Doc_Scorpion
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Quote:There's a modest CoX community on LJ:Originally Posted by Zwillinger
If you have any suggestions, please feel free to leave them in this thread. I'll try to review it and add it to the list if it's appropriate.
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Quote:That sound you hear is thousands of video cards dying in overloaded agony.Originally Posted by Freitag
The Nature Affinity Power Set is now available on the Paragon Market, and with it comes a brand new trailer showcasing its beautiful effects and powers!
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Quote:Unwilling, even understandably so as you are here, is not the same as unable.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
So the end result is, we're unable to share images for this month's costume contest
. I'm really sorry about this and I'll do my absolute best to be present at the next one. -
Quote:Yeah, taking the Cosmic Cube out of play takes a huge Thanos v. Avengers arc off the table.Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
Looking ahead, I'm not sure how they're going to deal with Thanos in 2.5 hours if he gets his hands on the Infinity Gauntlet (which I'm inclined to believe he will since it appeared in "Thor").
But it's not impossible that other hero's films will set up the all the background from Avengers 2 and their dealing with Thanos. -
Quote:That's exactly the same question much of the playerbase has been asking itself for years.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
This all is making me wonder just what Black Pebble really does besides making sure information is withheld, items on the market get pushed forward or held back, and suggesting which characters get killed off?
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Quote:You forgot Paragon Wiki. It's not necessary at all to run missions to get the story/dialog.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Right now, only the leader reads mission dialog. If it was very involved and actually fun to run through the dialog trees, mission owners would face a devil's choice: run them solo so you can take in the dialog at your own pace and never invite other people to play with you when running those missions, run them teamed and skip most of the dialog so people don't have to stand around and wait for you, or run them teamed and make your team suffer while you spend minutes running through the dialog. Or run them with teams skipping the dialog and them running the entire thing again solo in Ouroboros so you eventually get to see the dialog.
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Quote:Yet, you sell badges routinely with the ongoing "subscribe for 'x' months and get a badge" promotions.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
We're not interested in selling badges. Badges are something players earn in game and, as far as we're concerned, that's just fine.
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Quote:Which doesn't help the core problem - which is having to watch ten minutes of noise to get to the thirty seconds of signal.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You guys do know we record each and every show, right? It's archived so you can watch it at any time.
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Quote:Marvel has figured out how to make superhero movies - while Green Lantern was a comic book movie. The difference is important.Originally Posted by Noble Savage
After Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America, Marvel seems to know exactly where that point is. DC has been more hit-and-miss. Batman's working great of course, but Green Lantern went a little too silly and too continuity-heavy to really pull people in.
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Enough of the team-up teleporter already.
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Quote:So, now they'll have to dig through this forum too... and this is an improvement, how?Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Recently, I've spent time talking to people who were new to the game, and even asking people, where can I find builds (I was incognito of course). Very few folks could point me to one place, the usual response I got was "On the forums...." and when I asked "Yeah, but which forum" the response was almost always "I don't know" or "You have to really dig through the AT and General forums".
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Quote:Yep. And most people commenting here seem to be unaware that a lot of those rules and regulations are based on laws and regulations that said third parties have absolutely no control over whatsoever. It also doesn't seem to occur to them that said third parties would *love* to enlarge the scope of the contests - because that means they can attract more people people to their site which is the whole point of the contest in the first place. They don't limit them capriciously.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
When third party sites host contests, they usually have their standard rules and regulations that they use for most, if not all, of their contests.
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Quote:If you want to simplify the forums, don't start with the easy-to-understand AT forums. Start with "For Fun!" or "Player Help" or "Development". Start with the (used by a minority) Server forums.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I don't particularly view it as pigeonholing, simply as...well...simplifying. There's a rather large amount of forums to sift through here on our boards, and to a new, or even veteran player who hasn't spent time on the forums, it's a bit confusing.
Forums should be easy to understand at a glance.
Making the forums "easy to understand at a glance" seems to be pretty weak reasoning when you let those other forum subgroups stand. I suspect a more accurate statement of the reason would be "to make the forums match the character creation screen". -
It's in Rhode Island Sam.
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Quote:Since Beta is open and the NDA lifted - is there any particular reason you don't describe the bugs in question?Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
There are showstopping bugs in beta.
There are showstopping bugs in beta.
Other than that, I'm with the posters who doubt the feature will return. The dev's track record on such things is not a good one, there's always a new shiny on the horizon that Marketing wants them to work on. -
I have to call this one a miss - by a country mile. While the costumes are indeed awesome, they scream "21ST CENTURY" and "GENERIC BAD FANTASY ART" rather than whisper "ancient mystic group". You haven't (in Posi's words) made them "feel more magical, spiritual, thorny, spiky, and most of all, evil", you've just made them look silly and generic.
I don't think you understood the nature of the playerbase's complaints at all. You took a few bullet points, but you missed the underlying themes and contexts altogether. -
Quote:I have been in sorta the same situation, from the players side. In that game, the players almost to a man laughed at the dev's and went about their business despite significantly inflated incentives.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Anecdotaly speaking...
I've experienced a situation where a development team tried through various methods to encourage players to play one faction vs another faction, for the purpose of balance. Now in the situation I've experienced, it was key to the way the game worked, crucial in fact, on a level that does not apply to CoH.
What was said about players playing what players want to play usually rings true. Inflated incentive can only do so much to entice people to do something they would otherwise not do. -
Quote:AIUI WAI - you're an Arachnos Soldier and (per Posi) "Lord Recluse doesn't care if you can't get a date or your favorite t-shirt doesn't fit anymore".Originally Posted by Teeko
Since theres a Backpack option now, any idea when a fix for the Arachnos Soldier crab backpack will be?
Unless I am missing something, but all my costumes are stuck with that thing even if I am not using my Crab Soldier build -
Quote:Frankly, as a member of the community, this comment borders on the insulting - because it implies that the only reason we dislike the new look is because it wasn't properly marketed.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
The images that players are basing their judgments on are pictures of a screen from SDCC. This is both good and bad:
- It's good because it's allowed us to get some unsolicited feedback upon which to act, and we are acting on it.
- It's bad because we were unable to present this revamp on our own terms using appropriate screenshots and in game images.
Have you even read the comments?
We don't like the new look because it doesn't look like the CoT. This isn't like the Rikti upgrade where they got a cool and spiffy new look. This is taking a unique look away and replacing it with something that looks like every bad costume contest ever held under Atlas' globe.
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Quote:Maybe in your time zone, but we don't all live in your time zone. In mine (PST), the above is rarely if ever true.Originally Posted by Feycat
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not posting this because I fear the freebies, and I'm not posting this because I don't feel like moving my characters to the Freem server, or whatnot.
I'm posting this because, every night, Freedom and Virtue have three red bubbles through most of the evening.
Again, rarely if ever true on Freedom.Quote:Those servers already have issues dealing with the lag (not all the time, certainly) and places like WW, train stations, RWZ and Oro are already crowded and lagtastic.
Pretty succinctly outlined above - your whole post rests on assumptions extrapolated from your personal experience rather than on objective fact.Quote:Thoughts? -
Quote:One of the side effects of Issue 20 - the help channel is already overwhelmed with noise. Trust me, the goldspam will go unnoticed between the 'LFT' and 'where is Porigrene (sic) Island' messages.Originally Posted by Quinch
- Free/Premium {imma just call them F/P from now on} can't, in the side-by-side comparison, use the Help channel. Considering how many trial accounts I've seen decide to subscribe based on the assistance they got from the community, leaving it in seems like a net gain overall. Problem is, with the influx of new players, odds are we'll see a resurgence of Help goldspam. How do we prevent that?
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Quote:Yes, but what we've been asking for "content for 50's" not "mindless WOW style raiding and teaming for phat loot". The two are dramatically different - the first is consistent with that CoX has been to date, the second is a radical change in the way the game is played.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Because lots and lots of players have been asking for it for a very long time
I sincerely hope the suits haven't made this decision in the misguided belief that it will attract WOW players to CoX. I've seen that happen in another MMORPG (changing playstyle to attempt to attract players from a different MMO), and it was the kiss of death. -
Well, it looks like the price of a CoX capable laptop, at least in HP's line-up is going to be considerably more than I wanted to pay... Thanks for the help!
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Ouch. OK, is there anything in HP's lineup that will run CoX with at least some UM features enabled? (I prefer HP, they've done me good over the years, but lets not turn this into a brand discussion.)
I'm currently getting 10-15 FPS on my ancient desktop. -
I'm ready to pull the trigger on a new laptop, and a nice one is one sale today/tomorrow:
- AMD Phenom II N950 quad core
- 4GB memory
- ATI Radeon HD 4250 Graphics
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
How well will CoX run on this? Will I be able to at least turn on some of Ultra Mode with decent performance?