[Bank Missions Bugged?]

Just another data point, in my scores of banks (on big teams) I've never seen Fallen From Grace or Critical Mass as an EB.  I've only ever seen Aeon as an EB.

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

I just found this thread and skimmed, not perused other comments.

 

My main problem is a lack of 30-35 SF.  No, Morty Kal doesn't count.  I can live without a Posi analog but this 30-35 gap won't do.

 

Ultimately I have to question if this is a problem worth solving.  So many players have it ingrained "I don't want to be the bad guy" that I don't think you can overcome that, not within the context of this game.  If 20% of play goes on red side, that sounds consistent with how it's been since I joined, right after CoV came out.  By now you have to acknowledge "it is what it is" and throw bones to those 20% occasionally (like a lvl 30-35 sf).

[Bank Missions Bugged?]

I'm going to +1 this.  I have a group that does scanners/banks to start out sessions and over the years on HC we've done a LOT of banks as a full team of 8 and the AV rate is disappointingly low.  Nowhere close to 25% if that's supposed to be the target (and I don't know that it is).  The same seems to be true in mayhems.  I wish I'd kept some records, I hate using "feels like" to make a quantitative point instead of real data but that's all I've got right now.

[How often is having more than four points of KB protection actually a factor?]

For non meleers, I'm a-ok with 3 or 4 points (some PVP sets give 3 as a bonus).

 

For a tank I do try to get in the neighborhood of 11-12, for those sets without native -kb protection and resist.  For the other meleers I'm content with 7 or 8, maybe 4 for some Stalkers.

[Teleporting Attack Powers - Poll]

The /powexec_location target POWER slash command makes these two equivalent.  I guess the advantage of Feral Charge is you do't have to take the 10 seconds to create that bind/macro.

[Double exp on certain setvers…..🤪]

Mmmm, Shake Shack.

 

That's the only thing I've taken from this thread, that I now want to pop over to Shake Shack.

[New Hami-O: Acc/Rech]

The tears of the "but muh inf from provos" crowd are delicious.  By the way I stand to lose a lot of FMV (got a few lvl 53s I rotate to active characters from inactive ones) from a provo crash and I'm a-ok with that.

[Universal Accuracy Set]

Provocations will still be superior for getting the most out of fewer slots.  They would (or should) still be the choice of the wealthy power gamer.

[Universal Accuracy Set]

The current topic about Acc/Rch HOs in this subforum has inspired me to write up something that's been swirling around in my head for a while.  We have universal travel and universal damage, so I'm suggesting something for powers that don't take any sets that still are improved with accuracy, let's refer to it as Universal Accuracy.  Kinetics, for examples, has Fulcrum Shift and Siphon Power, Thermal has Heat Exhaustion.  There are others but this isn't meant to be an exhaustive list.

 

I'm proposing a 5 piece set that has these pieces and enhancement values:

 

 

I'm not going to get into suggesting bonuses at this time.  As far as I'm concerned they can all be "mid" bonuses like the Overwhelming Force set has.  I'll gladly readdress if this suggestion gets some traction from the developers.

[Some questions about Bots/FF]

Let's add it up (everything slotted to ED except prot bots).

 

Dispersion - 11.74

Ally Shield - 17.61

Prot Bots - 7.5

 

We're at 36.85 before doing anything clever.

 

Let's PB up the ally shield to make them 25 resulting in a total 44.24.

 

So, afaic, it's a question of how you prioritize PB, other buffs like Maneuvers and prot bot slotting to determine if you want the +def uniques%.

 

 

[Synthetic Hami-O strangeness]

I took a random character (lvl 50) and was able to slot a Microfilament into both Swift and Hurdle.  The stats for Swift enhanced both fly and run.

 

Skeptical?

 

Swift:

 

 

 

Hurdle:

[Hamidon buds]

The main reason you should care is that Hami will not respawn if buds exist in the zone.  Also there's a badge - https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Buddy_Badge

[Question about location/splat-based powers]

You can check case by case on the CoD2 site, see https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=blaster_ranged.fire_blast.rain_of_fire&at=blaster has a flag that says "boosts are copied to entity" meaning that Rain of Fire does get boosts from BU.

 

[Thermal Radiation T9 Discussion]

I'm not "good at Stats and equations"?  Don't tell my employers over the years, that's what they've paid me for.  Regardless I'm not going to do what you're looking for so good luck finding this good at Stats and equations person.

[Thermal Radiation T9 Discussion]

I like the above, but wanted to present a little bit differently, to compare like powers, rather than T9s.  Most all buff/debuff sets have some aoe -def/-res power.  Some, like Empathy, Kinetics and Electric Affinity don't have any.   Others have maybe something that only does -res (Sonic, Nature) and others still may need multiple powers to provide those effects (TA, Rad and to a lesser degree, Poison)

 

The intent is not to just say "This number > that number so the set with that number is better" but rather a starting point to look at outliers and ask "does the rest of this kit make up for being an outlier?"

 

I'm too lazy to worry about formatting and columns and the like, so a screenshot will have to do:

 

 

So I see 3 outliers, Pain Dom, Thermal and Time, with PD having the highest ratio of base recharge to duration.  Thermal benefits from having a long duration, which isn't really all that helpful for spawn-to-spawn fights.  For that you want a lower base recharge and that's where PD has an advantage to Thermal.

 

In no way am I considering this some thorough analysis, but when I ask myself the question "does the rest of the set make up for relatively low uptime?" I have a gut reaction of 

Time?  Absolutely

Pain Dom?  Maybe

Thermal?  Nope.

[Don't try this at home.]

As a rule of thumb don't open an ouro portal too near another door, whether chopper, train or even an entrance to a building like city hall.  Even if it doesn't causes an issue for you someone else may come along and misclick.  This is high on my CoX pet peeves list.

[The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #58: Oroboros - do you use it for flashback missions?]

Heather skews my "play time spent in flashback" percentage in a big way.  Even without Heather I do use it quite a bit, most notably for badges needed for accos, temp powers and opening content.  As a matter of fact I was on a team last night that did Talshak's arc in flashback to open up Cavern but teaming is indeed very rare, unless I can count multi-boxing Heathers as teaming.

[Synapse Task Force Dread]

To the question of how long to acquire a Shivan... I combine the Bloody Bay patrol with my Shivan hunt and it takes, I dunno, 10 minutes?  I say this without ever once actually timing it.  The biggest drivers of time (as I see it) are 1) ability to scan meteors before the Shivans crawl out of the ground and attack you 2) how quickly you can take out 4 major and 4 minor turrets (which can be helped by finding lvl 25 turrets with no boss) and 3) if the turrets respawn before you're done and, rarely but it can happen 4) other players harassing you.

[Synapse Task Force Dread]

As mentioned above, just do Invader.  If you're lvl 30+ you can do SSA1E4 (red or blue, to unlock Schweinzer) and then go get all the explores from Schweinzer before a fast Synapse team can even get to the Boomtown mission.  

[I just can't make myself do the low level regular contacts - too many street sweeps]

I would absolutely be on board with eliminating hunts in general or, more reasonably (to minimize mission arc rewrite) make the X in "Hunt X" a very low number, like 5.  They're not fun (subjective) not rewarding (less subjective), to me they just serve to break the flow when I'm doing old school contacts.

[Monarch: Legacy of Monsters]

Godzilla -1 rules.  It's at the tippy top of my "best of 2023" list.  People should see it at their best theater while they can.

[Katie Hannon TF. Last mission. NPCs can get stuck in the geometry.]

Not saying it's not a bug, I'd love for this to get fixed, but at this point I just consider it life with flying NPCs, like Scirocco when you get him as an ally in DA missions.  The good news is, if you have a teleport of some sort, even Assemble the Team, that will get the unstuck (until the next time they get stuck).

[Perma Lightform without Hasten?]

Perma anything is cooldown/duration - 1 (ignoring activation atm for simplicity).

 

300 / 90 -1 is the recharge ultimately needed, that's 233.33%.

 

Let's say you slot to ED cap of recharge within LF of 95%, now you're at 138.3% remaining. 

 

Now let's assume you slot the max of 5 ultimate recharge bonuses for 50%, now at 88.3% lef.  (I'd go 3 purples and split Superior Essence Transfer into 2 sets of 3)

 

It shouldn't be too difficult to sneak in 2 gargantuan bonuses of 8.75% for 17.5, now at 70.5% (NOT making Kheldians Grace superior may be the call here).

 

Let's assume 5 LotG for 37.5% now you're at, 33 remaining.

 

I'm going to stop at this point, there are various bonuses of 7.5 and 6.25 remaining.  If you use Panaceas in 2 of your heals, then 3 of the 6.25% bonuses and "Bob's your uncle" (not counting activation).

 

Note, this is just AN example of a roadmap to no Hasten/perma LF, there are other combinations, of course, something else may be more effective.  I also didn't check on how many slots this takes.

 

Personally, I'm currently playing a PB with playstyle of "stay in non-human forms except to buff and nuke" and having LF and Hasten on 2 very different cycles becomes quite annoying, especially if the action gets hot and heavy.  So I certainly get the appeal of a no-Hasten perma LF build.  

[Games that provided most/least value for money]

Malcolm Gladwell says you gain true expertise after 10,000 hours, Now, I may not have this expertise in any single version of Sid Meier's Civ, but if we include all hours played across 2-6, he would consider me a pro.  Actually, Civ 5 + 6 is enough to cross that threshold.  No way to know time spent on 2-4 though.  For figuring value, it doesn't even matter what the cost was, the denominator is so huge, the cost/hour approaches 0.

 

Worst value would any of the innumerable games I have in my Steam library I haven't even installed yet.

[Storm Defenders]

Not relevant to the power of Stormies, but if you're on a KH and see it's set to +4, quit ASAP, you're not beating +7 Mary.