Plasma

Probably an incoming dxp weekend? One is about due if they keep the same pace.

I'm feeling that the market merge is actually the smaller I18 factor on the markets. The introductions of HAMs/VAMs and their reward table will, I think, have a much bigger impact on the markets. My general feeling is that Pool Cs are going to drop, and purples are going to be worth more than ever.

So, you can go into dwarf form while mezzed. Awesome. However, if you get pecked my many small interruptions, like sleep darts from Knives of Artemis, it continually interrupts the cast. If you were mezzed the whole time, you could change forms, but if you are not mez and one hits you, it stops you.

Over, and over, and over.

QoL fix? Please?

So when I18 drops, if we preordered GR, does that turn on for us also?

Turns out I am nerdier than posi. First 20 "good" jokes get a tshirt, so I go with:

An electron is speeding down the road and gets pulled over. The cop asks it, "do you know how fast you were going?"

The electron replies, "yes, but I have no idea where I am!"

It bombed. I followed up with a bad doctor joke, at which point I think he gave me a ticket largely out of fear of what I might inflict next.

I'm a 75 month veteran (or will be shortly, rather), and I approve this message.

Just got back from romping around at day 1 of comicon. (I have the 8 yr old with me today, so she was a bit ragged by 5ish).

Went to the CoH panel. Brian Clayton kicked it off and introduced Matt/Posi, Melissa/War Witch, Jesse/Ghost Falcon, and David/Noble Savage. I thought the funniest part of the whole thing was, before he kicked off Q&A, he asked them a question about CoH2 and subtly "threatened" their jobs, and all 4 of them recited this funny marketing-speak response in unison. (It was pretty long, and basically said something like, "We're really proud of City of Heroes and Paragon Studios plans to keep working on the CoH world, but lol we're not telling you anything about that.") I had missed the news about the trademark registration though, so it was neat news to hear.

Anyhow, they went over Going Rogue more or less exclusively. I didn't take notes, but things mentioned included:

* 7 costume sets (which you can mix or match)
* More customizable glowing costume parts
* 4 new powersets
* The alignment system
* The neat new mission system, including the ability to get a 2nd/alternate objective inside a mission by talking to a contact.
* Phasing contacts, so contacts can "disappear" based on choices you make - permanently
* The way praetoria is built ground up for ultra mode

I didn't snap pictures of the whole slideshow, but this was the "table of contents" slide:

http://i.imgur.com/YXJLr.jpg

Brian asked Posi about the Alpha incarnate slot that was in the beta, and how it was retracted, and Posi said that based on the feedback from players, they say a lot of great ways to enhance it, but it meant the changes were too deluxe to make it into GR on time, so they had to delay GR (no way), or remove the Alpha slot, so they opted to delay the "taste" of the Incarnate system. (He didn't say if it was still going to be I18 or not)

OT Funny comicon story of the day: as we walked back, there was an ice cream truck across the street from comicon, with a bunch of Ben & Jerry's on the menu - all labeled "free". So we got in line, and when we got to the front, discovered Seth Green inside, giving away the ice cream.

Anyhow, NCSoft has a booth set up, mostly seems like Aion and CoH are the products shown off, but w/ my daughter with me I just sort of wandered by. They had a bunch of computers up w/ the GR beta set up, and I saw people either making characters or fighting in Praetoria.

I'll stop by tomorrow w/ one less 8 yr old and hopefully say hi.

I'm posting from my laptop at a condo I got in SD for the week. I'll cya soon.

I think you need to ask what you want to fix.

Say you think Market PvP is too tilted against the casual player. My suggestion: a much larger history (view the last 300 sales, say, scrollable window) along with some statistics. List # of bidders/sellers, not just bids/items for sale. List min/max/avg/std dev for the last 300 sales or such.

Say you think think some rare items are too expensive for the average player. Make them drop more. Or put something that lets you pay X influence to transmute one item into another. (Pay 2m influence, transmute any pool A recipe into another random pool A recipe?)

Too much influence in the game? Create some sinks. Expensive vanity costumes, even a vanity powerset (ie, new models for mm henchmen, etc). Sell transfers or extra character slots for in-game influence; or sell useful temp powers (extra charges of a teleport-to-mission power; or even a teleport-your-whole-team-to-mission power; how sweet would that be?)

I think the only thing definitively "broken" about the system as it is, is the influence cap; the fact that some things can't be sold on-market for their real value is broken.

I'm not sure why the OP even thinks a team with 5 buff/debuff sets should remotely have trouble. I mean, this is 2010, and RO has been breaking the game for how many years?

My favorite team of all time was 8 people who knew each other (some from RL, some from playing in game) who got together on Teamspeak once a week and played:

5xFire/Rad Controller
1xIll/Rad Controller
1xFire/Sonic Controller
1xFire/FF Controller

Hardly balanced, but it was completely ridiculous. STF @46 for xp; we pulled all the AVs pre-Recluse at once (accidentally), and just burned them down. We actually had to debate whether rigging up Task Forces for +5 or +6 mobs was best.

I've been around since Beta, and I'm pretty sure the Austin Cyberjocks was the first one. I remember playing the CoH TCG with Alexa (?) and Awry, and meeting Cuppa, Jesse Scoble, and others.

Cool. I picked up a GTX 295 and a core i7 920 to go with it because a certain other game begged for an upgrade. It will be sweet to see CoH put it to use