Soulwind

Not sure what you mean here.

Do you mean just adding a display of Primary/Secondary powerset?

ie go to the character select screen and see:

Super-Duper X-Man
Invulnerability/Super Strength
Level 38 Science Tanker
Brickstown

as the character display (plus his picture of course)?

You know, I see this type of question all the time.

"What is there to do with a level 50 toon other than Farm and/or TFs?"
"What endgame content is there other than farming, TFs, or raids?"
etc...

Every time I see these questions, the first thing I always think of is:
"What else do you want?"

I mean, honestly, what else is there to do in 'that other game' (pick one)
with a max level toon other than grind (and grind, and grind) for "phat lewt"?

[ie farming (grinding), TFs/raids (raids), and gathering Inf/IOs (phat lewt)]

It's pretty much the exact same thing. So why do these threads keep occurring?

I'd say it's almost certain we'll be getting some new maps. At least in Praetoria.

Whether they are just new skins with (possibly) some shuffling of the tile pieces or
"real" new mapsets, I'd have to give a 50/50 chance.

As to whether or not they will be propagated down to Paragon/Rogue Island zones...
I'm guessing probably not, but I'd say maybe a 30/70 chance (yes/no).

I got your note in-game the other day, but haven't had a chance to run it yet...

I'm looking forward to running through it.

(I've skipped any of the responses here that might contain spoilers)

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What I really want to know is: What happened to Ghost in the Machine, part III ?

Did I miss it or have you never completed it?

I really want to know how the story ends.

That's one of the few arcs out there that has actually gotten me emotionally involved in it's resolution...

Neither.

My villains are villains and my heroes are heroes.

They'll all be staying where they are.

I will, however, be creating a hero mastermind (starting in Praetoria),
but he'll be a hero from the get-go, not a redeemed villain.

It can be a bit annoying if you get hit with one of the auto-missions and simply cannot stay logged in (due to maintenance times or real-life issues), but it's not the end of the world.

Assuming you beat the outdoors Kronos Titan (for the badge), then the final timed mission in the arc isn't going to make any real difference. You'll still have "successfully" completed the arc once the servers come back up, you'll just have failed that one single mission in the arc.

Overall, it's not too bad. It's very much a "fire and forget" type defense set, so some folks probably won't care for it, but every set isn't meant for every person.

I'm not too sure about the splitting up of status protections into seperate toggles, but I see why you did it that way.

The biggest issue I see with the powers (ignoring names and rank progression as you said they aren't in level order) is that you have absolutely no holes in your protection.

Every defensive set should have at least one hole in it's protections.

You've got Defense, Resistance, +Max HP, +Regen, +Recovery, +Recharge, +Movement, Full Status Protection line (including Fear, which normally only 'dark' sets have), +Perception, +Accuracy, +ToHit, +Psi (def and res), +Toxic (res), etc...

In fact, the only thing you don't have protection against is Teleport Foe.

Granted, you kept the totals on the low side.

Let's see: (approximate values after slotting - and skipping the tier 9 godmode power)

+15% Defense (all positions)
+22% Resistance (all damage types - with all powers active)
+60% Hit Points
+70% Regeneration
+30% Recovery
+20% Recharge (or -20% depending on how you look at it)
Big movement bonuses
Big perception, accuracy, tohit bonuses (and as a toggle rather than an Aim clone)
+whatever you plan to have the taunt aura do (+Damage? may as well, you've got everything else)

It's not a bad idea, but it would probably need a lot of work to balance right.

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And then, of course, you've got the problem of Costume = Powers.

I think one of the reasons we don't have a "power suit" type set is that it's better to have a more general powerset (like Invulnerability) that can then be paired with a "power suit" costume if desired.

If it's really a "power suit" powerset, then wouldn't the animations pretty much require a power suit costume effect (ala shield defense)? So it would probably need to be called something else with more general animations rather than something specific like "power suit"

Wow, wall o' text there.

For a pop-up warning that you have expired enhancements. I don't particularly want or need it, but so long as it can be turned off like all of the "your xxx tray is full" warnings, I wouldn't have an issue with it.

For an automatic "upgrade all existing enhancements to the next highest usable tier and type" process. I'd be all for it. So long as you're only talking about TO/DO/SO.

You basically can't have this function available for IOs. I understand your choice to use vendor/table receipe price + vendor cost of salvage + crafting cost, but it's not really viable. After all, deific weapons have a vendor cost of 5000. If you can ever actually get a deific weapon for 5000, I'd be very surprised.

Basically, using those prices for IOs would immediately render the entire market moot. I'd NEVER use the market and just auto-update IOs to new levels for a fraction of the "real" price I'd be paying for those IOs. Plus how would you handle set IOs? I can't very well go from common IOs to set IOs automatically or else you've now also destroyed Merits and Tickets as well.

Yes, we're just players helping out other players with what we know here.

You'll have to contact the NCSoft Customer Support center with this kind of issue.

As to whether or not they will swap out your key (or your buddy's key, whichever - although he would have to contact them for that), I can't say for certain.

It depends on them. Be polite and ask for assistance (ie don't demand it) and they may or may not swap out the keys, depending on your circumstances.

I can't say for certain, only that they have done so in the past.

The only thing that you can do is to contact customer support and explain the situation to them.

They have been known in the past to swap out EU activation keys for US activation keys when the wrong key got accidently purchased.

1) Make sure it's the actual 'game card' (the one that comes with a temporary jetpack power) [which is used to activate accounts] and not just a 'time card' [that just pays for a certain period of subscription time]

2) Make sure you haven't accidently gotten a European 'game card', if you are trying to create a US account; or a US 'game card', if you are trying to create an EU account.

3) Other than that, then you'll probably have to contact Customer Service. They've always been really helpful to me so don't despair.


EDIT: I'm pretty sure that the 'game cards' only come with 30 days of play for activating the account (I think they were priced at $20.00 or so). So if you've got a 60 day card, as you said in the OP, it's probably a 'time card'

If that's the case, then you'll still need to activate your account using one of the various methods (buy a retail box - GvE Edition, Architect Edition, etc; buy an account code from the NCStore; buy a downloadable version from Steam, etc) [all you need is a valid account code, since you've been playing a trial version - it's the same client software]

Then, after activating the account, you can apply the 60 day time card to the account (so it's not wasted if you did get the wrong card type). FYI, I think steam is selling the Architect Edition for $10.00 right now (which comes with $15.00 of play - ie one month).

Here's my build for Professor Light. He doesn't have all of the sets slotted yet, but has been just fine with common IO's and SO's, with the sets just making him even tougher.

He's a human-form only PB (concept-wise he's not actually a Kheldian, but was infused with the Kheldian energy when a merging went wrong. The actual Kheldian personality matrix "died" but the energy transformed him anyway).

He's currently level 39 and has run with teams and solo just fine. When solo he used to run on Rugged, now he runs at +1/x3 (which is just about perfect for spawn sizes and levels for him, imo).

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It's an interesting set with *what could be* some cool effects.

BUT, there's a reason why we don't have any powersets that have Toxic damage as thier prime component.

Almost nobody has any appreciable resistance to it (and nobody has any defense to it, other than positional defense).

Having the minor Toxic "ticks" from the secondary effects of a few powers is acceptable, but when you're being hit by Moderate (or greater) damage effects that are purely Toxic?

Nope, that would have to fall into the overpowered category.

Changing the damage type to Lethal (representing the metal-poisoning you're trying for) would solve that, but would definately be less thematic than Toxic. Or maybe Smashing (to represent being crushed by the metal bonds). Or possibly even Smashing/Toxic (with the toxic being a small portion of the damage ala spines).

If you can only manage 3 slots: 1 level 50 common IO, 1 level 50 Shifter End Mod IO, and the +End Proc is the best "over time" for the slots.

The +End Proc is better than a 3rd End Mod IO over a large enough sample time (hour +).
In a short timeframe (say any particular 5 or 10 minute period) it's inconsistent effect
cause it to be slightly worse, but only very slightly.

Remember, that 3rd IO (at lvl 50) is only netting you a 4% increase in actual recovery amounts (going from 45.8% recovery to 49.8% recovery).

On the other hand, it isn't a huge amount either way, and given the expected price you'll pay for the set IO and proc, just slotting 3 common IO's is usually more than enough.

(especially since if you're worrying about slotting stamina up, you've more than likely already set IO'd your attack powers and are getting a hefty end reduction on each of them anyway)

1) Are you sure you logged back into the same server you were on before?

(this is probably the most common result of the 'all my toons vanished' complaints)

2) The other possibility is if you've recently gone from a trial account to a full account
and started a new actual account name (rather than upgrading the trial account name)
and used the "old" name to log in.

3) The last thing would be if someone else has access to your account information and deleted the characters.

If it's none of those, then you'll need to contact Customer Support.

(and if it's #3 - change your log in info pronto and go bop whoever did it on the head)

EDIT: oh well, too slow again

Is there a way, using the "standard/default" font of the game

to get any of the special characters into a toon's name?

And if there is, how?

Specifically, I'm referring to some of the foreign characters

like umlat, accent marks, etc

.. ^ `
o u e (bad examples attempted to be shown here)

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ToHit DeBuffs fall directly into the "did I hit" calculation.

(Base ToHit - any ToHit DeBuffs + any ToHit Buffs - Opponent's Defense) (capped at 5%/95%) * Total Accuracy Modifier (capped again at 5%/95%)

The only real difference between applying a ToHit DeBuff and having Defense
is
1) ToHit DeBuffs may or may not be resisted by the mob, altering it's final effect

2) The THDB may or may not be harder to apply to the mob (Rise to the Challenge won't apply the debuff against mobs that aren't in range of it, etc)

EDIT: that formula might not be 100% correct ever since the re-balance to defense that went on a while ago (I'm doing it from memory and my memory has big gaping holes in it), but I think it's reasonably close. Check the big "how defense works" threads from Arcanaville for completely accurate info if I'm off on the formula here.

While I would certainly not be against a raise in the speed cap for flight, up to superjump's speed or so, the thing that I think would most make Fly more viable is to remove the level scaling.

Fly at the "true" speed cap (ie the level 50 speed cap of Fly) is acceptable, but you only hit that cap at 50...down in the 30's that cap is much, much lower.

Still, I take my toons movement powers based on thier concepts, not on the power levels, so I've got Flyers, Runners, Jumpers, Teleporters, and travel-pool-less toons - whichever is appropriate for that character.

IF you are CERTAIN that it's the CoH client being detected and not some other (actual) keylogger being seen while you just so happen to be playing, then I wouldn't worry about it.

(that's a big IF though)

It really wouldn't surprise me that some virus scanners would detect online games as a keylogger, as the behaviour is rather similar.

You press a key...a packet gets generated and sent out to the net...you press another key...another packet goes out...etc

I've never dealt with the particular anti-virus package you are referencing so I can't say for certain. Personally, I'd probably go do some reading on thier own forums looking for false positives that the software is prone to (which often varies quite a bit between different packages).

Oh sure, bring reality and common sense {back?} into the thread!