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please read my post on the first page.

This was not a test of any "new holster" technology.

Maelstrom has functional holsters because the devs control EVERY MOVE HE WILL EVER MAKE.

Maelstrom's holsters were not a test for implementing holstered weapons on a large-scale. They are a custom one-off set of animations specifically built to the actions Maelstrom can take, and are only available on Maelstrom's frame with his body build and exact costume parts.

Ah. I was un-aware of this little tibit. Thanks for the Clarification.

that's because the queue itself is used to LAUNCH the trials.

When you have a full team / league and you want to run a trial, the team leader simply enters the queu.

If you are ALREADY queued for a trial, the team leader can't invite you because your queue position is going to be different than his queue position.

And yes, it didn't always work like that. Itrials did launch with players being able to still be in their own queue when joining a pre-formed team... but that is also what caused most of the I-trial crashes as the game attempted to reconcile the queues each player was in.

This is also why I-trials have such low average wait times.

Think about it. If you have 16 people starting a Lambda, or 24 people starting a BAF, their queue time will only be a few seconds as there is no need for the system to try and fill the team out.

Each of those queues is registered as a successful event start.

However, if you are a single player on your own waiting for the queue, you have to wait until a non-full trial starts in order to get added.

So if you wait.. say... 45 minutes... you have a single player with a 45 minute wait time... and 16 or 24 players with a 10 second wait time. What do you think the average is going to be?

Um. Who told you this? As far as I am aware the developers aren't in the habit of saying who has what name.


Given that the last name purge was over 1293 days ago... I find this to be an incredibly DOUBTFUL statement.



Well, they are, and according to Memphis Bill's own little bot there, they've been so for over 3 and half years.

No. It was addressed by the developers in response to a player question, I want to say during one of the Q&A sessions. However it was made clear that cross-server teaming was something that was way down on the list of development priorities.

As far as the players have been made aware cross-server teaming requires changes to:

• The existing internal-zone teaming system - e.g. invites within Steel Canyon
• The existing external-zone teaming system - e.g. invites from Steel Canyon to Skyway
• The existing internal-zone league system - e.g. invites within R.W.Z
• The existing external-zone league system - e.g. invites from R.W.Z. to Cimerora
• The existing cross-faction teaming system - e.g. invites from Cap Au Diable to Atlas Park
• The existing server structure system - everything currently on a global network uses a different server e.g. the auction house, global chat, and mission architecture
• The existing Super Side Kicking ssytem - in conjunction with the teaming / league functions

In addition entirely new code would need to be implemented to handle:

• importation from one server to another server - e.g. Guardian to Virtue
• exportation from one server to another server - e.g. Virtue back to Guardian
• local name conflicts - e.g. what happens when "Flame Blaster" on Guardian logs in at the same time as "Flame Blaster" from Virtue?

The last of which would require not just changes to the existing chat system, but likely a complete and total overhaul of the entire existing name @ global-name system to prevent conflicts.

As you can see from the amount of work that the players have been made aware of, cross-server teaming isn't something that is going to be accomplished "soon"

It sounds like you are using the LFG queu.

Most Itrials are pre-formed by players gathering in Pocket D, Rikti War Zone, or Cim.

These pre-formed trials are why you see Average wait times measured only in minutes.

Let's say you have 10 Itrials that are pre-formed with 16 players, and launch within 45 seconds.

Then you have one person who uses the queue and waits around for 45 mintues.

What's the average time?

It sounds like you need to join some global channels or hang around a co-op zone, because yes, trials are still being done by lots of players.

Don't forget the Shadow Shard TF's; Sara Moore, Dr. Q, Justin, and Faathim for high level play.

Remember, Shard drops are adjusted to be more common on teams, so you'll also see more shards drop on every TF / SF in the game.

A full listing of each can be found here:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Task_Force
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Strike_Force

A list of Task Forces that Drop Incarnate Components can be found here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Incarnate_Component

In short, yes.

Yes, the developers have modified various missions that they felt were exploitable. It is possible that the Demon farm you remember has been changed.

The developers policy is that they do not talk about such changes or modifications to the game. There are no changes noted to Harvey Maylor's arc on either the CityofHeroes.com patch notes or at Paragon Wiki: http://tinyurl.com/Harvey-search http://tinyurl.com/Harvey-search-2

Also: please do not use the term nerf when addressing a rebalance, the fixing of an exploit, or the elimination of a bug.

Most of the time when MondoCool posts something (*cough* clown power set *cough*) I shake my head, do an epic facepalm, and find something better to do with my time.

Even so, I do think MondoCool is correct in this particular matter. One of the major features of CoH is that powers and abilities are not limited to costume parts. That feature, the Enhancement System itself, decouples Items from Abilities, and ultimately gives players far greater flexibility in building their avatar.

I would remind you Evangel that when MMO Developers incorporate wide-ranging changes to their base gameplay in order to make their existing game more like another MMORPG the ending result is often a near total loss of all existing subscribers. Case in point being S.O.E. Star Wars Galaxie's New Game Enhancement which netted catastrophic subscription losses. A far less drastic drop in subscriptions was also witnessed in S.O.E. Planetside as changes such as Battleframe Robotics and the Lattice Link Unit systems were rolled out.

Copying and implementing other game concepts on a wholesale level often result in a general failure to recruit subscribers from existing games, in that such "potential" subscribers will likely not see a duplication of features as an adequate reason to leave the game they currently subscribe to. In this case I would remind you of WarHammer Online which EA/Mythic thought was going to pull from Activision/Blizzard's WarCraft audience. As the final sales records showed... that never happened. For the most part WarCraft players weren't interested in a relative duplicate of the game they were already playing.

Given the industry track-record for such changes or shifts in design goals, the idea you suggest is poorly researched at best. In either the best or worse case scenarios, such changes would not draw in new players, and would cause the existing playerbase to leave.

Because many players don't like to use the LFG tool.

Most existing "trial-leagues" are pre-formed in existing co-op zones, and a pre-formed team / league can only launch a trial when they are all in the same zone.

Anyways, I question the "need" for a separate zone just to launch trials. It would immediately run into the same technical issues that Pocket D and RWZ already run into. The zone population would be capped (on average), forcing players to seek another instance to gather up if they are joining a pre-formed team.

A possible longer term fix to the zoning issues would be allowing league leaders to launch trials regardless of whether or not pre-teamed / pre-leagued members are all gathered in the same zone.

Just make the app inside of QT : http://qt.nokia.com/products/

That alone should give the app the ability to cover all of those platforms with one code base. Well, except for Blackberry. That would probably require using QT Jambi to work under the Java limitations.

wow.

Have you ever got this backward.

let me get this straight.

The ability to buff all your team-mates, and pets with your mastermind, with a 4 minute, non-degrading, constant Defense buff, that also offers toxic-resistance and end-drain resistance..

Doing all of that... with two clicks...

is somehow making the set... less... let me repeat so I understand it... LESS... desirable to play?

... Are you even playing City of Heroes?

I get the impression you aren't logging into the same game I'm logging into.

Last time I checked all of those incarnate-buffs players "Claim" to be killing Force Field with only can be gotten at level 50.

If you are playing Force Field as a secondary you can get both shields by level 10... meaning that as a Force Field, you can do all of that buffing... you know... for ALL THE CONTENT IN THE GAME.

No matter how you cut it, for 95% of the game, Force Field, Sonic, and now Kinetics, are the ONLY sets that can give an anti-mez AOE...

And last time I checked, Increase Density's timing wasn't changing... meaning it's still going to run out.. meaning Force Field and Sonic are STILL the only constant anti-mez aoe affects available.

I would find this an acceptable compromise.