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Mercedes Lackey. So yeah, I'd say its dependable. She is busting her tail off to try and save Paragon and City of Heroes.

Yup, just delving into this.

To add on to what was said before, you can have up to twelve active ships out, which makes for one mighty swarm. Or you can have a combination of ships out, of debuffers, healers, damage dealers, survivable, multi-role, and even frigates. Yes, you can launch player sized frigates from two later Klingon ships. Up to four of them. So you can either swarm the enemy, hit the enemy with your own mini-ship army, debuff the daylights out of the enemy, or do a fun combination thereof.

One MAJOR gripe with this though, you have virtually no way to keep track of your wings of ships. You can sort of count icons on the mini-map, but for the most part you are left playing it by ear. And since most of the smaller ships are GOING to be destroyed unavoidably, it can lead to some chaotic moments in mid-combat when you are not sure if you have your full numbers out or not.

On Champions, something important to note is that every pet has a number of different unique auto-cast abilities, and that most non-circle summoned pets have unique activated abilities. For example munitions bots fire a gatling gun for their standard auto attack, have micro-munitions for an auto-cast ability, and can activate an ability that turns them into turrets, which have longer range, deal more damage, and whose basic attack pierces targets. Attack Toys! attack in melee and have a special ability called "Toy Time!" which summons a clone of them, up to four at the highest rank, but no activated ability.

Side note, the summoning circle units are good enough without activated specials.

With a little digging ((Or paying attention)) you'd find that we know that the former Paragon Studio's is in talks with investors and NCsoft to attempt to work out something. So there may be SOME interest in selling. We just don't have a lot of details right now.

Unruffle your feathers, bud. All people did was point out that this was standard action, and not really news. If anything it should have made you feel better, and not start swearing. No one was jumping your gun, no one was accusing you of being negative. So calm down.

Not at all. You're looking at it the wrong way. This is an official cessation of NCsoft services, and considering that everything IS officially being closed down, this is to be expected. They have to proceed in this manner.

Also as I said in another thread, if City of Heroes does continue on after this, it probably won't be under NCsoft.

The test realm is open to everyone. Head on over there and give it a shot, everything on the test realm market is free.

And you've got to remember, this is OFFICIALLY what is happening, and they have to proceed as such. They can't dance around pretending like it isn't while trying to work something out, they have to handle it in a proffesional manner, and that is not going to include little blurbs about how it might not end. I am sure Zwillinger would LOVE to give us details or even just say that the meetings are ongoing, but he can't, and announcements like this are important for what is going on.

Any talks going on would be extremely NDA, so Zwill wouldn't be allowed to talk about it one way or the other. Suffice to say that these things take time though, and it's only been a couple of weeks.

Why would it tell you that? The post was very diplomatically and officially worded. I wouldn't expect anything else from an official anouncement on the cessation of services. This was a big issue among many players, and they got the answers they needed for it.

Except no. Have you...have you even played the game? I'm just curious. In the first thirty levels I did a few missions for Defender, and a few for Kinetic. They are around, but I've never felt like a lackey. If anything the game tries to make you feel more like an equal then just a !@#$%. Almost to much so sometimes, in my opinion. But it should stroke the ego's of people who want to make characters with dossier's that start them out as supreme heroes, I suppose.

No, it means if you are willing to take them as they are and not expect City of Heroes 2.0 then they are perfectly enjoyable in their own right. You aren't going to find another CoH, no other MMO on the market plays like it.

I always thought air bending was just fancy way of saying..uh...you know. Breaking wind.

WoW has actually been facing that for a while now. They claim 9 million subscribers, but you'd find that hard to believe on a large number of servers. I recently got a free seven day trial so I went back to test the new changes, and both my main servers were ghost towns. Servers that used to be full and busy at all hours are dead quiet during peak times. It was meh when I left back at the start of Cataclysm, but its far, far worse now.

Nothing lasts forever I suppose. Still, not going to stop trying to save CoH.

Zwill's already pointed out that what the community is doing is being heard, which will have an impact on what's going on behind closed doors. The more noise people make and the longer they keep it up, the more of an effect will be had. The important thing is to not lose steam.

This is what I was thinking. Maybe its coded to only run until Monday mainten-...hang on, whose doing maintence? Anyway, back to what I was saying, maybe its purposefully limited just in case some one forgets to 'push the button' as it were.

I'm all for being angry really, but this is a bit of a flip flop on the OP's part. I am just curious if he read something or what have you.

For the record yes, I am extremely mad about the treatment and overall silence on the matter, but in so far as saving the game, I still think patience and holding back the pitchforks is the best idea for now.

Nethergoat. For the most part I agree with you, but you have this weird chip on your shoulder with GW2. Not everyone playing it is doing the whole "Get over CoH" thing. In fact I can't recall seeing anyone doing both at the same time in a post. So could you maybe stop linking the two?

On topic, TonyV is mainly worried about losing to much of the Paragon team, I think. Keeping them together is kind of important to our goal, and the longer it takes to get some sort of at least internal word on it, the more they are going to drift off out of neccesity.

Regardless, it is still to soon to tell over the fate of CoH. I realize that two weeks seems like a long time, but it isn't. Not for this kind of thing. Buisness deals can take a long time to work out. Its just agonizing for us because well, its our game on the line.

Calmly. I know its agonizing, but two weeks is not a long period of time in the realm of buisness deals. There are a lot of things to debate on, a lot of kinks to work out. A lot of wheeling and dealing to be done.

Believe me, plenty of us are angry. I'd say most of us. But right now we are trying to keep it under wraps until something definite comes up. If nothing can be done, if NCsoft won't deal, then yes, we pull out the pitchforks, torches, and feathers.