Matakoshi

Count me in, dude. Need those badges...

you know who i am.....

sorry if thats how you read it, it wasn't meant to be. I thought i said pretty much the same thing in my first post, sorry. Yes, we beat them time and time again, but i was meaning for you to focus on the insults they were hurling at us, rather than what actually happened. sorry if i got the emphasis wrong in what i wrote.

the 1st analogy isn't so comparable, no, but the second about the kata competition is (kata involves no fighting or physical contact between two people (unless doing bunkai)). its the same principle as say a game of tennis or something, then slagging off the other person when you beat them, or constantly taunting them through the match.

you say only sometimes the "banter" is personal insults? seems like everytime i'm in a PvP zone there's always insults being thrown from one side to the other etc etc. maybe i've just had bad luck with times i've been in there, but so often i hear all the "you *enter hero/villain AT here* suck, i just owned you", or "you're a coward, come back and fight me" (normally from stalkers who always spend more time running away in PvP matches where i've seen them, or lying dead on the floor). I'm meaning to just ask what the point of it all is? it seems to me like its always a deliberate attempt to annoy people....

badge hunters who want badges have no choice but to go into PvP zones if they want all the badges. as i said, i acknowledge the risks and don't complain about being killed in a PvP zone by a villain. it happens. what you shouldn't have to put up with in a pvp zone is the insults, which is what i've been trying to focus on in this thread (but obviously not very well. )

Yeah, an attempt to drag us into a fight we didn't want to be part of. As i said, we knew it was a PvP zone, and we knew that we'd probably get into a few fights, but i kinda hoped that after we told them we're not interested in fighting them, and after we beat them several times, they would have left us alone. instead they still insisted on taunting us etc. Yes, people got to PvP for PvP....so what about the badge-hunters who have no choice but to go to PvP areas for badges? I tolerate PvP, i didn't even complain when i got killed in SC trying to get a badge right on the edge of the villain base. I know that in a PvP zone i'm likely to get attacked and killed. I'm not complaining about that. I'm asking why people insist on taunting and mouthing off and saying things like "Hah! I just owned you" all the time. Its a deliberate attempt at getting someone riled. It would be like me taking part in a kata competition and taunting my opponent after i beat them. We can do without that kind of attitude in CoH/CoV.

I don't have a problem with being involved in fights in PvP zones even when i don't want to fight. Like i said, when i'm in a PvP zone i can't (and won't) complain about being killed when i've conciously made the choice to go to the PvP zone in the 1st place....


edited to remove a (rightly pointed out) bad analogy.

I'll say this right now, i'm not a fan of PvP. I don't deal well with getting beaten by others so i stay clear of it cos i'm not very good at it and don't really stand a chance without a team to back me up.

Last night, myself and 4 friends were trying to get a badge for killing longbow (for us heros, you can only kill them while confused), so first off we went to Sirens and got a friend with his villain to confuse us while we pounded longbow. wasn't really working cos there were just way too many people (heros and villains) in the area, so we left to Bloody Bay. Started off there, found a nice spot just south of the hero base and started off with confuse/kill longbow. all was going well til the broadcasts started from the villains. All along the lines of "where are you heroes? Come on, i wanna own you". We stayed quiet, just minding our own business carrying on. Til they found us. we had a fight, we handed their [censored] to them on a plate (without a single one of us going down, or even going below yellow health bar 1 AS), and settled back down to things. We knew it was a PvP area so we knew we'd get into a few fights. We figured they'd leave us along after we owned them. they didn't. they tried again, and we owned them again (again, taking no losses). Then the attitude starts up. "you're all cowards, come out and fight blah blah blah". I hate people mouthing off, so start back at them, more or less telling them to leave us alone cos we're not here for PvP, but if you attack us we'll kill you again. we're better than you, so just go find yourselves a differnt target" kinda thing. Needless to say, they carried on picking on us. 3rd fight was a real beauty. still just the 4 of us (1 blaster, 2 scrappers, and me, and emp defender). Outnumbered about 3 or 4 to 1, including several stalkers running around, and an MM with his pets, we eneded up having a huge fight. this lasted for ages, a good 20 minutes plus, just cos one would die, go to hospital and then come back to join the fray. not one of us died once. Not even me, the squishiest of the team. eventually, we were joined by a few other hero friends, including a tanker and a warshade, and we totally annihilated the villains. I have to say i enjoyed it, cos the villains continued to mouth off at us, even though we kept killing them. We didn't start the fight, we finished it. and to round things off we decided to go to the villain base, once all the villains had thrown their last insults and run away, all with at least (i reckon) 5 or 6 deaths from that third battle alone, and at least 1 in the 4 other fights we had.

Why do so many of the PvP-ers have to have such an attitude? The reason why i stopped playing Counter-Strike was cos i got so fed up with the elitist attitudes of several players. I stay away from PvP areas unless i'm badge-hunting (which i do a lot these days), but i get [censored] off with people mouthing off at me and calling me a coward for not fighting them. I choose not to take part in PvP, for the most part, precisely for this reason. Like in Warbug soloing about half 4 yesterday, when i was looking for the exploration badges. I'm quite a friendly player, for the most part, and like to have a chat, so when someone says "is anyone here?", i'll normally say "hello. ". When i did so yesterday, this brute kept saying "come and fight me", not taking no for an answer. so once again i say whats the deal with all the attitude?

Thanks, Dragon, i will do so when i'm on later. at uni atm. got some project work running in the background and working a few things out while idly browsing the forums.

panhandle! thats it. thanks, Empath.

Yeah, ive filled the contact bar. oh, well. guess i'll have to make use of that begging emote then. if i can remember what it is....

so then! anyone need an empath for their AVs?

grrrr. so any way i can change this? can i clear old arcs and get the rest of the arc or will i have to join someone else?

lol, the 3 that i don't have. vidiotmaps said that there was one in Tina's arc, but didn't mention Bobcat and Neuron. oh, well.

But yes, if anyone can get these missions and let me come along (happy to EX for ya if you want, although the level can't be that much lower) i would be much appreciated...

No idea how i missed them, but they weren't given to me (of which i was most annoyed). No Tyrant definately, and i don't think i got bobcat/Neuron either (and don't remember fighting Bobcat), but i didn't get them, and can't get any more missions from her. maybe it was a bug in the game or the contact. If nothing else i'll just have to hang around beside her begging for a team.

I've finished my own Maria Jenkins missions, but haven't got Dimensional Warder (the last badge i need for Portal Jockey). I'm pretty sure that the 3 AVs i've not defeated are Bobcat, Neuron and Anti-Matter, although i'm not sure. I've definately defeated the rest of them, but these 3 i'm unsure about. Can anyone give me a hand with them? I can't get any more missions following that arc.

Also, i know you don't need him for the badge, but if anyone gets Tyrant, i'd like to kill him too. need the badge.

Thanks all.

I Fookin HATE pink. I'd make mine blood red, that way no one could see the blood of the person who suggested the stupid idea we all wear pink when i kill them.

Once more unto the breech, dear friends, once more unto the breech! Count Willow in, providing heals and buffs as necessary.

Sorry i couldn't make it. And sorry to hear the zone crashed again. That really sucks. Count me in for the next raid, assuming the devs can sort out the stability, that it.

I've just made a Tanker on Union. He's only lvl 7 at the moment, but i'm having great trouble holding aggro. At the moment, its not much of an issue because I'm soloing (until i get to 10 where the rest of my SG joins in), but it is rather frustrating to have a +1 minion run away from me when i've taken him down to half health. I thought thought one of the main points of tankers was that that didn't happen? One of my other friends has a lvl 50 fire/BA tanker and he couldn't herd people for [censored]. I've also had this problem with my otehr fire/fire tanker whos lvl 18. I've been considering getting the Presence pool, but thats not much of an option for me at lvl 7. Anything you guys can suggest? I haven't got taunt yet (for either of my tankers), would having/using this make much of a difference?

I can't make Fridays cos i've gotta go to work in the evening (work in a rock club). I had suggested boxing day, but no ones said anything. Good luck for Friday, then, and i'll be there in spirit.

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Good news: we completed the mission
Bad news: it was bugged and refused to accept that it was completed

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Heh, typical. Welldone for completing the mission, and sorry i couldn't join you. I s'pose its some blessing that when i tried to log back in about 3am I *could* use Willow again. I was even happyily running around PI killing snowmen. Thanks for the help anyways. Aurora has been stuck on 45/46 since CoV came out and as we've teamed since levels 10-15 I really want to help her hit 50.

On the hamidon note.....Think we can try for a boxing day raid? I've never done a raid before, but the one last night was going really really well, and if we can get the same next week it'll be a great christmas present for us all.

I thought that most people did really well on the raid til the server got reset. Sympathies to everyone who is suffering from the "still logging out" bug. I foolish took Willow to PI to change her level when i was helping one of my friends out afterwards.....that was about an hour ago and shes stil loggin out. After i'd spent about 20 minutes putting a team together too.

But anyways. I hope the developers can get all this sorted out soon. Next hami raid is next monday, same time same place. Round 2.

Yeah, welldone all who took part and appologies for getting [censored] off at a few of you even if it didn't hear it. I won't be able to make the TF next sunday as i'm going to a gig in the evening, but good luck with it!

Update, Ren is Illusion/Storm Controller.

I see he still hasn't gotten round to signing up, but Ren (lvl 50 controller) said he'd like to come along. I can ask a few others i know if they'd be interested too....

I think 7pm for 8 sounds good, but i'm on holiday from uni by then so i don't mind either way. Count me in.

Well, I want to do that TF cos i missed it 1st time round. However, I will *not* be around at 19.30 on Saturday as i will be on my way to work. If you don't manage to complete it, then I'll gladly take part next time you try, if i'm available.

Good luck in advance. Wish i was coming with.

I know a good few lvl 50s (or at least high 40s) who don't read the boards and are mainly on CoV lately. If you want, I can ask around and see who'd be interested? I did ask one of them yesterday, actually, and he said he'd come by and sign up when he logged off, although i see he hasn't done so...

Count me in, Willow R lvl 50 Emp/Rad/Power Defender.