Kitsune Knight

I actually think there's a very good solution to this problem for this game. Since we're not out there to collect some livers for liverless dogs, we can easily write off ninja-ing by thinking about our objectives... Lets give an example scenario to illustrate how I'd think a system like this'd work.

• You get an open-world mission to 'bring Archon Morrison out of hiding and defeat him'
• You go out hunting Council soldiers
• After X number of soldiers are killed, Archon Morrison is spawned (as an ambush to you/your location for this scenario)
• Archon Morrison is defeated by you, and the mission is successful.

That's all well and good, but lets throw a bone in it:

• You get an open-world mission to 'bring Archon Morrison out of hiding and defeat him'
• You go out hunting Council soldiers
• After X number of soldiers are killed, Archon Morrison is spawned (as an ambush to you/your location for this scenario)
• Different: Archon Morrison is wiped out by a +40 Spines Scrapper that ran by with Quills on and was 1 shotted without the Scrapper ever even noticing him... and the mission is still successful, because Archon Morrison was still defeated. You'll still receive any temp powers/badges/etc, you MIGHT get slightly reduced XP/Inf mission-completion bonus... but I don't really see that as required, since it'd be the same as having a level 50 enter a level 10's mission and quitting the team and doing the mission for you (IIRC, you'd still get the full rewards in that situation, just not the enemy kill xp/inf obviously).

To minimize the situations where somebody else defeats them, for ambushes you can simply spawn the group close to where you are (so they don't have to run for a mile and possibly get lost/stuck). For ones that aren't ambushes (i.e. you're told the location to find them, possibly with a marker on your map), wait to actually spawn the group until someone from the team is within a certain distance.

The contact could have slightly different dialog in this case, like for a villains dialog the contact can joke about how amazing you were, to be able to get some other schmuck do your work for you without realizing it (and it amused them so much they'll still pay you the full amount anyways). For heroes, the contact can focus on you pulling them out of hiding, and downplaying on who defeated them personally as not being as important. Story-wise, don't write it in a way that you must to personally defeat them (i.e. stealing the cape on the villain cape mission would flat out not be practical, 'cause you need to steal the cape), for missions where that's required for the story, they can just be instanced.


For a glowie... I think that should be shown on your map (unless it's supposed to be in a very certain area, like a certain clearly defined base, to prevent it from being 'Find a box in Crey's Folly' nonsense). In addition, I think that the glowie should only be shown to the mission holder and her team (at the very least, only glowing for them, if it's a static part of the environment normally). This should prevent any possible ninja-ing, since it couldn't be stolen by someone else.


Might need some tweaks, but I think these methods are pretty close to a nice middle ground between 'instance in the world' and 'ninjas gone wild', so that even though people can ninja, it wouldn't hinder you.

I gotta agree with this. I actually enjoy keeping it cast on everyone (same with the Thermal shields... except those last long enough that I always forget to recast them, or end up recasting them about 4x too often!), it's a nice change from the tedium of just mindlessly spamming powers for me.

Depends on the power. Some powers also have an effect when it hits the target (like the swirly things when you use siphon power, or the banana sticking out of them when you use impale). With an invisible enemy those would still show (you can still seem them in the i16 power editor, which is funny 'cause it'll often outline the invisible target), which admittedly the OP might not actually want.

No, you misunderstood. I didn't say 'I want to use an (overly bloated) application to keep track', I said 'I want to write a (redundant) application to keep track'

Ya see, it'd be a nice change of pace from only writing incredibly complicated low level junk (i.e. a physical memory manager) and incredibly obscenely high level demo applications (i.e. something showing off the use of a 'loop' in a language that makes BASIC look like brain[censored] by comparison), which have been mostly all I've been working on lately.

And then repeat times 50+. And of course, you have to remember WHICH badge they still need. I do work on some of the day job badges, but only on a few characters, and even then I only go after a couple (generally which ever one would benefit them the most).

No. Day Jobs are nice, but not worth that much effort.

Oh freaking crap yes! I kept having to log in EVERY ONE OF MY CHARACTERS EVERY 60 DAYS... and it was driving me nuts!


Now I know I was simply wasting all that time

I'm pretty sure SmallSonicBlast3.ogg shouldn't be a folder, but should be what you rename the 'pluck.ogg' file as.


Edit: After bothing to actually LOOK at the guide, it should be placed in data\Powers\SonicSmallBlast3.ogg (like Psychoti said)

That's called subtlety


And, in a likely futile attempt to un-derail this thread, I don't really see much of a need to add Zero-G packs to be purchasable, and at the same time not really hugely against it or anything (mostly a 'meh' position).

Hell NO to buyable inf/IOs. I don't care if they come from spammers or NCSoft.

The opposite will happen. The price of the IOs will go up to the point to equate to $15, instead of being based off of inf.


Suggested many times, and I'll continue to be strongly against this.

It's a play on words. 'Bark' in the first part generally refers to the sound a dog makes... but in the context of the second sentence, it's meaning the stuff that's on trees.

Get it now?

Mind you, that's 100% client side, meaning everyone else would still have the same thing (so no, you can't rick roll people with Shout using that).

This. I was a bit peeved when I switched builds, then went to rename it, and it wouldn't let me...


Not to mention, I don't have the SLIGHTEST idea what enhancements I've slotted into my Stalker's other build... hell, I can barely remember what's in my current build while looking at the enhancements screen