Samuel_Tow

I've tried working with personal stalls in Lineage and 9Dragons, and it essentially forced me to sit my character down, walk away from the computer and leave him sitting for hours and hours. Feh! Even if I didn't have to, though, I'd still hate this for the same reason I hate shopping around marketplaces. Every person has his own little inventory, and if I want to search for an item, I have to go through EVERYONE'S inventory, and I still may not find it. 9Dragons had a common location between good and evil where everyone had their stalls, and lemme' tell ya - I HATED looking for anything in there. I've also worked with an auction house interface, and I hated it. It put all the work on my shoulders, as I had to research prices and find the right seller.

In City of Heroes, I just open a common interface sorted by items, look at the last few prices, the numbers available and the number of bidders, and just list or bid. I never had to look for a specific seller to buy an item from. I like our interface best of all, because it's so hands-off.

I agree. I enjoy taking on signature heroes and villains BY MYSELF. It makes the low-level trudge all the more rewarding and it makes the satisfaction of reaching the pinnacle of your power all the more satisfying.

And, yeah, elite bosses with Tier 9 powers are just annoying. It doesn't add to the fight, it just makes you come back in three minutes. And it's even worse when their Tier 9 powers recharge faster than they expire. Damn Mynx and her never-ending Elude!

Come now, Bill. You know what I mean. It's harder than it's ever been, and why? Back in the day, Trick or Treat enemies were your level PHYSICALLY, not just via GM code, so at all levels they acted like enemies of that level. Now, in the low levels, Trick spawns are just HARD. Harder than they have any reason to be. Yeah, I can pick a spot, pack break-frees, gear up, button down and fight for my life.

Or I can just avoid the even because it's too much hassle. I'll take last year's trick-or-treating over this year's in a heartbeat. I'm sick of everything using the GM code.

You actually have access to an alternate idle animation, via the /em idle1 and /em idle2 emotes which BABs added to address this exact concern some time back.

My goodness... Mouse, please understand I mean this with the utmost respect, but I really, really, REALLY dislike very much everything in that list. I don't want to get into detailed explanations, because there's no real point, but I just gotta' say, I pretty much disagree with you completely and would actually hate to see a lot of those done to the game.

But again, this questions whose decision it was. Even if this was the correct decision for Cryptic, Cryptic are no longer responsible for City of Heroes, and as such their agendas aren't really in our best interest, not at the moment and not, from all it seems, even back then. The bigger question is, however, was it a mistake for NCsoft to let that happen? And I, personally, think it was, because it essentially gutted what had been a moderately successful game.

Given the current situation and the fates of Tabula Rasa and Auto Assault, I don't foresee a second gutting in the near future, not on a whim, at the very least. I think it would be a mistake, and I think the previous gutting would serve as precedent for this conclusion.

As far as "bad guy" goes, I didn't believe it at the time, but Jack and Cryptic really WERE pushing for a new game and really WERE using a lot of their resources on it. The buyout may well have been the best thing to happen to this game in recent years.

"Made it," as in been profitable and sustainable. For that matter, I don't think JUST City of Heroes without City of Villains would have "made it," either. CoV gives me probably half my playtime in the game, and I'm not sure if I'd still be here if it weren't for that.

Well paint me red and call me grandma! It's a good thing I'm not a betting man with how many things have blindsided me the last few days, but I would have bet dollars to doughnuts that a red name would never commit to making such a statement on pain of death. I didn't think they were going forward with DR mind you, but I just didn't think they'd reveal it, or one of those PMs would've been mine. A few times I thought about Castle to ask him if "Dude, this is getting out of hand! Could you, like, drop by and set us straight?"

Now I kind of wish I had. Not that it would've helped, but at least I would have felt like I made a difference

Here's the million dollar question - would this change anything? That'll be interesting to see.

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THANK YOU, CASTLE!

The problem, as usual, is workload. Transitions between some tilesets already exist, but they are highly limited. We have office to cave, cave to sewer, cave to Rikti base and abandoned lab to cave. There are rather a few more transitions left. Mainly, though, it just seems like a problem of creating new layouts. I don't know what their tools for building a new layout out of existing pieces is, but over the years, the developers have been EXTREMELY unwilling to add in more layouts. If we can get past that problem, we'll be set.

The man essentially owns his own dimension. How much more powerful do you need him to get? Should he juggle planets or something? The Statesman is invincible in Praetorian Earth because he's a Mary Sue, but even despite that, he's crucified over Tyrant's throne and going nowhere.

And I definitely do NOT want the arc pulled and turned into a TF. We have enough plot locked away in TFs where no-one ever gets the chance to read the narrative. We don't need more. And we definitely don't need more content that makes us feel like chumps. I very much agree that taking out other-dimension Statesman and the other-dimension Freedom Phalanx single-handedly works really well for a hero's shining moment.

I am not a wimp. I shouldn't have to beg and plead and band together with seven of my buddies to take out one of them. THEY should have to band together to take me on. That arc does just that, and I love it for it. By all means, update the Praetorians and clean up the zillions of text errors, but do NOT turn it into a TF.

Villain supply is significantly lower than hero supply, which artificially raises prices while simultaneously reducing the window of opportunity to get rich. Opening the hero market to villains would both allow them to get richer than they are now, as well as allow them to tap into a more stable, more abundant supply of at least the basic stuff. The only basic items (common recipes and common salvage) that are expensive are the ones in short supply. The ones with abundant supply may spike in price from time to time, but they also drop in price fairly often, so it's easy enough to just leave outstanding bids and wait for a price drop. With a much lower supply, prices don't drop as easily.

You don't need any in-character reason at all. Let me ask you this question: if the markets were merged tomorrow with no patch notes, would you be able to tell? And if you began to suspect, would you have an in-character way to verify that? As long as all the times are the same between sides, the only way to tell if the markets are merged or not is out-of-character.

Doesn't taking the train or taking the boat count as vehicles?

Yeah, that kind of caught me by surprise, too. Shortly before that post, I got this in my rep box:

It came attached to positive rep, too. I kind of assumed it was from Frosticus as a sort of "let it go, man" and I'd have left it at that, until I saw Frosticus's post answering the same post of mine in a different manner. Now, rep comments come without a name attached and this person did not leave a name or initials. Given the circumstances, it seems I originally assumed wrong, but that then begs the question - who would send me such a comment worded like it's Frosticus sending it. "I'll accept your wager" is a direct response to what I said to the wager I suggested to him, and I just can't figure out what someone who wasn't Frosticus could have meant by that.

I don't think it's from him, since he answered my post in the thread anyway, and it looked like he'd just found it, and I highly doubt it's from Arcanaville, at the very least since it looks like Arcana just now got around to the wager post.

I'm completely mystified here. Not that it really matters, but I don't understand it, and things I don't understand just bug me.

By the way, it seems I neglected to append a smilie at the end of that post. I was joking

Not the She-Hulk in particular, but yeah, that design in a big way. I can't help it. I mean, over the years I've developed a broad spectrum of female characters (and tastes for them) but as CoH stands, these are still largely limited to the skinny end of the spectrum. We simply lack the tools to push the envelope in the other direction, and being a fan of all things unusual (not necessarily "different," just unusual), it hurts me that we don't have that, since it's one of the most visually STRIKING things you could really make.

I concede that it's probably bad for to speculate on matters of this nature, and while I don't want to accuse Jack of lying, he did and does have an agenda, so I don't want to hold his word as the WHOLE truth.

Put it this way - however it happened, we know the City of Heroes development team was downsized, and I believe all parties involved recognise this was a mistake. I don't foresee it happening again, lest we repeat the same mistake.

I can't wait for it to hit Live so I can see my cute panda wiggle I just need to figure out what to bind it to so it's easy to access. I'm thinking Ctrl+V.

Well, I just meant to say that it's sort of an unrealistic choice to make, and I'm glad we got a response on it AT ALL. I gotta' tell ya', that Walk toggle blindsided me me like a moon hitting me in the back of the head out of nowhere. I could have bet money, bet my head that we'd never get such a thing in this game, not in a million years. So, yeah, it's slow and it's very restrictive, but HEY! It's WALKING, and given the alternative - never ever ever - anything at all is still better than that

You shouldn't give people multiple choice questions with answers you don't like, just as a general thing.

That would most definitely have been your ***.

I'm starting to wonder if anyone even knows what each "age" encompasses any more

And that's a bad thing? Next time this comes up I'll have ready answers