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Yeah, I was thinking of limiting the overall amount of database resources storage stations consume.

The only other reason I can think of would be some game balance issue. If that's the case, then you may see the values change sometime.

I suspect the limit per station is a usability issue, and you won't see that changed.

I have a base with myself and a few alts in. The only other toon belongs to my partner, and she doesn't play anymore.

With the resent abolishion of rent for basic plots, I may create a couple more bases, but they'll be one-toon SG bases. I don't seem to like being in SGs.

Oh, my villain is in an SG with a base. I don't think I've ever been in it.

Edit: And if we ever get "Character Apartments" I'll be so shocked I may get another toon to 50, or something equally unlikely.

No idea if it's true, but if you want a guess for why, I'd go with database size limitation. I can't imagine there's that much to store for a storage object, but I don't know how it's implemented, and there are the logs to consider.

Just to add some more accurative anecdotal evidence to my "Stalker's can't level for toffee" statement, I've been levelling my blaster all weekend. I got my Stalker out for a hack at one point, got wasted within seconds, and realised there and then that the Blaster would have made very easy going of that mission.

As I said, Stalkers have one good attack, and after that they are reduced to very-sub-par Scrappers. The ability of a Blaster to do consistently more damage, and keep away from the (often more damaging) melee attacks makes Blaster's far superior at levelling.

I can only assume that Stalkers were created as a PvP class from the outset and their PvE capabilities have suffered as a consequence.

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Blasters and prey, the ultimate SM relationship.

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MS surely

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This has nothing to do with Marks and Spencers.

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Scrapper - Scrappers, Tanks in Descise

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What did you mean to write? 'Descise' doesn't seem to be a word.


Blasters and prey, the ultimate SM relationship.

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Kheldians: Making the earth move for you

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Surely that should be earth tanks?

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Stand next to a transforming Peacebringer or Warshade and say that.

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Yeah, point. A little obscure though.

Kheldians: Kalamri anyone?

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Kheldians: Making the earth move for you

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Surely that should be earth tanks?

Someone has to have suggested this already:

/REGEN does it longer and more often.

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I made my Stalker to just basically [censored] off people in PvP-Zones =)

I know I am an [censored], and I like it.^^

Kaiser

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You must hate RV, where all and their mother have +PER.

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So? Stalkers do have a great survavility in RV too

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Survival, fine, but their kill rate goes down if they can't get a good element of surprise.

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She's slower to level than my blasters. Shame really.

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That is surprising.. I find stalker level quite quickly as you can do missions without having to rest much at lower levels due to the AS quick kill abiity and not having the massive dependancyy on stamina that brutes and corrupters have.

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With a Stalker, you have to close to melee range to use AS. With a Blaster, you can waste most of the things you would use AS on at range, killing them before they do any damage to you. Plus, you then just move on to the next target in the group which hasn't moved. The Stalker now needs to Scrap with a couple of other targets, and Stalkers are sucky scrappers.

Placate does make things a lot easier, but the sheer stupid levels of damage output a Blaster can generate make them, IMHO, faster to level than a Stalker.

I forgot reason 3. When I started EU beta of CoH what I wanted to make was a Stalker. Problem was, they didn't exist so I had to make a Scrapper. When CoV came out, obviously I wanted a Stalker, only to discover that a Stalker wasn't what I wanted to build either.

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I made my Stalker to just basically [censored] off people in PvP-Zones =)

I know I am an [censored], and I like it.^^

Kaiser

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You must hate RV, where all and their mother have +PER.

Let's see:

Tanking Infernal several times while the rest of the team picked themselves up.

Discovering that I had a puple Rikti Boss of somekind to defeat to clear a mission, and then winning.

Getting really irritated when I wasn't getting any help in the Terra Volta reactor, only to discover that everyone else had been dead for a while, my radition shield had given up ages ago, and I was still squashing Freaskshow. Then the reactor blew up, but hey, you can't win them all.

Just a "I'm bored at work question."

I made a Stalker for two reasons:
1. It was the closest I could get to a Scrapper and I knew how to play Scrappers.
2. It was one of the two interesting ATs, and my MM never even made it into retail.

For the record, reason 1 was a bad reason, but I'll stick with reason 2. She's level 16, hardly ever gets any play. She's slower to level than my blasters. Shame really.

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EDIT: Which server BTW? I have a 50 on Defiant AND Union...

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Yeah... I was thinking that. I can only actually go in there on Union or the Test server.

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Oh and WB, Ravenswing

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I'm not much of a PvPer, but it's fun once in a while so I'd at least be prepared to pop in once in a while to give everyone a target.

While I remember: May ye all have a merry Christmas, or whatever form of midwinter festival you celebrate.

I shall be getting smashed out of my skull with friends, and then I'll probably be happy it's all out of the way for another year.

Ho, ho, humbug, and all that.

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In my opinion the building blocks, i.e the characters making up the team should be balanced to truely allow team pvp to be balanced.


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And, in my opinion, that's impossible. How do you balance an empath defender so that they can stand one-on-one against, say, a regen scrapper? I'd imagine it's possible, but I think I'd hate the resulting toons. There would really be no point in selecting an AT.

While I personally find arena duels with friends quite amusing, I'd have to agree with Cryptic here, there's little or no point in balancing every AT/powerset/pool combination against the others. Better to set it up so that a team is balanced against another team. Not saying they've got it right, pretty sure they haven't, but that should be the aim.

I do see one flaw in this, and that seems to be that your stereotypical PvPer is not really a team player. Some operate in gangs, but not teams. I think this comes out best in the threads where people are complaining of being 'interfered with' while duelling in the PvP Zones. Even in situations where teaming would be the best idea, these guys want to fight one-on-one.

Also, I think Cryptic may be rather too fixed on the Pentad Combat school of PvP. I wonder how much balancing goes on for other types of teams. And it's always said that duelling isn't really catered for, but how big a team is catered for? What about slightly unbalanced team numbers?

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That's why handwaving gods tend to not work, once you logically say they can do anything, there's no logical reason for them not to do everything.


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Real gods are easy, they don't do things because they don't want to, or it isn't part of their domain. Any number of reasons.

The problem is people who suddenly gain godlike powers. They have no controls, and no reason to not do things. So that's exactly what Crow did, he put the world back the way he wanted it to be... and then the real gods stepped in and gave him a bit of a smack-down. Like I said, though, by that time I'd lost interest in the character and in CoH roleplay really.

I wasn't going to post here, but...
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War Crow, at that point, turned from an all-powerful character, to a much more balanced character. Why? Because the player eventually came to the conclusion that people stopped asking for his help. There was no challange if you included War Crow, cause he could solve everything. It wasn't so much a matter of would, it was the could that in part got him 'cast out'.

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To be correct, I stopped taking Crow anywhere near anyone else because he would ruin their plot just by being there. It wasn't that people didn't ask him for help, it was that I'd hear that such-and-such a plot was setting off and I knew Crow would be unable to resist meddling, and would reduce the plot to "where's the baddy, okay, that's him taken care of."

He was an unplayable character. The progression from relatively ordinary human to god had been entirely logical, I just hadn't considered how that would fit into the setting. Basically, he was a high-end Mage: The Ascension character in a setting without the breaks they normally have. So, I gave him a really large case of backlash and he returned to something rather more normal.

Unfortunately, when I did bring him back, I discovered that the character was no longer interesting. I'd created Jason Caine, who was much more interesting, but was basically wiped off the RP map by plot. The entire thing left a bad taste in my mouth and I've never really managed to put it behind me.

I also think that the GG setting is far to prone to the creation and use of god characters. The fact that the players concerned either don't seem to realise what they have, or simply think it's a good thing, continues to amaze me.

By the way, I don't think the original question was phrased right. There are plenty of characters with enormous character and power flaws, who nevertheless are too powerful for the setting.

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I just wonder what to do with the Rikti...

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In keeping with modern US handling of PoWs, they are shipped to a correctional facility in Cuba where they are locked in wire cages for years without trial.

Stef made me roleplay them getting together.

And, as of last time they were seen, they currently aren't married, but, as I said, Dafydd is a farmboy from mid-Wales, and despite having come a long way (his girlfriend is a stripper), he's going to eventually guilt himself into marriage.

Prior to meeting, Dafydd lived in Wales and Amy lived in Cornwall (IIRC). No prior involvement at all.

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The Devouring Earth were once humans but have become so mutated

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To be pedantic, only the Devoured were once human, the rock, crystal and plant-form creatures never were.

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and the Shamen - well they're just plain mad aren't they?

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Not anymore-so than Skulls (who worship Death) or Hellions (who worship demonic forces). Besides which, being insane is not an excuse for summary execution. The Shamans have to get sent to Brickstown.

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been arrested and sent to special prisons which somehow suppress their powers

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The Zig uses drugs (IIRC) to supress powers. Part of the Breakout introduction is picking up some Superadine which can reverse the supression. No need for anything more powerful than the Zig... technically.

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Of course, I 'could' be mistaken, but... I think Grav and Ellie are the longest stable couple (who met ingame, not IC before) that have wedding plans.


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For the record, yes, you are wrong. Crow and Stargazer met before either of you two turned up at GG and are still together. Okay, so in an alternative version of history, they split up over Nevermore, but in the current reality, they're still together, and I believe they have plans to get married. You can take the farmboy out of Wales, but you can't take Wales out of the farmboy... marriage will be required.

(And I belatedly note that Z got there first. )

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Copyright wise I *think* it would come under the fansite rules. I'm not certain though.

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Essentially, you're running a seperate game based entirely on the IPR of Cryptic/NCSoft. They don't license that kind of thing (as with Neverwinter, for example) so I doubt it constitutes a fan site.

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It just depends if someone has a spare box to host it

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At some point in the not-too-distant future, I'll be getting a server to host Tharcion on. Having an IRC server on there as well probably wouldn't kill it and might actually be useful for the Tharcion players.