Since March 2002 I've been watching this website at City Of Heroes .
Basically its an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) based around super-heroes.
As a long time Legionnaires fan, this is like a dream come true for me. I designed my character, his powers, his look, his name, his background, even his battlecry and I get to Role-Play as a Legionnaire!
If anyone else is a member or if anyone wants to join, drop me a line or find me on the "Freedom" server under the name ION Prime
[ August 18, 2004, 05:57 PM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Varalent on :
This looks like it could be lots of fun, particularly if we put together an LMBP team. Just think Cobalt Blue, GreyBird, Speelbinder, Fat Cramer, IronRat, (and little ol' Varalent) etc as a real team battling evil in the City of Heroes!!!! Posted by Varalent on :
Would have been fun if it didn't cost so much per month I can't imagine many of us here willing to subscribe at $30/month Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
My hubby and I got to do the last week of the beta, though I didn't get to do anything until the final night. So there I am, fresh off the character generator, and I'm fighting an alien invasion. I'm also dying every 10 seconds or so.
But it was fun, so we're going to give it a try. I don't remember which server we saved my character, Chillflare, on, though I imagine I'll be able to create him on the Freedom server, too. We were hopping on to each one at the last minute since you only got to save one character each.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I just don't game enough to spend $30 a month on it. It does sound like fun though.
Posted by Comic Addict Lad on :
erm....its $14.99 a month?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
It is $14.99 a month and you get one free month when you buy the software. Plus, if you purchase the software through Amazon and buy a 2 month subscription card, you get 50% off the card. So you can play for 3 months for 15 bucks (+ the price of the software). There is a glitch not allowing the certificate for the 50% off to work right now but as soon as Amazon gets it worked out I just may buy the game and try it out for 3 months.
Posted by SiliconDream on :
If only it came for Mac...
Posted by Comic Addict Lad on :
I gotta say Ive been playing it non-stop since the 3 day head start before the Launch day and its amazingly addictive.
We had an alien invasion of Rikti last week, reminded me of the blight for some reason, but it was so much fun whacking these guys Posted by Monkey Eater Lad on :
Awe, I kinda want to play but that's a high monthly fee. I already have Netflix that I don't take advantage - having to pay more moolah to save the world on a monthly basis?!? gah!
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
It looks fantastic, but my system is nowhere near strong enough to handle online roleplaying. Never mind that I really don't have the time to get the most out of the investment.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
So far I've just set up shop on Virtue and Victory. I forgot to double check this thread before I started getting into it. My main character's name is Chillflare (ice and fire powers -- Freezerburn was taken in "Wild Guard" ), but I think I'll play with the character generator some more this weekend. It's fun!
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
I spent a good chunk of time on their website looking at the sample characters and some of the listed powers and, yes, it looks like it's fairly well thought out. Especially costume design.
*sigh*
Posted by Greybird on :
I'd love to join Varalent et al., but I don't think Windows 98 and a mere* 366 MHz Celeron processor can handle it, and I don't think my wallet can handle anywhere near $30 a month.
It's entirely intriguing, though. I would imagine that the virtual venue is designed to bring in many people who are not normal RPG fanatics. (I would qualify on that score.) It's being marketed all over the place. Not having to imagine or HeroMachine an outfit is also a plus. _____ * I started out on a CP/M box with an 8 MHz processor -- yes, 8 -- and 64 KB of memory, two 160KB floppy drives, and no hard drives, so yes, you whippersnappers, the need for that "mere" is highly amusing to me
[ April 30, 2004, 10:31 PM: Message edited by: Greybird ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Consider me hooked. Been playing since I loaded it yesterday. Just hit the 7th level. And I'm on the Triumph server if any of you want to join up. I'll post a pic below of my character. But I have to share a story about his name.
I had decided for my first to go with a Lightning Lad like character but more dark in appearance. His name was already set, based on an RPG Garth I play in a Smallville (TV) setting. Gar Randall. So when it came time to figure out a hero name I couldn't think of a one.
Then I remembered that Odin had a staff or something that was the embodiment of lightning. So I looked it up and it was called Gungnir. Cool and unusual. Then I spotted something at the end of the entry in Wickpedia that made me laugh. The rune name for Gungnir is Gar. Not making this up. I figured it was fate.
Anyway, here's my first, and so far only, hero:
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, and he has a robotic right arm. Lost in his accident that granted him his power.
Posted by Greybird on :
Does this RPG software generate your character's look from his or her attributes, powers, decoration, etc., in a manner similar to HeroMachine? Or did you work the look up elsewhere?
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Sigh... It's a dream come true, but I certainly won't be able to afford it anytime in the near future.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Greybird: Does this RPG software generate your character's look from his or her attributes, powers, decoration, etc., in a manner similar to HeroMachine? Or did you work the look up elsewhere?
Part of the design is to actually create your character from a standard mesh. Much like HeroMachine but more complex. I wouldn't hesitate to say that there are infinite combinations. Maybe when I have more time and am ready to create a second character I'll do screen captures of each step.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac: Sigh... It's a dream come true, but I certainly won't be able to afford it anytime in the near future.
I decided to bite the bullet. The cost for one person is $14.99 a month with discounts if you buy either 2, 6 or 12 month memberships. I decided to plunk down $77 for 6 months to try it out. You can also buy 2 month Subscription Cards through a number of retailers, most notably Amazon and Game Stop, for $29.99.
Posted by l.e.g.i.o.n.JOHN on :
okay LL but my question is can you import other skins from an outside source like you could with Freedom Force ?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
My answer would be no since this is an on-line game, much like Everquest. To my knowledge Freedom Force was something you played without having to be on-line to do it.
Although with all the combinations available you could probably recreate anything you wanted with time and patience. I saw someone running around yesterday in what looked like the Earth 2 version of the Boy Wonder's costume, including the R on his chest. It must have taken the player some time in recreating it.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Until I can get home and start up a new character, here is a quick peek at the character creation screen, courtesy of GameSpy:
Each heading (Head, Upper Body, Lower Body) has a drop down that lets you change different aspects. In the image above the lower body is set to tight (as opposed to baggy, leather, armor, etc). You then can pick (for most but not all) another subset. Here you see Pants then another subset listed as Tights 1 (I don't remember how many categories there are) and an additional choice of Flames. Each of these options can be colorized to your choice or you can chose the option to copy the color look across the entire body (including hair).
You could literally spend days just going through the different options.
GameSpy has more screen shots that you can see here.
If there really is enough interest I'll try to do an option by option creation of my next hero. One based on a character I created who is the son of Gar Logan and Terra Markov. Don't know how his power will transfer to the game yet but I'm sure it'll be fun figuring out.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac: Sigh... It's a dream come true, but I certainly won't be able to afford it anytime in the near future.
I decided to bite the bullet. The cost for one person is $14.99 a month with discounts if you buy either 2, 6 or 12 month memberships. I decided to plunk down $77 for 6 months to try it out. You can also buy 2 month Subscription Cards through a number of retailers, most notably Amazon and Game Stop, for $29.99.
Scott, I'm really tempted to join you. Does the 14.99 get you unlimited heroes or is it an additional fee for each one you create? Also, what are the minimum requirements (ram, etc) that you think you should have on your computer for this to play well. Don't know if I should join now or wait until later this year, when I plan to upgrade to a new computer.
[ May 03, 2004, 04:48 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Vee, you can create up to 8 characters on each server and there are 11 servers. I would think 88 characters would be enough for anyone. The catch, though, is that each character can only be played on the server it was created on. There is no way, as of right now, to copy the character and all of its attributes and levels to a different server. Hence the need to coordinate with on-line friends prior to chosing a server to build a character on. For the record, I'm on Triumph.
As for the requirements here they are, straight off the box, both minimum and recommended:
Minimum System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP * Intel Pentium III 800 MHZ or AMD Athlon 800 MHZ * 256 MB RAM * 4X CD-ROM Drive * 2 GB available HDD space * GeForce 2 series or ATI Radeon 8500 series video card * 16-bit sound card * 56K modem * Direct X 9.0 (included on disc) * keyboard and mouse
Recommended System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP * Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1700 * 512 MB RAM * 16X CD-ROM Drive * 2 GB Available HDD space * GeForce FX 5600 or ATI Radeon 9600 series video card * 16-bit sound card * broadband internet connection * keyboard and mouse with scroll wheel
A valid credit card or time card is also required.
Hope this helps.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I'm so stuck on this game. My hubby likes it too. And he's happy I like it so much because that meant he got to upgrade his PC so he could give me his old one so I'd be able to play, since it's not on Mac. (He was doing a gradual upgrade anyway but was glad to speed things up a bit.)
I'll have to get screen grabs of my characters to post. I've got two so far.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I saw someone running around yesterday in what looked like the Earth 2 version of the Boy Wonder's costume, including the R on his chest. It must have taken the player some time in recreating it.
I saw someone named Kid Flash who looked a whole lot like Kid Flash. I've heard the creators will delete any such characters, though, to avoid copyright trouble. It think it's just copyrighted names they're checking, though.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I think the thing now is to try and get their attention, without breaking copyright laws, so you can get featured in their monthly comic. I don't know when it will start up but all subscribed members will receive the comic when it starts. And they are supposed to feature some of the denizens that were created by us.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I saw someone running around yesterday in what looked like the Earth 2 version of the Boy Wonder's costume, including the R on his chest. It must have taken the player some time in recreating it.
I saw someone named Kid Flash who looked a whole lot like Kid Flash. I've heard the creators will delete any such characters, though, to avoid copyright trouble. It think it's just copyrighted names they're checking, though.
I haven't seen Kid Flash but I do think Robin was calling himself Robin. I don't plan on creating any copyrighted characters but I have noticed others. I've seen the Tick, calling himself The Tick, and Witchblade. I think, though, for the most part everyone is trying to come up with something original.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: I'm so stuck on this game. My hubby likes it too. And he's happy I like it so much because that meant he got to upgrade his PC so he could give me his old one so I'd be able to play, since it's not on Mac. (He was doing a gradual upgrade anyway but was glad to speed things up a bit.)
I'll have to get screen grabs of my characters to post. I've got two so far.
Seymour, do you and the hubby each have a copy of the game? Caroline wants to play, although I'm not sure our desktop is up to speed for it, and I'm wondering if we can use the same copy or if she needs her own. Since you have to register when you start I'm thinking two copies are required.
Posted by l.e.g.i.o.n.JOHN on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: My answer would be no since this is an on-line game, much like Everquest. To my knowledge Freedom Force was something you played without having to be on-line to do it.
you could play on line with others too via a local LAN party or through Gamespy besides playing the game solo.
[ May 04, 2004, 07:38 AM: Message edited by: l.e.g.i.o.n.JOHN ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by l.e.g.i.o.n.JOHN:
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: My answer would be no since this is an on-line game, much like Everquest. To my knowledge Freedom Force was something you played without having to be on-line to do it.
Although with all the combinations available you could probably recreate anything you wanted with time and patience. I saw someone running around yesterday in what looked like the Earth 2 version of the Boy Wonder's costume, including the R on his chest. It must have taken the player some time in recreating it.
actually no, you could play on line with others via a local LAN party or through Gamespy besides playing the game solo.
I never got that far into the game. I did pick it up because of its comicbook based theme but it just didn't capture me the way CoH has.
Posted by Comic Addict Lad on :
if you dont want to play at the same time you can use the one copy. Just set up seperate characters for yourselves.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
I love the game! I hang out on Justice, Victory, and (as of this afternoon) Virtue.
My characters so far:
Justice: Goddess Urd (Illusion Control/Kinetics)
Victory: Electricia (Um, the two Electric Blaster power sets)
Virtue: J-Frost (Ice Blast/Ice Manipulation)
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
What Comic Addict Lad said.
I think he just loaded it on both our machines, and we share an account. But we can't play at the same time. (He can, however, play other games at the same time.)
Posted by Comic Addict Lad on :
CoH is very very addictive. Once you get out of the mindset of levelling, and you start enjoying missions, chatting to fellow heroes and generally whacking people about its an incredible amount of fun
Posted by Varalent on :
Having discovered that my museum exhibit (computer) isn't up to snuff by comparing it's virtues to the minimum requirements posted by Scot (Thanks Scott!), I've realized that I absolutely must go out and immediately upgrade to a new computer.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
It's great when you find a bunch of friends on-line too and just team up to help with each others missions. That's what I wound up doing last night. Been playing with a friend from Illinois since I started but then two other friends of ours showed up, one stationed in Germany and the other in Hawaii and we had a blast.
I'm still really weak on the extra commands and chatting. And still focusing on the leveling because I want to hit the magic level (10) so we can form a real team.
Vee, if you can afford it, I really think its worth it. Believe me I wouldn't say that about any game. I'm someone whose computer is mostly used for programming and storage (you wouldn't believe how many comic books I now have saved electronically). I'm not a gamer at all but this one is just too fun.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Lightning Lad Said: "I'm someone whose computer is mostly used for programming and storage (you wouldn't believe how many comic books I now have saved electronically)."
Which reminds me, how are those Legion discs coming along? Posted by Comic Addict Lad on :
wow Legion discs.....I'm in, who do I have to shurg to get a copy? Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've actually got all series including the current run up to the current issue all saved. The special one-shots and such is an on-going thing that I don't think I'll ever get completed. I just added the Amazing World of DC Comics #9 to the collection. But as it stands to get everything, series-wise, from Adv. #247 to The Legion #32 takes 8 GB. That's gigabyte, not megabyte. So the best way is to burn a couple of data-DVD's. Otherwise it takes almost 13 CD-R's to hold it all.
This is my plan. Anyone going to the San Diego con this year can request copies from me via e-mail and I'll bring the discs. Any other requests, for those not attending, please also send me an e-mail so we don't get the board in trouble with TPTB. They probably frown on this new electronic format of comic trading.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Vee, if you can afford it, I really think its worth it. Believe me I wouldn't say that about any game. I'm someone whose computer is mostly used for programming and storage (you wouldn't believe how many comic books I now have saved electronically). I'm not a gamer at all but this one is just too fun.
I'm seriously contemplating (No you're not, I've decided for you already!) the prospect of upgrading my computer. I've actually found myself checking out various computer sites online to see what's available.(Of course you have. I told you we were getting one!) Guess I'll go out looking this weekend if I have a chance. (Unless I get too antsy and make you buy one before then.)
Now I have to decide whether to be practical and get something sufficient to accomplish the minimum that I want it to do...and maybe a little more Yeah right! or go all out and get the top of the line model with all the bells and whistles, (Ding! ding! ding! We have a winner!) knowing full well that as soon as I get it home it will be antiquated.
So todays question is: If you were going out to buy a new computer what would you say it really MUST have so it's not a waste of money? (Please, please, please tell him he has to get the hot little gaming machine I saw at the Dell site! Man it had EVERYTHING! Please!) As you can tell, I'm of two minds on this. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Depends on how much control that other guy has over you.
Personally I've found the pre-made machines by HP to be good, long lasting computers. If you are going to be doing a lot of gaming then concentrate on one that has higher end components for the video card and memory. I've never owned a Dell but if I were going for a strictly gaming machine and didn't mind spending the extra money, this is who I would get my machine from.
Posted by Varalent on :
Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! *Runs for cover*
(Now that's cool! Love the Conspiracy Blue version of the Level 51 Performance model! But, judging from his reaction at the moment, I'm not sure if I have THAT much influence & control.) Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Alienware does totally rule the Gaming systems market...mine has been very good to me Posted by Comic Addict Lad on :
Now I know theres alot of Gay Legion fans, but theres a couple of gay supergroups in CoH too.
Might be cool for meeting people, hanging out etc?
Im in a cool little SG at the moment called Hardcore Heroes - yeah I know sounds like a convention for ex porn star studs LOL
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
With the Legion 'ending', now is your chance to work out that frustration. Grab a copy of CoH and play along with us. Just imagine your favorite Legion editor when you WACK-er a few bad guys.
I swear, the game is addictive. Caroline is already calling it herocrack.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
BTW, I even started a Live Journal for my character. Not much updated yet but I'll be adding to it as I play. You'll find his journal here.
Posted by Varalent on :
Weeeeelllllll! I broke down and got the new computer yesterday (the weekend turned out to be very hectic...which allowed me a small moral victory over that OTHER guy! )
Ordered the game from Amazon. It should arrive tomorrow (which proves HE has more control than I'm willing to admit. While I delayed the computer purchase by a day, HE made me fork over extra cash for one day shipping! )
So I guess I'll see you in Paragon City later this week!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Cool Vee! You'll have to let me know when you are on-line. I try to limit my times to the weekend but sneak in an hour or two at night as well.
Posted by Varalent on :
Got the game but didn't get home early enough from a meeting last night to deal with installing etc. I may try to do so today when I get home. Can't wait to try it out!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Cool. I didn't get logged in last night as I spent the whole night fighting to fix Caroline's machine so she could play. I'm off tomorrow so I may spend some time on line tonight.
Hope you have fun with it Vee. It's a blast!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
We should start a Legion World super group of characters inspired by Legionnaires (careful not to break their copyright rules, of course). Gungir can be our founder if he isn't already in a group (or we can all start fresh on one of the servers).
At the very least, look for me on Virtue Saturday afternoon -- Chillflare or Dark Iris. Because of my show, I won't have time to play til then.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Gun is about 11th level now and getting ready to form a team with some friends from my e-mail RPG's. But if we get others on Virtue (I'm only on Triumph right now), I could recreate him and start over.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Chillflare and Dark Iris are parts of teams already.
Anyone got a spare 10th level who can start a group (that's the minimum to start a group, but you can be any level to join) on any of the servers? It doesn't have to be a Legion-inspired character, just one who can register the name Legion World so the rest of us could join. It would probably be really hard to coordinate, but it would be fun if we could level up together.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hmm. Kaos and I hadn't come up with a group name yet. We want to register The Adventurers since that's our group in the game but the characters we started out with who are 10th level are part of that group. They're original for CoH. I'll run the name by him and see if he'd mind.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Decided to try a Controller today, and when I saw mind control as one of the primary powers, I had to do an homage to our favorite telepath. Here's Saturn Lady, an amalgam of costumes and a tweak on her look based on what the costume creator has available.
After I joined a team to help level her up a bit, one of the guys said I was hot. I returned the compliment. How much of an assumption is there in these games that the gender of the character and player are the same? Was I obligated by some gamer code to tell him I'm a guy? Then he had to leave, and I just stayed paired with another female character. We teamed really well, and I got the impression she might be a woman in the real world. Should I have said something?
Just curious. This MMPOG stuff is all new to me.
[ May 27, 2004, 08:57 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Comic Addict Lad on :
Hey SS,
I had a similar conundrum the other day as I was making an electric/electric blaster. Something along the lines of Spark/Lightning Lass (long have I had a soft spot, or not so soft spot for Ayla Ranzz)
And I thought...as a married 31 year old man, should I be playing the role of a young teenage hot chick?
And as I thought, I decided hell yeah!! If I have to look at my characters ass all day as they run around, I'd rather see a cute female butt, and if someone guy wants to try and hit on my for cyber....he's gonna get a shock and cursed out
Look me up on Freedom, Ion Prime or Ion Lass or Homeland
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
I created a Legion-Based Character for Virtue thi afternoon...
His name is Gravity Lad (I wanted Gravitas or Gravis, but they were taken already, and besides I eventually wound up with something far more Legion-like), and surprise, surprise, he has Gravity powers...and force fields.
Not real clear on the 31st century Green Lantern lore, but Gravity Lad (Hey, his initials are GL too, I didn't even plan that, SWEET!!!) is an Oan. Apparently the giant Battery sprung a leak and irradiated the populace of the planet, causing random mutations...and my character's eyes to glow green. The Battery radiation is the source of his powers, but the radiation is deadly to others, so he must wear a jeweled belt (a green jewel, naturally!) to help keep the radiation in check.
Need a real name for him, for his "secret identity"...can anyone tell me what Oan names (presuming they've mentioned them in the comics) are like and give me some examples? Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Cool!
I'll hop on as Saturn Lady tonight and look for you. I ran into another Legion fan who recognized my costume. He was a flame guy whose costume was a bit Inferno-ish. I told him I'd let him know if I got a Legion SG going. Guess I'll have to get her levelled up fast so we can do this.
Virtue is the place to be for our Legion-inspired team! (So you can do your RPG thing, Scott.) If anyone else levels up to 10 on Virtue, let me know so we can be all coordinated. Maybe I could post something to the CoH message board. As long as we stay "inspired," we should be OK, right?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Actually looks like I'm behind a few days. As usual.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
These have made me laugh my ass off this morning. Good thing no one else was in at the time.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Last one for now.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Yesterdays.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
Well, I hope to get my supergroup up and running this weekend. Saturn Lady isn't at 10th level yet, so there are a few hoops I'll have to jump through. Look for her on Virtue. I plan to call the team Legion of Virtue.
LLLV! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'll have to create a character over there. Presently I'm working on getting Gungnir up to 14th so he can teleport himself. And I'm working on writing a series of articles for The Pulse and have created a character just for that purpose. I need to work on her a bit too.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
The last of this week's scheduled toons. I don't know, Eric, if you or any of the other players here have seen this group referred to in the strip but it cracked me up. I've been trying to figure out what the hell they are doing since I first started playing.
Posted by Patch Lad on :
Glad to see some from the board are playing this game, it is the best!! I have been playing since Feb during Beta,
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: The last of this week's scheduled toons. I don't know, Eric, if you or any of the other players here have seen this group referred to in the strip but it cracked me up. I've been trying to figure out what the hell they are doing since I first started playing.
Yes, I have run across this group a couple times, and I've been just as stumped. Posted by Patch Lad on :
I have seen that little group too. I stared at them for 15 minutes before I realized it... Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Legionnaires of Virtue is now an official supergroup on the Virtue server! Look for Saturn Lady and send me a tell. I hope to be online Sunday night and Monday.
It'll be pretty informal -- no fancy web site or anything. Just a chance to instantly find other Legion fans on the server and blast Hellions together (or the Clockwork -- a precurser to Robotica?).
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Way behind on levels since I haven't had time to play recently. Gravity Lad just made it to level 6 today... Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I haven't had much time this week either. Saturn Lady's only just made it to 7. I had to use one of my other characters to set up the group and then pass leadership to my hubby, who then waited for me to sign back on as Saturn Lady to pass leadership back to me. And that's all I'll have time to do today since I've got a performance (doing "South Pacific" with my local theater -- really gets in the way of my newfound addiction ).
Whew.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Played for 12 hours last night and Gungnir finally reached 14th level and got self-teleportation. Just too much fun.
Now I've got to focus on The -Pulse. She the character I created for the series of articles I'm writing for The Pulse.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
This is the first mention of CoH in the Angst Technolgy strip back in October of 2001.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Enormous Codpiece Man...change that to Lad or Boy, and you've got yourself a new Sub! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hey Eric. Caroline and I both created Legion themed characters on the Virtue server. Don't know when I'll get on as I have to work on a website for Bevis today but here are their pics. And we've both added Saturn Lady to our Friends list. If you'd like to add us (Garth is still in the Outbreak trainer as I just created him this morning) we are Garth Ranzz and Tasmia Mallor.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Awesome! These look great, you two. I just hope the copyright patrol doesn't get you for the names.
I'll try to be on sporadically today. I didn't get everything done I'd hoped earlier in the weekend, and my hubby has to work, so it's a catch-up day.
Posted by Patch Lad on :
Lar Gand reporting for duty. I will try to be on today too.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Where have you been today? I keep hopping on to no avail. I now have two characters. Look for Saturn Lady and RJB. RJB is the current supergroup owner (Financier). Saturn Lady is a Founder. I'd like to get a couple of you on so I can promote you to founders so you'll have invite privileges and it won't all depend on me.
Here's RJB:
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
That's so cool! I love RJB!
I got together with Caroline and a friend of ours, Kaos, and we've created the lil' Justice League. Actually we aren't high enough level yet but as soon as we hit 10 we'll form it. Here's a pic of us standing in front of Paragon City Hall.
left to right: lil' Superman, lil' Batman and lil' Diana WW
All of them are set to the shortest height setting and real low towards the atheletic setting.
And actually lil' Superman and lil' Batman don't exist anymore. We got pulled over by a police drone tonight and were busted for copyright infringement. Real nice GM and he was cool with us. Just changed our names and asked us what we'd like so as to not mess up our theme. So now we have lil' Clark and lil' Bruce. Caroline's lil' Diana didn't get busted because Wonder Woman was to long to use to begin with.
We're on the Virtue server with this team too so look around your ankles for little crime fighters.
[ May 31, 2004, 07:37 PM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Patch Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Where have you been today? I keep hopping on to no avail. I now have two characters. Look for Saturn Lady and RJB. RJB is the current supergroup owner (Financier). Saturn Lady is a Founder. I'd like to get a couple of you on so I can promote you to founders so you'll have invite privileges and it won't all depend on me.
Here's RJB:
I must have been missing you, been on a couple of times on and off today. I will make sure to put you on my friend list next time I am on.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
I was on yesterday afternoon, and tried sending tails to Saturn Lady and Garth, but to no avail.
I did add SL, Garth, Tasmia, and Lar to my friends list though. I'll add RJB next time I'm on.
If anyone wants to, they can add any/all of my Virtue characters to their friends list. They're not all Legion-based, but at least you'll know when I'm on. My characters' names are:
J-Frost Xenoblade Gravity Lad Template
As for meeting up, what time zone are you guys in? Maybe if we arranged a particular time to meet up, we wouldn't keep missing one another. Just a thought... Posted by Patch Lad on :
I am in the Central time zone. Playing on a specific day maybe hard for me because of my job (I never know when I am going to get overtime), but I would do my best to show up for meetings.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Woot!
We got to play last night! (Unfortunately, I'm at work and can't post the group pic, but I will when I get home if no one else has.) Saturn Lady, Garth, Lar and Tasmia ran around beating up the Lost (and getting killed on my mission since Saturn is a higher level -- sorry again). We got lots of stares, but I only got one tell -- anyone else?
The options are better for finding us now. RJB, Saturn Lady, Garth, Lar and Tasmia all have invite privileges, so if you run into any of us, you can get on the team.
quote: I was on yesterday afternoon, and tried sending tails to Saturn Lady and Garth, but to no avail. I did add SL, Garth, Tasmia, and Lar to my friends list though. I'll add RJB next time I'm on. If anyone wants to, they can add any/all of my Virtue characters to their friends list. They're not all Legion-based, but at least you'll know when I'm on. My characters' names are: J-Frost Xenoblade Gravity Lad Template As for meeting up, what time zone are you guys in? Maybe if we arranged a particular time to meet up, we wouldn't keep missing one another. Just a thought...
Sorry I missed you. I've got J-Frost and Gravity Lad on my Friends list. I'll add the others too.
I'm in Eastern, but my game playing has been really sporadic because of rehearsals and performances for the community theater show I'm in (plus real-life stuff -- stupid lawn keeps growing). The show's over after this weekend, so I hope to hop on for at least an hour or so most weeknights, probably 8-10ish range -- a little later if we get on a mission and lose track of time (like last night).
Let's all try to get on at 9-?? EST Wednesday night this week and go from there.
quote:I got together with Caroline and a friend of ours, Kaos, and we've created the lil' Justice League. Actually we aren't high enough level yet but as soon as we hit 10 we'll form it. Here's a pic of us standing in front of Paragon City Hall.
Bwa ha ha ha! I love it! Too bad there aren't any water powers. I'd make a lil' Aquaman (oops, lil' Arthur). (I did catch a guy in Aquamanish duds last night (shirtless, beard, green pants and a watery name), but I didn't see what he used for powers. Of course, the game's land-locked, so talking to fish wouldn't be very helpful. I could just make him a tank-er.
[ June 01, 2004, 11:50 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Patch Lad on :
quote: Let's all try to get on at 9-?? EST Wednesday night this week and go from there.
I will do my best to be there...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm probably working 12+ hour shifts this weekend again but I'll try.
Oh, and we are in the Mountain Time Zone.
[ June 01, 2004, 01:40 PM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Here's one of the pics I took of the group last night.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Woo hoo! Go Legion!! My pic looks much the same.
In case anyone is wondering, that thing on our chests is our supergroup symbol. It appears when you go into "Supergroup Mode." Unfortunately, there were no L's or anything close to the Legion symbol, and not having a symbol wasn't an option.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We need two more members, just starting, for a Seinfeld team on the Liberty server. I already have Cosmo Kramer and Caroline has created Elaine Benes. We need a George Costanza (tanker wearing a sweater?) and a Jerry Seinfeld (blaster with jeans and shirt or jacket and tie?).
Any takers?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Our extended team with Andrew Nolan, Mon-El and Gravity Lad.
[ June 03, 2004, 06:00 AM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, and I've created a second character for our Virtuous Legion...Drakefire! See, I told you I felt left out that I had made an original character instead of basing one on an existing Legionnaire...didn't do TOO badly with his look, though the helmet isn't quite right! Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Cool! Can't wait to see him.
I hope to be online at least Sunday night, though I'm not sure what character I'll be yet. I'd like to take one of my higher levels and concentrate on them for a while just to work out the story arcs a bit more. If you don't see Saturn Lady, look for Chillflare or Dark Iris. Chillflare is high enough to sidekick people.
And what happened to Vee? Wasn't he going to pick up the game with his new PC? I hope everything's OK.
[ June 05, 2004, 10:37 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Going to try to post a pic of J-Frost (never posted a pic on the boards before, so I hope I get this right)... I'll post my other characters (esp. Drakefire) later if I can get this one to work...
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Here's Drakefire:
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Well, the hubby was on my account when I got back from the show last night (hurt my foot so I didn't go to the cast party -- it's OK now), so I used his account to create a new hero for the Legionnaires of Virtue. Here's Tasmia's cousin, Shadow Lad.
I couldn't get a costume I liked that was very close to his Legion Academy days, so I got a bit creative. He's taking the skin-bearing cue from his cousin. (D'oh! I just realized I forgot the pointy ears. Oh, well.)
He's also got a different set of darkness powers than Caroline's Tasmia. She's a scrapper with dark powers. Grev's a defender.
[ June 06, 2004, 05:52 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
That pic ought to get Lash playing if nothing Eric.
Looks good though. I've been trying to get Gungnir up to 15 but I'm still about 3500 points off with 2000 in debt. Just can't make any headway and it makes me not want to play at all.
I also need to play The -Pulse soon since my next article is due next weekend.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Should we try for 9 EST again this Wednesday? Is that too early for our Mountaineers? Would a different day be better for you, Patch?
What level is everyone up to now? I can play with Saturn Lady again (still 8) or try Shadow Lad (4 -- maybe 5 by Wednesday) so our missions aren't skewed too high.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Wed, 9pm EST is good for me, though I might be on a little earlier, it depends...
I just hit level 7 with Drakefire this afternoon, so hopefully he'll be caught up with everyone by Wednesday.
Btw, can anyone else see my pictures? Half the time the page doesn't seem to load them for me...
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Nope. The pictures have never loaded for me, no matter which computer I use.
Posted by Patch Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Should we try for 9 EST again this Wednesday? Is that too early for our Mountaineers? Would a different day be better for you, Patch?
What level is everyone up to now? I can play with Saturn Lady again (still 8) or try Shadow Lad (4 -- maybe 5 by Wednesday) so our missions aren't skewed too high.
I will try to be there on Wed. night, but tomorrow is Microsoft Patch Day (patching computers is what I do in case you were wondering ), so I might have to work late if I don't get enough done tomorrow. A little bird told me that there is a critical patch coming out that effects just about all Microsoft products. So I will have to be ready to patch 4500+ computers by the weekend or sooner.
As far as a different day, it won't really matter, what day we pick. I am basically on call and could have to work at any time. Whatever day you guys decide, I'll try to be there.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Patch Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Should we try for 9 EST again this Wednesday? Is that too early for our Mountaineers? Would a different day be better for you, Patch?
What level is everyone up to now? I can play with Saturn Lady again (still 8) or try Shadow Lad (4 -- maybe 5 by Wednesday) so our missions aren't skewed too high.
I will try to be there on Wed. night, but tomorrow is Microsoft Patch Day (patching computers is what I do in case you were wondering ), so I might have to work late if I don't get enough done tomorrow. A little bird told me that there is a critical patch coming out that effects just about all Microsoft products. So I will have to be ready to patch 4500+ computers by the weekend or sooner.
As far as a different day, it won't really matter, what day we pick. I am basically on call and could have to work at any time. Whatever day you guys decide, I'll try to be there.
Patch Lad, I can fully sympathise with you. While I'm not in the LAN department who is in charge of the patches here at work, I have to help coordinate the down time so that the associates who need access the the intranet are not interrupted during the day. And that includes those overseas too. Microsoft has become a bad word around here lately with all of their security flaws. It almost has me considering switching over to a MAC. Almost. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, as for the time, 9 EST is fine with Caroline and myself. I should be home by then tomorrow (being 7 pm here in Utah). I'm not working too late and with all the construction it takes 90 minutes to get home so I should be right around then and should be able to play for at least 2 hours.
Posted by Varalent on :
I realize I'm way behind all of you but I did get the game loaded on the new computer and tried it out (on the same server ~ Triumph? ~ that Grunjir is on) before I went into the hospital. I'll see if I can't get up to speed quickly and join you guys soon.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Yay!
Sorry to hear you've been having troubles. I just saw your Variable Villa post.
The Legionnaires of Virtue is on the Virtue server, so create a character on there, too. We'd love to have you! I hope you feel better soon.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Vee I didn't know you were in the hospital. I hope everything is okay. Don't feel you are obligated to join us if your health isn't up to it. Just take care of yourself, that's more important.
On a lighter note, you'll get used to hospital visits when you get into playing CoH. Believe me. Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Yeah, I know what you mean about hospitals...Drakefire really feels like himself, the villains in Perez Park keep tearing him new holes in his containment suit! Posted by Patch Lad on :
Hey guys, sorry I missed you all again. Patch Day was a bust, but other things kept me from showing up anyway. I'll do my best to be there next time!!
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey Seymour! Last night was a blast with Condo & Shadow Lad. We made a great team! Sorry to "depart" so suddenly. Lost mapserver connection just as I clicked on the trainer to get my lvl 9 and by the time I got back you were gone.
For all the rest of you, I'm now on Virtue as well with two "heroes" Condo is now a lvl 9 blaster and Cosmic Rokk is a lvl 7 tanker. (I just HAD to create Rokk. It didn't seem right to not have one of the founders of the Legion not be represented!)
It's been lots of fun (as you said Scott ) but a bit confusing because I'm not sure who is who. Could you each post your "heroes" on here so we all know each other?
I know the following:
Seymour = Saturn Lady & Shadow Lad Caroline = Tasmia Mallor LL = Garth RP friend of LL & Caroline (Andy?) = Ferro Lad Pex = Drakefire
Who else?
PS: KP you would just love this game!
Vee
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Well, in addition to Drakefire, I also have:
Gravity Lad (an Original Pex Creation, based on the Guardians of Oa)
Cosmo Girl Zero (an alternate female Rokk with different powers - Her power sets are "Empathy" and "Dark Blast", I gave her a modified Grell Rokk costume)
Non-Legion Associated Characters I have on the Virtue Server Include:
J-Frost Xenoblade Template
Non-Virtue Server Characters I have include:
Electricia (on Victory...I think!) Goddess Urd (on Justice)
Posted by Varalent on :
I think I've seen J-Frost & Xenoblade online. Wish I had known it was you.
Posted by Varalent on :
Since no one was around CoH last night, I went ahead and created a new hero (heroine?) I want to have one of each of the types to see what the differences are in strategy etc. Since I have a blaster (Condo), and a tanker (Cosmic Rokk), I went ahead and created my defender (Mystical Mysa) and boy did she turn out HOT!!!!! She has 2 healing powers as her primary set so far and energy blasting powers as her secondary set. (Got her up to lvl 4 by last night when I started having server problems.)
Since I couldn't come close to her all white gown type outfit, I gave her one similar to Nura's preboot, but I was able to give her some pointy antennae. You should have seen all the guys that were hitting on her! (Mysa will never lack invitations for team ups. She got FIVE offers last night alone to join a supergroup! Of course, she demured because she's hoping to get an invite to the Legion of Virtue
Maybe down the road she can split off from the LoV and start up a supergroup called the Subs with some of your alt IDs!)
PS: Cobie would be drooling after her in an instant! Posted by Varalent on :
Scott (or anyone): How did you get those pics that you posted? Is there soemthing on CoH that allows you to take pics or did you use something like PaintShop?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
You can do screen prints from within CoH. Under the Menu you can go into your options and make sure that the screen print function is turned on so all you have to do is hit the PrtScn key on your keyboard when you want a picture.
Now I know that'll just take a picture of your character's backside but you can change your POV (no, not Brian but Point Of View) in a couple of different ways. The simplest is to use the scroll button on your mouse if you have one.
If you need further help from that, just give me a shout. I'm actually arranging with Thomas (our friend who plays Andrew) so that he and Caroline and I can be on line at the same time with our main characters (Gungnir for me, Blue Battler for him and Lady Maleficent for Caroline) and I can take a group pic for a tshirt so we'll recognize each other when we pick him up at the airport in SD for the con.
Posted by Varalent on :
Thanks Scott, I'll try that tonight. BTW, we missed you the other day. We had a blast. Hope to catch up with you on CoH again soon.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Since no one was around CoH last night, I went ahead and created a new hero (heroine?) I want to have one of each of the types to see what the differences are in strategy etc. Since I have a blaster (Condo), and a tanker (Cosmic Rokk), I went ahead and created my defender (Mystical Mysa) and boy did she turn out HOT!!!!! She has 2 healing powers as her primary set so far and energy blasting powers as her secondary set. (Got her up to lvl 4 by last night when I started having server problems.)
Since I couldn't come close to her all white gown type outfit, I gave her one similar to Nura's preboot, but I was able to give her some pointy antennae. You should have seen all the guys that were hitting on her! (Mysa will never lack invitations for team ups. She got FIVE offers last night alone to join a supergroup! Of course, she demured because she's hoping to get an invite to the Legion of Virtue
Maybe down the road she can split off from the LoV and start up a supergroup called the Subs with some of your alt IDs!)
PS: Cobie would be drooling after her in an instant!
I actually created an Emerald Empress character the other day on a server where I don't know anyone just so I could play around solo. I get tired of playing in groups sometimes and chatting. Just wanted to see how it was running around by myself. Plus I forgot to take notes for my article during The -Pulse's training mission and had to create a new character to go through it all over again.
She's level 4 now and a Magic Controller. Focused on the dark powers since those send out a kind of skull when attacked which I figured was going to be as close to the Eye as I was going to get without the automatic targeting drone (which I didn't want to use). Already at 4 she has a sniper power that can take out lvl 3 and 4 foes from about 3 times as far as normal with only 1 shot.
I've decided to do a Tharok too but I'm going to wait for City of Villains to be released next year so that I can play him more 'true to life'.
[ June 15, 2004, 10:16 AM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Thanks Scott, I'll try that tonight. BTW, we missed you the other day. We had a blast. Hope to catch up with you on CoH again soon.
You too Vee. Just felt burned out lately and haven't wanted to play. And that's caused me to be late with my next article for The Pulse but at least Jen was understanding. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood this Wedensday, if we all get together then.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I actually created an Emerald Empress character the other day on a server where I don't know anyone just so I could play around solo. I get tired of playing in groups sometimes and chatting. Just wanted to see how it was running around by myself. Plus I forgot to take notes for my article during The -Pulse's training mission and had to create a new character to go through it all over again.
She's level 4 now and a Magic Controller. Focused on the dark powers since those send out a kind of skull when attacked which I figured was going to be as close to the Eye as I was going to get without the automatic targeting drone (which I didn't want to use). Already at 4 she has a sniper power that can take out lvl 3 and 4 foes from about 3 times as far as normal with only 1 shot.
I've decided to do a Tharok too but I'm going to wait for City of Villains to be released next year so that I can play him more 'true to life'.
LOL! I almost created Empress instead of Mysa last night, but I didn't think Empress would stand a chance of being invited to join the LoV! Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Thanks Scott, I'll try that tonight. BTW, we missed you the other day. We had a blast. Hope to catch up with you on CoH again soon.
You too Vee. Just felt burned out lately and haven't wanted to play. And that's caused me to be late with my next article for The Pulse but at least Jen was understanding. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood this Wedensday, if we all get together then.
I can understand that. I imagine since you're work involves the computer all day, there must be times when you just want to be away from it. Just wanted you to know that we DID miss having you around and I was excited about introducing you to "Rokk"
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Can't wait to meet the old Rokk myself. It'll be fun having the three founders all together.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, and no hitting on Immie when I'm not around. Posted by Varalent on :
LOL. I have a feeling you're REALLY going to enjoy having Mysa around at times as well. The scenery will improve dramatically when shes on! Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Hey, guys.
No sweat about disappearing, Vee. I understand about connection problems. I waited around a bit to say good-bye, but I was ready for bed.
I'll try to get on Wednesday night again, but I'm not sure if I can. We've got company. It depends when they leave. They're no night owls, so I should probably be able to get on around 10 my time for at least a Founders screenshot.
Oop -- gotta actually do some work now. Posted by UTS on :
I wish I had a faster computer. Posted by Varalent on :
Okay, if some of you don't show up on CoH soon, I'm going to run out of charachter slots to fill. Since no one was around last night either, I ended up completing my fivesome. Let me introduce you to them:
Condo ~ Level 9 Mutant Balster
Cosmic Rokk ~ Level 7 Mutant Tanker
Mystical Mysa ~ Level 5 Magical Defender
Kid Lyle ~ Level 4 Scientific Controller
Brin ~ Level 2 Natural Scrapper
Both Brin & Lyle are very easy to spot because their uniforms are pretty accurate. Lyle is in black & white and even has an "I" on his chest and a headband. Brin is in his preboot orange & black. I was able to give him those shoulder "wings" that he had back in the preboot & discovered that the "trident" chest emblem looks enough like a wolf's face to work.
Posted by Patch Lad on :
Duuuuude Lar Gand was on some last night, I sure didn't see you... Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by UTS: I wish I had a faster computer.
UTS, read my lips: RUN, DO NOT WALK to your friendly neighborhood computer superstore and get yourself a new unit ( )
There are some great bargains out there right now and beive me, it's worth it. I'm having a blast with CoH and I would love to "see" STURat the Mage join us!
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Patch Lad: Duuuuude Lar Gand was on some last night, I sure didn't see you...
Damn! Maybe it was while I was creating Kid Lyle or Brin. I will be on tonight as well so hopefully a bunch of us can hook up.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey everyone! I had a great time on our Legion mission last night (even though we all "bought it ~ some more than once! ) Mysa leveled and got her flight ring (I promise she'll get Resurrect next time)
Andrew seemed quite taken with her, which was fun and she sure proved her worth by using her mystical healing powers to keep everyone else battling all those Ogres & Blade Bearers, etc.
Look forward to seeing everyone on again soon. I'll probably bring Cosmic Rokk next time but who knows...
PS: Scott, I haven't been able to get the screen capture option to work so next time if you're there I hope you'll take pictures of my guys & gal.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Last night was a lot of fun -- especially glad we got an indoor mission. It's better when we have a clearer purpose. Otherwise, we spend too much time just running around. It'll probably help when everyone hits 7, and we can do those Perez Park missions we're all stuck with. I was with Drakefire -- I want to beat something up (and get more XP).
If your keyboard button won't work, you can also type /screenshot in the dialog box, and it'll take one. I have to do that because I'm switching from Mac to PC, and my Mac keyboard won't do a printscrn.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
If I ever get over my funk and feel like playing again I'll make sure to set us up with a group pic. And for those with multiple characters if we just let them log off then back in as that character I may be able to do some fancy photowork and make it look like we were all there at once.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Is it possible to take more than one screenshot at a time? I log out everytime I take one, save it in MSPaint, and then log back in. Is there some trick I'm missing, that it's actually possible to take more than one screenshot and have them save themselves somewhere so I don't have to log out and save before I take another one?
As for last night, it was fun to actually fight something for a change...even if it did kill us! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
If you set it up to do screen prints by just using the PrtScn key it will actually save the files to a screen print folder in the CoH folder. No need to exit the game or even really stop playing.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Excellent, I've got 129 of the little buggers just sitting there, and I had no idea they were there!!! Posted by Varalent on :
I'll have to look to see if that's where the are then also. I suspect though that they'll all be pics from behind.
Posted by Varalent on :
Seymour: Shadow Lad & Condo make a great team! Another fun night blasting baddies and getting XP. BTW, after you logged off I stayed on for about 20 minutes and got lucky. Found a spot with lots of groups of 7 Skulls and made lvl 10 in about 15 minutes (and worked off all my debt!) Condo now has Sniper Blast as well.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: I'll have to look to see if that's where the are then also. I suspect though that they'll all be pics from behind.
Vee, they will all be from behind because they are from the point of view used in the game. Only changing that POV before taking the pic will change that rear-end shot.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey guys, I've been having a problem with a Kid Lyle mission (Level 4 Scientific Controller). It's a cave mission to capture the lab boss and his team & free the hostages.
First time I went (solo), I got all through the cave, freed all three hostages and killed everyone (I believe). Still no mission complete so I retraced my steps and covered every inch of the cave on it's various levels. Couldn't find anyone else (BTW, I did get the disc from the lab equipment the first pass through). Finally gave up and left.
Yesterday afternoon, I was in a team up with another player and we went to try to complete the mission. I thought maybe he would see something I missed. (I didn't realize that all the Vaz would be back since it was now a team mission and not still my solo) In any case, we killed everyone we could find but then kept getting "Rescue the forth hostage" and no mission complete even though we could not finad anyone else.
I have to assume there is another even lower level or hiding place that I haven't discovered (or its a bug) Any of you familiar with this mish that can tell me what I need to do to complete it or what I'm doing wrong?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm not sure of that mission but always check your map to make sure that you've covered everything. Those caves can be tricky and there are sometimes areas that are accessible even if they don't look like it. Make sure that you've got the map fully completed and walked through fully at least one time before giving up. I've been on a few indoor adventures that do the same thing and I wind up finding the last one on the ground floor that had totally been cleaned out previously. I think sometimes those kidnappers change floors.
Posted by Varalent on :
Yeah, I thought the same thing so I brought up the map on the second pass each time and still couldn't find anything. Ran around rubbing against the walls & clicking on them to see if there was a secret opening. Couldn't think of anything else to do either time. Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Scott, that would be very cool if you could Photoshop the whole gang in. I'm bummed I forgot to get a screenshot Wednesday night while Flame Sidhe was there. I don't know him (or her) off the game, but I don't think he logs on with that character very often. He was a 3 when Saturn Lady was a 3 a few weeks ago, and now he's a 4 and she's 9.
I'm stumped about your mission, Vee. Maybe I'll sign on as RJB (only took him to 3), and we can give it another shot tonight if I get a chance to log on. (If I use a 3, it won't skew the level of the baddies inside.)
Posted by Varalent on :
I finally managed to get some pix of my CoH heroes so you can all get to see them since you haven't met them all. First one I think you all know...
Condo is currently a level 10 Mutant Blaster with energy powers as primary and secondary sets.
Posted by Varalent on :
Here's my version of our Founder, Rokk. His name on CoH is Cosmic Rokk and he is a level 8 (I think) Mutant Tanker
I wish I had tried to do his preboot skimpy black uniform but didn't think of it at the time (actually didn't think of it until a few nights ago when Seymour asked if I had.
In any case I kinda like the way he turned out.
Posted by Varalent on :
Then there's my version of Invisible Kid, Kid Lyle. He's a level 7 Scientific Controller with Primary Illusion powers (which means he eventually can earn invisibility) and Radiation Emission as his secondary
Posted by Varalent on :
For my Natural Scrapper I was torn between Val & Brin but I decided on Brin. He is currently at level 5. He came out a bit heftier than I planned but I love the way his outfit turned out. Had a couple of people complement me. (They didn't have a wolf emblem so I used the trident. I think it looks pretty good.)
Posted by Varalent on :
Last of the Legionnaires is MysticalMysa and boy has she turned some heads! I keep getting hit on (if they only knew;) ) She's a level 7 Magic Defender with Empahty/Healing as her primary set and energy balsting as secondary.
Posted by Varalent on :
Last of all, but the first hero I created when I first joined CoH is BlueMage over on the Triumph server. All the others are on Virtue. His been ignored recently so he's only a level 3 Magic Blaster with Fire Energy as his primary and energy powers as his secondary.
Let me know what you guys think and be sure to add all of them to your lists.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I think they all look awesome. Brin and Rokk really came out well, and Mysa is a hottie.
I'm sorry I haven't been able to get on this weekend. I actually played for a littlle while last night, but I had this idea for an ice/ice blaster named Little Nippy. I had to go with Little Nipper, but he came out kinda cute. I doubt I'll do much more with him, but it was fun.
Posted by Varalent on :
You could have called him Brek and made him like POlar Boy Posted by UTS on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Thanks Scott, I'll try that tonight. BTW, we missed you the other day. We had a blast.
Literally, I suspect!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Mysa is a little hottie and Lyle is perfect.
Caroline talked me into playing this weekend but I kept having connection problems. We did manage to create two new characters though, on the Triumph server. I present to you Nicole Richie (me) and Paris Hilton (Caroline).
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I made Nicole a little shorter than I probably should have but she stands about 5'1" and I think in life she is 5'2" so I wasn't too far off. She has ice powers for her primary so she can give you the cold shoulder and gale as her secondary so she can blow you away with her incessant talking. Posted by Varalent on :
STU....I mean UTS and everyone else, if at all possible RUN, DO NOT WALK to your nearest computer store and get upgraded. This is too much fun to miss out on! With July 4th coming up there should be some great deals on computers. Good time to do something.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, there is another Paris running around but we haven't seen her yet. I was able to get Nicole Richie as my character's name without a problem but Caroline had to use Ms Paris Hilton.
Posted by Varalent on :
Scott: LOL! Those are great. I also had lots of connection problems this weekend so I can understand the frustation. Don't know why you can do the creation process without a problem but I ended up doing it as well. Created CometKid (I'll post a picture later) on the Triumph server. He's a blaster Electrical primary and energy secondary.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I think they are messing up the servers getting ready for the first update. Hopefully onces it goes live all of these server problems will disappear.
Posted by Varalent on :
Just had a thought about the connection problems. Do you think it's the Virtue server or Triumph serve that are overloaded (near or at capacity)? If so would it make sense to chose a less active server? Of course it would mean starting each character over from scratch, but it might be more fun in the long run.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Usually the Triumph server is one of the ones with the smallest load. Justice and Virtue are almost always maxed out in red.
Posted by Varalent on :
Here's CometKid (found on Triumph) as promised
and an experiment brought about by my conversation with Seymour the other night.
Rokk's skimpy balck unifrom came out okay buy the fleshtones aren't availble as a color choice other than for the skin. That's as close as I could get to matching up to skin-like colors.
I made this Rokk a controller with gravity powers as his primary and force fields as his secondary. I'm not keeping him since I like the other Rokk better but if I get to the point with CosmicRokk where I can give him an alternate outfit, I may try this again.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Vee, I love all of your outfits. You have a definite flair and have some greatly detailed uniforms. I need to learn to take more time with mine.
Posted by UTS on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Oh, there is another Paris running around but we haven't seen her yet. I was able to get Nicole Richie as my character's name without a problem but Caroline had to use Ms Paris Hilton.
So, of all the people playing this game in the world, there can only be one person with any unique name?
Bummer. Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
But look at it this way, if you come up with a really cool original character name, no one can take it from you! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Pex the Unalive: But look at it this way, if you come up with a really cool original character name, no one can take it from you!
Exactly. I love my first character's name. Gungnir. It fits and actually has some mythological meaning to it. And no one can steal it.
I have two new characters to show you guys as soon as I can edit the screen captures. Caroline created Kent Shakespear (no room for the final 'e') and I created Charma. Couldn't quite get her hair the way I wanted but I think she looks pretty much like her appearance in Legionnaires #66. I'll post them when I can.
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
This is totally an aside, but every time I see the avatar of Pex the Unalive, it just screams to me that it's really a very, very young Dennis Quaid. Does it to anyone else? Very cool!
(I've always thought he was a wonderful actor, by the way.)
Posted by UTS on :
Somebody better not have taken "StuRat" already!
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Pex the Unalive: But look at it this way, if you come up with a really cool original character name, no one can take it from you!
Exactly. I love my first character's name. Gungnir. It fits and actually has some mythological meaning to it. And no one can steal it.
I have two new characters to show you guys as soon as I can edit the screen captures. Caroline created Kent Shakespear (no room for the final 'e') and I created Charma. Couldn't quite get her hair the way I wanted but I think she looks pretty much like her appearance in Legionnaires #66. I'll post them when I can.
What server did you put them on? Virtue? or did you choose another one for them?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by UTS: Somebody better not have taken "StuRat" already!
Hmm. Gives me an idea for a new character. Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by UTS: Somebody better not have taken "StuRat" already!
UTS, does this mean you're contemplating? Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Pex the Unalive: But look at it this way, if you come up with a really cool original character name, no one can take it from you!
Exactly. I love my first character's name. Gungnir. It fits and actually has some mythological meaning to it. And no one can steal it.
I have two new characters to show you guys as soon as I can edit the screen captures. Caroline created Kent Shakespear (no room for the final 'e') and I created Charma. Couldn't quite get her hair the way I wanted but I think she looks pretty much like her appearance in Legionnaires #66. I'll post them when I can.
What server did you put them on? Virtue? or did you choose another one for them?
Actually we put them on Liberty I think. The server that has the other Legion team? I'm real bad at remembering what server I have characters on.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Okay here is Charma. She is a Science Controller (to go with her post-boot background of having performed experiments on herself). Her primary power is Mind Control with the first slot being taken by Mesmerize (can't wait for Dominate to become available). Her secondy power is Force Field with Personal Force Field for the first slot. Couldn't figure out a good secondary from the choices so I thought that the force field would help her survive.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
And here is Kent. Caroline will have to tell you what his powers are.
Posted by Varalent on :
I think the other Legion group is on Protector server.
Charma & Kent (sounds like a sitcom ) look great. Didn't they have chains for her though? Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: I think the other Legion group is on Protector server.
Charma & Kent (sounds like a sitcom ) look great. Didn't they have chains for her though?
I tried. No chains and no hoop jewelery. Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: I think the other Legion group is on Protector server.
Seymour actually had a more extended conversation with the guy we met (I believe he's called American Pride on the Virue server.)
I do recall him saying that he was Magno Lad (or maybe just Magno) in the group but Seymour went back and forth with him and wrote down all the info.
They must be on Pacific time because it would be 1 AM when they get together. Seymour mentioned trying to do something with them on weekends. Next time he pops in here he can fill in the details.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: I think the other Legion group is on Protector server.
Seymour actually had a more extended conversation with the guy we met (I believe he's called American Pride on the Virue server.)
I do recall him saying that he was Magno Lad (or maybe just Magno) in the group but Seymour went back and forth with him and wrote down all the info.
They must be on Pacific time because it would be 1 AM when they get together. Seymour mentioned trying to do something with them on weekends. Next time he pops in here he can fill in the details.
Sounds like a plan to me. I'd kinda like to start a new Legion group where we would all be at the same level and begin together.
Posted by Varalent on :
That would be fun. And maybe we could do it on a less congested server. I wouldn't mind redoing any of my heroes. After creating each of them I've found things I wish I could change but you don't have that option.
[ June 23, 2004, 08:57 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
What I'd like to do is creat the LSV. But the City of Villains expansion doesn't come out until next year. Doesn't mean that I'm not up for creating them now though. Just want to do something a little different.
Maybe we can figure out which server is quieter. Triumph and Protector as usually the least loaded ones. I think I'm almost maxed out on characters for Triumph but have nothing on Protector. We could all meet on Protector and plan to have our new characters already through the training mission.
[ June 23, 2004, 09:10 AM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Varalent on :
The LSV sounds like a great idea! or we could do the LMBPers. I've been trying to get UTS, Cobie, KP & others to join us.
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Kent Shakespear (sans the 'e' as it wouldn't accept it) Is a Science COntroller on the Protector server. I'm hoping to meet up with more Legionnaires there, maybe, come on guys!
I wanted to make a healer, and Kent is my fav healer!! In an RPG, he is my sweet honey, and I am his devoted, besoted Tasmia (Umbra.) We actually make a heckuva good couple.
Posted by Patch Lad on :
Man you guys have been busy. Make sure you post if you are going to move to a server, Ill be sure to join you. I have a lvl 17 on victory that could start a group, but that is usually one of the more congested servers.
Posted by ActorLad on :
I really need to get a new computer so I can play this game. It sounds really cool.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
I created "Pex The Unalive", a magic controller with a primary of Illusions and a secondary of Radiation Emission...he might be cool!
Oh, and he's through the tutorial mission, standing underneath Atlas's Statue, waiting to hook up with his fellow Legionnaires on the Protector Server!
I don't like re-creating characters, especially ones that are going so well to begin with, so you more than likely won't see Drakefire on Protector. I'm tinkering with the idea of doing a Ultra Boy and/or Infectious Lass character for that server instead! Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
So much for going to bed at a decent time tonight.
The guy we met on Virtue was AMERICANPRIDE. His group is on the Protector server. They're not an official supergroup yet because everyone's only about level 6. He told me they have Magno Lad, Electricity Kid, Saturn Lass, Cerebral 6, Uni Power Lad and Tai Chi Kid. I just created Starlad (gravity controller with kinetics as secndary) and could only find Magno, Saturn and Cerebral when making my friends list.
They have three "rules" they like to play by: 1. Keep powers as accurate as possible (so Chlorphyll Kid is out). 2. You must have Lad, Lass, Boy, Girl or Kid in your name, though there are exceptions. 3. Choose hover as soon as pool powers become available. It's your flight belt.
He said they also like to keep costumes as close as possible with one or two differences. I haven't seen any of them yet, so I don't know how well they've done that.
I like how we're doing with Legionnaires of Virtue. We're all fairly close in level. If we make one group at once and try to level together, it could take forever as we try to coordinate schedules. But if you do one, you know I'm there.
I can't get Starlad posted right now, but I wil ASAP.
Posted by Patch Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Pex the Unalive: I don't like re-creating characters, especially ones that are going so well to begin with, so you more than likely won't see Drakefire on Protector. I'm tinkering with the idea of doing a Ultra Boy and/or Infectious Lass character for that server instead!
I might do a Wildfire type character if its alright with you, I am a much better Blaster than a Tanker. I have a lvl 17 Blaster on Victory, so I am more familar with what that type can do.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Sure, that'll be fine, Patch. I've got Pex and "Drura" as my Legion characters on Protector, with one or two others if/when the whim hits me.
Question for those of us migrating to the Protector Server from Virtue: Are we going to try to hook up with American Pride's Legion, or start our own and level up together? If the former, I'll need to create a character that fits the Lad/Boy/Girl/Lass/Kid requirement. If the latter, both Pex and Drura stand ready to fight alongside the Virtuous Legionnaires!
Oh, about Drura, the closest I could come to her powers was the Mutation Defender, and she has Radiation Emission/Radiation Blast as her power sets. It's really cool to see her emitting all these green noxious blasts and encircling the enemy with radiation infections. I have a feeling she'd give the Vazhilok a run for their money! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm all for keeping up with the Legion of Virtue for now. I just need to get Garth caught up, level-wise, with the rest of you.
As for starting out fresh on another server, I'd rather it just be our gang (and anyone else here we can rope into playing ) rather than joining up with someone who already has a set of ground rules for playing with them.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I'm all for keeping up with the Legion of Virtue for now. I just need to get Garth caught up, level-wise, with the rest of you.
As for starting out fresh on another server, I'd rather it just be our gang (and anyone else here we can rope into playing ) rather than joining up with someone who already has a set of ground rules for playing with them.
Good, I'd hate to abandon Drakefire altogether as he's one of my favorite creations so far. Speaking of the LoV, did anybody show up last night? I forgot it was Wednesday until this morning, by which time it was already Thursday...
Hmm, I may actually make an exception to my rule of not duplicating characters across different shards, and make a Virtuous Drura...she totally kicks nass! Posted by Patch Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I'm all for keeping up with the Legion of Virtue for now. I just need to get Garth caught up, level-wise, with the rest of you.
As for starting out fresh on another server, I'd rather it just be our gang (and anyone else here we can rope into playing ) rather than joining up with someone who already has a set of ground rules for playing with them.
I am glad you feel that way, I really don't want to start over again anyway.
Posted by Varalent on :
Just playing around while we decide what to do I created a couple of heroes (and villains ) on Protector. Here are their pics...
I think you'll all recognize the first one.
Night Lass is a mutant tanker with Invulnerability and super strength
Posted by Varalent on :
And since Lydda's boyfriend isn't on this server, his kid brother is there to "protect" her.
MagnetiKid is a mutant controller with gravity powers and forcefields as his secondary.
Posted by Varalent on :
Since Scott mentioned possibly doing a LSV group, I decided to do some baddies as well. The first one I did was this little guy
Validdus is a currently magic blaster with electrical powers as both his first and second sets but I don't think he'll stay around too long. I made him as tall as allowed and discovered that it makes it very difficult to see around him! I may redo him, and if I do, I think I may change his powers a little
Posted by Varalent on :
Of course, I couldn't NOT do my favorite baddie of all
Scott, I'd love to see how she comapres to yours!
Posted by Varalent on :
Finally, I created this guy to play in order to hopefully have him at 10 by the time we're all ready on Protector so he can start the Supergroup for us.
BTW, I was going to call him just "Vee" but someone already had that name! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Of course, I couldn't NOT do my favorite baddie of all
Scott, I'd love to see how she comapres to yours!
D'oh! I thought I had posted a pic of my Empress. I will admit your's is much, much better than my rendition. And I love the eye on her chest. Didn't even see that chest detail when I created mine. So, what are her powers?
Posted by Varalent on :
She's a magic controler with mind control & empathy. BTW, it's hard to tell in the pic but she wears the Eye of Ekron on her forehead Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
Okay...trying to show pics again, hosted at a different place this time. Let me know if you guys can see them...
First, we have Drura...
And then there's my namesake, Pex The Unalive...
Posted by Varalent on :
Yep, see 'em just fine! Drura came out great!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I can see them. Drura looks incredible.
Vee, yours are a lot of fun. I love how you adjusted Validus. And Varalent is very cool. I hope to get Starlad up tonight if the ftp program my hubby set up for me is working again.
Thinking about it more, I'd like to just stay on Virtue. I need to concentrate on a character or two so I can get them levelled up and able to explore other parts of the city that are too dangerous right now. I'm not sure if I want to do it with my blaster. His power set isn't working out. Shadow Lad would be a good one, and I think Saturn Lady would turn out well too.
Posted by Varalent on :
BTW, my trip got cancelled so I hope to see some of you on CoH over the next few days. Posted by Varalent on :
Seymour, I think Shadow Lad AND Saturn Lady would both be good. They have great balanced power.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Too bad I can't play them both at once.
(Hmm -- they're on different accounts, so if the hubby isn't home, I suppose I could bring his computer and a monitor into my office and -- nah )
Posted by Varalent on :
Drura is really great looking! Pex did a great job with her. She and my newest creation Rond Vidar had fun killing baddies last night.
Rond has finally come out of the closet and declared himself to be Earth's Green Lantern.
I also started a character on Victory today because all the other servers were down. His name is Killowatt Kid.
Posted by Varalent on :
Seymour, did you get Starlad started? I was able to "Friend" a starlad & a star lad on Protector but I wasn't sure if either was you and neither was online to find out.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Starlad is me. I just got him out of the tutorial and trained to 2nd. He hasn't done anything yet.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Vee, I just heard back from support about Gun's doppelganger. What I had been told when I started was incorrect. Your character name is unique only to the server it was created on. The same name can be used once on each server. Kinda makes me want to go and create a Gungnir on the remaining servers so no one else can.
But this does go towards another question of moving characters. They have stated that they do not yet have a way to do it. If they are allowing the same name on each server then I don't foresee a day when you can transfer your character.
Posted by Varalent on :
I thought the same thing. Guess you could possibly move them but have to adjust the name, but it would certainly make it less appealing.
They are allowing you to copy your character to the test site, so they do have a mechanism in place for doing so.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
And heeeeere's Starlad -- on the Protector server:
Posted by UTS on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: BTW, I was going to call him just "Vee" but someone already had that name!
[guilty chuckle]
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by UTS:
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: BTW, I was going to call him just "Vee" but someone already had that name!
[guilty chuckle]
Better not have been you, UTS! Posted by Varalent on :
I have to admit, I have as much fun (if not more) creating heroes as I do actually playing the game. I find it facinating to see how the different combinations of powers affect the game playing. It's really challenging to find power combinations suitable for use with certain Legionnaires (Rokk & Pol's lack of magnetism being a great example)
I really wish they had set up the various types with primary powers as they have, but allowed you to pick any other type of secondary instead of just the limited sets they've chosen.
Oh well, long explanation for introducing the following new additions to my menagerie on Protector.
First is StormKid, my version of Storm Boy who joined during the 5YG (wonder if he was the same on as from the issue in Adventure when Supes is forced to quit the Legion in order to join Plant Man, Shadow Man, Storm Boy, & Liquid Man protecting another planet?) He's a defender with Storm Summoning as primary & electrical blasts as his secondary.
Then there's FireLad, a blaster with fire blast as his primary & fire manipulation as his secondary (of course)
And finally, my version of Mon, Marvel Lad (harkening back to when he first joined the LSH for his name) He's a tanker with Invulnerability as his primary and energy melee as his secondary.
[ June 27, 2004, 05:33 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Vee, I just heard back from support about Gun's doppelganger. What I had been told when I started was incorrect. Your character name is unique only to the server it was created on. The same name can be used once on each server. Kinda makes me want to go and create a Gungnir on the remaining servers so no one else can.
But this does go towards another question of moving characters. They have stated that they do not yet have a way to do it. If they are allowing the same name on each server then I don't foresee a day when you can transfer your character.
I think there's a Gungnir on Virtue as well but I figure that might be you. I've been checking on the different servers I've been on to see if he's there.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey Gary! When are we going to talk YOU into joining us on City of Heroes. You'd have a blast, I can guarantee it. For incentive, I should let you know that I saw someone's version of Nightcrawler on the Virtue server and it looked pretty good (You CAN create characters with tails & pointy ears and any skin color) I'd love to see your version of Nighty as well as a Legionnaire since you're so creative.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Hey Gary! When are we going to talk YOU into joining us on City of Heroes. You'd have a blast, I can guarantee it. For incentive, I should let you know that I saw someone's version of Nightcrawler on the Virtue server and it looked pretty good (You CAN create characters with tails & pointy ears and any skin color) I'd love to see your version of Nighty as well as a Legionnaire since you're so creative.
Plus you can take Teleport Friend or Teleport Foe at 6th level instead of hover. By 20th level a teleporter can teleport individuals, himself or even a full team. If I can ever get Gungnir up to 20 he'll be able to do all the teleports.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Vee, I just heard back from support about Gun's doppelganger. What I had been told when I started was incorrect. Your character name is unique only to the server it was created on. The same name can be used once on each server. Kinda makes me want to go and create a Gungnir on the remaining servers so no one else can.
But this does go towards another question of moving characters. They have stated that they do not yet have a way to do it. If they are allowing the same name on each server then I don't foresee a day when you can transfer your character.
I think there's a Gungnir on Virtue as well but I figure that might be you. I've been checking on the different servers I've been on to see if he's there.
Nope, not me either. Gungnir on Triumph is my only one. Although I am still sorely tempted to create one on each server just for the hell of it. And if the name is taken on a server then I'll just name him The True Gungnir.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
And Vee, I'm with you. Its a blast just to create them and see what kind of powers and looks you can give them. I wish they would offer a way to do the tutorial then go back and adjust your powers if you find them to poor to play. I'm having a bit of trouble with Charma. She can handle her own okay but would probably work better with a group.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: And Vee, I'm with you. Its a blast just to create them and see what kind of powers and looks you can give them. I wish they would offer a way to do the tutorial then go back and adjust your powers if you find them to poor to play. I'm having a bit of trouble with Charma. She can handle her own okay but would probably work better with a group.
Scott, that's a great idea! You should send it to them. I know what you mean about being able to adjust something (powers or even outfit) after the tutorial. I've been less than happy with Kid Lyle's combination of powers. The only reason I picked them is because the one set gave him the chance to eventually achieve invisibility.
After discovering this weekend that he could actually get there through a pool power, I bit the bullet and decided to redo him completely as "I-Kid Lyle". (So next time he's on he'll have to apply for admission to the Legionnaires of Virtue again! ) While I was redoing him, I went ahead and made some minor changes to his look as well, nothing major, just some little changes here and there.
Same thing happened to me with "Validdus" (too big to see around) and "Brin" (don't like the claws he ended up with as a Scrapper) but I haven't gotten around to redoing them yet. I would redo "Cosmic Rokk" as well but I have him to high up in level to want to start him over again.
I would have been much nicer to be able to go edit them without having to delete them completely.
Posted by Varalent on :
Just to let you all know:
While I was on CoH last night I saw some Broadcast messages that said the new update would be rolled out today, including the ability to have 3-4 different outfits for your characters. I don't think they're doing anything about editing them per se, just allowing you to create some "changes of clothes" but I don't know what else is coming as well.
Posted by Varalent on :
Ohhhhh! Now that I think of it, that means our Legionnaires could have an Adventure era outfit, a Grell era outfit, a 5YG outfit, a post boot outfit....oh the possibilities! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Yeah, but still no capes. And from what I've read, when they were beta-ing the update, you actually have to complete a certain type of mission and pay (use influence) to do outfit changes. It won't be as simple as being able to re-edit your character.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
And here is the breakdown of what the changes are for Through the Looking Glass (set to go live today):
Through the Looking Glass includes the following new content:
2 New City Zones
· Peregrine Island – This zone, north of Talos Island, is home to the secretive Portal Corporation.
· Rikti Crash Site – In this zone, the Rikti War still rages. Join the battle and keep Earth safe from the alien invaders.
New twists to missions
· 5th Column Prison – When you’re defeated in certain equipped 5th Column bases, you will have more to deal with than a hospital bill.
· Circle of Thorns Crystal Prison – Like the 5th Column, if you are defeated in selected lairs, the Circle of Thorns will have a big surprise in store for you.
· Circle of Thorns Gate Room – The Circle has found a new method of protecting its dark secrets: the Gate Room.
· Circle of Thorns Orichalchum Crystals – Magic can bring power, or magic can bring pain. These crystals have become infused with the Circle’s dark magic, and heroes will often find themselves surprised by the results.
· Tech Danger Lab – Technology can be somewhat unreliable. The only way to find out what the Tech Danger Lab holds is to experiment and observe the results.
Outdoor Mission Maps
· The villains of Paragon City have taken the fight to the streets.
Contact\Mission\Story Arc Content For levels 40-50
· The sick amusements of the Carnival of Shadows have turned deadly. Learn the source of their powers on your quest to save a single soul.
· Expose the darkness in Countess Crey’s closets and bring her secrets to light at last.
· Begin to plumb the depths of the mysterious Malta Group.
· Nemesis: How far will the Prussian Prince of Automatons go in his bid to conquer America?
· As with many new technologies, Portal Corporation’s advances involve great risks. Venture to alternate realities to keep Paragon City safe from the many hazards of the multiverse.
· Is there any hope for peace between the Rikti and Earth? Not if you don’t keep your eye on the factions that have begun to splinter Rikti society.
· The Praetorian supervillains may well be the greatest threat your fair city has ever faced. Take the battle to their home dimension to keep Paragon City safe.
Trial Room
· Sewer Trial Room – Deep within the sewer system, something is growing. Characters between levels 38 and 40 must battle the Hydra to keep it contained – but be sure to come prepared for a long, hard fight.
Tailor
· Now your costume can change and evolve with your hero. At 3 locations within Paragon City, you can update your outfit – for a price.
· At levels 20, 30 and 40, you can earn extra costume slots by performing tasks for Icon’s tailors. Now you can customize your look on a daily basis! You may perform these tasks at any level after the initial level.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hmmmm, some interesting things there. Wonder if you can rescue a teammate from the prisons?
Posted by Varalent on :
Or even teleport him/her/it out. Might make teleportation a very important power to have!
Oh Saturn Lady, can I do anything to make you more comfortable/happy/pleased? Just let me know. I'm here to make sure your every wish is granted! Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Oh Saturn Lady, can I do anything to make you more comfortable/happy/pleased? Just let me know. I'm here to make sure your every wish is granted!
Yes, you can dely my hubby at work a few hours so I can get home before him and get on the account first to play her!
I'm enjoying Shadow Kid, but I'd like to play her sometimes too. But no, he's always on when I get home from work playing his Celtika character and getting all Mr. High Level.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm so glad Caroline and I have different accounts. Hell, she's getting more of her money's worth than I am right now.
I may try to log on tonight and see what it takes to change a costume. Been looking to do some alterations to Gungnir. I just wish I could get him passed 15th level.
Posted by Varalent on :
Wait until you all see the numbnuts all congregated under Atlas' statue in Atlas Park DANCING! Weird, very weird!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
They are screwing up the connection by doing it. Same thing at the tailor in Steel City. Damn lag was so bad I almost couldn't get my suit changed. Boomboxes and dancing everywhere. Like a kid with a new toy, though, hopefully it'll wear off by this week end.
So anyway, I did tweak Gungnir's outfit. I like his look better now. I'll post a pic when I can get a good screenshot of him.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Okay here's the old look (left) vs. the new (right) for Gungnir.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey Scott, I like the new one lots better. The contrast makes it easier to see the design on the uniform.
How much did that cost to do or how does it work? I had heard that you have to run a mission for the tailor in order to get it done and that you automatically were able to gt a new uniform at lvls 20, 30, & 40. Other than that I thought it was a pretty high cost in influence points.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Actually it isn't too expensive unless you change actual features. For instance I changed out my glowing eyes face for the first face choice just to make Gung more realistic.
And you are right and wrong. Anyone can change their costume/features for a price. The only thing that cannot be changed is your body type (size, sex, etc). The minimum fee just for entering the tailor (if you don't cancel it) is 640 influence. For that you can change all of your colors (face, hair, costume, etc) until the cows come home. BUT once you start changing the actual look (hair, patterns, etc) then the fees begin. I don't know if it is a standard fee of about 1300 influence of if it changes depending on the feature being altered. And you can do this as many times as you have influence to spend but you cannot save your old one unless you pay to go back to it, recreating it.
Once you reach 20 (and then every 10th lvl after) you can take on a mission for the head tailor (there are regular Icon employees and a main tailor in the stores). This allows you to have a second (then third, fourth and fifth) costume you can change into. If you are part of a supergroup then you will still have that choice as well. So you can tailor your costume to suit your mood the higher you go. Maybe some civilian clothes or a business suit. A suit of armor for space missions. Whatever.
I'm not sure what the missions consist of yet nor do I know if you still have to pay for those extra tailorings or if they come free for completing the mission. I do like the fact we know have choices. Especially since I was in a rush when I created Gungnir and left the option to make the colors carry over into every aspect. I am much happier with his current look. Even though my friends keep saying I look like Jesus now.
Posted by Varalent on :
I think I can guess the answer to the following but do they allow you to change the powers?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Your guess is right.
The answer is no, btw. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hey, where was everyone one tonight? I thought we were going to keep, or try to keep, Wednesdays as our Legion meeting day.
Posted by Varalent on :
I was on until about 11:00. Kept checking back and forth between Virtue (with Condo) and Protector (with Varalent) but never saw anyone else online.
Sorry I missed you while you were on cause I could have used the company, Condo's at lvl 12 and making progress to 13 is difficult since I've got nothing but Steele Canyon, Boomtown & Perez Park missions being given to me. Getting to do lots of comparison shopping for hospitals
Maybe we can find a time this weekend for everyone to gather. I enjoy CoH either way but teaming up with friends is much more fun than soloing.
[ July 01, 2004, 03:16 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I wasn't able to get on but Caroline and Thomas (who plays Andrew) were on Virtue until 10:00 PM our time. I'm surprised you guys didn't run into each other or at least see each as being online. I need to get Garth up there so maybe I'll try to play him a bit this weekend.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Work has been so crazy lately, the backlog at home has been growing and growing, and I just had to tackle some of that pile last night.
We should do a task force this weekend. Beforehand, get Garth up to 11th level, hold Condo to 12, and I'll get Shadow Kid up to 11. What's Tas and Lar these days? My hubby has done several task forces, and he says the best chance to survive them is to be sure everyone is within a level. Even with one 13 and the rest 11 or 12, it can skew the mission so that the 11s die frequently. (He speaks from experience as one of those former 11s.) If you don't die too much, you're guaranteed to level at least once.
Things get really cool when we get past 20. He was playing with a team last night and got a mission in a CoT castle (at least that's what it looked like from the inside -- I didn't see the entrance), and there were these Daemon Lord things that looked awesome.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hmmmm? There was definitely some weird things happening yesterday. For a while there was no Atlas Park 2 or Kings Row 2 appearing for me (of course there was still some dancing going on ) maybe that had something to do with it.
As I said, I ended up spending some time in Steel Canyon trying to complete two missions (Clocks & 5th Column) but discovered that the hospital there is much pricier than good ol' Crowne Memorial! ) Cost me 350 debt each time!
Worst part is I mostly saw...and tried to run from (sometimes successfully ~ ususally not) lvl 16s & 17s. Poor Condo at 12 didn't stand a chance when he got caught. I think I finally worked off all my debt before calling it a night.
I will be on again tonight as I am just about every night so maybe I'll run into someone then.
Posted by Varalent on :
BTW, I have Varalent up to level 7 (almost 8) on Protector so I should be able to create our Supergroup over there shortly. It is definitely less congested and should be a good server for us to all start at the same level ~ maybe we can talk some more people here to join us and have a full Legion roster! Seymour is on there as well with his Starlad so as soon as I get the Legion group set up I'll pass the ownership of it over to him and then use Varalent to create an LMBP/LW group there as well
[ July 01, 2004, 06:38 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I think Garth is still at 7 but he's still low enough to gain levels pretty easy.
And I know what you mean by weird stuff Vee. Those duplicate cities (KR2 and such) are supposed to be there to help with server load. Since there has been no green light since the update there should be no reason why those second copies are not available to play on.
Plus, if all of those fools (and Caroline is, unfortunately, one of the) don't quit causing me to get booted or have extremely bad lag time because all they want to do is dance I'm going to find a way to make this game a PvP (player vs. player). Posted by Patch Lad on :
Sorry I couldn't make it last night, things have been crazy. I think Lar is up to 7 or 8 so he has some leveling to do. I think a TF would be a good idea, I haven't been in one of those yet. Let me know when you want to meet and I will try to be there.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Isn't there a minimum level for a task force? I thought you had to be in the double digits at least to take one on.
Posted by Varalent on :
I'm not sure either though I thought the same about needing to be in double digits. I'll put Condo on hold to wait for the rest to catch up to him and work on some of the others. If we can do a task force at lower than 10 levels I have Cosmic Rokk @ 9, Mysa & Rond @ 8, and I think the new I-Kid Lyle is at 5 or 6. Poor Brin is still languishing behind (I think he's a 4-5)
I'll check later and post the levels here so we can coordinate if it works out that we can do a task force mission.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: BTW, I have Varalent up to level 7 (almost 8) on Protector so I should be able to create our Supergroup over there shortly. It is definitely less congested and should be a good server for us to all start at the same level ~ maybe we can talk some more people here to join us and have a full Legion roster! Seymour is on there as well with his Starlad so as soon as I get the Legion group set up I'll pass the ownership of it over to him and then use Varalent to create an LMBP/LW group there as well
Maybe we should have a CoH Legion Try-out! Posted by Varalent on :
The server problems seem to continue. Seymour and I got completely knocked off Virtue for a while tonight. Not "Lost server connection" either. We got a "Mapserver disconnect" Took a while before we were able to get back on. Fortunately there was no problem on Protector so we were able to have some fun there in the meantime.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I had no problem hanging out on Triumph last night in Independce Port. As long as you stay away from the low level places (Atlas Park, Kings Row, Galaxy City) and the dancing fools, it all seems okay. The other night, right after the update, I kept getting the Mapserver Disconnect error every time I was near a group of people goofing off instead of playing.
And I finally managed to get Gungnir to 16th level last night. Seemed to have taken forever.
Posted by Varalent on :
Varalents almost at 10 so I should be able to create our group over on Protector shortly. Hopefully this will give us an option if things continue to be a problem on Virtue.
I think I'm going to call the supergroup "Legion of Super Protectors" but I'm open to any suggestions.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
And I finally managed to get Gungnir to 16th level last night. Seemed to have taken forever.
Congrats on getting to 16. The levels sure do get more and more difficult to attain.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
There's definitely something up with Virtue. It went down again last night, but I had no problem bopping around on other servers.
Let's set the task force for Monday. That gives the lower-than-11s a chance to level over the weekend. You do have to be 11 to do a TF. We can't sidekick anyone in. And we need at least 4 people.
Who's in and what time do we want to do it? RIght now, my Monday is wide open.
I'll send an email to Legionnaires not part of the board.
Posted by Varalent on :
Monday is fine with me. Wide open also. Just let me know when.
Condo is itching to get back in action! Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
I'll be out, I'm afraid...I'm pretty sure Drake's on Level 9 or 10, so he wouldn't qualify, and Drura is waaaaay behind. Besides, Monday and Thursdays are wrestling nights on TV... Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Bummer, Pex. A few hours today, and you'll be all levelled up and ready to go.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Varalents almost at 10 so I should be able to create our group over on Protector shortly. Hopefully this will give us an option if things continue to be a problem on Virtue.
I think I'm going to call the supergroup "Legion of Super Protectors" but I'm open to any suggestions.
As Shadow Lad would say "Woot!" Varalent has achieved level 10 and will be creating the Supergroup "Legion of Super Protectors" momentarily.
So everyone, be sure to create a hero on Protector server so we have a back up to use if Virtue continues to be a problem.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Why don't I read the messages here more often. I've been playing this game every weekend for the last 2 months and I had no idea that you guys have been on there. Unfortunately I have to play on a friend's computer (he doesn't mind too much) and can only play on Saturdays. My own computer and connection are just way too slow right now. I'm hoping to fix that situation soon.
I'm at my own computer right now so I don't know exactly what servers my characters are on. I have a lvl. 11 (?) Super Lad Kid who's a blaster, a lvl. 11 Dr. Psyke who's a defender, and a few more that I never really spent much time on.
If you guys are planning on Playing Monday, I just might be around. What server are you planning on playing on? Which characters should I look out for? Are you playing with Legion-esque characters or just any originals?
I get so addicted to this game every time I play it. I've been meaning to get a new computer for awhile now, but this game has finally convinced me to do it sooner rather than later.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Glad to hear you're playing, Super Lad Kid.
Legionnaires of Virtue is an SG on the Virtue server for Legion fans with or without Legion-inspired characters (though it can be more fun with Legion-inspired characters, especially when we get recognized).
For the task force on Monday, it has to be a level 11 or 12 character -- and it doesn't have to be an SG member. We need to get at least four people. When do you think you'll be on? We need to set a time soon.
Whenever you play on Virtue, look for Saturn Lady, Cosmic Rokk, Tasmia Mallor, Garth Ranzz or Lar Gand. They can invite you into the SG. Other members include Shadow Lad, Drakefire, Andrew Nolan and Flame Sidhe -- and Vee's 500 characters.
Vee's starting up on Protector. I'm Starlad there. I forget all his IDs, but they're on earlier pages.
[ July 04, 2004, 05:59 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Varalent on :
SLK, I beleive we will be on Virtue server on Monday. We are all Legionesque characters there. Some of us have more than one. I think they're all mentioned on this thread somewhere, but I'll try to list all the ones I can remember:
Suddenly Seymour: Shadow Lad Saturn Lady RJB + non-legion heroes Chiilflare & Dark iris
Pex: Drakefire Gravity Lad Cosmo Girl Zero (a femaleversion of Cos whom we've never met ~ hint, hint, Pex) + nonlegion heroes J-Frost, Xenoblade, & Template
Patch Lad: Lar Gand
Scott: Garth Ranzz
Caroline: Tasmia Mallor + non Legion heroine Lady Maleficent
Thomas (non LW friend of Scott & Caroline): Andrew Nolan
We have a supergroup on Virtue called "Legionnaires of Virtue" that also has a few none LW members including Mon' el & Flame Sidhe
Some of us are also on other servers. I have a few on Triumph server as do Caroline & Scott & Thomas. I'm BlueMage & CometKid on Triumph, Scott is Gungnir. I think Caroline is also Lady Maleficient & Lady Demonica and their friend Thomas is Blue Battler.
I just created a Supergroup on Protector server because Virtue is super crowded. The "Legion of Super Protectors" was founded by my Varalent character (lvl 10 blaster). I have a few other legionesque heroes there as well and Seymour already has one.
Suddenly Seymour: Starlad
Vee: Varalent Emerald Emprix Pol Storm Kid FireLad Marvel Lad (Mon) Night Lass E Lad
We're hoping that others will create some on Protector as well so we can all level up together. All of ours (with the exception of Varalent) are lvl 2 or 3 while we wait for the others.
Finally, I have miscellaneous heroes on other servers as well. (Can you tell I love the creation process as much or more than the actually playing? ) and some of the others may as well. Mine are:
Killowatt Kid - Victory server Vigilante Greg - Victory Server Cubanisimo - Freedom server
Not sure what anyone else may have but I'm sure some are on other servers as well. Just post your server info here and changes are someone will find you. And go ahead and create one on Virtue & Protector if you're not already there.
Look forward to seeing you in Paragon!
[ July 04, 2004, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
PS to SLK and everyone: Please don't be put off or intimidated by my apparent horde (hording?) of characters. I'm by no means trying to reserve them all for myself. Go right ahead and create any of the same ones yourself. I just enjoy the variety and if you're on with yours I'll play one of my others.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Thanks for all the info, Vee, and don't worry about hording too many characters. Lessee if I can list all of the ones I created -
Super Lad Kid - Science Blaster
Dr. Psyke - Magic Defender
Mini Mite - Natural Tanker
Holy Inquisitor - Mutant Scrapper
Rose Thorne - Mutant Defender
Lord Akafis - Natural Tanker
Dragon Ohm - Mutant Blaster
Robotomech - Technology Tanker
Other than the first two, none of these characters are much above three or four levels. Like you, I have as much if not more fun creating characters than actually playing them. I think I like Blasters and Defenders best. My tankers die way too much. The problem with Defenders is that they need help after a certain point to do their missions.
[ July 04, 2004, 10:07 AM: Message edited by: Super Lad Kid ]
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
I think I might make a Legion-related character for the Protector server, or maybe another Super Lad Kid. I don' think I have any characters on the virtue server that are even close to level 11 or 12, so I just might skip that one.
Posted by Varalent on :
SLk: Don't give up on Virtue, most of those on the list are in the 6-8 range, so if you have a character on Virtue bring him/her along. Besides Condo can sidekick you if needed.
You may not be able to take part in the taskforce tomorrow (if we manage to pull it off) but you'll have alot of fun otherwise with the group.
But defintiley create someone on Protector and let us know who you are (and which servers for each one) so we can invite & friend you.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: Thanks for all the info, Vee, and don't worry about hording too many characters. Lessee if I can list all of the ones I created -
Super Lad Kid - Science Blaster
Dr. Psyke - Magic Defender
Mini Mite - Natural Tanker
Holy Inquisitor - Mutant Scrapper
Rose Thorne - Mutant Defender
Lord Akafis - Natural Tanker
Dragon Ohm - Mutant Blaster
Robotomech - Technology Tanker
Other than the first two, none of these characters are much above three or four levels. Like you, I have as much if not more fun creating characters than actually playing them. I think I like Blasters and Defenders best. My tankers die way too much. The problem with Defenders is that they need help after a certain point to do their missions.
I like blasters & defenders best as well. The nice part about the group is that all five types have crucial roles and do better as a group than on their own. That's why we have so much fun.
Posted by Danny Blaine on :
WOW. I guess I should have checked on here. I've been playing on Pinnacle.
MY Guys: all on Pinnacle...
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Posted by Varalent on :
DB: Why don't you create one on Protector & on Virtue? We're all having a real blast when we get everyone together.
I've never been on Pinnacle but now that I have incentive I just may have to check it out Posted by Varalent on :
Yeah!!!! Woot! Woot! Just found out that Frostfyre will be joining us in Paragon as soon as he gets his game installed and his characters up! Posted by Danny Blaine on :
OK I just made Danny Blaine on Virtue. I may already I will make Danny Blain on Protector now.
Posted by Varalent on :
Great! I'll look for you
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
All righty, I'm going to officially announce it. The Legionnaires of Virtue task force will take place at 1 p.m. EST on the Virtue Server. Let's meet up near the AP1 trainer, and then I'll go to Positron (I think he's in Steel Canyon) to get the mission.
All characters must be 11 or 12. Sorry, they don't allow Sidekicking to reach that level. That's got to be your original level.
So far, we have Shadow Lad and Condo confirmed. Anyone else? If we don't have enough, I'll just put out a Broadcast to get us at least 5. (4 is the minimum, but I'd rather have 5.)
Hope to see you there!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Unfortunately Garth won't make it. We tried last night to work on getting him up to at least 10 but he's still a mid-range 7. Virtue kept freezing up or giving me Mapserver errors. In three hours of play I managed to earn a whole 300-odd XP.
BTW, Positron is next to Valkyrie in Blyde Square (I think its Blyde) in Steel. But be careful. The last couple of times I've been there since the update there have been attacks by level 32 villains. There has been a lot of carnage there.
Posted by Varalent on :
Well since it's pouring here and the fireworks displays have been cancelled I simply have no choice but to spend all night on CoH!
Join me if you'd like.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Great. Now I'm all paranoid about the Virtue server's problems. They better not ruin our task force!!!!!!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We got booted off for a bit tonight. Maybe 10 minutes totally inaccessible. And bad lag at times. But I was able to get Garth up to 10th level in one felled swoop of killing everything that moved in KR. Thanks for all the help tonight guys!
Posted by Varalent on :
and gals ! Don't know what would have become of you without Mysa! Posted by Varalent on :
And it was loads of fun having Danny along. Glad you were able to make it DB!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Definitely! It was fun having Danny around.
And Mysa is easy on the eyes. Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Danny's Porcupine Pete is great!
Sorry I had to bail on you this afternoon. My hubby wasn't expecting to have to work a 12-hour shift two days in a row during what was supposed to be a three-day weekend (he had his own task force planned for today), and he sounded so depressed when he called to let me know, I had to do something for him since we weren't doing our TF.
As for the task force, I'm sorry it didn't happen, but I'm excited for an all-Legion TF next weekend. Feel free to play your characters up to 12 this week. As long as we stay in the 11-12 range we'll be OK. I've heard the level of the bad guys you face is the same as the highest-trained level on the team, so more than just Condo being a 12 wouldn't be bad.
Once we're in, we'll have to be careful about training. You can train during the middle of a task force. Anyone who's a 12 who levels to 13 should wait until everyone else has reached 12. Even without training, though, you still get the higher hit points and better damage.
I never heard back from Mon 'El or Flame Sidhe, but maybe they can make it next week. I know I can't do Saturday night, and my brother is coming by sometime during the weekend, but I don't know when yet. Hopefully, we can do Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
Hey, Vee, any chance you could get another computer and account this week so you can play Condo and Mysa? (Hmm, I wonder if the hubby would be willing to play Saturn Lady for us ...)
[ July 05, 2004, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Varalent on :
I'm really looking forward to the Task Force and I'm glad we decided to wait until more of us were up to level 11 instead of doing it with others. You never really know what the other players are like as we discovered yesterday after you took off Seymour.
Porcupine Pete (Super Lad Kid), Garth (Scott), Tasmia (Caroline), Andrew Nolan (Scott & Caroline's friend, Thomas) & Mysa decided to head into Perez later in the day and ended up teamed up with a rather "forward" lvl 8 tanker that kept hitting on Mysa.
Our newest Legionniare, Porcupine Pete was very gallant and kept trying to protect her from his advances (Mysa sends Pete a VERY big smile and hug) but it got to be so annoying that we finally broke for dinner and logged off in order to get rid of him. Before logging off, Mysa had the last laugh, however.
As we were heading back to the gate out of Perez, this moron really got annoying and went so far as to say that Mysa now belonged to him. Being a rather headstrong girl, Mysa didn't take kindly to that and told him that she didn't belong to anyone. She then thanked everyone for a fun time and told Mr. Moron something like "Next time maybe I'll bring my other character, Cosmic Rokk. He's a level 11 (she fibbed) tanker that can probably sidekick you if you'd like (sweet smile)."
It was fun to watch him realize that Mysa might be a little more than he perceived. Andrew laughed his head off all the way back to Atlas Park! This did cause us to agree that we would not bring anyone into a team up in the future unless one of us could vouch for him or her. Most of the other players are nice but you do run into some real jerks that take all the fun out of it.
On another note, we all popped over to Protector later and Varalent inducted Super Lad Kid, Scott's Sun Boy, Caroline's Silver Chalice (Mordru's granddaughter), and Thomas' Dox 5.1 into the Legion of Super Protectors. I made everyone a Founder so that there are plenty of people to induct other members into the group.
Finally, it was really great having our newest recruits (SLK's Porcupine Pete and DB's Danny Blaine) join us this weekend. Can't wait to get some others on as well.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
It was a blast, Vee. Thanks for giving me the heads up about it. It's nice being able to team up with people that you already know about. I've found myself in some pretty lousy groups before, but was stuck in them in order to get a mission done.
I doubt I'll be able to get Porcupine Pete up to level 11 by this weekend. I left him at just a bar under lvl. 9 with a bit of debt to work off. But since I can only play on the weekends, I may have to sit out the task force mission. Thanks to all for helping level last night, though! If any of you decide to work on the Protector server, I'll gladly lend a hand there.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Hey, Vee, any chance you could get another computer and account this week so you can play Condo and Mysa? (Hmm, I wonder if the hubby would be willing to play Saturn Lady for us ...)
Hmmmmmmmm......but since they (Condo & Mysa) are both on the same account I don't think it would work anyway.
Very tempting though since we've seen how useful Mysa can be on these missions. I wouldn't want to give up Condo's firepower, however if you guys think Mysa would be more valuable to have along, I'll make sure she's leveled to 12 and use her instead.
PS: Saturn Lady would be awesome to have along if your hubby would join us on the task force. Teleport cound be very useful on the task force, along with her other skills.
[ July 06, 2004, 05:49 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: It was a blast, Vee. Thanks for giving me the heads up about it. It's nice being able to team up with people that you already know about. I've found myself in some pretty lousy groups before, but was stuck in them in order to get a mission done.
I doubt I'll be able to get Porcupine Pete up to level 11 by this weekend. I left him at just a bar under lvl. 9 with a bit of debt to work off. But since I can only play on the weekends, I may have to sit out the task force mission. Thanks to all for helping level last night, though! If any of you decide to work on the Protector server, I'll gladly lend a hand there.
Let's see... if you spend all day Sat working on getting Pete up to lvl 11 and we schedule the task force for Sunday.... Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Hey, Vee, any chance you could get another computer and account this week so you can play Condo and Mysa? (Hmm, I wonder if the hubby would be willing to play Saturn Lady for us ...)
Hmmmmmmmm......but since they (Condo & Mysa) are both on the same account I don't think it would work anyway.
Very tempting though since we've seen how useful Mysa can be on these missions. I wouldn't want to give up Condo's firepower, however if you guys think Mysa would be more valuable to have along, I'll make sure she's leveled to 12 and use her instead.
PS: Saturn Lady would be awesome to have along if your hubby would join us on the task force. Teleport cound be very useful on the task force, along with her other skills.
Or maybe I can create a seperate account and create another Condo & get him up to 12 this week and let someone else (maybe SLK) play him during the task force mission...or....
Okay maybe I'm obsessing about this too much! Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Hey, Vee, any chance you could get another computer and account this week so you can play Condo and Mysa? (Hmm, I wonder if the hubby would be willing to play Saturn Lady for us ...)
Hmmmmmmmm......but since they (Condo & Mysa) are both on the same account I don't think it would work anyway.
Very tempting though since we've seen how useful Mysa can be on these missions. I wouldn't want to give up Condo's firepower, however if you guys think Mysa would be more valuable to have along, I'll make sure she's leveled to 12 and use her instead.
PS: Saturn Lady would be awesome to have along if your hubby would join us on the task force. Teleport cound be very useful on the task force, along with her other skills.
Or maybe I can create a seperate account and create another Condo & get him up to 12 this week and let someone else (maybe SLK) play him during the task force mission...or....
Okay maybe I'm obsessing about this too much!
...or maybe not enough!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We (Thomas, Caroline and I) stuck around for a bit last night and managed to get 5.1, Lasa and Dirk each up to level 5.
Dirk is a blast. I've never played a fire controller before and his main fireball seems to have quite a range to it already. Can't wait to be able to make him a sniper with it. As with Garth, I'm going to try to keep him as true to his character as possible so no teleport for either one. I love that power though.
Garth still needs a little work to get to 11 but hopefully I can do so by this weekend. If we try for the TF that would be the best time for me. It'll be the last weekend to play before the con. The following week and weekend will be spent getting work ready to run without me and the household set up for Caroline's parents.
Posted by Varalent on :
Scott be sure to post a pic of Sun Boy, Lasa & Dox 5.1 here. They all looked great!
PS: Speaking of pics...we still need to get a group pic done.
PPS: Are we still doing Legion night on Wednesday this week? I'm game and Scott could work on leveling Garth.
[ July 06, 2004, 07:59 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I think we can be available for Legion Wednesday. It'll give us a chance to try to get a new group pic. And I'll get a pic of us when we are on Protector again.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I should be able to hop on for at least enough time to do a group pic Wednesday. I can probably hijack my hubby's computer for a few minutes so we can get Saturn Lady and Shadow Lad in it. But with all Vee's characters, we'll need a little of your Photoshop magic.
And Vee, if you can level a new character to 12 in one week, we're going to have to have an intervention and send you to Gamers Anonymous. Posted by Varalent on :
Keep in mind that the only reason I'm spending so much time on the computer is that my good ol' doctor has ORDERED me to cut back on any unnecessary outside activities for the time being (my compromise with him in order to get permission to return to work ). Since I can't go out and get into trouble with my volunteer stuff, I really have no choice but to play CoH or I'd go stir crazy.
(Now that I think of it, maybe I have gone stir crazy and this is all a fantasy world I'm living in )
In any case, it would be challenging but given the amount of time I have on my hands, certainly doable. Remember SLK got Porcupine Pete up to a level 6-7 in one day from scratch! Bet I could do it easily given a week before the task force.
Posted by Varalent on :
I was very tempted...but I created another member of my menagerie instead. I'll post a pic when I get a chance but we now have a scrapper named Kid Karate Val on Virtue (only one slot left there now ~ wonder who I can fill it with ). Love watching Val kick butt (literally) The martial arts path appears to be really cool.
Andrew & Tasmia got to meet him earlier tonight and they inducted him into the Legionnaires of Virtue so be sure to say hi if you see him.
BTW, Andrew, Tas and Mysa then went hunting and Mysa reached level 12. She now has recall friend (teleport) which should bw helpful to Garth. From now on, every time he dies in the midst of battle, Mysa will be able to teleport him to safety and rez him. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I think it only appropriate for the Legionnaire who has died the most to live up to that in CoH.
Honestly, being a blaster is great but it gets you the kind of fans you really don't want.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Keep in mind that the only reason I'm spending so much time on the computer is that my good ol' doctor has ORDERED me to cut back on any unnecessary outside activities for the time being (my compromise with him in order to get permission to return to work ). Since I can't go out and get into trouble with my volunteer stuff, I really have no choice but to play CoH or I'd go stir crazy.
(Now that I think of it, maybe I have gone stir crazy and this is all a fantasy world I'm living in )
Now that's my kind of doctor.
I figured it was something like that. I'd probably be going a bit nuts if I had those same restrictions -- work and straight home, but don't DO anything. I'm glad you found something we can all share. Heck, I'm glad we all found this so we can hang out.
But I will admit, in the back of my mind, I was thinking about the MMORPG-addiction story I wrote a few months ago for my parenting magazine. I'm glad it's nothing like that, and I'm sorry if I offended.
As for the task force, shall we say 1 p.m. EST on Sunday?
Posted by Varalent on :
No offense perceived or taken Seymour. Expressions of concern can never be offensive, IMHO.
1PM Sunday works for me. BTW, how much time do task force missions usually take? I haven't the faintest idea if it's a couple of hours or deep into the early morning hours on Monday (kidding )
Hope to see everyone on tonight. Just remember, if some unknown Legionnaire comes up to you (or sends you a tell) and says "Hi!", smile you're in Vee's company! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've been told by more than one person that task forces have a set time of 6 hours to complete. I don't know if that is true or not, just what I've heard.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
So what time tonight?
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
It's 8:30 EST, and I'm hopping on now.
And expect the task force to take about 4 to 5 hours since none of us will be familiar with it.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Current server status:
Freedom UP Justice DOWN Pinnacle UP Virtue DOWN Liberty UP Guardian DOWN Infinity UP Protector DOWN Victory UP Champion DOWN Triumph UP
The only working server I have a character on is Triumph. This is really starting to suck.
I blame Imra and Tas for breaking out that damn boombox and dancing in the middle of a mission.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Drat! And we were doing so well, too. At least we completed the mission. A few more like that, and we would have had Saturn Lady ready to go for the TF.
[ July 07, 2004, 07:08 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I hope it counts as completed. It wouldn't be the first mission I got screwed out of since all of these server problems began.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
So what's the deal with the TF? Are we restricting it to lvl 12 only? I've got Garth to 11 but if I can't play tonight (and there is only about 90 minutes I have left for that) then I won't get a chance to lvl him to 12. Isn't 11 high enough?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I SPROCKIN' GIVE UP!
Were we just cursed tonight to always be on the server that was nassed up? If this is what their first update does I don't want to be around when they launch City of Villains next year.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: So what's the deal with the TF? Are we restricting it to lvl 12 only? I've got Garth to 11 but if I can't play tonight (and there is only about 90 minutes I have left for that) then I won't get a chance to lvl him to 12. Isn't 11 high enough?
They can be lvl 11 or 12. Can't get admission into a Task Force with less than 11 and we want to keep from going past 12 so everyone is within 1 level of each other. You are already qualified at 11 so no need to worry (though 12 would be nice )
We should get a list of those at 11 or 12 that will be available and interested.
So far, I know of the following:
Garth Ranzz (11) Tasmia Mallor (12) Shadow Lad (12) Andrew Nolan (11) Condo or Mysa (both 12)
Possible if they can reach lvl 11 by Sunday 1PM Eastern (since you can't join the TF after the group has started)
Saturn Lady (9/10 - not sure which) Drakefire (9) Porcupine Pete (7/8 I think) Lar Gand (I think Lar's either 11 or 12 but I don't know if he's available on Sunday)
Please confirm the above so we know and add any others I may have missed.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I SPROCKIN' GIVE UP!
Were we just cursed tonight to always be on the server that was nassed up? If this is what their first update does I don't want to be around when they launch City of Villains next year.
Yeah, it seemed that the trouble just followed us around tonight. Too bad, the sewer mission was great with everyone involved.
Hopefully, we got it out of our system so we don't have a problem on Sunday!
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Sorry, guys, but I don't think there's any way I'll be able to get Porcupine Pete ready to play by Sunday. Even ifI do, Sunday's not a good day to play. Right now Pete's just a couple bars short of Level 9. It's going to be slow until I can make some major upgrades - which just might happen before the summer ends!
Posted by Varalent on :
That's too bad SLK, Pete was lots of fun to have in the group. Maybe you'll be ready for the next time we do a TF.
PS: Be sure to let us know if this changes by any chance!
Posted by Varalent on :
You know, the more I think about it the more I wish there was some way to allow another registered player to have access to one of your characters ~ particularly in the case of TF missions. Perhaps by providing a "permission" option which can be turned on/off by the character's owner.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: You know, the more I think about it the more I wish there was some way to allow another registered player to have access to one of your characters ~ particularly in the case of TF missions. Perhaps by providing a "permission" option which can be turned on/off by the character's owner.
That would be cool. The characters exist on the servers, I think, so that should make it theoretically possible and not too hard. You should mention it on the message boards.
Posted by Varalent on :
Boy oh boy! Have I got a surprise for all of you! Can't wait to show you my latest! You are NOT going to believe what fun we're going to have on Virtue now!
(I told you I had one more slot to fill there )
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Don't forget -- task force at 1 p.m. EST Sunday. Meet near the trainer in Atlas Park. I got Saturn Lady levelled up, so she and Shadow Lad will be joining us. Vee, unless another blaster shows up, go ahead and play Condo.
Woo hoo!
Posted by Varalent on :
Seymour, are we sure that we're better off with Condo (lvl 12) blaster than Mysa (lvl 12 defender with Healing / Rez and energy blast)? Remember Garth will be with us
Just want to be sure we have the best group we can put together. In either case, I'll be sure to have both of them topped out on enhancements without going past lvl 12
[ July 11, 2004, 06:09 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
15 minutes to the start of the TF. So why are you here reading this instead of logging on to CoH?
I'm waiting!
[ July 11, 2004, 09:44 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Well it was a fun attempt while it lasted. Vee, I hope your computer is okay since Condo never showed back up. Seymour, same to you. We missed have SL around but I hope your computer didn't get fried.
Posted by Pex the Unalive on :
I haven't been on all week, mainly due to being too worn out from cleaning the house inside out. Wouldn't have mattered if I had gotten Drake up the proper level since our internet connection (and cable) has been out for most of the day... Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Thanks, Scott. Mike never did find out what exactly was happening, but things seem to be up and running OK now.
At least I was able to get Shadow Lad up a level and get him a new power. It was tough to choose.
As for the ridiculous difficulty of the TF, here's what Mike heard back and his response to them:
RE: Positron Task Force.
> > FROM: Saturn Lady > > > > this damn thing spawns level 16 bad guys > > even though the team members are all 11 > > and 12 level. We can't even HIT the bad > > guys. And this is supposed to be FUN? > > Discussion Thread > Response (Jeff) 07/11/2004 02:28 PM > > This is normal. Task forces are designed > to give heroes the maximum level cap of > mobs for the mission. So a level 16 mob > is quite acceptable for positron. Thank > you. > When a team of 8 heroes at levels 11 and 12 get mobs of level 16 enemies, the heroes are unable to **hit** the enemies, let alone kill them, and the heroes die. And they die. And they die again.
You should NOT advertise this one as being for Levels 11-15 or whatever it is. Don't be misleading and make players think that their level 11 heroes will be able to complete this task force when you know very well that they will not. Make it levels 13-15. Level 11 and 12 heroes are unable to successfully navigate this taskforce with mobs of solid purple enemies. I have played several TFs previously (with higher-leveled heroes) and never seen such a ridiculously high gap in enemy-vs-player levels.
Nor have I EVER been so frustrated, nor felt so misled, with the game that I am PAYING to play.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
And we already have an update:
> Response (GM Critters) 07/11/2004 07:52 PM > Hi, > > What was the highest level character in your task force? This > is what the mob spawn is based on. If your highest level was > level 12, and the mobs were spawning level 16 mobs, this may > be something that we need to look into. Any additional > information will be helpful.
> The highest level characters on the TF were level 12. We had > three 12's and > a few level 11's. Task force was started on Virtue Server > (separate issue: > when is this one gonna stop crashing? ;-) )at approximately > 13:00 today > (Eastern time). I do NOT recall what out Task Force teamname > was, I'm sorry.
> Hi, > > I am transferring your ticket to our QA team for further > review as a bug report. Your ticket may be set to "Solved" > once they review it without further correspondence if it is > not necessary. Someone will respond again if more information > is needed. Please be aware that our QA team is not available > on the weekends. Take care. > GM Critters
Posted by Varalent on :
Condo finally did make it back after numerous failed attempts and a few "almosts". Wish I hadn't tried so hard at that point however. Got killed two times when I reconnected and immediately lost mapserve. Apparently you can die while frozen in place with no connection. Ended up with 1250 in debt without landing a punch, or even seeing anyone I could hit!
I did finally manage to get Condo out of Steel City but he'll have a tough time working off that debt!
Posted by Varalent on :
Also wonder why the hospital in Steel City is located up north in an area infested with higher level baddies instead of down near the the yellow line train. If you get killed, you have to navigate through the entire city, running a gauntlet of baddies lining the streets & taking pot shots at you that "hit" you for 50-100 points each. Sheesh!!!
Fortunately, Condo had hover, so I was able to fly above them with his tail between his legs Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
This is just a question out of curiosity. What type of conection do you use to play this game? I'm going to be moving later this month where I will have the possibility of getting a fster connection. I don't think I could afford a cable modem connection. Does anyone play just using a regular dial-up connection? I'd like to be able to play in the comfort of my own place without having to mooch off my buddy's computer on weekends.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: This is just a question out of curiosity. What type of conection do you use to play this game? I'm going to be moving later this month where I will have the possibility of getting a fster connection. I don't think I could afford a cable modem connection. Does anyone play just using a regular dial-up connection? I'd like to be able to play in the comfort of my own place without having to mooch off my buddy's computer on weekends.
SLK: I only have a dial-up connection & it plays just fine for me. (And you know how much time I spend there ) CoH is designed to work with a 56K modem so you should be fine even if you don't get a high speed dsl connection.
I also don't think I've had any more (or less) trouble with lost mapserve connections than anyone else so I don't think the type of connection you use is the problem.
Hope you are able to get set up at home. I suspect we'll get to see Pete (& others) more often once you've moved. Posted by Varalent on :
Hey Seymour: Any further word from the GMs about the Task Force? And are we going to attempt it again when we get everyone up in the 13-15 range? I would loved to get back there and kick some nass after what they did to us on Sunday
Condo is now at lvl 13. After lots of "arrest" last night, he was finally able to pay off his debt as well. However, I think next time, it should definitely be Mysa that participates. We really needed a full healer along, although I'm not sure even that would have saved us against all those 16s!
[ July 13, 2004, 05:48 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Garth is still at 11. Haven't tried logging back in since the TF try on Sunday. It seems I have the worst luck, server-wise, when I try to play him.
Caroline ran into a group of players for married people the other day. Kind of fun knowing that we aren't the only couples playing the game. And the oldest among them is in his 60's which made Caroline feel better. I created a Tanker (only my second one) with a Western look. Still haven't 'met' my wife online though. Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Mike got an email requesting more information specific to our team, but I haven't heard what they did with it. But at least it sounds like the TF was messed up, and we won't have to deal with that in the future.
I definitely want to try again. TFs seem to be the most time-effective way of levelling. As far as levelling beforehand, I guess it depends on when we try again. I won't be able to play at all until August after this Thursday, and I don't know if I'll be able to get on this week.
Once everyone is in the 11-15 range, we can compensate a bit for any differences because we can SK. So if Condo and Tas hit 15 but Garth and Shadow Lad are at 12, they can be SKed up to 14. The key will be keeping things even.
Once Drakefire gets levelled up enough, by all means Mysa should join us. We do need the blaster firepower, though. I don't think we got a good example of how things will go.
Posted by Varalent on :
Are you implying, sir, that Mysa doesn't have firepower! I'd be careful the next time you see her. She won't like that at all!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Mysa has firepower, but in a situation like we'll probably be in, she won't have time to use it -- she'll be too busy healing. After I did my snipe, I was barely using my other powers because I was just hitting heal as fast as I could.
Posted by Varalent on :
Ohh, that's okay then! She just gets a little peeved when people underestimate her magic casting. Posted by Varalent on :
Are we on for Legion night tonight at 9 PM Eastern?
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Garth is still at 11. Haven't tried logging back in since the TF try on Sunday. It seems I have the worst luck, server-wise, when I try to play him.
Caroline ran into a group of players for married people the other day. Kind of fun knowing that we aren't the only couples playing the game. And the oldest among them is in his 60's which made Caroline feel better. I created a Tanker (only my second one) with a Western look. Still haven't 'met' my wife online though.
Scott:
For what it's worth, the mapserve issues seem to have gotten much better this week (so far!) I think I've only lost connection once or twice since Sunday on Virtue.
BTW, last night I saw a couple playing on Virtue server. Called themselve Mighty Mom & Dyno Dad. Didn't chat with them but they looked like they were having a good time. If I recall correctly, they were about lvl 4-5 blasters.
Posted by Varalent on :
Not sure if any of you know the answer to this question but...are the Dual Origin enhancements that much better than training enhancements? Condo is now at a point where he can use them so I stopped in the store last night to be nosey. I knew DO's were expensive so that didn't catch me off guard but I noticed that they have power levels as well.
So, how does a 15 DO that increases endurance compare to training endurance cost reduction of 15? Or is it more like a 30 or 20 or 50 or ???????
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
All about Enhancements…
Planning which Enhancements to equip to your hero’s Power is strategically vital to ensure maximum effectiveness from your hero.
The small number under the Enhancement is the level of that particular Enhancement. Heroes can equip Enhancements that are 3 levels below their Security Level up to 2 levels above their Security Level.
Example: A Level 15 hero can equip a level 12 enhancement to a level 17 enhancement.
The levels of an enhancement can also be identified by color.
Green = Higher Bonus
White = Normal Bonus
Yellow = Lesser Bonus
Red = No Bonus
“Training Enhancements” can be equipped by heroes of any Origin. They provide a slight bonus to the Power it is equipped to.
“Dual Origin Enhancements” are Enhancements with increased bonus because they can only be equipped by heroes of specific Origins depending on the Enhancement definition, which can be found in the Description (ie. Mutation, Science).
“Single Origin Enhancements” offers the greatest benefit to a power when equipped and are specific to only that Origin.
Combining or Stacking?
Stacking an Enhancement is defined as having two identical Enhancements in two or more different slots of a power.
Example: A level 10 Damage Enhancement in Slot 1 and a level 10 Damage enhancement in Slot 2 under the Power Brawl.
Combining an enhancement is the taking two powers and merging them to create a higher level power.
Example: A level 10 Damage enhancement in Slot 1, click on it, and combine it with another level 10 Damage enhancement in the Enhancement Inventory to form a 10+ Damage enhancement (which is as effective as a Level 11 Damage Enhancement).
Stacking Enhancements is much more effective than combining Enhancements and will provide more of a bonus to that Power. However, Powers have their own individual limits on how many Enhancements that can be stacked. This limit is very high and cannot be reached by adding Enhancements alone.
You don’t have to pick one or the other. You can still receive a benefit from your Powers if you have stacked in a Power a level 10+ and a level 11+. It all depends on what level your hero is, and what the Power level/type of an enhancement you are equipping.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
And for good measure:
Where are the Enhancement stores located?
This is the list of different enhancement store and their location.
Agent Six - Founder's Falls
Biotech Nix - Independence Port (Crey Cove), Talos Island (New Sparta )
Deimos Innovations - Independence Port (Crey Cove), Talos Island (New Sparta )
Exarches Industries - Talos Island (New Troy ), Independence Port
Freedom Corp Basic Training - Steel Canyon ( Bronze Way ), Skyway City (Astral District)
Freedom Corp Special Forces - Independence Port (Industry Pier), Talos Island (New Thebus)
Future Dynamics - Independence Port (Wave Landing), Talos Island (New Sparta )
Holstein Armitage - Bricks Town
Image Inc - Skyway City (The Gruff), Steel Canyon (Grimy Ridge)
Mark IV - Founder's Falls (The Gaspee),
Orion Labs - Steel Canyon (Near Talos Island Tram), Skyway City ( Vista Plaza )
Pandora's Box - Steel Canyon ( Platinum Lake ) Skyway City ( Vista Plaza )
Penny Preston - Founder's Falls (Liberty Town)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Are we on for Legion night tonight at 9 PM Eastern?
Caroline and I will try to be there. Not sure I'll be home in time. And Thomas may not make it. He lost power during the bad storms yesterday in IL and, as of this morning, still does not have power at home.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey Scott, where did you find that info? Certainly not in the game manual that comes with the cd.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
What makes you think I didn't know it off the top of my head?
Actually, City of Heroes FAQ is quite extensive and easily searchable. Just go here to start.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: What makes you think I didn't know it off the top of my head?
Just a guess! Posted by ferroboy on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Would have been fun if it didn't cost so much per month I can't imagine many of us here willing to subscribe at $30/month
$30? Did the price go up? I only played it the first month, but it was only $15 at the time. The only reason I stopped is because my graphics card apparently isn't up to the task of giving me color in the game.
Posted by Varalent on :
No, that was inaccurate information early on in this thread. It still works out to about $15/month.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Not sure if any of you know the answer to this question but...are the Dual Origin enhancements that much better than training enhancements?
My DO enhancements have been a mixed bag so far. I scrimped and saved and bought several 15s in anticipation of becoming level 12.
There is a noticeable change in the accuracy of my heals with that enhancement, more than I think I would expect from a training enhancement. But I'm disappointed with the healing enhancement. Before installing the 15 heal, I had a 9++ in there and was healing 54 per use. With the enhancement, I'm healing 61. That's more than a 10% increase, but it doesn't strike me as being much more than I would have gotten with a 15 training enhancement for a lot less money. I haven't noticed that much of a difference with my 15 DO recharge reduction on that either. (Can you tell I'm really trying to boost Shadow Lad's healing potential to make him more useful?)
As for my damage DO's, I've noticed a significant increase in my snipe damage, but not as significant with my other damage power.
I guess you REALLY see the difference once you start stacking them (as opposed to combining them). And don't waste your money buying extra DO enhancements if you're going to combine. You just won't get anywhere close to enough bang for your buck.
As for tonight, we've got to start packing now that most of the laundry is done, but I'll be hopping on for a little while.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Task force update:
>> Discussion Thread >> Response (Vyvyanne) 07/15/2004 06:02 PM >> The missions for Positron, despite being available starting >> at level 10 are all set to level 15. This means you can see >> a range of mobs from level 13-17. This is why it is only >> recommended for a full group of players level 13 or higher, >> but is available for lower so you can decide how much of a >> challenge you want.
> [===> Please enter your reply below this line <===] I fail to see the logic in allowing players to enter a mission when you, the developers and QA staff are *fully aware* that those players will *not* be able to actually hit any of the enemies, thereby instilling frustration, in your PAYING customer, for your product, as well as making the customers feel misled that they would be able to fulfill the TF missions.
Nowhere in-game have I *ever* seen notification that the Positron TF was intended for 13-15. If the TF is intended for 13-15, then make that common knowledge instead of this seemingly shady "10-15" range that is patently false.
To make sure that I understand: You, COH's QA staff, are telling me that the level 16 mob spawns, that are purple cons for a group of 11 and 12 heroes, is by *design*? You, the staff that creates and supports COH, *designed* the game to spawn mobs of creatures in TF missions that you know the paying customers will not be able to defeat? Am I understanding this correctly?
Thank you for all your efforts on this.
> [===> Please enter your reply above this line <===]
So it looks like we'd better try to level up before attempting again so we can SK anyone who doesn't make it. Hold Condo to 15 or he won't be able to join us.
Bastards.
Posted by Varalent on :
Not to worry, Condo's having a hard time staying alive on his latest mission...and it's in Kings Row!!! Burnser (Hellions Boss)has goten him three time in a row and each time has fully recharged before Condo could get back from the hospital.
Guess I should probably save this one for a team up with a healer. It's the only way I think I'll be able to "arrest" him.
Funny thing is I chose it because I figured a KR mission would be slightly easier that Boomtown or one in Skyway City. It appears I was wrong! (Imagine that )
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Missions are all about you and don't care where they are. The only thing safer about a KR mission at your level is getting to it.
This sounds like the perfect mission to do with Shadow Lad. Sorry I won't be able to help you with it.
Posted by Varalent on :
I knew that it's based on my level. As you said, it's just safer getting to it in KR when you're going alone.
:sniff: Condo may have to wait for your return then. That Burnser is one of the Damned and he's tough!
Posted by Queen Connie on :
Silly humans! Imagine being enthralled by staring at a stupid computer screen for hours on end amking believe they're hunting! HAH!!!
What do they know about hunting?
Nothing! That's what and I'm a Big-game hunter! Posted by Queen Connie on :
Why don't they make keyboards big enough for paws? Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Queen Connie: Silly humans! Imagine being enthralled by staring at a stupid computer screen for hours on end amking believe they're hunting! HAH!!!
What do they know about hunting?
Nothing! That's what and I'm a Big-game hunter!
Sure, like chasing crumpled pieces of paper or stalking birds through the window is any better! Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Well, I just ordered a new computer, os it should be arriving in the next couple of weeks. Plus, I'll be moving at the end of the month, so some time after that you will probably see alot more of Porcupine Pete. I hope everyone doesn't get too far ahead of me. Posted by Varalent on :
That's great SLK! Look forward to seeing lots of Pete & Super Lad Kid.
Posted by Varalent on :
For those of you that haven't checked out the updates page, it was just announced that capes will finally be available for your heroes. There is a catch though, you're going to have to earn them.
Apparently they'll become available for you to add to the uniform once your hero reaches level 20.
I've also seen mention of the possiblity to redo you power selections somehow but I don't no the details. Kind of sounds as if it will be as a reward for completing a particular mission.
Posted by Varalent on :
Anyone going to be around tonight at 9 PM eastern for our regular Legion night?
I'll be there but I know that Scott, Caroline, Seymour, & Thomas are all gone (out of town to SD or vacation) this week. Hopefully some of you will be there.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Good news! I just found out that the place I'm moving to will have DSL available at a reasonable rate! So combined with my new (still-in-the-mail) computer, I should be able to play CoH with little difficulty!
Bad news! I probably won't be completely hooked up until the middle of August. Looks like Pete and SLK are going to get further behind. Posted by Varalent on :
CoH update (cause I know you all missed it so!)
~~~~~~~~ Protector server ~ Legion of Super Protectors:
Well, you have no one but yourselves to blame!
Since all of you abandoned me this week, except for SLK (he & I did have lots of fun when he was able to be on CoH)& Thomas [Andrew Nolan] early on, I got bored and had too much time on my hands. So, on Protector I decided I didn't like Storm Kid (and he's really a bit of a stretch as a Legionnaire) so "bu-bye" to him.
I also "had" to redo Marvel Lad (Lar) on Protector. Tweaked his uniform a little bit in anticipation of an eventual cape for him and decided since I really DON'T care for tankers, I'll leave Night Lass as the only one on that server.
Taking Storm Kid's slot in Vee's Legion ( ) is none other than...
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \
Dag Wentim of Zwen, better known as Stone Kid!
He's an Earth Controller with Healing and he's been a great deal of fun (already at lvl 5). Turns out that he can hold his own against mobs, too...even mobs slightly higher in level. I'll post a pic as soon as I take one.
The next time one of you is on Protector, I'll have to get you to invite the new Marvel Lad Lar and Stone Kid to the Legion of Super Protectors.
As for the others: E-Lad hasn't had any exercize recently so he's still at level 5, Pol's at lvl 6, FireLad is at 4. Emeral Emprix is still at 3 & my remaining tanker, Night Lass is at 2 waiting for someone to team-up with. The re-booted Marvel Lad Lar is at 2 but should be much higher shortly.
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Virtue server ~ Legionnaires of Virtue
Condo has accumulated (and paid off... and accumulated again!) a great deal of debt but is getting really close to reaching level 15. Guess he'll have to go on hiatus when he does so we can use him on our next attempt at a Task Force mission. I'll confess that I goofed in my last power selection for him. I chose "Heal Self" and wish I could take it back. Can't ever seem to use it when I most need it, and another attack power would probably have been a better choice for him. Maybe I'll be able to redo this choice, if what I'm reading on upcoming updates is true.
Mysa should be at level 13 shortly so she will likely be the first of my Legionnaires to actually wear a cape (Condo won't get one ~ doesn't seem appropriate for him) I think capes will become available at 15 (if I remember correctly)
Congrats to Porcupine Pete! SLK got him up to level 12 yesterday! He really is a great deal of fun to watch and team with.
My other Legionnaires on Virtue are progressing nicely as well. Cosmic Rokk & Rond are still at 10 but I-Kid Lyle & Fun-Loving Quiz are both up to level 9 and Kid Karate Val is up to lvl 6. Poor Brin LoneWolf continues to be ignored and is only up to lvl 4.
Although I haven't changed anything on Virtue, I'm very tempted to boot my tanker, Brin LoneWolf (again while I love how he looks, I just don't enjoy playing this archetype) and I'm even considering redoing Cosmic Rokk (also a tanker) even though he's up to lvl 10. I'll probably hold off until I find out more about what's coming in the near future regarding redoing powers.
I really like Pol's power set over on Protector (Force Field defender with Energy blasts as a secondary set ~ really has the right "look" for magnetic powers) so that's how I would redo Rokk, if I decide to do so.
Haven't done either yet, but if you guys don't hurry back there may be more wholesale changes for y'all to adjust to on Virtue as well as Protector. I have some great ideas for some other Legionnaires if more slots open up
Finally, I do think I'll boot Empress and save her for a future rebirth in City of Villains. She just doesn't seem to belong in the Legion, after all.
[ July 25, 2004, 01:28 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
Updated Update (I TOLD you guys you were leaving me with too much time on my hands! )
Empress is history (although she will reappear In CoV...I had to PROMISE her that, so she wouldn't come after me with the Eye! )
Sad to say so is Brin (Yes I do feel bad for ignoring him. Maybe the new creative team will beef up his powers somehow and give me something else to work with that I might enjoy more. Gonna miss the lug.)
So, who shall replace the two of them? I'm going to try to wait for suggestions from all of you regarding whom you'd like to see me take a crack at in creating to join my merry band. (But don't wait TOO long!)
Lots of possibilities remain...one slot open on each server...hmmmmmm?
[ July 25, 2004, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
As promised, here's the first ever pic of the latest addition to Vee's Legion...Stone Kid!
Posted by Varalent on :
And here's some interesting info about the upcoming expansion to CoH...City of Villains!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: For those of you that haven't checked out the updates page, it was just announced that capes will finally be available for your heroes. There is a catch though, you're going to have to earn them.
Apparently they'll become available for you to add to the uniform once your hero reaches level 20.
I've also seen mention of the possiblity to redo you power selections somehow but I don't no the details. Kind of sounds as if it will be as a reward for completing a particular mission.
Halloo and greetings from Oregon! We're actually in a hotel that has Internet access (though I must admit a certain pleasure in being stuck without it for a while). It's been a long day on the road, but I had to check in with my favorite thread.
Mike's looking over my shoulder and has more info on the power tweaking. He says once the trial zones (missions) become active, the Terra Volta zone (in Indepence Port) will allow you to "respec" your character's powers upon successful completion. That's what he's heard at least. For those of you unfamiliar with Terra Volta (like me), Mike says you can't get into it until 23 and survive (in a large group) until 27. Eep!
And here's the final word he got on our attempt at a task force:
Hello Mike,
Yes, the task forces were changed a little over a month ago to always generate villains of the highest possible level for that specific task force. This was done intentionally by the development. However, at the time they decided not to adjust the level ranges for those task forces that were in place before that change was made. You are correct that it would be very difficult for a group of characters at level 11 or 12 to be able to complete the task force. However, it should not be as difficult for a level 10 character to team with some level 12s, level 14s. and level 15s for example, especially since they adjusted the difficulty of purple level villains a few weeks back. By restricting the level range from 13-15 as you suggested they would be limiting the group arrangements that could possibly take on the task force, and this is not something they wanted to do.
I will pass on your concerns to the Cryptic team, as they may decide to change the level ranges at some point in the future.
Eric again: So there you have it. We need some 15s to SK the other guys to be able to survive this mission.
I don't know if I'll have time to get on again before I get home this weekend, so I'll probably catch you in Paragon City next week!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
So after our little mini-Legion gathering last night and talking about JSA and Infinity, Inc. I went and created a new character on a server I've not used before, Pinnacle. This is Mister Terrific, a Natural Tanker. I think he came out pretty good. Now if we can just get a few more JSA related character on the same server.
Posted by Varalent on :
He did come out "Terrific" .
I'll see about joining you over there (WARNING!!! There are almost as many members of the JSA as the LSH Don't say I didn't warn you!)
BTW, I think Pinnacle server is the one that Danny B usually plays on. We'll need to make sure to let him know when we're over there.
Posted by Varalent on :
Well here's my (1st ) contribution to our JSA group.
I think that other than a slight difference in the helmet, once he earns his cape he should look pretty good. What do you think, Scott?
[ August 02, 2004, 04:54 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Looks great Vee! What do you think about my Sand? I'm still working on him since I can't figure out which way to go with his powers.
Posted by Varalent on :
Wow! He's coming out great. I guess he really SHOULD be an Earth Controller, the problem is that I can't think of anything that makes sense for his secondary power set
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I think he worked out okay as a Tanker. And I'll focus on his Earth powers for his armor as he goes up in level.
But I do think that I like Mister Terrific more. He seems more in character and easier to control. I'll probably switch back and forth to keep them close in level.
Thanks for the game again tonight Vee. I'm finally coming out of my CoH funk where I didn't want to play anymore.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, and I could have gone the Martial Artist route with Sandy. That's how he originally started, before being turned into a silcon beast. And didn't they kill him off recently?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Here's my contribution to Infinity, Inc. (also on Pinnacle). I couldn't get the face quite right but I wound up using Face 10 with a full mask and the skull superimposed on it. This let me give it a black base which helped because it made his hands black like he was wearing gloves. With the suit option you don't get to pick gloves so in this way I was able to keep Mr. Bones' signature black gloves.
He's a Mutation Defender with Rad/Rad powers. It actually works kinda well. Radiation Infection makes them vulnerable to his Neutrino Blast and X-Ray Beam. This was the best way I could come up with to mimic his cyanide touch. Decided to go that route rather than his super-strength. I think his next power will be Accelerate Metabolism. This will give him the ability to heal as well as boosting run, attack speed and recover of allies while making them resistant to most effects like sleep and disorient.
Posted by Varalent on :
Think I'll do Obsidion for Infinity Inc with full Dark/Dark powers. I'll give it a try when I get home.
Posted by Varalent on :
But I'll have to look up a picture, not sure I could do him from memory like I've done the rest.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Does this help Vee?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Or maybe this one?
Posted by Varalent on :
Thanks, Scott! Ugh, kind of a boring costume. Well, we'll see how it turns out (or else just might turn into the original Star Spangled Kid )
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Caroline created the Crimson Avenger this morning. The latest one, the girl with a blindfold who doesn't remember who she is. Caroline has just about filled up all the slots on Pinnacle now with new characters.
Posted by Varalent on :
That's why we have so much fun on CoH, so many slots to fill, it never getts boring! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I know. I wish we didn't have to earn capes. I'd love to do a McFarlane version of Mr. Bones, before he became a government drone.
Posted by Varalent on :
Yeah, I'm peeved about the capes also but at least they will be available...even if you do have to wait to lvl 20 to get them. Hope they have a variety and not just one style
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
From what I've seen its one style that you have control over the colors and designs on. I hope I'm wrong though.
And thinking more on the Infinity, Inc. I may have to do a second like I did with the JSA. Either Nuklon (who might be to hard to create, power-wise) or the Silver Scarab.
The Scarab will be interesting considering you already have Dr. Fate in the JSA. Assuming your Fate is Hector.
Posted by Varalent on :
Actually, I envisioned him as the original (Kent Nelson) one that I grew up with, but your guess is as good as mine about who it is under that mask . Haven't followed JSA at all since the early 80s until I added it to my pull list about 3 months ago. Not really all that familiar with all the new versions of the old characters.
For example, I've figured out that Sandman died somehow and Sandy became Sand after being healed. I think I figured out that the original Star Spangled Kid died somewhere along the line & the new one is somehow a combination of him & Starman.
I think Obsidion & Jade are brother & sister and the kids of GL and Rose from Rose & Thorn.
So many unanswered questions & confusion about the JSA...
[ August 03, 2004, 12:49 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
PS: What does Silver Scarab have to do with Fate?
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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hector Hall is the son of Carter and Shiera Hall, the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, while his parents were on archaeological expedition. Unknown to the Hawks, Hath-Set had placed a curse on them in their Egyptian incarnations that would culminate which the birth of their offspring. As a result Hector was born without a soul, destined to be a vessel for the real Silver Scarab, Hath-Set's agent of vengeance.
After Hector was born Shiera decided to retire from crimefighting, while Carter continued his career as Hawkman. However as they would both often go on archaeological expeditions they often had to leave Hector behind in the care of baby sitters. As a result Hector felt neglected by his parents and some of the only happy times he had was in the company of the other Justice Society members' progeny. When they took him to the hidden city of Feithera, home of the winged bird-people, to visit their godson Norda (the son of a winged Fietheran and a human) it only aggravated Hector further as he was not able to fly with his parents as Norda could.
Desperately wanting to join his parents in the sky Hector began creating a suit made entirely of Nth metal combined with some solar power improvement of Hector's design shortly after he began his college studies at UCLA. A couple of years later he discovered that Lyta Trevor, his childhood friend and daughter of the Golden Age Fury, was also a student at UCLA and the two began dating. Lyta dreamed of following in her mother's footsteps and become the next Fury so when Hector showed her his armored suit that he would eventually wear as the Silver Scarab the two decided to ask their parents to sponsor them for membership in the Justice Society of America. Before doing so they invited Albert Rothstein, another of their childhood friends and the godson of the Golden Age Atom, over for christmas and try to convince him to join them in their quest. Before going to petition for membership of the Justice Society they were joined by the Hawk's godson Norda who joined them as Northwind, but all of them were eventually turned down due to their youth and lack of experience.
Shortly after being turned down, Jade and Obsidian, the children of the Golden Age Green Lantern and the Golden Age Thorn, also turned up at the JSA meeting petitioning for membership. Seeing how the JSA wasn't about to let any of them join the six heroes left the meeting to figure out what to do next. The Star-Spangled Kid, who himself had been a young kid when he started out felt that the young heroes had been dealt a bad hand by the rest of the JSA and since he himself was about to announce that he was about to form a new team he left the JSA to ask them to join him. So along with JSA member Power Girl and Brainwave, Jr., the son of of the original Brainwave the eight heroes formed Infinity, Inc.
Following a fight with the criminal Ultra-Humanite who exposed the Silver Scarab as Hector Hall, the Scarab publicly unmasked at Infinity, Inc.'s first press conference. At the same press conference he announced Fury was his fiancee. A side effect of revealing his own identity was for him to reveal that of his father's as well, which at first this put a further strain on their relationship.
Hector and Lyta's happiness was to be short as Hector fell victim to the ancient Egyptian curse by Hath-Set and was taken over by the evil entity that had remained dormant inside his body since birth. Side by side with a reincarnated Hath-Set, the Scarab went up against the Infinity, Inc. and although the team eventually beat Hath-Set and destroyed the entity, it was at the cost of Hector's life. Just before dying Hector learned that Lyta was pregnant with his child.
However, death was not to be the end the end of Hector as his consciousness had been cast into the Dreaming where he was found by Brute and Glob. Having created a dreamworld of their own hidden within the dreams of a young boy and walled off from the rest of the Dreaming they wanted to create a dream king of their own in the absence of the real dream lord Morpheus, one that they would be running and could use in a scheme to eventually assume control of the Dreaming.
Convincing Hector that he was the heir to the role of the Sandman, guardian of the dreams of men, after his predecessor Garrett Sanford died, Hector became the unwittingly pawn of the two nightmares who would play the role of his sidekicks while molding him. From his base in the dream dimension Hector would look in on his pregnant wife Lyta and at some point he began visiting her one hour every night while she slept without exposing himself to her thinking the strain of seeing him alive might harm the baby. However, his nightly visits did not go unnoticed and he was eventually discovered and unmasked by Nuklon. Once exposed Hector told Lyta of his new role and he asked her to marry him even though he would only be able to stay out the dream dimension for one hour a day. Lyta accepted his proposal but decided to return with Hector instead. The two then got married and left for the dream dimension.
Morpheus eventually broke free from captivity and when he learned of Brute and Glob's disappearance he set out to find them. After locating and recapturing Brute and Glob and sent their pawn Hector to the realm of the dead and returned Lyta to the world of the living.
Once again death was not to be the end of Hector but rather a new beginning. Hector was to return to the living and fulfill his destiny. Hector's soul and consciousness was to be reincarnated and become the next person to assume the mantle of Dr. Fate. Although Mordru the Dark Lord tried to kill the newborn Hector to assume the power of Fate for himself the JSA managed to intervene and bond the child with the power instead instantly transforming Hector into a new Doctor Fate.
Posted by Varalent on :
Still working on him, but what do you think?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Pretty damn Obsidian like! You got the face dead on from what I can tell.
Posted by Varalent on :
Just a reminder to everyone that we're going to try to do Legion Night on Virtue server tonight (Wednesday) Try to be on by 9 PM eastern.
We need to try to get all of our chars up to (but not over!) lvl 15 so that we can try that Task Force Mission again soon.
Posted by Varalent on :
Here's my latest JSA addition ~ the Earth 2 Robin with a slight twist ( and a nod to pre-Crisis continuity)
His a fire/fire blaster, the explanation for which is found in his bio.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Great game tonight!
I wasn't tired, though, so I got busy on Pinnacle. Here's who I've got so far -- Power Chick (martial arts, regeneration scrapper -- liked regeneration better than invulnerability):
No boob window, though, so I tried this, the best I could find:
For someone sweeter, I tried Starspanglegirl (energy/energy blaster):
I wanted to do Golden Age Flash, but they didn't have the hat. You gotta have the hat.
The night before, I did Big Kid (martial arts/regeneration scrapper) on protector. Apparently, colossal is one of the special titles you can get at 15, so it wouldn't let me use it:
Posted by Varalent on :
Those came out terrific Seymour. The two ladies look awesome and it's great to see Gim(and in his Adventure era costume no less!)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Gim's perfect (maybe we should do an Adventure era Legion) and I love both versions of Power Girl. Star is good too but I'm not that familiar with her.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Gim's perfect (maybe we should do an Adventure era Legion)
That would be cool but we would need to do it on another server (Vee's Legion has filled all of Protector's slots and all but one on Virtue ) Like maybe Infinity? Don't think I've heard anyone having anything on there.
(Let's see now...eight slots to work with in the Aventure era...hmmmmmm...I could...)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Gim's perfect (maybe we should do an Adventure era Legion)
That would be cool but we would need to do it on another server (Vee's Legion has filled all of Protector's slots and all but one on Virtue ) Like maybe Infinity? Don't think I've heard anyone having anything on there.
(Let's see now...eight slots to work with in the Aventure era...hmmmmmm...I could...)
Definitely on a new server. I don't think I have anything on Infinity and that sounds like a good name for Adventure Era Legionnaires. Grife. I wasn't go to log in to the game tonight, take a break but now I want to design a new Garth.
Posted by Varalent on :
Posted by Varalent on :
Make sure you tell Caroline about our Infinity Adventure. I imagine she'll come up with almost as many ideas for characters as I will.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Make sure you tell Caroline about our Infinity Adventure. I imagine she'll come up with almost as many ideas for characters as I will.
She already asked if she could have Imra this time around. Posted by Varalent on :
Cos is on his way from Braal on the Starship Infinity. A new Adventure is about to be founded!
He's a Force Field Defender with Energy secondary.
[ August 05, 2004, 02:52 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm thinking of going with THE Adventure look. Lightning Boy.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Glad you like my creations. I just took Gim through the tutorial, so I could re-create him on Infinity no problem. I'd really like to concentrate on Shadow Lad, though, since I'd like to take him high to see what happens. I'm ready for new missions instead of running the old ones over and over as I create new characters.
Don't get me wrong. I love gaming with you all no matter how we do it. And creating characters is a lot of fun. I just want to take one all the way.
What do you guys think?
Posted by Varalent on :
Good job! He looks great!
Posted by Varalent on :
I agree, Seymour. I'm concentrating on Condo & Mysa myself but I most enjoy playing with our group. Since I seem to spend more time there than most, Condo & Mysa would be way ahead in level at this point and we really wouldn't be able to do teams with them.
I'm really looking forward to getting you, Caroline, Scott, SLK, Pex, Patch Lad, DB, etc all to the point where we can do big TFs together.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Gungnir and Garth are my main focuses. I can't do like Caroline who has almost as many characters as Vee.
Oh, and the above wound up named Lightning Ranzz. Lightning Boy, Lightning Lad and Garth Ranzz were all taken.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Wow, must be a lot of Legion fans on Infinity.
He looks good, by the way.
Hope to see you online tonight -- somewhere (if I can ever get out of work, that is).
[ August 05, 2004, 04:33 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Varalent on :
I'll be on (actually I am right now...jumping from server to server to see if anyone else is on! )
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey guys! Just wanted to let you know we met a big Legion fan on Infinity server last night. On that server he has a character named UltraStar but said he had a Mon-el based character on Justice server. Sent him an in game email to invite him here. Hopefully he'll check out LW and join.
Seymour, I tried to send you a PM letting you know where we were last night but I see it's still listed as unread. Didn't you get the message?
[ August 08, 2004, 09:58 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I didn't get on last night. I didn't get home from work til late, and I had other things to catch up on. We're trying to force our bodies back into EST mode, too, and took a sleep aid to help us get to bed earlier. We've had a hard time getting up in the morning.
Should we shoot for another task force Sunday the 15th? 1 p.m. EST again? This weekend is shot for me. I'll have some time to get on, but not a block to commit to a TF. That should give us all a chance to reach at least 14 (or SK anyone who doesn't).
Posted by Varalent on :
That sounds about right. I definitely want to wait to make sure that SLK is set up with his new computer at home. Also we need to try to find out if Pex, Patch, DB and the others can join us. We absolutely need lots of fire power and (as we discovered on some of the recent missions) lots of full healing & rez.
I very much want to play Condo but fear that we'll really need Mysa more to help keep everyone alive. I still wish there was some way to have someone play one of my two characters so that we could benefit from both of them.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
The 15th might be doable for us but I don't know about getting Garth up any more levels. He just barely hit 12 and I don't foresee being able to get two more by then.
Posted by Varalent on :
Seymour, don't forget to start the Adventure era Gim on Infinity! Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Don't worry, Scott. Someone should be able to SK you, especially if Mysa or SL can hit 15.
As for Gim, I'll get him on Infinity ASAP!
Posted by Varalent on :
Condo 8191/9093 with 822 in debt. Level 15 coming up! Posted by Varalent on :
Condo: 8499/9093 with 484 debt. Inching closer & closer. (Hey at 15 I get a title. Any suggestions?)
Posted by Varalent on :
Condo: 8952/9093 NO MORE DEBT! (yay!) Posted by Varalent on :
Mission accomplished!
[ August 06, 2004, 05:54 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Woot!
But can you do it with Mysa? If I can't get Mike to play SL, we'll need another healer. Posted by Varalent on :
I have only begun to try!
(It will be tough because she's a defender but we'll see! )
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
OK, I've got Big Kid on Infinity. Cos, Lightning Ranzz and Star Kallor are on his friends list. Look him up! And Caroline should definitely do Imra this time.
Posted by Varalent on :
She did. She's Imra Ardeen' (note the apostrophy on the end)
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
The move is finished! The new computer has arrived!!! Now I just need to get the DSL going and I'm all set. I think I might be able to play on the 15th. We'll wait and see. Can't wait to join all you guys in the comfort of my very own home with my very own computer!!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
After a great day running around with Vee and another friend of mine who may be joining these boards now, I ate dinner and went back looking for Vee. I guess his computer was having problems again (happened for a while earlier) or we just kept missing each other as we wandered from server to server looking.
I got a bit tired of that and stopped on Infinity to create a new character, Princess P. She's an illusion controller, natch. I was partially inspired by my friend, who was playing an illusion controller named Prism Lord, plus I had been thinking about her for a while. Here she is. (I'll definitely have to get her to 20 so she can have her pink cape!) I know she didn't have shorts as a bottom, but the bikini options in the game just looked obscene.
So look for us. I'll probably play her more than Gim. I like Spectral Wounds!
Posted by Varalent on :
Princess P looks great! I'll add here to my friends list and look or you.
Don't let Mysa hear you say that, Seymour. She very much likes her bikini bottom.
[ August 08, 2004, 06:22 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
I did continue to have proble,s for a while with my connection but eventually did get back on. Sorry I couldn't track you down. Ended up on Pinnacle late last night also but with a new char as well, "The Demon Angel" for the Buffy gang Caroline & Thomas wanted to do. We had fun playing "celebrities" and meeting our adoring fans! Posted by Varalent on :
I hope Prism Lad does decide to join here, he was a lot of fun. And maybe he'll go ahead and create some Legionnaires for our various groups as well. Always great to meet another true Legion Fan (when someone's fav is Color Kid, you know they're a REAL fan! )
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: The move is finished! The new computer has arrived!!! Now I just need to get the DSL going and I'm all set. I think I might be able to play on the 15th. We'll wait and see. Can't wait to join all you guys in the comfort of my very own home with my very own computer!!
That's great SLK! I've missed seeing Pete around. (Love the way he looks with the spines! )
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey everyone! Be sure to say hi to our new LW member, UltrStar, when you see him. We meet him a few nights ago in Atlas Plaza (on Infinity) with our Adventure era Legionnaires. He's a big Legion fan and has a Mon based hero on Justice.
Maybe we can talk him into joining us on Virtue & Protector as well! Posted by LyleLyle on :
Hi everyone.
Yep, Prism Lord is me. I had fun playing with you two, SS and Vee. Prism Lord is one of my maaaaany chars.
I've got a char on most servers, except for Justice which seems to be the busiest (only one I see hit three dots every night). I'm creating a webpage with pix (and, eventually, profiles) of most of 'em but here's the list:
Victory Server: Kamisori -- Lvl 12 katana/dark scrapper The 4th of July Kid -- Lvl 9 grav/empathy controller
Virtue Server: Prism Lord -- Lvl 8 ill/rad controller
Mr Brazil is part of a supergroup of internationally themed heroes. Everyone is Mr/Ms country. I'm way behind everyone else on that SG, since, as much as I play, I end up splitting my time over several chars.
Prism Lord is my out-and-proud char, done in a rainbow theme. Vee helped me find the coustume outlet in Steel to add a big pink triangle to the costume, to
Overall, I find my playstyle tends to prefer defenders and controllers to dammage archetypes. Those give me a feeling like I'm playing with the big picture, trying to keep track of what the team needs and how to deal with it. I like my scrappers but I get frustrated when I can't keep track of a mob and, I turn around and realize that I've wasted time fighting a thug while a boss has been dealing us a ton of dammage. (I've gotten grumpy with teammate scrappers for the same a couple times.)
Anyway, look forward to teaming with some of you in Paragon City.
Posted by Varalent on :
Glad to see you here, LyleLyle.
Now we need to get Prism Lord up high enough in level so that you can join us for the Task Force mission we're trying to put together for this coming Sunday. (I think you need to be lvl 11 as a minimum to get into the mission but Seymour knows more than I do)
Most of us have heroes scattered on various serves just like you. I think almost all of them are listed on this thread so look for us on any server.
We do have Legion based groups on Virtue (Legionnaires of Virtue) and Protector (Legion of Super Protectors) and are starting an Adventure era group on Inifinity which Querl Dox could join (no name yet since none of us is high enough in level ~ although another new poster here, UltraStar thinks he can get on set up for us)
We ususally have Legion nights on Virtue every Wednesday for which everyone tries to be on with their hero around 8:30-9:00 PM. Those are always a blast!
Anyway, I'm really glad you decided to join us here and look forward to interacting with you more here and with Prism and your other heroes on CoH.
Vee
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Thanks Vee.
I actually created Querl on infinity for the Adventure group. I've been wanting to play with the FF defender, based on what I heard about the potential of FF and I realized that Brainy was a good excuse for that.
Queen Amy I created in a homage mood. I was thinking she'd be fun to play with other Legion chars, which is why I created her on Infinity, but then I forgot that Inifinity is Adventure era Legionnaires. (Too bad you can't create a Life Lass char.) I should re-create her on Protector... hopefully my originally intended name, Lady Amethyst, isn't taken. (I still can't believe that Princess Amethyst is too long for the game.)
I think I'm going to put some focus on Prism Lord... partly to TF with you guys but also because I've been hearing that the illusionist is a fun powerset that I need to play with (along with FF).
I'll try to join everyone on Virtue Wednesday... is 8:30 EST? I'll have to be late for that, I don't get home until after 9 and then there's greeting-boyfriend time, but I'll try to be there.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I can't wait to see your Amethyst character wherever she winds up. She's another favorite of mine.
I'd definitely like to take an illusion controller far in the game. I've heard Phantom Army is way cool to see in action. Hopefully I can do that with Princess P, though I'd really like to take Shadow Lad far just so I can see what's out there. My partner's character is almost level 30, so I pop in now and then to see what cool things he's fighting.
It is 8:30 EST. Hopefully, you can make it on when one of the Founder-rank characters from Legionnaires of Virtue is on so you can join the supergroup. I originally envisioned it as Legion fans and Legion-inspired characters, but the Legion-inspired have been so fun, almost all the members are that way. But you're still welcome to join in.
For the task force, it looks like if you can make it to level 10 (not an easy task -- maybe you could have your boyfriend play him while he's waiting for you to get home ) by Sunday, you can join us. Someone will be glad to SK you. But just SKing you isn't enough to get on a TF mission. We had thought the lowest you could join was 11, but I think it's actually 10.
Posted by Varalent on :
I'll definitely be on just about every night this week making sure that I get Mysa up to lvl 15. She's already more than half-way there so I should be able to do so.
My Cosmic Rokk is one of the Founders so if you see Mysa on, send me a tell and I'll switch to Rokk in order to induct you in the SuperGroup then switch back to Mysa.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I was thinking of you, natch, when creating my Amy character... actually I did wonder if you were the one who reserved Lady Amethyst on Infinity.
I think I can get Prism Lord up to ten by Sunday. Since it's Sunday, I can probably get some good movement on Satuday... I got almost two levels Saturday.
Tho' last night was about getting each of my tanks up a lvl... I'm kinda liking the powertype tho I hear it stops being fun at the higher levels.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey, hey! Mysa turned 15 tonight!
Also, thanks go out to UltraStar (one of our newest members here on LW) who used two of his heroes on Infinity to create a SuperGroup for our Adventure era Legionnaires. So we now have our SG in place. It's named Legion of Super Friends and currently has UltarStar's Wildfire-X and my Cos as members. Next time we're on Infinity, we'll get the rest of you signed up.
[ August 10, 2004, 03:10 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Well, Prism Lord make it to Lvl 9 last night. I wanted to go a little further, but there didn't seem to be a lot of people on, and trying to solo just got me debt. (Couldn't even get much of a team in Perez.)
I played with character creation and designed a Liberty Bell-inspired guy. Didn't have any powers I wanted to play with that would'a been apt for a LB protegee, tho so I never finished him.
Anyway, I recreated my Amethyst char on Pinnacle, but it sounded like Protector might've been more apropriate.
I'm dying to get a character to 20 for the second costume, I want to give some of my characters civvies, so they can go out in their Secret ID.
Posted by Varalent on :
Last night while Prism Lad, Shadow Lad, Tasmia & my Mysa were recovering from one of our near death experiences, we were talking about how many characters we all had scattered across various servers. To make it easier for everyone to keep track, I suggested that we all post our list on this thread. So here's mine:
Infinity: (Legion of Super Friends) Cos, lvl 5 force field/energy mutation defender Varalent, lvl 2 energy/energy magic blaster
Pinnacle: (JSA based SG & Buffy based SG in the works) Varalent, lvl 2 energy/energy magic blaster DrFate, lvl 6 dark/energy magic blaster Dark Obsidion, lvl 3 dark/dark magic defender Robin Flamebird, lvl 4 fire/fire magic blaster Demon Angel, lvl 6 fire/energy magic blaster
Triumph: BlueMage, lvl 5 fire/energy magic balster (I'm also working up some Titan based characters on this serve. I'll post them when they're done)
Champion: (yes, I even have Marvel based X-heroes. Prob a few others soon ) Varalent, lvl 2 energy/energy magic blaster Ice Bobby X, lvl 5 ice/ice mutation blaster Alec Havok, lvl 2 energy/energy mutantion blaster
I'd also love to do a Defenders group somewhere. There were some great characters in that Marvel comic!
[ August 10, 2004, 02:15 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
LyleLyle: I'll be on every night this week (remember tomorrow is Legion night on Virtue!) so I'll be around to help yopu get there. Just look for one of my horde Posted by LyleLyle on :
Wow, Vee, now I realize why I got confused trying to get down all your chars from this thread. You've been much busier than I.
I'm still trying to remember the bad guy from Giles' past. Then again I did like Giles so I could do a Giles-inspired char.
Has anyone tried playing with binds? I've played with coloring my chat bubbles, but I've been reading about some of the possibilites. I remeber on char I ran into that had a bind command that indicated what she was attacking.
'course I haven't decided on what would make apt colors for Prism Lord...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've not tried binds or macros myself, not even sure where to begin with them.
I'm hoping that I can at least get 1 more lvl for Garth with tomorrow night's game.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Wow, Vee, now I realize why I got confused trying to get down all your chars from this thread. You've been much busier than I.
I'm still trying to remember the bad guy from Giles' past. Then again I did like Giles so I could do a Giles-inspired char.
Has anyone tried playing with binds? I've played with coloring my chat bubbles, but I've been reading about some of the possibilites. I remeber on char I ran into that had a bind command that indicated what she was attacking.
'course I haven't decided on what would make apt colors for Prism Lord...
And that list doesn't include all those that were and are no more (Validuss, Emerald Emprix, Brin LoneWolf, Infinite Knight...hmm, I think there were one or two others but can't remember them right now)
Never tried to do binds. Hell, I can't even figure out how to take a pic other than from the back!
Edit: Just remembered there was also a Storm Kid on Protector
[ August 10, 2004, 04:04 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by UltraStar on :
Hey, fellow Legionairres....
Just wanted to say hi to everyone here who helps fight the good fight in Paragon City.
That game has to be the most addictive game I've ever played. I swear it calls to me when I'm not playing it.
I was just wondering about your Legion night on Virtue on Wednesdays... Is that east coast time? And how long does it last for? I just created a few more Legion characters on Virtue and Protector and was hoping to run into some of you guys but I'm not home from work on Wednesdays till 7pm west coast time.
I'm off Thursdays and Fridays so maybe I'll see some of you during those days.
F.Y.I.....
(INFINITY) UltraStar --lvl 28 tanker Son of Jor-El --lvl 13 tanker General Zod --lvl 4 blaster Fyre-Storm --lvl 4 controller Wildfire-X --lvl 9 blaster
(JUSTICE) Ultra-Star --lvl 12 blaster Green Lantern X --lvl 4 defender Lil Bub --lvl 3 scrapper (tiny wolverine) Mon-El of Daxam --lvl 8 tanker
Catch ya in Paragon, folks.....
Posted by Varalent on :
UltraStar, Legion Night on Virtue starts around 8:30 - 9 PM eastern and we're usually on for a few hours (at least) so definitely come looking for us when you get online. Can't wait to see your version of all of those characters! Comet Queen in particular is a great idea and I assume Smallville is a version of Kal.
Here's a challenge for you ~ see if you can get one of the ones on Virtue up to at least level 10 so you can join us on the Task Force mission this coming Sunday. (Unless you already have a high enough level character on Virtue.)
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Binds are interesting and frustrating but way cool when they work.
I created my first original bind last night, a stock cheer for tough sucessful battles and completed missions. Hopefully, you'll get to see it tonight. I already made dinner for tonight (cold, glazed shrimp), so I should be able to sign on soon after getting home.
Last night, while in between working on dinner, I created some new characters. One, after getting a bunch of names rejected, got called Retro Girl, which I'm hoping doesn't get zapped. I didn't realize why that sounded catchy to me until I hit go. (Annoyingly Yesterday's Girl is also too long a name.) Her costume was an attempt at creating a Marvel Girl costumer, but in different colors, as I wanted a swinging 60s style character. Her powers are mind control and force field.
The other characters were a redo of Shane Storm (this time in long shorts instead of attempting to fake up a speedo) and The Silk Stranger, a scrapper in a suit. If I get these characters going, the other Shayne Storm and Man of Mystery (a name I created when Mystery Man was already taken) may go.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Oh, and Prism Lord is now halfway to ten. Yea! I'm hoping for eleven by Sunday.
Posted by Varalent on :
I'm ashamed to admit I don't recognize those. Is Marvel Girl Jean Grey or Mary Marvel? Shane Storm related to Sue & Johnny Storm of the FF? Mystery Man I don't know at all.
Posted by Varalent on :
PS: What servers did you put them on?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
My Retro Girl was supposed to be like Jean Grey's original identity. Too bad CoH doesn't have the cool cat mask. The colors are totally different, tho since I wanted to fall on the side of homage.
Shane Storm is just a storm character. I have to double check what the servers are, tho.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
I'm done moving!
My new, powerful gaming computer has arrived!!
My DSL is hooked up !!!
My City of Heroes is at my firend's place and I won't be going there until this weekend.
Grrrr, the waiting is getting unbearable. I will be back to Paragon City soon, and it will be in the privacy of my own home. I just hope everything runs OK.
So when is the next attempt at a TF mission going to be? Sunday? What time?
Posted by Varalent on :
Haven't set a time yet but I would guess Sunday early afternoon (maybe 1 or 2 eastern?) Can't wait to see Pete again.
Hope the hurricanes (yes, two of them roaming around here by FL) don't interfere with me being able to get online on Sunday. I will be quite perturbed if they do and I miss out on the TF!
[ August 11, 2004, 10:03 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
LyleLyle: Waited around in Steel Canyon for a while after you disappeared. I was going to TP you "out of harm's way" to the tram but it got too late. Let me know if you're going to be on tomorrow with him & about what time, and I'll try to be there to get you out of that nasty neighborhood if you'd like. Can't afford to have you get any more debt!
[ August 11, 2004, 10:01 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by UltraStar on :
Hey how do you guys post your CoH pics here?
I know how to take screenshots during the game but how do you put them here without making it a link?
Also... is there a Legion team on the Justice server? If so what's it called? Mon-El of Daxam needs a team!!!!
Plus I still have room to create 2 more heroes there. I figured they'd be either Legion or JLA or something.
Did I hear something about a JSA and Titans group out there somewhere?
Posted by Varalent on :
Ultra: The pictures need to be online somewhere. I use the free webspace at "My Netscape" because, unlike other free webspaces like Yahoo, etc., it allows hot linking.
Once you've got the pics uploaded somewhere, use the "Full Reply Form" function here by clicking on the button below the reply window on this page. That will bring you to a near identical message window which will have a number of buttons below it. Chose "URL" and enter the url of the pic.
I don't know of any Legion group on Justice (don't think anyone here plays on Justice) If you decide to start one there let us know on this thread. I'm sure some of us will start characters over there.
We do have a JSA contingent on Pinnacle but I don't think the SG has been formed yet. I've got three characters there: DrFate, Dark Obsidion, & Robin Flamebird. Lightning Lad (Scott) has a Mister Terrific, Sand II, & Mr Bones. Some others have StarSpangled Girl, Power Chick, etc. I think if you go back 3-4 pages on this thread you'll see the discussion about them.
I am in the process of starting up some Titans character on Triumph and I'll post the info here as soon as I have them set.
Posted by Jorge Martinez on :
I've heard Marvel is coming out with a similiar game in 2005. I hope DC follows them! I have three old comps that won't be able to run City of Heroes. By the time I have *time* to build a new comp (or two) I might as well just get the Marvel game.
Can you imagine if DC does do one and have an entire Legion server. Geez, that would be fanboy heaven. Can travel to different planets, fly around Metropolois, explore Legion world. Let me stop myself before I pass out.
Jorge
Posted by Varalent on :
That would be awesome but both Marvel & DC will be hardpressed to improve on City of Heroes. It really is well thought out and designed. City of Villains which is due out next year will allow even more interaction including allowing players to battle each other.
Posted by Varalent on :
Just a suggestions ~ shouldn't this thread's title be amended to include City of Heroes so people know what it's about. Something like "Your Chance to be a Legionnaire ~ The City of Heroes game thread"
I'll bet there are other LW posters playing that haven't read this thread because they don't realize it's about CoH.
[ August 13, 2004, 07:16 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by UltraStar on :
Thanx, Varalent...
Let's see if I can do this....
My main character on Infinity. UltraStar, lvl 28 tanker:
(edit) Well, it kinda worked. Not the same way you guys do it with the whole pic on the page but oh well.
[ August 13, 2004, 07:35 AM: Message edited by: UltraStar ]
Posted by Varalent on :
My fault UltraStar. In my instructions I should have told you to use the "Image" button, not the "URL" button.
Sorry, but there you go!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Sorry about the disappearance, everyone. Got into a fight with the boyfriend while rebooting and haven't really gotten onto my machine since then. Sigh, boyfriends, go fig.
Posted by Varalent on :
Worse than CoTs aren't they Posted by Lightning Lad on :
But are they as bad as the Vaz?
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Only when you try to wake them up before the first hit of the snooze button.
I levelled Shadow Lad tonight! I levelled Princess P to 5, then teamed SL up with a group that had an illusion controller with group ivisibility, and we kicked butt farming Boomtown. (Something to look forward to for Prism, Lyle.) So now I'm up to 15. We should have a grand old time on Sunday.
Posted by UltraStar on :
Alright let's try this again, shall we...?
First, all my Infinity characters.....
Kara Zor-El, Lord Anarch,Fyre-Storm, UltraStar, T'Pol of Borg, Son of Jor-El, and General Zod.
And now my new Titans and JSA characters on Truimph and Pinnacle.....
Kidd-Flash, Starr-Fyre, Captain Shazzam, and Hawkman.
Did it work???
*EDIT*
Ooops....
Sorry, gotta work on scaling these things. :]
But since I know how to do this now.... Next post ... All my Legionairres!!
[ August 14, 2004, 04:07 AM: Message edited by: UltraStar ]
Posted by UltraStar on :
Okay I shrunk this one a bit so......
Every Legionairre I have in the City of Heroes (so far):
(don'cha just love Photoshop...?)
Technically, since me and my girlfriend broke up last week I could include her character, Kara Zor-El since I'm now using her, but she was in the other shot.
Above roll-call as follows... Mon-El of Daxam(Justice), Brainiac-5(Virtue), Comet Queen(Protector), Smallville(Protector), Wildfire-X(Infinity), Dev-Em(Virtue), and Laurel Kent(Virtue). Laurel, by the way, just earned herself 5000 bucks 30 seconds after I logged on for the screenshot earlier tonight. Some guy said it was because I was sexy! Didn't have the heart to tell him....besides, 5000 infl. buys a lot of enhancements for a lvl 2---Maxed out!
See you guys in Paragon City....
and Long Live the Legion!
[ August 14, 2004, 04:39 AM: Message edited by: UltraStar ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
They all look great!
Nice job on Hawkman. Did you add the mace, or is that one of the weapons that appears for a power?
And I wouldn't pass up 5000 bucks either. That was sweet.
Sorry to hear about your girlfriend, though. I hope you're doing OK.
And on a totally unrelated note, has Vee checked in lately? I hope he made it through Charley OK.
[ August 14, 2004, 05:19 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Well, I'm finally back on, and in the comfort of my own apartment. No more having to pretend to visit my buddy just so I could play City of Heroes on his computer.
BUT, my computer keeps restarting on me while I'm playing the game. I'm not really sure whats going on there. I might not have enough memory.
Anyway, I'll try to play in the Task Force mission. If it continues to be too bad of a problem, I might just give up. We'll see what happens.
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Haven't seen Vee and have been worried about him. Have logged in and out of several servers checking for him. Has anyone else heard from Vee yet???? Is the Task Force still on???? Wondering if Vee even has power on since the hurricane....
Posted by Future on :
Hey guys, all the heroes look great.
Not a regular thread poster here, but just wanted to let Caroline and everyone on City of Heroes know that there are still many blocks and neighborhoods here and there in Vee and I's town that have been without power since Friday night.
Things should be restored throughout the week and loss of power will hopefully be the only reason for Vee's absence.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Yeah, I'm definitely hoping it's just a power issue. It seems most likely.
No TF yesterday since Vee and a couple others couldn't make it, but we did have a blast farming and then switching over to Infinity, only to end a long, long day (9 hours for me, YIKES!) continually dying on that stupid Patchwork mission. That one's always a bear.
Shall we shoot for the TF this Saturday? Would a different time be better?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Saturday won't work for us. Its our live DnD game day. Sundays are generally the only weekend day that will work.
Sorry about not TF yesterday but I did say to the group that was playing Saturday night that unless we heard from Vee I wasn't comfortable playing. He's the organizer of it. Besides, there is no way Garth is going into a TF without Mysa. Posted by Varalent on :
Hi everyone! Just wanted to let everyone know I'm okay though still without power at home. They're saying it may take until Saturday before it is restored though I'm hoping it will be on much sooner than that!
I kept hoping and praying that it would come back in time for the TF because I was really looking forward to that. It would have been a much needed escape from all the hurricane related issues I've been dealing with.
Sorry you weren't able to do the TF on Sunday but hopefully I'll be able to join you for the next attempt if we're able to this weekend.
Since I only have access from work I won't be on CoH at all until power is restored at home but I'll keep you all posted from the office.
Thanks for worrying about me!
Vee
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Yay! Vee's OK!
It wouldn't have felt right to do it without you even if the others had made it since you've been so patiently holding your characters at 15.
As far as rescheduling, let's shoot for the 29th. Sunday is normally a better day for me too, but this Sunday is different. Gotta have our blaster and scrapper, though, so it looks like 29th is our best bet. And that way we'll be sure Vee's power is back. He'll probably be busy restocking the fridge on Saturday if power really is out that long.
Maybe we can get everyone up to 15 by then. Speaking of that, I learned an interesting thing about TFs on Saturday. Once we reach 15, we can't train any higher while doing the TF or we'll get kicked off. So that means no tentacles from me. Posted by LyleLyle on :
Glad to hear you're okay, Vee. Hope your power comes up soon. My BF's good friend lives in Ft. Meyers and I've been nagging him to call, but he keeps forgetting until it's a bad time. Do you know how badly Ft Meyers was hit?
Sunday was a fun nine hours. We got quite a few characters built up. I hope you weren't too bored, Seymoure, going after stuff under your level. We had lots of fun on Infinity, afterwards.
I'm not sure if anyone else heard but Seymoure had a great suggestion for the Infinity group -- when we get a second costume at lvl 20 we could create Cockrum costumes. Unfortunately, playing Brainy I don't have as much to look forward to there. Still a great idea, tho.
(BTW, there's a trainer named Numia who you'll find a pic of in the manual. I bugged one of the developers while in San Diego about her costume and it turned out that, unforuntaely, the cool little leg-wrap thing she sports is exclusive to the character -- all the trainers have something unique to them so that no one can be imposters. Too bad, cause the leg thing is pretty much perfect for a Levitz-era White Witch.)
Argh, it's so tough trying to build all the characters I like. I just re-created my Fire Tank as yet-another bare chested hottie character and redid Retro Girl as Yesterday Girl. I'm gonna post a revised roster soon.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've tried to do the Cockrum Garth outfit and just can't get it right. Although I love the idea of doing that change at 20. Maybe with that I'll go from the Adv. #247 look to the one with the cape and give him his robotic arm. Then work on the other costumes as they are earned. Should be able to cover all of Garth's looks with the slots available.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
BTW, if the 29th is okay with everyone else for the next TF try then I'm all for it. Gives me enough time, even with taking this week off from playing CoH, to get Garth to at least 14.
Posted by Varalent on :
If I don't have power by the 29th I will have expired for sure. August is NOT a fun time to be in FL without AC. The worst part about it (besides the AC) is that you really can't do anything once it gets dark. Can't read, can't write, can't listen to music, I'm missing the Olympics, and I can't play CoH or visit LW!
I'm embarrased to admit that I was very bummed when 1 PM rolled around yesterday and it was time for the TF and I STILL had no power! Everything had been bearable until then but I couldn't stand the thought of missing out on the TF! It's what I had been looking forward to so much. (Isn't that silly?)
I'm sorry you guys didn't get to play but I can certainly understand Garth's reluctance at not having Mysa around
Sounds like you all had a great time anyway and by the 29th we should all be as powerful as possible to take on the baddies.
Posted by Varalent on :
Lyle: Fort Myers is just about next door to Port Charlotte where Charley came ashore. Although I have less info than all of you, I'd guess they got hit pretty hard there.
Posted by Varalent on :
Love the idea of the Cockrum era outfits but Cos will be difficult to do. They do not give you a color comparable to caucasian skin color for the pants. I tried a version of the Cockrum outfit early on and Cos looked jaundiced. (I think the pic is still available on one of the early pages on this thread.)
Edited to post the Cockrum version pic:
[ August 16, 2004, 09:40 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Saturn Girl's pink bikini might be difficult to do, and I forgot the whole reason I did Adventure-era Gim in the first place was because I couldn't do the other.
So maybe level 20 we can freestyle -- if we were designing the characters, how would we do it? That could be fun! Though once Princess P gets her pink cape, I don't know if I'll ever want to switch.
It's so unfair that women get all these skin-revealing costume choices, but guys are so much more limited. Yeah, we get the bare chest and some variations, but women get a wider variety -- plus bare legs. I wanna create a guy in the string bikini! Heck, even a kilt would be cool.
Lyle, I wasn't bored. We hit enough with high XP that I even got a bubble or two. Sorry we didn't get Prism levelled. As much as we wound up playing, we could have. I had a lot of fun on Infinity too. Jeckie is about to surpass my other illusion controller, so it'll be fun to see what powers come up.
Posted by Varalent on :
SLK: Be sure to check out the Community Message Boards on the CoH website. They have extensive technical FAQs and lots of people there to help with connectivity problems.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Thanks for the info, Vee. My boyfriend's flying out tonight for a work trip (sniff) so I'll send him a nagging voice mail to try to call her while he's waiting for takeoff.
Prism's close to 12, so I think I can get him there by the weekend. Maybe I could even get him to 13. Any votes for the next power? I think flight becomes available, but would Accelerate Metabolism be more useful to the TF? Maybe Group Invis will be available by then, how useful is that to a group Seymour?
Flash, BTW, is a cool power for illusionists, but it needs some enhancements. I don't use it often because it has a long recharge, so I guess I tend to "hoard" it, not wanting to have a moment when i really wish I could use it. I'll really like it when I get stronger recharge enhancements on it. Maybe I'll even stack.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Oh, yeah, the lack of male skin in the game does bug, kinda like that Adam Warren-written/Ed Benes-drawn Gen13 issue where Burnout rushes into action without his fire-retardant costume and burns off his shorts -- which we know because of the girls in string bikinis talk about Bobby having no clothes.
I mean, really, seems silly that you can't create a Robin or Namor character when you can create a Witchblade.
Posted by Varalent on :
Lyle: I'm pretty sure flight isn't available until you hit lvl 14. Not sure what Accelerate Metabolism does (increase allies damage maybe?) If so that could be very useful. Not sure that group invisibility is all that useful since you are "discovered" as soon as you attack when invisible (although it should boost everyone's defense slightly, which is always nice.)
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Fly unlocks at 14, and I think Accelerate Metabolism is then too.
Lyle, what enhancements do you recommend on Flash, besides recharge reduction?
I don't know what enhancements the guy had, but group invisibility was great. Yes, we were "discovered," but I noticed a significant boost to defense while we remained invisible. There were five of us going after mobs of eight or nine a level or two above us, and I barely had to use my heal. And with the BF gone, maybe Lyle could even get Prism up to 14 by the 29th. Posted by LyleLyle on :
Well, if we're looking at the 29th, then we should be able to get Prism to 14th.
I've got Flash enhanced with Enhence Hold and Recharge Red, so far, but I'll probably add Accuracy, since I tend to miss a bunch in a mob when I use it.
Maybe I've got the name wrong but I was thinking of a Rad power that gives the whole team a healthy green glow and boosts their stats. I've been putting off taking it for a while, trying to justify why a light controller would have the power.
If group invis becomes available that becomes tempting for the TF. If not I think I'll go with Accelerate Metabolism.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I forgot about rad powers. I was thinking pool powers. That could very well be it, and it might be available at 12 in that case.
Posted by Varalent on :
:sigh: Still no power, still no CoH! Posted by Varalent on :
Guess TPTB just don't realize that Paragon City is being overrun with Vaz, CoTs, Skulls, 5ths, Hellion & Clocks while they take so long in getting power back to my house!
[ August 17, 2004, 06:13 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
And think of all the new heroes that haven't come into being because I haven't been around! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
How will you ever meet your quota of new heroes without power Vee?
Seriously though, I hope that they get you back on line soon. They are telling one of our properties that it'll be by this Saturday so hopefully they'll have the residential restored before then.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Here are some tidbits my hubby got from a member of his supergroup:
From "Mischief," a member of PRISM (a gay fan/creator comic-book group).
Friday August 13, 2004
The panel, "Where’s My Cape?" by Jack (Statesman) Emmert was to start at 11:00 AM. I arrived at Wizard World a little early, so I went to the NCSoft table to see if I would win a free City of Heroes T-Shirt. You can win shirts by answering trivia questions.
Sitting at the NCSoft booth is the Statesman himself. I walked up and introduce myself to Jack. I told him my name and that I was with PRISM. His face lit up and he said, "You guys are great!" and he really appreciates our support and thinks we were terrific. He asked me if I saw the PC Gamer article on Gay Day, I told him I had.
He informed me, "you don’t know about this, because this happened off the boards," but a group of conservative Christians contacted Jack attacking us — asking for him to do something about us. As Jack put it, "I told them to STICK IT."
Then he jumped up and gave me a free T-Shirt. Isn’t that cool?
Then off to the panel he hosted. Some of the items have already been revealed on the boards as hints or fact, but I also have some very juicy inside news for what’s up and coming for both CoH and CoV!
Panel info
Alliance Chat — not sure if they’re going to do it as an interim chat feature or if they’re going to skip it, but their new idea is far better than any of us ever expected?
Special Chat System — It will be server-wide, it will be customizable and you can select your own moderators and SGs that you want on your Chat System. Until then, the SG limit will be upped. The Special Chat System will not be in the next update. Not sure if it’ll be in the one after that or later.
HQs — are coming. They will be customizable.
New Non-Combat System — this is big. Jack wouldn’t say much about it, but hinted it will be huge. He also said it will allow you to, "also do stuff offline," (?!?!?!)
Mission Difficulty — will be customizable. You will have the option to raise the difficulty level of mission to harder - no option to make missions "easy".
New ATs Coming — including one with wings. The reason it will be restricted to one AT is because it is too expensive and time consuming to offer wings for all Power Sets.
Lower Level Missions to Be Tweaked — Missions 1-20 will be tweaked. For example, the Rave mission will have added music, lights and rave dancers, instead of a silent empty warehouse with just mobs.
Jack feels really good about the game from L1-20, but less so at upper levels.
Badges — will be added. Collect Badges and you can up your Endurance or Hit Points.
CoV Characters will basically use the same AT blueprint as CoH.
Stat Kiosks — will be up sometime soon.
Power Sets — will have powers added to them. They won’t just stop at 9 per set.
"TONS!" more stuff will be added to Character Creation, including flowing fabrics based on the cape technology.
Mind Controllers — Telekinesis will be fixed. There will not be a pet for the MC, but Terrify will be able to slot Damage Enhancements.
Teen Body — will be added to Character Build
Customize Your Powers — eventually you will be able to customize your power colors and animations.
Shields — will be added.
Easter Eggs — start looking for them soon.
Mission XP — will get a boost.
Server Wide Events — like the Ritki Invasion are planned
Defender — Jack feels this is close to the best, most balanced and well designed AT. Still need to fix Defender at higher levels where he is not as needed in groups. After Controller, Tanker is the next AT to be fixed.
Shape Shifting — will be added. It will be a while since it’s tough to do, but it is coming.
CoH/CoV — You will be able to bring your CoH character into CoV.
Open Public Beta — for CoV is likely.
CoV — is a considered a "sequel". You do not have to have CoH to play CoV. If you have both games, you will still only need to pay $14.95 per month.
HUGE CoV announcement coming out next week
Dependant NPCs Being Considered — ala Champions, Dependant NPC maybe be added. For example, you could have a Lois Lane-like NPC that would call you while you are missioning and need to be rescued from a hanging off a building. This is hard to do, but something Jack would like to do.
GENERAL COMMENTS
Jack is bewildered and disgusted that most players are XP crazy. He doesn’t care if someone hits L50 today, next year or in 2 years as long as there are fun stuff to do at any level. He is more interested in the role-playing and the content of the game.
Jack is an intelligent man and a captivating speaker. I found his comments and observations about the creative process fascinating. I’m so glad I was able to have been able to hear him speak. I was thrilled he knew PRISM and spoke well of us — and defended us from attack by homophobes.
That’s the main nuts and bolts of what he said during his panel. I’ll post more later.
Some of my thoughts:
Sounds like some cool stuff coming up. I can't wait for the HQ (a real Legion HQ -- I wonder how customizable)! And Wings!
Mission customizability seems cool, but how will you know in advance if you want to make it harder -- unless you're the anal type who keeps track of every mission you've ever done to see which are front-loaded, etc. so you can raise the difficulty with your next character. And there are some missions (like that damn Patchwork and his minions) that I think are too hard to begin with.
That's great what he said about the Christian group.
Customizable powers is pretty cool. You can be color-cooridinated no matter which set you go with. Lyle's Amethyst characters could all have purple blasts. Or our Prism-based characters could have a full rainbow of powers.
Saturn Lady has telekinesis. I didn't notice anything wrong with it.
And we were just talking on Sunday about how cool it would be to have a server-wide event like the invasion. Andrew Nolan wasn't in on the beta and was asking about it. I told him it was pretty cool, but I had just gotten out of the tutorial and jumped right in and died immediately. Posted by LyleLyle on :
Best of luck, Vee. I have an inkling of what you're feeling. When we moved every company we worked with were idiots, flaking on our appointments or messing up one way or another. It took us three weeks to get online and I was going though major CoH withdrawl. (Worse, we're still fighting with SBC over how much we owe them. They think we owe them money for the service we didn't recieve in the time after we told them to cancel all service and they didn't follow up on it.) It was such a relief to get back to Paragon City.
Got Prism Lord to lvl 12 last night, thanks to a Hydra hunting group. Flight isn't available so which would be most useful for the TF: Accelerate Metabolism (buff speed, END, DMG and resistance), Radiation Infection (debuff ACC and DEF), Greater Invisibility or Air Superiority?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Thanks for sharing that Seymour! That is some cool news, all the way around.
I had wondered about the CoV/CoH thing. I had read that it would be a separate game and a separate fee to play. Glad its going to be under one fee.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Hey Seymour, is Mike part of PRISM? I was trying to get into that group (mostly as the most visible gay SG, but they also seemed like cool players) but eventually gave up because I realized the members were so high level.
They did a really cool "Gay Day" event at AP. A massive amount of toons at the Square, jumping around, dancing and screaming "Happy Pride!" There was also a special "Pride Day 2004" SG so that you could easily get your character to wear the color-of-the day (red like the gay people were wearing at Disney World that day).
BTW, if anyone wants to create yet another char there's a pretty cool SG on Triumph. They're called Global Heroics -- all the heroes are Mr/Ms Country with a costume design inspired by the country's flag. Their website seems to be down but you'll be able to find it here:http://www.4thorder.us/gh (It was working yesterday.) Send a tell to Ms Germany if interested. I'm Mister Brazil there.
Similarly I an into a cool SG-to-be the other night, BTW. I teamed with a pair of heroines -- Klymaxx and SheilaE. They've got a Grace Slick and oh I forgot the other. They were fun to team with.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I forgot about PRISM the CoH supergroup. I instantly thought PRISM the comic group since this was a Wizard World con report. You're probably right, though, that it's the CoH PRISM.
Mike was briefly a member of PRISM, but dropped out when the drama and infighting started. He's part of a gay group, but I forget which one. It's not Rough Trade, I know that, though one of his secondary characters may be a member.
Seen any gay groups on Infinity? I'd like to get one of my non-Legion characters into one. (I once saw a character on Infinity called Yaoi, but he wasn't part of a group.)
I liked the gay group on Virtue that Chillflare is a member of, but I can't remember the name -- it's been so long since I've played him.
Posted by Varalent on :
Lyle: I had Radiation infection on the first I-Kid I did and didn't like it. Seemed like it took forever to accomplish anything other than get them running around infecting each other with green clouds. Of course, he only got to lvl 7 or 8 so maybe at higher levels it's more potent. Either way, Accelerate Metabolism sure sounds much more useful to a team or task force. I'd vote for that.
Posted by Varalent on :
How cool would it be if we could do the Adventure era clubhouse as an HQ for the Infinity group!!!!!
What is Alliance Chat? Never heard of that before.
I can live with a winged AT if that's what it takes. It would have to be a well balanced set power wise though. Have to be able to do Dawnstar & Shikari.
Shape changers will be cool also. As long as it allows growing & shrinking, stretching & bouncing it would allow us to do Vi, Gim, Cham, Proty, Bouncing Boy and maybe even Tellus & Gates. And Beast Boy for the Titans!
Or maybe they are doing an animal based AT as well.
Wonder if one of the new AT's will be machine oriented? Imagine if we told KP that he could create his Tranformers on CoH!!! That would hook him for sure.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I think I'm most excited about the possibility of them adding the "recruit across zones" ability next month. I'll get excited about capes when I have a character who's closer to 20. I'm just building to my adjetive. Also exciting is the "give" feature (forced trade) which should be useful in a battle.
The effects at lvl 30 sound like quite a carrot.
There's another Chicago report on the CoH boards. One of the exciting far-future plans is that Statesman would like to add more nontraditional zones, including an underwater zone (he says he has to figure this out since Namor is one of his favorite characters) and a space zone.
I'll try to post that thread when I find it.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Interesting they would do a 'give' feature when one of the 'features' (if you can call it that) of the next upgrade is supposed to be a player acceptance of a teleport. In other words, no more automatically teleporting your teammate out of harm's reach unless he has time to agree to it, like a trade.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Well, the "give" feature may still require approval, just a less complicated process.
I mean, clicking through a "Prism Lord wants to give you items, do you accept" window is much simpler than the current trade process, which brings up a huge window you don't want to block off your screen in a battle.
I think there's a percieved problem (I haven't experienced it) of people getting kicks out of TPing people into places they can't survive (kinda like the maroons who think it's fun to aggro high lvl mobs and lead 'em to places where people tend to hang out), so I guess the teleport approval adresses that. I think it would be nice if you could auto-approve people.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I could see that being the problem if you could just TP anyone but you can't. They have to be on your team. Heck, you can't even TP a friend unless he's teamed with you. Seems to me that split second of having to approve it (barring an auto-approve function) could mean life or debt.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hi, everyone.
It's Thomas aka Andrew Nolan aka Dox 5.1 aka Star Kallor ...
Yes, I'm finally here.
So how do I add that picture, Scott? 8-)
I told the others who played tonight that I was thinking this week's Legion night should be held on Infinity as opposed to Virtue ...
I got Star Kallor up to 8 tonight, and I was looking at the power sets, and i noticed that my secondary ones-- I've only got two there so far-- only offered me one choice for a power while the primary offered me two ... the first power that I didn't take when I creaed Thom and the multiple lockdown I need to really make rad effective ...
Is that new or have I just been particularly unobservant?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
All done buddy! Posted by Varalent on :
It was so great to make it back to CoH last night! Even better to find a group of you there as well. Life is good! Posted by Blue Battler on :
Thanks, buddy!
Yeah, it was good to see you again, Vee. Herocrack just isn't the same without the Legion of Vees ... 8-)
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I could see that being the problem if you could just TP anyone but you can't. They have to be on your team. Heck, you can't even TP a friend unless he's teamed with you. Seems to me that split second of having to approve it (barring an auto-approve function) could mean life or debt.
Scott: I had this happen to me. At lower levels you tend to agree to Team ups so you can take on higher (or more numerous villains). I was playing Varalent on Protector one day and agreed to team up with two others. One of the two (I think both were young kids) had TP & hover on his character.
Firt he kept insisting that we wait where we were while he went off someplace and then TPed us to him. I put up with that for a while since I had the impression that he was just enjoying the new power but it started to get real old, real fast. We got very little accomplished other than waiting around and I finally offered up an excuse that I needed to log off.
As I was logging and the "quitting in 25 seconds" was counting down, he TP Varalent up next to him in mid air and let him drop quite a distance. did it three times in succession and "killed" Varalent that way before I could get logged off!
I ended up with debt because of that little punk. Needless to say I immediately quit the team and then went to the hospital. From there I filed a complaint with the GMs.
I've also heard of people getting TPed on purpose into huge mobs of aggroed baddies various levels above them ~ they die about as quickly as we all did in the first TF attempt before they are able to run away, or even realize what is going on.
I think it's because of things like this that they are going to insist on agreement before you can be TPed.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey Blue! You asked me last night if I had anyone on Guardian. I couldn't remember who for sure but here they are:
BTW, I have all my characters listed on page 29 of this thread if you want to check them out. Think I might start a list thread somewhere on LW for our CoH characters that we can regularly update as far as new heroes and levels acheived.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Vee, I just have to ask. Why were you logging out without quitting the team first? I never log if I'm still part of a team. At least willingly.
To me it would be easier to just quit a team where you have someone being an ass and pulling those stunts (and then report them like you did) than to have to impose an approval system to allow TPing of teammates. But that's just me.
And that brings up another issue. Is anyone else seeing a massive increase in kill stealers? It has gotten ridiculous. We had a guy the other night following us while we were playing the Buffy gang that was not only warned by our leader (FaiththeSlayer) but by myself as well. His reply outloud was "Whatever" and kept doing it. He then sent a tell to me when I told him to quit saying "Whatever. I dare you to report me." So I did. I've decided I've had enough of these little bastards and will now report everyone who is blatantly kill stealing.
I honestly think they have way too many children (or those with childish attitudes) playing the game. And since they can't get their precious PvP they take it out on fellow players in other ways. Should this game ever go to PvP I'd drop it in a heartbeat.
Posted by Varalent on :
Scott: I haven't since then because of what happened but I'm curious as to why you ask? Are you supposed to quit before logging? I never thought that it made a difference since when you log off you are automatically booted from the team anyway. Something I don't know about?
I agree about the kill stealing. It has gotten worse for sure. I see more of it in the lower zones though than the others. Even on Outbreak it's gotten bad.
However, CoH has a very strict interpretation of exactly what it is they consider kill stealing. Basically, if they kill the guy you are actively fighting, that a KS. If they kill the rest of your mob while you are working on that one guy, that's not KS in their book (if I understand it correctly)
[ August 18, 2004, 09:21 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've always been led to believe that once you announce you are leaving a team or begin to log out you are supposed to quit a team. I think it is more because you can still earn XP even though you are doing nothing to help the team. I've seen players park their characters at the Yellow or Green lines and sit, earning XP for nothing. Even had to kick a few off the team who said they were leaving but never logged out.
Maybe it was just a courtesy thing that some of the other players I played with initially drummed into me. The only reason, after leaving the team, I can see for staying on would be for TPing in case of trouble.
Plus maybe part of quitting prior to logging was to prevent what happened to you. Just different learning curves I guess.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hmmm... Never heard that before but it certainly does makes sense on both counts.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I usually do quit a team before quitting the game, tho if I'm with an awful team I'll find a quiet corner and logout without quitting. It's mostly about just trying to get away from people I don't feel I owe a goodbye to -- usually players who have no idea how to team up. I was on a team like this last night, everyone ran all over the place, aggroing too many mobs when the miss belonged to the the highest-level member of the team. I quit while one of the never-look-behind scrappers was having a catfight with the dark healer after most of the team had died.
It was great to see you last night Vee, I'm glad you're back with power.
Posted by Varalent on :
Just to make it official. Looks like CoH Legion Night will be on Infinity server tonight. Try to get on as near to 9 PM as you can. I'm Cos, so if you're not already in the Legion of Super Friends, send me a tell when you get on and I'll invite you.
Hope everyone can make it! I, for one am really looking forward to it after the week I had! Posted by LyleLyle on :
Some highlights from the CoH forums:
What do you plan on doing past level 50? Nothing for quite some time. We’re going to focus now on putting content into the lower and middle level, and then put some goals and tasks for the level 50’s to do when they get there.
Can you think of any examples of a level 50 goal? Well, one thing that we’re working on right now, I don’t know when we’ll get it in, but there will be prestige archetypes that are only available to you after a character has reached level 50.
What other changes are you looking into for the archetypes? Well, I’m not certain it’s an archetype change exactly, but there WILL be an archer power set. Most likely a blaster primary, and defender secondary, and not a power pool, but it’s still in the works.
Speaking of blasters, what are your thoughts on the problems with blasters being so obviously powerful at high levels? The problem is that for everyone, but blasters especially, it’s just too flippin’ easy after level 25. We’re definitely changing minion HP to be higher, and raising the XP to an appropriate level, the only question is how high. And believe me, we’re doing a LOT of testing on this one.
Moving on to specific powers, there’s been quite a bit of discussion about how a few powers have come to seem necessary, such as hasten and stamina, in order to not have a week or unplayable character. What are your thoughts? Well, I really don’t see that those powers are necessary. There are players out there who don’t have them, and they play just fine. They took the power slots that would have gone into getting hasten and stamina, and got other useful powers instead. Also, endurance, while it is a problem for everyone to keep in mind, is something that CAN be easily overcome by proper use of slotting endurance reducers.
One of the big new powers discussed that people seem to want to see is shape shift. Any chance of that happening? Absolutely, no question. We don’t know when for sure, but we’re very excited about it, and are working on coding it right now actually.
What about final powers that seem underpowered? For example, Rise of the Phoenix appears to be a dangerous and very situational power, and it’s the final power in its final power set. Some powers are admittedly not as powerful as they look like they should be, but they’re not bad. Being the last power in a set doesn’t necessarily make it the best, it just makes it so that you can’t get it until a later date, to give you something to look forward to. Just keep in mind that the last power in a set doesn’t mean it’s the best in all situations.
Speaking of things that you can’t get until a certain level, why exactly did you decide we can’t get capes until 20? Honestly, because we just like the idea of acquiring things at different levels. One of the reasons for “acquired” objects, items, and powers is to give the game a feel of growth, expansion, and accomplishment. Call it a carrot, call it a noble goal, call it what you will, but without character advancement, there is no reason to keep playing game.
Like badges? Exactly. But the badges are more than just show off to. We decided to give you a reason to WANT to earn the badges. One badge might give you a higher maximum endurance, one badge might increase your maximum HP, we don’t know what all we can do with them, but they’re going to be more than just for show.
What can we expect to see change in the character creation screen in the future? We’re going to be adding a LOT of cool new stuff. We’re working on other body types right now. We will eventually add shields, don’t know when. We’ll eventually be adding flowing hair, trench coats, and other things also. We will be offering wings, but only to certain (likely new) archetypes, only because of animations. When you add something like wings, if it were a universally available option, we would have to custom tailor ever single possible power animation to fit the wings. If we leave it to only one archetype, it drastically reduces the amount of work required.
What about changes once you’ve already got your character created? Other than the cape… We’re working on changing the color and animation for powers at will, we know about the problems with noises and awkward glow or smoke, or other constant animations on toggles and such, and we’re working on a way to make them optional. We will eventually have customizable weapons available, I wanted to try and get it into the 3rd update, but it didn’t make it. So you’ll see a lot of new stuff, but no idea when.
And now just some general thoughts from Statesman on:
EVENTS AND PLACES IN PARAGON CITY
We will be adding clubs and other places just to hang out. MUCH sooner than you expect. Keep an eye out for easter eggs. We actually made an announcement on the boards, but nobody seemed to have caught it, so I’ll repeat it here, we are RAISING the mission XP for door missions and hunting missions. Also, in regards to missions, we’re going to be implementing a difficulty selector at some point in time to make the missions range from “I only have 15 minutes before work, but wanna do some quick arresting” to “oh my goodness, this is gonna hurt”. The information kiosks will be working eventually; the only problem right now is that they provide a terrible drag on the servers whenever we have them activated. We’re working on the coding of that, and will get them running eventually. There will be other areas added for the heroes to go to. Definitely some out of Paragon City itself, just give us some time to get them coded. Also, I guarantee you we’ll eventually get at least one water area, as Namor is one of my favorite heroes. So expect water for sure. We are going to have some grand server wide events, like we did during beta, we don’t know when, but they WILL happen. And speaking of servers, we plan to allow characters to switch servers eventually. Not necessarily hopping back and forth willy-nilly, but definitely transferring. We haven’t decided how to do it for sure yet.
CITY OF VILLAINS
There is a really good chance that the City of Villains archetypes will be the same as in City of Heroes, but as I said, we’re adding to both of them through new pools, archetypes, and my favorite, the epic archetype. City of Villains will act as a sequel with backwards compatibility. It can be owned and played completely independent of ownership of City of Heroes, just as City of Heroes can be played to its full without owning City of Villains. It’s just that you have to own whichever one you want to play as the characters of. Also, adding City of Villains to a current City of Heroes account will not increase the monthly fee, at least, that’s our plan, and that’s what we want to see happen. We do plan to allow for tainted heroes to occur, or in other words to have your hero go over to City of Villains and be a bad guy. But again, no switching back and forth all willy-nilly. And finally, there will be a public beta for City of Villains.
RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT RANDOM THINGS
We’re likely going to put in a system to allow you to see some basic numbers on damage, endurance usage, etcetera for all the powers, and to show how much different enhancements change it, but I don’t like that. When you play a fighting game, or FPS, you don’t look at numbers, you just look at this bar, and think “Oh, it’s high, or it’s low” and not exactly how much damage everything does.
Go ahead and send me PMs on the message boards, but don’t make it any longer than about 4 sentences. While I respect you for putting a lot of work and effort into it, when I open a PM and I see it’s a 3 page essay on why brawl should deal more damage, or something like that, I just sigh in pain and move on.
I am honestly completely shocked about how much energy and worry people put into XP. I realize that it’s what’s used to measure when you level, but at least it’s not negative XP. Losing levels is not fun, and I honestly don’t think you need to worry so much about debt.
Finally, and most excitingly, we have a GREAT new out of combat system. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. We came up with it, it’ll be out soon, not telling when, and it will even involve some offline things that can be done. But I won’t tell you what it is yet.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Some other thoughts....
Wouldn't it be cool if you could do short-term server transfers? We could plan our own versions of "Crisis on Infinity Server"
Also, I wish they'd do something odd with supergroups. Perhaps there'd be supergroup tasks or events, where your signal goes off, alerting you to an emergency or someone invades your HQ. I'd like to see foes you mostly see as SGs.
Posted by Varalent on :
I think I might send him an email (4 lines or less ) asking them to consider an option that allows another player to play one of your heroes TEMPORARILY for Task Force Missions in particular. That way someone in a SG with only low level heroes can participate with the group by "borrowing" someone else's hero for the time.
Just think when we attempted the first TF, we could have used both Condo & Mysa. And Shadow Lad & Saturn Lady, if Mike hadn't been able to join us. I would have let SLK play either of mine and he could have joined us.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Some other thoughts....
Wouldn't it be cool if you could do short-term server transfers? We could plan our own versions of "Crisis on Infinity Server"
That would be cool, and could somewhat resolve my point above. SLK could have "transfered" his 12th lvl hero from Protector to Virtue and joined us.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
It certainly seems to me like the bad guys have had a boost recently ... and if the game is too flipping easy after level 25 I definitely gotta find a way to get Blue Battler there because I was getting my <bleep> kicked in IP last night, and I'm level 24.
And I would love to talk to someone who has a high level character-- like 30 or above-- who doesn't have stamina.
I think having a headquarters would be neat, but I'd still like to be able to see vehicles as a transport option...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh, another thing...
Vee, Scott... when are we going to do another Slayerette run? Xander's getting all twitchy... ;-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Not sure about Spike. And I doubt I'll make the Adventure Legion game tonight. I promised myself I wouldn't play this week and I'm working late again anyway. Plus if I were to play any this week (not just tonight) I need to focus on Garth so he can at least be at 14 for the TF.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh, it wouldn't be tonight... just soon.
I'm kinda Andrewed out at the moment ... I so wish you din't have to wait until 20 to get stamina ...its so damn frustrating to be kicking butt and run out of juice.
I'm going to stock Andy up with catch a breaths for the task force...
Posted by Nightcrawler on :
Hi guys!
I'd like to move this thread to Bits. Unless anyone objects.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Well I think I kinda object. I don't really think this fits in Bits. But that's just my opinion.
Posted by Nightcrawler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Well I think I kinda object. I don't really think this fits in Bits. But that's just my opinion.
MMB or Anywhere Machine? There are a number of featured topics here and this one seems the least "Legion."
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'd be okay with the Anywhere Machine if the others are.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Anywhere Machine is fine. Is there any way you could change the thread title to: City of Heroes: Your Chance .to Be a Legionnaire as Vee suggested earlier?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Is there any way you could change the thread title to: City of Heroes: Your Chance .to Be a Legionnaire as Vee suggested earlier?
Done.
Posted by Varalent on :
Anywhere machine is fine with me. I'll try to PM the regulars once it's moved to let them know where it is.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'll move it now.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Last night was pretty fun. With the right enhancements, Brek can be pretty devastating. I guess you just have to slot the endurance reduction to yourpowers as soon as possible. I still can't understnd why I didn't win the costume contest, though.
I have a question about the task force missions. Do they have to be done in one sitting? Can they be done over a period of time, say an hour a night over the course of a week? If that's the case, what's to stop us from starting a TF mission and slowly working on it when we are able?
Posted by DMFirebow on :
Hey.. this sounds like a lot of fun, and i've been looking for a good group to play with.. Are you guys mostly on Virtue server?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: I have a question about the task force missions. Do they have to be done in one sitting? Can they be done over a period of time, say an hour a night over the course of a week? If that's the case, what's to stop us from starting a TF mission and slowly working on it when we are able?
My understanding is they are a set time (and Vee or Blue can correct any of this as they are more experienced) and have to be done in one sitting. If you quit it before its finished you'll have to start all over.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: Hey.. this sounds like a lot of fun, and i've been looking for a good group to play with.. Are you guys mostly on Virtue server?
We have two main Legion groups. One on Virtue and the other on Infinity. The Infinity group is done in the Adventure era style while the Virtue group is more a mix.
Plus most of us have other characters in different, non-Legion groups on other servers. We just started a Buffy group on Triumph.
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey DMFirebow! This is a lot of fun. We have our main group on Virtue (Legionnaires of Virtue) but we also have a group on Protector (Legion of Super Protectors) and one on Infinity (Legion of Super Friends) Most of us have at least one hero on each.
We normally try to get together for Legion night on Wednesday nights around 9 PM eastern and we'll coordinate which server we're going to use here on this thread. Many of us paly often so you can usually hook up with one of us at least on any given night and on the weekends.
Post your heroes name here and let us know when you're going to be on. My list of heroes is on page 28 or 29 (I think) and others have listed theirs as well.
Look forward to having you join us!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hmm. Maybe we should have a separate thread for just hero lists and pictures.
Posted by Varalent on :
I'm working on that! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Then I'll wait to gather my list-o-heroes to post.
Posted by Varalent on :
All set! Everyone post your list on the thread titled "City of Heroes: The Official LW/LMBP Roster of Heroes" I would suggest that we make links to the pics instead of posting them or that thread will get to be almost as long as this one.
And don't forget to keep it updated
[ August 19, 2004, 11:24 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Thanks for the PM, Vee.
I'll put together a new list tonight. I created myself a "tracker" so that I can keep track of which characters haven't been played in a while.
Any suggestions for the name of a character I've been thinking of? She's a robot created by the Clockwork King to be his companion, but she eventually turned against him. The current name going through my head is "The Gear Queen" but the gear part seems kinda undignified for the consort of the Clockwork King. She's gonna be an invul/strength tanker, so Telsa Queen or Cannon Queen seems inapt.
Course once I figure out a name there's always the chance it'll be taken....
Posted by Varalent on :
HRH Sue S. Movement (Swiss Movement)
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Okay, I got my "account expired" e-mail. I've been prepared for this and pre-ordered a sub card but I think I'll put off renewing until I get some stuff done, first. (I've got to prep the boyfriend's welcome home late night snack -- he's coming too late for dinner -- and finish making some of the stuff I've prepped and didn't finish, like that tomato sauce I started before the tomatoes ripened. Most importatnly, I think I'll try to finish my webpage so I can show off my CoH designs.)
So I probably won't get to team with any of you tonight before you're all asleep but I should have my characters up by tomorrow, if all goes well.
Posted by DMFirebow on :
I need to pump up my character on Virtue so I can join you guys! I'll try to spend extra time leveling Brik.. my version of Blok.
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
I got to play COH for about 10 minutes last weekend.
I didn't create a character, and I only had time to master movement, and I never did figure out how to actually attack anything, but I could see how this could become an addiction.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: I need to pump up my character on Virtue so I can join you guys! I'll try to spend extra time leveling Brik.. my version of Blok.
Definitely!
If you can pump him up somewhere between 10 and 15 by the 29th, you can join our taskforce. Until then, any of us would be glad to sidekick you if you see us online.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: I got to play COH for about 10 minutes last weekend.
I didn't create a character, and I only had time to master movement, and I never did figure out how to actually attack anything, but I could see how this could become an addiction.
It definitely can. I seriously had a reality check Sunday when I played for nine hours straight. My hubby is a serious online gamer, and I would get quite annoyed with how much time he spent playing. I never understood the appeal of the games over "real" interactions.
I also did a story about online gaming addiction for a parenting magazine earlier this year and was amazed at some of the stories at the stories of "Evercrack" and how easily some people get sucked in. I never thought it could happen to me.
I think Sunday was a fun fluke. It was a weekend of total slothfulness in general, and I didn't have anything more important to do. But when my hubby (with a bit of real concern in his voice) said he's never spent nine hours on a game (a fact I highly doubt since I can't tell you how many weekend mornings I've gotten up to go to the bathroom at 3 or 4 in the morning and he's still playing, though I never actually clocked him) except at a LAN party, it made me think.
Maybe Scott has the right idea to give it up for a week just to be sure he still can. I don't know. I don't think I'm at any dangerous level, but I will be keeping a closer watch on myself.
Sorry for the rambling -- just something that's been weighing on my mind this week.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
And when I checked my time, I figured I'd been playing almost 12 hours!
Still, I don't feel that I'm addicted. I had my reality check when I went to the San Diego Comic Con. Didn't even twitch. I did miss some of my online friends, but I didn't miss the game itself.
But taking a week off wouldn't really do any harm to anyone. Shadow Lad is about as high as he can be for the TF anyway, so you don't have to level him anymore.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Freedom:
Charlie Brown- level 2 science tanker
(Anyone want to make other Peanuts' characters for Freedom?)
I might do a Linus character there (Van Pelt? Been awhile since I read the strips). I don't currently have anyone on Freedom so plenty of space. But it'll have to wait until late tomorrow when we get back from our gambling trip.
So you have a pic of good old Chuck to share?
Posted by Varalent on :
Pig Pen would be funny Posted by Blue Battler on :
Charlie... 8-)
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey Blue! Is your Joeseph Wilson the Titan Jericho?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Charlie must have bulked up in high school.
And the answer to Vee's question is yes. He is the son of my Slade Wilson.. (one period at the end of his name due to it already being in use).
Caroline has Arizona Wilson who is Jericho's daughter, an original character created in one of Blue's RPG games.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
So what's the backstory on this Peanuts group? You have a fun one for your Gilligan's Island group.
Since Scott's claimed Linus (rats! I played him in high school when we went to elementary schools and performed the TV specials), I'll be Lucy. (And yes, Scott, it is Van Pelt.)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, after all those years of being picked on, the poor kid went 'roid on us. ;-)
And yeah, as Scott said, Joe is the son of Slade. I made him a psionic controller because that seemed closest. The costume isn't perfect, but I did the best I could...
[ August 20, 2004, 07:48 AM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oops.
Sorry, guys. Didn't realize it would be so big...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I actually played Snoopy in elementary school, the only time I've 'treaded the boards'. Linus was just the first one that came to mind. You can take him if you'd like Seymour.
I could play Schroder. If I'm remembering his name right.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Oops.
Sorry, guys. Didn't realize it would be so big...
That's okay. I edited the tag to make them smaller. It takes some getting use to. Just means you'll have to post more often. Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Thanks, Scott. I'll try and play with costumes and see what comes out. I'll have to give some thought to what Linus would become. Lucy would probably be a scrapper, since she's so crabby. Or maybe a mind controller, since she's so bossy.
Linus, hmmmm. Whatever he is, he'll have to go to 20 so he can get his security-blanket cape. Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: So what's the backstory on this Peanuts group? You have a fun one for your Gilligan's Island group.
Since Scott's claimed Linus (rats! I played him in high school when we went to elementary schools and performed the TV specials), I'll be Lucy. (And yes, Scott, it is Van Pelt.)
I haven't come up with one yet...
Maybe the gang went through a bad phase where they experimented with Superdyne in high school? Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: And the answer to Vee's question is yes. He is the son of my Slade Wilson.. (one period at the end of his name due to it already being in use).
Caroline has Arizona Wilson who is Jericho's daughter, an original character created in one of Blue's RPG games.
Cool! They'll fit right in with my Titans on Triumph!
I spent a little time setting them up last night before watching the Olympics. I have a WonderKid (male version "son of" Wonder Woman & "cousin" of Donna Troy, with her red & gold Teen Titan pantsuit outfit),
...a Capt Marvel Jr. (named Junior Marvel)
and a Grant Damage.
I'll probably do one or two more. (Like you couldn't guess that! )
[ August 20, 2004, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I like the Superdyne idea.
Now to figure out who to play. Who do we have?
Charlie Brown (taken) Linus van Pelt (taken) Lucy van Pelt Rerun van Pelt Patricia Reichardt (Peppermint Patty) Marcie Johnson Schroeder Sally Brown Snoopy and Woodstock (too hard to do right now I think)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
What about Franklin and Pigpen?
Heh. Pigpen should have rad... ;-)
Posted by Varalent on :
...or earth powers Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I like the Superdyne idea.
Now to figure out who to play. Who do we have?
Charlie Brown (taken) Linus van Pelt (taken) Lucy van Pelt Rerun van Pelt Patricia Reichardt (Peppermint Patty) Marcie Johnson Schroeder Sally Brown Snoopy and Woodstock (too hard to do right now I think)
Heh. I'm suddenly picturing the Peanuts' kids as a gang ... moving in on the Trollkins' territory!
How's that for a SG name?
BAD Peanuts
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: What about Franklin and Pigpen?
Heh. Pigpen should have rad... ;-)
The superdyne idea does work, but I don't think they should have experimented willingly. It just doesn't seem like something they'd do. Maybe an early version of the drug was slipped into the cafeteria food or the apples they bobbed for at a Halloween party. (And Lucy thought dog lips were bad!)
Or maybe that snotty trio -- Shermie, Frieda and Violet -- bitter about being thrust out of the gang, did it to get revenge, not knowing it would turn the rest of them into super-heroes.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: ...or earth powers
Well, one of the powers of rad is choking cloud, so that just seemed appropriate to me. 8-)
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Okay, I just created PeppermintPatti on Freedom server. I think she is a mutation scrapper. And, I have to say, she is a helluva lot cuter now that she's all grown up. If Marcy is still chasing her, I can see why she'd want to Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Maybe I'll creat a Marcie character tomorrow. Posted by Varalent on :
Okay so here's my contribution to the Peanuts group on Freedom.
Meet Pig Pen Peanut
And for those of you that weren't able to join us on Wednesday for Legion night on Infinity with the Adventure era Legion, here's my newest member of Vee's Legion...ColorKid!
Posted by ActorLad on :
Dear Zod, Pig Pen's gone Wolverine. Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
And here's Linus VP. I couldn't wait for a cape, so I used his security blanket as a mysterious mask.
Now a member of Paragon City's superhero community, he fights to protect its citizens while maintaining his neverending quest for the most sincere pumpkin patch.
Seeing as how he was the thoughtful philosopher, I made him an empath defender with psychic blast for his secondary.
[ August 20, 2004, 07:20 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Charlie... 8-)
Looks like Lucy pulled away one football too many.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Charlie... 8-)
Looks like Lucy pulled away one football too many.
Yep. You never know what tormenting someone in their childhood will result in. Jason, Carrie ... Charlie Brown ... ;-)
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
If angst were energy, Charlie Brown could destoy a metropolis.
Which is where he's now living, evidently.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: If angst were energy, Charlie Brown could destoy a metropolis.
Which is where he's now living, evidently.
Heh. Yeah. See who'll forget to send him a Valentine's Day card now! Posted by Blue Battler on :
Created Charlie's lil' sister Sally as a stone tanker. Truth to tell, she handles a lot better than Big Chuck, so I may scrap him and remake him as a stone tanker too ... in the meantime, though, here's our gal Sal ...
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Sally looks cool. If no one claims Lucy soon, I may go ahead and do her too. I came up with a cool design for her last night, but I didn't complete it in case Scott or someone else wanted her. Funny we used the same skirt and boots. Of course, all their dresses in the strip look pretty much the same, so it makes sense. Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Sally looks cool. If no one claims Lucy soon, I may go ahead and do her too. I came up with a cool design for her last night, but I didn't complete it in case Scott or someone else wanted her. Funny we used the same skirt and boots. Of course, all their dresses in the strip look pretty much the same, so it makes sense.
Seymour,
If you'll look carefully you'll see that she's wearing sandals with a pair of socks on. At least, that's how I'm interpreting it. Posted by Blue Battler on :
I scrapped and remade Charlie Brown. I kept the fiery armor as his primary power to keep him distinct from Sally, but I gave him stone powers as his secondary ... made a really big difference. They seem to do a lot more damage than the fire ones did.
I'm going to try to do a thumbnail so y'all can see Charlie with his big rock mallet and his fiery aura on:
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: If you'll look carefully you'll see that she's wearing sandals with a pair of socks on. At least, that's how I'm interpreting it. [/QB]
I saw them. I should have put "boots" in quotes. I just said that because that's just what all footwear's called on the character generator. I did the same thing, though Lucy's were socks with high heels.
What's Charlie Brown's new name so I can add him to friends?
Posted by Varalent on :
Congrats to Andrew Nolan, Porcupine Pete & Prism Lord! Andrew & Pete made it to lvl 15 today. Andrew is now the Valiant (or Heroic ~ can't remember right now ) Andrew Nolan and Pete is now the Powerful Porcupine Pete! And Prism Lord made it to level 13 after a marathon session!
Looks like we should have a pretty powerful Task Force team!
We also have some new members in the Legionnaires of Virtue. LW's own DMFirebow has created Cece Marvel (Thunder), Princess Mirage (Jeckie), and Brik (Blok) Cosmic Rokk inducted all of them into the SG today so be sure to welcome them all to the group when you see them! DMFirebow is going to try to join us for the TF with his Doc Nimbus hero if he can't get one of these three up to lvl 10 by next week.
[ August 21, 2004, 06:29 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: If you'll look carefully you'll see that she's wearing sandals with a pair of socks on. At least, that's how I'm interpreting it.
I saw them. I should have put "boots" in quotes. I just said that because that's just what all footwear's called on the character generator. I did the same thing, though Lucy's were socks with high heels.
What's Charlie Brown's new name so I can add him to friends? [/QB]
Seymour,
He's still Charlie Brown
If you delete the character and then remake him, you can use the same name so long as no one has scarfed it up in the meantime.
I got Charlie up to 5 now ... I just wonder when the Peanuts' Gang are going to be able to play together so I can see what everyone can do.8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Congrats to Andrew Nolan, Porcupine Pete & Prism Lord! Andrew & Pete made it to lvl 15 today. Andrew is now the Valiant (or Heroic ~ can't remember right now ) Andrew Nolan and Pete is now the Powerful Porcupine Pete! And Prism Lord made it to level 13 after a marathon session!
Looks like we should have a pretty powerful Task Force team!
We also have some new members in the Legionnaires of Virtue. LW's own DMFirebow has created Cece Marvel (Thunder), Princess Mirage (Jeckie), and Brik (Blok) Cosmic Rokk inducted all of them into the SG today so be sure to welcome them all to the group when you see them! DMFirebow is going to try to join us for the TF with his Doc Nimbus hero if he can't get one of these three up to lvl 10 by next week.
Yeah, now if I could just come up with a way to keep Andrew from running out of endurance in every fight I'd be a happy camper ... ;-)
I did manage to sock in a DO endurance reduction on his flight so that should help a little bit with flight ...
Posted by Varalent on :
Woke up early this morning (even though it was a VERY late night on Infinity!) and decided we could use another blaster in the Adventure group. So here he is...
His name is E Lad Jan and he's currently a level 4 energy energy mutant blaster. I decided to move Jan over from Protector since I really prefer him in his Adventure costume (came out great didn't it!) and there's someone else I want to try over there.
Next time Imra Ardeen' is on, I'll have to get her to induct him into the Legion of Super Friends, since she originally sponsored him as Mystery Lad back in the Adventure days! Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Woke up early this morning (even though it was a VERY late night on Infinity!) and decided we could use another blaster in the Adventure group. So here he is...
His name is E Lad Jan and he's currently a level 4 energy energy mutant blaster. I decided to move Jan over from Protector since I really prefer him in his Adventure costume (came out great didn't it!) and there's someone else I want to try over there.
Hey, Vee. I was working on characters early this morning too. I got Charile Brown up to 6 and got taunt for him. Like so many other powers, it seems to be one that won't do much at all until you start slotting it with enhancements.
I also worked some on this guy, Nite Killer. Seymour and Vee saw him last night, but here he is for the rest of you ...
And another shot where you can kinda see his face....
I dearly wish they had trenchoats because this guy needs one badly ....
Today I want to work on Star to see if I can get him to 10 ...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Set up my Peanuts character last night/early this morning. Marcie Johnson, a Natural Defender with healing and mental blasts. I'll post a pic later.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Okay, here's Marcie.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've also added two new characters to Freedom (since it was empty). I've updated my list but I'll post their pics here.
First, is Adam-Warlock, a 5th level Mutation Tanker. The upcoming new Warlock series inspired me to one of my favorite Starlin characters (I know he is not a Starlin creation but he was responsible for my favorite version).
I tried to match his skin color and uniform and think I did a good job. At least in the design area it was an exact match. I also used the third eye to simulate his soul-gem. Green of course. Not the new, red one.
[ August 22, 2004, 02:34 PM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
And here is something from my childhood that I loved to play with. Remember those little green Army men? I would spend hours playing with them in the mountains behind our trailer. I must have had close to a thousand of them at one time.
lil' Army Man is a 6th level Natural Blaster. I used lil' in his name but didn't make him the smallest character possible. Didn't even check if Green Army Man was available. Didn't think of it until it was too late. That's what I get for creating characters when I'm exhausted. But he works rather well.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Bwa ha ha ha! I love lil Army Man. What fun!
Marcie looks good too. I didn't know she had a last name.
Vee, E-lad looks great. Everyone is doing such an awesome job with the Adventure costumes. I can't wait to run into DM's Tinya some night so I can see how she turned out.
quote:GameSpy: Can you say anything about Issue #3?
Sullivan: We're introducing something top secret, but I can say that it adds a new dimension of gameplay that we haven't seen in this game yet. It's non-combat leveling.
Non-combat leveling? More real role-playing maybe? Quests to look for hidden items?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Non combat leveling, eh? Sounds cool.
Love the little army man, so cute.
Anyway, created a couple more characters this weekend just 'cause I wanted exorcise the ideas from my head.
The first is Olivia Honey, inspired by a minor character from The Life and Loves of a She Devil. Olivia is a woman who had the opportunity to start her life over, thanks to the mysterious Vesta Rose, and becomes a mercenary. Her pic on the webpage is going to be an attempt to parody a James Bond poster.
Then there's the Gear Queen. She's Jocasta to the Clockwork King's Ultron. I initially thought it would be cool for her to be a claws scrapper, with the metal on metal look, but then I'm starting to think I'd rather create a Cheshire-type of character as a claws scrapper. Maybe I'll save that for City of Vilains.
Posted by Varalent on :
Okay everyone! We need to start planning for the Task Force this coming Sunday. Please answer the following:
1) Is 1 PM eastern time good for everyone? I'm not sure how long it will take but imagine we need to plan on a few hours at least. You won't be able to leave and come back so make sure you can commit to however long it takes!
2) What hero are you bringing? Please list level (current & expected gametime) and powers so we can make sure that we have as strong a team going in as possible. I think we are limited to a maximum of 8 but I'm not sure. (Blue or Seymour probably can confirm that)
I'm still trying to decide whether to bring Condo or Mysa. Both are level 15.
So far, I believe we can expect the following to participate:
1) Vee - Condo or Mysa 2) Seymour - Shadow Lad 3) Caroline - Tasmia Mallor 4) LL - Garth Ranzz 5) SLK - Porcupine Pete 6) Lyle - Prism Lord 7) Blue Battler - Andrew Nolan 8) DMFirebow - Doc Nimbus or UltraStar with one of his on Virtue? or anyone else? (Did I miss anyone?)
PS: If the maximum is 8 and we have more than that, can you have TWO TF teams cooperate with each other?
[ August 23, 2004, 03:13 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Actually, it may be a good thing if we get more than 8 players. From what I hear, the ideal on the Positron TF is a team of 4-5. The level is set but the mobs get really big after the fifth team member. If we have eight at the party, tho, I think we could take on those larger mobs.
As I understand them, a TF consists of a series of missions, so maybe if we make two teams we can meet up in between missions and chat a little before the next one. Stand around and go "OMG, could you believe that boss?"
Also, reading around I'm told to expect the TF to take 4-5 hours.
I can do 1PM with preparation (I'll need to make muffin or scone batter the night before so that I can feed the boyfriend and not have to worry about having to stop CoHing for breakfast).
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Oh, yeah, I'll be there as Prism Lord. He's currently lvl 13, but perhaps I could get him to 14 by Sunday(maybe I'll get that group invisiility for the TF).
Posted by Varalent on :
******** GameSpy: What was the most challenging part of actually getting capes into the game?
Jack Emmert: Technology! We wanted capes to flow with movement and combat - just as they do in the comic books. But getting fabric to animate "just right" takes a lot of time and effort. At Cryptic, we want to set a standard where we take the time to do things right, rather than rush something out the door. We're starting with just basic capes at the moment, and we'll be adding to those in future free expansions.
GameSpy: How difficult will it actually be for a player to acquire a cape?
Jack Emmert: Not too difficult. Once you are level 20, players visit the City Representative who sends them on a series of missions. Once those are completed successfully, players may visit a tailor to get a cape! It doesn't require a massive amount of playing, though it does represent a significant amount of player dedication.
GameSpy: Will there be a similar bonus for players who perhaps don't envision their characters wearing capes?
Jack Emmert: At level 30, we have ongoing special effects opening up. So a player can cloak his character's head in a wreath of flames - or cover his hands with crackling electricity - etc. At this point, a character's powers have become so puissant that they are evident even at a distance!
GameSpy: What effects will capes have on characters? Will there be several different kinds of cape?
Jack Emmert: Capes will be as customizable as every other costume piece! There are different sizes, colors, and patterns at first release. As time goes by, we'll be adding other capes into the game that give their wearers extra powers or protection. But that's a story for another day!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Sunday at 1:00 should be okay for us, at four to five hours to play. Garth is currently 13 and I may try for 14 prior to the TF.
Posted by Danny Blaine on :
I just got my main character on pinnacle up to 15. What makes me mad though is the lag between missions. It seems that once I run out of missions, I have to wait asecurity level or two to get new contacts. I had to wait through patrol from 13-14 until I finally hit the 15 mark.
It kinda got old...
Posted by Varalent on :
Danny, we've missed you on CoH! When are you going to join us for Legion night again?
Posted by Danny Blaine on :
Hopefully soon! Schedule is still a bit tight, so we shall see...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I've been on four TFs if you count the aborted one that I did with Scott and Caroline. On the others, we went in with a full 8 players. One of them we finally wound giving up because we just didn't have the right combo to pull it off, and the other two were successfully completed.
On the last one I went in on, we got 1000 points for each successful mission. Where you really racked up points, though, was in the number of kills you made in the mish ... the more baddies you kill, the higher your point score, and the better the chances you have of leveling from it.
And yes, it does take four or more hours ... though most of the time you can take a bio break or to get water or a snack because there will be lulls while you are doing endurance rests and/or waiting for the healer's rez to charge up. ;-)
Based on my experience, I'd say go in loaded to the bear ... we'll score more points that way than we would on two separate TFs even if those are doable.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
1) 1 p.m. is fine for me. (I hope so since it was my idea originally. ) 2) I'll be bringing Shadow Lad, of course, who's about a bubble into 15.
I've never been on a TF, but my hubby has. Mike offered a couple tips:
Again, once you train to 15, you can't train any higher during the TF or you'll get kicked off.
Even if you have to throw some away, make sure you have at least three enhancement slots open at mission's end. Everybody gets a special bonus enhancement for finishing. Whoever gets the final kill gets one, and you may get an extra when you leave the last mission.
This is going to be awesome!
Posted by UltraStar on :
Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to do a Sunday TF even if I didn't have to work that morning(damn job, interfering with my CoH time). My highest character on Virtue is only lvl 6. I get a weeks holidays starting Sunday, Sept. 5th so I could try to build one of my guys up for that day(but you guys will probably be on the Skyway TF by then.
Maybe the Infinity one if everyone reaches a TF worthy lvl by then(my Wildfire-X is lvl 11 right now there).
The scariest thing I just realized today is that my 3 month account on CoH ends that week so I'm gonna be needing to buy some more airtime very soon!!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Here's the first group shot from our Peanuts gang.
We've got Sally Brown, Marcie Johnson, PeppermintPatti, Pig Pen Peanut, Linus VP and Charlie Brown. My original screenshot has room to Chuck's left for a couple more.
SLK, DM, Lyle, Ultrastar, Danny, there are still plenty of characters. I've got an idea for Lucy, but I'll hold off if one of you would like to join us on the Freedom server. We need a Schroeder too. We still need a scrapper and a blaster or two. Then there's always Franklin, Violet, Frieda or Shermie. And if you want to go out on a limb, we need Snoopy and Woodstock (maybe we should wait for the winged archetype for Woodstock).
[ August 23, 2004, 07:10 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
OK, I swore I wasn't going to play today, but after doing the picture, I just had to get this out of my system. The Great'Pumpkin :
Posted by Varalent on :
That's a neat one Seymour! I never would have thought of doing that!
[ August 23, 2004, 08:10 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
LOL. that is hilarious, Seymour!! Unfortuntely, I really haven't a whole lot of time to be creating new characters. I wasnt to concentrate on the ones I have and "go all they way" with them. Right now I have about four characters taht I want to concentrate on: Porcupine Pete and Brek Bannin of course (Brek's getting a bit behind) and an original hero on the Triumph server - Terra's Fury - an earth controller. He's alot of fun in groups.
Plus, I just don't have the imagination and creativity that you guys have to make some of the guys! I do enjoy seeing the pics, though.
Schroeder and Lucy are must- haves on this team. Not sure what you could do to make Schroeder stand out without a piano.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
BTW, Porcupine Pete's ready to go on Sunday afternoon (EST, right?), though I may have to quit early to go to church on Sunday night. I'll still do what I can while I'm there.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Love the Great Pumpkin Seymour! That's why I wanted to do Linus, because I couldn't think of a way to do the Pumpkin.
Got Garth, with a lot of help from Caroline, Blue and Vee, tonight from 6400 xp from 14th (0 bubbles) to only 2966 from 14th (1 click shy of 6 bubbles). Should be able to hit 14 no problem this week, especially if we do Legion night on Wednesday.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Danny Blaine: I just got my main character on pinnacle up to 15. What makes me mad though is the lag between missions. It seems that once I run out of missions, I have to wait asecurity level or two to get new contacts. I had to wait through patrol from 13-14 until I finally hit the 15 mark.
It kinda got old...
Danny! We've missed you! And I can't wait to see you on CoH!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I am so going to regret this when I get up for work in less than 6 hours, but I ran into my friend Grem after leaving Scott, Vee, and Caroline, and she made a Redhaired Girl. (No longer little, of course!)
Here's a picture of her with Charlie ...
And here's a picture of Red by herself.:
We got her up to 5 before I finally had to call it a night ...
*falls asleep on keyboard...*
[ August 23, 2004, 10:57 PM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Very neat Great Pumpkin, Seymour! What can he do? 8-)
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I am so going to regret this when I get up for work in less than 6 hours, but I ran into my friend Grem after leaving Scott, Vee, and Caroline, and she made a Redhaired Girl. (No longer little, of course!)
We got her up to 5 before I finally had to call it a night ...
*falls asleep on keyboard...*
[ August 24, 2004, 06:04 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Very neat Great Pumpkin, Seymour! What can he do? 8-)
He's an energy/energy blaster because I don't have one that I play (created one for the JSA team but haven't taken her out of the tutorial yet), and I thought the energy stuff was green. (I know rad's green, but I didn't feel like doing another defender.) Turns out it's blue, so I'll have to change that when colors become customizable. I don't know if I'll play him much, either, but he was fun to create.
I tried a Woodstock, too, but I couldn't get anything I liked. All the winged head variations I tried looked too weird.
[ August 24, 2004, 06:15 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by DMFirebow on :
1PM Eastern should work for me, I just have to check with the wife... Doc Nimbus is one bubble away from 12th, and he should be there by game time.
Sorry for abandoning you the other day, Vee.. i got disconnected and couldn't get back on.. Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: 1PM Eastern should work for me, I just have to check with the wife... Doc Nimbus is one bubble away from 12th, and he should be there by game time.
Sorry for abandoning you the other day, Vee.. i got disconnected and couldn't get back on..
Glad you'll be able to join us DM! If you're available Wed night, you might want to join us for Legion night with Doc Nimbus (even though he's not one of your Legion characters). We usually get together around 9 PM and can help you work on getting him leveled up as much as possible.
Also be sure to look for any of us any day this week that you're on. There's usually someone around and it really helps in racking up xp because you can go afer bigger baddies.
No problem about the other day. I figured that's what happened. Been in that situation myself before. Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Very neat Great Pumpkin, Seymour! What can he do? 8-)
He's an energy/energy blaster because I don't have one that I play (created one for the JSA team but haven't taken her out of the tutorial yet), and I thought the energy stuff was green. (I know rad's green, but I didn't feel like doing another defender.) Turns out it's blue, so I'll have to change that when colors become customizable. I don't know if I'll play him much, either, but he was fun to create.
And you never noticed that Condo & Mysa have blue energy signatures?
Actually, when the colors become customizable I would make it orange.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: And you never noticed that Condo & Mysa have blue energy signatures?
Actually, when the colors become customizable I would make it orange. [/QB]
I see the smiley, but you do have a point. I kind of did out of the corner of my eye, but it never really registered. When I play SL in a fight, I look at mostly two things -- everybody's health bars and where the biggest bad guy is so I know whom to target when I'm not healing.
And, yeah, when it becomes customizable, I'll do a combo of orange and green -- maybe a little black and yellow thrown in -- assuming I keep playing him.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Random CoH bits:
- one thing to look forward to that hasn't been hyped in the new update (perhaps it's waiting until the next one) is that, thanks to the lessons that went into adding capes, there'll be more costume options available. Basically, now that they figured how to make capes flow they'll be tweaking long hair to make it flow and adding some flowing costumes.
- I played with following a "powergamer" fire blaster guide, I've got to admit it works, the fire blaster is pretty powerful and it's pretty fun running around and beating up thugs like crazy. It's quite a relief to me, playing mostly controllers, where my soloing consists of stunning a thug and punching him over and over again. More importantly, the guide is getting me to think that I should be enhancing my other characters more agressively with more damage enhancements doubled up.
- Last night Mister Brazil, a scrapper, ended up joining a hydra hunting team. That was frustrating. I don't recomend trying to melee hydras, not much XP for the effort and danger. Oh, and I died three times while with that group. I think I'll stick to soloing in Skyway.
- Hmmmm, I've got way too many characters I'm juggling but that Peanuts groups looks like so much fun. Maybe I can start Lucy van Pelt as a fire blaster, that temper and all...
- Speaking of homage characters, I'm tempted to create a truly oddball reference. Is there a post-boot focused SG? I want to create a Tiffany Cross character. (If anyone except for Seymour -- who's heard me wax nostalgic for Ms Cross -- remembers her, I'd be so shocked.) But I've got enough characters to juggle, don't I?
- I just realized, the only issue one feature I've noticed making use of was the tailor. Outdoor door missions? New villains? New zones? Sewer trial? Prison? I need to get a some of my characters leveled.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Random CoH bits:
- one thing to look forward to that hasn't been hyped in the new update (perhaps it's waiting until the next one) is that, thanks to the lessons that went into adding capes, there'll be more costume options available. Basically, now that they figured how to make capes flow they'll be tweaking long hair to make it flow and adding some flowing costumes.
That will be pretty cool (both the hair and costumes)
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: - I played with following a "powergamer" fire blaster guide, I've got to admit it works, the fire blaster is pretty powerful and it's pretty fun running around and beating up thugs like crazy. It's quite a relief to me, playing mostly controllers, where my soloing consists of stunning a thug and punching him over and over again. More importantly, the guide is getting me to think that I should be enhancing my other characters more agressively with more damage enhancements doubled up.
Fire blasters (to be honest blasters in general) are by far the most fun. Tell us more about the guide though. I'd like to hear what else it recommends.
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: - Hmmmm, I've got way too many characters I'm juggling but that Peanuts groups looks like so much fun. Maybe I can start Lucy van Pelt as a fire blaster, that temper and all...
...or Rerun! He should be done with a crash helmet on his head!
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: - Speaking of homage characters, I'm tempted to create a truly oddball reference. Is there a post-boot focused SG? I want to create a Tiffany Cross character. (If anyone except for Seymour -- who's heard me wax nostalgic for Ms Cross -- remembers her, I'd be so shocked.) But I've got enough characters to juggle, don't I?
Not yet but we could start a post-boot one on another server. That would work perfectly for DMFirebow's idea the other day about Triad! Just say the word!
BTW, one can never have enough characters *Vee says solemnly*
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: - I just realized, the only issue one feature I've noticed making use of was the tailor. Outdoor door missions? New villains? New zones? Sewer trial? Prison? I need to get a some of my characters leveled.
Actually I haven't even heard anyone mention any of the others. Guess those are so far above me in level that I have no contact with those heroes that get to experience them.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Those bits sound pretty good. What's a "powergamer" guide? I haven't run across those yet.
I know what you mean about juggling, and SLK mentioned it, too. I've got a couple I'd like to concentrate on and really start levelling them so I can get to all these awesome places.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've heard of the "powergamer" guides but all the ones I've seen cost money. Either a website subscription or eBay auction. Haven't decided yet if it is worth it or not.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Okay looking at a roster of:
Condo/Mysa Tasmia Mallor Porcupine Pete Andrew Nolan Garth Ranz Shadow Lad Prism Lord Doc Nimbus
I think we're looking fairly covered. We've got three melees (Tasmia, Pete and Andrew), 1-2 blasters (Garth and, possibly, Condo), 2-3 semi-blasters (Shadow Lad, Doc Nimbus and, possibly, Mysa), 1-2 healers (Doc Numbus and, possibly, Mysa) and 2 semi-healers (Shadow Lad and Prism).
Since we've got Doc Nimbus and two secondary healers I think we could work well with either Condo or Mysa in the task force. Both would be quite valuable to the party.
The only thing we're low on is foe neutralization (just me). I think we can make that work with our team. My usual controller MO is to try to stun the minions who aren't being engaged by melees so that they stop giving us damage when it looks like we won't be trying to take them out soon... I've stoped trying to stun bosses after missing too many times.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Let's see if I can post links on this board without Java working on my browser....
Here's a guide to powergaming a fire/device blaster claiming "Level 40 in four weeks" <http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1155869&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1#1155869>
I'm playing with this one right now, especially since he spells out his slotting.
An overall guide I'm finding interesting can be found here:
I have been thinking of claiming Rerun instead or Lucy. I remember really liking Rerun on the Peanuts saturday morning series. He had a bit of a slow-build temper, IIRC so I was thinking of a Fire Blast defender... maybe empathy?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Alright, you'll have to cut and paste those links into your browser to read 'em...
I lurk on the CoH boards from time to time, I have a hard time logging on so I rarely post, but they have some good player guides, tho you have to remember they were written by individuals who might not realize their style isn't necessarily obvious to everyone.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Okay looking at a roster of:
Condo/Mysa Tasmia Mallor Porcupine Pete Andrew Nolan Garth Ranz Shadow Lad Prism Lord Doc Nimbus
I think we're looking fairly covered. We've got three melees (Tasmia, Pete and Andrew), 1-2 blasters (Garth and, possibly, Condo), 2-3 semi-blasters (Shadow Lad, Doc Nimbus and, possibly, Mysa), 1-2 healers (Doc Numbus and, possibly, Mysa) and 2 semi-healers (Shadow Lad and Prism).
Since we've got Doc Nimbus and two secondary healers I think we could work well with either Condo or Mysa in the task force. Both would be quite valuable to the party.
The only thing we're low on is foe neutralization (just me). I think we can make that work with our team. My usual controller MO is to try to stun the minions who aren't being engaged by melees so that they stop giving us damage when it looks like we won't be trying to take them out soon... I've stoped trying to stun bosses after missing too many times.
Shadow Lad's primary function is as a healer. He's not an empath healer, but he does have a major group heal that's actually stronger than the empath heal. He also has an individual heal. If Doc Nimbus has rez, which he can get at 12 before Sunday if he doesn't yet, I would prefer to use him and get Condo so we have two strong blasters on the team.
With a second full blaster on the team, that allows the two healers (Doc Nimbus and Shadow Lad) to concentrate mostly on healing and keep a very close eye on the HP levels without being distracted by the need to blast. Prism can fill in when necessary.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
So, a discussion question I've been meaning to throw at this group...
What power sets would you like to see in future updates? We've been promised archery and shapeshifter, but what else is missing?
Plant Control (I see this as pretty much a copy of Fire/Ice/Earth control)
Animal Control (each power would have an animal attack the foe in different ways, a flock of birds might fly around a gang leaving them distracted and open to an attack, like a stun or a falcon might dive and knock them back)
Metal Armor (Hi Andrew!)
Power Icon (You get a powerful little object that you can control with a variety of blaster powers, you can also send it on litle chases.)
Sonic Blaster
Transmutation (I figure those'd be very specific, like a power that turns oxygen in an area to helium, putting everyone in that area to sleep or turns a thug's clothes to metal, freezing them)
I'd love to have a Mimic power but I have no idea how that would be done fairly and smoothly.
Posted by DMFirebow on :
Doc Nimbus already has rez, and he also has Teleport Other... so he can extract the KO'd in nasty situations. He's half a bubble away from 12th, and he'll either pick up another Dark power (like Gloom) or a group boosting Empathy power. Teleport Foe would just get his butt kicked... Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I am so going to regret this when I get up for work in less than 6 hours, but I ran into my friend Grem after leaving Scott, Vee, and Caroline, and she made a Redhaired Girl. (No longer little, of course!)
We got her up to 5 before I finally had to call it a night ...
*falls asleep on keyboard...*
What does that mean, Vee? 8-)
I'm almost halfway to getting Charlie to 8, too ... I'd like to get him to 10 so I could start the Supergroup.
Scott, will you be playing Garth any tonight or is there a cahnce Marcie and Patti could join me?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh, and everyone else is welcome too.8-)
I just didn't know if Scott wanted to work on Garth tonight.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: So, a discussion question I've been meaning to throw at this group...
What power sets would you like to see in future updates? We've been promised archery and shapeshifter, but what else is missing?
Plant Control (I see this as pretty much a copy of Fire/Ice/Earth control)
Animal Control (each power would have an animal attack the foe in different ways, a flock of birds might fly around a gang leaving them distracted and open to an attack, like a stun or a falcon might dive and knock them back)
Metal Armor (Hi Andrew!)
Power Icon (You get a powerful little object that you can control with a variety of blaster powers, you can also send it on litle chases.)
Sonic Blaster
Transmutation (I figure those'd be very specific, like a power that turns oxygen in an area to helium, putting everyone in that area to sleep or turns a thug's clothes to metal, freezing them)
I'd love to have a Mimic power but I have no idea how that would be done fairly and smoothly.
Yes, I wasn't crazy about using the powers that I did for Andrew, but that was as close as I could get to his powers ...
When you say mimic, I think it would be neat if you could duplicate an enemy power when you got within range ... say pick up a shocker's powers or a brick's ... or an Eid's ...
Other than that, I'm more concerned with being able to pick up certain costumes. My Nite Killer character really needs a trenchcoat ...
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: [QUOTE]Originally posted by LyleLyle: [qb] Okay looking at a roster of:
Condo:lvl 15 energy/energy blaster [Power Blast, Power Burst, Power Bolt, Sniper Bolt, Energy Torrent (ranged cone), Power Thrust (punch), Aid Self, Aid Other, Hover, & Sprint, Brawl & Rest]
Andrew Nolan:lvl 15 tanker invulnerability/super strength?
Garth Ranzz:lvl 13 (14 by Sunday?) blaster electric/electric
Shadow Lad: lvl 15 defender dark/dark
Prism Lord: lvl 13 (14 by Sunday?) controller illusion/empathy?
Doc Nimbus: lvl 11 (12 by Sunday?) defender empathy/dark blast?
Both Condo & Mysa are maxed out on enhancements to 15++ except where Condo has DOs, all three of which are lvl 15 but single. Suggestions on what to do with enhancements for either? I've heard that DOs should not be combined. Rather they should be stacked but that takes up additional slots which would mean giving up accuracy or recharge reductions or...
PS: Please post your power assortments so we can all see what we've got as a group.
[ August 24, 2004, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: Doc Nimbus already has rez, and he also has Teleport Other... so he can extract the KO'd in nasty situations. He's half a bubble away from 12th, and he'll either pick up another Dark power (like Gloom) or a group boosting Empathy power. Teleport Foe would just get his butt kicked...
If you have healing aura, rez & TP/Recall Friend than I definitely think I should bring Condo so we have another high powered blaster.
As for your next power selection, you might consider "Clear Mind". If we go up against Vaz or Lost, that could be VERY useful in freeing us from sleeps, disorients or holds. I can't recall if Prism has anything that does that.
[ August 24, 2004, 02:43 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Oh, and everyone else is welcome too.8-)
I just didn't know if Scott wanted to work on Garth tonight.
As it stands right now probably not on any character. Still at work and too much to do. Definitely for tomorrow for Legion night as long as you guys don't decide to work on the Infinity Legion instead. Even so, I'll probably work Garth instead.
Posted by Varalent on :
I really think we should work on Virtue tomorrow if at all possible to iron out strategies and team dynamics. Lets see how high we can get Garth, Prism & Doc (if he can join us) None of us 15s is likely to get so much xp in one night that it would put us over into lvl 16.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Wow, Vee, you've got a great memory.
Shadow Lad's primary is Dark Miasma? I didn't notice Twilight Grasp in use, but then I think I remember asking him if he's got (the most fabulous) Howling Twilight. Boy I'm unobervant at times.
BTW, Blue Battler, hope you don't think the metal armor mention was a slight at you. I thought Andrew was a good example of how big a spot they missed there.
I really like your idea to implement a Mimic power. Yeah, I was thinking of a character like Dubplicate Boy, but letting a player duplicate other teammates' powers does throw the balance out the window. Making it focused on foes' abilities would make it quite a challenge to play since your powers would go up and down.
I'm really hoping trenchcoats come through as part of the new flowing costume elements. I'm also hoping for a couple of nice dresses -- it would be cool to be able to make a mystic heroine in a sexy dress like Madame Xanadu.
Wow we look in really good shape for this sunday's TF, even if the rest of us don't level (I won't stop trying tho)... so much so I'm wondering if we should schedule a Synapse TF already.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Shadow Lad has Twilight Grasp (group heal) and Howling Twilight (battle rez), in addition to Dark Blast, Moonbeam (snipe), Gloom and Dark Pit (which isn't nearly as effective as I'd hoped) -- plus Aid Other from the power pool.
I think Vee's idea of trying to assemble the Sunday team as completely as possible Wednesday is an excellent suggestion.
With Rez and TP, DM should make a good healer. If he only makes it to 12 by Sunday, he can be SK'd. Moonbeam's a good snipe, but I think Clear Mind would be best to have first, assuming you have Healing Aura and Heal Other.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: [QUOTE]Originally posted by LyleLyle: [qb] Okay looking at a roster of:
Condo:lvl 15 energy/energy blaster [Power Blast, Power Burst, Power Bolt, Sniper Bolt, Energy Torrent (ranged cone), Power Thrust (punch), Aid Self, Aid Other, Hover, & Sprint, Brawl & Rest]
Tasmia Mallor:lvl 14 (15 by Sunday?) scrapper dark/dark
Andrew Nolan:lvl 15 tanker invulnerability/super strength?
Garth Ranzz:lvl 13 (14 by Sunday?) blaster electric/electric
Shadow Lad: lvl 15 defender dark/dark [Twilight Grasp (group heal), Howling Twilight (battle rez), Dark Blast, Moonbeam (snipe), Gloom and Dark Pit, Aid Other (power pool), Hover, Flight]
Prism Lord: lvl 13 (14 by Sunday?) controller illusion/empathy?
Doc Nimbus: lvl 11 (12 by Sunday?) defender empathy/dark blast?
PS: Please post your power assortments so we can all see what we've got as a group.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I don't think Illusion or Radiation have anything that clears someone's mind. I'm only a few levels away from the cool pet powers, woo-hoo!
Can't wait to practice team tomorrow night.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Prism Lord's power list: Spectral Wounds, Blind, Decieve, Flash, Superior Invisibility, Radiand Aura, Accelerate Medabolism, Hover, Brawl, Rest, Sprint
Yeah, Seymour I was disappointed in Dark Pit, too. Hopefully tencacles will be better.
Funny, how one never notices the healer, even as a healer in other forms. I don't remember seeing Shadow Lad go through that eternal animation that Twilight Grasp takes. It's a great power tho, I like how it heals you and debuffs you enemies.
Howling Twilight really is my favorite power among those I've used. Cool enough I sometimes wish one of my teammates would fall in battle when I'm playing that character (then again she is the reformed twin of a vengeful ghost... for the Japanophiles her origin is part Sadako Yamamura part Tomie) It's soooo cool to see the body rise as all the enemies suddenly get stunned.
It's not so cool tho when your team scatters in battle and you've got to scream at them to lead some thugs to the body so you can rez. Sigh, working with a dark defender is a steep learning curve if you haven't played one.
Posted by Varalent on :
Playing any kind of healer is a steep learning curve. You have to train yourself to keep a close eye on the everyone's health bars so that you can get to the right person at the moment of need. I find that I always try to position myself as close to the central point of the group as I can so I can get to anyone at any time.
During the heat of battle though, it becomes even more challenging because everyone (particularly tankers & scrappers) get pulled further and further away from you. There's no worse feeling than seeing someone's vital signs slipping towards death and not being able to get to them in time.
If you've never played a healer, I don't think you could possibly understand how frustrating it can be.
Posted by Varalent on :
Lyle; Besides the powers you've already mentioned, the only other ones that comes to mind are:
Magnetics - think Cosmic Boy
Size Adjustment (Growing/Shrinking) although this could be part of shape changing. At higher levels you could also change the size of other things, people.
Magic
Vison Powers (maybe as a power pool)
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I'd also like to see some improvement in some of the existing ones. For example, Martial Arts is just kicks near as I can tell. It should have hand chops and finger stabs added to make it complete. Possibly also add nunchuckas, staffs, and throwing weapons.
*****
I really like your mimic idea. Not only along the lines you've described but it's negative as well. A variation of it should be that you generate the ability to counter a power (a la Nemesis Kid) Getting attacked by a Damned? Become an Ice demon!
[ August 24, 2004, 04:54 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Actually, I probably said that badly. I meant that the dark defender is a class that has a ton of rules that players who team with a dark defender have to learn because a dark defender has to have enemies in range to heal and the healees need to also be in range.
So to take advantage of your dark defender the whole team needs to pay attention to stuff that's usuall only the healer's worry. If a teammate falls, you need to try to try to move your battle to the fallen foe (in exchange you get to see them all stunned after Howling Twilight goes off), if you need healing you should try to get close to your Dark Defender.
That's a steep learning curve but worse is when you have to explain the powers to people. I've been in parties where I ask my teammates to lure a thug to the body of a fallen teammate (requirement for Howling Twilight). One person gets the idea and then another one goes and kills the lured thug once it takes a few steps towards the pack.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Yeah, there is a downside to the dark defender's heal and rez. And it can be especially awful when you do Twilight Grasp and it misses! I've really buffed the accuracy of it to keep that to a minimum. Most of the time, though, there's no shortage of baddies to use. And you don't have to be any closer to the Dark Defender to get healed than you do an Emp healer. And if you've got a teleporter, just move on to the next mob for rez.
I've actually found the Kinetics heal to be quite useful for Saturn Lady. That radiates from the villain. So if your scrapper's in a bind and you're a ways away, you can just hit a baddie in that vicinity.
On the upside, though, I've noticed Twilight Grasp heals more HP in one shot and uses less endurance than Healing Aura. It's all balances in this game.
[ August 24, 2004, 06:07 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Varalent on :
Yeah that's happened to us as well.. That's one of the few times that you'll ever see Seymour get visibly pissed! Posted by Varalent on :
Okay looking at a roster of:
Condo:lvl 15 energy/energy blaster [Power Blast, Power Burst, Power Bolt, Sniper Bolt, Energy Torrent (ranged cone), Power Thrust (punch), Aid Self, Aid Other, Hover, & Sprint, Brawl & Rest]
Tasmia Mallor:lvl 14 (15 by Sunday?) scrapper dark/dark
Doc Nimbus: lvl 11 (12 by Sunday?) defender empathy/dark blast?
PS: Please post your power assortments so we can all see what we've got as a group.
[ August 24, 2004, 06:19 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Argh, when Lyle tries to post just before leaving work he loses the ability to express complicated thoughts clearly.
So, what I mean... Dark Miasma is a very powerful power set but to balance that power there's a lot of requirements to get the power to work. Most of these requirements are very easily messed up by other team mates, usually unintenitionally because they're unaware of how to work with Dark Defenders and Dark Defenders are the only healers with powers so tempermental.
Howling Twilight is an amazing power. Not only is it the only rez that resurrects every hero in range, it also stuns a large number of foes. I've seen teammates die and the tide of a losing battle turn because Howling Twilight did its thing.
However, if your group splits a mob into several splinter mobs so that when two teammates fall they're not in range of each other, you can't rez them both, so only one of them gets rezzed and you've got less firepower than you could have. Also, if the mob is split that means there's a whole lotta foes who would've been stunned but aren't.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
As someone who's played every type of character now, I have to say that the healer job is really a thankless one in a team. The tanker and the scrapper are going to have to get in close to do their jobs ... and the blaster and controllers have to stay as far away as possible to do THEIR jobs ... so trying to heal two separate groups like that is never easy.
And the endurance drain on healing in combat is frightening ...
Truthfully, I really enjoy having a healing power, but I'd rather not be the team healer most of the time ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Wow, Vee, you've got a great memory.
Shadow Lad's primary is Dark Miasma? I didn't notice Twilight Grasp in use, but then I think I remember asking him if he's got (the most fabulous) Howling Twilight. Boy I'm unobervant at times.
BTW, Blue Battler, hope you don't think the metal armor mention was a slight at you. I thought Andrew was a good example of how big a spot they missed there.
I really like your idea to implement a Mimic power. Yeah, I was thinking of a character like Dubplicate Boy, but letting a player duplicate other teammates' powers does throw the balance out the window. Making it focused on foes' abilities would make it quite a challenge to play since your powers would go up and down.
I'm really hoping trenchcoats come through as part of the new flowing costume elements. I'm also hoping for a couple of nice dresses -- it would be cool to be able to make a mystic heroine in a sexy dress like Madame Xanadu.
Wow we look in really good shape for this sunday's TF, even if the rest of us don't level (I won't stop trying tho)... so much so I'm wondering if we should schedule a Synapse TF already.
Lyle,
Call me Blue. 8-)
And no, I'm not offended.
I really think there are always going to be limits as to what they can do in the game for us. As much as I would like to see a mimic power like we've described, I don't think it's something we'll see soon.
And one thing to consider ... we'll no sooner get these nifty new powers than we'll be facing baddies who have the same powers. 8-)
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Here's Powerful Porcupine Pete's powers:
Spines - *Barb Swipe - Melee *Lunge - Melee *Spine Burst - ummmm, you all have seen how it works *Impale - long range Lethal
Regeneration - *Fast Healing - just like it says *Reconstruction - my lone self-healing power; it doesn't respawn very quickly *Quick Recovery - regenerates endurance VERY quickly - I have it beefed up with enhancements so I rarely need the blue inspirations
and of course Hover & Flight
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Here's some completely random comments and observations about City of Heroes.
*I really hate, I mean, HATE the theme music for the Equinox section in Galaxy City.
*It never really matters where I am coming from, if I am going to a monorail, I always approach it from the wrong side. Why did they build these this way?
*My Terra's Fury character on the Triumph server won 30,000 Insp by winning a game of hide-and-go-seek. Somebody (Be'el, I think was his name) broadcasted that he would give 9,999 to the first one who found him in Atlas Park. His buddy was next to him and said that he would throw in another 20,000!! A bunch of people started hovering to the top of Atlas's globe, but I figured that would be too obvious. I picked the top of a statue of a nearby heroine, and voila! there he was!! I won't have to worry about buying enhancements there for a long while!
*Even though they're supposed to be lieutenants, REapers don't bother me nearly as much as Cadavers. I always take the Cadavers first.
*When you are teaming with someone and they offer to give you an enhancement that they aren't using, do you try to trade them something in return? I know some of you have given me stuff and I always feel bad for not giving anything in return. I know I don't have a problem giving stuff to you guys if I'm not using and it's just cluttering my inventory. But I still feel like I'm cheating you somehow. Anyone else feel this way?
*So far, Porcupine Pete is my only character with flight. After I finish playing him, I have a really hard time playing someone else who can't fly. I LOVE flight!!
* I have to begin teaching again next week. If I don't start to discipline myself soon and stop playing this game so much, I might be out of a job!
It's late and I need sleep. Respond if you think anything's worthy enough.
[ August 24, 2004, 09:56 PM: Message edited by: Super Lad Kid ]
Posted by Varalent on :
SLK: Some responses to your *worthy* comments...
*I've not spent much time in Equinox so I'm not sure about the music. I'll have to visit to see what you mean
*Know exactly what you mean. I'm convinced the tram sits on a rotating base so that it's ALWAYS facing the other way.
*Had a similar experience with one of my guys. (can't remember which one at this point ) The hero that was making the offer was hiding in the sand lot next to the Perez Park gate and was giving clues. Just as I got to the lot, someone else found him and was awarded the 25K insp. I ran up to them to congratulate the winner and check out the high level hero. When he realized that I had just missed winning he gave me 10K for being so close.
*The cadavers are annoying but I still go after reapers first because I hate killing cadavers only to have the reaper resurrect them on me!
*Regarding enhancements: I understand how you feel. Since I rarely team with anyone that's not from our group of friends, I probably have a slightly different perspective. I don't expect to receive something in return when I offer one of you something.
I look at it this way: If I have a hold duration which I have no use for, I would rather that one of you take it to increase your power. This will keep me safer when we go up against a powerful Boss. In a sense I get more benefit that way than by selling it back for a fration of what it cost to buy or by trashing it, Also, it will eventually clog up my tray and keep me from receiving an enhancement I potentially could use!
However, when someone is trading me, if I have something I think they can use, I will trade it back anyway. (After teaming with someone enough, you learn what is helpful to them.) I guess my perspective is that if it improves the team's (and teammate's) power and potential, it's better for me in the long run.
*I love flight also! I'm so upset at myself for not taking it for Condo at 14!
*Bah! Who needs a job anyway! Without one you could play CoH all day!
Finally, congrats on post #600!!!!!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Argh, when Lyle tries to post just before leaving work he loses the ability to express complicated thoughts clearly.
So, what I mean... Dark Miasma is a very powerful power set but to balance that power there's a lot of requirements to get the power to work. Most of these requirements are very easily messed up by other team mates, usually unintenitionally because they're unaware of how to work with Dark Defenders and Dark Defenders are the only healers with powers so tempermental.
Howling Twilight is an amazing power. Not only is it the only rez that resurrects every hero in range, it also stuns a large number of foes. I've seen teammates die and the tide of a losing battle turn because Howling Twilight did its thing.
However, if your group splits a mob into several splinter mobs so that when two teammates fall they're not in range of each other, you can't rez them both, so only one of them gets rezzed and you've got less firepower than you could have. Also, if the mob is split that means there's a whole lotta foes who would've been stunned but aren't.
I think you did fine, but all these followups have been very educational. They're the kind of things I'd been thinking but never put to computer screen for everyone else to see. I just suffered in silence.
The nice thing about having two healers is that one can wade in with the scrappers, and the other can hang back with the blasters if we split up. We'll have to practice staying in better formation tonight and try to let more of the mob come to us -- like those sewer mission we've done where one sniped to aggro them all into the chamber.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: Here's some completely random comments and observations about City of Heroes.
*I really hate, I mean, HATE the theme music for the Equinox section in Galaxy City.
Never paid that much attention. Now I'll be thinking about it and will probably wind up hating it too. thanks.
quote:*It never really matters where I am coming from, if I am going to a monorail, I always approach it from the wrong side. Why did they build these this way?
I agree. I also find this to be true with Ms. Liberty in Atlas Park. No matter which way I come, unless it's straight up the stairs in front of her, I wind up going all the way around. It's like the building rotates whenever I'm coming.
quote:*My Terra's Fury character on the Triumph server won 30,000 Insp by winning a game of hide-and-go-seek. Somebody (Be'el, I think was his name) broadcasted that he would give 9,999 to the first one who found him in Atlas Park. His buddy was next to him and said that he would throw in another 20,000!! A bunch of people started hovering to the top of Atlas's globe, but I figured that would be too obvious. I picked the top of a statue of a nearby heroine, and voila! there he was!! I won't have to worry about buying enhancements there for a long while!
I've never seen one of these. I'll have to keep an eye out for them. Fun!
quote:*When you are teaming with someone and they offer to give you an enhancement that they aren't using, do you try to trade them something in return? I know some of you have given me stuff and I always feel bad for not giving anything in return. I know I don't have a problem giving stuff to you guys if I'm not using and it's just cluttering my inventory. But I still feel like I'm cheating you somehow. Anyone else feel this way?
I feel that way with pick-up teams, but with us, I know it all balances out in the end.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
The nice thing about having two healers is that one can wade in with the scrappers, and the other can hang back with the blasters if we split up. We'll have to practice staying in better formation tonight and try to let more of the mob come to us -- like those sewer mission we've done where one sniped to aggro them all into the chamber.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... bottlenecks are our friends!
Which TF will we be doing anyway? The same Vahz one we tried before, or the one with the Clock King?
One thing that I'm going to try to do for Andrew tonight is see how where I might be able to insert a DO enhancement on his defense powers. We're going to be going through a lot of bad guys, and once the mish starts we won't be able to buy anything so everyone be sure to get what you think you'll need before the mish starts because you never know what you're going to get in battle.
PS. Guys, I can't wait until we all get to 20. Dark Astoria! With a large group, it's an easy way to get XP.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I've said it before and I'll say it again... bottlenecks are our friends!
Which TF will we be doing anyway? The same Vahz one we tried before, or the one with the Clock King?
We'll be doing the Positron task force. I've only attempted it that one time, so I don't know if his is always Vaz or if he mixes things up. When I took it, he didn't offer me a choice.
And sorry I didn't give you credit for that bottleneck strategy. I was thinking it, but it just didn't come out of my fingers.
Posted by Varalent on :
Okay looking at a roster of:
Condo:lvl 15 energy/energy blaster [Power Blast, Power Burst, Power Bolt, Sniper Bolt, Energy Torrent (ranged cone), Power Thrust (punch), Aid Self, Aid Other, Hover, & Sprint, Brawl & Rest]
Tasmia Mallor:lvl 14 (15 by Sunday?) scrapper dark/dark
Porcupine Pete: lvl 15 scrapper spines/regeneration [Barb Swipe - Melee, Lunge - Melee, Spine Burst - ummmm, you all have seen how it works, Impale - long range Lethal,Fast Healing, Reconstruction - my lone self-healing power; it doesn't respawn very quickly, Quick Recovery - regenerates endurance VERY quickly - I have it beefed up with enhancements so I rarely need the blue inspirations, Hover & Flight]
Andrew Nolan:lvl 15 tanker invulnerability/super strength?
Garth Ranzz:lvl 13 (14 by Sunday?) blaster electric/electric
Shadow Lad: lvl 15 defender dark/dark [Twilight Grasp (group heal), Howling Twilight (battle rez), Dark Blast, Moonbeam (snipe), Gloom and Dark Pit, Aid Other (power pool), Hover, Flight]
PS: Please post your power assortments so we can all see what we've got as a group.
[ August 25, 2004, 04:54 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: One thing that I'm going to try to do for Andrew tonight is see how where I might be able to insert a DO enhancement on his defense powers. We're going to be going through a lot of bad guys, and once the mish starts we won't be able to buy anything so everyone be sure to get what you think you'll need before the mish starts because you never know what you're going to get in battle.
I would like some feedback on what you all think Condo should do about enhancements adding DOs to the 3 DOs he currently has slotted.
He has a single lvl 15 DO recharge reduction on power blast (along with 15++ damage, accuracy, & reduced endurance cost); a single lvl 15 DO reduced endurance cost on power bolt (along with 15++ damage & recharge reduction); & a single lvl 15 DO damage increase on sniper bolt (along with a 15++ reduce endurance cost).
All his other powers are maxed at 15++ ( I'll have to check when I get home today but here's what I think they are slotted with. There are no empty slots on any power.)
* Power Burst has three slots: damage, reduced endurance & recharge reduction;
* Energy Torrent (Cone ranged) may have either 2 or 3 slots: likely damage, reduced endurance cost and maybe range increase;
* Power Thrust (punch) probably has damage & reduced endurance cost;
* Aid Self, Aid Other & Rest: all have only Heal;
* Hover: I think it has flight and defense increase but maybe just flight;
* Sprint: I know has jump increase
* Brawl: damage
[ August 25, 2004, 07:14 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I think it would depend on what levels you can start using 20s. Since you'll get one or two levels during the TF (don't train!), you'll probably soon reach the level where you can use 20s and should go ahead and save your money for those. You may even pick up one or two during the TF.
The 15s were great when we were 12, but if 20s are within our reach, I'd hold off for those since you don't have any open slots for stacking.
Posted by Varalent on :
Don't forget everyone! Legion Night on Virtue tonight at 9 PMish eastern. Dress rehersal (sorta) for the TF this SUnday.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: I think it would depend on what levels you can start using 20s. Since you'll get one or two levels during the TF (don't train!), you'll probably soon reach the level where you can use 20s and should go ahead and save your money for those. You may even pick up one or two during the TF.
The 15s were great when we were 12, but if 20s are within our reach, I'd hold off for those since you don't have any open slots for stacking.
Seymour,
Have you heard that we shoudln't train after we reach a new level in the TF? In all the TFs I've been where someone has leveled, they went ahead and trained when the opportunity arose.
Posted by DMFirebow on :
I may be late tonight, i completely spaced that tonight is open house at my son's new school, i'll be on as soon as i can.
Posted by Varalent on :
Great DM, we'll be looking for you!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Seymour,
Have you heard that we shoudln't train after we reach a new level in the TF? In all the TFs I've been where someone has leveled, they went ahead and trained when the opportunity arose.
I've never been on a TF, so I don't know firsthand. My hubby says once you've reached the top parameter of the TF, you'll get kicked off if you train above it. I was talking specifically to Vee there, who's 15, the top level of the Positron TF. According to Mike, if he trains to 16, he'll be kicked off. But you can train to reach 15.
If you know differently, I bow to your experience.
Posted by Varalent on :
Ahhh, that makes sense..
Posted by Blue Battler on :
The Peanuts of Paragon now have their own Supergroup.
Now I just need to induct everyone ... 8-)
*yawns*
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh one more thing ...
I did pay attention when I got Charlie Brown leveled, and it said "You are now fighting at level 10 go seek a trainer" ... so it didn't say I was AT level 10 ... just that I was fighting there. And my 10 level enhancements were no longer green ...
So I guess that doesn't really tell us what happens if you train during a TF yet ...
I had also taken the first three secondary powers for Charlie Brown but only two of the primary, and I'm trying to remember if I had the fourth secondary show up for him when I hit 10 or not. I do know that this time I had three choices for primary power this time, and no more than one secondary if that ...
Vee, have you hit a limit on what power choices are available for Mysa on the secondary path yet? You have only taken the first three empathy powers, haven't you?
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
I just want to say hello to everyone who plays City of Heroes. Last night I got a chance to say it to some of you, but here I want to say it to all of you.... Running those streets as heroes together is the most fun we can have together without being face to face. Hopefully some day we can ALL meet and be together, but until that day comes, what a great alternative! You are all so much fun to be around, and I appreciate your friendship very much. Thank you!!! Big hugs!!
And let's see some others take the plunge, if you can, and join us. It would be awesome to run two teams of 8 around together and really rule the streets! And soon we get our own Legion Headquarters and everything...... *thinking back to Barbie's Dreamhouse days....* Posted by DMFirebow on :
I really enjoyed playing with you all last night! It was soooo cool seeing Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Brainy and Phantom girl fight crime together...!
I looooove this game!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
It was great fun! Even for me who has started to not like the game as much. I just get too busy at work and don't want to look at a computer when I get home.
But I got Garth leveled and Lightning Ranzz is less than 150 from 7th so he almost got a full level in that short time last night.
BTW, I'll be posting a poll in a bit about what power Garth should take now that he's at 14. I would really appreciate it if all of the CoH players would vote. I'll post a link here once I've gotten it done.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
We missed you on Virtue, DM, but I'm glad you were able to catch up with the others. I look forward to playing with you. I hope the conference went well.
Blue, there IS a distinct difference between training and levelling. Like you said, you fight AT level 10, but you're still level 9 until you train. When you're 11 and level up to 12, you can't use the 15 DO enhancements until you train to 12. And if you didn't train to 10 but kept going, you would have levelled to 11 and it would have stacked until you trained.
How this affects a TF, I think Paladin was saying last night that there's no penalty for levelling -- that would be really rude to have and 11-15 TF if they kicked you off when you levelled to 16, but I wouldn't risk training to 16. Everybody else (Scott, Caroline, etc.), go ahead and keep training until you hit 15.
Posted by Varalent on :
I went ahead and asked these questions of the CoH Forum and got one reply so far. See below:
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Re: TF's need to be changed [new] [Re: Varalent] #1192312 - 08/26/04 11:32 AM
Quote: Thanks very much for all the info & ideas you guys have provided on this thread. I'm planning to participate in my first TF with a group of friends this weekend and was looking for info on what to expect. It sounds to me like we've gotten some bad information along the way and may be planning this all wrong.
We had understood that the group had to complete the TF in one sitting and that individual members could not log out or you would get kicked off the TF team and would not be able to rejoin. (This is a particular concern because our lvl 15 tanker has terrible connection problems and has to reconnect multiple times when we get together normally.) Is this incorrect?
Also we were told that, while we would probably attaind level 16 or maybe even 17 during the TF (most of us are lvl 14 or 15), we can not train up during the TF because we would get automatically kicked off of the team. The explanation is that by training up you would exceed the maximum level for the Positron TF which is 15 to get in.
We were also told that we would be unable to purchase any enhancements or inspirations during a TF.
Are any of these true?
Thanks for your help & information in advance!
Everything they told you is false. Somebody really doesn't like you.
-------------------- Mr. Lithuania--Fighting the criminals of today with the weapons of yesterday in the City of Tomorrow.
[ August 26, 2004, 08:59 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
2nd reply....
Wow, you were told some pretty wrong things. Amazing how some folks will spout off information without checking. Good thing you came here.
Quote: We had understood that the group had to complete the TF in one sitting and that individual members could not log out or you would get kicked off the TF team and would not be able to rejoin. (This is a particular concern because our lvl 15 tanker has terrible connection problems and has to reconnect multiple times when we get together normally.) Is this incorrect?
I know this to be incorrect. The server hiccuped on us. We all came back in just fine.
I didn't know that you could space it over several sessions, though. Very cool!
Quote: Also we were told that, while we would probably attaind level 16 or maybe even 17 during the TF (most of us are lvl 14 or 15), we can not train up during the TF because we would get automatically kicked off of the team. The explanation is that by training up you would exceed the maximum level for the Positron TF which is 15 to get in.
Also verified to be false here. We had two level 16 characters for Positron. One of them leveled. He ran off to level, and we now had a level 17 scrapper.
So, ideally, you may want to find some Level 16 people who are close to leveling. Heh.
Quote: We were also told that we would be unable to purchase any enhancements or inspirations during a TF.
I can verify this is right, second-hand. Our leader went to buy inspirations. I warned him of the bug I heard about where we cannot buy inspirations on TFs. He said that yep, he couldn't buy inspirations. Not sure about enhancements, though.
I read that this is a known bug, so hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
I had my first TF last night. It was frustrating at first because of poor teamplay, but it was pruned down to just two blasters who learned to work together, and it was a blast! It took us 7 hours, but part of that was because of poor teamwork in the beginning. While the two blasters handled the rest of the TF pretty well, it'd have been nice to have a Defender or Controller there.
Kevin
Posted by Varalent on :
And a follow up from the first guy...
I was wrong about the inspirations, but you most certainly can buy enhancements at the stores. One note about starting with a bunch of 16s, however. The Leader of the Task Force has to start at 15 or below. The rest of the team can be level 16 and play. You should gain not quite a level at 15 doing the TF with four people.
-------------------- Mr. Lithuania--Fighting the criminals of today with the weapons of yesterday in the City of Tomorrow
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: I really enjoyed playing with you all last night! It was soooo cool seeing Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Brainy and Phantom girl fight crime together...!
I looooove this game!
Hey DM sorry I missed you! I was looking forward to meeting Doc Nimbus but it got to be a bit late for some of us on the east coast. Maybe I'll get the chance today or tomorrow or Saturday. If not, I guess I'll meet him on Sunday.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
[ August 26, 2004, 10:02 AM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Varalent on :
And one more response ( I won't post any more after this since they all seem to be in agreement)
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Re: TF's need to be changed [new] [Re: Varalent] #1192939 - 08/26/04 12:40 PM [Edit post] Edit [Reply to this post] Reply [Reply to this post] Quote
Quote: We had understood that the group had to complete the TF in one sitting and that individual members could not log out or you would get kicked off the TF team and would not be able to rejoin. (This is a particular concern because our lvl 15 tanker has terrible connection problems and has to reconnect multiple times when we get together normally.) Is this incorrect?
False. You can log off, you can get disconnected, and when you log back on, you're still in the TF until it completes, or until you quit the TF.
Quote: Also we were told that, while we would probably attaind level 16 or maybe even 17 during the TF (most of us are lvl 14 or 15), we can not train up during the TF because we would get automatically kicked off of the team. The explanation is that by training up you would exceed the maximum level for the Positron TF which is 15 to get in.
False. You have to be within the level ranges to *start* the TF, but if you level during the TF, you don't get kicked off, even if you do go train up during the TF.
Quote: We were also told that we would be unable to purchase any enhancements or inspirations during a TF.
Partially true. You can buy and sell enhancements. In fact, you'd better make sure you have at least one enhancement slot open when you get to the final battle of the final mission, or you'll lose out on the SO enhancement. You cannot buy inspirations while on a TF, though. You're unable to visit your existing contacts while on a TF. There are ways around this restriction... get someone to buy them for you, or just rely on getting what you need while working your way through. Of the 4 I've done, I've not needed to get hold of any inspirations. I got what I needed from drops. A couple times, it woulda been nice, but was never necessary.
-------------------- Valerian - L27 Tech Invuln/Axe Tanker (Pinnacle)
Posted by DMFirebow on :
Sounds like no worries for the TF then. Great! Just stock up on your favorite Inspirations first.
Doc Nimbus got to meet a few of you, and he'll meet the rest on Sunday. Yay! We found out he is Tasmia's cousin last night too! Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Okay looking at a roster of:
Condo:lvl 15 energy/energy blaster [Power Blast, Power Burst, Power Bolt, Sniper Bolt, Energy Torrent (ranged cone), Power Thrust (punch), Aid Self, Aid Other, Hover, & Sprint, Brawl & Rest]
Tasmia Mallor:lvl 14 (15 by Sunday?) scrapper dark/dark
Porcupine Pete: lvl 15 scrapper spines/regeneration [Barb Swipe - Melee, Lunge - Melee, Spine Burst - ummmm, you all have seen how it works, Impale - long range Lethal,Fast Healing, Reconstruction - my lone self-healing power; it doesn't respawn very quickly, Quick Recovery - regenerates endurance VERY quickly - I have it beefed up with enhancements so I rarely need the blue inspirations, Hover & Flight]
Andrew Nolan:lvl 15 tanker invulnerability/super strength?
PS: Please post your power assortments so we can all see what we've got as a group.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: Doc Nimbus got to meet a few of you, and he'll meet the rest on Sunday. Yay! We found out he is Tasmia's cousin last night too!
Tas and I (Grev Mallor) have a long-lost cousin who's come back into the heroic fold? Excellent! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: Sounds like no worries for the TF then. Great! Just stock up on your favorite Inspirations first.
Doc Nimbus got to meet a few of you, and he'll meet the rest on Sunday. Yay! We found out he is Tasmia's cousin last night too!
DM, Tinya was yours right? Send me a PM or e-mail about the topic we were talking about last night before we hit the sewers. I can still help you out.
And sorry you got booted before you could level up. We figured you were okay where you got logged out since it was right next to the Yellow. Hopefully you didn't have too much trouble, assuming you were able to log back in.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Thanks for all the research Vee, good stuff to know. (And hey, cool, you got a response from a member of Global Heroics, my favorite SG on the Triumph Server.)
We may have a fairly simple way around the issue of buying inspirations. If you can log off and rejoin the TF then maybe someone with a high lvl alt can log off, sign on as the alt, buy inspirations, trade with a TF memeber, log off and log back on with the TF charcter.
Had a lot of fun playing with everyone last night. Prism's halfway to 14, I'll see if I can get him Group Invisibilty by Sunday.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Yes, thanks for posting those e-mails, Vee. I'll be able to get tentacles!!! Take that, Eid!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I just want to be sure I'm understanding it all correctly.
We CAN leave, get kicked off/disconnected and still come back to the TF where we left off? Or do we have to restart?
And we ARE allowed to train after leveling even prior to completing the TF? So does this mean the TF is in the open or we can leave a Door one at anytime to train? And, again, does that reset the TF should we all leave the area?
Many thanks Vee, for looking into this. I really don't like their boards and only occasionally bother going to them. I just visit the main site for updates.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Oooh, tenacles! Hopefully those will be as cool for you as they are for those Eidions.
Hate it when the boss' power doesn't come out as cool for you as when it hits you.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Scott,
I know for a fact that if you get a map server disconnect that you aren't booted from the TF because it's happened to Blue on every TF I've done with him. 8-)
And it sounds like we don't have to worry about training up for the next level.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I just want to be sure I'm understanding it all correctly.
We CAN leave, get kicked off/disconnected and still come back to the TF where we left off? Or do we have to restart?
And we ARE allowed to train after leveling even prior to completing the TF? So does this mean the TF is in the open or we can leave a Door one at anytime to train? And, again, does that reset the TF should we all leave the area?
Many thanks Vee, for looking into this. I really don't like their boards and only occasionally bother going to them. I just visit the main site for updates.
That thread I found was a wealth of information. Much of it I didn't bother posting but I can tell you the following:
Yes you can leave/get disconnected and still come back to the TF picking up where you left off. Some of the posters on the thread actually do their TF missions over various nights 1-2 hours at a time. They just schedule everyone to be back on a certain day/time that's convenient for everyone and continue where they left off. What you can NOT do is log off while in a TF and choose another mission the next time you are back on line (before everyone else is scheduled to re-assemble) That kicks you off the TF team and you can NOT rejoin.
As for your second question. I didn't see that addressed specifically but got the following impression. TF missions are like every other mission in that as long as the team remains, one person COULD leave and then return (like going to the hospital )
I would guess that if everyone left at the same time, it would probably respawn and you would have to start over. But, if one of us levels, he or she can leave...go train up...and then rejoin the group.
Don't know if you all caught it but the only person that is critical (as far as their level), is the leader (the person that goes to Positron to request the TF mission.) Everyone else could be 16 as long as that one person is between 11-15. You can't belower BUT you can be higher in level.
One other comment of interest specific to Positron. Everyone seemed to be in agreement that it is one of the longest TFs to complete. And many felt that it was actually easier & much shorter to complete with less people. Some even commented that they regularly (on all TFs) recruit extra(s) to the team to meet the minimum number required TO START, and then have them drop out as soon as the leader has received the TF. They repfer doing the TFs with just 2-4 total members.
I'm not saying we should do that, just found it interesting.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
So should one of us lower level Legionnaires be the one to get the TF from Positron?
Oh, and does it have to be a Positron TF? Can we get one anywhere else? I seem to remember people talking about how the Positron TF is always the same one.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Thanks for all the research Vee, good stuff to know. (And hey, cool, you got a response from a member of Global Heroics, my favorite SG on the Triumph Server.)
We may have a fairly simple way around the issue of buying inspirations. If you can log off and rejoin the TF then maybe someone with a high lvl alt can log off, sign on as the alt, buy inspirations, trade with a TF memeber, log off and log back on with the TF charcter.
Had a lot of fun playing with everyone last night. Prism's halfway to 14, I'll see if I can get him Group Invisibilty by Sunday.
Sounds like something Mysa could do to contribute to our success. She loves to shop anyway
BTW, I also saw on another thread that Freedom Corp Basic Training Stores pay you more for trianing enhancements that you sell than any other store. Also origin specific stores pay you more for enhancements if the enhancements you are selling are of their origin. ( i.e. Pandora's Box would pay more for a DO or SO Magic Torque than Orion Labs) so you should always try to sell at the correct origin specific store.
Posted by Varalent on :
Scott:
I think Positron is the only TF we can get because of our levels. I think the Skyway (Synapse?) one is for levels 19-24.
Also, it doesn't matter who gets the TF as long as they are in a qualifying level. The point is, I can level Condo to 16 before Sunday, Andrew can level to 16, Shadow Lad can level to 16, etc. as long as one member of the team is between 11-15 and he/she is the one that acts as leader to create the team and request the TF mission from Positron.
It won't affect the difficulty of the TF mission is someone lvl 12 (for example) acts as leader instead of someone 15. The difficulty is based on the overall strength of the team and adjust accordingly if someone drops out.
For example, if for any reason, a level 12 (Doc) finds that he can't continue on the team and quits the TF (not just logs out in order to return later but QUITS) the difficulty will adjust upwards. If Condo were to do the same, the difficulty would adjust downward.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys ... I think I finally found a character who WON'T need stamina.
I got Consume for Charlie Brown when I hit 10 last night, but I was too tired to do anything with it.
I used it twice today, and both times it's FULLY restord Charlie's endurance ...
The only bummer about it is that it's got such a long recharge. Gonna have to slot that puppy to the max...
Makes him a lot funner to play. 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh, and I'm going to be running around as both Charlie and Sally tonight, at least for a while ... so if anyone can make it, it'd be a good time to get the SG membership started. 8-)
I set up the team leader as Pitcher,and the Captains as Catchers. Rank and files are going to be Outfielders...
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
It's been hard enough getting us all on at the same time for Sunday, so I'd like to do the TF all in one sitting.
I think whoever has the stablest connection should be leader. That would mean me, Scott or Caroline of those I know. How's DM's?
Posted by Varalent on :
Didn't mean to imply that we shouldn't Seymour. Just found it interesting that you actually could do it that way for future reference.
As far as the stablest connection, I agree with those you named along with Peteand maybe Prism.
Guess I would jst say not me...and not Andrew Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Don't let me be leader. My connection, while better lately, is still pretty sporadic.
Last night was a blast! Even though I died twice, and almost led us all to our doom, it was pretty fun. We'll (ok, I'll) have to be careful during the mission on Sunday not to draw nearby enemies to the group. Did someone in the group have resurection? If so, I might be able to lose a couple of the Awakenings I've been lugging around with me for awhile. On second thought, I better keep them.
Sounds like with eight of us, we might not get the XP we thought. That's fine, though, I still would rather do this with the whole group. Maybe next time we could split into two groups of four and double our experience.
Posted by DMFirebow on :
My connection isn't the greatest, and do have lag problems occasionaly. But i'll do my best to keep up!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I just hope no storms are going to be moving through my area on Sunday ... *crosses fingers*
Posted by Varalent on :
Same here! That's when I seem to have my connection problems
Posted by Varalent on :
Question: My intention originally was to get Condo as close to level 16 as possible without going over by Sunday. With the info I found yesterday, should I try to level to 16? Or continue with my prior plan?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I would still hold out, just below 16. You never know if what we've heard is correct or just their experiences which may have changed. We've all seen the little changes they are pulling (Lead Scorchers and Lead Shockers with new powers and no notice). What's to say the TF stuff hasn't changed since. Not saying it has but I'd hate to lose Condo because of it. He should be able to hit 16 right after starting then you can level him.
On an unrealated note. What's the quickest anyone here has gotten a character up to level 10?
Posted by Varalent on :
The fastest one I've done was Varalent on Protector. I think I did him in four days so I could get the SG started.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
About how much playing time was that Vee? I'm just curious as I'm trying an experiment with a character based on one of the guides from the CoH boards. Wondering if I'm just imagining how quickly he's leveling or if it is average.
Posted by Varalent on :
Scott: I think it was about 15 hours or so? Can't be sure since it was a while ago.
Posted by Varalent on :
Those guides really are iteresting aren't they. I'm thinking about trying out a char based on them as well. I want to see how their ideas on energy blasters compare to what I've done with my own just on instinct.
For example, I've never taken Build Up but they make it sound very useful.
So I guess you'd better all prepare for the next recruit to make it into Vee's Legion!
[ August 27, 2004, 08:11 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
My hubby loves buildup. He's got it on his energy/energy blaster. Hit Aim, Buildup and Snipe one right after the other, and he often takes out minions of equal level (he's 20s now) with one shot and lieutenants with that combo and a single follow-up blast. I've watched him use it on a boss and then follow up with a couple blasts that have an AoE knockback to keep others in the mob distracted. Sure, he's got plenty of enhancements, but it's still a powerful combo.
Scott, I can't remember how much playing time went into my 10s. I only have a few of them, and I tend to lose track. Sorry.
[ August 27, 2004, 08:50 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Varalent on :
Something I ran across today on the CoH Forum. Very interesting info about enhancements management...
*****[Posted by Eloora on the City of Heroes Community Forum]
Guide to Keeping the Right Training Enh. to sell #1153066 - 08/20/04 01:08 PM [Edit post] Edit [Reply to this post] Reply [Reply to this post] Quote
Ever been xping your newb in Kings Row or Boomtown, and gotten full of enhancements before you're ready to sell/train? Ever wonder just what each of those enhancements are worth at the store? Well hopefully this guide will make it a little less painful when it comes time to trash some enhancements you're carrying. You don't have to keep every one you get, and it behooves you to make smart choices about what to keep, and what to trash.
I'm sure a lot of you have already figured out that certain enhancement types sell for more than others. This is true for every single type of enhancement in the game. In this guide I am strictly dealing with training enhancements, as I have rarely if ever deleted a dual origin thus far in my playing career.
Some things you should know:
* You should also read Zealot's Store and Enhancements Guide, as this is sort of supplemental to that, and I will not be reiterating some of the basic things stated in that guide. * Training Enhancements should only be sold at Freedom Corps stores such as those found in Steel Canyon, Skyway City, Talos Island and Independance Port. Even selling to the trainers in Atlas or Galaxy will reap a diminished return per enhancement you sell. How much? Well a one-time sell won't hurt, but making several sells to the trainers instead of the stores will start to show in your DO and SO fund. If you are too young to traverse the zones stated above to sell don't worry, your enhancements probably don't cost enough to warrant xp debt. * There is a multiplier for each type of enhancement that determines its sell price at each level. What this means is that the higher the sell price multiplier, the bigger the profit for selling the enhancement. I am no math genius by any means, that should become apparent by the end of this guide lol, so some of the numbers below may not work out exactly. This isn't solely due to my mathematical ineptitude, but due to the fact that the developers didn't make nice round numbers for all of the multipliers. Rest assured though that with the numbers below you should come darn close to the actual sell value of the enhancement, if not the exact value. The give or take is single digits. * This guide deals mostly with TO's in the teens range, say 10-20, but assumes that the multipliers hold up below and above that range.
Sell Price Multipliers for Training Enhancements (In store display order, with 45+ multipliers bolded)
Accuracy - 51 Cone Range - 44.6 Confus. Dur. - 28 Damage - 50 Def. Buff - 35 End. Drain - 11.5 End. Reduct. - 46.5 Fear Dur. - 23 Flight - 31.5 Healing - 50 Hold - 33 Immob. Dur. - 36.5 Intangbility - ? Accel. Activ. - ? Jumping - 20 Knockback Dist. - 16.5 Range - 40 Recharge - 46.5 Recov. Increase - 40 Dmg. Resist - 33 Run Spd. - 33 Sleep Dur. - 33 Slow - 39 Disorient - 36.5 Taunt Dur. - 38 ToHit Debuff - 25 Acc. Debuff -?
As you can see some values are missing. I will try to get them in the next couple of days and edit the post, but as you know drops are random. If anyone can figure them out you can either post them here or PM me with them.
How these multipliers work is quite simple. Let's say you have a level 16 Healing enhancement and you'd like to figure out how much influence you'll get for it at the store. Simply multiply 50 x 16, which equals 800 influence. You also have a level 18 Immobilization duration enhancement, which is only worth 657 influence, thereby it makes more sense to keep the healing enhancement over the Immobilization duration one even if it is a higher level enhancement.
One more note about the multipliers is that a couple of them, Accurcy for instance, change slightly at level 19, reducing a little and thereby reducing the sell price. It isn't much, but I knew some of you might notice this so I thought I'd mention it.
Anyways, hope this helps some of you save up your influence a little more efficiently
[ August 27, 2004, 09:19 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Thanks for that Vee. I was wondering that last night when running around with my 'test' character. Kept filling up my slots real quick and it was a pain to run back to AP just to sell, although worth the influence in the long run.
Guess I'll have to find the Freedom Corps store in Steel. Is it a separate store or is that the generic name for any of the stores?
And another stupid question. What does AoE stand for? I see the abbrev. used everywhere but never spelled out.
For the record, my 'test' character is at 10th level (plus a couple of bubbles) after around 8 hours of play. The first 8 levels I got in one 5 hour sitting. I didn't really think that I was moving up that fast but maybe it is quicker the normal. But we'll see now that he's past ten.
[ August 27, 2004, 09:35 AM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Wow, you're a lot more effective than I've been with my fire blaster. I think I started him tuesday, played about 12 hours and got lvl 10 last night. I gotta admit I'm still getting in the habit of using caltrops, which are pretty powerful.
I'm finally strong enough to take out low level mobs on the streets of Perez with little danger, woo-hoo.
BTW, AoE=Area of Effect
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
D'oh! Okay, makes sense now, especially with blasters. Thanks Lyle!
I just barely started into Perez last night, always leary about going in there alone. But so far I haven't done one mission. Its been all street kills in AP and KR. And I went with a fire blaster with energy as the secondary. Couldn't bring myself to use devices. I'll post his info after I get him up a few more levels to be sure he can really make the higher levels quicker.
Posted by Varalent on :
As you know, I very much favor blasters (defenders are my second most favorite AT)
By and large I think the energy blast secondary set may well be the most powerful of the blaster secondaries. Fortunately it's also available for Defenders as a secondary power set, which is what Mysa has ( and you all know she's pretty powerful for a defender! )
By the same token, I think Fire primary is at least as powerful & effective a primary for blasters but seems to have less of a hit against endurance than energy. And endurance is a blasters achilles heal.
All in all I'd say a Fire/Energy blaster may well be the most effective combination you could come up with based on my limited experience. Good choices!
Posted by Varalent on :
Scott:
There is a replacement map available at the CoH forum that overlays all the stores and contacts on every zone map. I downloaded it a few days ago (from HeroesHideaway.com) after being told about it by another char, but haven't installed it yet.
Regarding the Freedom Corp store. As I recall it's only a few blocks away from the tram. I think it's on one of the cross streets on the upper level ( not down below where Subgenetics is)
[ August 27, 2004, 11:16 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Thanks Vee! I'll have to hunt down the map and print it out to have handy. The store locations is just something I have not gotten down yet at all.
Posted by Varalent on :
It's not meant to be printed Scott (although I suppose you can) It actually replaces the In GAME map so that when you pull up the map, the stores are all marked on it like your contacts and trainers are.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
That's even better. That makes the first non-CoH add-on I've heard of then.
Posted by Varalent on :
You'll find it listed under downloads.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I really want to enjoy playing controllers more, my favorite comic characters tend to have controller-type powers, but they can be such a pain in the game. I see the use of then but a lot of times I get frustrated with feeling like I'm just standing around waiting for my knockout power to recharge while the rest of the team does their stuff.
(BTW, you know I'm going to be pretty much useless in our final battle. Last I heard controllers can't affect ArchVillains, leaving me to stand around and, use my heal aura power I guess. Not that I won't try and scream when it doesn't work.)
Blasters are a fun AT. I think I'd like to try playing my dark/dark defender in a all-def team. I hear those get quite strong once you start stacking those debuffs and buffs.
Posted by Varalent on :
Lyle: I can promise you that you'll be VERY busy during our final battle! As someone who's been the primary healer for our little quite often, I know that we take a great deal of tender loving care. (Especially Garth!)
You, Doc, and Grev will have your hands full keeping us all alive. You won't have time to do much standing around. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hey! Garth's getting better. Of course last time he didn't have Mysa to die for. Posted by DMFirebow on :
Hmmm... I seem to remember Doc having to Rez Garth on Wednesday... hee hee!
Looking forward to the game.... anyone know who the Arch-Villian is for this TF? I've faced Dr. Vahzilok before in a regular story-arc, and he gave me the beating of a lifetime.
Anyway, i've got my Healing powers enhanced to the max with DO's.. hope that's enough!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
That is one difference, I am playing missions, tho I'm mostly use it to keep me interested. I go on kill sprees on the way to the mish and get a lot of XP that way and then the mish breaks up the monotony of the hunt. I wasn't thinking that it added a lot to my time but I guess it does.
BTW, what's up with the indoor mish where the bad guy's levels suddenly drop? Suddenly you're "arresting" bad guys with one hit of brawl.
The new update is supposed to go live soon on the test server. I'm thinking of going through the process of getting access to the test server. Anyone interested in teaming there?
Posted by Varalent on :
Another interesting tidbit of info from the CoH Boards (Blasters Forum) but interesting info for everyone:
Posted by RsRobinson in "A Powerlevelers Guide To BlasterS" ***** "A tip for fighting street mobs. Spawns are done on demand, when a player gets near them. The mobs have a level range depending on where they are. However, most often a mob will spawn in level based on the player who spawned it. So, if the mobs range in level from 26 to 29 and you are level 26, you'll see a mix. If you are level 29, you will almost always see only level 29s. This is good, street fighting less than whites is a waste of time. But, it means you want to be as alone as you can be. If you have lower-level players running around triggering the spawns, you will find yourself frustrated with lots of greens and blues."
*******
I enjoy groups more than soloing so I won't be taking his advice about being "as alone as possible" but for our Legion (& other) group's purposes, it sounds as if the higher level heroes should be the ones scouting ahead so we get higher level mobs.
[ August 27, 2004, 01:50 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: BTW, what's up with the indoor mish where the bad guy's levels suddenly drop? Suddenly you're "arresting" bad guys with one hit of brawl.
Seems like I'm running into lots of those front loaded missions as well. We did one recently with the Peanuts gang (all of us 6-8) that started out with one group of 6s, then one group of 5s and then everyone else was a 3 or 2.
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: The new update is supposed to go live soon on the test server. I'm thinking of going through the process of getting access to the test server. Anyone interested in teaming there?
I was going to last time and never got around to it. Maybe I'll try again.
[ August 27, 2004, 01:56 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Ah, I thought we faced off with Dr Vaz in this mish, guess that happens in a storyline. So maybe I'll be of use in the final battle after all.
Can't wait to play this TF.
You know what I like about CoH? The different roles each archetype brings and the MMO aspect requires some strategic thinking that changes every time. Losing one player can require a totally different play style (and this group is great at that).
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Ah, I thought we faced off with Dr Vaz in this mish, guess that happens in a storyline. So maybe I'll be of use in the final battle after all.
According to the CoH Forum the Positron TF is: The Rule of Three - Dam piece - Steel Canyon - Clockwork
But I seem to think we got a cave mish last time (for some reason I think it was 5ths but that doesn't sound right. Caves are ususally Vaz.). Does anyone else remember?
[ August 27, 2004, 02:02 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: Hmmm... I seem to remember Doc having to Rez Garth on Wednesday... hee hee!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
It was a sewer or cave filled with 16th level Vaz Abominations. The image of us all dying within a minute is forever etched in my brain. Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: You know what I like about CoH? The different roles each archetype brings and the MMO aspect requires some strategic thinking that changes every time. Losing one player can require a totally different play style (and this group is great at that).
I agree, you really need to cooperate with each other as a real team would. Our advantage is that we know each other fairly well and most of us have been playing together right from the start. So we know what to expect from each other.
When Mysa's along, everyone takes more chances because the expect here to keep them alive. For example, she knows that Garth tends to hang further back from the others because he is more accurate that way, so she keeps the eye in the back of her head open. Conversly, Tasmia has bloodlust and goes charging far ahead of the others, so she needs to constantly be marking her location so she can get to her with Heal Other (Tas is often out of range of Healing Aura.) You can't expect healers that you just run into online to know that or to even really care about it.
We also know each others powers fairly well and know who should be doing what. Condo & Shadow Lad both have powerful snipes. When combined, they can be pretty devastating. Your Confuse power can work wonders in whitling down a too large mob before we engage them. The only way you get these advantages is by teaming with the same people all the time.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: It was a sewer or cave filled with 16th level Vaz Abominations. The image of us all dying within a minute is forever etched in my brain.
I don't think I was alive long enough to register anything in long term memory other than entering the cave. Posted by LyleLyle on :
A cool tease from the CoH forums:
"'ll let this slip...
Epic Archetypes possess Power Sets that no one else can get; they'll mix together elements of ALL categories (Ranged, Defense, Control, etc.). In effect, they have the potential to be Tank Mages.
BUT every Epic Archetype comes with a set of weaknessess to balance out their strengths... "
Oooooh.
From a GenCon recap: "Q: Will the game eventually have the ability for players to generate their own story arcs? For example, my character's sister was killed by the Hellions, so I want to create an arc where he hunts down the Hellions and eventually brings her killer to justice. A: Not exactly. Allowing players to generate content on their own doesn't allow us to gaurantee quality. But we are adding many more branches to story arcs in the future, to allow you to see different results based on choices made in the earlier parts of the arc. We also plan to have the overall game world affected by missions - for example, if not enough people do their Family missions, the mob may take over more areas of the city since no one is keeping them in check.
Q: Is there an open-ended development process for adding more character creation choices, or is there a point where you'll say it's finished and no more will be added? A: Always more. Some ideas we're kicking around now: longer capes, trenchcoats, skirts, pirate and ninja costume components, more shoe options.
Q: What new things are planned to make SuperGroups more interesting? A: Bases are coming in City of Villans. We would like to have SG-specific missions as soon as we figure out a good way to implement it, but it won't be soon. There may be vehicles that are owned by the supergroup, but again not soon. Temporary powers are something that might be granted at the SG base as well, we're still working on that idea (example: getting a jet pack to have limited flight).
Q: Why can you not buy inspirations while on a Task Force? A: It's a coding issue. We're going to change it eventually, but it's not the highest priority right now.
Q: When can we change the look of our powers? A: You'll be able to change the color of the power effects soon. Can't commit to a specific time yet. Eventually you'll also be able to choose from multiple different animations for powers, but that's a LONG way off due to the amount of work involved.
Q: What can you tell us about Martial Arts changes? A: Storm Kick is safe, no changes planned. Several other powers will be changed to have shorter animations. The change might be as soon as issue 2, but more likely afterward. This may seem like a slow process, but remember that EVERYTHING we do is slow, to avoid breaking the game.
Q: Will we see suburban residential zones? A: Eventually, yes. Also we will have an airport, and some fixes to some of the weirder effects. For example, we hope to prevent cars from weaving all over the street like drunk drivers. This is low on the priority list, though.
Q: Any plans to implement Secret Identities? A: We already did - you are your hero's secret ID. In-game, we haven't yet found a convincing way to do secret identities and keep the game fun while you're out of costume. The ability to change your costume into street clothes will have to do for now.
Q: Are there plans for a tutorial to help people understand their character better? For example, teaching an AoE blaster how to avoid drawing all the aggro? A: That's a good idea, I'd never considered that. We'd certainly make it optional if we do put something like that in. On a related note, Outbreak will become optional in Issue 2.
arious misc. things that came up during the QA, but were not direct answers: - The Super Secret Non Combat System will be in Issue 3 - I do not care how fast people level. The key criteria is that it must be FUN, so that you'll want to keep playing even after you've leveled up your character. - I consider an exploit to be anything that rewards boring behavior. The Smoke Grenade bug is an example - it's about as fun as "poking yourself in the eye" (direct quote) but people do it since they level faster. - Eventually instanced missions may have an interactive environment, since griefing won't be as much of a problem. "
Lot's of cool stuff going on in "Statesman's" mind.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Ah, here's the post that I was searching through the CoH forums for in the first place:
"This is a quick guide for other folks who, like me, are new to the Positron Task Force mission. It's great fun and good exp.
Several posts here mention how hard it is (repeated deaths and multiple attempts), but it doesn't need to be that way. We -- a group of stranger newbs -- did it without no team deaths and in about five 1/2 hours.
Could easily have shaved nearly an hour with simple tactics listed below. Some teams do it in under four, but I expect you'd need to be familiar with the sequence to do so.
You can find this info scattered on other threads, but here's a compliation:
- Start it by speaking with Positron in SC. You need a team of 3-8, levels 10-16. - Totally possible with 3 chrs, but by starting with 6, we did fine even after losing two. - It's ok if level 16 chrs level up to 17 during the mission. - It's challenging. Low levels will have a hard time. - It takes roughly 5 hours: 6 for a slower team, 4 for a fast one. - You get a nice goody at the end. Keep an enhancement slot free. - You can't recruit more chrs for the Task Force, so get a good crew. - Players who Quit from the Menu bar, rather than Quit Task Force, might be able to rejoin when they log back on. We didn't test this. - I did my recruiting next to Positron, looking for team-minded players who wanted to go all the way through.
The Task Force goes through a series of missions provided by Positron. I won't detail any spoilers here -- if you want to know the specifics, they're on other threads.
General Tactics: I don't see any reason players why need to die -- or, worse, fail at the TF - with good team play.
The two most important:
- Start your battles when everyone is ready. This is the simplest, most-obvious team rule and yet it's routinely ignored. If you've played any time at all in Perez or Boomtown, you've seen some schmo pick a fight when your group is out of Endurance, missing a player who's afk, or already attacking a nearby group. Don't be a schmo, or tolerate them in your group. A simple "rdy?' takes seconds and makes for faster, more efficient fights.
- Know your roles. As a controller, mine was to hold threatening targets while picking off the weak threats (like Embalms, who are dangerous, but easy kills, while the Blasters killed the Mires and Murks). We had another guy who did all our pulls/sniping, etc. We also decided by default to kill the biggest baddies from Left to Right unless otherwise discussed; that helped us kill quickly rather than just wounding.
All this took us less than a minute of communcation per map ("rdy?" "Murk, Mire, then Lum?". "top of stairs first?"), and it was priceless.
Positron TF Tactics:
- Choose a diverse team. You'll want someone for crowd control (Controllers, of course, but possible to use a Tanker at this level, or even some Defs), and a ranged attack (Blaster, really). Healers are extremely helpful, as is a frontliner, like a Scrapper, but really any mixed combo wil do.
Our team: 15 Blast 16 Control (me) 15 Def (our healer) 12 Scrapper (sk'ed with me. did fine.) and two other 14/15 Blasts for halfway.
- Send the Team leader to talk with Positron. Send others to do the Fed-Ex tasks (some missions are combat, some are "fetch" missions requiring only one TF member to go). Leaving the leader with Positron makes it go faster, as does having the others gather at the tram station in the meantime. Eventually, the leader can Call to Postiron. - Use your tp's, if you have any, to leapfrog maps. We had one guy go straight to the mission while another tp'ed from the tram. ASKING before a tp is both polite and good strategy. If you haven't yet seen a tp'ed teammate run unaware into a nearby group of baddies, you will.
- Use the first mission as a gauge. It's one of the hardest, and you'll get to see how your team performs. If you're falling apart already, you have a loooong path ahead of you. But if you work well as a group, you probably will like the next missions, too.
Enjoy! It's great fun. "
We've reviewed most of this, but I liked how the poster put it all together.
Posted by Varalent on :
Like you, I can't wait for the TF! Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Same here! That's when I seem to have my connection problems
My connection problems seem to hit more when I'm on a team. Soloing I don't lose the server nearly as much as I do on a team.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: On an unrealated note. What's the quickest anyone here has gotten a character up to level 10?
I just checked. It took less than 16 hours of play to get Charlie Brown up to level 10 as that's how long I've played him total.
Xander 2.0 seemed to reach 10 at a ridiculously high rate of speed as well.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:For the record, my 'test' character is at 10th level (plus a couple of bubbles) after around 8 hours of play. The first 8 levels I got in one 5 hour sitting. I didn't really think that I was moving up that fast but maybe it is quicker the normal. But we'll see now that he's past ten. [/QB]
I think it's not really that hard to reach level 5 at all ... at least not for blasters. My controllers tend to find it a bit harder!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: D'oh! Okay, makes sense now, especially with blasters. Thanks Lyle!
I just barely started into Perez last night, always leary about going in there alone. But so far I haven't done one mission. Its been all street kills in AP and KR. And I went with a fire blaster with energy as the secondary. Couldn't bring myself to use devices. I'll post his info after I get him up a few more levels to be sure he can really make the higher levels quicker.
Really?
I love devices. I wish I had taken that as a secondary for Blue Battler rather than fire. I found web grenade particularly handy for locking down runners for Xander 2.0. Jesse the Drone looks cool, but the sound effect is annoying, and the accuracy is still not as high as I'd like it to be.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: I really want to enjoy playing controllers more, my favorite comic characters tend to have controller-type powers, but they can be such a pain in the game. I see the use of then but a lot of times I get frustrated with feeling like I'm just standing around waiting for my knockout power to recharge while the rest of the team does their stuff.
(BTW, you know I'm going to be pretty much useless in our final battle. Last I heard controllers can't affect ArchVillains, leaving me to stand around and, use my heal aura power I guess. Not that I won't try and scream when it doesn't work.)
Blasters are a fun AT. I think I'd like to try playing my dark/dark defender in a all-def team. I hear those get quite strong once you start stacking those debuffs and buffs.
Lyle, I was running one of my fire/empathy controllers with a friend last night. She sk'd me so I was up from level 7 to level 13, and I have to tell you that I had a blast. I didn't really do a lot of damage to the baddies myself, but I did a great job of containing them so that her scrapper didn't have to chase them all over creation and didnt have to worry about being ganged up on.
And is it that Controllers can't affect the big bosses at all or just can't lock them down? It'd be darn unfair if Cinders or Propel or some other controller attack power i can't think of atm wouldn't work at all on the big guys.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
So I guess this question has to be asked ... well, I'm going to ask it because it's on my mine:
When will we have our first Infintiy TF? 8-)
And has the Protector Legion died? Doesn't look like there's been a lot of action there lately ...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Another interesting tidbit of info from the CoH Boards (Blasters Forum) but interesting info for everyone:
Posted by RsRobinson in "A Powerlevelers Guide To BlasterS" ***** "A tip for fighting street mobs. Spawns are done on demand, when a player gets near them. The mobs have a level range depending on where they are. However, most often a mob will spawn in level based on the player who spawned it. So, if the mobs range in level from 26 to 29 and you are level 26, you'll see a mix. If you are level 29, you will almost always see only level 29s. This is good, street fighting less than whites is a waste of time. But, it means you want to be as alone as you can be. If you have lower-level players running around triggering the spawns, you will find yourself frustrated with lots of greens and blues."
*******
I enjoy groups more than soloing so I won't be taking his advice about being "as alone as possible" but for our Legion (& other) group's purposes, it sounds as if the higher level heroes should be the ones scouting ahead so we get higher level mobs.
I seem to recall somebody telling everyone this when we were in Boomtown on Wednesday. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:For the record, my 'test' character is at 10th level (plus a couple of bubbles) after around 8 hours of play. The first 8 levels I got in one 5 hour sitting. I didn't really think that I was moving up that fast but maybe it is quicker the normal. But we'll see now that he's past ten.
I think it's not really that hard to reach level 5 at all ... at least not for blasters. My controllers tend to find it a bit harder![/QB]
Read my post again buddy. That was level 8 in under five hours, not level five in eight hours. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Glad to hear they are finally giving us the option of running Outbreak. If they weren't going to do that they should at least give a different training option.
And what is the Smoke Grenade bug? I've not heard of it.
Thanks for all the great info Lyle!
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: So I guess this question has to be asked ... well, I'm going to ask it because it's on my mine:
When will we have our first Infintiy TF? 8-)
And has the Protector Legion died? Doesn't look like there's been a lot of action there lately ...
One TF at a time Blue And I sure hope the Legion of Super Protectors gets some attention soon also. Maybe we should do Legion Night next week over there?
Posted by Varalent on :
Hmmm..where is everyone tonight? Can't seem to find a single person on CoH!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:For the record, my 'test' character is at 10th level (plus a couple of bubbles) after around 8 hours of play. The first 8 levels I got in one 5 hour sitting. I didn't really think that I was moving up that fast but maybe it is quicker the normal. But we'll see now that he's past ten.
I think it's not really that hard to reach level 5 at all ... at least not for blasters. My controllers tend to find it a bit harder!
Read my post again buddy. That was level 8 in under five hours, not level five in eight hours. [/QB]
D'oh!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Hmmm..where is everyone tonight? Can't seem to find a single person on CoH!
Grem and I were on Triumph, Vee. I got my AlmightyGremlyn fire/empathy controller up to level 9 ... one more level and then I get rez for her!
And her group lockdown worked pretty effectively, but as always I went through end like a sieve ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Glad to hear they are finally giving us the option of running Outbreak. If they weren't going to do that they should at least give a different training option.
And what is the Smoke Grenade bug? I've not heard of it.
Thanks for all the great info Lyle!
From what I recall hearing, the Smoke Grenade makes it ridiculously easy to take out bad guys ...
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey! I caught up with Prism and we ran around Skyway massacering Trolls We were able to level Prism to lvl 14 and he now has group invis, which should be very handy on Sunday.
Congrats!
Pete showed up just as I was getting ready to log off so lord knows what kind of trouble they got into after that! Posted by Blue Battler on :
Okay...
Something I have to say here...
I keep reading the interviews with the guy where he talks about how leveling isn't the point of the game ...
But when all is said and done, everything in the game requries leveling. Want to hover? You have to hit level 6. Want to fly? Level 14. Want a new costume? Level 20. Want to see all the sights of Paragon City? Leveling ...
Yeah, we can all stand around and chat all night on the game. We can sit down or dance or give out a Tarzan yell, but the simple fact remains that COH is a business venture for these people, and they're out to keep you playing as long as possible. That's why you accumulate debt when a bad guy kills you. That's why you only get powers every other level ... why you have to BUY capes ...
So don't sit there and tell me you don't like bugs like the smoke grenade or fiery tankers or controller powers locking down the bosses because it makes for boring gameplay. You don't like it because you're afraid I'll stop playing the game once I hit the final level...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Hey! I caught up with Prism and we ran around Skyway massacering Trolls We were able to level Prism to lvl 14 and he now has group invis, which should be very handy on Sunday.
Congrats!
Pete showed up just as I was getting ready to log off so lord knows what kind of trouble they got into after that!
Hopefully they won't die too much. 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: So I guess this question has to be asked ... well, I'm going to ask it because it's on my mine:
When will we have our first Infintiy TF? 8-)
And has the Protector Legion died? Doesn't look like there's been a lot of action there lately ...
One TF at a time Blue And I sure hope the Legion of Super Protectors gets some attention soon also. Maybe we should do Legion Night next week over there?
Always a possibility, I guess. Dox 5.1 is at 8 now, and has propel. I really enjoy that power. Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Geez, spend one night seeing a reeeeaaallllyyyyy bad kid's play after work (my dad was in it -- a case of many talented people given a dreadful script with more dreadful bits shoehorned in by a weird director -- such a letdown after seeing this group do a terrific "Little Shop of Horrors"), and I miss three pages of thread!
Well, I'm sorry I was wrong about the Postitron parameters. I'd always heard 11-15. Dang -- I could have been playing SL more!
Lyle, thanks for that guide to TFs. There's a lot of useful advice in there -- nice to see it all in one spot. We'll definitely have to use the left to right thing -- keeps it organized. Everyone should reread that post before logging in for the TF.
Blue, at the rate we're going, the Infinity group may be ready soon, especially if they've changed the TF back so all the baddies aren't 16 as soon as you walk in. Apparently, it used to be spawned off the highest levelled player, but they changed it. We complained after our massacre, so maybe they changed it back.
As for Protector, I'm actually enjoying the Infinity team more, honestly. We went into it with a theme in mind, and it's just kind of cool. Though I would like to play with Thom's gravity powers, but I can just live vicariously through Star Kallor. Posted by Varalent on :
I like Infinity also but I hope we don't completely abandon Protector. Got some neat chars over there!
Besides everyone could do a LW/LMBP char there and we could all play ourselves. Varalent's already there afte all. Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
Well, I'm sorry I was wrong about the Postitron parameters. I'd always heard 11-15. Dang -- I could have been playing SL more!
Lyle, thanks for that guide to TFs. There's a lot of useful advice in there -- nice to see it all in one spot. We'll definitely have to use the left to right thing -- keeps it organized. Everyone should reread that post before logging in for the TF.
Blue, at the rate we're going, the Infinity group may be ready soon, especially if they've changed the TF back so all the baddies aren't 16 as soon as you walk in. Apparently, it used to be spawned off the highest levelled player, but they changed it. We complained after our massacre, so maybe they changed it back.
As for Protector, I'm actually enjoying the Infinity team more, honestly. We went into it with a theme in mind, and it's just kind of cool. Though I would like to play with Thom's gravity powers, but I can just live vicariously through Star Kallor.
Heh.
I'm itching to play on Infintiy today myself. I want to perfect Star's use of his lock down power and rad ... I so want to get mutate for him ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: I like Infinity also but I hope we don't completely abandon Protector. Got some neat chars over there!
Besides everyone could do a LW/LMBP char there and we could all play ourselves. Varalent's already there afte all.
Lol.
I don't think my real world powers would translate well into the game.
Can't be much call for taking down bad guys with a killer bagel dip or good cake ...
[ August 28, 2004, 10:25 AM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Hey! I caught up with Prism and we ran around Skyway massacering Trolls We were able to level Prism to lvl 14 and he now has group invis, which should be very handy on Sunday.
Congrats!
Pete showed up just as I was getting ready to log off so lord knows what kind of trouble they got into after that!
Hopefully they won't die too much. 8-)
*sigh* Don't ask. Just... don't... ask. Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Varalent, I'm thinking of deleting my Super Lad Kid char on the Protector server and starting over again. I just don't like the energy blaster. What can I say, he was the very first character I created and now i want to do it better. So if you or anyone else wants all of my stuff, i can give it to you before I delete the char. I have no idea what he has, though. Just let me know when you get on.
Posted by Varalent on :
Sure I'll take what you have next time we're both on. Thanks!
But why not just pass it to me and reroll SLK. Then I'll pas it back to you in your new incarnation?
[ August 28, 2004, 07:47 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: You...don't...like...the...energy...blaster...???? BLASPHEMY!!!!!
That's funny because it's my favorite power set.
Sure I'll take what you have next time we're both on. Thanks!
Truthfully, I like energy blaster as primary but I don't care for energy as secondary. I do love devices as a secondary ... mainly because I really like how well web grenade works for stopping runners, you get a tech drone which boosts your accuracy, and you you get those nifty smoke grenades that are supposed to make leveling easy. 8-)
I tell you guys, I was playing Nite Killer my katana scrapper, and all I was getting in terms of inspirations was catch a breaths ... when Nite has regeneration and endurance recovery! Grrr!!
Never get those for my blasters or controllers...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys, I was just reading the Prima Strategy Guide and came across the binding command. This could come in handy when Star Kallor uses his rad power, for example, by letting you guys know who I'm going to attack.
Or Tas could use it to tell someone she's about to tp them.
I'll go over it as soon as i know if it works.
Posted by UltraStar on :
I am choked as hell right now at this game!!!!
Firstly in the last 2 days I've been experiencing a lot of lags in the game. This usually never happens to me. Someone said it might be a new Windows XP update doing it because when he got rid of it he was fine. I don't know if this could really be true or not.
Then tonight I kept losing connection to mapserver!! And at the worst possible time...
I usually use my lvl 29 tanker to SK lower lvl characters in my SG's and take them to Independance Port to gain some sweet XP and give them some DO enhancements to sell for lotsa coin. (I do this because someone did it for me when I was a 10)
Well I brought this lvl 11 blaster named Holly Starter there and everything was going great since we were clearing her massive debt. Then it happened. Lost connection. 3 times!!!! the third time I couldnt log back on and left her stranded in IP (way out in the boonies, mind you) surrounded by lvl 29 bad guys who had to have killed her by now!!!
I can't even go to the CoH site as it says it's not there!!!
Is it just me? My computer? My connection? A virus?
It was at 3am (west coast time) on Saturday night when it happened. The servers don't shut down till 6am here on weekdays.
Damn, I feel bad for that girl. I can see her trying to hover her way back to the SC gate. Should only take, like, an hour!!!
Arrrgghhhh......
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey UltraStar, I know what you mean about the lag time & lost mapserver. I have noticed it myself as well the last few days.
Sorry to hear about your friend. That really sucks but there is nothing you can do about it. Part of the risk you take for high rewards. Hopeful she got up into the air and got herself out. If not, maybe she was smart enough to only die once and leave her char at the hospital until someone can help her get out.
Posted by UltraStar on :
Thing is, I still can't get back to the game!
It says it cannot find server and page cannot be displayed!
What the hell???
Are the servers down for everybody or have I been banned for some reason?
I just did a system restore back a week and got back on for 2 minutes and lost connection again!!!!
The site is gone!!!! Or my computer is dying of some majorly fracked up virus.
Can anyone else get on?
Posted by Varalent on :
UltraStar I've been on CoH since 7:30 AM eastern (about 1 1/2 hours) It may be the server or something on your end (your internet connection maybe?)
I just checked the website (yes, it's still there) and they are reporting all servers up.
Sorry I can't help more. I've also heard people complain about the recent XP update. You might look into that as well.
Posted by UltraStar on :
So it IS still there, huh?
Damn.
I'm screwed.
Can't be my internet connection, I'm here. It makes no sense why I can go to any other site but theirs. What the hell kind of virus would only stop me from going to CoH? I must be banned.
This really, truely sucks.
Thanx for checking, man.
Posted by Varalent on :
By any chance did you ignore a request for Proof of Purchase from CoH? I read that they've been having serious problems with duplicate keycodes. They ask for a copy of the store receipt & keycode case or they lock your account. Give you a week or two to submit. If you don't respond, your account gets locked until you do.
Of course this wouldn't explain why you can't access the website. You don't need to be registered to do that, so that's probably not the case.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: By any chance did you ignore a request for Proof of Purchase from CoH? I read that they've been having serious problems with duplicate keycodes. They ask for a copy of the store receipt & keycode case or they lock your account. Give you a week or two to submit. If you don't respond, your account gets locked until you do.
Of course this wouldn't explain why you can't access the website. You don't need to be registered to do that, so that's probably not the case.
Why are they doing that?
I bought my copy from them directly in electronic format, so I wouldn't have tha stuff myself.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by UltraStar: I am choked as hell right now at this game!!!!
Damn, I feel bad for that girl. I can see her trying to hover her way back to the SC gate. Should only take, like, an hour!!!
Arrrgghhhh......
If someone in your SG has TP they could tp her from the hospital back to the station. Or she could have broadcast for help and gotten out.
I'm sure she'll be fine....
Posted by Varalent on :
Didn't you get an eletronic receipt / confirmation of purchase?
There's a big broohaha over this on the CoH boards. Guess they've been having lots of problems with dups (people going into stores, opening boxes, & copying down keycode. Then installing a borrowed copied of the game and using the stolen keycode.
When CoH discovers a duplicate keycode registration, they send out a request for proof of purchase (I would imagine that they have proof that you bought directly from them, soI wouldn't worry too much) Their thinking is that, someone that stole a keycode number will not reply/won't have sales receipt and won't have the actual case with the keycode on it to copy. If they don't receive a reply within the specified period, they lock the account until a reply is received with proof.
Of course, most people don't keep their receipts for the purchase, so everyone is up in arms.
PS: Another possiblility is that someone entered their keycode incorrectly but managed to enter a valid code.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Didn't you get an eletronic receipt / confirmation of purchase?
There's a big broohaha over this on the CoH boards. Guess they've been having lots of problems with dups (people going into stores, opening boxes, & copying down keycode. Then installing a borrowed copied of the game and using the stolen keycode.
When CoH discovers a duplicate keycode registration, they send out a request for proof of purchase (I would imagine that they have proof that you bought directly from them, soI wouldn't worry too much) Their thinking is that, someone that stole a keycode number will not reply/won't have sales receipt and won't have the actual case with the keycode on it to copy. If they don't receive a reply within the specified period, they lock the account until a reply is received with proof.
Of course, most people don't keep their receipts for the purchase, so everyone is up in arms.
PS: Another possiblility is that someone entered their keycode incorrectly but managed to enter a valid code.
Huh.
No I hadn't heard about this.
Grem bought her first copy of Herocrack on Ebay and when she tried to use it it turned out the guy had already activated the code so it was useless.
Not that I'm condoning the morality of it, but you still have to pay for airtime, don't you? So they're still making money off these people ... Or are the cards being copied too?
[ August 29, 2004, 08:29 AM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Binds are great. I've been playing with them. I got to play with macros next, as that seems the more obvious choice with power/declare target binds...
I think I'm going to play a little with binds before our TF.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I hate the Vaz soooooo much!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Add those higher level CoT to the list. I thought Mind Mages were bad. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
Posted by Varalent on :
Good lord that was rough! And next we have level 17 Clocks! Posted by Blue Battler on :
I gotta say fie on Vahz!
Found out on Infinity Legion that Star's grav hold doesn't work well on the Vahz, and on a mish with Grem tonight I found that fire cage has problems too...
Must be the slime.
They keep slipping out!
8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Question ...
Who's on path to pick up rez in the Infinity Legion? The way things are looking to me now, I don't think that Star will be able to pick up mutate until 16 at the earliest ... I won't know for sure until I hit 12, but I don't think that he'll be able to get mutate without getting accelerate metabolism or enverate first ...
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Prism Lord's got Rad as secondary and Mutate isn't available to him at 14. I don't think there's anyone who's got a path with a rez...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Prism Lord's got Rad as secondary and Mutate isn't available to him at 14. I don't think there's anyone who's got a path with a rez...
Huh. I have a fire/empathy controller that's about to hit 10. I wonder if she'll be up to take rez when she gets there?
Wonder why it takes so long to get to mutate on the rad secondary anyway? Isn't accelerate metabolism the power right next to mutate?
I think accelerate metabolism would be a useful power to have so I'm going to take that at 12, but the next grav power that Star has is dimension shift, and that'd be pretty useful too ...
Oh, here's another question for the gang. Who's going to take the fitness path on Infintiy?
I guess what I've been looking at is that the fitness path takes two other powers to get to stamina. I like swift and hurdle is pretty useful as well, but so far I've not seen any benefits to speak of from using health on Blue Battler. If that actually did something I wouldn't mind it taking so long to get to stamina ...
And from what I've heard from some people, once you get stamina it won't really be all that effective until you start slotting it ...
Anyway, the thing that occurs to me because of all that is just how high are we going to try to get these characters? If we're going to work for hitting the 20s and beyond, then I think the fitness path is a good choice for all of us except a scrapper ...
But if we don't intend to invest that much time in leveling, then I think that the fitness path-- and pretty much all pool powers except for a transport power and maybe medic-- would be a waste of a vaulable power slot for us...
Thoughts?
[ August 30, 2004, 05:07 AM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by DMFirebow on :
How much did you guys get accomplished after I left last night?
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: How much did you guys get accomplished after I left last night?
We got to the next mission and discovered a roomful of level 17 clocks so decided to hold off til Wednesday, hoping you can join us and that your level 12 will bring down our average and make them 16s or less.
We took a break for dinner and hopped on to Infinity.
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Who's on path to pick up rez in the Infinity Legion? ...
Anyway, the thing that occurs to me because of all that is just how high are we going to try to get these characters?
Princess P has empathy as her secondary, so she should have access to it at some point, maybe even the next level. Linus was able to get it at 6, I think, with empathy as his primary.
I'd like to level her. Illusion Controllers have some neat-sounding powers further up the chain. And she needs her pink cape!
I hadn't really thought about the fitness track. I'll have to look into it some more.
Of course, I'd like to level Linus, too, to see what the psychic secondary does with empath healers. Sigh -- so many characters to play with and so little time.
Sorry I didn't make it back on last night. My router decided it didn't feel like connecting to the Interent at all any more, and by the time my hubby got it going again, it was getting late.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
We got little accomplished after you left. At the next mish we spotted lvl 17 Clocks and called it a night.
Sorry, Blue, I meant that, among the Infinity characters I had seen us play, I didn't think any of them had rez in their path. Don't think I ever teamed with your fire/emp controller.
Have you tried out the Hero Planner at CoH warcry, Blue? It's good for figuring out what's available when.
Posted by Varalent on :
Task Force Trinity:
This is what we have to look forward to.
(SPOILERS!!!! So don't read if you don't want to know)
The Positron Task Force Once you have your team formed, the leader of the team needs to speak to Positron. Positron is located in Steel Canyon, in front of the big statue in Blyde Square. The leader accepts formation of a TF and then get the first mission. This TF consists of 15 separate missions. Most times it will be 11 door missions, 1 Patrol(visiting locations/phones), and 3 deliveries/see contacts. The first door mission is Vahzilok.
The embalmed can cause severe damage when they self destruct- try to take them out first.
The second building will be Circle of Thorns.
Again Ruin and Energy Mages can kill quickly with their self destruct. To minimize the chance of Mages exploding- never have more then 1 melee on any mage, also make sure that a non-mage is left(Thorn Weilder, Guard etc). Your third door will be Clockwork most likely.
All doors will invovle these 3. After your first 3 door mission you can expect 2 more doors before Positron tells you to deliver an item to a contact in Atlas- any TF member can do this mission. You will then get another door mission. Next mission is to see a contact in Kings Row, again any TF member can do this one. The leader should now be able to CALL Positron. The next mission is to see an Atlas City contact. Usually Positron needs to see the leader at this point, but sometimes not. Now another door mission. Next is a Patrol (visit 3 locations/phones usually in Perez Park), again send your fastest. Another 3 door missions follow. Last mission is a door- usually a Hi-Tech Laboratory. All 3 groups of villians will be here. Make sure people sell and have room for the enhancements that drop- especially the S.O. that everyone will get. There is no arch villian, and it may seem anti-climatic, but rest assured you did well to complete it.
CHEAT SHEET *Door (Vahiz) *Door (CoT) *Door (Clocks) *Door *Door *Deliver item to contact in Atlas *Door *See Kings Row contact *See Atlas contact **Sometimes leader must go see Positron in Steel Canyon *Door *Patrol- Visit 3 locations(Usually in Perez Park) *Door *Door *Door *FINAL DOOR(usually lab setting with all three villian groups)
Task Force will automatically disband after exiting final mission and calling Positron.
[ August 30, 2004, 10:08 AM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Ah, good to know about Princess P. Sorry if I haven't noticed you keeping us alive, Seymour.
We missed you at the end of the mish Seymour. Hopefully the Princess will get credited for mission completed.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Ack! It sounds like we've barely started the TF!
I'm good for some TF on wednesday night but I've got a friend coming over for dinner on Sunday. I'm making Gumbo, so it'll take me a few hours and my TF time is limited.
Sheesh, didn't we take almost six hours just to do the first two parts? I thought the whole thing was supposed to take six hours.
Posted by Varalent on :
Have to admit I haven't been able to stop thinking about how poorly things went (timewise, deathwise etc) for us yesterday and trying to figure out what we could have done differently.
No question the Vaz mish was a nightmare. It took us about 3.5 - 4 hours just to do that (along with countless deaths!). The CoTs took about 1.5 hours and we suffered much less. I guess we really got better as we went along.
Can anyone think of anything we should be doing differently?
#1 I can tell you that everything I've read in the past few days (and I've been doing lots of research on the CoH boards and other sites) indicates that part of the problem may well be that we've created our own problem by having the max number of people on the TF. Everyone seems to feel that it's best and easiest if you have 4-5 members.
#2 Would it have been better to bring Mysa instead of Condo? I don't know but I have to wonder if the added healing would have kept more of us alive more often. Enough to compensate for less power? Again, I don't know but would be interested in your thoughts.
#3 Everything indicates that Positron is far and away the longest and most difficult Task Force. I still want to try to finish it (I hate giving up on anything! ) but wonder if it wouldn't be smarter to try it with a smaller group when we get to the right level on Infinity.
Thoughts? Comments? Does everyone else also want to finish or do you want to disband the group? I got the impression that some of us wouldn't mind if that was the decision but no one wanted to come out and say so.
Posted by Varalent on :
One other interesting tidbit I read. We need to be careful about what the mission asks us to do. If it say "defeat all" then that's what you need to do but if it say "defeat Epidural & his guards" you don't need to fight anyone else! We could just have gone invisibly past everyone and just fought in the last chamber (which turned out to be the easiest of all for us.)
Of course, you can farm afterwards but it's much easier to walk away from the rest of the Vaz (or CLocks, etc) if you've already accomplished the mission when you start to die too much Posted by LyleLyle on :
Yeah, I was thinking if we should just sneak past some of those higher level folk... perhaps we should try that with those clocks... just pick out the battles we clearly have to.
Perhaps we could try taking it on later on in Infinity with two small groups and we'll compare notes over the SG chat channel? Or perhaps we'll just do two small groups, allowing for people to play with alts and some of us only playing once (I'm cool with that, as someone who doesn't have an Adventure-era Legion alt on Infi). That will probably be easier to arrange.
Posted by Varalent on :
Task Force Trinity:
More Spoilers!!!!
Positron Task Force Location: Steel Canyon Main Enemy: varius Archvillain: none Level to Attend: 10-15 Minimum Teammates: 3 (total)
*** This task force actually combats multiple villian types and does not have an arch villian. We are aware of the problems in the display and will address them shortly***
1. Defeat Epidural and guards... find any evidence it took place in the sewers in skyway city.... lots and lots of Vhazilok, all lvl 15 (for larger groups they will be lvl 16)
2. Defeat all clock work in office.... recover all working clockwork pieces This one was in boomtown, and it started w/ lvl 16 but dropped down to lvl 13 (the boss was Gearteeth and was lvl 13)all clockwork
3.Defeat Rollister and his cadre.... 2 workers to rescue this was in an office building and all CoT all were lvl 15
4. Stop robot boss and his guards... investigate clockwork plans. this was in steel canyone in a warehouse, all were lvl 15 clocks and Boss was Constructor.
5. Stop cheif mage and his guards... find the book of T' Jer' imikanu this was a cave in skyway city, all CoT the boss was Tarses
6. Deliver book to Azuria She was in Atlas park, and there was an ambush of coT on this one.
7. Stop Dr. Morben and minions... recover any evidence this was in an office in skywaycity, all Vahzilok, started lvl 15 went down to lvl 10.... boss Dr. Morben
8. See Paula Dempsey in kings row... collect more evidence
9. See Azuria in Atlas park
10. Stop zombie boss and guards... destroy Vahzilok lab and recover evidence. this was in an office building in kings row... all dead lvl 15 boss was cortex
11. visit Perez park 3 locations
12. Defeat all villians in office...search for clues this one had clock and dead and no bosses all vl 15
13. Defeat all mystics in base. this was in a cave in perez park and had cot and clock all were lvl 14 and 15 bosses Pallenti (lvl 14 cot) and B'Shink P'Knock (lvl 15 clock)
14. Defeat all villians in sewer this was in skyway city Cot and Vahzilok there were no bosses in this one all were lvl 15
15. Defeat all villians in substation this was in perez park in an office, had lvl 14, 15, and 10 and had CoT, dead, and clocks and 2 bosses and one leiu... CoT boss lvl 14 was Lucion... Boresight clock leiu lvl 15, and Ulcer lvl 15 dead.
The TF bonus at the end was 200 xp and 200 inf, and a spify lvl 18 SO enhancement....my advice for this TF is to do it w/ a small group, every time i've gone in w/ a large group it is all lvl 16 where with a small group it is lvl 15's, and with a large group the amount of MoB's are insane, i've never made it past the 1st mission w/ a large group, it seems after people die 4 -5 times on the 1st mission they don't want to finish the TF. Also w/ the larger groups, there are a BUNCH of bosses in the 1st mission, usually 2 per every group you encounter along w/ at least 2 leiu's... sometimes as many as 6 lieu w/ two bosses. it isn't a bad TF, but i thought the skyway city one was more fun. Also there is no archvillian, just three groups of baddies all wanting the city dam.
I got this from GameAmp Posted by Lightning Lad on :
It sounds to me like we've got the toughest bit behind us then, right? I'm all for continuing through to the end. Maybe if everyone can't be there we do what we can but wait for everyone before we do the final part, #15. That way no one will feel cheated, especially if they got a lot a debt from earlier.
Also, only 200 bonus xp and inf at the end? That seems kinda cheap to me. Even if we get a level 18 SO, the bonus xp and inf should be at least 1000.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: The TF bonus at the end was 200 xp and 200 inf, and a spify lvl 18 SO enhancement....my advice for this TF is to do it w/ a small group, every time i've gone in w/ a large group it is all lvl 16 where with a small group it is lvl 15's, and with a large group the amount of MoB's are insane, i've never made it past the 1st mission w/ a large group, it seems after people die 4 -5 times on the 1st mission they don't want to finish the TF. Also w/ the larger groups, there are a BUNCH of bosses in the 1st mission, usually 2 per every group you encounter along w/ at least 2 leiu's... sometimes as many as 6 lieu w/ two bosses. it isn't a bad TF, but i thought the skyway city one was more fun. Also there is no archvillian, just three groups of baddies all wanting the city dam.
So that's what we did wrong. We went in with too large a group. It seemed logical, but the game's mathematics are just stacked against large groups. Sigh.
So unless we want to spend another eight hours on this, maybe we should split up or level up enough to do the next TF instead and take on this one with smaller Infinity groups.
Posted by Varalent on :
From the above, I'd guess the Clocks we're about to face are 17s (which we already know) but will drop down to 14s since it seems everything is up one level for our group. Once we get past those 17s we should have smooth sailing through the rest of the mish.
Also note that after that mish every other mish until #12 says "defeat [boss] and his guards" other than #7 which says "minions". That means we can bypass everyone until we get to the boss and those in the room with him. This might also apply to #7 because it doesn't say "defeat all"
#12 has no bosses. 13, 14 & 15 will be a bit tougher but still sound doable to me.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Also, only 200 bonus xp and inf at the end? That seems kinda cheap to me. Even if we get a level 18 SO, the bonus xp and inf should be at least 1000.[/QB]
You're absolutely correct. 200 xp versus the 6000+ debt Condo current has (plus everything he's already worked off!) hardly seems fair or appropriate.
Having said that, the other TFs don't seem to have much more bonus xp (Synapse has 500 I think, and the other three range from 1000 to 3000 I think)
Posted by Varalent on :
BTW, I just logged on and went in to check the level of the Clocks. They were 16s. So it seems as if the mish level definitely adjusts based on the current participants.
One other thing, if any of you are going to be on CoH tonight or tomorrow night, let me know. I'll have Mysa replenish everyone's inspirations so we are fully stocked again. Of course, someone will have to help me out with Condo again.
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Sorry I got cranky and grumpy the closer I got to 5k in debt. Next time I know what to expect and will buckle down more. But I don't want to be a quitter, and I don't want to have to give up when we worked so hard this far.
Me and Tasmia will be ready Wednesday! And, um LyleLyle, geez you're making gumbo?? If me and Scott show up with red beans and rice and some hushpuppies and Jax Beer, can we come over too??
LONG LIVE THE LEGION, and even the Legion task Force, The Trinity Titans!! Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: We got little accomplished after you left. At the next mish we spotted lvl 17 Clocks and called it a night.
Sorry, Blue, I meant that, among the Infinity characters I had seen us play, I didn't think any of them had rez in their path. Don't think I ever teamed with your fire/emp controller.
Have you tried out the Hero Planner at CoH warcry, Blue? It's good for figuring out what's available when.
Lyle, my fire/empath controller is on Triumph, not Infinity. Sorry for the mixup.8-)
And no, I haven't. Do you have a link?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Hmmm, red beans and rice would be most welcome, SG. I should warn you my gumbo recipe was made from a mix of recipes I found online without every having tasted someone else's recipe. I'm always afraid it doesn't taste quite authentic, (I couldn't bring myself to put more than a half-cup of oil for the roux) but its still pretty tasty.
As for the TF if everyone can wait for me to get home on Wednesday night, let's see if Group Invisiblity can get us through the clocks level... we'll activate it, sneak past a group, look for a safe spot and wait for the recharge.
Hmmm, on infi the Princess could get us invisible, won't we?
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
OK, so we're on for Wednesday -- at least as far as we can get. If everyone's willing to stick with it, I sure am. I don't want to be a quitter either, Caroline. And now that we know we can sneak past some of the tougher mobs, we should be able to complete faster -- if not get all the XP we would otherwise. Of course, that's only assuming we wouldn't die any more, so sneaking past sounds good to me.
Yes, Lyle, Princess will get group invis at some point -- 14 when you got it? I'll definitely pick it up for her.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
I'm good for Wednesday, too, but it probably couldn't be before 9:00.
I like the sneaking past idea. At nearly 6k in debt, I'd just as soon avoid confrontations right now.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: OK, so we're on for Wednesday -- at least as far as we can get. If everyone's willing to stick with it, I sure am. I don't want to be a quitter either, Caroline. And now that we know we can sneak past some of the tougher mobs, we should be able to complete faster -- if not get all the XP we would otherwise. Of course, that's only assuming we wouldn't die any more, so sneaking past sounds good to me.
Yes, Lyle, Princess will get group invis at some point -- 14 when you got it? I'll definitely pick it up for her.
Um, here's a thought, guys.
If that's the case, rather than have us all go, why not let Prism go by himself with a tp lock on him by Tas or Doc so that he can be pulled out to safety if he runs into trouble? The more of us there are, the greater the chance we'll run into trouble.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh, and someone looked at a guide and told me that I couldn't get mutate until level 16... so Star won't be able to rez if we do Positron TF on Infinity.
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Okay, since I have fully admitted to being addicted to CoH, it should surprise no one that I created three new chars today. But, one of them was Kent Shakespeare on Infinity!! He will totally take the medicine path and should make a wonderful physician for our group there. He doesn't fit with the adventure era, but I didn't think about it and now I've spent hours tonight working to get him to lvl 5. It takes a hell of a long time to lvl up a char that has not much fighting power. I gotta sleep now. Rock on my hero crack babies!!!! Wait, I can't sleep, I've had too much caffeine..... Posted by Varalent on :
Posted by Varalent on :
Unfortunately, it looks like the Clock mish is one of the "defeat all" so the idea of sneaking past them won't work for this one. The ggod news is that it is front loaded and shoul drop down 3 levels with the boss being the lowest level.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Unfortunately, it looks like the Clock mish is one of the "defeat all" so the idea of sneaking past them won't work for this one. The ggod news is that it is front loaded and shoul drop down 3 levels with the boss being the lowest level.
Hmmm.
Okay. That's something. Hopefully we can at least get through that mish on Wednesday. 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We just have to be ready for them as they are right inside the door and start attacking immediately.
Posted by Varalent on :
Yeah, I only had about 5 seconds from the time I entered yesterday to check their level, before I started getting blasted, and I didn't move from the door at all. The good thing is that we can make a stand at the door and have a quick escape if needed before accruing any more debt. If we all use that tacttic we should be able to handle the first group at least.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
In that case, I might sign on tonight to try to switch out a few of my trainings to SO Enhancements. I've got enough extra to afford a couple.
Posted by Varalent on :
Let me know when you're going to be on & I'll have Mysa stock you up on inspirations as well.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Maybe we can up our chances this way:
Everyone but Lyle and me log out. Lyle invisibles us, we go in to set the mission, then everyone else logs back on (say two minutes later), and we kick some Clockwork butt.
Just a thought.
Posted by Varalent on :
Even better, Lyle & Doc could go in to set the mish level. With Doc as a level 12 it should set fairly low. Both have heals so they can keep each other alive if discovered until everyone else gets logged on and in through the door. The we can REALLY kick some Clockwork butt! Posted by LyleLyle on :
Good idea, Vee. I think timing might be the only issue since (if I'm understanding correctly) there are clocks right outside the door. Are they far enough that Doc and I could stand right at the door without much worry of aggo while the rest of the TF signs on? Group invisiblity will protect us for a little while, but I'm not sure if it'll last long enough for everyone to sign on if that's our only proteciton.
Does everybody have an alt on Virtue that is part of the SG? Perhaps we could coordinate using alts? We gather as alts, everyone else signs off, I turn on group invis, doc & I enter as everyone in the TF signs on and joins us, hopefully as the invisiblity is wearing off and we'll need combat help.
'course that's moot if it's safe for Doc and I to just stand at the door and wait for everyone to log in and enter the door.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
You and Doc would have to enter the building before the rest of us could log back on.
I'm thinking the easiest way to do it is for us all to gather at the door. All log off at the same time. As soon as everyone drops from the team list (which should be within a second of each other), Prism does the invisible thing and they go in.
Meanwhile, the rest of us count to 30 and sign back on, going through the door as soon as we're on to help out.
That should give them plenty of time to get in but not lose their invisibility before the cavalry arrives. I don't think signing on as alts would make a difference because we'd still all have to log off and time logging back on.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Good ideas but are we forgetting something? The TF requires a minimum of three members. Will it let only two in?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Actually, my question is if the clocks were far enough from the door that Doc and I would be safe just standing at the door (on the inside) -- that, if group invisiblity wore off we still may escape their notice, providing we don't move.
However, I realized Doc and I (and maybe our next lowest level member?) could enter with group invis. I'll activate Superior Invisiblity for myself and then Doc can exit and wait for the TF to sign on.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
That would work, too, Lyle, if it comes to that. It sounds like you get blasted as soon as you're spotted.
Scott, that's a good question. I know there's a minimum to start, but I don't know about during. I think one of Vee's earlier posts talked about peopel starting with the minimum and then dropping out so there were only two or three. But we do know that Vee was able to enter the building and peek in all by himself Monday night, so I think we'll be OK.
Posted by Varalent on :
It requires a mimimum of three members on the task force not on the mish. I was able to enter the building last night to check out the levels. Since I was the only one logged in, the clocks were level 16 unlike Sunday when they were level 17.
So if Doc & Lyle enter while no one else is logged in, the initial group near the door (which I understand is the highest level group) should set to a lower level based on their average levels.
Outside doesn't appear to be problem, the clocks I saw outside were level 7. They didn't even acknowledge my presence Posted by Varalent on :
And to answer Lyle, you will get blasted as soon as you are noticed. Hopefully the invisibilty will last long enough for the rest of us to get back. My impression of your group invis is that it was lasting about 90 seconds or more on Sunday night so that should be plenty of time.
I didn't move at all when I enetered and a sprocket walked up to me with a plank on his shoulder and started blasting. Rather than take a chance, I clicked on the door and exited immediately (though I REALLY wanted to just blast the hell out of him but that probably would have gotten everyone else's attention.)
Posted by LyleLyle on :
In that case, why don't we have Doc and I enter with everyone else logged off and group invisibilty activated. Once we enter and get the level of the mish set, I'll activate Superior Invisibilty which only turns off then I turn it off. Doc exits, while I stay in and keep the mish from resetting. When everybody's back on, get in and we'll hit the battle.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I've done something like this before on a mish, and I think that the mish will rest to a hirer level once the rest of us log on and get in ... but it could make a difference right at the door, though ...
And Vee, I've been meaning to say this ... I think the rest of us should kick in some influence to Mysa. I know that I could use some more catch a breaths and a couple of healths for Andrew, but you shouldn't be footing the bill for all of us on that ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Something else, guys ...
I was playing with Grem last night, and she told me that she liked playing Super Kara but that she got a lot of comments from other players that she didn't like.
No one in our gang, but rather from other players. A lot of it was people not thinking she had a right to use the character, calling her a thief, etc ...
Now none of the characters we play really have the same recognition as Supergirl, but I was wondering if anyone else had gotten any comments like that ...
And also needed to vent before I tried to figure out how to give out some virtual punches in the nose ...
*GRRRR*
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I've done something like this before on a mish, and I think that the mish will rest to a hirer level once the rest of us log on and get in ... but it could make a difference right at the door, though ...
And Vee, I've been meaning to say this ... I think the rest of us should kick in some influence to Mysa. I know that I could use some more catch a breaths and a couple of healths for Andrew, but you shouldn't be footing the bill for all of us on that ...
Blue, I'm pretty sure that it will readjust by the next group we encounter but since this mish is front loaded, I'm hoping that we can get past the first group (set at a lower level) before it resets. We should be able to handle the rest.
Worst case scenario, we have to battle level 17s Clocks as soon as we enter. We shoulkd all be prepared for that tomorrow night.
And regarding the inspirations. We can worry about that when we get done with the TF. Mysa doesn't mind helping out her friends. Since she can't help out directly, this is her way to contribute. (But she'll never turn down an offer for mad money! )
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Quick note guys while I'm still remembering it.
I won't be able to play this weekend. I'm visiting the folks for Labor Day and won't have access to Herocrack.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Something else, guys ...
I was playing with Grem last night, and she told me that she liked playing Super Kara but that she got a lot of comments from other players that she didn't like.
No one in our gang, but rather from other players. A lot of it was people not thinking she had a right to use the character, calling her a thief, etc ...
Now none of the characters we play really have the same recognition as Supergirl, but I was wondering if anyone else had gotten any comments like that ...
And also needed to vent before I tried to figure out how to give out some virtual punches in the nose ...
*GRRRR*
That's really rotten. I remember she was getting some rude comments about Red Haired Girl, too. There's no reason to do that. My first instinct is to report them, but I don't know how her doing an homage to that character would go over with the bigwigs. Saturn Lady didn't get any comments from them when she reported TF trouble, though.
Anyway, I haven't gotten comments like that. The few times my Legion characters have been recognized, they thought it was cool and were interested in possibly joining the group.
I hope she doesn't let these jerks get her down.
Posted by DMFirebow on :
Just so I'm ontime tomorrow night, it's a 9pm EST, right?
Did anyone get an idea of what the map layout is of the Clocks mish? If there is enough space between clocks encounters, We can just hide out until the rest of you guys can get there.
Oh, another thing, sometimes with my connection it takes awhile for the missions to load initially. I'm not sure if 30 seconds for you guys to log back on will be enough. Let's say a full minute.. and we'd still have 30 seconds of invis left.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Something else, guys ...
I was playing with Grem last night, and she told me that she liked playing Super Kara but that she got a lot of comments from other players that she didn't like.
No one in our gang, but rather from other players. A lot of it was people not thinking she had a right to use the character, calling her a thief, etc ...
Now none of the characters we play really have the same recognition as Supergirl, but I was wondering if anyone else had gotten any comments like that ...
And also needed to vent before I tried to figure out how to give out some virtual punches in the nose ...
*GRRRR*
That's really rotten. I remember she was getting some rude comments about Red Haired Girl, too. There's no reason to do that. My first instinct is to report them, but I don't know how her doing an homage to that character would go over with the bigwigs. Saturn Lady didn't get any comments from them when she reported TF trouble, though.
Anyway, I haven't gotten comments like that. The few times my Legion characters have been recognized, they thought it was cool and were interested in possibly joining the group.
I hope she doesn't let these jerks get her down.
She's playing with Vee and me right now as Super Kara, and hasn't said anything more, so I haven't had to figure out virtual nose punching yet...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Guys, I'm sure that Vee will be posting this soon, but we came up with an idea for a SG group that's based on the mythology of COH.
For example, I'm creating a fire/stone tanker called Charcoal Brickette who's the daughter of a female scorcher and a brick. Grem may be playing a dark melee scrapper called Bone Daddy'sGirl... (I suggested the name so I'm very proud of it!) ... I'll let Vee and Caroline tell you guys what they want to play.
Lyle, you were the one with a Clockwork Queen, right? What server are you using for that? We thought we'd use that one...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'll probably pass on that group. Too many other characters who don't get play. I just don't have it in me to do all the different characters you guys do. I'd rather stick with a handful of them and just alternate.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, and I may be a little late for the TF tomorrow since I'm having to work 12+ hour days the rest of the week. So unless I can motivate my butt out of bed in the morning I won't be home until after 9 pm EST.
Posted by Varalent on :
WAKE UP SCOTT!!!!!
Is this early enough? Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I'll probably pass on that group. Too many other characters who don't get play. I just don't have it in me to do all the different characters you guys do. I'd rather stick with a handful of them and just alternate.
Heh.
Does that mean that Gung is going to see action again someday? Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: WAKE UP SCOTT!!!!!
Is this early enough?
It would have been, if I hadn't still been awake. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I'll probably pass on that group. Too many other characters who don't get play. I just don't have it in me to do all the different characters you guys do. I'd rather stick with a handful of them and just alternate.
Heh.
Does that mean that Gung is going to see action again someday?
Actually I've been thinking of deleting Gung and starting him over. See if I can get him on a faster track but not focusing on his ligtning powers and getting him on the health path earlier. I just don't know yet if I can bring myself to do it.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
In the meantime, this is why I didn't join you on Infinity Sunday. Two gaming sessions (Sunday afternoon and last night, maybe 6 hours total playing time) and I have a new Legionnaire for the Virtue squad ready to go. Meet Dirk Morgna, my 10th level Fire/Fire Mutation Blaster.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Or maybe I'll just try to get Gung up to 24. Have you guys seen this latest change coming up with issue #2?
quote:Power Re-specification
“The Terra Volta reactor has been running beyond full capacity for quite some time. Heroes who venture within it may experience untold side-effects…”
Your first respec opportunity comes at level 24.
You need a group of 4 people to get the Terra Volta Task Force, this TF will be tuned to the highest level person in the group.
Upon completion of the Task Force you will be given a choice of Reward. If you have not received your respec yet, you can choose the respec as your reward.
When you have chosen the respec option, you will receive a badge symbolizing that you have received the respec available in this level range.
You must then locate Jack Wolfe in the Freedom Corp HQ in Galaxy City to perform your respec.
When you choose to respec your character you will be artificially leveled down to level 1. You must keep your Origin, Archetype, Primary, and Secondary powersets, everything else is mutable.
Starting at level 1 you re-pick your first two powers, then at level 2 your third power, then you place enhancement slots at 3rd, and then 4th, picking another power. This process repeats itself until the character has respecced himself back to their current security level.
You have the same restrictions in powers and enhancements that you had when you first leveled up your character. In other words, a character built ”perfectly“ from level 1 to 50 will not be at a disadvantage to one that was respecced.
Once you have re-chosen your powers, all of your previously slotted Enhancements can be slotted again. Enhancements that are un-slotted after this process is complete (possibly because you don’t have a power they work with any more), are then refunded for full Influence value.
You can redo the Respec trial at 34 and again at 44. Each time you need a group of 4 players to be issued the Task Force. Each iteration of the Task Force will be against a different villain group.
If you ”skipped“ a Respec, you can still get it. Basically you can have up to 1 respec to level 33, 2 respecs to level 43, and 3 respecs to level 44 and higher. If you are level 44 when the respec feature is added to the game, you can run through the trial 3 times and get 3 respecs of your character.
Respecs can NOT be traded to other players. You must earn your own respec.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: In the meantime, this is why I didn't join you on Infinity Sunday. Two gaming sessions (Sunday afternoon and last night, maybe 6 hours total playing time) and I have a new Legionnaire for the Virtue squad ready to go. Meet Dirk Morgna, my 10th level Fire/Fire Mutation Blaster.
Scott: I see you and I are trying out the same thing. I'm doing it with Beauty Blaze over on Infinty and I must say I really like the Fire/Fire blaster. Slotted with almost all damage enhancements it's really very powerful.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Hoo boy, lots of posting this moring.
DM, yes, Legion World Night officially starts at 9 EST, but we're glad to have you earlier or later.
Blue, I'm glad Grem wasn't getting any nasty comments last night. Maybe it'll help if she thinks of it this way: She's having a great time playing with a fun bunch of people. Their lives are so pathetic they have to resort to trying to make other people feel as bad as they do. She should pity the people whose lives are so empty their only form of enjoyment is being mean to other players.
As to your new SG. The idea sounds pretty cool, but I'm going to pass. I don't want to spread myself too thin. I really want to see what the characters I've got can do.
Scott, that respec doesn't sound all that great. Sure, I could get rid of a power I wound up not liking, but I wish you had the option to switch powersets. I really liked Chillflare (my ice/fire blaster), but he seemed fairly weak and it didn't look like he'd get much better. I wish I could swap him to fire/ice so he'd at least have a snipe power.
And Dirk looks cool. We'll be glad to welcome him into the Virtue group.
And if you don't make it tonight, we'll understand. With all those 12+ days, sounds like you could use some sleep. Take care of yourself first.
Posted by Varalent on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Or maybe I'll just try to get Gung up to 24. Have you guys seen this latest change coming up with issue #2?
?The Terra Volta reactor has been running beyond full capacity for quite some time. Heroes who venture within it may experience untold side-effects??
Your first respec opportunity comes at level 24.
You need a group of 4 people to get the Terra Volta Task Force, this TF will be tuned to the highest level person in the group.
Upon completion of the Task Force you will be given a choice of Reward. If you have not received your respec yet, you can choose the respec as your reward.
When you have chosen the respec option, you will receive a badge symbolizing that you have received the respec available in this level range.
You must then locate Jack Wolfe in the Freedom Corp HQ in Galaxy City to perform your respec.
When you choose to respec your character you will be artificially leveled down to level 1. You must keep your Origin, Archetype, Primary, and Secondary powersets, everything else is mutable.
Starting at level 1 you re-pick your first two powers, then at level 2 your third power, then you place enhancement slots at 3rd, and then 4th, picking another power. This process repeats itself until the character has respecced himself back to their current security level.
You have the same restrictions in powers and enhancements that you had when you first leveled up your character. In other words, a character built ?perfectly? from level 1 to 50 will not be at a disadvantage to one that was respecced.
Once you have re-chosen your powers, all of your previously slotted Enhancements can be slotted again. Enhancements that are un-slotted after this process is complete (possibly because you don?t have a power they work with any more), are then refunded for full Influence value.
You can redo the Respec trial at 34 and again at 44. Each time you need a group of 4 players to be issued the Task Force. Each iteration of the Task Force will be against a different villain group.
If you ?skipped? a Respec, you can still get it. Basically you can have up to 1 respec to level 33, 2 respecs to level 43, and 3 respecs to level 44 and higher. If you are level 44 when the respec feature is added to the game, you can run through the trial 3 times and get 3 respecs of your character.
Respecs can NOT be traded to other players. You must earn your own respec.
I had heard about this but hadn't seen the details. It certainly answers some of the questions I had. Sounds like you can't change your primary & secondary power sets whcih I would like to have done with some of my chars but Condo will luck out because I'll be able to correct some errors in choices I made with him.
Thanks for posting it Scott!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Scott: I see you and I are trying out the same thing. I'm doing it with Beauty Blaze over on Infinty and I must say I really like the Fire/Fire blaster. Slotted with almost all damage enhancements it's really very powerful.
That's all I have Dirk slotted with, not counting Health and such. The only thing I'm unsure of is I took Fire Sword Circle last night when he hit 10. I've never had it before but I wanted another AoE power for him.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
The Gear Queen is over on the Freedom Server. I'd love to have a SG inspired by CoH mythos. However, I recomend checking out this site first...
It's a fanfic site that tries to pull out all the clues the game has given us to the mythos of Paragon City and fill in the gaps. It's incomplete, check out the Clockwork King's entry. It has some good potential for inspiration...
Man, that respec sounds cooler than I imagined... I've got a katana/dark scrapper and I picked Stealth for him, which has been useful, but I've been told dark armor has its own cooler version of Stealth.
Posted by Varalent on :
Just a reminder about tonight.
Mysa is stationed outside the hospital in KR right next to Genevieve (one of Mysa's conatcts). If you need to restock on inspirations, meet her there when you log on tonight before we enter the next mish. (I may be on with Condo or someone else, so just look for one of my incarnations and I'll switch over to Mysa.)
I think we've got a good plan in place for tonight. Hope it works! If not be ready to battle an initial group of lvl 17 clocks as soon as we go through the door into the mish.
[ September 01, 2004, 01:44 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Scott: I see you and I are trying out the same thing. I'm doing it with Beauty Blaze over on Infinty and I must say I really like the Fire/Fire blaster. Slotted with almost all damage enhancements it's really very powerful.
That's all I have Dirk slotted with, not counting Health and such. The only thing I'm unsure of is I took Fire Sword Circle last night when he hit 10. I've never had it before but I wanted another AoE power for him.
I did that with Blue Battlette, putting nothing but damages in her powers and she's got four attacks now. She really kicks butt in a major way.
On the other hand, I did the same thing to Red Bee and ran him with Grem's Sand Dog character last night. He got his butt kicked in a major way when going up against baddies who were just two levels higher than he was. He has electrical powers as secondary, and none of those seemed to do much in the way of damage ... even his havoc punch was kind of useless.
Scott, I have fire sword melee for Blue Battler as you may remember. I've found that it's sort of a catch as catch can. When it works, it does a lot of damage, but it seems to miss more often than it hits.
I read the respec stuff because I was hoping I could maybe change things for Blue, but I don't see that the respec thing does any good at all. It may let you switch out a power that didn't work out, but you're still stuck with the same power set so if the power set sucks you're not getting anything but another bad choice.
I've thought about restarting Blue on another server as an energy/tech blaster as I really don't care for the assault rifle now that I've hit the mid-twenties and the devices set includes such things as the targeting drone, smoke bombs, and a form of invisibility that doesn't gimp your rate of motion.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
"The next update, known as "update 2," will add, among other things, flowing capes that players will be able to add to their characters once they reach level 20. They'll also be able to add permanent visual effects, such as a glowing aura, to their characters starting at level 30. The new update will also include extra content for players of different experience levels, including two all-new areas: the Hollows, a fairly low-level zone for characters between levels 5 to 15, and the Shadowshard, an interdimensional anomaly intended for characters of levels 40 to 50. The update will also add an all-new "badge" system to the game that will award players special badges for completing certain missions for task forces (the game's persistent character groups, equivalent to "guilds" in other online games), including bonus additions like accolades (which are specific combinations of badges) that can grant additional powers to characters of all levels, even those at the lofty level of 50....
New City of Heroes features revealed
NCsoft and Cryptic Studios say more updates are on the horizon for its superhero-themed massively multiplayer game. screenshot more screens (15) View the slideshow » Screenshot Index »
GameSpot recently had the opportunity to visit with publisher NCsoft for an upcoming look at the next planned content additions for its massively multiplayer game City of Heroes. The game, which was launched in April of 2004, lets players take on the role of an up-and-coming superhero in a crime-ridden metropolis. NCsoft and Cryptic Studios plan to continually supplement the game with a series of free downloadable patch updates that add more content, as well as with a retail expansion pack, City of Villains, which is planned for release some time next year.
The next update, known as "update 2," will add, among other things, flowing capes that players will be able to add to their characters once they reach level 20. They'll also be able to add permanent visual effects, such as a glowing aura, to their characters starting at level 30. The new update will also include extra content for players of different experience levels, including two all-new areas: the Hollows, a fairly low-level zone for characters between levels 5 to 15, and the Shadowshard, an interdimensional anomaly intended for characters of levels 40 to 50. The update will also add an all-new "badge" system to the game that will award players special badges for completing certain missions for task forces (the game's persistent character groups, equivalent to "guilds" in other online games), including bonus additions like accolades (which are specific combinations of badges) that can grant additional powers to characters of all levels, even those at the lofty level of 50.
The updates will consist of new zones that will be sizable and will offer content in the form of new quests, new instanced missions, and new gameplay features. The Shadowshard region will be especially huge and will consist of four separate subzones. Both new areas will feature new monsters to fight. The Shadowshard region actually exists in a nether realm where landmasses float in space and where they are connected by energy signatures--launch pads that send characters flying to the next island (flying characters will have an easier time of getting around, but they will also encounter flying enemies).
Other future plans for the game include "reverse sidekicking," essentially the converse of City of Heroes' innovative "sidekicking" feature that helped even out disparate character levels. Reverse sidekicking will let higher-level characters temporarily reduce their own character levels to adventure productively with low-level characters...
Other improvements and additions in future updates include a new cross-server chat system, which will let players chat with other players even on different game servers, and a new "trial" quest that will grant players the ability to "re-spec" their characters three times by emptying out whatever enhancements they've spent on their existing powers. Players won't actually be able to choose completely different powers as a result of a design decision. According to Cryptic's Jack Emmert, allowing players to swap too many of their powers would result in players feeling less attached to their characters--that is, they'd seem more like a video game object with a bunch of variables, and less like actual characters that have been developed over time.
Emmert also explained that updates will include the planned "update 3," currently scheduled for December. Update 3 will include the game's "out-of-combat" system, a new type of gameplay beyond exploration or combat. Emmert would not give out any other details."
Posted by UltraStar on :
Well, I'm glad to say that my connection to CoH is again back to normal after a scarey disconnection to all things CoH related. Don't know how or why this happened but it's the second time I couldnt play, the first time I sent them a message and they fixed the problem but I couldnt even do that this time. And my copy of the game was store bought so it really makes no sense.
Puts one hellova scare into me and makes me realize what a crack-addict I am with this game. "I need it! I need it! Give it to me! I can't live without it!"
Anyways... I just wanted to mention that if there were any Trek fans out there I started 2 SG's in both Infinity and Justice called the Borg Collective. I met one group on Infinity who use all Borg numerical designations as names (1 of 100, 2 of 100, 70 of 100...and so on) but my T'Pol of Borg character couldn't join them because she has a name not a number. My SG idea was to have anyone who wants to Borgify any popular TV or comic character can be assimilateed into T'Pol's SG Collective on Infinity or Seven of 9's on Justice. There's a Locutis of Borg and a Hulk of Borg so far but the possibilities are endless and alot more fun than numbered names. Think about it, you could have a Kryptonian Borg, or a George Bush Borg, or a Britney Borg or how about a cute little Cindy Brady Borg?
Just letting you guys know in case anyone's interested and you have character slots on either of those 2 servers.
Should be running into you folks a bit more this week cause I got a week off. (Yay!!!)
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Hello Herocrack Babies The Taskforce went so much better last night. We took a long time to get organized, but once the strategies were in place we really made progress. I felt good about it and only wished we'd had more time together. I also enjoyed meeting the newest members of the Legionnaires of Virtue, Dirk Morgna, Berta Nightwind, and Sol Boy (the other Dirk char)
As for the other (or should I say latest) ideas for chats, the Paragon City inspired chars and the Borg inspired ones... Well, hell, I am totally addicted and love to create new chars. So, easily decided I'm in!!! Look for Hellion's Ho on what was it? Freedom..... and on Infinity I have already created and introduced LT UHURU-Borg. I bet I have 50 chars now, and some are in SG's where they really have a lot of fun. For those of you who haven't tried an animal based char yet, do it. Animal SG's are a hoot!!!
In real life, special love and best wishes go out to all our friends in Florida and in the areas expected to be hit by the latest hurricane. Bright Blessings that you will be safe. Love you guys!!! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm so tempted to do an Ash of Borg character but no. Gotta stick with what I've got for awhile. I really want to see if I can get Dirk up to the rest of the team's levels in the next week or so.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Issue #2 has been loaded up to the test server and is now available to try out!
Check out this link if you need to know how to set up the test server and this one for instructions on how to copy a live server character over.
If I wasn't working so damn late I'd be for trying it out!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
My hubby set up on the test server last night. He completed the respec mission but was unsuccessful at respeccing -- hence the test server, I guess. First, it kept kicking him off at the final step, and when it finally did accept his changes, they didn't take.
The cape mission is tough too. He didn't really want a cape for this particular character, but he thought he'd give it a whirl. Part of the mission is to protect an item and deliver it. But instead of just shooting bad guys, the item has its own HP, and the bad guys are aiming for it. He failed, and when I went to bed, he was on his way back to his contact in Atlas Park from Talos Island -- a long trip.
[ September 02, 2004, 12:57 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
The CoH mythos group is on Freedom. It'll be great getting to meet up with Hellion's Ho. I'm thinkng of making a second character inspired by Axis America. Maybe that universe's version of the Lord of Frosts. I just gotta double check that's really in the CoH mythos. (Axis America is CoH's version of Earth X, always one of my favorites.)
I've gone and started focusing on The Gear Queen. She's at LVL 5, now. What should we call the SG?
That TF went well. Can't wait to get back.
Posted by Varalent on :
Scions of Paragon would be cool
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: The CoH mythos group is on Freedom. It'll be great getting to meet up with Hellion's Ho. I'm thinkng of making a second character inspired by Axis America. Maybe that universe's version of the Lord of Frosts. I just gotta double check that's really in the CoH mythos. (Axis America is CoH's version of Earth X, always one of my favorites.)
I've gone and started focusing on The Gear Queen. She's at LVL 5, now. What should we call the SG?
That TF went well. Can't wait to get back.
I was thinking of something like Paragon Patrol ... how about Paragons of Freedom? 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Has anyone tried to use the test server personally?
You don't lose the character you copy over tehre, do you?
Posted by Varalent on :
Haven't tried the test server but I do want to. Blue, you do NOT the character you copy over. It's exactly that...a copy, though you do lose SG & friends becasue those don't exist on the test server.
Posted by Varalent on :
Well, I went ahead and created my CoH legacy hero. His name in Eidol Mage and he's a dark defender with energy blast as his secondary. Here's hi bio...
Unwanted and unplanned spawn from an unholy tryst between an Energy Mage of the dread Circle of Thorns and a Mire Eidolon of the deadly Vahzilok, Bastion was abandoned at birth by his "parents".
Raise in the Paragon Orphanage in the shadows of Atlas Plaza, young Bastion grew up idolizing the heroes he saw there on a daily basis, precisely because they were the exact opposite of the parents he despised!
On his eighteenth birthday, as he left the orphanage for the last time, Bas forsook a normal life and made a solemn pledge to Ms. Liberty that he would use the combined powers of his awful inheritance to battle the evil his parents championed.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Haven't tried the test server but I do want to. Blue, you do NOT the character you copy over. It's exactly that...a copy, though you do lose SG & friends becasue those don't exist on the test server.
Along with the supergroup and friends you'll also lose your influence and enhancements not assigned. Unless they've upgraded that portion. You start out fresh but at whatever level your character is. I'll probably copy Gung over since he's my highest level.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Varalent: Haven't tried the test server but I do want to. Blue, you do NOT the character you copy over. It's exactly that...a copy, though you do lose SG & friends becasue those don't exist on the test server.
Along with the supergroup and friends you'll also lose your influence and enhancements not assigned. Unless they've upgraded that portion. You start out fresh but at whatever level your character is. I'll probably copy Gung over since he's my highest level.
Might be a place for Blue Battler to show up again... 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Ladies and Gentlemen, I now present the astonishing...
FlameBrickette!
Posted by Varalent on :
Hey UltraStar! Glad you finally got your connection issue resolved on CoH. Did you ever figure out what the problem was?
Look forward to seing you in Paragon.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Check out the notes for the update:
Added To The Training Room 8/31/04:
New City Zones:
• The Hollows – The Trolls have expanded their territory at the expense of the citizens of Eastgate. A once peaceful district has been turned into a battleground, and the Paragon City Police Task Force is in need of help.
• Tunnels of the Trolls – In an ancient realm beneath the city, creatures from the depths of the Earth guard a gateway of almost limitless power.
• Four new zones in an alternate dimension known as the Shadow Shard:
-Firebase Zulu – This military base provides a safe place for heroes to begin their sojourn into the dangerous Shadow Shard.
-The Cascades – Strange vegetation and stern guardians fill this mind bending area.
-The Chantry – This fortress under siege is home to a mysterious being who could be a fearsome foe or a powerful ally.
-Storm Palace – An area of chaotic power, this zone holds many hazards for determined heroes.
New Villain Groups:
• Rularuu – Battle massive Brutes and fearsome Sentries in your efforts to learn about the Shadow Shard.
• Igneous – Face deadly Pumicites and molten Magmites in the Hollows.
Trials:
• Terror Volta – In the devastation following the Rikti War, the Terra Volta reactor is Paragon City’s sole source of power. Unfortunately, the villains know this all too well.
• Prisoners of Eden – Battle the Devouring Earth and free captured heroes before they become the Devoured.
• Transcendent Gateway – Discover what lies at the core of The Hollows.
Mission Enhancements:
• Many missions across all levels have been revamped with the latest features of the game. See the marks many strange villain groups have left upon their surroundings. Smash stolen weapons to smithereens. Use teamwork to bypass Crey’s security protocols. Seek the key to the Outcasts’ inner sanctum – but watch out for the wandering patrols!
Badges:
• Earn badges by visiting locations, learning Paragon City’s history, reaching certain milestones, or completing certain missions. Accolades can be earned by getting all the badges pertaining to a particular "set." There are over 150 different badges in all.
Costume Rewards:
• Capes: Starting at level 20, characters can earn the right to wear a cape. Visit the City Representative in City Hall once you get to level 20 to start your quest.
• Effects: Starting at level 30, characters can earn the right to add constant special effects to their character’s costumes.
Power Re-specification:
• The Terra Volta reactor has been running beyond full capacity for quite some time. Heroes who venture within it may experience untold side-effects.
Exemplar/Aspirants:
• Higher level characters can now help out their lower-level friends easier than ever with this "reverse Sidekicking" feature. Exemplars artificially lower their level to that of the Aspirant. Exemplars will lose access to powers gained after the level they have been lowered to, and their Enhancements will have an appropriate reduction in effectiveness as well. Exemplars do not receive Influence, but 100% of XP received while acting as an Exemplar will go towards debt reduction. If there is no more debt to get rid of then XP will be earned as Influence instead.
Stores:
• Made it possible for you to buy level 40 Magic Enhancements from Ghost Falcon.
Many "Quality of Life" Features:
• The Tutorial is now optional for all players.
• Kiosks are now functional, and track the Victors, Punishers, Healers, and Nemeses on a daily and monthly basis.
• The current team leader can switch the lead to another player with the /makeleader command.
• Sidekicking now requires both the Sidekick and Mentor to be on the same team.
• Sidekicking is no longer persistent (ends when one player leaves the team or logs off).
• Enhancements have a new window where they can be easily traded or deleted.
• Using the "Search" feature, you can now look for prospective team members across zones, sorted by Archetypes and Levels.
• Quick Trade. You can now quickly give an Inspiration or Enhancement to a team-mate or other player. Simply drag the item from your inventory to the player, or right click on the item you wish to trade and select Give.
• Teleportation Confirmation. You can optionally set up a prompt to appear when someone wants to teleport you.
• Resurrection Confirmation. Whenever you are rezzed you will be prompted to accept or decline the Resurrection.
• When you have email in your inbox, the email button will turn red.
• The keybinding page has loads more options.
• Stay off people’s Friends lists (and Supergroup rosters) with the /hide and /unhide commands.
• The Supergroup Message of the Day (MotD) will now display to all members of the Supergroup upon login.
• You can now look at your own Name and Titles by changing the option in the Options screen under General->Reticle->OwnerName.
• Many continuing sound effects now fade.
• The Chat UI and windows have undergone a major overhaul.
• GM chat now shows up in a unique color.
• You can now trade up to 99,999 influence in one trade.
Mission Changes:
• The Numina task force has been limited to players between levels 35-38.
Powers:
• Reduced Tanker and Defender attack powers Endurance Costs.
• Increased the Damage of Tanker/Super Strength/Knockout Blow.
• Increased the Damage of Freezing Touch (both Tanker/Ice Melee and Blaster Ice Manipulation versions).
• Changed Tanker/Super Strength Punch and Haymaker and Stone Melee/Stone Mallet and Heavy Mallet and Battle Axe Gash, Chop and Beheader to a Knock Down, instead of a Knock Back. Villains will still fall just as much, but you will not have to go chase after them as much.
• Increased the Knock Back distance of Super Strength/Foot Stomp and Stone Melee/Tremor and of Battle Axe/Pendulum.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing some powers (powers that Resist Damage) from getting their Recharge and Endurance Buffed/Debuffed (for example, Hasten will now reduce (improve) the recharge time of Unstoppable).
• Modified Ice Patch and Ice slick to ensure a KnockDown instead of a Knock back when used against foes of your level or higher (some lower level foes may get knocked back). Modified their KnockDown chance to work better with the new KnockDown only (they no longer knock villains back out of the slick/patch).
• Provoke now accepts Recharge Enhancements.
• Chilling Embrace now accepts Slow Enhancements.
• Slightly increased the chance and duration of Disorient for Power Punch/Barrage and Super Strength/Jab.
• Increased Damage and Knockback of Tanker/Fiery Aura/Rise of the Phoenix. Also, Rise of the Phoenix will now revive you with 50% END and you will be able to Recover Endurance Normally.
• Fixed Stone Armor/Granite Armor. It was only giving a 15% damage resistance. It now grants a 50% damage resistance and adds Defense. It now also accepts Defense Enhancements. Other attributes of the power remain unchanged.
• Fixed Ice Armor/Hoarfrost, Invulnerability/Dull Pain (Tanker and Scrapper), Stone Armor/Earth's Embrace, and Regeneration/Dull Pain. They were not increasing the Max HP as much as they should at higher levels.
• Fixed bug in Ice Armor/Frozen Armor that was not allowing its damage resistance to get better with Enhancements. Slotting Resist Damage Enhancements in Frozen armor will now increase its damage resistance.
• Stone Armor/Granite Armor no longer debuffs your Accuracy. Instead it debuffs your damage output (to equate to about the same Damage per second as the ACC debuff). This way you can still hold agro as a Tanker (your hits and Taunts will now hit, while still reducing your overall Damage per Second).
• Fixed Burn. It now correctly protects you from Hold, Sleep, and Immobilize.
• "CRITICAL" text will now float when a scrapper lands a critical hit.
• Scrappers can now land Critical hits with all Pool attack powers (like fighting and jump kick for example).
• Scrapper now have an Increased chance to land a Critical Blow on anything ranking higher than a minion (LT, BOSS, ARCHVILLAIN, ETC.) Critical chance for minions or underlings remain the same.
• Increased the amount of Endurance you gain (per villain in the affected area) when you use Dark Armor/Soul Transfer. Slightly increased its affected area.
• Updated Martial Arts attack animations!! Cast/Activation times for almost all these powers were improved and sped up or modified in some way. The resulting set is now much faster than before. Villain equivalents were changed as well.
• All New KATANA Animations and Power Names (power effectiveness remains the same, such as damage and recharge times, but animations are sleeker, faster, and more stylized)!
• Fixed Moment of Glory and Unstoppable so they properly modified your HPs (sometimes, these powers would incorrectly heal you to full).
• Updated Moment of Glory Description Text. Clarified that this power does not give resistance to Psionics (this did not change the actual power, just the text).
• Increased the chance of Throw Spines, and Ripper to Immobilize a target.
• Fixed Spine Throwing Short Help (It said the power did KnockBack, but it does not). Long Help was correct. This fix did not modify the power.
• Scrapper/Dark Melee Siphon Life now accepts Heal Enhancements.
• Fixed Dark Melee/Shadow Punch, Smite and Shadow Maul Icons.
• Fixed Dark Melee/Shadow Maul Critical hit. If a Shadow Maul Critical is successful, it will now do 1 extra hit equal to double damage.
• Super Reflexes/Elude has been modified to a Click Power that lasts 100 seconds. It still offers the same buffs, but you now CAN attack. However, after the power wears, it will drain your Endurance and leave you unable to recover Endurance for 20 seconds.
• Fixed Broadsword Disembowel Damage an END Cost. Both were too about 30% too low (Damage and END cost are both higher now). Damage is now ranked Superior.
• Fixed text Description of M30 grenade. It said it was minor damage, but it is moderate (damage of power was not affected by this change only the text.)
• Fix: Putting Slow Enhancements into Ice Storm will now boost the slow effect of the power.
• Fixed Visual f/x of blizzard (it was timing out, and giving the appearance that the power stopped working, even though the power was still active). Power did not change.
• Reduced the ToHit Debuff of Devices/Smoke Screen and Fire Control/Smoke. They were reducing the targets ToHit by 100% (subtrating 50% from villains base 50% ToHit). They are now set correctly to -10% debuff (50%-5%).
• Increased Accuracy of Smoke Grenade.
• Removed half second delay from Tesla Cage hold effect (hold was occurring 0.5 seconds after TC hit the target).
• Increased duration of Sleep effect for Psychic Blast/Will Domination.
• Increased the HP and END you receive from a Howling Twilight Resurrection.
• Increased attack Range of Howling Twilight.
• ToHit DeBuff Enhancements will now work with Darkest Night (Darkest Night always Debuffed a targets Accuracy, and did accepted ToHit Debuff Enhancements, however the enhancements were not improving the debuff. They work now).
• Dark Miasma/Shadow Fall now accepts Resist Damage Enhancements.
• Fixed a bug with Dark Miasma/Tar Patch that allowed foes to pass through it unaffected if they ran without stopping.
• Dark Servant is now Mobile. It can now cast Petrifying Gaze and no longer casts Fear (the power now accepts Hold Enhancements). Fixed it's Darkest Night power. Recharge and Duration of the Dark Servant has been increased. Casting cost was reduced.
• Modified Dark Servant entity visual f/x.
• Added Confirmation Dialog Prompts for Teleport/Recall Friend and Resurrection powers.
• Force Field/Repulsion Bomb: This power stated that it did damage, but it does not. Repulsion Bomb now also Disorients affected foes. Updated Text and Removed Damage Enhancements.
• Fixed Lingering Radiation. It was not slowing the targets attack rate.
• Fulcrum Shift will no longer buff that caster (and allies near the caster) multiple times if multiple foes are affected unless the caster is near each affected foe.
• Stimulant, Fortitude and Increase Density can now target ally pets.
• Fixed Dark Blast/Moonbeam. Increased its accuracy (like all sniper powers, it should have a bonus Accuracy).
• Fixed Regeneration Aura and Recovery Aura cast animation from animating even though the power was not recharged.
• Improved Empathy/Adrenaline boost: It now dramatically increases an ally's Endurance Recovery, Hit Point Regeneration and attack rate for 90 seconds. However, Adrenalin Boost is very exhausting and it will leave you Disoriented for about 20 seconds.
• Increased Movement speed of Tornado. It is not slightly faster than most villains.
• Fixed Irradiate Defense Debuff for Villains and Heroes. It was debuffing the target(s) by 220% instead of 30%.
• Corrected Short Help for Dispersion Bubble. Short Help said it offered protection from Sleep, but the power does not. The long description text was always the correct one. Power did not change.
• Villains caught in Gravity Control/Dimension shift will now become immobilized. They will no longer wander around and try to attack you. Also fixed a bug that caused the translucency to wear off at a different time then the intangibility.
• Increased the initial attack range of Gravity Control/Wormhole
• Mass Confusion will no longer alert foes of your presence.
• Terrify now take Damage Enhancements.
• Increased Gravity Control/Singularity movement speed.
• Fixed Stalagmites power description to indicate it must be used on the ground (Description text change only. Not a power change).
• Fixed a bug that was causing some sleep powers to wake the target the moment the sleep power was cast.
• Modified Class for Fire Imps and Phantom Army. They were previously Minion Class and are now Pet class. This gives them less Damage, but more HP and 25% better accuracy.
• Fixed Total Domination not doing Damage (it now also takes Damage Enhancements) (update short help).
• Changed the Display name of the Decoy Phantasms (previously, the decoys had the same name as the true Phantasms, and were indistinguishable).
• Increased Threat Level of Decoy Phantasms and Spectral Army so they draw more agro (which is their job as decoys).
• Increased Accuracy of Ice Control/Flash Freeze.
• Modified All Sleep. Sleep can now only be broken with a Change in HP (Damage or Heal), by a Knock Back (or KnockUp, KnockDown or Repel) or by a power that specifically does so (such as Empathy/Clear Mind). Anything else, such as Buffs, Debuffs or Mez powers that do no damage, will not free a Sleeping target.
• Removed Accuracy Debuff Enhancements from Pool/Presence/Intimidate and Invoke Panic; and Force Field/Force Bubble. These powers do not debuff the targets Accuracy, and thus, does not need ACC Debuff Enhancements.
• Fixed Group Fly so Everyone affected gets a Fly Speed Boost, and everyone will go faster is Fly Speed Enhancements are used.
• Phase Shift can no longer be used with Rest.
• Fixed Disorient visual f/x in Flurry.
• Fixed Description for Magnetic Aspirator Enhancement.
• Removed bad system messages from Discipline and similar working Inspirations.
• Fixed Discipline, Strength of Will, and Iron Will Inspirations so they protect against Hold properly.
• Modified Pool/Medicine/Resuscitate. It no longer leaves the target unable to Regenerate Hit Points or Recover Endurance. It still Resuscitates a target with full HP, but no Endurance.
• Doubled the effectiveness of all Hamidon Enhancements (most now boost 2 attributes by 50%).
• All Clockwork Immobilizer (Temp powers) now only work on the Clockwork villlains. Mark IV can now always work on the Clockwork King.
• Decreased Recharge time to Jump Kick.
• Decreased the amount of time Diabolique is phase shifted out of normal space.
• Sky Raiders Force Field Generators now give some xp.
• Fixed Devouring Earth Fungi Beacon so it offers the Devouring Earth proper protection.
• Updated Ghosts powers and f/xs.
• Updated Totem Attack Powers.
• Updated Outcast Powers and villains.
• Updated Tsoo Powers and villains.
• Slight modification to Nemesis Lancer melee power.
• Updated Troll Powers.
• Updated Warriors Powers.
• Slightly modified Rikti powers.
• Rikti Monkey Gas will no longer harm villains.
• Fixed Rikti Portal from teleporting in the wrong type, number and level of Rikti villains.
• Modified some powers of The Family.
• Update 5th Column Boss powers.
• Update some CoT Mage and Spectre powers.
• Slight Modification for Dr Vahzilok powers
• Reworked most Robot villain Damage Resistances (except clockworks).
• Modified Devouring Earth villains attack and defense powers.
• Fixed Villain with Fire Imps. They were not summoning.
• Fixed Sound f/x of blizzard, Ice storm and Freezing Rain (they was timing out, even though the power was still active). Powers did not change.
• Fixed Hive Swarm Damage (this is not regarding the standard Devouring Earth Swarm, but rather the special Devouring Swarm in unique maps). It was doing the wrong damage for its level.
• Fixed Malta Titan Plasma Blast Regeneration inhibitor and Malta Sapper Recovery inhibitor from working improperly and spamming combat chat.
• Some villains (very few) can now detect stealth. Clues will be given in the villain descriptions where appropriate.
• Arch Villains now have limited protection from Controlling effects (e.g. sleep, Hold, Confuse, etc… each arch villain may vary). All Arch Villains will have very high protection from Mez effects, but will have some period of time when they are vulnerable to such effects (indicated by a visual effect). Effectively, it is like they are using Iron Will Inspirations.
• Reworked many Arch villain and giant monster powers and resistances.
I'm tempted to copy Mister Brazil over, I'm curious about the new MA animatons.
Most of all, tho, I got to say "Yea! Increased range for Howling Twilight!"
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Greetings Just to let you know, I decided that I might get too much unwanted negative male attention going with a name that had anything to do with 'ho.' So, what I came up with was Trollkin Cutie, who is the teenage daughter of a high ranked and well respected Troll family who live in Founder's Falls. Her dearly beloved older brother was drugged and brainwashed by an evil gang and was murdered for money to buy drugs. Tori Underbridge has run away from boarding school and sneaked into the nastiest parts of Paragon City to work with the heroes there to take down the gangs and avenge her brother's death. Tori is almost to lvl 6 since this morning. Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Wow, Lyle, they've been busy. Lots of good stuff in here. I'm especially glad to see these:
quote: • Increased the HP and END you receive from a Howling Twilight Resurrection. • Increased attack Range of Howling Twilight. • Fixed Dark Blast/Moonbeam. Increased its accuracy (like all sniper powers, it should have a bonus Accuracy).
I thought Moonbeam was missing alot for a snipe but figured it was because I was a defender and not a blaster.
Especially glad to see the increase in effectiveness for HP and END with Howling Twilight.
Now if only they'd increase the accuracy of my heal. Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
OK, I'll never play him, but the image just popped into my head when Blue mentioned his SGs, and I had to create him:
PapaSmurfofBorg
Posted by UltraStar on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: OK, I'll never play him, but the image just popped into my head when Blue mentioned his SGs, and I had to create him:
PapaSmurfofBorg
NICE!!!!!!! (heheh...) And damn, y'gotta use him! (where's Smurfette of Borg?) "How much farther, Papa Smurf?"
And Varalent, no I did not find out what the cause to my computer problems was but it's wierd how I could still access anything else on the internet except the CoH game and webpage. Although I just read in their update thing that they fixed some server problems they were having so I'm gonna assume it was something on their end that did it.
I saw something very interesting in Paragon City this morning.... One of the guys on the team I was on had a character named Superman88 (who bore a striking resemblence to my own Son of Jor-El and during the mission, out of nowhere, his name was changed to GenericHero43!!!! I've heard the powers that be will do this to copyrighted characters but have never actually seen any such thing before now. I was using my Hulk of Borg at the time and made a comment to the team in a thinking balloon saying "Hulk worried about Hulks own name now..." and seconds later I get a tell from the powers-that-be saying not to worry, my caaracter isn't a Hulk copy. Quite the relief, I gotta say but a few of my other alts do have almost exact names and appearances like Kidd-Flash and Hawkman. I sense a generic speedster and birdman coming.
[ September 03, 2004, 12:36 AM: Message edited by: UltraStar ]
Posted by DMFirebow on :
Ick.... UltraStar.. that makes me worry a bit about our Legion characters...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by DMFirebow: Ick.... UltraStar.. that makes me worry a bit about our Legion characters...
That happened to Scott and me.
i had created lil' Superman and he had created lil' Batman and the powers that be contacted us and told us we had to change the names.
Freaked us out when a police drone came to us and began talking ...
[ September 02, 2004, 09:33 PM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by Varalent on :
I doubt that TPTB are familiar with the Legion so probably not much to worry about particularly if the name is not exact. For example Cosmic Rokk is okay but Cosmic Boy wouldn't be. Mystical Mysa should be okay but White Witch might be a problem if she looked like the White Witch.
In most cases our heroes have variations of the names. Others however may be a problem. For example, of all my chars on Virtue the only one that I think could be an issue is "Rond Vidar". The others (Condo, Mystical Mysa, Cosmic Rokk, Fun Loving Quiz, Kid Karate Val, & I-Kid Lyle) I'd bet would pass muster.
On Protector, the only one of mine I see as a poential problem from among my chars (Varalent, Pol, Stone Kid, Marvel Lad Lar, FireLad, Night Lass, Doc Gym'll) is FireLad and possibly Doc Gym'll)
Of course on Infinity I do have Color Kid & Beauty Blaze (along with Cos & E Lad Jan) but both are pretty obscure characters and not likely to draw attention.
I think the biggest problem might be with the JSA based heroes we've got. For example, my DrFate would likely get the axe. Same is true of Scott's Mister Terrific etc.
Guess we'll see. In most cases I think they're likely to tell you it's a problem and ask you to give them an alternate name (like they did for Scott & Thomas' Li'l Clark & Li'l Bruce) so think about what you would like as an option for any of them.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
The police droid that chased us down was really cool about everything. He actually first stated that I had to change my costume (I think lil' Bruce's pic is posted in this thread somewhere) but said that if we just changed our names it would be okay. Not too bad an experience when I knew I was technically breaking copyright.
I also think we don't have so much to worry about with Legion characters unless using their hero names. Real names are too vague, I think, and mostly they seem to be worried about the major characters. Ran into a DickTracy the other day and it made me wonder if they'd go after him too.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
"Mystical Mysa should be okay but White Witch might be a problem if she looked like the White Witch."
Unfortunately, that's impossible since Numia's outfit is unique to the character.
I do wish sometimes that the copyright enforcements would extend to what I consider the "stupid" copyright dodge names... like all the Wolfverines or Soopermans out there. Those bug me, I mean can't they come up with something a little cleverer like Logan Bub?
Beauty Blaze should be okay, I think they're watching for people who have both name and costume similarity.
UltraStar, have you installed WindowsXP Service Pack 2? I hear the firewall that SP2 added has caused some CoH problems.
"Now if only they'd increase the accuracy of my heal."
Yeah, at the least they should re-do the animation so you don't have to wait so long.
Okay, I tried doing a little research and Oh. Mah. Goodness... <http://www.paragoncity.com/forum/archive/topic/6915.html>
We gotta get to lvl 40, team.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: UltraStar, have you installed WindowsXP Service Pack 2? I hear the firewall that SP2 added has caused some CoH problems.
I spent the time last night to update my laptop to the SP2 and did a quick test around Midnight to see if I could get into CoH. No problems to report. Logged in, ran around, arrested a few thugs, visited a different city then back then logged out. All fine.
Oh, and I did leave the firewall on to see if that was a problem as I didn't have it own previously.
[ September 03, 2004, 10:05 AM: Message edited by: Deathstroke Lad ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Thankfully, service pack 2 didn't mess me up either.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
As for naming the mythos SG, I was thinking that this team is reminding me of the mistfit sort of teams, like the Defenders or the Outsiders. (BTW, what kind of team was the Champions, never really understood them despite what I thought was a cool lineup.)
Anyway, I had a couple ideas for names...
The Baumtown Peculiars (or a similar play on the Bank (?) St Irregulars)
The Unexpected Phalanx/Patrol/Squad (as a play on the Freedom Phalanx, Dawn Patrol or Midnight Squad)
Unexpected Heroes
Paragon Pariahs
The Force of the Fallen
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh, I read the update stuff again and I saw that they gimped the smoke grenade ... sigh. Right before I had any characters high enough to get one ... 8-(
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
Hmmmm, hope Porcupine Pete makes the cut! 'Course we haven't seen Pete in a comic book for about 12 years now so I should be ok.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hello, everyone.
Vee and I just got done playing our Paragon Characters and I wanted to pass something along that I just found out.
Those of you who have fire as a secondary power on your blasters should keep an eye out for when consume becomes available. That's a primary power on fire tankers, and it lets you consume end from the bad guys ... thereby increasing your own.
I checked the guide, and that's a power that the fire secondary set has ...
It's 7th on the blasters secondary so it's not something that's probably come up just yet for most of you, but I wanted to make sure taht you all knew about it...
*Sighs*
I keep thinking about how much easier Blue might have had it lately if I had that power for him now ... *wry face*
Posted by Blue Battler on :
... okay.
I feel a little better.
If I read the guide at warcry right, then I couldn't take that power until level 28 anyway, and Blue's not there yet, so I've not mised out yet...
though that should be a nice supplement to stamina ... 8-)
Posted by UltraStar on :
Heheh... man, I gotta say I'm diggin this Borg idea I came up with for CoH.
So far we got T'Pol of Borg, Locutis of Borg, Seven of 9, Hulk of Borg, Logan of Borg, Buffy of Borg, Kramer of Borg, Borg X, Will Robinson, and one that may pi$$ off the massive Simian SG on Infinity Simian of Borg!
Another player said he'd whip up Jonny Depp of Borg tonight so hopefully I'll still be on by then. Otherwise I'll have to catch him tomorrow.
PapaSmurfofBorg...I put you on friends list so let me know when I can join him up! That would be just Smurfy!
Posted by Raven on :
I made LT UHURU-Borg. Hope she didn't have to have those lines and stuff on her costume. I put her in a red outfit, but she looks slightly hotter then she did on the show Posted by Raven on :
This is Caroline by the way. Not sure if I or any of you are used to the changes in names and icons yet. Especially you Blue, as you were just getting used to our regular Legion names! Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hi, guys.
I'm going to be out of town this week as I already mentioned, so neither Andrew, Star, or any of my other alts will be able to come out and play ... 8-(
I've just been doing laundry this morning and dragging my feet about taking my trip to the folks this weekend because I'm kind of depressed about something, but this made me smile so I thought I'd share with you guys.
I decided that I wanted to experiment a bit with making an illusion/kinetics controller, so I made one on Protector. I got distracted by stuff when I got to the bio screen and I lost the server. When I came back, it looked like the guy was totally gone, but when I went into the character screen to remake him, he was there ...
But with this color scheme...
I got such a chuckle out of it I decided to keep it. 8-)
Have a good weekend, folks. I may check back on the board here while I'm away..
Posted by UltraStar on :
quote:Originally posted by Raven: I made LT UHURU-Borg. Hope she didn't have to have those lines and stuff on her costume. I put her in a red outfit, but she looks slightly hotter then she did on the show
I tried entering that name on friends list too but it said it didn't exist. I'll try it again...maybe I left out the hyphen or something.
<EDIT> OK, I just tried it ahain with exact spelling and it still says LT UHURU-Borg does not exist. You sure it was on Infinity?
[ September 04, 2004, 10:09 AM: Message edited by: UltraStar ]
Posted by Raven on :
Sorry..... I checked. She is on Infinity, and she is actually LT UHURA- Borg. Misspelled it. I will be around later trying to get her some levels.....
Posted by Raven on :
I couldn't resist..... On Infinity, I just created ParisHiltonBorg !!! (She's hot) LOL of course she would say that about herself anyway...... I love this game....
Posted by UltraStar on :
Nice...
I put both Uhura and Paris on friends list so if you see T'Pol of Borg around I'll join you up.
My SG is the Borg Collective by the way...the other numerical charactered Borg SG is just called The Borg. Mine takes more imagination.
Posted by Raven on :
Okay, Paris just got inducted into the Borg Collective by Logan Borg, the Wolverine Borg creation. What a hoot!!! Posted by Blue Battler on :
... so when was the last time anyone heard from Vee?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I just spent some time reading the COH forums, and I'm seeing why so many people are taking the super speed power set: not so much for the travel power, but rather to get hasten because that is in effect a permanent recharge reduction.
Truthfully, I'm starting to feel like the game is rigged. If you want your character to ever get past the twenties, there are certain powers you HAVE to take, whether or not they fit into your character's design or not.
For instance, the only character that I can think of that might not need stamina is the scrapper ... and regen is an option they have built in.
Everyone else has to get stamina or pretty much run into what I do as Blue Battler: Be kicking butt on a royal scale and then wind up running up out of juice at the worst possible moment.
So there's one pool power set that's pretty much mandatory if you want to be able to get anywhere in the game.
Now it turns out that hasten when six slotted and added to stamina can apparently turn you into a rapid-rechrage powerhouse who can do more damage than anyone who doesn't take the power.
To me, that doesn't really seem fair. That's a power that should be listed in every pool power set or the recharge rate should be reduced on all the powers ...
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Six slotted hasten? Hadn't thought of that. I actually just picked that up for Dirk. He's now at 12th level (half-way to 13) after only 4 playing sessions.
Adding hasten to his power pool took him from running the steets of KR to kicking nass in Steel. It just the recharge on it that's the killer.
I had someone last night ask me for help while I was playing. He couldn't find anyone to hold some enhancements for him while he switched characters. I helped him out (he was level 42) and in return he bought Dirk 8 lvl 15 DO Gauntlets for damage. Now all of my damages are fully slotted with DO.
I'm really loving to play Dirk right now. Posted by Raven on :
Okay, I love my chars to have the power to rule the streets of Paragon City. But, I'm really mroe about the social aspect. In real life I don't call my friends hell I don't have anything to offer them. I don't work, and I play nurse, cook and slave 24/7 (except for when I'm on the 'puter anyway) I can't meet friends to go out to lunch (I don't even have my own car) and I can't leve the house for girls nights out when my folks need me all the time. And I've learned to make peace with losing touch with everyone. My point I guess is, I get as big a kick out of the social itneraction with people in CoH as I do from killing stuff. I've met interesting and nice (and some jerks too) people from all over the world. I've met parents and their kids playing the game together, and a lot of uncles playing with their nephews, and retired people, and a ton of lonely college students away from home for the first time. Heck, I wish I could get my 13-yr-old nephew to play CoH with me and Scott. Matt lives just across town and we haven't seen the kid since Christmas. A few nights ago I ran around Paragon City with an uncle who was a long-haul trucker who was on from a lap-top at a wireless connection truck stop in Cali and he was teamed with his nephew in Florida. We talked about the hurricane past and the hurricane present. I guess I'm just a talker. I'm getting more and more like my mother every day. I walk up to strangers in the grocery store (my only outside activity) and start conversations...... So, please don't hate CoH players who are not power-mad and level hungry!! Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
That's cool, Satur..., er Raven. I also enjoy the social aspect of this game. If I just wanted to play a super hero game, I could save myself the monthly bill and go buy Freedom Force. But the teaming with people is what makes it fun and interesting. I started a character, a tall-blonde nurse :-), who is focusing primarily on healing. Needless to say, it doesn't take long before I am invited to a team. I found it's a good way to meet people. Course, I still don't know what to say when guys start hitting on me. Looking back I wish I made a man, or at least a not-so-sexy woman.
The story about the truck driver and his kid is pretty cool. It's a unique way to spend time with your child even if you can't be there.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
And I understand what you guys are saying, but I've seen the early parts of Paragon City a lot now ... I'm ready to see places lke Terra Volta and Crey's Folly and the like... 8-)
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
Don't get me wrong, Blue. I definitely want to see those things, too. It's just that for what I pay a month, I might as well enjoy what I can't get on other RPG's. If all I want is to power level in order to get cool new powers, I can just go get Diablo II.
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
Oh, and if you're ever on Virtue, keep an eye out for a brand new Legionnaire - Silver Slasher! What's that, you say? She's a villain? Ah, but it's time travel my friend. She has just been deformed, but has not yet become cold and callous as a result of her shell. The Dark Man realized that that would take time so he sent her back to the past, where she will slowly become more and more cold-hearted and distant from the rest of the world. Then he will bring her back to the future where she will be ready to serve as his assassin.
This explains why the Legion could fail to save Dryad (or whatever the planet was first called) when the Assassins were still kids, yet faced the League of Super Assassins when Slasher & Company were fully grown.
Hmmm, Titania and Lazon are both doable. Blok is definitely doable. I think Mist Master and Neutrax are both out of the question.
Anyway, I was a bit dissapointed with they way she came out. There really wasn't a whole lot to go with when making her costume. She basically looks like a blue lady with a darker blue swimsuit on. Now that I think about it, that's about all she looked like in her first appearance, too.
Slasher has always been one of my favorites, so I couldn't wait for City of Villains to create her. As soon as I saw one of the other players pull some spin move, I knew I had to create her. Luckily I ran into Dirk Morgna who went and got Garth Ranzz to fully induct her into the Leggionnaires of Virtue!
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Can't wait to meet all of these newbies!
As soon as my internet connection improves & stabilizes, I'll be back to CoH.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Silver Slasher sounds very cool! I'm also anxiously awaiting CoV. Beauty Blaze, of course is a future villain, and my Validus & Empress will be back for that as well. Lazon? Hmmmmmm.....
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
For kicks I decided to log on to the Task Force and see what the next mission was about. I saw that I was facing lvl.15 Clocks, so I decided to go ahead and clean up on them a bit to reduce my debt. Well, I found that I could easily handle the whole thing by myself. I killed everything except the boss (which was the objective of the mission) but I was pretty confident I could have killed him as well. I got rid of 300 debt too!
I got worried that I might have ruined things for the team, so I logged off and then logged back on and all of the Clocks were right back where they were. I think it's the esact same map, too which is pretty basic.
Then I got killed and got my 300 debt back :-(
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
Vee! Glad to see you're ok! Hope everything's ok for you in hurricane-land.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: Can't wait to meet all of these newbies!
As soon as my internet connection improves & stabilizes, I'll be back to CoH.
Hey, Vee.
Welcome back, buddy!
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Glad you came through better this round Vee! Hopefully this will be it for the season.
Got Dirk up to 14 and a couple of bubbles and took Health for him. He is still pretty much holding his own, taking out Lead Shockers and Lead Bricks without a problem. He has yet to check in with a contact. I guess I should get that out of the way soon, just so I have a couple of them. But you know Dirk. Always a hothead, not wanting to follow orders. Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Glad you came through better this round Vee! Hopefully this will be it for the season.
Got Dirk up to 14 and a couple of bubbles and took Health for him. He is still pretty much holding his own, taking out Lead Shockers and Lead Bricks without a problem. He has yet to check in with a contact. I guess I should get that out of the way soon, just so I have a couple of them. But you know Dirk. Always a hothead, not wanting to follow orders.
I fought a little bit with Andrew today. Damn scorchers continue to be a problem even though I have two slotso n resist elements that slotted with 15 do damage resists... annoys the heck out of me...
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Sounds like you're really enjoying Dirk, Scott! And yeah, you probably should check in with a contact eventually. Posted by LyleLyle on :
Good to hear you're okay, Vee.
I've mostly been trying to get The Gear Queen leveled in order to form the SG. However, I couldn't resist and created another character for the SG, Kiri-Kimi, the Princeof Mists. Here's his origin:
In the dimension known as Axis America, the Imperial Wind has maintained their power with a vicious program that aims to detect and train powered humans. The rigid program has a high mortality rate, especially since the program's final exam is to kill an assigned classmate. With the defeat of the Riechsman at the hands of the heroes of Paragon City, the resistance forces organized by Rebecca Foss expanded their attention to include Asia, helping the "recruits" of the Imperial Wind's training academy escape. The recruits are often sent to "our" dimension of Paragon City to learn proficiency in their powers with (relatively) little danger. Kiri-Kimi, the Prince of Mists, may have been one of the sons of the legendary Lord of Frosts but that didn't get him any preferential treatment in the academy. However, it did make him a high-value target for Foss' team, who was able to get him to Paragon City. Now his task is to master his powers for his return to him home dimension.
--- Notes: Axis America is, like DC's old Earth-X. An alternate dimension where the Axis won WWII. Reportedly you get a mission to Axis America sometime after lvl 40. The Reichsman was that dimension's Stateman.
The Imperial Wind was Japan's super team during WWII, run by the Lord of Frosts, who disappeared after killing his rival Captain Volocano.
Rebecca Foss in "our" dimension founded Hero Corps.
The assasination of your classmate as a final exam was inspired by Battle Royale, a horror novel set in an alternate universe where Japan didn't quite lose WWII and entire classes of sophomores are abducted to an isolated location and forced to kill each other until only one survives. Manga and movie adaptations changed the setting to a disfuctional future where reality TV has gone to extremes, bleah.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Oh, yeah, funny story.
It's a good thing I checked. Initially I wanted to name my character Kaguya Kimi, after one of my favorite folk tales, that of Kaguya Hime the Moon Princess. Silly me, I always figured the second part of the title was a direct transtlation of the first part. Since I knew Hime means princess I figured Kaguya means Moon.
Good thing I double checked that in an online dictionary. It turns out Kaguya means bamboo (or, interestingly, furniture). See, in the fairy tale, a childless old couple pray for a child and eventually the old man finds a baby girl in the (bamboo) woods on a pile of coins. She was sent by the lord of the moon and is therefore the Moon Pricess, but the title Kaguya Hime refers to her being found in the bamboo.
So. Instead of making the Prince of Mists, I initially created the Prince of Bamboo Furniture. And does he have a deal for you...
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
And glad to see you're OK, Vee. Maybe we can clean up this TF this Wednesday.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Oh, yeah, funny story.
It's a good thing I checked. Initially I wanted to name my character Kaguya Kimi, after one of my favorite folk tales, that of Kaguya Hime the Moon Princess. Silly me, I always figured the second part of the title was a direct transtlation of the first part. Since I knew Hime means princess I figured Kaguya means Moon.
Good thing I double checked that in an online dictionary. It turns out Kaguya means bamboo (or, interestingly, furniture). See, in the fairy tale, a childless old couple pray for a child and eventually the old man finds a baby girl in the (bamboo) woods on a pile of coins. She was sent by the lord of the moon and is therefore the Moon Pricess, but the title Kaguya Hime refers to her being found in the bamboo.
So. Instead of making the Prince of Mists, I initially created the Prince of Bamboo Furniture. And does he have a deal for you...
LOL!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
And glad to see you're OK, Vee. Maybe we can clean up this TF this Wednesday.
That would be nice.
I'd love to get Andrew up to level 16...
8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh, I'm still waiting ot meet the Gear Queen too. 8-)
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
Well, I won't be around Wednesday (or Tuesday through Friday, probably Saturday, for that matter), but by all means go on without me. I have to say that I didn't have as much fun as I had hoped on the Task Force. It was fun teaming with everyone, and sitting and chatting while we're all waiting to be revived. But after losing Pete for the umpteenth time, I was starting to get a bit frustrated. I'm now about 5500 in debt, and it's going to take some time to get out of that.
I'm not against the TF's, just maybe with a smaller group. I wanted to work on Pete the other day, but after seeing his debt I just didn't really feel like doing it. That's what led to me starting Silver Slasher.
I'm not going to abandon Pete, just take a break from him for awhile. Hope you guys finish the TF ok!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Well, looking at the outline, we still may need Pete's help on the TF come Sunday, or whenever we have time again. I think we learned a bit about this one for the next time we form Task Force Trinity. Smaller teams does sound like the ideal, which would make organizing easier.
I've got Trolkin Hottie, FlameBrickette and Eidol Mage on The Gear Queen and Kiri-Kimi's friend lists, so whenever we're online at the same time. I think I saw Vee online shortly, but I was soloing and in the middle of the battle when I got the notification and by the time I could send a tell, it said he was gone.
Unfortunately, Kiri-Kimi had a bad teaming experience today. The team leader, excepting a few moments, did nothing but seek out glowies. Once in a while he helped with a battle, but he mostly looked for glowies. One battle he charged right into a mob and went right past them to the glowie. The rest of us try to deal with them, and then he runs on looking for more and bringing more mobs to us. As soon as the mish finished everyone made an excuse and signed off...
Sigh, some people don't know how to play with others. I'm glad school's starting...
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Yeah, I was on CoH for a few moments on various servers but my connection was so lousy that I kept losing mapserve, so I quickly gave up. Hopefully my connection will stabilize shortly.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: Yeah, I was on CoH for a few moments on various servers but my connection was so lousy that I kept losing mapserve, so I quickly gave up. Hopefully my connection will stabilize shortly.
Heh.
All these months later, and I'm still telling myself that, Vee ... Posted by LyleLyle on :
Actually, I'm hoping the servers will get a little more reliable soon. With school starting, that should cut down the server usage greatly, as students have less time to play online. I think we've already seen a migration of the 8-hour-a-day players to 4 or 2 hours a day, just based on how I don't see as many "red" servers as I used to.
With less undercollege students online, I'm hoping to see the community get a little more mature, as well.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I finally thought of a Borg to make. What server was that on, Ultra Star?
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I haven't seen a red server in quite some time. But I do notice a lot of the same servers under the yellow status. Virtue is almost always yellow.
Posted by Phantasm on :
I've still been playing on Pinnacle... I don't have problems very often
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys. I've been antng to make an invulnerable/energy tanker to try that out, and today I realized the Golden Age Atom would be a perfect choice for that, so I created him on Pinnacle:
Posted by UltraStar on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I finally thought of a Borg to make. What server was that on, Ultra Star?
That would be on Infinity. I also made a few Borgs on Justice and Champion as well but I only play those when I'm bored but the main Borg Collective is in the Infinity unimatrix.
But we still haven't assimilated LT UHURA- Borg yet.
Latest addition... The Borg of Steel. (I think the Borg musta used kryptonite nano-probes to assimilate him)
Really like to see a Hulk of Borg there since the one I made on justice looked so damn cool but so far no go.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Woo hoo! I just levelled Linus to 10 and got an awesome new power -- Psychic Scream. Once I load it with damage enhancements, it'll really rock.
See you Wed. for the TF!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Woo hoo! I just levelled Linus to 10 and got an awesome new power -- Psychic Scream. Once I load it with damage enhancements, it'll really rock.
See you Wed. for the TF!
heh.
Neat. Have to bust out Charlie Brown at some point and play him again...
Oh, Vee and I ran Andrew and Condo tonight. I got Andrew out of debt! Posted by Jesse Future on :
Sorry to burst in like this guys, just thought I'd share the latest LMB bumper sticker!
Happy gaming and good luck with the upcoming task force mission!
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Thanks Future! Another great addition to the line.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Hey! Cool! I want one! Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Woo hoo! I just levelled Linus to 10 and got an awesome new power -- Psychic Scream. Once I load it with damage enhancements, it'll really rock.
See you Wed. for the TF!
heh.
Neat. Have to bust out Charlie Brown at some point and play him again...
Oh, Vee and I ran Andrew and Condo tonight. I got Andrew out of debt!
Oh, man! I almost signed on with Shadow Lad last night, but no one had been on the last several times I tried, and he's not good for soloing, so I decided to go with Linus. Rats! It'd be nice to be out of debt.
And the bumper sticker looks great, Future.
[ September 08, 2004, 03:55 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
Oh, Vee and I ran Andrew and Condo tonight. I got Andrew out of debt!
Oh, man! I almost signed on with Shadow Lad last night, but no one had been on the last several times I tried, and he's not good for soloing, so I decided to go with Linus. Rats! It'd be nice to be out of debt.
Too bad you weren't there, Seymour. I started out with about 1700 in debt, and by the time we were done I was free and clear. Almost went back in about five seconds after I got out though because there was a bunch of Tsoo and a sorcerer that almost kicked our butts, but we managed to retreat without dying ...
Now Andrew is within 2 bubbles of hitting 16 ...
If it's an option at 16, I'm going to pick up Resist Energies ... hopefully it'll do me some good against shockers and clocks ... thogh I'm not impressed with how well resist temperatures does even when it's double slotted with DOs ... sigh. A tanker's life is not a happy one...
Anyway, if any of you are looking for a good hunting spot in Steel, Vee and I found a nice one down the street from the Green. We pretty much got all our points last night just circling the same building ...
Vee, maybe it'd be a good idea for Mysa to do some shopping for us before we head back into the mish ... ?
See everyone tonight!
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Way ahead of you Blue! Mysa has been stationed at her contact underneath the Yellow line tram for days now. I'll log on with her a little early tonight and have her ready to stock everyone up on inspirations.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Woo hoo! I just levelled Linus to 10 and got an awesome new power -- Psychic Scream. Once I load it with damage enhancements, it'll really rock.
See you Wed. for the TF!
heh.
Neat. Have to bust out Charlie Brown at some point and play him again...
Oh, Vee and I ran Andrew and Condo tonight. I got Andrew out of debt!
Oh, man! I almost signed on with Shadow Lad last night, but no one had been on the last several times I tried, and he's not good for soloing, so I decided to go with Linus. Rats! It'd be nice to be out of debt.
And the bumper sticker looks great, Future.
Fear not Seymour, Condo still has plenty of debt to work off as well. I think I got him from 6200 to about 5000 last night but he's got a long way to go. I'll probably work on debt with him tonight before the switching to Mysa for the shopping spree if you want to join me. Condo & SL always seem to do well together.
Posted by Raven on :
quote:Originally posted by Jesse Future: Sorry to burst in like this guys, just thought I'd share the latest LMB bumper sticker!
Happy gaming and good luck with the upcoming task force mission!
AWESOME!! Now I will have yo make a Jesse Future char just to honor you for honoring us. Thanks Posted by Blue Battler on :
Ultra Star,
I created my Borg.
When can Fonz of Borg be admitted?
Posted by UltraStar on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Ultra Star,
I created my Borg.
When can Fonz of Borg be admitted?
Heheh... Resistance is futilamundo!
I'm on every day in one shape or form. And if I'm not there most of the Borgs I've done missions with have assimilation into SG ability so just add any of these folks to your friends list and send one of us a tell when your there... (spelled this way) T' Pol of Borg ParisHiltonBorg Buffy Of Borg Logan of Borg Vader of Borg Will Robinson There are a few others who are still drones and cant become assimilators until I've worked with them (you can be an assimilator right away since technically I have teamed with you before).
[ September 11, 2004, 03:12 PM: Message edited by: UltraStar ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Well ... TF didn't go too badly, did it?
Except for the dying part ... Grr.
It's those darn Eids. I think we can take them when we have our plan in place, but I wish we could do so without anyone dying ... sigh.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
I actually enjoyed it last night even though I died a few times and am now back up to 6100+ in debt. Seemed much more enjoyable now that we're "in the groove" and with the shorter time per mission. Those first few seemed endless!
I think we can finish it up on Sunday if eveyone is available. If one of us is NOT availbale for Sunday then I think we should try to do eveything but the very last mission on Sunday and save the last one until all eight of us that have suffered through this can earn the DO at the end.
The "cheat sheet" for the remaining missions is on page 52 towards the bottom so everyone should go over to see what we have left to do.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Just wanted to ask.... did anyone get XP for glowies on the TF mish? I didn't get XP on the ones I picked but I still avoided them while invisible because I didn't want to be XP leeching.
Anyway, if it looks like there isn't an XP bonus for getting the glowies I'll try to find them all while scouting.
Four more doors, we can do that on Sunday. They're defeat alls unfortunately.
I think Prism Lord will still be under level 16 when this TF is done... think Mysa might want to take a try at Task Force Trinity?
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Sorry i missed last night's game, guys. Personal stuff interfered.. But, I should be able to make it on Sunday.. Doc Nimbus is up to 13th level, and slotted with more health enhancements.
Hope to see ya then!
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Just wanted to ask.... did anyone get XP for glowies on the TF mish? I didn't get XP on the ones I picked but I still avoided them while invisible because I didn't want to be XP leeching.
Anyway, if it looks like there isn't an XP bonus for getting the glowies I'll try to find them all while scouting.
Four more doors, we can do that on Sunday. They're defeat alls unfortunately.
I think Prism Lord will still be under level 16 when this TF is done... think Mysa might want to take a try at Task Force Trinity?
Condo didn't get any XP for glowies and now one else seemed to receive any either from the comments last night. I would just go ahead and grab them as you're scouting.
As for Mysa, I think she would be game. She is kind of bloodthirsty at times.
Seriously, it would be interesting to see if it really is much easier with a group of 3-4.
[ September 09, 2004, 06:55 AM: Message edited by: CM3 Vee ]
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I definitely think we all need to be there for the end and we can wait until it fits into everyone's schedule.
As for the XP, Andrew (Blue) got XP for delivering the book (or whatever it was) in KR but no one else did. So there are still some things that are based on the individual for earning.
And I think Garth will be playing Ring Around the Yellow in Skyway to clear up his debt. It helped get him leveled so it ought to work for debt too.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: I definitely think we all need to be there for the end and we can wait until it fits into everyone's schedule.
As for the XP, Andrew (Blue) got XP for delivering the book (or whatever it was) in KR but no one else did. So there are still some things that are based on the individual for earning.
And I think Garth will be playing Ring Around the Yellow in Skyway to clear up his debt. It helped get him leveled so it ought to work for debt too.
Guys,
Green is a better place to hunt than yellow ... thoguh yellow is probably better for a single player. If some of us want to get together, we can hunt the plaza that Vee and I used ... there were lots of 15s and 16s there .. racks up some nice points in a short period of time.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh wait. Garth is going to hunt in Skyway. 8-)
Anyone want to play the Infinity Heroes sometime soon? I'm itching to level Star Kallor up a bit....
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Here's what we have left for Sunday with Task Force Trinty.
12. Defeat all villians in office... search for clues: This one had clock and Vahz and no bosses all lvl 15
13. Defeat all mystics in base: This was in a cave in perez park and had cot and clock all were lvl 14 and 15 bosses Pallenti (lvl 14 cot) and B'Shink P'Knock (lvl 15 clock)
14. Defeat all villians in sewer: This was in skyway city Cot and Vahzilok there were no bosses in this one all were lvl 15
***Make sure you sell enhancements at this point. Next mission is last and at end of it you MUST have an empty slot for the DO you will receive!
15. Defeat all villains in substation: This was in perez park in an office, had lvl 14, 15, and 10 and had CoT, Vahz, and clocks and 2 bosses and one lieut... CoT boss lvl 14 was Lucion... Boresight clock lieut lvl 15, and Ulcer lvl 15 Vahz boss. Posted by CM3 Vee on :
I should point out that we seem to be getting baddie levels 1 (or 2) levels higher on every mish than those listed in the description above.
One interesting thing I noticed in the above "cheat sheet": #13 says "Defeat all mystics" not villains. Wonder if we could completely avoid the higher level clocks nd still complete the mish? We'll need to make sure to read that mission carefully.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Gah...
my computer is running slower than molasses today. E-mail is taking forever to download and Herocrack is lagging like there's no tomorrow ...
GRRRR
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Hey Blue,
Forgive me if you've done this already but it's worth asking... have you got your antivirus and spyware scanner updated and scanned your machine recently? My boyfriend and I have seen this happen to friends' machines where they've been hit by several kinds of malware that hijacks their bandwith as it goes searching for more potential victims.
Anyway, I think I'm going to split my time between Mr Brazil, The Gear Queen and Kami-Kiri tonight. How about playing with the Infinity kids on Saturday?
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Sounds like a plan! Look for Eidol Mage when you're on with Gear Queen. I'll probably play him and maybe one or two others.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Hey Blue,
Forgive me if you've done this already but it's worth asking... have you got your antivirus and spyware scanner updated and scanned your machine recently? My boyfriend and I have seen this happen to friends' machines where they've been hit by several kinds of malware that hijacks their bandwith as it goes searching for more potential victims.
Anyway, I think I'm going to split my time between Mr Brazil, The Gear Queen and Kami-Kiri tonight. How about playing with the Infinity kids on Saturday?
I scan my machine every week for viruses, but I haven't gotten spyware. I suppose that I should but I figured the firewall and antivirus were protection enough ...
Sigh.
Anyone got a good recommendation?
And I really wanna meet the Gear Queen!
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Hey Blue,
Forgive me if you've done this already but it's worth asking... have you got your antivirus and spyware scanner updated and scanned your machine recently? My boyfriend and I have seen this happen to friends' machines where they've been hit by several kinds of malware that hijacks their bandwith as it goes searching for more potential victims.
Anyway, I think I'm going to split my time between Mr Brazil, The Gear Queen and Kami-Kiri tonight. How about playing with the Infinity kids on Saturday?
I scan my machine every week for viruses, but I haven't gotten spyware. I suppose that I should but I figured the firewall and antivirus were protection enough ...
Sigh.
Anyone got a good recommendation?
And I really wanna meet the Gear Queen!
The firewall and virus protection aren't enough. You need to run a combination of Ad-Aware and SpyBot at least once a week. I do it on all of my PCs, work and home.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Thanks for the links, Scott.
Got 'em installed and checked out...
And for those of you who haven't been on today, I just got off from playing Fong of Borg-- and am mildly ticked off that every tanker/scrapper powerset except invulnerability seems to have a heal built into it-- and I'm getting the patch for issue 2 installed pending future release...
That means that Issue 2 is coming soon, right? They wouldn't do it more than a month in the future would they?
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
If they are starting the patch I would say we are less than a month from the release. Maybe sometime in the next couple of weeks. I wonder if the website says. Haven't visited lately.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Okay, I caved and created a CoH Mythic character tonight. She is now a 6th lvl Technology (Fire/Devices) Blaster. Meet Janice van Dorn:
Janice is the daught of Clarissa van Dorn and the Count Alphonse Crey. She was born shortly before the Count entered his coma and was sent away to Europe by her mother, the Countess Crey. While attending a number of private schools Janice started to exhibit some extra-ordinary powers. She possesses the ability use a number of technological devices, similar to ones developed by her mother's company. Janice can also emit flames from her hands.
Unbeknownst to her mother, Janice has used her position as the daughter of the Countess to investigate her family and stumbled upon just how evil her mother really is. The worst thing that Janice has discovered so far is the Countess' treachery to her own husband. She is responsible for his continued coma by the administration of a number of drugs created by Crey. Janice believes it is these same drugs that triggered her own inherent abilities.
Due to this betrayal of her father, a man she has never met, and the discovery of a number of plots against the helpless citizens of Paragon City, Janice has vowed to use her powers to bring her own mother to justice.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
For those who haven't seen her, here is a pic of Janice's mother, the Countess Crey.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Okay, I caved and created a CoH Mythic character tonight. She is now a 6th lvl Technology (Fire/Devices) Blaster. Meet Janice van Dorn:
Janice is the daught of Clarissa van Dorn and the Count Alphonse Crey. She was born shortly before the Count entered his coma and was sent away to Europe by her mother, the Countess Crey. While attending a number of private schools Janice started to exhibit some extra-ordinary powers. She possesses the ability use a number of technological devices, similar to ones developed by her mother's company. Janice can also emit flames from her hands.
Neat, Scott.
How are you liking the devices secondary?
Are you going to try to power level her like Dirk? And do you have to use the fire blaster powers only to do that?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Vee and I were talking last night about running the Infinity Legion today ... does anyone have a time preference for that?
[ September 11, 2004, 06:20 AM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
I'm at work until noon, so I won't be able to gt onto CoH until early this PM. Probably 1 PM or later would work for me, but I can always join you "in progress"
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I have to get my haircut today, but I should be free after that....
And I just gotta say that the KSers are really starting to annoy me. I can understand when someone attacks someone at the same time you do ... maybe they didn't see you or didn't know you were going to be doing something ... but to KEEP attacking after that ... or to attack after the baddies have already been engaged....
Grr.
I'm working on my Colorific illusion/kinetics controller and it's hard enough to level that kind of guy as it is without someone ksing everything in sight....
This rant brought to you by the letter R...
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
R? I thought it would have been brought to us by the letters "K" & "S" Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: R? I thought it would have been brought to us by the letters "K" & "S"
Smartalec!
I'm going to be running Colorific on protector at least until I get him up to 8. If anyone wants to play, that's where I'll be for a while..
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Vee and i are supposed to run in the Infinity Legion in about half an hour ... around 5 Central. Anyone and everyone is welcome to join us. 8-)
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Well I just got up but I was back at work, again, until after 7 this morning making a nice 25+ hour day for me. So I just crashed when I finally got home.
You don't have to use Fire as your primary but it is what most of the guides suggest. For a secondary they suggest either Devices, Energy or Fire. So I've tried one of each now. I really prefer the Fire/Fire (Dirk) so far but Janice is working okay. Only have the web grenade so far though.
And I agree about KS'ers. Getting much worse. Some ass followed me around last night waiting until I was almost done and then stealing my Fallen Gunners or other big point guys. Then the little shit had the audacity to ask me to team with him. I told him to not only go to hell but I was going to report him for kill stealing. He was so blatant about it they should easily be able to tell what he was doing.
Well I doubt I'll play much today. I'm waiting for a call to go back to work. If I get my hands on the idiot who tried to put the new password security live on three servers before testing it... Posted by LyleLyle on :
I'm still making dinner, but I'll join you on Infi as soon as I get the meats going. Dinner tonight it gonna be slow cooked mexican foods! (Got the beans going, the dulce de leche is almost done, next I got to make the carnitas and pollo in salsa verde.)
Mmmmmm, mmmmm. I love my slow cooked foods.
(Oh, and I'll be afk a lot as I step away to stir a little.)
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I'm guessing that we'll be meeting at 10AM PST, as usual for the TF? My time will be limited today, as I've got a dinner to go to, so I should be leaving Paragon City by 3:30 (gee, remember when we were confident we'd have the whole TF done within that time?)
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Hehehe! Those were the days!
But, yes, the plan is for 1:00 PM eastern (10 AM pacific) and hopefully we can finish Task Force Trinity today if everyone can be there for the finale.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Heh.
Don't forget that we have to do a TF for the Infinity Legion soon ...
We had fun last night and did really well. In fact, I was just about to tell the guys we'd been doing great ... right before I jumped into a bunch of Outcasts I didn't see beforehand and died ...
I've got to make a cake today to take in to work-- it's my 10th anniversary on the job-- so I think I'll play it safe and make it BEFORE we start the TF!
[ September 12, 2004, 06:08 AM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Get cracking! (eggs, I mean) Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: Get cracking! (eggs, I mean)
There are some people who say I'm cracked already!
But cake is in the oven now ... everytime I've brought a cake in, I've gotten good reviews so I hope that the track record continues!
Later this week I gotta make some brownies to use up the last of the eggs... always make brownies after I make a cake ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Kudoes to everyone for an excellent job on the TF today. Everyone did great and we really performed much better than we did on our first night.
So congrats again to everyone on a job well done ...
Now we just need to get Infinity up and running ... ;-)
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I just hope that Doc and Pete made it out okay.
Now to clear up 3500 debt and get my 3500 xp to level so I can use my first SO.
Posted by Phantasm on :
Glad you all had fun. I almost made it to the end of the Synapse task Force today but by the time we got to the end we were down to just 3 people. No way we could defeat the clockwork king.
So Im bummed...
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Ditto on the kudos! Even with the frustration of losing connection so much for me today, I had a great time! Everyone did an awesome job and it felt great to finally see that "Mission Complete"!
I'm also glad eveyone was able to be there today to see it through to the end. I would have felt bad if someone couldn't be there after suffering through all the deaths & debt.
They say Positron is the worst, so I guess we've survived the worst they can throw at us and the Legion came out Victorious!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: I just hope that Doc and Pete made it out okay.
Now to clear up 3500 debt and get my 3500 xp to level so I can use my first SO.
Be glad to help you with that, buddy, but right now I don't want to throw another punch in the game for at least a few days ...
Give me a few days to De-Andrew and I'll haul the lug out and help you out. 8-)
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
And I hate to think how much cummulative debt I racked up on the TF. It never got higher than 6500 but it's been up there almost since day one. Consdering how much xp I've gotten (I think I had less than one bubble into 16 when we started & I'm now withn four of reaching 17!) it could easily have been close to 15000!
Oh well, upward and onward! Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I've had my debt down to 0 more than once since we began and back up to 6k. So I think I'm right up there with you Vee. Definitely racked up enough to have leveled to 15 by now.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Gah.
Logged onto Blue to check for e-mail, and spoke with Grem. She's on a TF doing the same one we just did. Team of six: two blasters, two tanks, a defender, and a controller. All of them were 15-16 except for one guy who was a 13.
It took them 15 minutes to do the first mish ...
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I'm willing to bet our max size had something to do with it. Either that or we really suck.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: I'm willing to bet our max size had something to do with it. Either that or we really suck.
We weren't that much bigger ... got me very curious ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Maybe one or both of the blasters has smoke grenades. I didn't think to ask her about that ... last TF I did as Blue the leader had smoke grenades and we kicked a lot of assets ... though not in a 15 minute kinda way ...
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Yeah but think how much influence we all earned. Just checked and Condo has 74000
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
By the time I reach 17 with all that debt I might have 90G ! Posted by CM3 Vee on :
BTW, just logged in with Condo and saw Doc (DM) online. He made it out okay and DID get his SO 18 lvl. That makes me feel much better. Hopefully Pete did also since he was still logged when we finished.
DM then switched over to his newest creation on Virtue, Gigi Cusimano! I switched to Rokk and inducted her into the Legionnaires of Virtue. She's an Assault Rifle Blaster with Devices secondary. Looks great too!
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Did you get a pic?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: By the time I reach 17 with all that debt I might have 90G !
That is true....
I recouped the investment I spent in DOs from the TF ...
I just checked the Guidebook and I found another way that I'm feeling gyped with Andrew ... a DO Damage Resist only increases his damage resistance by 10%. A SO will only increase it by 20%. That means I'm going to have to pretty much fully slot EVERY defense to get anything like a meaning defense from them ... grrrr...
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Hey Blue, Where are you??????????
Scott: No didn't think to but he did here in the SCience Police purple and navy uniform. Looks good.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Haven't logged on yet... trying to decide who I want to play.
Who's playing?
I'm in a mood to bust out Xander 2.0...
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: By the time I reach 17 with all that debt I might have 90G !
That is true....
I recouped the investment I spent in DOs from the TF ...
I just checked the Guidebook and I found another way that I'm feeling gyped with Andrew ... a DO Damage Resist only increases his damage resistance by 10%. A SO will only increase it by 20%. That means I'm going to have to pretty much fully slot EVERY defense to get anything like a meaning defense from them ... grrrr...
Well!!! Maybe you should just delete him and start him over then! (Just joking! ))
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Angel's up for a run. Doc had to log off and I haven't seen anyone else
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Or we could run the JSA
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: By the time I reach 17 with all that debt I might have 90G !
That is true....
I recouped the investment I spent in DOs from the TF ...
I just checked the Guidebook and I found another way that I'm feeling gyped with Andrew ... a DO Damage Resist only increases his damage resistance by 10%. A SO will only increase it by 20%. That means I'm going to have to pretty much fully slot EVERY defense to get anything like a meaning defense from them ... grrrr...
Well!!! Maybe you should just delete him and start him over then! (Just joking! ))
Don't tempt me. Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: Or we could run the JSA
JSA could be fun.
I like Brainwave Jr.
How about it, Scott? Up for a little Dr. Bones or Sand action?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
vee, let's go with the JSA at least for a while. 8-)
Seymour-- anyone else... if you want to join us, feel free. We're not so high that a new character couldn't be made to join us.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
You guys were behind the times. We were on playing with the CoH Mythos characters. Don't you guys ever play them? Janice is now lvl 9 in 7 hours and 5 game sessions (according to the nosy citizens of Paragon).
Now I have a sinus headache and need to quit for the night.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
So glad that the TF is done...! Can't wait to use my SO!
I'm hoping to have Tinya up to 10th level by the weekend on Infinity, and i'm going to work on Gigi a bit too.. hope to catch you guys on!
I think i'm going to spend the night downloading Issue 2... geez i wish i had broadband... Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: You guys were behind the times. We were on playing with the CoH Mythos characters. Don't you guys ever play them? Janice is now lvl 9 in 7 hours and 5 game sessions (according to the nosy citizens of Paragon).
Now I have a sinus headache and need to quit for the night.
Well, seeing as how no one TOLD us to show up there ...
Vee got DrFate up to level 7, and I got Brainwave Jr. up to 8. I picked up hover for Jr. at this point because I'm too lazy to constantly be looking for ways around walls ...
Congrats on Janice. I think that Flame Brickette is at level 11 now.
Scott, have any of the chars you've been speed leveling gotten full super speed yet? How do you like it?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by DMSpeedy: So glad that the TF is done...! Can't wait to use my SO!
I'm hoping to have Tinya up to 10th level by the weekend on Infinity, and i'm going to work on Gigi a bit too.. hope to catch you guys on!
I think i'm going to spend the night downloading Issue 2... geez i wish i had broadband...
You don't have broadband? How does it play on dialup?
And I'd like to play Infinity Legion this Wednesday, guys. Star got a bit of debt last week that I'd like to work off ... and I want to work on our team tactics.
The last time we ran Infinity Legion in Steel Canyon, we did pretty well with the low level baddies. Star can hold bricks and shockers, but lead bricks are only slowed down ... I can't remember if we found any lead shockers ....
Anyway, now that Princess P can flash the bad guys-- hey, where are you, Seymour?-- we've got two holding powers in our group. At some point, Imra should have telekinesis which is also another lock down power. With that many holds, we should be able to clean up in Steel Canyon and, eventually, Skyway. The controllers can just lock them down and the blasters, scrappers, and our tank can just kick their nasses ...
I'd like to work on that strategy a bit to see what works and what doesn't. Star can't hold any Vahz except for the reapers and morts ... and I think I once held an Eid when it got weak enough ... I know he can hold Lost, bricks, and shockers. I'm not sure which clocks he can hold ... I'm sure he can hold minions but I don't know about the lts'.
I'd like to find out if Princess has any better luck with Vahz than Star. Also if she has any better luck with lead bricks.
And truthfully, guys, when issue 2 rolls out Steel Canyon is going to be a lot harder. There will be more guys with powers on the streets. I'd like for the Infinity Legion to reap what benefits we can before that happens ...
And I want my cape, sprock it! Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Well, seeing as how no one TOLD us to show up there ...
Vee got DrFate up to level 7, and I got Brainwave Jr. up to 8. I picked up hover for Jr. at this point because I'm too lazy to constantly be looking for ways around walls ...
Congrats on Janice. I think that Flame Brickette is at level 11 now.
Scott, have any of the chars you've been speed leveling gotten full super speed yet? How do you like it?
Do we have the SG started yet then for the Mythos characters? Did we ever settle on a name? I was thinking, Offsprings of Chaos.
And I havent' chosen full superspeed yet but it has been available for me. I'm thinking that Janice will take it for sure when available. Tempted to with Dirk since I think he can already.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Super Speed, if you're on dial up is reaally bad. I've got a character with it, and I got tons of 'lost connection with map server' problems.
The only other problem i have with dial up, is area loading. It takes longer than everyone else. so i may go in a door mish first, but come in last!
Tinya's up to 7th level on Infinity, and I plan on working on her a bit today.. probably about 2:00pm EST.. anyone want to join me?
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Yay! I've got issue 2 downloaded...! It took all night and part of the day.. but... I got it!
Ick.. btw, may not be on at 2 as originally planned... darn it.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Trying to invoke the feeling that "Doom Patrol" does (which I think invokes the feel of the characters) I started playing with the idea of "Destiny (Noun)"
Any words out there I can't think of that invokes Cassandra, the cursed prophetess?
The Doomsayers?
For some reason Legacy League rings with me, as well.
And yikes, you guys are all way ahead of me. Gear Queen is only lvl 8, Kimi-Kiri (The Prince of Mists) is only lvl 4.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Anyway, now that Princess P can flash the bad guys-- hey, where are you, Seymour?-- we've got two holding powers in our group. At some point, Imra should have telekinesis which is also another lock down power. With that many holds, we should be able to clean up in Steel Canyon and, eventually, Skyway. The controllers can just lock them down and the blasters, scrappers, and our tank can just kick their nasses ...
I'm right here. I spent the rest of the day away from the computer to give my eyeballs a rest and to try and convince myself I can find other things to do with my life than play CoH, as much as I enjoy it. (I'm not addicted. I'm not addicted.) (I got caught up with an anime series, "Figure 17," that I've enjoyed immensely -- it ended well, but not the way I wanted it to.)
Anyway, I'm ticked at myself. I thought I got an 18 accuracy SO because it had the crosshairs symbol. Cool! I replaced the 15 DO accuracy on my heal to help us stay alive. Then I read it a bit more closely and discovered it was a recharge reduction. What's up with that? Why is the accuracy symbol on it if it's recharge reduction?!?! So now I need to get up to 17 to get another slot to put accuracy. Recharge reduction is a good thing for that power, but it was fairly quick to begin with, and I really need the accuracy enhancement to be more effective as a healer. Grrr. That'll teach me to read everything more carefully.
Infinity group sounds fun for Wednesday. It'll be nice to see what powers become available for Princess P at 12. Is that when Prism got group invis, Lyle?
That funny about Grem finishing the first TF mission in 15 minutes when it took us a couple hours. There have been a couple things I've noticed.
Yes, I think our group size had something to do with it. From Vee's earlier research, it sounds like the bosses are really amped up with a full group. Also, with more people (and spread over four time zones), that means more potty breaks, more stopping to fix dinner, more stopping to get laundry out of the dryer, etc. Nature of the beast.
Second, I think at the beginning we were suffering from a lack of leadership. We all stood around talking about what might work and maybe we should do this and blah blah blah. When Andrew took over, that got better, but I still think we spent too much time typing and not enough time fighting. And several times right up until the end, we'd just stand there with nobody saying anything.
Don't get me wrong. I love you guys, and our banter is a big part of the fun. If Grem did a pick-up team especially, that banter would be at a minimum since they don't know each other, and they'd be more down to business. I don't mind having to extend things a little bit because a lot of the fun is playing with this group, but I did get frustrated sometimes with our lack of action.
And that's my two cents on the TF. Overall, it was fun. I'm ready to try again with the Infinity group, but we should keep it smaller.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
The Infi Legion sounds good for Wednesday. Prism is still catching his breath from the TF.
We have one additional lock down, which we should learn to use. Querl's got that Detention Field which bubbles a bad guy. It protects him from us but it also keeps him from hitting us...
The strategy I've been trying to employ (and not always suceeding) is to use Detention Field when we face two powerful foes and we start out focusing on one (like, say, if we were facing a lead shocker and a brick). However, I've been wondering if I should use that in big mobs with a single boss, so that we mop up all the little guys so that we can focus on the boss without the little guys for additiona dammage. That'd be mostly for really big groups, I think (and possibly Embalmeds).
Anyway, it's a power we should try to get comfortable with and I need to get into the groove with.
Then again, that's what I like about this game, there's some odd powers that don't have an obvious fit, especially when you're in a team.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I think I read somewhere that after four members the difficulty of villains of a TF increases exponentially, or somewhere to that effect. Based on what some people have said, there's a big diff in what you face in a team of 6 and 8. (Actually remember how cake that first mish we did on Sunday, when I got in the door right away, while we still had only five logged on?)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Well, seeing as how no one TOLD us to show up there ...
Vee got DrFate up to level 7, and I got Brainwave Jr. up to 8. I picked up hover for Jr. at this point because I'm too lazy to constantly be looking for ways around walls ...
Congrats on Janice. I think that Flame Brickette is at level 11 now.
Scott, have any of the chars you've been speed leveling gotten full super speed yet? How do you like it?
Do we have the SG started yet then for the Mythos characters? Did we ever settle on a name? I was thinking, Offsprings of Chaos.
And I havent' chosen full superspeed yet but it has been available for me. I'm thinking that Janice will take it for sure when available. Tempted to with Dirk since I think he can already.
We haven't come up with a name yet. We were bandying it about when we were playing the other day. Offsprings of Chaos isn't a bad name ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: [QUOTE]
Infinity group sounds fun for Wednesday. It'll be nice to see what powers become available for Princess P at 12. Is that when Prism got group invis, Lyle?
That funny about Grem finishing the first TF mission in 15 minutes when it took us a couple hours. There have been a couple things I've noticed.
Yes, I think our group size had something to do with it. From Vee's earlier research, it sounds like the bosses are really amped up with a full group. Also, with more people (and spread over four time zones), that means more potty breaks, more stopping to fix dinner, more stopping to get laundry out of the dryer, etc. Nature of the beast.
Second, I think at the beginning we were suffering from a lack of leadership. We all stood around talking about what might work and maybe we should do this and blah blah blah. When Andrew took over, that got better, but I still think we spent too much time typing and not enough time fighting. And several times right up until the end, we'd just stand there with nobody saying anything.
Don't get me wrong. I love you guys, and our banter is a big part of the fun. If Grem did a pick-up team especially, that banter would be at a minimum since they don't know each other, and they'd be more down to business. I don't mind having to extend things a little bit because a lot of the fun is playing with this group, but I did get frustrated sometimes with our lack of action.
And that's my two cents on the TF. Overall, it was fun. I'm ready to try again with the Infinity group, but we should keep it smaller.
If we do Infinity with a smaller group then I thinnk we need to carefully choose each group ... assuming we do it with two separate groups. Each team should have at least one healer, one scout .. and at least one blaster.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: The Infi Legion sounds good for Wednesday. Prism is still catching his breath from the TF.
We have one additional lock down, which we should learn to use. Querl's got that Detention Field which bubbles a bad guy. It protects him from us but it also keeps him from hitting us...
The strategy I've been trying to employ (and not always suceeding) is to use Detention Field when we face two powerful foes and we start out focusing on one (like, say, if we were facing a lead shocker and a brick). However, I've been wondering if I should use that in big mobs with a single boss, so that we mop up all the little guys so that we can focus on the boss without the little guys for additiona dammage. That'd be mostly for really big groups, I think (and possibly Embalmeds).
Anyway, it's a power we should try to get comfortable with and I need to get into the groove with.
Then again, that's what I like about this game, there's some odd powers that don't have an obvious fit, especially when you're in a team.
Gravity field lets me lock down a lt and shuts off his powers. Detention field does the same thing, doesn't it? I think we should try to use that on a lead brick to see if it works any better than Star's powers. Maybe if it can't do the job, we can do the job between us.
But, yeah. We need to work out strategies. The controller AT isn't built for causing damage, but locking down the baddies is a definite asset.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Trying to invoke the feeling that "Doom Patrol" does (which I think invokes the feel of the characters) I started playing with the idea of "Destiny (Noun)"
Any words out there I can't think of that invokes Cassandra, the cursed prophetess?
The Doomsayers?
For some reason Legacy League rings with me, as well.
And yikes, you guys are all way ahead of me. Gear Queen is only lvl 8, Kimi-Kiri (The Prince of Mists) is only lvl 4.
Hmm...
Too bad we can't just use the Doom Patrol.
Hey, about the Damned Patrol?
Or Paragons Triumphant? Posted by CM3 Vee on :
I still like the word Scions. It sort of evokes mystical power, which we all are in some ways. How about Scions of Chaos? Damned Patrol is pretty good as is Doomsayers. Or maybe something with Vengeance or revenge since we are pitted against our own?
Destiny's Revenge? Vengeance of the Damned? Vengeance Patrol?
BTW, Eidol Mage just made it to lvl 9. Took him only 10 hours, which I think is pretty good for a defender.
[ September 13, 2004, 03:20 PM: Message edited by: CM3 Vee ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Personally, I'm not a fan of including "Damned" in the SG name only because the word's association with a specific mythos of CoH.
I like Destiny's Vengeance, to play on Vee's suggestion. Paragons Triumphant also sounds good to me.
As for Detention Field, it does lock down a bad guy and prevent him from doing anything that doesn't affect himself. The downside is that we can't do anything to him, either, but if we've got other thugs to deal with, I think that won't be a hassle.
We should do some experiments to see how the accuracy is on our various lockdowns on different kind of thugs.
I just did an inventory and we've got a challenging mix for an Infi TF. AFIK, we've no tankers and no dedicated healers (tho I've seen people argue that you don't need a healer if you know how to utilize your defenders) however, the only defenders we have are mine (Querl) and Vee's (Cos/Color Kid). (Or did I miss a controller with empathy secondary?) Doc's got our only scrapper (Tinya/Lu) unless we've got a second Lu.
BTW, this is my list...
Vee: Cos (FF/NRG Def) Jan (NRG/NRG Blast) Color Kid (Kin/NRG Def) Beauty Blaze (Fire/Fire Blast)
I've probably forgottens stuff, in which case we could be in better shape than I thought...
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
I'm pretty sure that Big Kid is a tanker but it's Seymour's char so he'll be able to tell us shortly.
Grem (Blue's sweetheart) has Super Kara on Infinity. Can't recall if she's a tanker or scrapper but she's one of those.
Caroline has KentShakespeare on Infinity now and he's a healer. Not sure what level but he was in Steele with us the other day.
UltrStar has Widfire-X on Infinity and he's a fire blaster I believe. Again, not sure what level he's up to.
And I just saw someone new post on the CoH Roster thread that met Doc on Infinity (Maeganbrand?) Not sure what they have though. Think it was a Wildfire char also.
Assuming some of these are up there in level, we could have a big enough assortment for two groups.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: I'm pretty sure that Big Kid is a tanker but it's Seymour's char so he'll be able to tell us shortly.
Grem (Blue's sweetheart) has Super Kara on Infinity. Can't recall if she's a tanker or scrapper but she's one of those.
Caroline has KentShakespeare on Infinity now and he's a healer. Not sure what level but he was in Steele with us the other day.
UltrStar has Widfire-X on Infinity and he's a fire blaster I believe. Again, not sure what level he's up to.
And I just saw someone new post on the CoH Roster thread that met Doc on Infinity (Maeganbrand?) Not sure what they have though. Think it was a Wildfire char also.
Assuming some of these are up there in level, we could have a big enough assortment for two groups.
Star is level 11 right now.
And Super Kara is a tanker.
Big Kid is a scrapper, I think.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Yes, Big Kid is a scrapper, and I never took him past third level because I wound up liking Princess P better. If I remember right, he's martial arts/regen.
Princess P is an 11 illusion controller with emp as secondary. I don't think she has heal other yet, but she does have rez.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, Guys.
Just talked to Grem about her TF ... and it turns out that it took them 7 hours total to complete the first one.
On the other hand, she ran the second one with another group and it only took them an hour and a half to complete. She said they'd done it a lot of times and really knew what they were doing, so I don't think we should feel too bad about it...
And she said she would be able to make it on Wednesday...
For those of you who weren't on with us tonight, Beauty Blaze, Princess P, Brek, and Star had a chance to test our powers out tonight. We did pretty good, even up against level 10 Vahz. Both Princess and I seem to have problems with the Eids in terms of locking them down ...
But I'm sure Brek got an ice ring around one once, and I think that Beauty got a fire ring around one too ...
I'm feeling a bit better about our capacity to handle the Vahz in a TF ... we'd just have to plan it right ...
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Woo-hoo! I got Captain Hottie to lvl 15, my first lvl 15 character. I think I'll try to get him on a small TF on thursday.
Should I bring in a mythos character or an Infi legionnaire tonight? I want to build up one of 'em, anyone planning to do play either of their characters?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Woo-hoo! I got Captain Hottie to lvl 15, my first lvl 15 character. I think I'll try to get him on a small TF on thursday.
Should I bring in a mythos character or an Infi legionnaire tonight? I want to build up one of 'em, anyone planning to do play either of their characters?
Well, I spent most of the day flat on my back due to a severe pain in the back of my neck/ head ... but about an hour ago I rallyed sufficiently to make a new Legionnaire for Infinity: Brin Londo. He's a claw/regen scrapper. I'm rather pleased with him so far.
I also have an idea for a new mythos character, but Im not sure if I should play him or not... any chance that you'll give in to peer pressure now that Scott caved, Seymour? 8-)
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Hey Blue,
Kami-Kiri my ice/storm controller is only lvl 4 so he'd be up for teaming with a new character.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Cool.
I was thinking about making my new guy a mental controller with empathy as secondary, but maybe we coulduse an empathy defender with metnal as a secondary more...
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Well, I spent most of the day flat on my back due to a severe pain in the back of my neck/ head ... but about an hour ago I rallyed sufficiently to make a new Legionnaire for Infinity: Brin Londo. He's a claw/regen scrapper. I'm rather pleased with him so far.
I also have an idea for a new mythos character, but Im not sure if I should play him or not... any chance that you'll give in to peer pressure now that Scott caved, Seymour? 8-)
Sorry to hear about your back. I hope it's getting back in shape. I can't wait to see Brin.
And, no, I won't be doing a mythos character. I'm bound and determined to do well by a few other characters before I spend significant time on another. I will not succumb to peer pressure!!
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I was thinking about making my new guy a mental controller with empathy as secondary, but maybe we coulduse an empathy defender with metnal as a secondary more...
Linus VP is an emp defender with pychic secondary, and I'm really enjoying the combo. He's got some nice psychic blasts.
Saturn Lady is a mind controller with kinetics secondary, and I'm not liking her as much. Like a lot of controller powers, at least at the start, they're not that strong. I haven't much looked into the later ones, though, so maybe she'd be more interesting then.
[ September 14, 2004, 02:06 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Well, I spent most of the day flat on my back due to a severe pain in the back of my neck/ head ... but about an hour ago I rallyed sufficiently to make a new Legionnaire for Infinity: Brin Londo. He's a claw/regen scrapper. I'm rather pleased with him so far.
I also have an idea for a new mythos character, but Im not sure if I should play him or not... any chance that you'll give in to peer pressure now that Scott caved, Seymour? 8-)
Sorry to hear about your back. I hope it's getting back in shape. I can't wait to see Brin.
And, no, I won't be doing a mythos character. I'm bound and determined to do well by a few other characters before I spend significant time on another. I will not succumb to peer pressure!!
quote:
Ah, Seymour! All the cool kids are doing it!!
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Blue Battler: I was thinking about making my new guy a mental controller with empathy as secondary, but maybe we coulduse an empathy defender with metnal as a secondary more...
Linus VP is an emp defender with pychic secondary, and I'm really enjoying the combo. He's got some nice psychic blasts.
Saturn Lady is a mind controller with kinetics secondary, and I'm not liking her as much. Like a lot of controller powers, at least at the start, they're not that strong. I haven't much looked into the later ones, though, so maybe she'd be more interesting then. [/QB]
Thanks. It was bothering me yesterday, but I toughed it out. This morning I woke up after a restless night still feeling crappy, and I said to heck with it and called in.
And c'mon, Seymour! All the cool kids are making Mythos chars!
Archon II is an empathy defender with psi secondary. I only have 2 attacks for him because I wanted to get to rez ASAP. They don't seem to chew up much end though, and that's a plus.
Brainwave Jr. is a mental/rad controller, and his psi powers are pretty good. Most controllers get lock downs very early, but the mental one seems to take a while to accomplish that. Looks like telekinesis is their big lockdown, and I don't have that yet.
I got Brin up to 6 today. I'll probably log him on tomorrow at least long enough for everyone to get a look at him and to get him inducted into the Legion. I like his look, but I couldn't find a wolf symbol to use for him... grrr.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
From what I hear, the controllers eventually get really strong... I hope that comes soon 'cause they get frustrating at times as much as the powers appeal to me.
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
And, no, I won't be doing a mythos character. I'm bound and determined to do well by a few other characters before I spend significant time on another. I will not succumb to peer pressure!!
Aww, but there are so many unexplored possiblities....
- The mainstream universe's Imperial Wind's history hasn't been determined, who knows what became of them... or the Storm Korps? Sure they were the bad guys in WWII but their countries are our allies now and I wonder if their kids would be like.
- A bunch of heroes got stuck behind Ritki gates, I wonder what they found there.
- Axis America, there's so many possiblities there...
- I'm sure there's a reformed 5th Column, gang member or Tsoo out there, looking to make amends. Along those lines, I'm sure there's a mercenary from Free Company or Directed Outcomes who regrets his ways.
- I wonder if Baron Zoria has any kids...
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Hey coooool....
quote:A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM STATESMAN
"Fellow heroes, disturbing information has come to light. Thanks to the hard work by the Federal Bureau of Super Powered Affairs and the Portal Corporation, we have discovered an odd energy signature throughout Paragon City. Researchers believe that this aetheric energy appears to be building towards a climax at some point in the near future. We believe that this will occur over the next several days. All heroes should be on the look out for anything strange in the city on those days. Be on guard; this does not bode well for our metropolis."
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
SOunds like an upcoming EVENT!!!!
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
You know, it might even be timed to coincide with the launch of issue 2!!!!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
...and looking at the Issue 2 update, we get introduced to the Rularuu, who (like the Ritki) come from a different dimension. Hmmm....
(I'm so excited, at least, like the TF, until I get killed a bunch of times. Maybe I'll sign in as Prism and go invisible.)
[ September 14, 2004, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Speaking of issue 2, where do we get it? The web site says it can be downloaded when you log off, but I haven't seen that option come up.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
It should start automatically when you log off of CoH (not "To Desktop")
If you typically leave your computer on, it's probably already downloaded without you noticing. If not, you'll need to log off and let the window open up again (same window as when you fist log on)
It will automatically dowmload like the weekly updates do.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I wish they'd give you an actual date for the installation so you'd know when all the fun would begin...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hello, gang.
I think those of us who are interested are going to run the Mythos characters tonight. Anyone interested, please join us.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
And to find me tonight, look for my new character: Rikti Ricardo!
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
or mine....Requiem Fil (latin for son of Requiem)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Okay, so I'm assuming that Legion night will start the same time as normal, right? 9 pm eastern?
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Are we playing Infinity legion tonight?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Yep! Infinity Legion. We need to start strategizing for Task Force Trinity.
Hey, there's an interesting strategy I've been hearing about on the CoH boards where a team maxes out the roster and then splits up to hunt. I don't get the theory but they say the XP is better that way because of the dynamic. (Maybe there's less chat going on in smaller re-groupings, but someone is always taking up the slack when there's an END rest needed.) Maybe we could try that out as we try to get a feel for different rosters in smaller TF teams? We divide the group one way, get a feel for that then meet up and try it another?
Posted by UltraStar on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: UltrStar has Widfire-X on Infinity and he's a fire blaster I believe. Again, not sure what level he's up to.
Wildfire-X is at lvl 11. I haven't done much with him cause I didn't know what lvl everyone else was at and fugured I'd keep him between 10-15 for any TF's that might come up.
I can be around after 7pm west coast time if you guys haven't started any TF yet.
If not maybe I can catch up with anyone else who might have been too late.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Yep! Infinity Legion. We need to start strategizing for Task Force Trinity.
Hey, there's an interesting strategy I've been hearing about on the CoH boards where a team maxes out the roster and then splits up to hunt. I don't get the theory but they say the XP is better that way because of the dynamic. (Maybe there's less chat going on in smaller re-groupings, but someone is always taking up the slack when there's an END rest needed.) Maybe we could try that out as we try to get a feel for different rosters in smaller TF teams? We divide the group one way, get a feel for that then meet up and try it another?
I can see how this would work. Most zones don't normally have huge mobs lying around. Of the zones I've seen, that seems limited to Perez and Boomtown. So you've got two teams of four running around spawning and defeating groups of 4-6 instead of one team of 8 running around and beating up groups of 6.
Plus the factors of shorter potty breaks, etc. We should give this a shot tonight as we hunt.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I meant to point out this CoH thread earlier...
Check it out, it's a fanfic of the Justice League as CoH players.
[ September 15, 2004, 11:53 AM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Yep! Infinity Legion. We need to start strategizing for Task Force Trinity.
Hey, there's an interesting strategy I've been hearing about on the CoH boards where a team maxes out the roster and then splits up to hunt. I don't get the theory but they say the XP is better that way because of the dynamic. (Maybe there's less chat going on in smaller re-groupings, but someone is always taking up the slack when there's an END rest needed.) Maybe we could try that out as we try to get a feel for different rosters in smaller TF teams? We divide the group one way, get a feel for that then meet up and try it another?
I can see how this would work. Most zones don't normally have huge mobs lying around. Of the zones I've seen, that seems limited to Perez and Boomtown. So you've got two teams of four running around spawning and defeating groups of 4-6 instead of one team of 8 running around and beating up groups of 6.
Plus the factors of shorter potty breaks, etc. We should give this a shot tonight as we hunt.
Wait till we get to Dark Astoria ... the mobs there are at least 10 plus members ...
You can run into big numbers in IP and Talos, I think ...
I did have a strategy I wanted to try myself tonight ... I wanted to see if the Lead Bricks were just inherently resistant to our holds or just needed massive locks on them ...
But we can find that out some other time. 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: I meant to point out this CoH thread earlier...
Check it out, it's a fanfic of the Justice League as CoH players.
LOL.
That was hilarious.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I did have a strategy I wanted to try myself tonight ... I wanted to see if the Lead Bricks were just inherently resistant to our holds or just needed massive locks on them ...
But we can find that out some other time. 8-)
Actually, I figured we could test that out at one of the points when we re-gather. I figured if the split teaming works the first time we try it, we'd try different arrangements, gather together and split up differently, to see which ones worked best... I'm thinking tonight's all about testing various options and figuring different hold effectiveness would be a part of that.
[ September 15, 2004, 03:23 PM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: I meant to point out this CoH thread earlier...
Check it out, it's a fanfic of the Justice League as CoH players.
LOL.
That was hilarious.
Be sure to read the rest of the thread, there are follow up espisodes.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Man tonight was fun. I know we didn't do the split up thing like we talked about, but I think we established that the Infinity Legion is one nass-kicking organization!
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Hehehe, it was fun wasn't it?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Yes it was. I locked down an Eid! *singing* I locked down an Eid! I locked down an Eid!
heh heh.
I think what Infinity Legion should do next is hunt Hydra in Perez Park. If our controller types can hold those, that could be an easy way for us to wrack up some points ...
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
ISSUE #2 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm excited.. can ya tell?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I'm so mixed on issue 2... I'd prefer to have had a chance to play with the unfixed Smoke Greneade but there's so many nice features.
Over at the CoH website it says:
quote:EMERGENCY BROADCAST Thursday, September 16, 2004
NOT A TEST
THIS IS A PARAGON CITY EMERGENCY BROADCAST. PLEASE STAY TUNED....
"The Paragon City authorities have detected numerous dimensional disturbances in the area. Heroes are asked to be on alert for any strange occurrences in the city."
Yep, we're being invaded. Perhaps we need to call an emergency meeting of the Legionnaires of Virtue? (I think they're out strongest batch.)
Damn, this interferes with cleaning, doesn't it? I'm supposed to finish before the boyfriend gets back from he airport.
I'm gonna have to reasearch my thug lock, it's supposed to be able to hit bosses, but I wasn't able to last night, so I'm hoping an extra acc enhancement will help that.
Or perhaps I should go to Galaxy City and see if I can lock a lvl 4 Eid.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Cool! Have to break out Condo and head off to battle! See you all there Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Mike called and says the forums are reporting floating eyeballs coming through glowing portals. I think the Legionnaires of Virtue definitely must step in so Grev can tentacle their as ... uh, eyeball. (That doesn't sound nearly as menacing. )
Unfortunately, I don't get off work til 7, if I'm lucky. I don't know if I can wait that long. I feel a massive cold coming on real quick.
[ September 16, 2004, 10:44 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
My back is killing me and I'm already home! Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
:COUGH: :COUGH:
Was that a cough I heard?
Sounds serious! You should go home and get some rest! Posted by LyleLyle on :
Somebody remind me that I can't afford to go on vacation, anyway, so there's no point in saving up my time off... (No sick leave just paid time off at my office.)
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Vacations are getting very expensive... and for what? You still get exhausted and need time of to recuperate.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Cool eyeballs!
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Capes look awesome! Can't wait to get some.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Must... control... jealousy....
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Outcast now have powers. Brick has stone armour, minions have powers as well. There is now an Outcast cooler with ice blast powers, an Outcast Charger with electric blast powers, etc.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Shockers now have that seem windstorm effect as Sorcerors
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
There is also an Outcast Torch with flame blasts.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
1 hour and 26 minutes til freedom!
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
The Hollow is very cool.. lots of fun there, and cops that actually shoot at bad guys!!!
Seems like ALOT of villians have lock-down powers... YIKES!
People were peeing their pants this morning when the alert sounded... I haven't seen any eyeball thingies yet, but alot of unusual sights..
Such as Freakshow's in Steel Canyon... they had the Green Tram surrounded at one point, and they were killing Outcasts... it was wild.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Hurry home everyone! This is very cool!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Another ninety minutes...
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Finally leaving! Look for Prism at around 9:15... (in about an hour)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
So what did everyone decide to do in terms of where to play?
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
I'm at Liberty with Mystic Tempest along with Caroline who is Starfire-Kori. We're waiting in Atlas Park for people to show up.
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
Sorry for not coming back on to Liberty, guys, but there's only so many times you can get booted out without wanting to throw the computer out the window. Bummer, because I never really got the chance to play with Garth Tempest. I kept getting killed around every corner.
I think there were just way too many people on-line tonight and that's why I had a hard time staying on. It got to be quite frustrating. After a few days, I'm sure things will die down.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I'll be playing with the new Katanna animations on Victory. Look for Kamisori there....
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Oaky, WTH was all the raves about? The new katana animations are boring!
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I, so far, didn't find much to like but that could be because of playing with brand new characters. Although the burning office was very well done.
Here are some pics from tonight. First the burning office. Full of smoke and altars. Very eerie.
[ September 16, 2004, 07:40 PM: Message edited by: Deathstroke Lad ]
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
One of the altars.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Some of the new baddies that hang around the portals popping up everywhere. Forgive my heat soaked brain, I've already forgotten what they are called.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
And a very rare sight indeed. Garth dancing. They have apparantly raised the aggrevation level of the baddies and if you are a lot higher than they are they will ignore you. So Silver Slasher, Condo, Doc and I had a dance party while some Trolls beat up on a Brick.
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
Are we ever going to run the Titans gang again? It seemed like the most frustrating experience, especially with the new invaders from that portal. I'll probably never touch Garth Tempest agin unless you guys want to.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
I waited around for you guys for awhile as Tara Markov (just couldnt bring myself to do a Tank aka gnarkk).
Oh well... hope to catch ya soon
Posted by UltraStar on :
I've never seen so many heroes crammed into one place before today.
City Hall was packed....
The Icon stores were packed...
Perez Park was packed....
All with high lvl characters too.
UltraStar now has 2 capes for 2 of his 3 costumes.
Had to run around all over the map and finally fight lvl 30-32 Rikti in Perez but I got it and it's oh-so sweet!!!
Died 5 times and got 40,000 debt but damn, that cape flows real good!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by UltraStar: I've never seen so many heroes crammed into one place before today.
City Hall was packed....
The Icon stores were packed...
Perez Park was packed....
All with high lvl characters too.
UltraStar now has 2 capes for 2 of his 3 costumes.
Had to run around all over the map and finally fight lvl 30-32 Rikti in Perez but I got it and it's oh-so sweet!!!
Died 5 times and got 40,000 debt but damn, that cape flows real good!
You only had to do one cape mish to get it, didn't you, Ultra?
And are capes the only thing they offer? My highest guy is Blue Battler who's a level 24, and neither of his costumes would look good with a cape. On the other hand, I think his civvies would look good with a trenchcoat ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
After the Titans broke up for the evening-- and I think that I am going to junk New Raven. How can anyone almost DIE on the training mish?! (My hat is off to you, Seymour, for gettinga dark/dark defender as high as you have Grev ...)-- Vee and I switched to Beauty Blaze and Star Kallor and did some hunting in Steel Canyon.
Kind of a mixed bag there, guys.
The only good news that I have is that I think they may have fixed the controller powers so I can actualy hold a lead brick. It's still not easy, but I think I can do it. The bad news is that almost every Outcast now has powers ... and while I can hold them, only gravity lets me shut off their powers while being held ... and that is a one at a time power ...
Outcast Torchs are almost as bad as scorchers, IMO ...
Star died at least twice, and I think that Beauty died at least three times ...
At this point, I don't think I'll ever be able to solo with Star ... while I can hold the baddies, it takes all my endurance to do so, and I don't do enough damage to put that many of them away once I lock them down ... those multiple attacks just kill me ... literally!
And I'm STILL not at 12 yet ... 8-(
Vee, when we get a chance, I want to run Beauty and Star again. I want to revise our tactics. The first thing I want to find out is just how far away someone can be from Star and still be healed by his radiant aura ...
Could use everyone else as well ... we gotta get Princess and Star levelled up so we can do cape mish! Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I didn't get to play much last night because shortly after you all went to Titans, I had to go pick up my hubby and wait for the tow truck when his car died.
I played a little when I got back and a bit this morning, and I'm about ready to call it quits.
It barely was before, and certainly isn't now, a game for the casual player. I'm sorry, Statesman, but I don't have 12 hours a day and 24 on weekends to play your game. You don't want us to be obsessed with XP? Then give us all the powers at once and let us have fun.
When it takes a month to get a character from level 15 to 16, what's the fun in that? Sure, I enjoy playing with you guys a lot, but I'm really frustrated at how long it takes to level past 12. And now that the villains have a vaster array of weapons and powers, it takes even longer to complete missions, and we rack up even more debt.
They gave the Tsoo caltrops! It took forever to complete a mission last night, and we only did it because the level 18 on the team who had been reversed sidekicked got sick of dying and went to full strength in a mission of 15s and 16s bad guys. I died twice (though the first time was because one of the team members TPed me to the mish without warning while I was flying, and I landed right in the middle of a mob of 17 trolls. I am now always selecting the TP prompt option.)
I want to use the different powers. I want to visit the different maps. I want to fight the different villains. But I'd like to do it before my 50th birthday. And at the rate I'm going, it's going to take SL another 17 years just to hit 20, and I'm starting to wonder if this game is worth the things I've been giving up to play it.
[ September 17, 2004, 05:22 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by UltraStar on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
You only had to do one cape mish to get it, didn't you, Ultra?
And are capes the only thing they offer? My highest guy is Blue Battler who's a level 24, and neither of his costumes would look good with a cape. On the other hand, I think his civvies would look good with a trenchcoat ... ][/QUOTE] -------------------------------------------------
No trenchcoats as of yet, anyway... My third costume (secret identity) needs a leather jacket.
It is one door mission in Perez that wins you the right to buy and design a cape but there are about 4 small "talk to..." missions scattered in various cities you have to do first.
When I did the mission with 2 other people both of them died and I was in the red untill we got a "mission failed" (when the Rikti destroy the object you want to protect). The toughest opponent is a Rikti Mentalist who can kill you easier than he should, I think. Also another Rikti (communications officer maybe) opens warp portals bringing more and more enemies into the building so you have to destroy the portals a.s.a.p. as well. When we did the mission with 6 others we had at least 3 mentalists and i think 3 warp portals and a hellova lot more mobs. I died 4 times there...in fact we all did.
I took the advice of a lvl 42 buddy of mine and solo'd my mission (died once and used up all my inspirations twice) but I finished it and don't remember even seeing the mentalist in there.
Then went back to City hall and then to Icons to buy my cape (yes, buy...not free).
For some reason, the second mission for power effects for lvl 30's in Creys Folley seemed to be alot easier. Just kill 15 Trolls, 15 Rikti, 15 Devoured and return to City Hall then to Icons to pick me up some electric eyes (looks damn cool).
So if you CAN solo it I would say try unless you have a very well organized team happening.
Whether or not this situation applies to the lvl 20 cape mission or not, I don't know. At 30, it was a massive pain of unwelcome debt.
I think they did a great job on the way the capes flow in the wind, though.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
I can never solo with Doc Nimbus again... unless I want to go after greens or greys only. Everyone else just wipes up the floor with him now.
I played with my 19th level tank, and he used to be able to take on reds one on one, but now he doesn't stand a chance! I racked up more debt yesterday than I did in our TF!
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
I'm defintiely going to have to change my tactics... it's like starting all over again.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
After initially logging in, I decided to take a few hours away from Paragon City just 'cause it was so slow going. Signed back around 11PM and most of the lag was gone and the city was back to normal-ish levels.
I totally soloed and, yeah, everything is a lot harder. I haven't played with Captain Hottie but my other solo characters are taking longer to defeat thugs. It would be easier in a group, but I don't like the idea of having to sign on and wait until I can find a team to do anything.
I rerolled The Jade Enforcer, my cheesecake assasin's daughter and tried to get that stupid Outbreak badge until I ran out of patience and logged off. (You need to defeat 100 contaminated.) However, I hear sexy female characters get offers to be PowerLeveled (I had the term wrong before, it turns out PLing is when you add a low level character to a high level team so that the low level gets the mega-xp without the high levels having to do much work.) so maybe she'll advance fast once I take her into the city.
('course the power levelers are the reason why they upped the difficulty, too. Sigh. I don't get why TPTB just let them be.)
Played with my MA scrapper and yeah the new storm kick is way cool. The character does play much better, now.
Tried exploring the hollows and it does look pretty cool. Interestingly, there's a wide dispersion in thug levels for the zone. I initially ran into fives and, halfway into the zone, started running into 15s.
I soloed my lvl 13 scrapper against those Rularuu in GC and even then they seemed pretty tough. Yikes. If we get invaded this weekend this will be interesting.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Aqua Lad Kid: Are we ever going to run the Titans gang again? It seemed like the most frustrating experience, especially with the new invaders from that portal. I'll probably never touch Garth Tempest agin unless you guys want to.
I hope we do run the Tiatns again but there's no question that last night was very frustrating. Starting a new character in the middle of the "invasion" was probably not a great idea. We had no chance against most of them and kept dying, which mde it much less fun that it should have been.
I think we would have enjoyed it more as a group if we were using higher level chars than lvl 3-4.
Was it just me or did it seem harder to hit (much less kill) anyone we faced yetserday? Beauty is pretty powerful and used to be able to hold her own against just about anything including groups of 5-6 of her own level. I think she died more last night than she has in her entire existence! Ended up with over 1200 in debt. The lack of accuracy was startling. My impression is that it must have been adjusted downward. She's never missed so much.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Aqua Lad Kid: Are we ever going to run the Titans gang again? It seemed like the most frustrating experience, especially with the new invaders from that portal. I'll probably never touch Garth Tempest agin unless you guys want to.
I hope we do run the Tiatns again but there's no question that last night was very frustrating. Starting a new character in the middle of the "invasion" was probably not a great idea. We had no chance against most of them and kept dying, which mde it much less fun that it should have been.
I think we would have enjoyed it more as a group if we were using higher level chars than lvl 3-4.
Was it just me or did it seem harder to hit (much less kill) anyone we faced yetserday? Beauty is pretty powerful and used to be able to hold her own against just about anything including groups of 5-6 of her own level. I think she died more last night than she has in her entire existence! Ended up with over 1200 in debt. The lack of accuracy was startling. My impression is that it must have been adjusted downward. She's never missed so much.
I found I was having accuracy issues with SL, but I wasn't sure if it was because they were harder or because I had accidentally replaced my accuracy enhancement on my heal when I got the SO.
Linus was having trouble this morning, too, but I hadn't played him in a while so I wasn't sure. And I thought the ones I fought were just plain harder to kill.
I hope there's massive protest on the board. I've never posted there, but maybe I'll send them an e-mail. I'll give it the weekend before I make my final decision.
My hubby has characters on both accounts, though, so we may have to keep them both. In that case I'll probably stick around at least casually until December. The Sims 2 will be on my Christmas list.
[ September 17, 2004, 11:39 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
The message board is down right now, but I did compose a message along those lines... I'm planning on trying to post it as soon as the MB is back.
BTW, Seymour I talk about you in my post and summarize my perception of your feelings. I haven't played enough to get a feel for my reaction to the changes, but you bring up a concern of mine. Hope I don't misstate you horribly.
(Tho the conversation was about the "casual player" and my main point is that there's more than one kind of casual player and -- IMO, natch -- there's a lot of CoH players who play a lot but don't want to have to be total CoH geeks to get to see the cool stuff that comes later. It doesn't have to be fast, but we want to feel like we're approaching the next level.)
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I look forward to seeing what you write. What's your sign on, so I can keep an eye out for it.?
I've just been on the boards looking at the many complaints about it. It sounds like some of them are bugs they'r fixing, but the official list doesn't include any of my concerns.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
It's nice to hear that it wasn't only me who thought that everyone had been gimped. I got Siphoniator up to level 5 in about an hour and a half of play the day before yesterday. By that time, I was taking 1s out with one blast, and twos with two. After Issue 2 came out, it took TWO blasts to take out a level 1 Hellion and THREE to take out a level 2... and I was a FIVE!!!
That's sprockin' ridiculous!
A friend of mine who's a level 36 empathy defender told me that she and another friend of hers couldn't even finish the cape mish ...
I really think that they screwed up this update ... the casual gamer isn't giong to play if they make it too hard to get anywhere ... and I play a lot more than most casual gamers do ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Guys, I'm going to run Star Kallor again to see if I can get the points I need to hit 12. I'll be soloing in King's Row against 8s and 9s ... not great XP, but I think I can do that without dying and I only need about 400 poitns to level when you add in debt...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Just read the board. Lots of people are very angry. Wonder if anything will be done about it?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: I look forward to seeing what you write. What's your sign on, so I can keep an eye out for it.?
I'm CrocoLyle on the boards since they won't allow the account/board names to match. The thread can be found here . There's a lot of noise on the board, most of it consisting of someone complaining and then the posters ganging up and calling that person stupid or lazy with whiny mixed in.
quote:I've just been on the boards looking at the many complaints about it. It sounds like some of them are bugs they'r fixing, but the official list doesn't include any of my concerns.
Yeah, I think the noise is loud enough so hopefully they'll get this fixed quickly...
[ September 17, 2004, 03:14 PM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Whew.
I finally got the points I needed to get Star Kallor up to 12. I hunted in King's Row. Not a lot of XP to be gathered per kill, but at least I didn't die. It took me about 2 hours to get the points I needed to level, and I still have about 40 points of debt.
I hope that we can play together as a team soon. As tough as last night was, I'm not ready to give up on the game yet. I really enjoy playing with all of you, and I'd like to see just how well we do as a full team... especially on Infinity which I honestly think has the potential to be a better set of chars than the ones on Virtue ...
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Sounds like we're headed towards a meetup on Infinity then?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Sounds like we're headed towards a meetup on Infinity then?
I'm down with that. Right now Vee and I are on Virtue, but I'd prefer to try out my new power. accelerate metabolism. 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Andrew is totally useless now.
Vee and I were playing Condo and Andrew and trying to fight the alien invaders. A large number of heroes had assembled to shut down the alien portal as it appeared. We joined in. The plan was to knock the portal down and try to keep them from appearing. When they showed up, we'd fly away and come back when our health was restored.
Condo did all right because he was able to snipe and do damage from a distance, but Andrew has to go in and actually punch things to do any damage.
So it was punch punch ... get stunned ... almost die while waiting for the stun to wear off, and then run ... heal, and repeat.
For all this, I got 21 xp and 22 debt relief.
I died 3-4 times tonight ... and did no real damage to any of the baddies while doing it.
The bottom line is that it wasn't fun.
And I'm done.
I'm not going to play Andrew again until they fix that damn stun power so that a tank has a chance of actually doing some damage. The whole thing that a tank is supposed to do is serve as a meat shield as they call it-- but I can't do that if I die in four seconds.
When they fix it ... if they fix it ... then I'll play Andrew again. But right now I can't stand the thought of playing the guy ...
I'm still in for Infinity and Protector and our various other teams, but I'm not going to play Andrew for a good long time. And the other tanks aren't going to be a lot of fun either, I'm sure.
Right now I'm just totally pissed off...
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle:
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: I look forward to seeing what you write. What's your sign on, so I can keep an eye out for it.?
I'm CrocoLyle on the boards since they won't allow the account/board names to match. The thread can be found here . There's a lot of noise on the board, most of it consisting of someone complaining and then the posters ganging up and calling that person stupid or lazy with whiny mixed in.
quote:I've just been on the boards looking at the many complaints about it. It sounds like some of them are bugs they'r fixing, but the official list doesn't include any of my concerns.
Yeah, I think the noise is loud enough so hopefully they'll get this fixed quickly...
That sounds like a decent summary of my thoughts. I agree that I don't want to level to 50 in a week, but like I saw someone mention on a different thread, if I play for an hour, I don't want to have to pull out a ruler to see if I gained a millimeter of XP.
If I go up to a single lieutenant of the same level, I don't want to have to use up all my inspirations and then still run behind the police drone to survive (like I had to do with Linus this morning, and he's got 4 good offense powers). Controllers were already almost impossible to solo after 7 or so, and defenders after 12, and now it's even worse. And nothing I saw from the devs sounded like they were adressing the general spike in difficulty, just a few specific bugs like the Ritki sword.
I guess we'll see what happens over the weekend.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
From what I'm seeing I have to agree. Not that I can really concentrate too much on the new patch with this crap still in my system but they seemed to have done nothing for the heroes this time around.
Lightning has always been the red-headed stepchild of the blasters, the bottom of the tier. But now its even worse. My miss percentage has spiked way up and I'm doing less damage to villains 2 levels lower than I am than before the patch. Like you all, I don't want to jump to level 50 overnight but I want to see a steady progression. And with a lightning blaster there is just no way right now to do that. Garth, on Virtue, will never hit 15 with his debt level and xp needed. Unless I want to join a group and just hover while they do all the work.
Even my fire blasters aren't doing as well as before but they can still at least solo and gain some xp. If we do play Virtue it'll be Dirk for me for awhile. On Infinity I'll have to pass. I'm really not up to starting over a new character from scratch again and Lightning Ranzz is the only character I have there.
On top of all of this, it seem no matter what server I'm on it goes offline after a few minutes. I switch to a different one then that one goes off. What's up? Are there really that many players out there who were not playing and have now only logged in because of the update? That's not fair to regular players.
Okay, gotta quit. My head feels like its going to explode.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: From what I'm seeing I have to agree. Not that I can really concentrate too much on the new patch with this crap still in my system but they seemed to have done nothing for the heroes this time around.
Lightning has always been the red-headed stepchild of the blasters, the bottom of the tier. But now its even worse. My miss percentage has spiked way up and I'm doing less damage to villains 2 levels lower than I am than before the patch. Like you all, I don't want to jump to level 50 overnight but I want to see a steady progression. And with a lightning blaster there is just no way right now to do that. Garth, on Virtue, will never hit 15 with his debt level and xp needed. Unless I want to join a group and just hover while they do all the work.
Even my fire blasters aren't doing as well as before but they can still at least solo and gain some xp. If we do play Virtue it'll be Dirk for me for awhile. On Infinity I'll have to pass. I'm really not up to starting over a new character from scratch again and Lightning Ranzz is the only character I have there.
On top of all of this, it seem no matter what server I'm on it goes offline after a few minutes. I switch to a different one then that one goes off. What's up? Are there really that many players out there who were not playing and have now only logged in because of the update? That's not fair to regular players.
Okay, gotta quit. My head feels like its going to explode.
Hope you feel better soon, buddy ...
But I gotta say right now: the nights that the Legion is on Virtue, I won't be playing until such time as the developers do somethins so I have a shot at getting somewhere with Andrew.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
They were doing something today. I had to download something when I logged in.
We had a long Lost mission tonight, but it was definitely more doable. My accuracy seemed better. The Infinity group made some real progress.
Of course, my opinion could change again when I face another group of Tsoo with caltrops. Posted by Blue Battler on :
Sorry I missed it, but my head was killing me last night so I went to bed early and wouldn't have been able to play anyway ... Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Skimming the boards this morning, and I a found the perfect casual player thread. This guy articultes exactly what the problems are. I hope the devs are looking:
I had to download and apply another patch, so hopefully things are getting better quickly.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Skimming the boards this morning, and I a found the perfect casual player thread. This guy articultes exactly what the problems are. I hope the devs are looking:
I had to download and apply another patch, so hopefully things are getting better quickly.
I haven't played this morning, so I'll have to get on soon and get the lay of the land.
And I wish they would post what portion of their audience are casual gamers and what are the hard core people. I can't see that the hard core people as being a good long term audience ... they'll just move onto the next hot game. Those of us who weren't into MMOs to begin with should be the ones they'd want to keep. We don't use the servers as much and we pay just as much..
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Okay, I just ran Siphoniator and got him up to level 6. It was much easier than it was on Thursday. The baddies went down much easier than they were doing Thursday night. I even managed to take out a couple of the aliens after taking a hit of a disclipine.
I may actually feel like possibly taking Andrew out for a spin again someday, but I hope that Vee will take clear mind for Mysa now ... looks like we're going to need that a lot now...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Anyone try to do a Hollows mish yet?
That seems to be still screwed up. The lead bricks seem to have multiple holds now ...
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
I'm taking a break from the game for awhile.... it's given me a HUGE headache... hopefully they'll fix some things... at some point anyway.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
They've been doing a lot of patches and the like lately. They just yanked it down again.
They are working on it ... and I think that things have gotten a little better. I was able to solo my level 6 defender without too much difficulty this morning ...
Posted by LyleLyle on :
DM, you might want to log in just to get a few of the patches out of the way... they've been coming in fast and furious. I've been thinking of you and what a pain those patches must be on dialup (nothing compared to the update but I can see the frustration with getting three patches after staying away for a couple days).
Kiri-Kimi did a coule hunting mish in the hollows and, with someone who knows the area and is a good team player, it's not so bad. You gotta make sure to stay in the right area (since it gets up to level 15) and function as a team (our biggest problem was a teammate who'd go and aggro another mob before we could even talk about what to do next, which is a problem anywhere).
(I stopped healing him after he got me killed, tho he still survived our venture.)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys. Wednesday this week is Smallville premiere .. and The Lost ...
So will we be playing at all this week?
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I only care about Smallville, and it's just an hour premiere this year. I'll be on.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hello?
Where is everyone?
I ran New Raven on Liberty today, and she did better than she did on Thursday, but she still has one of the worst accuracy rates I've ever seen on a character...
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I was playing Linus a while ago, but I'm done for the night, I think. I'll be there Wednesday, though. Infinity group?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Infinity is good for me. Did you see any of the new aliens whose name I'm not even going to attempt to spell? I was home sick from work today, and I didn't see any of them running around.
Once we get confirmation that we want to be on Infinity I'll check with Grem and see if she can play. She may be working...
Posted by UltraStar on :
Just so everybody knows (and for some reason I've met a few people in the game who want nothing to do with this)...
Lvl 15-20 in one day.
I got Kara Zor-El from 16-20 (yes, cape too) in just a few hours.
You need 4 people (lvl 15-18 get best xp) to start the Skyway TF with Synapse. The leader should stay there to call Synapse whenever needed and one fast travelling player in Steel Canyon. The others can be in either city since they will only be killing clocks.
-first short mission: scout for locations in SC...900xp. -second short mission: kill 30 clockworks (their lvl doesnt matter)...900xp. -third short mission: talk to Positron in SC ...900xp.
Then report back to Skyway and everyone quits the TF and starts it over again (the xp gets lower as you lvl)
Do this a couple dozen times and everybody will be ready for capes by the time your done.
Although some people would seem to rather earn their xp the hard way, I, however, think the game owes us this cheat for all the other b.s. it throws at us.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
I did't see any Ruluaru yesterday at all. Guess we finally stopped the invasion.
Interresting info about the shortcut to a cape Ultra. Thanks for sharing it! Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, Ultra, how long did that take?
I'm thinking that would be kind of nice. I'd like to get Star his cape. 8-)
Hey, Vee ... where were you, man? I didn't see you on at all yesterday!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Hmmm, interesting tip, Ultra. Perhaps we should try this out with the Ls of Virtue this weekend?
(Maybe with breaks to stop and smell the roses... is there anything interesting we should check out at lvls 15 - 20, like say a good storyline where we track down the tsoo boss?)
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Hey, Ultra, how long did that take?
I'm thinking that would be kind of nice. I'd like to get Star his cape. 8-)
Hey, Vee ... where were you, man? I didn't see you on at all yesterday!
Yeah Mysa wants her's really bad and Beauty would like one also. As does Lar. I might go ahead and get Condo one (along with an appropriate uniform for a cape) just for the sake of getting one. I really think they came out great!
Blue...I was on Virtue almost all night from about 4:30/5:00 until about 12:30/1:00. I was only off line for a dinner break from about 7:00-8:00 or so. Got Condo's debt down into the 4200+ range from almost 8000.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Ultra,
Can you combine the cape mish with a new costume mish? Both of those are possible at level 20, but I didn't know if they were the same thing ... that is, you get a cape and you get a new costume ... or you have to do one or the other.
Andrew doesn't need a cape, but he could use a second costume.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Blue, from what I hear they're two different missions... the cape mission involves a capsule that you have to find and protect while the second costume involves only "arresting" a number of Tsoo.
I'm not sure if you can do both misisons, but I'd expect you can, 'else some folks would be screaming on the boards, I'd imagine.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Blue, from what I hear they're two different missions... the cape mission involves a capsule that you have to find and protect while the second costume involves only "arresting" a number of Tsoo.
I'm not sure if you can do both misisons, but I'd expect you can, 'else some folks would be screaming on the boards, I'd imagine.
Yeah... I can't see Andrew with a cape, but I'd be willing to help someone earn one ... and they could help me earn a second costume. 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Okay, guys.
Spill.
How'd the TF go?!
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Just have the last mish to go (the one in our future Legion HQ!) We're going to try to do that tonight before joining the rest of you on Infinity.
Unfortunately, Prism wasn't able to get online last night until very late because he was having modem problems. That made last night's mish tough for Seymour, SLK & me because of the embalmed abominations that Prism usually is able to "confuse" into exploding among their buddies.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I'm soooo bummed I couldn't get on last night, but I can't wait to see what this last mish looks like. I was getting really frustrated trying to figure out the problem (thankfully I have a boyfriend who can set up a router and such). Uhm.... you guys took a few steps towards that embalmed badge?
Overall, I'd say a group of four makes for much, much easier Task Force. The foes we were getting were easier (past tense, I don't want to jinx the last mish) and managable.
The lower level game is back to normal, IMO. I haven't played much with my powergamer fire/dev blaster because he's level 15 and I want him to do the positron TF and haven't found a good time for it. He did go hellion hunting last night, tho and got his badge for that. The main thing, tho, is that my lower level characters are making it through the game, though there may indeed be a need to adjust tactics.
(Doc come back!)
The big change to me is that the thugs have gotten a new, improved AI. Their line of sight has been expanded, so it's more likely they'll see you and we can't take for granted that group A can be engaged without getting group B's aggro... especially if group B is above you (something we learned in the worst way). They also send out true patrols, so when you take an end rest have someone watching all sides. I kinda like this increased bit of difficulty since it requires a little bit more strategic thinking.
They really pushed The Hollows into the game, didn't they? I've got four characters who've been sent there, all but two at fairly separate levels (5, 5, 8, 13). From what I've read, there's a chain of missions and contacts that lead to the Hollows trial.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
I think every single contact (all different chars) I've been to in the past week has sent me to see David Wilcox in the Hollows.
It does feel as if the lower levels have been somewhat re-readjusted back to where they were before issue #2. I still think that our accuracy has definitely been reduced somewhat however.
Last night we saw mostly 15s & 16s but we did manage to make it through with just the three of us. I'll admit that we've gotten very dependent on having Prism do scouting and confusing to weaken mobs. Took as a while to adjust to his absence.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Okay ok, i'm back... I was playing a 19th level character this morning, and really enjoyed it.. It looks like they're getting the bugs all worked out.
I've been working on getting badges lately.. that seems to be more fun than trying to level. I get alot more frustrated when I focus on leveling, and have a lot more fun when just focusing on badges and missions.
Debt is no longer a worry.... Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Actually, I think the increased mission xp has made leveling by doing continuous missions much easier than it was before. At least seems that way to me.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by DMSpeedy: I've been working on getting badges lately.. that seems to be more fun than trying to level. I get alot more frustrated when I focus on leveling, and have a lot more fun when just focusing on badges and missions.
Yeah, the badges are fun. I'm trying to work out a checklist for myself so I can remember which steps I've taken with which characters.
The history badges are cool, I like the extra backstory there.
Which gives me an opening to ask... anybody want to get together to do a badge hunt this weekend?
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: Actually, I think the increased mission xp has made leveling by doing continuous missions much easier than it was before. At least seems that way to me.
I think you're right -- the mish XP has been higher, which I like because it gives missions an advantage over random XP farming.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Lyle and SLK, come on to Infinity. My hubby needed the account, so we can't finish TF tonight. We'll figure out something for the weekend.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
I love collecting Badges!
You can go to the website below if you want to cheat and now where and how all the badges and plaques are...
We haven't reached the breaking point yet. We were only at 1754 posts I think.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
And to check your coordinates use /loc. For some it will help.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle:
quote:Originally posted by DMSpeedy: I've been working on getting badges lately.. that seems to be more fun than trying to level. I get alot more frustrated when I focus on leveling, and have a lot more fun when just focusing on badges and missions.
Yeah, the badges are fun. I'm trying to work out a checklist for myself so I can remember which steps I've taken with which characters.
I'm working on an Excel spreadsheet that lists all the info and you can use it to keep track of which ones each Hero has or needs. I'll let you know when it's done if you want a copy.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: I'm working on an Excel spreadsheet that lists all the info and you can use it to keep track of which ones each Hero has or needs. I'll let you know when it's done if you want a copy.
Heh, sounds like we've got the same idea. Let's compare notes when we're done.
So, who feels like taking to LoV out for a Kraken hunt? Captain Hottie joined a fight against one but didn't get the badge for it (tho he did get 100 XP) guess you gotta get the kill shot if you're not in a group.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Okay, got the first draft of the Excel speadsheet done. It's in Excel and I don't know if this will work but I've uploaded it to the following web address
Let me know if you have any problems getting it.
Edited to remove broken link. See message below for corrected link.
[ September 24, 2004, 12:02 PM: Message edited by: CM3 Vee ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I'm getting an error with the file name -- it looks like there's a character added to replace a space, maybe that's it?
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: I'm working on an Excel spreadsheet that lists all the info and you can use it to keep track of which ones each Hero has or needs. I'll let you know when it's done if you want a copy.
Heh, sounds like we've got the same idea. Let's compare notes when we're done.
So, who feels like taking to LoV out for a Kraken hunt? Captain Hottie joined a fight against one but didn't get the badge for it (tho he did get 100 XP) guess you gotta get the kill shot if you're not in a group.
The unseen.net site is excellent. It will help tremendously in completing & correcting my spreadsheet. Thanks for the link!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I created XS Ive last night as a Kinetic Defender-- because I didn't want to wait until level 14 to have super speed! 8-)
I ran two mishs last night that were rather interesting. In the first one, I found that the Dance Club is actually used for the old low level "Bust Hellions at a Rave" mish ... and in the second I was facing 5th column ... and they really dressed up the old warehouse for that one! In some ways, it was easier because there were doors that sealed off each level ... so you only had to deal with a few Ratzis at a time ... it really made me feel like I was infilitrating a major base ... it has whetted my appetite to see what some of the upper level door mishs are like now ...
And oh yeah, XS Ive is on Virtue. 8-)
Oh, has anyone else noticed the audible element has been tweaked now? You can hear police calls by the drones, and the 5th Column Mish had a vaguely Hitler like voice droning over loudspeakers ... a small touch, but a nice one.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Yay ... thanks to Scott and Caroline last night, Blue picked up over 25 badges ... and one of them was near the apartment of Apex and War Witch from the comics (they live in Steel Canyon, btw).
Thanks, guys. That was a lot of fun. 8-)
Oh, and I finally got to see-- and help kill--the kraken! That was neat, though I'd been expecting something more cthuluian ...
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
That Kraken was nothing like the very first one I had spotted. That one towered over the wall and was more earthen in color. Guess they've made some changes to it.
And I think we've got all the AP, KR, Galaxy and Steel badges. With the exception of the Positron TF badge that is. I still want to know why Garth didn't get it automatically when the update went live. I've heard that others have gotten it without having to redo the TF.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: That Kraken was nothing like the very first one I had spotted. That one towered over the wall and was more earthen in color. Guess they've made some changes to it.
And I think we've got all the AP, KR, Galaxy and Steel badges. With the exception of the Positron TF badge that is. I still want to know why Garth didn't get it automatically when the update went live. I've heard that others have gotten it without having to redo the TF.
Blue never did the Positron Task Force. Blue, Lady, and Gung started it, but we quit after dying about 5 or 6 times, I think.
You know, I haven't checked to see if Andrew has it or not.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Reportedly, they're datamining on the TF badges and rewarding them as they find it. I'd expect that would mean that the more recently you finished the TF the sooner you'll get the badge but SLK says that Pete never got his badge.
Prism got his as soon as he signed on (after the update) but lost it when he re-did the TF.
They won't be datamining anything beyond TFs, tho, because it'll take too long to try to figure out how many helloins, bone daddies, etc every character's taken out. Hm, I think they are datamining on the mission badges, tho.
Apparently, too, there's some annoying behaviour going on with high-level badge seekers. KSing in Perez to get that Hellion badge, running around asking to team on specific low-level missions, etc.
Does anyone know what the max level for the Cave of Transcendence TF is? I'd like Prism to play that but it looks like he's also got a Vaz storyline he's working on. I do want to see the Cave tho.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Condo didn't get the Positron badge either but I hope it eventually gets awarded.
There is alot of KSing going on. I was working on Condo's debt by killing Tsoo in Steel late last night when I got power back and had higher level chars come along and kill my Sorceror, Iron Hands and Dragon Flies a number of times. The Tsoo badge is only for bosses so they ignored the minions and Ancestral Spirits (guess they don't realize Sorcerors are lieuts also). Only takes one hit for a level 27 to take out a lvl 15 Boss so I guess it's an easy way for them to earn the badge.
I've also seen lots of upper level chars BEGGING to be allowed on teams doing lower level missions (like Spelunker) Some are even willing to pay to be allowed on. Some are polite about it and I don't mind them but others seem to be spiteful if you turn them down.
Got invited to a Synapse XP mission early this AM and UltraStar is correct about it being a great way to level quickly. Condo had just levled to 18 & only had about 64 xp into the first bubble. In the course of 1 hour he got about 6-7 bubbles into 18. The group had to break up at that point but it really is a fast way to level. Considering how long it took him to get to 18, this is really amazing progress. I'd say you can get from 18 to 20 in about 2-3 hours by doing it.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: I was working on Condo's debt by killing Tsoo in Steel late last night when I got power back
Yaaaay!
quote:and had higher level chars come along and kill my Sorceror, Iron Hands and Dragon Flies a number of times. The Tsoo badge is only for bosses so they ignored the minions and Ancestral Spirits (guess they don't realize Sorcerors are lieuts also).
Actually, I think there's a badge for sorcerors... the Tracer badge.
I actually got pretty good a few nights ago coming up to groups and just agrroing the Damned boss. I figured that way the street cleaners would still have a group to kill if they came by before the boss respawned.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
Yeah, I changed my tactics also. Targeted the boss right away and ignored the minions rather than trying to snipe minions and pull them away from the group. Had to run away a few times but survived. If the "street sweepers" come by and killed the bosses, I got xp for it anyway and then took out the minions. Posted by CM3 Vee on :
And then I had fun "Broadcasting" their names as Kill Stealers and telling them to go mess with someone elses mobs and to leave mine alone.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: Yeah, I changed my tactics also. Targeted the boss right away and ignored the minions rather than trying to snipe minions and pull them away from the group. Had to run away a few times but survived. If the "street sweepers" come by and killed the bosses, I got xp for it anyway and then took out the minions.
I found for Captain Hottie (level 15) going after levle 7-10 hellions if I just hit the boss with a single-target attack the rest of the mob would continue to ignore me. It took a little longer but I avoided using any AoE attacks until he boss was far enough away.
I gotta find time to get Captain Hottie on a TF. It'd be his first time teaming, tho and TFing with a group I can't say "I'm tired let's do this tomorrow." is uncomfortable new territory.
quote:And then I had fun "Broadcasting" their names as Kill Stealers and telling them to go mess with someone elses mobs and to leave mine alone.
You're far bolder than I...
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle:
quote:Originally posted by CM3 Vee: Yeah, I changed my tactics also. Targeted the boss right away and ignored the minions rather than trying to snipe minions and pull them away from the group. Had to run away a few times but survived. If the "street sweepers" come by and killed the bosses, I got xp for it anyway and then took out the minions.
I found for Captain Hottie (level 15) going after levle 7-10 hellions if I just hit the boss with a single-target attack the rest of the mob would continue to ignore me. It took a little longer but I avoided using any AoE attacks until he boss was far enough away.
I gotta find time to get Captain Hottie on a TF. It'd be his first time teaming, tho and TFing with a group I can't say "I'm tired let's do this tomorrow." is uncomfortable new territory.
quote:And then I had fun "Broadcasting" their names as Kill Stealers and telling them to go mess with someone elses mobs and to leave mine alone.
You're far bolder than I...
Since CoH isn't PvP, there's really not much they can do to you beyond what they're already doing (i.e. stealing your kills) I guess if I was in an area full of higher level mobs they could agro a bunch of them and lead them to me, but I wasn't. Mostly 15-17 which Condo can handle on his own and I've also gotten very good at flying away when appropriate.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I'd like to try that XP farming with the Virtue Legion. Anyone else up for that?
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I am! I want Shadow Lad's cape!
What's the big deal with badges? Is it just a collecting thing, or do you get something for them? I thought I remembered seeing something about trading them in for XP or influence at one point before the update.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I'd like to try that XP farming with the Virtue Legion. Anyone else up for that?
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: I am! I want Shadow Lad's cape!
What's the big deal with badges? Is it just a collecting thing, or do you get something for them? I thought I remembered seeing something about trading them in for XP or influence at one point before the update.
I'm in as well! Tonight?
Seymour, completing some of the series of badges get you additional hit points, etc. Others give you additional powers, like a Crey Pistol (taser-like) which is a permamnet addition to your arsenal.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
BTW, I did some more XP farming this afternoon for about an hour and Condo is now up to his first bubble + at lvl 19! It's very fast and very simple to do.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I can't play tonight, so I'll have to join you another time, Tuesday or Wednesday.
And now it looks like I'll be going badge hunting too. Oy!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Tonight or Wednesday would be fine. Prism and I are supposed to work on getting his kinetics defender up to level 6 so he can see what siphon speed is like, but I don't know what time is good for him yet for that.
How high do you have to be for that TF?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I think that we should try to do this fairly soon because I saw people talking about it in broadcast the other day, so you know if it's becoming public knowledge like that it's only a matter of time before the developers find a way to nerf it ...
Oh, and Seymour, I can't see any costme for Andrew needing a cape, but I'm willing to help Grev get his cape just for the experience of trying the mish out ... I DO want to get him a secondary costume, though. 8-)
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
I believe Synapse is 16-21
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Oh, and Seymour, I can't see any costme for Andrew needing a cape, but I'm willing to help Grev get his cape just for the experience of trying the mish out ... I DO want to get him a secondary costume, though. 8-)
I've heard that the cape mission can be tough, so Grev appreciates the help.
That would really suck if they nerfed it, though. All the things they put us through ... grr. I had Grev on a team this weekend, and we were doing fairly well until we did the Tsoo relic mission. I dind't recognize it, or I would have bowed out. That thing's nigh impossible, between the 50 million caltrops they throw out and the seven mind-control guys lined up at one point (stunned, hit, hit, hit -- two steps -- stunned, hit, hit, hit -- one step -- stunned, hit, hit, hit -- dead.) I had him halfway up to 17, and now he's got debt out the wazzo again.
Posted by CM3 Vee on :
What server will everyone be on tonight?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
So. Jade is doing an early 5th Column mish and boy is it cool looking. It's got these flags and lots of red decor plus these control panels that look like something KOBRA would have. They did a good job on this one.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: So. Jade is doing an early 5th Column mish and boy is it cool looking. It's got these flags and lots of red decor plus these control panels that look like something KOBRA would have. They did a good job on this one.
I ran that one with XS the other day. At first I couldn't figure out how to open the dang doors!
But it is pretty spiffy there.
The Hellion raid on a rave now takes place in the same set they use for the dance club. It's neat.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Vee, Prism, what time are Marvel Lad Lar, Mystery Man, and Colorific going to tackle the second headquarters at? Same time as last night?
I've read about facing Bedrock, and we really should try to carry a few disclipines with us ... and awakens!
Anyone else up for playing on Protector tonight?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I should be able to get on by 7ish PST. Leaving work now so, with luck I should be home soon...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, Prism, we're finishign up a mish on Virtue right now, and we'll be over after that... with luck we shiould be there by the time you get on... if not, wait for us.
Posted by STU on :
This thread seems as good a place to ask this non-COH, but computer-game-related question:
Has anyone tried the new SIMS 2?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by STU: This thread seems as good a place to ask this non-COH, but computer-game-related question:
Has anyone tried the new SIMS 2?
Heh, I've looked but considering that it was a relief that The Political Machine didn't get along with my video card...
I'm too addicted to CoH. From what I'm hearing I'll probably become equally addicted to Sims2 when I eventually get it.
Anyway, Prism's got the end of a Vaz story arc... any chance I can recruit some help on it? It involves bombs set to poison the city's water system and I've been told they need to all be deactivated at once, which I'm guessing means I need a team of three with everyone positioned by a bomb clicking on their glowy at approximately the same time.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, neat. At least your Vahz arc doesn't involve being hit with that damn Vahz plague ... that sucked like you wouldn't believe ... in fact, one of Blue's souvenirs is the hyop that was used to cure him of the plague ...
I'm willing to help Prism, but I don't know if we can do it tonight. Depends on if we can XP farm the TF before the inevitable nerfing-- and yeah, I'm a pessimist!-- but I'll help when we get a chance to do it.
Hey, Vee? What level is Mysa now? If she's lower than Condo, you might want to run her during the XP farming ... get her leveled up some too. 8-)
I really want to get XS leveled up some as well ...
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
So where are we playing tonight? Infinity or Virtue? If on Infinity I'd like to play a different character than Lightning Ranzz. Either Cadet Bannin, a level 8 Ice Blaster or Snake Plissken?, a level 11 Natural Blaster (Assualt Rifle/Devices). I've come to realize that once a Lightning Blaster starts to pick up debt he's almost impossible to get out, even with a team. Their damage ratio and accuracy just sucks compared to other blasters.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by STU: This thread seems as good a place to ask this non-COH, but computer-game-related question:
Has anyone tried the new SIMS 2?
I'm putting it on my Christmas list. I haven't read much about it, but if it's anything like the first one, it'll seriously cut into my CoH time, so I'm putting it off a bit.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Anyway, Prism's got the end of a Vaz story arc... any chance I can recruit some help on it? It involves bombs set to poison the city's water system and I've been told they need to all be deactivated at once, which I'm guessing means I need a team of three with everyone positioned by a bomb clicking on their glowy at approximately the same time.
Shadow Lad just picked up this mission last night, so he'll be happy to help. I wonder if it'll count toward both of us, like the farming missions usually do.
As to when, I would like to do some TF XP farming. as I agree that it will probably be nerfed, though how they can do it without being mean to people who actually want to finish the TF will probably be a challenge.
Scott, either way, I think we'll be on Virtue tonight since both these scenarios involve those characters.
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: [QUOTE]Originally posted by STU: [qb]
Anyway, Prism's got the end of a Vaz story arc... any chance I can recruit some help on it? It involves bombs set to poison the city's water system and I've been told they need to all be deactivated at once, which I'm guessing means I need a team of three with everyone positioned by a bomb clicking on their glowy at approximately the same time.
I'd be happy to help on that as well, Lyle
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Hey, Vee? What level is Mysa now? If she's lower than Condo, you might want to run her during the XP farming ... get her leveled up some too. 8-)
Mysa's currently almost a 17. It was my intention all along to use her in the XP farming since she REALLY wants her cape! Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Is Garth, at 14 (and a couple of bubbles) to low to run with you guys on this XP farming? I'd love to clear out the debt he collected from the TF and get him up to a 20.
Posted by Vee on :
Scott, I think he needs to be at least a 16 for the Synapse TF. If you can get on early, I could help you level him up if you'd like. Condo's half way to level 20 so we can blow away a number of higher level baddies together.
[ September 29, 2004, 08:40 AM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Does he have to be 16 or can he sk to someone? With his debt (4k+) I don't think there is anyway to get him to a 16 that quick.
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Does he have to be 16 or can he sk to someone?
He can't SK into a TF. This XP farming is basically the first three missions of the Synapse TF which you do over & over. One person stays at Synapse and creates the team, a fast runner or flyer heads to Steel to do a Patrol mish to four locations (then heads to Positron), the others go into Perez through gate in Skyway and take out a bunch of clocks. Steel runner speaks to Positron and you disband, reform team and do it all over again. You all get about 1300 Xp each time and it takes about 10 minutes all told.
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: With his debt (4k+) I don't think there is anyway to get him to a 16 that quick.
Wanna bet? Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: With his debt (4k+) I don't think there is anyway to get him to a 16 that quick.
Wanna bet? [/QB]
Unless there have been major changes I'll take that bet. It took Gung 2 MONTHS to get from 15 to 16 with running around with teams in their 20's. Like I said, a lightning blaster is screwed. I'll never build another one.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
While I'm thinking about it, I'd like to get everyone's (anyone's) opinion on if you think this is a glitch I should have reported or not.
I was running Snake for a couple of hours last night. No debt and solo. He faced two 10th level Gardvords back to back but they (the Gardvords) were in seperate groups. The first one only gave Snake 18 xp. 18! The second one gave him either 32 or 34 which should be about the norm for a lieutant one level below.
What do you think may have caused only the 18 xp for the first one? I nearly died fighting the bastard and to only get 18 xp kinda ticked me off.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
The 18 one had probably been attacked by another player not as tenacious as you -- maybe brought him down halfway in HP before having to flee. By the time you found him, he'd recovered his HP but was still linked to that other player.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
So if they are fully recovered you still only get credit for a partial 'arrest'? That, to me, is a serious flaw. Once fully recovered then their xp should be reset and only given to the one to arrest them.
I hadn't noticed this before in any other arrests but I really only pay attention to the lt's and bosses when it comes to xp.
Posted by Vee on :
I think it only resets if the other player is killed and has to go to the hospital. He probably received the other half of the xp thanks to your efforts.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Shadow Lad just picked up this mission last night, so he'll be happy to help. I wonder if it'll count toward both of us, like the farming missions usually do.
Let's try it, if that doesn't happen we'll have experience for tacking it again.
quote:As to when, I would like to do some TF XP farming. as I agree that it will probably be nerfed, though how they can do it without being mean to people who actually want to finish the TF will probably be a challenge.
The interpretation of this "glitch" that I'm hearing on the boards is that the first mission gives out too much mission XP compared to the work required. However, I think I read, too, that all the mission XP is the same, so it may be a comlicated glitch to deal with, requiring that they re-do the TF so that you have to get through some of the tougher misisons first.
Basically it sounds like another TF with design issues.
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: While I'm thinking about it, I'd like to get everyone's (anyone's) opinion on if you think this is a glitch I should have reported or not.
I was running Snake for a couple of hours last night. No debt and solo. He faced two 10th level Gardvords back to back but they (the Gardvords) were in seperate groups. The first one only gave Snake 18 xp. 18! The second one gave him either 32 or 34 which should be about the norm for a lieutant one level below.
What do you think may have caused only the 18 xp for the first one? I nearly died fighting the bastard and to only get 18 xp kinda ticked me off.
That sounds like a bug to me. Try sending a /bug report immeidately afterwards if it happens again. According to them, a report done with /bug logs location and recent activity.
[ September 29, 2004, 10:16 AM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: I think it only resets if the other player is killed and has to go to the hospital. He probably received the other half of the xp thanks to your efforts.
Then why the hell do I spend my time getting killed when I can run around Steel (or some other nice XP collection area), knock 'em down to half life then just run and hide?
Or am I just real slow and just now noticing this is the way to do things? That's just about as bad as kill stealing.
Posted by Vee on :
Agreed, but haven't you ever noticed that you get XP when someone kills one of your runners that get away from you?
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Actually no. I'm a hound. I don't let any runners get away.
And I have noticed something. When I'm killed, especially in KR, a lot of the groups that have killed me are not there when I go back for revenge. Especially if an EID was involved. Three times recently I've been killed by a group with an EID but when I went back, no group there nor have I received any XP for anyone else killing them. Is there a time, lag, between getting killed and going to the hospital when you aren't eligible for the XP from a group you were attacking but was finished by others?
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I realize that if the hospital is in a different zone, say the AP hospital if you are killed in Perez, you won't receive anything unless you get back to that zone prior to the group getting arrested. But KR, where I've noticed this, is in the same area. And my hunting ground is not that far from the hosptial. Sometimes I can get back and find a group still recovering but not like I used to.
Caroline even mentioned the other day she saw a group just disappear that she was running away from. Perhaps they now have boundaries they cannot cross and that eliminates the xp from being earned?
Then there is the old kill stealing Police Drones. I still think that is totally unfair. If another player can kill and you still get some xp then the same ought to be true for drone arrests.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Then why the hell do I spend my time getting killed when I can run around Steel (or some other nice XP collection area), knock 'em down to half life then just run and hide?
Or am I just real slow and just now noticing this is the way to do things? That's just about as bad as kill stealing.
I've actually heard of (a small number of) people doing this... mostly fire blasters (best AoE) running around in hazard zones, throwing a couple of AoE attacks and running. If someone finishes that mob before within two minutes they get a portion of the XP.
It's kinda high work and IMO the risk isn't that low and the reward not that high IMO. I guess it depends where you are and your playstyle.
On the streets of Perez it wouldn't be so hard, but in some other hazard zones (Hollows) I find it harder to get away from mobs, so the danger isn't that much less. You only get a small part of the XP and that's if someone else comes along and decides to take that group out (and in higher level zones I think you're likely to have more players who won't fight villains with partial damage because they could be a runner who's returned to the spawn location, with the hero off on another runner's escape route).
quote: And I have noticed something. When I'm killed, especially in KR, a lot of the groups that have killed me are not there when I go back for revenge. Especially if an EID was involved. Three times recently I've been killed by a group with an EID but when I went back, no group there nor have I received any XP for anyone else killing them. Is there a time, lag, between getting killed and going to the hospital when you aren't eligible for the XP from a group you were attacking but was finished by others?
I've gone and put a thumbtack on the map when I died a few times and did find the same group there most times, if I got there quick enough.
I've also gotten XP when others have taken care of your mob, however that only happens if I'm out of the hospital when the kill takes place. Being in the hospital seems to be treated like you're in a different zone from those bad guys.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote: Finally…your chance to have a valid, officially sanctioned, excuse to show off your heroic alter ego on the streets and sidewalks of the real world—without people stopping to point and ogle!
It’s easy – just pick one of your City of Heroes characters and dress up as him/her for Halloween. Go out in public and take a couple of digital photos of yourself, then submit those, along with an in-game screenshot of your hero (for comparison purposes). Those that best re-create their hero in the real world will win fantastic prizes. (See entry details in the Official Rules and Conditions below).
Oh, how I wish I had the bod to go out as The 4th of July Kid Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Then there is the old kill stealing Police Drones. I still think that is totally unfair. If another player can kill and you still get some xp then the same ought to be true for drone arrests.
Yeah, I think you should get partial XP for things that get zapped by the police drone.
Then again maybe that's to prevent players from taking on dangerous foes and leading them to the drone to get partial XP, (better partial XP than full XP from a smaller foe)?
BTW, am I the only one that has a hard time getting out of the hospital? Most of the time I click on the elevator doors I get such a long pause before an elevator comes.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle:
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Then there is the old kill stealing Police Drones. I still think that is totally unfair. If another player can kill and you still get some xp then the same ought to be true for drone arrests.
Yeah, I think you should get partial XP for things that get zapped by the police drone.
Then again maybe that's to prevent players from taking on dangerous foes and leading them to the drone to get partial XP, (better partial XP than full XP from a smaller foe)?
BTW, am I the only one that has a hard time getting out of the hospital? Most of the time I click on the elevator doors I get such a long pause before an elevator comes.
That's been happening to me a lot more recently as well. It seems you have to be in a certain spot exactly the right distance from the door (either elevator or front door) before it will open. Otherwise it just freezes up and eventually you can try again.
I've also noticed I seem to be exiting the elevator on the ground floor facing back to the elevator rather than forward a lot more too.
Posted by Vee on :
I've noticed both of those as well as having a harder time with the tram doors when clicking on them.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
BTW, I've filed a couple bug reports about the in-mission doors that we started seeing in update 2. In two cases I've seen villains jump through these closed doors. In one case it was a glass door, so I could see it being a line-of-sight thing, but the other was a rolldown metal door. I have no idea how to realistically explain that.
Posted by Vee on :
Not sure whether or not to be proud of this but Condo just received the Tough badge, awarded for enduring more than one hundred thousand points of damage Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: BTW, I've filed a couple bug reports about the in-mission doors that we started seeing in update 2. In two cases I've seen villains jump through these closed doors. In one case it was a glass door, so I could see it being a line-of-sight thing, but the other was a rolldown metal door. I have no idea how to realistically explain that.
Have you gotten a response? I've heard lots of people complaining that since issue #2, the response from the GMs has been abysmal.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Ouch!
I wonder if Garth will get a special badge for the number of deaths he's had?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
There are three badges that are awarded either for dying X number of times or making up x points of debt.
I've sent bug reports and petitions and in both cases the response has been slow and frequently consisted of "We tried to help but you were offline at the time." I think most of them have taken care of themselves... in one case I had a problem where I couldn't get into my mission. I sent a petition and it wasn't a problem anymore once I logged in again.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Ah, it's the Unwavering, Unyielding and Unbroken Spirit badges.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
So, does anyone know hwo many badges you have to get in a given set before you win the prizes they're handing out? I think it was an in-game broadcast that had someone saying he got a Crey freeze pistol and it really kicked butt. I saw someone the other day with an actual wand, I've never seen that before ...
Posted by LyleLyle on :
The prizes are tied to "Accolade Bages" which you get after collecting a particular set of badges, tho people are still trying to figure out the exact ones.
The easiest one looks like the Atlas Medalion which offers an END bonus and includes the Bastion TF and badges for defeating villains we havent't seen yet, so we won't be thinking of it for a while.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: The prizes are tied to "Accolade Bages" which you get after collecting a particular set of badges, tho people are still trying to figure out the exact ones.
The easiest one looks like the Atlas Medalion which offers an END bonus and includes the Bastion TF and badges for defeating villains we havent't seen yet, so we won't be thinking of it for a while.
Sigh ...
I'm playing Colorific right now. I'm 6 bubbles towards 10, and I'm hoping to get there before Smallville comes on tonight. Anyone who wants to join me is welcome. 8-)
[ September 29, 2004, 03:06 PM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
...oh, and the freeze pistol is associated with the "Conspiracy Theorist" badge that you get from getting all the Crey-themed badges.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: ...oh, and the freeze pistol is associated with the "Conspiracy Theorist" badge that you get from getting all the Crey-themed badges.
Oh yeah. That'll be a while then. That's in the 30s, I think.
And I got Color up to 10, and he did get siphon speed. Tough choice, though ... superior invisibility was also available ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys.
I had fun last night, even though the mish turned out to be a bit hairier than I thought it'd be. I like working with you guys.
Now if we can just get Garth and Tas up to 16 we can try that XP farming ... 8-)
Do we want to shoot for some more Virtue Legion this weekend?
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I'm just glad I finally have another character over 15. It seems I hit 14 and hit a ceiling of not being able to advance.
Working with Condo before everyone else showed up last night was really helping getting me moving though. A lot more than expeditions to IP did with Gung when I was trying to get him leveled. I think I have Garth more balanced with damages basically loaded to all of his powers. I'm finding that accuracy and range really don't give enough benefit to waste a slot on.
Now Garth can finally use his SO he earned during the TF. So I slotted it and an extra damage DO to his Snipe power. I have 4 damage and 1 range slotted. And as soon as I can afford it I'll slot out the range for damage. Can't wait to see what he can do now with the SO slotted. First character with one.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I think I'll be going for Haste and Stamina for him for his next powers. Not sure what is coming up on his primary and secondary.
Posted by Vee on :
Just saw this posted on the CoH website.
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Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: I'm just glad I finally have another character over 15. It seems I hit 14 and hit a ceiling of not being able to advance.
Working with Condo before everyone else showed up last night was really helping getting me moving though. A lot more than expeditions to IP did with Gung when I was trying to get him leveled.
It was fun wasn't it? If you hadn't run into those lvl 29s, we might have gotten you leveled sooner.
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: I think I have Garth more balanced with damages basically loaded to all of his powers. I'm finding that accuracy and range really don't give enough benefit to waste a slot on.
I agree with you wholeheartedly on this. Condo is completely slotted with damage now except for one slot dedicated to end reduction on each of his attacks. As soon as he gets stamina, that will change over to damage as well.
I had accuracy on a few of them and also felt that they really didn't do much at all. The only other enhancement I would consider is recharge reduction on any power that has a long recharge time. But, with energy anyway, I've found that my one of the attacks is usually availble even withour a recharge reduction installed.
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Now Garth can finally use his SO he earned during the TF. So I slotted it and an extra damage DO to his Snipe power. I have 4 damage and 1 range slotted. And as soon as I can afford it I'll slot out the range for damage. Can't wait to see what he can do now with the SO slotted. First character with one.
For what it's worth, it seemed like Garth was much more potent last night even before he leveled. The additional damage enhancements seem to have helped a great deal.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I'm glad you saw that. I thought I was just imagining it since I hadn't played him for awhile. But before we met up I changed out 4 or 5 wasted slots for Damage DO's. I think only one or two of his damage powers now has something other than a damage in it. One of them being his snipe because I couldn't bring myself to destroy a range DO that I foolishly bought before figuring out that slotting all damage is the way to go.
And I'd still like the slap the nass out of the bastich that didn't clean up his ambush. Has anyone else noticed this? I see it a lot in KR. Groups of baddies in the high 20's/low 30's that someone left behind after a mission. They should just evaporate after awhile instead of slapping down some low level chump (like Garth) who runs (or flies) by without seeing them. I would have thought Garth low enough level to not even peek their interest but they knocked his butt right out of the air.
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: I think I'll be going for Haste and Stamina for him for his next powers. Not sure what is coming up on his primary and secondary.
Have you tried Hero Planner? I got it when Lyle mentioned on this thread earlier. It's a great program that lets you see every power as it comes available and gives you the opportunity to plan out your startegy as far as power selection as well as where you'll place your slots (and with what enhancements).
BTW, Looks like you're going to have Hasten, Build Up, Tesla Cage, & Health availble at 16.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I downloaded it when it came out but have never used it. I'll have to give it a look now and see.
Now, about Build Up. Have any of you used it? I've heard a lot of pros and cons about it and, to me, it seems pretty well up in the air if it is worth it or not.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Yay!! My 20th level tank on Victory has a cape! The cape mish was pretty easy, actually, as long as you take your time and don't rush in.
Woo-Hoo!!
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
That's cool DM! I've head a lot of complaints about the cape mish lately. Glad you was able to get through it easily.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Okay, I just downloaded Hero Planner and the 1.55 update. Tesla Cage isn't available until 18. And why does an electrical blaster not get the power that holds a foe without them being able to move until level 18? All the other blasters get their equivilant (say Freeze Ray for an Ice Blaster) at a much lower level, usually 8. Yet more proof in how unfairly treated electrical blasters are compared to others.
[ September 30, 2004, 07:18 AM: Message edited by: Deathstroke Lad ]
Posted by Vee on :
One of my chars has it. It really does increase your damage tremendously but only lasts for maybe 10 seconds, then takes quite a while to recharge. I think it's slotted with a recharge ( maybe 10++). Perhaps additional slots of recharge would help. (BTW, according to Hero Planner, Build Up recharges in 90 seconds) Maybe once you have Hasten as well you get more benefit from it.
I would probably take health next if I were you so you can get Stamina as soon as it's available at 20. That's going to be much power important for you because of the endurance benefit.
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Okay, I just downloaded Hero Planner and the 1.55 update. Tesla Cage isn't available until 18. And why does an electrical blaster not get the power that holds a foe without them being able to move until level 18? All the other blaster get their equivilant (say Freeze Ray for an Ice Blaster) at a much lower level, usually 8. Yet more proof in how unfairly treated electrical blasters are treated compared to others.
Energy doesn't even get a hold, so there It does have Bone Smasher (at 10), which is a punch with disorient but they continue to move around while dazed, and you have to get close enough to punch them.
[ September 30, 2004, 07:14 AM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: One of my chars has it. It really does increase your damage tremendously but only lasts for maybe 10 seconds, then takes quite a while to recharge. I think it's slotted with a recharge ( maybe 10++). Perhaps additional slots of recharge would help. (BTW, according to Hero Planner, Build Up recharges in 90 seconds) Maybe once you have Hasten as well you get more benefit from it.
I would probably take health next if I were you so you can get Stamina as soon as it's available at 20. That's going to be much power important for you because of the endurance benefit.
I think I'm going with Health since that is what I passed up for Flight. I really need Stamina, as most Blasters do.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Okay, I just downloaded Hero Planner and the 1.55 update. Tesla Cage isn't available until 18. And why does an electrical blaster not get the power that holds a foe without them being able to move until level 18? All the other blaster get their equivilant (say Freeze Ray for an Ice Blaster) at a much lower level, usually 8. Yet more proof in how unfairly treated electrical blasters are treated compared to others.
Energy doesn't even get a hold, so there It does have Bone Smasher (at 10), which is a punch with disorient but they continue to move around while dazed, and you have to get close enough to punch them.
Yeah but they get Build Up at level 4!
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by DMSpeedy: Yay!! My 20th level tank on Victory has a cape! The cape mish was pretty easy, actually, as long as you take your time and don't rush in.
Woo-Hoo!!
Congrats DM! Be sure to post a pic so we can see him in all his glory!
I've decided that Condo WILL get a cape. The poor guy deserves it, even if his uniform wasn't really designed for a cape. Maybe I'll have to get him a second uniform as well so he can sport his cape properly! Posted by LyleLyle on :
FYI, I got a response from Cryptic on my petition last night...
quote: Thank you for the report. Is this your mission, or was it another players? If this is your reason this might be the reason you only received the extra bonus experience points. Any specific information that you can provide us will help us resolve this issue.
So, anyway, I wrote them back with some explanations into the situation and tried (we'll see if it sinks in ) to explain that I didn't get bonus mission XP I got the only XP while everyone else got none.
Seymour, perhaps we should try it again and see if only you get XP?
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I missed posting this while I was out sick.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I've used accuracy buffs and I've felt like they help, tho I still miss... perhaps there's a rule that you're not supposed to ever get past a certain chance of hitting? I think Prism's got Flash double slotted with accuracy, because it does seem to miss a lot otherwise, but pretty much every other place where's I've slotted accuracy I've used just one.
With my scrappers and blasters the formula I'm now persuing is one accuracy and fill the rest with damage, unless that power has any additional effects (like there's a claw power with a DEF debuff).
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Hm, got a response to my response already. I'm not so thrilled...
quote: Thank you for replying. Not all missions will reward teammates with XP for completing the mission. Other factors that can contribute to temmates XP is the time on the mission map, and the level of the hero versus the mobs fought. However, if any player feels that they should have recieved XP, I would encourage themn to file bug reports by typing /bug in the chat window. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please reply to this email and we will assist you further.
My response...
quote:Thank you very much for the quick response. My teammates were with me for the entire mission and this was a very difficult mission with several mobs with 2 or 3 Eidons. This mission required a team (there were three bombs we had to disarm and they had to be disarmed at the same time) so it, quite frankly, doesn't make sense to me for the mission not to have XP for completion. I mean, this mission couldn't be completed without my teammates and it difficult enough to bring on a few deaths. In other missions I could see not getting team XP, but this one was pretty high-risk for the team, it seems like they should have gotten a little of the debt accumilated back in such a difficult mission.
Posted by Vee on :
Lyle, I would also point out that we were all 14-16 no one was over the level of the mission (assuming I'm corect that Prism is a 16, if not it would only have been 1 level higher.)
Posted by Vee on :
Looks like they nerfed the XP farminf TF this morning. Seen lots of comments about it on the chat window. Oh well Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
That's what we all get for being vocal about it. But I like how they can take the time to fix that while leaving other aspects screwed up. Priorities. Posted by LyleLyle on :
Sounds like it's headed to some sort of limbo...
quote: Thank you for contacting us! We have received your submission for our QA team. I am transferring your ticket to our QA team for further review as a bug report. Your ticket may be set to "Solved" once they review it without further correspondence if it is not necessary. Someone will respond again if more information is needed. Please be aware that our QA team is not available on the weekends.
So maybe we'll hear something maybe we won't...
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
And if they determine that nothing was wrong you won't hear back. Typical. How hard is it to just reply and say "Our findings show all XP was awarded correctly". I hate this policy, rampant in a number of places, of not responding if they don't feel it is necessary. Gives customer service a bad name and since we are paying customers we deserve some kind of reply.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Yeah, I'm not feeling the most encouraged. I'm sometimes underwhelmed by the attitude of NCSoft's CS. I sent them an e-mail once because I didn't get the first issue of my comic (as instructed on the MB) the response I get was "We're sending you another copy but this is a one-time-only offer."
Sheesh, like I've got an amazing scheme to get them to send me free comics and, I dunno, sell them for top dollar or something...
Well, Condo failed in his first attempt at getting his cape.
Really should have gotten through it had I known I WOULDN't need any Catch A Breathes at all, but needed as many Disciplines & Heals as I could carry. Even so, I only died twice inside the mission before reaching the Time Capsule. Died a third time there and still could have gotten back from the hospital in Talos Island in time to kill the three Lost & Boss had I not gotten ambushed by lvl 26 Pantheons right outside the door to the memorial.
Once I died there, I managed to get back from the hospital just in time to watch the Lost finish destroying the Time Capsule! AARGH!!!
Oh, well, on my way back for attempt number 2. This time I have all heals & disciplines. At least this time the memorial to Hero 1 seems to have moved to Kings Row.
[ September 30, 2004, 02:27 PM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Looks like they nerfed the XP farminf TF this morning. Seen lots of comments about it on the chat window. Oh well
Dammit.
I KNEW they'd do that. 8-(
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Oh, well, on my way back for attempt number 2. This time I have all heals & disciplines. At least this time the memorial to Hero 1 seems to have moved to Kings Row.
ARRRGH!!!! And of course it's a completely different map this time! Thought I knew exactly what I would be facing Posted by LyleLyle on :
Dang, Condo hit 20 already? Nice going.
Too bad the Synapse TF doesn't give XP the same way anymore. That was quick.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I knew they'd nerf it... it was only a matter of time, but I hoped we'd get a chacne to use it first. 8-)
I just managed to finish a mish for blue in Talos ... first time in a long time I felt able to solo him. Adding a second SO to his beanbag made a real difference ... and I was getting pretty heavy amounts of influence for him too ...
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
You know, all the talk of the supposed upgrade in XP that I have yet to see makes me think they meant influence. Since the update I've noticed the influence really comes in quick. Hell, Snake had over 50K before hitting 10th level and that was with stocking 5's and 10's as he could.
Posted by Vee on :
I am pleased to present.....
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Condo in his new attire !!!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Looking good!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Wow, Condo looks so dashing! I'm insanely jealous.
And after this absolutely horrendous day, I won't get to play. I'm still at work. I hate Thursdays!!!!!
About nerfing the TF, boy that sucks. After all they've put us through the last couple weeks. Sigh.
But at least they also nerfed some of the bad guys, notably Lts and Bosses, and nerfed the Tsoo caltrops. (I went and looked at the official update page.)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Heh.
So what's the grand plan now, guys? Now that we can't we use the TF to level up on the cheap ... what do we want to do next?
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I knew there was something wrong with those damn caltrops last night. No way should they affect flying heroes. Especially those who weren't part of the fight that caused them to be thrown down. Guess there was some good with the bad.
And Condo looks great in a cape. I may get one for Garth but I'll probably chance his outfit to his old uniform for a better look.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Scott,
I read that power leveling guide you refer to, and I found some information there that made me feel better about Blue and his power set. I have not hunted in Dark Astoria for a while now... not since the Shamans got the chain stuns which made it impossible for me to solo there ... though I'd love to get our Legion teams in there ... especially the Infinity one.
Anyway, I went to Talos and started hunting in a more careful manner for Blue. I'm not tackling huge mobs that can kill me because I run out of juice. I'm tackling a boss and a few minions at a time. When I see that things are getting hairy for me, I bolt.
I've got Beanbag double slotted with SO disorients now. I don't think I had more than one in them until I hit 24, but at this level you need two to be able to stun the bosses. As you run Snake, be sure to keep the beanbag as effective as possible. It's never going to do great damage, but it's definitely a good way to take out the bosses.
Guys, the mishs at this level are giving XP at a rate that seems huge to me after doing so many lower level character mishs. I'm getting over 900 points of xp for mish completion ... I had 3500 points of debt for Blue when I started today, and I got that wiped out in no more than 3 hours of play.
One more bubble-- about 6812 points, and Blue levels to 25. Gets a second title and a 3rd row of inspirations ... 8-)
Hey, Vee... now that Condo is at 20 you're going to have to power level everyone! 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Hey, Vee... now that Condo is at 20 you're going to have to power level everyone! 8-)
Condo's always available to assist fellow Legionnaires, but his fellow Legionnaires seem to prefer having Mysa around instead for some reason. Posted by Vee on :
Regarding the Cape mission:
SPOILERS...... \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Condo had to do this twice, mostly because of false assumptions on my part regarding inspirations. There's really is no reason that this can't be done fairly easily in about an hour or so for anyone.
The mission itself includes 4 tasks:
1- Visit Paco Sanchez in Galaxy City - he's right across the street from the tram
2- Visit Lt. Linda (?) SomethingOrOther in Skyway City - She's in the Land of the Lost but easy to get to with flight. Without flight you need to be a bit more careful but by lvl 20 you shouldn't have much trouble with anything you might encounter
3- Visit Justin (?) in Independece Port - he's all the way up at the far north end of the map just above the docks. Lvl 24-26 baddies in the area so be careful if not flying to him.
All three tell you a little something about their memories/experience with Hero 1 then send you on. The last contact (in IP) tells you to visit the Hero 1 memorial. That's the last mission and you'l have to clear out all the baddies.
4- Memorial door mission - Your instructions for this mission are to clear out all the baddies in the Memorial and safeguard the time capsule that houses the artifacts memorializing Hero 1 and his companions. (The time capsule is actually that same glass case you've seen numerous times housing such things as magic books or weapons, etc)
The mission can either be Lost or Rikti, but I got Lost both times so I imagine only higher levels get Rikti. The setting is futuristic scene like Positron final mish. The Lost were all lvl 20 & 21 for Condo (who was at lvl 20) almost evenly split between minions and Lieut (Anathema's with sleep like Aberrants or Eremites). Both times I only had two levels to clear out. (There were lots of doors and walls that looked like they should open but didn't so I imagine at higher levels there is much more to do.)
The key is to go very slowly and carefully, picking baddies off one at a time as you go. Sniping & running is the prefered tactic. (Most times you'll get an Anathema as well as the Minion you sniped) so I picked a spot to run to where I could hover high up in the air and blast down at them.
BEWARE of the Sleep power for the Lts., they can knock you down from the air.
Two to three rooms/locations per level with maybe 6-10 baddies in each of the larger rooms and a few baddies patroling in some corridors.
The final location will catch you by surprise. It comes much sooner than you would expect in a normal lvl 20ish mission.
You need to be very careful once you get here. As soon as the "mob" around the time capsule notice you, they will begin trying to destroy the time capsule by pounding on it. You need to finish them off BEFORE they destroy it. (Like a Sky Raider field generator, is has a health bar that you could monitor to check on it, if you had time.)
Make sure you scout out the entire area to be sure there isn't a 2nd or even a 3rd group in the vicinity besides those you initially see. They are easily aggroed so you need to take everyone else out first BEFORE you try for the group "doing the cheers" surrounding the time capsule. As soon as you "kill" the last guy in that group, you get a "Mission Complete" and can go buy your cape. (Depending on your level and the accessories you buy it will cost you about 10,000-12,000 influence maybe a little more. If you wait to do your mission until you are higher than lvl 20, the cape is more expensive.)
TIPS:
1) You really shouldn't need any Catch a Breathes because you should not have to deal with more than one or two baddies at a time, if you take it slow and play it smart. You will, however, need plenty of disciplines and heals. I actually interrupted my assualt at one point during attempt #2 to go restock on inspirations. YOU WILL NEED THEM.
2) Go slow - SLOWER! Turn off sprint when you are searching. I died a few times on attempt one because I came across a group of baddies unexpectedly. Before I knew it I was fighting them and didn't have time to plan my battle and pick my spot. Second attempt, I only turned sprint on just before sniping a minion. Then I ran like hell to my spot (usually just on the other side of the nearest doorway or someplace with a high ceiling), hovered up into the air, turned off sprint, popped a discipline, and waited for him (and, usually, his companion Anathema) to reach me. If you use my hover tactic, make sure you are up high enough that the Anathema can't reach you with those huge body-sized blades the Lost bosses sometimes carry hidden on there back somewhere.
3) The Time Capsule is not in jeopardy until that last group spots you. You can take 6 hours to reach it if you want and nothing will happen. It is NOT a timed mission.
4) Stop after defeating each pair you battle and wait until you are fully healed. Do not use your heals to speed up the mission. You'll need all of them and all of your disciplines to battle the Anathemas. Go buy some more if you need to during the mission.
5) Painstakingly plan out each battle before engaging.
6) Make sure all your defensive powers are fully slotted with enhancements as well as your attacks. And most importantly, make use of all of your powers don't just attack mindlessly.
I realize Condo is a blaster and my tactics won't work for tankers or scrappers. You'll need to adjust tactics accordingly since you can't fight and hover at the same time. But you can go toe to toe with them much better than a blaster can.
I realy think defenders will have the most trouble with this mish (I'm a little worried for Mysa). I think Controllers will do well because of their long range & debilitating arsenal (confusion, mind blasts, flash, etc.) However, I think it can be completed even by a defender.
I've read that the mobs increase in number dramatically with more people and with each level, so I wouldn't suggest taking more than one (two at the very most) others along for help.
Hope this is a clear enough decription of the mission. Let me know if you all have any questions or if there's something I didn't expalin well enough.
PS: DM & UltraStar, it would be great to get your opinions on the above. I think you two are the only other posters here that have done the cape mish. Agree or disagree with the recommendations?
Posted by Vee on :
And here's something interesting I noticed in the summary about this weeks update (I added the bold for emphasis)
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Missions:
* Changed the first task of the Sister Psyche Task Force mission. * Changed the first task of the Synapse Task Force mission. * Changed the first task of the Bastion Task Force mission * Fixed a bug affecting some missions that prevented players other than the one originally assigned the mission from being given rewards for completing the mission. * Fixed bugs causing villains to jump through walls on many mission maps, often making missions impossible to complete. Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Well the week that got off to a perfect start ends the same way.
I come home tonight to find Caroline's brand new computer, purchased for my birthday in May, fried. Even though it was hooked to a Belkin surge protector I guess the motherboard still got shorted out during a power blip today. Spent the last 2 hours on the phone with HP and, although the cost of everything is still covered under warranty, Caroline will be without a computer for at least 2 weeks while it is shipped in for repairs.
So she'll be offline for a couple of weeks. I'll probably not play either since it won't be fair to her for me to be able to play and her not. She won't use my laptop either.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Aw,man. That really sucks ... poor Caroline will be nuts without her herocrack ... 8-(
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Ok, I need to know if anyone else has heard of this one.
My laptop is running fine, I'm posting here and doing some work and decide to take Garth out for a spin. Try out his beefed up powers some more and work down his debt. As usual I'm getting mapserver errors left and right. But then my laptop shuts down. I mean it shuts all the way off. Never happened before at all (not just game related). So I boot up, log in and of course I've lost earned xp and gained back debt so I play some more. Bam. Again. WTF? So I avoid logging in (after filing a bug report) and have no problems at all.
After another hour or so of running okay I log in again and get invited to a team going to the Hollows. Usually I refuse teams unless its you guys but I wanted to get rid of debt. So I go and we have fun on a cave mission, kicking Troll butt. I play at least a couple of hours around the Hollows, doing two solo missions after the team breaks up. So I head back to Steel Canyon (where all my trouble was happening) and I'm not there 15 minutes when my PC shuts down again.
I'm really ticked now. Especially since this time when I got back in I had been killed by something. I filed another bug report. Decided to kill some Nazis to clear out my new debt and bam. Again. I say f this, log in to make sure I'm okay and park at the Yellow.
Has this happened to anyone else before? I know its the game because I'm spending hours on line doing other things and spent hours in the Hollows without an issue. It just seems to be when I go to Steel.
Posted by Vee on :
No that's not happened to me although I do seem to get lots of mapserve problems in Steel, particularly nearer the tram.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
You know, ironically enough, last night was one of the most stable nights I ever had with Blue on Triumph. I'm trying to think of it, but I don't recall losing server for him once last night ...
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Anathema's on the Cape mission..
If you keep them off balance enough, with knock-backs, etc, they do not get a chance to use their sleep powers as well.
Arendio kept knocking them on their butts with some of his attacks, and had no problems at all.
Sorry to hear that Caroline's out for awhile.. hope she'll be back soon!
Most of the troubles I have in Steel are around Positron, but I think that's due to the fact that I need more RAM than anything else.
I played through Synape's TF, and their is MUCH XP to be earned. I didn't die once, and Arendio went from 20th level to 21st! Woo-Hoo!
I think we need to do Synapse with our Virtue Crewe!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
That brings up a point...
I'd like to play with Legion characters this weekend. I've done some reading, and it looks like Andrew's life will improve dramatically at 18 when i get access to invincibility.
And at 20 I can get him a second costume which is also neat. I know that Seymour definitely wants to get Grev his cape ...
On the other hand, I'd also like to get Star up to 14 so he could have fly.
So-- whether or not we play this weekend-- which team do we want to use next, given that Caroline and Scott may be gone for a while?
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: So she'll be offline for a couple of weeks. I'll probably not play either since it won't be fair to her for me to be able to play and her not. She won't use my laptop either.
Oh man, that's terrible! Please tell Caroline I'm sorry to hear that because I know how much she enjoys CoH. I do know what she'll be going through because I went through the same for a little over a week when I had no power. That really sucks!
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by DMSpeedy: Anathema's on the Cape mission..
If you keep them off balance enough, with knock-backs, etc, they do not get a chance to use their sleep powers as well.
Arendio kept knocking them on their butts with some of his attacks, and had no problems at all.
Good point. Condo kept blasting them and knocking them down as well and that made them fairly easy to deal with. You need to get them on their butts before they put you to sleep.
quote:Originally posted by DMSpeedy: Most of the troubles I have in Steel are around Positron, but I think that's due to the fact that I need more RAM than anything else.
Agreed, I have problems anywhere there are large amounts of people congregating. Particularly when someone decides they need to show off their wonderful healing or storm powers
quote:Originally posted by DMSpeedy: I played through Synape's TF, and their is MUCH XP to be earned. I didn't die once, and Arendio went from 20th level to 21st! Woo-Hoo!
I think we need to do Synapse with our Virtue Crewe!
Can't wait! I've heard Synapse is much more fun and much shorter than Positron.
[ October 02, 2004, 07:18 AM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey,guys.
I saw Pete on earlier today. He was running in a TF.
I've mostly been playing Blue today. I finally hit 25 last night, and I've been playing him sinc ethis morning, off and on, for breaks ...
I just got his first bubble.
over 8500 points were required ....
I died once, and picked up about 4200 in debt too ... which I got rid of as well...
Posted by Phantasm on :
Hey guys, come see me if you are ever on Pinnacle. I have Chorus up to 21 now...
He's a science controller. Kinda fun. Although this particular power set makes my door missions "Fairly" easy. Mostly because I can have a lowlevel minion severely weaken the final boss with my confuse power.
I haven't really beefed up my healing powers just because I rarely play in groups. I finally got fly though...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys.
Seymour and I are hunting on Virtue with Andrew and Grev. Anyone who wants to join us would be most welcome...
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
Scott, computer keeps getting rebooted? Now you know how the Legion feels. I have had problems with the game shutting my computer down. In fact that is why I am always getting bumped off in the middle of playing. Sometimes the game will just freeze up, other times it will reboot my computer completely. I asked the technical department what was up, and they just directed me to update my drivers (which did need desperete updating). That helped a litte, but I still get booted.
Since the recent update, the number of times i get rebooted or crash out has decreased somewhat, though it still happens and often at inopportune times. I wish I knew what exactly caused it. I have a lvl 11 healer that I love to play on the Justice server, but I'm afraid to team up with anyone knowing that I could crash out at any time.
Something else wierd - I know of someone else who bought a computer from the same place i did at about the same time. He plays Lineage II, another NCsoft game, and he has the exact same trouble with crashing and rebooting. Haven't figured out the connection.
[ October 02, 2004, 08:43 PM: Message edited by: Aqua Lad Kid ]
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
Well, i finally got Pete back into healthy shape. I did the Positron TF again (in one sitting!!!, ugh) and managed to not only erase all 5k of his debt, but also level to 16 and make quite a bit of headway toward 17!!! That's right, I am no longer afraid to take him out in public!
i wish I could have teamed up with you guys, though. Nothing like teaming with people you are familiar with. This group never talked much (during all 7 1/2 hours worth!) and it made it a bit boring. Also, they were'nt much of team players. We always had someone aggroing other mobs.
But I only died once during the whole thing. We had a defender who had had already six-slotted two different defense force fields. I didn't get hit a whole lot throughout the night.
We started with six and ended weith five, which seems like a fair number. Any smaller and you have each member carrying alot of responsibility (which is difficult for someone who crashes all the time!). Any larger and it's just not worth the XP.
I'm hoping Pete will be ready when some of you guys feel like taking on the Synapse TF!
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Haven't tried from home tonight but I might here in a bit to see if it is still happening. I had all my drivers already updated. I still get a message when I log in that my video driver is out of date which is bull. Not only have I updated the HP side I've updated the Nvidia side too. Still get the message.
Took Caroline over to my game store tonight and we set up a couple of accounts for the LAN gaming. Played Gungnir with Blue and, after slotting him will almost all DO damages, he finally is working good again. With Blue's help he wiped out all of his debt and earned 4 1/2 bubbles towards 17.
Posted by Vee on :
Hey Kid! I'm glad to hear that Pete's out of the doghouse! I miss having him around. And I'm glad he finally was able to get credit for Positron. I still don't understand why he didn't with us.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey,guys.
I played Blue some more today, and now he's halfway to hitting level 26 ... and stamina... and getting to pick REAL powers again. 8-)
Is anyone going to play Legion tonight? I gotta work out, but I'll probably be back later this evening...
Posted by Vee on :
I'll probably be on tonight for a while
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Got Captain Hottie through the TF today. Whew. We did a TF of four and totally freaked out when our EMP Def's machine crashed hard. We finished quickly when she returned, tho.
I could get back online sometime between dinner and Desperate Housewives tonight.
Posted by Vee on :
Beauty, Star Kallor & Princess P are on Infinity if anyone wants to join us! Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Doc Nimbus is getting ready to finish his Bonefire storyarc, and the Clockwork Captive missions. You guys want to do these on Legion Night?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I'd love to join Doc on those mish, tho my time is limited on Wednesday (stupid JJ Abrams, have to make a good show on my game night).
Anyone feel like forming a group to split up and do some Hellspawned/Skullcrisher badge hunting in Perez? I figure we can all solo these guys (even Prism) at our levels so we could get the badge that way. Maybe we'll even get a chance at the Kraken.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
That sounds like something we could do.
Anyone know if you get the badge if your team takes down the baddies or do you have to make every kill yourself? As slow as Andrew does damage, I bet it'll take me forever to do that if I gotta get everyone myself.
Posted by Vee on :
At least with the Kraken, everyone on the team gts the badge. Condo got duing his first Synapse XP TF farming day. He was in Steel doing that part of it and the chars in Perez ran across the Kraken and "arrested" him. Imagine my surprise when I received the Kraken badge! Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
All you have to do is hit and do some kind of damage. Then, as long as he is successfully brought to justice ( ) you earn your badge. I think it is Gung that I already got that badge for with just doing one or two hits on him.
Wish I could play. I'd love to get Garth up to 16 so he could take part in the TF. And get a new power.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: That sounds like something we could do.
Anyone know if you get the badge if your team takes down the baddies or do you have to make every kill yourself? As slow as Andrew does damage, I bet it'll take me forever to do that if I gotta get everyone myself.
I haven't tried it but I'd expect it to work... in mission I've been getting credits for my team's Gear and Embalmed kills, so I'd expect it to work for a hunting party, even if they split up.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: All you have to do is hit and do some kind of damage. Then, as long as he is successfully brought to justice ( ) you earn your badge. I think it is Gung that I already got that badge for with just doing one or two hits on him.
Hm, too bad I didn't know that before. Captain Hottie participated in a Kraken kill and got 100+ XP for it but not the badge. It's probably too late for a petition.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Anyone for Synapse TF on Wednesday?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
You know, I think that Andrew STILL hasn't gotten his badge for Positron ... is there anything we're supposed to do about that?
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
I know Garth hasn't gotten his. Its not right to make us do it again to earn the badge. Although I wouldn't mind getting another SO for doing it. As long as I didn't collect a lot of debt.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: I know Garth hasn't gotten his. Its not right to make us do it again to earn the badge. Although I wouldn't mind getting another SO for doing it. As long as I didn't collect a lot of debt.
It is a lot easier with a smaller team, as long as you've got balance. Captain Hottie's team took about six hours, with some ineffienct moments of waiting. Since you've all got travel powers it shouldn't be so bad.
quote:Originally posted by DMSpeedy: Anyone for Synapse TF on Wednesday?
Uuuhm, I'd love to but I'd rather avoid another Wednesday night where my boyfriend has to tell me what's happening on Lost as I play CoH... any chance we could do Synapse on another night?
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
Just a thought but can Positron be redone? Since it is the only TF I've completed I'm unsure if you are allowed to redo them (any of them) once you have successfully completed it.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Just a thought but can Positron be redone? Since it is the only TF I've completed I'm unsure if you are allowed to redo them (any of them) once you have successfully completed it.
For the moment, you can re-do it until you hit level 17. Prism re-did the TF and the only problem was that he lost his Positron's Ally badge and had to re-earn it... so if you start to re-do a TF you've got to finish it.
Once they fix the exemplar system, you'll be able to re-do the TF as many times as you like.
[ October 05, 2004, 02:15 PM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Deathstroke Lad: Just a thought but can Positron be redone? Since it is the only TF I've completed I'm unsure if you are allowed to redo them (any of them) once you have successfully completed it.
Yes most definitely.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
So we're planning on Virtue Legion tomorrow night?
Blue hit 26 tonight-- and finally got stamina!
8-)
Posted by Aqua Lad Kid on :
I don't know why I do it. For all my talk of wanting to go far with one character I went and created a new one on the Virtue server. Get ready to meet RADIATION ROY!!! He's a rad/rad science defender. I already have him up to level 9 just doing door missions. Didn't take long at all. And for once, I'm actually following the storylines a bit.
Anyway, I'll try to drag him out some time tomorrow so you all can meet him. His costume's a bit ugly, though. Pink and green were just not meant for some people!
So now I have Roy, Pete, and Silver Slasher on the Virtue server. Can you tell I like the obscure characters? Posted by DMSpeedy on :
That reminds me, I need to start playing Gigi more, and I went ahead and created Atmos on Virtue as well.
Just created Jo and Ferro on Infinity too
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
So which are we playing tonight? My Garth on Infinity is only a 6 but I have other characters there, I think, I can use instead.
On Virture Garth is only 15 since I haven't been able to play him since the last time we got together. That still isn't high enough for Synapse is it?
I just need to know because I'll need to arrange for Caroline and I to go to my game store to play from there. We'd be on around 6 Mountain (5 Pacific, 7 Central, 8 Eastern). Would that work with everyone? It also gives me a chance to pick up the Teen Titans/Legion special tonight too.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Works for me. 15th level is the lowest you can enter the Synapse TF with. But it sounds like you guys are interested in redoing Positron.
Cool with me. I've got Doc Nimbus up to 15th.. he's now The Daring Doc Nimbus! *hee hee*
I'll pop a tape in to tape Smallville, and I'll be there at 7 central!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
If 15 can do Synapse. I'd rather do that. The XP should be good, and it's shorter than Positron. Maybe we can even finish it in one night.
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
The XP is ALOT better on Synapse. I took Arendio from 20th to 21st on it.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
If it is shorter than I'd rather do Synapse too. We'd only be able to play a couple or three hours at the best from the shop anyway.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
We can try to do Synapse.
I'll have to use my VCR to record Smallville because I'm DVR'ing the new Frankenstein mini series on Hallmark. 8-)
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
We are off to the store so I won't have access to e-mail or LW while there. We'll plan on meeting everyone on Virtue.
Posted by Vee on :
Well that sucked Posted by Blue Battler on :
Whcih thing, Vee?
I'm back on Virtue now and someoen is saying that the door mishs are working now.
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Whcih thing, Vee?
I'm back on Virtue now and someoen is saying that the door mishs are working now.
Virtue's server tonight was a real mess. Glad to hear it's finally working properly but it's too late for me now. Time to get to bed.
Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
That was such a waste of my paid time at the store it makes me sick.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Sorry, guys.
I switched over to Triumph after that and Blue didn't have any problems running a door mish with a friend.
Vee, I'm telling you, buddy ... as soon as its' possible, get recovery aura for Mysa. That power pretty much negates the need to have stamina.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Gah. What happened to my ability to type? "Whcih"? "someoen"?
Maybe I should create Typo Kid!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Sorry to hear about the problems with Virtue last night. I had a crazy day at work that enflamed my tendonitus, partly because I didn't get to take time to rest and when I got home I figured I'd better not get on the computer.
Maybe we could do Synapse this weekend?
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
We discovered that unless we're all level 19, Synapse will be as hopeless as Positron was when we first tried it. The first mission opens with 20-level clocks. Even the 17s didn't do well. Luckily, nobody had to die this time for us to give up.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Has anyone heard why the door missions were messed up? The rumblings I heard said it was something to do with the teams so that if any member of a team entered one, the who team got kicked. Haven't had a chance to log in since though to check things out.
Posted by Vee on :
I'm thinking it's the size of the team for the TF. We had 7 last night, similar to the 8 we had for Positron. I really think we should try this we two small teams of 3-4 rather than one large team. We can continue to talk back and forth in SG chat and compare notes even though we all may not be on the same team.
The size of the team definitely affects the size of the mobs that will be encountered. As an exmple, the Outcat Hollows mission we did last night had large numbers of mobs. Lar did that same mission alone the night before and only had to deal with one or two guys at a time.
Just my thoughts
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Has anyone heard why the door missions were messed up? The rumblings I heard said it was something to do with the teams so that if any member of a team entered one, the who team got kicked. Haven't had a chance to log in since though to check things out.
Didn't Doc go in alone and get booted without the rest of us suffering that fate?
And I agree with Vee ... we need to use two teams for the Synapse mish ... see if it works out any better.
I think we might be able to do it once Grev and Andrew hit 18 without too much difficulty as long as the team size is small enough.
Also, when would everyone like to play Infinity Legion? The last time we played, Star was about halfway to 13, and Princess and Beauty hit it ... we're very close to the magic level of 14, guys, and I'd really like to get Star up there so he could be my third char with flight. 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
That'll probably help the TF. Actually I was kinda surprised when everyone wanted to do the TF and we had 7 of us there. I thought we had decided after Positron to limit the size to 4.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Of course, then we'd all be fighting over which team Mysa would be on. But we all know she'd stay with her number one patient. Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Of course, then we'd all be fighting over which team Mysa would be on. But we all know she'd stay with her number one patient.
LOL.
Well, Doc on one team, Mysa on the other ... we can toss a coin to see who gets Prism and his AM. 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
Poor Condo Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Poor Condo
So unwanted and unloved Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Poor Condo
So unwanted and unloved
Hey I love Condo. It was with his help that Garth was able to get to 15 as quick as he did. But since you can't be both its hard to put Condo on one team and Mysa on the other.
Posted by Vee on :
I still think there should be a way to allow another player to "play" one of you chars.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: I still think there should be a way to allow another player to "play" one of you chars.
Heh. It'd sure be interesting to run all of my alts together, that's for sure! 8-)
I just did the first half of the Outcast mish with Bluette. That turned out to be rather more difficult than I anticipated. The boss was an 11, and he kept putting the hurt on her. I was able to take Eel, but I had to do it from a long distance and even then I wouldn't have been able to do it if I hadn't brought along some healths ... I don't know what that killer punch of his is, Scott, but you shold get it for all your electric blasters!
Ouch.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Poor Condo
So unwanted and unloved
Ah-hem.
Lyle
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle:
quote:Originally posted by Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Poor Condo
So unwanted and unloved
Ah-hem.
Lyle
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Where is everyone? This is my last night for a while (going out of town for the weekend).
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Where is everyone? This is my last night for a while (going out of town for the weekend).
I'm around.
Where are you, Seymour?
I could use the opportunity to hurt some bad guys...
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I just got a couple more bubbles for Shadow Lad. Almost halfway to 18 now. Woo hoo!
Have a great weekend, everyone, and I'll catch you later!
Posted by DMSpeedy on :
Sorry I missed ya last night, Seymour. We had friends over last night and played Atmos-Fear (cool game).
Have a good weekend! Hope to see the rest of you guys around... any plans for Infinity Legion this weekend? I'm itching to play Tinya a bit more.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'll be on but only if I can get over to my game store. I'd like to work on Snake a little bit anyway.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
So now we know what level baddies (at least the bulk of them) we can always expect -- top of the range or one lower.
And maybe it's just because I had turned chicken and didn't take risks, but I think I saw solid evidence the baddies are closer to pre-update levels. I was able to solo 2 door missions last night (without dying!) where the baddie level was 15-17 (SL's 17). I haven't been able to do that in ages -- not just because of the update, but because defenders just don't have a lot of offense. I was extremely pleased.
[ October 08, 2004, 02:35 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I'll be on but only if I can get over to my game store. I'd like to work on Snake a little bit anyway.
What server is Snake on?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour:
And maybe it's just because I had turned chicken and didn't take risks, but I think I saw solid evidence the baddies are closer to pre-update levels. I was able to solo 2 door missions last night (without dying!) where the baddie level was 15-17 (SL's 17). I haven't been able to do that in ages -- not just because of the update, but because defenders just don't have a lot of offense. I was extremely pleased.
I ran my Blue Battlette last night and did the first of the two Outcast mishs solo with her. She's now at level 10. It was time going, but I didn't die until I came across Electric Eel ... and then I died twice before I was able to take him down.
I would say that on the whole the mishs are seeming a bit easier than they were before ... she didn't have quite the nightmare to reach the first mish that we had when Colorific, Lar, and Mystery Man did it.
All in all, the game does seem more playable now...
Posted by Vee on :
If anyone's on CoH and intrested in doing Cavern of Transcendence Trial log onto Virtue NOW!
Posted by Vee on :
We need one more person lvl 15-20, in the Hollows
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler:
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I'll be on but only if I can get over to my game store. I'd like to work on Snake a little bit anyway.
What server is Snake on?
Infinity I think. He's an 11 while my Lightning Ranzz is only a 5 or 6.
Posted by Vee on :
Just checked and didn't see anyone on Infinity. I'll either be on Protector working on Lar or on Virtue. Let me know where you are and I'll join you
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys.
Anyone up to working on our Infinity characters this weeekend? I want to get Star up to 14 ASAP. 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
I'm up for it. At work right now but should be home before 1 PM so I'll be on shortly after that.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I need to make a quick run to see if I can find some more RAM for my pc. I should be on after that.
Posted by Vee on :
You kno...the instability of some of the servers is really starting to get annoying! :SHAKES:
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: You kno...the instability of some of the servers is really starting to get annoying! :SHAKES:
I was wondering if it was just me or not!
It's the only server that's gray too ... and I really wanna play Star!
On the other hand, at least we weren't about to finish a TF! 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
Guess I'll watch some football til it's back
Posted by Blue Battler on :
It's back.
I'll be working the atlas badges while I'm waiting for you, Vee. 8-)
[ October 09, 2004, 11:20 AM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I'm working on Brin Londo right now on Infinity.
Posted by Vee on :
Just got back on. Are you still around?
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Where's everybody been today?!?! I had to go and create a brand new character again on Virtue because I got bored. Soon you all will meet Blok, a stone/stone Natural Tanker. While running around, I met someone who recognized the costume and wanted to know more about our group. I told her (him? you never know with these games) about our group but she was just signing off. So if you run into a Lady Mar-Vell on Virtue, let her know who you are. She really seemed interested in joining.
Posted by Vee on :
Are you still on? I've been bouncing around looking for everyone.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I logged off. I'll be back on soon. I gotta get some laundry in. I still want to play on Infinity.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Sigh.
Poor Star.
I joined a mish for the XP and got my sixth bubble, but I died on my way back. The Pumice hit me with one rock and I died.. 8-(
Posted by Vee on :
I'm on Infinity working on my newest creation, the Adventure era "Rond" a mind controller with empathy. If you log back on tell me.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Three of us were on today but we never bumped into each other? Ok, so Andrew was on when I was but I was in the middle of a mission.
Not a whole lot of progress today, except that I met that Legion fan again. This time they made a new Legion character named ERG-ONE. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to meet him face-to-face. They did ask about joining our supergroup, but I was using Blok who isn't even part of the SG yet. Anyway, we chatted briefly about the Legion then I pointed him here, so hopefully we may have someone else to team with on slow days like today!
Believe it or not, the stone powers really didn't seem to fit Blok so I deleted him and changed him to Invulnerabilty/Super Strength. Isn't that exactly what Andrew Nolan is? I didn't think of that until several levels in.
Blok, of course, will not be able to fly since he is too heavy. He will be my first character to have to learn to use super jump! I'm so excited.
Porcupine Pete made some progress. Silver Slasher hasn't been touched in a long time. I may have to polish her up a bit soon. Brek Bannin just collected some more debt. Ah yes, another Saturday down the drain. Herocrack indeed. Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Sorry, Vee. I didn't get your message at the right time apparently. I did log Brek on Infinity a couple of times, but there was no one there when I was. Guess I need to be a little more patient. Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: Three of us were on today but we never bumped into each other? Ok, so Andrew was on when I was but I was in the middle of a mission.
Not a whole lot of progress today, except that I met that Legion fan again. This time they made a new Legion character named ERG-ONE. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to meet him face-to-face. They did ask about joining our supergroup, but I was using Blok who isn't even part of the SG yet. Anyway, we chatted briefly about the Legion then I pointed him here, so hopefully we may have someone else to team with on slow days like today!
Believe it or not, the stone powers really didn't seem to fit Blok so I deleted him and changed him to Invulnerabilty/Super Strength. Isn't that exactly what Andrew Nolan is? I didn't think of that until several levels in.
Blok, of course, will not be able to fly since he is too heavy. He will be my first character to have to learn to use super jump! I'm so excited.
Porcupine Pete made some progress. Silver Slasher hasn't been touched in a long time. I may have to polish her up a bit soon. Brek Bannin just collected some more debt. Ah yes, another Saturday down the drain. Herocrack indeed.
Vee and I did manage to hook up last night for a little while. I got Star to within one bubble of hitting 13-- so close to flight I can taste it!-- but, yeah. We didn't have a lot of luck working together last night, did we?
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Hey Battler, is Andrew Nolan a Inv/SS char? If he is I want to know how you do it. This has got to be one of the slowest ways to solo someone. My empathy healer w/ two attack powers can level faster than this!
I'm going to stick with it, one, because it makes the game a challenge and I have to use a bit more strategy than usual, and two, because Blok looks so cool in this game!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: Hey Battler, is Andrew Nolan a Inv/SS char? If he is I want to know how you do it. This has got to be one of the slowest ways to solo someone. My empathy healer w/ two attack powers can level faster than this!
I'm going to stick with it, one, because it makes the game a challenge and I have to use a bit more strategy than usual, and two, because Blok looks so cool in this game!
Yes. Andrew is Inv/SS. And yeah, it's harder than heck to level 'em. 8-)
I think I'd recommend you do mostly door mishs as opposed to street hunting. Andrew doesn't have it yet, but I'd recommend you pick up taunt as Inv/SS have no way to lock the baddies down the way that some tanks do...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hi,guys.
I'm heading out to run some errands, but I'll be back later. Anyone want to run some characters tonight?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I got up a little early (well 9 am is early for me on a Sunday, my one day of rest a week) and played Snake for awhile. Managed to have him die 3 times, his first time dying, and got almost 1k in debt. I guess its not so bad not having a death until you are 11 but the debt sucks. Plus I don't think he's ready to solo in Steel.
I did follow Blue's advice and replaced the damage in my Beanbag with another disorient. Works much better now.
Then I soloed Lightning Ranzz for a bit. Got him from a 5 to a 7 and four bubbles. But his endurance sucks. I can get maybe two times through his powers before he's exhausted.
So now I'm at work, systems went screwy and I had to come in. That's it for me for the day. But I'm sure Caroline will be on for awhile now.
Posted by Vee on :
Hey, SLK & I hooked up for a while and had fun with Pete & Condo, until we both died multiple times
Then I had Rokk induct SLK's newest chars, Blok & Radiation Roy into the Legion. Both look awesome! I tried to take a pic of each so now I have to see if I can post them.
Posted by Vee on :
I'll be on so just post where you are Blue
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Guys, I don't know if I'll be able to play any more Herocrack tonight or for a while. I bought new ram to use in my PC, but my PC wouldn't even start with it installed. I replaced it with the old and got it running again, but when I tried to post something here, I lost the signal to my monitor. Fortunately I had a spare and that one seems to be working ATM, but I don't know if that means the cable on my old monitor is now screwed up or what. The monitor itself is giving me a check signal cable so the monitor itself isn't the problem.
I'm going to do a little trouble shooting. If I don't log back onto herocrack tonight, you'll know why.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Stuff like this is totally why I buy that the "Independence Day" scenario of Jeff Goldblume being able to upload a virus to the alien's computer system and have it come crashing down.
I hooked my PC back up to my main monitor and it worked fine. Then I turned it off and replaced the old ram with my new ram and turned it back on.
Still worked....
Exact same thing I did the first time with a completely different result. Scott old buddy, I don't know how you manage to avoid tearing your hair out over this sort of thing ...
I gotta work out for a bit, Vee ... will give a herorcrack a spin in an hour or so ... if my PC cooperates with me.
Sheesh. Time for that Alienware machine of my dreams I think ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Vee, SLK and I are on Pinnacle. I'm going to run Al Pratt and he's going to make a Johnny Thunder.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
At least we were ...
SLK, if you're reading this, City of Heroes crashed on me, and when I try to log on the updater keeps running and crashing too... so I don't know when/if I'll be back on. Sorry...
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
No prob, Blue. After I finished the tutorial, I decided to create a new Johnny Thunder.
So now I have J. Thunderbolt - the all purple (and ugly) Johnny and Johnny T. - the regular-looking guy in a green suit and with blonde hair. Both are Magic Defenders with Empathy/Energy which I just realized is Mystical Mysa's powerset on Virtue. I have to stop copying you guys's characters. Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
BTW, did you guys know about the badge you can get in the tutorial? If you kill 100 of the contaminated thugs, you get an Isolator badge. You can usually find a team to do this with so it doesn't take as long. I met two people doing this with my second Johnny and decided to team up with them afterwards.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
LOL.
Good for you, SLK.
The news on my front isn't good ... every time I try to restart COH I get the same results. I've rebooted my PC and turned it off and nothing seems to do me any good. I've even sent off a report using the option that it gave me, though past experience with such things on other programs suggests I'm never going to get an answer from them ...
I may try to uninstall and reintall COH, but I bet that doesn't do me any good either ...
Sigh. I hate being without my Herocrack...
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Dude, that stinks. Wish I could be of some help. At this point I thhink I would literally go nuts if something took away my herocrack. I might do something drast like read a book or go for a walk!!! *shudders*
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Yeah... 8-(
But on the other hand, I may just console myself by ordering that Alienware Machine I've been promising myself for the last year or two... Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Did you install the new RAM today that you mentioned going after? It may be that. Try uninstalling the memory and then running CoH again.
Posted by Vee on :
Just curious, why woud additional RAM cause a connection problem?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
He's not just having a connection problem. His error involves some DLL files too.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: He's not just having a connection problem. His error involves some DLL files too.
Okay, this is weird ...
I reinstalled the old ram and it did work this time ... at least it got into the login screen. Right now, all the servers are shown as being gray ...
I checked the website and it reads as all the servers being down atm, so it's not me.
This is sprockin' unbelievable ... why would MORE ram cause a problem?!
[ October 11, 2004, 06:06 AM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
It might not be the additional RAM but the type of RAM. Did you try running any other memory entensive programs with the new RAM? You may have actually exceeded your mother board's limit which would still allow you to operate but will cause issues with programs.
Caroline's machine says it takes only up to a Gig of memory but a bunch of sites list the mother board as being able to take 2 Gig. I don't know which to believe.
Servers went down last night while Caroline was playing. She actually got a message that said 'Severs being taken down' or something to that effect. And all the door missions were screwed again.
Did anyone else notice that they messed with the influence and dropped the amount being given out by civilians for a rescue? We were getting over 100 (sometimes much more) for rescues but now, at least the little I played yesterday morning, the amount has dropped back down to pre-update levels.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: It might not be the additional RAM but the type of RAM. Did you try running any other memory entensive programs with the new RAM? You may have actually exceeded your mother board's limit which would still allow you to operate but will cause issues with programs.
Caroline's machine says it takes only up to a Gig of memory but a bunch of sites list the mother board as being able to take 2 Gig. I don't know which to believe.
Servers went down last night while Caroline was playing. She actually got a message that said 'Severs being taken down' or something to that effect. And all the door missions were screwed again.
Did anyone else notice that they messed with the influence and dropped the amount being given out by civilians for a rescue? We were getting over 100 (sometimes much more) for rescues but now, at least the little I played yesterday morning, the amount has dropped back down to pre-update levels.
I haven't noticed that.
And the box that my PC came with says it can handle up to 2 gigs of ram, and this only brings me up to 1.
What would be another memory intensive program?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Another game. Those are usually the best for memory eating. Media Player has its moments too. Anything that'll make the fan kick on.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Another game. Those are usually the best for memory eating. Media Player has its moments too. Anything that'll make the fan kick on.
Hmm.. Herocrack is the only game I have installed atm ... 8-)
I reinstalled the new ram, and so far it's working again. I'm probably just going to have put the old memory back in, but it kind of bums me out to think that computers are so darn delicate. If a car would fail to start every time you put a different brand of gas in it people wouldn't stand for it, but computer manufacturers get a pass on that sorta thing...
Anyway, I ran Al Pratt a bit more today and got him up to 4. I like the energy melee better than the super strength power set ... you don't knock them around so you don't have to chase them all over creation.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
You people who have Columbus Day off make me sick!
I just thought of something else you could have tested with. Any of your DVD burning software. It would have cost you a DVD but then you could have been sure it was the memory.
So you didn't have any problems after reinstalling the new or are you still using the hold memory?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I'm still trying out my new memory. I've been able to play the game, but it sure hasn't fixed my lost connection problem. I've lost it twice on the same mish now!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Maybe then your problem just happened to coincide with the other issues going on last night. I'm still not sure that more memory will help keep the connection, most like an ISP problem.
I can't remember. Do you have cable or DSL? Could be too many people in your area on the same system and it just kills your connection.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I have cable.
I suppose that anything is possible...
I got Al through the mish on his third try ... for a while there I thought he was going to be stuck in his own personal Ragnerok, doomed to fight the 5th column for that painting for all eternity!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Bah. It did the same sprockin' thing again. I had to take the new RAM out to get COH to boot again. I'm just going to take the new RAM back. It wasn't fixing my problem-- it was just making things worse!
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: You people who have Columbus Day off make me sick!
Amen to that brother! Posted by Blue Battler on :
So anyone want to play tonight? I only need one bubble for Star to hit 14.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: You people who have Columbus Day off make me sick!
Amen to that brother!
Sing it.
Sorry to hear about the RAM issue, Blue. That really bites.
Anyway, my arm is starting to feel better and there's no good TV tonight so I'll probably make to Paragon City tonight. Anyone got any plans in PC tonight? Infinity? Virtue? Freedom?
Posted by Vee on :
I'll be there. Sounds like Blue wants to run on Infinity to level Star.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys. Vee and I are on Infinity if anyone wants to join us. Star is now a 13. 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
So where does everyone want to be for Legion night this week?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Ah, fun with time zones. By the time I logged on, no one was on anymore. I soloed Brainy, hoping to get him to level 12 but he really doesn't have enough firepower and I spent several hours getting him a couple bubbles away from 12.
I'm debating what new power to take... part of me is thinking another energy blast would be nice so that I can do more in battles. OTOH, Disperson Bubble becomes available and it's one of the key FF powers. I've gotten used to Force Bolt with my Mind Controler, the knockback is useful. 'course, Recall Friend will also be really nice, especially since I realize I could use my personal FF to scout.
Hm, would it be too awful for the TF if I don't take flight at 14? Dispersion Bubble and Recall Friend might be the most useful for the TF.
Posted by Vee on :
Lyle, I think you first need to think about what Brainey needs in order to be able to progress before you consider what might be useful to the team for a TF. I made that mistake with Cosmic Rokk and ended up having to reroll him completely because he couldn't function successfully on his own once I got him past lvl 10.
If energy is your secondary as a defender however, I wouldn't bother with what you'll have available in energy melee at this point unless it's power burst (don't think you get Sniper Blast in the secondary set.) Your already have power bolt, power blast & energy torrent I think. (Mind you I'm at work so I'm working from memory on power selections)
I'm pretty certain that I took TP at 12 for Mysa, then flight at 14, then back to Empathy for Clear Mind at 16.
One caution about Dispersion Bubble. I think it is a stamina hog and will leave you drained quickly until you are able to stack some end reductions on it. If I'm not mistaken, the more baddies is affects the more stamina it chews up.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I don't think you can go wrong with flight, myself. Hover works fine for letting you pick off the baddies at a safe distance when they don't have ranged attacks, but flight is what saves your bacon when you're about out of end or have bitten off more than you can chew. Few baddies can chase you once you take to the air.
We do need someone with TP in the Infinity Legion. I want it for Star, but I can't see taking it anytime in the near future unless I decide to delay Stamina a bit. Right now, my plan is for Star to get flight at 14 and mutate at 16, and then start on the fitness path.
So which one do we want to play tomorrow? I'm good either way as I can work on getting Andrew up to 18-- and invincibility-- or Star up to 14 and flight. 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
Well if we ever want to do the Synapse TF, we ned to get everyone leveled on Virtue.
Posted by Vee on :
Hey! Guess what! I decided to take my Infinity version of Varalent out for a quick spin just now. Just as I logged on someone announced a costume contest was about to start so I figured "what the heck." and entered him.
He won and got 20,000 inf!
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Lyle, I think you first need to think about what Brainey needs in order to be able to progress before you consider what might be useful to the team for a TF. I made that mistake with Cosmic Rokk and ended up having to reroll him completely because he couldn't function successfully on his own once I got him past lvl 10.
If energy is your secondary as a defender however, I wouldn't bother with what you'll have available in energy melee at this point unless it's power burst (don't think you get Sniper Blast in the secondary set.) Your already have power bolt, power blast & energy torrent I think. (Mind you I'm at work so I'm working from memory on power selections)
Brainy has only two damage powers -- Power Blast and Energy Torrent. He could use a third to scroll through.
quote: I'm pretty certain that I took TP at 12 for Mysa, then flight at 14, then back to Empathy for Clear Mind at 16.
One caution about Dispersion Bubble. I think it is a stamina hog and will leave you drained quickly until you are able to stack some end reductions on it. If I'm not mistaken, the more baddies is affects the more stamina it chews up.
Hm, in that case it may not be very useful at first... perhaps I should focus on getting another def buff enhancement in my bubble powers and more offense to contribute to battles?
So perhaps I should go for a third blast at 12 and TP at 14? I'm thinking I could use Personal Force Field to get me to boss rooms and TP the rest of the group (I'm thinking we'll need two people to provide such a role if we do smaller TFs).
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Hey! Guess what! I decided to take my Infinity version of Varalent out for a quick spin just now. Just as I logged on someone announced a costume contest was about to start so I figured "what the heck." and entered him.
He won and got 20,000 inf!
Congratulations!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Hey! Guess what! I decided to take my Infinity version of Varalent out for a quick spin just now. Just as I logged on someone announced a costume contest was about to start so I figured "what the heck." and entered him.
He won and got 20,000 inf!
Congrats Vee! Now you can buy us all a cool Enhancement! Posted by Blue Battler on :
Congrats, Vee.
And like I said, I'm fine with the Virtue Legion if that's what we want to play.
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Congrats on winning the costume contest Vee! I have won a few of them and it is really fun. I won with cat girls on two different servers and I won a look-alike contest with my Dana Scully char. I entered Mtn Dew Pitch Black in a contest offering a million in influence and thought I was in the top five, but alas, no.
My other reason for writing is to ask you players with greater grasp of tech then I have to take in my meandering and figure out how we can use the information to our advantage. This is it, sorry I can't explain it, but I don't understand it myself!! This is what happened to me last night. I had a little baby elf char who was an 8. I ran into one of my friends who is a 36. She invited me into a group of 36-50's who had run into an anomele. She said there is a glitch in the program and on high lvl missions if you keep running around touching the glowies you keep getting max exp for your level. At 8 I started getting 77 exp per glowie they touched. By the time Scott screamed at me to go to bed, I was up to lvl 16. Yes, I cheated the game. Yes I was not a true hero doing this, but dammit, it was FUN. It was a rush. I wish Tasmia could do it Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Saturn Girl: Congrats on winning the costume contest Vee! I have won a few of them and it is really fun. I won with cat girls on two different servers and I won a look-alike contest with my Dana Scully char. I entered Mtn Dew Pitch Black in a contest offering a million in influence and thought I was in the top five, but alas, no.
My other reason for writing is to ask you players with greater grasp of tech then I have to take in my meandering and figure out how we can use the information to our advantage. This is it, sorry I can't explain it, but I don't understand it myself!! This is what happened to me last night. I had a little baby elf char who was an 8. I ran into one of my friends who is a 36. She invited me into a group of 36-50's who had run into an anomele. She said there is a glitch in the program and on high lvl missions if you keep running around touching the glowies you keep getting max exp for your level. At 8 I started getting 77 exp per glowie they touched. By the time Scott screamed at me to go to bed, I was up to lvl 16. Yes, I cheated the game. Yes I was not a true hero doing this, but dammit, it was FUN. It was a rush. I wish Tasmia could do it
How do you run around keep touching them? Did you guys quit the mish and go back in or what?
And to be honest, I don't think that's cheating the game. Given all the nerfs and restrictions they place on us, I don't think there's anything wrong in exploiting an advantage when you find it when it doesn't hurt anyone else.
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
OMG!!!! Help, my account time has expired!!! nooooooo, SAY IT ISN'T SO!
What do I do?? How do I act? How can I keep on going without CoH to live for??? I am defunct, depressed, and depleated......... The pain!!!! And it's Legion Night!!! Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Scott is my hero!!!! Recognizing that his crazy wife was in trouble and near hysteria from being cut off from rescuing the citizens of Paragon City, Scott rushed to his wallet and whipped out a credit card and subscribed me for six months!! of CoH. Thus, my hero-crack habit has been ensured to continue until the say before tax day of 2005. Six months of pure hero-Barbie pleasure, ahhhhhh. Safely restored to my guilty habit, I WILL be able to rendevous with my fellow Legionnaires this evening. THANK YOU SCOTT!! (I owe you so big time my darling!!) Posted by Vee on :
Hehe! Coincidentally, my time expired as well. When I tried to log on earlier I got the message that my account had expired and I need to contact support for help. Caroline, you and I must be on the same membership cycle. (And yes I did resubscribe so I'll be on in a little bit!) Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Vee, that is so funny!!! Hooray for Legion Night Posted by Blue Battler on :
I wonder if there's going to be another big event?
Posted by Firebow on :
You guys on Virtue or Infinity?
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
We are on Virtue. BUt the servers just crashed Posted by Blue Battler on :
The rest of us are still on, Caroline. Have you tried to log back on?
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Hey, all. It was fun bustin on some Tsoo tonight. After everyone logged, I did some solo missions and got the Vaz disease mish. Anyway, my next mish has something to do with going into the sewers and incinerating bodies. My contact made it sound as though Dr. Vazhilok himself would be there. Is this the mish where he appears? Can I beat him at lvl 18?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: Hey, all. It was fun bustin on some Tsoo tonight. After everyone logged, I did some solo missions and got the Vaz disease mish. Anyway, my next mish has something to do with going into the sewers and incinerating bodies. My contact made it sound as though Dr. Vazhilok himself would be there. Is this the mish where he appears? Can I beat him at lvl 18?
If it's the mish that Blue had, the good doctor never actually showed up. On the other hand, Blue did pick up a nasty case of ZD ... zombie disease! that sucked big time!
I think that Blue wasn't really any higher than 18, so I think you'll be able to handle everything up to the last mish ... but you'll most likely need some help on that one ... at the very least, make sure you carry as many blue's as possible ... oh, and a few pinks as well because the final boss is an Eid ... I can't remember for sure whether or not it's a lum or a murk or mire. I want to say lum ...
But if you can, make sure to take a healer along with you ... you're going to need it.
Posted by Vee on :
Woot!!!! Mysa helped Pete on his mish until we had only Dr. Vahz, a reaper & an Abom left. Just in the nick of time Grev logged on and joined us in defeating the Archvillain, Dr. Vahz!!! Posted by Blue Battler on :
Did Pete get the zombie plague?
Well, guys, for a brief time tonight I was a millionaire influence-wise. Blue leveled up to 27 tonight, and I had that much in influence before I went to the store and bought him some new enhances ...
Half a mill later ...
All I have to say is that level 30 SOs are darn expensive. 8-)
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
We got to defeat Dr. Vahzilok himself tonight!! Great stuff! How would I know if I did get the Zombie plague? I hope someone would tell me. I hope you all aren't talking about my blistering, pus-oozing sores behind my back without telling me that they're there.
First storyline I ever completed and I got a choice of 5 different types of SO's to choose from. I got a lvl 21 Damage. Plus another 1,000 in XP! Great night for Pete!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: We got to defeat Dr. Vahzilok himself tonight!! Great stuff! How would I know if I did get the Zombie plague? I hope someone would tell me. I hope you all aren't talking about my blistering, pus-oozing sores behind my back without telling me that they're there.
First storyline I ever completed and I got a choice of 5 different types of SO's to choose from. I got a lvl 21 Damage. Plus another 1,000 in XP! Great night for Pete!
You'd know.
You would have a green glow about you, flies would be buzzing around you, and your endurance would be all shot to sprock. 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
Hmmm....are you sure that hasn't been tweaked somehow? It sure seemed like Pete was suffering lingering effects even though there were no flies or glow. For about half that mish it seemed like Mysa's heals were having very little effect on Pete.
As you know, she can usually keep one person alive with no problem. Pete came close to dying a number of times and did die at least once. By the time Shadow Lad joined us however, the heals were having a much greater impact on Pete. Good thing too! It took everything Grev & Mysa had to keep Pete alive while we took out Dr. Vahz.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Hmmm....are you sure that hasn't been tweaked somehow? It sure seemed like Pete was suffering lingering effects even though there were no flies or glow. For about half that mish it seemed like Mysa's heals were having very little effect on Pete.
As you know, she can usually keep one person alive with no problem. Pete came close to dying a number of times and did die at least once. By the time Shadow Lad joined us however, the heals were having a much greater impact on Pete. Good thing too! It took everything Grev & Mysa had to keep Pete alive while we took out Dr. Vahz.
Well, I did it a long tiem ago, gamewise. And in my mish I wasn't facing Dr. Vahz at the end, but rather Patient Zero. My contact said there was even evidence that Dr. Vahz was trying to find a cure for it himself, so it's hard to say if the mish was tweaked or this was a different one.
Did you check for a souvenir for Pete? I got a hypo when it was all said and done.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Been reading the forums, and they've already nerfed the glowy bug that Caroline told us about.
If they spent half the time making the game fun that they spend on nerfing stuff...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, gang.
Grem got herocrack on the 'puter she's using now and she's going to join Star Kallor on Infinity in just a few minutes.
Feel free to join us. 8-)
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Hey, guys. Seymour and I got a chance to play as Grev and Pete for a bit this afternoon on Virtue. And Pete made it to level 20!!!! Thanks for the help, Shadow Lad! Blue, whenever Andrew's ready, I'd love to do the new costume mission. Grev should be ready any time now (not sure if he wanted a new costume, though) and he was on one today so maybe he could help us. Then of course, there's Mysa who could always contribute!
I think our Virtue squad is about ready to take on the Synapse TF also. Whenever you guys want to start that would be great. We had talked about splitting into two groups. Any ideas or suggestions how to do that? Doc nimbus is gone for a couple of weeks. And I haven't seen Prism Lord on in quite awhile.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: Hey, guys. Seymour and I got a chance to play as Grev and Pete for a bit this afternoon on Virtue. And Pete made it to level 20!!!! Thanks for the help, Shadow Lad! Blue, whenever Andrew's ready, I'd love to do the new costume mission. Grev should be ready any time now (not sure if he wanted a new costume, though) and he was on one today so maybe he could help us. Then of course, there's Mysa who could always contribute!
I think our Virtue squad is about ready to take on the Synapse TF also. Whenever you guys want to start that would be great. We had talked about splitting into two groups. Any ideas or suggestions how to do that? Doc nimbus is gone for a couple of weeks. And I haven't seen Prism Lord on in quite awhile.
Andrew won't be able to get a new costume until after he hits 20 and I'm just at 18 now, so it'll be a bit for me, I think unless we can get him leveled. I can help you get your new cosutme for Pete if you like. If it's like Blue's, it'll just be killing a certain number of Tsoo.
Vee and I got Star and Beauty up to 14 tonight and picked up flight. Can't wait to get to 16 so I have mutate ... 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I think that two small groups is the only way to do Synapse. Positron killed us because we had too many baddies show up ...
I don't know if we should attempt it now without Doc or just work on getting more of us up to the higher levels for the TF.
Ideally, I think that Doc should be on one TF and Mysa on the other. Grev and Prism should also be on separate teams. The team that has Grev will have another rez, but the team that has Prism will also have AM and group invisibility. Also, Prism is getting close to the point to where he could take mutate which is another kind of rez. If he did that, we could have two rezers on each TF team.
Pete and I should be on separate teams as well. Right now, I'm leaning towards the idea of having Garth be on a separate team from Grev because-- if Condo doesn't play-- they are the only two of our team with snipe.
As for Tas, I'm not sure. I think that tactically she should be on the team that doesn't have a dedicated blaster to help offset the resulting damage reduction that team will face ... but as our only blaster under this scenario is Garth, I don't think that it's really fair to not let Caroline and Scott play on the same team.
Seymour, does Mike have a comparable level blaster that you could sweettalk him into playing with us on the TF?
Vee could always play Condo on one TF and Mysa on the other, but unless he develops a split personality there's no way that we could run both TFs at the same time then. 8-)
Just my two cents.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
While I'm in a TF state of mind....
I have been thinking about the Positron TF for Infinity. I don't think that it's going to be all that easy for us and is going to require a change in tactics from what we normally do in mishs and on the street.
I haven't ran Star against the Vahz in a while-- except for a brief bit when we fought them last night-- but from that and what I remember from before, I don't think that Star's lockdowns are going to do us a lot of good against the Vahz zombies. They seem to be resistant to group holds ... the Eids and Morts and Reapers seem to be lockable, but I don't think we can count on the zombies themselves being that easy to take down.
On the plus side, Star did okay against the COTS last night ...
So who would want to try Positron on Infinity anyway?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Oh one other thing ...
Could someone on Infinity PLEASE get TP before we attempt the Positron TF?
Poor Star is getting tired of running all the way back into mish when I get a Lost Server. 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Oh one other thing ...
Could someone on Infinity PLEASE get TP before we attempt the Positron TF?
Poor Star is getting tired of running all the way back into mish when I get a Lost Server. 8-)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Oh one other thing ...
Could someone on Infinity PLEASE get TP before we attempt the Positron TF?
Poor Star is getting tired of running all the way back into mish when I get a Lost Server. 8-)
Laugh it up, buddy!
But I seem to recall Beauty having a few disconnects herself. Posted by Vee on :
Not laughing AT you buddy just laughing WITH you!
BTW, I'm on Virtue with Condo if any of you want help with a cape or 2nd costume mish.
[ October 17, 2004, 07:57 AM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Oh one other thing ...
Could someone on Infinity PLEASE get TP before we attempt the Positron TF?
Poor Star is getting tired of running all the way back into mish when I get a Lost Server. 8-)
I'm pretty sure that Lyle & Rond will get it as soon as its available to them.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Tasmia, Mysa and Garth are waiting on Viture. Anyone else going to join us?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I have to eat a late lunch first. After that, I'll be on if you're still there.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We are still there. Cleaning the Tsoo off the streets of Steel.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I went ahead and did the cape mish for Blue. I wasn't going to do it for him until I hit level 30 and got him a non- armored costume, but I was on with Blue's SG and one of my teammates told me that the mish was really good XP and he was a healer, so I went ahead and did it as I figured that I could always go ahead and get the cape for Blue later, and the mish would definitely be easier under 30 than it would be after 30.
Vee, I don't know how Condo was able to do the mish by himself. I went in with a healer who was one level lower than me at first, and we were almost killed at the opening gate. We were facing mutated Lost that were definitely a magnitude of toughness higher than I'd been used to dealing with. Another SG member who's a level 40 mind/empathy controller joined us, and we were kicking nass in a major way, but we ran out of time because the baddies were able to get through the time capsule.
Grem did it for herself with one group and got it in one try, but the next time she tried they took over 5 times to do it.
So I guess that we should do that mish ASAP guys after we hit 20, and we shouldn't have too many on the team when we try.
Anyway, we got it on the second try, but after all that effort I went ahead and got Blue a cape now. I think he looks pretty good in it.
I was going to put circuitry on his cape, but I thought it made Blue look like he was wearing a blueprint-- heh!-- or a science geek's beachtowel, so I decided that Blue would wear a cape that would honor his best friend, so...
I added lightning. 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We're back in the Hollows on Virture if you want to join us.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Infinity is up. Vee and I both checked on that. We might want to come up with a plan that we all switch to Infinity or Protector if Virtue goes down... that way we can at least plan things out.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
The cat's out of the bag! The new game aspect in update three is... SKILLS! From the new Computer Gaming World..
quote:Skills are City of Heroes' answer to the ubiquitous MMO crafting system - except they're totally different. Characters will be able to specialize in one of four different skill trees: Detective, Science, Communication, and Scholarship. They can further specialize in various areas of expertise, such as Forensics or Security for the Detective tree. Skills are level-independent and wholly optional; your character will be able to interact with myriad objects during the game, at which point he, (Ed. note: or she ), can attempt a series of skill checks. Success brings new objectives or perhaps some extra experience. For example, succeeding at a Security check in a bomb infested building might reveal the explosives on the mission map.
Skills are learned and improved by studying at universities throughout Paragon City. You'll earn temporary, expendable skill boosts during missions; these are somewhat similar to inspirations but can also be converted into wisdom, which is used to add permanent skill boosts at the aformentioned universities. As with enhancements, you'll find generic skill improvements as well as stronger, more focused upgrades alon the lines of dual- and single- origin enhancements. The only skill you'll need now, though, is the patience to hold out for all this good stuff.
Definately sounds interesting. Hopefully this will give us some more interesting missions, too.
I wonder if they'll eventually make additions there... scientist seems a bit broad, does that refer to a gadget guy or a forensics technician?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote: Expansion 3 introduces an Epic Archetype -- the alien Kheldians. In order to play one of these energy beings a player must first attain level 50 with a single character. After that, he can make as many Kheldians as he'd like. The goal with these Epic Archetypes is not simply to provide a new Archetype, but also to immerse the player in the game's rich mythology. As players will see, the Kheldians are deeply intertwined with the history and villain groups of Paragon City. In following expansions, we hope to continue opening up more of these Epic Archetypes... In addition to the Epic Archetype mentioned earlier, we're adding a brand new villain group, as well as a new zone. Naturally, this means there will be new missions galore. We're also hoping to get a new chat system in this update, as well as several other quality of life issues. And players will also get their long awaited mission difficulty slider. Perhaps most importantly, we're moving the storyline of the game ahead; players can take part in a world changing event whose consequences will reverberate for years to come.
Hmmm, it'll take a lot to convince me the last part isn't hyperbole. Still I know Stateman wants the game to react to what happens, like wanting villain spawns to be influenced by which missions players accept.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hi, guys.
Blue was helping Grem get a character up to level 14 and flight. I gotta work out now. Will anyone be on in about an hour or so?
Posted by Vee on :
I've been on for a while waiting for anyone to show up. Look for me on Virtue. I'll probably be there.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I'm finally on now... tho I expect everyone's asleep. (Had my first HOA meeting, sigh... got a followup tomorrow.) I'm playing Prism on Virtue trying to bring down my 3K debt.
BTW, for Infi, I think the plan for Brainy was to pick up another blast power at 12 then teleport at 14... so he'll be one teleporter for the TF.
[ October 18, 2004, 09:14 PM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by Vee on :
Well Condo has now attained level 21 but even more exciting (for me anyway) he got his first Freakshow arrest!!!
It appears that all of my contacts have suddenly decided they have no more missions for me (other than two timed missions I waiting to do until someone else can join me on them) All of them have also passed me along to new contacs in Talos Island and Independence Port. Guess I'm goiing to have to learn the ropes there REAL fast! Both those places look pretty scary to a lvl 21!!
I warily ventured into Talos (it seems to have the lower levels from what I can gather) to meet a few new contacts and spotted a lvl 21 Freakshow down the street from one of them. Figured "what the hell" and managed to quickly take him out before he knew what hit him. As I was basking in the glow of my victory, reality reared it's ugly head though.
Four level 24 Warriors came running around the corner and attacked me! Fortunately, all were minions and I reacted fast enough to get into the air before they killed me. I then scurried back to the Skyway City gate with my tail between my legs!
One of those contacts gave me a "defeat 30(?)Tsoo" mish in Talos. Another gave me a Sky Raiders door mission in KR. (Oh joy! ) I have a feeling that Condo's going to be deep in debt very quickly.
Any information on Sky Raiders would be greatly apreciated!
[ October 19, 2004, 08:14 AM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm really trying to get Garth up high enough to join you guys but all I managed to do yesterday was log in as Snake and clear up his debt. Really loving his sniper rifle and can't wait to hit 13 and load two more damages to it.
If I can get Garth up to at least 17 he'll gladly try to help Condo out. As for the Sky Raiders I'm sure Blue should have some info. He's hung around those higher places (Talos and IP) a lot. I've only ever seen Talos once and been on a couple of SK missions to IP. I can understand how you feel about going it alone there. Posted by LyleLyle on :
Level 21! Ack!
Well, the good news is that I got Prism up to 2100 debt from 3500. Maybe someday he'll be able to
Unfortunately, after that I signed on with Mr Brazil and nearly doubled his 2000 debt. Sigh. Anyone want to play with a MA scrapper on Triumph later in the week? He's been stuck at level 13 forever. Maybe I should admit that a MA scrapper is just isn't for me.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I really like Talos now that Blue has gotten a few more levels under his belt, Vee, but I would definitely hesitate to go in there by myself if I were only a level 21. There are some lower level baddies you can fight there-- level 20 is the lowest I've seen-- but you have to be really careful because there are tons of sorcerers and green and yellow ink men.
Your best bet is simply to use Steel Canyon tactics: pick them off while hovering.
In terms of the Skyraiders, I haven't faced them a lot, but they're very nasty. Think of them as flying 5th Column with a TPer and you're not far wrong. They have force field units that you have to make sure to take out ASAP because it's harder to take them down otherwise ...
You might want to see about joining some Dark Astoria hunting groups, Vee to get a few more levels on Condo ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Level 21! Ack!
Well, the good news is that I got Prism up to 2100 debt from 3500. Maybe someday he'll be able to
Unfortunately, after that I signed on with Mr Brazil and nearly doubled his 2000 debt. Sigh. Anyone want to play with a MA scrapper on Triumph later in the week? He's been stuck at level 13 forever. Maybe I should admit that a MA scrapper is just isn't for me.
I have a couple of lower level characters I could play on Triumph with you, Prism. I've got a level 10 fire controller with empathy as a secondary. AlmightyGremlyn has everything up through rez as empathy, so she could help keep you alive. 8-)
Blue Battlette is a level 10 blaster.
Red Bee is a level 12 energy blaster with electrical a secondary. I haven't played him much at all lately.
Anyone else got any Triumph characters they'd like to play? Maybe we could do a Triumph night sometime. That was my first server... 8-)
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
I wouldnt mind a triumph night some time. I have a lvl 11 earth controller that has some pretty cool abilities, but is impossible to solo. Later this week sounds good.
Posted by Vee on :
I've got some chars on Triumph as well but I don't remember what level they are (that's how long it's been I guess) Wouldn't mind polaying one of them later this week.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
So what are we thinking about now?
Thursday?
Friday?
And before we log on we should post who we intend to play so we can find each other.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Why is it any server I want to play on, it is the only one that goes all the way off line? All night, no problems and the second and I mean THE SECOND I get Snake to hit 13, "Mapserver Disconnect". And the goddamned server is gone. If I don't get to keep my level I don't know what. It isn't right or fair for them to be doing maintenance (which is what I heard others saying prior) to that server to not give us an announcement so we can prepare. They've done it in the past, I've seen it.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Guys, I ran Blue for a bit after I worked out tonight, and I was in Peregine Island when there was a giant monster attack! I swear these things were Kong-sized!
I took some screenshots of them ... I didn't get too close because they were level 50 ... but would you like to see them?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Why is it any server I want to play on, it is the only one that goes all the way off line? All night, no problems and the second and I mean THE SECOND I get Snake to hit 13, "Mapserver Disconnect". And the goddamned server is gone. If I don't get to keep my level I don't know what. It isn't right or fair for them to be doing maintenance (which is what I heard others saying prior) to that server to not give us an announcement so we can prepare. They've done it in the past, I've seen it.
Hey, buddy.
Truthfully, I don't think the developers care about what's right. I really get the feeling that they're spoiled brats in a lot of ways. That's why I fully expect the Taxibots to cause a nerf in TP ...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Guys, I ran Blue for a bit after I worked out tonight, and I was in Peregine Island when there was a giant monster attack! I swear these things were Kong-sized!
I took some screenshots of them ... I didn't get too close because they were level 50 ... but would you like to see them?
I'd like to see them. Do you know if they are part of a new storyline or just something you haven't encountered before?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Guys, I ran Blue for a bit after I worked out tonight, and I was in Peregine Island when there was a giant monster attack! I swear these things were Kong-sized!
I took some screenshots of them ... I didn't get too close because they were level 50 ... but would you like to see them?
I'd like to see them. Do you know if they are part of a new storyline or just something you haven't encountered before?
They were "Monster" Class. Is that new? And they were devouring Earth baddies ... I think they come from Eden and were an ambush that got out of hand ...can you imagine the havoc if that had happened in Atlas Park?!
I'll post them tomorrow if I get time, or later if I don't.
Posted by Vee on :
Big red stalk type things? I almost ran into some while Mysa was flying close to the ground in Steel near Blyde . They came running out of a side street. I didn't wait around to see what lvl they were since I didn't want another thorn in Mysa's back like th other night with the devouring earth we ran into.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've seen different varities of Devouring Earth a number of times, mostly in KR. In fact when we were playing in Steel the other night we were passed by a bunch of them but you guys didn't see them.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Was it Virtue or Infinity we saw a bunch of level 30 Devouring Earth running down the street in Steel? I think it was Virtue, the night the guys were getting their new costumes...
Anyway, here's one of the pictures I snapped last night. I'll thumbnail it to keep it from being too big.
It doesn't show it as well as I would like, but it gives you a general idea. Some heroes are standing next to them, and there are buildings behind them to give you a sense of scale. It was really neat watching them move ...
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Ooooh, very cool!
After a failed attempt with Mysa and Pete, Shadow Lad went back with Mysa and finished the cape mission. Man, that thing can be hard!!! I really racked up some debt. But it was worth it.
Unfortunately, I can't show you picutres right now. Since I made the switch to the PC, my hubby hasn't installed the FTP client software to upload pics to our web site, so you'll have to see me in my grand debut tonight (if I ever get to leave work).
Posted by Vee on :
Hey but it was fun. After we started sniping & hover it seemed to get much better. I'm more convinced than ever (now that I've done the mish 4 times ~ twice with Condo & twice with Mysa) that the key to the cape mission is being very patient and planning out every move before you do anything. It's tough anyway you look at it but it is doable if you're careful.
Can't wait to see Grev in his cape!
PS: Maybe Mysa will start a cape mission assistance business (similar to the taxibots) Talk about Heroes for Hire! Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I've seen different varities of Devouring Earth a number of times, mostly in KR. In fact when we were playing in Steel the other night we were passed by a bunch of them but you guys didn't see them.
I certainly did! Don't you remember I got shot through the back with one of their huge thorn thingies and died instantly?
[ October 20, 2004, 08:34 AM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I think that two small groups is the only way to do Synapse. Positron killed us because we had too many baddies show up ...
I don't know if we should attempt it now without Doc or just work on getting more of us up to the higher levels for the TF.
Ideally, I think that Doc should be on one TF and Mysa on the other. Grev and Prism should also be on separate teams. The team that has Grev will have another rez, but the team that has Prism will also have AM and group invisibility. Also, Prism is getting close to the point to where he could take mutate which is another kind of rez. If he did that, we could have two rezers on each TF team.
Pete and I should be on separate teams as well. Right now, I'm leaning towards the idea of having Garth be on a separate team from Grev because-- if Condo doesn't play-- they are the only two of our team with snipe.
As for Tas, I'm not sure. I think that tactically she should be on the team that doesn't have a dedicated blaster to help offset the resulting damage reduction that team will face ... but as our only blaster under this scenario is Garth, I don't think that it's really fair to not let Caroline and Scott play on the same team.
Seymour, does Mike have a comparable level blaster that you could sweettalk him into playing with us on the TF?
Vee could always play Condo on one TF and Mysa on the other, but unless he develops a split personality there's no way that we could run both TFs at the same time then. 8-)
Just my two cents.
There is something to be said for doing them at different times. Both Condo and Mysa could contribute to different groups and it's much easier to find a convenient time for 4 people instead of 8-9.
If we decide to do them all at the same time, I think you've got us split up about as well as possible. I definitely do agree that we should not attempt it as one big group. However, I think we are ready to take it on, even if we need to SK one or two.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Just got this e-mail from Mike. We might want to wait before exemplaring down to redo Positron for the badge:
I've been hearing a lot about this one... Just for others to know:
Right now there is a bug with exemplar TFs... If the lower level individual in an 'Exemplar relationship' goes LD for any reason - the higher level individual will be kicked from the TF and will not be allowed to rejoin.
Also -- any ambushes that occur during the TF are tuned to the highest-level individual's ACTUAL level, rather than their exemplared level -- obviously this has its problems.
And, Blue, I was about to say Mike could exemplar his blaster down once the bug is fixed, but then I remembered that he doesn't have any characters on Virtue that could do the TF. His characters are on Victory. Maybe once you can SK into a higher-level TF, we could get him to play Chillflare again, but I don't want to spend the time levelling him when Princess P still needs her cape.
[ October 20, 2004, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: Just got this e-mail from Mike. We might want to wait before exemplaring down to redo Positron for the badge:
I've been hearing a lot about this one... Just for others to know:
Right now there is a bug with exemplar TFs... If the lower level individual in an 'Exemplar relationship' goes LD for any reason - the higher level individual will be kicked from the TF and will not be allowed to rejoin.
Also -- any ambushes that occur during the TF are tuned to the highest-level individual's ACTUAL level, rather than their exemplared level -- obviously this has its problems.
And, Blue, I was about to say Mike could exemplar his blaster down once the bug is fixed, but then I remembered that he doesn't have any characters on Virtue that could do the TF. His characters are on Victory. Maybe once you can SK into a higher-level TF, we could get him to play Chillflare again, but I don't want to spend the time levelling him when Princess P still needs her cape.
Seymour what level is Saturn Lady these days? She would be useful as well if she's high enough.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Okay ...
Since Grev got his cape already, what are we going to do tonight? Which server do we want to play on?
Andrew has hit 19, so I'd be happy to work on getting him to 20. On the other hand, Star will get mutate at 16, so the sooner I get him there the happier I'll be ... and the better it'll be for our eventual Infinity TFs.
And what night do we want to pull Triumph duty on?
Right now I'm leaning towards either AlmightyGremlyn or Blue Battlette, depending on who else is playing and what they bring to the group.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Terra's Fury is the name of my earth controller on triumph. I'll pop in tonight and see if anyone else is on.
Posted by Vee on :
Either Thurs of Fri works for me for Triumph. My highest char is Junior Marvel who is currently a lvl 7 so I would be bringing him. He's an energy blaster like Condo.
Are we going to try to level everyone up on Virtue tonight so we can run the Synapse TF? or do we want to start it? or would everyone rather go on Infinity or Protector (we haven't been there in ages!)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
If we play Infinity I'll probably play Snake. When I finally got back on last night he did still have his level so he's now at 13. If we play Legion I may bring Cadet Bannin instead who is at 8.
For Triumph, what level are we looking for? I've got Zoic, earth controller, level 6. Vlad Dracul, magic controller, also a 6. Or either Slade Wilson., level 9 natural scrapper or Mac MacLeod, level 8 natural scrapper.
Protector could be fun. That's where our Gilligan's Island characters are. Roy Hinkley is at level 5, mutation tanker. Sun Boy is still at 6 there. Charma, who I've only played once, is still at 3. And I created a natural defender the other day based on a character from the Incredibles. Frozone is level 5.
[ October 20, 2004, 03:32 PM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys.
Don't forget.
Tonight's the night that Bart Allen aka the Flash is supposed to be on Smallville...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
If it was Wally I might care. But Lost is on and that show is so much better than Smallville right now. I'll just wait for the DVDs.
What about Pinaccle? We haven't played there in a while. I'd like to dust of Mr. Bones one of these days.
Posted by Vee on :
For what it's worth, I think we should play Virtue Legion tonight. Grev just got his cape late last night and really hasn't had a chance to show it off nor enjoy it (and it is fun! )
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Virtue is fine with me. But no TFs. I don't know that I can commit to that much time.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Pinnacle is fine by me. I miss playing Junior. And none of you have met Al Pratt.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We (Condo, Tas and Garth) are on Virtue right now.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I'll be on after Smallville.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys. I just wanted to say one more time that everyone did great tonight, and that I really think we're turning into an effective team of heroes.
As for doing the TF, I'm not sure yet. I have no doubts that we're capable of laying the smack down on the Clockwork King, but if we're going to do it in two teams then one team will have to wait until Doc gets done moving ... and that will be another 2 weeks. Doc's a member of the team and he deseves the right to be on a TF just as much as the rest of us do, and a lot of us will probably level out of being able to do the TF again after we complete it once: Given how close we are, it's very likely that Andrew, Condo, Grev, Mysa, and Pete will only be able to do it once ...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
What's the max level? I thought it was 21 which means Condo is already there.
Thanks for the help tonight, everyone (especially Blue after everyone left) in getting Garth to 17. He's now, officially, my highest level character. Slotted his last spot in his snipe and added one to his flight then spent about 75K on 20th lvl DO damages. He'll be packing a wallop for a bit now.
Posted by Vee on :
Congrats! Got to say, Garth has really been getting powerful recently. (BTW, did you see that one of the changes in the most recent update was an increase in dmage for electric fence?)
21 is the max level for Synapse so we really need to decide if he is going to be used in the TF or not. I don't want to put him on the shelf for 2-3 weeks like last time if we're not going to use him in the mission.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Since Condo's already 21, I think a team can go ahead and do it once this weekend for Condo. It's a shorter TF, so I doubt Grev would level out of it in one shot. And if you don't play her too much, you could come back and play it again with Mysa if you wanted.
Also, by the time Doc gets back, the Exemplar TF bug is bound to be fixed, so Condo can always exemplar back into it if you want to run him again with Doc. I think living with debt will be an almost constant thing now, so exemplaring into a TF could come in handy. (And if you're lucky enough not to have debt, the influence you earn will be good for those 25 SOs you'll be able to buy and use at 22.)
[ October 21, 2004, 04:54 AM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Vee on :
I agree that I think Condo is the only one that needs to worry about leveling out of the TF. With the xp needed at these levels to move up, I doubt any of the others need to be worried. Heck, Condo needs 36000 to reach 22! I doubt even the Synapse TF is going to gain him that much.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
No problem, buddy. 8-)
I thought that Gungnir was almost 18, so he'd be tied with Garth. 8-)
Whether or not we should use Condo is going to depend on whether or not we want to do the TFs simulanteously or not. Blue did the Synapse one a long time ago, and from what I remember it was a lot shorter than the average time for the Positron one. If we can't get it finished in one night, we might be able to get it finished in a couple.
So what does everyone want to do? Do we want to go ahead and do both TFs at different times?
We might also start working on getting the Infinity Legion ready for the Positron TF. I don't want to try that one until Star is 16 and has mutate.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
And in regards to Triumph Night ... we're thinking Friday at 8:30 Central, right?
Posted by Vee on :
Something else we could do this weekend or next Wednesday is the Cavern of Transcendence Trial (the Hollows Trial).
It's not very long unless you want to clear the cavern out (which is not required) but it does require a full team of 8 because you have to trigger 8 obelisks at the same time (sort of like that one bomb mission in the sewers we did).
Condo did this with a pick up group a couple of weeks ago and it was kind of neat. Of course, he has yet to receive his badge for it although they claim that this was a bug that was fixed in the last patch.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
That was a great game last night, thanks everyone.
Worked on Querl after Lost (I do need a TiVo, except that Lost is so much better in HD.) and got him to level 12, so he's got three blast powers now. I'm thinking he'll take teleport at 14 (so that he can run past everyone using personal FF, find the boss and teleport the team there when we do Pos), flight at 16, force blast at 18 (Yesterday Girl really likes it's high knockdown rate, it's very useful) and dispersion bubble at 20.
Boy, it seems pretty crazy to be looking so far in advance. So much I want so far away... I dunno, it seems off to put off dispersion bubble for so long...
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: And in regards to Triumph Night ... we're thinking Friday at 8:30 Central, right?
Yeah, I've got Friday, 6:30 PST.
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Something else we could do this weekend or next Wednesday is the Cavern of Transcendence Trial (the Hollows Trial).
Ooooh, I've been dying to do the Cavern of Transcendence. I hear it's got some cool designs.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Something else we could do this weekend or next Wednesday is the Cavern of Transcendence Trial (the Hollows Trial).
I'd be cool with this. Does anyone already have this as a mission? The only problem I see is losing one of our team from connection problems.
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Something else we could do this weekend or next Wednesday is the Cavern of Transcendence Trial (the Hollows Trial).
I'd be cool with this. Does anyone already have this as a mission? The only problem I see is losing one of our team from connection problems.
My impression was that this is similar to a TF mission. In other words you go to a specific contact (The mage contact in the Hollows - Tashket?) to get this mission. He determines whether or not you have a suitable team. If you do then he gives you the mission. At least that's what I thought took place. The team leader was recruiting members for the team just like they do for Postron or Synapse.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: My impression was that this is similar to a TF mission. In other words you go to a specific contact (The mage contact in the Hollows - Tashket?) to get this mission. He determines whether or not you have a suitable team. If you do then he gives you the mission. At least that's what I thought took place. The team leader was recruiting members for the team just like they do for Postron or Synapse.
Prism has the secondary contacts (Julius and Flux) for the Hollows, so, if the Cavern is quick we could try running through the whole cycle. Perhaps we could play some of the missions in that mercinary TF style where we try to rush to just do the required part.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Andrew found out that he was too high to get anything from Juliuis or the Mystic, so we might have to use the Infinity team to do this mish.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Hey, guys. Sorry for quitting on everyone so soon last night. I don't want to use Pete, because I'm worrying about him leveling out of the Synapse TF. I used Silver Slasher but she was pretty much useless against the enemeis we faced. After getting disconnected the first time, I didn't want to put everybody else through the hassle of waiting for me to get back on for a character that was basically leaching XP off of everyone else's work. So that's why I decided to quit and solo Blok for awhile. As it turned out, I never got disconnected again the whole night! Oh well.
I can try to get on Triumph Friday night, but weekends are always so spur-of-the-moment for me, so I'm not sure. Again, look for Terra's Fury. What other Triumph chars should I be looking for?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Grem is interested in playing as well, but she's working on Friday. Would Saturday be better? If we do it on Friday, I may need to duck out for a little bit at least because Blue's SG is having a team meeting and the team leader asked me to try to attend.
Pete, look for Blue Battlette or AlmightyGremlyn when you log onto Triumph. Those will be the two I'm most likely to play.
And have you noticed that disconnects seem to happen more frequently the larger your team is? At least I seem to have that problem ...
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Side grumble... it turned out the pain I was going thru last night was all about my [krunk]ing anti-virus running in the background. Soon as I got the window telling me the scan was done, my game was back to normal.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Whew.
Got Blue to within 2 bubbles of hitting level 28. 8-)
AND my team got me level 30 SOs for stamina and flight. 8-)
Posted by ferroboy on :
I would have liked to play this game. Actually, I did play it briefly as Starboy. The problem was that my graphics card wasn't up to specs (even though the listed system specs say it is) and all I ever saw were shadowy characters. Not liking that, I had to end my subscription and put Starboy to rest. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I actually wound up upgrading Caroline's computer so she could play. It does require some pretty updated cards but its been worth it.
Soloed with Garth for a couple of hours tonight in Steel and managed to get him 4 1/2 bubbles towards 18.
Oh, and Blue? I checked. Gungnir is still only a 16. So Garth is my highest level by one level.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Wow... why did I think Gung was going to be hitting 18?
Oh well. Live and learn. 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Probably because you helped me get him to 16 so quick.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Probably because you helped me get him to 16 so quick.
We need to work on him some more sometime. Blue misses hanging around with his big buddy. 8-)
And is it still set for Triumph tonight at 6:30 central? I hope so. I want to work on Agrem and/or Bluette ... and it'll give me a chance to show off Blue's cape. 8-)
In a little more than 2 levels I'll be able to get him a new costume too. 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
Tonight is fine with me. I'll have Junior Marvel (my version of Capt. Marvel Jr.) on line
Posted by Vee on :
We should probably all meet by the "parking spot" in AP around that time since we won't be on each other's lists.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Did we ever determine the level range we wanted? Caroline and I probably won't be on until after 6:00 Mountain (5:00 Pacific, 7:00 Central, 8:00 Eastern) since her mom has a doctor appointment at a little after 4:00 today.
Posted by Vee on :
I think we're going to be all over the board as far as levels. Junior is at 6-7 I think.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I think I'll stick with Slade then. I need to get him out of mouthballs anyway. Probably need to get his powers in order since its been awhile.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Well, Mister Brazil is level 13 so we'll have a range of levels, I don't think anyone is around the same on Triumph. I'm planning on 6:30 Pacific (7:30 Mountain, 8:30 Central, 9:30 Eastern?) We could scroll thru characters, I suppose. I've also got a level 13 dark/dark defender who I usually enjoy playing but never have time. (I do like Dark Miasma.)
Posted by Vee on :
I'm thinking it would be better if those of you that have chars on Triumph at lvl 13 or higher play them. The idea to play on Triumph tonight was to help Lyle level Mister Brazil. That won't happen if we're all 3 or more levels lower then him.
My highest is Junior Marvel at 8 but I know some of you have chars at least at 13. You all could sk those of us that don't and we can do Mister Brazil some good.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
If Lyle is going to be on later than the rest of us, we could spend some time working on leveling some of the other characters.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Well, it'll be nice to level Mr B but I think the main thing is I want to have some fun with him. Soloing because my SG has outleveled him has made it pretty frustrating to play 'cause he keeps getting killed by Electric Eel. He's got a ton of debt so it wouldn't be so bad to exemplar him, either.
I'm leaving the office now, but I've got to hit the grocery store before I go home. I'll be on when I get in.
[ October 22, 2004, 04:47 PM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by Vee on :
I'm already on as junior marvel and have all of you freinded I think
Posted by Vee on :
After last night I've been thinking how it's a shame we don't play our chars on other servers together more often, although we do seem to solo them quite a bit based on their levels.
We also have other LW posters that play CoH but have never (or rarely) been part of the the LW teams because their heroes (or preferred chars) are on servers other than those in which we have our main Legion groups such as Danny Blaine, Director Lad, Maegenbrand, UltraStar, Pex, Patch, Comic Addict Lad (who actually first posted about CoH on LW and started all of this) and others.
So I have a suggestion to make...
Why don't we designate each day of the week for a different server. That way, if you're looking to just play instead of work on a particular char, you know you're likely to find some of us there.
I for one always have much more fun when I'm teamed with you guys thatn soloing or teaming with random players.
So here's my suggested preliminary schedule. Feel free to object, denounce, amend, etc:
Mondays: alternate between Guardian, Victory, and Champion with assorted heroes on each.
Tuesdays: alternate between Pinnacle (contains JSA and the Buffy group plus assorted other heroes) and Triumph (Blue's crew plus assorted heroes)
Wednesdays: alternate Legion Night on Virtue & Infinity. (This night seems to work best for getting the largest group together)
Thursdays: alternate between Freedom (Peanuts, the CoH Mythos crew, and where the other large Legion group we discovered last week calls home, plus assorted other heroes) and Justice
Friday: alternate between Protector (contains Legion of Super Protectors & the Gilligans Island crew plus assorted independant heroes) & Liberty (Titans plus assorted other heroes)
Weekends would be a left "open" and likely used for TFs & special groupings.
What do you all think? Needless to say everyone can do as they please (as if you needed me to give you permission! ) I just thought it would be a good way to always have a good chance of finding someone else from our group on instead of bouncing from server to server. It would also give some of the other posters here an opportunity to join us.
Vee
[ October 23, 2004, 08:14 AM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I agree that would be nice to play some of our other characters as a lot of mine are being neglected lately. I really have a few interesting ones that I'd like to develop further.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Sounds good to me Vee. I had all but forgotten about my Crey daughter character. Think I got her to 11 in a couple of days then quit playing her. And Marcie is the only healer I have. I don't think she's even had a chance to use her rez yet.
I soloed Garth for awhile last night and got him within 2 bubbles of 18 before I got stupid and started taking on 19 lvl Lead Scorchers. Twice I had one down to the last click only to be killed. And when I came back for him he no longer exisited and other gangs were there. No one killed him, I checked the chat window. I've noticed lately, at least with Lead Scorchers (had this happen prior to last night) that if you die first they disappear so you can't get any credit for a kill.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, and I played around with binds for the first time last night. Once I figured out you can't just upload the binds text file (it doesn't replace what is on the server, just adds to it) and how to clear them out from online I had some fun. The only annoying thing is if you bind a power to say something in team and you are not on a team you go around shouting "You are not on a team".
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Does anyone want to play tonight? I'd like to work on either Andrew or Star, but I can play someone else too. 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Garth just hit 18! On my way to see what kind of power I can get. I can't believe he was able to solo a whole level. My one Electric/Electric that actually works.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
So any suggestions? I can take Tesla Cage (which would finally give me a hold power the doesn't let the baddies attack) but if I took either Hurdle or Health then I could take Stamina at 20. Or I could choose Aim (which I think is pretty much wasteful) or Buildup.
I'm thinking I should take Tesla Cage now and put off getting Stamina until 22.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I would go for tesla cage. That's the sphere the Tesla Princes use against us. It'd be nice to have that kind of power on our side in a fight.
Blue has stamina now and I have to tell you that I don't think you'll really notice much use from it until after you get it six slotted, so I'm not regretting the fact that Andrew won't be able to get it until 22 now that I've taken invincibility for him.
Oh, Blue hit 28 today. I took consume for him. I've got it for my fire tankers, and it's a nice recharge when you're running low and don't have a catch a breath handy.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I was looking at Garth's powers and at some time he'll have Power Sink which sounds the same as Consume. It drains the endurance from surrounding foes and adds it to your own. That with Short Circuit sounds like a good combo to shut off the bad guy's powers.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Consume really doesn't take too much from an individual bad guy though it does bring you up to a full recharge if there are enough of them around.
I just downloaded hero planner. It looks like no new power will unlock after 28 until 32. Does that mean you go through 4 levels without being able to add a new power? That's going to suck for Blue.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
If I were to take all of Garth's secondaries, most of which are punching powers (for a blaster?) It would be enough to get him through before newer ones opened.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
At a certain point, you go from gettng a power every even level to getting a power every 3rd level. At this point, I'm still trying to figure out when that kicks in.
That's what I meant by new power. Not a new power choice, but rather the opportunity to add a new power to your arsenal.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I didn't see anyone playing tonight, so I played Bluette some more and got her up to 11. (Making me very hungry to get her up to 14 and flight!)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I put Garth to bed and played on Freedom with Janice van Dorn. Got her up to 11 and a couple of bubbles.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I was D&Ding last night, but I hope to get on some time today.
As for powers, according to the book that came with the game, nothing new unlocks at 30, but you do get to choose another power. You also get to choose at 32 -- then it goes every three. And starting with 31, you get three new enhancement slots on those levels.
Grats on hitting 18 Garth! And, Vee, I like that idea. I would like to play Linus a bit more, but I really want to get Princess her cape now too. So many choices! Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Suddenly Seymour: I was D&Ding last night, but I hope to get on some time today.
As for powers, according to the book that came with the game, nothing new unlocks at 30, but you do get to choose another power. You also get to choose at 32 -- then it goes every three. And starting with 31, you get three new enhancement slots on those levels.
Grats on hitting 18 Garth! And, Vee, I like that idea. I would like to play Linus a bit more, but I really want to get Princess her cape now too. So many choices!
Hey, Seymour! Good to hear from you! I was beginning to wonder where you'd gone off to. 8-)
I know what you mean about capes, though. I want to get Star his cape too ... but first I gotta get him up to 16 so I can play around with mutate.
Scott, when Star gets mutate do you think you could bust out Lightning Ranzz long enough for him to get killed so I could try it out on him?
I'd love to play either Star or Andrew today as I'm looking forward to getting Andy a new costume too. 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
I'll be on today as well. SO I'll look for you guys on either Virtue or Infinity
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I was up too late (like 7:00 AM) playing around with Janice. She won a costume/description contest and got 500,000 influence! She is one of only two characters that I've even bothered to do a description for. But the 41st lvl guy running the contest was impressed, especially when he realized she was based on the look of Countess Crey. Now I've got more than enough influence do get DO's as soon as I hit 12.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
So, does anyone have any idea when the invasion they've been hinting at is going to happen? They had their little 'emergency meeting' announcement on Friday. I'm thinking we'll get a server wide event for Halloween but after the last one, the eyestalk aliens and stuff after the update, failed I don't hold out much hope for a new one working right.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
They should have a Halloween event, but I wonder what it'd be? Maybe since they've been talking up the 5th Column it'll be Nazi vampires? 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Great work tonight everyone! I really can't believe Garth has gone from 17 to 19 in two days! I'm really jonsing for a cape now that its so close.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Great work tonight everyone! I really can't believe Garth has gone from 17 to 19 in two days! I'm really jonsing for a cape now that its so close.
General Shinybutt is very happy too.
I really feel we've developed a good style of play for our characters. We work very well together as a team.
What we also need to do is work those things out for the Infinity Legion sometime. Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Fun night tonight. Congratulations on the progress, LL! Can't wait to see Garth in his cape! This game definitely goes in swings. At some points you don't want to even touch your character again!! Pete started the evening over 3k in debt. I was debating even using him. By the end of the night, he not only worked off the debt but made it another half a level to lvl.21!!!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've already decided I have to do the costume mission too so I can change Garth into his Adventure era outfit to make the cape work. I'll probably do the whole robot arm bit too.
Glad you got out of debt tonight SLK and that we only had 1 death. That's damn good for our group.
Posted by Vee on :
Synapse definitely is much more fun than Positron, isn't it? When we did Positron with this size group, we had only completed the first mission after all day Sunday. And we had all died various times already!
Mysa is very anxious to get her cape! Posted by Blue Battler on :
On the whole, Clocks are a lot easier to fight than Vahz, I think. Given that we can block the Teslas with CM most of the time-- I can't remember reading if those stack-- that is if we were attacked by enough Teslas we would wind up being held even with CM or not-- it's more or less a knock 'em down exercise so far.
The King is going to be the toughest thing of all, but I think we're all going to be fairly high by the time we reach him so it may not be too bad.
Andrew started the TF 5 bubbles towards 20 and when we stopped last night I think he was about 2 bubbles towards 21. I'm getting over a 1000 xp per mish completion, so I expect to get really close to 21-- maybe even over?-- by the time we wrap this up.
And didn't someone say we'd be fighting Babbage on this TF? That means we could wind up getting our badge for that!
The influence is nice, too. Between the mish itself and the selling of enhances Andrew picked up at least 40k last night. 8-)
If most of us don't level out of 21 by the end of this TF it might be worthwhile to mothball our chars until Doc gets back and do the whole thing all over again! 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
Condo will be waiting to do Synapse with Doc and it's very likely that Prism, Garth & Tas will still be able to do so even with all the xp we're getting. Andrew, SL, Mysa, and Pete might have a problem when we're done or at least extrememly close, but the amount of xp needed as you move up each level gets significantly larger & larger. Who knows, they all might be able to do it again.
Posted by Vee on :
I think Mysa is going to attempt her cape mish this afternoon/evening when I get hom from work. She's very anxious! Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Vee, I would help Mysa get her cape. I can't wait to see Mysa in her new costume and with a cape to complete the loook. I know you probably want it to be a surprise, but I wonder if you are selecting a short or a long cape? At this point, I tend to like short capes on female chars. I am also excited to get Tasmia into her cape, and something else to wear. Been toying with the idea of taking the scowl off her face as well, but don't know. I do have a cape already on my tiny elf char that my high lvl friends pushed up the ranks really fast. She has a little short cape, and it is really fun to see the way it moves. One thing to watch out for are the selection of brooches to hold the cape on with. On female chars you can hardly see the badges they are so small. I will be thinking about Mysa today and sending 'her' good vibes. Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Saturn Girl: Vee, I would help Mysa get her cape. I can't wait to see Mysa in her new costume and with a cape to complete the loook. I know you probably want it to be a surprise, but I wonder if you are selecting a short or a long cape? At this point, I tend to like short capes on female chars. I am also excited to get Tasmia into her cape, and something else to wear. Been toying with the idea of taking the scowl off her face as well, but don't know. I do have a cape already on my tiny elf char that my high lvl friends pushed up the ranks really fast. She has a little short cape, and it is really fun to see the way it moves. One thing to watch out for are the selection of brooches to hold the cape on with. On female chars you can hardly see the badges they are so small. I will be thinking about Mysa today and sending 'her' good vibes.
Thanks SG! I can't wait to see Tas get her cape also. I am torn between a long or short cape for Mysa. Guess I'll have to see which one looks best on her once she earns it. Thanks for the info on the brooch, since I've only done Condo that wasn't an issue. May not be worth the money if you can't see it on a female char.
I'll definitely wait to do the 2nd costume mish until there are others online, since I don't think she can handle the attack of the Tsoo outside ICON on her own.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote: Cheat Sheet *Patrol 5 locations in Steel Canyon *Defeat 30 Clockwork *See Positron in Steel Canyon *Door *Door *Door *Patrol 2 locations in Steel Canyon *Door *Patrol 5 locations in Steel Canyon(should be able to call Synapse now) *Defeat Big Bertha in Boomtown(door) *Door (Long Tom) *Door(rescue workers) *Door(Clockwork Lord) *Ambush by Babbage(usually when most of team has exited Clockwork Lord) *Get Device from Positron(Usually) *FINAL DOOR(Clockwork King)
The Task Force Once the team is formed the leader needs to speak to Synapse. Synapse is located near the trainer in Skyway, just east of the Yellow Line Station. The leader accepts formation of the TF and gets the first mission. You should have the leader remain at Synapse & and 2 of your fastest members stationed at the train station at the start of the TF, becasue once formed your first task is to Patrol Steel Canyon (they need to visit 5 locations there). While your runners are patroling, have the remaining members scout for Clockworks in Skyway,but do not engage them. After the patrol is done the leader gets the 2nd task which is to arrest/defeat 30 Clockworks (grey cons count) now you have your team members engage the Clockworks they scouted, while the leader waits at Synapse. After the 30 Clockworks are defeated, the leader triggers the 3rd task. Someone must speak to Positron in Steel Canyon.
Positron is located in front of the big statue in Blyde Square. The leader may have need to speak to Synapse after that to flag/start the next 3 tasks which are door missions(Usually in Steel Canyon). After those missions the leader will need to return to Synapse, while the rest of the team waits in Steel Canyon, as the next task given is to Patrol 2 locations in Steel Canyon. The leader remains at Synapse while team members get the 2 locations/phones. After the patrol is done the leader speaks to Synapse to flag next task. It should be another door mission. When you exit the leader should be able to call Synapse. Patroling/visiting 5 locations in Steel Canyon is the next task. When that is done the leader calls in and you will be sent to Boomtown to defeat Big Bertha. Upon finishing that you will be sent to 4 door/warehouse missions First is defeat Long Tom. Now you are the home stretch. Three final missions. First is door, rescuing workers. Second is to defeat Clockwork Lord. Plan to be ambushed upon exiting by Babbage.
He isn't that hard. Next someone will usually need to run to Positron to pick up a device for use in the final battle. And behind door number three.... is the Clockwork King and his court.You will need to make sure that everyone has clear inventory because everyone that completes the TF recieves a Single Origal enchancement. The King will also drop one that gets randomed to the group. That means everyone will get 1 but some lucky hero gets two.
It's a little out of date, but I suspect only the begining mission has changed. Babage is part of it, but it's an ambush, so we'll have to keep that in mind and prep for it.
Vee, Prism will probably be into repeating the TF with Condo. It'll be good prep for when Captain Hottie has to take the TF on with strangers.
As for your easrlier suggestion of setting up a "Server of the Day" schedule, I really like it. I guess the only other step would be to decide on a schedule.
Are we gonna try to finish the TF tonight? I got in to work early, so I should be able to get home a little eariler than usual, epseically since I don't have to do any shopping beforehand.
Posted by Vee on :
From the "cheat sheet" above you can see why the Synapse XP farming mission was so profitable before if was "fixed" (especially when you recall that each mission gave you about 1000 xp & 1000 influence.
You had one person stay at Synapse, one person (with flight or superspeed) stationed at the tram ready to go to Steel, and everyone else inside Skyway at the PP gate. Leader formed TF and speedsters immediately went to Steel to do the 5 call box patrol. In the meantime, the PP team found large groups of clocks in Bettis Hill and just hung out waiting their turn.
As soon as the patrol was finished (and everyone received 1000 xp & 1000 influence), the clock killing team went to work on the 30 poor lvl 7-10 clocks waiting to be massacred by lvl 15-21 heroes. That was usually accomplished within 5 minutes for a profit of 1000 xp & 1000 influence.
While the massacre took place, the speedster(s) in Steel made their way to Positron. As soon as the 30 clocks were finished off, they spoke to Positron and another 1000 xp & 1000 influence was earned (this group or char was sometimes ambushed upon speaking with Positron).
As soon as this mission was complete, everyone quit the TF and reformed it to start anew. All in all it took about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes for each cycle and you got about 3000 xp out of it. Do the cycle a few times and you made major progress in leveling and earned enourmous influence.
From my understanding, the change to Synapse simply involves a rearraging of mission order so that the quickies were no longer the first 3 missions and you now have to do a door mishes. Nothing else has changed though.
Posted by Vee on :
Just dawned on me that Mysa may NOT be able to do her cape mission until we finish the TF. It's probably handled the same as any other mission. If you attempt them while still on the TF you are asked if you want to abandon the TF.
If so, I guess she'll just have to wait a little bit longer for her cape.
I'm game for trying to finish tonight but I don't know if everyone else is available.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
I'm available for tonight. Besides, I don't have anyone over level 3 on any of the servers you listed for Monday. Posted by LyleLyle on :
Hmmm, I'm trying to combine our character lists into a table but I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way to keep this updated... anyone know if there's a really simple way to do a group database over the internet (so we can go and re-edit our own info)?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I don't know if we'll be available tonight for the TF or not. Just a bunch of personal issues and we still have to go grocery shopping.
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Just dawned on me that Mysa may NOT be able to do her cape mission until we finish the TF. It's probably handled the same as any other mission. If you attempt them while still on the TF you are asked if you want to abandon the TF.
If so, I guess she'll just have to wait a little bit longer for her cape.
I'm game for trying to finish tonight but I don't know if everyone else is available.
As I suspected Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: I'm available for tonight. Besides, I don't have anyone over level 3 on any of the servers you listed for Monday.
SLK, if we don't continue the TF tonight don't worry about not having anything over lvl 3. I don't think I have anyone over lvl 5. Posted by Blue Battler on :
Blue has a SG event scheduled for tomorrow night. Ironically enough, they're going up against a Portal World's Clock King ... 8-)
I'm free for the TF tonight if we can get together, but I'm going to be working out soon and will be back in about an hour.
I do want to work on Bluette though... I want to get her to 14 ASAP. 8-)
But if we decide to play on other server, I can play on Guardian or Pinnacle or Protector. I have a character on Champion but it's a version of Blue Battlette that I hated so I never got her past 3.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys. If we're not going to do TF, let me know what server everyone wants to play on. Grem would like to play too. I wouldn't mind working on Star some more ... and I've got a level 8 healer on Guardian who has rez.
I need to work out now, but I'll check back when I'm done.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: After last night I've been thinking how it's a shame we don't play our chars on other servers together more often, although we do seem to solo them quite a bit based on their levels.
We also have other LW posters that play CoH but have never (or rarely) been part of the the LW teams because their heroes (or preferred chars) are on servers other than those in which we have our main Legion groups such as Danny Blaine, Director Lad, Maegenbrand, UltraStar, Pex, Patch, Comic Addict Lad (who actually first posted about CoH on LW and started all of this) and others.
So I have a suggestion to make...
Why don't we designate each day of the week for a different server. That way, if you're looking to just play instead of work on a particular char, you know you're likely to find some of us there.
I for one always have much more fun when I'm teamed with you guys thatn soloing or teaming with random players.
I really like the idea, Vee. It creates an easy place to find each other if we feel like it... just go on and see who's there instead of having to log on and post your plans. Join or not it becomes much eaiser.
I've gone and tried to consolidate all the lists and here are my observations.
It seems like the two servers we have the least on are Champion, Victory, Liberty and Justice (hmmmm) so perhaps those can go on backup days until we decide we like our chacters there more. There's a little more activity on Truimph, Guardian, Freedom, Protector and Pinnacle so perhaps they'll share their day with one of the above. Then there's Virtue and Infinity, where we spend the most time grouped.
Course those observations seem moot depending on how off the combined list is... levels are way off, and that's how I judged server activity. Also since a bunch of us haven't posted our lists, there are a bunch of gaps.
My ideaso for a schedule -- Being our biggest servers Virtue and Infinity get wednesdays. Since Pinnacle and Freedom seem so busy, perhaps they should take up friday or monday, to give a day's break from Legion night. Guardian and Protector would share Tuesdays and Thursdays, since we have a lot of people with characters there that don't have Virtue or Infinity characters.
'cept I just forgot about Triumph.
Anyway, here's a draft of where my thinking was going, perhaps, next to Vee's schedule we'll come up with some good ideas.
quote: So here's my suggested preliminary schedule. Feel free to object, denounce, amend, etc:
Mondays: alternate between Guardian, Victory, and Champion with assorted heroes on each.
Tuesdays: alternate between Pinnacle (contains JSA and the Buffy group plus assorted other heroes) and Triumph (Blue's crew plus assorted heroes)
Wednesdays: alternate Legion Night on Virtue & Infinity. (This night seems to work best for getting the largest group together)
Thursdays: alternate between Freedom (Peanuts, the CoH Mythos crew, and where the other large Legion group we discovered last week calls home, plus assorted other heroes) and Justice
Friday: alternate between Protector (contains Legion of Super Protectors & the Gilligans Island crew plus assorted independant heroes) & Liberty (Titans plus assorted other heroes)
Weekends would be a left "open" and likely used for TFs & special groupings.
Posted by Vee on :
If we don't continue the TF tonight, I'll plan on being on Guardian server with my lvl 4 fire blaster CometKid.
Please be sure to notice that there is NO space between "Comet" & "Kid"
[ October 25, 2004, 04:28 PM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
OK, I just created a new character so I can play on Guardian. Look for DeliveryMan if you get a chance.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
On Guardian now. I created a new Blue Battler. Everyone who can come join us! 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
And I'm on with Varalent, along with SLK as Black Hand, Grem as Madeleine, & Blue as ...well, as Blue Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Hey, that was pretty fun tonight guys. I got to use some different powers from the usual hack 'n slash porcupine pete! Plus it was kind of fun to role play as an annoying teen for a couple of hours. Hope I didn't get on too many nerves. I definitely wouldn't mind going back to that group again some time.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've had Fyre Ant for quite awhile but I just never play on Guardian. It was kinda fun playing a different character type. Thanks for letting me join you so late in the game.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I enjoyed myself as well. After spending hours punching things with Andrew, it was nice to be a blaster for a change. 8-)
I think that I'm going to put a Blue on every server. 8-) Maybe I'll make Giant Blue and Lil' Blue ... 8-)
I do want to play Bluette some more on Triumph. She's at 11 now, and I want to get her flight, and I want to eventually get her to 20 so she can have invisbility. I've never made it that far in devices....
I'm undecided about smoke grenade though. I'm not sure if it's worth taking now that they've gimped it.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Emergency meeting of the Legion of Virtue? I think that's our strongest overall team.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
It was great to play Sylvie again. It seems so rare that I get to use her. My first CoH character was a mind controller and, depite all the bad things people have to say about the AT, it's the most controller-y for me.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
One more thing...
I think I want to create a Puffy Ami character. Anyone up for Puffy Yumi? Posted by Saturn Girl on :
I'm up for it. I like hentai more then anime, but I will be part of this gang. Anything for running around Paragon City as a herd of chars. I hate soloing. Just tell me which tiny, colorful, platform shoe wearing char to be, and if I'm a girl or guy. Posted by Vee on :
That was fun last night. It was neat to play differnet chars and still have fun with the group. And, wow! We tore through most everything we came up against (except for that last mess of 5ths )
I think I'm going to enjoy visiting the different servers.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Blue has a SG event to attend to tonight, so I won't be able to make anything tonight, most likely. Am prolly going to get killed a lot by a Portal World Clock King. 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle:
Anyway, here's a draft of where my thinking was going, perhaps, next to Vee's schedule we'll come up with some good ideas.
This would work for me also. I'm not really particular about which servers are on which night just so that we have an idea of where to go looking and get a chance to play some of our different characters with each other. That's been the most fun part for me!
BTW, I think I listed the other Legion groups server wrong. I'll double check what server they are on when I get back home tonight.
[ October 26, 2004, 06:12 AM: Message edited by: Vee ]
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Saturn Girl: I'm up for it. I like hentai more then anime, but I will be part of this gang. Anything for running around Paragon City as a herd of chars. I hate soloing. Just tell me which tiny, colorful, platform shoe wearing char to be, and if I'm a girl or guy.
Go ahead to the show website (found here), mouse over the "characters" button and use Yumi for inspiration.
I'm figuring I'll put the character on Liberty Server to play with the Titans, even if this isn't Puffy Amiyumi's Titans.
Try using the code name Puffy Yumi, (I hope no one's taken it yet) I'm thinking of making Puffy Ami a 5'6"ish and a Empathy/Radiation defender (would that be the best match for the perky, cheery positive one?)
Posted by Vee on :
Just saw the following posted on the CoH main page.
******
Special PCC Event Today! Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Statesman Requests Your Help!
**********SPECIAL PCC EVENT TODAY!!!**********
For this week only!
Greetings, Heroes.
Statesman has contacted the Paragon City Council in regards to unusual activities occurring on the Test Server. In order to investigate these concerns, the PCC Event for this week will be held at 4pm Pacific Time/6pm Central Time on Tuesday, October 26th. We ask all available heroes to attend. Please enter the Training Room server, create a new character (or use one whose level is between 1 and 4), skip the tutorial and enter Atlas Park.
The directions for accessing the Training Room server can be found HERE.
Further instructions will be given by the PCC at that time.
Posted by Vee on :
I've never actually made it into the test server. Can never seem to get it to download all the files needed, but I guess I'll give it one more shot today and see if I can make it in in order to find out what's going on.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Let us know, Vee. I'd like to get on the training server sometimes for those chats they're supposed to have, but I've always been afraid of running my game on this machine. Maybe when I get a second PC capable of running Herocrack ... 8-)
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Just 'cause it seems worth re-posting:
quote: Here’s how to install the test server client:
1. Locate the “CohUpdater.exe” file. If you installed the game from the retail cd, this will be in the game directory, which is “C:\Program Files\City of Heroes” by default.
2. Create a shortcut to this file.
3. Open the Properties for the newly created shortcut. In the “Target” window, add the following flag to the end of the line: [space]-test
5. Run this shortcut.
The first time you run the shortcut, you will be asked if you want to install the test client to the default directory. Choose “Yes” if you want to install it there, or choose “No” if you want to choose a different directory. It is recommended that you install the test client in a different location than your normal game client.
Once the test client is installed, you can launch the test client by using this same shortcut.
Additional Information:
· The test client does not include an uninstall program. To remove it, you will have to delete it manually.
· If you uninstall the normal game client, it will remove the “CohUpdater.exe” file. If you plan to remove the normal game client but continue to use the test client, be sure to make a copy of this file first.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Also:
quote:You can now copy your characters to the Training Room (test server)!
For making easy copies of your characters to the test server, please visit our new Character Copy Tool, login to your account, and follow the instructions carefully.
There are some important caveats to be aware of before you make a copy of your character:
* While the character copy tool no longer clears out tasks, their state should be identical to the tasks your original character had. Be aware, however, that some of the broken tasks that have been fixed were fixed so that they are issued correctly (i.e. if you have already been issued them you may still need a GM to fix your character).
*Your copied character will no longer be a member of any taskforce or supergroup.
*Your copied character will lose all influence points that the original source character acquired.
*Any sidekick your source character has will not be copied over to the test server.
*In cases where your character had a populated friend’s list on the production servers, when that character is copied to the test server your friend’s list will be empty.
Your source character will *not* be affected or modified by this copy process in any way.
Please report any bugs you encounter via the in-game support tool.
Reading the forum, some posters point out a very valuable use to the character copy tool... you can copy over a character to a test server twice before leveling and trying out different powers (or more than twice if you wish).
[ October 26, 2004, 02:54 PM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by Vee on :
Well I gave up. Not even 2% of the files have downloaded at this point and it's over two hours.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm at 720 MB with about 15 minutes to go. A 45 minute download for me. Once upon a time you could copy over the actual files from your CoH folder but I see that isn't an option anymore.
Posted by Vee on :
Let me know what you find out
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Well its slowed down (probably a lot of stress on their servers with the downloads) but its close. About another 10 minutes. I'll post here as soon as I figure out what's up.
I hope, though, that they aren't going to limit the Halloween special event to the test server. That's not fair to those with dialups. They couldn't get it downloaded before next Halloween.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I wonder if I should just copy a character over. Or if this is going to be worth it since the 'event' was scheduled to have taken place an hour ago now.
Posted by Vee on :
I'll be on Pinnacle with either Robin Flamebird or Dark Obsidion (or maybe Mystic fate or even Demon Angel ). Look for me if any of you decide to log into that server
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
SOAB! Like I guessed, by the time I got through the download and the half dozen file checks, the event was over. And the a**hole high level players (who weren't even supposed to be there, I'm talking 50th lvl characters) won't say anything. They just keep saying read the boards or wait until Halloween.
One person is saying, and I don't know if he's serious or not, that when you clicked on a door you got a trick (a monster attack) or a treat (a temp power or other special thing). And if this is what they are rolling out for Halloween it is only supposed to last an hour. Real fair play to me.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
You can find some info on the monsters that showed up here:
Okay, so I'm playing DrFate
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Wow it does look pretty cool.
I'm downloading my test server patch. I'll be on Pinnacle after that's done... look for Olivia Honey or Amethyst Amy
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
OK. I'm on as Mr. Bones DEO and Caroline is on as Kokopelli.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Got Mr. Bones up to 8 before we logged off. Took Mutation as his power and fully stocked him with 10's. So, this is my first Mutate using character. Does it pay to slot it with more than one? Should I put my next two slots there?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hey, we weren't planning on working on the TF tomorrow night were we? I thought, maybe wrongly, that it had been decided to not do the TFs during the work week. I really doubt I'll be home in time or have enough time to make it worthwhile to work on the TF.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Well, Wednesdays have been tight for me anyway 'cause it's too hard not to watch Lost and I stop paying attention to the game. I'd still be willing to put what time I can towards the TF.
It's was good to get Ms Flowers/Honey running again, nice playing with everyone. If we don't TF, how 'bout a game on Victory or Liberty?
Posted by Vee on :
OK, with a vampire dressed like this, you can't tell me there isn't a gay man on the development team.
This event looks really cool. I hope it lasts longer than an hour and/or there's some sort of warning so that those of us who have lives, Halloween parties, etc. can get a chance to attend.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I wonder if they'll have anything planned for Christmas? Maybe an Evil Santa and elves?
Star's the only character I have who's near to getting mutate, Scott, so I don't know if it's worth slotting it with anything yet. Based on how much energy you burn when you rez someone using empathy, I'd guess that it takes a lot of juice so I'd be sure to slot it with an endurance reduction and also a recharge reduction.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, guys, if we're not going to play on Virtue tonight why don't we play on Infinity since this is supposed to be Legion night?
I was talking to Grem last night and she is still getting bothered by tells when she plays Super Kara. *Grrrr* She said she'll still try to play her, but I've been trying to think of backup characters she could play ... and also someone she could make to join us on Virtue.
She wants to play a Scrapper, so I suggested that she play Night Girl as an invulnerable/ martial arts scrapper for Infinity if she decides not to play Super Kara any more. I think that for Virtue she could play Laurel Kent also as an invulnerable scrapper ... though maybe with more clothing. *G*
Does anyone else have any other suggestions? She's not all that familiar with the Legion so it should be someone who's fairly distinctive and easy for a non-fan to grasp.
Posted by Vee on :
Since she's getting so many tells with a female character why not have her do a male? I have a Karate Kid on Virtue that I never use and have thought of deleting so she could do him. I used to have Brin also but he's already gone and I think DM's Brin is on Infinity. There's also no Ultra Boy (that I know of) on Virtue.
As far as Infinity, she could also do Val or Jo over there or maybe even Chuck (Bouncing Boy) or Tenzil (Matter Eater Lad) as Scrappers. Either one would be lots of fun and I don't think anyone has done those. Or maybe one of the Subs. Chlorophyll Kid could be a scrapper since he can't grow plants.
That's all asuming she defintiely wants to do scrappers. There's lots of other options to do as controllers or defenders or blasters or tankers even.
Posted by Vee on :
Oh, and if we don't do the TF, I think we should do either Infinity or maybe even lower level heroes that never get played on Virtue. Good chance for everyone to meet SLK's really cool Blok (I could do Rokk or Quis or I Kid Lyle or Rond ...all of whom are between lvl 7-11 or even Quantum King who's still at lvl 2) and play some Legion characters we never get around to playing.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
OK, with a vampire dressed like this, you can't tell me there isn't a gay man on the development team.
Y'know I have one counter arguement to that -- we can't create jungle heroes in a loin cloth, just a brief or even just bare legs for those who are dying to recreate Tyroc. ;D
quote:This event looks really cool. I hope it lasts longer than an hour and/or there's some sort of warning so that those of us who have lives, Halloween parties, etc. can get a chance to attend.
Yeah, I'd guess 20 mintues was to get to test it without, but unless they leave it going for a whole day a lot of people are going to be furious for missing out.
I wish we could get that witch's hat. I'd love to have a little June Moon running around. Couldn't be worse than that stupid rice paddy hat that I see far too often.
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I was talking to Grem last night and she is still getting bothered by tells when she plays Super Kara. *Grrrr* She said she'll still try to play her, but I've been trying to think of backup characters she could play ... and also someone she could make to join us on Virtue.
She wants to play a Scrapper, so I suggested that she play Night Girl as an invulnerable/martial arts scrapper for Infinity if she decides not to play Super Kara any more. I think that for Virtue she could play Laurel Kent also as an invulnerable scrapper ... though maybe with more clothing. *G*
Does anyone else have any other suggestions? She's not all that familiar with the Legion so it should be someone who's fairly distinctive and easy for a non-fan to grasp.
Perhaps she could team up with someone, plan their characters out in advance and play DUO DAMSEL (all caps so that one player can spell it D-U-zero)? Two characters identically costumed (hence the need to plan in advance) except one in purple and one in orange? That'd look pretty cool, especially if they end up staying close in battle.
If Grem's going to play a new character on Virtue I could join with Jade, even tho she's not a Legion character. (In hindsight I would've created her on Liberty since she's Cheetah inspired.)
Otherwise, on Infinity I have Queen Amethyst who is Legion related and is pretty new. At her level, tho, I may reroll her to get my isolator badge.
[ October 27, 2004, 08:52 AM: Message edited by: LyleLyle ]
Posted by Vee on :
Ohhh! She could do EyeFull Ethel!!!
They do have an eye you can put on the forehead!
Posted by Vee on :
Or Catspaw on Virtue...
(If you give me enough time, I'll think of tons more if no one stops me! )
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
OK, with a vampire dressed like this, you can't tell me there isn't a gay man on the development team.
Y'know I have one counter arguement to that -- we can't create jungle heroes in a loin cloth, just a brief or even just bare legs for those who are dying to recreate Tyroc. ;D
That's unfortunately true -- unless you give him blue skin.
It's probably a case of sneaking in what he can. He was able to get in a leather harness for us, but no loincloth. In this case, he probably said, "Isn't this a striking look," but didn't bother informing his clueless straight colleagues, who were just glad to use more of the peek-a-boo Witchblade look, just what that lower strap would be attached to. Posted by Blue Battler on :
Grem did say that she wanted to do a female character ... and I kind of like her as a girl.
Duo Damsel would be interesting, but I don't know of who else could play one with her. I've got Andrew and Xs Ive and I want to work on her some more.
Did we decide on where we're going to be tonight? I need to work out and I'll be back after that.
I'd really like for it to be Infinity because I want to work on getting Star up to mutate so for the future Positron TF -- are we going to do that one on Infinity?
If we decide to play lower levels on Virtue, that would be okay too because I could play XS Ive. I think she'll be able to touch her teammates with the speed force at level 12 so I wouldn't mind working on her either. Posted by Vee on :
Hey, I finally managed to get on to the test server. I figured the huge files that you have to download MUST be identical to the real game files so I went ahead and copied them into a new folder I labeled "CoHTest" Then I created the shortcut as instructed above and ran it. Guess what? It worked! In about 20 minutes it checked the files and downloaded some patches and then logged me in to the Training Room!
Of course, it appears to be no different than the regular game, although I'm sure there must be some differences to be found. At least I'll be able to participate in future test server events instead of missing out.
Posted by Vee on :
It appears they've uploaded a patch (about 1.8M) so be ready to sit through a short delay before being able to log in.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: It appears they've uploaded a patch (about 1.8M) so be ready to sit through a short delay before being able to log in.
To the main servers?
Posted by Vee on :
Yes to the main server
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Yes to the main server
Argh.
So. Virtue or Infinity?
Posted by Vee on :
I'm on Virtue right now with Cosmic Rokk. Look for me or let me know where you're going to be by posting here.
Posted by Vee on :
Seymour & I have moved over to Infinity
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Val Armorr is officially on the Infinity server! He is a scrapper with Martial Arts (what else?) and Super Reflexes. I got him up to level 4, but I seriously doubt if I will be able to get him close to TF levels by the time you guys start the positron. What level does that begin at anyway?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Something was seriously whack tonight. After Beauty and Princess left, we went to the Hollows to do the defeat gang leaders and get the bomb mish for Kara who's still an 11. There were only 4 of us. The first couple of gangs were standard for that mish... big, but manageable. Then we were running through the cave and not seeing anything ... and then a HUGE gang of trolls appeareed out of nowhere... right in front of me... they killed Kent and Kara and almost got Cadet Brannin and me. We somehow managed to live through that, and went onto the next part of the mish. At that point, there were just five of the trolls visible, and we went to work on them ... and suddenly the # of trolls doubled or tripled ... Kent and Cadet died again, but as Kara and I ran we found the mobs had spawned BEHIND us ... and were huge again... I died first, and then Kara went down as well. She said that by the time she got back to the main chamber they were so numerous she couldn't even run through them.
After we went to hospital, Cadet logged and the ladies and I decided to try to work off a little debt in Steel. That didn't go too badly at first, but I made the mistake of attacking some level 14 Vahz and Outcasts. I held them at first, but I was just running out of juice, so we were beating a retreat ... and I was killed AGAIN by some level 15 Vahz that came out of nowhere ... there was a back of about six embalmed abominations that came lumbering through as well.
After a few minutes, they finally got far enough away that Kent was able to rez me ... right around that time Querl showed up ... just in time for us to be attacked by a bunch of Outcasts who also seemed to come out of nowhere. At first they were just minions and I was doing all right with those, but then two more lietenants showed up ... Querl bit the big one this time.
Star was actually having to use propel and lift to do some damage to the baddies-- sucky controller damage, but bette rthan nothing. After we finally got those guys-- and Querl nearly died AGAIN-- Kent and I called it a night. Kara had already logged off.
Oh, I forgot to mention the lientenants were joined by another Mort that also apepared out of nowhere again.
I swear that the game was buggy and I'm wondering if it had to do with that patch they did today ... the spawns were coming out of nowhere, it seemed.
Made for a frustrating end to the night.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
And Positron is like 11-16, I think.
Posted by Vee on :
Positron is 10-16
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Which means, from a practical standpoint, it's 15-16 (regular or SK'd). Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I tried out a new way to 'film' our adventures last night. So far, when I left for work this morning, the images I captured were coming in at about 10Gig worth. And that was just a very short duration. I'm going to turn the images into an .avi or something equivalent and see how they turned out when I get home. The one of the three I 'filmed' last night that I chose was where the cavern suddenly filled with trolls. Hopefully I captured their sudden appearance.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Anyone know what's up with CoH? Not only can you not launch it, their website is offline. Their ISP server maintenance was supposed to have ended over 2 hours ago.
Posted by Vee on :
Website came up fine for me right now.
Posted by Vee on :
This looks like the prelude to the next big event...
Ancient text responsible for threat to city? By Jackson Turner Times Staff
PARAGON CITY, Rhode Island, October 27?In his newest book, TheHammer of the World: Incantations from the Abyss (Winthrop University Press, 2004), Professor of Esoteric Anthropology Dr. Nathaniel A. Bierce writes, "The obsession with the fabled city of Oranbega (Norembega) notwithstanding, it was always Baron Zoria's secret and ruthless search for various tomes of occult power that drove his ambitions (and thus alienated him from his contemporaries--Crowley, Blavatsky, Westcott and Mathers). The prize he sought above all was the 10th century ?vulgate? translation of an Akkadian text, known as Malleus Mundi. Or The Hammer of the World.?
According to Dr. Bierce, Baron Zoria obtained the ?key? to this manuscript in the ruins of an obscure 13th century Templar castle in the south of France during the 1920?s. However, he needed the complete text to unlock the powers that would "bring the worlds under my control." The tome was rumored to belong to various occult teachers and mystics throughout the 18 th and 19 th centuries, but the last owner of the Malleus Mundi was, to quote Dr. Bierce, ?thought to have been none other than Zoria?s one-time mentor, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin . Though there is some doubt as to whether they had ever actually met.?
M.A.G.I.?s own intelligence service and reports from heroes in the field indicate that the cult Zoria founded, known as the Circle of Thorns, seems to have managed a tenuous treaty with the Banished Pantheon and the Tsoo. In a recent phone interview with the Times, Dr. Bierce agreed with the
assessment and added, ?Some resources indicate that Zoria?s followers tracked down the text in early 2004 in the Lubyanka Museum?s special archive in Moscow. It was the capture of this same archive that was said to have been one of the objectives of Germany?s Operation Barbarossa during World War II. In fact, a secret unit of the German army, the Spezialwaffen Kommandotruppen, comprised of members of the occult-based Thule Society, was created specifically for this purpose. The archive, however, had been temporarily shipped to Siberia for safekeeping in the first weeks of the invasion.
In August 2004, according to Russian authorities, this entire archive was reported to be missing.
When asked if he thought that the Circle of Thorns had actually obtained the Malleus Mundi, Dr. Bierce said, ?It?s highly likely, though latest intelligence has reported turmoil within their axis of mystical groups. I wouldn?t be surprised if the 5th Column were somehow involved as well?given this group?s history with the search for the text.? Indeed, as late as last week, a high-ranking Tsoo lieutenant, captured in a recent raid on Talos Island, confirmed a falling out amongst the groups and said that a ?terrible, ancient weapon? was now in the hands of ?those who do not understand the devastating nature of what they possess.? The Tsoo lieutenant also told authorities that the recent Rularuu event had been ?merely a small experiment.? When asked what group he thought now possessed the text, Dr. Bierce said, ?I can only hope that it?s not the 5 th Column, or worse?the Banished Pantheon.?
With dire warnings steadily increasing, city authorities have called for vigilance. Mayor Morales, in his weekly radio broadcast, addressed the citizens of Paragon City. ?Be alert, but remain calm and go about your daily business. We are doing everything we can to protect this great city from any threat?no matter where it comes from.?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I can get to it okay now as well. And since Caroline hasn't responded to my e-mails I'm assuming she finally got logged in.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
That's weird. I was at the site earlier this morning looking to see if these sudden spawaning problems were mentioned on the forums (didn't see anything), but I can't get on now either.
I noticed that a little bit (trolls aggroing from nowhere) when we were running around Skyway, but not to the extent you had it in the Hollows. Unlike any other zone, though, I have seen groups of trolls suddenly spawn as I'm running by in the Hollows, though, again, not in the massive numbers you encountered. I hope it's a bug they're working on. You should file a report when you're able to get back on.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Never mind. I'm OK now.
And that story sound ominous. Ooooh. I wonder if magic-basec characters will get special consideration. I'll have to play Princess P when the event is running.
Posted by Vee on :
Message from Mysa:
I hope we get the TF done befoe this starts so I can have my new outfit for the big event! Posted by Vee on :
I wonder if this is going to be Issue #3. Didn't they say it was coming out in Nov/Dec?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
#3 is supposed to come out in December so it could be testing to get it ready.
As for getting Mysa into her new costume. Since some of us have an issue with Saturday and who knows what Sunday will bring yet how about an all-night tomorrow? I should be out of Hell, or work, by about 6:00 pm our time (Mountain) if anyone wants to try and finish up the TF then.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
It depends on how much prep work I can get done for our party. (My hubby is working a graveyard shift (heh) Friday night til Saturday morning, so most of the work is now falling on me.) I'm willing if everyone else is available. It would probably be easier than trying to work around trick-or-treating and whatnot in the different timezones on Sunday.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Or even on Saturday. They've officially declared that trick or treaters are to go out on Saturday here. And we are expecting another big storm to hit either Saturday or Sunday with snow. So this weekend might be a little tricky to get everyone all together again.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Newsflash!
Longtime CoH players will get top priority when they assign slots for beta testing CoV next year. Some details (but not important ones, such as dates) can be found here .
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Well as long as they stick to the 12 month criteria and the CoV beta is at least a year after the initial launch date of CoH then I should get a slot. I was signed up on day one. However, I think this gives an unfair advantage to those who beta'd CoH. Especially if the CoV beta comes earlier than the anniversary of CoH.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: I wonder if this is going to be Issue #3. Didn't they say it was coming out in Nov/Dec?
That sounds about right, but I wonder if they're doing this update in phases, as I hoped they would... do some story forshadowing, put in the gameplay changes then roll out the new zones/foes.
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: #3 is supposed to come out in December so it could be testing to get it ready.
As for getting Mysa into her new costume. Since some of us have an issue with Saturday and who knows what Sunday will bring yet how about an all-night tomorrow? I should be out of Hell, or work, by about 6:00 pm our time (Mountain) if anyone wants to try and finish up the TF then.
Well, I won't be home until 6/6:30PM PST, which would be 7/7:30, but after that I'll be good to go... just don't go after the Clockwork Lord without me since that leads to the Babbage ambush.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Have any of you seen pictures of Babbage or the Clockwork King? Babbage looks huge!
Posted by Vee on :
But I hear he's a wuss!
We can try it tomorrow night but I do have to work on Saturday at 8 AM so I won't be able to stay on too late.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Have any of you seen pictures of Babbage or the Clockwork King? Babbage looks huge!
Any idea of how he compares to the Kraken, which was just a really large hydra?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: But I hear he's a wuss!
We can try it tomorrow night but I do have to work on Saturday at 8 AM so I won't be able to stay on too late.
I have to be in at 6:00 am on Saturday so I won't be playing too late either.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle:
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Have any of you seen pictures of Babbage or the Clockwork King? Babbage looks huge!
Any idea of how he compares to the Kraken, which was just a really large hydra?
I think Babbage is a bit taller but they've redone the Kraken since my first time seeing it, long before the badges. The Kraken used to be earthen in color and almost taller than the wall surrounding Perez Park. Now he's green and much shorter.
Posted by Vee on :
I'm currently planning on playing on Freedom tonight with one of my mythos character (either Requiem Fil or Eidol Mage) Look for me if you decide to play there also or post here where you want to be.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Vee: I'm currently planning on playing on Freedom tonight with one of my mythos character (either Requiem Fil or Eidol Mage) Look for me if you decide to play there also or post here where you want to be.
That sounds great, I've been itching to play with Kiri-Kimi.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Before I work out I'm going to be working on Blue Battlette. I want to get her up to 12 so she can pick up teleportation. That'd be handy when we have to do mishs in the Hollows or anyplace else that's bad news for our lower characters. After I work out, I should be able to join you on Freedom. I'll have to see who I want to play. I haven't playe Flame in ages...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
So what time do we want to start TF tomorrow? The earlier the better, I would think.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
I think I'd be hard pressed to be ready to do the TF by 9:00 PM. I WILL be on, just don't know what time.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I got Flame up to level 10... finally. Now she's got three attacks. 8-)
So what time should we plan on doing TF?
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
I suspect something big is happening. With no notice they just shut down all the servers. And I was with three lvl 50's who were trying to kill a bitch named "Mistress Diana" (a carnie queen, illusion thingie) who was lvl 51, and could spawn giant male Phantasms that were also lvl 51. I did learn that superspeed and invisibility in combination made me completely invisible to them, even though I was only s/k'd to a 36 at the time. But damn, no notice. So theya re probably installing the Halloween stuff right now. That's all I can figure.
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
oh, P.S., I tried to take screen shots so you could all see the stuff I've seen today. But, who knows, I am no technology person. If Scott can print them, maybe he will be nice and do it for me Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'll see what I can do with them when I get home.
And on that note, the message boards for CoH are down. Have been for 2 1/2 hours now for maintenance that was to last 2 hours. They are deleting old messages that have not been responded to in 14 days. I think of lot of useful in formation wound up getting deleted today.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Just saw this at the coh web site. Looks like the Halloween event has begun!
PARAGON CITY, RI - October 29, 2004 (20:00:00 GMT) – Unconfirmed reports have Paragon City under attack by unknown forces. With a strange, early darkness descending upon the city, calls of "demonic" and "nightmarish" creatures on city streets continue to flood the Paragon City Police Department switchboard.
An emergency meeting of the city and state authorities has been called. Mayor Morales, in a statement issued over the Emergency Broadcast System, urged citizens to remain calm and to stay indoors. "We have not ascertained the exact nature of this threat, but we have mobilized all our emergency resources and they remain at the highest level of preparedness. All available hero groups and the FBSA have been put on city-wide alert. Please continue to monitor your radios and televisions for up-to-date reports on this developing situation." # # # EBNS 22168
I'm going to hop on as Princess P for a few minutes to check it out.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I'll see what I can do with them when I get home.
And on that note, the message boards for CoH are down. Have been for 2 1/2 hours now for maintenance that was to last 2 hours. They are deleting old messages that have not been responded to in 14 days. I think of lot of useful in formation wound up getting deleted today.
They've been doing this for a few weeks, now, about two weeks before the re-organized the board. I believe they've declared the Guides section under special rules (and, therefore, posters are directed to put their guides thee) tho I'm not sure if it's totally immune from purging or not (some purging would make sense, I mean "The Guide to Defeating Tons and Tons of Villains with Smoke Grenade" might as well be deleted).
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Guys, get on ASAP.
Blue just killed a giant Jack O'Lantern guy and got a badge for it!
Posted by Vee on :
I'm on with Condo. Way cool!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Guys I don't feel well at all... 8-(
I'm going to take a nap and see if helps. I'll try to be back in a couple of hours. Let me know here where everyone will be...
Posted by Vee on :
Virtue of course
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Gah.
Is anyone else having problems right now? it's not letting me connect ...
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Infinity is running much better than virtue. come here.
Posted by Super Lad Kid on :
Hope you feel better soon, Blue! Get some rest this weekend.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Thanks.
I don't know what was wrong with me last night, but I feel much better now. I'm still as weak as a kitten-- a level 1 Hellion would prolly give me a run for my money!-- but I'll take that over the chills and fever any day.
Do we want to try to work on TF today? If not, I'd like to work some more on Infinity and get Star closer towards 16. I'll probably also spend some time working on getting Blue Battlette on Triumph up to 12 so I can pick up tp for her.
Posted by Vee on :
I'd love to work on the TF today but I'm pretty sure Seymour, Scott & Caroline said they wouldn't be available.
Posted by Vee on :
BTW, glad you're feeling better, Blue! Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I'm out today, but, speaking for myself, you can go ahead and do a few missions if you'd like if most of you get on so we can wrap it up more quickly tomorrow.
Tomorrow evening should be doable for me. Didn't Scott say he works til 3 his time? It'll give me a distraction from picking up the pieces of our house after the party -- though I may have to step away a few times for trick-or-treaters.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
thanks for the kind words, Vee.
How was it the Jewel Thief mish that the Paragon Mythos characters got when we plaeyd them last? The one that wound up taking place in King's Row?
I clicked on that mish for Bluette tinking it was going to be in king's row but it was in Perez Park. 8-(
I hate that place. I got Bluette to the site without dying-- barely-- and got disconnectd in the middle of the mish which resets it, so I decided not to bother with it. on my way out, I couldn't find an opening in the woods to allow me to fly to safety so I had to run ... and everywhere she went there was someone high enough to kill her. 8-(
She eventually did die. I guess I'll save that mish for either when she's 14 or when I've got some friends online who can help me with it.
Sighs.
Sucks.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Anyone want to team up today and play some?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hey guys. Don't know how much I'll feel like playing today. Got a damn cold now. I just love being susceptible to every little bug that comes along. Glad you're feeling better though Thomas. It wasn't as fun last night without you around.
If we do play today, though, I'd like to play the Peanuts gang since we are so close to all of our badges for Halloween. Also, those of us on the TF won't be earning any of those badges. Found out last night playing Garth for a bit that we won't get them as long as we are on a TF.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Peanuts Gang would be fine. How late did you guys play? I ran Bluette with a pickup team and we squatted in front of a door in King's Row and it took a couple hours for me to get a witches badge.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We played until about 1 in Galaxy. Earned our Witch badge and at least 75% or more of the remaining badges.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Whew.
It took most of the day, but I got all but one of the badges for Bluette. She still needs the pumpkin badge ... and she hit 12, so I picked up tp for her. Now whenever we decide to run on Triumph again, we'll have an easy way to transpower the lower ones to the sites without us nearly dying in the Hollows. 8-)
Posted by Vee on :
Is anyone on? Let me know where you are, if so.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Sorry. We got setting up for Halloween and didn't get a chance to log in. Caroline is getting ready now and I'm already in my Medieval garb I bought minus the head covering. If we don't get a lot of trick-or-treaters we may log in later tonight. But the kids will start showing up in the next 30 minutes or so, so don't be expecting us for a bit.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Neat, Scott. You and Caroline gotta show me pictures if you're dressing up. 8-)
Where does everyone want to be?
Posted by Vee on :
Yes! We want pictures!
I'm bouncing around trying to earn Hallow Spirit badge for all my chars. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Maybe I'll let Caroline take some pics. Depends on if her mood improves.
Did anyone else try getting the Hallow Spirit for their Legion character on Virtue? Just curious if it was a glitch that I couldn't get it for Garth. I defeated on of the Great Pumpkins on my own and dealt the death blow to three others. Got plenty of XP for it but no badge.
Posted by Vee on :
I think Grev got it yesterday but I'm not sure.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Pete and I did get it yesterday, and I wasn't even the killing blow. My hubby saw something that said you (or your team) had to deal the most damage to get the badge. But if you took one on your own, Scott, that should have done it. I don't know why you didn't get it.
Any idea for times Sunday? I might be here playing in my Scooby-Doo costume if it's during trick-or-treat time.
[ October 30, 2004, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: Suddenly Seymour ]
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Okay, Seymour ... you gotta take a picture too!
I went back on to find you, Vee, but you weren't on Infinity or any of the servers that I checked. Just as well, I guess as I'm feeling beat all of a sudden...
As for the TF, I do need to get a haircut tomorrow, and Bo Rics won't be open till 11, but after that I'm free ... the earlier the better, I'm thinking in case I still happen to be this tired tomorrow ... Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Sorry today didn't pan out. We finally turned off the lights at 9 pm and called it a night for the trick-or-treaters. Had 36 kids which, I think, is double last year when Halloween was on a Friday. Caroline took some pics of me and I of her so I'll post them in a thread somewhere around here.
If I can pull myself out of work and stay home tomorrow maybe we can play around 1 pm.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
You can find our Halloween pics here.
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Okay, Seymour ... you gotta take a picture too!
I went back on to find you, Vee, but you weren't on Infinity or any of the servers that I checked. Just as well, I guess as I'm feeling beat all of a sudden...
As for the TF, I do need to get a haircut tomorrow, and Bo Rics won't be open till 11, but after that I'm free ... the earlier the better, I'm thinking in case I still happen to be this tired tomorrow ...
Must have just missed me Blue. I got the badge for a few more of my chars (including Mysa, Scott) It turns out that you (or your team) has to inflict at least 25% of the damage in order to get the badge. So I sort or cheated because I've been trying to get it for Mysa since Friday afternoon and haven't been able to do so since she can't team up with anyone without quitting the TF.
I waited until late last night and took her to Atlas 2 when no one was around. Went to the park in Hyperion Way, waited until the Eochai showed up and just blasted the hell out of him. Took him out in about 5 shots, got the badge, and went on my merry way.
Now all my chars on Virtue have the badge and so do half of those on Triumph (thanks to Blue) Beauty, & Cos have it on Infinity and I'm going to try to get it for the rest today while I wait for the rest of you.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Maybe the TF can go hunting for the Pumpkin King before we get into our next mish. 8-)
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
I'm hopping on as Princess P for a bit on Infinity. She's the one closest to getting all her badges.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
You know, I got all six of the known Halloween badges for Bluette yesterday, but I didn't notice anything special as a result of that. I wonder if we'll be facing demented Frosty the Snowmen and killer Rudolphs with laser beam noses in December? Posted by Blue Battler on :
Is it time for TF?
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Prism is in Paragon City, tho I'm going to have to take a couple cooking breaks at a couple points.
Posted by Vee on :
Be right there
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Sorry you guys didn't know about the exemplar/tf bug. Its been a known issue for quite some time. I'll be logging in in just a few.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
For those who haven't made it on yet (I think Pete is the only one missing), we had to disband the TF because Grev got kicked while exemplared and it kicked him from the TF. We talked it over and decided that since we had such an easy time with the first half we would just start over again and work on cape/costume missions for Andrew and Mysa. We'll start up the TF again when everyone is logged in.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Ritki, as soon as you logged the Eochai showed up.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Ritki, as soon as you logged the Eochai showed up.
Heh.
That's always the way it works.
Trick or treaters are a bit slower tonight than usual ... I've even had about half a dozen who didn't even wear costumes ... sheesh.
Posted by Vee on :
Just a quick update.
Got all the way through the cape mish and unfortunately stumbled unexpectedly onto a huge group around the time capsule. They all aggroed and we died.
Going to try it again now...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Sorry to hear that Vee. That sucks.
Blue, we've killed at least 6 Eochais now. They keep spawning 2 at a time.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Trick or treaters are coming in a steady dribble now ... one kid had a really neat Dracula outfit from the Bela Lugosi mode ... but was cute lil' blonde girl. 8-)
Posted by Danny Blaine on :
I got Chorus all of his Halloween badges but haven't bothered with my others. I rarely play them anyways...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I've gotten Marcie Johnson, my Peanuts character, all the badges now. That's the only one I'm going to worry about.
Got Garth the Hallow Spirit badge too.
Posted by Vee on :
Mysa's buying her new cape and outfit right now! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Great! You got it!
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Congrats, Vee!
Well, my trick or treaters are finally gone... long run tonight, and I still have a bunch of candy left over.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm sure you'll have no problem getting rid of it. Take it to the office like I do.
We are still playing with the Peanuts in Galaxy.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Okay.
I'll be there soon.
Just gotta do a couple things real quick.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We need to change Legion nights due to some other committments between members. Which works better:
Monday Tuesday Thursday
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Tas and Garth got all their Halloween badges! Thanks guys!
But we realized something. Out of all characters we should have been playing to earn Halloween badges it should have been the Buffy gang. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, and Garth is only about 2 1/2 bubbles from 20 now and Tas is 1 1/2 from 19. Or maybe she's close to 20 too.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Okay, this really sucks. One of the things the devs are now working on is to do an auto afk. If you aren't active for 5 minutes (I think) you automatically go afk. Okay, no big deal. But if we are inactive for 15 minutes, no matter the reason, you will be autologged off. This is in test on the test server right now to be brought into production.
The devs see this as a way to stop powerlevelers who just leave their character logged in at a tram or something while other team members earn the points. Also to stop the server drag of people who leave their characters at the plaza with powers running constantly.
But what this really does is screw, again, TF's and missions. Especially TF's where someone is exemplared. If the player who exemplared another is autologged he won't be kicked from the TF. He can log back in. But when he's autologged off the hero who was exemplared is automaticallyed kicked off the TF, like what happened with Grev. Real nice.
Here we go, again, with devs wasting time trying to 'fix' what they see as cheats instead of dedicating time to fixing real issues or working on updates. It'll become a pissing contest betwee the players, who keep coming up with ways around the fixes, and the devs. Soon we won't get any updates to make game play more fun. It'll be constant 'cheat' patches.
Bet CoV would be ready to go already if they focused on it.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Just what is their sprockin' problem anyway!?
It won't stop the power levelers. All you'd have to do is come by every 15 minutes and make your character jump once and then you can go away again ...
And why do they care about power levelers anyway? From a game standpoint, it makes no difference to anyone else how I leveled. It doesn't hurt anyone else. If the people who are helping the power leveler are having a good time then why do the devs give a nass?
They're all just the equivalent of the kids at the playground who'd take their ball and bat and go home if the game wasn't played their way, that's what they are!
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Exactly -- the power levellers are still paying their $15 a month, so if that's how they like to play, why not let them play that way? Why risk alienating them AND all the innocent people these "fixes" hurt?
Didn't the devs ever go to elementary school? Didn't they hate it when the teacher kept the whole class from going to recess because a couple kids acted up? And didn't those kids keep finding new ways to make trouble anyway? This is the same thing, except in this case, the only thing the "troublemakers" may be hurting is the devs' pride.
Posted by LyleLyle on :
If you go to the boards there's a vocal bunch who really, really hate powerlevelers. Personally, I don't get the big, it sounds boring as all [krunk] to me but if someone does it I don't hate them for it. Still, the devs get yelled about it a lot on the boards.
Perhaps we should test this... who has the test server set up? If we can play with it and then be able to give examples of why this doesn't work.
I think I remember Statesman saying, at one point, that he was going to make things more difficult for PLers by adjusting the spawns -- so that if you've got a group of three and one of them isn't contributing, you'll have a much harder time. I like that better, even if that's a tough balance to find and one that would hurt us often enough.
Posted by Vee on :
I have the test server finally working and I'm willing to play around with it to see if we can prove a point.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I really don't see how that would work, Lyle. Is he going to base it on who's doing attacking or damage points? Controllers don't do a lot of damage compared to everyone else. They hold. An empathy defender may not do one HP of damage to the baddies, but a mission may be impossible without them. So what's the criteria for deciding who's contributing and who's not?
I really have to figure out how to put the test server on. In a way, it'd be neat because I load Blue over there and he could fight with the Legion. 8-) We could team up various characters from both Legions ... like a time travel mish. 8-)
Posted by LyleLyle on :
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: I really don't see how that would work, Lyle. Is he going to base it on who's doing attacking or damage points? Controllers don't do a lot of damage compared to everyone else. They hold. An empathy defender may not do one HP of damage to the baddies, but a mission may be impossible without them. So what's the criteria for deciding who's contributing and who's not?
I meant "not contributing" as standing in another part of the zone and doing nothing... my interpretation of what Statesman said was that he wanted the spawns to come at a difficulty so that a spawn for a group of three would be quite a challenge for a duo.
Of course, this is a delicate balance issue and would also throw off teams like us who don't PL (not for the sake of PLing, at least) but sometimes have people who have RL calling for ten or twenty minutes. That would be a bad penalty for casual gamers (who don't force each other to quit at every interruption).
I think the way to deal with PLers, if it's such a problem, it to set XP maximums for each creature... so if you're level 2 and you're on a team that's defeating level 35s, you get the kind of XP you'd get for a level 5. Does that make sense?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Don't bother with testing. I've already done it. Five minutes for AFK and 15 for an autologoff. To the second.
This will really affect us if it goes into production. Especially with Caroline's parents. You all have been patient with us having to deal with them during game play. And sometimes it does take more than 15 minutes. If they really do put this out there we might as well just quit the game until we can get rid of Caroline's father.
Posted by Vee on :
I wonder if Tas gets TPed before getting AFKed if it resets the clock?
Worth a shot...
Posted by LyleLyle on :
Well, I put down my idea for dealing with PLing on a CoH board threat... hope they're kind to me.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Vee you on right now? I have Gungnir on the test server and he has teleport. We could meet up and try your idea.
Posted by Vee on :
On my way!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm on now but look for Gungnir5. For some reason they added a 5 to his name. Probably because of all the copycats since I created him. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Oh, and I'm in KR at the tram. Just let me know where you want to meet.
Posted by Vee on :
It's downloading a 1.7 M patch so it'll take about 10 minutes before I'm able to log in to the test server Scott
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
That's okay. Gungnir5 will be waiting.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: We need to change Legion nights due to some other committments between members. Which works better:
Monday Tuesday Thursday
Almost forgot to answer this very important question! Tuesday or Thursday would be best for me.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
quote:Originally posted by LyleLyle: Well, I put down my idea for dealing with PLing on a CoH board threat... hope they're kind to me.
Um, this link calls up page 111 of this thread on Legion World. Posted by LyleLyle on :
What if Tas just has the boombox on and dances until she gets back?
What if Tas faces a corner and hits the r key so she's running in place until she's able to get back?
Try those if your TP idea doesn't work, fellows.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
So far the TP'ing is weird. After Condo went AFK, Gung TP'd him. For me the TP was there before and after the TP. But Vee says the AFK disappeared from his view just before he was teleported. He was still greyed out and AFK, in my view, after the TP. We're waiting now for the autologoff to start.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I think the auto r thing has been tried but I'm not sure. You'd have to find a place where a citizen couldn't run into you and move you. And I'm pretty sure the dancing was covered in the thread that started this on the CoH boards. Your characters isn't actively doing anything when set to auto, even auto powers, so you would still be kicked. This was one of the things mentioned as being a reason for the 'upgrade'. People leaving their charactes dancing or with their powers running.
Posted by Vee on :
Well TPing didn't work. Now we're going to try healing...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
And the healing didn't seem to work either. Now Gung is running in a corner.
Posted by Vee on :
autorunning intoa corner seems to work we're also checking hovering...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I still think Gung looked like Steve Austin in Six Million Dollar Man, running slo-mo in a corner.
Still hovering since Vee lost his connection the first time.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hovering went into AFK so it would autolog too. Running in place seems to be the only thing that worked. But that doesn't mean the devs won't figure it out and remove it before going live.
So, where are we all at tonight?
Posted by Vee on :
Shall we try Champion or Victory tonight? I only have low levels on either so everyone could start someone new...
Posted by Vee on :
I have my three X-men chars on Champion, highest is Ice Bobby X lvl 5, I also have JP Northstar and Alec Havok who are both lvl 2
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Let me see who I have there. Be back in a second.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Right now, Grem is running her big girl Lusi-- who hit level 29 today which makes her officially higher than Blue!-- on Triumph with Bluette who's a 12. We're doing Bluette's hollows mishs.
Elusian is running to location and tping Bluette -- thus sparing her the near deaths on the way, and then she exemps down while we do door mish. 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I have no one on Champion. And on Victory I only have Thermophile, an 11th level Fire Tech Blaster. My first test character for fast leveling.
Posted by Vee on :
I really need to update my list. -Pulse is long gone. Deleted her after I ran into writers block trying to write a CoH article and play her at the same time.
I don't mind starting up someone new. Maybe we can make Champion our X-Men server?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hmm. Infinity is off-line. Must be having server issues tonight.
Posted by Vee on :
Works for me Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Okay, I'm creating a Sunfire character right now. I'll let you know when I'm done and what name I can use.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm Shiro Yoshida. (with the period at the end)
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Grem wants to be Jean Grey.
or Psylocke.
She thinks i should be Cyclops, and i can't think of anyone better, so i'll be broody angsty boy.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I'm Scott Sers ... wanted to avoid getting renamed if the Gms spot us.
And I think that Grem is Bouncing Betsy. Will let you know as soon as she's back from AFK. 8-)
[ November 01, 2004, 07:16 PM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Caroline is Jean R. Summers. Shiro is just about 8th lvl aready. Probably get him there and quit for the night. I was approached by a 12th level electric blaster in bad debt so I exemplared him for a bit, until he was out of debt. An 18 year old who's regular group calls him a baby. He played better than some other, older, players I've run with.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
That was a lot of fun last night. Now poor Angsty Scott is going to have to run around a bit on his own sometime to get up to level 8. 8-)
The exemping really is nice and more useful than you'd expect. I exemped my level 41 friend Temptation last night through about two of Blue's mishs. Blue is level 28 now, and he gets 64 xp and I think maybe 76 influence for an equaul level kill, and about 85 xp for a minion who's one level higher than he is. Temp ran with me through two mishs where I got close to two bubbles of progress, I think ... and she cleared out about 59k in debt. Grem's Elusian was exemped to Bluette through a couple of mishes last night as well, and I want to say that we got her out of debt that was about 5k, and she was a level 29 exemped to a level 12.
Since we've got some lower level Legionnaires who never get played much, I think that maybe we could be using them to help our uppers see about wiping out some debt. Caroline, I know that Tas died a couple of times this weekend, so if you'd like to exemp her to XS Ive some and try to work off some debt, I'd like to try that and see how quickly it goes for you.
Scott, I still have debt on Star from the aborted troll tunnel mish of Kara's, so maybe Lightning Ranzz could help me out on that sometime.
I mainly want to see right now at what level the lowers have to be to make the exemping worth our while.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
As for our new Legion night, I'd really prefer it to be Thursday rather than Tuesday. Andrew is a lot more fun to play now that he's hit his 20s and is actually starting to live up to the invulnerable part of his description, but most of his powers are passive rather than active. Between having to choose what I could to make him able to withstand punishment and working on the fitness path, I haven't been able to pick up a new attack since he hit 12.
So right now I brawl plus three ss attacks that I use for the big guy, and that can get pretty monotous ... especially when we've spent hours on a TF. If we're going to be doing a lot of TF stuff on the weekends, then I want a bit more time spread between the times that I play Andrew.
I'm casting my vote for Thursday as Legion night.
Andrew Nolan approved this message. 8-)
Posted by LyleLyle on :
I may have to take it easy on CoH for this next week. I definately overextended myself this weekend, trying to get as many Halloween bages as possible and my arms were really hurting at the end of a rather crazy workday. I've had to deal with too-much-computer pain in the past, so when I sense it returning, I try to take it easy.
Any of the three choices work for me as new Legion night, tho I (tuesday, thursday and friday, right?) Sundays and Wednesdays are my TV nights, so no conflict there... I've been doing my shopping on Thursdays but that used to be Wednesday, so I'll go back to old habits there.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Thursdays are fine with me if that's the way the majority wants to go. Like I've said the only real night that I have an issue with is Mondays because they are the worst day at work.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
So what's on for tonight? Buffy or the JSA? I haven't had a chance to use Mr. Bones' Mutate yet. Now that I think about it I wonder if that power is available for Spike. It would be perfect for a vampire.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
What is Spike, Scott? I thought he might be a kinetics defender sense he seemed to have siphon heal ...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
He's a Natural Defender with kinetics and psionic blast. Is mutation available in his power set?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
No, mutation is only available in the rad set.
On the other hand, you can pick up siphon speed and run around at uber speed without burning end, and you'll be able to provide speed boost to your allies eventually as well as the super jump. The biggie in that power set is the transference of endurance from the baddies to you and your allies (kind of like consume but for all your allies). That's what Halo was, Scott: a kinetics defender with energy blast secondary.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Sounds good to me. Especially as Spike is already on the speed path for his travel power. I think he's about half way to 10 right now.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Is anyone on?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Anyone? Bueller?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
So, no one on Pinaccle tonight?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Bueller?
And who are you oon pinnacle?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hey, where's Vee at tonight anyway?
Activate the Vee Summoning Signal Lamp, Scott!
[ November 02, 2004, 06:39 PM: Message edited by: Blue Battler ]
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I logged in as both Mr. Bones and Bloody William on Pinnacle and no one was there.
I haven't heard from Vee all day. Hope he's okay.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I musta missed you.
When were you there?
And do you want to go back there or go somewhere else?
Has anyone heard from Vee at all? Could he be a poll worker or something?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Caroline is already on there as Willow. I may go back in as Spike.
Not sure on Vee. He didn't mention anything last night before logging about not being around today.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Hmm... still no Vee?
Hope he's okay. It's not like him to not appear in Paragon City.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Mike found the following exchange in one of the exemplar threads on the CoH boards. Apparently, this is just the first phase of their exemplaring system, and problems should be fixed later.
Positron: Barring Exemplars, you can log on and off of a Task Force as much as you want. You still stay on the team. This was made so that you and your group could do a Task Force over the course of several sessions.
Website User: So, why in the world did you implement a system that keeps Exemplars (and their aspirants!) from being able to do the same?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Positron: That's easy. We never intended Exemplars to go on Task Forces with the current system. We have a much bigger system (read: more time to implement) that solves this, but since the players demanded the feature NOW, they got the current implementation. Exemplars are part of a bigger system. The players got a taste and wanted a bigger bite. Since the bigger bite wasn't ready, we had to tide them over with a less-than-optimal snack.
As for Vee, no posting and no playing? That is cause for concern. I hope he didn't have a relapse of whatever problem he was having before.
Posted by Vee on :
Thanks for the concern guys but I'm okay.
Here's why I wasn't around yesterday...
After work, I went to vote and ended up standing in line for almost 3 hours. By the time I got home it was it was alomost 7:30 PM.
As I rounded the corner onto my block, I came across a sea of flashing lights...police, fire, EMS, etc. Somone had missed the turn (Apparently going way above the speed limit) and smashed into an old oak tree that had been weaked by the hurricanes. It came crashing down ,tearing up the buried power lines that serve our neightborhood.
Presto...no power!
It took the responders another hour before they cleared the accident and then the power company began working on repairing the damage.
We finally got power restored at about 6:30 this morning (don't know what took them so long although it looks like they had to dig up quite a length of cables)
Needless to say, no power, no CoH! (I'm getting to be an expert at surviving a lack of power)
Today was a madhouse at the office so this is the first chance I've had to get online sine yetserday.
Thanks for worrying about me. See you all in Paragon! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Vee! Man you have a power outage demon hounding you! I'm just glad you are safe and that the accident didn't cause anymore damage to your home. We'll see your around Paragon tonight.
Posted by Suddenly Seymour on :
Glad everything's OK, Vee.
So, Virtue or Infinity tonight? And when will we be switching to our new day for Legion Night (which sounds like it'll be Thursday)?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
You need to buy yourself a generator, Vee... that way you can play Paragon no matter what! 8-)
If we're going to do Legion tonight, I vote for Infinity because we haven't played there for a while and I still need to get mutate for Star. I got an e-mail from Grem asking about it, so she'll problly be able to join us if we go to Infinity.
Tonight's not a good night to start the TF on Virtue because it's the Smallville/Lost night...
If we're not going to do Legion, I could use a team to work with Bluette. I still need to get her up to 14, and she's picked up some debt in Steel Canyon so her slog to 13 is gonna be slowed down. Much as I hate the place, I think I need to do some more Hollows' mishs to get up to 14.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
We can play Infinity as long as someone doesn't mind sk'ing Lightning Ranzz. He's only a 6.
I think we can move Legion night to Thursday whenever everyone is ready. I just realized that Garth is only about 2 bubbles from 20. I'd like to get those last 2 before we start up the TF again.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
So when do we want to start?
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Super Kara and Star Kallar are heading to Steel right now to try to bash baddies. Anyone who's ready please come join us. Scott, I can SK Lightning until someone higher comes along. 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Where did my last post go? It was before Blue's post about Kara and Star. It showed on the last posts list but isn't here.
Anyway, Caroline won't be available for about an hour. So I'm working on Garth, clearing out some debt he's earned soloing and working on those last 2 bubbles. Got half of one of them already, even with debt.
Posted by Vee on :
I'll be on Infinity in afew. Just waiting for the latest patch to finish downloading. Good I hate dial up sometimes! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
33 more xp in debt to work off and I'll have only 1 bubble to go for Garth. I'll join you guys as soon as I get the debt cleared.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
2300 to lvl, on my last bubble. Going to go sell me enhancements and then I'll be over to Virtue.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Guess I won't be joining you guys tonight. I'll just keep working on Garth. Have fun!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hit it! Now to figure out what power to take and then see about a new costume before getting a cape.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I need an opinion. For Garth's Adventure era outfit it will be basicaly impossible to do an exact dupe. Do you think this is good enough, remembering that he'll have a blue cape to go with it once he can get some help with the cape mish. Or should I drop the black (black is only supposed to be on the sides of his chest, with the front white and the left arm all blue) and go with blue instead?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I think this is the look I'm going to go with. A lot closer in design if you don't count the missing black.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: I think this is the look I'm going to go with. A lot closer in design if you don't count the missing black.
My vote is for the second one as well, buddy. I know how much you hate black and yellow. 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
No, I don't hate black and yellow. I prefer black. But I am a stickler for accuracy. Should the new Garth (or Lightning Lad since I don't even know if he'll be called Garth) winds up with an outfit that's black instead of blue, I'll change to the team colors. But for now I'd rather not. Just a personal preference.
BTW, how hard is the cape mission to do by ones self? And is 88,000 influence enough to buy a cape? Just wondering. That's about how much I'll have left after changing my costume. Adding a robotic arm cost me an arm and a leg. Sorry, couldn't resist.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I had help with the cape mish for Blue, and it was a bear, but I think that Vee and Seymour can better tell you how hard it is to do. Vee did Condo's solo.
I think that Andrew's whole new costume only cost him about 30k of influence, so I wouldn't think that a cape would cost anywhere near 80K.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
The 30K include the cape? Just the costume change for Garth is 21,320.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
I didn't get a cape for Andrew. Didn't suit him.
Blue's cape was really expensive, but I think that higher you are, the more it costs you to do something for your character.
Just do the mish now, and try to get the cape. Once you complete the mish, you can get the cape at any time. You'll know how much it costs you once you go to buy your ensemble. 8-)
I'd help you with it, but Vee said that it was more a job for someone with hover and a distance attack, so I'd say you need a blaster to go along with you.
Posted by Blue Battler on :
Must go to bed now...
But I just wanted to say that everyone on the Infinity Legion leveled today who played, and I got Star up to 15. One more level and then I get mutate! 8-)
Go rez! Go rez! 8-)
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Damn! I don't have a screenshot folder in my test folder. So I wonder where it put the screenshots? They aren't in my regular folder at all.
But I did get this one just before trying Garth's cape mission again.
Posted by Vee on :
What happened to the pages from #74 to #117?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
That's what I want to know! I've been having weird problems here the last couple of days. I post but it never shows.
Posted by Vee on :
Ignore my PM
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I'm locking this thread and starting a new one.
Posted by Nightcrawler on :
Sorry. My last back up was on the 3rd. I've restored the posts to that point, adding the last few new posts. It looks as though this file had been corrupted for a while, so I'm locking it back up.
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