Mental_Giant
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I think the big difference between the removed badges and the old ones is that the new ones required using the MA to farm. As long as it's not in the MA the Devs don't care about badges that encourage farming.
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I disagree with your broad generalization there, MG. While I won't argue that some did (Virtual Slayer - 50k enemies in Test Mode), but not all of them were that heinous (To The Rescue - 50 hostages, Cataclysmic - 50 destructible objects). I thought the last ones took a bit of work / playtime, but in no way did they require farming.
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I didn't mean that the badges necessarily required farming, I meant that the badges required using the MA, so if one were inclined to farm to get badges quickly, one would necessarily have to use the MA to farm it. -
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I just love how they have basically said "Well, these NEW badges that encourage farming are bad, but... those earlier ones? Yeah, they can stay."
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I think the big difference between the removed badges and the old ones is that the new ones required using the MA to farm. As long as it's not in the MA the Devs don't care about badges that encourage farming. -
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next month, on the 22nd.
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Regen Aura is a toggle for Pain doms, and it's actually pretty impressive: It seems about twice as strong as Integration on a scrapper once slotted up.
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Yes... but the team needs to be in range. Regen you can fire n' forget. -
Team Mental took a beating last night. 2 Brutes, a Dom, an MM, a Stalker, and a Corr, and not enough healz to go around!
I'm actually realizing that Pain Dom is way too heal focused... where's my Recovery Aura? Regen Aura? Fort? I guess there's one big single target buff coming up, but I get the feeling that once everyone's defenses are up I'm going to be hoping for team damage to buff my DPS. -
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What would really be NOT cool is if we end up with 2 powersets the community has been begging for for ages being available ONLY through a paid expansion :/
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I think the sets will be free... access to the new areas and side switching will be in the box. The new AT (I'm guessing "Spy" not Pistol or Demon Epics), if there is one, may also be box only. -
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I am curious on the cost,I know they can't say anything about it,but I can not remember any expansion of a game costing more than the original game(special deluxe sets excluded),and as the current price can be as low as 19.95,wonder what this will cost.and I assume that it will be avail as a download ,so no packging costs.
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City of Villains cost me either $49.95 or $59.95 (can't remember) at the time when City of Heroes cost $19.95. I've no reason to believe this one will be cheaper. After all, an item pack with just one costume set in it is $9.95, we have to expect this will be significantly more expensive.
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I'm thinking it will be between $30 and $50. No way they are releasing an expansion pack for the cost of two Costume Boosters. -
Gratz!
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I imagine he trashed CoX.
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Looks like he trashed a commenter who claimed he could come up with a better system for CoX in two minutes. -
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A new toon will have access to everything until his decisions start to lock him out of some or decrease the likelihood of getting others. The same toon at 50 may not have all of the same accesses (without having to do whatever's needed to change alignment) but the accesses are there at some point.
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I'm not sure how you determined this. It seems pretty clear that you will have access to one side initially (Paragon if Hero and Rogue Isles if Villain) as well as Praetoria, and then eventually by changing alignment you can gain access to the opposite side and lose access to you starting side.
If they do implement a true "gray area" for characters to start, it will either be in Praetoria or in some new area we haven't heard about yet.
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I'm not saying that a toon will be able to have his choice of side and corresponding content right out the box but he can feasibly do all available content before he hits 50 (unless it's a non-EAT; then by default, he won't have access to EAT missions unless he teams with one as well as the tutorials (if they're not in Ouros)).
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I understand now. You are correct. I'm hoping there will be enough content in Praetoria for it to act a a third City, which would mean a lot more stuff to do (not including the MA which already gives us virtually unlimited content). -
Because of the time involved, the bar for kicking from a TF should be much higher, unless it's the first mission or something.
On a team, simply by virtue of the mechanic of the star, essentially anything that pisses off the leader is grounds for dismissal. -
Hams says 23 in the MOTD, but we have a lot of 24s so I'm using both.
Meeting no.: 5
Target level: 23/24
Meeting Location: SG Base
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A new toon will have access to everything until his decisions start to lock him out of some or decrease the likelihood of getting others. The same toon at 50 may not have all of the same accesses (without having to do whatever's needed to change alignment) but the accesses are there at some point.
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I'm not sure how you determined this. It seems pretty clear that you will have access to one side initially (Paragon if Hero and Rogue Isles if Villain) as well as Praetoria, and then eventually by changing alignment you can gain access to the opposite side and lose access to you starting side.
If they do implement a true "gray area" for characters to start, it will either be in Praetoria or in some new area we haven't heard about yet. -
June 23rd
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HBD!
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Oh, a lot of us are still here. We just watch and wait for the most part though.
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Well, except for Hamster... on the forums at least.
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If this has already been asked I apologize. Is the elvel cap being bumped up, like to 60?
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That hasn't been announced, and is highly unlikely given past statements by the devs. -
It was announced here.
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Awesome.
WB, Hotbox! Can we expect more ex-BLCers to return? -
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I bet they sent it out early by mistake. That would be why castle couldn't say more about it. Why would you announce it like this then not say anything about it? AND they always announce stuff at PAX and that's not till August.
Plus I never got the email while anachro did. I'm sensing a pink slip in someone's near future.
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Or maybe they released it now since Champions Online is due out this September, maybe.
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Fixed.
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Ahhh, it's been pushed back again? Interesting.
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It may slip again, too... I'm not sure why Cryptic put out the July date. Here's the post on it:
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We wanted our fans to hear this from us first... Were changing our Champions Online launch date from July 14th to September 1st of this year.
Why? Heres what our own Bill Roper, Design Director and Executive Producer on Champions Online, had to say about it:
It is critically important for an MMO to be as good as it possibly can be at launch. Through our constant dialogue with our vocal and supportive community of beta testers, we quickly realized that in order to implement certain features that we all considered important the development of Champions Online would require more time. So that's what we're going to give it. Cryptic has a proven track record of releasing solid games and we want to maintain that with Champions Online.
What does this mean for you? Simply, more beta play time right now and a better, more polished game at launch.
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They'll care when non-Empaths don't get teams red-side.
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You're kidding... right?
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I was, but back when CoV was coming out much was made about the fact that red-side didn't have a dedicated h34l0r (Therm was consolation prize...). Of course, now Corrs (and MMs) have Pain Dom, so it's less of an issue... but I'm still curious to see how many Empaths will cross over. -
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I bet they sent it out early by mistake. That would be why castle couldn't say more about it. Why would you announce it like this then not say anything about it? AND they always announce stuff at PAX and that's not till August.
Plus I never got the email while anachro did. I'm sensing a pink slip in someone's near future.
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Or maybe they released it now since Champions Online is due out this September, maybe.
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Being able to lock your compass makes alignment-effecting missions meaningless.
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And your point? If it's going to take as much time as people seem to think it will to switch a character over and I go to that trouble then I want to keep that alignment until I darn well feel like going back, if ever. If I redeem a villain and I like playing him blue-side, but a bunch of my buddies are running mishes in Praetoria that might fall into that red area of the spectrum, I'd still like to be able to run mishes with them without endangering my characters alignment, same if I wanna keep my Hero blue-side and keep him a pure blue-sider, doesn't mean I might not wanna team with buddies on some missions that could jeopardize that.
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I've been trying to think of a good analogy to what you're asking for, and I'm not sure I have one yet. I'll just say that if your friends were playing red-side content, up until Going Rogue hits you would have had to play red-side. So you didn't have absolute freedom to do whatever content you wanted. I don't see why the Devs would grant that for the (rare?) alignment effecting missions, especially when the whole point of the expansion is to explore what it means to be good or evil. -
Too early for me as well. I'll be in for a later run if someone plans it.