Lady_Sadako

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It prevented discussion during testing.

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They aren't honour-bound to listen to discussion during testing anyway. If they want to make a change, especially where 'exploits' are concerned, they will.

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It prevented warning players that the huge change was coming. It prevented feedback, and finally prevented players from quickly farming faster TFs/SFs to grab as many recipes as possible before the change hit live.

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Er, all of that addresses why the change wasn't in the TEST patch notes. The discussion is about why the change wasn't in the LIVE patch notes.

It wasn't in the test patch notes because it was about addressing exploitative (from the Devs' PoV) behaviour. It didn't get added to the live patch notes because of communication snarlups. If people think that it was left off the live patch notes because the Devs deliberately left it off, then let them come up with some sane reason why it would have been advantageous to the Devs to do that.

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Why did it take them two days to "find" the patch notes or to comment?

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Office chaos. LH clearly wasn't in the loop, as his now-deleted comments about it being a bug reveal.

Now, is anyone actually going to answer my question? If you're going to make conspiracy theories, then the person(s) doing the conspiring have to have something to gain by it.

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Agreed. I don't buy the "we forgot" nonsense for a second.

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So what possible benefit could the Devs have had from suppressing it on purpose, seeing as it was obviously going to come out anyway?

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Lulz forum stalkers.

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I was on this thread before you were, dear. Now kindly answer the question. Do you honestly think they changed the way all TFs and SFs work just in order to mess with one SF?

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This was to address CAP RUNS.

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You believe they changed every single TF and SF in the game just to address Cap runs?

LH, there is a rumour that TFs 'cannot be completed if anyone logs out'. Can we get confirmation or denial on this one, please?

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Blizzard pushes out at least as much free content for WoW as we get here in CoX. Over and above the paid expansions.

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Thanks. I wouldn't know, since I'd rather eat fried locusts than play it.

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Don't feel awkward. They weren't shuffling. They were desperately trying to resist the urge to point and laugh at the PT Barnum style suckers.

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That's a daft attitude. Try this:

'Dear people who are willing to pay money for stuff we don't personally want,

Thankyou for giving your money to the Devs so they can hire people to make stuff we DO personally want.

Love, Everyone Else.'

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So if you subscribed to Newsweek, you'd be fine with them also charging you cover price for the magazine, right?

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Would you say that's what WoW does by charging for expansions and charging a subscription fee?

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The wedding pack is fluff, which is why it isn't worth money.

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... except to those who like fluff and are willing to pay for it.

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Btw, the veil seems to be having the same problem that trench coats had when they were first introduced: you can't change the inside color!

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What does the veil look like? Where does it attach? We need to know!

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Some of the female costume parts as compiled by an Official Forum shy friend

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But what about the VEIL?

MUST HAVE.

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Ok I think this is pretty cool, I really like the wedding pack. But is their a wedding veil???

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Looks like it:

'The wedding dress costume includes a long lace veil, short stockings, and lace dress and bodice, as well as special "Excess Plus," "Hearts Plus," and "Angelic Plus" costume pieces for chest and hips (all available to female characters). The tuxedo costume includes an elegant formal tuxedo jacket with tails (available to all characters).'

I am so so so so so tempted to get this in order to make a katana wielding blood spattered bride character.

Hiya, sticking my head in from Virtue just to say this [censored] SUCKS.

I have characters on Freedom too, but jeez, if it's your home server, you want to be able to play on it. Anyone who's pissed off about the current situation has a perfect right to be, and anyone taking drive-by lulz shots at the residents has to be getting some pretty cheap laughs. Without getting too touchy-feely here, MMOs are all about community, and your home server is where your damn community is. Being able to get on to it for a special event matters. That's [censored] elementary.

I hope they give you guys an extra couple of days of double XP for this. They did it for some of the Euro servers once, so it's feasible.

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How else will devs know if we dont bring stuff up?

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Did you miss the part where the Devs said how taking on extra staff would allow them to focus on fixing bases?

He's doing the Snoopy dance, folks.

phew.

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Man, I can hear EG's boner from here.

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he hasn't actually responded to this news yet.

I'm part excited and part worried.

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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.

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I bet you've been itching to say that.

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Rather, I believe it has to do with increasing common ways that people get XP in the level ranges the team is targeting (defeating critters, for example).

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So something along the lines of 'since you're level 39 and you probably have no missions left, we'll give you a bonus to the XP you get from defeating badguys so that street sweeping will be more efficient'?

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The fact that we'll be getting these things prior to i12 is completely awesome. It's things like this that remind me of why I have kept my subscription to the City of franchise.

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Yes, they could easily have bundled all this up with I12 and gotten away with a thinner issue that way. I'm glad they didn't.

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"smooth out the leveling curve" ??? possible hint at upping the max lvl and adding new end game content?? PWEEZ!!!!

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No, they explain what they mean...

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The intent is to smooth out the “bumps” where players typically get stuck leveling up their characters.

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So, no new content or level cap increase, but almost certainly stuff to deal with the slowdown post-38.

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Smoothing the XP Curve
One thing that we constantly examine is the rate of advancement in the game. In a future version, we intend to smooth out the leveling curve by changing how much experience is given out for defeating opponents. The intent is to smooth out the “bumps” where players typically get stuck leveling up their characters. Keep an eye on coming patch notes for specifics.

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Best thing ever.

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Real Numbers
As a general quality of life improvement we will be adding new functionality in a coming version of the game to display the “real” numbers behind your characters and their powers. This includes a user configurable display of important characteristics such as movement rate, regeneration rate, resistances and many more! Additionally, you will be able to see how those statistics are affected in real time by buffs and/or debuffs affecting your character.

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... NEW best thing ever.

OMG. Lighthouse. Devs. You are finally going to do this.

I may cry. I'm that happy.

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I even like competing for resource nodes despite the fact that it often makes me want to slap my fellow players.

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Actually, we used to have resource competition in CoH, but only in one zone and for one mission.

Defeat 10 Circle of Thorns in King's Row. Before the Hollows came along and ruined everything, everyone was waiting for nightfall so they could spy out those telltale eldritch blasts from the rooftops. Most of the time, we'd help each other as well as competing, especially if a new player was having trouble understanding how to find the CoT.

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Any word on when the presents are going to appear?

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It takes a while. This exact same thing happened last year.