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They are playing both one time on every server.

This might take awhile.

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heh, and their team chat is filled with many "brb", and "afk a sec, i have to walk my dog" 's.

~MM

I can see new powersets being offered in an expansion , like CoV had. I still think that they'll give those sets to everyone though.

~MM

Some terrific names in this thread

Some of my favorite names are:
my hippie peacebringer Woodstock
Tom Dooley dual blades brute
Snow Sprite ice /kin controller 'cause I was able to her name on Virtue

~MM

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The question is where does one (the Devs in this case) draw the line between "definately should be universally accessable in the base game even though people would pay for it" and "cool enough to pay for but not so utterly cool it should be universally accessable"?


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We can look at the Booster Pack evolution:

1. Wedding Pack - included some costume pieces and a few emotes.
A huge success, with great sales.

2. Tech Pack - Costume pieces, emotes, and additional personnal fluff power
Magic Pack - same as above
Great sales for these 2 packs

3. Science Pack - Costume pieces, emotes, new layer of character costumization with an exclusive in game contact.

Originally just some costume bits and emotes were considered enough, and it had sales to prove it. Now we've moved to exclusive contacts and long wanted features. I never believed the past slippery slope arguments ... until now.

What is the next booster, an exclusive power set? I used to think that no way would that happen, not so sure anymore.

~MM


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sounds awesome! Unfortunately it does appear more and more that Going Rogue isn't coming until next year, bummer that.

~MM

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It's just the end of June now. Six months left in the year, they've been working on this for how long now? Long enough to get some preliminary screenshots, mention that I16 is not the same as Going Rogue and some of the plans involved...

Other than chronic pessimism, I see nothing to say it's *not* going to be sometime this year. Late this year? I'd believe that, sure.

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This issue has been cooking since Issue 6 at the latest.

I expect to see it fall or Winter.

-Rachel-

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Hey I hope you two are right, I'm hoping for a holiday release, just my glowing optimism has dimmed somewhat from recent statements. Maybe I'm just reading to much into things.

~MM

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If you are talking about the comic-book inspired genre, I can tell you that that we are working on something we think will keep City of Heroes on par or better than our competition.

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This sounds awesome! Unfortunately it does appear more and more that Going Rogue isn't coming until next year, bummer that.

~MM

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Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor , minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language.

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Suggestive themes, which may or may not suggest something, only your own mind makes this explicit. =Teen Rating

~MM

You're right, I stand corrected.

~MM

Ya , something like that would be cool.

~MM

They look like bums, some have a TV on their heads, and are on a soapbox preaching.

It's great hearing this question again.

~MM

Edit - oops didn't see the Niv picture up there, belay my last

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Sure you don't have to and you'd still get Issue 15 for free but...power customization has been requested for so long by so many people that it just seems like 'a slap in the face' (again not the right words/phrase...but can't find the right words :/).

All of the other booster packs always had costume pieces/emotes/cc emotes and some 'bonus power'. Sure the bonus power impacts gameplay but to be honest...the self-destruct power or the mission tp power is not that big of a deal...it's nice but it's not like "everyone" requested this power over the course of x years.

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I hear what your trying to say, and that is that the Super Tailor seems to cross a line, and I feel the same way. I <3 the game , Paragon Studios, NCSoft, and support micro transactions and in game advertising for extra revenue, but this is just to "Big" of thing to have only in a booster pack.

Add it to the weak issue 15, and put a different power in the pack, ya know little fun ones that are fairly useless.

~MM

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Not saying it would be the best idea for them; then again they did allow all the prestige sprints to be gained via vet. reward...so...there is a precedent.

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My understanding is that prestige sprints were part of the pre-order version of CoH, not something that they paid extra for, just paid early. Thats why they came in as vet rewards and is different from putting the boosters in as vet rewards. The devs have said that they won't put stuff available for free that people explicitly had to pay extra for (GvE, Valkryie, Wedding, Super Boostes, etc).

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These were part of the DVD edition of CoH, and were included along with the DVD special edition cape.

~MM

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i'm pretty excited for a new search system.

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You and me both !

~MM

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I would even go further than that. Being that power customization has been wanted for so long, by so many, that it would just be released to the whole playerbase if it becomes available.

~MM

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Oh no it wouldn't. IF it were released, it's precisely BECAUSE it's been wanted for so long, by so many that it WOULD be restricted to the boxed expansion. That's lesson 1 of Business 101 there.

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I would agree if this were another developement studio, but I truly think that they will give this to everyone regardless of the expansion pack. With some possible reasons being:

1 Everyone who plays CO will have power customization (supposedly)

2 I just don't believe that they would force their loyal customers to pay for such an integral change to the games character design, this is not a couple of costumes and emotes.

3 This is Paragon Studios and NCSoft, we have seen these people take care of their playerbase over and over again, I really think they will want to give this to everybody.

And finally I believe the selling points of Going Rogue will be the new zones and enemies, new content, and the side switching.

~MM

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To those who argued so heatedly with me about power customization being paid for: make sure to put a lot of holes in the box you ship those catgirls to me in.

~MM

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What I think/would "love" to see happen is to have more maps/map textures in this game....it's sad when you enter a mission and are like, "okay follow me, I know this map and the boss is here."

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This should be sole focus of a whole issue, mission revitalization.
Sure we get fancy new power looks, but then we get to use them to fight Hellions in the same warehouse that we'll be fighting Malta in, 50 levels later. We've seen some additional maps with the Rikti and Cimerora releases, but the general maps really need some new life breathed into them.

I have high hopes for Going Rogue, and it appears that both power customization and graphics improvements are part of it,crossing my fingers that map love is included also.

~MM

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Grats on the Mats Pohsyb!

~MM

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While those things would be cool for like 10 minutes... For me, I must have missed this whole boat. I just don't see how adding hue shifting would be all that epic.

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Yeah...that's just about right for me as well. But like in all things...people tend to want to prioritize what immediately appeals and not think of longterm benefits.


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Yeah I'm with this.

~MM

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You'll be able to map out a character's pores and blemishes!

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MMMmmmm.... pore mapping...

/HomerSimpson

~MM

Fear Factor would be a pretty lame name these days after the show. The others sound cool though.

~MM

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they had a unique running animation which we actually kept, the juggling butt run females do today.


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Thankfully so! Didn't we also lose some female sitting emotes due to possible cartoon undergarment exposure?

I find myself looking forward to a new emote more than a new task force, not as a knock on any Issue, but because they are something that I can do anytime that I'm ingame.

~MM

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real-time lighting possibly with real day/night cycles with the sun being an actual light source during the day and lamps and player cast powers casting lights in the dark, and an overhaul to their effects system to make it both prettier and customizable.

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Ditto that for me , a lighting change like this would be sweetness. The indoor lighting on your character would be correct, not just making them dark because it's night time outside.

~MM

I have this same laptop and play with the settings maxed, looks very pretty indeed. The only issue is it occasionally gets an certain NVidia driver stopped responding, can't remember which driver it was. I think maybe it is an issue with the 9800 cards, and that a fix is posted somewhere in the tech issues forum. I haven't gotten around to trying to resolve it.

~MM

Isn't it also the return of the 5th Column?

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I have a total of ONE toon with all 5 of the anniversary badges on him, and sadly he's a sucky spines scrapper. :/ He's level 8. with all 5 anniversary badges ... lol.

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And even though he is a lowly level 8 sucky spines scrapper, he can laugh, dance around, and waive his collection of 5 anniversary badges in the faces of your other characters.

~MM

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So after years and years of living life. Your biggest gripe is that you have to wait 30 seconds to switch characters in a video game?

heh

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No I was just saying that the 30 seconds was to ID griefers before they log, and it couldn't be removed because of that.

~MM