Myopic Aardvark

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It's just a timepiece. We have an official announcement coming, probably at 6.00 UK time.

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Way to kill the sarcastic questions, what with all those facts and all...

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If "shortly" is within the next hour, he is not evil.
But if "shortly" is within the week, then he is.

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*looks at clock*

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Does that clock have a date function on it or is it just a timepiece?

Can I throw a "why do Villain Accolades require entry into PvP zones when Hero ones don't" balance statement into the mix too?

COH works just fine with Vista - I've been using Vista since last November without a hitch on COH/V.

NVidia on the other hand....

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I’m happy to say I did my bit on both sides of the coin. (And not both sides of Coin_ as I suspect that would be upsetting, certainly for him, if not me. )

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Ditto. Erm... to at least one part of that (I'm getting less and less balanced on which side of the coin... erm... yeah, Coin_ I'm on now.... erm... ooooh look, a pony)

Slightly on topic,

There was a post over on the Star Trek Online forums which went:

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I've been playing City of Heroes for the most part of 4 years now, and it's clear that game wont be around for much longer.

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It was posted at an almost "EU time", so own up, who did it?

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I demand a data mine.

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We're not allowed datamines because we're the EU community. Only the US community get them, because they're treated so much better than we are.

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Glad I won that round - that hand would have wiped me out.

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Someone should chuck an ED discussion in and possibly raise it with a "the devs hate Villains" too


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I'l match that and raise you a "farming is destroying the game"

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Call. With a "the devs are trying to destroy their own source of income because they hate us" hand.

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I see new people playing every single day.

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Yep, I've created 3 new alts in the last week and every time I go into the training zone (hey, I like getting my Isolator badge early), there's been someone new in there asking questions.

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Hang on is this the monthly doom thread or the bi monthly server merge thread?

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What, it can't be both? At least now we're getting efficient threads that combine the two.

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Someone should chuck an ED discussion in and possibly raise it with a "the devs hate Villains" too

Still here too - since October 04... erm, well that was the US, but I was over here since October 05.

The name Caleb does seem familiar...

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You aren't trying to get this on topic are you?

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Maybe

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Perhaps a shield shaped like a giant iron!

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Or perhaps a like a gigantic, inflatable turtle!

(Maybe not)

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Not if you use a flat iron, and hit them really hard.

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Not as satisfying as a good bit of 2-by-4 though.

Or possibly some kind of metallic shield...

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This thread's back from the dead, like someone beaten half to death by a shield toting vigilante

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You're not even trying to hide the flamebaiting now, are you?

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Absolutely, let's get straight to the GG bashing. How constructive.

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Irony. Lost on some people.

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I would like a plush Warwolve ...

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Heh - got one of them. My wife made it for me, along with a plushie Shivan.

I spent half an hour a couple of weeks back looking for them. Only found one. Comments on the Badgehunter's channel was that they had been made fairly rare since the Hollows redesign.

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This thread's back from the dead, like someone beaten half to death by a shield toting vigilante

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You're not even trying to hide the flamebaiting now, are you?

Sheesh and this thread originally started because Blue Steel uses shields and we're getting shields. Who knew we'd get down into such a debate (*feigns innocence*)

I've just bought the nice red COV t-shirt from NCSoft.

(Bloody advertising on the PlayNC launcher having an effect on me! )

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9000000 = monthly fee per 5 months (12 euro per month)
800000000 = free with 20.000.000 ppl (40 euro per expansion every 6 moths)
88000000 = free with 2.000.000 ppl (40 euro every 6 months per expansion)
all did that with a calculator, in case you're conna talk smart again.(in case you try at least)
still not much?

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Your calculator is broken.

Still no evidence at all that making it free to play with added enhancement packs would equal your figures (or at least something close to your figures)

For one, the assumption that every single player would pay for these packs is well off.

Free to play would be the death knell for ANY MMO which used to be paid for. Even WOW. Sure, you'd have a period of time when people came in going "Woo! Shiny! It's free!", but that wouldn't last long.

And then the game would only be played by a minority.

I don't have any proof of my gut feeling either, but it's just as valid as yours.

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COX would grow from a small 20.000 players to around the 5 mill players.


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That's some crazy stat there - can I ask how you came to that conclusion? Because I don't think there's a single instance where a paid MMO became f2p that you could draw that kind of conclusion from - especially since COH has approximately 135 thousand players right now.

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Keep it real, heroes. See you on the other side.

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You're going to Champions Online?

Seriously though, all the best Rockjaw. You were the first community rep that I met and you did a damned good job here, keeping the games in the public eye.

Hope everything works out for you. Have fun!

They might just throw a "Learn German in your sleep" book at GR and Palladium and say, "That'll be in your next quarterly appraisal - get to it."

I sincerely hope not though

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I'm just trying to think of an instance when a super-hero *had* more than one side-kick active at a time, and I just can't think of an example. Can anyone else?

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If you want to talk sidekicks, look at Batman over the years. You may not call them sidekicks, but he did have complete control over (even if not direct):

Robin
Batgirl
Huntress
Nightwing
Azrael
Oracle
Spoiler
Orpheus
and most of the godammed Justice League...

It all depends on context.

On topic, I actually like Lionsbane's idea.

It would be great to take a number of people and go into a mission without worry about sk's.

In fact, if you want to prevent PLing, perhaps you could implement an XP cap (ie. yourlevel times standard mob xp times somesort of bonus minus ('x' times number of deaths) ) or some such.

Maybe even limit the amount of story arcs you can do in a day to 2 or 3 in order to prevent abuse?

Just a couple of ideas

Those who want to PL can PL though. Those who want to play with their friends can do exactly that.

My 2 pence.

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/Regen Scrappers are massively difficult to play. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone other than a total masochist.

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What's so hard about /Regen scrapper exactly?

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The lack of sarcasm that goes with it?

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What would be the point in advertising in Greece? there is no greek localisation, no greek GMs, Greece has a tiny population anyway. Face it, you aint worth thier while.

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When did LB take over your account Praf?

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Adversising is good, but it won't sell snow to eskimos. CoX is based on american comic books.

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You mean the ones lining my shelves. Damn, should I have been buying some other form of comic book instead of something I like?

In fact, wouldn't anyone interested in a superhero game at least have passing knowledge of the big players in American comic books?

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a possibility that Kerensky may be leaving us.

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That sucks. Big time.
Kerensky is an absolutely outstanding CC!



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I hope so too. Never before have so many posts been so cryptically made. Either that or he's drunk when he posts - either way, a fantastic CC.