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sigh, another magisterium trial I'll have to miss, that was only stage 1 that finished downloading.. got 2 stages to go..
stage 2 downloaded, waiting on stage 3, I might be done for 9pm eastern ntil then have fun without me.
sigh 25% stage 3... I guess I'll try again next week.. -
Hi all emergency, my harddrive is toast on my main computer, I'm on my laptop atm, I need to install CoH in order to play tonight, hopefully I can do it in time.
23% I should be able to make it for 8 oclock -
I apologize for the last itrial I had to bail out on due to Work calling me in.. I have no work on sundays however.
So this sunday the 21st Eastern USA time from 8PM to 10 PM I will be forming and doing Magisterium trials, and would hope people would join me.
we can do other trials while we wait if we don;t have enough people for magi.
Meet in DA on protector. or send a tell to @joshex if we are already in a trial. -
Dang, I apologize to all here, You can all form the trial if you like but I just got called into work tonight and will be unable to attend.
Take care and have fun. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Major_T
In the Magisterium Trial, Shadowhunter, Nega-Pendragon, Chimera, and Black Swan are all 54+3. Tyrant will be 54+5. Each attendee having all three level shifts has a tremendous impact on the success of the league.
last time most people had the slots filled, we just didn't have enough people.
12 is the minimum that's around what we had 12-13 we took down 1 av and got started on the second when we got timed out.
the second run we just farmed.
Hoping for more people tonight. We need to take down those evil praetorians. -
9 PM eastern time, tomorrow tuesday the 16th there will be another run of the magisterium trial, I hope for more people to show up this time, on monday we were able to run the trial 2 times however ran out of time before we could give cole the old heave ho.
Meet in Dark Astoria at 9 Pm eastern with a VIP account on a LV 50 toon with destiny and lore unlocked but you don't need to have a power on each.
you will get advanced incarnate experience towards your hybrid slot as well as threads and astral merits and empyrean merits ETC.
so come one come all. -
This monday evening the 15th of october, there will be a magisterium trial held on protector at 9:00 PM Eastern US time.
The Magisterium Trial is only for VIPs who have LV 50 toons with destiny and lore slots unlocked (don't have to be slotted)
The trial will get you Advanced incarnate XP towards your Hybrid slot, as well as astral and empyrian merits yadda yadda.
be there before or at 9 PM, the quicker we get assembled the quicker we can finish, if theres enough time maybe we can do more than one run. (and hopefully unlock everyone's hybrid slot)
the trial already has a tank and a mastermind confirmed for attendance. -
Quote:think a march in real life could actually work if we planned it for the end of november, it doesn't have to be in DC, it just needs to be somewhere where it will influence lots of people.Originally Posted by Doc Blast
Hence the idea to gather on Virtue and the event is for the players.
Live-streaming is a fine idea though. Im not sure if your serious about a live march though. There are lots of people in seperate parts of the world. Not everyone lives in DC or can afford to fly out there. Like the enthusiasm though.
just need to organize it to give everyone enough time to get there. -
not to crash the party but there are lots of people on separate servers, not to mention, who's attention will we catch doing only this?
may I suggest Livestreaming it to VOD and sticking it on youtube? that and I think a real march with real people would demonstrate this issue better.
why not march through somewhere like Washington DC or someplace, you know get attention for our cause on a national or even world level.
we could call it the Million Person Super Walk calling to the US government for help to assert our claim to our beloved city of paragon. we are it's citizens and the koreans have no right to take away our city! -
sigh, depressing the GM answered me and didn't even answer the topic of character transferring, instead they said;
Quote:quite depressing, I really was trying to forget it was closing in 3 months.. grrr all the reason to fight stronger to try and keep it, keep making noise people let them hear us roar! the moment we stop making a fuss about it is the moment they think we don't want COH..Hello,
We would first like to thank you for your support of City of Heroes. It is never easy to make this kind of decision. You can read the official announcement at http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/news_archive/thank_you.php. There is a discussion on the forums that you are free to view at http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=295621.
For details on VIP accounts and refund information, please read the update at http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/player_services_status_update.php. I apologize for any inconvenience, but any accounts that were not VIP status on September 1st, 2012 will not be able to upgrade to that status.
City of Heroes will be available for at least the next three months. Please watch the forums for updates on special events that will be run in that time. -
I had a friend who ran a Huge manga site and forum, the only thing he requested was money for the server, he was on british welfare due to disability. he'd never take money for himself.
Basically, the devs could just change the title of the game and make a direct port to a new set of servers, revisions to the game to make it noticeably different from CoH could be according to the Plan Z's philosophy of updates needed to attract the new asian market.
the devs also need enough pay/ help as they can get to keep themselves above water while making the necessary changes.
though the pay could realistically come from the current pay to be VIP system and shop. -
Quote:Oh, you misunderstand me.Originally Posted by DarkGob
Okay, now imagine the ability to pay someone on any server to roll and PL a character for you, then transfer it to your account. (Copying would be much worse as you could duplicate 50s from your main account to a secondary account which is just begging for exploitation.) Not to mention the possibility or even likelihood that it might be flat out impossible to even move that kind of information between accounts.
I'm certain this has been addressed by a redname in the past but I don't have the time to research it at the moment.
I meant transfer between two accounts owned by the same person (same Master Account) -
Quote:Originally Posted by DarkGob
City of Heroes may be saved, but it will almost certainly not remain within the walls of NCSoft. But even if it did, this will never happen for a bunch of pretty obvious reasons (enabling RMT/PL services, for starters).
RMT? I know PL is Power Level, people already do this -
I sent something similar to this as a message to the ask a question staff at NCSoft;
I recently got my girlfriend to play CoH, she's from china and she loves it.
I just created an account for her separately and IF the game is continued I'll make it VIP paying for the content.
secondly the main thing, her characters are in my account, so IF the game is continued can we have the option to Copy characters from one account to another with-in the same master account?
obviously it would be mandatory to change the name of one of the characters and pay for the name change fee. -
Quote:I was disheartened at first, but now I figure if I just give up now,then it's like giving up on all hope for CoH.Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
Well, given that there's no coders left at what's left of Paragon Studios right now (The studio is already dissolved, and I gather there's just a skeleton crew there, getting things ready for the physical closing of the offices), so unless something changes with the closure, don't worry about it too much.
we've got to keep working, if CoH does come back we don't want alot of delays in progress because of this escapade by NCSoft do we? -
Quote:lol are you watching me play belmont when nobody is around?Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
Live action!
anyways I will be absent this month due to travels, I doubt I'll have time to finish the demo this month.
as I edited above it is in A video game, just not city of heroes, yet. -
Quote:nice.Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
The petition is long since underway, and has over 12,000 signatures as of the time I'm writing this: http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes
And much, much more, including a letter-writing campaign to NCSoft, appeals to other game companies (including an e-mail campaign to Valve), several ventures from the Titan Network (they who host the Paragonwiki), and so on. (There's also apparently something going on on the Devs' end of things, but obviously I'm not privy to that information)
Glance around the forums, and you'll see that nobody is taking it lying down.
sadly I will be absent until late september due to travels, I might not be able to get any work done on the whip during this month as expected either. -
Quote:another program, But It's open source and I can port it to any format they need.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Is that an in-game demo, or something you put together in another program?
right now it's just a rigged softbody whip, still need to animate the attacks.
anyways thats offtopic and just yet another thing to look forwards to.
Edit, let me rephrase that, it is in an actual game environment but not city of heroes. -
Well this sounds hopeful, that there are talks happening, what would be great through all this is if the devs could gain full ownership to the title so we never have to worry about this sort of thing again.
the shock of the news has worn off to me, but it's still in my heart. I know I'm not anyone important when it comes to CoH/CoV development but I was pleasantly surprised at the level of activism this event has triggered. I'm so used to dealing with cowards who shrivel-up into little mice when someone 'royally shoves one' on them. I was like "right on! a petition! saves me from starting a riot"
I wish I would have been able to express my full view of this situation in my signing of the petition but I was low on time on a library computer (am in midst of travels)
To tell the truth, back in the 80-90's I was one of those kids that Super nintendo and my game saves were something of extreme significance to, i even remember asking god in a prayer to make it so they would be available in heaven.
so yeah games mean an awful lot to me, especially this one.
part of me only wishes people had done something when NCSoft threatened and canned Exteel. the game just needed some tweeking to be more marketable..
anyways, if CoH and CoV are reinstated I will definitely supply the devs with the whip melee demo I've been working on. -
oops didn't know there already was one
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Quote:Noooooo.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Ya know since it's obvious that he hasn't heard the news you might want to be a little more informative.
Bad news. The game is being shut down by NCSoft. The devs have all been fired. Paragon Studios is no longer in business. We are looking at Nov 30 as the last day the servers will be active.
Quick lets all petition NCsoft to change it's position on this issue claiming how much we adore this game. -
Sorry for the double post.
I was messing around recently and figured out how to do a low-poly soft-body whip with very little code, it's mostly just rigging. As it's used it will take into effect air dampening of movement and deflection objects I suppose a box could be placed around each player/enemy and set to deflection that would allow players to interact with the whip's length as it's extended.
secondly, I got no response from the devs, I only contacted one though, but it appears I was ignored.. or maybe she was just too busy to have time to respond to such a complex issue.
when I get time I will make an .exe demo of a real-time whip, I'll just use characterkit as a base to save time so I don't have to model or rig a character. (goes to re-download it.)
Time is tight for me, I am currently taking care of business in the USA, soon I will be off to Scotland for other important things and britain after that..
then I will be back in the USA for 2 months with some time to work on things, followed by a return to Scotland, so I am quite busy. expect the demo sometime in October. -
Quote:I can't view facebook, I've been teaching english in china for a year, china blocks facebook youtube and anything similar.Originally Posted by Tater Todd
Paragon Studios actually posted about job openings on the City of Heroes Facebook Page I believe.
Go to their FB page and look up July 17th.
Paragon Studios is hiring! We're currently on the look out for an amazing UI artist and animators! If you're interested in working in a giant warehouse (and with a bunch of insanely awesome people), check out our jobs page here! - http://www.paragonstudios.com/careers/
soon I will leave though It sound like I missed the very event I needed to chime in on, if anyone could post on facebook for me that would be great, as for the careers page I saw it. I applied but maybe I was too late.. only wish they'd give me a chance lol.
I used to do speed modelling contests, could build an entire anime character in 8 hours from scratch. -
Quote:Hello Honey Badger,Originally Posted by Honey Badger
Hey guys!
Just caught a little break so I thought Id check in! Im crazy busy these days finishing up all the powers we announced at the summit, so Im sorry I havent been able to respond very quickly here.
Lots of great ideas, so lets get right to it:daveyJ3- Yes, Synapse is the genius number-cruncher to send your powers requests to. Wind Blast was one of the many suggestions we got at the player summit, and like we said, we kept all suggestions! So rest assured we know all about that one!
ScarletShocker- Thats a great idea, I will definitely explore your suggestion for dark auras. The clunker aura, with the trail only option might work for you though! I made that one specifically to look like leaking oil, so you can tint it black! It wont be as dark as a dark aura version may one day be, but maybe it could hold you over until I make one?
Thanks guys! Weve built up quite a collection of ideas for auras and CCemotes now, but I could always use more! I want to hoard them until there's enough to dive in all Scrooge McDuck style! Keep em comin'!
Angelxman- There should be an incoming improvement for Penny Yins pet. And dont lose hope, PP customization is on backorder, not shelved!
Zyphoid- I approve that message, it has a lot of potential! It unfortunately carries the stigma of requiring UI work (much like PP customization). I can guarantee you were looking into it though!
Sam Tow- Youre welcome, told you guys I read all the posts here! :P
Your suggestion for an Earth Judgment is definitely like some of the things I try consider when making powers. I personally loved Avatars take on Earth-bending, and how it definitely had a more reactive feel to it as opposed to being some kind of mind control over the element. Unfortunately however, I often come late in the process to setting up powers, so by the time I get it, it already has all the (character) animations and behavior set in place. This is not to say that I cant push a little when I feel it necessary to change it, but I cant do that often. I would say Design (synapse) is the best place to send your suggestion for that, as they are the ones that usually drive the powers through and gives the animator a direction.
Morgan- All great ideas for CC and regular Emotes! Definitely noted!
SnowZone- Changing the color pallete would affect everyone's color selections, and from what I hear, people don't like that very much. Lets just cross our fingers that I may get some scheduled time for alternate FX on these older powersets some day. And keep your eyes out for Nature Affinity :P
Vyver- I heard somewhere that hair over one eye is becoming a leading cause of eye stigmatisms, you really want your hero to be flawed? *wink* In all seriousness though, hair options would be a great request for Dink in the "All Things Character Art" thread.
I've never met you before on the site or in game but, I was told of your existence recently and thought I'd say hi.
I'm currently a self employed game developer working on an 'indie' title yet to be announced.
anyways, I'm kinda straight-forwards about my intentions; I'm trying to make whip melee and subsequent other possibly ranged or control based powersets because I really want to see it in game.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=293917
I emphasize 'make' because I'd like to do the modelling, rigging, texturing and coding. sadly I'm not part of paragon studious so, I don't know what file formatts the cryptic engine supports.
anyways I'm sure I can do it because I've done this sort of thing before for my last animation, putting it into a GE should be simple for me. and it wont cost much video mem, processor allocation or many polies.
any chance of telling me a suitable file formatt for the set-up?
right now I can export to fbx 3ds (not max) and unity (as well as others). for scripting I can definitely get python scripts if necessary. -
Quote:thanks for the advice, I might consider some of this, I recently applied to paragon studios as a character animator, they had an opening.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
I haven't seen any NCSoft job postings, so I don't know what they require. But we aren't talking about NCSoft, we are talking about Paragon Studios. Yes, they are a part of NCSoft but they are their own studio and have their own hiring system.
I have seen quite a few Paragon Studios job postings and I've never seen one that required a degree in Game Development or any other degree unless it was on a line that included the phrase "or equivalent experience" or "or equivalent professional experience".
Going by the current postings on their Careers page, only 3 of the 10 list a degree or equivalent experience in the Qualifications / Requirements section. Those three are Sr. Server Engineer, Client Engineer (Next Gen MMO) and User Interface Engineer (Next Gen MMO). Sure, I can see where one of the Engineer positions might list a degree as being desirable, but even then it's qualified with the phrase "or equivalent experience".
None of the postings that include Art in the name of the position list a degree or equivalent experience in the Qualifications / Requirements section.
There is only one position with Engineer in the name of the position that doesn't list a degree or equivalent experience in the Qualifications / Requirement section and that is Sr. Engineer.
I'm not certain since I've never asked them specifically about it but I think there are several Devs with Paragon Studios that don't have a degree in Game Development.
So, there goes your "it's a matter of principle" argument with regard to requiring a degree.
No, their Careers page isn't currently listing anything with Animation in the name of the position, but what would it hurt to send in your resume and maybe list some of your ideas. Or apply for another position that you might meet the qualifications for and prove your worth to the company then pitch your ideas.
Alternatively, start up conversations with some of the Devs that post here that deal with Animation. Honey Badger comes to mind immediately of the current team. Perhaps through discussions of ideas you might pique his interest enough that they consider hiring you on a temp contract that could turn into something more long term.
oh well.
I will talk with some devs if I get a chance. I'll try right now.