khaine_star

I thought that there wasn't a cap on how much you could carry?

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Have you seen Doctor Temporis' figures on the Union board regarding the costs of bases? According to his calculations, it will cost 910,000 prestige for a base with the bare minimum of functionality (ie. 1 worktable and the resources to power it).

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He may need to look over those calculations again

Rooms
Energy Terminal 1 - 150,000
Control 1 - 100,000
Workshop 1 - 100,000

Room total 350,000

Items

Basic Generator - 225,000
Mainframe - 150,000
basic worktable - 25,000

items 450,000

total 750,000

However that is the bare minimum and you would be wasting your arcance salvage

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In the meantime, though, it's perfectly possible for a solo player to have a base of their own, but it will take you time (and probably a lot of it) to earn the Prestige for 'functional' items like teleporters.

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functional items like decorative rooms, control rooms, power plant

I worked out that to have a base with the bare essentials to make use of any sort of salvage would cost 600k prestige. You get 20k from being in the group yourself. plus 20k for each member upto 15 (300k) so if you recuit 14 other people you are half way to getting a base that has any sort of functionality and you are no longer a solo player with there own base. I gained 200 prestige from completing a mission. So based on, and assuming a single person group, that I would need to complete 3000 missions to gain the prestige to make use of the salvage I have gained in those missions. (Yes I know I haven't taken into account the miniscule amount of prestige I can gain from a mission and street sweeping) However that been said I don't think that sg bases are something one person should be able to afford and run on there own.

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It is entirely possible that the Prestige costs for various base components will be fine-tuned over the coming months. However, I suspect that it will always require a significant amount of time and effort to earn a fully functional, raidable base - and a top of the line model with all the trimmings will take a very long time indeed.

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I made a suggestion on the beta boards but I don't remember the reaction. Something to make the bases much more RP friendly and to allow a small supergroup to have somewhere to call home. Drop the price of all the decorative rooms by a lot. So intead of a pretty room costing 150,000 it would cost 15,000. After all they are just decorations. You can't put power, control, teleporters, guns, mines, shields, IoP bases, or anything other than pretty stuff in them. Why do they cost as much as a generator room? The pretty bits would actually help base raids too. Each doorway is a possible starting point for a raider. So more rooms means more doorways. It would be a huge boost to a RP group, if they had a supergroup of 10 people they could build a very fancy base to RP in and not be bombarded by people OOC.

By the way I am not a role player as such I do occasionally but not often. However I do like pretty things so they should be cheaper.

I saw someone running around with there undead the same as mine where in beta. There build was like mine in beta too.

george
mildred
kenny

benny
lenny

I even had a macro for george and mildred for when kenny went splat. "oh my g0d they killed kenny", "you barstools"

My horde is much darker named now.

Necrosis
Atrophy
Blighted

Pain
Panic

You can't use the poison rez on pets.. from the power description

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Elixir of Life can only be used on Players and cannot be used on your Henchmen.

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Howling twilight doesn't rez them either.

I can recommend getting the leadership pools. The extra damage, accuracy and defence from these will give your pets an extra edge. As I am necro/dark I get group stealth in my secondary. It sure can give people a shock in the PvP zones to have a horde of undead suddenly appear and attack.

Edit:

I forgot to add that if I remember correctly the leadership defence boost stacks with your bubbles and your bots bubbles. Uber tanking bots.

I have noticed that my zombies are thick.A straight corridor with nothing other than enemies in it. command them to attack. One stands there, one dances backwards and forwards, the other goes for the enemy. As soon as one is close enough to launch a ranged attack all three attack and move closer. my Grave knight seems to think that my commands are suggestions as to what he's supposed to do. "Attacking Mamba Blade" he says as he goes after the hellion the other side of the street. Also why do zombies not understand "come here". move to, click on a point at my feet, the zombies say moving, 2 come to me but the first one stands there fighting on.

I think the Pet AI need a little tweaking, or a bigger bat issued to masterminds.

Originally posted by Shift

Blaster

Primairies:
Assault Rifle - AR
Fire Blast - Fire
Energy Blast - En or NRG
Electrical Blast - Elec
Ice Blast - Ice

Secondairies:
Devices - Dev (this is also used to shorten Developers)
Fire Manipulation - Fire
Energy Manipulation - En or NRG
Electrical Manipulation - Elec
Ice Manipulation - Ice

Controller:

Primairies:
Earth Control - Earth
Fire Control - Fire
Gravity Control - Grav
Ice Control - Ice
Illusion Control - Ill
Mind Control - Mind

Secondairies:
Empathy - Emp
Force Field - FF
Kinetics - Kin
Radiation Emission - Rad
Storm Summoning - Storm

Defender

Primairies:
Dark Miasma - Dark
Empathy - Emp
Force Field - FF
Kinetics - Kin
Radiation Emission - Rad
Storm Summoning - Storm

Secondairies:
Electrical Blast - Elec
Energy Blast - En or NRG
Dark Blast - Dark
Psychic Blast - Psy
Radiation Blast - Rad

Scrapper

Primairies:
Broad Sword - BS
Claws - Claw
Dark Melee - DM
Katana - Kat
Martial Arts - MA
Spines - Spi

Secondairies:
Dark Armor - DA
Invulnerability - Inv
Super Reflexes - SR
Regeneration - Reg or Regen

Tanker

Primairies:
Invulnerability - Inv
Fiery Aura - Fire
Ice Armor - Ice (as of i5, gimp)
Stone Armor - Stone

Secondairies:
Battle Axe - Axe
Fiery Melee - Fire
Ice Melee - Ice
Energy Melee - En, NRG or even EM
Stone Melee - Stone
Super Strength - SS
War Mace - Mace

Peacebringer - PB
these come in a variety of sets, dependend on what they are focused on. Peacebringers have 3 forms. Human(Human) Bright Nova(Squid) White Dwarf(Dwarf)
Combine these to get a certain build:
Human
Human/Dwarf
Human/Nova
Dwarf/Nova or Forms or Alien Forms
Human/Dwarf/Squid which is almost always referred to as Tri-Form
(powersets are never mentioned, as they are always the same, Luminous Blast and Luminous Aura)

Warshade - WS
these come in a variety of sets, dependend on what they are focused on. Warshades have 3 forms. Human(Human) Dark Nova(Nova) Black Dwarf(Dwarf)
Combine these to get a certain build:
Human
Human/Dwarf
Human/Nova
Dwarf/Nova or Forms or Alien Forms
Human/Dwarf/Squid which is almost always referred to as Tri-Form
(powersets are never mentioned, as they are always the same, Umbral Blast and Umbral Aura)

So there you have it, combine any of the powersets abbreviations, and any experienced player will know what kind of hero you have.

e.g.
Kat/Reg
DM/DA
Fire/Fire (tank or blaster, most of the times this is clarified)
Ill/Storm
Rad/Rad

I put this together from various threads and posts from the old forums. People that have things included are listed at the bottom of this post.

1337 - Idiot.
1337 speak/leet speek - " Replacing letters with numbers in an effort to look like a hacker ""d00d"". Also often involves mis-spelling words since those who do this in the first place are barely literate."
1t - want
ab - adrenaline boost
add - additional mobs are incoming
afaik - as far as I know.
AFAIK - as far as i know
afk - away from keyboard
Alt - " Alternative, another character you have for variation"
Altoholic - " a common disease of the mind in City of Heroes, the inability to stick with one character because you have to have ALL the powers"
AoE - Area of Effect. Powers working in an area instead just only on a single target.
AT - ArcheType. The type of hero you chose at character creation " Controller, Blaster, Defender, Tanker, Scrapper, Peacebringer, Warshade."
AV - " ArchVillain. The ""boss"" of a story arc."
bb - bye bye
bbl - be back later
bf - beat feet (cruddy way to say 'run' but I heard this in game last night). Usually used to mean boyfriend
BIO - Body Input Output
bio brk - i need the loo
bobfoc - " body off baywatch, face off crimewatch"
brb - be right back
btw - by the way
Bubble - Powers from the Forcefield Power set named so because they are creating bubble like effects.
Buff - Any power or Inspiration which improves your/an enemy's basic statistics and abilities.
Build - " The combination of Archetype, Powers and Enhancements you have chosen to make your hero the killing machine or squishy lump of poo that he/she is. Different ""builds"" are appropriate to different situations."
cab - catch a breath. blue insperation.
CF - Call Friend (power from the Teleport power set)
cfot - concentrate fire on target.
CJ - Combat Jumping
cm - clear mind
CoH - City of Heroes. But then you knew that already.
cw - crouch walker
cya - goodbye
DA - " Dark Armour, Scrapper secondary"
debt fairies - " The rotten swines that know when you finally clear your debt and if the words are spoken, will kill you on the next encounter."
Debuff - The effect of any power or Inspiration which reduces your/an enemy's base statistics and abilities.
devs - " developers, not devils"
dig - down it goes.
DO - Dual enhancement
DM - " Dark Melee, as above"
dnt - dirt nap time.
DoT - " Damage Over Time. A power which does not do an immediate large ""burst"" of damage, but instead deals steady damage over a fixed duration."
DPS - Damage Per Second. The average amount of damage you deal per second using a set power or combination of powers. Powers which deal more damage do not necessarily have a higher DPS because their recharge time may be longer.
Drecking - "Dreck is a particular mission that can yield high levels of experience, a common place to find PLers asking to be Pled"
Eeeeeeeeek - " sexy is going to run away like Brave Sir Robin, please keep up."
Elec - Electricity power pools available to many.
elftol - evil looks from the old lady. The point you realise that your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/other half is stood behind you staring daggers.
Emp - Empathy powers available as above
end - endurance
end rest - I have no stamina.
endrec - Endurance Recovery Enhancers
Enh's - Enhancements
ffs - for fecks sake
Flaming - " People sending abusive or disapproving messages to others, often as a result of griefing."
fort - fortitude
fwiw - for what its worth
FWIW - for what its worth
gf - girlfriend
GG - Galaxy Girl. The huge statue behind the Freedom Corps HQ in Galaxy City and meeting place for roleplayers on Union server.
Gimped - A character with a poor build which means they're not very good at anything. Not as easy to create in CoH as in EverQuest.
GM - (1) Giant Monster. Pretty self explanatory. Usually requires more than one hero/team to take down. (2) Game Master " NCSoft staff who ensure players are playing appropriately and take action against any who are breaching the licence agreement. To contact a GM in game, use the /petition command."
griefer - basically an online bully. sort of person that leads high level bad guys into a low level team because they think its funny.
Griefing - Doing anything to deliberately upset or annoy another player.
Group - more than one bad guy
group hug/hug me - gather together. usually called be someone about to activate an aura to buff/heal. recovery aura as an example.
gtg - got to go. (This is sometimes used to mean good to go)
GTG - " got to go, having to leave the game, not through choice but through real life external forces: eg, wife, kids, parents, work"
Hami - " Hamidon. Large, extremely strong purple jelly thing recently beaten on Union server by a large group of like" minded heroes led by Chaplain. Good work guys! Strongest enemy in the game?
Herd - a player with a durable character will gather many villains to be attacked at once.
holland - " hot off low level, and now dead. Someone that runs straight into a new area and ends up as a smear on the floor."
IG - In Game
iirc - if I remember correctly
IIRC - if i recall/remember correctly
Ill - Illusion power pool available to Controllers
IMHABO - " In my humble, and biased, opinion"
imho - in my honest/humble opinion
imo - in my opinion.
inc - Incomming.
Inf - Influence
Insp's - Inspirations
Invuln - Defensive power pool available to Tankers and Scrappers
irl - in real life
Kat - Katana power pool available to Scrappers
KB - Knockback
KD - Knockdown
Kin - Kinetics power available to Defenders and Controllers
kma - kiss my as
lmao - laughing my as off (left out a s so it would get censored)
Log - log off
lol - " various for this but all in the same area, laugh out loud, lots of laughs, laughter oh laughter, laughter over loonie, etc. Basically the same as haha"
m8 - mate
MA - Martial Arts power pool for Scrappers
Main - the character you play as the most
Mish - Mission
MMOG - " Massively Multiplayer Online Game. Any game which can be played on the Internet with hundreds or even thousands of players in the same game ""world"". CoH is an MMOG."
MMORPG - Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. Combine definitions for MMOG and RPG and that's about it. CoH is an MMORPG.
Mob - one bad guy
MoG - Moment of Glory (Scrapper power)
n00b - " new player with little to no knowledge. Usually someone thats skipped the tutorial and keeps asking the same dumb questions. Can also be used as a light hearted joke between friends. e.g. ""you can be such a n00b at times"". Can be players who have played alot but are basically idiots."
Nerf - " to have you're powers weakened by an force external to the game, such as the devs."
Nerfed - " Anything which the development team deemed to be too powerful in terms of game balance and so made weaker has been ""nerfed"", usually to the indignation or hardcore players."
newbie - new player that could do with a little help. Don't confuse n00bs for newbies. Newbies did the tutorial but still don't quite get it. n00bs probably never will.
nme - enemy.
nn - night night
NP - Not a problem/no problem.
obac - old ball and chain.
om - on me. Gather at my position.
omg - oh my god
omw - on my way
OS - One Shot: to be killed with only one hit.
PBAoE - " either point blank area of effect, or player based area of effect."
PEBKAC - Problem exists between keyboard and chair
PL - " Power level, to sit in a team of heroes of higher level, do nothing, get loads of xp and then brag about your greatness."
Plers - "people who powerlevel, generally frowned upon by the community"
pmsl - peeing my self laughing
Pull - try and get only 1 or 2 mobs away from a group too tough to beat all at once.
pwnd - "1337-speak for ""owned"", which means ""beat extremely well"". Usually accompanied by gloating."
ra - recovery aura
Rad - Radiation powers available as above.
rdy - ready
rfi - run for it
rfyl - Run for your life!!!!
RL - " real life, the place where you have no super powers"
RLOF - " Roll laughing on floor, an expression of high amusement, has many variations RLOFPMS, RLOFLMAO"
rltw - run like the wind. (not seen this one myself but I got sent it)
rofl - rolling on floor laughing
roflm(h/a)o - rolling on floor laughing my (head/as) off.
Roll - to create a new character
RP - "Role play, a specialist form of playing the game where much amusement can be found in having silly conversations in a very serious way, the most escapist form of city of heroes"
Rper - someone who role plays
RPG - Roleplaying Game. A game involving (generally speaking) characters which gradually get stronger as their careers progress through the accumulation of Experience Points from fighting monsters or completing missions. CoH is an RPG.
rtfm - only heard this one a few times in CoH. read the fu...friendly manual.
SJ - Superjump
Spamming - Repeatedly posting the same message/string in the chat window so it scrolls by too quickly for any other messages to be noticed. Generally met with a torrent of abuse.
Spawn - same as a Group
SR - Super Reflexes Scrapper secondary
SS - Superspeed
sweet box/pill box - insperation window.
sweeties/sweets/pills - insperations
tbh - to be honest
TF - Task Force
tid - take it down.
TNL - To Next Level
TO - Training enhancements
tof - twelve o'clock flasher. Some one so technologicaly challenged they can't even set the time on a digital clock. So all the clocks in their house flash 12:00
TP - Teleport
ty - thank you
u - you
w t f - what the feck
w8 - wait
w8e - wait here
wai - working as intended
Welcome to ignore - I will cease to be listenting to your inane prattle.(/ignore)
wy - your welcome
XP - Experience
yaha - yet another halfwit about.
ydahio - you die a hero I'm off. Heard that one a few times in other games too. Someone that wades in even thought it is impossible to win.
zzz - I have been held/slept.
SO - Single origin enhancement.

Contributions from Ironwolf,BloodMoon, Sexy_Lady, Nachtschatten, DJRedLine, Shades, LostNinja, Doulos, Vetis, TouchOfDarkness, Silver_Weasel, MrSuperlative

I would like to build a base but with just decorations. I see the base more as a place to stand an lecture my puny minions. Its amazingly expensive for even the basic decorative rooms.

As for joining a larger Supergroup. No. I have seen some of the bases that people create. Blank rooms with no decoration, No thought other than must have x, y, z. No design other than stick that there. I have my own design ideas and some how I don't think that the larger supergroups would let me near there base design. To quote one person I asked "why would we let a n00b prat about with the base?"

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Here's something you might like then:

Positron said:
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We have plans for personal bases (aka Hideouts or Player Apartments) to come in the near future. These won't be PvP playable maps, so there shouldn't be as many restrictions on what you can place where.


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Official thread on the US boards

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You know that would suit me fine. All I am really interested in is the decorative stuff. I like to play with base builders

The base built in this guide is very simple but it does give an idea how to build. Its also worth mentioning that in the beta you got a load of prestige for free. In the retail version you are going to have to earn it.

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