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8 hours ago, Razor Cure said:
Sad. How do you not have room for 2 shields? I dont understand people not taking ally buffs
Buffs for a Troller or Corrupter are their secondary powers not their primary. Telling a Troller or Corrupter that they should take powers that do not benefit them is like telling a Scrapper or a Non-tanking Brute that they should take Taunt.
7 hours ago, Leogunner said:Support powers aren't suppose to be your version of armor just like armor isn't supposed to be their version of team support.
Tell this to the Green Lanterns.
Support is a MMO Trinity thing, not a Super thing, hells it's not even an RPG thing. The only Supers I can think of that do support are Bubblers and the Mad Scientists who design tech for others, and I dont know any of them that are unable to buff themselves, or dont make tech for themselves.
In CoH Buffer/Debuffers were made to not be able to self-buff to fit into a MMO Trinity that the Devs then broke in there bumbling. Even if BDs could buff themselves they would still be the week link in the group because all the other ATs have their own self-buffs, that the BDs' buffs add to, not override.
As for soloing, will the ability to self-buff make BDs more powerful then say a Sentinel, another range AT that has a secondary that is all about self buffing?
The only purpose I can see for not allowing BDs to self-buff is to make it harder for them to solo thus keeping them chained to the group, which is the Trinity way, not the CoH way.
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13 hours ago, Megajoule said:
TOs are nearly worthless in how much bonus they provide (if slotted) and how much inf they sell for (if not).
TO level Es need to go away.
Keep the TO to make slotting drops easier, but move their % up to DO level and remove DOs all together. Keep IOs at level 10.
This would make the LowB levels a lot easier, which are only easy if you group all the way to SOs.
The Acc TO is the only TO I slot, and that is so that I can maintain a 1miss Streakbreaker (90.01%) against +0 MOBS.
Question: would SO level Es starting at level 1 really hurt the LowB game, with the limited number of slots available?
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On 10/3/2019 at 1:40 AM, Megajoule said:
IMO, what this really proves - again, as if it needed to be - is that humans are bad at randomness, and discard data that doesn't fit with their expectations and assumptions.
Yep... such as this.
Miss, SB, miss, SB, miss, SB, hit, hit, miss, SB, miss, SB
The probabilities for 2 Misses in a row with a 1miss Streakbreaker are 0.998% to 0.25%
The probabilities for 2 Hits in a row are 81% to 90.25%
The probabilities for 3 Misses in a row with a 1miss Streakbreaker are 0.0997% to 0.0125%
The probabilities for 3 Hits in a row are 72.9% to 85.74%
If I've done my math right the probability of the above pattern at 95% Acc is 0.00282%,
while the probability for 7 Hits in a row is 69.8%.
This is Data, whether You-all choose to discard it is up to you.
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I was on a LowB in Port Oaks and saw a player face plant in seconds, while ToTing, they did not even have a chance to run. The Door dropped an even level Boss, Lt and 2 Minions. Even level to the Player that is, they were all purple to me, and they were now free to run around.
9 hours ago, biostem said:No, it really doesn't. It takes a couple of hits to bring down minions and LTs,
Not after level 4, unless your running a Brute under steam, or a Stalker using their AS, and using the P2W Es.
Because of the MOB ramp up, the low TO/DO values, and the limited number of slots, the closer you get to SO's, the weaker you are compared to the MOBs. Also after level 4 you start seeing more +1s in missions, including +1 Named Lts after level 7.
Even if your able to keep Acc to 95%, sometimes it does not matter. I've seen the same power miss multiple times in a row, this is very evident when they are Transfusion and Twilight Grasp, and Transfusion is a 1.20 power.
This missing multiple times in a row, even at 95% Acc leads to the next point.
15 hours ago, cejmp said:The game is driven by math.
It might be driven by math, but it's not about math, it's not even about fun in math, its about having Fun playing a Super.
It's irrelevant that the math works... if the Fun is constantly hampered by this math, and the fact that this subject has constantly popped up since the release of CoH, along with the Streakbreaker itself, says there is a problem.
Part of the problem I think is that the RNG goes to the hundredth place.
95 is supposed to be the cutoff, but you do not want to roll a 95 because you have 99 chances of failing the roll, while only 1 chance to pass.
This is a factor in that it seems the CoH Devs had never heard of KISS.
I've been RPGing since AD@D came out, and I understand that an RPG needs some randomness, but if I had a character that I tweaked to only fail on a 1, and I had a 1d20 that constantly rolled 1's, sometimes even multiple times in a row, I would have removed that dice... probably with a hammer.
The RPG is not about the 1d20, that's just a tool, it's about the fun you can have pretending to be something your not.
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19 minutes ago, biostem said:
How about just letting players pick the 1st or second power of their secondary set, at character creation?
This would be the best option, but from what I gather from the Beta-Tank thread this would be very difficult to do, and not something the CoHH Devs are willing to do... at this time.
Of course CoHH being a hobby a CoHH Dev could decide to take up the challenge and have it done next week... not likely, but it could happen.
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2 hours ago, krj12 said:
I'm not sure why they added the wait,
I would bet upper management told them to add the time, because CoH was a subscription game.
To be frank a few seconds at the Tram door is nothing compared to the 20min boat rides of EQ, that could leave you swimming if you disconnected while on the boat.
I vote,
No
Side Note, I would like to see every suggestion with a Yes/No Poll at a minimum.
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8 hours ago, Steampunkette said:
You can get the t2 in your secondary at level 4... It seems like a needless change.
I can get it at level 2,
but that does not change that at level 1, 1 of 2 powers IMO is of limited use while if these 4 powers were swapped, at level 1, 2 of 2 powers would be useful.
While the usefulness of these powers are an opinion, a fact is that 95.11% of Defenders, 95.82% of Controllers, 94.90% of Corruptors, and 96.79% of MMs have Regrowth, at lvl 50, where a Heal is of lesser value, than at level 1. The numbers are even higher for Temporal Mending. Another fact is that 100% of Controllers, Corruptors, and MMs have Corrosive Enzymes while only 78.80% of Defenders have it. The % of Defenders that have Time Crawl is even lower. IMO these numbers would be even lower for Controllers, Corruptors, and MMs... probably dramatically lower.
There are no "needed" changes in CoHH, it's a fully functional game, and has been for a long time. The metrics are wanted and useful... is the change worth the Devs time, in your opinion.
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Added the poll, which should probably be a part of every suggestion.
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1 hour ago, Vanden said:
I don't think it's a bad idea, but I'm not sure I'd even take the old T1s if I wasn't forced to.
Yeah, I'm not sure if I would take them or not either, but I was curious what the numbers were when you had the choice.
According to Cipher's Power Percentages @ 50 , 78.80% of Nature Affinity Defenders take Corrosive Enzymes and 74.21% of Time Manipulation Defenders take Time Crawl. They are both descent powers, just not powers I should be forced to take, especially as a LowB.
I would be curious to know how many Defenders take them as their first choice.
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As an Altaholic and a perpetual LowB who Solos, the T1s of these sets frustrate me when I'm playing a Corrupter, Controller, and MM. Not because they are bad powers, but because they are of limited use until you get some recharge for them, recharge your not going to have as a LowB. This while the T2s, which are Heals, are always of use when you are a LowB.
I'm not sure how difficult this would be, but I know it can be done, because a Dev did this for the Tank change that is currently being tested.
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Really... lets turn an illegal, addictive and dangerous drug into a Temp Power.
Is there going to be a chance to be arrested for use?
Is there going to be a chance for addiction?
Is there going to be a chance for a brain tweak that allows you to see and travel into other dimensions?
If so, is there going to be a chance to go Mad because you saw or traveled somewhere you shouldn't have?
Are there going to be "accidents" like in The Boys?
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43 minutes ago, TheAdjustor said:
Unh hunh, seems like somebody thinks they are better than everyone else
Um... you do realize this is your statement... right?
1 hour ago, TheAdjustor said:Yeah well opinions are like anuses everybody has one.
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6 minutes ago, TheAdjustor said:
But speaking of fail, when you are stating that without anything to back it up, you literally have failed to make a case.
Ah, so you did not realize that these
41 minutes ago, Jeuraud said:IMO having 82% of level 50s taking it is a valid data point for it being broken.
IMO a Pool Buff that out-buffs even an Incarnate is broken.
IMO having a powerful Pool Buff that is not even a T4 or T5 and only requires you to choose it, is broken.
which were right under the first opinion statement, the whole separated from my other statements, were what I was using to validate my opinion.
9 minutes ago, TheAdjustor said:No, quite literally it's the only correct response to someone who says
So telling me my opinion stinks, in a passive/aggressive way, was the only valid response... right???
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6 minutes ago, TheAdjustor said:
That's the problem with thread, someone walks into it recently they can be easily confused by it's ridiculousness. It has nothing to do with bullying and everything about "NO YOU CAN"T SCREW WITH PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU ARE BORED".
I've been following this thread since it was on page one, and IMO Steampunkett is not a Troll and never has been, even when I disagree with her, or when she disagrees with something I have said.
Stubborn... oh yeah... a Troll... not a chance.
Something to note, this
11 minutes ago, TheAdjustor said:Yeah well opinions are like anuses everybody has one.
is one of those statements used when you have failed in your argument. It is a passive/aggressive way of saying my opinion stinks.
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19 minutes ago, TheAdjustor said:
There is no idea here. It was destroyed long ago. It has been killed many ways.
But the idea was not killed, unless you consider "I like it so dont mess with it." or "Its popular so dont mess with it." (Which is pretty much the same thing.), the only data needed to call an idea bad. That you all have gone to "arguing the person" says that you have nothing more, and that the OP refuses to kowtow to your bullying says something about her.
In my opinion the OP could/should have let this thread go as soon as you-all started attacking her thread or herself, instead of her idea, because you have already lost the argument.
Of course those against changing Hasten in CoHV also lost the argument in the same way... multiple times, yet here it is being argued again. Yo well.
IMO Hasten is Broken.
IMO having 82% of level 50s taking it is a valid data point for it being broken.
IMO a Pool Buff that out-buffs even an Incarnate is broken.
IMO having a powerful Pool Buff that is not even a T4 or T5 and only requires you to choose it, is broken.
IMO the OP has bent over backwards trying to compromise with a group that has no intention of compromising, so IMO the minimum that should happen to Hasten is that it is moved up to the T4 or T5 slot, and then looked at for Tweaking.
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Hasten was always broken, and should have been tweaked before release.
I'm voting
Yes
for the OP's updated idea for Hasten.
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7 minutes ago, boggo2300 said:
By the same logic, can we have all the powers in our primary pool at level 1 for free as well please?
not secondaries, I don't want to be greedy!
Your Strawman is not explaining how having a Free Travel Power at start is bad for CoH, so lay it on me, tell my why/how it's bad for CoH.
26 minutes ago, biostem said:And guess what - you can play that way if you want - just play your normal/unempowered self until you've gained enough levels to "start" your superheroic career.
This is City of Heros/Villians... not City of maybe Heros/Villians, and actually I don't have a choice but to play CoH this way.
The Toney Stark in the armor he used to escape in was not Ironman. The Clark Cent in Smallvile was not Superman. The Kitty Pryde in X-Men who ran through the wall was not Shadowcat.
I'm done answering justifications for the CoH Devs' choice.
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3 hours ago, Robotech_Master said:
This sounds to me like two cheesy ideas in one:
First, get a travel power right at the start.
You are absolutely right.
Hawkgirl, Dash, Storm, Ironman, Nightcrawler, Shazam, Cyborg, Supergirl, Thor, Red Tornado, Vision, Atom, Silver Surfer, Torch, Homelander, A-Train, Green Lanterns, Angel, ...
sprints everywhere.
Now if you don't get it, I was being sarcastic when I agreed with you.
Your opinion does not jive with the opinion of the genera. Sups who is over 80 years old started with Supper Speed and Super Jump, and many of these such as Dash, Angel, and A-Train, are about their travel power. If you add Gadgets to the Travel Powers then Batman, and Spiderman could also be added to the list. If you add Parkour(Ninja Run) to the Travel Powers then you can add Captain America, and Beast to the list.
To say that getting a Travel Power at the start is cheesy is to say that Comics and their Heroes/Villians are cheesy.
As for the 1 Free Travel Power at start...
how about you-all quit justifying the Devs choice, and tell me why something that is so iconic to Super Hero/Villain Comics is bad for CoH.
How is this one free power going to break the game?
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The Wasp is Flight, Flash is Superspeed, and one of the first things Hulk does is Super Jump. These characters started with these travel powers and with the first two the Travel Power is a part of their identity as a Sup. I've never understood the CoH Devs' idea around separating the Travel Powers from the identities.
What I suggest is a Travel Pool you select from at character creation,
Travel Pool
Parkour (Ninja Run)
Superspeed
Super Jump
Flight
Teleport
Mystic Flight
but leave the Travel Powers in their respective pools for people who want to make say... Superman, who has 3 Travel Powers. Also the power you select at creation would go towards the requirements for the higher tier powers.
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1 hour ago, Steampunkette said:
The Rob Bird analogy is still off. Try to imagine it this way: You have 7 total planes including Rob Bird. For a specific mission, you -absolutely- need to get all seven planes up in the air, including Rob Bird. They don't have to be perfect, but they need to function. So you take parts from each of the other 6 planes to make all the planes fly. Not perfectly, but well enough for the mission to be completed.
Actually we had to do this every time we deployed, because every bird had to make deployment, but they did not need to be fully mission capable.
1 hour ago, Black Zot said:Tell me again how Castle did anything right here.
"Anything"... really???
He got two non-functional sets running.
1 hour ago, Black Zot said:so that ONLY the two previously-broken pet sets were properly functional and everyone else got stuck with a bunch of suicidal muppets
"A bunch"... again.. really???
I'm not Castle's white knight, I'm not saying he didn't screw things up, I'm just saying you cant know the shit, unless you have done the shit.
Some of the most critical armchair quarterbacks I have known are people who have never touched a football.
If having one manacle pet is that big a deal to you then get into the code and fix it. If you don't know how to code then learn.. if it's that big a deal.
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1 hour ago, DR_Mechano said:
Well personally, being british, I'm a fan of the Challenger II, though I must admit I always did like the style of the M49 Patton and Sherman Jumbo...
...ah..not that sort of tank...
You know what you see on a Tank whether it's the Challenger II or the M1 Abrams... a really huge gun. I've never understood why the MMO Meatshield is called a Tank.
Oh, and being I'm a Yank, I have to go for the M1 Abrams.
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On 9/16/2019 at 6:53 PM, Razor Cure said:
Having it as a Toggle but buffing around the caster would make it easier to work with in nearly all situations.
Truth... but you could keybind,
??? "powexec_location me Lifegiving Spores"
which would drop LS on top of you. I also have a key that has
"powexec_toggle off Lifegiving Spores",
along with other Toggles I want to shutoff (Sprint, Ninja Run, etc.). The nice thing about toggle-off is that you can put multiples toggle_offs on the same keybind, so you could use the same key for any AT you play, just keep adding the toggle_offs to the line.
It would be nice if there was a "powexec_toggleon_location me" command.
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40 minutes ago, DR_Mechano said:
A touch off topic but Isn't this also the case with the F-35 trying to replace the A-10 in the close air support role AND try to be a fighter at the same time but it isn't quite capable of tank busting and CAS as the A-10 and isn't quite as good as current other fighters?
Yep, a case of the Bean Counters who have no clue, having more sway then the people who knows what the fuck they are talking about, which is also something Castle had to deal with.
Sometimes (Often), the bean counters decide that it's not worth the expense. Hells, just look at Firefly and Fox.
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1 hour ago, TheAdjustor said:
Too focus it, imagine how badly it might go if for some reason the DoD decided to take a bunch of planes that were all really good at their job and replace them with one that would do it all and according to the contractors be cheaper for everyone. That's the kind of thing we are talking about.
I don't have to imagine it, the US Navy did just this with the introduction of the FA18 in 1984.
It was supposed to replace the A7, A6 and the F14. The A7 was a dying bird and went out in 1991. The FA18 could not carry the payload of the A6 from a carrier launch, which kinds of defeats the point of a naval bird, so the A6 did not retire until 1997, when it was essentially forced out of service. The FA18 did not become "good enough" to fill the F14 slot until the FA18E/F came out, allowing the F14 to be retired in 2006... 22 years after the introduction of the FA18.
Now this being said I do not get your analogy.
Castle did not replace something, he tweaked some code in one place that tweaked some code in other places, and had to settle with "good enough".
Now I'm not a coder, but I've done some PLC code, and have had to troubleshoot equipment PLCs of fricken design engineers who had never heard of the KISS principle. With one piece of equipment that was a nightmare to troubleshoot I decided it was easier to scrap the old PLC code and write a whole new code, then to tweak the existing code. I had this option, Castle did not.
Anyone a Psychologist who can help explain this to me?
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And I think this is the reason for the Op's observation/complaint... there is no real need for communications in the group.
You die... BFD. You are not debuffed long term, there is no possible lose of level, and there are easy res's in the group. Even if there is no res in the group, so what, it's not like you are running naked back to the group because your gear is on your corpse (That will disappear along with all of your gear in so many hours if you do not recover it.). Even if the group whipes, again BFD. The mission is an instance so you do not have to make it through the re-spawns, or worry about another group taking the MOB, or the MOB de-spawning, making you wait more hours/days/week before you can encounter it again. Also the game itself has gotten progressively easier, hells even in the Op's example the group did not whipe, so even though they ignored the Team Leads order/suggestion it was still a BFD moment.
I used to think that not having the above was a good thing... I'm not so sure anymore, but there is definitely no need for real communications in CoH, so no need for a real Team Leader. This makes things difficult if your training and experience tells you that a Team Leader is supposed to well... lead.