Ironblade

March 2

39 minutes ago, Derek Icelord said:

I think it was part that, and part utter jealousy at the amount of Influence the group had. You could buy Prestige back on Live (as opposed to earning it by playing in SG Mode), and I recall the Inf -> Prestige conversion rate was just atrocious. So it was not just a flex, but a pretty big one to boot.

Yep. I was in one SG that my brother started with only family and real-life friends. The base builder lamented not having enough prestige for a good base so I bought 500 million worth to get him started.

March 1

Well, I do a ton of task forces. To generate influence, I buy converters 3,000 at a time using merits, then buy trash recipes, craft them and convert to stuff that sells. I spend 15-20 minutes at it, about 3-4 times per week and that will get that character to the inf cap (2 billion) in a month or so. I could make money faster, but why bother? I only make a new character every other month or thereabouts, so I make money faster than I need it. And I have 52,000 reward merits still sitting around.

March 1

Most of my actual talking on Discord is when gaming with family members.

As for typing and staying up to date on things, I'm on the CoH Discord, three SG ones, one for Valheim, one for Star Citizen and three for (cough) Pokemon Go. 🙂

February 29

On 2/28/2024 at 1:29 PM, temnix said:

I think I should be able to play this or any other game like this: I fight, complete quests, develop powers and with a little selling of what I don't need, buying what I do, a tiny bit of saving, maybe, continue on my merry way.

In my experience, it has not been like that in any game I can think of. Whether you're talking about an MMO like Everquest, Black Desert or Elder Scrolls. Or if you're talking about open world survival like Valheim, 7 Days To Die, etc. It's always a varying amount of struggle at low levels. Some are worse than others. This game is actually pretty good compared to many since you aren't useless with poor gear (enhancements).

What I find works in this game, for a new character, is to run the Death From Below trial about four times. Each time you run it, you can get a buff that lasts. . . . don't quote me on this, but I think it's 7 in-game days or until you hit level 20. There are four buffs: accuracy, damage, defense and END recovery. You'll also get SO's from each arch-villain defeated (there are five). Of course, they won't all be useful and the ones you get on the first run will probably expire by the fourth run. But, between the buffs and the SO's you get, you'll be serviceable.

My early goal is to get high enough level to start running task forces. I enjoy them and someone is always starting one. If not, I'll start one. Positron part 1 starts at level 8. Task forces give Reward Merits which can be sold or used to generate greater funds. Also, it's worth watching out for the 'Weekly Strike Targets'. Every week, there are 3 task forces or strike forces (villain side) that will give bonus XP and double the number of reward merits. Of course, not every week features a low level task force so that depends on the timing.

February 29

12 hours ago, temnix said:

But it turns out that if I hold down the jump button with this power on, even without running, I rise and RISE into the air until I can dive into truly gigantic leaps.

Superjump does that also. Your jump continues until you release the space bar, then you immediately start to descend.

12 hours ago, temnix said:

If I time it right, I can even jump again from the air just before touching the ground without taking any other power for double-jumping.

Well, no. It doesn't do that.

12 hours ago, temnix said:

Together it is like Superjump and Superspeed combined, perhaps a little milder than either.

LOL. I'm guessing you have not seen those powers in action. Ninja Run is far slower - FAR slower. That's what justifies having it be free. It's a tremendously watered down substitute.

February 29

7 hours ago, Frozen Burn said:

But there is limited TF/SF unlocks....

Completing Talshak the Mystic's arc unlocks Karsis for the Cavern Trial in the Hollows

Completing Buck Salinger's arc will unlock Katie Hannon's TF.

Completing Lars Hansen's arc in Striga unlocks Ernesto Hess TF.

Completing Leventara's 1st arc in Rikti War Zone does award a badge (Member of Vanguard) that will allow you access to the instanced version of the Mother Ship Raid.

That's all i can think of that has TF/trial unlocks.

Fire and the Flames SF. Contact is Mortimer Kal and you have to do a villain mission from a tip. I think the tip is called 'A Wizard's Weakness', where you have to kidnap Morty's daughter to blackmail him.

February 28

20 hours ago, Zhym said:

Is that from monster hunting in general, or specifically Scrapyard?

I only fought scrapyard once. I fought Jurassik and the Goliath Warwalker multiple times, plus a few others once each.

February 27

1 minute ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

Definitely a part of it, but I think it was more like we formed, and then were the top ranked SG within a few weeks, tops. Only witchcraft (or possibly knowledge of the mechanics of prestige) could explain someone's SG dropping in status!

Witchcraft? Oh, you mean jerk hacking.

February 27

On 2/26/2024 at 2:42 PM, Zhym said:

And I've been getting reward merits at an insane pace—so it's definitely not the case that there's a 10% chance of getting the pet recipe every time you get reward merits. Whether that's WIA is a different question, of course.

I'm hearing this from a lot of people and I haven't gotten a recipe drop yet, either.

I wonder if the odds are set correctly. Maybe someone misplaced a decimal point.

February 27

1 hour ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

I left the game not long after, but the vitriol from other SGs losing their rankings in the prestige list was astounding.

Because, let me guess, buying prestige wasn't "the right way to do it" or "it shouldn't count" or some such drivel? 🙂

February 26

4 hours ago, ZemX said:

[ObiWan] It's correct... from a certain point of view. [/ObiWan]

You are TECHNICALLY correct, Bureaucrat Hermes, which is the best kind of correct.

February 26

16 hours ago, Zhym said:

I ended up getting the pet recipe after about 160 kills or so. My working theory is that it's tied to the criteria for getting the badge: if your team doesn't get enough of the damage percentage, the drop roll doesn't even happen. But that's just a theory.

From the patch notes:
"This chance is rolled individually per character who received credit and is tied to the same drop table as the Reward Merits."

So yeah, if you don't qualify for the reward merits, you don't qualify for the recipe drop.

February 26

14 hours ago, Digirium said:

New lower prices for LotG global recharge is Market working as intended for the benefit of all, not for the few who repeatedly manipulate prices and other players for their own selfish benefit without any effort for an unearned income.

Well, then technically it's not for the benefit of all if you mention a specific group who are not benefited.

So, let's say 'for the benefit of the overwhelming majority'. 🙂

February 24

23 hours ago, ZamuelNow said:

Back on Live, several servers had their own chat channels in game. Is this still a thing or do people just use General?

Yes, it's still a thing. At least, I know it is on Everlasting, where I mostly play. The 'Everlasting TFs' channel is very active and also has a Discord server.

February 24

57 minutes ago, ZemX said:

Adamastor is the one being discussed in the other thread. Maybe it's the only one that's a problem. Beats me. I don't hunt GMs on the regular. I'm just pointing out that both in this thread and the other, a dev/GM has mentioned someone hanging around AFK killing GMs and in the other thread actually said they were fielding player complaints about it. You think they are making that up? That they are just tossing in pointless restrictions for fun? Because I kind of doubt that.

Pretty sure that it's only Adamastor. The reason is that you get a temp power that can spawn him. Apparently, masterminds would sit there with the temp power on auto-fire and their pets set to aggressive.

February 21

Type in Dr. Francois' arc in the mission 'Infiltrate the Air Field'.

Objective: Find cargo ship manifesto

A manifesto is a public declaration of policy. A MANIFEST is a list of what a cargo ship (or truck) is carrying.

The type appears both in the objective and the clue.

February 21

Manticore task force run for Variety Act badge. Please post your character name AND your global name.

1 TANK - tank, brute, peacebringer, warshade
2 MELEE DAMAGE - scrapper, stalker, PB, soldier, widow
3 RANGE DAMAGE - blaster, sentinel, corruptor, PB, WS, soldier, widow
4 CONTROL - controller, dominator, WS, widow
5 SUPPORT - defender, mastermind, soldier
6 EXTRA

Today, Feb 21, 9PM Eastern

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Next run on FRIDAY, Feb 23 at 9PM Eastern.

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I will bring whatever doesn't fill or an 'extra'.

February 21

3PM attempt cancelled due to not enough people, likely due to short notice and time of day.

See new message later in thread.

February 21

Variety Act is one of the new badges that requires a task force team to have role divertity, i.e. at least one character from each of five general categories. The categories are as follows:

1 TANK - tank, brute, peacebringer, warshade

2 MELEE DAMAGE - scrapper, stalker, PB, soldier, widow

3 RANGE DAMAGE - blaster, sentinel, corruptor, PB, WS, soldier, widow

4 CONTROL - controller, dominator, WS, widow

5 SUPPORT - defender, mastermind, soldier

6 EXTRA

I'll be doing this on weeks when I like one or more of the Weekly Strike Targets. I like Manticore (this week) and Moonfire (next week). I will have a sign-up post here in the Everlasting section since that's the shard I'm (mostly) on. Sign-up will be first come, first served. If the role you want is already taken, you can sign up as an extra as there is no penalty for having multiples in a category.

I'm going to try for a run this evening. Also one on Friday evening.

February 21

3 minutes ago, Greycat said:

(And if you're a low damage character... you don't have to have help for the bunkers in BB going for a shivan. All the turrets respawn on a - believe it's 5 minute timer, but *only* if they're destroyed. So what you do is wear them all down to *just* a sliver of health, but destroy *one* of them - preferrably a white, dual artillery gun. When that respawns? You have the full few minutes - take it down, take down the ones with just a sliver of health, hit the computer inside to turn your meteor chunks into a shivan shard, then beat feet (or wings or whatever) back to base and turn it in.)

Ding ding ding! Exactly right and yes, it is five minutes. I timed it once to be sure. If I'm on a high damage character, I just dive in and if they respawn, I just do it again. If I'm on a low damage character, I'll destroy one and wait for the respawn. I don't usually bother pre-damaging the others because even a defender should be able to take down the turrets if they have the full five minutes.

February 21

37 minutes ago, Number Six said:

I'm surprised you were able to consistently. Might depend on which shard. GMs were often getting tickets about being unable to fight Adamastor because of people AFK camping the summoning spot with masterminds and the summon power on auto.

um... You're either thinking of someone else's post or misread mine. I was talking about running the Signature Story Arcs for 20 merits.

February 21

10 hours ago, Greycat said:

Now you can enter the PVP zones at level 1. You *shouldn't,* generally, but you can.

9 hours ago, DoctorDitko said:

Truth! I'd argue at any level, but even so...

I would disagree. I think that, once you have at least SO's and a few decent powers, EVERYONE should visit Bloody Bay to get the Shivan Shard temp power. It is an extremely powerful pet and can make the difference between succeeding and failing a task force if you're alone or just have 1 or 2 people.

February 21

10 hours ago, Greycat said:

You don't even need to be a "durable, high damage" character. Just run at base settings, bring a couple purples

1 hour ago, tidge said:

You also don't need to be durable or high-level to run SSA1, and it can be infinitely re-run for 5 merits.

I know, I know! I actually have a spreadsheet to track the timer and enough characters that I used to run it multiple times per day, every day, and get the full 20 merits every time. I've run it on every character I have.

Also worth noting, for anyone that hasn't run the Signature Story Arcs for the merits:

The FIRST time you run each chapter on a character does NOT count against the timer. So, when they first came out, I ran my badger through EVERY chapter of both arcs in one day. Arc 1 is 7 chapters and arc 2 is 5. So that was 12 chapters for a total of 240 merits in a few hours. And then, he went back and ran chapter 1 for 20 merits, which started the timer.

FYI, for anyone who wants to do something similar, the "one week timer" is actually 162 hours. There are 168 hours in a week.

February 21

13 minutes ago, sbloyd said:

I'll admit I sometimes overbid when buying bulk garbage recipes for the purpose of flipping them. Not by millions, of course.

Yeah, when I find an item where there are a couple hundred recipes available, I'll start bidding at like 5500 and just keep going up until I've bought like 90% or 95% of them. I'll usually end up around 175,000 per recipe. Grossly overpaying but, if I'm going to sell the final product for a few million, who cares?

February 21

12 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

I'm impressed, that's a good 40x my character items merits!

OMG I'm ahead of you in something. They've only got 19x as many merits as me. 😛

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