[The problem with stalkers]

10 hours ago, Solarverse said:

I agree, I don't NEED to breath either, I can always just chose to die, but life would probably be a better experience if I keep taking breaths. IE, Stalker play is just a better experience with all of those procs.  😉

I can see YOU need them.  You also need some PROCs to write better posts.

[The problem with stalkers]

8 hours ago, KelvinKole said:

You need three things:

 

ATO chance to hide proc slotted in AS. 

 

ATO chance to recharge build up proc slotted anywhere. 

 

Chance for build up proc in build up. 

 

Enjoy wrecking everything. 

 

You don't NEED any of these.

[Is this a concern?]

2 minutes ago, Snarky said:

I was shopping for a high end enhancer 2 months back. I was trying to bring the bid in low rather than pay 10 million. I bid 6 mil 6.25 mil 6.5 mil etc. working up to 8 mil. No luck. Took a bio or something. Came back and moved on

 

needed a SO accuracy at low level. So I went to auction found it and bid.  I thought I did.  
 

my computer still had the 8 million bid remembered

 

that is right. Trying to save money I bought a level 18 accuracy enhancer for 8 Million

 

8,000,000

 

be concerned.  Some of us are really dumb

 

karma, man... karma

[It’s the people stupid!]

1 hour ago, jubakumbi said:

City of Heroes is the only game I have ever been playing in which the leader of the big raid doubled down on the thier thinking that the developers should be killed.

I clarified, thinking it hyperbole, but no, the person was serious, the developers should be put to death because of something they did not like about an interface.

I stopped playing incarnet raids on my server because this person was one of the main leaders.

City of Heroes is the only game in which I have seen people kicked off of teams for nothing more than a lack of badges (winter baby).

City of Heroes is the only MMO I have played that had players demand other players use or not use specific powers or be kicked.

City of Heores is the only game I have played where some players think others should be banned for not being creative enough to satisfy them.

We even have people at this stage who are determined anything not added by the 'original team' is _wrong_ for even existing.

I can go on.

 

I'm not going to quote everything, but I side with jubakumbi on this.  I've seen some of these things, too, and wonder about those who think the community is so great.  Are these the people that put anyone with any sort of negativity or disagreement on their ignore list so they only see the "good" things?  Some people bragged about how large their ignore list is... doesn't that say something about them?  I will put someone on ignore for a short time, but after a few days I'll remove everyone and have no one on my ignore list. I see the warts others are hiding away from.

 

This was on live, Homecoming has been pretty dang good.

[It is 2019: How would you update the city?]

37 minutes ago, 50caltech said:

for the aquatic zones, a actual old fashioned sailing ship....much like the flying dutchmen...for a ghost ship....to travel thru all zones, both hero and villain sides  etc....

An aquatic zone?  One that 99.9% of the population will visit once?   How about instead a revamp of Talos Island zone, where the mostly water northern part could be changed to have whatever aquatic elements people want.  There's a lot of wasted space in TI. Maybe that would be a good zone to separate into two smaller ones with a pass through like Praetoria has (or was that a Paragon Chat thing only?)

[P2W agent skirtless]

4 hours ago, Solarverse said:

Shhh, you are going to get my eye candy nerfed from the game...

Pfft... go to PD where catgirls and demon lasses are wearing next to nothing already (on Everlasting anyway).

[It is 2019: How would you update the city?]

2 hours ago, Twisted Toon said:

But, they need cars from the 70's to be able to handle running over super powered individuals. Nothing from modern times would last past the first look from a super, let alone actually running into them like 99.99999% of the drivers on the streets are wont to do.

yeah, you're right. It's a lot easier to replace the front bumper than the whole front of the car after the super tears that bumper off.  I hear brutes like to use those bumpers as clubs.  But you also run into the problem of Freakshow stealing them for their daily wear.

[New Players - Enhancements (DOs & SOs - use em)]

On 11/15/2019 at 3:56 PM, TyrantMikey said:

Even if I create a toon that skips DFB, I start slotting generic IOs at 10. EVERYTHING that drops afterwards is cash in the bank.

 

The constant hassle of replacing training, DOs and SOs is absolutely not worth it. Upgrade Generic IOs when it makes sense to do so (every 10 levels or so). Otherwise, you're just wasting inf.

 

Isn't this also wasting inf?

[It is 2019: How would you update the city?]

I think many of you forget that Paragon City is a city under siege. The Rikti invasion and all the super villains have changed the world to isolated pockets of civilization with some basic rural areas (we hope, or where else...) food comes from.  Some tech will evolve (i.e., flat screens, cell phones, newer cars), but many of those fancy things would be very low on the priority list for the current situation.  Hiking trails?  Those parks are infested with hoodlums and soul stealing magic users.  If anything, update some NPCs with modern clothing, have a bicyclist being held in CoT green smoke and a bike lying nearby (that would be a laugh: a hordeling wobbly riding said bike).  

 

I do like having shops one can enter and get a particular mission from an NPC in the shop. But I doubt many would be so open.  Wentworths can get away with it because 1) supers hang out there, 2) they have enough leverage to get a few precious police drones to guard the doors.

[It is 2019: How would you update the city?]

On 10/17/2019 at 12:13 PM, Voltor said:

Why change anything?  The game is a snapshot or time capsule of 2012.  

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Newer cars, taxi, bus, pick up truck. BTW, chrome bumpers died in the 70s, but that's what the cars in COX still have.

[The Current PUG Meta (aka ramblings of an old man)]

I share some of this sentiment, which is why I mostly solo and only team for TFs, monsters, and events.  Many PUGs don't say much, if I wanted silence I wouldn't have joined*. Higher level PUGs destroy stuff so fast that my token lag has me corpse blasting most of the time and I wonder why I'm here (on the PUG). I'll quit after the mission and go back to soloing when I actually get to hit something (sometimes.. damn RNG).

 

* I do like the RP PUGS, even if I'm not one to say much; there is usually at least some chatting going on

[New Players - Enhancements (DOs & SOs - use em)]

On 10/4/2019 at 11:16 AM, Shred Monkey said:

If I was a new player and followed this guide because I didn't know what IO's were, I'd be pretty upset once I did learn what IO's were and that I wasted all that time and inf following this guide.

 

My advice for starting out is to slot for accuracy and recharge (using mainly your own drops and the 5 P2W enhancements) until level 17.  Then start filling in level 20 IOs as you can afford them (continue to use the P2W enhancements until you decide you have something better.) 

 

How you get to level 17 is up to you, but while you do, save your inf for IOs instead buying DOs and SOs that will expire.

 

I never bother with level 20 IOs.  I'll buy a few level 20 ACC and DMG DOs at level 17-20, (but not enough to fill all slots) before that to get to level 22 and then I'll get level 25 IOs. If I do have any cash I'll look at low level IO sets (attuned of course).  Those can last me until I want the higher level IO sets. 

[Would you like to play CoX as a different genre - some type of fantasy setting]

I like the mechanics of CoX and its casual play style. I'd play it with other genres. Whether a new game or separate zones* from the main game that are not linked to the main game (you cannot take someone from blue/red/gold to purple (magic/fantasy world) or green (cowboys-in-dinosaur world**).

 

 

* less zones, wider level ranges in each zone, and max level could be less than 50; example: 2 zones, levels 1-20 & 21-40.

 

** although supers in really-tough-dinosaur/smart dinosaurs world might work as a new regular zone. I'd like that better than those Ward zones (this won't make me popular)

[Suggestion: 256 rgb color]

Perhaps an easy fix is to allow the costume creator to load costume files with customized colors instead of the fixed color ones.  This will not be easy for everyone to use, but that's what player-created forum tutorials are for. :D 

 

I can edit the color codes directly in the costume file, having done so for many costumes when I played with Titan Icon for the last couple of years, but they will not load onto the live servers except as black.

[some emotes I liked using in Titan Icon...]

...and I'd like to see here. Yeah, no big priority, but if someone is going to add a bunch of emotes at once here's a few more.

 

I don't know what the emote would be, so I'll list the "mov" command version from T. Icon.

 

"LISTEN_GESTURE2" - head does not bob as much as the talking emote, character shifts weight back and forth on each foot at various time intervals, a hand will waver a little at times.

(an emote I would use often while listening to some mary-su character overhype their capabilities, too bad there's no eye-roll emote :D ) 

 

"EMOTE_SIT_TALK_01"

"EMOTE_SIT_TALK_LEFT_02"

"EMOTE_SIT_TALK_RIGHT_01" - sit and talk, looking forward, left, or right.

 

[swap out sound files (Boombox)]

I would like to change the music files some (not into techno), especially for the Boombox. 

 

1) Any "easy" way to do it? (never messed with such before)

2) Suggestion: add dynamic music options within the game (even if only for the Boombox).