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Quote:Very cool.Originally Posted by Castle
Pohsyb mentioned this at PAX to some folks. I'm not sure if this is an I16 thing, or something being added for Going Rogue, but it is real.
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Make it a vet reward.
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Quote:That's just in keeping with long-standing tradition in our CoH games. Some of the typos lasted forever in this game.Originally Posted by Canine
So, where do we report any typos/glitches we spot in the arcs?
Ran the above arc tonight, and spotted a few glaring typos, along with a potential mechanic glitch (Glowy in first mission was clickable before it should have been, according to the clues received in said mission).
Enjoyed the arc, but I'd have thought there'd at least have been a thorough proof reading of the arcs before they were released into the stark, uncaring wilderness of public attention.
Oh, and there's a typo in the announcement about the Quest for Magic, since I have no idea where to s tart
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Quote:Originally Posted by Leese
Wow, it's really impressive to see all these new hires coming out of the woodwork. It's good to see the AE has some dedicated staff devoted to it. As an author I'm looking forward to it improving even more.
One nitpick, trying not to sound like I'm complaining, but I hope you're not using the AE contest entries as your sole source of potential devs choice. Europeans can't enter that, and we* already have an enormous chip on our shoulder about feeling ignored.
*OK, maybe just me.Emphasis mine.Quote:The Architect Awards will be one of many sources I'll be using to add to my current list of arcs that will be Dev Choice'ed.
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Welcome to the loony-bin!
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Quote:You know what stinks? I work for a research firm and I can't do that kind of "research".Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
But they can do it and justify it as "research."
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
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Quote:All that having been said, most of it correctly (though clearly not entirely objectively), I will never, ever buy an ATI card again.Originally Posted by je_saist
Um. Please get out of 2002. ATi's drivers across Windows and *nix are currently far better than Nvidia's drivers, especially in the 64bit realm.
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So. here's my piece of advice. I'm going to look a lot harder at what everybody else but AMD is doing before I go knocking down their door again. You should too.
Why?
I've had two (out of 2) of them spontaneously melt on me, in different cases, with good airflow, and one took my mobo with it. Never, ever, had those problems with an NVidea card.
A good friend's laptops kept overheating when he had ATI cards in them... one of which, again, melted and took out the mobo. As soon as he got a laptop (from the same manufacturer) with an NVidea card, those problems went away.
YMMV, but I've been burned (literally) once too often to trust ATI (and I was originally a big fan). -
Quote:Hey look! I learned something new today.Originally Posted by Sapphire7
I am somewhat saddened* by a couple of the tags that people have given this thread. I can't figure out if they're cowards for doing that and not having the courage to reveal themselves in the thread, or if they're smart for keeping their mouths shut. In any case I should probably be thankful, trolls would just derail the topic anyway.
*Not overwrought, mind you. Just disappointed that, while we have fewer trolls than most, we still have people so immature and spiteful. :[
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Edit: LOL, thanks to whomever updated the tags, the new ones are hilarious! ;]
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Quote:Taser?Originally Posted by enrious2
And you are?
He's been here forever, though I thought he'd left a while back (or perhaps just stopped posting). Not that that validates or invalidates anything he's said. But most of the old-schoold forumites probably know him.
You, however, I don't know.
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Which is all a reasonable person can really ask for Horatio. Thanks!
EDIT: First personal first post after Horatio! [I've tagged most of the Devs at some point] -
Quote:Ah'yup!Originally Posted by Phillygirl
I would say ignore any neg rep you receive i am sure you will get a great deal more positive.
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Quote:We forgive you.Originally Posted by ZNRGY_XERONUS
Please don't think I'm trying to be hard on our Devs! I've sung their praises many times in the past and will continue to do so down the road! This game has had a significant affect on me over the years. It helped to awaken new avenues of creativity that I didn't even know I had.
Being able to create the superhero/villain that I imagine is as important to me as the game play and I want the Devs to know that. Dare I say, that I enjoy creating the characters more than playing them at times. So yeah, there's much love for our Devs for this great game!
Maybe I shouldn't have posted in this thread, but my frustration over the costume issue got the better of me.
The Devs however, may not be so merciful. BaBs is terrible in his wrath.
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Quote:I'm not going to derail this thread with a who's-better-than-who discussion. There are plenty of threads about that elsewhere. I will say that when the costume creator here gets a major overhaul (in G_R perhaps?), I hope they adopt stances and asymmetrical costuming options.Originally Posted by Vega
For a costume junkie like me, the Champioins character creator blows the CoH character creator away(with the exception of weapons not displaying). I'm not too high on the graphics, but oh how I wish that the character creator here had some of those options.
I'm just hoping that Jay took a look.
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Quote:I really wish more people would take this view. Because, while I didn't give a rat's [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS] about global chat colors, I realized (after reading post after post about it) that others did. So spending the time/resources to fix it was a good thing, even if it had no direct value to me.Originally Posted by Sapphire7
Heh, thanks Hallowed ;]
I must admit there are times that the Devs work on things for which I care little (or nothing) - such as PVP. (Especially PVP. Mostly PVP.) But I don't begrudge them the time to work on it. Even if Issue17 was nothing but PvP stuff, I'd be quite happy, because any improvement to the game increases its chances of sticking around for a long time. In fact, as much as I love power customization and super-side-kicking, I had just as big a SQUEEEE-fit over the fact that they fixed global channel colors. That has been my single thorniest bug, the one that has driven me the most nuts, so the fact that it has been fixed is right up there with power customization and SSK. So I am DEFINITELY not one to begrudge the Devs time working on whatever they feel is the priority of the moment- they have a lot more information than I do, and I know that eventually they get around to taking care of everything they can. Just because it's one of *my* top priorities, doesn't make it a top priority for the game as a whole. :] -
Quote:Probably because she's a cutie?Originally Posted by Inazuma
Love is a beautiful thing. But the devs took out an RO on me. Why is it love when Sapphire7 does it, but with me it's "stalking?" Argh!
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Well said Sapphire. Every now and then, it's nice to remind the Devs that the (very) vocal disgruntled minority does not represent the players as a whole.
While I can't say I've only had positive experiences with the Dev/Community Relations team, I can say they have been overwhelmingly so.
It's clear they care about the game, and want to give us (within reason) the things we want. Naturally, since we, as a community, can't agree on most things, not everyone is happy with what they choose to work on, or how they do it, but anyone that claims that they don't care or listen is just on crack. I've never witnessed a Dev team that interacts with its player-base on such a regular (and fun) fashion.
Under the current administration, especially, I've been immensely pleased with the things that have been added to the game, and can't wait to see what the future brings.
I can count on one hand the games that I played with any regularity for 5 years, and having been here since day 2 (Curse you EB for your pre-order SNAFU!) non-stop, that puts CoX in pretty elite company (in my book anyways).
I love this game and have great hopes for the future.
[And as soon as Craptastic! gets my internet up at the new home, I will be playing again.] -
Myth: A Stone Armor brute or tank needs a /kin to be useful.
Truth: No Timmy, that's what IOs are for. (Not that they were needed before but now... mmm, mmm, good!) -
Quote:Sorry, that's the honest truth. You get bonus points if you're on vent. Extra bonus points if you're on the phone with somone who does not know you're playing the game.Originally Posted by kidengineer
When running toward a gravity geyser in Shadow Shard, you have to yell "Yeee-haaa!" and floor it.
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Quote:This should be true though...Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Myth: That it is physically impossible to build a grav/kin troller without Speed Boost, Inertial Reduction, or Increase Density. The game will either lock up, force you to choose the power, or teleport Castle to your side to beat you over the head with a nerf bat.
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
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Bah! Missed it this year. I still have fond memories of being part of the Day Shift/Night Shift coalition that got BaBs the win a few years back.
Ace was very frustrated with us, since he was championing pohsyb that year. -
Quote:Nice, I like the fact that the old way is an option.Originally Posted by Positron
With Super-sidekicking this is no longer true.
Everyone (well not level 50's) get XP, even those characters that are exemplared. You can choose to go back to the old "extra Inf., no XP" way if you'd like, though, in Options. -
Quote:Might I suggest making both options available (and not mutually exclusive)?Originally Posted by Positron
Current implementation on Training Room is "character" friends list.
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Very, very interesting. Now a quick question (and forgive me if it's already been aswered, I've got very limited time right now), does every player get SKed up, or only those who are more than 3 levels lower than the team leader?
I.E. if we have a team of a 5, a 7, an 8, a 10, 1n 11 and a 15, running the lvl 10s mission, will the 5, 7 & 8 all be SKed to lvl 9, and the 11 and 15 RSKed to 10, or will the lvl5 run at 9, the lvl7, lvl8 and lvl11 at their respective levels, and the 15 be RSKed to 10? -
Quote:Agreed.Originally Posted by T_Pill
So I feel strongly enough to bring this up here. And I rarely ever post on the forums anymore.
The Dev/Community Digest needs fixed immediately.
Honestly, the Dev Digest was easily the most important part of the forums. I like to know what's going on with the game and what I can look forward to, or answers to popular queries. I'm not willing to go fishing through tons of topics to do so though. The Dev Digest made everything easier and kept us all informed rather well. Without it, so many people have deemed the forums not using at all- myself included. Granted, there are a butt load of people who find it useful still, but there's also a large number who don't.
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Quote:Some thoughts:Originally Posted by Iscilla
THIS! If I could kiss you, I would!
Kind of makes you wonder what sort of system they have if a few pics loading would slow their machines so much. Actually, I've never had a problem with loading any page. And I have been on strictly graphical forums where the average sig image is significantly larger that what you guys see here.
1) I usually check the forums at work. When I'm at home, I usually have better things to do.
2) The (seemingly) hamster-powered PCs at work... suck. Take 15min just to boot up.
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Quote:[WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS] no.Originally Posted by PhiloticKnight
Yeah, I'm really starting to wonder what ELSE is coming in another year that they can't even hint about right now. Hmmm....
I call total merger to a SERVERLESS SYSTEM!!!!! You heard it here first folks!
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Quote:This sums it up pretty well, except for 2 things:Originally Posted by Sarrate
Like others have said, it's a whole new board, so it will take a while to get used to, especially considering how often I frequented the old one...
At any rate:
- Emocations - I liked the old ones, but you already posted on the issue.
- View All - The old forums had a feature to view all posts in a thread. I used that a lot (on some larger posts I probably shouldn't have, too). I'd prefer it if this was readded, if possible.
- Edited Posts - On the old forums, when a user edited a post it defaulted to having some text saying that the post was edited, for example "[Sarrate edited this post on mm/dd/yyyy at hh:mm]". These forums don't display that at all. Personally, I think all edited posts should be flagged as such to avoid 'ninjas.'
- Images - While it can be useful, I can't help but feel like the feature will be abused...
- (Subjective) The forums feel a little slower than the old one, but it may because numerous forum addicts (myself included) can finally get their fix after 3 days of downtime.
That's all I have for the moment...
[edit: I retract the bullet about editing posts. It was pointed out to me that there is a short grace period before a message gets tagged as edited. This is fully acceptable to me.]
[edit: Holy crap! This board actually tracks the history of edited posts! That's awesome.]
1) The Dev/Community Digests need to be fixed asap. This should be the #1 priority. Most players I know use those to quickly stay informed. Right now, most of them (to a large extent myself included) are just completely avoiding the boards, since they are deemed "useless".
2) There needs to be an option to specifically disable images in posts and a separate option to disable them in signatures.