roleki

I do that a lot. I'm inundated with Fire/TA corruptors, Fire/FF controllers, and Rad/Fire brutes. I want one of each on every shard I play on, on both accounts. They're even slotted identically, +5'd in the same places and so on.

You're not going to believe this, but I don't think I got enough rewards for this win.

That's TWO lessons. Never search for a .gif of "This town needs an enema" from your workplace computer.

I suppose I should have said "I have navigated this thread up and to your response to @shatterpoint in which you appear to have concluded that a couple anecdotal responses about how much wealth people claim they have earned playing through content is sufficient to repudiate @shatterpoint's assertion that regular gameplay is not rewarding enough for new players, but this seems to contradict the equally anecdotal yet far more numerous claims that regular gameplay is not rewarding enough, full stop, and that this dichotomy - that gameplay is both NOT rewarding and VERY rewarding - vexes me because it cannot be both, yet, both interpretations of reality have been used to dissuade others from farming." Sorry I rubbed your rhubarb there, fella.

Among many, many things, THIS has always confused me: there are a million posts where people complain that The Real Game isn't giving out enough rewards, but as soon as someone uses that as a justification for farming, suddenly The Real Game is so god damned rewarding, people get hernias just by returning to a contact. Is that one of them cakes that's just for lookin' at, or is it the eatin' kind?

Hold On, Troosley.

Maybe the takeaway from all this should be that, aside from some tourists, everyone who is still here obviously cares a lot about the game. What we care about, we tend to become emotional about. That's humanity for you. If the userbase has worn away to mostly just the die-hards, it should not come as a surprise that our feedback and interactions are going to occasionally spark a rise in emotions, and we are not always going to look our best in those circumstances. It shouldn't be very difficult to rally together a small community of people who really care about the game. It's not a sense of 'entitlement' that leads us to wish the Devs would open up on their thought process and where this is all going. It's the search for anything that will convince us that we are wrong about our assumptions of what is actually happening. In an environment without that, who could blame people for the paranoia and mistrust that foments in its absence?

I've always found it kind of funny that the forums would have you believe a handful of dirty AE farmers are ruining the game, spending their ill-gotten gains like they are drunken sailors and luring innocent noobs into the backs of their non-descript vans, where they proceed to deflower them before turning them loose on the streets, uneducated and nude, to ruin the wholesome fun of the Right People. Then you get into the game and it's ALL farming, all the time. DFB and ITF, PI Radios, MSR, Hami, it's all farming. ToT crashes the servers regularly. Someone told me I was in PI4 last night, and I believe them. Hint: those people aren't converging on one spot on the map because they are looking for a deep and satisfying story, or want to get lost in the thrill of incremental advancement. I really wish the people that have the keys to this thing would look around and realize what they have, instead of wasting time trying to make it conform to what a small group of people wish it was. The fucked up thing is, it still IS what that small group of players wish it was. They just can't live in a world where other people find their shit boring as all hell and not worth pursuing.

Numbers-wise, it makes a difference. On the street? Questionable. If something has 800hp and I hit it with 2x 400 damage attacks, it's dead. If I have hit it with those two attacks amped up by T4 Musculature, it's still dead, but I did 27% more damage to it. I'll still take Musculature on builds where DPS is the point, but the gains only really start to become obvious in extreme cases, like farming or Pylon bopping.

If what you're saying is true, then there must be an AE in Rocket League, Wreckfest, TF2... Holy crap, there was an AE in Interstate '76? Come to think of it, I literally used to doorsit in Tron Deadly Discs on Intellivision. That's how you hit the Recognizer in the eye. I swear, I didnt know it would lead to... this.

As long as there's a dev perusing this thread: I think focused feedback threads each need to have a sub-thread dedicated to the gnashing of teeth caused by the relevant parent thread. That would give the people with anal injuries a proper outlet for their frustrations, and a place for such discussion outside of General where stray threads could be moved. Maybe that would improve the tenor of General Discussion and re-channel some of the "us vs. them" undercurrent that seems to be everywhere of late.

There is the possibility that @Glacier Peak's reply was so mind-boggling, so utterly staggering that to view it with unprepared eyes was to invite madness, and the thread will return once properly-equipped personnel are given the opportunity to isolate the message and bury it in a vault so deep that it could only be re-discovered by a civilization advanced enough to ingest the message without instantly losing their minds. It's either that, or fuckery.

Am I the only person who builds for positional defense over typed? Using cheapass Artillery and Thunderstrike, it is ridiculously easy to get a ranged character to the Ranged def cap. Since Blasters have sustain and can fire through mez, and/or support characters often have a self-heal or other survival implements at their disposal, it's pretty easy to get a ranged character that keeps up (or surpasses) with Scrapper-level survivability.

Even though I know I am leaving DPS on the table and that mez is worthless, I feel compelled to go Hybrid Control on most of my Controllers and Dominators. Everything is going to get obliterated by Tanks and Blasters anyway, I might as well get some messages appear onscreen that suggest to everyone in attendance that I am, in fact, doing SOMETHING. That's pretty meta.

Meanwhile, in City of Doesn't Everyone Feel Better Now That Farming Is Nerfed Again, the shards that actually have people left on them are about to implode because everyone who hasn't yet been driven away from the game is farming the living shit out of the ToT event. Things that make you go hmmm

That's why I was thinking Ill/Thorn, as Thorntrops is a reasonable clumping agent.

Understand completely; I think one of the things that compounds (causes?) consternation amongst the various camps is that nobody actually SAYS "Well, we can put a nice fireplace over here" but rather we all walk in one day to find there's a hobo warming his hands around a trash fire contained in a 55 gallon drum smack in the center of the kitchen. One group will start howling how they never wanted a hobo in the kitchen, another group will tell them to shut up because we have a small team of volunteers who worked hard to grace us with a hobo in the kitchen, and another group will lament that the hobos on Live were in The Hollows and you had to crawl naked across shards of glass and lava to get a glimpse of them, and now the hobos are in our kitchen.

Myself, I would prefer feature creep over stagnation, but stagnation will always have its dogmatic adherents. The great thing about HC is, it IS small, and while the work the devs do is not trivial, if they somehow break the game, it's not like there's accountants telling them they can't afford to scrap all that work. HC can change course if it comes to it. And as has always been the case, if people don't like the direction HC is going with their beloved CoH, they have the option of going to any number of alternate servers or can even roll their own.

Have tested FF as a Controller. Thoughts: Repulsion Bolt: The recharge on this seems out of whack. Force Bolt has always been more of a strategic survival tool than an attack. I'm not saying it should remain at 4s in perpetuity - especially now that it's a debuff - but 10s is far too long a wait at those low levels where Bolt gets most of its use saving the buns of characters who might only have a couple of attacks to their name. Dispersion Bubble: It is nice that the protection chases people that run out of it, but Dispersion Bubble is still totally outclassed by Faraday Cage. It should give some level of DDR or +Recharge or Absorb or SOMETHING... it may not be the best power in the set, but it is certainly the signature power; it would be nice if it did a little better than half what Faraday Cage does. This is especially true when you consider that Faraday Cage can be reapplied as a Break Free whereas if something drags you down through Dispersion Bubble, they can have their way with you all the way until DB recharges. {Edited to add, I forgot about the 15s duration on nu Dispersion Bubble, so that is less of a gripe than it used to be. Point still stands, though... Dispersion Bubble is anemic compared to its peers} Force Bomb: Would like to see the Stun Chance moved around a little. 10% is just far too low a chance for a Mag 2 mez, especially when it was already pretty low to begin with. The -Res is an interesting add, as Repulsion Bomb is already used to soften up the mob, but having "90 percent" of the members of that mob hop right up and immediately start swinging at you DECREASES the utility of the power. Dampening Bubble: Base DDR on the Controller side could use a little bump; with max investment, the power chunks out ~28% DDR, would like to see this reach 30% DDR if the player completely sells out chasing that. It's a T9 in a Defense-centric set; the other debuff resistances are interesting, but thematically, the DDR is why people would take it and they should feel compelled to chase a big number there instead of "well, it's better than nothing!" and leaving it at that.

I understand why Burn had its cooldown adjusted, but that's an 80% nerf. It's too much.

If you read the patch notes and they gave you even the slightest inkling of concern, I would highly suggest heading to the beta server and trying the subject changes out for yourself and get your feedback into the relevant focused thread ASAP. The track record for "first suggestion wins" around here is staggering.

Illusion Dominators? ::swoon::

Agh, you're killing me. You're supposed to say "Nobody is even ToTing, I think they're respectfully waiting for you to get out of work, @roleki!"

Oh man. Halloween Event is live now and I'm stuck earning money so I don't die from starvation or exposure to the elements. I *knew* I should have transferred my consciousness into a robotic chassis when I had the chance years ago.

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