Angry_Citizen

Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy

it's fun to listen to Paul Ryan pwn nubs with his superior intellect.

Originally Posted by Lothic

For what it's worth nothing's stopping anyone from trying to make a center-right TV show similar to the Daily Show that caters to the "youth vote" with funny material that ultimately paints Obama as "evil". If people like you don't like the Daily Show you should stop complaining about it and support an effort to make something you think is better. For instance I'd honestly think it'd be funny to see a clever "liberal" version of Stephen Colbert. *shrugs*

Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy

I would agree with you that it's just harmless humor if it weren't for the fact that we've seen this before. I think every single person I know who is now eligible to vote for the first time will be supporting Obama because they saw the Daily Show and it was funny and Romney is evil. It worked against McCain too, this cheap way of cornering the young vote. I even know some actual adults who fall for it.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

I think it's the end of the time they are being paid through due to the WARN act or Cal-WARN. I think the number I've heard is 60 days.

Originally Posted by Part_Troll

Way back in 2004, I tried to communicate to the COH masses about -stuff-. That didn't go down too well. Eventually, the editorial policy on this forum drove me away; it became a read-only place. Way too many clowns with short choppy sentences as their tool of choice, and so very few people who were salient.

I paid for each and every upgrade to CoH. It has been my most valued game. It wrecked my shoulder (well, the stupid way I played, wrecked my shoulder), and I had to take 5 months off in 2005, but I was back in 2006, and played pretty constantly.

I saw much which I considered 'wrong', mostly along the lines of stratification; if you weren't in a clique, you were out of the running for lots of stuff, it just seemed wrong to me, I wailed about it, and was shouted down. <shrug>, the 'community' spoke, and they liked things as they were just fine, and the NCSOFT hounds moderating the forums were always ready to trim threads with any kind of ruckus; commenting more just made it worse, it was easier to stop.

Am I sad that CoH has been canned? Yes. Absolutely. CoH did so many things -right-.

The direct result of this abysmal situation, is me signing off from NCSOFT -forever-. I have a long memory, and this company has shafted a lot of friends with their business decision to shut down the game. It also hurt that I spent $$$'s in various Slots (maxed out Salvage, Recipe and other storage means), and that was just money thrown away in the end.

Anyhow, it's over and done with. I don't regret much from my many happy years of playing this game. The forum -- overmoderated tripe.

Oh, the one thing that really got my goat was Surprise Maintenance bouts, and the non-negotiable timeframe, right in the middle of Aussie Prime Time, grrr.

This too shall pass.

Vale COH.

Part Troll.
Excession

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

D cells. Who would have thought that they can be used as an alternate currency? Most people were betting on gold. Pffft! You can't power a flashlight, radio or LED lantern with gold.

I was at my local market before closing today. For some reason they were completely out of Kraft Italian dressing. Not something I would have thought they would be a run on.

Originally Posted by Reiraku

Yeah. JRanger used to post detailed explanations on why certain suggestions were bad and such, but eventually got tired of the effort involved (which was a lot around that time, so many bad ideas put out...) so he just started posting "no."

The crazy part was he was banned for a rule that didn't specifically exist until after he was banned for it. Though not as bad as Grinnz, who was literally banned for no reason. The community team at the time could not find a reason behind why he was banned, it just sort of happened, but they refused to lift the ban anyways.

Originally Posted by Xzero45

So?

Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy

Well what did it actually mean or was insinuating? I mean paragonwiki explains that it meas no and how it came to be but what about it made it bannable or even enough to catch the attention of a mod? There seems to be more to it. Was people starting to use it for less than friendly meaning? Was people spamming it? Or what?

Originally Posted by DarkBlaster_NA

A torch based powerset.

Does bonus damage against Crey enemies.

((This is just for fun, Don't over-think this.)

Originally Posted by Kractis_Sky

Battalion as geometric shapes? Spewing equations of death! Awsome, math power set. Differential melee and intregral armor with a matrix of pool powers....

Speaking of which, were the platonic solids supposed to be items of power and battalion-like? Need some help with that.

Oh- and FPARN

Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion

Uh, how about 'no'....

Maybe it was just me but Warburg seemed to have the "take more than 5 feet away from me and I'll stop following you" code (and no I didn't have stealth/invis on).

There were some missions you could invis/stealth on, run a good distance away and the AI was still following you. Others....yeeesh...the stupid wolf dog in NW (Kii kiii or whatever) was almost the worst. *Takes 2 steps* I don't know where you are!?! help! *kicks dog...I'm right here!* Kii kii!


ugh...




Anyways, back on topic; thanks again BS for what you did in the game!

Originally Posted by Black Scorpion

Allies on missions, rescued and "kidnap" npcs, scientists in Warburg (well technically that was a zone variant but it shared a lot of script), Desdemona. Anything on a mission that followed players around. It was all driven by the same root script - designers just filled out some various parameters. It had several interesting quirks.

Since it was "one size fits all" it was relatively difficult to change the behavior without possibly breaking all escorts in the game. This happened distressingly often.

Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU

Oh I do have problem with NCsoft and Paragon Studios...

Namely how their involvement with this years EU CoX playermeet, almost ended up in it being a catastrophy and being cancelled.

Kallandra and I started planning this years player meet between us in November of 2011. A few months later, we did the post up on the forums.

Zwillinger then got interested and suggested that Paragon Studios might be able to send over a developer or 2. We agreed to this plan, and started looking at larger venues, as the one that we had used for the previous 2 years was struggling to cope with the number of players that we already had, and if a developer showed up, it would have been overflowing.

So whilst we were looking at other venues, we got in touch with the marketing bods down in Brighton to see what they can offer to help out (maybe the hire of a larger venue, PC supplying if need be... generally just a feel out). We discover that the person who had *very* nicely helped us out for the previous 2 events, had since moved over to Carbine Studios.

Fair enough we thought, the person who replaced him could at least be brought up to speed, and might be able to suggest other things.

We waited.

We waited some more.

In April/May time, whilst we have been looking around at larger venues, we were told by the venue that we had used *last* year that they were moving to larger premises so they would be unable to host us this year...

We send more emails, asking what is happening. In june/july of 2012, we are starting to get worried. We have no venue booked, we have no idea what Ncsoft/Paragon Studios are planning to do, and we start to think about cancelling the event. We tell Zwillinger/Bod down in Brighton about this, and we receive an email a couple of week later, telling us not to do an announcement concerning the cancelling of the event.

Ok, maybe we might be able to salvage this. If they are telling us this, they have something in the works. A week or so later (mid july), we receive another email from Zwill saying that PS will not be able to send anyone over.

Great! At least we now know where we stand... time to look at another venue. We know we cannot use our regular haunt, because they were changing premises... hmm, this is getting shakey now... we *might* actually have to cancel.

Bugger.

Anyways, we receive an email at the end of *July* from the bod down in Brighton, that he was enquiring with the old venue about hosting us. *blinks* Now, this wouldn't normally be surprising but we had already mentioned in a previous email to them, that they were moving locations.

We wait for more info.

We wait a bit more.

In the end, we get in touch with the venue and ask "what the hell is happening? Has Ncsoft gotten in contact with you about the event". We receive the reply of "yes, we have told them how much it was, but we are waiting ot hear back from NCsoft as to what they want".

Hmm, interesting, this was something that we were not notified about.

Anyways, we try to find out the situation from NCsoft... no answer. In the end, we managed to use the old venue (thank god for them having problems getting the contracts signed so they could start moving).

To be fair, Ncsoft *did* send over a lot of posters, tshirts, pin badges, stickers, and Logitech dontated a few prizes as well, but we were only notified about this 1 week before the playermeet.

But, for christs sake, we (the organisers) were kept so out of the loop our stress levels were raising impressively. The delays in getting replies from Zwill or NCsoft were embaressing, especially as we were getting players asking us "What is happening, is the event still on?"

So yeah, I do have an axe to grind. It is that they (both parties) are *CRAP* at communication skills, especially when they initially say that they want to help out, and then don't tell you what the hell is happening.

And leave you waiting.

/derail