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The link to Pohsyb's thread is no longer working for me (says Access Denied). Anyone have the list of new commands?

Gah! Earlier, I redeemed my 3 free slots. I couldn't connect to the server to purchase more. Then, I created a VEAT in one of my new free slots and played him for awhile.

Now, I don't get the option to purchase more, and worse, my two unused (but redeemed) free slots aren't showing either! Waaaaah!

I listened to the interview yesterday. I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, there were a few pauses, but...so? And as said above, the method used tends to encourage that.

I thought she did fine. Oh, and Jules, I like your voice!

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indeed....there's a lot of space in the phrase "only create the kind of missions we already have"

there is actually a good variety of missions, unfortunately, the best and most challenging rarely appear save for more recent storyarchs

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Absolutely! I didn't mean to imply that the new system was going to be gimped. Only that some of the ideas or theories put forth here are...a bit extreme.

I imagine that we'll be able to create pretty-much any kind of mission that's already in the game, or new missions using bits and pieces from different missions already in the game.

I was mainly trying to address things like making tiny doors, making rooms with wall to wall enemies, etc.

It sounds like it will be quite versatile, I just want people to remember that there will be logical and practical limits to what they'll be able to do.

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The city's other heroes fought fiercely as well, although few were as spectacular as Statesman in their methods.

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Statesman used his 'Nerfbat from Hell' on the Rikti too?! No wonder they're so &($$#@ off at us!

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I can’t tell you how excited I am for our game’s future, and although we have some major announcements yet to be made, one of the things I can talk about is a feature that we are planning. Similar in concept to our character creator, it allows you, the players, to create missions and story arcs for your characters and others to participate in. You’ll be able to pick the map, villain group, and objectives, as well as write the dialog and any clues needed for the missions.

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I honestly don't get where many of you are getting your ideas. I'll repeat again for emphasis what Posi said about this:
"You’ll be able to pick the map, villain group, and objectives, as well as write the dialog and any clues needed for the missions. When you are satisfied with it, you can upload it and have other players across all servers play it and rate it."

All we'll be doing is (using drop-down lists or similar, I imagine) selecting an already existing map, selecting one or more already existing enemy groups (N.B. He didn't say numbers of mobs, just type!) and selecting from a list of objectives.

Also note the second part of the quote:
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When you are satisfied with it, you can upload it and have other players across all servers play it and rate it.[/b] Fame will come to the players whose stories rate the best overall. It is features like these that we never dreamed of including when we first shipped, but are excited to be able to offer players very soon.

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Nowhere does he mention them being approved by the devs. With the above choices being the only ones available, there's no need. The only thing that people can exploit would be language, and I imagine that that will come out in the player ratings of each mission/arc. Possibly they will then delete those offending missions. That he doesn't say.

We'll only be able to create the same type of missions that are already in the game. The cool thing about this system is that we can weave our own stories around them!

Nooooo! Double XP weekend in the middle of my relatives from Scotland visiting...ARGH!!!

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Comic Con, San Diego, CA
July 23rd to July 27th


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Noooo! I just realized that I'll have relatives out from Scotland that weekend! No Comic Con for me this year...

Oh yeah...lolEastCoast

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Yanno the end of Jay and Silent Bob strike back.. when they get peoples addys and hunt them down to kick their [censored]??

Yanno that part..

Well everyone who is whinning and crying and [censored] in this thread.. REALLY makes me wanna invest some loot and try and do it for realz

If you dont like it.. Leave

But srsly I have been freakin begging for more slots at just about any cost for over 2 years now..

Go the freak away if you dont like it..

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Hey, we got our inch, now I want my mile!

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No, we just got a mile and a half, and some folks still want that extra inch... <boggle>

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I am being serious, what if you guys did a One time MAX OUT YOUR SLOTS on a specific server for the price of 99.99$ ?

So you would still have the 1 for 6$, 2 for 10$, 5 for 20$ and then MAX for 100$

I would honestly just max his and my accounts on Virtue as soon as possible.
Please consider

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Uh...the way they have it set up, 5 slots for $20...24 slots available. 5 slots times 4 = 20 slots for $80, 25 slots for $100. If you have two years in the game, 4 free slots plus buying 4 5-slot packs = $80 total to max out a server...

The same price as, or cheaper than your request. ?!?

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No. I heard the interview, which apparently many of you haven't. It's not even lrn2read, it's lrn2hear. You all deserve what you get.

Me, yeah, I'm out after my last 3 hour session in the once a week SG I belong to. My account is paid to August though, fan that I was I always bought a year in advance. On both accounts. So technically, I can post till August but why bother?

So many of you are just mindless sheep there's no way to reach you and have you question things for your own good. Most of you don't even know how this is going to work, because you didn't listen to the interview. But keep putting your assumptions out there, that's the way sheep like it.

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BAAAAHHHH!

Not only that, does the 'sky-is-falling' crowd really think NCNC will shoot itself in the foot? I imagine the company fully realizes that if they do this wrong (i.e. spyware, too invasive, etc.) that they'll lose a lot more than ad revenue. If they alienate the player-base, they'll lose a lot of subscription money on top of lost ad revenue.

I think they know this, so I don't fear them screwing this up too much.

Relax, people.

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Never heard of tracking cookies, or spyware? Where have you been?

They'll get players to turn on ads by indirectly laying on the guilt. Few to no viewers of ads, you know - those that opt out, mean less or no revenue from advertisers. Read the press releases, listen to the radio interview. They don't make money from it if you don't see it. End of story.

I have never seen players asking for in game ads. Quite the opposite. It may have been "brought up" but in the context of, "I hope you don't put in game ads in." I've never seen one interview or press release where players were informed that NCSoft was being hounded by companies like this.

Jeez, you don't get it, do you? The buck stops with NCSoft. Not Cryptic, not the new dev team. Maybe Jack fought them on this, ever think of that? Now that it's NCSoft's baby, they can do whatever they want. And I'm sure they will in the end.

And my point about them -possibly- doubling the players base was WHY DID THEY NOT TRY TO DO THAT BEFORE? Why is it taking in game ads to make them want to get more players? That's because more players = primo extra good money. Not only with the subscription fees, but with the possible ad money. But when players kept saying they needed boxes on store shelves, needed new blood, they did nothing? That's messed up.

It is NOT a source of revenue if players don't view it. They will be counting heads. I'm sure that info will get sent right to Double Fusion because they aren't going to take NCSoft's word for it.

The ads will be all client side, served by Double Fusion's servers. You won't even necessarily see the same ads, and an ad you saw before entering a mission can be different when you exit the mission. Posi said they use your IP address so they don't give you European ads if you live in America...but I thought we had separate servers? I'm thinking they'll stream you ads for your exact location, which is no better, imo, than web sites that track me and stream in ads "just for me."

Educate yourselves, people.




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Geez, NancY, conspiracy-theorize much?

And in another thread regarding one of the other I12 changes, didn't you declare that you are canceling your game subscription? Why do you care about this issue at all, it won't go in until after you've gone.

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The only question I have about in-game advertising is this: Is it going to the test server before it goes live? Give it a couple weeks in there, so we can see how much of an effect it has, and how it's going to be implemented. All these questions and concerns would be answered one way or the other, and if there were issues, such as spyware or pop-up ads resulting from normal gameplay, the problem would be much smaller than if it were simply thrown into the live environment and multiplied by a thousand.

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I don't see there being any chance of either spyware or pop-ups due to this. As they describe it, they'll just be replacing already in-game art for the billboards with new ad art.

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Secondly, I presume we can pick a costume set (like all jester) and then start making changes (like replacing the chest with robotic arms)?

Looks very nice.

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Um, I don't think you can replace the chest with a second set of arms...

I know what you meant, just teasing!

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Is it possible that the new "Costume Set" category could take away from the individuality or creativity of the costume creator? Yes it may be easy sometimes when you don't need to look through every list of costume pieces, but wont everyone eventually just ignore the custom costume option and just pick the pre-made costumes?

I still think its a great QoL feature though

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Two things...I think the idea mainly is to pick a set and then make whatever changes to it you want.

Second, THIS community "ignore the custom costume option"? Puhleeze! Hehe, not getting on you, I just think that shouldn't be a big concern with the players of this game.

Lovin' it!

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What's in the "Greek" costume set? I thought some of that stuff could only be unlocked via the Valentine's Day event or has that now changed?

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New set.

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That's Roman though which is listed below the Greek (and Pirate) set.

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I was wondering about the Greek set too, but if you notice, both Samurai and Boxer are on that list as well, and they are both vet rewards...

Man I hope they unlocked the Greek set!

Oh, another great addition to the Issue, devs! 2 thumbs way up!

Huh?

'The' blaster secondary means the one blaster secondary set that is getting ported. It's getting one new power.

Clear as day to me...

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If Dr. Brainstorm appeared in the game, I wonder what his Strike Force would be like...

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Permadeath for all characters who attempt it and fail. And, of course, the good Doctor would turn out to be a robot duplicate anyway.

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<Insert mandatory reply to Castle, since no one's replied yet >

Edit: that sounds like the worst TF ever... Jack's idea?

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LOL! You know, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. I was always suspicious that putting Carnies together with Malta in the PI Safeguard was likely Jack's parting 'F.U.' to the CoH player-base...

For recipe drops, I just don't understand why they don't do it they same way they do with SO rewards at the end of story arcs. Let each person pick from "Accuracy", "Damage" etc. and then give them a random recipe of that type at the appropriate level.

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This is my greatest frustration with task forces also. Especially if I'm leading the task force, I dare not slow down to read or enjoy the storyline. I know a lot of work went into writing a good story and you can't follow it. Better if tf's are shorter; or if you can read the storyline later with a token for finishing the tf.

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/signed

QFT, brother!

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The Roman setting is win. Period. I love anything associated with Greek and Roman lore, so this is perfect. I was really really hoping to see more of the Nemesis/Rikti connection mentioned somewhere in this issue, as well as Fifth Column, but.... I'm betting we'll see more in the Midnight Squad content. Right... right...? Bueller...?


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"The Eternal Nemesis"

I have a feeling Nemesis has been around for far, far longer than the usual history gives; it wouldn't be very surprising to see either Nemesis himself or... the real NEMESIS REX (Rex being Latin! ), the first true megalomaniac tyrant supervillain/genius.

Seeing as how Midnight Squad has an Obo Crystal, I would be willing to bet Nemesis, who has explored areas of reality unknown to all but perhaps the Dark Watcher, has a crystal as well; or, maybe, developed the crystals himself.

/end speculation

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Not to mention this from the I12 Game Update screen:
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There is a familiar threat in an ancient land and the Midnighters need the help of both Heroes and Villains to stop it.

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Could be Nemesis...

To the OP, thanks! Exactly what I was looking for! I'm about to outlevel the Eden Trial and am waiting for a friend to become available to do it. Hence, I've been having to find things to do that generate little to no xp. I've spent HOURS recently haunting KR trying to find this SOB, the last Monster that I need to get. Oddly enough, it turns out I found at least two of the spawn points on my own - I'll have to verify the third using the coordinates in this thread.

Again, thanks all! Now I'll just have to keep camping...<sigh>

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Just a short question: At which lvl can I try to take down the the guy in DA? I saw its a lvl 29 monster, I am 30 now. Possible for a blaster?

Thx, for your help.

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My question exactly! I'm level 31 blaster.

I wish they could also datamine for foes previously defeated. You know, like defeating umpteen Tsoo Sorcerers, Family Bosses and Freak Tanks? My main is level 31, I'm fairly certain that I would already qualify for many of these badges. I REALLY don't want to spend days upon days going back and farming hundreds of these foes that I won't even get xp for...

I don't mean to sound like I'm whining, I don't intend it that way. I'll be fine if they can't make these ones retro, but it would be nice.