rian_frostdrake

most likely, almost nothing at all, if not absolutely nothing.

you know, I was kind of hoping in the back of my head the same thing. Don't think it will happen though. Guess it cant hurt to hope though :P Maybe the independance port remake will add a littel tokyo/hong kong area, would kind of make sense since it would be a place new arrivals would have likely lived first, and likely immigrants would live together in an area where their language and specific foods and cultural needs would be concentrated. lord knows i have been nagging for one long enough. no need for it to be feudal japan, there is plenty of grist in the manga/anime mill for modern and ultratech settings to work with for a naturalistic fit for a zone or part of a zone. any feudal elements with yaokai and onmyoji could easily be tied to either occultists in the modern setting, like the tsoo with their ancestor spirits, or a graveyard with guardian spirits coming over.

that said, when the american company of our competitors online was sold from a French company to a Chinese one, there was no new content added to reflect the change, and i doubt we will see any in the shift in stock leverage to another Korean company with its new hq in tokyo. I'm just really adding more nudging for more eastern content in the game.

Fine and dandy, but then its a misunderstanding on the op's part. it says we would get universal enhancement slots, which would fit the way the general incarnate system works if you count things like your judgement power or your interface power as an enhancement, which they generally are. but not every enhancement is a level shift. so there were 10 planned enhancements that would make power progress similar to gaining a level, but not all of them would add a full shift. easy mistake to make due to the nuance of the statement, but not a promise of level shifts, just new powers that we slot like enhancements.

This is something i would go for as well, i have an existing aquatic themed character and part of her outfits is a one piece swimsuit, but i also like using the bioluminescent skin, so an over set for both top and bottom would be welcomed.

do you have any real data to back this claim up, or just anecdotes? the "We are losing tons of players over this change" is the last refuge of a failed argument, and bring data or try to be convincing otherwise. otherwise the pvp changes of issue 13 killed this game absolutely dead years ago by numerous reports. and i can strangely still log in to something, even get on a successful magi on liberty not more than 10 mins ago. and my build is the comical opposite of min maxed.

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Eh, some of us like being weird. helps us stand out, ya know? right there with ya. even went pink for it with trollkin queen. and 7 foot, bah, she is a solid 8 footer.

dunno, the game was a critical flop and was generally only remarkable for its red cartiridge. beyond that it was a final fight clone of the like that was glutting the market at the time.

guard your snorkel.

not a non sequiteur at all, more of a joke, and not that hard of one to get really.

This is my take whenever i see people going on about marketing. the mmo market is currently defined by one aberration that had a number of non replicable factors that caused it to be a insane outlier and a large number of companies trying to be it with graphics and engines that reflect the evolution of games from the several years that have intervened since launch.

coh has neither that series of fortunate coincidences that the giant has nor the benefit of being more recent and looking prettier than the latecomers. we are an old game, period, that age has lead to depth, no doubt, and that advantage is evident if you visit the forums of the competing superhero mmos and you see their players grumbling for content that we have in spades, but there are soem things being nearly a decade old in the aggressively evolving tech industry simply cant mask, and coh would look horrid in a commercial versus tera or gw2. we can get people here and there, but coh's main strength has been that it has a hardcore group of fans who stay with it for an unusually long time. as much was said by its former lead developer.

so trying to add flashy advertizements to an 8 year old game in a genre that has a spotty track record in video games really seems like a cause that is, if not lost, at least prohibitive, and word of mouth from the hardest core who can share exactly why coh is a game worth playing for nearly a decade.

The rikti invasion was a point of several arcs from the start of the game untill issue 10. lets be fair about things here. furthermore, mot is a singular entity with limited influence, not an entire other dimension. Some people liked praetoria and some dont and little rational discussion is going to change minds because its a question of preferences, but i have to strongly disagree with you that the build up for praetoria was an error. its not for everyone and nothing will be, but it was a workable vehicle to get a lot of mechanics into the game and worked well for what it was, and it sure as heck was better than the old praetoria stuff which was basically got to a bunch of context free recycled environments and fight one off mook squads. they are mid level zones, people tend to move on. you cant exactly call up a pug in coratoa or striga any time you want either. they served their purpose as well as any new zone does, if you have an event, you can often get people, I have been on a few seed hunts on liberty, far from the most populous server, and really if the communtiy finds things to do they stick around, if not, they go through, just like striga, just like nerva.

you know, a while a go, i was discussing an "epic form" for khelds That would fuse the dwarf and void form together and make a kheldian "dragon" and it could use upgraded versions of the dwarf and nova powers. the general form would be bipedal but hunched, like an ember demon but with the general body shape of a dwarf, but instead of the dwarf head, it would have the nova's head, massive tentacles coming from its back like wings and the nova tail trailing behind. my only conceptual problem is wether to make it fly as a default, like the nova, or stand on ground. maybe let the human form flight power work too to cover that?

incarnates and badges. alternatly, dont make a char unless you can make a full bio for them. it wont stop it, obviously, but it can slow it and maybe increase your attachment and desire to develop your existing characters.