Scarlet Shocker

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Actually, going by Rockjaw's Twitter feed, that's exactly where they all are.

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Can't blame them can you?

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Anyway GR tell us whats happening, it wont hurt for long.

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IF he's even still there...

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My guess is he's down the pub right now.

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Well if sunset does happen with the EU servers I think it would be more likely that this would happen.

All active EU accounts made before [ enter date here ]

Will receive;

Lineage II client and 2 months playtime free!

Aion Early access code and client free!

City of combined edition client ( US ) and 2 months playtime free!

We thankyou all for your continued support!

Btw that's not speculation on my part that's what the subscribers of Tabula rasa got.

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If any such offer was that Impersonal I would be (quite frankly) rather insulted: (see pre-prepared reply to any such offer below).

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Well said.

I guess with DCUO and CO imminent, it's not as tho the CoX community doesn't have somebody waiting with open servers and legs for this community to come running. So I'd suspect (and hope) that NC would be cognisant of that and do what it could to keep the majority of the EU community on board - especially considering they're likely to experience a dip in numbers when those games do come online anyhow, even if purely for curiosity's sake.

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Well if sunset does happen with the EU servers I think it would be more likely that this would happen.

All active EU accounts made before [ enter date here ]

Will receive;

Lineage II client and 2 months playtime free!

Aion Early access code and client free!

City of combined edition client ( US ) and 2 months playtime free!

We thankyou all for your continued support!

Btw that's not speculation on my part that's what the subscribers of Tabula rasa got.

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TR wasn't as well established tho. It was less than a year old.

The CoX EU fraternity is considerably wider reaching (and I believe bigger.) They have more to lose - and so does NC Soft by losing that revenue.

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It could be worse... When they closed the Korean servers, they just gave them all US accounts; no character transfers at all.

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That's almost my preferred option - I could handle rebooting my toons, provided I can keep their names, Vet Rewards and of course, character slots and bolt on packs that I've purchased.

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On the bright side, if this is true we are a step nearer a server merge with any luck.

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I still think a server merge is unlikely. However, a server TRANSFER; that's likely after all this. They really cannot run 4 EU servers with just a couple of people left in the office. People who, lets be honest here, are likely only going to have short term jobs as they wind the office down.

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Was going to comment on the merger thing but FFM said it best and anyway the US have much better server hosting.

We know our current servers are old and well past their sell-by date...

No more lag and mapserver DC's would be one benefit

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The UK servers are newer than the US servers.

Given that NC West were so quiet about the NYCC and yet everyone else including Cryptic were there, it looks as tho somebody's trying to kill off our favourite game

Indeed. It's sad to think that this is peoples livelihoods - and jobs are like rockinghorse droppings at the moment

Good luck to those affected.

I think if the rumours are true, it's better not to speculate too much until we get an official word (if any.)

Let's hold our horses until we hear the word from the proverbial bird.

I can't remember what badges and rewards are available for the Valentines event.

Any clues?

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IIRC we were told that NC bought the CoX IP on 6/11/2007 (it's my birthday which is why I remmember, I'm not usually so retentive of dates).

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Lies!!!!!

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So the press release mentioned by the OP was either the buying press release or a quick follow up. Either way Jack had gone as had the MUO/CO work.

Pretty sure that signs and portents for a sequel have come occasionally - but I don't think NC ever got around to announcing formal plans for the City of Heroes IP in any way, shape or form.

Still, nowt like a notable birthday to get all tipsy and start saying things you may later regret (when the players hold you to them)

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I recall seeing Matt Miller saying not so long ago (Massively interview maybe?) that CoX had a solid future ahead of it and they were making plans for the next 5 years. To me that means that there won't be a CoX2 per se, but there'll be lots up upgrades along the way

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Probably more; whether there'd be enough extra is a bit subjective. I'd suggest creating a temporary villain on union and taking a look at your typical gaming times.


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/Doh

why didnt I think of that, on the subject of using the Sk system, most of the people ive seen are at 50 - and tbh no-one wants a low level villian running around with them, even if he is SK

I havnt played ina while and I come to find everywhere is empty =S

In a similar theme, what would the asnwer be for the same question but iwth heroes?

Really I suppose the questions hould be "which server is the most active"

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I'm very happy to have an SK on a team regardless of level, so long as I've got a slot to SK.

I don't have too many problems finding a team on Villains myself, regardless of level so if you see me online, then hit me up. My global's @Riff

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Obvious question: did you have any other missions open? was the 'protect the memorial' mission set as active (red marker)?
If a player has more than one mission open and no active mission set then the mission TP will go to the first (oldest) open mission.
Might be nice if it did a prompt/message when used with no active mission set but we have what we have.


And yes I have also been ported to the insides of buildings a few times. Clicking the door to enter has always worked so far, though it does look weird.

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Really good question and I can't be sure. It was my active mission but I can't say it was red, might have been yellow.

That may be the thing.

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and Second Life. I don't have time!

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Why Scarlet! I didn't think you were into THAT kind of gaming!

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HAHA I'm not. But it's a good place to find an audience when involved in internet radio

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TR was an expensive monster to create, and NC wanted to see a good return on it. I think that they've been seeing an operating profit, but one that's several magnitudes lower than planned and would take something just shy of eternity to repay the development investment.

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If that were true, I'm kinda surprised they didn't try and shift the IP and infrastructure off to somebody else... to at least get some return on investment. If the game is making a profit it seems odd to me that it's going to be buried alive.

I've played it a while. To me it was basically Guild Wars in Outter Space. I would have played it for free on occasion but I sub to this and I've got a GW account, and Second Life. I don't have time!

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they have said this is a bug...when it is fixed is anyone guess

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Well that's good to know... I'd not seen that but some of the bugs are proving stubborn to remove to say the least

I've noticed since I13 landed that for what appears to be the large majority of missions, the entire team needs to be in the zone before it can be selected.

I also noticed there wasn't an area to post feedback on this "feature" but I have to say I loathe, loathe, hate, detest it. It's a pain in the proverbials and seems to be for the sake of 2 faction specific contacts in one co-op zone.

It's a pain, immensely annoying and I'm not even remotely convinced that the benefit of content addition outweighs the pain factor.

I suppose it's too late to hope for any feature change, and I'm sure there's no easy fix, but it's clunky and horrid.

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The TP is superb - I'd prefer it to be an hour, instead of 2 hours, but nonetheless, it's really great if a mission is across zones, or tricky to get to

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Superb, until it parks you in totally the wrong place

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I wonder when i14 will come out. Apparently i15 is due late in April (on the 5th anniversary) so that leaves very little time to knock out i14.

Maybe 15 will be postponed from the anniversary date itself?

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that would be a major embarrassment for NC

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Not really, since there's never been a release date of any sort officially announced for Issue 15. It's an assumption that's been made by extrapolating a long, long way from a teaser Positron made in an interview.

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If NCSoft failed to produce something special to mark the 5th anniversary, it would be very... strange to say the least. It would send all the wrong signals to the industry and fan base about the state of one of their flagship products.

I've bugged this, but not sure if anyone's experienced it.

I was on my cape mish, and having reached Justin Wossname in IP, he told me to go to Talos to protect the memorial. I decided to use my Mission TP power cuz it as a long way. So hey presto... fertang, one misison TP later and I was in... The Hollows.

[censored]? Instead of going to the Mission in Talos, I end up in a random slot in the Hollows.

Beaucoup the oddness!

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I'd rather play out some love story either with another player or a npc of your choise. And once the story is done the chars would do some hug or kiss pose so you can get some screenshots

Sorta like http://annahoftheshadows.deviantart....ssing-81803884

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It's valentines! Go.Boff. GF

I can see where the OP is coming from: A comment box allows the player to provide some feedback for market research/qualitative purposes. If a mission's too tough, or broken, or... whatever reason, it would give us an opportunity to let the Devs know why we're dropping.

However, I can't help but feel it's superfluous. We already have ample methods to let them know if something's not right. If it's just cuz we've outlevelled, or too lazy, then it gets dropped.

I'm betting that very few misisons get dropped because they are bugged, and I'm sure that if a comment box was provided mostly it would generate comments like "this mission sux" which doesnt' help at all.

sorry but can't see this adding to the game greatly.

I've got to say this isn't my experience.

Sure, people lose their rags on the fora, and I'm as guilty as anyone of calling a spade a spade without using pretty words. Frequently, having done so I realise the error of my ways subsequently and try and at the very least desist.

As for the game itself, I've found everyone to be really friendly and helpful. Sure there's the odd person who might claim to know it all and to proceed to "instruct" you as to how to play but if you politely tell them thanks for the advice but you're ok, it usualy works out.

As for new players, I don't want to put words in my friends mouth, but she recently joined from WoW and is really enjoying it - and the friendly attitude from other players I think.

To coin a horrible americanese acronym, YMMV, but I think you've either been very unlucky or your friend hasn't been teaming with the right people.

Fifthed

Lag generally seems to be very bad this weekedn