Nihilii

It's roughly ~3M/min in inf generated on +4 solo, but the popular farms involve zoning in and out every 3 minutes or so. So, the net amount varies a fair bit based on your computer speed.

Fighting +4s is for powerleveling, and people who just farm tickets for money probably do so on +0, which I guess is... half the inf of a +4? Between that and the time spent actually rolling tickets, deleting recipes, crafting the good ones, I would guess farmers generate about 30-50M of real influence per hour, although I'm stacking a lot of "what if" on top of each other at this point, and powerlevelers about 15-75M of real influence per hour (amount would vary much more than farming as it depends how many people you're powerleveling as well as their levels, lowbies taking a share of the influence and getting much less influence).

Not even when - just random, as far as I can tell. I've ran a few controlled tests on this, and placing your bid first doesn't mean you'll get the item first even if everyone who bids after you bids for the exact same amount.

I have to be that annoying guy who points out most people do use 100% of their brain, and even a genius won't use 100% of his brain every instant. It's just that you use all those different areas over the course of a few hours, or a day, not at any given second.

It's like if I wanted to use my feet while typing up this post with my hands. I can tap on the floor, I can flail my legs around, but it won't make me type any faster as I use my hands for that, not my feet. Different areas of the body for different tasks, just like there's different areas of the brain for different tasks.

Up until we can augment our brains all Deus Ex like with computer processors, anyway, and that should be pretty soon because video games always tell the truth.

I would put the Hecatomb set in Storm Kick, as it's the attack you'd want to use the most - so the proc goes off more often.

I like building for the incarnate softcap on SRs, although I don't sweat it if I'm a few % away especially on AOE def. I feel the recharge loss to be minimal, but then again I also feel recharge to be overrated beyond a certain point (about 50%, 60%, 70% global recharge + Hasten does the trick for me) so I may not be the best person to listen about this.

For me, it hasn't changed a lot. Low levels were always fast enough, and at high levels AOE is king.

I find where it shines is tackling on +3, +4 foes (as Bruising isn't affected by the purple patch and such foes are resistant enough that Bruising is generally going to be useful, even against lieutenants) and on teams. In a team with decent damage against a +3 archvillain or above, a tanker is essentially a better debuffer than a radiation defender.

The game seems to lag a lot today. I've had global chat dropping quite often, and character slots take a while to come back after deleting alts.

If there is nothing inherently wrong in arresting people by punching them, hacking them, slicing them, setting them on fire, freezing them, wiping out their minds, shooting and hitting them with guns or machine rifles, or even outright killing them, why is it so frowned upon in the real world?

Additionally: isn't it dishonorable to spend so much time arguing on the boards instead of using that time to help out those in "need" ingame?

Be warned that the suggestions forum has a few tenacious individuals that will open every topic just so they can say "no", with improbable argumentation. Don't let that stuff get to you, in this very game history has shown many suggestions that were loudly no'ed by some eventually got implemented.

... Well, your interpretation of his statement is just as puzzling to me, as tongue in cheek as it might be. Seems like he's arguing for communism rather than bashing it.

Edit: aah, gotcha.

I still disagree with that.

Obviously you couldn't do direct ports of the content that is already there in itrials and expect it to work with mere number tweaks, but it is possible to make extremely challenging AE missions without breaking the rules.

More importantly, if you lessen the melee survivability advantage so significantly, there is little point to play melee, rather than ranged with all the advantages that come with that.

I do remember fondly the LRSF being introduced. It was awesome, because it was difficult without cheating, without a doubt the best few weeks of gaming I got out of CoH as we kept trying so many things to first beat it, and then to beat it faster ; on SOs, with our non-minmaxed builds, against level 54 AVs, and playing on a server with minimal powerset elitism, each run was a great challenge and team wipes happened ; and when they happened, it was because of our mistakes rather than because Cheaty McCheaterson used an unresistable power. I used to play solo before that, but I met people while doing the RSF, people that would turn out to be friends I'd keep gaming with for years.

Despite not cheating, it was also harder than trials ever were - that much should be obvious as american servers took ages to first beat it, whereas the trials were completed on day 1 for every server. It was a challenge and the right kind of challenge, something that kept us coming back every evening for another attempt despite the very real possibility, during those first few weeks, of failure and not getting anything.

I can have some perspective as well and I remember the amount of people whining about it on the boards, and, yes, it's probably nowhere near as much as the amount of people complaining about trials. I'd agree with a hypothetical claim saying the ratio of people liking the LRSF compared to people hating the LRSF was much smaller than the ratio of people liking trials compared to people hating trials.

So if you want to argue the way the devs do it is good for the game, maybe it is. However, I don't think this sort of design is good *as* a game.

I don't truly believe it evens the gap between minmaxers and regular joes, unless you lump in people who just copy builds without really understanding anything into the "minmaxer" category, and people who have a profound understanding of the game and good playstyle despite not caring about numbers specifically to be "regular joes". It's not like those unresistable mechanics can't be avoided, the whole point is that you can avoid them, so you can still minmax and trivialise the trials, just in a different way than usual.