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If banners no. 1 and 3 are right next to each other and 2 and 4 are paired up across the zone , I don't see a reason to go 1.5 miles over to no. 2 then back and then etc etc, just because Vood wants to go "in order."
Vood = noob. Voonoob.
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Voodoo's idea of banners:
Do the colors from left to right, regardless of where they actually are on a map.
Hamster's idea:
Do them in a line from where they actually are on a map.
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Quote:Wormhole only takes stun, universal travel power, and teleport.Originally Posted by The_Masque
Just a thought, if you really wanted to slot up the purples do 5, and in the 6th slot put a force feedback chance for recharge. It's a bonus of 100% recharge (pretty damn huge) with a 10% chance of going off.
I guess the big question would be if that chance for recharge is per target hit or per activation (I believe it is per activation).
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Wait. You're right, it takes kb too. Hmmm. Force feedback proc looks tempting. Going to see what the combined bonuses from the purple set are, see if I need any additional recharge, acc, or range on it. If not, the force feedback proc is an excellent idea.
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Currently, I have to grav users (controller and dominator) with a full set of stupefy on wormhole. The proc is wasted on it generally but the 6th set bonus is nice. I've gotten a number of the purple stun set (absolute amazement) in storage and was looking at buying the rest of the sets to slot.
And I've come to realize that most of the stun procs are near useless. Sixth tier bonus for the stun purple? Tox. Useless. Chance for to-hit debuff on the target. Duration is less then the stun, which makes the proc.... Just about useless. Hell, I'd argue that most of the stun procs are kinda useless.
So now I'm thinking... Just five slot it and move the extra slot else where (maybe to something for I19 taking powers)? Frankenslot it? Having some more range on wormhole wouldn't hurt.
Hmmmm.
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Quote:Renters insurance is generally freaking cheap as well.Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Wow, they didn't make you have renter's insurance? Most landlords do around where I live (though I'd have it anyway... wouldn't want to have to buy back all the stuff we have in here, even if we don't have much due to our modest budgets).
Good luck with everything else.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Had this happen during a Fire/Rad group on Friday. Is it annoying? Sure. But we had a team of 8 controllers camped on a set of doors. Stuff was dying as fast as it came out the doors. So the aggravation level of some random kill-stealer coming in and taking an ineffectual swipe at a couple of them was fairly low. About on par with some guy driving at 30 miles below the speed limit in front of you while the rest of the expressway is traffic-free.When it gets down to it, I agree. Generally, the "griefing/ks-ing" has been largely pointless from the standpoint of the other party. They're getting very little to no benefit from it. Just don't see the point of it and why they would be so offended when asked to stop.Quote:Originally Posted by Patient_V
Our team was at the plaza first, and I don't remember seeing anyone clicking the other set of doors before we started working them. If that wasn't clear last night, my bad.
Re: kill-stealing, if I'm following a ToT team in King's Row and fireballing their tricks, that's classless. No argument there. What I actually see happening in-game seems like something that benefits everyone by creating a fun quasi-competition that has both teams racing to defeat trick spawns. It's less poaching and more Zombie/Rikti invasion-y, with nothing malicious about it.
Even in your example with a lowbie clicking your doors, how is that necessarily a bad thing? They're just helping you get your defeat X badges sooner, right? -
Quote:Your zone might have been a problem. Keep in mind, there's the "new" sidekick system; every is sk'ed to the leaders level. So most people just gravitated to the two 50 zones, Peregrine Island and Grandville. PI would usually have 2-4 ToT teams going. You really should consider taking your villain rogue; it MASSIVELY opens up your teaming opportunities.Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
Is this just the whole Red Side vs. Blue Side thing? Or is this an Under level 40 thing? Because my Brute was having no luck in the Rogue Isles...
Wait wait, hey now doncha hey. I asked specifically who was there first at those doors, us or them? You said them. I was across the zone and by the time I got to the Cove we had members of our team at both sets, plus their team at the other door. Generally, whomever gets there first has possession. Kill stealing has always been frowned upon in this game.Quote:Originally Posted by Patient_V
Case in point, last night our team was the only one at the Curry Cove marker for a time, and some of us eventually started using utilizing doors on both sides of the plaza. Before long another team moved into over to our weaker side, and you asked your team to stay on the side we started on because "that was their door."
What made it their door and not ours? Couldn't you make the case that our team had dibs on both sets of doors and the other team had showed poor form in moving into our spot? Or can a team not arbitrarily own more than one set of doors at a time? -
Quote:Originally Posted by Lady_Cyrsei
So here's a question for all of you, what kind of stereotype do you play?
Well...
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Quote:But again, the jerk factor only goes so far. Like for the banners, when they screw themselves out of three badges.Originally Posted by Elegost
The same reason why youtube comments are always filled with nothing but the scum of the earth. The anonymity of the interblagz allows stubborn little jackoffs to say and do whatever they please, completely unpunished. A treatment they could only dream of in the real world.
On the interwebs, everyone is a "thing," not a "who." Nothing is real, not even the other people :/
And HEY. I posted on a few of your youtube videos. :0
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Quote:A lot of the worst behavior is around the choice double/quad doors or the pairs of double doors, like at the Curry Cove marker. Thing is, that sort of obsessive behavior is a bit... Pointless. There's a lot of double paired doors out there. And the cool down on the doors is freaking low. There's no need for this.Originally Posted by Chant
Well technically going back and forth between two doors is not how ToT was originally intended. It's farming. So you have to expect that people will try to abuse the system that way, or not understand why you are staying at one door on and on. But that does not excuse them from broadcasting over PI about their gripe.
Still wonder how much of this is complete ignorance of the game vs. poor upbringing. I know it's a combination of BOTH, but which one is the bigger factor?
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Quote:And then there's the power leveling issue with Halloween. I need having people trying to sneak level 14 or lower characters onto level 50 teams, and then having to deal with them trying to explain how sidekicking works and how they'd be JUST as effective as a level 50 character!Originally Posted by The_Masque
I have come to hate events for the reasons outlined above. Winter event: People are either yelling at you for taking presents, running ahead of you for a present, or yelling at you for not killing a spawn. Halloween Event: People are mad at you for being at 'their' door. You have jerks who cherry pick the ghosts that spawn around the GMs (I forget what they are called right now), then and only then will they broadcast the location of the GMs.
I think the only event that doesn't breakout into a hockey game is the Valentine's Day event. Which was fun the 1st time but now... yeah.
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Quote:You know, on that... Had a thing in PI the other night, took a break from ToT'ing to do a banner event in zone. Now, as everyone knows, the preferred method of dealing with banners is:Originally Posted by Chant
This same reason is why I grew tired of leading mothership raids. People either don't listen, want to argue or intentionally act like words that I would get in trouble for writing here. I think people think you are being rude by correcting them, but really you are just trying to help THEM not look bad.
- Split up to all four banners.
- Whole zone converges on a single banner once they become vulnerable.
- Move on from banner to banner.
This way, everyone gets the badges and the banners go down more efficiently.
So the other night, everything is going good, one banner down, move on to the second, and all of a sudden no.3 is down while the rest of the zone was at no.2. Now, there's always a few people not paying attention and they try to solo a banner. But to take down a banner that quickly, you need a full team. Apparently this full team decided to, well, take down a banner by themselves.
When asked about it on broadcast, they immediately turned to insults/flames/etc. They kept repeating the common justifications for bad behavior; we have no right to tell them what to do, it's an open event, there will be another event so if you wanted the banner of fiends badge just run this again, etc.
And as with the other instances, this doesn't make any freaking sense. They screwed themselves out of three badges and thirty people out of one.
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Quote:Apparently there's a bug. People sidekicked aren't getting the costume temp powers. They will still get badge credit towards getting costumes, they just won't get the powers themselves. However, if you already have one, including the perma ones that you might have purchased or won in one of the contests, you can get h-tips.Originally Posted by Minotaur
Another problem in similar vein.
We have a mixed group 41-49. We find with the 49 leading, the 41/42 are not getting costumes and H-tips. We have the block of 4 doors in PI and have had them for 20 mins. We switch to the 42 leading and all are getting H-tips and costumes.
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Quote:Not likely. Not even the all blaster ITF went that high. Hell, the only death count that I could think of in the 200's was a Quaterfield in which the deathcount went that high, mainly due to the team having to fight six to eight spawns of +2ish rularuu inside a CoT prison.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Not that I've been on any of them (it's been months since the last time I did an ITF), but I've heard epic stories about some of the ITFs you've led ending up with over 200 deaths.
Anyway, I'll stop derailing the thread now.
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Quote:Not unless he has like ten+ accounts; was checking/entering player notes for each person. Don't recall having any ITF's go bad. Maybe all the people I've kicked from Sara Moore task forces renamed themselves and were hanging out in PI to make themselves look stupid.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Maybe it's the same dude over and over on different accounts, getting revenge for a SatHam ITF gone bad?
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Ok, I admit that guy was hilarious.
(backgroup, techno, me, and maybe 3-5 others were ToT'ing, due to the fact we were both bots/traps, we were covering both sides of the apartments the Cove marker in PI. then this logs in, level 43 or so, and starts to flip out on us for "taking over the whole square." didn't ask to join us (there was room on the team), didn't ask for one of the doorways, just started flipping out and trying to poach us. the mobs we were spawning were +8 to +10 to him and our mines were one shotting OUR level 50+ spawns, much less his level 43's.)
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Quote:Here's the thing; in a way, I could slightly understand someone acting badly if I was telling them what to do or adding insults to what was otherwise a reasonable request. A lot of people (for whatever reason) don't like being told what to do, even if they're doing something wrong. But if someone says in local, "Could you please go to another door? Our team is already using this one." I can't imagine the thought process that would cause the person respond in broadcast with insults.Originally Posted by Chant
This same reason is why I grew tired of leading mothership raids. People either don't listen, want to argue or intentionally act like words that I would get in trouble for writing here. I think people think you are being rude by correcting them, but really you are just trying to help THEM not look bad.
That's how half of these encounters played out. I'm using local or tells and they're responding in nothing but broadcast. Not sure if it's a desire to troll me into getting in a public fight with them or if it's just a further indication of their ignorance of the game and what's acceptable behavior; that they don't even know the difference between local and broadcast and that people in the zone are only seeing their comments. And that it makes them look.... Crazy.
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Since Halloween has come live, been finding the ToT/H-Tip cycle to be a very good source of inf, purples, recipes, and rare salvage. And in addition to that, a very good way to meet Victory's more sociable members. And by sociable, I mean those without social skills.
I've petitioned three people for language, one/two starred ten or twelve people and have put a similar number on ignore.
The common way this has been going:
My team at level 50 is at a set of double doors, fighting for a while.
Random person or three comes up, almost always not at level 50, and starts attacking the mobs we're spawning.
I'll ask politely in local or tells for them to go to another door.
They'll respond in broadcast (ALWAYS broadcast) with claims that I don't own the server, they were there first, I'm a noob, I have no right to tell them how to play, or with theories on my sexuality (these are the ones that usually result in petitions).
Internet stupidity fight ensues.
I really don't understand these types of people. They really seem to come across as truly believing that THEY'RE the ones being wronged. That their rights are being infringed on by someone DARING ask that they change their behavior.
And the thing is? 95 percent of these people have been level 47 or lower. Not their natural level; that's what they're sk'ed up to (besides the team leader, obviously). Our doors are spawning 52-53's. Any time they click the doors, we one shot what comes out. Our spawns they're not even damaging. They can't be getting any xp what so ever on these actions, and yet they are dead set at doing them just because they were asked to stop.
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Quote:Faulty plug our faulty plugin outlet? Insurance covering it?Originally Posted by Vivace
So, they determined it was a faulty plug that caused it. A spark that jumped to a basket of clothes sitting nearby, and fwoosh. Thankfully, the fire didn't spread farther than the bedroom, so everything other than that is ok, including the dog who was in the house at the time.
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Quote:Originally Posted by PennyPA
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Quote:Jesus Christ. $10 dollars for a glass of wine? I'm REALLY hoping your quoting rip off restaurant prices. Otherwise, I'm coming over for dinner at your place tomorrow.Originally Posted by PennyPA
Hamster, I am shocked you didn't have "the bigger picture" in your post. Great set up!!
Anyhow, I am more in the camp against nickel and diming. This goes on enough in all areas of life. Some of the items in this new pack are great, others "won't see the light of day" by me.
The cost is nothing also, maybe a day's worth of coffee or a glass of wine at dinner. I am just not liking the direction of paying for all these little add ons. Yeah, it took some time for some one to program and such, but there is no further cost of material. It is all electronic and can be "copied" many times over for players.
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Quote:Yep. As I said, I'm interested, but it's just not freaking worth it for just one or two costume pieces that I'll use on *one* character.Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
I think the bigger picture is, people WANT to pay money for things like this, but they don't feel like they would be getting their money's worth for what it is.
Yes, you can NOT buy it if you choose. But it is kind of annoying to WANT to spend money, but not able to convince yourself of the value at hand.
I don't think anyone is complaining that they are being forced to spend money......because they aren't.
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And of course, there's a number of people who feel resentment at the perception of being nickeled and dimed for stuff like costume pieces when they're still paying 15 bucks a month for an older game. -
Quote:To anyone get ticked off:Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Ham, you mentioned in game that they should have a sale with these... I could see that ticking people off that paid full price (or being more reasonable if people couldn't get these "cheaper" with other versions of the game), but it might not be a bad idea, especially for the boosters with less in them, or the older ones.
I have bad news to you all that paid 50 bucks for CoH... You can buy it for a LOT cheaper now. OMGWTFBBQ, DOOOM< NO. Newsflash. Some things are over priced to start with and there's a good incentive of putting older things on sale; to get money from the people who have not and never will buy it at its current price.
I will, hands down, NEVER buy any of the packs out there at their current price. But if there was a 2-for-1 sale (say, on any but the latest releases, or hell any of them)? I'd buy a few. Hell, might even buy them all.
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Quote:http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/pat..._-_102010.htmlOriginally Posted by DumpleBerry
Yes, in the patch notes and discussion.
No details there... Or do you mean buried in some subforum instead of on the main page?
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Not really a question of exemping; was more thinking of each of team forming. Friend is running a team in his 30's/20's? You can join with your level 15. You want to run Synapse or Posi? You can get tons of people to join regardless of their level.
But level 15 in Petoria? You just have access to whomever is level 20 and below that haven't left the zone yet.
HEAVILY agree with you on side switching, however. I've had a dominator and two corruptors going now on blue side because of this. I'm up in the air on a blaster, however; go right into blue or go gold first.
