Black Pebble

I was there too.....

Same. This was my first MMO, and when I played other MMO's and found out that they didn't have sidekicking or a lfg tool....it just went downhill from there.

Add to the fact that the "Holy Trinity" didn't really exist?

It's great being able to play a game with anyone you want.

http://youtu.be/AZKpByV5764

Among other things, yes. I think the full name may have been Statesman Memorial Park.

And Statesman Park

The Khalisti Wharf content would be Cimerora taken to the next level and then some. From what I'd seen, it was some of the most compelling alignment content ever.

It wasn't a PVP zone, but it was co-op. It would be different from existing co-op zones in that Heroes and Villains would have their own unique mission content. Heroes would do Heroic things while Villains would do Villainous things. Heroes and Villains would have their own themed neighborhoods.

One of the more radical ideas was to let players pick 2 primary AND secondary powers at Level 1. This would have given characters more attacks at lower levels, which could have helped certain AT's.

We were all pretty disappointed to find out that it wasn't "just that easy." The dev team probably spent almost 6 months trying to make this work.

That's one of the reasons the Origin Powers were buffed in I24. It was an attempt to balance out low level game play.

The dev team did look into that. It would have resulted in fundamental game-breaking issues, unfortunately. Not as in game imbalance. I mean as in it would cause things to explode break-wise, as the game makes fundamental assumptions on how powers are assigned.


You saw that in more of the newer Power Sets. Since the flexibility of choices wasn't something that could be easily granted, the idea was to make the choices as compelling as possible.

I can't for a couple reasons.

1) I don't have access to that data anymore, or the tool to generate that data.

2) There are probably privacy issues involved that would cause really puppies to weep and hamsters to explode if such a thing happened.


I do know I wasn't on that list!

The Striker AT, from my recollection, was the melee support AT that Synapse/Phil wanted to make for a while. You can think of it as the next step in making something like EAT's, but with newer tech.

The Striker was meant to have burst melee and range dps, and the ability to survive high damage for a short amount of time.

The Striker could start out ranged, and start building up a melee damage buff. Once the buff is maximized, the Striker would then pop into melee range and then begin building up a ranged buff. Take a few alpha strikes, pop out and begin again. There would also be some CC abilities as well in case a breather was needed.

Oh, and one of the melee Power Sets for Strikers would have been a variation of Dark Melee, but.....with a shadow scythe.

There were many reasons, depending on the item.

1) Reducing RMT. Allowing for a direct conversion between $$ and in-game currency makes it easier for gold sellers. COH didn't have the RMT issues a lot of other games did, and that made monitoring abuse much more simplified. This could potentially have made that work far more complicated.

2) Exclusivity. There were certain items we wanted to have available in the store only. We want you to feel that the store items had value.

3) Technology. There were many more items where for a variety of reasons, we couldn't implement the technology to allow for trades. Super Packs being one of them. But hey, guess what we were working on for Issue 24..... (I mean I DID raise the question at the last Pummit, if anyone was paying attention to the Paragon Market panel. It wasn't a rhetorical question....)

Sure. There's always room for froyo.

The in-game economy was a monster. That's more of a question for the dev team, but from my recollection, it was a pretty herculean task to try and fix the inflation. It couldn't be done in one shot. Several attempts were made, which is one of the reasons why there was a high INF cost to various Incarnate unlocks. But it would have required much more extensive analysis and work to implement permanent, meaningful changes.

We did know who the richest players were. There was some research done into market behavior, but the tools to allow for the really cool analysis were built into issue 24.

And no index that we kept track of on a regular basis.

He feeds on the tears of helpless players.

Apparently I'm grabbing lunch at Oklahoma Joe's. Does that count as barbecue?

And boy, the airport is super quiet and nice. I could even keep my car in idle at the terminal.