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Originally Posted by Windenergy21

Been a while since I last checked but are they still REALLY merging night fall and torrent completely failing the best AOE synergy of the set?

Originally Posted by RoboRage

Not sure if this is where to post, but, I started my first Baf/Lam back to back last night and WOW, we cruised through so fast that we ran 2 more back to back.
My question is, my defender kin/rad is 50+3, everyone was level shifted and someone said we needed at least 2 tanks. However you probably know that sometimes we can't make up the 'perfect' team.
Do you guys feel that it's that important anymore to have multiple tanks, since the trials are becoming so easy?
I mean some of the enemies were yellow!
And I pulled Siege!

Originally Posted by Ultimus

My video drivers are updated as I checked NVidia.com yesterday but I am still constantly crashing. The two most noticeable times are when I:

1) Exit a mission -- The game will crash once it reaches the outside world. Sometimes a box pops up saying the game has used too much memory.

2) When I enter the enhancement screen, this occurs when I double click the "enhancement" button on the powers tray or if I go to level up at a trainer.

NOTE: This is happening in Praetoria I am not sure about the other areas.

Any advice on how to alleviate this or are other people having this issue?

I have a Q6600, 4 gigs of ram, and a Geforce GTX 470 although I do run Vista...

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Out of the last 5-6 posts, Stalker is ranked at the LOWER 3 SPOTS. That is pretty sad. lol

But Stalker is rated 10/10 Melee Damage! You don't like the supposed highest melee damage in the game? :P

Seriously, if we add up all "core" ATs (exclude Epics), Stalker is like dead last. Should this be a concern? I guess Stalker's "Assassin" style just doesn't meet people's expectation of assassins?


I've also seen Peacebringer at the bottom 3 a lot. I don't blame them. PB is very frustrating.


I can see why some people rank Mastermind low because some people just don't like to babysit pets.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Although I don't have first hand experience buying recent re-releases and such, my understanding is most versions of Ogre use the same basic rules. Also keep in mind I'm talking about Ogre the hex-board wargame, not GURPS Ogre the RPG or the miniature system Ogre which is based on the hex-board version but I'm much less familiar with.

In my opinion, if you're a student of game design and game balance, Ogre is your first point of call. You could spend years thinking about how and why Ogre works. There's even a *hint*, albeit only a hint, of the kind of thinking that should go into open powers systems design. I suspect that might be where Another_Fan is coming from by mentioning wargames. In a sense, you could analogize an army as being a set of powers, and the assembly of an army as a form of open powers selection. However, that analogy doesn't hold strongly enough for it to be a model for open powers design in an MMO for a variety of reasons, not the least of which being the fact that there's no good evidence that any wargame like that cared about constant-point balance. It was all about making a better or more effective force than your opponent, and the balance was due to both sides having similar options or being put into static situations that themselves were engineered with balancing forces.

Ogre is interesting in that it has a stronger hint of open powers balance than most wargames, because one side is very strongly fixed: it takes the Ogre. For Ogre (the game) to work, of all possible counter-army constructions there cannot be lots of combinations that are obviously more powerful than the Ogre, but there must be a wide rage of combinations that are nominally as powerful as the Ogre. Which meets some of the requirements I set forth as mandatory in a balanced open powers system.

Why its just a hint of the problem is because the strength of the counter-army is difficult to fully assess because its partially based on the tactics used to drive it. Its hard to say if the Ogre is exactly balanced with the intrinsic power of the counter-army, or if the Ogre is easier to tactically deploy and the counter-army much harder to get maximum effectiveness out of, which acts to handicap the counter-army. In other words, I don't know if in a computer vs computer match, if the Ogre has a significant advantage or the opposing army does, eliminating human factors. It would be an interesting problem to study, though.

Originally Posted by Leese

Little, hypothetical question for the thread.

A new player comes up to you. They're interested in buying access to Peacebringers and/or Warshades in the Store, and want to know if you think it's worth it.

Would you advise them to spend their money on unlocking Peacebringers and/or Warshades?

If this question were about Controllers, or Masterminds I would say yes, no question. Warshades and VEATs, I don't have enough experience on, but I wouldn't advise against it.

Peacebringers... I don't know. I wouldn't want to say "don't bother," I like my PB, but any answer I give would have to be heavily qualified.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

You come to a thread specifically asking for things we don't like - as an opinion - and proceed to open a paragraph with "screw you?" Next time you want to state an opinion, do it without insulting people who hold a differing one.

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

You do. I was speaking specifically to how many of these trials are run each day. None of them are hard once you get down to learning the mechanics. But you need a certain aspect of them being actually FUN to run for folks to want to learn those mechanics.

For the BAF and LAM, wanting to get your unlocks and slot something in them was a viable push to get people to want to learn the mechanics of them. There is NO SUCH thing for Keyes. By the time Keyes finally arrived most folks had gotten what they needed. Same thing by the time the U trial arrives. The only two things that will push folks to want to learn the U or Keyes are:

1. Is it fun.
2. Is there no other way to get my alts slotted up?

The answer to 2 is easy. So it falls on 1. to get more folks to run Keyes.

And yes getting more folks to run Keyes is important. You need participants in the Incarnate System for it to actually function as a viable system. Having a third trial that folks can form for reduces potential burnout and keeps participants in the system. Hence the creation of this thread.

Saying "folks suck" is all good and well, but it's not good when you are up at 11pm and want a 3rd EMP and the only 15 other folks refuse to run Keyes.

Just saying.

Originally Posted by srmalloy

However, there are very few reactors in the Midwest that would, even with a seismic event like the New Madrid quakes of 1811/1812, be inundated by a tsunami.