Lost Ninja

Nice quick way to get out of the game...

Tested on XP SP2 does as mentioned above. However I also tested the version I use. pow_exec_alt2slot which is the one that applies to tray 3 (top most tray IIRC) and it gives no error nor does it crash. I'll check the middle one after I've been to bed.

Note: On my PC the crash was almost instantaneous (less than 1 second).

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You only need to stand in Atlas for a few minutes to get an idea of what brand new players must think;
"Hmm, wonder what this games like?"
"Lvl 1 LFFT"
"Lvl 47 LFFT"
"Farm LFM, Empath wanted, No tanks"
"...I guess I found out."


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Yup, that's what I thought and if there was another decent non-elf/fairy/dwarf etc.. MMO out there I'd have probably checked that out instead.
In the first half hour of my first time logging in on the blue side I saw almost constant broadcasts requesting teams, I got several tells asking for teams and a few blind team requests. It can be quite off putting especially when I had to re-acquaint myself with how to do even the simplest of actions.

Imho, I agree with the OP except the red side, I didn't and still don't see very much farming broadcasts in mercy, but I see a lot in Atlas and Galaxy. However, if it has to be uniform or fair, removing the AE building from Mercy wouldn't be much of an issue tbh, a level 1 who knows what they are doing (so not new players) can get to Cap quite easily without dying on the way.

The only argument I can think of against this idea is that the MA system is advertised as something new and innovative to MMO's and is a selling point, would subs suffer if those people wanting to use it straight out of the bag couldn't get to it? In all honesty though getting to adjacent zones and by doing so learning the basics of the game doesn't take too long at all and would provide for better mission creating, imo.

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Yet then people moan that there are no teams... merge the servers!

TBH I think that if you hate broadcast being filled up with people playing the game you should just switch it off.

But while I disagree on reasons for the change I support the change to remove the too easy access to people who don't know what is going on yet from PL teams. I'd also support a minimum entry level to MA even though I use it to PL my alts from 1 upwards. (I have been around a while and do know mostly what I'm doing ).

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Tbh, Blueside is the bigger problem, this time. Red side, although there shouldnt be one in Mercy, there aren't that many people. Maybe the content is better, or maybe people are less fussed. Either way, its not clogging the channels and messing up a newbie zone.

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Fixed for you.

Okay maybe 30 was a touch high but I stand by my idea in the sense that removing it from all low level zones would be better than just the start zones.

And if the only reason you're suggestion this is because they, people running MA teams, are clogging up your precious channels I feel very sorry for you.

I assumed you wanted them removed because newbies and low level players don't learn the game or character properly by avoiding the normal game.

Devoured

Lesser -> Devoured -> Greater

Differences from recollection are to do with how much humanity each retains, I'll drop by eden and take some pictures when I'm next in game but I think lesser has some facial human features while greater is all monster.

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Agree, some events are not server specific, and even then they might not be red or blueside specific.

Posting on both defiant heroes AND defiant villains is a bit silly, and same goes for if you want to start off a themed group or something. Posting in general seems wrong for that.

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Particularly when its cross posting and one or the other will be locked/deleted.

All sub 30 zones IMO.

If we get this I want FF scrappers...

(With a subtlety changed FF set of course.)

One thing should be noted if they change powers so that you can customise them looks wise that would be good for Proliferation as one of the things that will currently slow that down is changing animations to look heroic/villainous. Remove that step and all they'll need to do is play with the numbers.

In theory.

What is RL?

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Its not one I'm in that I can help with is it?

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Nope.

Thats cool, I have many leaders. All my alts for a start.

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I think PvP was always intended for the game - superheroes vs supervillains is just begging for it - but the devs have no clue of just how to make it work.

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Fixed it for you.

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There, really fixed.

Gamma is just the particles that are forming the radiation. They happen to be the ones that can go through pretty much anything and do stupid amounts of damage while they do so, well to biological stuff anyway, they;re generally what cause 'mutations'.

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cool, i am not a big fan of storm, only for the single reason that gale is a pain in the [censored] for other heroes. When playing as a tank i found that everyone getting blown away is just a little annoying and harder to control the aggro.

but not sure if there is a way around that?

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Yea. Either you play the tank or let him pack the mobs, then use AoE immob. Immob negates knockback for a while. If you spam it you shouldn't have any issues with kb.

There are just too many tactics you can use with earth powers alone. Hope you get to enjoy it as much as I did.

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Or take fly and use gale to knock mobs down. Which works great.

Thats what I want to find out.

The guy who is currently the leader in the SG rarely plays any more and I'm pretty much the only active player in the SG (some other people are active on other characters) but when the changes with i14 happened I was unable to login for a while by the time I'd got back in game one of his lesser played alts had the leader spot. Aa at the time I was planning on staying out of the game I didn't raise a ruckus.

Now I'm playing and he isn't I'd like control of the SG I founded, built up and earned the vast majority of the prestige for back. If the auto-demotion doesn't work for leader ranks I will appeal to GMs for assistance. I just hoped someone here would know for sure one way or another.

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Serious just release that damn CO already.. oh wait, they shifted it few months later eh? But serious, release it so all those 'oooh CO gonna wack CoH butty, ooho they doing X and Y because CO coming' kids can finaly go play their happy dinkytoy game and we can have some common conversations again instead of every freaking thread looking at yet another CO reference post.


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But don't forget there'll be an expansion pack and/or large content update for CO soon-ish after it's released

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Or they could do it like Auto Assault and change 90% of the game a month before release. Seriously you'd have thought Cryptic would have learned something from the mistakes they made with CoH to not release something with parts missing. Allegedly CoH was to have PvP & Villains in from the start and adding both at a later date never worked. I know CO is having PvP from the off but AFAIK Villains might be added later. I know nobody releases MMOs with most of the content in there at the start, you want a way to keep those initial subs hanging around for a couple of months.

So for me, start telling me that CO is so damn good three months after its actually launched and I might believe you.

Sorry to rant OT.

PS All you CO fanbois (and gurls) perhaps you'd like to [bleep]* off to the CO forums and stop polluting this one with your rabid fanboism... (Except GG who is banned, you could just stop spouting maybe )

PPS And yes I know there is no way that anyone can actually shut GG up with out actually banning her.

Edited by Avatea: that was NOT nice...and a bit disturbing!

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In some minds CoH will need that to compete.

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In some minds but not mine I should have added. I've heard good things about CO from people whose opinions I respect. But the I heard good things about WAR and AoC and neither of those are IMO anyway any good.

Power customisation is AFAIK one of the selling points of CO. In some minds CoH will need that to compete. Yes more costume parts are good but they've been adding them since launch and tellingly never said it was something they can't do. Power customization on the other hand we were told many moons back was impossible... And it is something that a dev (possibly Posi. FFM or Praf can no doubt correct me ) mentioned in one of the interviews a while back that they were adding something that they had said was impossible.

Plus I doubt they'd hype more costume pieces even if they opened up the selections some like GG says. Costumes have been added from day one it isn't news.

A way to change an object/mobs alignment mid mission (other than when the are hostages that turn hostile when rescued) See turrets in ITF.

A way to change objectives mid mission.

A way to have boss groups remove a spawn if the spawn where they spawn is already occupied. Knowing where AVs/EBs/Bosses will spawn due to lack of normal spawns is a pain. Same with ambushes.

A way to change the purpose of a spawn mid mission. Say if you have three patrols wandering around. When you trigger/complete an objective it would be nice to be able to tell them that they are now an ambush.

Allowing hostages/allies/etc to be drawn from a list at random so you can have a variety of looks rather than just one. And if that's impossible allow linking of objectives under one heading.

CO seems to becoming the Chuck Norris of game design...

When it comes out I fully expect it to kill WoW dead...

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So what would you change about your current powers on your mains then people?

I'ld LOVE to be able to design decoys as a character model, would be the ULTIMATE power then imo! Could literally be what i wanted when i first played, a power that spawns copies of yourself

A blue fireball for my illusion/rad/fire

Dark armour would become white to signify its change from evil to good.

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Well my DM/SR would become Light Melee instead. That's the main change I would want to do. I'd like blue electricity on my brute though, cause, well, you know, electricity and all.

Oh and black Ice on my Cold/Dark defender

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Yellow Snow?

Well its at 41 days now. Auto demotion is set to 45 so I guess I'll see soon.

I have...

Fitness: (for obvious reasons) Swift, Health & Stamina
Speed: Hasten
Leaping: Combat Jumping (slotted with LotG (if I had one) +Stealth and a Knockback IO)
Teleport: Recall Friend

And for epics I have Psionic on one and Ice Mastery on the other though I might change that to Ice too as I'm bored with Psionic.

Was thinking of going presence/provoke instead of recall friend to make mass herding maps easier just wish there was such a thing as a taunt proc so I could taunt cheaper.

And I use my fire/kin(s) for farming, missions and the odd TF. And currently I only have one build as I can't really afford to slot a second build. (Way too many alts.)

Gotta say its a small SG called Not Applicable, mainly as I created it and while the membership isn't huge or especially active ATM (might change with GR) when those that are members are around they're great people to play with.

Blasters should have a faceplant costume change emote...