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In there defense, the recent games are so bad they really can't give the subscriptions away, they pretty much have to go f2p.

And the others who bought life time subscriptions before it came out... Well Apple has been making this case over and over recently, be careful about being the "early adopter". If you wait a week or a month the price will plummet once the shiny wears off.

Most of those badges talk about how things are worse in some spots than others, like the chanting because the mood of the Shadow Shard is particularly strong there.

Or all of them in the Storm Palace are location specific, lock of hate etc.


It's not like everywhere you go in the shadow shard will drive you nuts, just some places, and maybe not everyone.

Also it's badge text, it's for flavor, I have a hard time seeing it as "god modding".

Is this in the lore some where? I mean I know it's been said for a while now, but is this in the game, or just a well known thing?

It's like bad drivers. You think there everywhere because they stick out and you notice them. But if you stop and think about it, you realize the two guys who cut you off are the only ones out of the 50 other cars within sight of you.

Same applies to all that other stuff. They seem like there everywhere because no on notices the humans.


I loved the Shadow Shard stuff. It's not the "lore " of the SS in a historical sense, but it gives more depth and feeling to the type of place it is, makes me think of it as more alive and malicious than just floating rocks.

As for the other ones, all of them are great, loved the ones in DA, though I was reading them at night watching a show about ghosts and it was getting creeped out, not gonna lie.

However the Shadow Shard ones, well they just struck me as mean, like the whole damned place was hating me, that was a cool fealing the Shadow Shard itself, all 4 zones HATE you and they are MEAN, yes, the whole place has emotions, they aren't nice.

QFT! Very well put.

Honestly, the Shadow Shard is a mystery to me in a way. It's maybe one of the most original, ingenious ideas in the game, the lore and backstory to it is deep enough to almost make a small video game just for that. Yet despite the seemingly limitless potential and coolness for the zones, and the fact that the Devs clearly have an idea or concept of what the Shadow shard is all about, (as proven by those incredibly well written badges.) It's so completely under-utilized.

However I have a hope. That as the Incarnate stuff goes along, which is all about heroes ascending into godhood, that they will give the Shadow Shard a bit of a revamp, put in the other areas mentioned in the lore and give some incarnates some really tough Rularuu to fight, perhaps even Rularuu himself.

(A guy can dream can't he?)

Honestly Incarnates VS Revamped (Updated )Shadow Shard + Rularuu would be pure win.

The missions are the content. Capes, auras, Alpha slot, are rewards. I think you're saying you hate having to play the game to get the rewards. In which case your out of luck, you don't get rewards for free.

Plus, The Alpha Slot arc takes all of 20 minutes if you hurry and it can be quite a bit of fun.

Yay I'm not the only person who does this during down time...

Or during big fights and when I should probably be rezing some one.

Well Maybe you're paying attention during big fights, and I usually am too... Usually.


Honestly I'm usually running around trying to find the best spot to stand\hover so I can see the most doors to be the first alert system for the team. Which doesn't work all the time since I'm often looking at the other monitor....

alright, I get the 69, and the 666. I even think the bidding in influence and paying in infamy is a funny thing, but where the hell does the 212 come from?

That's a really cynical\mean way to look at it.

AE isn't just about making it so we make content and they don't have to. Since I14 when AE was launched they've released 4 more free issue updates with plenty of Content, and each one has given us new types of content, new types of missions and new tech in the missions. It's not like they released AE and said, okay now we just pop out a couple more Defeat alls in each Issue and the rest of the content is done for us.

AE is a really cool little tool. It allows us, the player base, to make new challenges for ourselves and our friends and write our own stories. CoH is the first MMO to not only encourage you to make your fan fiction, but to put in their game. That's pretty freaking sweet and I think it's remarkably cynical to say it's just lazyness on their part that made them want to do it.


As for the exploits. Everyone complains about the AE exploits, but no one bothers to mention that before AE there were plenty of other exploits people complaining about. Honestly if AE was pulled from the game now, in a week people would be farming something else and other people would be whining about it. Exploits are not the fault of the Devs, Exploits are the fault of greedy\lazy\whatever players that will always look for a way to cheat\game the system and get the most rewards per hour even if it's an abuse to the game system. The Devs are human beings, these exploits don't exist on account of them being Lazy or dumb or not caring, they exist because as human beings they have only so many hours in the day that they can devote to fixing the exploits that crop up, and they are outnumbered. They have tens of people in an office who are trying to fix exploits that are being hunted by hundreds or thousands of players.

AE is a great tool, it wasn't designed so the Devs could stop making content and the Devs aren't responsible for people abusing it. People should stop being pissed at the Devs for the fact that other people abuse the system, start getting pissed at the people who exploit the system, they are the problem.

To clarify, that is NOT a super power.

That is the result of being hit with a really high mag confuse or stun power.

Edit: Or a serious lapse in judgement one might expect from some one like a petless mastermind or a Kin who doesn't take SB.

I think some things in the game, especially the more common things, should be sold in other places than just the market.

IE Common and Uncommon Salvage for example. There should be places where you can buy these items with straight INF. (Not Reward rolls, not ticket rolls, not merit rolls, just INF.)

Don't set the prices super low, but some what high, not uber high but enough that people might look on the market for better prices , like people currently do with Common IOs, already crafted etc, but this way there would be a sort of cieling on some of the more common things in the game, AND another INF sink.

Well I could go to the market and pay 60k a piece for Luck Charm, or I could go to the store and pay 10 K a piece and I know I'll get it. People will stop asking so much on the market, and it will sort of keep things even, not to mention now people are unloading some of there cash etc.

I don't think this should be applied to Rare or Ultra Rare items, but for some of the very common ones, I think it could help.

Drop rate increase would be good to an extent, but after a while things just become too common, which in the case of things that are supposed to be Rare or Ultra Rare, just would defeat the point.

I never considered the technical side of it, that makes a hole ton more sense now.

Thank you.

Sure there is, Open Market Economy, that's all the logic that's needed to justify it.

Some people have LOTs of INF, and they think that what ever item is for sale, is worth that amount. If you DONT think it's worth that amount, find a different item to buy.

It's very logical.

Not to totally thread jack, but dodging lasers isn't that hard. In fact I've done it hundreds of times.

Ever played laser tag? You probably dodged some too.

Lasers travel at the speed of light, true, they are "light" after all.

However the person firing the laser, still has to wield the gun accurately and fire it quickly.

If you can move fast enough to throw off their accuracy or avoid their aim, you can dodge lasers.

Batman is fast enough and agile enough that he would have no trouble dodging things being shot at him since he is usually much faster than the people shooting at him.

I am serious...

And don't call me Shirley.


Just read about this myself and came to see if it had been posted.

This is one of those times I'm very sad for the death of a person, not because of how the person died or their age or that their life was cut short, I mean he lived a long full life and died in his sleep, not a horrible way to go, but because I feel that our society, and we as a people no longer get to enjoy his presence and his talents.

Obviously he will be missed, it may be time to go buy some of those movies of his I don't own at the moment. So long Mr. Nielsen and thank you.

Well it was a really good run and I had a fantastic team, including some peoples I've teamed with a few times recently, always nice to have familiar faces.

This run was a little easier than others since other people on the team new the Cuda SF better. That was nice since I didn't know things like, you don't need Mueller to follow you in the second mission, you can just Stealth +TP your team to the last part and click the computer and it'll be fine.


So we did lots of stealth TPing into the last room on the second mission, and the fourth mission, made some of it go faster.

For the final battle I worked with the strategy everyone mentioned here. But it was a little weird at first. We got the first ambush to spawn, but then after the first group it stopped. Just one spawn and done. So I was scratching my head, I was getting people ready to attack him to trigger the ambush again, then just as we go into the room, the next spawn happens. WE back up, kill that group, then stop...

Then it kept doing this for the first ambush wave, it'd do a spawn, stop for a couple minutes, right when we were going to attack it'd happen again. However by the time the first wave started spawning in the back of the cave, it came pretty steadily.

We fought in the back of the T junction in the Cave, since Big R was coming down pretty far in that room and we wanted to be safe. After the first set of ambushes was done, we smacked him to get the second set and then we were just fighting ambushes in the caves for like 20 minutes. It was non stop and actually a lot of fun, a little harrowing when they started coming from the ROOM and the cave at the same time, but the team had fun with it, spanked the 5th column up and down the caves and then when it was all done we went after Big R himself.

Fighting him without constant ambushes is SO much easier, never been on a team that cleared them all before. He has a couple nasty attacks and his AOE lightning had a couple close to dieing a couple times, but between a couple rads doing great Debuffs and probably the best Tanking Brute I've ever seen, and loads of damage, we got the job done.

We had an MM who had never done the SF or any Masters run, so it was fun showing him how to do the entire thing right, and while he had the temp power, my blaster and another blaster had the Dimensional Grounding Ray from the Kahn TF, not sure if it does anything or not in the Cuda TF, but we used it on Reichs along with the MMs temp, just in case.

He went down without any real problems. But it was a really good Run, I can't stress how awesome that team was. One of the things I've really enjoyed about these Masters Runs, is that I've had a chance to play with some people who are really at the top of their game, great builds, know exactly what their doing. Seems like the Mo Runs brings the top tier players out of the wood work and it's nice to have a Team of really hard core, top of the line players running around with you.


Anyway, thank you all for the help again, that pulling ambushes and staying back strategy is pure win...