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Originally Posted by Dr. Aeon

Hey everyone,

We wanted to take a moment to address issues that have come up regarding the latest patch that has been released. We certainly understand a lot of your concerns and we want to do our best to alleviate them.

The change that has been implemented is a temporary change to combat a long standing exploit. This was a stopgap fix that we had to put out until we could come up with a more permanent solution. We certainly do not want to leave your arcs in a state where using them in non-exploitive ways results in little to no experience being gained.

Myself, pohsyb, Television, War Witch, along with everyone else here involved in the operations of Mission Architect, are doing everything we can to arrive at a solution that we can all agree on.

We currently plan to implement a solution in issue 17 or soon thereafter (and I mean actual soon and not Soon™) . We can't go into detail about what exactly is planned, but it will alleviate the current issue that many of you are having, which is finding your normal arcs are rewarding little experience.

Anyone who has a normal story arc that is drastically affected by this change should not go about overhauling your work. We are going to make sure that this upcoming fix will stop exploitive behavior within Architect while also allowing you all to be as creative as you want within the system - without extremely negative consequences.

Dr. Aeon

Originally Posted by Venture

a) If the story absolutely can't work without a specific character then the odds are that you don't even have a story. You probably have just a bunch of stuff that happened.

b) Characters like the Honoree, which are built to be fought by teams and/or are supposed to require TF-specific temp powers to fight, should not be available in the MA in the first place. At least not until we have the ability to gate arcs by actual team size.

Originally Posted by BrandX

Now GG, you've been around to know that's not true.

i17 will release and a second later, someone's going to make a new post asking when are they going to give us something new, because they're bored with i17 already.

Originally Posted by Haggard4Life

I can think of a few heroic Demon Summoning concepts:

Your character could be a redeemer on a quest to save souls. Maybe that character likes the idea of using evil demons for the purpose redemption. Or maybe he/she's trying to redeem the demons themselves?

Another idea is a character who is a cowboy who wrangles demons and then uses them to help people.

Or maybe summoning demon-like entities and fire whips is that character's mutant superpower and they decide to use those powers for good.

Personally, I'm going to make a DS/Poison character who has spent his life studying the secrets of alchemy (including using potions to summon demons). It's a concept that can work as a hero, villain or somewhere in between. I haven't decided which way I'll go yet.

Originally Posted by Nibb_Nibb

Very neat concept, but I figure the demo is about as close as we'll ever get to seeing it used in-game. You could do some awesome things with that in the realm of gaming though.

Originally Posted by bzald

hopefully this will work

a) DS powers playtest is the next time vets/pre-orders etc get a chance to play with something that is part of GR

b) as TJ said that does not MEAN that you will get to play test DS it just means that maybe you will

Originally Posted by ZanderCross

All TJ was trying to say was this: Just because you are in the loyalty program doesn't mean you will be in the GR beta the first day GR beta starts. All that the loyalty program means is that you will get in when they let you, but you are guaranteed to be in before open beta. That is all. I'm not sure how that was misunderstood, but everything anyone has said on the forums lately had been misunderstood.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

I wasn't confused on anything. Red Valkyrja commented that she had done a Ctrl-F on the post you linked to and could find no instances of "day one". Your post right after that quoted that part of her post and you said



My post was simply to clarify for you your own confusion.

Don't try to attribute confusion to me when there was none on my part. The only confusion was yours, evidenced by the wording in that post.

Originally Posted by Profanation

I think that the major source of confusion is that it appears that several game features that many people equate with Going Rogue are coming out ahead of the expansion release. Dual Pistols, Demon Summoning and Ultra mode are clearly tied to the Going Rogue expansion in Pos's opening keynote ----}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItM3OLqb5w

Ultra mode, in this video, as first described as "Going Rogue: Graphics Preview". The two new signature characters for Going Rogue are vehicles for introducing the two new powersets.

Do I understand the advantage in not unleashing all of these different components into closed beta at once? Certainly. Do I understand the confusion and, in some cases, consternation on the part of many "loyal" players who thought they might get into closed beta to test all of the aspects of the game introduced by "Going Rogue"? Absolutely. The breakdown here is in communication.

The devs very clearly spelled out what it takes to get into closed beta for Going Rogue. To then say that DP is pretty much "GR", and and "UM" is not "GR", and "DS" is not "GR" is inconsistent with the big picture that they laid out to describe "GR". There just needs to be some clarification about what is "powerset closed beta" vs. "i17 closed beta" vs. "GR closed beta".

Originally Posted by Furio

You mis-understood his statement. He's saying that, even if this *was* a beta that Loyalty program, Vet badges etc, would allow you access to (which I don't believe it is, as this is I17 CB, not GR CB), it wouldn't automatically mean that you get in on day one of that beta.

In other words, when GR goes into CB, your Loyalty prog/Vet Badge/Comicon status would gaurantee that you get in....at some point. It doesn't mean that you will definetely get access the moment the CB starts.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

Ok, let me rephrase it for you. Ctrl-F is the Find function. By trying to find the phrase "day one" in that post and not finding it, it indicates that nothing in that posts states that LP, Vets or HC Attendees would get into the closed Beta on day one.

Capisce?

Originally Posted by bzald

link here---> http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...hlight=loyalty

this was when they where testing duel pistols

Loyalty Program participants, Veterans and Hero-Con Attendees…today is the first opportunity for you to see your devotion to City of Heroes® pay off!

now ultra mode should not be part of that but demon summoning would get any of the above into closed beta i would think.

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

Kindly link to where they said that those would apply to anything other than the Going Rogue beta?

And having Ultra Mode moved to Issue 17 doesn't mean you're entitled to test it as a GR beta tester. They told us right after HeroCon that they'd try to release Ultra Mode before Going Rogue if it were possible, and oh, lookie here, it's possible!

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

Yes, their "new" lower end GPUs support Dx10.1. This includes the G 210, GT 220, GT 240 and their renamed GT 3xx equivalent cards (yes nVidia is pulling another renumbering job). I don't follow the mobile GPU market that closely so I don't know which laptop GPUs now support Dx10.1.

Originally Posted by Flameshot

That would be because it *specifically* states that option is only available to GPU's capable of DirectX 10.1.

The GTS 250 is not one of those cards.

Originally Posted by Incarciro

some of you people make me sick. If you don't like it, GTFO!. You feel like the NCSoft owes you something? Like it's some plot just to screw YOU over? The more money that's made from selling the boosters and pre-orders the more labor money there is for devs to create new content. So yes, retail costs $40, NO they aren't giving it away for free. NO i17 isn't an April fool's joke (i hope :P ) YES i will have several lvl 50 DP blasters and Kin/DP Defs (if you dont know, this should be a priority build) before retail comes out (see, I'll be playing the game while you're still complaining about it). I have 3 accounts and I'll do preorder on 2 and buy expansions when avail anf do retail on my third.

and lastly..... you have no freinds here. If you're complaining about a game and it's developers on the official game FANSITE you're either really hard up for attention or a complete idiot. You're wearing White and blue in a Manchester United pub..... let the beatdown begin.



Thenk you NC Soft and Devs (and whoever else needs to be thanked) For continuing to add content to this game. Some of the things are enjoyed more by some than others, but I appreciate it all the same.

And i17 better not be an Apreil Fool's joke.... cuz it soundz AWESOME!!!

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Also, sorry but; HELL NO! to pets that turn on you. That sounds like the epitomy of 'Not Fun' right there. Especially given MMs are not good combatants solo, having a solo mission go backside up due to your own tier 3 pet tearing a limb off just sounds like fail incarnate.

That said, Im looking foward to them. Hopefully one of my Praet's will get to utilise them.

Originally Posted by DJ_Shecky

I"m going to wait for more confirmation on some of the specs etc. I"ve read a few blogs that are calling semiaccurate a bunch of fud, and I prefer not to rely on just one site for information.

The Price points I"ve seen from ZDNet are shoing $680 for the 480 and $500 for the 470. The real question is will they be worth it.

Originally Posted by JFreezy

So what comes in the Complete Collection? .........................HAHAHAH! Sorry, I couldn't help it! This post echos like the batcave!