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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Goldbrick View Post
    During zone events, I've observed that players don't camp or group or assemble or meet up, they flock. Flocking is an unspoken go with the flow sort of thing. People enter the zone, head for the most likely flocking locations, spot a gathering, and join the flock.
    Just like in "A Few Good Men" where the guy on the witness stand is explaining how he found the mess hall at his new post. He just sort of followed everyone else when it was time to eat.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Another_Fan View Post
    You have to love the Ebil ones ability not to hear, or rather hear one thing and run with it to extremes. Its also kind of funny how they shoot themselves in the feet with a Gatling Gun doing it. Id be willing to go out on a limb and say the people that are using the term price cap actually mean fixed price store similar to the ones they buy common recipes, SOs, DOs, and TOs at.
    The irony is strong with this one. Talk about not hearing. From what I see, all those people you quoted know exactly what is meant by 'price cap'. It just looks like you're creatively misinterpreting them to make some alleged point.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by jacktar View Post
    This is mainly because with the new PvP changes I was getting a hammering in RV and at the times I am usually playing it is virtually impossible to get 8 others just to farm the STF first mission.
    Given a limited number of teammates, I think RV is still your best bet. If you can find just one person to help, it makes it much easier to take down a tarantula.

    Alternatively, rather than PI radio missions, you might try the door missions in Warburg. These are available for anyone level 30-50 and, by picking the right missions, you can be assured of Arachnos in every mission.

    Personally, I used both of these methods. I found a lot in RV because I was in there long enough to defeat 1,000 pillboxes anyway. The Warburg mission was best if you had a large team but now you can 'simulate' a large team with the new difficulty settings.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    I shouldn't have included the AFK example.

    Zero debt isn't the problem.
    Not being able to get to the trainer due to swarms of people/AoE attacks/stupidly high lag is the problem.

    And its not reasonable to say 'Just go to another zone'. Trainers are meant to be used for training. If people dont want to take part in the invasions, this is disrupting how they play the game, and enforcing things on them that shouldnt be.
    Conceptually as well, it makes no sense for the trainers to be DANGEROUS areas.
    Um, invasion affecting the entire zone. Massive disruption to normal activities. That's what is SUPPOSED to happen. When the Rikti start bombing or zombies start bursting out of the ground, the whole place is dangerous. I guess the trainers should all run inside and hide.
  5. Ironblade

    Invention Sets

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Universal_One View Post
    Honestly I've never seen Rise of the Pheonix used and have never used it so have no idea what it'll give me. One way I guess to look at that is if I'm not using it why slot it so high?
    I've taken it and used it and it kicks butt. It just doesn't need 6 slots. I have one slot on it. If I'm dying so often it would need more slots, I must be screwing up.
  6. Exactly. You must defeat them in the correct part of the zone. FYI, if you can't find any there, you can 'herd' them to the right area and kill them there and it will count.
  7. I tried adding a global friend last night by right-clicking their name on the team list and it failed completely. NOTHING happened. No error message, no confirmation message and no friend request was sent. That function appears to be broken.

    I opened my global list and used the ADD button and their global name and that worked.
  8. One other possibility. You have the potential of 36 slots per server, listed in 3 columns but only one is displayed. Sometimes the characters get shifted around and you have to go look for them (using the big left and right arrows at the bottom of the column to navigate).
  9. So there I am, on my current tank in Brickstown doing some Trick or Treating. I knock on a door, some enemies come out, and another hero runs up to the same door!

    Whoa! Am I going to see my first griefing this year? He must see me standing here.

    And.... he walks up to the door and goes in. Oh, duh. A mission. Oddly enough, having been here for every Halloween event, that's the first time that has happened to me.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LunarDivine View Post
    I overheard a Disturbing Rumor today.

    Someone named xXSTRIKEXx told Paragon Hero Neos that he has father who use to play this game a few years ago, and that his father's character is lvl 54.
    Quote:
    Anyone have any opinions on the matter?
    Seriously, are you 12?
    One person tells you something and you get worked up enough that you need to get opinions on the matter? This isn't a "Disturbing Rumor" (capital letters added for extra drama, I guess). This is some nimrod flapping his gums and you believed him. Or at least took him slightly seriously, which was way more than the conversation warranted.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by perwira View Post
    I had the misfortune of getting whacked this way. Alas, I had shifted between the powers/slots management window, the full-screen training window and Paragon wiki to look up a power, and had no idea at the time while I was training that an invasion was under way. When I brought the training screen down, it was 'base or hospital', *Eep! whut?!*
    And? So you died at the trainer. And? You got ZERO DEBT, so who cares?
  12. Ironblade

    Disappointed

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MageX View Post
    Yes. Not very disappointed but I`m definitely not impressed.
    We're getting side-switching, possibly the most requested feature in the history of this game, and you're focusing on minutia like what the water will look like?

    Once again, I'll pull out a line I seem to be using a lot lately. If you were given a magic flying pony that crapped gold and had saddlebags full of cookies, I'm guessing your immediate response would be, "What! No milk?"
  13. Ironblade

    Base Manifesto

    I heard we're getting a new official base contact. Unfortunately, the contact is a turnip.
  14. Ironblade

    Invention Sets

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Universal_One View Post
    Gravity

    Wormhole (3)
    Singularity (6)
    More slots on Wormhole, less on Singularity.

    I've never played Storm.

    Quote:
    Fire Mastery

    Fire Ball (6)
    Rise of the Pheonix (6)
    Fire Shield (3)
    Consume (3)
    Why do you have 6 slots on a self-rez power? If that's part of your 'attack chain', you're doing something seriously wrong. (Unless you like to Self-Destruct regularly - but that has a long enough recharge that 6 slots on Rise is still crazy.)
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TRTerror View Post
    It does make something for the reward for me at least.

    If it´s too easy to defeat mobs i get bored and i stop having fun. I almost considered quitting in i14 since getting stuff was too easy, Again in i15 since noone wanted to do hard stuff and went for easymode AE.

    Currently tf´s just exist as a good way for leveling toons and hoarding merits for later use. Some sf´s are still fun but they are loosing their shine.
    Exactly. Previously my SG would run at Heroic and not SK people even if they were 3-4 levels down. It made it more challenging (more FUN) and got them extra XP. With Supersidekicking, we would just up the level setting a bit. Now we can't. Less fun.

    Still, this is only a temporary situation. Since Going Rogue isn't until 2010, I think we should see a fix for this before the Winter event.
  16. Sign me up for team one with . . . somebody.
  17. Ironblade

    rep

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Catwhoorg View Post
    I don't believe reg date or post count has any effect on these forums.

    It may be a default for the system, but the mods changed it during the set-up
    No.
    They might have changed it recently, but I guarantee you it was not changed during set-up. I've gotten multiple signed +rep's where the expected rep value based on their stats matched the actual rep exactly.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eddy_B View Post
    I can understand stopping people doing TFs at -1, but not allowing us to do them at tough difficulties is just a temporary situation.
    Fixed that for you.
    And yes, that's official. The devs TOLD us it's temporary.
  19. Ironblade

    Kindred spirits

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MaestroMavius View Post
    Way it goes I guess. I was just curious, have any of you ever run into someone that plays?
    Maybe they overheard you talking about it.
    Maybe they saw the boards on your laptop at starbucks and just started talking about it.

    Anyone?
    "Run into"? No. I make sure to occasionally wear my CoH t-shirt while out shopping, etc and have yet to have anyone comment. (And I live in New York City where people aren't shy about accosting strangers on the street!)

    On the other hand, I started playing CoH after several RL friends told me about it. Most of them don't play any more, but my brother and his wife do.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    Isn't that all the more reason to make trainers out of bounds for Invasion spawning? No one likes being ganked. Being ganked when your afk sucks worse. Being ganked when your immobile, in a supposedly safe place on a different screen?
    Who the heck cares? There's no debt during an invasion so getting 'ganked' while AFK is meaningless.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    Why, why oh why, do people always camp out for Invasions by the trainers?
    um, isn't the answer obvious?
    1) Major landmark which is also...
    2) Displayed on the in-game map.
    3) No police drones.

    In a zone where the trainer has drones nearby (like Talos), the crowd goes elsewhere (the hill, in Talos).
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Catwhoorg View Post
    I find buying SOs evey 5 levels a very large hassle.

    I find it funny that the same trait 'in game laziness' can oush someone to SO or IO, dpedning upon which part they feel is more effort. (Markets or the shopping at NPC stores)
    And I find SO's to be the easier path until I'm ready to IO a toon. Please note, though, that I use hardly any common IO's. Working up a good build with set IO's is time-consuming and I usually get around to it about level 36 or 37.

    I feel that level gives the best trade-off in terms of getting the set bonuses when exemping to reasonable levels vs getting the most effect from the enhancements themselves. From that point on, I'll use higher level IO's in the powers I get at higher levels.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Another_Fan View Post
    Here are some translations from market speak to English.

    1. Now is the best time in the past N time units to buy. = I have a bunch of this and I would like people to take it off my hands.

    2. The market is going in Direction x with no end in sight = I am doing the opposite of this and would prefer that you act like a sucker or at least not horn in on my action.

    3. Would you look at how high X you can really make a bundle selling X = I would like to buy X and would appreciate it if as many people as possible would bust their rears making X more affordable for me.

    4. You have a sense of entitlement = I have mine and you aint getting any of it.
    Further translation: I don't play well with others.
  24. On my scrapper, I used two Sappers conning white so they'd keep me mezzed a greater percentage of the time.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
    Right. Nothing should change because it's always been this way.
    Damn straight! We FEAR change!