Psyte

Sounds about right. Cool.

You know - while they're doing big changes? I'd gladly wave bye-bye to my shiny new City Travel VR perk if the devs would make travel powers available at level 6 like the current competition (not sure when the soon-to-come competitor will allow for travel powers - creation?). I think that would be a good improvement too.

No specifics, but there's a lot of goodies to look at here.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=237378

Hrm... that'd be a brutal schedule. I'd say that 1st or 2nd quater 2011 seems more reasonable for me.

It was admitted to being a flaw?

You object to the idea of a power-pool and slot-sink? But gold...er... money sinks and time sinks are so popular!

I'm very curious to see if taking Fitness out of the equation will lead to more interesting builds coming up. I know it seems like I'm a freak sometimes because I've got a Blaster with Presence

Geez... I'd love to see more Power Pools (if they were good additions, mind you) to help mix things up further.

Min/Max'ing is double edged. While it can be very rewarding and a lot of fun, it also means that the devs can never really address you without screwing over their "average" players (and I'd imagine they can figure out what the "average" player can handle better than we can). The whole bell-curve thing, you know? Even if all the play levels are equally proportioned (really need help, average, don't need any help MAKE IT HARDER), this will still help 2/3rd of the game.

I've got one friend who wishes it would, although he also believes that the fallout from that would make ED look like a day in the park. Something along the lines of the devs could stop cheating so much due to massively buffed players with their massive debuff capabilities trivializing designs that don't cheat.

edit: I'll have to ask him his reasoning again later on... its been a while.

I imagine the original vision for the game was that if you were soloing you could take breaks as needed or use blues. If you were teaming then someone could give you blues, buff you so you got more bang for your end (defeating enemies faster), recovered end faster and/or debuff enemies so you got more bang for your end (defeating enemies faster). Stamina likely wasn't seen as a mandatory by the early dev team, but as a help for those who weren't teamed with someone who could keep you buffed up with +Speed, +Health and +Recovery. Plus you had Endurance Reduction enhancements you could slot and no ED back in those days. I'm sure Jack/Statesman originally envisioned folks using SO's in a diverse way - after all, six SO's equaled 12 DO's, so you could really mix things up.

Of course, players being players, the obvious benefits of Fitness and Stamina in particular became clear, thus it being "mandatory." Get it, six-slot it, and do anything else you're a moron.

Gah - I remember being told I "slotted wrong" on some forums because I dared to slot "Heal Other" with 4 Heal, 1 Recharge and 1 End Redux. Obviously not the highest heal amount, but I healed more often (or more to the point, could move from player to player faster) and for less endurance cost. Oh, and I was stupid because I didn't have Hasten.

Hrm... sorry for the rambling. I guess the only point I've got is "we players can really be jerks sometimes."

I'm going to guess that there's going to be a build of i19/i20 up first, it'll do its closed beta, then they'll take the i20 part off so one part of the team can work on it based on feedback while the other works on i19.

Hate to say it, but maybe you're too good a player or too good at min/maxing. I would be stomped at that difficulty. Actually, not even stomped... the enemies would just walk over me and check their shoes a while later.

"Dude... what did you step on...?"

I'm curious to see how how much of the playerbase plays at what difficulty levels. There's some fun data-mining trivia to be had, I think.

If you're going to be like that...

It could mean that since its the Blue King comics (ie, the old one) that Cryptic will be taking COH over again. Jack missed being Statesman

King of Fighters and Art of Fighting fan, by chance?

/e Kingisthegreatest
/e VenomStrike
/e DoubleStrike

Yep. Although I'm sure there are people who want in (not saying anyone here does) to try and stay ahead of exploit fixes and to find the next round of exploits for them to use on the live servers, too

So you want to play an unbalanced, buggy game? Spending time playing, running into problems, trying to duplicate them and reporting them? That's a good attitude! That being said, the need for that type of activity is the WORST thing to be going during a marketing beta which is what pre-buyers/pre-order folks usually get.

"Real" beta - going through the game, finding bugs, imbalances, etc. Basically its kinda crappy. But you want to contribute to that, so that's good. Generally these have applications to fill out (demographics, computer specifications, etc) and NDAs to abide by. You might get invited if you play another game by the same company and meet whatever criteria the company has.

"Marketing" beta - the "almost, if not practically ready for release" beta that some folks think betas are like. These are the "pre-order now and get into beta!" betas that places like Gamestop use to get you to buy from them. Pretty much all the real work is done already, there's no NDA (or it's going to drop very soon), etc. Basically an open beta being used as a carrot for pre-orders.

I think it could be cool IF there was a way to work around the whole server issue. Given alternate dimensions are a part of canon, having something working around that idea might not be too bad.

Part 1 requires only one group/server to participate. Upon completion the signal is given across the various servers that the raid/activity is available for a limited time (an hour? two?).

Part 2 forward would require at least X-many players/teams to accomplish the goals. However, when a goal is accomplished on one server, its mirrored on the other servers. So, if you need 40 players to do it, then it could be done with five 8-player teams across five servers. Upon completion, all participating players get their reward, whatever it is.

Of course, this might be a nightmare on the back-end of things. But I can dream. I think it would be neat since the folks who were interested on the smaller servers could still do these relatively big things, whereas folks on the big servers can do it all themselves if they like.