Gangrel_EU

Sounds like the closure of Tabula Rasa that one...

Yeah, sorry for being a party pooper.

THAT is the problem... the server engine would *need* to be rewritting to be local... all of the game connections to the server would need to be redone so that it was local.

All of the SG base code would need to be redone so that it could run locally. Same with Oroborus (although both of these are creaky to say the least).

Removal of the WW/BM (no need for it). The hooks for invention would need to be redone (because there is back and forth checking for this). There is *alot* of work that would need redoing.

Salvage/Recepie/Inspiration drops need to be redone. Combat needs to be redone. There is more linkage between the client and server than you imagine (think about the client as being a dumb terminal... with the brains being on the server).

Could it be done? Given enough time and money... more than likely (although I do have my doubts about this overall).

Is it worthwhile? Probably more time and effort than is actually worth.

Still need to rewrite the *entire* back end of the game so that the AI of mobs, their spawning, combat etc was done on the local machine. FAAAAAR more work than you can imagine.

Unfortunately, all of the "AI", mobs spawning, combat et al is done on the server...

Well... to be honest, there are 3 months left (apparently) for the game to be closed down in. The 1st announcement of game closure are *always* a shock to the system.

At least they are not closing the game down *tomorrow*.

It is indeed surprising indeed... granted, the 2nd Quarter results for Aion are a shock, but it is *still* brought in 16 times more money than CoX.

Hell, even the *original* Guild Wars has brought in 1/2 the cash of CoX (granted, different finance setup for that I would imagine) And in the whole of 2011, it brought in 3/4's the CoX amount.

Strange times indeed.

To be honest, the consolidation of servers before heading to F2P/Hybrid model is nothing strange... it can help maintain a healthy player base in the end.

Wish it were so.

This will be my 3rd MMO Closure that I would have gone through... guess my heart has toughened up over the years as a result.

I will probably bounce around a little bit in GW2 (had already purchased it, might as well still play it) and World of Warcraft (have real life friends who play it).

*shrugs*

To be honest, I have made lots of friends out of game from this game, and I feel that we will still stick together no matter the games we head to.

Side note: It kinda sucks that this announcement went out just a week before the EU City of Heroes player meet commences >.<

I would just like to point out that it was actually the Lineage 3 dev team who did a runner and not the Blade and Soul dev team.

I am thankful for everything that Destination Games sent me in their sendoff package...

Still have good memories of that game

Not just Tabula Rasa, but also Auto Assault as well...

The difference between those two games and CoX is that at least CoX had the opportunity to run in F2P mode.

*shrugs*

Looks like I was the bad touch for NCsoft MMO's

And then you realised you were looking in a mirror..

Love ya!

I believe that the server ticks are roughly 0.333 seconds... so a ping of 333 or higher can have problems. When your ping goes above that, then you will start to have troubles with powers not clicking properly.. recharging when not fully ready etc etc... 1/3 of a second actually *isnt* all that much when you think about it, so we tend to not notice it. 1/2 second or higher latency *is* noticable, even in City of Heroes.

To be honest what you are seeing is the downside (or upside) of a server that is pretty much 100% trusting of the client (although for console games, this isnt so much of a problem, because those that cheat tend to do it *obviously*)

And to be honest, it isnt all that much of a problem if it is just the one person who is suffering from "lag"... they might actually have a fairly large window for the hits (quite possibly up to 100-150ms lag, if not slightly higher). Sucks though if you are killed by someone who was laggy and you moved before they fired!

However, once again, if you start suffering *severe* latency, I am sure that you will have problems. I have read on several MMO forums (eve online for example), that as soon as you release the client, it is in enemy hands, and information from that should not be trusted. However, due to server costs/loads they normally make the client fairly trustworthy (depends as to how much... if you trust the client 100%, then teleport hacks, god mode, latency hacking can easily become a large problem)

*shrugs* Space Marine (when played online) is just limited to 16 players *maximum*. Latency starts to become more of an issue the more players that are involved, especially in FPS games, where no matter your reflexes, as soon as you have a *significantly* higher latency than other players, you are at a large disadvantage (although you can combat this with skill, leading more with your guns...), although you would want to try to avoid "fast reaction time" situations.

It's just you.

Although I can see where you are coming from, angles can do a lot of funny things with the perspective.

For me, I for one see the robots body in line with its head, which means that it is *all* tilted... and therefore, at least in my mind... not romantic in the slightest.

The old Dreck mission (you know, the untimed one, that was regularly used to PL people in?)...

Nothing better than running around with the crack monkey army in that map and just seeing everything melt before your eyes

To be honest... unlikely.

I know this sounds annoying, but right now the EU F2P (or even ex subscribers) cannot even post up in their *own* section of the forums (which is annoying to be honest, especially as there is a few forum threads there that i would like to post in... concerning an EU player meet for example)

I miscalculated...

with minimum of 2 per imp spawn, that is 8 per person... so minimum of 64...

With maximum of 5 per spawn (not often to be honest), that would be 20 per player... so 160 maximum.

Still, a sickening number to get out...

And yes, playing with (on average) 8-10 imps out at the same time, i had just enough to time to keep on healing them, and trailing them behind me to the next spawn before I recast a new set.

Wish i had the pictures of the 8man Fire/Rad controller team... with 4 lots of imps out each (this was when you would get between 2 and 5 imps out per cast, and you had to keep on recasting them..)

Christ, that would have been at *least* 40 imps, and up to 160 imps out at any one point in time.

although you did have to keep an eye on the imps, and recast them constantly.. .but it was something impressive to see

Hell, even by myself (on a Fire/Emp troller) I would regularly have 3 sets out by myself... It made my day when i finally dinged 32 and playing *solo* was no longer something I was afraid to do.

It is a very broad brush, because it isn't just for "MMORPG's" but essentially for *all* computer games, although with an online gaming slant. So unfortunately generalizations will have to kick in (otherwise you might as well do no talk, OR you have 3 hours of exceptions).

I agree in that City of Heroes, once again, is fairly unique in terms of how much the EU and US gamers have in common. But there are still some *very* glaring differences though (Virtue Pocket D is unlike Pocket D on the Union server... or at least it was when i was last on the Virtue Server). There are definite culture clashes even between the RP groups (or at least some rather annoying people on *both* sides, who just refuse to see the other persons point of view).

But in general, I see at least the UK players becoming more "American" in terms of attitude towards other players (Non-English speaking players I find are generally more helpful... although they can be some of the hardest groups to "slip into".

It is one of those very hard things to explain properly... and i would imagine that a text explanation would do this very little justice. I believe that this point would be more accurate as "Learning from your mistakes to succeed"... although that is just my take on it. He does go on to explain a bit further on in the paragraph though (essentially reward everything that the player does, even if it involved pressing just a single button in a tutorial).

I wonder what the most common difficulty that people play on actually is... you might find it boring, but i actually find the *default* difficulty a nice pace to play at across the board, and it is a nice difficulty to "learn the game with". I do change it according to the mood that i am in, if i am trying to farm stuff, leading a group and so on, but it generally sticks at +0/+1 x1/x2. Bosses generally stay on though (ALthough i do hate the DE in tip missions...)

I was not referring to using them all the time... more like "using them *when* you need to use them".

My controller finds it very hard to deal with AV's solo. Popping inspirations when i meet them makes it *doable*. Hell, even a wrongly fired "firecages" can sometimes aggro a mob I wasnt aiming at (this most commonly happens when 2 or 3 groups are located in close proximity). Inspirations helps me through those situations.

However, most people are inclined to complain about the game being unfair to them in that situation, where the useage of Inspirations can help them out (or in this case "learn to use your head" comes into play again).

If you have to rely on a *constant* stream of them (even on -1x1 difficulty) then i will honestly ask "what are you doing wrong".

The 2nd part you say of "Inspirations aren't part of my character and thus are cheating if I use them" is (in my mind) in the realm of "concept" or a self imposed challenge.

Yes, you might be playing to a concept... however you *have* to realise that the playing to a concept can make the game harder to you. Sometimes you will have to use the tools that the game has available to you to make it through. This isn't the game being hard to you... it is being the same to everyone else. It is that you are *choosing* to make the game harder for yourself. Ergo, don't complain.

The problem though is that the general population appears to dislike *any* chance of failure (sounds of the masses).

Hell, even on these forums people complained about some stuff being too hard even *after* it had been made easier. Their reasoning: They don't like to use inspirations *at all*... which i find amazing considering that unlike other MMO's, inspirations drop like candy from the sky (and with the ability to change what inspirations you have to another type, you should *never* be without one you need).

*shrugs* as i said, it is one of those interesting things that I have noticed, in that people are always more inclined to say "it is a failure of the game" when it is infact more of "user failure"... Learn2Play (or as i would say "Learn to use your head") is something that should happen more often in games.

However, this runs counter to "playing the game" nowadays, where due to the "wham bam, pop bang" of culture nowadays, if it doesnt grab the user by the ears in the 1st 30 seconds, they are unlikely to carry on. If the user has to spend time *learning* how to play a game, they are less likely to actually play the game.

Hell, look at how Dungeons and Dragons has streamlined itself over the years (for better or for worse, that is open for debate. I still feel that 2nd Edition is the pinnacle for the series, although 3rd/3.5 is a nice *alternative*). Some of those changes were indeed much needed (changing THAC0 and AC to a more sensible option that works on a much easier to understand system. Combat required *high* rolls to hit, Saving roll's required *low* rolls. I still occasionally get them mixed up. Now it is just "roll high", achieves the same thing, easier to remember, similar feel throughout).