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Originally Posted by Slashman

You just reinforced my point!

Originally Posted by Slashman

Perhaps I'm living in a slightly different universe than you, but in what reality do game companies wait until less than 2 months before release to do aggressive advertising for their game?

Most games and expansions ramp up advertising well before that. Multiple interviews on as many sites as will have them. Banner ads all over the place(these should be going on for an MMO regardless of an expansion being near release or not). Taken a look at the The Old Republic website?

You hype stuff to make sales. Successful game companies and even terrible game companies do this because you want to draw attention to your product. You want people to constantly be in anticipation of what you are bringing. You want your game to be on the minds of potential customers all the time. You do not just sit on your *** and make a few website updates and then post a note about it on your own forums if you want to bring in sales.

Take a closer look at the game industry and how it works before you make statements like that. Bioware pushed Dragon Age so much that folks at Bluesnews and other gaming sites were talking about being sick of hearing about it.

The people on the forums aren't the ones who need to be reminded about COX...its all the other folks who haven't heard about it or who may not know enough about it to give it a try. Good grief...you realize that there are free to play MMOs that do more advertising than COX? That doesn't seem weird to you?

Originally Posted by je_saist

I believe that's a frame-buffer issue. That's supposedly fixed upstream already, but no idea when the fix will propagate.

I believe it's related to the issue that causes certain ATi radeon cards to retain an "after image" of what your character was doing, that will flash sometimes when you are exiting the game.

Originally Posted by iLostCountBarrier

we practiced that team mostly against SMD.
then used the team against -divine's team of bad.

and in i10-i12, i played poison against every vill ladder team. there's a reason you never saw cold corrs post-i12 launch. poison's debuff more and debuff better. colds were used before that because of their spike damage potential; that is now non-existent when you posit blasters, doms and stalkers as options.

post-i12 the only time ujl ever ran a cold and a cold was ever seen in a vill ladder match was when we wanted to farm mm pets and had a storm that wanted frostworks.

Originally Posted by iLostCountBarrier

err, not really.. i spent most of my time on a mm out of bg mode. i only got into bg mode after seeing spike to-hit rolls on me.i died once in about 10 matches playing a poison.

the squishiness of mm's is highly overstated. get a res armor.

you're full of bad info.

Originally Posted by Avatea

Just a heads up to let you know we are still looking into this. I'm not sure about the 2nd instance of Pocket D but I forwarded it anyway just in case.

Originally Posted by iLostCountBarrier

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

so much bad info.
soooo bad.
bringing a poison to a team match is like bringing 3 cold corruptors. gtfo.

Originally Posted by byblis

I am pretty new to the game and am looking for a good corruptor build I can solo with. I like Dark as my primary but am unsure about my secondary. Storm looks like fun, a lot of nice toys to keep things off of you and wreak havoc; howevr, kinetics seems to be more practical a secondary to solo with. Kinetics also seems to bring more to a team. I love the o2 blast of storm, but self heals may be nice! Any advice would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

Gladiator's Net: Chance for Lethal Damage: Level 50 is up on the BM. for 400 mil. Get it while you can.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Paragon City has more the look of Gotham City than that of New York, with its needlessly ornate architecture replete with eagle heads and gargoyles.

Originally Posted by iLostCountBarrier

Meh, TA is not good on mm's... corrs do a hell of a lot of better with it. FF: there's nothing that a ff can do that a good /nrg dom can't.

poison is seriously unrivaled.
storm is a situational set; works best in a dUmb in lab map situation.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

The MAST team is, as they have publicly stated, working on all aspects of the AE, not just specifically exploits.


The whole "no dev team can beat the playerbase at the exploit game" is something that one day, I would really like to put to the test. The notion that in effect the farm exploiters are using the AE authors as human shields, and the devs can't get to them without going through the authors first, is a myth I would love to obliterate.

Originally Posted by David Nakayama

What's up, everybody? In this offshoot of the All Things Art thread, I wanted to talk specifically about the buildings in City of Heroes. So lay it on me: likes and dislikes, signature and basic.

Quick refresher on the ground rules, and then we'll get started.

This is a direct line of communication between you and the COH Art Team. I want to hear directly from the players what they think about the art in our game, but to keep things running smoothly..

Originally Posted by Phillygirl

I'm on top of Merc >.>

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

No, they didn't. Actually they bought those arguments completely at the time. I didn't apply them to the highest priority context. I won the wrong argument.


Plus, you know the devs actually read the forums, right?


In any case, they didn't have a coherent plan to support the AE beyond simple technical improvements beyond beta, so they didn't have the allocated resources to deal with the problems that existed at the time. There's now an actual team within the development group now that is tasked with finding solutions to the problems with the AE: both Dr. Aeon and Black Scorpion have publicly self-identified with this group (its called the MAST team, actually: don't think I'm giving away any big secret there). They are actually, in fact, taking a more author-centric perspective on the AE and one of the meta-problems they are looking at is the issue of the disruptive nature of reactive patching to address exploits. Beyond that I can't comment on what specifically they are doing or when it might appear.

Originally Posted by PermaBanned

I'd sooner **** a goat

Originally Posted by PermaBanned

hahano

Originally Posted by PermaBanned

gtfo retarded batty

Originally Posted by iLostCountBarrier

yeah that stupid fabric softener.


******* downie.

Originally Posted by Seldom

Hm. I always wanted villains to be able to travel to Paragon AS villains, and do wickedness there. The obvious problem is that PvP in PvE zones would be disastrous..and in theory, there's no way a villain with wits would show her/his face in public when literally hundreds of heroes are about.

As such, why not 'force' the villain into a disguise? As soon as they enter a city zone of the wrong faction, they activate either a cloaking device or disguise. (Which supresses their powers.)

I'd lean towards the disguise, making them appear as civilian, cops, etc. The only trick, then, is travel powers. It's one thing for a villain to look just like a civilian or NPC...it's another for them to superspeed away.

The cloaking device would mean the villain would stay invisible...however this undermines Paragon/heroes, especially when the 'invisible' villain goes for a dance under Atlas, chatting all the time.

The OTHER option would be to 'force' them into a random new NPC form, a "Hero disguise." These would put the villain into one of many ultra-cheesy hero/costumes with corresponding cheesy names, ("Super Heroic," "Captain Clean" "H.U.G.S." "Miss Kindness," etc.) with correspondingly over-the top bio's when the villain is clicked for info. ("I love to save puppies! Your cash is safe with me!" "I stake out banks to make sure that no villain comes near them! Especially not <$villain'srealname!> ")