Nethergoat
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Quote:can do Doc Leo!Originally Posted by Leandro
I'm working on a little something here and I need a bunch of heroes to populate it. Please send me the .costume file and primary/secondary/travel power to my email, leandrotlz@gmail.com, or upload it somewhere and post a link. Most likely I won't show you fighting, but I am asking the powersets for completeness. -
Quote:Feel free to take offense if you like, but if you interpret what was said accurately you'll find you have no legitimate cause.Originally Posted by BurningChick
There's the bit where you call me, or at least my statement (which, of course, is a reflection of me), "delusional".
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Quote:This is a terrific point, and runs parallel to something I've been chewing over since the announcement.Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
For those who are crying out that this isn't just about "a game," I believe many of you are more right than you may realize. There is no humane excuse for NCSoft to sacrifice such valuable cultural artifacts along with its customers interests. THIS IS NO DIFFERENT THAN BURNING BOOKS. City of Heroes and its wealth of shared creations represent a new kind of publication in a new age of media. As we head further into the Digital Age, people will occasionally HAVE to make a stand for the public value of knowledge held within server-based storage media, as well as our inherent right as humans to continued access to the wealth of knowledge, imagination, and experience we build in these shared environments.
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Quote:Which post was that?Originally Posted by BurningChick
I would lay the blame on your system's poor performance more on how you've tweaked your settings for CoH and how you haven't done the same for CO.
From your other post, the one in which you called me "delusional", I'm guessing you spent most of your time alone in-game?
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Quote:Indeed!Originally Posted by KayJMM
As of now, many prized authors showed support to City of Heroes.
There was more than I can remember right now... but 3 names come to my mind:
Neil Gaiman
Laurel K. Hamilton
Mercedes Lackey
Not only they are famous and wonderful authors, but also showed their support on twitter.
And Mercedes Lackey went even far... she sent a letter to NCSoft CEO offering herself to promote the game without asking payment for it.
You 3 are... AWESOME!
As is John C. Wright, CoH player and author of the exceptional Orphans of Chaos trilogy
But you know who isn't awesome?
Alleged "gamer" Scott Kurtz of PvP Online, who replied to a #saveCoH retweet request with this gem:
He must be a blast at funerals.Quote:Scott Kurtz @pvponline
@n3therg0at @ITNet1 @DJ_Shecky they have to run a business, guys. Nothing lasts forever. Its sad but itll be okay.
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Of course when you have genuine celebrities amplifying your signal who needs the (very) poor man's Penny Arcade. -
Quote:My machine will be 4 years old this xmas and wasn't cutting edge when I bought it, and my 'new' video card is a PNY GeForce 8800 GTS 320 DDR 3 of similar vintage.Originally Posted by Plonk
Unrelated: Nethergoat - I am finding CO runs, generally, smoother for me than CoX as well (both at mostly maxxed out settings). Have you tried different drivers? If you have a lower-end video card, or especially an older video card, sometimes older driversets provide better performance than the newer ones (at least that's been my experience).
As CO launched in what, 2009? I'd expect my performance to be at least adequate, if not blistering.
I'm sure there's some stuff I can do to improve the situation, but my motivation is low as long as Paragon City still stands. I'll mess around with it in December. -
Quote:I liked WoW's market enough to stay subbed there for several months after I'd stopped playing the game proper. It's very different from Wentworths, but has equally engaging potential for eeebil schemes.Originally Posted by Plasma
You can make a lot of money on the WoW auction house, but because it isn't double-blind like CoH, it tends to require a more concerted effort. I made ~700k gold during Cataclysm in about 10 minutes a day some days (and really I only bothered the first half of the expansion). I have a guildmate who has every profession on alts and, with a more concerted effort, has 4 million gold. (For comparison of pricing, the most expensive vanity mount you can straight up buy in-game was around 50k; for about 600k, you could get a top guild to carry you through all of the content of a tier and give you all the gear and the vanity mount off the last boss, etc.)
WoW's market fluctuates a lot more though - the people I know who made the most made it by buying up raw materials when they were cheap, and then usually did a ton of crafting and selling right as patches hit and demand spiked. (Because the major wow patches introduce new gear, and the gear replacement spikes demand for the consumables like enchants and gems through the roof.)
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Quote:this is FAR from my experience.Originally Posted by BurningChick
FWIW, I've never seen lag in CO (even its zones load fast) -- but I've seen CoH turn into a slideshow on machines that go way beyond recommended specs.
my machine isn't state of the art, but it ran CoH fairly well and with a recent video card upgrade ran it *really* well and was able to make use of quite a few Ultra features, unless I was doing something like x8 farming.
Running at 'recommended' graphics in CO resulted in very noticeable, distracting lag in the tutorial. But things looked pretty, so I let it ride- I'm used to trading a bit of lag for a prettier world.
Once I exited the tutorial though, UUUUUGH!
Total slideshow in Millennium City. Even backing off the graphics and using all my usual performance tricks it isn't a smooth ride, and now the game is vastly uglier.
When the time comes I'll poke around and see what I can do to improve things, but on my machine at least your statement comes across as delusional. -
just amazing stuff Doc Leo- thank you so much for doing this.
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Quote:That doesn't speak well for whoever's in charge of the game.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Unless i'm mistaken, in CoH it's not automated process and a GM has to do it. Whereas in CO it's automated with no oversight by a human.
Neither does my experience on their forums this AM, where the entire first page of general discussion was taken up by spammer links for college football streams...which were still up when I arrived at work. Several of their regulars were bumping useful threads to keep them from drowning in spam. -
Cape Radio reporting Freedom is full too- sounds like Infinity is next on the overflow list.
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Freedom is the designated overflow server.
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Virtue is full, 150 players in queue.
Freedom up next!
#saveCoH trending on Twitter.
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Quote:If somebody keys my car and slashes all the tires, I don't send them a thank you card with $50 inside.Originally Posted by JayboH
The 'boycott' thing is really cute and humorous. They have sold so many copies of Guild Wars 2, that Arenanet STOPPED SELLING IT to make sure they can appropriate resources to servers first. You aren't affecting anything - they won't notice it at all.
...not only that, but didn't someone just show how CoH was only 2% of NCSoft's income for the last several quarters? Do what you have to do - only realize it will never affect them in any noticeable way.
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nosed around a bit as I've found it emotionally difficult to log in any of my real characters the past few days.
last time I played, was able to make a cosmetically quite passable version of the Goat. this time I couldn't- turns out you have to get to level 10 to unlock the bulk of the character creator.
Dumb.
Did the tutorial, which aside from my issues with the art style and the combat was engaging enough. Been running around Millennium City & got the not-Goat to level 8, which has been enough gameplay to remind me of what I didn't like about it the first time around.
As Sam notes, all the outdoor stuff makes the game feel a LOT like WoW in tights. While I always advocated more zone-related activities here, they went too far the other direction. I don't like it when *everything* is an instance, but neither should they be used only for special occasions.
The weird aggro, insta-regen of spawns and relative weakness of your character are also very WoW-like. Combat is an weird mix of annoying mechanics (block? feh) with tedium (basically 'pew pew pew pew' with your 'combo builder', then BOOM with a real attack).
Also, gear. Finished a mission and the contact gave me my choice of BRACERS providing various stat boosts.
WoW....really? =P
Better than DCUO, which I found unplayable, but really derivative and without any particular strengths of its own that I've been able to discern. Yeah I have a sweet tooth for superheroes, but the gameplay is giving me bad flashbacks to my Arms DPS Orc warrior. -
Quote:the 88's are on Virtue, PP.Originally Posted by peterpeter
I've never gotten around to joining in before, but I guess now is the time. Freedom server? I can shift someone rich over there.
but yes, by all means join us!
it'll class the place up to have the official Market Columnist on board. =D -
Quote:Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
*grins*
On a lark, I posted the following Tweet earlier today to author Neil Gaiman:
@neilhimself Our home (Paragon City) has a park named for you (Gaiman Woods). Could you help us save our home? Pls RT http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-838027
Neil promptly retweeted it... as did fellow author Laurell K Hamilton. As did several of their fans... who are now following me and retweeting the #SaveCOH campaign.
Every bit helps!
Saw that- great work! -
GJ, Organica.
I've been neglecting my own blog the past few days because I still can't think about this situation without getting depressed.
I think I need to just schedule a day sometime when ALL I do is catalog my characters and take screens. -
Quote:I have trouble deleting level 5 alts I haven't played in six years, so this is a non-starter for me. =POriginally Posted by Hatred666
I'm thinking about just deleting all my 50's and calling it a day. Instead of waiting for the apocalypse, I figure I'd just commit suicide. Anyone else share my feelings?
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Okay gang, we need to get together for a group shot in our base at some point and we need to figure out a time to make our final offerings to the INFcinerator.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Then they would be Chinese and not Korean.
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Quote:the Crazy 88's are having a Viking Funeral for the game, getting together to burn every last scrap of inf from all of our characters, one last conflagration of prestige in defiance of the encroaching darkness.Originally Posted by Mind Forever Burning
Burn Rate still has 2B inf on him. Not sure what I'll do with it.
If you can't think of another use, consider donating to the cause!
I'm sure Fulmens would happily extend a SG invite, otherwise you can gleemail it to any of our globals for remote destruction. -
Quote:x2.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Thanks Tony. Where do I send the money to buy you all a round?
is there a paypal link, or some way I can make a donation to the cause?
You folks are amazing. -
Quote:Then how did you know I switched from direct verbal abuse to "sarcasm"?Originally Posted by Pebblebrook
So i take it from your reply that the goat is still stalking me with his berating sarcasm? Hehe, so glad i don't see that.
Weird, I guess you're psychic on top of your other amazing talents! -
Quote:My initial foray (Steam tells me I spent 7 hours there) left me flat- very WoW like quest structure, and the only reason I ever played WoW was to chat with my friends who played WoW on teamspeak. On top of which I wasn't a fan of the graphic style or the combat, which seemed aimed at console gamers.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I originally found the basic gameplay fun but shallow. But they've had a lot of time to expand the game and I haven't kept up with all the goings on there, so for me jumping in now will be almost like jumping into a new game. I'll have to see if it can keep my attention better than it did at launch and for some time after that.
But that was quite a while ago.
I'm sure I'll check it out again, if for no other reason than I find DCUO abhorrently unplayable and there'll be no other outlet for my superheroic urges.
Maybe it'll be better...