Hyperstrike

The badge is similar to the vet reward badges. Or the anniversary badges. You've been subscribed through a specific period and/or been in-game during a specific period.

Entry into beta does not convey any lasting or ongoing abilities.

Strawman. The fact is, they did NOT.

Damn straight.

If the system is new enough to have come with Vista, I wouldn't worry too horrendously about it.

Worst thing that could happen? It doesn't work. RMA it.

When you're in the entry room, go to Modify Base Plot instead of Edit Base.


Dunno. Don't care.


Because they intend, some day, to make bases raidable again. But they still want the base owners to be able to determine if their bases are raidable.

Base rent is a pittance compared to what it was when I started playing 2 years ago. It used to be based off plot size. So prestige cost was ginormous for big bases.

And I want a pony too Verucca! Give me a pony!

It IS very little. You have to have a stupid amount of storage for rent to be more than a couple thousand prestige. And a couple thousand prestige is QUITE easy to rack up.

In other words, you want to do instantaneously whats taken veterans years to build up to.

How about NO.

It's not impossible to build an SG.

I have several SGs where I'm the only member. Yet I have no problem building perfectly functional bases. I've received no prestige grants anyplace but on test.

If I can do it, so can you. No farming required.

You don't have to farm. You just have to play. The prestige to build falls like rain from the sky. If you don't want to put effort into it, boo hoo.

Wow. A new player can't come in and, in a day, have a server full of 50's that are fully purpled out, all the badges available, and every other nice thing in the game. WAAAAAAH! Just do what the vets have done. PLAY. The Inf and prestige builds up over time. Stop expecting everything NOW.

Okay, you've supposedly been around since 2007. How did you miss the fact that base raids have been disabled for 4 issues as the PVP and base systems are overhauled?

Considering they turned it off in the first place? Maybe not...

Seriously, did you buy that account?

Mod08: It's Hokey Pokey time! You put your left foot in...

CoH has been running over 6 years. Everquest has been running 10. No "end" is in sight.

Will a newb like you ever pick up 6+ years of vet awards? Depends on how long you stick with the game.

Vet awards aren't the incentive for playing. Content is the incentive. The vet awards are nice, but relatively unimportant additions. But they're still something that needs to be gained by continuous subscriber term.

Simply because some people have the attention span of a gnat and cannot envision playing this game for 5-6 years does not mean they're entitled to get stuff others have earned, simply because they can dole out extra cash.

No. It simply allows them to feel they've "gotten everything" from the game and makes it easier to leave behind. ESPECIALLY if they have a massive cash outlay per-month on it.

Giving a bunch of newbs veteran awards they did NOT earn, simply because they doled out extra cash for them is not the way to do it.

Not at the cost of removing the incentive to be a veteran!

Wow, you would benefit from this. So you're in favor of this. How..convenient!

No.

This would not help.

Sure, you're bringing in money. But you're also allowing people to BUY vet status in the game. BIG FRICKING NONO! You're also telling the vets who earned their rewards LEGITIMATELY that their loyalty was only worth a couple bucks a month.

No.
NO.
HELL [BLEEP!]ING NO!

The term is "snarky".

The answer is "no".

The solution, if you don't like it, is to put me on ignore.

Problems:
Low space compared to a hard drive.

• HD: 500GB 7200 rpm $120
• HD: 150GB 10,000 rpm $185
• SSD: 80GB: $225

Your controller might not be well optimized for handling SSDs. Leading to less than stellar performance/stability.

Give him an actual, usable attack?

Be serious!

[BLEEP!]

Good point.

buuuttcaaape!

For internet? Most people are between 768K and 30MB down and 128K and 6MB up. The only places getting gig speeds for internet are VERY big businesses, research facilities, etc.

Radeon 5770: $164.99

Shipping to Puerto Rico seems via UPS seems to be $27.98 for UPS Ground. Tried multiple PR zipcodes and it was always the same.

So $192.97

Not sure what markup for PR Best Buy stores is, but they have something comparable (5770's) for around $200. Best bet is to call the store(s) near you and ask for specific types of card (like Radeon 5770).

UPS Ground would take approximately 7 days to reach you (though I'd pad an extra day or two in just because I'm a pessimist).

That's not the big guns.

THESE ARE THE BIG GUNS!

This is about all that needs be said about it.

Bulldinky.

Tyrant is now a politician. You simply don't get more evil than that.

Fixed that for you Durakken.

Please stop presuming to speak for anyone but yourself. Especially when people are disagreeing with you about the point. It's quite obvious by now that "we" do NOT assume, nor are we doing so automatically.

Unless you're secretly royalty and using the royal plural.

Your assumptions are just that. YOUR assumptions. Please stop trying to act as if your assumptions were universal truths. They are not.

I said "more or less". None of the buffs in /kin provide the rather broad range of enhancements that AM does.

Consequently, the actual enhancements provided by said buffs are generally greater than those provided in /rad, which I see as a fair tradeoff.

Agreed.

Maybe for YOU it is.

But, as people have been telling you from the get-go here, it is NOT necessarily automatic for anyone else.

/Kin is one of the better ally-buff sets in the game. /Rad is one of the better enemy debuff sets.

However, /Kin relies on having enemies available for it's heals and most of its buffs (Targeted AoE). And exact positioning of enemies AND allies can be uncertain at time if you're trying to achieve maximum effect.

Kin's buffs also tend to be more or less one-trick ponies (SB increases movement speed and speeds recovery, Transfusion heals, Transference restores End, and Fulcrum Shift boosts damage.)

/Rad's heal and it's main buff (AM) are PBAoE and auto-hit. As such, it's really easy to group-hug and buff. And if an ally needs healing, they just have to get close enough to you to benefit.

Rad's buffs are a bit more multi-faceted. AM, the biggie (which also comes a LOT earlier than Fulcrum Shift) boosts recovery, buffs damage, enhances resistance, provides status protection, enhances recharge, and boosts movement speed). No, it doesn't boost recovery as well as Speed Boost (which comes later). No, it doesn't provide the resistances and status protections of Increase Density (which comes later), and no it doesn't provide the damage boost that FS does (which is the Tier 9 power and comes very late indeed). But AM comes MUCH earlier, can be slotted out faster, and provides much more utility over the course of a toon's traverse from level 1 to level 50.


Lots of good builds. Take a look at the guides and play with Mids.

The Frankenslot entry on Paragonwiki.

Frankenslotting is using multi-aspect IOs to boost the primary statistics of a power (accuracy, damage, endred, recharge, hold, stun, etc) while sacrificing the bonuses that are provided by sets.

Remember, a two-aspect IO (say Acc/Damage) provides more boost to acc and damage than a common IO of identical level divided by two.

And a three-aspect IO (say Acc/Damage/Recharge) provides more boost to Acc, damage, and recharge than a common IO of identical level divided by three.

A four-aspect IO (Acc/Dam/End/Rech) provides more boost to each of it's constituent attributes than a common IO of identical level divided by four.

L50 Common IO:
Accuracy: 42.4%
Damage: 42.4%
Endurance Reduction: 42.4%
Recharge: 42.4%

L50 Multi-Aspect IO (In this case Obliteration)
Acc/Rech: 26.5%/26.5%
Acc/Dam/Rech: 21.2%/21.2%/21.2%
Acc/Dam/End/Rech: 18.55%/18.55%/18.55%/18.55%

As the bonuses are smaller, it's easier to stack them up and avoid diminishing returns put in place by ED.

With common IOs, you can get two stats to 99% improvement at the expense of everything else or three stats to roughly 83%.

Depending on what type of enhancers are available, a frankenslotted power could be boosted to 95-98% improvement in 2-3 stats with modest to significant improvements in 1-2 other stats.

In a PBAoE power for instance, utilizing non-purple recipes (with two of them being sub level 50, I can gain an improvement of:

Acc: 90.5%
Dam: 97.22%
End: 75.5%
Rech: 90.5%

Granted, in most cases we're talking a 7% difference over a power six-slotted with three types of common IOs. HOWEVER, do not underestimate the difference when stacked among multiple powers AND the fact that you're gaining a fourth stat's boost by 75% (endurance in this case) as a byproduct.

Based on just this power against someone common-slotted. You'll do marginally more damage in a set amount of time than will someone common-slotted. What's more, because you're not eating End as fast, you'll also last longer than they will before running out of End.


You don't HAVE to. There are a couple Fire/Kin/Fire builds out there that have higher damage output (so you kill stuff faster) to make up for the additional squishy-ness. But end management on them is a bigger deal as you don't have the duability to run into combat to get the benefit of your own buffs sometimes.

And yes, you could sub out flight powers for leaping. Especially if you decide not to go stone armor.