RogerWilco

Yeah. Welcome. I don't have much to add, except that your character's story is whatever you want it to be.

Sounded like fun, I'm sorry I missed it.

I've applied patch 1.956 and this is the result:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/4yxh...signer_app_zip

Warning: It's 195 MB !

The old link is no longer active.

I have a question if there are ways to avoid the following scenario I encountered:

I was doing this story arc with a friend where you need to free some hostages, who will then start to help you fight the rest of the mobs and the end boss in the instance.

The problem that we had is that these hostages were rather trigger happy, but also relatively weak. This meant that even if I tried to tank a pull, they would usually get some hits and barely survive, also because we were fighting mobs that did a lot of AoE damage.

We first did my friend's version of the mission, and failed the mission soon after we freed the first hostage, as we weren't paying close attention to its health bar, until it died.

Fortunately we could then still do my version of the mission and try again.

Now we made sure that after each pull, the hostage(s) had a full health bar before we did the next pull. This ended up as a very painful and slow process, doing one pull, waiting a few minutes, doing another pull, waiting again, etc. Neither of us was a healer.

We tried walking back to the entrance, but the hostage(s) just kept following us around.

Is there a way to keep these kinds of NPCs out of harms way? Even with our careful and slow approach, they would often end up nearly dead.

Is sitting around waiting for a health bar creep back up the supposed challenge for this or is it just poor mission design?

I found some images of the Mecha armor costume:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=288281

Well, since nobody seems to have an answer, I spent some time searching the forums and Paragon Wiki.

- Bio Armor, Water Blasting, Nature's Affinity Power Sets - Still no clue beyond the name. Apparently I need to watch the ~40 hours of video of the Pummit to find out.

- Magisterium Trial - Probably some new endgame content/iTrail type thing.

- Night Ward - A First Ward like new zone currently on Beta.

- Summer Blockbuster - Something that can/will/might happen this summer? So it's not in winter, autumn or spring.

- Mecha Armor - Replacement for the Celestial Armor in i23. Probably looks somewhat like a Mecha?

- Superpacks Rogues/Vigilantes - A new kind of Superpack?

- Amplifiers - longer duration inspirations

- Double XP Boosters - What it says on the tin I suppose.

- Chain Mail Armor - Apparently on Beta. Probably looks somewhat like medieval chain mail?

- Additional Enhancement trays - Could mean two things. Either it's more trays in the Store than the current 3, or it's extra trays that you don't have to pay for.

- Cyberpunk costume - I've read a lot of Cyberpunk SciFi, but I don't know what this will look like. Probably not like a Mecha or chain mail.

- Halloween Costume Pack II - Witches, Jack-o-lanterns and bats? That's the images that come to mind for Haloween as a European. On the wiki there is a costume set with a brain in a jar, Piranha, Vampire and Medusa hair. But that's probably Halloween Costume Pack I.

- Hybrid slot - Lot's of stuff about this on the Beta forum. Seems to be something Incarnate-ish.


The result of this is that I've effectively given a ranking based as much on how much I know about a feature as on how much I'd like to have it. For example, I've given the Power Sets a ranking of "Meh". Maybe I would like them if I knew what they were.

A large part of my answers on the first page are basically random because of that. On the question to rank things from 1 to 15, I just made a nice diagonal line from top left to bottom right.

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I really like it that you are asking your player community for feedback. But the survey itself could have been better executed. Unless the assumption is that only people who have seen the Pummit broadcast should fill in the survey, but then why point people to it from an in game message? If there are enough people like me, then you might be wasting a lot of effort on data that's too polluted with incorrect input to get any meaningful statistical results. I tried filling in the survey, but the first page is basically irrelevant.

Yeah, I saw that on the news, pretty nice.

I just want to add that I really liked the Praetorian content and story arcs. I think it wouldn't be good if those were removed. I really like my Praetorian Resistance Rogue, it's by far my favourite character.

The only problem I have with the Praetorian content up to level 20, is that there are so few people. I think it's the best looking starting area, and should be the default starting area for new players, especially non-VIP. I think it would help convert players to VIP.

I'm Dutch and I play on Union with the English client, so the issue only marginally concerns me.

I understand this business decision. I'm not sure about France, but I think the market is there in Germany, although capturing it with an eight year old game would be difficult, probably impossible without a major advertising effort.

I have one point: You might want to keep a forum for these languages, even if you can't moderate it. Maybe just keeping the server forums is enough, like you plan to do, but then make sure they are marked as Zukunft (Deutsch), Vigilante (Français).

I'm Dutch and have friends in Sweden, Finland, Portugal and Hungary. These are usually all unsupported languages even in the largest MMOs. As long as you don't censor messages in those languages, as long as there are no complains, you give people from these communities the opportunity to organise themselves. I've seen many posts on forums of other MMOs in unsupported languages, usually questions for help by new players. I've answered questions in Dutch, Fench and German myself pointing people to guilds or clans of people using the same language.

Given the population numbers on those servers, I wasn't surprised. I think the market is there, but the opportunity was missed years ago, when CoH was young.

Other MMOs now have more players in the EU than they have in the USA, the potential is there. And I think superheroes and comics are well known enough in quite a few countries here. The various DC and Marvel titles and associated movies have been quite popular where I live and what I've seen in other countries. I was an avid X-men fan growing up in the eighties. It's a very international group in the comics, unfortunately much less so in the Holywood translation. I think it's too cheap to blame it on a lesser penetration of superhero comics here.

I think the potential is there. I think more for a Marvel type world than for a DC type world game design and more X-men than Captain America. The stories themselves don't need to be in a European setting to appeal to us, but I think an international team of SuperHeroes fighting for world peace has more appeal here than a more Americanized hero like Superman or Captain America. But maybe that is something to think about if we ever see a successor to CoH.

I find it extra poor in combination with power sets that have some building effect, like Street Justice's Combo Points, or Dual blades Combination Attacks. I mind it less on something like Super Strength.

And if we're talking about Fighting, I don't like the gorilla yell. Especially on female characters, it looks painful.

But adding more powers, like the travel powers, will make it much harder to make a build. Squeezing one of the level 14 travel powers in is already a quite difficult.

I'm a new player, but I think they started the Signature Story Arc around the time Skyrim was released. You might have missed those.

Me and my friend got hooked on CoH the day he bought Skyrim. Basically while it was downloading. I don't think he's played it yet.