Blue_Wave

Originally Posted by Frosticus

It's not important in the sense that you are depicting, but rather in the sense that if a new player were to pick any server from the top...say +/- 6 servers on the list they are more than likely going to run the tutorial alone. Not necessarily a problem in and of itself, but they then roll the die and if they pick Galaxy they will load in and again see no one (this is the case even on Freedom usually). Is that really presenting a MMO in the best light?

I rolled up a blaster about a month ago on my original server (Infinity). I ran the tutorial, chose Galaxy, then went to Kings, then went to Steel. I didn't see another player until I was level 11 ninja jumping my way to Valkyrie. If I was a new player and experienced that there would be zero chance I'd continue playing this game because frankly there are better single player superhero games on the market.

*why not choose atlas? because there is a 50% chance of not choosing it and I was pretending I was new to the game so I chose a server I have no idea of any channels and no friends to look me up.

I don't really care one way or the other who likes to play on an empty server and who likes to play on a less empty server in this game. But can anyone honestly say that a new player is going to get a good MMO experience if they pick a server like Infinity?

*The reason I mentioned the tutorial in my last post was nostalgia. It wasn't until I reached the end that I remembered it was an open instance and then I fondly remembered running it around other lvl 1 newbs.

I think when GR launches they should disable starting in Paragon City or the Rogue Isles with a new character on any account that is less than 1 month old. Think about it for a second. All of us are going to be in Praetoria. Can you imagine how bad (ie deserted), even compared to now, that your starting experience would be if you didn't choose to start in Praetoria? I mean you probably wouldn't see anyone else even on freedom during that period. Imagine the other servers. If they want any new player to stick with the game, pray they select Praetoria with their new toon. If you can't make it the only option for new players at least put some big flashing arrows pointing to it so they know they should pick it.

Originally Posted by UnSub

As for power customisation, the idea belongs to Cryptic either way. It may have been implemented in the Paragon Studios era, but it was certainly raised and discussed during the Cryptic era.

Originally Posted by Evilanna

I imagine they want to have the tech to be able to award badges based on when a character was created rather than just a blanket addition to all characters.

The character I created yesterday does not deserve the past anniversary badges that my other characters got. She will get a sixth anniversary badge, but she shouldn't get any of the others.

One thing I like about anniversary badges is that they sort of track what year your character was created.

All that being said, yeah I'd love for the anniversary badges to be global!

Originally Posted by Rodoan

I drive half my state every week to do computer hardware repair. I'd love to drive all the stoplight traffic in the cities with a bumper sticker that reads "My villain beat up your honor student! www.cityofvillains.com" or start conversations in line for the Batman coasters at Six Flags wearing a t-shirt that reads "My other body is a superhero!" with a pic of my favorite signature character, and the CoH logo.

Originally Posted by Shuriken_BladeX

Then after 20 what if we wanna go to paragon? That doesn't take away from the hero contacts being utterly annoying to the point where people don't even bother with them.

Originally Posted by Chris_Zuercher

Latest unsubstantiated speculatio-rific rumor on teh interwebs: CoH2 will actually be for the PS3. Again, totally unsubstantiated, but out there.

Originally Posted by Ballista

If they let the Koreans do the animations and engines and let the westerners worry about the content and lore, I'd be very happy.

:x Sorry.. I just think they are lightyears ahead of the game in terms of graphics and style compared to clunky western games. AoC and CO were two big relatively recent western launches that look horrible. And look at some new ones coming out.. Guild Wars 2 and Secret Planet??? Hideousness compared to TERA Online and Blade and Soul. *sigh*

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

You know, I hear this from time to time, and it's the sort of thing that makes me want to punch people. This overfocusing on one specific aspect of the game just gets under my skin. When I hate something (and it takes quite a bit for me to HATE it), I have a whole laundry list of things to hate bout it. But just that one thing? You'd think the entire game were nothing BUT looking at the inside of an instance, ignoring the fact that there are enemies in it, that you can make your own characters with your own look and your own power selection. No. None of that matters. I want to look at different interiors. Ugh...

Originally Posted by Zimmy_Zim

CoH2 + The AION / Crytek engine = a lot of awesomeness. If this came to pass I'd be all over it.