Techbot Alpha

XD Oh dear, he we go...
-Begins negotiation...with laser sword-

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Not going to quote the whole post Tech, but essentially..

^^This

Villain side ESPECIALLY for brutes (and probably for dominators too) levelling simply by street hunting is so much faster than missions. The groups tend to be larger and a little easier to find so you can keep fury / domination up a whole lot easier. Level 5 in about 20-30 minutes, off to PO 3 paper mishes mayhem mish (which of course were DESIGNED for a brute ) bosh.. jetpack.

*edit*.. not sure why we seem to be seeing more suggestions where people want stuff but by playing the game less. Imagine if these ideas were implemented; we'd then be getting threads whining saying "I got so much stuff before lvl 5, now I'm lvl 20 and it's just the same old grind"

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Yeah. I always vote for 'More options = better'. There should be a whole slew (sp?) of options for villains. Kalinda could be made a magic contact, and add in some sort of mage for the non-arachnos choice. Add in a Huntsman for the arachnos natural choice, and maybe Burke as the non-arachnos. Then re-do Creed as a Science contact, moving him much closer to the start, or something, and maybe an Arachnos techie/arbiter as the alt version. Then bung in tech and mutant (some sort of registration officer, and a rogue one?) and that'd be a helluva lot more choice.

In a game thats quite a lot about choice, limiting said choice is never a good thing. This is why I get frustrated with Villains, love it though I do. The only 'choice', sort of is between Sharkhead Isles and Nerva, and thats barely. Aside from that, Villains is SO much more linear than CoH;

Mercy - PO - Cap - Sharks/Nerva - Martial - GV

Whereas Im not even going to try to map Heroes out.
Either opening up both sides to all or adding in new zones is the way forward.
Travel powers are fine as is, IMO at least. They're useful and good for adding character. What would be BETTER is if you didnt need to waste three power choices on auto-powers (for the most part). Yes, I mean the fitness pool, may it rot in hell

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Hush now, you know it'd be awesome

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Not in a comicbook/superhero genre game. It'd just regress to the standard Sword & Sorcery carp of any other MMO.

One of the strengths of this game is that it's so well plugged into it's genres already. Sure there's scope for other stuff, the Undersea kingdom of Namor/Aquaman,

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Which would be a good tie in with a Talk to fish powerset.



(Yeah I know...bad joke...I'll shut up)

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-Casts Summon Bigger Fish on Emned-

Holy...!
Crazy. But at the same time really cool!

Interesting idea, but it does absolutely screw over certain ATs;
Kheldians
Stone armour characters
MMs, if it extends to pet jump.

Tbh, although it would be nice to see some more diversity, brain and intelligent and fun challenges put in, this would have far too many problems that would need dealing with to work.
/Signed for idea, not for suggested implementation

It would be nice to have a few tweaks to the editor, definately. I definately /sign the nudge idea. Also, much more freedom to do with walls, extending them, thickness and doorway size would be a really nice feature.
Actual doors? One can but dream

Travel powers work fine.
Stamina does not.
-lets zombie horse out for daily flogging-

Anyway, my main question is WHY the hell are you doing missions before levels 5? Heroside runs very, VERY simply;

-Do Tutorial (optional, its a free lvl for not much work)
-Beat up street mobs
OR
-Sewer Run. This will guarentee a slew of lvls really fast, so long as the team is not made of total morons.
-Lvl 5. Proceed to Hollows, complete arcs. Ton of Exp for End of Arc bonus. Teams can run arcs multiple times for loads of exp.

Villain side its even easier.
-Tutorial (optional)
-Street slaughter. Head up to Mercy zone asap. Slaughter your way into Port Oakes.

Unless you are dead set on doing the content, the beginning contacts are so NOT worth it, once you done the little horrors for the umpteenth time. Honestly...Villains is SO much worse for inital contacts. Heroes have;
-1 for each origin in Atlas, then 1 for each in Galaxy.
-Total of ten possible contacts from the start.

Villaings get;
-2 contacts. No choice of zones. 1 follow up contact. Same every time.

VEAT and HEAT contacts dont count.

Just...laaaaaaaaame

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But it'd add even more variety - if we have time travel in the game, then we surely should have zones for the periods we can travel to.

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There's plenty of comic/superhero stuff they can add without kshites in nining armour. We don't need that and if you are into that, go play AoC or WoW

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Sure, but it would be nice if they gave us some REALISTIC armour options for medieval in-game. The current 'medieval' armour looks HORRIBLE, something no real knight would even dream of wearing.
Besides, there are still examples of medieval stuff in superhero/villain things. Captain America wears scale mail for heavens sake, theres other examples but my brain is on the fritz right now...
Anyway, just because AoC and WoW have them doesnt mean we shouldnt. We can do it better!

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Comes direct from NCNC, I spoke with them on the phone last night.

All I can really say here is that they want to do the best they can for the EU community under the new NCsoft West structure. They're good people over there, and they have big plans. I'm just sad I won't be here to see them come to fruition.

NCNC deserves no blame for this situation.

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Aww hells...
Didnt realy know you other than the troll-slayer, but its a shame to see you go GR =/
Still, best wishes et all, and hopefully you will get that laugh you mentioned

Ahhhh. Yes, Fifth Column were MUCH cooler. I think its the German names. They SOUND grim Speaking German is great fun, it feels like permanant cursing XD
And the helmets and robots were made of win -nods-
Fur die Column!

Wait, where did he say he was leaving? -confusion-

Offical Post from GR.
Europe ain't going nowheres! ^^

Huzzah ^^
Thanks GR, and more-so for the weekend post. Have a good 'un.

Yes, Do nots feed teh forumites! Phe4r the waters!
-rolls out again-

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Oh, BTW, the swine have something else, not related to the archetect, but possibly related to Godwin, and someone not seen since before the game started.

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Ooooh - about time too, if I'm recalling right, since it's probably about 5 or 6 issues back that we started wondering when.

but but but couldn't that take the edge off the doom about I14 being nothing at all but MA?

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Wait, what? -lost-

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If they try to move players to the US without character transfer, then I don't think it will be just most of the EU players they will loose. I wouldn't be suprised if quite a few US players also quit in protest, possibly even a dev or two. Not to mention the numbe of people who would swear never to play another NCSoft game.

I think it's an unlikely scenario though.

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But why cant they simply manage the EU servers and player base from the USA?
This is the internet after all.

In what way does it matter where the staff are based?

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Conflicting character names/SG names, possible loss of veteran awards, loss of other things.
Because it is teh interwebs.
And time difference. They would have to pay people in the US to do night-shifts to cover EU day-time, etc etc. And all the hassle that would bring. Either that or they would only provide support during US daytime, and all the problems for EU players THAT would cause.

/answers

You're all barking mad!
But it gave me a lot of lulz last night XD
We demand...a shwubbewy!
/Monty Python insert

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Obviously a sign the game's dead.

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Yes, we're all going to die now, whoopee!

Ok, question; WHY is it only the Americans who get into Closed Beta anyway?

Keep character names, SG names, progress et al. Move people on the same server TOO the same server, so that groups arent broken up.

If that happens...well, it might be for the best.
If its made of Epic Fail, well...I may just go try WAR online. Or something. Either that or actually spend time on the Xbox, or buy a PS3...-shrug-

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When they closed the Korean servers, they just gave them all US accounts; no character transfers at all.

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S*d that, I would expect everything related to my Character suite Red-side/Blue-side and SG ported over or replicated.

Major pouting and reconsiderations if not.

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Not reading through all 700+ posts.
If THAT happens...well, my characters die. Technically, obviously. But..t'hells with that.
Grim. Really grim.

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No, she's just a fan - but would like to work for them

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Then me and a few 'allies' will need to go and 'talk' to her about how in hells she got [Walk] and all those tools to use...

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Well, he has to get his kicks SOMEHOW, right?

Issue...Four-teen......RAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!
-droolfrothfoam-

Anyway, if people want more events when the Devs are up to the gills in work, we should ORGANISE some! It is our game, really. Get people together, organise events, do what we can to enjoy it.
And, as for Valentines as an aside, if your spending time in-game without the other half when you COULD be with the other half (those with massive, cross-continent journeys excused) then, frankly, you are a very silly person I know where I'M going on valentines...Kehehehe

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Only thing I'm worried about? The Cupid minions will look like Spud-U-Like New Year.

As long as that doesn't happen, this gets a definitive /SIGNED from me.

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Yeah, but if their NPC enemies, would you rather they were cute or, yes, Spud U Like? I like that phrase, does some up the little...person, rather well. Creepy little kid...

Does she work for NCSoft? Im guessing so, right?
Holy HELLS that was awesome! So looking forward to I14. Got a few right corkers planned ^^

Heh, I actually really like that! Trust the Family to use something like that as ammo. And some mini-arc enemies too.
/Signed from me =]