Lord_Nightblade

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  1. Walking. Last night I had one character walk from the Talos Pocket D entrance to the tram.
  2. Sometimes at character creation, sometimes not until the 30s. A few characters I've made were fun right out of the box (my DB/elec brute for example) and never stopped being fun. Others were fun for a while, but then they hit a wall in the 30s and I stopped playing them (claws/inv scrapper). And some don't make it past level 1 (controllers/dominators).

    A very few I keep as concept characters
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Anti_Proton View Post
    ...must every third NPC carry a bag of groceries?
    It's a defense against muggings. You can't get mugged if your arms are full and you're carrying perishables. It's one of the unwritten laws of the city.
  4. I'd love it if you could give each zone a unique architectural flavor. For example, Steel Canyon could have more of an Art Deco look, evocative of the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and the like. Founders Falls could (and really should) have more of a colonial look, since it's the oldest part of Paragon (and I'd love to see the Founders tram station redesigned to fit in with the area better). A Boomtown revamp could use more modern glass skyscrapers as the area is rebuilt.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    I'm just curious, when people say Black Scorpion is easy, are you fighting him as an EB or as an AV? Team or Solo?
    I soloed him as an EB on my Night Widow (slotted with SOs, I don't fiddle with IOs much). Compared to soloing Scirocco on my brute and Ghost Widow on my corruptor, Scorpion was a pushover. He was definitely the shortest of the fights.

    One of the things you can do for comparison is go through Mender Silos' villain TF. At the end, you start the mission with backup from Black Scorpion and Ghost Widow. Scorpion always always always dies first.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    My "grander" villains (i.e., the arch-villain type) view the Patrons as mere stepping stones to greater power. What, you've all never heard of villains teaming up with or even working for other villains in a mere ploy to grasp power for themselves? Doctor Doom does it all the time.
    That's basically how I see it. The Patron arcs are nothing more than temporary alliances of convenience for my villains.

    The only exception is my Night Widow. She's a total company girl, totally loyal to Recluse (she got involved in the Destiny stuff because she didn't trust the rabble freed from the Zig). I had her pick Black Scorpion as her patron, because she thought Scorpion needed extra supervision to keep him from overstepping his bounds.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Warkupo View Post
    He's not really covered 'head to toe'. His head is wide friggin' open.

    I'll never understand getting all dressed up in armor and then running around with a big fleshy target where I like to keep a vital organ or two. You might as well be a Boss in a Starfox game.
    A mere technicality. He's covered in armor that's practically a foot thick in some places and he bills himself as the strongest of Recluse's lieutenants in terms of brute force. But he goes down like a bad souffle.
  8. Black Scorpion doesn't treat you with any respect, although he's not particularly abusive either. He's mostly focused on making improvements to his armor, bordering on monomania I think.

    In terms of the betrayal mission, he's probably the easiest patron to defeat (I haven't fought Mako, though so I'm not 100% on that). For a guy covered head to toe in thick, cybernetic combat armor, Black Scorpion has one hell of a brittle glass jaw.
  9. Lord_Nightblade

    Coh 2001

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    That's really what gets under my skin. I can deal with the engine, and for what it is, it looks like it's capable of some pretty amazing graphics.
    It is a pretty good engine, just look at some screenshots from Star Trek Online. It never ceases to amaze me that CO and STO use the same engine, because STO looks light years better than CO in every way.
  10. Lord_Nightblade

    Incarnates?!?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarthAcerbus View Post
    If the soon to be implemented Incarnate system lets you choose a deity, as I assume it will, which deity will you choose?
    Nemesis.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork View Post
    I like the idea of running in, destroying a couple of support beams (destroyable objects), setting a bomb or two, then running out, sorta similar to the Arson side missions.
    But instead of the model of a good building having smoke added to the exterior later, we could have a ruined husk of a building having a fake "skin" of an intact building over the top of it, to be removed when the sidemission is completed
    I think something like this would be a great addition to mayhems. It could also vary by location. For example, in Independence Port, instead of destroying a building you sink a cargo ship. Or in Peregrine Island you blow up the Vanguard depot (or, if that's not within the mission area, maybe you could bring down some of the high tension power lines, which could actually work just like a normal destructible object).
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork View Post
    Okay, snarky comment aside, that would be fun. They would have to have a boatload of HP. Significantly higher than the cars and trucks that are tough for lowbies but nothing to higher-level characters.
    I'm thinking something more along the lines of the arsons. It wouldn't completely destroy the building, but it would blow off a chunk of the exterior or cause half the building to collapse. You know, something that would actually provide a distraction to emergency services. Not "OMG! A mail box was destroyed! Call the cops!"
  13. Personally, I'd be satisfied if they changed mayhem missions to be less about petty vandalism and more about mayhem and destruction. I want to go in and say, "Boom! Take that apartment building!" not "Boom! Take that payphone!"
  14. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
  15. Anything that would have something like this, only much smaller and with collapsible wings for when you're not in flight:
  16. What we need is a poster of Sister Psyche and her strategic bath bubbles. That would sell.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TargetOne View Post
    Also would like to see more "City Of" merchandise offered for sale... T-shirts, coffee mugs, pens, mousepads, posters, you name it.

    If this is really too much to ask, then at least provide some "printer-ready"* artwork, and we'll print our OWN "City of" T-shirt iron-on transfers.

    *(By "printer-ready" I mean fairly large images, horizontally-flipped for convenience.)
    Also plush Rikti monkeys and fire imps.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DKellis View Post
    No, not all of us are Australian or Kiwi.
    Well, Australia and New Zealand aren't part of the Asian continent, so that sort of goes without saying. Then again, some Americans have trouble finding Canada on maps and believe that traveling to New Mexico requires a passport, so...
  19. They're handy powers to have if you team a lot, but for someone who spends more time solo, an ally rez power is quite skippable.

    Of course, with the ability to switch builds you can have a solo build all IOed out and then a secondary build for the odd team session with the ally rez and just slotted with SOs.
  20. Looking good, Deebs. Looking good.
  21. Too bad I don't know HTML, otherwise I'd apply for that community manager job. Six years posting on the boards counts as experience, right?
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SkyRocker View Post
    I see now why he has such a negative rep with some of the folks here, and combining what I've just read with all the negative stuff he said about CoX while promoting CO, I'd have to say that I'm not a real big fan of his at this point either.
    Emmert doesn't seem to know when to shut up. This, coupled with the fact that he'll screw up whatever he's talking about, insures that he'll earn the hatred of the players of every MMO Cryptic publishes.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sorah View Post
    Cryptic clearly never learned their lessons from CoX.

    Just sayin'.
    Well that much is obvious. I enjoy CO (bought a lifetime sub so I could keep my sub to CoH active) but it's obvious that they've made some of the same mistakes. What I find funny is the people who indignantly left CoH after some of the major nerfs, then went to CO expecting something completely different. Never mind that the man who instituted the CoH nerfs is the same man currently running Cryptic.

    All these bait-and-switch accusations after the launch day nerfs. Honestly, who didn't see those coming?
  24. Lord_Nightblade

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Heroid View Post
    ((I was joking about the Girls Next Door... The whole mainstreaming of the porn industry kinda boggles my mind. I mean, yeah, it shouldn't be criminal, but I can't see how they should expect their parents to be proud of them for their "accomplishments".
    The interesting thing here is that the southern California affiliate of NPR has done a couple of shows where they talk with a porn star (I forget her name, but she used to be big back in the '70s I think) and discuss the current state of the porn industry, including call in questions from the listeners.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AreEss View Post
    They shot themselves in the foot again with the repeated bait and switch from closed to open and through release.
    I think you're giving the devs too much credit here. I don't think they, or anyone else at Cryptic, has either the intelligence or deviousness to cook up that sort of scheme. Are they naive? Clueless? You bet. But devious? Those guys probably couldn't sell storm windows to Floridians in the middle of hurricane season.

    Plus, keep in mind that good ol' Jack is running Cryptic. He has a vision of how MMOs should play and he sticks to it, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it's not working. Remember that the best thing he did for CoH was leave.