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Facepalm emotes!, always up there in the top 10 of emote suggestions. The Devs are aware of it as one of the most requested emotes by now I'm sure, and I join you in your surprise that we still do not have one!.

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...thoroughly seconded.

Comon guys, If the thread goes too far off-topic then on Avatea's arrival it gets locked or deleted. Personally I think this thread is too important.

Yes GhostRaptor has posted before his departure, Yes we have had the good news that Avatea will be representing us over in California...

But, We still haven't had any official comment or explanation for the EU.layoff by NC West and any reassurance about the viability of continued support with a skeleton staff, nor an apology for the lack of communication.

Call me an Elephant with my 'never forgets' mentality if you like, but I still want to hear what NC West has to say about this and not be smooth talked or distracted out of an explanation by talk of the Issue 14 Beta/going live.

The above is not intended to kick start any worries again re: the franchise, but I feel like we are being short-changed here re: the upset over the last few days.

Whether Its in the name of departmentalisation or not, I've already had an email I sent out to NC West's global PR/Customer support departments kicked back to the EU.offices in Brighton, which just goes to show they are not interested in explaining their behaviour, and certainly don't care for your opinion as an EU.subscriber. At the moment I don't feel like renewing past September when my subscription is up, and I never thought I'd feel like that.

Plenty have died whilst in my presence but it is rarely because a heal was not recharged yet.

That could be down to a)experience, b)luck or c)Ultimate Improved recharge bonuses for my build.

I'd wager hasten would be more of an asset if you were going to fight with your secondary as well instead of taking a purely support role.

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Is this like the biggest thread here ever?

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No. The Thread title is different here ... as Is the topic of the thread, ...and the posted opinions on the topic of the thread. Some of the people in the biggest thread ever have however also posted in this thread, so Its a little like it.

But not much.

Happy Birthday InZane! - Have a great day!

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Wait...is he short or is she huge?

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Well, theres this thing behind her in the background... Its called a.. (speaks slowly) "t-a-b-l-e", use that as a rough estimate for height size.

As you can see she carries that Mace-spray on a string around her neck, and keeps it In-hand and ready at all times to ward off the geekage at expos.

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Excellent, good to know things arent gonna move

Now onto the more important stuff ... this Avatea .. She hot?

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Shes a capable and dedicated community representitive Crimson,... thats all you need to know.

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*sighs* ...Oh alright then, .... Yes shes Beautiful.

Thats Beautiful Sapphic!- Congratulations!,

- Nice going Swissy!

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Don't think that's quite what he's getting at

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Ahh yes >.< - sorry blind skipped the SS bit.
Yes, If you're going to avoid mobs with SS that would be preferably, Still people underestimate stealth, Its really quite effective IF you haven't taken the speed pool. I've never needed hasten for any power in Empathy personally.

Lets hope you get a lifetime subscription as part of your goodbye package, It would be great to see a GhostRaptor on-duty.

Pity we never got around to that Iconic 'Generate a GhostRaptor' cossie contest for your toon, hopefully you'll rectify that yourself and join us on-duty.

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Offical Post from GR.
Europe ain't going nowheres! ^^

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Actually its moving east at around 2cm per year

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Your data is incomplete Carbon Unit Scarlet,
Additionally your continent is moving at 65,000 mph or 29.17 km/s around Sol, which in turn is as part of The Milky Way and its neighbors (the so-called Local Group), are moving at 600 kilometers per second (1.34 million miles per hour) in the direction of the constellation Hydra with regards to a static point in space time.

- Whoops, wrong forums.

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To all the doom and gloomers, You worry too much.

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I know dear, but "Its because we care™" and "Because we're worth it™."

Here here, FFM, I agree.

Still not convinced of the sustainability long-term. I would most likely jump at the chance of a U.S transfer as long as the conditions are right, and I'll be watching the quality of EU.support closely in the meantime.

Still waiting for an announcement and for NC West to do the decent thing - ie; post here explain, reassure and apologise for the last 48 hours. It would go a long way to restoring my faith (and subscription) in NC West's product and its commitment towards the EU.community.

Thanks for the update GhostRaptor, once again - good luck!.



... and welcome Avatea \o/ - Best of luck with the move Stateside, some of us have spoken, some of us have met you and I'm sure you've been lurking and acquainting yourself with the characters here.

/em,cower

Shannons advice to take Stealth to lower your threat level is certainly sound.

Re: your other questions... Numinas does offer a better percentage boost to your heal specs and offers juicier set bonuses as well, but the down-side is that It is at great cost. Pretty much the entire set of Numinas are very expensive and sought after.

I would recommend standard IOs until you can afford the Doctored Wounds set, and then If you really want to squeeze every possible ounce of juice out of potential heal numbers - then go for Numinas +heal increase (can be applied five times) It is two-percent over Doctored Wound's set bonus percentage increase I believe.

Oh, and if you are/have taken Leadership then Stamina (and health while you're at it) is necessary, you have better things to slot for as a pure Empath than end reductions.

Let me know what your secondary powerset is so that we can help further.

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I'm not exactly worried that support for EU COH will suddenly dissapear with no warning.

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I'm not worried either that support will suddenly disappear for EU.COH - I AM worried that the support staff left will be stretched beyond what is normally deemed an exceptable level of service. I've had an account problem that took a couple of days to resolve properly before!... and that was before both sets of EU.staff cuts down at Brighton.
The alternative will be U.S support handles more of our account problems - I don't fancy how long any Account or In-game help will take if we are in different time zones.

I'd rather be offered a transfer thankyou.

See the 2nd line of my previous post Extremus, -I appreciate a skeleton staff are staying, -I appreciate they are refocusing EU.side on marketing etc, but If whats left of NCsoft Europe or any remote NC Soft(U.S) support do struggle to provide the same quality (or better) of In-game support if servers stay where they are, It won't really amount to much will it.

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Yep, I'd quit if THAT happens.

[/ QUOTE ]That's unlikely to happen to us I think. For a start there's a lot more of us, and we've been going a lot longer.

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I think most of you know me as a fairly ardent supporter of CoH but, to be honest, If NCNC do not work hard (and I mean really hard) to satisfy the playerbase if there is a merge or keep up remote EU.support if we stay where we are.... Then quite honestly 'The City of' Franchise does deserve to pass for NC Soft.

It would be a great shame if that happened, I would much rather It goes on to compete with the young upstart competition and fulfil its full potential, - but I refuse to support it further if its subscribers are treated like this.

I'm pretty much spent on worrying about my favourite MMO and its future, from now onwards I am just going to wait and see what is said re:any announcement or apology for the last couple of days.

All I can say is it had better be damn good.

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I can't even get the updater to connect, and neither can a couple of friends of mine.

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Nibiru, Create a shortcut to the cityofheroes.exe file - Right click 'create shortcut' on the CoH .exe file

"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project eucoh

This should start the game without the updater, you must have had the latest patch for it to work though, but at least that will get you on-duty.

Sounds good Soul, I'll be reachable through mothers_love@hotmail.co.uk as well as usual.

Withdrawal from Europe a missed opportunity, says former NCsoft exec

Courtesy:GamesIndustryBiz

(Cut 'n' pasted from U.S forums):
IceScykle:

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Adam Martin, former CTO of NCsoft Europe, has some great points.

These retrenchments are the last stage of the general reshuffling of NCWest (as it is). No longer are ex-Origin people in charge; now it is ArenaNet people and they are finishing up in clearing house. It was badly handled because it should have come sooner and with better planning in his view.

The subtext I find scary is that the AN people aren't likely to care about CoH/V. Their focus will be on making GW2 work (which it has to succeed or else NCsoft Korea is going to potentially write a lot of future NA development as a bad investment) and to get the NCsoft Korean titles (like Aion) localised and successful because that is what head office will want. CoH/V probably sits at the back of this importance somewhat because it is a MMO that is chugging along fine right now, but doesn't have the player numbers to make it important to major decision making.

As for CoH/V Europe: I think that's over. Much cheaper to roll everyone into NA where all support and CS can be centralised.

If CoH/V is important to NCWest then we really should be hearing about a major expansion early in 2009. If it isn't important, then I think a lot of the 'major investment' diverted to CoH/V is going to be put into other NCsoft titles that are going to launch this year. CoH/V won't be shut down, but I expect a lot of the optimism about 2009 will be eroded from the devs.

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Another way of looking at it is that COH is a proven money machine for 5 years, they ahve been stung on pie in the sky with the excremental ego trip that was TR and in the current economic climate risk is not a good thing.

So that leaves us with investing more millions in games that may be live for just a few months or consolidating on a product that pulls in at least $1.5mill a month on subs alone and more "add on" packs coming out. I really dont see investment in COH being diverted, people REALLY want guaranteed income now and not another TR.

Given that the comic market has barely even been tapped by COH the potential to expand is there, there is little out there that outshines COH that is being released now and in many cases its worse (Mob AI in WAR makes coh seem like we are fighting an army of einsteins) The problem COH has is there is little to no product marketing out there, even World of Warcraft advertises on mainstream media.

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I've gotta agree, How the hell are people supposed to know about the product if its not marketed correctly, - Its hardly rocket science in these SuperHero-obsessed times.

I swear it really is like banging your head against a brickwall with NCsoft in this regard.

Well there were many players of whom PvP was big endgame content, in fact some players all they seemed to do was both PvE and PvP in Sirens, Warburg and RV.

When it was changed without acknowledging those who used it most...well, You know the rest.

So cocking up the PvP aspect of the game seemed to put a bigger dent in the game than NCSoft were/are prepared to admit.

No surprise there then.

Thats ok deathkitten , they are based on Marvel Bearz and Marvel 3Age which is why how they are style-wise.
The products are more of a parody of CoX and Its Archetypes and Issue updates than just pictures of kittenz anyway.

I'm off now to keep working on the City of Kittenz merchandise store artwork - 70 products and counting so far.
If we end up stateside I'll see if I release it there also.