Sun_Runner

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  1. Just copy your beta or test install over to the live install folder, run a repair/consistency check and enjoy the rapid "download".
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan View Post
    At this point, I'm pretty sure that whether or not the developers intend to have Exalted access and Exalted-exclusive events as a significant part of the value of VIP has already long since been decided. I just wanted to say that I have reasons to hope that they have chosen not to make Exalted any more than one more server among many.
    I hope that the VIP server receives more and better than every non-subscriber-accessible server as a means to encourage play on the Exalted server and as a benefit to the "valued subscriber" to reward (read: encourage) their (continued) subscription.

    Free Accounts are objectively inferior to a Premium Account. (Free Accounts are more limited than Premium Accounts.) Premium Accounts are objectively inferior to a VIP Account. (Premium Accounts are more limited than VIP Accounts.) Encouraging Free Accounts to become Premium Accounts and Premium Accounts to become VIP Accounts is something that they should be doing (as a corporation that desires to increase its' profits).

    Making this pointedly clear by emphasizing the benefits of being VIP (over the alternatives) is something to be encouraged. Want the new shiny? Subscribe.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by warden_de_dios View Post
    What exclusive events are you talking about?
    This, as well.
  3. Sun_Runner

    Server status

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hawk Sight View Post
    They are, nearly exactly as i posted that lol, btw, did you get my mail sun? i sent one to you yesterday before i passed out on my keyboard. saying you're the same one, but then again i really don't think the name is that common.
    In-game? I don't believe so. I'm still chugging down the newest update to the test server. Let me finish running this latest consistency check, and I'll go check.
  4. Sun_Runner

    Server status

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hawk Sight View Post
    Ah, the joys of waiting for the servers to be back up. I've decided to use this time to watch Power Rangers out of boredom, i could probobly do something more productive, but who wants to do that?
    I've a friend saying that they're running around Talos right now. They may be back up.
  5. Sun_Runner

    Server status

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Greyhame View Post
    If I had to guess I'd say this is a big part of why we haven't heard a release date for Freedom.
    It appears that the beta version has been pushed to the test servers. I believe that the pattern is for new issues to be on test for a week, maybe two weeks, then to be pushed to the live servers.

    If this proves correct, the headstart may be starting in a couple weeks.
  6. Sun_Runner

    Server status

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slitty View Post
    Also fact - The servers are down other than a regular scheduled maintenance. They have remained down well over the stated time and there's no word of when they might be back or what's going on.

    Yes... it happens... But I also see why some people are slightly annoyed. They pay full price subs too.
    Unplanned downtime affects everyone equally, there is no bias if there is no intent. Planned downtime displays bias against the minority in favor of the majority; complaining about such is like chewing bubble gum to solve algebra problems. You can do it, it simply isn't effective.
  7. Sun_Runner

    Server status

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Part_Troll View Post
    And out come the apologists.

    Nothing to see here folks. Same old, same old.
    Let us try it another way:

    I'm assuming you're in Australia, yes?

    As such, you should be used to being treated as a second or third class citizen by companies located in the USA. Why would you expect COH to treat you any differently?

    Y'all simply don't, as a group, pay enough money into the game to be worth catering to. I base this conclusion on the fact that if you did, you'd have your own servers located in Australia. You don't have that with COH. Thereby ...

    I'm not apologizing for anything. I'm saying that it sucks, for you, and that the company is going to do what the company needs to do so as to make as much money as it can; and catering to the Australian playerbase doesn't do that; and so they will not cater to the Australian playerbase.

    Want that to be fixed? Have one hundred thousand people from Australia hand over their payment details to COH along with the request to be charged USD 15 monthly as a subscription to COH on the condition that a local server with local support staff and local downtimes is created. Can't do that? See above.
  8. Sun_Runner

    Server status

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...56#post3863356

    So, yes, there was an announcement.

    And, again, heaven forbid anything ever goes wrong. But, of course, the Devs are JUST out to spite people, naturally...

    Edit: Damn, ninja'd
    I would note (again barring timezone confusion) that the servers should be up at the moment ... and the login server is still refusing connections (or at least my attempts to connect to the login server keep failing).
  9. Sun_Runner

    Server status

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Part_Troll View Post
    Friday evening, prime-time Australia, and unannounced complete server shutdown.

    Today, who knows -- it isn't up on the 'announcements' page that the servers are even going down, never mind any estimate of when they're going to be back up.
    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=270988 ... appears to be the most relevant thread in the announcement forum. Or I could easily be confused about the time zones.
  10. Sun_Runner

    Freedom? Hardly

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon View Post
    dooooooooooooooooooooom
    If.

    Re-read my post, re-parse it, notice the if, then apologize. Thanks.

    More seriously: It can go wrong. NCsoft has pulled the plug on other games that weren't sufficiently profitable. If the hybrid model bombs, meaning the profits go down, then I expect them to pull the plug on this game as well. I'm not making predictions as to the success or failure of the new model. I have no clue if it'll do well or if it is going to bomb.

    We'll see.
  11. Sun_Runner

    Freedom? Hardly

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
    You've managed to come up with a solution worse than the actual implementation.
    I agree.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MaestroMavius View Post
    I think that was the point, trying to point out the absurd.

    At least I hope it was the intent.
    It was a "it can always be worse" post.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark Sweater View Post
    Sun Runner, I don't understand why you're not going for the obvious solution. It would be a whole lot easier if all the old characters get deleted when Freedom arrives. Come to think of it, just delete all of them whenever a player drops out of VIP status. It would not only free a lot of names but will solve all the problem involved with disabling things, as well as provide a strong incentive to remain subscribed.
    I can get behind this. *grins* (No, I'm not serious.)

    Quote:
    By the way, if you amend your suggestion such that it's possible to pay a small one time fee to unlock each character with usable enhancements, that would actually be a palatable solution. (Though there would still be need to clearly detail what's going to happen, which is what's missing now.)
    A one-time fee to unlock and enable the IOs currently equipped on a character when, and only when, initially unlocking the character? (... with the default of remaining locked out of the invention system without either the monthly license or the reward unlock)

    That'd work too.

    ...

    In all honesty, this is never going to affect me. I don't play games that I'm not subscribed to. In my opinion, this entire thread is sound and fury that'll end when everyone gets bored of it without producing any kind of (useful) result. COH isn't going to change the details of how they handle this. (Well, maybe in six to eight months if the game bombs and they start losing money hand over fist ... of course, at that point, NCsoft is just going to shut the game down, so ...)
  12. Sun_Runner

    Freedom? Hardly

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark Sweater View Post
    People who aren't there yet will, like you, expect that their IO's will have some effect, but it will be as if these slots are empty.
    I vote (not that anyone asked) that any character with slotted IO enhancements be unable to be unlocked without access to the invention system enabled on that account ... with the ability to unlock said character normally if the player agrees to have any IO enhancements and IO recipes and IO salvage deleted (nonrecoverable) from the character.

    There. Issue solved. Next?
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker View Post
    you could also play the game for fun and the enjoyment of actually playing, rather than aiming solely for a "reward"
    Excluded middle much? Do both. What is 'fun' should be rewarding, what is rewarding should be 'fun'.

    If something is 'fun', but not rewarding, then those who enjoy rewards won't do it; those who don't care about rewards will do it if they find it 'fun'. If something is rewarding, but not 'fun', then those who enjoy rewards will do it because rewards are 'fun'.

    Care to take a guess as to how much of the playerbase enjoys rewards in comparison to those who will do 'fun' things without also earning a reward for doing it?

    Hint: What you consider 'fun' isn't necessarily what others consider 'fun'; what others consider 'fun' isn't necessarily what you consider 'fun'. This is as it should be.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    Buggered if I'm paying for something that SHOULD be free....
    “Do or do not ... there is no try.”

    They are either unwilling or unable to do so. It is a whiteboard idea. It may get done in a few (or five) (or seven) years, or it may never be done. If paying extra for it to be made a priority is the only way to get it done in the near future ... I'll pay.

    At the moment, I'm torn between pancake'ing my character's appearance/concept/theme or pancake'ing my character's effectiveness. I am being forced to take suboptimal (in terms of effectiveness -and- in terms of enjoyment) choices because I'm unwilling to compromise my character's appearance/concept/theme. I'd rather not have to make that choice.
  15. Sun_Runner

    Freedom? Hardly

    It is far too late to provide feedback on the subject that will be listened to. If that feedback has already been provided when they were listening and could still do something about it, it was ignored or dismissed by those listeners.

    I'm relatively certain that such feedback has already been provided, was dismissed and isn't going to be listened to now (even if more people are saying it now than then).

    It will succeed. Or, it will bomb. Its' too late for them to change their minds. The decisions have already been made. Nothing so dramatic is going to change within a reasonable time frame; maybe six to eight months after it launches and bombs.

    We'll see.
  16. Sun_Runner

    Freedom? Hardly

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    But if you skim an advertisement and form a complete idea of what the thing is they're selling based on whatever words are in the biggest font, and then you go and see it is *not* the thing you were expecting, isn't that totally the fault of the company?

    There's the word FREEDOM and my account is called Free. Clearly that means everything in the game is available for free except some XP potions. So it's Paragon Studios' responsibility to make FREEDOM match my expectations, otherwise it's totally a bait and switch scam.
    Very well. Please do be placing many complaints on file with the BBB. Please do also be sending written notice to Paragon Studios and NCsoft that you are pursuing legal action.

    If you are not doing these things? Tell me why they should care.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by HDR2nd View Post
    So Controllers get a damage bonus when the enemy is being held. Why a damage bonus when an accuracy bonus would be much more realistic and useful. What good is a damage bonus when you continually miss your target? Please don't tell me to put accuracy enhancements on the powers because I have some with 3 accuracy enhancements and they miss quite a bit too. If you put your enemy to sleep or immobilize him/her in any way, that's not going to affect their durability but it will make him/her much easier to hit since they can't dodge, block or counter in any way. Just my humble opinion.
    Roll an earth controller, get both the -def and containment damage.
  18. One is forced to wonder if being able to charge, say, 800 paragon points for such customizations wouldn't increase the priority on this. I know that I've skipped entire ancillary and patron pools because the current colors clash with my character's colors, even if mechanically those pools are the best thing for me to take.

    Since they can't (won't) do it without a greater incentive, maybe the greater incentive will do the trick.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Not a guarantee of a solution, just a potential thing to try. See this post I just made in the other thread.

    As I said, I'm not sure this is a solution, but given the annoyance level this bug is generating I thought it was reasonable to post about a potential workaround even if it does not yet pass my normal confidence level for such things.
    Testing this. If I get logged out again, I'll make another post with the results.
  20. Sun_Runner

    Is that 21?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gemini_2099 View Post
    The last time I seriously used a MAC was like 1993? lol
    And some people use nothing else. You'd be surprised what changes time has wrought.
  21. Sun_Runner

    Is that 21?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by VoodooGirl View Post
    Tens of thousands of players... playing City of Heroes... on MACS?

    To counter that argument, we have thousands of millions of billions of players playing COH on their PCs - so the relative percentage of players losing their VIP status because they are playing COH on a computer not designed, or intended, for gaming is minuscule.
    And this is what you choose to focus on? *sighs*

    How about "I bought this powerset. It didn't go through. I bought it again. It didn't go through. Then I got both emails and it went through. But I can't get my points or my money back from buying it the second time." I did this in the beta with the available powersets. I'm going to assume that others will make this mistake as well. On a beta with free points, its' not a problem. On live with paid-for points and no refunds? Problem.

    Or when buying the extra storage expansions. You did notice how difficult it was to keep track of which ones you had already bought and which ones you still needed to buy? I know I did. I'm relatively certain I bought a few of them multiple times. Again, beta, free points, no problem. Live, paid-for points, no refunds, problem.

    Feel free to continue your ravings about the mac players and my imaginary numbers. It sure does suck to be a minority in the community, this community especially. Reminds me of offline.
  22. Sun_Runner

    Is that 21?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jibikao View Post
    What's the chance of i21 coming out tomorrow Friday before the long weekend?
    Roughly the same chance as my suddenly being free to do the things that my disability stops me from doing. So ... about the same chance as the Sun not coming up next morning.
  23. Sun_Runner

    Is that 21?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gemini_2099 View Post
    I don't consider those show stopper bugs. Ninja launch please?
    So tens of thousands of players losing the VIP status they are paying for and being treated as free players isn't a show stopper bug? The ability to lose a hundred dollars or more buying stuff off the store that you had bought before (and can't tell that you've bought before because of the borked cash shop interface) with no ability to get that money back isn't a show stopper bug?

    Right. I am very happy that you aren't the one making those decisions.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    But, of course, that's just me. What kind of reaction time are YOU comfortable with and why do you feel that way?
    I prefer games that have utterly no reliance on twitch. COH is a little too fast to be comfortable for me as-is. That Other Super Hero Game is about the limits of my reaction speed. That Other Other Super Here Game looks to be twitchy enough that I'm never going to be able to play it; the downside of it being controller friendly.

    I have already quit a SciFi MMO that ramped up its' ground combat speed to be faster than I can handle. I have a lifetime subscription and had spent nearly that much again in buying everything off their cash shop. I can't play it now. It is literally too twitchy for me to keep up. I'm dead before I get to press more than a couple buttons. So I'm out $600 because of a pacing change. (No, there is no way for me to adapt. Being disabled sucks.)

    If they are to change the pacing of COH, I'd rather they slow it down than speed it up. If they speed it up too much ... I'm effectively banned from yet another of my favorite games. I'd rather not repeat the experience.
  25. Sun_Runner

    Is that 21?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gemini_2099 View Post
    Ninja launch please?
    On the condition that nearly every player with a mac instead of a pc is suddenly stripped down to being a free player with no way to fix it and the ability to buy the same costume bit infinite times with NO refunds (NO REFUNDS) ... sure, they can ninja launch it ...

    And after the launch bombs, sufficiently illwill is generated among the playerbase and every review site out there crows about how badly they [censored by me] up the game ...

    No. No ninja launch. Let us not strangle this infant in the crib.