Schismatrix

Well, they went from a staff of 15 to 70+ while working on a bunch of new stuff (not all of which has been revealed yet; i'm looking at you i20) and then cut back to 60+ on staff. That's still at least four times the Dev team CoH had at the time they were acquired by NCsoft.

As for BAB leaving... we don't know any real details, and based on how his activity on the forums had tapered off months before news of his leaving leaked out he could've been preparing to hand off lead animator duties long before the layoffs occurred.

Based on your recent spate of starting threads it seems you've either belatedly caught up on what's been going on for some time, or something in your own life suddenly got you worked up.

Either way, a fair bit of your recent posting seems to combine misinformation with narrowminded intolerance and provincialism.

i hope CoH doesn't adopt a F2P model either, and i do agree that F2P game models seem to bring in more jackholes than standard subscription based MMOs. Still, i've found CoH's community on the whole to be unusually tolerant and helpful even when compared to other standard MMOs. There are individual exceptions of course. *glances up at OP*

No.

Your assertions make no sense and you still haven't addressed where people from Asia, Australia, and other parts of the world will play.

First off, you're apparently ignoring that people from all over the world already play on US servers. i know several people from Australia and New Zealand who play on the US servers as well as a few who live in Japan and play here. i frequently team with a bunch of other people who live outside the US that i know from in game even if i don't recall exactly where they live.

Your reply to how you can tell where spam comes from makes even less sense. In game McAfee tells you nothing about where a spammer originated. Outside the game spam can also originate almost anywhere and applications like McAfee are of limited utility in determining actual origin. A fair chunk of spam is generated by botnets, and the individual computers in the network and the controller of the botnet can be anywhere on the planet that has internet connections.

Weird... or just desiring the tools to do things that most players don't even dabble in at all?

See... i've never even had Maelstrom try to get into my mind. Besides, i'm not sure frightening them away by showing them an endless, yawning abyss that devours all rational thought really counts as "blocking" them.

They're also called kooshes and koosh balls, but that lacks the "y" ending.
Kooshy?

i've always heard it called Singy, and to be honest i think that name has more panache than Spotty. Spotty sounds good for an Edwardian street urchin who keeps you informed about what's happening on the street.

One of my Earth Controllers calls her Animated Stone Dr. Poopington, but that's neither here nor there.

i remember first seeing this bug in the i18 beta on my Praetorian Bots/Traps. It seemed to have been fixed in a subsequent patch, but apparently not for good.
i really haven't been playing Masterminds since the beta. Has this been ongoing since 18 was released or is it happening more since the Halloween event started?

Kinetic Melee.

Probably this. i don't recall there ever being an issue released without it being in open beta for at least a week, so i'm pretty confident that November 2nd is right out. i suppose the least satisfying and most accurate answer is "when it's (mostly) ready."

The most important aspect of a set bonus for stacking purposes is how it's named in game. Two set bonuses could give the exact same boost (say 5% flight speed), but if they're named differently they don't count together towards the limit of 5.

From Frost's link to the wiki:

Don't most of the armors have a "no fade or pulse" option? It doesn't remove the swirlies or sparkles, but it does alleviate the constant brightening and dimming of your character model.

Personally i like Dark Armor's look, but lately i've been using bluish and purplish tints to recolor it.

Crazy. So crazy it's not unpossible.

Not very crazy at all. Are you sure this is the right thread for this sort of pragmatism? Besides, using an NDA to simply delay revealing PvE DR would be a bit silly, the fecal hurricane would simply hit that much harder later on.

No, it's because they're introducing a new system where the players of defeated characters can take control of randomly selected NPCs in missions with xp bonuses for defeating other players.

In my opinion (of course) Follow Up's near constant damage buff (with Frankenslotting you might be able to get it overlapping and stacking at 20) to your other attacks, especially the damage aura, compensates for the Clockwork lethal resistance. That and the fast recharge and low endurance cost of Claws helps. But i admit to being somewhat biased.

Edit: Admittedly Follow Up is more of a benefit to Scrappers than Brutes.

This statement contrasts entertainingly with your forum name.
Cheers.

Most of the time the new ruler makes a big show out of finding and executing the assassin of the former ruler. (Even if they were the one who sent the assassin the first place. Especially if they were the one who sent the assassin in the first place.) Beyond some fictional gangs and tribes i don't know of any significant groups or nations where killing the old leader automatically makes you the new leader.

B_I has a point.
Personally i find being devolved very occasionally for a single freaking minute very amusing. Most of my alts have secondary mutation on auto, and out of the six times or so that i've been monkeyfied at least three of those times have been in combat. It's never caused defeat for me or my teammates, but it's amused the hell out of me every single time. i only wish we would get monkey powers while devolved, or at least be able to use brawl and temp powers. i was once delayed by a full minute for meeting the team to go do a trial because i was a monkey when i logged in and couldn't summon a portal or uses a teleporter. The horror! Besides, i'd keep a supply of assorted grenades handy if i could use them monkeyfied. i'd pretend they were something besides grenades of course. <.<

So the Dutch are sheep? Or should we refer to them now as the Dutches in order to affirm their personhood?

Sort of have to go with the goat on this one.

Now, i've had times where ten bucks was very dear, but living on the Northeastern coast of the USA means that most good restaurants that don't sell horrible sludge cost $10 or more for a single meal. Hell, the local delis sell sandwiches for $5 to $7. (Yeah, i know some excellent restaurants that serve enough for two at about $10, but that's not the usual price point.) A 20oz. bottle of soda is ~$1.25 around here. Yeah, i don't buy any of that for the most part, and my lunches generally cost me less than $5, but $9.99 for one time purchase of pretty bits that i will then be able to access until the servers go cold is something i can pay if i think the bits are worth it. If they aren't then i won't. Compared to a recurring monthly cost of $14.99 plus the cost of the broadband service it's still not a lot. Especially considering i've been paying that much for over six years.

i skipped on the party pack because it wasn't worth it to me. This pack OTOH so far seems like it will be.

Y'know, for some reason i'm suddenly reminded of the first Austin Powers movie when Dr. Evil makes his initial ransom demand.

There is a fair bit of man-hours required to go through and recode that many powers. It's not as simple to do as you seem to think. From what i know of previous changes to powers it cannot be done as an automated script with good results. So there's two hurdles to implementing this change.

On the plus side at least it's now possible. Which is still not the same thing as worth the cost.

Ouroboros also has sunny skies.

To my mind doorsitting in missions, whether AE or regular, isn't really leveling to 50 without fighting. Technically you aren't fighting, but it's not really in the spirit of the challenge.

That reminds me of the guy who posted that his Empath didn't slot or use any attacks because he was a pacifist.

i... see... so in order to express your objection to violence you follow around a group of violent people and juice them with amphetamines and steroids to keep them strong and aggressive and patch them up when they bruise a knuckle smashing other people's faces in. Yup, definitely a true pacifist. Assuming your definition of pacifist is a coward who likes to facilitate and watch violence committed by others.

Yeah, Gates is my pick as well. If he gets elected leader it will be interesting to see how the writing for that shakes out. Both for the reactions of other characters and how Gates deals with it.

You don't need contacts past the first five levels, and none of the missions in that range can't be autocompleted AFAIK. Past that you can go the whole way to 50 by autocompleting newspaper/scanner missions every three days.