srmalloy

It would need to be added as a 'standard' channel with its own tab in the default chat configuration, and even then you'll have people who keep flogging requests for a farm in LFG because "nobody listens to the Farm channel", and if you don't make it part of the standard chat configuration, no one will use it because they don't know how to set it up, or again "nobody listens to the Farm channel".

What is more disturbing about the PEGI ratings is that they conceal more than they warn. One article (here) describes Overboard, which has PEGI-12 ratings for "Mild Violence, Suggestive Themes and Use of Alcohol" -- but because there is a scene where you can play blackjack with another character, the game gets a PEGI-18 rating for "Gambling", and the PEGI-12 ratings aren't displayed at all. A VSC Games Rating Board spokesman stated "The purpose of the descriptors is to explain the issues that led to the rating in question, rather than to highlight all content that’s present in a game, it’s inevitable that raising a rating will lead to the loss of any descriptors that relate to material that would have been acceptable at a lower rating." So potential buyers, or parents overseeing the games their children get, are denied information about the game because only the highest rating is displayed, even though one of the lesser ratings is one that they would be concerned about -- essentially deciding for everyone else that a single rating for one small aspect of a game is all anyone needs to concern themselves with.

There is a built-in formula for what enhancement values an IO gives, based on the stat type and the number of stats the IO boosts. If you have a Taunt/Recharge IO, each aspect gets 26.5% at level 50. Change it to a Taunt/Rech/End IO, and by the established formulas, each aspect gets 21.2% at level 50. No matter what you add it to, adding an enhancement aspect to an IO is going to reduce the enhancement value of each aspect of the IO. You'd do better by arguing for the creation of new Taunt sets that had EndRdx built into them, the same way that new Endurance Modification sets were added that had Damage built into the sets for powers that did both damage and endurance drain/transfer. That way you'd get the effects you want without affecting all the people who already have the existing taunt sets slotted.

Early on after the release of AE, it was possible to create missions with boss or higher mobs that didn't actually have any attacks -- you've probably seen the bug report post about Cimeroran Immunes Surgeons not giving XP; this was a change implemented because they have no attacks, so you could create an AE mission crammed full of Immunes Surgeons and blow through them with no more risk than having to work to overcome spawns full of healers (and if you had high enough DPS, particularly AoE DPS, this wasn't a problem). People started to advertise in chat for people to pad out teams to get the maximum-sized spawns for these missions, and the devs imposed keyword filters on chat to make any messages soliciting for these missions simply not appear, so the players started using euphemisms to get around the keyword filters. 'Meow mission' was one of those euphemisms. I'm just personally tired of the rampant star-ducking for it, where I'll see a dozen or more "LF DFB" or variations on it from different people, with no one stepping up and actually starting one, or the person who'll spam "LF DFB" every thirty seconds to a minute for fifteen minutes, when they'd likely have a full team quickly if they announced 'Forming DFB, send tell'.

Being able to apply filters to a channel for yourself would be nice -- for example, tell your client to ignore any messages in the LFG channel with 'farm' or 'DFB' -- but these should be strictly client-side, or we'll just get the same situation as back on Live before the devs stomped on the the various broken AE opponents, and tried to ban specific terms in chat, so we saw euphemisms like the "meow missions" pop up. Telling your client to hide messages is one thing; trying to get them eradicated everywhere is a lost cause.

This whole situation needs to be flushed.

The problem with a bind or macro is that the boss labels are different for each enemy group -- for Freakshow, it's 'Tank' or 'Super', except when it's a named boss like 'Killdozer'; for Council, it's 'Archon' (and named bosses virtually always have 'Archon' except for AVs); for Outcasts it's 'Lead', again except for named bosses; and so on for all the other groups. It's not viable to have all these different binds, when if we had something like "/target_rank_next boss" it wouldn't matter what enemy group you were fighting.

Having the arrows be poorly rendered is, at least for me, a much more miniscule problem with Archery/Trick Arrow/Tactical Arrow compared to the draw animations, where the arrow wobbling around while you hold it at full draw is exactly what you shouldn't be doing -- if your aim is shaking that much, you're either pulling too much draw weight, holding it too long, or over-tightening your bow arm muscles -- all of which are mistakes that a hero specializing in archery shouldn't be making. I would like to see the shake removed -- the animation time is fine, just stop waving your gear around -- particularly for the snipe.

Rather than be able to convert threads to Empyrean merits, which I recall was asked for back on Live as well, I would prefer to see a new aggregate item -- say, 'incarnate fabric' or 'incarnate mesh' to suggest something made up of threads -- that was a 100:1 conversion and could be mailed to your alts like emp merits.

It depends on the character; I'm finding that Translocation in Sorcery has a number of 'off label' uses that can be very fun. For example, the end ruined-office 'room' where you go up the stairs, turn right, go to the corner, left down the stairs, left again up the stairs, and a final left down stairs to the end room has a hole in the wall before the first stairs that you can teleport through, then pop off a T9 nuke.

You see it fairly often in the low-level missions, where the contacts seem to be pushing you into Perez Park -- I've seen missions for Hellions, CoT, and Skulls where the contact suggests that you can find your victims targets in Perez Park, but doesn't require that zone for defeating them.

Really? That happens to me fairly often, although I don't remember doing it for a 'defeat X [group]' mission that was part of a story arc -- a random street-sweep mission like "hit the streets and defeat a few Circle of Thorns. Anywhere you find them is good, but I recommend starting in Perez Park" will accumulate credit in door missions, but "defeat ten Council in Steel Canyon" won't; you have to be in the right zone to get credit, and door missions, even if the door is in the zone, don't count as being in the zone.

The speed and damage delivery of attacks is part of the power design. Proton Volley was designed as a limited Dot -- it delivers four pulses of damage across its duration. If the first pulse of damage doesn't defeat the target, they can attack back before all the damage is applied. There are other, more serious issues with how effects are applied to mobs that should be addressed before looking at damage application -- how Stun works is perhaps the biggest one. When you stun a mob, it doesn't interrupt any queued action -- and I have personally seen a mob I attacked get stunned, assuming the 'wobbling around' body animation as it dashed at high speed more than fifty feet, lept to the roof of a building, and disappeared from view, all while stunned. Stun should interrupt any queued action, replacing it with the "I'm stunned" stumble.

I've noticed that the 'last mob' indicator doesn't seem to update all that often, and when you move close enough to the mob's actual position to be able to see them, the game can draw the new mob position indicator without erasing the old one, and sometimes moving close to a 'historical' mob position indicator will erase that one and not draw a new one until you move some. So it's useful but annoying.

For me, it depends on the circumstances of combat and the travel power. I remember that, back on Live, I was able to navigate the little caverns (blue, brown, 5th/Council) with SS running; my twitch reflexes aren't that good any more. Indoors, SJ can usually be left on; SS and Flight can be more of a pain than a benefit with the way Suppression makes "How fast will I move?" such a crap game, but even when I leave them on, I'll drop them as soon as they become inconvenient during a fight.

At lower levels, before you get any sustains, quite often -- even Sprint, for some End hungry builds.

The 'new' version of the Paladin event -- with the Shining Stars being held captive and having to clear out the Psionic Brass Conduits before you could defeat the Paladin -- worked sort of half-assed; once it triggered, it ran fine, but it would only trigger once after a zone reset. Which meant that it happened once after the weekly server reboot, and then never again until the next reboot, or when a new instance of the zone was spawned. The GMs, if asked politely, could spawn KR2 for people wanting to get the badge, but that required someone to poke the server. They tried lowering the zone cap in KR to try to make extra instances easier to spawn without GM intervention, but that was still annoying to arrange. As a stopgap, instead of removing the event altogether, they put back the original Paladin event, which had years of functional testing ensuring that it worked. It's not as simple as the 'new' one, but it doesn't remove it entirely while a fix is being worked on.

The point they were making is that, at level 19, they received a level 30 recipe drop. Normally you don't get drops higher than your level unless you're in a team and SK'd to a higher level. Artillery is a 30-50 set, so it shouldn't be appearing in the drop tables at level 19.

Aaand... I've gone back and added pseudo-HTML <sarcasm> tags around my text for the people who don't recognize it. You lose an immense amount of flexibility when you can't use tone of voice to carry meaning, and have to whack them upside the head with visual clues.

And jousting was addressed in a diffferent direction by giving virtually every mob that didn't have one a ranged attack -- in some cases, ranged attacks that outrange snipes with Boost Range active -- which means that the server, which doesn't have to deal with network lag, can trigger return fire the moment a character gets close enough to aggro them, and because of the mechanic that makes the range/LoS check at power activation (with a second at the end of animation only for snipes), it doesn't matter how far away the character moves, the mob will be able to attack back.

Click on the name, subclick "invite to team/league", get told you can't invite them, so you just blow them off because they're a knuckledragger who doesn't know that cross-faction invites don't work across zones, and therefore too worthless for you to lower yourself to helping them learn what they're doing wrong. And what they see is "this guy is advertising for team members, I sent them a tell, and they just ignored me. What a ёбаный сволочь."

In any co-op zone, you can invite members of any faction -- but you can only invite members of the opposite faction if they're in zone, so asking people to send messages in broadcast means that you don't have to waste time trying to invite them, finding out they're not in zone and not of your faction, and having to tell them to come to the zone to be invited and send another request after they're in the right zone. Asking for messages in broadcast for content in level-limited zones ensures that you don't waste time inviting someone and then having to field their complaints about not being able to get into the zone. You can't eliminate inappropriate-level invites entirely -- most of the TFs/SFs won't tell you until you try to start them that there's someone who doesn't qualify on the team -- but if you can use the game itself to filter the people wanting to join, use it; it makes things easier for everyone. But, hey, if you're the one leading the team/league, you can use whatever guidelines you want for recruiting people. If you're interested in doing some group activity that someone else is organizing, but you take offense at how they're recruiting their team, you've got two choices -- join according to the restrictions they're setting, or go off and do something else. Or you can always blast them in chat for being a self-righteous, oppressive prig about recruiting, completely miss the fact that you're trying to make other people conform to your One True Way™ to have fun, and find yourself in a bunch of ignore lists shortly afterward, without getting to join that group.

Random mob dialog in Kings Row: [NPC] Gravedigger Assailant: That sweet sterio is as good as mine. Should be 'stereo'.

In the mission "Break up the Clockwork and the Skulls" from Tony Kord, if the Skull lieutenant ambush is the last mob on the map, he shows up with a green (friendly) mob marker, not a red one.

Are you suggesting that they're so shoddily built that they would be unable to withstand the impact?