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    What play styles should the Dev team support: solo, teams, story, powerleveling, etc

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    8 hours ago, DougGraves said:

     

    I am going to tell them what I want.  I think it is disrespectful not to tell someone working on something for you what you want.   They can choose to do what they want.  But I subscribe to the agile philosophy that it is far better to say what you want before they start working then to say what you do not like when they are done working.

     

    Now I'm disrespectful if I don't tell the devs what I want?  Come on.  If I had commissioned the game from them, if I were paying salaries, then you'd have a point.  If I just want to play the game the way it is there's no need to try to guilt me into something else.  I don't agree that they should cater to certain (or any) play styles; I don't agree that anything needs more "structure"; and I don't feel the need to tell the devs how I would do things if I were running them.  I'm not objecting to anybody else making suggestions.  Make suggestions all you want.  But while they are creating content for others to enjoy, I don't labor under the misconception that they work for me, nor that they require my direction, nor that I am a bad person if I don't pester them with my ideas.

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    What play styles should the Dev team support: solo, teams, story, powerleveling, etc

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    6 hours ago, DougGraves said:

     

    Because the devs only have so much time.  So saying "Yes" to all is saying you don't care if you get any of them.

     

    If the devs spend the next year working only on pvp content for teams of 3 stalkers are you going to be happy?  You said "Yes" to it.

     

     

    So if I abstain does that mean I want the game to go away?  🙄

     

    I'm not going to tell a bunch of volunteers working on a free game what they SHOULD do.   I don't expect them to "support" my individual play style.  In fact every play style was developed around game mechanics, rewards, and content, not the other way around, in the first place.  No reason to change that.

    CoH d20

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    4 hours ago, Apparition said:

     

    The City of Heroes setting was originally Jack Emmert's Champions campaign setting.  The system... not so much.

     

    Several of my CoH characters were lifted from our ~30-year-old Champions universe.  Conversely, a friend of mine did versions of a couple of his CoH toons in the Hero System when I introduced him to Champions.  We still play it, the current group has been going for a dozen years or so.  So my advice is to use Hero, although I guess that would make it CoH d6.    😉

    Trick &or Treat, Am I mistaken

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    2 hours ago, Frostbiter said:

    I have a question and didn't want to start a thread for it since it's fairly simple. When I knock and get a TREAT and the Enhancement Tab glows, what exactly am I getting? Nothing seems to show up and I don't get any actual enhancements.

    I think that indicates the rewarding of a costume that you've already got.  Why it lights up the Enhancement tab I don't know.

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    How to scare away new players.

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    4 minutes ago, ZeeHero said:

    Exactly. if something bothers someone NOTHING in the UNIVERSE will stop that. 

    Isn't that an admission that other people are in control of your emotions?  Any yahoo who knows which button to push can drive you crazy and there's nothing you can do about it?  It's a Pavlovian response that's hard-wired? 

     

    Okay, I guess.  I prefer choosing what to worry about.  If that's merely an illusion then I guess I'm a fool, but life seems to be much less exhausting this way.

     

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    Its a wonder this game even works.

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    9 hours ago, Ironblade said:

    um....  bullshit.
    That's not how I worked.  Of course, I wasn't involved in selling any software as I was doing database development for my employer.

    My code was documented scrupulously and I wrote a 50+ page user manual.

     

    In this context I think there's a distinction to be made between system programmers and application developers.  I'm a mainframe sysprog and yes, we document everything.  The app-devs with whom I work are a lot closer to Luminara's characterization.

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    Retrieve Resistance Message Carrier Mission Bugged

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    Posted · Edited by Graviton

    Running a level 50 staff/RA Scrapper, Cosmic Custodian, on Everlasting.  In Ouroboros I selected the Level 10-14 arc "Insert Paranoia Here" from Splice.  The first mission, "The Problem with People", has as its objective "Retrieve the Resistance Message Carrier".

     

    I enter the room where the captive is and I can see her cowering in front of several Ghouls.  I start attacking them and I notice that my AoE, Eye of the Storm, is doing damage to the captive.  Before I realize it I've killed the captive as well as the Ghoul guards.  I cleared the entire map and tried exiting, then re-entering, but the mish would not complete.

     

    I logged out for the night and when I logged back in this morning the mish was reset so I was able to complete it, being careful not to harm the captive.  

     

    I just tested it with another character and confirmed that I cannot directly target the captive, but Propel affects her.  That toon doesn't have an AoE at level 10, the level of the Flashback mish.  I'd rather not try to recreate it with the original toon, I don't want to get stuck again.

     

    Please let me know if I've left out anything useful.

    River Rat Badge

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    I finally got this badge last night.  I'd been sitting at 18/19 for weeks.  I went back yesterday and retraced my steps (strokes?) and it turns out I was missing #5.  My guess is I wasn't actually in the water the first time I tried to get it.  I made sure I turned off Flight this time.

    The Boys

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    I'm watching the first episode right now.  I am completely ignorant of the comic so I'm coming at it with no expectations, nor any idea what it's about.  My jaw has been dropped twice so far.  Very entertaining!

    Loitering Plea... how to contribute to easing traffic.

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    If you are level 6 or higher, spend an extra minute to go to train with Back Alley Brawler instead of Ms. Liberty.

     

    I've taken to doing this, especially when I'm on my laptop as it lags a lot worse than my PC.  For toons that have Flight and/or Hover I also make sure to hover above the trainer instead of trying to push and shove my way through the crowd.  The crowds alone are sometimes bad enough without all the pyrotechnics.  Please, people, turn your $#!@ off.

     

     

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