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Lack of Rularuu Shield =

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I'm disappointed there isn't a giant fore-arm shield type. Or a giant fist melee powerset. Looks like the future's pretty grim for fans of Nightfist.

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Regarding these, the fat lady hasn't sung yet. From BAB:

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As I'm still working on getting more shields into the game, this isn't exactly true. Probably won't be seeing all of the shields that will be available until Open Beta.

The selection for closed beta will be somewhat limited

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(This thread was originally in General Discussion - presumably GR moved it at a fairly early stage...)

But it would still be a tool whose sole purpose was to create superhero costumes which - if those costumes were never added to the game - couldn't be vetted for copyright violations. As I understand it, in effect it would be a tool designed to aid violation of Marvel's copyright.

Not sure I completely agree with that, but to be honest it doesn't really matter if I (or anyone else outside NCSoft) agrees or not - to stop distributing it was the agreement with Marvel. End of.

Check the third post down in this thread:

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An offline costume creator was available for City of Hero (the defunct Korean version), but by best guesses it can't be made available in the US due to issues with Marvel by total [censored].

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A name means nothing on the battlefield.

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Tell that to the men who served under Rommel, Mongomery, Patton, Julius Caesar etc. Names are vitally important because they imply a certain reputation

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Also, it can get very confusing when you have to shout "You, third from the left...no, now 4th to the left, the one with the machine gun!" in the heat of battle.

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he miss a bit off or i miss heard the pod cast they seam to be reworking temp protect to include slow resist.

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Um, from the quoted article:

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Movement (and now Recharge!) Protection for Temperature Protection

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That's CoH for you - depending on the mission your actions (which generally amount to "beat everything you meet unconscious" (or worst)) are variously described as "negotiation", "investigation", "search", "check out", etc...

Euphemisms FTW!

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1. Since I4 Castle had been looking for a coding change to allow an end to Toggle dropping. Unbeknownst to him, Shannon Pozniewski (a cryptic programmer) added it in. Castle only recently found documentation on that, so, now it's in.

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Heehee - hurrah for patchy change management systems!

Big gratz, BB!

(When I first saw the subject I thought this might have been a birthday thread... )

It's my understanding that Gordon Brown's intercepting them, covering them in bronze paint then trying to get them accepted by vending machines throughout central London.

He's trying increasingly desperate measures to kickstart the economy lately...

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what about a respec that doesn't reset your AT, but just makes you able to re-choose a power for the cost of another.(within your lvl ofcouse)

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FWIW that strikes me as a bit too small of a change to be worth a special respec type.

Maybe 3 levels:

* Full respec - rechoose powers, slotting and enh placement, just like it is now

* Slot respec - powers stay as they were, but slotting and enh placement starts over

* Enh respec - powers and slots stay as they were, enhs need replacing

Rather than 3 different types of respec this might be implemented as each one using a respec but you getting to choose which of the current 3 screens you start the process at.

It'd be nice if the 3rd, enh placement, screen could have access to the Auction House window too, so you can put lots of IOs straight out to auction if you wanted to make wholesale changes. Of course, if you didn't want to actually sell the IOs you could stick them in the AH from the enh screen without setting a price, then pick them up later for carrying to base storage, passing to alts, whatever...

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As it stands i think elec armour gives the least over all protection of all the brute armour sets (not sure about stalkers but i suspect its the same).

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You are correct. Although it has fewer holes than most other sets too.

Given that it is popular anyway, is a buff needed? Edit: Certainly for the stalker version it is.

They might prefer to wait until its proliferated to heroes, and replace Conserve Power with a heal in the hero version, since scrappers and tankers get it in thier APPs anyway.

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I await the flood of "omg teh devs gave blu side heelz, they h8 villunz!!!" posts.

It's marked on the map here.

A workable approach to get in is to move over the terrain until you're in the narrow red area (i.e. above the tunnel itself), then follow the red area to reach one of the entrances at each end.

Design decision, presumably, maybe to allow assassin strikes to work on (for example) patrol-type mobs that would otherwise be near impossible to have at melee range at both the start and end of the interrupt period.

yw - it's not quite as handy as being able to give the name at the start of generation itself, as doing the check doesn't actually reserve anything. So you could still lose the name if someone else claims it between your check and your finishing the new character.

Still, if it's gone unclaimed for the several years before you checked it the odds are good it'll stay free for 10 minutes more.

There's already the "Check Name" button on the toon selection screen (just underneath the new scrollbar) - you can use this to see whether a name's free before you actually start creating a new character.

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Not dual pistols, duel pistols.

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Shurely you mean duel pistils?

yw

Set specifics aren't something I'm particularly clued up on (I just buy shiny things that catch my eye when I happen to be shopping), but have you checked this list to see if there's anything you can squeeze a few extra % out with?

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tinting a hue isnt impossible, just compare vilalin elec and hero elec.

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That's was a one-off change done by the devs when transferring a copy of the powerset over to the Other Side.

The earlier post was asking for fully player-customisable power effects.

Which is allowable under the rules of the thread, but also a different (and currently utterly impossible) matter entirely.

The limit's applied to individual bonuses, rather than sets as a whole, so you'd only lose the Damage and Recharge from that 6th set.

Erm, there's one in there already.

(Or at least there was - it's official. Has it vanished?)

The 5 set bonus only kicks in if the exact same (% and effect) benefit is there. Haven't checked what the sets you list actually do, but if all 5 of them gave (say) +5% recharge, then the recharge benefit from a 6th set also giving +5% recharge would be lost.

You'd still get a bonus from a set giving +4% recharge, though, or a set giving +5% regen.

So, if the 5 existing sets are giving different benefits[1], you can get full effect from another set.


[1] Or, more accurately, they're not all giving the same benefit!

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Another example, the one my SG is working on at the moment, is the Fusion Generator, the third and highest base generator. This required 250 PvP kills while in SG mode and 7,500,000 Prestige. We have nearly got the 7.5 million prestige just need the 250 PvP kills. Hard to get since we are not a PvP SG.

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<haxx>Can you get it by going into the open combat zone (forget which - allows Hero vs Hero & Villain vs Villain) and have 2 SG members repeatedly kill each other?</haxx>

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Out of curiosity, is there some kind of table or point of reference that describes the sliding scales of inf when in SG mode?

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Details here.

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2- Use cheaper enhancements: common IOs, SOs. This way, your second build will be effectively less powerful than the first, and the resulting feeling will be... disappointment.


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The effect of IO sets is so small you would be pushed to notice any difference.

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Unless you're using sets for Frankenslotting - the extra total values can be very significant in that case.

Although there are cheap Frankenset-based options for most powers.