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Quote:It's because Ace was the single exploration badge available back when the Rikti War Zone was just the Rikti Crash Site.Originally Posted by TheSwamper
Thank you all for the help. I was missing the Ace badge, which, for some reason, is not lumped with the other badges in the list on badge-hunter (all the RWZ exploration are together except that one, which is much further down the list). -
Quote:It is awesome the way you didn't read the thread at all.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I don't care much about badges one way or the other, but it's stupid to degrade the achievement of people who got their the "hard way" by handing them out like candy now.
Things that require no effort have little value.
I'm more annoyed than entertained by the FLOOD of badges I get in MA now for doing absolutely nothing of note.
MA badges are like medals for the Special Olympics- COMPETITOR, I WIN! -
Quote:While I can almost see where you're coming from in regards to the Kronos Class Titan (which I do think would be surmountable by a "Natural" hero with enough strategy/firepower/creativity), I find this list a bit nonsensical. Invulnerable werewolves? Since when? (Especially since the bulk of their resistance is a pure anti-farming conceit.) And considering that the military is perfectly capable of fending off the Soldiers of Rularuu, they're clearly not all-powerful.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
It's not just the Kronos Titan, though. Greater Devoured are approximately 15 feet tall, invulnerable and super strong. The Rikti are covered from head to toe in unbreakable armour, shoot plasma weapons and wield swords that can cut metal like butter. The Nemesis Army employ automatons purportedly almost as hardy as the armour of Nemesis, himself, which in turn is said to be an amazing machine of destruction. The Council have 10 feet tall, invulnerable werewolves and giant robots. The Carnival of Shadows have so much psychic energy they can fry an egg on your head. The Soldiers of Rularuu... Do I even need to comment on them?
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Characters cannot have multiple "cape"-style elements in their costume at the same time. If you've got a trenchcoat or the fancy robe from the Magic Pack, you won't see the cape option.
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Quote:Wait, what? Why not? That sounds like a great starting point for a story. Explaining why it hasn't been found wouldn't be difficult or too credibility-straining. And why it being hidden is a problem, I'm not entirely clear.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
There's no chance of walking over a mountain and suddenly seeing a massive, continent-spanning alien empire that somehow no-one knew about. It'd have to be HIDDEN, which defeats the purpose.
This definitely paints a clearer picture. I'm a little stunned that anything other than world-shattering events are uninteresting to you, though. Honestly I'm finding myself agreeing with Nethergoat, which is somewhat concerning.Quote:But then what's the point of writing something if canon is going to contradict me? Because if I want to talk about the end of civilization as we know it, I either have re-write written canon (which I can't do) or use another world. I CAN make events that don't affect the world in any way that canon contradicts, yes. Invariably these are events on too small a scale to be interesting to me.
Half the fun I've had with constructing a worldwide conspiratorial organization is showing how it doesn't go unnoticed. They've had scuff-ups with Crey, Malta, and Arachnos, among others. But then, they do try to be relatively covert, aside from nearly taking over the world through military force last week. *shrug*Quote:And, at the end of the day, it's not about carving a niche for myself. I didn't buy a super hero game to be carving a niche for myself where I don't disturb anyone else. That's what I do in my real life. I bought a super hero game to be a cool, important, world-affecting hero. Granted, no MMO will ever allow me to do that in practice, but I can at least write about it. And it is simply not interesting to me to explain how these supposedly huge, large-scale events manage to happen without catching the notice of any country in the world. -
Quote:At the risk of sounding, well, mean, you're not looking hard enough. Our modern world is anything but in control, and we don't even have superpowered beings running around willy nilly.
It's like people say: Our world grows smaller each day. There are few frontiers left to push, few wildernesses left to explore and very few secrets left to find. It's a smaller-scale world than your average non-Fantasy-Fantasy would would be. Even reading about the old days when the Oranbegans fought the Mu and Hequat pulled an entire island out of the sea, fought a world-destroying monster and locked it under the bottom and so forth... That's cool. That's the stuff that's really large-scale. A modern world is interesting, but it's too much... In control. I honestly wish we were eventually allowed to travel to other, unexplored planets at some point. I don't want to go elsewhere in the world.
Then again, to be fair, I'm not entirely clear on what perspective you're coming from. Obviously your stories aren't going to directly affect the City of Heroes world (in-game, that is), even if the characters that are a part of those stories exist in it, so it's really just a matter of carving out your niche in your fiction and going with it.
After all, most of the CoH world IS unexplored, and has the most potential to be spontaneous, what with the never-ending stream of villains threatening peace and prosperity. -
There's a temporary Dev Digest sticky in General Discussion, FYI.
And as far as I know, there's no customization for Kheldians, due to some combination of these factors most likely:
1) Complicated graphical effects with more than two colors/gradients makes them hard to customize.
2) Inability to customize the forms means they've been put on the backburner until full customization is ready.
3) Due to their status of Epic AT, they're locked into their lore-dictated graphics. It would be comparable to asking if Widows could use different claws or if Banes could use standard maces.
Mind you, the third reason is pretty weak, but it's a possible one. I myself would love to color my Warshade's powers black and grey. -
As far as I understand the ins and outs of it all (which isn't much, so fair warning), it comes down to the enforceability of the copyright/trademark.
Using the name Wolverine is asking for trouble, but technically there's nothing punishable about it. Marvel certainly doesn't have any claim over the animal. Copy the costume though...that's trademarked and you're in trouble.
I suspect that a big stumbling block though is that most of the unprotected names I can think of are also indicative of specific powers, and therefore you might be setting yourself up for a Genericing anyway.
As for whether or not you're obligated to report them, I'll hopefully head off the inevitable debates by saying it's your call. Reporting someone for infringement merely points them out to the GMs, it's then up for them to decide if the character is actionable. But there's no mandate or rule saying that you have to petition them. -
Quote:Well, some folks do live on Striga. I wouldn't say it would be out of place if they added a small clinic to Port Noble.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
You do realize that Striga is not a part of Paragon City. It's not even in the United States. (Paragon City is in Rhode Island.) The entire place is a criminal haven outside the jurisdiction of Paragon City. It would be more in theme for defeated heroes to awaken in a prison cell and have to break out, than find themselves in a Striga Hospital.
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Quote:They could just change that and I would be perfectly happy.Originally Posted by Adeon_Hawkwood
Illusionist Illusionist Illusionist.
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Quote:What exactly does that provide for the solo player?Originally Posted by Basilisk
What I would like to see is something done to gauntlet that would allow the tank to take better advantage of the fact that they do still have better survivability than most brute or scrappers. I have proposed in the past a buff to gauntlet that works a little bit like defiance, but adds to the tank's aggro cap rather than to his damage. So, on top of the small aoe taunt, each attack would give a boost to the tank's aggro cap for something like 5 seconds. A tank who is sitting around taunting would then have a cap of 17 enemies. A tank who is actively fighting might be mobbed by 20 or 30 at a time instead. The fact that it's on a short timer limits the ability for the tank to map herd. Plus, there's usefulness to the solo player which isn't afforded by the current Gauntlet.
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So, Samson, are you planning on rehashing every single one of your old suggestion threads?
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Well, part of the problem back then, IIRC, is that Taunt wasn't AoE either. Could be fuzzy on that, though.
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IIRC, pets are only available as in-mission allies or somesuch.
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Quote:Defenders get Conserve Power too.Originally Posted by je_saist
Decrease Endurance Usage: What about borrowing the Defender's negligence idea and decreasing endurance consumption? Well, one of the reasons negligence is called by such a name is that it's dependent on your team running out of health. Since not all defenders can heal, and since they have such low attack power, if the teams health goes low, there's not much they can really do. In the same way, how would a tanks endurance discount work? Would it be tied to team members? Well, then tanks have an inherent that's useless in small teams or while soloing, much like Defenders do. Is it tied to mob size? Like negligence there's just too many variables to make it a simple, reliable, and predictable inherent. Oh yeah, and there's also conserve power in the epic pools already. So. No
I myself have always kind of liked the idea of porting a version of Vigilance to Tankers. I'm not sure it would strictly help them a ton, but the idea is fairly sound - lots of high-endurance Tanker attacks have built-in mezzes. Allowing a Tanker to use them more when the team is in peril would be nice. Oh, and the Tanker's health would affect the discount too. -
If all the OP did is reset their password, then they don't need to alter their files in any way, shape, or form. The Training Room takes up to an extra 48 hours to sync up with the live servers.
Also, as part of I16 beta, there's a new queue system that will keep you from even reaching the character select screen if you're not in beta. -
Quote:Then why are you asking to move the location to the freakin' middle of Indy Port?Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA
Lets look at Independence Port, why not place the destination portal near TV, somewhere in the middle of the map?
As a rule, it would make more sense to me, if the portals were to deliver you at the middle of the maps, and not at the most useless extreme.
So why not move the destination portals to more practical locations?
The only items of interest anywhere near TV is...Terra Volta itself, and the Brickstown gate. Pretty much everything else is right in the vicinity of the SG and Ouro drop-offs. -
Arc Name: The Tale of the Arcanous Librium
Arc ID: 242636
Faction: Heroic
Creator Global/Forum Name: @IanTheM1
Length: Very long. Five missions, with justified defeat alls for three missions.
Difficulty Level: Balanced difficulty, but has additional challenges, mostly in the form of ambushes, but also contains melee-centric critters. Features custom enemies, Crey, and Arachnos.
Synopsis: The Legacy Chain needs your help in finding the stolen pages of a magical tome.
I'm happy to finally be able to post this up as Looking for Feedback! An annoying number of map errors, bugs, and other nonsense kept me from being able to publish this, but I've managed to fix or workaround all of them.
Please let me know what you think! -
Arc Name: The Tale of the Arcanous Librium
Arc ID: 242636
Faction: Heroic
Creator Global/Forum Name: @IanTheM1
Length: Very long. Five missions, with justified defeat alls for three missions.
Difficulty Level: Balanced difficulty, but has additional challenges, mostly in the form of ambushes, but also contains melee-centric critters. Features custom enemies, Crey, and Arachnos.
Synopsis: The Legacy Chain needs your help in finding the stolen pages of a magical tome.
I'm happy to finally be able to post this up as Looking for Feedback! An annoying number of map errors, bugs, and other nonsense kept me from being able to publish this, but I've managed to fix or workaround all of them.
Please let me know what you think! -
At one point I was planning on customizing a Hyper Guardian XEVOZ figure into a Statesman custom, since they share pretty good physical similarities.</random anecdote>
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Unless I'm way off, it's quite possible that instead of recoding the old badges in I15, they made identical ones with the old names, but new requirements and descriptions. Then, because of the identical names, they all get saved under the special "don't nuke these badges" script. However, since the old badges are no longer obtainable, only the new versions count for X and XXV?
Check the descriptions on the ones your characters already have? -
Quote:What confuses me more is that Mr. Sledge already posted about that very same suggestion, and got the rather predictably negative response.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
The devs don't approve of AE farming at all, why would they make it easier?
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Pirate MMs.
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Hmmm...
Somewhat tempted to /sign, if only so that people will maybe stop trying to sell Generic IO recipes for more than the crafting table does.... -
Quote:Outright Tank-Magery. Especially since AB would stack with Regen Aura.Originally Posted by EmpYou
If a solo emp could cast AB and Fort on themselves, they would still be medicore damage level, but they would solo a little easier like a rad can (Plus defense and +regen vs -Defense -resistance - tohit)
@Fleeting: I missed the relevant lines on CoD, it seems, but protection to the two rarest mezzes in the game is certainly still minor, in a sense.