Hyperstrike

Brilliant? MOI? COOL!

While being able to trade them to any and all would be nice. It would be a MONSTROUS can of worms (and exploitable as ****). This is also the same reason why they're deathly afraid of allowing gifting of things like Paragon Points. The book keeping for a system like that would be nightmarish.

And what happens if someone gives someone thousands of points, changes their mind, then says "My account was raided! I want my points back!"

And, what do they do when someone's account IS "legitimately" raided for this?

This is SPECIFICALLY why I said "between two game accounts on the same master account". Because, that way, they KNOW that the same party is paying for all the stuff. There's no possibility that they're going to be abused. And Paragon has gotten their money, one way or another.

Sorry. But I'm going to add my voice to the "Hahaha! YeahNO!" box.

Yes. Preemies have paid money. Some more than others.

They deserve something.

They've GOTTEN something. Their Paragon Rewards tokens, whatever points are in their account and anything they've paid to perma-unlock.

On TOP of that, they get to play everything BUT the Incarnate stuff and SSAs FOR FREE!

But you don't think they're getting their money's worth? You're getting all that for $0.00 a month. Where as, before, at that price, you got JACK SQUAT! And had to LIKE it that way!

If you want the Incarnate stuff, pay the $12-15/month (depending on your sub length and how hard you go after discounted time). Plain and simple.

If you don't want to pay the $12-15/month? Fine. Be happy with the massive amount of stuff you're getting for free.

Don't like those options? Take the third option.

Go pay to play ANOTHER game!

Or the fourth

Go NOT pay to play another game that gives you nothing or at least nothing close to what CoH does. Then come back once you're more appropriately educated and grateful.

If you have the cash, get a Blu-Ray combo drive. It simply gives you another option.

I wouldn't worry about two optical burners. Unless you're *already* heavily using your opticals for major burn-fests on a regular basis. I have two opticals in mine. A Plextor DVD burner (LOVE Plextor, they're expensive, but they're some of the best opticals I've ever owned), and a Samsung Blu-Ray combo drive.

Frankly I haven't burned a disk on them in more than a year now...

The Asus board you got came with an on-board video solution. If you're going discrete vidcard, I wouldn't spend for it. Just get a regular board. One less components to cause problems.

Not a big fan of ASRock. They can be VERY hit-or-miss.
Their motherboard documentation needs a LOT of work too.

If you're overclocking your CPU, anything relying on the CPU for processing runs faster. And if the CPU is feeding data to the GPU, it can feed it at higher rates if/when necessary.

If you're overclocking your GPU, anything relying on the GPU for graphics crunching runs faster.


Honestly, if you're in a room that's nearly 90 degrees with the fan going, you really are going to need to be careful then. Any cooling solution relying on ambient air temps (pretty much everything except peltier-based systems) will not cool as efficiently.

I agree with GG.



I...



*Faints in shock*

bow before my nerdy overmastery!

:d

Nah. There'd still be the inevitable "What about PVPM. WHARGRRBL! Slap in the face! Everyone else does it! Oh! Did I mention? WHARGRRBL!" Posts. It"s just the nature of the beast.

It's still a learning process. Both for them, and us. From what I have heard, this one ran better than the first. I expect that the next will be better still.

Cherenkov radiation....

From what was being discussed, we're looking at a toggle based resist/debuff/regen/recovery set with the following:

• An exotic damage aura type (toxic).
• Leveraging of the ablative mechanic rather than a monster heal on top of the regen.
• Resistance (given early) to an exotic damage type (toxic).
• A unique combination nuke/self-res power.
• A godmode.
• A possibly unique "tradeoff" system in the regen/recovery mechanism where an undamaged player would start with high recovery, but as they took damage, would have their recovery come back down while their regen began to climb.

The UStream of the "design a powerset" panel should be up and available. That'll give you a preliminary idea.


Granted, it is kinda premature at the moment. But it looks like it could be a VERY interesting (and easy) powerset to pick up and use. It's occupying a middle ground between Elec and Willpower.

I refuse to go and buy them with Paragon points as well.

However, I have a surfeit of Reward Points that just keep accumulating (and nothing to spend them on, save a new costume set every 3-4 months). So I can be philosophical about dropping a bunch of RPs for a few. If you walk into a casino and they had you a club card with $50 for the machines, why not?

Think of it as an exotic damage set version of Willpower.

Mainly resist based rather than defense. Plus it has decent tools for regen/recovery and is leveraging the new "ablative" system.
The set's primary resists are semi-exotic.
It's got a toggle-based taunt/damage aura.
It uses a debuff mechanic (which can justify fairly fierce debuffs since they're resisted so heavily).
It's got an exotic damage aura and a combination self-res/nuke combo power that would be fairly unique in the game.
Plus a godmode.

As someone who plays Inv/WP/Stone and dislikes clicky mez protection, it actually sounds like it could become a nice optional power set.

Load in some set-based defense and it could possibly rival Elec for combination toughness.

They're not ignoring you. They know you're there. And small things, here and there, are being done in PVP. Just not the overhaul that it truly needs. Kinda similar to the base crowd.

Most other MMOs' PVP communities aren't quite so miniscule, and the PVP system is quite such a gordian knot of a mess as this one is.

I've actually had conversations with them about it.

Note the term. "Conversation".

Not "screaming pillory". Not "hysterical accusation". Not "think I'm cleverly, subtly insulting them but it's about as subtle as a brick in the face" snipe-fest". You know, the usual thing that goes on.

When approached about it calmly and rationally, while tired of rehashing the subject for the umpty-quadrillionth time, they're perfectly willing to discuss the subject. They acknowledge that they know the system's broken. They simply don't have anyone that feels up to tackling that can of worms. More, they note the previous former dev who tried to step up and the warm, loving reception he got for his first step...

Well, to a certain extent, there's some "oh, this question again" there.

The devs have been clear about this. Simply because someone missed the official answers and demands "the schpiel" all over again doesn't mean they should take time away from other, more current questions and their duties to chew old fat.

I'd say it even if she didn't have a big, sharp knife pressed to my throat right now...

And you're mistaken if you think that my answer to this was arrived at "quickly".

"Because you "have to" have PVP is the reason the systems was dropped in in the first place. "Because everyone else is doing it."

How'd that work out for them?

The reason many of these other games are "successful" with PVP is because they're gear-based. All toons are essentially equal (or nearly so) without gear. And two same-class toons with the same gear are identical.

CoH has an absolute PLETHORA of powers and effects that need to be taken into account. And you have to have some sort of neutral starting point. Which CoH doesn't have. The powers in the game aren't balanced and were never really intended to be. Attempts to bring these balance-breakers down to a "fair" level has people screaming "nerf" and pointing out mechanics in other powers that need to be brought down because they break the new status ideal of "balance". It's all a race to the bottom essentially. At that point, they may as well give everyone an identical amount of hit points and brawl and let them go at it.

I never commented on whether it was a good business decision. But I beg to differ that neither of us is in a position. I've read NCSoft's fiscal reports. So I have a general idea of Paragon's revenues. Moreover, I know what "development time" can cost. I may not know Paragon's SPECIFIC costs, but I have a general ballpark. Moreover, I have the general numbers for the absolute highest number of people who ever PVP'ed in the game. So that gives me a high water mark.

Were I of a mind to, I could comment on the business case with a decent confidence level.

A "new" MMO. Yes. And the weasel word there is "can". Not "will".

Again. No. "Everyone else does it" doesn't mean you go back and continue jacking with an niche system like PVP in a successful game.

Had that sort of rationale been correct, this would have been City of Combatskill and died horribly as many other clone titles have.

What made this game the success it is wasn't the PVP system or following what the industry hacks said "must" be done.

I'm glad you enjoy the PVP system in this game. Really and truly.
Just like I enjoyed playing the Photon laser tag system before it shut down.
Just like I enjoyed playing BattleTech sim pods at Virtual World before they shut down.

PVP is in the ******* step-child state it is for real, legitimate reasons.

And at some point you have to simply step back and assess it rationally.

Now, maybe if CoH had the crazy-insane success a certain 800 lb gorilla in the MMO space had, they'd have money to dump into any little project they desired. Good, bad or indifferent.

They don't. They need to be circumspect about what they spend money on. And they need to take actions that can maximize their returns.

History has shown them that dropping money into PVP doesn't put as much on their bottom line as other, more "foofy" things.

Ask Zwill to compare any of the top 10 market items' gross revenues to how much they can verify (though the exit surveys) was lost in subscription fees from players leaving post i13 and being generous in assuming they'd have stayed subscribed until today (figure $450/player).

Even if they could verify that they lost 1000 players. Look at the revenues from Super Packs ALONE. Even at the WORST possible exchange rate, that's sets the MINIMUM of around $300K in gross revenue (as they were specific about "top sellers on the paragon market"). That's 2/3rds of what was "lost" for a 3.5 year period. And Super Packs made that IN THREE MONTHS.

Paragon has people who can do cost-benefit analysis too.

I say to you..DUR HUR HUR!

REAL men don't read instructions.

Thought what excuse I have, being a Huge, I dunno!

Because I could. I'm sitting on a massive load of PP at the moment.
Moreover, because the Thunderstrikes exemp. So I basically keep my defense numbers down to level 27.

Yeah. that was a slotting mistake. Will fix it later on.
One of the reasons why I asked for people to look. I occasionally pull boners like this. Like accidentally tossing a Kismet 6% Acc unique into...PFF (facepalm).

Synapse. If you're at the Summit, remind me to buy you a beer (or tasty beverage of your choice).

yeah. like I said, I was doing so much damage I was ripping aggro. It kinda sucks when half a group un-glomps from the tank, comes over and make you kiss carpet and thank them for the opportunity...

My damage output has come down. Sure. But I am a lot safer now (I'm a big proponent of "safe") and can solo in DA at greater than x1 without ROTP'ing every mob.

Point taken.