[The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #69: Do you use discord with or about CoH?]

By the way, has anyone made the "nice" joke yet?

[The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #69: Do you use discord with or about CoH?]

I signed up for it because it appeared to be the thing for getting into HC?  But I never use it either.  I can't be arsed to dig out some mic/headset thingy I can use for the chat, and as far as simple forums go, it's confusing enough that I found it too offputting to bother with; I'm sure I could figure things out, but why bother spending the time?  I don't need it.

[Is there more depth to villain groups?]

...Or you can always go read their wiki page and spoil it all for yourself.  😉 

[Farming vs whatever for fast inf building]

7 hours ago, BigKahuna337 said:

What's better than farming for inf building?

Patience. 

 

Seriously, it will roll in once you play a 50.  Farming is dull.  Farming is like looking at the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to gamma waves and deciding that "red that people can see" is the most important part of the game.  You can play a gimpy, unslotted toon on a team and do just fine

[On the new CoT and council......the good and bad so far.]

23 hours ago, DrunkFlux said:

So I'm trying to solo them on 8x+3, reason being that if forming a 54 PI team, often there are lowbies, if your the only incarnate and not able to 100% solo things, then the team is going to struggle very very hard.

Good!  I think the changes were meant to remove easy farming/sleeping your way to 50.

 

ETA -- Look how mad some people get when I point that out, and down-vote me every time I say it.  XD

[I grind like a bitch, and I still can't keep my holes filled]

Best advice I can think of (on top of everyone above me there): team, PUG, TFs, whatever. 

 

Drag this weak and terrible toon to 50, even with egregious holes in your slotting.  Be lazy on the teams, hang out in back where it's safe, whatever. 

 

No one will call you out for this, and if you say you're new, they may even give you gifts. If they do call you out, block them and keep playing.

 

Make it to 50, keep playing.  Keep teaming.  Inf with drops etc. will start to roll in in large chunks.  Keep being lazy if you need to, whatever.  😃  Once that toon is slotted and established, you won't have to hide in back AND the money will start to pile up, by simply playing (not farming, speed-running etc.)  Just playing, easy peasy. 

 

Enjoy playing a superhero.  😃

[More Freedom for Naming]

9 hours ago, biostem said:

I also like to use rhymezone.com and thesaurus.com if I am having a difficult time coming up with a name. 

Big fan here of this as well:  https://onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml

[Redside... Best side? Right??]

@ThatGuyCDude, if you don't already write MA arcs, it's time you started.  😃 

[Vidiotmaps for Homecoming]

Trying to figure out how to use popmenus looks like homework, I think I'm good.

 

ETA< but I tried it anyway cuz I'm dumb and it was easy anyway, so cool, thanks!

[Vidiotmaps for Homecoming]

9 hours ago, Bionic_Flea said:

Thanks for all the work you and others put into the Modder and Vidiotmaps. 

 

I started the Modder up yesterday for the first time in months (after closing the game to desktop), updated Vidiotmaps and BadgeSetList, then restarted the game and all the new badge info displayed perfectly.  It even fixed my Perez Park map that had a graphics glitch that survived previous updates.

 

So easy even a tiny old insect can do it!

But you're bionic too!!

 

Jokes aside, what's the BadgeSetList one do?

[20th Anniversary..]

On 2/27/2024 at 9:36 AM, ZekeStenzland said:

 

I got stalker, brute, blaster and corrupter. 
 

Stalker, and MM, maybe a third?  Can't recall now.  Doms are my current fave, so I guess I need to get a new one.

[Everlasting's Guide to Comedy arcs]

Oh goodness, that's a lot, I should look into some of these...

[Do You Prefer to Take it Slow? Introducing Steady Indom]

51 minutes ago, sbloyd said:

Unfortunately part of these conditions is "I need to get a bunch of live enemies clustered around me"

And then that one annoying guy keeps popping Fold Space to grab the group back to him, because he's the awesome here.

[Costume Locked-Out?]

45 minutes ago, Marshal_General said:

I do wish they could have flagged the celestial pieces that float behind your head as allowable. They would go great with the Sybil outfit.

My understanding on how The Things Work is that it's a matter of attachment points, not just setting a flag.  I'd guess the shouldery-cape thingies take up that back attachment point, so nothing else can be fit on there.

[Do You Prefer to Take it Slow? Introducing Steady Indom]

I see Excel speedruns on lots of things, any and all TFs, and when I find myself on one and say something, I'm generally the only one doing so (I really should just drop when that happens).  That's one thing I like about SBB: level-capped so no hiding behind your wall of purples, Winter Expense and fully IOed builds, and you have to take it at the pace it goes at, no cheating your way through.  The "meta" is indeed to grab everything like merits and Inf are going to be nerfed (just look at Scrapyard).

 

I'd be happy to join this, except I game during odd hours and even after the big influx Indom is dead during the night (and Excel pretty much reverts back to what it was pre-influx: four people spamming to door-sit a farm, a Yin speed-run, and a Tin/Px, which may also be a speedrun). 

 

But all power to y'all!  Maybe I'll check in  sometimes, just to see if maybe there is something to get in on.

[The Officially Unofficial Weekly Challenge #2: Start and level a character redside]

Say WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

 

I've been ignoring two new toons I made recently (never a good sign for them) to play my last 50 a lot, and she's been red side fa0 rmore lately than blue, so... yeah, play redside!

[Sally & Other Aquatic Mini-Pets]

9 hours ago, Frozen Burn said:

Well, at least Sally could use some clearer water.  😛  

But the murk is her friend!  She's survived all these years by being a mystery, perhaps an engima, maybe even a hoax!  Leave the woman some decency for cryin' out loud!

[RWZ Vanguard Base wayfinding signage]

I just got lost in there tonight.  First I'm all "oooh, what's down this hallway?" and before you know it, I was all "how do I get outta here?!" 

 

Since we can't have a map, then some signs, maybe floor arrows... a talking NPC who says "main base's thataway" each time you go by them, anything would be nice.

[Vidiotmaps for Homecoming]

18 hours ago, Michiyo said:

 

Specifically the "Add to Launcher" -> Whichever launcher you're using.  You'll need to make sure whichever launcher you use is closed, do this, and then re-open the launcher.  If mods still don't work, in the Mod Installer select Tools -> Upload Support Bundle, and use your Forum name.

I can't even get into the game now, the game even had me send a crahs report.  I went to update the videiod maps.  I logged in, was on for about five minutes, tyhen it crashed out with this error msg:

That popped up whenever I tried to get back in.  I've tried uninstalling the Vidiot maps, and uninstalling/re-installing it, "to homecoming" as instructed by the original page.  Now when I do that, I get a msg that says "be sure launcher is closed then click OK."  Every time.  The launcher is closed, I even restarted the computer and didn't try to open before updating and and I still get this.

 

I should have known this was going to be a headache, every time I touch this stuff it goes south, Snarky was right!  😃

 

ETA: yeah, the game launcher crashes every time now.

 

ETA mrk2:  and now it all works just fine...  sigh... I swear I did nothing different.  Someone send me a panda please.

[Costume Locked-Out?]

46 minutes ago, Lockely said:

If she's a bots MM, it's her rifle. All my beam rifles got flagged as invalid this update.

Bingo, That's it, thank you.

 

I think they added a few new ones this time, which might have somehow messed up the order?

[20th Anniversary..]

32 minutes ago, Troo said:

 

pics or it isn't troo.

 

please sir, pics

The grey-area T shirt sites had/have them (I haven't looked recently though).  I bought a few, and have a hoodie with the Arachnos logo on it.

[20th Anniversary..]

I was told there'd be no math...

[Advanced Rikti Mothership Raid]

I think a problem here is that there's only so much population.  Say 25% of the population runs MSRs.  Once split between the two options, a certain percent of that group ("people playing level 50 characters who want a little challenge in the game but are gatekept out of advanced mode TFs/SFs" for example) will then go off and run this 50-only content.  That means less to run the old version, and probably that they will be run less often.  If I'm right about that, then that means the window's shifted, again, to favoring "only 50s" toon in this game, which i more power creep.

 

Speaking of such things, whatever happened to that instanced version of the MSR?  I don't think I've been on one of those in ages.  Has anyone else seen them done commonly; any idea why not?  Weren't they sort of kicked up so more of the foes were tougher?

[Bage Listings]

I just wish they'd all show on their different menus (Most Recent, Accolades, etc.) in alp0habetical order.  I had a toon with one set that fit, then  accidentally unset it, and spent about a full minute going trough the menus trying to find, and still wasn't able to.  My time was limited so I couldn't just go through them all slowly one by one.

[Savage Melee to shred or not to shred]

I took Shred for my "BAMPF Melee" stalker, because another AoE is always useful, especially once I've hopped into the center of another group.  I don't use it all the time, but often enough that I don't regret it.