Djeannie

I feel like I'm in the same boat too. Didn't get into this or last beta, was computerless for the one before that, though I did have an invite. /sigh. i LIKE beta testing stuff. Far more interesting then playing on live.

Heh come on Werner, you know regen is all clicky. We've only got 1 toggle in regen now and all the rest are click heals/regen powers add that on top of any attack set and its a bloody clickfest. I have a L50 kat/regen mouldering on Protector. Just don't feel like spending a ton of influence to try and get her softcapped to s/l/ranged for survival sakes.

Kat/Regen was pretty easy on endurance and faster then BS even if it hits for a bit less, which I really liked. BS is SLOW.

At first, iirc, we had 2 test servers that you could log into with just the test server shortcut. This was during issue 9 as we needed another server to test the market out by having another server that could buy/sell from/to.

After that they then created a beta server a few issues later and just originally copied test over to it so that beta testers were totally seperate from the test server, which I'm sure facilitated patches as you mentioned above.

Reminds me of the old beta bug where the power tray would just start drifting up towards the health bar

Still a tad wow-ish but far far better then before. I can live with this and really like some of the parts!

I do hope that you'll be giving the succubi a makeover and porting them heroside, along with the hellfrosts/lashers and adding female cot in general.

Good job on the updated look!

EDIT: WANT Those costume parts for my characters ^_^

Good point to remember. IF s/he's not done any of the stuff to earn a merit also remember the first time you don't get an a-merit, you get regular merits.

If for some reason you have a merit then probably a good idea to spend it on something like a kin combat that you can craft and sell for a fair bit using only 1 merit.

Just to be snarky and play devil's advocate lets change your little analogy here a bit

I arrive in a new town, eager to sample its culinary delights. I check in to my hotel and freshen up, and then grab a taxi.
"Take me to where the good restaurants are, please!" I say.
The taxi driver drops me off in a busy main square where every single eaterie is a KFC, McD, Burger King, Spud U Like or Subways.

It turns out that the restaurants that supposedly have well-crafted quality meals are hidden away in windy back alleys and way out in the suburbs and suchlike, but in reality they're d-class joints whose food is terrible and thats why people eat at the main square.

The town is the AE.
The fast-food joints are the AE popular arcs, many which are farms.
The 'hidden' restaurants are the AE story-arcs most of which suck.
The Taxi Driver is the AE search interface.


The very fact that AE is used quite often for farming should tell the Devs something...and it's not "oh people are abusing the AE". They should be asking themselves WHY people are farming in the first place.

• They hate the first 20 levels of game play?
• They enjoy farming?
• They need inf due to stupid high costs on the market?
• They need tickets for rolls to get recipes/io's that just aren't for sale on the market?
• They need tickets to circumvent the stupidly high prices on salvage?
• They want to do ticket rolls to try and sell io's to make some more inf?

You want to kill farming? Fix the issues that cause people to seek to farm in the first place.

Do I think AE babies that don't know squat about their powers are ok? Nope! People should learn how the game and their characters work.

This is also incorrect from what I recall. They said that it would be similar to if you had combined 2 IO's but you don't need to actually combine 2 IO's of the same type. This was in the sdcc ustream.

The example used was a bad one as they talked about a lotg 7.5% recharge and said it would become stronger or some such but failed to mention how.

I hear you there. Feel that way plenty of times myself, then years later they make a change and we all say "i told you so" lol

old hat too. On the guild wars guru forums the anti swear thing change every swear word to RED ENGINE GORED over and over and over. Gets old real fast.

RED ENGINE GORED RED ENGINE GORED RED ENGINE GORED RED ENGINE GORED RED ENGINE GORED RED ENGINE GOR..

That will depend on how long you were subbed before you let your account lapse. You wouldn't be a free account you'd be a premium account.

we have slippers without socks. I've used them on variations of Djeannie for years.

Very true with the fanservice rule and serafina looks nothing like a genie at all

This!

This right here sucks.

So either way you're not going to be getting an 80-90 second run without the investment in purples for all the outside and scale-able buffs.

Which would be rather silly. All the danger with none of the reward eh? Not a good direction to take the game in really. Risk vs Reward is a design factor.

I'd think they'd do what TopDoc suggested and probably kill insp on zoning, even if that was only IN the AE building as they can control stuff like that in locations. They prevent that kind of thing with confusion and entering/exiting pvp zones. So maybe they'd do something like that in AE if it was a big deal to them.

Ah forgot about the empowerment spawn. I wanted to compare raw unboosted except for hasten times from claws vs db. So without the empowerment spawn.

I was hitting about 2min 30 seconds to 3 min and that just seemed slow to me...with the occasional death here and there as I'd suddenly get spiked for some odd reason.

Probably a day late and a dollar short on my additions to this thread but I'll add them anyway just in case a Redname is still reading this.

The characters I think stand out are the following:

Banished Pantheon masks and Totems. Nothing like them in any other aspect of the game. The Totems are so damn cool i want one as a mini pet! or better a MM summons. Keep yer damn lich, gimmie that totem!

Banished Pantheon's Goddess Hequat. Her whole outfit screams cool native/primitive look, which we don't have nearly enough of in CoH. We have tons of tech stuff but hardly anything along these lines. Where are the cool headdresses/facepaint/more bone jewelery-boots-gloves-armbands-legbands options? Belts with dangling bone parts and pouches.

Clamor from the freakshow and the freakshow in general. Where are our cool freakshow parts? Cool asymetrical slasher/basher gloves and shoulder parts and neat torn clothes like she has? Or the cool back zappy items that the stunners wear? She (Clamor) has a fantastic look!

Carnival of Shadows. In general they look fabulous. Want those sashes and boots and face masks! Porcelain face masks in a few styles would be fantastic! Think Mardi-gras too...for that matter the swords the fencers use, so WANT.! Vanessa looks great, dark ring mistresses with those cool back items and sashes etc.. the torches the seneshals use! Love it all. I like the whole harlequin look compared to the standard circus clown look and they fit well.

Roman Ghost Widow and Ghost Widow. Excellent design.

Scirocco looks great too. You can just see desert nomad / arabian-esque in his whole look.

The Minotaur and Cyclopse from ITF. Great Creatures. Sad that the bull head is so piddly and you can't make a good Minotuar as a player. Too short, too tiny, too piddly, like some runt from the litter (player minotaurs).

Sybils. I so WANT Those Outfits for Players! They're really so different from anything else, sexy, flowing. So great for many concepts.

Jack In Irons has a great look too. Very Giant/ogre/evil fairytale enemy.

Swan's shawl is a classic unique piece and I wish we had shawls for the gypsy style look for players.

PPD hardsuits look amazing. Really look like powered suits of armor. Wish we had better looking armored options along those lines. It's the legs/gloves/shoulders that really make the look, not too bulky but not skin tight meshes either.

Nightstar/Vikis: The blades and whole sleek look to them are wonderful. want those blades for characters even if they're just looks on an outfit.

Asymetrical looks which I wish we had more of, like the mender belts and shoulder parts. those look great, same with the chest bands. Need those kinds of options for players. you can only do so much with gladiator shoulder part.

Arachnos Tarantulas: Have you looked at them from the side, it's a girl all crouched/bound into that robot body, freaky and cool at the same time.

Maestro with the wicked Dr Strange-esque collar and sash (we really need sashes dammit!).

Goldbricks: That jetpack was so cool looking. So sick of skyraider jetpacks everywhere.

Igenous look great especially the lava bosses. Man wish stone armor (granite) got that style look.

Ruularu. Also a really cool alien creepy look. The eyeballs are fantastic! Want one of them as a non combat pet too Glad we get them as lore pets. The wisps look really great too.

Of course there is. When I first saw Serafina back during launch I came up with my forum namesake to show that a good Djinn costume could be done without making a streetwalker. It has changed over the years as better costume parts are added but has essentially the classic genie look...not thigh high boots and bikini bottoms.

Back before we had better options


Today we even have a genie option that is very similar to Djeannie's current look in the costume creator as a default look-option. With little sleeveless jacket, the better longer pants, arm bands etc..