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Oh yeah, that lockdown the computers one in PI that was like a Huge map with 4 blinkies to hit and a 10 minute timer? I think that mission was intended to be failed to explain how the Praetorians got a foot in the door

In Praetoria, Shadowhunter rides Sally around Talos harbor patrolling for Captain Mako and coralax infiltrators.

Yeah, use the look at numbers. Those old descriptors were pretty much arbitrary descriptions that original Geko Power/AT guy that preceded Castle wrote. And I think you'd hit situations where it'd be like "Recharge: Long" vs "Recharge: Moderate" when moderate would take longer...the dude didn't really have any systematic approach he was just plugging stuff in and not looking at balance spreadsheets or anything (I suspect the same happened in Jack's new game)

I guess maybe the thinking was a SS using Jab and Fighting Pool: Punch could stack to disorient? Maybe it was supposed to mean help stack disorients with teammates (like a Martial Artist)? Who knows...ignore the written descriptions

I dusted off an ancient Warshade that I had gotten to the mid-30s (back when they were, like, NEW ATs) with the free server transfers. I was always too lazy to level another one since kheldians were cursed with the hybrids suck syndrome. Kheldians...just sorta suck. PBs even worse than WSs. Had something like 50 free tailor sessions, heh.

maybe i'll finish getting it to 50 on a populated server. At least voids and quantums aren't one-shot kills anymore, and cysts aren't nearly as dangerous anymore.

I think alternate models could be neat if customizing the pet's powers is a big messy bundle of timesink. Some tattooed Tsoo-type asian thugs for Ninjas instead of the generic ninja ninja...get some Clockwork or Nemesis type bots instead of default bots...Vahz type scientific zombies for Zombeh!...Family/Mook type goons for Thugs...uhh. Mercs? Different armor/fatigues?

I've seen that bug resurface with my MM too. I assume it reared it's ugly head again with the implementation of that perma-buffed zoning pets. Makes me not want to play my MM. It gets real old resummoning pets if they get lost going through a door. They had it licked for awhile, so that's all I can figure.

MMs were unplayable before the upgrade powers were turned AOE. I tried a few times, but unless you enjoyed spending 10 minutes at the door summoning and buffing they were absolutely unplayable. A brute went THROUGH the map before you even STARTED the map. Only got a higher level MM when they buffed the buffs.

Poison was only on MMs, right? They might just go "meh" at proliferating it and focus on bigger stuff. Like more Power Customization proliferation.

I think it was a pretty meh set for MMs, anyway. Making your allies get disoriented and begin puking everywhere after reviving them was always good for a laugh, though.

i always assumed it was just redside zones were more complex. And they actually had things like smog and birds flapping around in the sky and stuff that blueside's atmosphere lacks.

i've never lagged too hard (places like PL central Cap and Atlas MA buildings were worse), but know people who would complain.

The Rogue Isles are more like a bunch of warlords banded together to form one really crummy and discordant nation under Recluse while his Arbiters lurk in the shadows to make sure there's never a unified movement to depose the supreme leader. And, if all else fails, send in the elite Bane army which has no will of its own except Recluse's to execute everybody...and get to finishing up that Web so nobody alive can ever challenge him and win so long as he's in Grandville.

And if you ever show him you are capable of killing him he sends you on a suicide mission against the Freedom Phalanx and has a good laugh about how stupid you are. Oops, you came back? Uhhh...didn't expect that. Here, take a random a POS hami-o.

It may be my playtimes but I haven't seen anybody bothering with the Supernatural Event--and considering it takes at least 1 team, more likely 2 to actually succeed at it, it seems sort of pointless to leave it running. Did they have a miscommunication and leave the supernatural apocalypse running when they meant to turn it off and leave the zombeh apocalypse running like normal (can't think of if i've seen zombie invasion lately)?

It really should only maybe happen one day a week, or maybe happening a weekend a month. That way the people who want to participate aren't diluted by every hour or two Supernatural Event happening in ...

I've been on Virtue most of the time lately too, so yeah. Lots of freakin' supernatural apocs on that server. Maybe the LGTF is spawning them instead of Rikti invasions, haven't been seeing many of those and I had been trying to keep a bit of an eye out to get the rikti's big honkin' metal sword for my katana user (again, maybe my playtime just has nobody doing lady gray runs in that timeframe. On freedom they happen very regularly because there's plenty of speed LGTF/ITF groups who run those daily, like clockwork)

I17 is probably going to be retcons to CoH story arcs about Praetorian Earth to clean up the in-game continuity from being Evil Goatee Paragon (where all the major superheroes are evil) to Emperor Cole, Beloved Tyrant of Paragon (hey Mother Mayhem isn't slicing people's brains up and turning them psychotic for laughs anymore. And Dominatrix just...yeah, isn't doing that anymore either)

And probably also getting some Praetorian story content in CoV. Maybe Malaise could show up to be the Rogue Hero--he bounces between being Psyche's brainwashed pet hero project and the sociopath villain he is depending on the flip of a coin, after all. He could be trying to sell some paintings to liven up Grandville Tower.

And an Empire vs Rebellion pvp zone you can go to without buying GR.

That would be enough to be a typical issue.

I like bases and decorating but...probably not.

Of course, their habit is to put in a Power to sweeten the pot. If they had something like a secondary cheap start-up piece to supply another heap of control and energy to the base (for people who use bases like a personal apartment some extra juice could come in handy without having to upgrade to the next sized base), or something special like the ability for someone to purchase and place an Architect Room in your base or a Market vendor or a Tailor...or maybe special PvP Zone Teleporters so you wouldn't have to go hopping across the city to go to BB or Warburg to restock on shivans and nukes. Not really anything much, but it'd be something. Statesman just left Supergroup Bases to rot, and Posi threw his hands up and said "yeah we're never doing the Cathedral of Pain thing" and just smashed the excessive prestige costs with a sledgehammer.

Only one I can't really get is a necromancer hero. Sending wave after wave of mouldering corpses at people just seems inherently villainous. I guess they can claim nobody except bad guys are hurt in the process...all at the cost of a little bit of graverobbing and defilement.

Yeah, Nosferatu is an oldschool DM/Regen. He's always been a big ol' pain in the butt, moreso when he's AV class. I remember good ol' times when we'd have to search for just a little extra muscle since he refuses to go down easily. Sort of like Ms. Liberty, who'll just perpetually cycle through that Dull Pain and godmode if you can't put her down.

Last time I came against him in one of those ouro 1-man TFs I just Shivan'd him. Take that, you crazy old nazi. He still roughed the shivan up if I remember.

Yah, the Sewer Trial was a victim of Statesman being prone to heavyhanded nerfs.

they should've backloaded the XP you used to earn killing multiple baby krakens into the a Trial's completion reward hit. Instead he just nerfed Monsters so hard nobody but Badgers bothered with them ever again until Merits got put in, and the Trial got forgotten because it's pretty much the hardest thing in the game to pull off since they got rid of cheese tactics (like you used to spam Holds onto the head to disable the force field and not even worry about the generators if I remember right). Master runs? Just require the right combination of ATs with the correct primary/secondaries. Cmon, there's absolutely nothing hard about "lf granite tank/blasters/emp for MoSTF". But the Abandoned Sewer? That requires actual group coordination since you'll keep costing yourselves time if you don't blow the generators together, if you take too long to grab the anti-Hydra rifles.

A really slick team that works well together might end up with plenty of time to spare. Last time I ran it we did it back to back because we aaalmost finished it but the counter ticked off as we were mopping up rikti, like you guys . Then we went back and whupped it with time to spare. Always suspected one of the guys that got a hydra zap gun instead of a tentacle zap gun wasn't using it on our first run...

I can only imagine disabling trial accounts being able to team leader was the devs thinking, "well, the RMTers might spam random invites and /team "BUY GOLD FROM BLAHBLAHRA.COM $10 FOR 100 MILLION!"

Of course, you could just automatically reject blind invites. Got into that habit during MA and the level 1s randomly inviting 50s and demanding you PL them. But if it's a farmer's bot it'll keep spamming out invites until a GM bans the account...and then it'll take maybe 5 minutes tops to activate a new trial account and spam invites until a GM bans it. Repeat ad naseum.

Yeah, the ship interior was a new map when Striga was introduced. They spammed using it because it was new.

The abundance of kill all in them was...unwise. Stupid, stupid minion nobody saw hiding between crates.

I'm not opposed to kill alls, but I am opposed to kill alls in huge maps where you could miss a single spawn and spend 15 minutes looking for it wishing the map had a button you could press to teleport all surviving enemies to you. If they had a Radar power to reveal nearby hostiles on the map I'd totally buy it.

And pretty much everything connects back to Nemesis. I think he does some things just to keep heroes occupied with that and not looking into his vast network of linking conspiracies. Unleash a plague of dumb trolls to bother people. Let magic items and diabolic invocations trickle all the way down to the hellions. hand out copies of Thus Spake Zarathustra to the Skulls. supply all factions with Void Hunters, and he probably even had his hand in designing the council's anti-kheldian quantum weapons....

I doubt it. I don't think an MM can farm BM faster, but maaaaaaaaaaan BM is so much better than farming Lib TV. Map isn't so big that you're already bored and only halfway through it, they don't autoveng...it'd be like heaven.

it's like people will load down on purples from blue and grind some Loyalist faction to haul them redside. If many people even bother to stay lackeys to Lord Recluse. (first time you prove you can beat him, what does he do? 'lol go fight the freedom phalanx while i just sit back here. don't die? ...uhh, yeaaaaah, ok. sure, i'm not purposefully sending you to get your face beaten in by the assembled surviving 8 or anything like that. here, have a crummy travelspeed/endrdx HO for your trouble.')