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hopefully we get Castle . so we can all kill the <Censored!> again

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And some people wonder why the US devs avoid the EU side of things...

Birthy Happday!

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You know Gg if you keep winking one day the wind will change and you'll be stuck like that...

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You know, I'm pretty sure that already happened a few years back...

Top centre of St Martial map - if you'd tried the Dark Side more you'd know that!

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There will be devs on EU Training Room. One of the competitions is global, there's a US-only competition, and an EU-only competition.

Avatea and myself should be kicking around on the Training Room as well.


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Can I suggest if a Dev does turn up that we try our best to be happy, welcoming and witty? Whinging diatribes about how unfair it is being on the EU servers will not help, and will make us all look like selfish, self absorbed, pathetic children...

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So...you're saying we shouldn't play to our strengths?

Imagine the recursion you could get if the new buildings were all present and functional on the various city-maps.

Start a Mayhem in Atlas, enter the MA building there, select a mission set in the Kings map, enter the MA there, select a....

Happy birthday - I say we all have the next 2 days off to celebrate!

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No EU announcement yet? Shocking.

I am disappointed there has been no EU announcement yet, though, as it remains to be seen how much of this carries over to the European servers. Seems to be par for the course at present though.

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The announcement was only completed yesterday, and is currently being localised for French and German before we publish.

As a general hint, however, the EU announcement is nearly identical, and the changes are minor (the biggest is that one of the contests will be different).

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Thanks for the update GR, but surely none of that stuff was top-of-the-head material they dashed off yesterday and felt they had to publish immediately?

Would it have been too hard to finish writing the US announcement a day earlier, then keep it under wraps until the localisations had been done and everything could go live at once?

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Booster and Code Applied. :>

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Well, at least we know for definite it works

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/em Jeremy Paxman

Yeeeeessss, because it's hardly conceivable that they'd have an automated payment system reporting things unreliably, is it?

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Double post with an edit? Well thats a first!

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!!"£$^£$&^£% FORUMS!

OK, I also want the new forum software that they've been promising for nearly a year!

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Soon, FFM, real soon.

The support team GhostRaptor gave you a link for are the people that can actually do things to your account. They are the people to talk to to resolve this, whatever's required.

No, he's a player; this is a player forum. It's good to be polite here, as any help is coming from people that give it voluntarily.

Your two accounts should have different names - are you logging in with the full account's name?

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Villains have BEGGED for a new SF.


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Only so they could farm it for merits, and issue 14 removed the need for merit farming.


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Nonsense - villains have been asking for greater SF/TF parity pretty much since CoV came out, and well before merits were a twinkle in Positron's eye.

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That's 30 "definite" powersets then?

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If I was going to put money on it, I'd say if they are planning to better the costume creator then I very much doubt they will shy away from bettering the powers on offer.
On release anyway I'll be very surprised if they don't at least equal the power choices of their competitor, of course you can't call them power-sets per say as powers are assigned on a player-designed flexible custom framework instead of enforced sets that you subscribe to.

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Given how badly Cryptic messed up some powersets in CoH initially this is going to be fun... Unless you happen to be a Cryptic programmer trying to figure out a way to stop 1000s of powergamers do foul things to your game.

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At least CO has Regen in from the start. So States can bring back the fond memories by nerfing that every few months.

When you say "lag" what do you mean? Slow responses to commands, rubberbanding, etc...?

Or a low framerate?

In an ideal world they should be things of the past, but I suspect we're looking at similar symptoms for a completely different set of causes.

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Most people used to be able to play it just fine, now there are disconnects, ultralag, chat bugs, etc etc

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None of those are exactly new, never previously seen, phenomena.

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I thought AoC had killed itself already.

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Sssssh!

I don't think this is the sort of debate to go bringing facts into...

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CO will flop, and i think thats y the devs are being the way that they are over CoX, when DCUO and KotoRo come out CoX will morethan likey die.

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Do you do lottery numbers too? Any clues for this Saturday's draw?

Anyway, I thought AoC had killed CoX already.

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Why would you go to a pub whose beer tastes like toilet cleaner?

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Birmingham Uni in the 80s; very few pubs in the area then, and they all sold M&B.

I finished up drinking lager for more years than I care to remember.

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4) We hear a lot about how much the Dev team has expanded. I'm sorry but I'm not seeing that. What I am seeing is the same number of issues per year but the last two have been buggy as hell. In terms of bugs, I13 was the worst since I7. I14 seems to be pretty similar.

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There is a fantastic paper on this subject titled "The Mythical Man Month". Adding developers to software development teams doesn't speed up development (beyond a certain point) and it certainly doesn't reduce the number of bugs.

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That's very likely to be true if you throw people into a single project in an uncoordinated way, and are trying to get quick results.

But while there'll always be a delay in getting anyone new to a program up to speed in key areas, for something like CoX there will be scope for splitting devs up into teams and having each work on essentially separate projects. One team on graphics changes, one on new TF/SF management systems, one on AI tweaks, that sort of thing.

With that sort of approach you can effectively speed up development by a factor of several, even if you never get the full "5 times the people = 5 times the progress" one might naively expect.

Another one? Cake overload!!!

Hypercake issues aside, happy birthday Rapthorn!

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Just a quick question. Is the website fixed yet?

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I'm not sure I could afford to check...

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so you think all of us trying to purchase the pack at the same time and constantly hitting refresh for the hours before its release had no contribution to the web site having a wobbly

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It may well have, but as Night_Hornet says above even if it threw a wobbly it should fail safe and do no orders at all rather than put in multiple orders.

Site design isn't player responsibility at all, and it's entirely down to NCSoft to make sure it doesn't go wrong in the way it did.

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Or the fact amongst those that were over charged there would have been those that tried clicking the button twice (yes i know it greyed out after clicking but who's to say it still didn't register a click) or those that tried refreshing when the page stopped responding had nothing to do with compounding the problem

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Same again; if a button's greyed out, it's the designer's responsibility if it responds to clicks when it's indicating it won't. Similarly the site should be designed so the problem isn't there in the first place; that way repeated refreshing can't compound it.

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or hows about those people who sent multiple tickets because they didn't get a response to there first one quick anuff I'm sure having multiple tickets from the same player concerning the same transaction helped matters no end

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That's a different issue altogether, but in any case dealing with (or making a mess of dealing with) the fallout of their earlier mistake is still NCSoft's responsibility - and not down to a generic "we" at all.

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And while much of the blame can be laid squarely at the feet of NC soft we the players have to acknowledge we had a part to play in this as well

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You know, I really don't think we do.