Fleeting Whisper

Not to mention that creating a sequel MMO is pretty much just splitting your playerbase up. While you may bring in some new players with the shelf presence, the vast majority of CoX2 players would be CoX players. So you're basically just shifting people around, and if one game has too few players, that version will simply tank.

It's much better to keep improving one game, occasionally adding something to warrant shelf space (CoV, GvE, Mac, Architect, GR).

While you're point is generally correct, this isn't quite so true in the case of models; especially if you keep the source file around (eg, the *.max, *.3ds, *.mb, *.ma, etc. file containing the scene housing the models you're using). One game may use a different model format than another to actually load, but the team will either write a program which translates for example the MAX file into the desired format, or else the team will create an exporter plugin in order to save to the desired format directly from the modeling program.

This would be similar to using Photoshop and saving a PSD file with lots of layers and effects and things, and then exporting it to PNG. If you ever want to change the image, or you decide you want to use DDS instead of PNG, the intelligent thing would be to keep the PSD around, always. Apparently, many studios don't keep their source model formats around, though; they'll just create an exporter and importer and work only with the output filetype. But unless the exporter doesn't discard any information (which would negate the need for an exporter in the first place...), such a practice could easily become a problem in the future.

Why go to Roananpur, when you can go to Phuket?

In the literal sense? I've never made a game which included exploding suns. In the figurative sense of "make this game more awesomer"? I do it all the time!
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And it's not really swimming, either. It's really just walking, with the water texture above your head =/

We don't like gambling here in Etoile.

"Game engine" is quite possibly the most ambiguous part of any given game that you can name. At any given time, in any given context, speaking to any given developer of the game, the "game engine" will mean something different. The closest thing to coherent you'll get for "all at once engine overhaul" is rewriting the entire game from scratch.

It's not a matter of possible vs. impossible. It's a matter of man-hour investment vs. return. Paragon Studios could transform CoH into a pixel-for-pixel clone of WoW, but it would take years and would be a stupid thing to do.

So, basically... what they've been doing every issue since CoH's launch.

Peacebringer and /Poison Masterminds

Good luck getting anyone to like that idea.

1 merit per 3 minutes is only the metric for TFs:

Hey, you gotta save room in Gang War for [Call to Arms: Defense Bonus Aura for Pets] and [Expedient Reinforcement: Resist Bonus Aura for Pets]. GW is the only place a Thugs/ MM who isn't /Storm can put those

Right. "Game Engine" doesn't have any specific meaning, in any game.

"Give me a new game engine" is as useful as saying "Make the sun explode"... in an arcade game which doesn't have a sun.

(And yes, I have been told to 'make the sun explode' while working on an arcade game which had no sun)

Yes, they'll overhaul it on June 29th, 2004, September 16th, 2004, January 4, 2005, May 4, 2005, August 31, 2005, October 27, 2005, June 6, 2006, November 28th, 2006, May 1st, 2007, July 24th, 2007, November 28th, 2007, May 20th, 2008, December 2nd, 2008, April 8th, 2009, June 29th, 2009, September 15th, 2009, and they're planning to overhaul it again this upcoming April.

Devs hate hating villains?

That would give you Independence Port and Founder's Falls, since all the other zones with tailors already have markets (use the BM/WW teleporter) or are in Pocket D (VIP Teleporter). Both IP and FF are on the Green Line, and the Green Line is right next to the Talos Island WW, so you could teleport to TI and use the Green Line there.

Like the PvP Toggle, the new install mistakenly set the user option to turn this off. Click the blue "Pop-Up: Off" button in the top right corner to bring them back (it will change to a green "Pop-Up: On" button)

There has always been default IO levels. Check Options > Configuration. In the middle of the window is "Default IO Level".

Also, if you add an IO to your build and set its level, the next IO you add to the build will default to that level you set.

Isn't that what j_s is suggesting?

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Edit: Also, if given such a set, I call "Resonance Ben" as my character's name.

Yes. It's just a mistake, resetting the default to PvP mode.

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Actually, I believe Castle has previously mentioned that allowing Fly to go very much faster would cause issues with server performance. I could be misremembering, but if my memory is correct then no, they could not allow Fly to go 75 mph, and letting it get that fast would make the servers crash and burn.

Yeah, stuff like Lemur Snacks™