Anti_Proton

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Since I can't quote the quote (easily) I'll quote your mention of it.

Here's something interesting, both about the name of the Dream Doctor and about the things he says. He talks about the dreamspace, and shaving a piece off himself, not unlike how an aspect can be shaved off the whole and lead to madness, if we buy into that theory. But the thing is, it makes sense. If we believe that Rularuu is trapped within his own mind, a master of dreams would be the perfect man to do this. And, really, what prison can hold a ravager of dimensions with such cosmic powers, but the prison of his own mind, where his own power is keeping him trapped?

It makes sense to me, at least.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon

Took it off a dead one during a Rikti invasion.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon

Not me, particularly. Besides, if you're looking for that kind of experience, it's already in the game. Invulnerability characters have a weakness to psionics, for instance, and there's that whole Kheldian/Quantum thing.

Originally Posted by BBhumeBB

do this, and your account gets a goodie (player based actions, like staying subscribed for X months, follow that model, after all)..

Originally Posted by joshx

as a new player to the game
i can't find a full group during anytime but peak time
as a nite time player, am lucky to find more then 2 people to group with to do more then 1 mission before everyone breaks up

if we do get one going, people leave faster then we get new ones loggin in lft


am sick of this, i play to blow stuff up, with others, Not sit their for hours looking for more, doing solo content

if i wanted to do solo content i would of Freaking buyed a RPG

its time, to Merge these servers, for the sake of making life easyer for us Pug people


i won't be staying here long as a new player, the servers are all ghost towns, and anyone staying up late, would know the Pop is dead, and Pug grouping is a shell of former self

AE has been murdered, and i can't find any leveling groups for the life of me

fix this devs, fix it now

Originally Posted by SuperOz

I think like a few posters in this thread, I am feeling a bit of the desire to be a bit more '2009'.

Now, I know people want the game to be playable on their older machines and such, but there are things visually that can be improved upon a lot. A great majority of the costume options are low-res in detail and texture; it's interesting to note that for example the high-res shiny cyborg parts are updated and detailed versions of a lot of the tech parts. A pass over these to bring them closer to the standards of the later costume sets and Boosters are now.

On that, it must surely be time to upgrade the character models as well. I've heard a lot about how time-consuming and difficult it might be, but the bodies are decidedly blocky (not to mention the mitten hands and feet) and aren't '2009'. For good or bad, gamers are coming to expect more detailed character models and I think that's something a little overdue for this game. I would say the same for faces, but that's a double edged sword. Facial expressions are hard enough in full CGI movies; even though there's some advances of this technology in some games (LotRo and a bit in Champions, though it looks awkward at best), I don't see it being a big thing as of yet.

Game engine wise, this also needs to follow through. Again, for good or bad, people are seeing physics based stuff crop up in MMO's (Champions' limited interaction with physical objects comes to mind here immediately) and for me personally, I look at Mayhem/Safeguard missions and think that technology should and could be expanded into the larger world. Not everywhere on every street corner, mind you...but available in some way to make the world more...well....smashy. So that our fights using all these powes have some lasting/temporary effect on the world around us. And isn't that a staple of comic book superheroism/villainy?

Again I agree with a lot of people that zones need a good going over and revamping, and I would say this needs to start from the ground up. Whilst the tutorial is spot on with 'what you need to know' moments on both sides, it could be made to be a bit more involved and invigorating. Busting out of a prison or stopping an outbreak of disease are fine, but give it a little more than just one mission. Like Champions, City of could do a lot to set up storylines from the beginning and give players things to look forward to. And for heroes, let's have reasons to start in Galaxy or Atlas rather than just being two starting zones. And on redside, the choice of NOT working with Arachnos needs to be more dilenated and have meaning instead of having subsequent storylines dovetail back into Arachnos. A secondary faction or something allowing villains to be true villains and not lackeys is needed here. Perhaps Going Rogue will allow this?

And lastly, story story story! The Coming Storm! Rularuu! Ouroboros! Cimerora! All of these things and more have unresolved/ongoing/untouched stories attached to them and deserve more than they have now. By extension this of course should mean more and new maps and environments; that's not just a wish of this player, but it's a logical extension of the game world to reach out and be broader in scope. We -almost- have this with areas like Cimerora and more dramatically in the Shadow Shard (which is practically crying out for more areas to explore within it), but the obvious things like underwater/outer space/other continents/cities (again superhero staples) are there to be had. Respectively and I think mentioned before, we have the Rikti homeworld, the Coralax region, and in Going Rogue, Praetoria (city or more, we don't know).

It's time the story moved forward; I'm fully appreciative of all that's being done for improvements in gameplay, customisation and Quality of Life features, it makes CoH that much more of a joy to log into. I'll admit to being a little spoiled here; I'm also playing Lord of the Rings Online and one of the things that keeps me playing is knowing that the story is moving (however slowly) towards the War of the Ring and seeing places I've read and seen of. I want that here too, that sense that the story is going ahead.

That's pretty much my two influence (though adjusted for the markets these days it'd be about 200,000....)

S.

Originally Posted by Lazarus

You might want to read up on that again. The newest Test Server patch still has Standard being 75% XP, Hard and Extreme being 100% XP, and if you go below Standard at all it is ZERO XP.

Yep, zero. Even if the critter had a Hard primary or secondary, if the other set is missing any Standard powers then the entire critter is worthless. Doesn't matter if that other set was all Heals and Buffs or an attack set with Build Up and a Tier-9 attack.

<sarcasm>Bloody brilliant.</sarcasm>

Originally Posted by Inokis

It seems to be systemic for all NC servers at the moment. I can barely play COH, Can't login to Aion. DR I can barely log into, the forums are hit and miss whether they load or not.

Originally Posted by Slashman

One additional thing to note is that Champions is live now...so they have no real reason to keep holding back info on the expansion.