McBoo

I never really pay attention to Brawl much, can you still use Brawl if you have no endurance?

Even if you can wouldn't it make more sense to carry a lot of blues to counteract a Sappers drain and hit him with higher damage attacks rather than swatting him ineffectually with something like Brawl?


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Don't like CoH? What's wrong with it? It's beautiful, it's rich, it has huge..... tracts of data!


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That was sarcasm Blpup, NCSoft is a 10 year old company with several games under it's belt so I can't see them not doing the needful when it comes to insuring the success of one of their properties. Also bear in mind that CoX still has the core development team that has been here since the beginning and have always proven that they are willing to work hard to make the game fun and successful.


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For the record, throwing extra armor on a player that makes bad tactical decisions doesn't make them any less of a liability.


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One would hazard a guess that NCSoft is already doing this and making decisions about things like advertising, new patches, expansions, possibly an engine upgrade, etc. based on what they find.


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You would be better served to check the numbers during a more classically busy time for every day over the next quarter to verify if there really is a downward trend or if it's just one man's perspective. You also might take into consideration that Freedom will always have a larger population because of the fact that it was the original test server from when CoH was in beta therefore a large percentage of the veterans will be playing primarily on that server. The numbers that you have presented thus far even support the idea that Freedom would probably be a better choice for sampling.

Also bear in mind that CoV has had an effect on the blue side population as folks will be playing red side, which is still viable population for the game.


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What day was this?

What time of day was it?

What other things were going on outside of the game that could explain the lower numbers? *cough*World Cup*cough*

Are you basing your numbers on a sample from a single day or a group of samples over a period of 3 or 4 months that supports a downward trend?


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Propaganda! How dare you try and argue with the truthiness of the OP's assertion!


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Very true! Alot of brainstorming goes on in this section and brainstorming is loads of fun as far as I am concerned! Also leaving us in the For Fun section prevents folks from making the assumption that their suggestions are going to be implemented in the game. It is, after all, just for fun.


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Barbecue at my place!


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I'm in agreement with everything said above except the part about Red being a tool. Of course he knows himself better than I do so I could be wrong about that.


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Yeah, the facial options in the new game from that "other" developer are a good benchmark. I hope I'm not being too cryptic.....


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This sounds nice because I do find some of the veteran rewards less than useful but it also could be a precursor to an online store. Folks will want the ability to pay money to buy points to purchase rewards and we're right back to selling vet rewards.


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That is only true up to 72 months.

Figuring that the system goes in today; a 72 month vet will only receive a veteran reward from the new list or tier in 3 months time while a new player would receive the original 3 month vet reward plus the vet reward form the new list or tier. This would mean that in 6 years time 6 year vets and 12 year vets would have the same rewards.


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Being a long time vet I have no way of verifying this but can a new player purchase a wings recipe from WW or the BM and use them right away?


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/signed!

A very handy option indeed!


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While something like this could believably increase revenue I think that it would do more to increase player churn rather than increasing long time membership.

Folks would be pissed that they are paying the extra money but effectively still have to wait. There would be a large number of new players that would be willing to pay the extra $50 right when they sign up so that they can get an extra attack at level 1 and wings as a costume item right away.

I understand that your suggestion puts a cap on that but it won't be a popular cap and since money talks it wouldn't be long before all veteran rewards were eligible for purchase from day one. That leads to new players joining the game, buying up all the vet rewards they want and then power leveling to 50 in the space of a month at which point they grow bored with the game and cancel their account.

The veteran rewards are meant to be gratuities for player loyalty, not "bling" that can be picked up by anyone with more money than sense.

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I would like to see the addition of alternate skin textures but I think that might be more than the developers have time for right now from a coding and animating perspective.

I would also like to see them add eyes as a costume option so that we could select things like cat eyes, alien eyes, pupilless eyes. etc. Also the ability to change the change the color of the pupils and the sclera using the pallete.

Along the same vein it would be cool if all of the facial features became customizable to include alien, animalistic or generally non-standard options.


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