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Off topic.

What movie is that in your avatar? That is some seriously cool looking Gun-Fu.

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Equilibrium, a great gunfighting flick starring Christian Bale. Probably why he's doing batman now actually

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On-Topic

Woo Hoo!! The more they buckle down, the sooner the beta starts. The sooner the beta starts, the sooner it goes live.

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Concurred. And thanks to BaB for the cordial heads-up (and teasers)!

What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is going on here?!?!

A hearty welcome to our other new overlo... I mean, redname, Minx

I hear his tears cure cancer or somethingorother.

Seriously though, welcome to the forums

The only thing I don't like:

ENOUGH WITH THE FIST PUMPING!

That is all

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Unlock a cape, unlock a helmet, unlock gloves; fine. That entire costume sets are locked is a little frustrating, consider that character concepts are impacted because of it.

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Welcome to 2004 (Issue 2 - capes).

Sure, not an entire set, but many an upset hero that couldn't feel "heroic" without his/ her cape until lvl 20.

Wings? Have to pick those up (and invent them), or be a Vet.
(Aside: don't get upset of having to play 35 levels to get a costume piece - I had to play a wingless gargoyle for 2+ years ).

Sinister & Justice sets? Buy GvE.

Not the first time content has to be unlocked, won't be the last.

IMO, I've found that concept is only limited by the imagination of the player.

When I asked Castle on/ off the record about if there were plans to port more powers to Tanks on 9/4/07:

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For the record:
No comment

Off the Record:
Saying anything about this topic would make me have marketing people standing in my cube for hours glaring at me.

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Guess that marketing team finally gave the OK

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Rome? Ancient Rome?

The Coming Storm? The villain of Time?

Path of the Dark, anyone?

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Yes, exactly!

'There is a familiar threat in an ancient land and the Midnighters need the help of both Heroes and Villains to stop it.'

You don't suppose....?

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"But I will say this...the catalyst that brings about the unraveling of the cosmos starts here!" *close-up on Requiem*

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Absolutely - easily one of my favorite story arcs, and the inspiration for my Warshade's backstory.

The Path of the Dark (spoiler alert!)

A mobile hospital? Sounds interesting....

Maybe some new tech they can add to the Hami trial later?

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Is this a new group or have we seen them before?

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The only existing member of the Squad currently in-game is the hero Tammy Arcanus, also known as Numina.

But yes, as my primary character has arcane written all over him (gargoyle (construct)), I am squeeing right now, and glad that my previous prediction held water

Finally, my Warshade gets to go back to where it all started for him - Ancient Rome. And he gets to dig up his old digs for the trip

Furthering my point that Jay is The Sexy One!

I agree with the reasoning behind the initial change, but this version is much better than the previous method, as it does not punish the TF soloists and still cuts down on the softloading problem. Thanks for listening to player feedback, and GL to Catwhoorg on his next challenge

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Liar, you're still a virgin on an internet chat forum about superheroes, stalking rednames. GL getting a date

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just so we know who we are dealing with, are you counting last year's releases as failures? given that they were hugely popular with the community and rolled out without major bugs, due to the closed beta testing, im just seeing what your definition of failures is, and wether there really is any rational space to debate the point in.

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Alright, but remember, you asked for it....
Issue-9 ....had very limited actual Beta Involvement across the player base and even less actual testing on drop rates or any way to verify them(Pool-C's being the hardest to verify). Issue-11 was a cluster-bomb of channel-drama that saw the release of several bugged and untested IO sets since there was no direct market access to them--especially Pool-C's ...these 2 issues of oversight conspired together to make TFs/SF's the targets of "pool-C farmers" which just saw a huge stealth Nerf [u]despite the Devs' own promises that none of the existing content would be made more difficult to compensate for the implementation of I.O's.[u]

The entire issue could have been fixed issues ago by focusing feedback and testing on TF rewards for casual players so that everyone was getting rewards at a rate that satisfied demand and discouraged farming. ...when that failed to happen, Farming took over and solved the problem it's own way. Meanwhile the devs HAD the resources(All of Us!) to fix the CAUSE of the problem instead of just treating an ugly symptom of it. Instead what we got now is some very un-informed corporate doublespeak labeling RMT'ers as the scapegoats and a solution that will only further reward the farmers they claim they're trying to stifle.



When I say 4 years of failure, this is exactly what I mean... Simple feedback and pro-active effort on the part of the Guys at the top of the design decisions easily fixing the problems early on, but instead what we get are Half-Truths and stealth-nerfs designed to bypass the players entirely. ...followed by bad explanations and excuses later on. It's tiring. I understand it's how American business sometimes works, but I don't want to feel like the mid-level Devs I WANT to support so much, have to work in Dilbert's Office for a buncha "pointy-haired Bosses".

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what he said.

i hate you.
i agree with you all too damn often.

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Me too. I'm going to hold _Ilr_ up to _Ilr_'s standards for the devs

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Puff Piece since it has no mention about Quality control or fixing any of the past problems where _informed_ player-feedback went largely un-addressed, or they didn't have the resources to address it. It almost reads like "We're gonna bring you the highest quality content that WE think money can buy"

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QFT

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I'm sure this line:

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However, our highest priority is to ensure that the quality of all new content being brought to the game meets and exceeds your expectations.

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Was just there for filler then

I think you're just going to have to wait and see before you doomy doomy doom. Or we can just presume the devs are lazy

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does that mean you're gonna listen to the player base and revert the TF changes?

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"Give the players what they want, within reason." - Positron

Poor you

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Castle quickly cleared the field of any squishy (or napping) villains and was then dropped into the drink for it. Hmmm, Lighthouse, your fellow moderator is getting attacked, want to do something about that? Guess not.

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And Lighthouse would have been so PWND too had I not been playing from my sub-par laptop Next time LH, NEXT TIME!!! /e curseyou

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Whoa, there was PvP?

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... you might say yes ...

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And some thought it was just an "LOLRP" event

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Find the marketing guy who forced the ad for the wedding pack into the comic and toss him from the roof.

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Funny, I didn't see any solicitations or prices in the comic

Chase, Cinder, great job on the book Where did you get the shots from the fashion show? I don't remember testing that part of the even

(LOL - my MM Iron Reign and his bots can be seen on page 20 )

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Hmmm . . . the next time around, would it be possible to set things up such that you can use the arena kiosk to view the event in much the same fashion as you would an arena match? What's more, could it be set up such that somebody on a live server could also view the event (that is, somehow run a connection from the Training room to all the Live servers)? What would the logistics be like to do this? If server strain were a concern (due to all the invisible camera points), perhaps have a dedicated "camera man" server-side?

Anybody got any clues or comments?

-Kirov

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I know that SamuraiKo and some of the dev team ware recording it during testing, so you should see at least 2 videos with little to no chat spam Not as good as being an arena observer, but close (as a voyeur )

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This change is really obnoxious. The villain market is already crap and now that it will be more difficult to run Cap SFs, its only going to get worse. also, this REALLY sucks for Posi Task force. I really hope you guys reconsider this change. Softloading didn't prevent teams from running TFs it just allowed Soloers to do it.


TAKE THAT SOLOERS!


Please please please reconsider this. don't make changes that force people to play a certain way, it just doesn't make sense.

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The minimum for Posi is three though, which is the ideal team size the last few time I've run it.

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We know that finding out about this change after the patch is already live is not the ideal way to go about it. It was never our intent to “hide” or “stealth” this change out, it was simply lost in the volume of other changes spanning many months.


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This part I am not buying even for a second. It has happened way too much since the begining of the game, it even happens after Jack left the game. Lighthouse this is a pretty huge change that we should have known about in the patch notes, there is absolutely no excuse that something this big gets missed in the patch notes. I can understand not posting a patch note due to the exploits like the Ouroboros powerlevel exploit but this isnt even on that level and should not have been missed period. This has been a constant thing with us the players having to figure it out whether it was a bug or "Working As Intended". You guys need to do better because this is inexcuseable due to the size of the change.

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LAWL sauce.

It's spelled "inexcusable". If you're going to use rhetoric, at least spell it correctly.

I <3 Ex

Happy V-Day everyone

If/ when you get into the wedding event, I hope you're ready for some entertainment

Woops, somebody's post evaporated

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On topic - good to know about those new contacts Can't wait to see what they have us do.

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So begins the pay for expansions after the nsoft/cryptic split

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I missed that announcement, can you link it?

Edit: NM, I found it

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Where are my tuxedo pants!

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I think they thought it might be redundant. Using the Slacks with the Tin Stripe 2 option is basically tuxedo pants. Don't get me wrong, something with some fine texturing to match the jacket better would have been nice