Mr. NoPants

Originally Posted by Blood Spectre

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon

To me, it's a question of animation more than anything as nebulous as damage type. Take our old friend the bokutō. It's quite plainly made of wood and has no cutting edge, and, as such, should (by your lights) never ever ever ever ever be made available as a skin for Katana. And fair enough. Except...

The problem there is that a bokutō is, by definition, a sword made of wood - the name literally means "wooden sword" - and is expected to be wielded in exactly the same way as the metal slashy-slashy version. The great samurai Miyamoto Musashi (1584?-1645) killed more than one of his dueling opponents that way during his career. The animations, as it were, are the same. If you were to take a bokutō and wield it like (e.g.) a War Mace, you would very much be Doing It Wrong.

As you can see, this example leaves us at something of an impasse. Obviously, judged visually, such an item belongs with the Katana set. Obviously, judged by game mechanics, it has no business there. For myself, since I can see the power animations but the game mechanics happen behind a curtain, I'm going to go with A and leave B to go hang. A potentially inappropriate damage type is going to bother me a lot less - not at all, in fact, because I can't see it and frankly don't give a damn about that whole mechanism.

Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain

You guys can tell me that heroes and villains share drop rates til your blue in the face...

I can get on a hero and farm for 1 hour and have to dump recipes 2 or 3 times...
I can get on a villain and do the exact same thing and maybe MAYBE get 10 recipes total... in the next hour.

My husband can sit next to me like he did last time... and we can run the test side by side and BOTH of us get a ton of stuff on Heroes and get next to nothing on villains.

So it sounds like because Heroes had a drop rate bobble someone looked into it...

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Say someone's coming onto a cop with a pipe. Is the policeman really going to go from verbal warning to two shots, centre-mass?

Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain

I said drop rates were messed up for villains along time ago, and no one believed me... I showed my data after playing CoH doing the same type of farming compared to CoV for hours and hours.... and HOURS.

No one believed me then. Other people also found my data back then to be true.
So what changed with this PATCH to make people finally see that drop rates for VILLAINS is all screwed up?

Originally Posted by Dusk_LoneEagle

How about creating a bank as a means to transfer infl and items, not as a influnece creating operation.
Heroes get people to do transfers for stuff alot already, this way you will not get ripped off.
How about the idea of a bank as a means to transferyour money or stuff from one hero to one of your alts.
You take your extra influence or items and put it in the bank in account under your global name.
Then you can log on with another hero and collect whatever you want for that hero.
That way you can have starting money for a new hero or a recipe that you earned on the hero who needed it.

You earned the infl and stuff through playing the game, you should be able to give it to one of your alts if you so desired.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Ridiculous? Actually, it is. It makes sense as the logical extension of an argument, but when it comes to physical damage, certain things just look silly. Weapons which are intended to cut and pierce need to LOOK like they can cut and pierce. While a wooden sword may sort of pass, a baseball bat would certainly NOT. Giving, say, a mallet or a frying pan to a sword set and letting you cut with that is no less ridiculous than giving a balloon animal sword to a sword set and letting you cut with THAT.

Some things you can ignore for the sake of the rule of cool, but they still need to make sense. I can see a weapon which sparks electricity not doing electrical damage, but because it's cool and because you can have electrical sparks that don't damage tissue, but I cannot see stabbing a person with a bowling ball, say.

Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave

Just now all APPs are AT-specific - a blaster doesn't get the same ancilliary powers as a tank and a Brute's powers from Mako are different to a stalkers powers from Mako.

No reason why this would change - so there's no reason we'd see a villainous tanker with any of the existing Mako powers exactly as they are, though they could have the Mako tanker powers. The devs have quite a few APPs to design/balance...

I'd been expecting a change to APPs sometime anyway, allowing all normal (non-Epic) ATs access to some form of equivalent to the patron sets and to non-patron sets. No real reason to expect that other than I'd imagine it'd help achieve some form of parity between the ATs ready for any rogue/AT-proliferation system.

I also consider removing the lock-in to a single patron on villains as a move towards this (watering down the villain APP ingame story allows other non-story driven powersets to be introduced).

Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea

Sam, I sympathasize with your complaints against Carnie bosses, especially solo. But forgive me for saying that I think you are too tied to what used to be tenacious.

The game does give you options. You can turn off bosses, you can set them for -1, you can find a teammate, you can make your own teammate (shivan, HVAS, other temp summons), you can bring more inspirations, you can give yourself base buffs.

Those are all options available to you and that's not an exhaustive list. I have always found you to be a rational person on these forums so could you rationally explain why the game should be changed when you have so many options to solve the Carnie boss problem?

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

And again, CoHRadar is no more against the rules than Vidiotmaps.

Originally Posted by Aisynia

No it isn't.

I don't know why people think this, when it has been stated they have "come back to our time". I'm not sure where Ouroboros is, but I'm pretty sure it isn't in the future.

Originally Posted by Caligdoiel

It doesn't violate EULA AFAIK; It reads the demorecord data files, not the source code. Besides, the apparent obsolescence might just make the whole discussion moot.

Originally Posted by Caligdoiel

So does this mean the end of 3rd party apps like --------? That thing has saved my bacon on more than one occasion. (The mission where you go to the ruined future and find your own remains? MURDER DEATH KILL!)

Originally Posted by GlaziusF

Well, yes. If Chuck Norris Manipulation is available in the game, all other powersets become comparatively non-lethal.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

So, how do we tell which EXP belongs to us and which EXP is off limits?

And how do we take it out of the game?

See, because I pointed out that my analogy was also flawed, just less so than yours. Which means I realized that real world parallels to virtual world behaviors are necessarily imperfect, rendering your nit picking superfluous.

Originally Posted by Drugfree Boy

Me too. Weird. Would be an interesting idea, though

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

Be fair now, you're much more likely to be gunned down in a school shooting than trampled to death by Cletus & the Wide Loads at Wal*Mart!

=P

Originally Posted by brophog02

Better run those TFs and arcs for merits now, before another recalculation.