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

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Yeah, but that was a game that never really got established and was closed done in its entirety.

Not really comparable to what might be on the cards for CoX EU.

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Why does everthing seem determined to go to hell in handbasket on Wednesdays?

I pray you're wrong FFM, I really do.

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No one more than me wishes that I *am* wrong, trust me on that.

But if this IS all true, and it's looking like it is, I don't see how I will be, except maybe in the fine detail.

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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On the other hand there weren't that many Korean players, and at the time the only options for players from there were to restart on the US servers or drop the genre altogether.

There are enough EU players, with alternative superhero games just round the (slightly remote) corner, that they might not want to risk us all deciding "hang it all, if I've got to restart anyway I might as well do it on DCUO/CO".

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Here's what I think may happen in the coming months.

With only a couple of staff left at NC Brighton, this is clearly an unsustainable number to maintain EU servers for CoH. Therefore, a database move is highly likely.

We will not be given a choice of where we go, they will just transfer us wholesale to a couple of the emptier US servers. The 4 EU servers will go completely.

We MIGHT then be granted free server transfer tokens, so that we can move our chars to servers of ours choice within the US, but this is by no means a given.

Localised language support will be discontinued.

No consideration will be given to duplicate character names or global names. We will just be given rename tokens as a cure all.

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For better or worse, that sounds feasible.

If they do move everyone on a particular EU server to the same server on the US, I hope the SG bases and membership go with them - can see it leading to a lot more account closures if they don't.

Thirded - sympathies to those hit by this, and loan of +2 Boots of Axe Dodging offered to all.

To the Googlemobile...

Hmmmm, looking very uh oh.

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... I have heard rumours of.... well.. No, I won't mention what I've heard.. But if we've all heard the same rumours...

Uh oh.

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Well, probably uh oh indeed. Although in that case I'm part of a different "we", as other than this thread I haven't heard any rumours at all...

Edit: Is it a takeover by The Elite?

Yeah, unspecified news from unspecified sources of generic "trouble brewing".

Still, I'm sure GR will be able to ignore company PR policy and make an impromptu announcement on whatever the hell "this" is. After all, the question's specific enough.

P.S. Doooooooom(tm)

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It would appear that somehow my regular veteran date in the month ( around the 26th of the various months ) has been moved to the 10th, which is why its not showing yet and shouldn't in theory, until tomorrow! I can only assume the Valkryie pack, or the Maestro awarded free time has affected my billing date thus!

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Pffft! Nemesis plot!

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Awesome, did they test the proc out at all?
So its safe to assume that the other proc works the same as perfomance shifter one? If so thanks to the buyer that bought it for 20 mill when i got it as a random roll.

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I dunno really. Who does? Obviously not the devs.

You'd think after the Performance Shifter behaviour (& the Taunt set ones) they'd at least test the damn new PROCs they release.

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Perhaps it's a stealth way of adding an extra difficulty level?

Add a whole bunch of extra Procs people can struggle to kit themselves out with, then find they've reduced their survival prospects as a result...

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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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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So...you're saying there was a firm, "stake my career on it" commitment from Posi, then? Looking forward to the anniversary release!

Arguments in this thread took a sharp turn away from logical many pages back; just go with the flow.

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We should hang ghostraptor upside down and shake him until all sorts of juicy info falls out of him

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He's Australian. He's USED to being upside down!

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Then we should stand him the right way up until he gets confused, panics and tells all!

1 or 2 issues displaced by a decently updated event? Why not go the whole hog and ask if we'd like to see NCSoft, then the entire global economy, go bankrupt from the massive resource drain?

Ahhhhh, the penny drops! So the new winter ski slope was the reason behind the current recession!?!

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I'm going to look back at this thread at the end of the year and have a good giggle.

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Don't worry GR, we'll come and visit you. Just tell us where you are after the nice men have taken you to the Special Hospital with the soft walls, and we can all giggle together...

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I agree with ML. They carped on about how the Dev team was greatly increased last year, since then we've seen fewer Issues per year and now rehashed events. Seems the more devs they add the slower they get.

A "Kill Baby New Year for getting lost somewhere in the tunnels all those times" mish would be nice for example

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Damn right!

And to reflect the Valentine's Spirit of love and harmony, heroes and villains could team up to kill him together.

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Let s/he without elisitsm cast the first stone?

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Okey dokey. I'm a better stone thrower than you lot anyway.

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Pffft. You throw like a girl.... OW!

Ok so, you don't. How the hell did you get that across the Irish sea?

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It's all a matter of getting the wrist action right.

No, not in that way.

(Yes, on reflection I've decided this thread might have been better off derailed. My many years off l33tdom mean I know of such things.)

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Let s/he without elisitsm cast the first stone?

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Okey dokey. I'm a better stone thrower than you lot anyway.

*** cough stamina derail cough ***

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I wish they could have done a better job on that one, the building isn't too hard to find bearing in mind it's in the middle of town unlike the City Hall on the heroes side. It's a massive one in Port Oakes but the door looks just like all the rest and you can run around like a headless chicken clicking on doors for ages till you find the right one.

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^ This
Why is it in Port Oakes, anyway, and not Mercy? Heroes get it in the start zone, and really easy to find. Villains have to, aptly put, run around like a headless chicken. There should at least be a reliable marker.

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I'm guessing it's because of the awkward connectivity of low level zones villain-side.

Hero-side you can get back to Atlas from anywhere on the Yellow Line, while Villain-side it's 2 ferry steps from Cap to Mercy and 3 from any other high level zone. Putting the office in PO knocks one leg off the trip, and given the level 10 restriction on starting a SG shouldn't really handicap new toons in Mercy.

I'm sure those black helicopters offer some sort of shortcut back to Mercy, but even though I've been playing CoV from launch I'm damned if I can ever remember where they connect!

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Just a QR before I have mine:

Hear hear.

I've been her 4yrs and apart from build discussion, there is nothing on these boards I want to get into.

I tell new plays we meet in game or get to join to sign up to our coalition forums and stear well clear of these ones.

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Given that the OP was taking about nothing like that (he was raising issues about the behaviour in-game), it seems the one other thing you want to get into it gratuitous attacks.

Enjoy the lunch.

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He was infact. vv

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It's not just in game either, on these very forums there are people that really believe they can dismiss any topic and tell people to get lost just because They have been here longer and therefore have discussed the topic before. We wonder why we get few new people and i for one believe it's for this exact reason.


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Yeah, accepted in reply to Stase and edit to my OP.

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Just a QR before I have mine:

Hear hear.

I've been her 4yrs and apart from build discussion, there is nothing on these boards I want to get into.

I tell new plays we meet in game or get to join to sign up to our coalition forums and stear well clear of these ones.

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Given that the OP was taking about nothing like that (he was raising issues about the behaviour in-game), it seems the one other thing you want to get into it gratuitous attacks.

Enjoy the lunch.

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It's not just in game either, on these very forums there are people that really believe they can dismiss any topic and tell people to get lost just because They have been here longer and therefore have discussed the topic before. We wonder why we get few new people and i for one believe it's for this exact reason.

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Fair point - shouldn't post while over-caffinated.

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Just a QR before I have mine:

Hear hear.

I've been her 4yrs and apart from build discussion, there is nothing on these boards I want to get into.

I tell new plays we meet in game or get to join to sign up to our coalition forums and stear well clear of these ones.

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Given that the OP was taking about nothing like that (he was raising issues about the behaviour in-game), it seems the one other thing you want to get into it gratuitous attacks.

Enjoy the lunch.

Edit: As Stase pointed out, I overlooked that the OP did mention forums too - my bad, and apologies (too late now to delete my text and pretend it never happened!).

Still, I do have to disagree with the idea that new posters are guaranteed a hard time here. New posters that post something plain stupid/rude, yes, but even then I'd say things are fairly restrained by internet forum standards. Of course, as a regular poster I have to admit I could be a little subjective here...

The big problem here is that the people you're directing this post at are already convinced their opinions are best, so won't take any notice of it.

While anyone that might read it and take it on board are the people that aren't inclined to act elitist in the first place.

At the little terminals in the RWZ's Vanguard base. Happy shopping!