Aura_Familia

Originally Posted by Wondering_Fury

I take your double and raise you a triple:



Fury

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Heh. Careful, people will complain you put the devs down for everything they do if you complain... until they call you a fanboy a thread later. Ask me how I know!



Yeah, that should have been - from what they've said - getting one of the other tables, not the thread booby prize.

(Honestly, my general complaint is that Threads - not as a reward choice, just in-trial - seem to be dropping far too rarely in trials after one of the last patches.)

Originally Posted by VoodooGirl

This is how I run my Trials. Everyone typically walks out with a Very Rare. Period.

For the visually and conceptually impaired, this is a joke.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

... yet.

As far as the beta comment - well, the test and live servers aren't the same. We know this. There's also just the fact that we have far more people playing on live than on test. *shrug*

Personally - and no, no data-points recorded - I seem to get a fair enough mix of common/uncommon/rare/vr salvage. Mostly uncommon, yes, but I've had rare and VR show up when I didn't think I'd have gotten them.

The devs won't reveal their "metrics" (obviously, not wanting people to game the system,) but I'm not willing to call them *generally* broken at this point. (Masterminds excepted - the whole pet damage thing needs looking at.)

I have, though, mostly been on one of two controllers (Ice/Emp, Earth/FF) or a blaster (elec/elec - mostly single target,) with the occasional foray into warshades or other characters. I *should* take out my stalker and see what I get there.

Originally Posted by Bubbawheat

I don't think they should remove the participation, but they should fix it for the problem areas, like masterminds.

Originally Posted by Dante

Okay, before I begin, this is not a ‘Wah, I lost my global’ thread. This is, in my opinion, something that should have been done before Global Server Access was enabled. Simply put, run a check of the joint global database and flag any account that has been inactive for over two years, appending their global name with a designation marking the name as inactive. Also grant a global rename token to any names that have been changed since GSA went active and anyone flagged as inactive.

This would free up old, unused globals and give players affected by the merge to possibly reclaim names that they have had for years and were renamed due to a clash with old, inactive accounts. If a player returns after two years, they still have the opportunity to change their name.

Although it could be argued that this is a not a vital service, it may go some way to fixing the mistakes made during the EU merger into the NA server cluster and might restore some sense of fairness to the whole process.

Originally Posted by Jerikko

Well considering that CoH 2 was copyrighted about a year ago and it takes at least 3 to 5 years to build a good MMO to start from, I'm not worried this is going to happen anytime soon, unless of course they have been working on it for the past 3 years. Yet that is unlikely as they keep letting people go.

As far as a sequel being not as good, I can see that argument, but as long as they keep the format the same and not go to crazy with "repairs". With a new engine, this game would be even more amazing than before.

Originally Posted by MunkiLord

On preformed teams/leagues, I don't think there should be an option to replace leader, at least not the person that formed it. If people don't like that person's team/league, they are free to form their own or join another.

Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5

I believe I did say about as much, yes.

Originally Posted by Flux_Vector

"Vote to kick" and "vote to replace leader" options are two improvements (along with "lock league") that I'd dearly like to see with leagues. Give the playerbase the social leverage to deal with issues affecting them.

Originally Posted by reiella

Guessing one for each tree since there are 8. That said, err. Ya. Why? Can see maybe a few alternates for situational differences or for one of your three builds. But capping it out seems excessive.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Two words - "epic" slideshow

Originally Posted by Radionuclide

You already have all 4 very rares made for Alpha?

--Rad

Originally Posted by MunkiLord

I think kicking extras is stupid. That simple. However, I believe the person with the star should be able to kick people at their whim. If the person abuses that, eventually it will catch up with them.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

There's no question that Ultra Mode looks great, and there are a few things you can tweak to get reasonable goodies with acceptable performance. However, it still bugs me that it taxes my system by this much. Sure, it's not top-of-the-line amazing, but I have a GeForce GTX 285, an I7 processor and 8GB of RAM, and the thing still chugs down to below 30 FPS in a lot of places, and that's without Ambient Occlusion, Depth of Field or Bloom, and with the other Ultra Mode settings at about half-and-half.

The game looks amazing for a game of this age, and "good" for current day gaming, but it just hurts my brain every time I see my picture skipping because I looked towards the old town in Cap Au Diable or because I went into a Warehouse large room.

Originally Posted by Bananas

A while back my main gaming PC self-destructed, so I had to resort to playing CoX on a small Acer Aspire One netbook while it was in for repairs. Granted, Windows 7 would frequently crash, and it ran hot enough to singe my wrists, but the framrate was actually higher than I'd imagined it would be -- not great, but it worked in a pinch.

Originally Posted by McNum

On the other hand, I don't think I'll worry about sharing credit card details with the new PSN at all. Sony can't help but have learned from this the hard way. I mean, I can't imagine that they'd want to see something like this happen again any time soon.

Originally Posted by ShadowsBetween

So... it would be better if they turned the servers back on before they corrected the underlying problems? I don't know about you but if, say, my bank discovered a serious security problem, I'd be *really* ticked if they opened for business before it was fixed. "Yeah, that missing wall in the vault isn't fixed yet, but people want to cash their checks and get free cookies. We had to focus on what's important."

Is the network outage inconvenient? Yes, probably, if you are one of their customers. But it's not the end of the world. And seriously, if your biggest concern at this point is "I can't play my games!" then I envy you. I'm a lot more concerned about the possibility of ID theft, which is something I might have to deal with if the network *never* comes back up.

I can't imagine that keeping the network down is Sony's first choice - they're effectively losing customers every minute it's offline, on top of the online transactions they can't receive. And they've already stated that anyone who does stick around gets a free month, *plus* free time to match the outage. Which at this point is a solid two free months to everyone who hasn't already quit for good. And that's in addition to whatever it's costing them for the three or four security consulting companies they've hired, and the programmers and engineers who are probably working around the clock to re-write the entire network from the beginning, or whatever it is that's taking so much effort to fix.

And that's not even counting what this will cost them in legal fees, lost sales, and lost customer goodwill. (Yeah, it was the online division that blew it, but if you were affected, how likely are you to buy a Sony television at this point?) Considering that SOE just canceled several in-development games, and laid off a lot of staff, this really might kill them off altogether. So I *really* don't think they're keeping the network down just to make people angry.