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Oi, I wish you'd post about the closed testing selection process already! I'm getting antsy over here!

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They have.

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Official site for official news. Or should we just give up and hit google for Co* news?



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I'm thinking that both of those articles were expected to be released this week. So they probably have the web page info set to go up today on it. It looks like someone on the UK site spotted the article they linked to and put a link into it fast. Not sure if they were working on a weekend or just jumped in anyway.

It probably wasn't an unreasonable expectation that the articles wouldn't go out until this week.

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Granted, I might be a bit grumpy right now, the kidlets aren't cooporating on the whole 'nap' issue. But it seems like we get most of our news from other places. I check the main page. A lot. And it's sometimes saveral days behind what we know on the forums.

Seriously, if I want news, I'll ask Lady Sadako before I ask a redname. And that just doesn't seem right, yanno? It's like that old joke about trusting the government. Is that what our main page is now, an old joke? Maybe it's the timing of it all too. Everytime I see something suggesting some love for our main page, for us, a short time later I see some attention given elsewhere. It's a little saddening that what made us a niche is slowly going away in the name of advertising...

Then again, I could be reading way more into it.

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I definitely agree that the main site needs some work. At the very least I think they should arrange the timings so that the main site (and the forums) get updated with the external links at the same time that the articles go up on the external sites. I fully acknowledge that that can be very difficult to do, but it would be really nice for those of us who only read the official site (or just forums).

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Isn't this where someone is supposed to point out all the threads about this topic from this morning? IBTL!

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Given that this is the official redname created thread, this one's not going to be getting locked

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On a side note...did you see the salvage requirments for just one Dual aspect IO? 8+ pieces is a little ecessive IMO...especially if some of those are uncommon/Rare.

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It's not 8 pieces. It's 4 pieces. One group of 4 pieces for levels 30-40, and one group of 4 pieces for 41-50. (or 5 pieces in the case of the +Rec/+Regen one)

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I'll be making an announcement today regarding the closed testing as well as some further details about the open testing.

Don't worry gang, there is time in the schedule for a LOT of player feedback to help polish the Issue up before release. Everyone who wants to will be given the opportunity.

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Cool, thanks for the heads up. I'll be refreshing constantly looking for the announcement then.

I tend to agree with Harbinger. Endlessly fighting Snaptooth in multiple events gets dull really quickly. Also having to do the event multiple times per character is also pretty annoying when you have multiple characters.

It was much nicer last year when you got something for just logging in and Snaptooth was new. This time it was dull and honestly annoying.

There have been a lot of questions about the "closed testing" that it mentions at the end of the article. How long will that go on and how will you be determining who will be in it?

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[starship troopers] "Would you like to know more?" [/starship troopers]

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Surprisingly, no. I already know more. At points, I've known more than Statesman, or at least more than Statesman was willing to post.

What I want is to be able to find that information without having to drag it out of Statesman's brain, or look through Iakona and Red Tomax's wonderful data. I want to be able to simply pop open the Help->Menu text, or check the Official Powers page (which hasn't been meaningfully added to since I joined). I want to know how much Stone Skin is worth without having to go through five or six guides to get up-to-date values.

I don't want to know more, so much as I want to have normal players get a chance to know.

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QFT&E. I'm in very much the same boat. I read the forums digilently and I constantly check City of Data when I am curious about a power's workings, but not all my friends do that, and not all my friends would even understand most of what's said even if they did go to those lengths.

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One thing I've said for quite a while now is that while its nice and all to be the Numbers Maven, the players of the game would be much better served if there was no need for a Numbers Maven. So much of the game's mechanics are not just non-transparent, but non-intuitive or difficult to explain, that it creates opportunities for people who know the numbers to get more out of the system than people who don't. Not just min-maxers, which is always true to an extent, but even concept builders, who have a tremendous advantage in executing concept builds when they know what everything does and how well, over someone shooting in the dark.

The devs need to understand that when Iakona and I lose, everyone else wins.

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I agree 133.33% (reduced by ED to 100%).

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You owe me a new monitor That was awesome.

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Obviously you're not playing my empathy defender. *cough*

Anyways, I thought there'd be more discussion of the character unique enhancements. *looks around* Huh.

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There have been, just not in this thread. Personally I really like the idea and think it will definitely balance out some of those potentially really overpowered enhancers.

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So, to summarize 15 pages or so of posts, here are suggestions that I dig:

* Giving TFs/Trials and Story Arcs the same Drop Pool.

* Slim chance of cross-Pool drops.

* Story Arc Pool drops for completing Mayhem/Safeguard missions.

I could easily see all three of these ideas implemented.

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Very good summary. And I'm very much for any (or preferably all) of those.

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* Not every level has all four pools (early levels don't have Pool D, the Trial pool)

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Well, in THAT case...

... why not just remove the Story Arc pool from levels 45-50, and assign all the relevant rewards to trials and TFs, since level 45-50 characters can do ANY trial or TF from anywhere in the game?

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Or add some repeatable arcs or something to the 45+ game.

Something. Anything. Otherwise, there's no point to playing a character right now for fear of missing something and outlevelling da kewl loot.

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Adding Story Arc drops to Safeguards and Mayhem missions maybe?

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I definitely approve of this suggestion. This would give us something repeatable in every level range that can be used in addition to the regular story arcs in that level range. And it's a similar number of missions too. Most arcs seem to be somewhere around 4-6 missions long, and when you include the paper/scanner missions, that's how long it takes for the Mayhem/Safeguards.

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LOL - I don't even know why they bother, by the time it is updated I9 will be released.

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Not quite!

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Sweet. And now the speculation as to when any of that stuff will see the light of day shall occur.

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Instead of working on I9 or even posting info on I9, why don't you get everyone there working on FIXING the crashing since I8?

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Psst. Why don't you try taking a look at what's been on test for the last week or so.
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• Improved Game Stability, including correcting an issue with capes that could lead to a client crash.

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*whacks Tundara*

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**Gets Whacked**

Oook, shoulda seen that comming!!

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and, wohoo, 5k posties! Go mew!

=^ ^=::b

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But.. but.. you're an otter, not a mole! Unless... you're just a spy infiltrating us! That'd make you a mole!

And congrats on 5k!

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Statesman's on VICTORY??!

YAY! We officially rock.

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Or, you know, he could be on Virtue.

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Or he only uses the Ventrillo chat server?

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And to be perfectly honest, I'm actually a little relieved what with States, Posi and the rest posting so much all of a sudden. I like it when they're vocal with us. So sue me.

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Ditto. Makes me feel like things are going smoothly on their end, so they have time to address our silly speculating and maybe play a bit more.

*stalks the servers that start with a V*

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Yeah ditto. It is is so much FUN to just hang out and chat with them and goof around. Today's been a good day.

=^ ^=

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QFT. No question about it!

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Oh - and I'd love to do a giant mech game. Love it.

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Count me in as being one who'd love to see it.

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The Marvel game will have more big components to it. It's going to be all the stuff we wanted to put into City of Heroes...

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*sigh* =0_o=

I'm sure there will be plenty of cool things coming out for CoH/CoV in the next few updates, but I just wonder about all the cool things we heard about from the early pre-Beta days....

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Same here Pep. But that just makes mew go, "Yaaaaaa! Must play Marvel!"

=^ ^=

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And the problem with that is, unless this has changed, the last mention of it said that it would be Xbox 360 or Vista only. Which pretty much means I won't be going for it at all.

Oh, don't worry. Seeking sweet retribution is also quite amusing for me.

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Wilkommen zu WarCry, hier ist der Answergebacken von der Askengedingen mit der Gamendebuggencoder, Städtsmann.

Warcry: Was ist der estimated Playenreleasentimen für Issue Neun?

Städtsmann: Söön.

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Bahahahaha! Ok, I'm amused.

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No promises.



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*begins sharpening knives, just in case*

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You just quoted a post from over 2 years ago concerning a system that has changed since then.

Just pointing that out.

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He did it on purpose, if you look at his other thread about necroposting. Hence why I reported his thread, and expect this to get locked soon. +1

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When is anyone going to answer on WarCry? It has been a while and Positron hasn't answered anything...

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Positron has put together his answers internally and we are working on getting Statesman's bio and intro stuff together. Depending on how all that goes, the next installment with that information will likely make it up to Warcry next week.

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Sweet. Thanks for the update!

Thanks for the clarification, Posi. That makes a bit more sense now.