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Or you could just nudge him to play - regular, non-AE content...
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I'm planning on it.
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Quote:It was truly awesome - you could skate in AP around that statue near the tram.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Waitwaitwait....wait....wait.
Zones froze over?!
Why the hell did that get taken out of the game?! That sounds AWESOME!! D=
I wish they would do that again this year. -
Quote:I missed it, too!Originally Posted by Kierthos
Dangit, I stop paying attention to the base building forum for a... couple months, and look what I miss.
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Quote:I usually suggest Blasters to new players. Learning aggro radius is easier on a Blaster than on any other AT....Originally Posted by Lycantropus
Ahhhh, someone else who remembers the "Better ******* Blaster's" Guide
Back in the day, being a Blaster meant surfing the debt-cap to victory! -
Count me in - I will decide who once I see the rest of the team, most likely some sort of blaster or defender.
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I really try not to post "search is your friend", but a quick search using the terms "free player " + "reply to tells" came up with these threads that have been active over the past weekend. And I know there are others.
The one from OneiroHero is only about 12 - 15 threads down on this very same page.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...t%3B%26quot%3B
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...t%3B%26quot%3B
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...t%3B%26quot%3B
While I agree that allowing free players (and very newbie premium players, who can't reach the needed tier with their granted tokens from being previoulsy subscribed) some sort of ability to reply to tells, this subject has already been the topic of many active discussions. Did we need another one? -
Are you suggesting new animations for an existing powerset or a brand new pwerset?
If it's a whole new powerset - what would the powers be and how would they be different from what we already have? -
Quote:This is the "invalid" part I have been finding on all my alts recently. It took a bit of figuring out to find it, but there should be an Inf cost in red next to the section of the costume holding the "invalid" part to help out a little bit.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
It also happens when things are shuffled in the parts lists.
In Freedom, they've combined the Standard head and Masks with Hair into one category. Sometimes it's just that they added a new part and re-ordered the parts list. -
Quote:I tend to agree with this position. I do have a concern that there should be some sort of time limitation on a refund of points, however, because the longer the delay before a request for a refund of points, the more "enjoyment" (in the legal sense of the word) the purchaser has had for the items purchased.Originally Posted by Jophiel
I can't see a problem with refunding points. Recently purchased items should show with a button to refund the points for 72 hours or so. Nearly everything can be refunded; costume parts just revert to gray spandex, characters with "illegal" sets are locked out except for deletion, etc. Only thing I could see an issue with are the one-time account change items like server moves or renames.
NCSoft still gets their money and the customer gets to select other items from the shop they'll be happier with (or save up for future purchases). If the customer wants to buy every item in the shop in sequence, returning each one to buy the next, who cares? It's not as though some poor wage slave at the customer service desk is handling it in person.
Frankly, I'm sort of baffled at how vehemently some people are opposed to a system for refunding points. Everyone gets what they wanted.
Subbie - are you asking for a cash refund or a refund of points? That's not clear to me, but I may have missed something in this long discussion. -
Sad news indeed. Pancreatic cancer is a particularly vicious cancer. I believe that he knew the day was coming and took the last few weeks following his departure from Apple to enjoy the finer things in life - at least, I hope he did.
I never owned a Mac, but I have the iPod (pink!) and of course my iPhone 3G - never go anywhere without the iPhone. His company, led by his vision, develped products that people wanted, even if they didn't know they wanted them yet.
RIP Mr. Jobs. -
Quote:This is me as well. Whether he deserved the cult of personality that developed around him or not, he was truly visionary.Originally Posted by viewtifuldee
I wasn't really a fan of Apple until recently (when I decided to give the IPhone a try. Brilliant piece of work, that phone). Still, I can appreciate everything Steve Jobs has done for the computer/mobile industry. He was one of the people that inspired me to get into the industry.
RIP Steve Jobs. The world has lost a really great person. -
I'm having some trouble wrapping my mind around what you mean by "Alchemy melee style fighting" - can you flesh that out a bit?
Also, you state you want your proposed set to be "something like magic/sorcery". Magic is an Origin, not a powerset. I have characters with Magic powersets ranging from being able to set herself on fire and summon a firey sword and firey punches (fire/fire tank) to a Bane Sidhe (sonic/dark corruptoe or blaster) to summoning the dark powers of the netherworld (various dark melee or darl blast/manipulation alts) to casting spells which used to be the sickly yellow green or Radiation before I could recolor them, in addition to the previously mentioned Demon Summoning and /Poison MM (the latter also summons Zombies,grave knights and a Lich).
Almost any powerset and any AT can be defined as "magic" with the right backstory. Your vague request for a magic or alchemy powerset doesn't really give us much to discuss. Can you add more description? -
Quote:Originally Posted by Rainbow Avenger
I tend to differentiate between abbreviations on one hand and leetspeak or IM jargon on the other. I have no major issue with "ppl" or "brb" but "cuz" or "wat" are enough to make me quit a team or refuse the invite. The letter U and the number 2 are not words.
Why it gets under my skin is this: It's not just what such usage says about the speaker, but what it implies about their attitude towards me. The person who sends the tell "u lf team lol" is probably perfectly capable of using standard English if he chooses to do so. Presumably he's used it on school essays or a resume at some point. When he addresses me in IM jargon the message it sends (to my mind anyway) is:
1. I am a lazy semi-literate, and
2. I could address you properly but I can't be bothered because you're not worth the effort.
The former is merely regrettable. The latter is personally offensive. If I'm not worth the two extra keystrokes to spell out the word "you", then find another mark.I think these two posts capture my feelings on the matter. If you can't take the time to be clear in telling me what you are talking about, I don't want to take the time to try to decrypt.Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
That's pretty much what bugs me, as well. In the very basic terms of communication, the onus is on the person initiating said communication to deliver as much information with his initial call as is necessary for the proper interpretation of his communication. In simpler words, if you send me a tell, YOU are responsible for giving me context so I can understand what the hug you're talking about.
This is why I find myself quite literally offended by "terse" tells. The person clearly wants something from me, but he is putting the responsibility of decrypting his communication in MY lap. This is work I have to do before I even know what's being said to me, long before I have any way to know if this work is even worth doing. If the person telling me "team brute 36?" is asking me if I want to join him, then I might. If that person is asking if I want him to join him, then no, I don't. But I don't know and, frankly, if said person couldn't be arsed to help me figure it out, then I can't be arsed to bother my head with riddles.
The funny thing is, most people's self-defence when called out on poor communication skills is "Who cares as long as you know what I'm talking about?" Well, that's the rub, isn't it? I DON'T know what you're talking about, and you get uppity with me when I ask you to clarify. -
Same - I will bring someone. I have a Rad/Ice Blaster, a Cold/Dark Defender and a FF/DP Defender, I can't decide whice one. I might wait until I see the team make-up on Tuesday.
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Quote:Yes, the early levels pass by so fast - that's the way the devs encourage the making of alts.Originally Posted by darkcrabs
Yea..gonna do twin arc...first bank mish than decide were i wanna go, next time i wont sewer early so i can experiance atlas content
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Have fun, guys!
I don't have anyone in range of the appropriate alignment for this one. -
Quote:I'm a bit confused about the part I highlighted - if the hypothetical game converts to "free plus microtransactions" - how are subscriptions involved? I would think that the definition of "free plus microtransactions" means that there are no subscriptions income to balance against when comparing to microtransactions income.Originally Posted by Wing_Leader
I think this bears some elaboration. The key word in the above, for me anyway, is hybrid. I'm told by a friend who sort of follows the ups and downs of MMOs in general that quite a number of other games have converted to a pure "free plus microtransactions" model and ended up going from About To Be Dismantled to Raking In More Than They Ever Dreamed Of With Subscriptions. This suggests that the non-subscriber (the microtransactions) side of the ledger is where the real money is, and that a "hybrid" model is kind of like a strange compromise designed to minimize revenue potential.
NCSoft may say they are hoping to use the hybrid model as a gateway drug to obtaining more subscribers, implying only a minor side benefit of additional revenue from subscribers due to microtransactions, but that seems to fly in the face of recent experiences elsewhere in the MMO industry that demonstrate the vast amounts of money to be made from the microtransactions alone (and the diabolical illusion that the game is "free" simply because there is no monthly subscription cost).
And I really don't understand what is meant by "strange compromise designed to minimize revenue potential. If you have subscribers who are paying a regular monthly sub PLUS paying for microtransactions, and you have other players paying for microtransactions even though they are not paying a monthly sub - how does that "minimize revenue potential". Addition of another potential source of income (non-sub-paying players who do microtransactions, but are apparently not willing to pay a monthly sub) does not seem likely to minimize revenue potential.
This is a theoretical discussion, BTW - I'm not trying to attack your position, I just don't understand the reasoning behind it.
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Quote:^this.Originally Posted by Remidi
After reading this thread, I've come to the conclusion I am the only player who bought GR because it was, you know, an expansion to the game I loved. Period. I never gave a flip about Incarnates. The Incarnate System sounded - still does, for that matter - too much like WoW-style raiding for me to want to spend much time on it. I bought GR for Praetoria, and side switching, and new costumes and power sets and all the cool, neat things that come with an expansion. Incarnates were the least part of it.
Personally, I'm staying VIP on both my accounts. I have paid a subscription for over six years so that I would have access to everything the game had to offer, and I plan to continue doing so. I don't want to run up against any walls blocking my way. That was worth $15 a month before, and it's worth $15 now.
I've never really seen what all the fuss is about whether Incarnates were meant as a part of GR because to me it meant the new Praetorian starter zone, new content, and alignment/side switching. -
I will be there. I need the distraction of blasting bad guys for a little while.
It's been a terrible week for me because my brother died. An hour or two of something else would be welcome. -
Since I missed Posi 1&2 last week, I will be bringing Brighid (fire/ice blaster) since Synapse is the only TF she is missing for TFC.
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Pink text is kinda hard to read, BTW....
I'm using the blue Hero background, but I can just imagine how hard it must be to those using the red Villains background (which I was using until last week.) -
Sorry I missed this yesterday - very distressing family news.
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Chiming in here to agree with Arcanaville. The number of storylines that have been mangled or abandoned because the original writers moved on is a tragedy. And she makes a very valid point that allowing retconning in story while not allowing breaking the cottage rule is arbitrary, making no sense when analyzed from that perspective.
Great stories are always welcome. Great stories that don't change what we the players "know" (at least without some heart-searching) would be better X 1000. -
Did I see that there is a Hot Fix maintenance set for tomorrow that clashes with this?
If so - are you rescheduling?
I have Southern Belle, a level 29 elec/ment blaster I would like to bring along - she's about to go from Vigilante to Rogue.