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Originally Posted by Zwillinger

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

Lol, Zwillinger. But what does Golden Girl get?

Originally Posted by zombie man

there were several folk who said they got all the t4 lore just a few weeks after lore was released. Once you get that done, the rest is relatively easy.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

Congratulations on the milestone.

As there's really no broad forum title that I can laud you with, I bestowed the only one I found appropriate.

Originally Posted by Ogi

Which is why they shouldn't have retconned States and Psyche.

Do it right (x)or don't do it at all.

Kill them off in Incarnate content. There's Incarnate Shinies there to distract anyone from caring about any inconsistencies and non-incarnates can blissfully ignore them.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU

So what? Controllers are too, but that doesn't mean they aren't allowed to do anything but summon pets. Fact: MMs have blasts in their primary. If having three useless powers in your primary isn't stupid, I don't know what is.



I know plenty of blastless blasters. It's a perfectly viable way to play. There will be more come Martial Combat.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Keyboards. Such a quaint technology:

Originally Posted by Obitus

Absolutely. Like you said before, Blasters lack everything; mez is just one of the most obvious attendant side effects of that lack. Maybe the new toys in I-24 will make D2.0 better, and vice-versa.

I was just rambling about D2.0 by itself, which probably wasn't fair.

(I have a feeling that Clarion will still be my no-brainer pick for all Blaster builds, though. )

Originally Posted by venture

surprised, no. Grateful, yes.

Originally Posted by Ogi

States and Psyche got chucked into a crack in time when they died.

Wade is still hanging out Redside even though he's staying at Vanguard enjoying all their hospitality currently.

If they're going to retcon things they should at least be consistent about it.

Originally Posted by Xzero45

That's a lot of cool opinion, man.

Originally Posted by SuperOz

Agreed on this. I know this is where David Nakayama was heading in his concepts of base tights designs that you then could do whatever you wanted with. It speaks more to layering than anything else, at least as he spoke about it.

I particularly like the designs being offered with these Bodysuit designs, and with luck that's going to be a design ethic that continues into the future. If it's not a specifically themed set, it'd be nice to work with a creator that has your 'Base' layer (such as these bodysuit designs) that you can then build upon. It's kinda sorta how Champions does layering, but they have a significantly more flexible base creator to work from.

I would like to think that we could see an upgrading or overhauling to the costume creator to allow this also. But I'm very pleased in the meantime that there's an understanding of costumes being more than just patterns and colors. Texturing particularly is going to be key to getting any Golden or Silver Age themed costume parts right and this is a step in the right direction.


S.

Originally Posted by Agent White

That's kind of assuming its main purpose is to use it at lower levels instead of just being a nice addition.

But then, I honestly think it would see more use in exemplar content than I do in straight up Incarnate content.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Unlocking Omega should allow us to become Penny Yin's sidekick.

Originally Posted by Agent White

Actually, honestly, I think I look forward to more incarnate content than I do new powers. The trials are alright but really they're pretty quick. Dark Astoria and the Emperor's sword are fantastic, but I'd like -more-. Another zone at least.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Tyrant is alive, but stripped of his Incarnate power - the major question is if that means he's lost all his power, as it came from the Well when he first drunk from it, or if he's just lost his champion of the Well power that made him into a god - there's also the unanswered question of the effects of aging, as it was the power of the Well that kept him immortal.



Freeing Praetoria was the goal, not killing Tyrant

Originally Posted by Talionis

I wonder if the Dev's couldn't do it as a contest. Monthly have player's choose their top 10 (more is fine with me, but pick a manageable number for the Dev's). Then the Dev's would implement the desired pieces to code.

It would be the items most wanted by paying players. If the players knew what they were doing then the pieces could be already close to ready to be put into game code-wise. If not then the piece would have to be translated to code.

With ten (or more) a month you get a rate of pieces added to the game that is controllable, so the Dev's could decide how hard it was to verify the pieces were not copied material. The new pieces would be added in with the next patch, patches come much more often now, but it wouldn't be a player side view only. Everyone could see what your character looked like.

This could also be a baby step towards a more player designs every piece of clothing for their toon from head to foot. But a manageable way to move in the direction.

But COH was the first to do AE, so they can think along these lines and this might be the type of idea that could be fleshed out.

Originally Posted by Chrome_Family

I couldn't agree more. In fact I recommended it in the original thread with pics!
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=290034&page=3

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

Players have *always* sought efficient leveling paths..ALWAYS.
There's never been a Utopian golden age when everyone played 'story content' and there was nothing to "exploit" for quick advancement.

The first 50 on the live servers was an ar/dev that burned through the sewers using stacked caltrops to do most of the heavy lifting. The first giant forum firestorm that I recall was the infamous "purple patch", which prevented teams from basically PL'ing themselves by taking on comically high level spawns.


DFB is simply a reflection of the desires of the playerbase, as expressed clearly and repeatedly over the previous 8 years.

It is a well constructed, dev approved escalator that imposes the framework of a team setting and a canon storyline to a behavior that people have always and will always pursue anyway.

It's less efficient than some 'black market' alternatives, but clearly it is efficient enough to satisfy the cravings of a large portion of the playerbase.

It is a fantastic addition to the game, one that I've greatly enjoyed since my return, alongside all the other stuff I've been doing (tip teams, running TFs, checking out the new low level content, newspapers, story teams, etc etc.)

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

I don't care at all.....until it leads to them playing in such a way on my team that makes the game less fun for me.

I don't mind answering questions and helping people, but it gets REALLY old telling people things they should have figured out by accident by level 30. Repeatedly.

It is also aggravating dealing with players who do things like run into the next room and taunt a mob while playing a brute with only one power from their secondary. And then they either drag that mob back to the team that isn't ready for them, or die in that room and complain that the healer didn't follow them (even if there is no healer on the team).

I am aware that I have the option to quit or kick people, and I exercise both on occasion. It just bugs me that I feel the need to because necessity of doing either is avoidable. It's not a new issue by any means, it just seems to be more common now that DFB exists.

I'm of the opinion that DFB, the way it was implemented, was a mistake. It should have a cut-off point beyond which you cannot use it for easy leveling. Veteran players use it to get past the early levels, but how many of them use it to get all the way to 50? New players frequently get to level 50 without ever leaving Atlas Park, and it's worse than AE missions because they never learn how their powers acquired past level 10 work.

Now, do I rage against people repeatedly running DFBs in-game? Not at all, I let them do their thing. But when I team with those people it irritates me when they do things they should have learned not to a long time ago (in leveling terms).

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

CoH isn't rocket science.
Anyone who cares to can figure it out in short order.

Originally Posted by Neuronia

Stop it.

Seriously.

We had two ladders that were pretty active, dozens of teams, live events nonstop and even the Devs were pretty lenient on taking down Test beceaus they knew we had a ladder going. Even CriticalKat's best efforts at the leagues fielded at most 10-12 teams, total. Now, there are none. As gallant as Sentry4 has been in hosting events nonstop on Virtue (and full credit for that), we've had at most a dozen to twenty people in RV and about the same in some Arena nights. That's not even mentioning the yeoman's work by Zwillinger helping with Leagues, Ex Libris before him and the blink of a Lighthouse somewhere in there too.

Not to say pre I13 was perfect, but instead of just working with us in fixing and balancing the most egregious stuff, it was all turned into a mashed up disaster.

People were always going to move to other games but our community is a shell of what it was and yeah, I13 can take a huge chunk of the blame.

As for your stat, we know it was around 10-15% of the playerbase, but seeing most of them had 2-3 accounts...

Originally Posted by Slazenger

I was treated better before paragon studios took over this game, that's one example, without the need to mention other games.