Golden Girl
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Quote:That worked because of the Powers Division, and the massively unequal strengths of the loyalists and the Resistance - the set-up was designed so that everyone was outwardly on the same side, and that anyone working for the weaker side had to pretend that they were really working for the stronger side.Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
Praetoria is a great example of providing cross faction play on the same free roam map without having to use the co-op system. [or PvP.]
That doesn't really work for the Heroes vs Villains set up, because both sides are equally strong, and unlike Praetoria, there isn't just one side that totally controls everywhere, forcing the other side to work in secret - so to create a similar situation would mean that Heroes who went to the Rogue Isles would need to pretend that they were helping Arachnos, and Villains who went to Paragon City would need to pretend that they were helping the genuine Heroes. -
With Paragon City being the world center for superheroes, it would need to be dealt with by any villain planning to make it big - even if they're not wanting to take ove the world, villains still run into trouble from Paragon City heroes all the time, even when they're doing smaller crimes like robbing banks - so it totally makes sense for any vilain wanting to become powerful to be focused on the place where all the people who can stop them live.
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Quote:The new First Wards arcs aren't even veiled heroismOriginally Posted by Lemur Lad
But if they can keep adding arcs where the villainous actions aren't just repugnant, or thinly veiled heroism, then I'm great with it.
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Quote:The correct term is "dirty Villains"Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
IMO.
I think I'm going to classify CoV as 'petty evil' done by 'petty villains'
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Quote:I'm sure they'll log off soon, and you'll be back to normal all on your own red sideOriginally Posted by Organica
Only one person at the Cap Au Diable black market -- just seems weird.
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Quote:The recent daily downtimes have been to upgrade the servers ready for the extra players coming in with the free-to-play option later this year.Originally Posted by Jaziel
As a new player i think poorly of all these 'Weekly' updates which are more like daily.
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Quote:No - there's been a lot of downtime recently while the servers are being upgraded to deal with the surge of players coming with the free-to-play option later this year.Originally Posted by genealogymaster3
does this happen a lot?
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Quote:You need to make the apology on UStream, so we can see if you're properly weeping and repentent, and not just twirling your moustache like all the red names do during unexpected server downtime.Originally Posted by Freitag
Hi everyone,
We'd like to apologize for the short notice and the inconvenience caused by this downtime. We understand that this is far from ideal, and we would like to make it clear that we would not do this unless it were absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, I do not have any information to provide right now as regards how long this maintenance will last, but we will most definitely keep you updated.
Thank you for your patience and understanding, and again, our sincerest apologies.
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A couple of years ago, there was an amusing mapserver problem that rolled back any progress you'd made before you crashed - it was left live for a few hours before the servers were brought down to fix it - it made quite a few people weep
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This is better than letting a problem with stabiltiy continue - that could cause problems on Trials and TFs
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Quote:The classic stiff-armed loyalist stanceOriginally Posted by InfamousBrad
As bad as Peter Themari is, Westin Phipps is absolutely worse. He is a bad person and revels in being a bad person; the more people he tortures and kills, the happier it makes him, and the more he can trick stupid people into thanking him for it, the more he squirms with puppyish delight. But about halfway through his arcs, I realized something: Manticore is actually worse. And that's why Arachnos needs someone like Westin Phipps in Arachnos counter-intelligence. If Manticore succeeded in the destablization op that is the main plot of Phipps' arcs, every supervillain weapon in every Arachnos lab, up to and including the nuclear-tipped missiles in Warburg, would fall into the hands of petty criminals and terrorists from all over the world. Arachnos is evil, but it's an evil government, with territory to defend and interests to protect; it can be threatened, it can be negotiated with. The raw chaos that would break out if Arachnos crumbled from within, as somebody like Manticore or Pyriss or LeoKnight or Blue Phazer (or more recently, Strongheart or what's-her-name Siren) want ... well, we've seen that future, we've seen what happens after an Arachnos Civil War: "Agony Hall," the death of almost the entire human race. Sorry, Ms. Francine, but given a choice between siding with Phipps in defense of the status quo or siding with you and Manticore and sending us all to Agony Hall ... I'm with Phipps. He's not my friend, I don't like him, I won't be inviting him over for dinner any time soon, and I'm not proud to be photographed with him ... but thanks to clueless politically naive dupes like Ms. Francine and short-sighted wealthy terrorists like Manticore, Arachnos needs guys like Phipps.
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MA/Regen Scrapper
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Quote:You mean spend all that development time on Trials designed to force players to only play the BAF?Originally Posted by rsclark
And LAM is largely the same as Keyes in terms of frustration - not as bad, but the same disincentive to run it does exist. It's funny, it's almost as if most people just run BAF over and over again. I wonder if that was the original intention - hmmmm.
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Quote:Everything about red side lacks glossOriginally Posted by Eva Destruction
the actual living human beings getting vaporized by the death ray are glossed over because the death ray is just so freaking cool.
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I21 isn't quite ready yet
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Quote:More Trials are coming - they're even planning holiday themed Trials - although those mightn't give Incarnate rewardsOriginally Posted by UberGuy
Do you really not understand that most people want the devs to create new, alternative things for players to do that aren't broadly unpopular?
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Quote:They're back dated only to July 1st this year - so anyone who's been subbed since then should have between 1,200 and 1,600 by the time I21 goes live.Originally Posted by Ben1989
Sorry if this has already been stated somewhere but just had a quick question on paragon points.
Will the 400 paragon points a month be back dated so if, for example, I have been playing for 20 months I will receive 8000PP when freedom launches?
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An interesting thing about the new Undeground Trial is that while it gives insane amounts of both types of IXP, it also has things happening in the final fight that can wipe out an entire league in one go.
Some early calculations from the beta suggested that a player could open both Lore and Destiny with only 4-5 runs of it - but that could be balanced out by the bigger chance of failure, and the fact that the fewer runs there are, the fewer end reward tables there are to give the salvage needed to fill the slots. -
Quote:Which is correctOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
villains should ultimately be hated and reviled
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Quote:If only the devs would have added other Trials, so that players wouldn't be forced to run Keyes to progress.Originally Posted by rsclark
I would design a different option option so I never have to touch it.
More directly, though, Keyes is a good piece of content to do so you can say you accomplished it. A good thing to have with a badge just for finishing so people who need to brag can do so and people who want to see if they can accomplish something can give it a go.
It is terrible for something you need to repeat a dozen times.
It is designed and operates like an event, not like the grind that it is supposed to be. -
Keyes is already fun - and it's got one of the best cutscenes so far
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The new tutorial is way more flexible for Villains than the current one - the intro comic just says that you were in Galaxy City "on business of your own" when the trouble started - so that's like a totally blank slate.
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Quote:I wonder how many level shifts we'll have by then?Originally Posted by Von Krieger
They have up to ISSUE 29 planned, at least in part.
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Quote:A few interesting things, I'm sureOriginally Posted by blueruckus
Soooo, I wonder if anything will be announced at PAX.
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Quote:Well, he has to be careful - his girlfriend seems like the jealous type.Originally Posted by Quinch
With that outfit, I think he might be the only person who already isn't.