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Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm

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You are ALL wrong.

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

There is no problem. The Incarnate system will be adding the equivalent of another ten levels, but it's more of a secondary career/path than just tacking another ten levels onto the game with recolored Hellions.

i appreciate the arrogance of your attitude in posting "i aked this 5years ago and still nothing whats the problem?" 5 years ago no Dev promised you or anyone else an increase in the level cap to 70, or anything past 50, and none has occurred, so obviously there is no problem.

Furthermore, i find your lack of apostrophes (and faith) disturbing.

So i now say unto you FNORD.
(You should now be feeling anxious about the subject for no conscious reason. If this is not happening please report to your nearest Illuminati endorsed salon.)

Originally Posted by Moly

Is that where they make the gum?

Originally Posted by MrNotorion

So, you have no problem accepting superheroes being responsible for major events in WWII, alien invasions, super-science technology bleeming villains to jail and heroes to the hospital... but the idea of a conventional sports team based in a fictional city in Rhode Island is unbelievable?

This is not your real-world's Rhode Island. This one is entirely fictional and "we" can do whatever we want with it.

This suggestion sort of goes along with the "All things art: Architecture" thread much better but I say ignore the snark responses. There is nothing wrong with wanting to see the cityscape of Paragon continuously improved to at least partly mimic real-world major US cities. That can certainly include professional sports stadiums complete with fictional teams for major American sports. I don't think the pvp arenas count. They don't quite have the look or feel that dedicated sports stadiums convey. Football, soccer, and baseball stadiums are all frequently open-air stadiums anyway.

Even if we didn't have professional sports stadiums EVERY city is going to have football, soccer, and baseball fields in addition to basketball courts, tennis courts and gymnasium buildings that are going to be near parks or high schools and universities. When you fly/jump/bleem/zip around the city it is the ABSENCE of these kinds of places that begin to make it feel not-quite-right, even if it is an enclosed security zone walled off from the rest of the city. Little details like occasionally seeing a movie marquee advertising a movie OTHER than Fractured Dawn starring Blue Steel, a sign for a hotel OTHER than the Geneva, a larger variety in skyscraper and apartment block designs, a variety in bridge, causeway and elevated roadway designs...

This is all stuff that ADDS to the game, makes it feel more like a real place where your characters live. It doesn't have to make you stop and go, "Ooh! Ahh!" when you first see it, you don't need to even be consciously registering that you're whizzing by another basketball court or fast-food drive-thru but NEVER seeing one detracts from the feel of the game zones as part of an actual city. Where ARE the drive-thrus, the delis, the Martinizing cleaners, gas stations, restaurants and RETAIL centers? Where's the heavy or actually backed-up traffic in Skyway City? Why doesn't traffic increase the way pedestrian traffic increases at certain "times of the day"? You may not NEED this kind of stuff to play CoX but the overall experience can definitely be improved by adding more of that kind of detail.

Originally Posted by Chocolate_Bacon

Heh.

I remember a while back snow storm was even worse. It would spawn the central effect on every enemy effected.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

This is the internet, where everyone is a 6'6" power-lifting, streetfighting god who is also a male model. Apparently, they are also tech experts with lots of knowledgeable and important friends.

Originally Posted by Fury Flechette

A couple of nights ago I got into a rather raucous argument with a person who belongs to the same global chat channel. He was going on and on about how Going Rogue will fail, how the developers don't know what they're doing and that current studio is using software development methodologies one step removed from card readers and vacuum tubes.

Having done some software development in my past (though not recently) and a fair amount of project management for software projects, I asked him how he knows this. Well apparently, this fellow is somewhat of a developer fanboy and obsessively follows tweets from BaBs, reads details from their blogs and scours the net in search of details of how the game is made. He also, according to a mutual acquaintance, works in hardware for some company and according to him "has lots of software developer friends who knows how things are done right!"

He and I ended with no conclusion to our little Internet squabble but it led me to this thought. While I have no idea exactly how this game is developed and published, I do know that this game is a commercial success in a field where there is significant competition. It's successful enough that the studio has grown from a mere 15 or 20 to about 80 developers. It's about to release it's second full expansion and it's 18th free update. Further, whereas many studios keep their fans/customers at arm's length, Paragon Studios goes out of its way to keep us intimately involved in many aspects of the game.

This doesn't mean that I agree with everything that the devs have done nor do I like every aspect of this game. But I like enough of it to keep paying a monthly sub, and I don't expect anything less than to be delighted with Going Rogue and issue 18. So, in sum, I trust that Paragon Studios will continue the same level of excellence that has kept me as a paying customer. I care not whether or not the servers are powered by hamsters and the developers design their models with etch-a-sketches. It's the finished product that counts, and it's generally been impressive for 6 years.

Originally Posted by Kryph0n

If you've never had the privilage of watching How I Met Your Mother take a night, nextflix a season, and relax. I own the first 4 seasons on DVD, and NPH does an AMAZING job in the show.