rian_frostdrake

just wante to respond to this, again, i suspect we are going to have to break aside on the idea of wanting to see other players in the zone that we are, but spreading out a modestly sized population over an increasing number of zones only extends the perception that the servers are dead,furthermore, do players currently have a lack of zones to explore? we already have twice as many zones accessable redside, the smaller side, than co has, comparing blueside just makes the comparison more ludicrous.

But heres the issue, the blueside hazard zones, which are what people are usually talking about when we discuss redos, lack any real purpose. outside of silly hunt missions or the occasional missions that throw you in there, when is the last time you have been to boomtown? outside of farming for magic salvage, when is the last time you went to dark astoria? these zones have the feel of being half finished.

Now redside could use new zones, no argument there, and we know we are getting more zones with going rogue, but it just seems like the hazard zones are going to continue looking that much more dated and neglected over time. those same new players who stumble into boomtown and see nothing to do outside of hunting , are they going to be impressed, or are they going to take away the impression that coh is a shoddily put together game with junk zones? I'm not against adding new zones if they have a reason to be, but new zones to just be new zones is a mindset that seems wasteful, especially since most of those zones do carry an interesting story that has been utterly forgotten.

out of curiosity, does this attitude ever get you good results in a social situation? Can't tell if you are too young to understand social interaction, or if you are a wow player and just kind of par for the course, but you came here to ask a question, people answered you and you take this attitude, has that ever worked for you? because it comes off as being a jerk.

beat me to it. with characters that have no other source of lethal, they do help quite a bit against the abominations, if only because of their sharp edge. and given that prior to weapon customization, i had no interest in weapon based characters, that was most of them. again, I am a concepter, besides, at my vet level, i can pick 3 of the 4, so its a toss up as to how i feel. sometimes its fun to run around town with an axe...ingame too.

Its not so much that people cant navigate a sentence but rather that you haven't made a more convincing one than that you like pissing in equilibrium fan's cheerios. you have made specious complaints about thematic breadth that are just flatly wrong and seem to be pulling from some design document that you have made in your head that the developers must use that shows no resemblance to current precedent. You have stepped up inflammatory language after failing to be even moderately convincing, and you have completely ignored when people made valid responses to your reasoning, instead opting to be contrarian for the sake of being contrary.

now if you have an actual reason that this little thought exercise not take place, im sure we would all be fascinated, but could it be predicated on something other than you stomping your feet and saying no?

i want the robot summonable pet.

and honestly, id say its really the raid leader's responsibility to check who they are inviting, if you get a 4, politely tell him that his powers would be insufficient to contribute, then if they wont go, boot him. if they are stupid enough to band together and get killed, no exp for them, but i dont see it as an overbearing burden on the leaders, jsut double check before tossing out invites.

not really contesting one way or the other about numbers, im saying that you seem to imply that paragon is hiding something by not putting out numbers, and i merely asked you to find any other mmo that gives out subscription numbers. It seems more that ncsoft went with the ndustry standard, rather than a kind of deception of the players. I'm willing to bet that with the weaker economy and job numbers, competiton from within the genre for the first time, a high profile launch of aion and the lack of new storyline stuff, the numbers probably are down, though not significantly because the server global channels i belong to seem to have the usual suspects present and accounted for, but looking at the ncsoft sales quarter data in the other thread, its not significant. I also think that the content infusion of going rogue will likely bring us back some prodigal sons. heck, given the economy, i'd be willing to bet that most mmos are seeing some decline(outside of aion which is still pretty new and shiny), entertainment budgets tend to get cut when times are lean.

as for other games, wish i had your dilemma, im still slogging through my pile of shame myself, been working on fallout 3 dlc stuff, and loving the mothership zeta. next up, finishing sacred 2 and its expansion.then new smb wii, got a few extra hours a day to sell?

we have been over this a few times, and not to derail, but could you post me a link to the sub numbers of any mmo? And i dont mean mmocharts,if they still update, i mean any mmo, warcraft, eq2, conan, warhammer,Aion, guildwars, champs, just gimmie a link to any one where the publisher gives exact numbers, not just the wow hype machine 11 million number stuff. heck, ryzom or istaria if you can find it, but im looking for any other mmo that publishes its sub numbers. thanks in advance for your effort.

fortunately, given its limited thematic use. But i reiterate, you are being overly sensitive about the thematic limitations of the pistols. all pyre mastery powers are flames, generally when you take an epic powerset, then you do so for the theme. really, given the thematic breadth of the ways pistols have been used, from westerns, to the matrix and similar sci-fi action films, to anime fantasy stuff like chrono crusade or trinity blood. even hellboy had a pistol, but it was a method of delivering the magical weakneses of monsters. so pistols have been able to fit a broad number of settings, So i really am unconvinced that pistols are much more narrow than the other sets.

oh, and its two powers, to nitpick, exploding shuriken as well.

i reiterate this question. pistols have at least been used a great deal more, culturally, than a relatively obscure weapon(prior to the 80's ninja popularity boom) from the japanese feudal era. honestly, it may be a animation timing disaster, but it would be cooler to have there be a kind of customization whereas shuriken, throwing daggers, throwing axes, and pistols would be substitutable for each other to avoid epic pool bloat, but still make the weapon mastery pool thematically broad enough for a number of naural heroes. but i'm not thinking that would be doable, even in the current system.

not my dog in the fight, but addressing the pistols being too conceptually narrow to fit in the existing power pools, i dont see it. given how within game we have different styles of ammunition affecting secondary effects for both the council and malta, there is no reason that there couldn't be a non-lethal slug working as a stun, or a acid splatter bullet providing a debuff. or even a glue bullet providing an immob, or we could got he western route and have trickshots that have varying effects from hitting thematically valid targets. redraw would be an issue, however minor given that the at has a number of redraw inducing powers and has been able to do quite well for itsself. pistols not working like pistols would be as much of a concern as bows and arrows being used for silly but comic themed powers like glue, webs and freeze blasts, which is to say, people who want it will deal, particularly in a game where you arrest people by chopping through their clavicles with katanas. And finally, its really not for you to decide what at needs or doesnt need new epic powers, scrappers just got more than 3 options recently, and still dont have as many options as controllers. So your remaining reason is that you enjoy people not getting what they want? tha'ts all i am seeing that is really valid from your post.

as i see it, both pistol epics and blasters having martial arts skills are things that have plentiful examples from comics to justify their inclusion,and seem to have quite a vocal fanbase. but personally, eh, not my style either way, dont like guns.

It needs a revamp sooo badly. It is such a great zone with such promise and outside of the punishingly bad tf's the story is just buried.

they mention the other guys in the write up, but really it does kind of make coh the more prominent one, all the better i say.

which server do you mean? I know on liberty we have a specific raid night, and it seems that a number of servers have those, have you checked the server subforums? If not, maybe try to schedule one. a good raid can net 300 or so merits.

are we really lacking power suit options?? I'm counting a number of full tech suit options so maybe there are other less filled niches. To the question at hand, unless we see a token styled system in place, adding more stuff is just going to put more things out of reasonable reach of most newer players. Its not a concern for me since i have been here since near the beginning, but for newer players, its a bit unreasonable.

a warning to keep your expectations reasonable. the customization options currently only effect primary and secondary powers on the base classes. eventually epics, patrons, pools and epic at's are planned to get customization, but not yet.

if you have a character with thorns or spines, check out the new options. they are customizable, and i rather like the crystalline ones.

finally, you will also note, if you play redside, that dominators got a new assault set, earth assault. its pretty effective and has 2 "skins" for the powers, lava and crystal, also, elemental weapons are finally slightly customizable. so far its just jugglings of the greater and lesser elemental swords, but its a start.