Alexis_NA

Me too. KemLi is to blame for everything on Pinnacle.

NCSoft quite likely laid off the 80+ employees of Paragon Studios to shift the savings in salary/logistics to cover the 6 million dollar loss NCSoft had this quarter. Without developers and artists and game designers, etc. you can't keep an MMO open.

Figure roughly $80K/person, that's $6.5 million dollars per year saved right there.

High level executives in a company have one job: Grow stock value, by whatever means.

Well, TonyV said it was designed to tamper-proof the contents of the file. It'd be pretty lame if it was a straight CRC32.

It's not, check yourself.

Calculated the CRC32 for the file as-is: not a match for the embedded hash

Removed the XML tag after </character> and computed the CRC32 without a match

I also tried a bunch of other tricks I won't post here because they're naughty.

Nope. Not trivial.

No real potential for hacking. The file is checksummed, so if there's even one bit modified it'll fail the checksum.

For me, City of Heroes has been nothing less than a coping mechanism.

No matter how bad things got, I could always keep going by promising myself some time as the hero/villain du jour.

I don't know what I'm going to do without it.

Well, yes I do. I'll go on. But the world will have lost a bit of the magic that makes it worth living when City of Heroes goes dark.

As long as the ownership of the IP, assets, and code was with the community, absolutely!

SilverAgeFan:

I may have simplified a bit. All I was saying is that I don't think the current common MMO business models cater to the needs of the community which emerges from an inherently social game. Being a code-monkey, I'll admit I don't give much thought to business organization or logistics. Your information gives me hope that there is a way to do what we want!

Some of us are allergic to Facebook.

Shall we create a G+ page, too?

5 slotted. I found this out the hard way.

If you are going to state something like this as fact, please provide the official statement from a redname.

Really? My scrapper with the superior proc slotted is showing a crit bonus autopower on Live currently.

GM

+1

It'd drive me nuts to go to work every day and not do something to the horrible mess that is PvP in this game if I worked for Paragon studios.

What's especially sad is that the reason it hasn't been touched and probably never will be is purely bottom line: super packs pay bills, PvP doesn't.

Yes. I get how regen debuff resistance works.

I think it's a bit silly to punish a whole category of mitigation for the sins of one set, though. I'm looking at you, regen. You were so uber back in the day the devs are still scared of you.

Willpower is great because of the layered mitigation. But when regen goes poof along with defense, which is not high enough to prevent def debuff cascade failure, ~40% res is not going to keep you up long.

Regen -is- the critical mitigation layer on Willpower. RTTC is the defining power of the set.

When your regen goes, that's when you go from ok to dead.

This is true even on my current scrapper who is IOed out and has 30% melee/S/L def, capped with one Defensive Sweep, however more situationally: when there's -def in addition to -regen.

My experience is that WP has a -regen resist number which fails to effectively mitigate the majority of -regen in the game. If I am incorrect in this feel free to rebut.

I believe the disparity in numbers is an error or oversight.

It's pretty useless when there are minions (Longbow spec ops) which can utterly shut down your regen for an entire fight.

I get that the devs are trying to make the regen set have to use tactics, but to punish other sets having regen mitigation with the huge debuff numbers is a bit wonky.

Everything which hits you with a regen debuff shouldn't drop you to 0.

Heck, the only -regen debuff I've run across which doesn't drop fully saturated RTTC to 0 is a single shot from a praetorian clockwork. But the second shot will.

So essentially, a regen debuff resist of less than say, 500% is utterly useless is what you're saying?

That seems... odd.