Electric-Knight

Sure, Arcana and Talionis,
This is what I've always believed in doing: Certainly stay well-rounded, but absolutely focus on - and continue to improve - your strengths.

Now, I don't think any of the current scenario has to due with true failures of CoH (nothing is perfect, but this game could have continued to run and earn a profit for some time to come). It's the failure of NCSoft to recognize the great thing we had here and its value. That failure just simply costs us what we loved.

Also, using World Of Warcraft as a measuring stick is the same foolishness that has doomed many companies ever since Blizzard's big success. It was a perfect storm of so many converging circumstances (including the merit of the product, so no insults implied... insults about WoW are entirely transparent and easy for me to make, so I'll not ever hide them, haha).
Chasing the numbers attached to WoW's heyday has continuously killed companies, games and communities within the mmmorpg universe and for players to do the same is a bit looney (which means - fully expected! So, carry on!).

Any product (at any time, under any theme) may be an enormous winner. That really doesn't change the realities of a genre being niche. And that fact can still play a negative (and positive) role if other factors don't provide the best of circumstances.

This game's popularity sure could have been bigger. Then again, it could have been smaller.

Whether or not the niche aspect of this game is due to the genre or other factors is mostly irrelevant. The game (and us fans of it) were certainly a niche group. And we are a niche group that NCSoft no longer cares about.

The real kicker for this game's population lies within the first few years of launch.
I came her after that period and this game was truly marvelous. However, large enough amounts of customers may not come to three-to-seven-year old games. That was always the problem with trying to bring in new people now. We know it's a great game. And new people can discover that... but how many new customers, ready to spend money and get invested in a new ongoing game, choose the one that came out 8 years ago?
It's just a natural handicap.
When a game is good enough to become the greatest it has ever been at the 8 year mark, people want to hold that as a negative attribute.
Alas, this is humanity.
Show me a sane human and I will show you an ape that believes the hype.

Beautiful setup, Red Valkyrja!

I'm happy with what I'm using now, but, yeah, the main thing I needed was for the window to lead to the outside. One of those, fly up to the window and visit sort of things that just can't be altered, due to the feel of that type of visit (in my opinion).

Regardless, I love that bed setup, especially.


You remind me how much I'd love to visit people's bases though...

Very interesting!

I really like the mindset behind this game and where the designer says he's coming from regarding it (both in philosophy and in my interests).

I hadn't heard of this, so thank you. I will definitely be keeping an eye on it, at the very least.

There's just one aspect that would make a huge difference for me and I imagine that it falls outside of their focus and would be too much of a drain of resources compared to the virtual benefit it would provide (for me)... personal character (and ship) customization.
It's just a huge, nonstarter aspect of any and all games for me. And this was not born from my playing of CoH (it's really why I gave CoH a try). I've been of this mindset since before most any games offered character customization... and then, once I got the taste of what could be done (years ago), I just can't go back, hehe (seriously).

So, I am not bashing this game if it ends up not offering a lot of character customization. It's just a matter of fact that it'd majorly thwart me being a part of it.
So, I'm curious to see what happens along those lines, because it might offer such things (in spades, even). The video about immersion was nice and all and I agree 100%. For me though, having the same body shape, outfits, colors, just a selection of faces would kill all the other tremendous aspects of immersion that they are putting into the game. And, again, they very well may let players go nuts with it... we'll see (have you seen any word on that?)!
I'm also curious about nonhumans and aliens and such. I prefer my space fare with aliens and things, but if it is maybe a scenario of first discoveries, I could maybe enjoy only being human.
I'm just curious about those aspects.

Regardless, it seems to be a great project and I'm highly intrigued by it.

Thank you, DR/Sam/Michelle...

*sigh*
That disconnect countdown got me.

I have to say though, that the Longbow liftoff scene was awesome and made me laugh.

Thank you for sharing this - your work and your feelings.

What is in a name? That which we call any of our City Of Hero Servers by any other name would be as sweet.

Positivity is correct.

You guys are amazing.
I meant to comment and thank you before, but I've been very busy with some complicated work (unrelated to CoH) and I wanted to wait for a moment when my brain power wasn't being used up quite so much before I tackled these scripts.
Coding and these sorts of scripts are pretty foreign to me, so I am completely amazed with them. They're one of the closest things to magic for me right now, haha (you digital wizards, you!).

They look simple enough for me to grasp and follow, but we'll see...
I'm finally going to tackle this Sunday (or tonight if I catch another wind).
If I do get stuck, I may start pounding and screaming for help like Inigo Montoya calling for Fezzik to break down the door!

I don't think I'll have any such problems though... we'll see!

Thanks so much!

Sort of an odd request/question, as I'm putting a bit of time into a CoH video:
I'm looking for a hospital room (where an injured patient would be staying) that has a window. None of the hospitals seem to have windows. I checked the Praetorian ones just to see)... So, I am thinking maybe a player-made base might be the best option.

Does anyone know of any such location (even if it is more of a bedroom looking place with a window, that might do better than a hospital without a window) developer or player created? Hrm, Manticore's mansion didn't have any such room with a window or anything, did it?

I may have to create it myself in the base editor, but I figured I'd ask here. By all means, if you have or know of a player-created base with something like this, let me know.

Thanks for any help!

Absolutely.
I'd not choose an emulator over a Paragon Studios developed game, but if there's only an emulator version? Zero question.

I love playing this game. Often times, I play solo. Other times playing with my wife and good friends.

While I love both this game and the community, they've both always been somewhat separate things (which sometimes combined in various ways).
Plus, it's entirely possible that a great community could take form around an emulated CoH. I'm not counting on that, but it is certainly possible.

As someone mostly unfamiliar with using most of the advanced features in the existing demo editing programs (and having never before used scripts such as Leandro's recent releases)... I've long been meaning to ask some experienced people about this:

Are there any good tools for creating positional movement paths?

I've always just edited such things by hand, editing each line in notepad when I didn't simply capture what I wanted while recording the original demo.

If I have the starting point: POS A and the ending point POS B, are there tools out there to create the path according to the speed/rate that I desire?

Recently, I've been wondering if there is a way to take Leandro's amazing scripts (of using images to create spawn locations and spawn parameters) to create actual movement paths or any such similar means to somewhat quickly and easily create some movement paths for characters, objects or cameras (but I may be getting greedy, hehehe).

Or if there simply already exists great tools within the demo editing program to accomplish this and I just haven't realized it, could you please point me to them?

Friggin' amazing, Codewalker and Leandro.
Thanks for the improvements!

Admit it, they used Leandro's Crowd Creating Demo Editing Script!

It's a great charity process and I thank everyone who is, has and will be contributing!

TheNet, don't be shy if you hop on CoH for some of those 24 hours!

It was..........
Soap poisoning!



(it's a joke... people need to lighten up!)

Hoobla, hooky, wowhow, wunga!
Sorry, I can't use proper words to express my impression of that performance, hehe. Tremendous!
(And to think how much effort and work it takes just to get a drummer and bassist to do half of what I want!)

There's also the Titan Network forums, brought to you by the network that has managed to provide us with Mids hero builder and the paragonwiki.
They're not going anywhere and will be working to save the game or resurrect it from the dead, if possible.

And, yeah...

As related to my earlier questions about finding current CAM POS (camera position coordinates), Leandro whipped up some more magic and posted it in this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=1#post4411464

It's a small secondary program that will keep track of your CAM POS, so you run it while moving around in your demo playback and can find out what the POS is... then, wham, edit them into your demo. Just something that may come in handy after moving around in a demo playback. Man, I used to wish for these features...

I'm going to keep wishing for CoH's continuation. So many wishes come through with this game already, heh.

I mean... damn... you can record a demo... play it back... FREEZE it... move the camera around, find some great shot... or keep letting the demo loop around and view it from all sorts of angles... It's a demo editing/playback dream.

Fantastic, Leandro!
Thank you so much.