Memphis_Bill

You can hit multiple enemies with it?
You can slot Nemesis Staff for Accuracy?
You can get Nemeis Staff to recharge as fast?
YOu can get knockback protection (3 points) from Nemesis Staff?
You can proc Nemesis Staff for a chance for recharge, or more smashing damage, or build up, hold, heal, negative energy damage, etc?


No?

And "Videos or it didn't happen?" Really? Nothing I posted is impossible, or even that big of a stretch of the imagination. I'm not soloing a level 54 AV with just Force Bolt - that sort of thing would logically have people requesting proof. *Nothing* I posted should be the least bit surprising.

Actually, Virtualbox plays *very* nicely with Windows 8, if you want to try it in a VM.

Quite obviously not a dev - and I should really do this as a copy paste, I seem to be saying it a lot lately.

*points down to guides in sig* Down there, guide to the early COH trailer, should also have links to thinks like Internet Archive of the COH site, and of... origins.

Early on, Origins (they create worlds... wait, that's the old development house...) had a huge impact - there were more of them, and they determined both how MANY powers you could select and how FAR you could upgrade/enhance them.

That, of course, got scrapped when they found out how broken the "freeform selection" was. So, we got Origins as we have them now, along with AT and powersets.

I *suspect,* though, that when they stepped away from that system, they didn't completely rewrite character creation from scratch. But if you think about how much effect old-origin would have had on a character, you'd see why it would be in on such a fundamental level on characters now - even though it doesn't do that much. Whether it was just from not thinking about it, or just having a changeable origin *break* so much even then that it would be a lot of work (and now, a decade of added patches, rewrites, systems, etc.) I suspect it's just so tied into so many possible systems it's just too big of a risk (or too much work) to let be changed.

Frankly, I'd love to hear from a dev to see if I'm anywhere close to the mark in that guess or not.

The flip side of this is what keeps me out of most games. I actually liked Aion in general - I thought it did all right with the PVPVE model (but then again, fewer classes, bit easier to balance like that) until (a) you *needed* to PVP to finish quests, (b) it got to be "raid to get the gear to raid to get the gear, and don't bother if you're not near top level," (c) the grind to pay for skills (which drives me up the wall,) and (d) I got tired of "If you're lucky, you can take down TWO enemies. After time. Unless one runs back and is immune while healing up to full health. And don't look sideways at an Elite, he'll kill you with a sneeze."

COH... yeah. Get in, get piled on, come out, dust yourself off and find another spawn. You actually feel *powerful.*

Not really going to get into this argument... but without ED, we wouldn't have the invention system. We *were* overpowered (and IMHO we're sliding up that way again, really,) and that would have been bad for the game at that point. Now, yeah, we can be overpowered - but it takes a bit of effort to get there with getting a build together.

And yet, you can still do all the content with SOs. (Example - latest Alpha unlock for me = Sonic/Sonic Defender. On SOs.)

Still, if he can't see past the "big number" (level cap) and is only going to use that as a yardstick, instead of approaching the game for its own merits... *shrug8 yeah, might be a lost cause. Still, have him keep the free (or actually, as an ex subscriber, premium) going. Can't hurt to nudge him back from time to time. And there may be something else (a powerset, the market, etc.) that brings him all the way back.

Well, they *Have* been fairly clear (as far as simple, overall statements - because do you REALLY want technical details on server upgrades? I'm pretty sure they'd make most people fall asleep for eight to twelve hours by page 3...) on what they're doing. Hardware upgrades/replacement. Today involved physically *moving* the servers, among other things.

Now, the one gripe I have seen that I *will* agree with is that they need all this in one place - not a bit here, a bit on Twitter, a bit on Facebook and a bit on Ustream.

I play at these hours, and I'm fine with it, but then again, I (a) know the sort of thing that goes into upgrades like this, and (b) know it's for the long-term performance of the game.

Honestly, regular business PCs that don't get hit like the servers are given a 3-4 year life cycle at most before replacement. Given the plans for the game (and when's the last time we had server upgrades like this? I believe we're looking at a few years,) it's due.

I didn't find it particularly inconvenient.

(A) no, they don't owe you anything.
(B) They may do something nice anyway, but expect it to be more an in-game thing. 2xp weekends, events, etc. if they do anything.
(C) Given that the end result of this is to be more capable servers, I'd call "Long term capacity and stability at the cost of short-term downtime right now" ample compensation, IMHO.

I think the bigger concern is the SOs that seem to be dropping like rain in the tropics on lower levels.

I don't believe you can trade/email these.

FF/Bots.

My bots are squishy for quite some time. I don't want something coming up to melee them.

Force Bolt. *bam* Now no longer melee.

My Defender is squishy. Tank loses aggro, something chases me.

Force bolt. *Bam* Enemy is now back in with the tank.

My Controller puts down an ice slick/volcanic gasses/etc. Something's not in it. Force bolt - they are.

And before you say Repulsion field or Force bubble do that - Force Bolt does it far earlier.

As for repulsion field - it's better paired with some sets than others. If I don't want stuff in melee and I'm running fairly high settings, but I don't want them shoved back as far as Force Bubble - Repulsion Field fits the bill.

I don't see what's so difficult about that.

Not as sad as making another "Why roll FF" thread.

Who says it's supposed to be a cliffhanger other than just sort of "fading to black as he's overcome?"

Well, I wouldn't actually worry over much about this - after all, for quite some time, Windows Vista and Windows 7 weren't "officially" supported - and XP, IIRC, isn't "officially" supported outside of some business licenses any longer from MS.

Noting, again, this is currently "Developer Preview," so not even really "public beta" - or anywhere close to release...

It doesn't look or function like Windows 7 at this point, by default. Going to a non-Metro app flips you over to the desktop. There's no start menu - the "start" button flips you back to the Metro UI (and you have *no* idea how irritating that is.)

I'm assuming (yeah, I know) MS will put in an option to disable the Metro UI complettely in the release (and later beta) versions. Because on a desktop PC... that thing is *irritating as hell.*

If you ARE running the developer release, you have to make a registry change:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer

Change RPEnabled to 0 (to disable Metro) or 1 (to reenable it.) It doesn't, IIRC, even require a restart... but with it disabled, it's essentially windows 7. They will be having other technology support natively in Win8 (and there's talk of requiring UEFI, various "trusted" components, etc, noted mostly because it may cause issues for those that dual boot to other OSes - we'll see how that works out. The dev. release doesn't care - works in VirtualBox just fine.)

No, they aren't.

If your customer came up and said "I deserve everything you make, free," are they right? Do you just hand over the keys to the warehouse and rent a truck for them?

Or are they... oh... *not right?*

Extreme example, but if the customer was "always right," that's what you'd do - and you'd then be out of business in a month.

So...

Expanded server hardware that can handle more players is of no benefit to paying customers? Do you *really* believe that? That once the "shakedown" of the new hardware is done and we can deal with less lag, etc. will be of zero benefit?

The hardware upgrades will benefit *everybody.*

You mention increased server loads. Now stop and think... just *why* would they, maybe, possibly, have decided to upgrade hardware? Perhaps, just maybe, to *handle* those increased server loads?

Nah, crazy thought.


Go ahead and complain. Like I said earlier, I'm missing time, too - this *is* my "prime time." But think about what they're doing, and what they've BEEN doing, and what might be involved before saying much of what's been said in this thread. This is not a fast job - servers never are. And, like it or not, it *is* better for them to do this sort of thing in stages. Frustrating for us when inter-hardware communication glitches, or hardware itself has an issue, causing lag and other server downtime, absolutely - but three months from now, nobody will even remember this.

Then your saying is short-sighted and foolish, because the customer most certainly is NOT always right. Not in the least.

I think you make too many assumptions.

Right now, while the servers are down, *IS* my primary game time. And I am NA. And no, I'm not pissed about "having the short end of the stick." When they come up, I'll be at work. When I'm done with work, most of my friends will be heading to sleep so they can be up when THEY work.

So do stop trying to assume your impatience is what everyone feels. For one, I've *done* some of what they're doing, and for another, *IT'S A GAME.* Not a vital service.

And, seriously, you want them to schedule workers around *European* time? You don't think they've had people in *earlier* preparing for this move BEFORE the downtime? Just how early do you want them in, and how much overtime (assuming they're not salaried, which makes "Come in at midnight" suck EVEN MORE) would you care to pay them?

Sheesh. You'd think someone's life depended on COH being up 24/7. How dare they make hardware upgrades and changes! And do it over time so they can watch for problems as they occur before the next stage, instead of doing it all at once, keeping the game down *longer* and making problems just that much *harder* to track down...

PBs (pre-I13) were generally respectable in PVP. I'd held off mobs of villains in Dwarf, and had a longstanding rivalry with a certain Stalker over on Pinnacle. Some of my favourite moments in PVP were on that character - and also some of the more frustrating, going toe to toe with a brute and neither one of us being able to kill... me, mostly because of having only a few attacks and not enough recharge (this is before IOs existed.)