Sharker_Quint
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wow. a bunch of replies and the only one who actually read what i said and understood it was Aett. he gets 2 gold stars and the rest of you get a bag of coal.
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Quote:then you should have emailed one of the devs or mods. just because this game does not have the numbers of WoW or other MMO's does not mean it is failing. look at the time of year it is. schools getting out, parents taking vacation time and all sorts of other things that affect the population just like during school start up and christmas and every other holiday out there where the pop seems to dip for a little bit.Originally Posted by Blpup
OK Lets NOT advertise and just sit back and watch our population grow magicly?
and i don't see you coming up with any idea's
Well like i said this isnt a joke thread as i am serious
of course it would help if maybe they fixed the bugs and other problems with the game before going live rather then just pushing things through.
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Quote:just because it wouldn't be me if i didn't do this once a week.....Originally Posted by Blpup
As we all know City of Heroes/Villains Player base is decreasing slowly. Not because people don't like hero themed games but because we do not advertise. When i go to different sites online I see a lot of Ad's of Web browser games or mainly WoW. If even the F2P games have ads why don't we? I really think if you promote the game more the player base would increase. I know CoX does all the Hero Con's and such but most people who attend Hero Con already know about the game. Thus resulting in promoting already existing players. I believe that NCsoft should be concentrating on expanding the player base and promoting to players that don't already know the game exists. They could accomplish this by placing more ads on websites, placing ads in gaming and pc magazines and attempting to promote the game to countries other than just America.
Off Topic:I also think that the Suggestions and Ideas Threads should be moved to a more important area of the Boards. As this is srs business not "For Fun!"
where is your "proof" that the game is loosing people because they don't advertise? while i agree that they should look at doing something, i find your assumption false.
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Quote:the problem with doing it this way is that you would have a lot more whining and crying about nerfs then anything. that is why it takes a while to make changes to power sets and such. they have to make sure that they aren't going to destroy the powerset by doing so while keeping playability there.Originally Posted by New_Dark_Age
I see your point but I believe that by taking greater risk the lesser evil is chosen. It is better a set be buffed too much then quickly nerfed than letting a set rot for several years. The end result would be the same only faster. Discontent exists no matter what you do.
Taking risk does not always bring failure anyway. By being timid with the changes, the Devs almost guarantee failure. I quit the game for nearly two years and still return to find sets like EA and FA suffering. If they buffed both sets boldly the first time and then nerfed them again slightly then they would not have been in such a poor state for so long. We would be sitting here talking about how EA and FA are solid sets. -
i don't think you understood the problem SB. he has a dark purple bar, not blue bar, which would indicate debt.
to the OP, can you take a screen shot and post it here so that we can see exactly what is going on? make sure your chat box is open so we can see the rewards you got for killing something. -
Quote:i believe that in the io description it says just that. something along the lines of a chance to give 10 end to the TARGET.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
The Performance Shifter proc should at least warn you that putting it in an End draining power will actually give endurance to the target(s). And it should be larger than the fine print warning you not to use it on roadrunners.
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Quote:it is useful if you use it in an auto power or toggle.Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper
not really, considering the duration is is so short - well, yes, 20% is better than, oh, less than 20% (If i'm reading how it used to work correctly)... but at 10-ish seconds duration; I fail to see how that has any useful effect at all.
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there really is nothing wrong with the io at all so i see no need for any change to be made. if you have froce of nature then it is safe to assume that you took temp invuln so why not remove it from FoN and put it in temp invuln so that you have it active all the time?
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i seriously think you have confused your self M_C_M. vet rewards are not used to keep players playing or to intice new players to join. it is the game itself that does that. there is no reason to add any other "tiers" of rewards. the only thing that needs to happen is to relook at the rewards and change out the costume rewards for something else or give all players access to some sort of generic costume pieces of the vet rewards.
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Quote:it all falls in the little category know as balance. if they up the duration they will take away from the performance to balance it out. and your "buff one person...", what happens when there are people not in range of the person who got the buff? do they still get it or are they screwed seeing as how you just spent 1/3 of your end giving out the buff?Originally Posted by Athanatosis
Hate to bring up WoW, but when the new team took over recently they changed all the 2 minute buffs to 15-30 minute buffs because they realized how annoying it was for people to have to put them up all the time.
As it stands, without taking much away from their overall performance kins can keep the entire team speed boosted indefinitely. A lot of people expect as much from them, or at least close to it. It makes buff classes overall less desirable to play because it's so annoying having to buff that often. Either you take away from the team's potential to succeed or to steamroll, or you put yourself out and deal with the constant annoyance of buffing 7 other people so frequently.
I see where you're coming from but what you're saying is that SB should take away from the overall performance of a class, in the name of balance, because they have to spend so much time keeping it up if they want to have it up most of the time. That's not right. That's not fun for anyone. Would anyone really complain if SB was exactly the same just with a much longer duration? I don't think that's the kind of "overpowered" people get jealous over. It's only beneficial to them... Much more kins would use SB and keep it up (without even expecting people to beg for it, like OP!) The only complaint I could see is that the other buff classes still have to buff everyone every two minutes, in which case they should just change most of those buffs to have longer durations as well.
Hell, I'd even be happy with them just making it a "buff one person and everyone else gets it" buff. That way it's less of a hassle for the person in charge of it. -
good to know. i wasn't sure and was hoping my answer would spark up someone who did.
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i do not believe it does. and if it did, it would only last for the 5.25 sec duration when you cast the pets. i really think it is a bad io to be in a pet set actually.
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jade, i have a feeling your sound drivers are borked. try updating those if you can and see if that helps. try a disc clean up and defrag also.
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Quote:i second this.Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
Why don't you just reroll? It's not like it's hard to get to 10.
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first off, spaces after punctuation please.
secondly, if you want sidekicks, play toons that have pets or get shivans or longbow mechs.
thirdly, if you find your server dead, move to another one like freedom or virtue. go to the server section and check out what is happening on all the servers and make a choice. -
Quote:sorry, sorry. i will remember next time to add one of those flashing warning thingies when i am being nice...Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Which is why you got facepalmed and headdesked. You gotta warn us in advance it's gonna happen. It's so out of character.
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hey hey hey you 2. i was being nice. even though i know(well hope) that wasn't directed at me...
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sometimes i have those moments.
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and, sorry to say this because it sounds bad but, if you had used the search feature you probably would have pulled up at least 10 threads about this from the last 2-3 weeks.
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suriel should be lucky enough that i didn't post in this... oh ****, there i go. i have now posted in this thread.
trying to back pedal and say that you didn't say what you said when we can clearly read what you said is a very bad thing. next time, use the search. it is the word at the top of the screen that is in between new posts and quick links. if you don't know how to use it, there is a sticky on every section i believe that tells you how to use the search.
i am surprised that i was calm about this. anyone else?
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Quote:as long as you keep your account active you will get the rewards that everyone else already has for keeping their accounts active. just because you joined in 2010 doesn't mean that you wont get the same exact rewards that we have now. in fact alot of the vet rewards, specificay the temp powers, can be gotten in game through missions. while they don't last forever, they are still versions of the vet rewards.
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Quote:as stated already, walk was put in for the rp'ers to use while rp'ing with each other. that is all. do you have any idea how long it would take to make every power in the game work with walk? if not, then please do not continue with this topic.Originally Posted by Siscia
Yes, I noticed, that's part of the reason I'd like for it to be possible to have abilities on while walking; for example, a particular character of mine uses his Drone as a motion detector, of sorts. Just makes more sense as a Devices user to be able to use said Drone even while walking (RP reasoning, of course).
The other reason is that my Kheld doesn't move without having at least one shield around her. Obviously, walking takes this shield off. There's nothing that would look 'wrong' in the case of visuals, that I've seen so far... the only thing I'd fix so far is that when you hit Walk, characters with guns put their guns pointing downward at their side and move their hands normally (Thus it looks like they're swinging their gun forward and back as they walk), and I'd rather they hold it at their chest. But it still doesn't look 'ridiculous'.
As it currently stands, the remedy is... pretty much, use Walk, get within range of an enemy or group, turn Walk off (Hope to the Nine you don't have to fully buff for this group), attack until everything's dead, turn Walk back on, and keep moving. While this, I guess, works ... it doesn't work conveniently, and I suppose that's what I'm more or less asking for. Convenience. -
Quote:ok let me spell it out for you, N O. vet rewards are not what keeps players around. it is new content and powersets and the like. for new players, it is the fact that they have never played the game and are amazed at all the options they have that keeps them. if you are that put off of the game by vet rewards, then by all means do not continue on with the game.Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk
The idea is to help attract new players and get them to keep it around, that way the game stays longer. Adding one more incentive to new players can't possibly be a bad thing now can it? Speaking from the point of a relatively new returner's point of view, I have the perspective of what an entirely new member would be looking at. Option 2 does nothing but grant an additional incentive for them to join and stick around.
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Quote:goin rogue has already been produced. there would be absolutely no time to get this in for release and would absolutely make no sense at all.Originally Posted by SirZues
That is a good idea for Going Rogue...
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Quote:what part of NO don't you understand? vet rewards are based on keeping your account active, not how much money you are willing to plunk down. and trying to start a new vet reward system along with the current one will only create more problems then it will do good.Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk
They are paying for just the content with being on three months, they are not getting the game time, AND they can not get it all at once. People who stick around will still get it for free especially if they have been here from the start.