Sin_Stalker

Originally Posted by Quinch

I... don't see it happening. As you approach the zone edge, the zone design would have to also "overlap" a hefty chunk of the adjoining zone architecture to maintain a convincing illusion, or save resources by slapping together a simpler backdrop the kind you can see behind war walls in Paragon. One other option might be line-of-sight management via architecture, but that sounds difficult like hell to pull off.

Originally Posted by Antoinette

2. In the coming Going Rogue expansion, many players/heroes/villain will make a switch, resulting in the loss of prestige on the SG/VG they were in, will the devs give out prestige boost ones again? Although I know losing a partner on a team is a loss which is a fair enough reason.

Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja

From the Devs during HeroCon:

There are separate zones in Praetoria. It will not have war walls. You can visibly see the next zone in Praetoria, but you will still have a loading screen when you pass from one zone to the next.

Whether or not the finished product will still be like this I have no idea, though I do hope it works that way.

Originally Posted by Atlantea

Pardon me, haven't read through the entire thread, but how do you "find" these letters? Do they become part of your souvenirs? Or just part of the mission text that you can read when you get a spare moment during the mission? PM me or post here, I'd sure appreciate it. Just reading these on the forums has made me think of something my main might say or write in response in a journal.

Originally Posted by Slope

/signed

justice league did it

Originally Posted by Westley

This thread is totally not what I thought it would be....


... so disappointed right now...

Originally Posted by Westley

Okay, I've noticed a trend on the board lately... people who had registered either recently, or within the past 2 years (around the time that NCSoft bought out the game from Cryptic), that have less than a dozen posts... coming "back" to the boards and posting negative things.... or asking pointed and/or rhetorical questions about the status of the game, the age of the game, and whether it's "dying" or the servers being "ghost towns".

I won't name any names here, but if you look around you can see them. People with extremely low post count who come out of nowhere and suggest strongly that the game is DOOOOOOOOOOMED.

My conspiracy theory? That they are either employees of "that other game" or are hired by that other game as some form of corporate sabotage in an attempt to alter the general mood of the playerbase and to try to "kill" the game by attrition. By creating a negative environment and alter the discussion about the game in the direction of it "dying".

They also almost never respond to anyone after making their original posts... and sometimes just make another thread in another part of the boards saying something similar instead. suspicious? I think so.

This I strongly suspect.

Originally Posted by Noxilicious

Swimming sections in video games are by their very nature awful, if only because it differs too much from the normal gameplay and lacks the polish of the rest of a game.

Let's not add underwater gameplay to CoX.

Originally Posted by BrandX

No not Apex!

<.< I lost all respec for him, when they had him yell out "Lvl 15 Scrapper looking for team" at the end of the comic.

Originally Posted by LegionAlpha

Just so I can wrap my head around GR, at first the Praotians were once the evil goatee universe (STO Mirror Mirror) only to be some how retconned to a more Justice Lords( Justice League TV show), why the change? I thought the evil universe thing kinda sounded cool and had characters ready for it. I just don't understand why it had to be more the "reluctant leader" thing over what was established. I know this kinda post is hitting on old news but after reading the background of Tyrant, it made me think to bring this up.

Before the background I thought the jerk wanted to somehow grab for power in a world that had no real leadership or order to him, and morality was almost nonexistent in his mind ( like Rorschach), I got that impression after 6 issues of the comic series and when opportunity knocked to shape the world with his ideals of right and wrong he was all over it. Why do we need another hero we need to relate to on some level? Whats wrong with just having an universe that is just evil or Age of Apocalypse verse?

Originally Posted by Justaris

1) I understand that you're voicing the concerns of your SG and Coalition friends. I get that. I further understand that your SG, at least in your view, is a good SG that takes care to do right by its members. You need to understand that not all SGs are like this, and that many SGs that put priority on staying in the Top 100 (Top 50, Top 10, whatever) are not like this.

2) If we're going to talk about a change to the game, we have to talk about all the cases, not just the case of the person proposing it. It may well be that in your case, with your SG and Coalition, there would be no drama and no problems and that everyone would have a voice. That simply would not happen in every instance with every SG. The question is whether or not the development time and potential negatives are justified by the benefits. In this case I don't think they are.

3) "Cold hard fact" may be an overused phrase. In this case, what you have is cold hard perception, not fact. While it may be highly probable that many people took advantage of the free transfers to move to Freedom/Virtue, no player has factual numbers for server or subscriber populations. Personally I've actually noticed an upswing of activity on some of the "low population" servers on which I play, especially Triumph and Victory. That's a fact. No, wait, that's my perception.

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

So, we've now got a new Lead Dev in Melissa "War Witch" Bianco which I personally believe is a very positive move for the game. Yet her in game persona, War Witch, lacks even the pizzaz she had in the comics.

In the comicbooks, War Witch was perky, feisty, fearless and fun - and made a great signature character - but her in game presence is a ghost, or a guide who makes the odd (somewhat wistful) wisecrack in Pocket D.

I believe that now that Melissa is in charge, War Witch should be elevated to some senior position in game - and get her own Task Force. There's precedent for this too - almost nobody in comics ever stays dead for long and War Witch herself demonstrates that by having two presences in game. Added to which, it became clear that when NCSoft took over the IP from Cryptic, Positron clearly became elevated in game and in the minds of the players. What's more it worked well, with the Positron/Daedalus thing but Posi was also at the forefront of Power Proliferation as Raymond Keyes discovered that hereoes and villains were able to do new things.

War Witch is a great character and it seems fitting that she should be able to build her in game presence too.

Originally Posted by Sardan

Wait, Europe isn't part of America? I always figured it was a small liberal enclave like Massachusetts. Or maybe a big and mostly empty state like Canada.

But at least they all speak English, right? Or do they speak European?

So confused....

Originally Posted by Pimpstress_Bambi

I think it was very cool that you guys offered free server transfers at the holidays, but you took some of our lesser used servers and made them even lesser used. I have been playing on Victory for over 2 years now. I have a very Nice big base that I have worked on and gotten it up to 45 in the top 100 which i have to say is not easy for an ALL MM SG... Now why is it I would want to move to a diffrent server leaving behind all the prestige I have earned and the base I have created just to go to a more populated server and have to start over. You guys should try to figure out a way so that our SGs and Prestige can move along with us. It is not fair to some of who have devoted our time to the SGs giving out things having countess contests just to have to give it all up. Not to mention the extra slots i purchased for this server.

Originally Posted by Lycanus

Hopefully, I'd like to see alternate animations for all the powers.

Some ideas right now:

some kicks in the non-martial melees so someone can do a flashy martial-artist that uses some sort of technique that creates fire or lightning or the like. Currently, most of the non-MA martials are really good punch sets already, (which I like) but one or two kicks thrown in would be great. (targeted: fire, energy, electrical, dark)

more alternate weapons for earth, fire and ice (fire katana! ice axe! earth greatsword!) and don't say a greatsword doesn't deal smashing...a great frigging piece of rock shaped like a sword will probably smash more than slash

alternate animations for theme-heavy powers (the tentacles and skulls of dark mainly, I don't mind them for most of my characters, but for some...yeeeah)

ability to customize Ancillaries and Pools

Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler

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