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3 hours ago, Snarky said:
Thank you to Oklahoman and all who participated.
Glad to have you. See you there or elsewhere again soon! 🙂
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3 minutes ago, Apparition said:
The instanced mothership raid has substantially less lag than a zone mothership raid, and you get more rewards as well.
I am curious about the rewards differential you are seeing.
The last MSR I ran netted, for me as a puller, 1500+ vMerits. That's on the high side for me, yes, but I get that frequently - mid forties up to low fifties. What kind of vMerits are your pullers reporting? I'm curious how far apart the instanced and zoned versions are. I don't really look at influence or XP at this point, so I can't comment on those, and maybe that's what you are referring to with the higher level Rikti.
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A quick aside, once you start getting into uniques and set bonuses, you need to know about the Law of Fives. A couple of people have mentioned here already slotting LotG "up to" 5 times, and that's why.
In game, there's nothing that really alerts you that ED will adversely affect slotting that 4th damage IO, and likewise nothing that will alert you that doing something to create a 6th 7.5% global recharge won't benefit you. Mids can help, as well as other methods people have mentioned elsewhere.
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55 minutes ago, PLVRIZR said:
ANYTHING with a dedicated graphics card will run CoH at near ultra settings
This.
Personally, I use an Acer Nitro V (AN515-53 to be specific), and it looks and works fine as a work laptop and for playing COH. I did choose to double the memory on it after several months, once I started looking at multiboxing. The camera is fine, but once I started streaming I bought an external camera for better resolution, though I honestly don't know if that helped anything.
Good luck!
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I think it's a great idea. But I also wonder if bumping the zone caps to, say, 58 wouldn't be easier and take care of the majority of the issues we are seeing. At one point bumping the cap up was an option, but I haven't seen much discussion of that recently. Worst case scenario is you have a Hami or an MSR with a full league plus a 10 person league. I'd love for us to just give that a month long trial and see what happens.
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Good question.
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6 hours ago, blue4333 said:
Topic as per title!
I never give unsolicited advice. And BTW your post may get more traction if you don't begin it with some kind of recursive subroutine.
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Would somebody email me a 3D printer so I can test this out? Thanks in advance.
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There are definitely a lot of underutilized zones. Your idea made me wonder about some kind of purchasable or earnable item that a player might use to set off in certain zones. Hami in a box, sorta. Or maybe more accurately a MSR in a box.
For instance, and don't get stuck on any particular detail of this, at vet level 100 (and maybe every 50 or 100 after that) you get a token that when used in Dark Astoria creates a defendable item somewhere random on the map with hordes of undead everywhere in the zone being slowly drawn to it. Successfully defend it and everyone in zone gets... something like the end of a Hami, or maybe even a bit better since this should be sort of a rare event. I don't know. Or maybe do this in Echo: Dark Astoria instead so you don't have to worry about zone caps as much.
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6 hours ago, Wilky said:
and i can't know who is NOT active anymore 😞
why a limit ? Well i just noticed that today.
thx
I wish we had a sortable column for "Last Online" so we could periodically proactively prune people (say that 5 times real fast). I tried @starro's suggestion of an Excel spreadsheet but it quickly felt like work.
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22 minutes ago, Rudra said:
Okay. Now about those zone MSRs people are trying to not get dropped out of....
I don't want to get into a comparison between the zoned and instanced MSRs, because that's not why this thread was started. I prefer to run the zoned MSR, others prefer the instanced, and we all have reasons.
Before RWZ was capped to 50 players, this suggestion wasn't needed - but we were also running two full leagues in the same zone at the same time on occasion. Now that things have settled down, I wonder if you just removed that cap what might happen. I don't think you could remove the zone cap for Hami's tho - they are still very popular. On Ex they don't have to advertise the regularly run ones because the zone is already full at the starting time.
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19 minutes ago, Rudra said:
You know, so far the only responses against Null being in the RWZ (and hopefully also the Abyss and Hive) is "Well, you should have done so when you were staring out! Shame on you!" Are there any other reasons why this is a bad idea other than we should have known and already done it?
Not that I have heard. If the zones you mentioned had no cap - or if somehow leaving the zone did not run you the risk of not be able to return to the zone - then I doubt this request would even be considered. Or, if there was a way to turn it off from your own settings, I doubt we'd entertain this. But, here we are, with what we have available. Beyond players wanting some kind of punishment for other players who, for whatever reason, lack the foresight to go to Pocket D before an MSR or Hami, and not knowing of any technical reasons it wouldn't be possible, I don't see a reason not to do it.
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44 minutes ago, Snarky said:
Your plan to 50 then see the world is completely viable in the game
Wait, are you being snarky?
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I don't see a problem with this.
People go AFK unexpectedly because life happens. Pizza's get delivered, dogs start horking in the living room, kids go suddenly and suspiciously quiet, etc. Yes, there are times when people are letting their team down for no good reason because they are tabbed out unintentionally sharing all their personal info on Facebook, but my sense is the majority of the time it's just something out of the players control. If you can safely tell your team you will be AFK before you need to be, great, and do that. But I also know from personal experience that's not always possible.
Also, it's annoying to rez someone and not see them rez. I say stick with the current countdown so you have some ability to time your rez (maybe you are surrounded by bad guys who are moving away), decline it (maybe my self-rez is better than your Medicine pool rez), or let the clock run out and rez you anyway.
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15 hours ago, Greycat said:
(Personally I still think it should just be a slash command to turn on or off. Even better if you had an indicator that it's on or off you could check ahead of time.)
Ideally, you wouldn't have to make a trip anywhere special to decline any particular buff, so I agree.
To @wjrasmussen's point, I don't think it's a bad idea, and I get why you are asking. If RWZ is going to remain capped at 50 players, then we feel a need to have all the potentially important stuff inside that zone so there's no reason to leave once you've secured your spot in the MSR.
Or, could Null perhaps make these kind of changes account wide, so once you done it for one alt you've done it for all? Not sure how that would impact a character with Group Fly on an account that has declined it.
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26 minutes ago, Mashugana said:
At 50 can I run DFB and not mess it up for the lower levels?
I love to occasionally take one of my 50s down to run a DFB. Most of your powers will get turned off, of course. However, a proc in an attuned enhancement will still fire, for instance. So, with Oklahoman, I'm throwing off a pretty good PBAoE heal a lot of times when I attack. I like to secretly pass the level 50+ enhancements out to the rest of the team, and sometimes I sponsor "bounties" for whoever gets the kill shot on Tinder, for earning the 2 badges, for each meatball, etc. I hope that I can add to that experience for the low level characters to make them want to keep playing the game.
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Discovered this myself as I started a sonic/kin corruptor, so necroing this for visibility.
If it's to remain AoE and not stack, do we really want a Very Fast recharge time?
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Back to OPs original concern...
Part of that, I think, is a fault of Apex itself in that it zones in and out so much. Not sure if maybe there is a way to make Apex instanced, but that could be a solution.
The cap inside RWZ is 50, and at one point we talked about whether that was a good number. A full MSR will take up 48 of those spots. If you increase that number too much you have the potential for MSRs with a full league plus a full team, or more. But that could also allow for a full MSR plus a full Apex. I just don't know if we can come to a consensus on a number.
I also wondered - assuming the touch point for the chopper could be moved inside the base - if a fundamental restructuring of the zone would fix this. Instead of going to "Rikti War Zone" you instead go first to "Rikti War Zone Base" - a new zone with no cap that basically encompasses everything in the current RWZ up to the green portal. Once you touch the green portal, that's when it asks if you want to go to RWZ1 or RWZ2. I'm not sure how an idea like that would affect LGTF or other stuff running in the zone, though. Thought up while shaving.
OP suggested a mechanism, I think, too where if you started an Apex in RWZ2 (or greater, I guess) then that becomes your default selection for the duration of Apex. So you can just absent mindedly click a button when prompted as you play and still end up in the same zone with others in your league. I guess that works until someone starts and fills an MSR somewhere between when you start and finish an Apex in RWZ1. Maybe the act of starting an Apex automatically spawns RWZ2 if it doesn't exist already?
The other solution is to never, ever - under any circumstances - run Apex. Pretty much the solution I've been running with myself so far.
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2 hours ago, Mashugana said:
You could even post, 'here is what I do when I log in with my mian' or whatever.
For me, when I log in I have a choice generally between 3 options - do I want to LEAD, do I want to FOLLOW, or do I want to FARM?
If I want to LEAD, then I try to get a sense of what might be running already that I tend to run. This may require me to be online doing pretty much nothing for up to 15 minutes (the length of an average BAF, I estimate) while I follow LFG. I primarily run MSRs, BAFs, LAMs, DDs, and MAGs. I have a custom popmenu for each of those, each with a unique "voice" for whatever character I choose to lead with. Part of my decision about what to run has to do with what I feel like running - a Master of Lambda run, for instance, takes 3 successful runs, which is a bit of a time commitment. I can /search RWZ and The Hive to see if there is a build up of players there, indicating an MSR or Hami may be forming already. I also sometimes just lead level 50 PI missions. If I am choosing to lead, I also then need to decide which character to play, as some of my characters are built for specific things.
If I want to FOLLOW, then I am probably logging in and seeing a buddy online I want to run with for a bit, so I may alt to another character. Or, I am logging in from a second account people don't associate with "Oklahoman" so I can play somewhat anonymously. (Hey, being a celebrity has a cost.) Sometimes I am learning how someone else runs something I run already, to see where I can improve my own leadership. Sometimes, I want to learn about a new part of the game to see if I want to maybe lead it myself. And, sometimes, I just want to have fun without the responsibilities of recruiting and managing a team, and retain the ability to drop out at any time.
If I want to FARM, then I need to decide if I want to include others or go it alone. I'm all for farming a toon through a few levels, but I would prefer to see newer players actually play the game and earn their levels that way. Just my preference. So, I don't often include others in a farm, but I do on occasion. I generally farm for influence, which I can then give away as a prize in MSRs. Farming, too, for me is somewhat meditative in that I don't have to put a lot of thought into while I am doing it.
Anyway, when I log in, that's generally my thought process.
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6 hours ago, TheOtherTed said:
Disclaimer - I don't know PG from Atom Ant, and I don't get the whole streaming thing at all. That said, here are the bullet points I took away from it:
- 4:49 His group accidentally crashed a regular Hami raid and he, personally, got a lot of harrassment from it for a long period of time.
- 8:37 A lot of his SG officers were kicking people for political beliefs and/or "not being good enough." After trying (and failing) to get those officers to stop, he basically stripped all officer privileges except one. Harrassment ensued, almost to the point of doxxing.
- 16:30 Some alleged fallout with the CoH team about streaming a beta server event or something. I don't really want to say more, because it sounds fuzzy and circumstantial to me.
- 21:52 Personal burn-out. We've all been there.
Points 2-4 were all his own making, IMO. Nothing I could do personally to improve his experience in any of these areas.
Was the Hami raid he accidentally crashed listed in the player-led events calendar for that server? If so, and he didn't bother to check, maybe he should have. If not, he had every right to be there doing his thing.
I do feel sympathy for him in the first respect, though. There are some real jerks out there. I just try to give them a wide berth and enjoy the game while I can.
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51 minutes ago, Ukase said:
You and several others are quite correct. I had my panties in a bunch and wasn't thinking clearly.
I've said before that LFG needs some rethinking, at least on Excelsior where there is non-stop traffic on the channel. I think the core of what you were suggesting is good - reduce chatter on LFG that doesn't really help people find a team or league.
I suggested once before that maybe no one should be able to post to LFG more than once every 30 seconds or so, and that idea was shut down mainly because it would have potentially prevented team/league leaders from posting right away that their team/league was full. I guess some think that's pretty important.
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Maybe it’s not clear that I’m suggesting a tool for players, not team and league leaders. Certainly some team and league leaders may ask players to enable the feature, but no one is required to. A player would likely only enable it if they found it useful to them.
FWIW I do use request in one specific instance in one trial, and capital letters for some entire instructions and some key words in everything else I run. I use the whistle emote! Some people are not going to follow instructions no matter what you do. This suggestion wouldn’t be helpful to them. Likely they’d never know it’s there because they don’t read patch notes either.
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And if you want to still use Request, go for it. Just suggesting another option.
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How about a setting to choose a background color for both team and league leaders chat, just to make it stand out more?
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Well warp travel is reality now. But by accident.
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Party pooper.