the Slot Machine

Number 204, considering the huge amount of work it takes to get the Toxi Ts, especially before lvl 45, is such an anticlimax. Somewhat well written, but just short and boring.

Viridian's "The Conference of Evil" OTOH is my personal favourite arc in the game.

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Well Slot machine is fun but worth hunting for a hours and hours? In fact working much longer to obtain the contact then you will spend doing the contact? I have done it once and sadly that will be it. Just as i missed 204. I'ts not worth doing it like it is now.

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Tbh, I do that hunt on every toon for HPT. I'm quite content to go and do the arc via ouro if the mood takes me. Some of the secret contacts however have such a massive gulf in quality. Viridian/Doc Buzzsaw/Ghosty Night widow woman = fantastic...

Henri Dufail and Number 204 = terrible. Just plain awful.

So I guess you can view the hunts as a distinguishing feature for those who care about quality of content enough to take time away from xpees to hunt, or as a mindless chore stopping the player from reaching what is rightfully theirs (or something)

I for one don't have a problem with it, but I'm in no way belittling anyone who dislikes it, as I can understand the frustration

(Carni Hammer = Illusionist badge...on villains (when nobody runs it for the accolade) = harsh...but what a sense of a achievement that must be )

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Illusionists on villian side. Shudder. Another task I for sure will never ever do unless we get convenient farmer missions like the heroes have and even then. Those are horrible as well.

Just wondering, did you do the untouchable badge as well? Or do you consider that to much effort?

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Well, I checked and guess what. Slot Machine is NOT on the ouroboros list.

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It is actually, just checked. It shows in the 30-35 range but you do have to have met the conditions for it to be unlocked, even if you've already out levelled it.

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Ah, thanks didn't know that. In which case Paragonwiki is of a tad in this as well because I checked with them to.

While I personally like the elemental weapons. I can see why some people wouldnt want them. the branching idea a while ago waas a thing I liked.

However the changes suggested here do more then just altering the visuals of the power. And I happen to think those powers are fine as they are and wish not to trash toons because people dont like the visuals.

Therefore.

/Very very much Unsigned!

So this thread is derailed.

Still for what its worth.

/Signed.

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Yeah, more the merrier.
I'd like to see assault rifle, SMGs, knives, swords, you name it.

I got a revolver for one of my toons, which is there purely for RP purposes, but if I could get her something like an MP5, I might actually use it.

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Well for AR and the like there is a good alternative. It even has its own archetype. Blaster for AR and Wolf Soldiers for the mp5 lookalike.

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I agree for contacts, its stupid that to kill enough mobs to gain the contact you out level said contact.

However badges/kill counts for weapons and badges IMO is quite right. If they were much easier to get then where would be the achievement of earning them?


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The problem with weapon badges that some of them are easy to obtain while others are next to impossible. The best example is the Tommygun. For a hero 'easy' enough to get. Plenty of missions hunting the correct mobtype and the mob is to be found in IP for example in abundance (plus it is one of the favourite mobtypes to farm). However for the villains there are no easy hunt family mobsters farm missions. And trust me I tried to get it. Flew around in the only area where they spawn (the docks in nerva). Looking for them for a few hours. I bagged roughly 1 of them per hour searching. THAT is how hard they are to get. The difference between the same badge and unlockable weapon between the two fractions is Ridiculous.

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Number 204. Kill huge amounts of Toxic Tarantulas. Fly around for a few hours in Grandville and try not to outlevel contact before you get it. I am sure this is a nice contact. Never managed to do him though.

Viridian. Well for this one you need to kill left and right. Crey, rikti, freak tanks, lost bosses and lets not forget 200 Crey protectors. Hope you like farming missions for this one.

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The only one i've yet to do is the Slot Machine

Number 204, considering the huge amount of work it takes to get the Toxi Ts, especially before lvl 45, is such an anticlimax. Somewhat well written, but just short and boring.

Viridian's "The Conference of Evil" OTOH is my personal favourite arc in the game.

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Well Slot machine is fun but worth hunting for a hours and hours? In fact working much longer to obtain the contact then you will spend doing the contact? I have done it once and sadly that will be it. Just as i missed 204. I'ts not worth doing it like it is now.