Coin

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There is always someone who has to whine, ist't there.

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I'm not here to "whine" Praf, I'm here to express displeasure, as I'm sure is allowed. I haven't been insulting or degrading in anyway, I've simply said why I'm unhappy and given reasons for that.

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Each power has to be chanaged individually to make it customisable. They have already done 1241 powers. that has taken them around 16 months. If they delayed the issue until they had done all the pool and epic powers, it would have been around another 8 months. Not only would CO be out (even if delayed to 2010) SWTOR and DCUO could well be out as well.

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I have no issues with them trying to get it out, I just question the wisdom of releasing it with a flaw like this. Given that the Power Pool are used much more widely than specific power sets (I'd love to see the stats on how many people pick powers such as Hasten over other powers, I'd be surprised if it's not one of the most picked powers out there given how useful it is....and yes, I know not everyone picks it) it seems illogical to me to leave out the powers most used and selected by people that will spoil the colour flow of a costume. I've designed costumes for my toons with Hasten in mind as I know ruin the effect of it otherwise.

Why create such a massively powerful cossie creator with so much variation in it only to hamper it with a few more powers left over that still can't be changed? Especially given how relatively few of the pool powers actually need customizing?

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There is always someone who has to whine, ist't there.

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I'm not here to "whine" Praf, I'm here to express displeasure, as I'm sure I have the right. I havn't been insulting or degrading in anyway, I've simply said why I'm unhappy and given reasons for that.

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Each power has to be chanaged individually to make it customisable. They have already done 1241 powers. that has taken them around 16 months. If they delayed the issue until they had done all the pool and epic powers, it would have been around another 8 months. Not only would CO be out (even if delayed to 2010) SWTOR and DCUO could well be out as well.

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I have no issues with them trying to get it out, I just question the wisdom of releasing it with a flaw like this. Given that the Power Pool are used much more widely than specific power sets (I'd love to see the stats on how many people pick powers such as Hasten over other powers, I'd be surprised if it's not one of the most picked powers out there given how useful it is....and yes, I know not everyone picks it) it seems illogical to me to leave out the powers most used and selected by people that will spoil the colour flow of a costume. I've designed costumes for my toons with Hasten in mind as I know ruin the effect of it otherwise.

Why create such a massively powerful cossie creator with so much variation in it only to hamper it with a few more powers left over that still can't be changed? Especially given how relatively few of the pool powers actually need customizing?

It just feels like a half-[censored] job again, similar to MA. That was even delayed to add something the players really wanted adding, so why can't they do it with this?

They are basing issue 16 all about power customisation, it's what the issue is focused on, seemingly almost in it's entirety. I can't see the point of not doing it properly. There's not even going to be that many powers in the pools to actually change, a lot of them don't have colour effects, such as fitness pool.

Why do it improperly?

And therein lies the annoyance for me....."eventually"

You'd think that the power pools, something picked by virtually the entire player base, and powers such as Hasten and Super Speed that are picked by a large selection of players, I would wager, should have been done from the start!

What's the point of being able to pick and choose all of Coin's powers, making them all fit with a costume only to have it spoilt by the yellow glow of super speed and hasten? And the same applies for other pools as well.

Makes no sense to me.

So I'm still stuck with the Yellow Pom Pom's of doom then??

Posi just posted that people who go to the San Diego Comic Con this week get an exclusive cossie code.

http://www.cityofheroes.com/KoA.png

Any chance this will appear over here for us poor saps in the EU?

Btw, doing this sort of thing when the forums are merged, really not going to be a good idea! :S

Some EXCELLENT ideas here! I'd love to play missions with some of these things in them, would add soooo much to the heroes/villains theme

Talking mostly about heroes here I noticed though, what could we get for villains?

I'd only want the one. Superspeed.

Seriously, there's nothing that can't be done without it!

Why the Flash isn't the most powerful hero going is beyond me

After a discussion with a friend in game earlier, I mentioned what it is in this game that is really draggin me down.

Repetition.

Don't get me wrong, I love this game, I love that I can feel like a hero, or a dastardly villain, and some of the game storylines are beautifully written, Seer Marino arc comes to mind for instance.

But what gets me, especially after soooooooo many years of playing it.....the missions are driving me mad by being the same!!

Now, I've mentioned before I am getting very bored of it all and there's not enough in recent issues to keep my attention, I barely log in and it's only Going Rogue that gives me any hope, but my biggest fear will be that it's just more of the same old missions. After using the MA, I can see some truly brilliant storylines written by people, ones that really capture the imagination, but they are coloured wrapping around the same old missions, over and over and over and over and over and over.......

I can see...

Defeat All
Click Glowie
Defeat Boss and his group
Rescue/Kidnap hostage

which are all well and good, but there's soooo many more storylines/ideas in the comic book genre. But here's the thing.....which ones would work as missions?

So, the question/challenge/idea is, what other mission ideas do you think would work? How many different ideas can we, as players, come up with that would make good mission parameters?

For me, the best things in game recently have been the odd missions at the end of TF's, such as using tactics on how to defeat Lord Recluse in Statesman TF, coping with the whirlwinds in the Eye SF, storming the Sky Raider fortress in the villains SF, clearing the vines in the States TF. These sort of things should be added a lot more to the general game and if they were, would go a loooong way to helping keeping things fresh.

I've not played the new TF/SF yet, i'm waiting for them to be less bugged, but I'm hoping that they have something unique as well, but after so many months of the same old same old, what can we come up with as mission concepts that could be added to the list above to help add variety?

One thing I'd like to see, taking a cue from the recentish storyline og Hal Jordan being possessed by Parallax, give us a story arc that makes our powers change, just for that arc. Something that makes a blaster play like a scrapper, but with something that has to be overcome to get back to how we play, maybe a possession we have to eradicate by collecting certain things and then going on to combine them. I dunno, this is an "early draft" so to speak

Any more ideas?

Dreamweaver went COUGH earlier

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Yeah, we know there's no plans, Avatea, but they said that aboutpower customization as well

This seems to be the most popular idea at the moment though.

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Actually they said they couldn't do power customisation, not wouldn't.

Not sure a redname has ever said that server merging (in any shape) is impossible just that they have no plans to do so.

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Erm, that's kind of my point, dude

The devs said for a long while there were no plans for power customisation, now we're getting it.

Now they say there's no plans for server list merging

Never said that they couldn't or wouldn't, just that plans can, hopefully, change

Booyeah!!

As a father of 4 myself, let me wish you both many congratulations from both myself and Rosie!

Now, go, get some sleep....about 5 yrs worth should be enough to see you through.....failing, get a LOT of blue inspirations

Btw, look at this photo

http://rasmus.randomdice.com/album/f...s/DSC05417.htm

and tell me that's NOT Moment Of Glory?? Little scrapper you got there

oh, and what weight was he? and did all go well? and have you picked a name?? I hear Coin is a very popular name nowadays

Yeah, we know there's no plans, Avatea, but they said that aboutpower customization as well

This seems to be the most popular idea at the moment though.

I still say this is the best idea and can't see why they won't do it. it's not merging the servers, people can still play on Defiant, Union etc. the german and french servers can still be there.

People in the EU can play on freedom etc, the Us players get 4 new servers to use with new slots.

I just can't see the bad here. Merge the lists, not the servers. It's all good

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Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it...

*thinks*


..."This Land".

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DW, that is a silly name......call it Camelot!!

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On second thought, 'tis a silly place. Let's not go there.

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Ok everyone, sing along!!

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We're Heroes of the Round Table.
We ding whene'er we're able.
We do routines and fight machines
With clockwork impeccable.
We post well here in Camelot.
We let GG come and spam a lot.


*FFM, Damz, Mothers Love and Blue Rabbit jump on a table and start dancing*


We're Heroes of the Round Table.
Our forums are formidable,
But many times we're posting rhymes
That are quite unformattable
We're posting mad in Camelot.
We post with a diagram a lot.


*cut to a brief shot of Tainted Greek hanging from a wall*


In flamage we're tough and able,
Quite indefatigable.
Rednames are guests, we seem like pests who impersonate Sir Castle.
It's a spamming life in Camelot.


I have to troll the boards a lot.

*much more dancing routines*

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Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it...

*thinks*


..."This Land".

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DW, that is a silly name......call it Camelot!!

Aww [censored].

Someone over there already has the same forum name I do.....me!!

I did a US trial account for a while and used the same name, how do I get it changed so I don't lose this one??

Edit: Ah, panic over, although I can't post over there, I can still log in to the account and change the forum name, so I get the same one!

Hopefully the new forum will let me lose that annoying _ at the end though.

Precisely. That's why we're experiencing these curious time
phenomena on the forums.......either that or Floating Fat Man has made another post

Hah! Damz, you n00b, you fall your Pop Culture Geek Test!!

Go immediately off and research Red Dwarf!

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe, a white hole returns it!

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so.....what is it?

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I'm not sure, but I think it's a White Hole!

No, No, No and No.

I pay money for this game, why on earth would I want to skip all of it? Or any game?

I can't even understand those strange people who buy a new game from the shop and buy the game guidebook with it at the same time.....seriously, just buy the book, it's much cheaper for you!!

Don't suppose there's any spare codes out there for the X4 Cameraman is there?

I doubt it, given what's supposed to have happened to the PVP in this game

I miss Plight Trawler.....he was weird