Clave Dark 5
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I thought the map worked just fine, perhaps a tad too big, but as I said, that's subjective I think. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this arc being outdated... I wouldn't judge your work against others' that way. As I see it, any artistic endeavor is you setting a goal in mind to create, and if it's executed it well, therefore it's a success. Maybe say making a cubism painting isn't the hot new thing right now, but if you still made a good one, you made a good one.
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I've been told some like to drop it into the Build UP powers because you can more "depend on it going off then, when you need it." Someone whose name I've forgotten (I think he was the guy making all the wildly over-procced builds for blasters etc.) did some testing, and his response to putting it into Tactics whilst on a team (esp. with pets, as @Arcadio noted) was very "OMG, This. Will. Not. Stop. Proccing." Sounds like it very good for MMs that way, because of the plethora of pets! Because I like it better as a fire-and-forget, I always drop it into Tactics, myself, but that may just be a subjective choice. Imagine how it must proc when you're in a league too...
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If I don't have what feels like "enough" natural movement from say IO set bonuses, I might click one of the prestige thingies like Slide. Other than that and I end up getting hung up too often for my tastes on torches, on wall decorations, etc. If my toon has Hover, then that's usually enough; Combat Jumping means I can hop-hop-hop at what I feel is a reasonable rate.
If you want your insane-o speeds for a speed run, I dunno, then whatever you prefer normally I guess.
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And there's me who wants an all-big-cats team, to heck with them dogs!
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Just ran it, it's fantastic. The world building was great and, uncommonly, was done during the story ion service of the story. Repurposed critters were chosen and done really well. Map choices sometimes felt a tad too big, but barely if so; so that's a small, subjective quibble at worst. The story felt like it had stakes, and made me feel very heroic. I got killed a few times in the next to last mission which was starting to frustrate, but I'm a squishie so that's on me (bring break-frees if you're susceptible ha ha). Some interesting mechanics choices in one missions. Her costume choice was good yes. 😃
I can't otherwise think of anything else to add, this was probably one of the best, most solid missions I think I've ever run.
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8 hours ago, ZacKing said:
Coming into a thread where people are discussing and sharing ideas on efficient ways to farm merits and telling everyone "you don't need to farm merits" is a non-starter, isn't helpful and isn't lending anything to the topic.
Subjective at best, unkind to me at worst. If it's a new player to this game, it's in the same league with telling them they don't have to follow the tanker-healer-damage triad model of other games after they come to ask question about building the best healer (such conversations and advice that I have seen here, more than once); you're trying to tell me what I can and can't say.
There are a lot of things you don't need to do in this game, but people do them anyway because it's what they enjoy doing. You don't need to participate in PvP or RP or play the market either, but people still do those things. Let them because that's what they enjoy.
I never said YOU ARE WRONG AND BAD AND ARE PLAYING THE GAME WRONG, I just offered advice. But I guess that's FORUM-RESPONDING WRONG?
As far as "pressure" to create cookie cutter builds and such, I don't know about that. I've never seen it and I think it's an extreme exaggeration of a minority of edge cases. My experience is that people asking for build advice or efficient ways of farming aren't wanting to hear "don't worry about builds or farming. Play story content, stop and smell the roses and enjoy the journey." It isn't helpful advice for them and isn't what they're asking for. The more you try and deter farming, the more you're creating the environment for it to not only grow, but thrive.
Go listen to all the farm calls requested Incarnate shields powers in chat. This thread in and of itself is a new-to-the-forums person asking about farming... and then there's your negative response to my advice too. I've gotten push back on these very same forums for the offered advice of "play what power sets you want" because of that same mentality. That all does add up to some scare-quoted "pressure", yes. 😃
Different people have different goals. If they want to rush to the level cap because that's how they do it in other games and what they enjoy, let them. There's always Oro for them to go back and play all the content. If people enjoy farming, let them. If people enjoy RPing, PvP, playing the market or taking the slow road to level up, let them. More power to all of them in finding things they enjoy.
Once again I have to tell you that I never said YOU CAN'T DO THIS, I said they don't have to. Can't I make suggestions? No?
If a majority of the newcomers sugar-rush to 50 without understanding that's not the end-all be-all of our game (and a too easy one), they're going to burn off really quickly, which is not good for the state of the game.
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4 hours ago, Krimson said:
You wanna hear about what people were saying about digital art and Wacom tablets 20 years ago? I still have the Graphire 3. 😄 People were NOT nice about digital art, and it certainly wasn't considered REAL art. So, I have AI language models and Stable Diffusion running on my desktop, and I could care less what people think because I remember what they said about digital art, and I remember what people said about my pen and ink art before that. So I'll make what I want. I don't care what the naysayers complain about because I know that if AI didn't exist, they would find something else to complain about.
Not the same thing, you drew with your tablet (as I did with mine), you didn't click "create" and call it a day. You can make what you want, just as I am free to not have to say it's perfect; that's not complaining.
Some other words to words to consider: https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
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Now I just have to remember where to open the modder from, how it works etc. 😄
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11 hours ago, Player2 said:
I've seen that with enhancements that sell normally for 200k or more each have the last five sales showing a ridiculously low amount... like 15,177. Bid low, you never know if someone is going to list something and you'll be the next available highest low bid.
I game during overnight hours and see this a fair amount, I figure something about the slowing of the market somehow helps this happen. I've also read of people who vendor any and everything at 1 Inf because it's easier and requires less thought. Combine those two and that might cover some of that, I figure.
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1 hour ago, DoctorDitko said:
Yeah, not a good look!
It is if you hate Baby New Year...
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9 hours ago, Doomguide2005 said:
Two words I'm told i should say or ask about "Emergent properties"
Interesting philosophical theory! Not one I'm qualified to get into so: maybe? Who knows, we'll see.
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9 hours ago, ZacKing said:
I agree with those suggesting Hami Raids if they fit your schedule. Fastest way to earn a chunk of merits every day.
Everyone knows this already. No need to keep repeating it. If people are looking for advice and suggestions for various ways to farm merits to improve their characters, let them. They're going to do it anyway regardless if you tell them they don't need to.
Telling them they don't need to farm merits to do that doesn't count as advice either? I disagree. There is such pressure for cookie cutter builds, farming merits, AE farming, and rushing to the level cap (an artifact of other games) that I will guarantee you that there are new players who have no idea.
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Time to drop that Amy Jonsson you've got in your tray! Failing that, at least you have a rez right there.
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12 minutes ago, High_Beam said:
I still use Mids, it is a useful tool for framing characters and getting an idea of what the path will be. I am sure that they will have the new powers soon enough. I agree with the statements about making if more resource hungry the no longer supporting forum exports smoothly is a little bit of a pain. But I also don't see anyone else out there coding something to compete or replace so I still support it.
I agree with both of you, and it does still beat paper and pencil; if not for MIDS I'd be running around six-slotting Rest or something, probably.
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(You don't even need to farm for merits in the first place, tbh.)
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6 hours ago, Sovera said:
... brings back what I said earlier on how every book and song has been 'just' recombining the same alphabet over and over.
... which brings back what I said earlier on how AI requires the intention and direction of intelligent users; that's more than just infinite monkeys banging away on typewriters, and adding more monkeys and typewriters doesn't change that.
Without the guidance before and refining afterwards, you risk unforced errors; with those, you get bland stuff - which is fine enough for a bread bag label, but one does not live on bread bags alone. Maybe I'm wrong, sure, but get back to me when it can conceive of and compose a good poem.
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13 hours ago, BurtHutt said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the CoX game itself needs to have a native toon builder much like MIDS. I don't game much but Borderlands 2 has an easy web based toon planner. This is something that the HC team should have and then update when they add new materials that impact the builder.
CoX can be very complex when building a toon. Some don't care about builds, many others want to plan a build and some want precise numbers to create uber builds.
In general: yes, agreed.
In practice: seems we sort of have that already with our MIDS and the team that keeps it updated for us. But we can't import the build directly into the game no. 😕
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4 hours ago, StarkWhite said:
Currently it's only being used in the Hard Mode of Lady Grey's Task Force, but in the future, devs can create zones or mission maps with increased or decreased gravity to simulate things like being in space or whatnot.
Whoa neat!
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I don't mind them at all, they add spice to the usual.
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8 hours ago, Etched said:
Now that Iss 27 page 7 is out. I'm going to hunt through all the new base items they added. 😍
Let me know if there's anything you feel you simply MUST talk me into paying you to upgrade my base with, if you want, ha ha!
Sybil dress acquired for my toon (as previously mentioned), it is the best costume choice on that last slot. I like the recharging numbers options for powers and trays. May make a new Dom for one of those two powers, but probably not both on one.
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7 hours ago, Doomguide2005 said:
Chat GPT and similar AI are as awful at it as they currently are. It's only going to improve. Just think about how long they've existed and what the original outputs looked like. There's material out there now that the vast majority of folks won't even notice is AI generated when they look at it and many of them couldn't pick out the 'fake' even if told one was AI generated.
You kind of missed the point though it wouldn't surprise me if that was deliberate. I think you had the post highlighting all the bits of unimaginative writing up thread. Well those various phrases are unimaginative crud commonly known as tropes and virtually all human writing is full of them which is why there's a word for it. Sure Chat GPT writes like a poorly plagiarizing high schooler at the moment. But that's just in the current state, it was only a short bit of time ago when it would have barely passed muster as a poorly plagiarizing kindergartner. And I've no idea how skilled at writing prompts FFFF is either.
I'm sure it will get better at not being completely bland, but it still, by definition, can't come up with an original angle or make a thematic connection between things, unless one of it's scraped sources did so, or its human wielder tells it to. I figure a lot of it's going to stay in "fairly dumb" territory, the occasional peak aside. People are treating it like it's going to drive our cars and do our homework for us, like a train smoothly following previously laid tracks... without realizing all the work that goes into laying down tracks (planning, design, materials considerations, traffic laws and zoning, track maintenance, etc.) Humanity is basically a lazy bunch, so there's going to be some really telegentic screw-ups as time goes by too.
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4 hours ago, Shenanigunner said:
It occurs to me that both Atlas and PD could use a really tiny, cute lil' farm, about 6x6. We could give the coordinates to the spam farmers.
Croatoa has a farm....
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1 hour ago, Czar said:
Roll my eyes at the number of sensless gun toting spammers
"Any frams looking for sitters please!"
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Extended color palette / RGB color picker for costume colors
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I do find the current palette limited, there's fewer options in the warmer side of the spectrum (reds, oranges, yellows) and because I was trying to emulate a particular color mix I found on an animated character's costume from a film (not trying to recreate the character just using the colors) I discovered there's no satisfyingly teal color either.