PeregrineFalcon

Maybe just give it the same "Focus Fire" ability that was just given to Mercs MM pets?

Oh. So THAT'S how promotions work in Homecoming. I'll keep that in mind. 😁

Kicking people who are AFK on the ToT League on My Island isn't going to cause people to join your Task Force. And you can call it an exploit all you want but at least one Homecoming staff member is on record as recommending that people join the ToT League on My Island. Sooooo... by definition it's not an exploit. The OP is literally a "solution" to a non-existent problem.

I'm really surprised to see them adding this update during the Halloween season event. I'm glad though. It means all of my shiney new Sentinels will be able to solo all the new ToT EBs that so many seem to be having such trouble with. 🤪 I am going to miss Force Bubble though. 😭

EDIT: Never mind. I just had to fix the link.

You know, I've seen a lot of people post lately that "the moderators aren't singling out your post, you replied to a post that was deleted so it automatically deleted your post as well." Ok, the only problem with that statement is that it isn't true. Here's an example of a post that was deleted, but the reply was not: All you have to do is click on the little arrow in the upper right hand corner of his post and you'll see that the post that he's quoting was deleted, but his reply/quote was not. So understand that if they want to delete your post but not "accidentally" delete all of the replies they can. What I've just linked to proves that. .

So I just spent the last hour with a ToT League on My Island with my newly made Thugs/Sonic Mastermind. He just made level 30. During this time my character was dancing on the hood of a car in the parking lot of Paradise Hotel and I was watching You Tube videos. Please, tell me more about how these new EB's have made ToTing sooooooooo difficult.

So I'm on MY ISLAND right now treat-or-treating, and fighting off a zombie invasion, with a newly-rolled Thugs/Sonic MM that's level 24 and has NO enhancements slotted. EB's are dying within seconds. Tell me again how it's a huge increase in difficulty!

No.

You know, I don't usually agree with Snarky. And now you all know why. 😁

And that's why I don't use the ignore function. And you know what? I've found that sometimes people change their outlook and I start agreeing with them. Something that I would never have noticed if I'd taken the OP's advice and put many of you on my ignore list years ago.

Ok, fair enough. I would however like to point out that the developers have said that they plan to fix it so that next year these EBs won't spawn when you're ToTing solo. Which I now get isn't really what your point was. But what, as players, can we do other than to say, "Get a team"? Other than maybe, "Carry a bunch of those daggers that debuff EBs." Or possibly, "Roll a */Rad." I get that just finding a team is not a solution that you can always take, or are willing to take, but what else as players can we say? Like it or not, it is a solution that works. And, as players, it's all we can do until the devs change things.

Task Forces can be soloed. People have already soloed these EBs. The only content in this game that can't be soloed is the Hard Mode TFs and iTrials. So 99% of the content in this game can be soloed. Maybe not by you, or by that particular character, but it can be soloed. Oh yeah. That 1% of content in the game that you can't solo. Oh, man. That's really getting damned old! 🤪

Heaven forbid that there's a single piece of content in an MMO that's not for soloers.

Except that when you say, "Cake server does this", what people hear is, "We don't want your kind here. Go play somewhere else." Now, you can say, "But I didn't say that!" all day long and it doesn't matter. Human nature is what it is and that's what people hear. And you either know this and are being deliberately obtuse, or you honestly don't know this in which case you're welcome for the free lesson in social skills 101.

So ya'll brag about how you can PL a character to 50 in the AE in 2 or 3 hours, but that's not good enough!!! Now you want to just push a button and make an insta 50!!! 🤪

How about you actually play your character all the way up to 50 so that 50 is an accomplishment? So that at 50 you actually know how to pilot your character? So that you actually feel some sort of connection to your character? I'm not just saying this to be a jerk. Well... that's not the only reason. I haven't played much CoH this year. I've been playing Black Desert Online a lot though. I played my first character all the way up to level 61, the level "soft cap." I learned how to play the game and I learned what every single one of my character's powers does and when I should use it. Because of that time spent this is my favorite character and I've very effective with it. I also learned that gear isn't level gated. So I put some "high level gear" in my account storage and made some brand new characters. I was able to get them all the way up to the late 50's in level because they were ridiculously over geared for their level. If you can picture a fully IO'd fully Incarnate Blaster being exempted down to level 1, and working their way up to 50 while also getting to keep all of their bonuses and Incarnate powers, you get the idea. So I got a bunch of near max-level characters within a matter of hours. But ya know what? I barely know how to play those characters. I don't know what half of their powers do. I'm not very effective when playing them (player skill in BDO matters a lot more than in CoH). And, despite them being based on characters that I roll up in every MMO, and have for decades, I don't feel any real connection with them.

So you're saying that I should join a team?!? In an MMO?!?!! How dare you!!!

Welcome to MY ISLAND!

So if I'm able to get this up and running on my computer, how do my friends (Shut it Flea! I do so too have friends!!!) connect so that they can log in too?

I sure can! In fact, I haven't done any trick or treating at all this year. Scroll up about 4 posts and read what Six wrote. You're complaining about a problem that the devs are already working on fixing.

To be fair, the players did spend an entire year spamming the forums with threads titled "Game too easy, brah!" So the devs listen to their audience, build in some harder content and pow! Now people are giving them grief for doing what we asked them to do. Look, I'm the first person to give the devs grief when it's warranted, and I've got the warning points to show for it. You know that! But, c'mon! You're literally giving the devs a hard time for doing what we asked them to do. Besides, you can avoid the harder content. I don't play the challenge modes. Never have. I just keep playing scanner missions with my friends or missions in Dark Astoria. Same thing I did before all of this hard mode stuff was added.

Thank you for that. I meant to mention this in my previous post. I'd like to recommend that it keep its current functionality exactly as is, but change it into an offensive toggle with a 60 second max duration. This allows it to keep its current strength, but also allows the player to shut it off early instead of standing around waiting for it to expire. So not a buff, just a QoL improvement. I really think that's all Detention Field needs. I still think that essentially turning it into a really good armor tier 9, as I described in my last post, would be the best way to improve this. It makes it actually effective for game play, but removes its ability to cheese through most of the mission the way it currently can. .

The problem with that line of thought is that you don't have any way to control that. I can respond to a post with a simple "No." And if you institute a minimum post length then I can always respond with "I disagree highly with the thoughts expressed in this post. I would really hate to see this instituted into the game. In short, no." The best way to "minimum toxicity", as you put it, is to allow people to just put a thumbs down on a post that they don't like. You see, it's a lot easier than you think.