TheMESS

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Your probably not gonna like this but it sounds like complete martyrdom to me. You think the game is dying and you leaving is somehow going to make people see this and change it. Nothing is going to change and i have to agree with the rest, that your problems are through boredom than anything actually wrong with the game.
I wish you luck with what you do but i imagine it'll be the same when you return.

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I think you and others have hit the nail on the head its not that the game is "Dieing" or that the servers are becoming deserted (I'm sure people are leaving but after 4/5 years there's gonna be a decline) its that they've for what ever reason become board the game has become stagnate for them and it no longer excites them.

Its something that seems to happen to every one (tho not GG and her constant chirpy ness it seems) and when it dose the person either ups and leaves (with or without announcement) or they find something within the game that still interests them for be it badges playing the market soloing AVs or helping the little ones. Those that leave more often that not venture back at some point normally thanks to the reactivation weekends (don't believe me sign up the the google new service and have city of heroes as your search term just see how many people out there blog that there returning to CoH after X months/years absence and are having fun)

I've done it my self i was feeling board with the game and the PS3 and Wii were calling my name and then the hole switch thing gave me that finale push when my account time ended i didn't renew it on my main account and i had intended to let the same happen with my secondary account but along came i13 yes it was content lite but there was anuf there to rekindle my love i played through the new villain stuff in a night got a lvl on my brute who had languished around 45 for months and that was me i was off doing missions again i joined up with sals badge hunters (i cant recommend doing this anuff) even tho I'm not a rabid badger i still like them and i figured these would be active people i did 2 ITFs and a LGTF later that week and hit 50 since then I've dragged a tank from 34 to 38 (again thanks badge hunters) a defender from 29 to 32 (from random PUGs) another tank from 22 to 24 doesn't sound like a lot but when your dark/ice and have all of 4 attacks (brawl,frozen fist,sands of Mu and nemi staff) its hard going again thrue random teams plus I've rolled and begun to lvl no end of alts.

So i put it to the OP and those that share the same view that its not the game that's dieing but there interest in the game it no longer thrills them and the reason they demand a list of upcoming features from the devs is in the hope that they'll be something there that will grab them but it wont your in a rut and you need to get out of it and i suggest to do this you do what your saying and leave the game don't look back but instead do other things go for walks in the park or play other games and one day come back and have a look at CoH with refreshed eyes.

I always kinda thought there should be some kind of punishment for not taking on GMs maybe some kind of zone debuff if the GMs been spawned longer than X time or something.

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huh how come Khaines message has Re: TheMESS at the top yet quotes Calamity thats rather confusing

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'coz I used the quick reply rather than clicking quote.

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Ah my brains pretty much dead and i was left wondering why i had typed that and coudent remember

<--- Easily confused

Its also pretty important to remember that i14 is really i13 continued.

And that the proper i14 is now i15

Some random ideas for replacement powers (please keep in mind I'm half asleep)

tier 9. Eye of the Storm: You become the cam eye of a raging storm any for foolish anuff to get to close will be hurl aside should they survive they will be left the worse for ware.

PBAoE extreme damage (smashing), -Def, KB, chance of Fear and Special*

*This power is extremely draining and uses a lot of end per sec further it takes all your concentration to maintain it so you can use any other ability.

Exactly gale, hurricane, Tornado, and lightning storm all have to come out before its any where near workable.

huh how come Khaines message has Re: TheMESS at the top yet quotes Calamity thats rather confusing

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I keep my setting to not looking for group and have a no blinds comment but I still get blinds and I do just click no..and then I get the same blind...and i click no again...so am I rude? No am I in wentworths wheeling and dealing? Yes

Not looking for group is a "do not disturb" sign not a "keep sending me that blind and I'll give in" sign.


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If you don't want to be disturbed why not set your self to the not grouping option that way the blinds don't come thru.

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The thing is that sending a team invite is exactly like sending a tell saying "do you want to team" except with the tell if they say yes you've then got to send a team invite for your actually asking twice.

I think the major problem with the team invite was that it popped up in the middle of the screen if it could be changed to come up else where maybe even as some kind of /tell message or email I recon there would be far fewer complaints and demands that people send a "do you want a team" tell before inviting.

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Yeah nowadays replies getting lower and lower to tells. Maybe because of that current bug or at low levels there are many trial accounts around.


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There's another good point as far as I'm aware trial accounts cant use the /tell system so there only chance of getting a team is blind invites as they cant send a tell to ask now if this is something they need to do in the early lvls if they continue to play the game there more than likely going to continue on sending "blind" invites

Woops thats because i originaly had it as a teir 3 but after looking at the other blaster sets i moved it to 7 to keep in line with elec blast.

so replace teir 3 with:-

Tornadic Blast: using your control of air you focus all the force of a tornado into a single blast of super accelerated Air. High (or extreme) damage with a high mag KB (should be able to knock over a freak tank)

I kinda agree with the OP here if there set at looking for team i dont see why they should then require a tell with the full run down of the team. (some seem to requrie this)

Well i prefer it to the wind blast power set that's for sure but how on earth would you animate it?

I suppose you could use something like the old sonic shield animations but there were a good few reports of them causing pain to the user.

Figured id chuck together a wind set and see if i can come up with something more interesting than the OP without resorting to "silent but deadly attacks"

1. Gale. pretty much the same as storm but with damage etc changed to match the rest of the blaster tier 1 attacks

2. Air Blast. you send forth a concentrated blast of air causing your target to take some moderate smashing damage and loose there footing (Knock Down)

3. Grit storm. using your control over the air you gather up grit and sand and blast it towards your opponent this attack causes only minor damage but leaves your target held as they attempt to clear there eyes and throat

4.Icy Blast. You summon a blast of Icy wind which chills your those in front of you to the bone. DOT cold damage and slow

5. Aim.

6. Hurricane. same as defender version

7. Grit storm. using your control over the air you gather up grit and sand and blast it towards your opponent this attack causes only minor damage but leaves your target held as they attempt to clear there eyes and throat

8. Tornado. Again same as storm summoning

9. Lightning Storm. Again same as storm summoning

Sill not particularly brilliant and it reuses far to many attacks from storm summoning but ah well.

If i remember correctly there are 2 issue teams (or at least there was) so i15 is probably already well underway

as its raven i would imagin RPing in a open area

Got to agree with the others it needs something in there to make it more interesting and should definitely include Knock back, up and down in fact i would go as far as saying it should have a fairly soft control heavy slant to it.

If they were to move the events like zombie and rikti to another location i feel it would completely ruin the point of them especially the rikti one its tied into the game lore and the gaming world.

Personally i wouldn't expect to see duel pistols any time soon.

yes to normal he's clearly working on somthing big

omniscient, omnipotent gah work kills my brain.

as to the over powered bit yea i suppose your right she is no better than any other precog hell she's probably worse because she doesn't see the far future just seconds in advance but its the idea of her becoming more and more focused that i like (in game she's SR) to the point shell be able to avoid almost every hit. and for her at least that's what the journey from 1-50 is its her getting better at focusing her talent.

What Zortel said plus it seems it adds a month to your vet time as well or at least after applying the code my vet time went up by a month and i cant see how it could have been anything other than the code

good man you wont regret it

*boots so shinny and so many uses*

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I have to agree with Commander_Beet and Khorak - once you've read the books, you really get a better feel for the Hero sig characters.

Statesman has one hell of an attitude. It's almost understandable, since he's immortal and has to watch his loved ones die around him - but still... chill!

Synapse and Positron as a duo are great - it's a relationshop/friendship not stressed at ALL in the game, I feel, which is a shame, because they're both amazingly well-established in the book, the Freedom Phalanx.

The comics reflect the books a little. Statesman is still up-himself, but my problem is with the Statesman / Manticore banter, which is just a rip from Marvel's / Avengers Captain America (star-spangled-team-leader) vs. Hawkeye (average-joe super-hero Archer with an attitude) and their heated disagreements. I felt as though the comics didn't do anything unique with these two (apart from when Manticore kills Statesman. THAT I like!)

So - faves? Posi and Synapse. Loved them in the book. If I had to pick *one*? Posi, hands down.

Worst character (not signature...)....

JANET KELLUM. She's an insult to forensic science (she other thread).

I'm glad so many people referenced the books / comics. We need more people to stand up and say they rocked - because they DID, and I'd LOVE TO SEE MORE

*Plans to re-read both shortly*

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Was there not plans for a third book but it was never published? I wonder if it exists in some for of early draft.

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Trust me to cancel my subs before they release the Mac Pack! But wait if I just cancelled my subs would that extra game time be accounted for after my account supposedly meant to expire?

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Well as your still posting i would guess your account is still active and wont actually deactivate till whatever day your sub runs out so if you were to go buy the mac pac and apply it to your account it should extend that date by a month so for example if you were due to expire on the 12 Jan after applying the code you would then be due to expire on the 12 of February.

And then you can download the mac client and play on your Mac (i assume you've got a mac now and so could no longer play CoH)