Johnny_Butane

We, and the devs.

We'll be getting an influx of new players. I for one want to not only hook them on the game, but sell them on the lifestyle; make sure they experience the best of what CoH has to offer.

-AFAIK, free players won't have posting rights to the official forums, and I've heard nothing from the devs about setting up and "free area". Correct me if I'm wrong. If I am not, to that end, I suggest we work towards enabling free players a way to connect with the community. Is there any place still active they can go to discuss the game? I seem to recall there used to be some unofficial forums set up. Are they still active? If so, we should all get behind pointing new players there. If not, it would be really cool for someone to set something up.

-Paragonwiki.com
The wealth of information there is enormous and invaluable. And we still have active players who don't know about it. I feel it's very important to inform new players of this site.

-The official comic archive.
I can't stress how important I feel the comics were to this game. They made the franchise feel bigger than just a single online game. Having the tie-in made everything feel grander IMO.

-Mids and Hero Stats.
Let people know about these. They're not for everyone, but for some they make a huge difference in how they approach the game.

-Samuraiko's videos.
The community value of these are priceless. They build hype better than some of the official marketing and they offer to educate and illustrate the many cool things that have been added to the game over the years.

-Virtueverse and Unionverse
Again, it's about showing people there's a thriving community. It's been my observation that RPers make fiercely loyal customers and immersing new players who enjoy RP can only help retention.


These are just off the top of my head. I'll add more as I think of them. I encourage others to make suggestions too.

More:

-Direct new players to the various active in-game global chat channels.



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I don't know if anyone has posted anything similar, but I'm having an issue where if I'm standing outside a bunker and the door has been taken out, I can't see any enemies or players that are inside until I enter myself. The insides of the bunker a clearly visible, and any vfx that leak out past the threshold of the door can be seen, but it's as if there's a phantom door object remaining that occludes the objects inside.

This is both the case when I've been there when the door was defeated and when I've arrived after the fact.

This seems to be a recent problem because I don't remember it in beta and hadn't noticed it when Keyes first went live.



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Honestly, I think expanding the Incarnate experience to include a viable solo path is coming. The question is when.

With i21, it's clear the focus was shifted back to the early level game. New tutorial, Atlas/Mercy updates, low 20's zone. Obviously, this work has been put in for the influx of new players we should hopefully be getting when we go F2P.

More troubling to me is that Incarnate (trial) content has outpaced Incarnate rewards. Content shouldn't exceed the rate at which they can give us new carrots to chase. By i21 we're going to have another trial, but no new Incarnate slots to go with it. Like Keyes, I see no real reason to run it. I've been sitting at T4s on the characters I care about for quite some time. By the time they get back to adding more slots, we'll be sick of all four trials.

This makes me angry because the resources and time spent on Keyes and the Underground trial could have been put towards giving people the solo path they want. Variety is nice, but four trials for the same four Incarnate slots we've had since the trials started just isn't necessary at this time, especially at the expense giving players a solo tract.

Rather than giving players four trials to divide their time between, they could have given us two trials and viable solo options; that's variety too.


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How can we defeat 10 Hellions in Galaxy City?

I'd rather they alter the TF than send us to the supposed Ouroboros flashback of Galaxy.


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The point of the Polar Lights was for them to be nondescript, unobtrusive and concept-flexible.

They can be anything from the spirits of your character's dead parents, some kind of technological constructs, focused qi energy or whatever you need them to be.

People asked for this in the many discussions about Lore pets and I asked for pets that looked like wisps specifically, and I am very satisfied with them.



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In the background, it looks like Positron is ordering a meteor to halt.

Four changes need to be made:

1. Allow people who are already queued to be invited to a League/Team.
If someone is queued, that means they WANT to run a trial. Why should they then have to un-queue just to receive and accept an invite to a trial? Allow them to receive invites and then un-queue them automatically should they accept.

2. Queuing for a Trial automatically sets your Team Search status to "Looking for Trial".

3. SHOW the number of people who are queued for each trial.
This will encourage people to queue if there are already a number of people in it. If there aren't many in the queue and it discourages them from queuing, so be it; the trial probably wasn't going to launch anytime soon anyways.

4. Allow people to see and join Trials in progress, provided the trial is not locked and has open spots.


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Every. Single. Run.

Fix plx.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMyUiajtYlQ

No way!
Prove it!



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