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Quote:I thought Recluse got the funds to run the Rogue Isles almost exclusively by robbing banks in Paragon City...Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
Recluse is a super villain with the resources to build a personal empire. Maybe he doesn't care about running the country but he cares about HAVING a country to run so someone is running it. Presumably that person or group of people would be responsible for meeting some measures of performance. There has to be some caste of working stiffs to produce the Scrapyarders and the Luddites and the rest. Maybe the Isles are more like Cuba than Haiti, but in that case, where's the world outside the melting pot that provides the economy to support it?
The game is so busy depicting Recluse as this evil amoral mastermind that it doesn't bother to realistically depict how he can also be a third world despot. Where does he get his resources from? Who are his global trading partners? How does his representative at he U.N. vote on global security issues? -
Quote:I don't think it's a trend. The games where microtransactions have caused the most destruction are the ones where the developers have modified the game to maximize the amount of money they make. When they lower xp and drops and then sell you temp "xp boost" and rare items in the cash shop to make up for it; it's like another set of taxes.Originally Posted by Machariel
Microtransactions have destroyed, or are in the process of destroying, every game I've liked where they've shown up. It'll be interesting to see if the trend will continue.
I think the drive in Freedom is to make subscribing more than worth your money. Why else would they be giving subscribers $5.00 in paragon points + a free char transfer (worth $10.00 in PP) + a subscriber reward token every month? -
Quote:But he *did* invent pouches and disappearing feet, right?Originally Posted by Attache
I can assure you that Rob Leifeld was not the first to draw disproportionate anatomy and he didn't invent big boobs in comics.
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Quote:You have builds. Use them.Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
This is the major detriment that causes a huge gap between players that have incarnate powers and players who don't.
There is a HUGE difference in power between a player who has a t3 alpha and a players who has a t3 alpha, and then the other incarnate powers.
It's about the same as the difference between a player who's slotted with DOs and a player who's IO'd out and has all kinds of set bonuses. The DO player can contribute... but the IO'd player is not really going to notice their presence unless they're being polite.
When the 51 tanks and scrappers blast every spawn on ITF, buff, debuff, and summon pets for extra damage, the level 35s-50s are gonna feel pretty darned redundant.
I don't know about you guys, but It's not terribly fun to be so redundant that it doesn't matter if you doorsit or not.
As many, many others have mentioned, the sheer length of time it takes to earn those rewards without doing trials means that players who don't farm trials miss out. It's not an alternate option. It's a piece of broken glass dripping in lemon juice with the word 'option' written on it in foul-smelling magic marker.
Accordingly, when I group with Mrs. Moo or any other 50 who doesn't have any incarnate powers, I don't like to use mine, either. It's not fair to them. It's not very fair to me to not use my stuff, but it's more unfair to them.
Also, maybe other lvl 50s seeing you use incarnate powers will make them curious about it. I really don't understand why you think they would be offended. -
Enriche! It's... it's made out of Hamidon!!
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Quote:Definitely chaotic neutral. You live outside the box, man.Originally Posted by Twisted Toon
I have always disliked the D&D alignment doohickey. My characters are much more complicated than that will allow. Or else, they're all chaotic neutral.
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4195: gag chawactew wif a wisp
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Quote:So... register a free account, pay for access to MA then log into Atlas and get to level 50 in hours. (freedom style)Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
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Utterly incorrect. There was a time that you NEEDED to be in portal corp to get powerleveling. Now just step into Atlas park, which by the way they are going to give EVERYONE even EASIER access to when I21 launches.
Powerleveling is EASIER and MORE Prevalent now that it ever was prior to any point before AE's existence. Seeing as how ANY moron can make a mission with mobs that barely hurt them.
Versus: get a free trial, then log into Atlas and get to level 50 in hours? (the way it is now)
How does this degrade the current player experience?
(PS. PI wasn't the only place people were powerleveled prior to MA.) -
Quote:I just want to clarify this. When CoH and CoV were first integrated, it was in the marketing push for the Good vs. Evil Edition, which came with a new retail box. (This was late 2006 to early 2007, a year and a half after CoV came out.)Originally Posted by Ironblade
Your rant is BS. This is a common practice. The same thing was done with villains - we paid for CoV and now everyone gets villains for free. You will not receive any sort of compensation.
Those of us who had already purchased CoH and CoV were given the privilege of paying $10 for the extra in-game powers and costume pieces that came with the GvE edition. No one was given anything for free. -
Freem! is a awesome name and it's already in the mission loading screen tips.
Also, it will make no sense to anyone outside the game. It's perfect. -
Alright, thanks for the quick reply!
edit: I looked it up and that requirement changed in April 2010. Oopsie! I guess that's what happens when you don't read patch notes carefully.
In any case, since you don't play alignment games until 20, I guess they can just unlock it by what alignment you are at 20. -
I was given over to pondering today, and I pondered this:
How are players going to unlock VEATS and HEATs when I21 arrives? Given you can play a heroic corruptor right out of the tutorial, what does I21 require of a player to play an EAT?
There are 3 options I can think of:
1) Unlocked for all VIP accounts automatically; Premium has to use paragon points to unlock. (Boring. Then again, there's a reason Kheldians aren't the most prolific ATs.)
2) Need to level a hero/villain all the way to 50. (How does side switching affect this? Can a player unlock both HEATs and VEATs within days of each other?)
3) Same as it is now: the HEAT is linked to the blaster, scrapper, defender, controller and tank reaching 50; the VEAT is unlocked by the brute, corruptor, dominator, mastermind or stalker leveling to 50. (Traditional, in exactly the same way a new tutorial isn't.)
Maybe Paragon has a cool new mechanic that I haven't thought of? -
From what they were saying in the livestream yesterday, all the VIP players would have to do to to get away from freebies is play missions in MA.
No server changes neccessary. -
So... this is "The Coming Storm?"
Way to break the fourth wall, guys! -
I'm tired of getting mapserved at crucial moments while doing RWZ raids or TFs. This started at the beginning of July and this last weekend has been just worthless. It would be nice to have a stable connection on either the east or west coast servers. I've tried them both.
I know they upgraded the servers to Pentium 166s a few years ago, but maybe they should think about upgrading the network to at least 10baseT? -
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All the people who see Jack as "bad" have their reasons, but it's only rationalization for the way primate brains work.
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Primates don't like lying backstabbers either?
Huh, ain't evolution wonderful.
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Well, he fixed your broken game. If he really assaulted you maybe you should call the police instead of calling him names? -
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I am confused at why people dislike Emmert so much. I've been playing since CoH started and I never saw anything negative about him.
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Some players need a bad guy. A "meta" bad guy who stands for everything they dislike about the game. it's basic primate behavior, dividing arbitrary people into "them" and "us" groups.
All the people who see Jack as "bad" have their reasons, but it's only rationalization for the way primate brains work. No big thing.