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You can't even find good AE farms anymore. Most teams seem to spawn 51 maps full of random bosses or lts and repeatedly teamwipe.

Then again I only join them when I'm REALLY bored. Most of the time I reply "No, I prefer to play the game."

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Also, WTF is it with level 2-20 teams wanting to do high level boss farms? That makes no damn sense to me. Realize that you aren't slotted, usually don't have your best powers, and pick a more reasonable farm.

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Oh my [censored] god, yes.

This time a million.

I'll make it bold so everyone else can [censored] see it.

This is the cancer in CoX.

City of Horrible Teams.

CoHT

Lots of edits in that one. I think I'm done though, hehe.

lol, I'll be serious now. I honestly am tired of doing the same [censored] farms over and over. It isn't that I am unable to choose what is happening, it is actually the following...

I do one random pick up group and quit. I join a different PuG and quit. I repeat this my entire night.

How often do I find a team doing something that isn't a farm in AE? There are no "normal mission" teams in AE doing something that isn't a farm with drastically differing leveled players to the point where I'm PLing someone each time because they are all lv 7s-25s.......

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YES, I could start my own team and do things NOT a farm, but there will be one or two people that will quit the team, if not more, once they find out that it is difficult.

Now for my personal opinion: If XP rewards in AE were to be lowered and not removed, maybe people would play the game for reasons other then Power leveling.

YOU RIGHT, VadMac41! [censored] AE! [censored] CoX! LET'S START REVOLUTION.

Since*

I got rolled in the super market yesterday... I couldn't help but dance. I'm positive everyone that shouldn't have seen me, saw me. I didn't care though. I was dancing my heart out. I've got his moves memorized. Like a [censored] villain.

You are welcome.

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With the addition of the new PvP recipes that drop off of PvP kills and the difficulty of some of the new created Mission Architect content, it seems as the PvP zones will be filling up again with the people going for nukes/shivan temp powers and the people farming those players.

Just a reminder that your Rank 1 VG, Nites of Darkness will be a huge presence in your adventures in pvp zones when it finally goes live.

If you are currently looking for a solid VG that has been running strong since the release of COV, join the winning team by sending a tell to @XFUNK

See you on the battlefield....Mwahahahahaha

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Is Nites of Darkness still looking for new members?

(omg did you see what I just did there?)

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As I approach my 60 month vetran reward I have begun to review my opinion of the game today compared to the previous 5 years.

My overall opinion is that the game has lost alot of the lustre and promise of the early days.

In the early days CoH was a game about creating a unique Hero and going out and thrashing the bad guys. And CoV when it was released was similar on the villian side of the equation.

The Nerf bat was weilded in more sense or perhaps with more explanation.

New issues introduced new content, new adversaries, new abilities.

All these things somehow managed to come together and create a more interesting, challenging, and improved gaming experience.

Yet now I am left cold with the release of AE and the preceeding issue, and the resulting effect on gameplay as a whole. Instead of promoting and expanding the existing gameplay issues have destroyed the continuity that once existed.

As an old Vetran I have run alot of the content out there, have learned through that content how to play the different ATs, and in general enjoyed exploring over and over the many different nuances of the zones, TFs, and challenges that different builds face in CoX.

Now, with AE in place, I find that much of the preceeding content is being skipped by "new" players and they are more and more ignoring the aspects of the game which made it unique and interesting. Instead of AE bringing a whole new level of interesting content to the playerbase, it's implementation has brought "instant leveling gratification". A new player can in very short order skip all the content of the last 6 years to achieve what goal? To become a level 50 and not know how to play it? To constantly have to ask basic questions that the typical 12mos vet knows because they actually ran content?

I shake my head every time I enter Atlas and Cap zones, so many "players" but so few Heroes and Villians. The content of the game now is just so much window dressing and wallpaper, nice to see it hangs around, but in function having no pressing effect.

What is the sense of having so many zones if there is no pressing reason to go into them?

I can recall the first time I got into Founders Falls, having SK'd my 12 Controller to a 38 Tank and joining them on one of their missions. The new zone, the different mission content, it was all exciting and had purpose and meaning.

But now AE has made such things meaningless. You simply enter the building, click, and viola you're teleported inside one of thousands of missions which weren't created as real arcs, but as power leveling methods.

Just like PvP, AE implementation was thoughtless in it's outcome. Instead of becoming shining stars of achievement in a great game, they are flawed models whose implementation does not build on the rest of the content. PvP isn't universal in access to success and AE is universal in it's access to excess.

Like the debauchery that brought Rome to it's knees, it appears that CoX has run the same course. Whoever the current Ceaser and Senators of the game are, they have lost the path and created a Colliseum to entertain the masses while the rest of the Empire collapses in disuse. Sit and watch the games, watch the slaughter of the Christians, the sea battles, etc. Don't worry about the rest of the Empire.

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I agree. Playing since the January after release, I almost never see anyone enter Striga. I WANT to do content in other zones, but everyone only wants to do AE missions/farms. Finding a team is much more difficult now that it feels like I have to go to AE just to get a team. It is quite upsetting. I'm going to try to get some teams going once servers are back up to day. I can't wait to see how many people will refuse to team with me when I /tell them that I have some missions in Founders Falls, +3 mobs. I'm expecting many to be "where is that".

If that isn't new... I guess it shows I only use the RANDOM button to create choose costumes.

I dunno why it took so long.

look at the face!!! (This is new right?)

http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/w...ssue15face.jpg

I'm uploading a picture... One sec!

By the way, you can still make new characters, bodenee. You can play with the costume editing until then! I'm about to see if the new faces from issue 15 are in there.

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Ahhh, Haha, I'm kidding. No seriously, I dunno. I've had my CoH Updater crash twice while downloading the files.

First time ever it's crashed on a download. It's not looking good.

Me and "Wervo" are next.

OMG Bodenee! What did I [censored] tell you about using Mission Planner?! I told you you'd get banned!

I'm not lagging and my computer is 2 years old and at max graphics.

Happy bday bill!

My CoH Updater crashed for the first time ever while downloading this new patch. I'm going to keep surfing the forums to see what I'm downloading. I just thought I'd mention the updater crashed while I tried to download this.

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Ok the reason I ask...is I kept getting someoen telling me you had to be teleported on t he other side of some wall or soemthing...I had no clue

thanks

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That's a bit messed up. I wouldn't tell someone this.

Ask in the help channel. It is /hc now instead of /help.

OR We can help you here!

Here I go!

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Purple Very Rare Pool
The drop rate for the Very Rare Purple Recipes is a 1 in 5,000 chance to drop. It is unknown whether they are part of the Pool A table or constitute a separate table. They drop only from foes that would ordinarily have a chance to drop a level 50 enhancement, so a level 47 minion, a level 48 lieutenant, etc.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Recipe_Rewards


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This is how you get purple recipes. My suggestion, do the Cimerora Task Force or Rikti War Zone TF or third Respec TF or Shadow Shard Task Forces. You get a 100% chance of merits if you complete and also you have a chance for a purple recipe or two! I have recieve three in a single Shadow Shard Task Force before (let me add it was two on one character and one on the other because I had two accounts going at the same time.) Purple Recipes are very uncommon.

Shun the person who told you it was on the other side of the wall.

lol

Were they hot? Why were they stalking you? Did you try to get off by not paying for that erotic massage and they found you at work?

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In other good news, I'm going to advanced training school for the Navy back in Maryland from August to December, so I'll be back in the dorm-type setting rather than the ship (puke), which means broadband and my OWN ROOM...plus very few rules and musters and whatnot.

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OoBe is in Maryland right now, Living in Ocean City. He's also talking in the third person. If you go to OC in August, be sure to hit up Seacrets. It's a hoppin club, best in the city. AND HUGE! I can count (or can't :P) the amount of times I've have no [censored] clue how I made it home from that place. I woke up IN MY BED after a night at Seacrets last year with another person. My last memory was taking like 3 Yager Bombs in a row. Now I [censored] hate Yager, but on a plus note, there are tons of Russians that come to OC during the summer and fall times of years because they make like 6 times what they'd make in Russia doing work over here. And they are wild! Wild Russians, who'd have thought!? And to make it a bit more easier to understand.......... Salisbury is a [censored] hole town, Delaware is the [censored] pit of a [censored] hole town, the Strip Clubs in Maryland SUCK (except the one in Baltimore, Larry Flint's Hustler club because all 10 of us had fun. ALL THE OTHERS ARE HORRIBLE,) and Washington DC is Dangerous... ummm... Annapolis isn't that interesting. Maryland is (Let me make this clear to you...) below the Mason-Dixon Line so you ARE actually in the south. Many people disagree with it though because we aren't an important state, which brings me to conversations with other people while you are in school here. You will get into a conversation in the smoke pits/designated smoking areas at one point while you are in school there about how Maryland is above the Mason-Dixon Line. When I was in the Navy, I had that argument every time I mentioned where my family is.

On a side note, Things that have changed and are most important that you'll need to look into:

Issue 14's AE system, Posi's Anti-Farming threat/thread, Dominator reworking, Mission Planner, Issue 15's new TF, Customization of powers and the pics of purple and blue fire imps, and Going Rogue which is a paid expansion with no set future date.

What rate are you again? OoBe was Machinist's Mate Submarines (MMS). He is also still talking in third person.

Until you killed those couple girls who were stalking you, right?