Lost Ninja

Where will I stand?

Can I stand in the middle? Or in other words will it be possible to be neither good nor evil?

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There is no need to deny that farming, or more accurately the consequences of farming, is an issue right now. It shouldn't be one for much longer though but we need to iron out a few things before we can make our stance public.

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That sounds kinda...ominous

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Well ominous for one side or another I guess.

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Well, reading between the lines, it looks like they're planning on dropping huge irons onto people who farm, and they're going through a testing phase right now.

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Is that going to be just MA farmers or all farmers?

They borked the AH so that you can't buy things for sensible prices, now they're trying to get rid of the only way of making the money to buy things. Why don't they just remove the economy altogether? They'd kill 90% of farmers instantly that way.

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(true story, I did this yesterday and we hated it!)

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You sir are an idiot then.

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I really hope that was a joke.

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No joke.

If anyone spends three hours doing something for fun that they hate they are an idiot. If you hate something don't do it! Don't come on the forums and moan about doing it.

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There is no need to deny that farming, or more accurately the consequences of farming, is an issue right now. It shouldn't be one for much longer though but we need to iron out a few things before we can make our stance public.

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That sounds kinda...ominous

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Well ominous for one side or another I guess.

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(true story, I did this yesterday and we hated it!)

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You sir are an idiot then.

I was just thinking about 50 actually...

With PvP broken.

No real end game (looking at other MMOs that do).

Why on earth does anyone want to get to 50 anyway. Its not like there is a great deal to do with one when you get there.

Me I've been farming its true, mainly using my free subbed account (reactivation thing) to boost some of my main accounts lowbies to realms where the game is fun again (if such a thing is possible TBH).

But with the exception of duoing, which I can't do as my 2nd PC is broken (crashes when the game loads) I hardly ever play my 50s, my main who I still love is logged in for badges and little else. My only 50 villain is only used for boosting, and badly at that. My blaster... I forget the last time I played her. In fact only my fire/kins get a showing and even then not everyday.

DarkSilver
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One way to solve the farming issue, or at least put a dent in it, would be to take action against the players that repeatedly create farming missions. You can already report a mission for being a farming mission and it will get taken down. This way the game doesn't have to suffer any nerfing.

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Bit objectionable TBH. I'm given a tool to create content I want to do, as long as I label it clearly I fail to see why you or the devs have an issue with it. Objectionable? As objectionable as poor grammar or stupid plots IMO. And there are as many of those as there are farms.

Slazenger
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XP should be halved in M.A your going into combat with a simulation, not taking on foes in paragon, may not seem alot of differance in-game but keeping in line for what M.A contacts tell you it is.

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And while you're at it make it half as hard?

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No Infamy/influence for defeating foes, again M.A is a simulation to the real paragon, how can you gain Inf for defeating simulated foes.

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Inf(luence/amy) isn't cash its how well liked/hated you are by the populace, and just as people in Korea get paid for playing games (Starcraft et al) the in game reality allows you to earn people's respect from being good at crash tests and combat simulation.

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Tickets should only be allowed to purchase unlockable content for the M.A only.

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After being back in game for what four days or so and playing not that much, I have unlocked all the MA content on both accounts, if you remove the use of them for anything but unlockables you would either need some other reward (because face it half XP is not going to attract the punters) or make the unlockables much more expensive. IMO best option for tickets would be to allow purchase of reward Merits at a set rate... or better yet remove the three different reward tokens you have now and just add one that does everything.

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If that dosen't stop the farmers, devs hold your hands up and withdraw and hit the delete button on the M.A folder on your way out.

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Oh it won't stop the farmers, not even pulling the plug on the whole MA she-bang will stop them... I farmed far more pre-i14 than since. Worse if you remove most peoples reason for going into MA a)It'll be wasted like PvP and Arenas and b)People will go back to farming Harvey Naylor daemons or something similar. I'm all for giving the RP community something nice after all these years but a whole issue is a bit much.

TBH the easiest and safest method of stopping single mob farming would be to check custom groups for a safe balance of types, and add a encounter option so you can pick specific single spawns for exact encounters. Then the mobs will contain minions, lts and bosses as they do in the normal game.* Any other method will either drastically reduce the amount of users (dropping level of rewards) or drastically reduce the amount of arcs (reducing mobs).

*EG: currently if you add a single mob from a custom group its picked seemingly at random, which is one of the reasons you need to make single mob groups. If any instance when you need single mobs for story telling purposes you get tell the editor to add a single mob from a larger group that would help.

As for the rest they won't remove all farming for MA without removing rewards altogether which surely would remove 90% of the populations reason for using it.

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The reason the majority have decided to leave (for now)...etcetc

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Sorry but what?

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I think he means the majority of those leaving, not that the majority are leaving.

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That's what private messages are for.

If you're that friendly with them, send them a personal good bye.

Rather than nailing your dirty washing up in the town square, so to speak.

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Because I know the forum names of everyone I have met over the years?

If you dislike people saying good bye in anyway don't read them. Just as I hate the stupid 'happy cake day' posts that I don't read. As it is your post is a needless attempt at post count bumping.

I'd be happier if the devs would actually change something due to our leaving posts, I doubt it will happen but I can dream. If we all leave with no farewell then the devs will just assume that everything is hunky-dory and continue as they are with no chance of changing anything.

I just wish I wasn't in the process of quitting the game... been wanting to play a super team for ages.

Wondering if the mac client might be a good try?

The middle button is mbutton.

Try this:

/bind mbutton "/t $name, Middle Button works."

And press the middle button, if nothing happens (eg no tell from yourself) then the game isn't reading the middle button. Check that it works in windows if not its a hardware fault. If it does try another mouse, if that works its most likely a driver issue.

Not sure how the wheel bind works as by standard is this:

MOUSEWHEEL "+camdistadjust"

But you could try the above bind anyway.

Would the Mac client be a better option to run under Linux than than the windows client through Wine/Cedega?

And I'm assuming I don't actually need to buy a Mac box to use a windows account on a mac?

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teaming and teaming with friends is one thing, getting off the ferry into P.I. to hear nothing but b-casts or LF Farm Team!, Plz PL ME! from lvl 2's is another.

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I don't see that a huge amount, unless I am playing my fire-kin.

However, I have a couple of ways of dealing with silly team requests.

1 : Ask them what they will bring to the team that will enhance it. If I get a "huh? just PL me!" then they go on ignore. I've had someone respond previously with "Wit, charm and the occasional faceplant" ... they got an invite

2 : Say "you want to team then?". When they say yes I respond "Great, brb, just logging in my lvl 4 scrapper. Meet you in Atlas park ?"

Fahie

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^^This.

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Besides we got the ZIG.

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Which just cries out for some sort of instanced multi level Trial. In fact if you added three dealing with different villain groups. 30-39, 40-49 and 50 only, it'd give us PvE numpties something to do and be fun...

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Other locations: I think we'll quite possibly get something with any boxed expansion, but...

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No thanks, revitalise the currently dead zones instead!

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Do both, revitalise existing zones, and add new zones in an expansion.

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- A proper wilderness area, maybe with a few 'abandoned' labs or military sites scattered in it.

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Neat idea. Issue X: Brickstown blown to smithereens by small nuclear device. War wals contain blast and fallout. Only fortified installations remain in the wasteland that was Crey's Folly and Brickstown, while mutants and outcasts scavenge from what little wreckage remains...

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They could even instance Auto Assault in there too...

Does Rockjaw's post still exist?

I'm a controller, you want perma SB get a defender whose job it is to buff, I control stuff and kill stuff. And if you want FS stand close, you may also get healed and plenty of end but thats as it may be not what you should expect

Its the same as what I have already suggested, on the minmap you would see a little icon showing your set location and you'd be able to share that with the team or SG, or by saving it /loc_save with anyone through use of a text file.

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There is one in every major city, plus the ones actually at the entrance to the various BGs. And arena dudes in the various neutral cities. With a HS set to a nearby Inn you can get to a PvP bloke in virtually no time at all (needs a bit of forethought), and if the city if ina zone where you're levelling or grinding you can continue on doing your thing. (I used to play the markets while waiting for a BG place.)


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I bet you I can get from any PvE zone to any PvP zone in CoH faster than you can in WoW.

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Depends where you start from.

Back side of Scarlet Monastry I'd agree, bank in IF no way. But then without any temps or awarded bonus powers (so just basic travel powers) from the far side of Shadow Shards to RV? Even falling down to get back to area start, and then running to ferry (no base TP for you), to Skyway station and thus to Atlas and RV would take you a fair amount of time I think...

I suggest you get off you floaty behind and live like the rest of us plebs without all your funky travel powers Mr FatMan...

Having quick acess to PvP zones as suggested above wouldn't in anyway make the game less easy and might encourage people who want to PvP (the fools) to actually head to a zone.

Don't especially matter how its implemented, its the eventual effect that is needed.

Items designed specifically for stacking rather than the work arounds that we have now.

Signed, many of the functional items would be nice as non-functional fluff.