Doc_Scorpion

On the flip side, my Controllers, Defenders, and Masterminds (who are all support/pet support focused) have been having a blast. If you can keep your allies alive, the mission is almost trivial.

I find my EA toons, with it's combination of ranged group buffs and heals, solo the mish surprisingly easily.

Gold won't work because that color is associated with Goldside. Otherwise sounds good.

Yeah, I ended up buying a new computer (that could just barely run CoH) because the one I had was a .2FPS slideshow during combat. When I came back to Homecoming I set everything to max just out of curiosity... and, wow. Though I am finding the start of the wedding mission or a Rikti invasion sometimes turns into a bit of a slideshow, but that much going on in that small a space is something of an anomaly.

She is very obviously a Defender. 🙂 🙂

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Though I wish the game hadn't died... I'm very glad we were spared that nightmare coming to life.

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Oh, we knew about it. But given the insane costs for all but the most useless set IO's... (Heck, even desirable common IOs could get pretty spendy.) It just wasn't practical for any but the most hardcore.

My friend you took pains in the first post of the now locked thread to deliberately and intentionally draw a clear and bright line between having actions taken against you and you making objections to in game content. Please don't treat us as if we lacked reading comprehension and thus misunderstood what you so clearly said.

That's something on your end. You don't have an AV software running that might have (mistakenly) quarantined the files?

The best coffee is, by definition, the cup that's hot and in my hand.

Most (all?) cons allow people to submit applications to host a panel... From there, the decision is on the con staff. It's a dice roll, but one worth trying if the moderator is ready just in case it does get accepted. Getting more than a panel is likely to be tough. There's only so much space, and when you're talking a Comic Con or similarly scaled con there's a lot of demand for it. I'm a member of a group that puts on multiple events a year, so we have processes in place and thoroughly understood roles - and it's still rougher than I think many people realize. (And there's a metric buttload of details that aren't always obvious to the attendee.)

Was today's run before or after the patch that fixed the known bugs in the Nemesis wedding event?

Yeah, I'm done attempting to have a rational discussion with someone that keeps resorting to name calling and argument by assertion (in face of facts to the contrary).

Speaking from experience, the latter statement is absolutely not true. Siege Perilous (a hardcore shard when compared to than the main shards) on UO was always a ghost town, with a population a miniscule fraction of that of even the smallest main shard. As has been repeatedly pointed out, it's not popular here on CoX either - hard mode players absolutely represent a sub microscopic fraction of the user base. If hardmode is so popular, then it should be easy for you and other proponents of this idea to demonstrate it in practice. Build an SG, a coalition of SGs, that play exclusively hardmode. Rather than continuing to (demonstrably falsely) assert that it's universally popular - prove us wrong.

We don't treat "new ideas" like this. We treat "[censored] awful ideas" like this. Don't know, and don't care. WoW is not CoX. CoX is not WoW. Two very different games with two very different game design philosophies and two very different user bases. And that's setting aside that "popular to watch" is almost certainly not equivalent to "popular to play".

Military promotions are accompanied by increased authority (significantly increased at certain steps). People also treat you differently, I was taken much more seriously as a PO2(E5) than I was as a PO3(E4). They may not grant game effects, but real life isn't a game. Sounds like civilian promotions are pretty much like leveling in game. Hopefully you get the promotion because you've gained and demonstrated experience and knowledge while performing your job. Or, maybe, you were just a door sitter in a fire farm and don't even know how to leave Atlas Park. Nobody is trying to "teach" anyone anything. We're simply having a discussion, and if you no longer wish to participate you can simply stop reading and replying to the thread. It may or may not carry on without you.

Unless the City Council says otherwise, I'd say we're good to go. I can't imagine any reason we wouldn't be, but we're not privy to the terms of the license. I'd say a streaming option for panels and such would be a very good idea. Teleconferencing isn't a bad idea, it's just that the tech and the doing is a lot more complicated... especially since we'll almost certainly be working with people (viewers/participants) who are going to have a wide variety of expectations. Best to manage those expectations right out of the gate. The biggest headache is going to be staffing and organization. And I am emphatically Not It in any significant capacity beyond forum discussions. Just too much on my plate.

I was once told by my Div O that I couldn't actually ignore junior officers even if they weren't in my chain of command and actually were total idiots. I had to at least pretend to care.

There's a non trivial amount of work involved, especially if new animations are required. The biggest headache is balancing them, ensuring they're not useless, but also ensuring they aren't OP.

Yep. The entire military rank system is basically built around the idea of levels - much more is expected of PO2 (E5) than a PO3 (E4) or SN (E3). Levels are not an illusion. IRL, they're not always so clearly and neatly as delineated as they are in game... But it's foolish to claim they're an illusion.

*Almost* this. Put an accuracy SO first (higher chance of hitting means less chance of wasting end), then a endurance reduction SO. And slot Stamina as soon as reasonably possible. A less obvious way to reduce endurance problems is to reduce the amount of work you have to do - if you can two-shot a mob, you've saved end over requiring three shots. Some people complain that you get less XP per mob that way, but you also spend less end and less time resting to restore your end. This is particularly important for Brutes because the more combat you can fit within your end and HP limits, the more you'll get out of your Fury bonus.