Goblin_Queen

Originally Posted by Stolid

He did say 'besides concept'. But in a game like CoH, that's a pretty big factor to consider proliferating a set for. I know I'd love it if Martial Arts became a Brute set.

One of the reasons being Fury makes everything better, including Martial Art's low DPS.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

If you're really worried, just make a new throwaway character to test it.
(This can be on any server - just to verify that everything is working.)

Originally Posted by Dr_HR

Maybe its the withdrawing of the weapons all the time? I never found DP to be painful nor kin, but then i pick powers tht i dont have to withdraw weapons every moment

Originally Posted by Frosticus

Anyway, you shouldn't be so worried about how a low recharge Illusion dom will fair because they will be fine. You should be worried that a high recharge Illusion dom won't hold a candle to most other doms in terms of team control. It will however make up for that shortcoming with other strengths.

Originally Posted by JayboH

I am hoping to see this sent to corruptors someday. I could see them sending /ff but only mms have it so far, and 3 ATs have /ff already.

Anyone else?

Originally Posted by je_saist

I'd say the general consensus is... no consensus.

Some of the pertinent details have already been brought up, such as the highly instanced nature of the game, the use of various global channels to manage teaming across multiple servers, and so on. There are also external game factors, with multiple other desirable games having launched over the past couple of months, the recent Steam Forth of July sale, and competition with other MMO's, such as World of Warcraft and AION. MMO populations rise and fall, as other things happen outside of the MMO population.

I do want to assuage Bill's worries that servers might be turned off, or that a server merge is in the future of the game.

First, the setup of City Of Heroes isn't really conducive to merging the servers. Too many servers have players with the same name, or supergroups with the same name, or many other factors.

Second, the running cost for a server is actually pretty small at this point in time. The servers have, by and large, paid for themselves multiple times over, and there's money left in the bank to finance bandwidth for a considerable time. Ergo, there's no push to turn off servers due to operating cost overhead.

Also, NCSoft has also committed itself to a multi-year plan with City of Heroes, and I think NCSoft will only revise / revisist the intent of it's multi-year plan if Going Rogue has an extensive weak market performance.

Going Rogue will be launching towards the end of summer and the beginning of the US school year (I think the EU also gets summer off? yes? no?). I suspect NCSoft will be looking at the expansions performance figures over the fall / winter quarters before making any judgment calls over whether or not the game is genuinely bleeding subscribers that won't come back, or if the slow-down is indeed linked to external factors.

Ergo, we probably won't see any major moves from NCSoft over City Of Heroes till next year at the earliest.

If subscriber numbers don't meet NCSoft's expectations within that time, that's probably when we'll see the call on whether or not CoH continues as is, or if Paragon Studios is tasked to get CoH2 out the door while putting the original CoH on standby.

My opinion is that CoH2 is NCSoft's Nuclear option. They'd rather not pull an SOE and fund an entirely new engine / new game when the old game is still very viable for upgrades / enhancements...