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The thing is the argument of "Newby comes to the game and only see's farming" is flawed it works on the assumption that the Newby will only ever do the farming maybe it would be nice to credit these new players with a bit more intelligence.

Yes there new players and yes this may very well be there first MMO (though that's some what unlikely now what with the general lack of advertising and the fact that there's a new MMO out every other Week)

But its unlikely to be there first ever Computer game there's a good chance that the'll brake out from MA and go explorer other things at the very least i can Imagen them seeing another player character that has a aura/cape and going "hey how do i get that" to which the player will reply (provided there a half decent individual) "what the Aura when your level 30 you can go see the city reprisentative and they'll give you a special mission" and of the new player will trot to get there aura the same can happen with the Roman cozy parts and the Vanguard parts.

Any GM in atlas would probably have to be relatively week so as not to be to much for low level heroes to fight.

Perhaps instead of a full blown GM Atlas could get a selection of Invasion conning EBs that could spawn at random

Hows about



Tic-Toc Prince

From time to time This larger than normal Clockwork Prince will appear within the area of Atlas park Perhaps its in answer to the destruction of its smaller kin but know one knows for sure. once he has appeared the Tic-Toc begins to roam the Atlas park area collecting his fellow clockwork before marching City hall

Powers.

Charged Bolts
Lightning Bolt
Tesla Cage
Gather Clockwork The smaller clockwork will naturally follow Tic-Toc if he passes near them (a kind of clock work taunt power that makes clocks follow Tic-Toc
Summon Clockwork (this would be a more powerful version to that used by Assembler Princes instead of just summoning 2 clockwork the Tic-Toc Prince would summon a small group of random clockwork every 1-2 mins

He's a bit like ghost of scrapyarder and will wonder around the Zone gathering clockwork before marching on city hall (of course if he makes it there he'll be zapped so he wont stay spawned for ever more)




Demonic Portal

The hellions are always getting dabbling with things that should be left well alone and this Demonic Portal is a perfect example as long as its open all kinds of Horrors will crawl from It So it bets be destroyed Quick

The Portal would appear in a area of Atlas park and Demonic nasties would start to come thrue it things like Minions of Bat'Zul, Fire Imps, Daemons and Spirits of the circle of thorns.

Was thinking what with the i15 changes to Dominators and the ability to re-tint powers (at the very least) in i16 so could Illusion be proliferated to dominators.

In the past the biggest problem has been that domination did very little for Illusion but I think that's changed now.


Spectral Wounds - Should work fine for a dominator in fact it mite even be to good and need scaling back a little

Blind - Another good power for a dominator as its all front loaded damage the hold would be boosted by domination as would the additional chance of AoE sleep that it has

Deceive - Bog standard single target confuse should be ok on a dominator with its duration being boosted when domination is up

Flash - Basic AoE Hold needs to be triggered at point blank range but as dominators are ranged/mell highbrids there a good chance the'll be in melee any ways also fire AoE hold is the same and it works. Again duration would be boosted by domination being up

Superior Invisibility - Should be a great power for a dominator as well as allowing the dominator to get into range to use its AoE hold it also allows the Dominator to get in and use its more powerful melee attacks. also gives a small +Def which never hurts.

Group Invisibility - much the same as Superior but a group buff like Illusion on controllers i can see this being skipped in favour of Superior depending on play stile.

Phantom Army - These should work great for a dominator while domination would have no effect on them they would make exilent decoys allowing the dominator to get stuck in while they take some of the agro

spectral terror - again this would probably receive no direct buff from domination but would act as another agro mitagator allowing the dominator to concentrate on damage while it feared stuff

Phantasm - Another pet best of all it summons more pets meaning that there is likely to be fewer attacks coming in the direction of the dominator which is all ways good

There are still a few powers that don't benefit from domination or dominator's improved base damage these mainly being Group Invisibility, Superior Invisibility, Phantom Army, spectral terror and Phantasm but I don't think they need to benefit the invisibility powers are useful on there own and don't need any form of buff and the pets can be rebalanced if need be but I don't think they would.

I wonder if the name Yellow snow is taken could make a nice ice/cold corrupter

I15: 60/100 Most of this mark comes from the changes to dominator's with a small fraction from the new costume pieces. The TFs however hold very little interest for me.

I16: 80/100 Just being able to change the colour of a power set is huge for me and opens up loads more character concepts that I've not explored yet purely because of the colour of powers If it turns out to be more than just change on a set wide basis then all the better.

GR: 90/100 so far i Know GR has new power sets and new content and I'm Guessing its gona have at least a few more costume options these are all things that make me a happy so i have high Expectations for GR

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Even to get the same effect of having new players have to learn the game why not just make it like ouro, you can't use or get into until a certain level

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Because as said by others further up the thread it go's against the dev's vision for MA, MA was advertised as a alternative way to level from one to 50 and positron stated that you would be able to level from 1 to 50 useing only MA content. now considering the amount of flack the Devs get get when there precived to have promised something and dont deliver are they really likely to change MA level restriction when they've came out and said that it can be used to level from 1 to 50

Also im still not convinced removing the MA buildings from low level zones would achieve the desired effext all that would happen is that that it would move to another Zone. In fact in the case of mercy nothing would change as Mercy doesn't have the problems that others are reporting about Atlas. (still to experience any form of power levelling team in Atlas guess there must be something off putting about my Alts)

Also if were talking about learning the game i Vote that that travel temps be removed and the hollows mini zone revamp be reversed so that you have to travel the length of the Zone using only sprint while avoiding the agro range of Mobs that could kill you with a look.

Hmmmm things I would do if i was in charge.


I think I would give DA a well deserved revamp. rework it into that horror film inspired zone that its always should have been and it would get a big old abandoned Moth cathedral, It would also get a couple of full story arcs one centred around the BP and there attempts to bring back there gods. and another that delved more deeply into the history of the area.

Also as some what of a pipe dream i would look at opening up the power selections so you were no longer restricted by Power set and AT.

Um you can make some pretty good versions of those with the costume creator as is.

hmmm slap in some more powerset prolification/ new powersets and add small hint about the coming storm and its up for best issue ever

oops missed that

Weirdly up till now I've normally not had any trouble with support but first time for everything a i guess.

I'm currently searching for my ticket but as it was a piddly little thing it could be any where tho I'm currently wondering dose a PPD code and some draw the world together sketches count.

Ok need some help with support to my point of view my problems pretty simple to fix but i seem to be bashing my head of a brick wall so I'm hoping some one here can help me understand the problem.

So to start from the beginning a while back (like a year ago) i got one of the CoV collectors edition boxes at the time all i really wanted it for was the art book as at the time I didn't have any concepts that called for the cape or chest detail. then at Memrobilya i got another box (they were giving them away at the door to the fist X number of people thrue)

So i now had to box's the one i had bought and had opened and taken the art book out and the little hero clix models (now stuck to my monitor ) and a un opened box which got stuck in the cupboard to gather dust.

fast forward to the end of last month and sub time is running out on my second account and i don't have the cash to renew it (got to love bills) any way i have the great idea of using the code in the CoV collectors box to extend my second account by a month so log in and apply the code woot one months extra play time.

But I like to try and have my 2 accounts as close as possible in options and im also thinking the cape and chest detail will go great with the veat helmets that have just unlocked on my main account so after a rake in the cupboard i find the CoV collectors box from memorabilia open it up and take out the little code card and proceed to add it to my account but it wont add just keeps giving the option to create a new game account.

So i fire of a question to support saying got this code but the system wont let me use it on my existing account.

get a response saying its getting bumped to a Senior GM

Senior GM asks for the code i'm trying to apply so i give it to him along with the variations i had tried thinking i was typing it wrong

Senior GM replys saying its a standard CoV code not a collectors edition one and says "If you have other questions, do not hesitate to contact us again."

Dam right i had more questions like how come the collectors edition box i have doesn't have a collectors edition serial code so i reply saying as much and explaining how it had come from memorabilia.

so the Senior GM asks for photos of both box's and the recipes so that they can look into the matter.

So thinking fair anuff I take photos of the boxes and there contents and after a troll thrue my emails i find the receipt for the box i purchased but i have no proof of purchase for the memorabilia one as it was free. So i send the pictures and explain that i only have the one proof of purchase as the other box had been a free gift.

to which I get back that they cant help because i don't have proof of purchase for the 2 box's so i once again explain that the second box came from memorabilia and that i do not and never had a receipt of purchase for it as it was a free gift from the memorabilia show i also point out that suerly the fact that i have to boxes with all the contents should be enough proof to show that i should have 2 collector edition serial codes.

But once again they reply saying cant do anything as you don't have a receipt so i have once again replied saying "There was no receipts being issued because it was received as part of a give away"




Now if you've read this far first of all thanks as i realise that its a bit of a wall of text and my spellings not great. some of you are also probably thinking what dose it matter it was free nothing lost etc etc which is what i thought at first as well after all it had not cost me anything to get the box as i was going to memorabilia any ways.

but the thing is if i had know in that there was going to be this issue the code would have been applied to my main account and i would have let me second account lapse for a month but i thought i had 2 codes so now to get the extras on my main account it looks like i'm going to need to go get a 3rd box which will probably involve e-bay which i don't fancy doing and why should i go get another box when i have a perfectly complete box that for some reason or another has a standard edition serial code in it instead of a collectors edition code.

So any advise?

Should I just chalk it up to bad luck and move on or should I continue to harass support?

dose he not have a power called Hammer of Justice or something similar?

I've got to agre with Grouchybeast and others the "new player will be at a disadvantage" argument doesn't hold much water my Alts are all pretty much self sufficient i dont transfer inf/IOs/recipes eet between alts except in very special cases (rocket boots/tech wings on a low level concept toon)

And while some toons do better than other most of my alts are Ok for inf there not mega ritch but there not skint either.

th elow levels can produce some of the most desired salvage such as luck charms sell a few of them and you'll be able to outfit a new toon with TO with ease or save up that inf and be able to SO out a toon at 22. its all about playing smart and its that that gives veats the advantage over new players not team black wands and hordes of inf and best of all you can pass on all you've learned to new players. You can point them in the direction of the market, You can advise them to not purchase TOs and save for SOs"

I know the best thing i ever learned in the game was how different groups drop different enhncments. So if i want enhncments i can use on my tech origin brute I go after enemies that drop them saves me thousands in inf as i get the enhncments i need from drops.

Also i allways sell at the correct shop so magic enhncments get sold at the magic shop etc. These are things i always tell new players about as the'll help them all the way thrue the game far more than a perma temp power will.


Oh and i much prefered super jump when i first started and could be seen bouncing around the zones going "boing boing boing" was such fun

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Thing is in mercy the MA building is a stones throe from a black market and there a level up person just round the corner so the conditions are pretty much the same as atlas yet there is no real farming in mercy so i don't think its just the fact that atlas has both a auction house and MA building.

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And Cap AE has all this plus is a stones throw from University, Base portal, Vanguard and a higher level ferry.

It's much more conveniently placed than any AE in Mercy which only connects directly to PO (and so can be bit of a pain for higher level characters to travel to).

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Very true Cap is by far the best "hub" zone villain side. what i was trying to say though is that both mercy and atlas have pretty much the same conditions both have a MA building, a auction house, a store(s) and a level up contact all within a very small area yet mercy doesn't have the same rampant power level problem that people who play hero side seem to experience.

Instead the power levlers choose to go to Cap (clearly because it has better facilities) even though for a level 1 the MA in Cap is not the easiest building to get to.

So maybe one way to reduce the power broadcast spam in atlas would be to improve the facilities of another zone

You cant use paypal for a renewing sub tho which means you could potentially end up having a few days of being non subbed which would brake any leveling paced you had

Well done to Kerensky.

though I doubt ill ever try the game as I just cant take a knight riding a giant chicken seriously.

Thing is in mercy the MA building is a stones throe from a black market and there a level up person just round the corner so the conditions are pretty much the same as atlas yet there is no real farming in mercy so i don't think its just the fact that atlas has both a auction house and MA building.

Also removing the auction house from atlas would be bad for new players as well as veterans as you can only j]hold a small amount of recipes and salvage at the low levels having the AH in atlas allows you sell stuff with ease.

Take a look at my post earlier in the thread i tried 3 pre stamina dominator's they all performed well and were no worse of endurance wise than they were on live however they were doing much better damage than they had on live

So i would say any changes that result in MORE DAMAGE for relatively the same endurance usage is a net buff to the dominator AT as a hole.

Always wondered the reasoning behind not being able to cast it if flying though as it needs to be placed you couldn't summon it in mid air so the cant be flying seems needlessly restrictive same go's for the shivian temp power you cant cast that while in the air either.

*fetches special foam wrapped baseball bat and some extra strength duckt tape*

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That price (which seems a bit high to me), also includes 30 days of game time, so you're only paying a little extra for the costume bits.

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Im going to hazard a guess and say that's 14.99 euros as when i go to the on-line store it says £9.99

you have a couple of option you can get the Mac pack link which will cost you 5.99 and give you the bits your after as well as the Mission Teleporter Power

or as you said you can spend 9.99 and get the full mac edition link which will give you the Valkyrie Costume set and the mission teliport power which are exactly the same as the mac pack version but you'll also get a month of game time now a month of game time = 8.99 or there about so the pack is only costing you a £1

Also yes both these can be used with windows without any problems

I doubt Vanguard even exist on Praetorian earth as they were set up to fight the Rikti who are invading Paragon Earth from a alternate dimension.