Roderick
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Quote:Because he's the best there is at what he does, but what he does isn't very nice.Originally Posted by TechnoBabel
Why would you respond if you didn't bother reading it?
He's having fun at your expense. He'll keep replying as long as you amuse him. SatHam's pretty hard to counter-troll, so unless you are honestly enjoying the back-and-forth, it's probably in your best interests to drop it.
Oh, and that giant wall o' text you posted?
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I know a lot of people who have taken to playing on the Beta server, so they can experience sommething from Issue 24 that will never be released, or to buy something that they might not otherwise have the points for. It's likely that the same thing is happening to the population of other servers too.
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Quote:I never owned that, nor did any of my friends. I think the only time I played it was a rental, and I can't remember how far I got. It was supposed to be excellent; maybe I'll try it when I finish Chrono Trigger.Originally Posted by _Ryxx_
Secret of Mana
Well, I've always been a fan of the entire Squirtle line... >_>Quote:and I could do that, and I could take requests! :P -
Not just that, it happens to REDNAMES periodically.
Check here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=600
Notice that one post by Black Pebble titled "The Declaration of Freedom". -
Quote:1- That dragon looks familiar. Where's it from?Originally Posted by _Ryxx_
2- Whose leg do I have to hump to get you to mail that Blastoise to me? -
Quote:And if Satanic Hamster is petitioning someone for being a jerk, you KNOW they have to be bad. ;DOriginally Posted by Satanic_Hamster
The Master and almost everyone in The One were damned ****** bags. The One had Tiny C. in it for cripe's sake. TINY C!
Had to petition the Master(bator) a few times for pulling monsters only Hamidon raids and for the use of racial slurs in broadcast.
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I never knew you or Snowy well, but I remember you both, and I remember having fun teaming with both of you. I'm sad that you missed out on the chance to have VIP until the end.
If you are active on Facebook, search for "Victory Badges". The group has been swelling since the announcement, and I have no intention of dissolving it - even if the game cannot be saved, I fully intend to keep the group there for anyone who wants to stay connected.
/em Victory
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They can make all the code they want at home. But when they aren't allowed access to the game's source code, there's no way to integrate the new code into the old.
Yes, I know you probably realize this. There may be certain people in the thread who might take you seriously, so I hope to stave off the crazed "YES! EXACTLY! THIS IS WHAT THEY NEED TO DO!" -
Quote:And ALL TASKS need SOMEONE. And, as stated in my quote from Zwillinger above, the dev team doesn't have access to the code base any more.Originally Posted by Lichtfunke
some task need programmer, some task need designer
There's nobody there that can do anything more than turn holiday/Double XP events on/off, and from what he's said, Zwillinger can't even do that himself, he needs to contact the server guys in Texas and get them to do it. And before you ask, no, server guys do NOT write new code. -
Quote:No, I'm not. I know exactly how difficult that would be. Which is why I think it was a huge waste of time and effort, when posting on the forums "I'm gonna be running this SF x times at y o'clock" a day in advance resulted in him having too many people waiting for him most of the time, meaning that he had a full team with less effort than it took you to arrange your multiple multi-boxers into their various simultaneous TFs.Originally Posted by Rhysem
You vastly overestimate how hard coordinating multiple SFs was with vent and a consistent team of players.
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Quote:I'm not a redname, but I just so happen to HAVE one in my pocket.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
hold your breath for a redname response that will probably never come.
Oops! Wrong pocket!Quote:Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords...
If it doesn't exist in the game, then it requires development to happen. And since all development has ceased... I think you're smart enough to figure out where this is going. Don't disappoint me.Quote:Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Quote:That IS impressive. The best I've ever done on either of those is 25-ish minutes.Originally Posted by _Pine_
I've done a couple 12-15 minute ITFs and STFs in my day. Pretty proud of those runs.
A supergroup I used to hang out with specialized in speed Master of Statesman TFs for a while. I think they averaged about 20 minutes a run. If you dig around the Victory forums, you can find a couple posts by _Ryxx_ and Elegost about them, and you can probably still find the videos on YouTube - search for "Sacred Brotherhood". -
The joke wasn't funny, the setup was in bad taste, and I can think of no good reason to use a pdf when it would probably be easier to make and host an image file. -
Quote:These are times to be proud of?Originally Posted by Rhysem
Our most common case was 4 players and usually 20 min to the first BZ door. 5 min for each BZ run and we were in and out within 40 minutes with 4 hits each from the TF IO pool, including miracle6, numina6, gambler6 and a bunch of junk (trap of the hunter6). As soon as you complete, the runner re-invites and reforms the team for tomorrow's run.
Back in the Black Market Liberation Front days, a friend of mine used to PUG Quick Tarikoss SFs. We'd be a bit slower overall, because we'd have to form the teams first, but we were doing 6 to 8 man runs with a total time ranging from 7 to 12 minutes, with 8-9 being average. After the first one, most people would swap toons and rejoin, so we didn't lose much time to reforming.
Four or five runs, often with full teams, were generating 30-40 recipes per hour. And we weren't jumping through weird hoops trying to coordinate multiple simultaneous SFs, we were just pounding them out in rapid succession. -
Quote:Between the name and the picture, before clicking the link, I envisioned people setting up the pins in a park, and then chasing pigeons and seagulls towards the pins in an attempr to get them to knock the pins over.Originally Posted by Fire Man
At our last company picnic there was some fowling going on. The head of the studio, Brian "Crosscheck" Clayton hand made these awesome platforms in red and blue for the competition!
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Based on the wording of some of Zwillinger's posts, I'm pretty sure that there's nothing we can do to stop NCSoft from shutting down the servers.
That's not to say the game can't be saved. I'm still hoping that it will be. I just don't have any reason to believe that NCSoft will be in charge any more. I expect it to either be sold or licensed to a new publisher, should it be saved.
If a third party were to take control of CoH, it might be necessary to divorce the CoH accounts from the Master Account. That may or may not be easy to do, so it's quite possible that we'd all have to create new accounts with the new company helming the project.
So, depending on how things go, I'll either be carrying on as normal, or rerolling all my old favourite characters. I wanted to do some pretty major respecs after i24 anyways - in some ways rerolling would be easier. -
Nobody's said anything specific, but I doubt it.
Zwillinger said on the last Coffee Talk that he wanted to get as many events activated as possible before the end (Holiday events, invasion weekends, Double XP, etc). However, the system is only capable of having ONE event active at a time.
I'd expect different events to be put up, as Zwillinger can get them scheduled to be activated, not the same one repeated over and over. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Commander
City of Heroes will be available for at least the next three months.On the date of the announcement (Aug 31), the Nov 30th date was three months away. I'd be willing to be that the form letter that Commander received was generated on or just after the date of the announcement, and hasn't been updated since.Quote:Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
Interesting choice of words.
Of course Nov 30th has never been officially confirmed - IGN just said that NCsoft told them they were 'aiming at' that date, so who knows.
It is still interesting wording, especially in light of Zwillinger's recent post, which gave me pretty much the exact opposite vibe of what Commander's response gives. -
Any of those will be good, but I find WP gives a smoother ride from 1-50, while Inv feels lacking for much of the early levels.
Because WP is mostly Resistance and Regen, and those function best when paired with higher HP, I prefer to use it with Brutes.
So my vote would be Dark/WP brute. For what it's worth, I have a level 50 DM/WP/Leviathan Brute, and I found it great fun from 1-50. It's a little light on AoE though, if that matters to you. -
Quote:Actually, I think you've got it backwards. I'm pretty sure it defaults to "No UI", and capturing the UI requires adjusting the settings.Originally Posted by MisterD
I must have used the SS ui toggle ages ago and forgotten. That makes sense as to why she was seeing the UI all the time.
If you really want to get creative, try this:
Creating these two binds will make it so that Print Screen by itself takes a clean screenshot, and Shift+Print Screen takes a UI-enabled screenshot.Code:/bind sysrq "screenshotui 0$$screenshot" /bind shift+sysrq "screenshotui 1$$screenshot"
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Quote:Fixed for legibility. Seriously, black text on blue background? Ow, my eyes.Originally Posted by Neuro Toxin
The gaming market in a nut shell
Bob! Look at these new graphics! -sam
OMG thats amazing! -bob
Hey, we need to do that if we want to make money so get on it -sam
*bob and his development team work for several months making new concepts to showcase pretty graphics but bring something new to the table*
Whats taking you guys so long, we need to get a move on -sam
Hey, we're doing the best we can here. You want something innovative right? -bob
No, i want graphics and i want it done fast! Just redesign something old, or rework that WoW game! You guys are costing me money! Be more productive! We don't want new. People want pretty! They don't want something new, it'll just confuse them. -sam
*facepalm -bob
This isn't meant to offend anyone, just a thought so please there is no need to attack. I've just noticed this with the gaming industry. Not just MMO's either. Not just games as a matter of fact. I mean resident evil 3D was crap! It was insulting. It was crap wrapped in a pretty 3d package. Now mind you graphics are what get most people when they first look so it cant look like garbage but come on, we want different. CoX was successful because it's not the same thing like most of the other games. With a little advertising it could have been way more successful. -
Quote:Mrs. Shadowe is wise. ;DOriginally Posted by Shadowe
My wife put this in an interesting way:
The announcement for closure of the game has required players to "pull" the information. In other words, it requires effort from the players to actually go looking for it. NCsoft have done very little (the copy on the launcher stays up for maybe 3 seconds with the right settings and is vastly overshadowed by the Nature Affinity advert) to "push" the information to us.
"We put it somewhere that you can find" is not a valid means of communicating with customers. "We sent you an email" is. Sure, there are people who disable emails on their Master Account, but that is not NCsoft's fault. Not even trying to send an email is.
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What's a Naratu?
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Quote:If it were sent by GMOTD and email, it would reach EVERY SINGLE PLAYER. If those players choose to ignore it, then the onus is on the PLAYERS, not NCSoft.Originally Posted by JayboH
That's ok, if they make a GMOTD and email everyone who has an account regardless if they are a subscriber, there would still be people you will run into that won't know about it, so this argument is pointless.
The methods that NCSoft has chosen to use to reach the playerbase each reach 50% or far FAR less of the people it affects, and they know this.
No, the argument is not pointless. It takes 2 minutes or less to copy/paste Zwillinger's announcement to the GMOTD and a form letter that can be emailed to the whole mailing list. Why wasn't it done? -
Quote:I never got an email from Paragon/NCSoft informing me of the shutdown.Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
So, the links JayboH provided aren't sufficient eh? What is it you need exactly? A hand written letter from davinci@ncsoft.com (CEO) that says "Dear Shadowe, I has a sad..."?
I never got in-game notification via the GMOTD.
I do frequent the forums and follow CoH on Facebook, as well as occasionally checking in on them on Twitter. So I saw Zwillinger's address to the community.
Many players (over 90%, according to Zwill) never even register for the forums. 55,600 people follow CoH on Facebook (less than half of the generally assumed playerbase, assuming that all those followers are current subscribers). 6,800 people follow them on Twitter (That's barely twice the number that showed up for TonyV's Unity Rally).
It's possible that there are people who follow news sites that got the announcement that way, without ever seeing it through any of the above sources, though I consider that unlikely.
My point is this: I am still running into people in-game who have no idea that the game is shutting down, because there has never been an OFFICIAL announcement made in a way that ALL players will see it, ie the GMOTD or an email sent to all subscribers. NCSoft has failed in communicating with us, because the information hasn't been put out in a way that is guaranteed to be seen by all of its customers.
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Also not good enough. I've never seen that. Since we have the ability to make the launcher pop up, launch the game, and close itself, it is quite possible to never see any of the advertisements or news stories listed on it.Quote:Originally Posted by JayboH
