Nethergoat

we all know your forum persona quite well.

And since we're chatting on a forum , not hanging out in your dining room, that gives us a good working understanding of your behaviors and motivations.

this post reminds me why I love generic IOs so much.

except with Ninja Run...then it looks STYLISH.

=P


my stalker has Ninja Run, Swift, Hurdle and as many GotA + Runspeeds as I can fit in his build (currently 4, more to come once they make stamina inherent) and he BOOKS. He was originally a theme character (all natural, no travel power) but now with NR he gets around just as well as any of my other characters.

So you, like, brush your teeth with monomaniacal rigor, and eat your cereal with every muscle tensed?

Sweet!


I'm far from being a dev fanboy but I do believe in credit where it's due.
The issue here isn't so much dev performance as a bad case of inflated expectations.

any valid arc should deliver XP.

and I much prefer tickets to 'drops' as a reward- as they mostly let you pick the reward you want, they're vastly more efficient at generating inf.

The biggest money in the game is in set IOs and tickets allow you to concentrate ALL your drop 'potential' on set IO recipes.

your friend is living in a bizarre alternate CoH where they never introduced the market.

That's how we used to roll when SO's ruled the land and nobody could afford anything until the mid-40's.

Now?
Sell your big inspirations from the tutorial for a few hundred K, slot generics as placeholders, sell your drops on the market then blow your millions on whatever you want.

This is graven in stone on my Ten Marketing Commandments.

because they don't want the servers to lag out?

crazy, I know....

Your selective memory is impressive.

this goes back to a thought I've had for a long while now- that what the game industry perceives as "better" isn't, necessarily.

For a new game, yeah you need all the bells and whistles and whatnot because everyone else has them.

For an established game there's value in being inclusive- I'm sure we have players here that stick around in part because they can run CoH well enough on their ancient computers. Optional tweaks like Ultra Mode are preferable to a rebuilt, modern graphics engine guaranteed to leave some % of players in the dust.

I can see the corporate incentive to prioritize graphics above all- you can point to it in a meeting, it's quantifiable.

But my favorite counter-example to modern gamethink, CounterStrike, thrived for years (and still does) with a gimp engine and what are by contemporary standards awful graphics (even Source isn't that great). People liked it, they thought it was fun, and they just kept playing it in spite of its increasing technical limitations.

The various upgrades we've gotten over the past couple of years have done a lot to keep the game graphically fresh. I'd much prefer that NC invest resources in a continuation of the current game than on a new project.

*tastes tears*

Hmmm....not delicious enough.
Needs more bitterness.

how, with mind control? A gun to your head? holding someone near and dear to you hostage?

Just curious about what amazing coercive power is being leveled that forces you to respond to the posts of some stranger on the internet.

Well, it paid off with me.

There was a time after my son was born where I had zero spare time to play and absolutely would have cancelled if not for vet rewards.

I still have very little time to play and vet rewards were one of the arguments in favor of re-upping for a year instead of going month-to-month and probably dropping out a few times between issues.

PP has never met a single issue she liked.

Strangely, she's always around to complain about them.

Huh.

opinions are only as valuable as the logical framework supporting them.

you're not obligated to defend yours, but then of course we're not obligated to respect them.

plenty of inherents are slottable, I can't imagine Fitness won't be.

oh well!

fitness is being made inherent because its performance benefits were seen as absolutely essential by the entire playerbase.

No other pool powers come close to that sort of ubiquity, not even Hasten.

they do.


=)

they're harder to find than they used to be, but are indeed well worth checking out. Edited by George RR Martin. IMHO they are by far the most successful of the spate of 'shared world' anthologies that followed in the wake of Thieves' World.

well, his name is Machete, not Fist.

=P

10 bucks for Ninja Run, take Hasten at level 6 and there you go.

What's it take to hit 6 solo these days, 10 minutes?

While I've never seen the need for Fitness as inherent, I also don't see how making it inherent does anything to the "difficulty" of the game.

End management at the lower levels isn't 'difficult' in any meaningful way, it's just time consuming.

Removing a minor annoyance from the low levels is hardly "watering down" the difficulty of anything.

Plus its ULTRA FUN!