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I would go for random roles in the 26-30 bracket as it covers the most recipes so you have good chance of getting something good and i have to say so far personally I've been pretty luck with them and had a couple of +stealth's (which I'm keeping) and a few other recipes which have netted me the best part of 23 mil on one character and i still have a couple more to sell.

take a look here

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Taskfo...om_Recipe_Roll

and

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Trial_Random_Recipe_Roll

it'll give you a idea in what range to roll for the results that best suit you

Not sure about the suggestion because as Sapphic Neko says it could result in driving the prices even higher and making those just starting out have a harder time collecting what they need to craft stuff

What i would like to see is the dev's give some thought to rarely used/ almost worthless salvage things like Kinetic Weapon which atho used in a fair few recipes seems to be worth next to nothing at auction weather this is because the recipe is its used in a rent all that popular or because it has a above average drop rate I'm not sure but any time I've listed some on the AH they've sat for days and not moved (and i only list them at 5 inf).

Of course i suppose it could be because the recipes its used in are hard to come by so its not needed very often but if that's the case hopeful architect will help with that a bit.

tho if you think about the powers a sheild/mace would work nbetter than a stone/* troller as stone has that foot stomp looking animation wheile sheild has no feet useing animations.

of course if they really wanted to do it they could create new animations for the powers that interfered with the costume part or they could have the game blank out powers that cant be used with specific costume pieces but that's a lot of work for one costume piece.

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I'm sure this could be implemented some how.

As to naming the colors most color values already have pretty common names so where possible they could be used

Nice very very nice. you gonna color it or leave it moody?

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And while it was a decent idea the implementation was really really bad

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I think this probably covers my feelings on i13 PvP changes lots of good ideas just badly implemented.

Had they implemented the current changes but with smaller values i recon they would have got on much better.

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I am still keeping my pen in the pocket on this one, cause I think, commanding a couple of thorns, arachnos,etc. would mean ure kinda down with the villain group and involved in their hierarchy. Some of these mobs just have trademark looks, that could never be seperated from the villain group.


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I think this is the major problem with having Mobs as pets it gets difficult to justify it would work with Archnos purley because there all at each others throats and it wouldn't be a stretch for a charismatic leader to sway some to his own particular version of what lord recluses plan is but the rest are more difficult (I'm not saying impossible because i can think of a few ways)

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Mess, you needn't copy your character over unless you want to keep any unlocked weapons and aura options they have. The costume file saves all options on your char including scaling, so you could just open the character creation screen, click load and your char is there.


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auras are most likely why i would be testing out a costume or with a certain power and for both of these i would need my original character but yes for bog standard costume options a simple copy of the costume file would work.

not sure whats wrong there the 2 things that i can think of are either its being blocked or the shortcut is pointing to the wrong updater.

so first of right click the short cut on your desktop and go tho the short cut tab provided you installed to the default location you should have a shortcut that's target is

C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.eu.exe

however it seems quite common for the short cut to end up pointing at the US updater instead (C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe) if that's whats happened just edit the target so that it reads

"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.eu.exe"

hey presto your now connecting to the EU

if you still get the "connection...#(insert number here)" check your fire wall and make sure CoH is trusted

And welcome to the game feel free to ask lots more questions

It would seem that the animation not working is infectious while playing my claws/elec stalker last night i noticed that Focus and eviscerate weren't animating correctly either yet I'm sure they were working fine just the other day.

Not sure my current main has about 22mill and my last main still has about 35ish mill but i tend to spend inf i have.

tho i have noticed as i tend to slot with IOs from about 30 and just replace those with higher ones as i get salvage/recipies that my inf supply tends to just grow steadily as I'm making more money selling all the extra stuff i pick up from drops and with merritts than i am spending on crafting the odd 2 or 3 recipes every other mish.

Test server would work but its a bit of a long way round to load game go to icon, design costume, save costume, quit icon, quit game, go search for correct file, move file to training room, copy character, load training room, discover characters not copied yet, twiddle thumbs till character copy works.

Plus there's the possibility that your costume wont load on the test server, that the test server is down or that the character copy tool is down

Also that would involve having a free costume slot to create a character in and you would have access to unlockable costume parts.

agreed seems kind of odd to only do it for defenders when there are 2 other ATs that make use of the same power.

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had it happen plenty of times get the costume looking just like and hit pay and discover that the in game lighting makes it look totally different or that some power animations look just plain weird.

a small try out room with one a couple of target-able dummies (one friend one Foe) for trying out powers would be perfect.

Same here the mace animating weirdly really put me off playing mine which was a shame he was fun up till the point the bug hit.

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Personally I'd like to see Mr Floaty in Atlas Park come down from his invisible, ceiling walkway near MAGI - unless this is a bit of game lore I have missed...

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I've just decided that he's a ghost that haunts the place and now ignore him.

dose energy assault need improving? it seems a pretty good no worse than the other sets.

I've allways seen energy more of a single target set than a AoE set if you were to increase its AoE damage you would be lowering its single target damage which could harm the sets over all feel.

I don't see the point of removing total focus and replacing it with energy transfer if you have to then nerf energy transfer to make it fit removing the health penilty removes the flavor of the power its you giving up some health to cause huge damage by the time you rebalance the power you'd be as well just leaving in total focus.

Another suggestion change the stalker version of power sink so that it doesn't brake hide at least that way a stalker would get more use out of it.

Weird the crab backpack should disapear as long as you've removed them from both your builds.

and yea the rife thing is really annoying it also effects the bane spiders mace as well.

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Thanks for the discussion sorry if i came a bit hard on you i am more dissapointed with some development choices and prolly you took unecessary flak for it.

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Ha no worrys i was overy cranky the smorning i suspect we agree on far more points than we disagre.

I still have hope that we'll see some changes for the better in i14

any ways im gona leave this thread b and return to stakering.

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leave ED out of nice tactic that can't argue against it so you ignore it even tho its basically the same thing a major change to make way for something in the future.

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Please learn to read the whole post.I said leave it out and i argued ED just fine.PvP population has been double scammed because while PvE was given back the power taken away pre ED through inventions as you well said PvP players were punished and simply been given DR on IO sets.There is your arguement for the second time since you missed it.


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yes and Ed and inventions happened in the same issue didnt they?

No of course the bloody didnt there was huge gap betwean the nerf that was ED and the Buff that was inventions so is it not just possible that whats happened to PvP is the nerf before the buff?

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Ah now we get some where so because they broke the way you like to PvP its epic fail thats what your basically saying its your way or no way

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I like PvP.Period.I have PvPed since day 1,i have played with underpowered AT's in the PvP zones as well so i guess your whole arguement about moaning for not having it our way is void.I got the brains,the knowledge and enough experience to know when something is not working and failing and has been a bad decision just like when i can applaud something.Dont try and spin this with the usual [censored] arguement fanboys use that we dont have it our way.The PvP community in this game stood by the devs for 6 issues doing the best possible with little at hand.S4,X4 in and all kinda events were payer and community manager events.The ladder in US is player driven.Yet noone moaned but made sensible suggestions and kept providing feedback.


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you like all forms of PvP but insult those that like to fight club under the globe huh if you like it why are you insulting those that take part in a particular form of PvP

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Well here's a news flash its not your game and how things are done in it are not your decision to make if the Devs have decided that they want CoH to have a more "fight club" style PvP then so be it if you don't like that style of PvP well its a free world your free not PvP in CoH no one is forcing you to play CoH yet here you are.

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Dont be ignorant.First of all PvP community in its majority doesnt support these changes.Second of all the changes that intended to fill the zones with casuals have failed obviously and third i might not own the game but just like every other person that supported the devs in the good and has been vocal in the bad this is bad and i ll be vocal about it like it or not just like you would be vocal when something would be bad and just like some other people around these boards were vocal when things went bad in other aspects of the game.

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Says you and those that post here but what about those that are fightclubing there still at it and you still see the odd post about being and a pvp zone and pvping if its that bad stop pvping alltogeather its no good say "hey this dosent work" and then doing it any way all that'll happen is teh Devs will look at there data mine and say "hey look still teh same number of people in pvp zones"

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if the Devs have decided that they want CoH to have a more "fight club" style PvP then so be it

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No.Not so be it because this is the wrong decision.You might be a sheep that follows blindly what they feed it but i am not and i ll keep express my disagreement to this move which is only reinforced through game testing and speaking with other people in PvP zones unlike your arguement which stems from nowhere to be honest except blindfaith to some grand scheme of things.

Stop being a sheep and learn to have your opinion through what you actually experience in the game.Not taking the [censored] without actally trying things out and bringing some hard evidence to the table.



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again says you i like the more fight club like PvP its sertiunly more heroic than getting shot to hell from affar or a quick zip in and AS its nice to actuall stay still and see who im faceing

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The fact are simple:

DR in PvP: sucks.You wana keep DR in PvP?Fine introduce it to PvE as well.But this wont happen cause you know what the result will be.Even fanboys will turn round rip their clothes and scream murder


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did i say Dr was a good idea i personaly dont like it i have the veiw that powers should function the same regardles of weather your in a PvP or PvE

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Mobility change: Wrong solution to a problem that could have been solved through simple power secondary effects.Would have allowed the game to retain its unique aspect of twitch/fast paced PvP and end the issues of melee with ranged dps


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I personally disliked the twitch aspect of PvP its not unreal that were playing after all if i want hair triger action ill play that im looking for epic fights

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AT roles: This screw up is most likely due to panic effort to rebalance AT's and in a rush due to the flak being recieved destroyed everything.Balance at the moment is out the window in zonal PvP.


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As i said i would much prefer that things functioned the same betwean PvP and PvE

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EDIT: And for the record take a look at US zonal PvP forum and see how many people seem to like/accept/enjoy/find fun this divine intervention the developers did to PvP.

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I have looked in the past and much of what i seen was moaning and threats to leave yet very few seemed to have actually carried it out.

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Well here's a news flash its not your game and how things are done in it are not your decision to make if the Devs have decided that they want CoH to have a more "fight club" style PvP then so be it if you don't like that style of PvP well its a free world your free not PvP in CoH no one is forcing you to play CoH yet here you are.

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And here's a news flash for you, the devs have killed pvp deader than it ever was. So it is an epic fail. And in that respect TG and everyone else now moaning are right.

And the only thing more of an epic fail, is that they intend to waste more time on it, rather than admit it aint worked and put it back.

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Messy, you're digging yourself a damned big hole here.
Point of order, it IS our game. We paly it, we pay the subs. Without us, the players, there is NO CoX.


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No tech I'm not maybe i could have worded it better but my pain killers were wearing off and i was not a happy bunny but my point still stands its not our game hell we don't even own the characters we create.

We may pay subs and we may play it but when it comes to making decisions about the game the only real say we have is accept the changes and get on with it or cancel our subs

and this is why this hole dam PvP thing annoys the hell out of me since i13 hit in fact before i13 hit every week there's some form of mention about PvP being broke there's always some form of moan

what these people should have done if they felt so strongly about the changes to PvP is say there piece and then actually quit don't threaten to quit actually quit cancel the sub and stop logging in that's how they would have got there point across but instead they threaten to quit and then don't.

Whats the point its like telling a naughty child your gonna send them to there bed and then not doing it.

leave ED out of nice tactic that can't argue against it so you ignore it even tho its basically the same thing a major change to make way for something in the future.

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.Destroyed 90% of what was good for the sake of prolonging fights which supposingly makes it more fun for the nubs that like to make fight clubs under the globe.

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Ah now we get some where so because they broke the way you like to PvP its epic fail thats what your basically saying its your way or no way.

Well here's a news flash its not your game and how things are done in it are not your decision to make if the Devs have decided that they want CoH to have a more "fight club" style PvP then so be it if you don't like that style of PvP well its a free world your free not PvP in CoH no one is forcing you to play CoH yet here you are.

Yep the creation Mobs (Minions - AVs) is a feature and one is teh main reason architech was delayed.

What im wondering is could the Mob creation part of architech be taken out of architect and morphed into a Nemesis feature where you coul desighn anything from a single Nemesis to a fully fledged enemy group

once created this Nemesis/group would be seeded at random threw standard missions so outwith architect of course some way of them to rise in power as you leveled up would be good as well

As a example say you create your nemesis at lvl 5 lets call him blast bot hes energy blast/invulnerability I'm sure the devs said you could mix sets (if not pick something that's within the same AT)

you then while doing a standard defeat X mish discover him as the Boss instead of the run of the mill hellion you fight you win all is good in the world next time you run into him is in the 30s only now he has more powers and kicks your [censored]

maybe he could even appear in your radio missions things like "blast bot calls out [insert name here]" or blast bot kidnaps manager of 22nd bank"