Tuarus

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Tuarus, I'm afraid you couldn't be any further from the truth. In most development situations with a diverse range of disciplines - such as games development - you will frequently find that a member or two of staff are left waiting for someone else to complete required work before they can move on. This leaves them time to work on other, non-required, tasks ... such as, for example, producing materials for the booster packs.

I can say that almost certainly the booster pack development has negligible impact on development of new issues. Rather, they are the product of efficient use of 'downtime' periods in work schedules.

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Ok fair doos.

I would have thought with all the known and outstanding bugs though there would be very little downtime?

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To answer that, we're (those of us not working directly on the MA) working a lot of things for Issues 15 & 16, upcoming booster packs , Spring/Anniversary events, Veteran rewards, etc.


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And thats the thing that I think is killing issues off. How much time and effort is put into making booster packs that have some cossies, new power, and some emotes in?

Because the booster packs are paid for there must be more internal emphasis on creating these as oposed to putting in lots of effort now with Issues.

As FFM said Issues are free but booster packs make money. I would prefer a whole lot of effort with issues and include the booster packs with the issues and charge a fiver for the issue

Most of us are waiting for STO, but will play some offline (multiplayer online games) in the void

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*facepalms*

So you're too stubborn to simply ask "want a team?" that's 3 words, count them 3!

And as for permission on inviting a friend round it all depends if their married/living with partner or not.

"want to come round to watch the match?"

"Yeah...erm...probably should ask the Missus first..."

See...happens in real life too..

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But it isn't is it??? Most people wont reply to that as it isnt polite enough and doesn't convey the team size, what you are doing, what zone, wether you have IO's, what shoe size you are, and if you have a mouse on the left side of the keyboard or the right.

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Has hell frozen over? Will all the people that said they would leave if this happened leave? There is room on the coat rack guys please shut the door on the way out

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IF it happens, and IF I lose my character names, I'll stand by what I said I'd do.

Please don't turn this into a "Merge teh servers!" thread, folks, that's not what it's here for. I just want to work out what's going on!

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Ok I appologise for the server comments etc, but I have made my intentions clear regarding the game in my other thread. It is a shame that the game seems to be in decline ( I used the nice words of seems to be), and it seems that things may start to happen even if in my own opinion it is too late and things should have started maybe 6 months ago.

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It seems fairly clear to me that CoH EU is no longer pulling in enough money to justify 2 full time forum mods, so they've re-tasked one of them to a more profitable game to justify his wages; which is good for Palladium, as it means his job doesn't vanish, but it's not exactly a good sign for us, is it?

I've decried the doom mongerers in the past, and I flatly refuse to take up their banner now, but with the German and now the French player community members being effectively abandoned, it's getting harder to deny that a merger is on the cards...

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Has hell frozen over? Will all the people that said they would leave if this happened leave? There is room on the coat rack guys please shut the door on the way out

The Future

It is my sad duty to inform you that Belenus has left the game and will not be returning. He was a good player and an even better friend. He has his reasons for leaving some of which will be mentioned later in this post.

Ace.Rimmer has also left the game to not be returning. All I can say is "What a guy...."

Not wanting to steal the announcement, but Jade Warrior will also be leaving the game when his subs run out. I would like to say the same that he is a good player and a better friend, but think we should just stick to the truth in this post and so I will just say he is a great friend :P

And lastly of the leaving announcements, Remus, the longest subscriber to the game within the SG (4 years) has also left the game. I have to be nice to him so will say it is a shame he is leaving and he will be missed

I am also announcing that myself and Sparx will also be leaving the game when our subs run out, and not returning. We have a lot to thank this game for. We met each other whilst playing and through MSN and Supergroup meetings we fell in love and got together. But after 3 and half years of playing online (nearly 4 years for Sparx) we have both decided to hang up our capes as well, for various reasons.

With this it will also be the end of the Scoobies Supergroup. If any current members would like lead to be able to play with the fully kitted out bases etc please send me a tell in game or through the forums and I will pass lead on this.

One of the reasons that myself and Sparx are leaving is that we have set up home together and have other things to do rather than play the game. A few months ago neither of us would have dreamt of leaving the game but we both feel (and the other people mentioned in this post) that the game has declined in that time.

My main grievance with the game is the lack of population, and the response that is driven from people on the forum. I don't care what people shout about and say the population of the servers is declining. I know you can get full teams and stuff, I regularly built them and many people may have been on one of my teams with my various alts, but gone are the times of old when this was a simple process and it has turned into a lengthy affair that can take up to an hour to fill a team whilst doing missions.

Idiots on the forum. That is it. Enough said you know who you are and I hope you continue to have people to belittle and make you feel good about yourselves.

The second reason we have for leaving is the lack of content to do with level 50's. I have spent a lot of time with my main and some other level 50s (my main has nearly 2000 hours clocked up online) and hardly play them now as there is nothing to do except grind for influence or complete the new badges when they come out in issues.

Issues. These are far becoming a joke in my opinion and I am not easily fobbed off with the "Just wait and see what is coming" excuse anymore. Issue 13 was touted as being a massive issue and I feel that it was a massive let down. The was no power diversity (this has kept me going for a little while having new power sets on existing AT's), and was a little small and bereft of content. Issue 14 is reported as being just the MA (although GR has comented today this is not the case, but hey I dont believe em), which for me is not appealing and stinks of designers being lazy and getting players to create new content that I think should be provided by the designers. When this has been commented on the forums cries of "wait for issue 15 that will be awesome" are returned, well quite frankly I and others are not willing to wait that long.

The game is now too easy, or overly hard. I mean that general missions and the like are too easy and things can be steam rollered through. There is no thought or tactics required to doing a mission. I mainly play with the other people mentioned in this thread and pick ups, and no matter how bad the pick ups are we can smash through purples in a mission with little thought and preparation. And then on the other end of the scale you have the likes of the States TF that requires certain team builds to be able to complete it, and without them it becomes impossible.

Also the support and EU community is dropping off which too me also indicates something bad.

Overly the game has lost its "SUPER" feel for me with everything becoming a grind. It has got to the point where I look at the character creation screen trying to decide what to make next and there is nothing. I would have enjoyed an electric or energy scrapper but as there is no chance of that until issue 15 I am going.

Thanks to all that have teamed with me and friends I have made but I am leaving when my subs expire and will not be renewing them, unless something major happens like the servers are merged with the US or a million new people start playing in the EU. This is the same for others mentioned in this post.

Tuarus and Sparx, and on behalf of Belenus, Jade Warrior, Ace.Rimmer and Remus.

Let me clarify.

The options for recurring billing with all the price breaks are available on recurring billing, including the buy 6 months get one free. These options are also available on the non recurring billing methods of paypal and the paysafe card. However on the non recurring credit card billing (which is the only option for Maestro cards) there is just the option to buy 60 Days time.

Why can I not buy larger periods than this and recieve the same price breaks as other forms of non recurring payment do?

Is there going to be an increase in the options that we can buy from using this method of payment. All other methods have variable amounts and this one is still stuck with ONE time purchase option.

The money saving options are available for paypal and paysafe cards but I have no intention of using either of those systems for various personal reasons and would like to continue to use my Maestro card to purchase game time. I would just like to be able to buy the time in the same quantities and same discounts as any of the other non recurring methods.

Please can we have this fixed.

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I dont celebrate birthdays as it just indicates that you are plodding along to the time when u stop plodding

I try to blind invite as many people as I can in as short of space as time to create the ultimate quick 8 man teams. :P

Tried all manor of creating teams and things that work one day very rarely work another day as people are people and planes can sometimes make doors fit better after a flight.

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When BAB did post here he was met with a torrent of abuse.

I seem to remember the OP being one of the main offenders.

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I dont believe that!!!! Proof please!

And are you sure he just didnt have a different point of view regarding an issue?

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But according to another thread there is no problem with abuse on these fourms.

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Sour grapes though, got loads of those.

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Are those not raisins?

What..... Like an eternal battle of the gods that continues to rage through time. They surround themselves with their re-icarnetd comrades of the era to bring the battle into a new decade/millenium etc etc.

Will we see a future zone with similar characters ??


mmmm I love copy and paste. Especially the edible paste

Awww nuts.

And no wonder search doesnt bloody work

MMMMM maybe some of you are quite hot

See This BBC link

I know but this was a general offer of a plan and would have got lost in those other threads. Plus I didnt start those

That forum gremlin is chewing on your fleshy leg again.

As I am the record holder for the Advanced Tobogan run on Defiant (TBH think I am the fastest across all the shards but havent checked) I have been thinking of ways to improve on this time.

I think I have come up with a fantastic plan that I am willing to share as tomorrow I am leaving to visit families over the remainder of the christmas period and am not going to be back for some time. So if you like the sound of the plan and wish to give it a try feel free.

Before I outline my plan I will answer another query and that is follow on the slopes doesn't work.

Ok back to the plan. For this you will need the following:

10 friends all with TP
1 runner
Voice comms (not essential but will sure as hell make it easier)

Method.

Get the 10 friends with TP positioned at each of the check points. We will now refer to them as player 1 - 10. Have a nuetral person on the voice comms start counting in seconds. Player 1 then initiates their TP on the runner and a second later player 2 etc etc. The runn must start the run before being TP'd by the first player (TP Prompt should be removed). Once player 1s TP has completed his/her job will be to invite the remaining members of the TPing team to the team as players afterwards complete there TPs and quit from team. This should easily be able to produce a run time of under 30 seconds if timed and executed correctly.

Alternativly there are massive gaps between some gates and these could be skipped with a couple of friends and TP and good communication. Doing this method should be able to shave off at least 10 seconds and make those 45 second runs look awesome at about 35.

Please post any attempts made and what times you achieved thanks.

My most loved character is my main and he lives on defiant with most of my other toons although after checking it appears I have filled all my slots on union too not to mention some on the other 2 servers.

I generally play on defiant but have been interacting too much with the real world to get much gaming done this last month or so. Either I am getting bored with the game or the real world is getting more colourful and interesting?

maybe like a "old school invincible" or "proper hard" ?

I will be sorted then. Especially since i heard u get a rare recipe for every second under 50, and a purple for every second under 45 :P

Agree totally with this. Kudos for pointing this out.

Bring back the challenge. Hell reintroduce the massive regen buff the AVs got just to show people what we put up with in the old days.

But they work in shops. Surly it is easy.

Products come to till that u think would make a good xmas present. " I am sorry Sir/Madam we cant sell you this one as it has a defect etc etc please could u get another from the display" Customer goes to get another. Place product in pile of gifts under the till. Pay for them on lunch/ at clocking off. Shopping done with no extra work

Rubbish idea, not enough population to support :P