PeerlessGirl

It certainly DOES matter what people thought, especially when people get mad enough about it. Especially on the CoH forums, people are very good about making "assumptions" truths, and remembering the devs "promised" them things they never did.

I am not "complaining" I was merely pointing out the way it will be seen by many, as I thoguht it worthy to comment on. I didn't "pre-purchase" because I know the actual July release disc will be a better 'value for money' deal for both of my accounts (one physical one digital). And I had no need/desire for DP/DS early. I wouldn't have cared if it was free or part of the expansion. I still remember having to "pay" for CoV which at the time I was never really going to use, just to get access to bases Hero-side. In the years since I've come to enjoy Villain-side, but I hated it for a long time due to that, partially. Now they aren't even separate, and Paragon isn't maintaining the charade that Cryptic started that CoV was ever really a separate game (some of us never considered it more than an expansion) I can bet you'd have to buy it with points for CO if/when it comes out, I thank heaven every day we aren't under Cryptic's thumb, or the game would be gone by now.


I suspect that DS is indeed being tested at the moment, just from some comments I've seen around the boards, but no, I have no proof, yet. After the fact though, we'll see. I've been in 5 of the last 8 Closed beta's not counting this one, so I'm fairly familar with how things work back there.



Again, I suspect that given how much work UM is, it's indeed at least half the content of i17. We know there's a couple new story arcs I think, there's ultra mode, there's POBABLY demon summoning (as if they want to get it tested before GR's actual beta, they basically have to do it now to actually put it out "early" that's my reasonable assurance it's indeed there). There's probably Pohsyb's ususal round of QoL things, the email changes MAYBE the store updates they promised, a couple costume sets and poses and emotes, and I suspect that's it. It's therefore likely safe to assume UM is indeed "half" the content of i17.

I've just been doing this a long time, and I know what the wind smells like. That's just CoH, not counting the rest of my extensive software and MMO beta testing.

Subjective (as that's kind of a subjective question): Well, no, not really. I mean, by watching broadcast I figured it all out easily enough, but some sort of In-Game NPC or message from Azuria would be an awesome way to communicate that info In-Game wise.

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  Originally Posted by TheOcho Are rewards being handed out correctly?

I didn't have any problems, and neither did my teammate, but we were both 50, though I heard lots of reports of people who were SKd (not sure if it was up, down, or both) not receiving merits and/or temp power rewards, and in once case they didn't until their team lead crashed, and the team lead crashed BEFORE the GM went down, and that was the only time they got it.

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  Originally Posted by TheOcho Are there any problems with the event occurring in any City Zone? (Note: The event will only be present In Paragon City or the Rogue Isles City Zones, and not in any PvP Zones, Hazard Zones, Trial Zones or Co-Op Zones)

I heard from some that it spawned in the Hollows at least once.

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  Originally Posted by TheOcho Are there any graphical effect bugs?

Not that I could see, though the Kraken's really hard to see when he's transculence and all dark and scary looking, but kinda cool :P

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  Originally Posted by TheOcho Do banner icons appear correctly on the MiniMap when the event is running?

Seemed just fine.

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  Originally Posted by TheOcho Do waypoints correctly appear when the event is running? (Note: Navigation waypoints of active Missions orient players to the Halloween Event objectives when a player’s character is near one, and should disappear when they leave the area.)

They seem to be working fine, though I'm still not sure if the "progress bar" is supposed to be for ALL banners (i.e. they all need to be attacked at once) or if it's per-banner, I'm guessing the former, but wanted to be sure. Also, I never saw it drop at all before the 11:00 mark in my first 2 events on test (I was there about 2:45 before event end, through event end, and ran I'd say 5 events (the last 2 right at the end in the last 10 minutes). I could understand why you wouldn't want the hits to atually "count" for the first 3-4 minutes, to give time for people to call teammates in, and get there, also it prevents anyone from getting to other banners (unless the team was well coordinated, 8 personed, and split, I doubt you could get more than 2 banner badges on one event run), that's probably good.

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  Originally Posted by TheOcho Are enemy NPCs appearing at the appropriate level? (i.e. a Level 50 should be able to fight side-by-side with a Level 5 character).

Didn't have a chance to test this, as my only teammate was 50, but I'm sure others did, we had no issues at 50.

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  Originally Posted by TheOcho Are all badges awarded correctly?

I didn't have any issues, don't know if the badges are/were affected by being SKd up/down as the Temp power/Merit rewards seemed to be.

I also liked what seemed new and different (and undoccumented as far as I can tell) from the old events, Costume Salvage no longer drops from Door-Clicking, and instead drops from actual mob defeats, which IMO is a much better system, as, other than the mob-defeat badges, there was no "reason" for anyone to kill the spawns (except standard drops/exp/insps), and most years they tended to door-buzz and leave them, getting a lot of people killed, or drawn into "leftover" aggro. Forcing them to be killed to get the costume drops should help cut down on that, very good choice!

Overall, awesome event! Seems a LOT better than the previous years' events. Though hopefully it will spawn enough. Not counting the last 15 minute blitz, I had 3 events in 2.5 hours, give or take, that MIGHT be a hair too infrequent for casual players, not sure.

Thanks for letting me test and provide feedback!

This. Thank you. That is all. *Hugs BaBs*

No,

Sadly you cannot. Back before 13-14, if you didn't "interact" with the WW/BM interface for 30, 60, 90 days (one of those numbers) you would lose anything you had stored/posted etc (but I don't think you'd lose "collections" that you'd sold and stuff, but I'm not sure). Now however, as long as your account is active (and it may be 30,60,90 days besides, not sure) you don't lose anything on BM/WW, I do not believe this extends to having an inactive account (except that maybe you have a 60 or 90 day "grace period" but I'm honestly not sure anymore).

Actually,

it depends where you live

NC charges tax in California, Texas, and Washington, also I know that a friend of mine in Arizona has tax as well, so YMMV I suppose.

Well to be technically accurate,

There was no "closed beta" for i15, it was "Cl-Open" they ran it as a closed, but let everyone in, so there really wasn't a closed beta to be invited to.

As usual, I think someone missed the humor in BaBs post. He was being his ususal sardonic self, and making a comment that as soon as we all got nice shiney new forums, people starting doing evil, hateful (though perhaps funny) things with the new tagging feature, and that this is why we can't be given new things. As usual, all of BaBs posts have to be read with some degree of sarcastic dry humor in them, for me at least it's implied in everything he posts..that tends to help a bit. The point of his post was to make a joke.

I personally like "condescending sycophants" "dreams crushed", "nerdrage herders" and "overinflated entitlement" :P

Read the rest of my posts in this thread.

1) I have no plans to go to CO, I said that IF CoH did something as stupid as a mega-server environment I MIGHT as WELL do that, because it's just the same to me at that point, as both games made stupid decisions.

2) I also mentioned a few posts down that there's no official RP server, so I covered that.

3) Trust me, I probably know more about CO than you do, and I agree with your assesment of it, I'll leave it at that.

The only reason they're having DXP shortly or soon after is because the last one blew up so handily, and it's certainly the right thing to do. You can't really have them go inventing a new mechanic (doubling patrol XP) when they already have one (plain old DXP) to use.

Personally, if ALL GR was was DP and Demons, I'd pass on it. DP is cool and all, but the entire reason *I* want GR is that I have characters who, from their very inception (since Jack hinted at GR back when CoV went live) were supposed to be Villains-turned-Heroes or Heroes-Turned-Villains. Purely for Story/RP reasons, THAT'S what I want to do. I'd go so far in fact to suggest that Demons and DP will be available "for free" as i17 (or i18 or whatever) content when GR releases, while the other stuff will be confined to having the pack. I highly doubt the "majority" wants DP and Demons and that's all. At least it's not the case with my friends and I, and any RPer I've spoken with on Virtue.

The way I understood it, you actually had to go to the NCSoft/CoH BOOTH, and then SIGN UP to be invited to the i16 beta while you were at ComicCon. Just going up there and talking to people wasn't enough, so if you didn't actually sign up, that's why you didn't get an invite.

No, RP doesn't happen in broadcast on Virtue (except sometimes during RP in PvP zones), but I don't recall ever claiming it did, what I did say was we'd have a lot more griefing and Freedom-ized leetspeek in broadcast than we do now (Atlas Park excepted). You are correct most RP happens in local, team, and SG channels, but that doesn't mean I want everyone else having the potential to mess up my RP either.

Sure, if you ignore everything that happens in the streets in your once gated community (re: local) and only focus on your own house and keep your door locked (I.e. private globals) but before when your community was gated (or at least had an officer at the gates) less of those people came into it, and your streets were cleaner.

yes, they can freely log in and create a character on "our" server now, but to do that they must take the effort to do it, for the express purpose of going there, either to grief, to RP, or to hang out with friends they know there (RP or not) the same is true if you use a server transfer now. But by dumping everyone into the same "pot" now all of those people are together, without any special "effort" to be there, just everyone dumped together.

There is a difference between starting a new game in serverless (i.e. Champions) and taking a 5 year old game, with 5 year old community/server boundries and trying to force them together, and it shouldn't be done. It will, at least personally, impact my enjoyment and my gameplay experience, and considering I'm on the fence as it is (though i16 and GR look promising) this would certainly push me over.

It is the primary reason I am NOT interested in champions, is the fact they're doing a single server archetecture. There are other reasons, but that is the primary reason).

Edit: There is also the fact that, purely from a business standpoint, it knocks NC out of selling character transfers, so that's quite a bit of money they wouldn't get, another reason I can be fairly sure they won't do it.

Truth FTW!!!!

There's that too, yeah, though generally in "other" games where that's been done, it causes many instances to spawn (upwards of 10-15 generally). So you probably won't see that sort of problem, but you're still going to see a ton of instances, and many of them would be maxed out at any given time (like going to RWZ or Peregrine on a weekend).