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If the fight klub mentality was an amoeba, than OP's post is what it would evolve into over thousands of years.
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What's to stop independent bodies from approaching the COH CR team & ask for prizes?
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RWZ is Old Skool?
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I still remember Sovereign Fist & how he was really a hero. Glad to see he finally crossed over.
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It's quite alright. Just don't do it again.
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Stop talking about "manning up"
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I will be out of COH for the next few weeks. Please don't kick meh!
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Quote:lern2read (& lern2context)So no, you don't play by the rules as enhancements are what you buy from a store unless you buy the things from a store which allow you to create them yourself. Of course you can always punch a mage and pick up the enhancement he bought from someone on a street corner.
Ah, the joys of people that don't live up to the standards they demand from others.
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For an Elec/Therm you need Fitness/SS/SJ/Leadership - Mako.
Here's my attempt. I'm bad with elec/therm builds. This is sadly the best I can come up with:
Capped HP, Capped Travel Speeds, 41Kb prot, 50% recharge, Ball lightning, procced out attacks.
No forge or cauterize
You could take one slot out of hasten and put the Javellin Damage Proc in Ball Lightning. Probably what I'd change.
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Interesting responses. More mixed than I expected.
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Quote:Castle,To be fair to Castle, he did come on vent and chat with a bunch of PVP regulars last time there were major PVP changes. You've got to give the guy a lot of respect for doing that. It takes cajones.
The best people for Castle to speak to (from the playerbase) about what needs to be done with PVP would be macskull, ConFlict, and black barrier.
You should also talk to Vince and Silit. (IMO two of the best players still left in the game.) I'd also recommend any players from the PVP group Used to be Good.
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OH CRAP THEY'RE MATING!
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Quote:To be fair to Castle, he did come on vent and chat with a bunch of PVP regulars last time there were major PVP changes. You've got to give the guy a lot of respect for doing that. It takes cajones.But Castle, would you be willing to have a PvP dialog with anyone else? I know those dialogs don't work on the forums without turning into a flame war. But perhaps you could PM chat with one or two other folks?
The best people for Castle to speak to (from the playerbase) about what needs to be done with PVP would be macskull, ConFlict, and black barrier. -
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While they didn't answer any PVP questions publicly, I'm hoping that the PVP bug reports here, plus the stream of questions today will help remind the dev team that a lot of people still care about PVP in this game.
I actually made a thread about the ongoing state of pvp here in comparison to the Mission Architect and Badge System. I think it's unfair that PVP is constantly placed on the backburner, despite having a community just as active as the MA & Badging community.
/threadjack over.
OT: GG SMD. Had some sick matches last night. No draw lineups. Much love. -
My name is Xanatos and I'm a PVPer.
I'm not 100% sure which has the largest sub-community. But I'd be inclined to say PVP.
Personally, I PVP more than I use the Mission Architect. And I use the Mission Architect more than I hunt badges. I play a lot of AE missions, but I don't design that many. I know a lot of people use AE to farm and run missions. But who is using it to actually create stories? Are authors the absolute minority in COH? I don't really want to consider creating farms to be "using" the MA, because that's not what it was intended for. I'm talking about making player-created stories & missions. (The sort of thing that all the recent changes to the MA system clearly hope to encourage and support.)
I imagine most players have had a dabble with the mission architect system. But how many people actually consider themselves "authors"? How many people are eagerly awaiting the next update to the MA system so that they can upgrade their arcs & create new ones?
What about badges? How many people are shaking with anticipation at the ability to move well over the 700 badge mark come Issue #17? How many people are out there grinding out the impossible badges? (Immortal, Exalted, Empath, Jailed, Leader, Paradigm, Fabricator, Power Seller, Ouroboros Mender, etc.) I tip my hat to those of you able to make such incredible levels of commitment...but just how many of you are there?
I can't help but wonder if the MA sub-community is even smaller than the PVP community, and the Badger community even smaller still. I think I'm right about this. There's only 25,000 posts in the MA section of the forums, whereas the PVP section has about 80,000 posts. The badge forum is even smaller...it's only 11,000 posts!
This means that the PVP forums/community is more than twice as large and twice as active as the Mission Architect & Badges community COMBINED.
I make this comparison for obvious reasons. The MA system is constantly being updated & expanded upon with every issue. (And not just with exploit fixes!) Badges are constantly being added and tweaked with every issue. (The ongoing changes to the Empath badge being an obvious example.) While all of these changes are very much necessary to the game as a whole, I can't help but wonder why PVP is largely ignored? There are piles of broken powers, unbalanced powers, useless powers, and strange counter-intuitive measures in place. (Heal Decay & Travel Suppression immediately springing to mind.) There are no PVP bug fixes, tweaks, or balancing in any of the new issues. I don't understand why PVP is being ignored so much?
This isn't supposed to be an attack against Badgers or Authors; I consider myself a member of both of those groups, but more a general question about what people tend to spend their time on. This game has a lot of different sub-communities; and I'm pretty sure PVP is one of the more active ones. -
Go here:
http://www.formspring.me/askcohteam
Post these:
When are you going to fix Dominator Poison Ray? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Corruptor Lingering Radiation? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Corruptor Entagling Arrow? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix VEAT Indomitable Will? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix the Fortunata Hypnosis proc? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Confuse? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Defender Telekinesis? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Dwarf Form? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Corruptor Ball Lightning? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Mind Link? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Fiery Embrace? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix AOE Self Heals? They are currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Dark Fire Animations? They are currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Placate (all forms)? It is currently bugged in PVP.
When are you going to fix Ice Blast? It's tier 3 attack does less damage than it's tier 2 attack.
When are you going to fix Soul Storm? It is currently bugged in PVP.
Will you please speed up arena observer cameras and give them added perception.
Will you please remove Heal Decay and Travel Suppression from zones?
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Quote:I play by all the rules. I suppose I was not as careful with my phraseology as I could have been. Allow me to revise:Obviously,you play by the rules that you choose to, as do other players. And that's perfectly fine, so long as people respect each other's choices and whatnot (Some choice can over-step other people's though, and that is where problems might occur).
"I don't RP EVERY SINGLE ENHANCEMENT as physical objects. They can be sometimes, and obviously in those instances where they are then I RP then as objects, but the majority of the time they are other things - blessings from gods, mutations, scientific mishaps, etc..."
Of course, at the risk of over-exaggeration, all enhancements are TANGIBLE in the absolute syntactical sense of the word. What I was trying to communicate was that they are not always PHYSICAL OBJECTS ONE WOULD BUY IN A STORE.
My issue was with Brandx treating them all, universally, as such.
Hope that clears up any confusion.
Quote:That being said, I don't kowtow to that being the demanded conceptual umbrella that we all must play under. If your character goes to the shop to enhance his/her powers, so be it. If mine doesn't, so be it. Both can co-exist.
The invention system is a bit strange though. The IOs & their names make sense...but the process, as Agonus illustrated, does not. -
Enhancements make perfect sense as I've outlined in my prior posts. Many of the natural ones have training style names. Many of the mutant ones have mutation style names. Many of the scientific ones have chemist style names. Many of the magical ones are trinkets/spells/blessings that would fit a magical character. Enhancements are the things we don't see in comics - the things that happen off screen. Basic maintenance of a superheroes powers.
It's not possible. Similar to how it's not possible to have a concept that makes you as tall as a building, walk through walls, or duplicate yourself. The game is limited by the system, as are the concepts we can create.
It is the fault of the author for creating concepts that do not fit the powersets. It is not the fault of the system. It is one thing to claim that recoloured dark blasts are actually water blasts, that's fine and dandy, but it is something else to claim that in-game enhancements DON'T EXIST. That is godmodding of the highest caliber. You are actively telling me that my characters are not able to do something that is supported both by the game system and the game's lore.
If you are intent on "changing the rules", then don't expect people to agree with you. That said, Don't take my criticism too seriously. I know a lot of RPers like to circumvent the enhancement system, text fight in Pocket D, play "peacebringers than aren't peacebringers", and do all manner of different things not supported by the game's system/lore. There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a game after all and "OMG SUPER STRICT RP RULEZ YOU HAF 2 FOLLOW" would be a retarded idea.
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Quote:Hey I didn't make the rules! I just play by them!So when RPing...you...
1) Always get healed up. Never go through the "I'm injured phase, taken out of the hero/villain work" due to the med bay being an instant heal in game canon wise?
2) Never fight in the D, because in game canon wise, you can't (and I've been to the D...people emote fight there all the time).
3) Accept that the reason new power sets arrive to the ATs is because Dr. Aeon has made it possible for a brute to pick up a set of metal claws and hit someone with them.
4) That all your toons red side, have a microchip implanted in them to know when they're injured so they can be medi-ported.
5) All your hero do indeed have a hero license, as that's how you get access to their medi-ports.
6) That obviously in game cannon wise, you go to a store look around and say, why yes, I would like to buy myself a superpower. And while I'm here, I better go check down aisle 6 for some stamina enhancements, those carnie girls really know how to have a good time, and love to tire me out.
7) Everytime you play a villain to lvl 40+ you basically become part of Arachnos, and that PPP you took, just made you that patron's little buddy. Nope, they're not a part of you characters natural abilities at all, they were taught to you by that patron (so, you're not Elec/Elec/Mu Brute because you have mutant Abilities, you're Elec/Elec/Mu because you're a mutant that's learned mu abilities.
This is why, I don't RP enhancements as tangible things one can hold in their hand, and just say, "Oh, I could use this now, let me...ummm...hmmm...hey where's the instructions for this? Do I swallow this or is it a suppository?"
And like I said, this is just me. Others are free to RP sticking those enhancements on themselves however they want.
1. Yes
2. Yes (Emote fighting is lame. If you want to fight my character be prepared to actually do so.)
3. There are never any lore reasons for new powersets. It is merely coincidence that 800 archers randomly show up in Paragon City.
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. None of this happens in game. Look at the enhancement names. The store owners "train" your hero - consider the stores full of instruction manuals rather than physical objects.
7. Yes.
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It's of little relevance whether you refer to me directly or not. My post wasn't solely an attempt to distance myself from those complaining about PVP farms. It was an attempt to prove wrong the argument that both yourself and spittingtrashcan are putting forward.
Quote:I am just saying that if all those people were badgers criticising him for stopping their badge hunt rather than their IO farms he would be getting more support I think.
Common sense.
Your silly comparison was shown to be incorrect in my aforementioned post.
Quote:And as for asking those he annoyed for help I don't think he came here specifially for their help, unless he has annoyed everyone in this section and as the newbie I just don't know that yet?
Perhaps you should go back to the badging forum too.