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and with bad spelling once again. I'm still trying to figure out that player is on about. He hasn't made a lick of sense in any thread so far.

Going Rogue isn't a rebuild. It's also not a new game engine.

One of the keypoints about Going Rogue is that it's introducing a new graphics system. The actual system requirements to run the game are not going to change (much). You might now need a 1ghz processor where a 900mhz would do, but there is actually a bit of logic behind Paragon Studio's Madness. One of the limiting... factors... of games like Champions Online and the upcoming DC Universe is that you actually need a hefty computer to handle the game as the developers envisioned. That's bad when the majority of graphics cards in use today aren't from AMD or Nvidia... but are Intel Integrated numbers.

It's also bad when the fastest growing market segment of computers is to be found in the ultra-lite or sub-notebook markets, and the so called net-book format. While AMD does offer a mobile platform that can play in that space with it's Neo designs and RadeonHD 3200 / 4200 set, and while Nvidia offers the not-really-as-compelling-if-their-honest-about-the-thermal-output Ion platform.

In order to keep City of Heroes attractive to the widest range of users, it pays to have a game engine that will continue to scale down to those limp-wristed, you play on that?, type of computers.

At the same time, with Going Rogue, or maybe before-hand since Ultra-mode isn't strictly tied to the release of Going Rogue, something that a lot of players skip over, the developers have eye candy for those who are packing RadeonHD 4850+ graphics cards.

*head tilts* ... what are you on about?

It's not really the graphics end that they're worried about Labtech. It was because of the graphics alone, I think, that at HeroCon Posi said "lets do it" (or something to that effect).

Back Alley Brawler actually listed some of the game details that would need to be addressed here : http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...8&postcount=22

The graphics would be easy. It's changing the underlying engine code to account for everything else that would require some serious under-the-engine work, and BaB's has already put off easier tasks, like power pool customization, because of needing development resources that are busy with Going Rogue: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...45&postcount=3

Now I want to go make a martial artist named Son Organicu, Master of Drunken Fist Fighting.

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Okay, on a more serious, much more serious, note. Thaumator, I'm having a hard time reading what your typing without thinking that you are deliberately trying to flame-bait the forums. There's a difference between a role-play delivery of a line, and suggesting actual violence against another player. I'm pretty sure you have stepped over the Terms of Service for the forum with your post. So I've hit that little report button. And, btw, don't think about trying to edit the post later. I did screen-cap it.

And yet you keep positioning yourself as representing some huge majority... when you don't. You keep trying to push bad game design. We'll, I'm going to be brutal here, you don't know what you are you talking about, and plenty of other posters such as Westley and Mr. No Pants are getting quite a bit of mirth out of poking holes in everything you type.

Okay. Make the suggestion. Send Castle and Posi a private message saying you think this is such a big humongous deal that the developers should immediately, once again, have a poll and ask.

are you sure about this?

Would simply having banned everybody who used a simple profane or vulgar word in a negative rep comment accomplished anything? Would simply banning everybody who creatively insulted another player without being profane or vulgare accomplished anything?

I think Mr. No Pants asked a very valid question back in post #56. We don't know the scale of the problem of people abusing the rep system. We can tell from anecdotal evidence that the abusers were numerous,. but that's the extent of the information we have.

Then we have to define what a manageable level is. Are we, the forum attendees, really that bold as to define what we think the moderators work-load should be? Are we really that wise? that All-knowing? I somewhat doubt this. I'd be extremely hesitant to suggest that we know more than TheOcho.

Then there's the fact that in post $57, you, Blood Specter, immediatly brushed the question off with a Pshhhh and stated that it just has to be done to the most visible? Well, while I can name some people I'd like to see banned and gone because I believe that they were profane and vulgar but I have no proof, that's really the stopping point. We really don't know who the most visible people could be. The only way we would know is if TheOcho set up a page, listed all of the uncensored rep comments a particular player made, named the player, then announced Your Banned. Well. Nice idea, but that sort of defeats the purpose of having a censored and private system.

Don't get me wrong. I'm in favor of griefers being hung out to dry in front of some 2,000 Watt Search Lights. I really do think that once you've violated the Terms of Service you've forfeited any rights to be unknown or have some sheltered privacy concerning what you did.

I don't, however, think a public ban board would be possible for something where the actions taken are taken anonymously. There's a difference between what the likes of Rikti Commando and Simon Adebisi do in the game where they can be screen-capped and log-filed, versus a system where you can only suspect somebody based on the timing of a rep comment and the phrasing of the words.

No. The Numina Unique and Regenerative Tissues Unique are the only +regeneration single IO's in the game. However, multiple enhancement sets offer regeneration as a bonus, like the Numina set, or the Luck of the Gambler set for defense, or the Scirocco Dervish Set for PBAOE attacks.

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Now, as to your other implied question, here's a screen shot. It's from a kin, and the mouse is hovering over Transfusion.



Now, in the little pop-up there's a line that says Allowed Enhancement Set Categories. These are the various enhancement sets that you can use on each power.

Now, when you go and drop by WentWorths or the Black Market, you'll get a screen like this.



Here you can see the available recipes are sorted by category. Basically, all you have do to is match up the enhancement sets. If you have an enhancement set that is from the Healing enhancement, you can use it in any power that allows the Enhancement Set Catagory: Healing.

A: it's not a priority.

B: the developers don't monitor names on a real time basis.

Fact is, if the developers monitored names as they were created, they'd have a flood of vulgar, obscene, and rude names in addition to the rip-offs of existing Marvel / DC content. While the developers do go through and do a name check every now and then, resulting in a flood of new generics, a constant up to date appraisal of names and rejections just isn't possible in a game like City of Heroes where players are encouraged to make new avatars. This was actually the reason for the development of the name check tool. So you didn't have to make a character, get all the way to the naming screen, then find out that the name was taken.

There are basic systems in place to try and prevent some names, but for the most part, the developers have to rely on the existing community to use /petition and report players who come up with various rip-offs or obscene names.

Or it's something that you've decided to latch onto and be a complete pain in the rump about. Seriously, you are treating this like some kind of massive conspiracy that you are bound and determined to uncover, like there's some giant mystery only you can solve.

Fact is, the developers do keep track of what other games do. Fact is, some of the suggestions made, such as tying names to a Global tag in the chat system, are brain dead stupid. It's just bad game design.

Potentially a valid point, in the case of reward drops there is indeed a difference between what the code suggests and what players actually experience.

When it comes to naming, we come back to several central assumptions. That many players are outraged and firing off /petition reports left and right that they can't get the exact specific name they want. That there is a wide range of highly desired names that are being held on accounts that nobody's playing. That this is a huge deal.

To be the delivery cat of reality, it's not a big deal. It really isn't. There's no major player backlash. Looking at this thread I think I can count the number of players who think this is an issue on one single hand. There's no huge amount of I must have that name because it's so cool held by people who don't play the game. The numbers the developers have come across on previous name purges have already been giving them. You, Unsub, are deliberately ignoring the data the developers have and creating your own ideas about what data there is.

Now, lets get back to talking about what the majority of the game does. Fact is, when most casual players come across a name they want that somebody has taken, then tend to add numbers or letter to it. There's hundreds of players running around with a name like xXxFrostyxXx because Frosty was taken. The average player simply doesn't care whether or not somebody had a name similar to the one they thought of. They just add some punctuation, add a space, add a couple of letters, and life goes on.

So, once again, being the delivery cat of reality, people demanding modifications to the name system, such as the ones I see being promoted by Thaumator and Unsub. Well, that's THE MINORITY.

I suspect that our developers aren't going to simply fold over to the whims of bad game design so easily.

They will be constant as long as the toggle is active.

However, while I could be wrong, I'm pretty sure the only heal toggles are found on Willpower and Regeneration, with Rise to the Challenge and Integration.

On these builds you are going to be much better off putting the procs into passive powers like Fast Healing, the pool power health, and on tanks, scrappers, and brutes, the Epic / Patron Physical Perfection power.

For those interested, here's the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-hNMJvcyI

I have to ask if that was a mixed team, Hero's and Villains.

I haven't had this particular problem. I have, however, invited people to SuperGroups, invited people to be global friends, sent trade invites, ignored people, and so on without having intentionally hit a button or entered a command. Tried a different mouse on that computer and haven't had an issue since, so I was inclined to believe that the mouse was sending faulty clicks.

Hmm. This is actually quite interesting. I'm actually curious as to why the 9.3 drivers would break the game since.. well.. the 7.4 drivers. Actually I dunno.

I was going to say that they were using the older OpenGL rendering engine, since the 7.4 drivers were released in May 2007, and the OpenGL rewrite hit Fglrx in November 2007.

Could you try the December 2007 Drivers, the 7.12 set, and see if the crash occurs with them? : http://www.oldapps.com/ati.php?old_ati_drivers=3

I think I tend to fall on this side of the line on comments. If you want to interact with somebody, there's better ways to go about it than leaving an insulting, vulgar, or just plain mean private message that can't be directly responded to.

There's also another aspect of the argument that very few of the people neg-repped, publically neg-repped with the red bars, ever actually changed their positions. You wouldn't see people go, Oh, wait, I was wrong, I should rethink what I'm doing. Case in point would be the various threads about server merges, tying local names to global names in the chat system, or basically picking a feature from a competing game and implementing it in this game.

There are also other cases when a clique of various posters get together and deliberately go after a single poster. The neg-rep stalking. A bunch of players trying to support a factually flawed argument... well. It's an inverse of the above situation. It's also a freaking pain the neck for the moderators to deal with.

I have wondered before whether or not the moderators have the option to treat the rep system in a serious manner, to let it be more than just another forum game. I suspect with the typical player population most Massive Multiplayer Online games draw, and from the various evidence derived from the posts made in this forum, that a section of the player base simply won't allow the rep system to be used as a valuable tool.

With that, well, depressing point of view, I'd have a hard-time advocating a return of a central viewing area for rep comments. Yes, only a few bad apples truly spoiled the system... but maybe this is a better way of actually getting those bad apples to engage in a constructive conversation

not when he can't spell it right. Homosapien most certainly isn't censored.

You... do... actually realize that the booster pack money is turned right around to pay for development the game... right? You do realize that the profits from the original Wedding pack paid for the Developers to have the staff to work on Villain Epic Archtypes, right?

Rather than jacking subscription prices up, which affects everybody, or by turning to the Korean model of micro-transacting everything, our developers found a nice happy medium that allows players to support the game and get a nice product in return.

If you don't like that. Tough. Get over yourself.

Fact is, if you look at most other MMO's on the market, such as WoW, Final Fantasy, or Everquest, you'll be plunking down $50 on a regular basis to get the type of expansions our developers largely develop on the cost of subscriptions alone. So your cost argument isn't exactly holding any water over here for us.

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There was always a gaping hole in this argument. Veteran rewards are for veteran players. Not new players. Tough, get over it.

I'd actually love to see you try to explain how this is true. No, really, I would.

First of all Booster packs are available to all players. Anybody who wants a booster pack can buy one. They don't have to wait. They don't have to have a certain time subscribed. You just buy, login, and poof, there's the booster pack.

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Second, Booster packs are cheap. Unless your paying on the 14month basis, $10 is less than the subscription cost of the game. Also, lets look at when the packs came out. Pack #4 launched this month in November. Pack #3, the Science Pack, launched in July. Pack #2, the Magic Pack, was launched in April. The First Booster, Cyborg, was last year in September.

Then there was the Mac Pack, which on a side note ticked me off because NCSoft and Paragon Studios still haven't admitted the deal was done to support CoH on Cedega without having to utter the word LINUX. Then the original Wedding pack from way back in February 2008.

So, ignoring the Mac / Linux pack and the Wedding Pack, there's been an average of a new Booster pack every 3 or 4 months. $10 every 3 or 4 months? You can't seriously tell me that the pricing is unfair.

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Third: Money from the booster packs goes right back into the developers pockets, and it's not just to fund more privately bought content. As I mentioned earlier in the post the development of V.E.A.T's was reported to be funded largely due to purchases of the Wedding pack.

You can't seriously tell me the booster packs aren't fair.