rpgguy

Theres still groups of people around who refuse to do jump on the AE farming bandwagon, theyr just full most of the times.

I would if they put the transfer back up.

Im sick of the european server emptyness.

I really, really wished they would merge defiant and union that would solve defiants teaming issues and a transfer to the american servers maybe wouldnt even be needed anymore, to bad some union players are against this as they are afraid to loose there "precious names and/or global tags".
Of course they, being from Union, have no teaming problems.

I could write a post here on the many reasons a server merge would be a good thing, stating how Defiant is vastly underpopulated due to Union's DXP event last year, but that probarly would get me going again and a ban from the boards.

Soooo im just leaving it at this by saying: if it ever comes to a server merge, I would be a very happy panda.

Im up for the Ice Mistral, SG one and the new issue 15 Strike Force for sure, if it takes place before the 13th (im going on vacation then).
I would like to bring my level 50 Natural SS/Inv Brute for this.

I would love to do this with both my hero level 50 ice ice tank, and my villain level 50 ss/inv brute.
I cant seem to find any teams for this ingame on Defiant (not that I can find any other team thats not doing MA farming...) .

I propose we start with the hero one first on Friday.

1. Gen. Pansington Ice/Ice Tank.
2. Open
3. Open
4. Open
5. Open
6. Open
7. Open
8. Open

Meeting at 6:30-6:45pm near the contact.
(Where is he/she btw?I still havent found her)

Well the boards sure have gotten a lot more active with you all silly americans :P
I used to play on Pinnacle and Freedom myself before moving onto the european servers.
But from what I remember, teaming problems where non existant on the American servers, something thats a big problem on Defiant.

Now if they also merged the american and european server access I'd be even happyer.

..what
one can hope, cant he ? :P

NICE

Maybe i can get my blaster to level 50 then.
Its about time I got a level 50 on the Union Server.

Dear Frenchies, on behalve of the whole Union server I want to ask you to ceize you activities in spamming the Atlas Park broadcast and local chat with profanities.

We cant help it your server is down, its ncsoft's fault. \
Not ours.

Remember last time this happened and some of you got banned for racism?
Lets not repeat that shall we.

Thank you and merci

@the General

And you play on Union I take it?
Ever since Union had that DXP event server pops are screwed.

Sure name clashes are going to be a problem, but unique groups and flavours? That makes no sense.
You can just not team. Just because 500 people join something doesnt mean it will disrupt an original group.

Yeah I bought the architect edition trough steam yesterday.
I figured, 1 month of gametime and a booster pack for 11.99 plus the convenience of not having to fiddle with my dvds when I reinstall the game again is worth it.

But singstar, you will still need to update the game with the updater.
Steam has only put the game files up till Issue 14 online, the patches released after issue 14's release and the Issue 15 pre-load need to be gotten via the regular updater.

I have been saying they should just merge Union and Defiant for a while now.
Or allowed EU->US server transfers.

But ncsoft just doesnt care.

I like cookies.

Its all the questions answered by posi on the training server today, Judgement Dave managed to recover some more questions that I didnt get around to yet so I merged them.

Intro post updated to reflect both Judgement Dave's log file and mine.

Nice one Dave, thanks
'How did you get it sorted like that?
My log file is a total mess, I had to reorganize most the questions to make it readable.

I think its time they released the Lunar Moon Base

[ QUOTE ]
Your 'in response to noone in particular' would have been me asking him about Power customisation thank you RPGguy :P

[/ QUOTE ]

Hahah yes, sorry, I missed a few names here and there (the log files are hard to read)

Hey all,

Ive been working trough the logs for about an hour now, Ive not taken every question as a lot of them can be found on the forums already, instead I took the most important ones.
These are from around the time I showed up, till posi got pulled into a meeting.

Note, the second large part was done by Judgement Dave, credit to him.
You can find his entire log (wich has also the questions already answered in my log file) on page 3.







Blackhat: Posi, is there currently work being done into optimisation? The lag in the ITF task force is at ridiculous levels, and it doesn't matter what connection speed or computer you have.
P: We're always fixing those sorts of bugs

Lightning Blue: Any new maps featured in the new tfs?
P: LOTS!
Now that you guys can make your own missions, we need to do stuff you guys can't do on your own
We are also looking into a new graphics setting.

Kalis Elfling: So Posi, are there any stories you'd like to see in MA that you've been unable to do so far?
P: Origin stories for Mark IV, Holsten Armitage, and Serafina

Golden Girl: Positron, I have a question about the dev team - now that it's bigger, do you work on content further in the future, or do you all just have more working on current content?
P: Far Further.

In response to no one in particular:
P: MA took 18 months, which is 13 months farther out than we were doing previously

Dreamweaver: Dear Posi... is there a chance we could see a custom map builder too, or the ability to place things a bit more exactly - so that we can build our own spectacular maps a la base builder?
P: No, not at the moment, if you think farming is bad now then think of what it will be like when people can make their own maps and place spawns exactly where they want them

Blackhat: Ah, there's another question I had. Are there plans to optimise the files used by the MA?
P: We are looking into the file sizes, but the way the system works we can't really optimize it any further.

Night Hornet: When is issue 15 released?
P: Soon ™

Gen. Pansington: I read somewhere issue 15 has been in production for over a year, is this true ?
P: No, not true.

Gen. Pansington: Positron, are there any plans on reworking the shadow shard tfs? noone ever playes them anymore
P: Right now, we'd rather add zones, since a revamp takes almost as much time.

Tiger White: Posi: Just so you know, a lot of the moaning is due to the overuse of the word "Soon", with nothing ever ACTUALLY turning up.. Like.. The Vault, or the Cathedral of Pain, or some forum software that works properly...
P: Vault has been shelved.
Generating the Vault stuff actually hammered the servers, so we need to reengineer the whole thing.
So it's on the back burner until we get the right guy in here.

Dr_Mechano: What about Power Customization?
P: Power Customization is one of those things that we couldn't do at Cryptic.
thats all I'll say about that.

Fulcrum: Posi, just curious, how far ahead do you have plans for at the moment?
P:Working on I18 prelim designs.

Golden Girl: What is the next booster pack slated to be released?
P: Super Science.

In response to any earlier question by someone who’s name I missed; What are you most proud of in the game?
P: The Vanguard.

Golden Girl: Positron, are you working on any new enemy groups, or is most of your work on fleshing out current groups like the Rikti and the 5th Column?
P: There is work on new enemy groups going on

Tiger White: How many are in the dev team now, after all the new hires?
P: Over 50.

Delenda: Any new in Pvp? a capture the Flag mode for exemple? new arena modes?
P: We're working on some new arena modes, no idea when they will be done though

Tiger White: Posi: Can you please enable the emoting in the Arena? It would make them actually USABLE for RPers
P: We can look into it. Some emotes are problems in pvp though

Riffster: Posi what are you most proud of to date and what are you most excited by for the future?
P: Vanguard, and stuff I can't talk about.

Spinal: Ah thats one question i have. Is it possible to disable zone npc´s for player events?
P: No, it its not possible.

Duex Elfling: we likley to see any more in game invasions?
P: Yes

Leese: Dom buffs confirmed for I15 ?
P: Yes

(edit by Leese; Please let me emphasise this.

I was joking when I asked/said Dom buffs were confirmed, and I doubt Posi was replying to me there.

Of course it would be nice if they were, but please don't make anything of this.

-They’r taking a new staff picture on Friday.
- The Devs do read the European Forums, but they can get more imediate feedback on the US forums.
-The Coming Storm is still a ways away.
-They like the way pvp is currently.
-Positron hates fighting Positron

Thanks to Mongoose for this one:
[Local] Positron: Demon Summoning? Dual Pistols?
*few minutes later*
[Local] Positron: DIdn't I hint at two new powersets above?

Thanks to Myopic Aardvark for this one:
Posi: We could write Arcs, but with MA out there, we'd rather write TF/SF's

Thanks to Judgement Dave for the following ones:

* On I15:
04-28-2009 17:52:31 [Local] Positron: I15 is not a super-mega issue. We needed to get the stuff that's ready to go out near the Anniversary
04-28-2009 17:52:44 [Local] Positron: But the TF and SF are SUPER COOL


* On MA issues:
04-28-2009 17:56:23 [Local] Positron: Search is a VERY high priority
04-28-2009 18:16:23 [Local] Positron: We've got a pile of MA bugs we're fixing, but I am not a coder, so I don';t know what's done and whats not


* Regarding farms:
04-28-2009 17:57:54 [Local] Positron: Yes, if you lodge Complaints against the farms, they can be taken care of
So I guess that means that the official position is that we should complain about farms.


* Regarding the number of arcs and testing MA arcs:
04-28-2009 17:57:26 [Local] Positron: I wasn't surprised at the number, but at the speed at which you guys reached it
04-28-2009 17:59:37 [Local] Positron: Yeah, we thought more people would use the Test mode for, uh, testing.
(think this was in response to my pointing out "it's not 100,000+ arcs - it's 100,00+ arc ids used... there should have been a way to 'publish for testing'.....")


* Regarding his personal approach to finding arcs:
04-28-2009 18:01:58 [Local] Positron: I generally don't read the boards to find arcs
So no immediate disadvantage for EU forumites... unless he gets recommendations from those that do...


* Regarding the timing of his address today (well tomorrow for EU):
04-28-2009 18:01:35 [Local] Positron: Uh, because I need to do it at the end of my workday.


* So any clues about the address for the EU:
04-28-2009 18:02:27 [Local] Positron: If I post it here, then you guys will go post it on the US boards and then the marketing team gets mad at me
Hmm - I was so tempted to point out that one of my arcs would let him beat up marketing guys.. so maybe he could risk upsetting them then get rid of any frustration they caused him... but given that I'd already had the audacity to plug Ee-Ai-Ee-Ai-Oh! when he mentioned farming...

* On new content:
04-28-2009 18:06:36 [Local] Golden Girl1: Positron, are there any plans to give older zones a Faultline-style makeover, like Boomtown, for example, or would you rather add new zones to the game first?
Gen. Pansington: Positron, are there any plans on reworking the shadow shard tfs? noone ever playes them anymore
04-28-2009 18:06:53 [Local] Positron: Right now, we'd rather add zones
04-28-2009 18:07:04 [Local] Positron: since a revamp takes almost as much time

04-28-2009 18:31:29 [Local] Positron: So we've done two "revamps" to zones so far.
04-28-2009 18:31:41 [Local] Positron: So we have a good metric on how much time it takes
04-28-2009 18:31:54 [Local] Positron: And for a smidge more time, we can make a brand new zone.
04-28-2009 18:33:18 [Local] Positron: But we can make COOL zones
Note that this is second reference to 'COOL' (both times capitalised, 1st time referring to the 5th TF/SFs)

* Regarding powers new & old:
04-28-2009 18:09:48 [Local] DR Mechano: is power customisation still pretty much a no-go area Positron or are there plans for the future in the works?
04-28-2009 18:10:37 [Local] Positron: Power Customization is one of those things that we couldn't do at Cryptic.
04-28-2009 18:10:48 [Local] Positron: thats all I'll say about that

04-28-2009 18:49:07 [Local] Duex Elfling: u reckon we'd ever see a Bo Staff powersef?
04-28-2009 18:50:11 [Local] Positron: Duex: Bo staff, maybe

04-28-2009 18:33:30 [Local] Sicari: Can we expect to see mor epower proliferation in new issues to come?
04-28-2009 18:33:34 [Local] Positron: Demon Summoning? Dual Pistols?

04-28-2009 18:34:00 [Local] Fulcrum: lol, I have to ask - is DM/Regen getting nerfed again anytime soon?
04-28-2009 18:34:16 [Local] Positron: If you feel a nerf is coming... it probably is.

On PvP:
04-28-2009 18:21:19 [Local] Delenda: any new in Pvp? a capture the Flag mode for exemple? new arena modes?
04-28-2009 18:21:39 [Local] Positron: We're working on some new arena modes, no idea when they will be done though

04-28-2009 18:21:47 [Local] Sunblushed Horizon: Can I just ask with the amount of problems that this new PvP has caused and the amount of begging asking for a i12 pvp re-roll with some additions from now. what is the devs current view on (sorry for personal opinion) the disgrace pvp currently is
04-28-2009 18:22:18 [Local] Positron: We love the way PVP currently is

04-28-2009 18:27:14 [Local] Sunblushed Horizon: how about not taking it from a devs point of view i now i12 pvp had its problems but this new pvp system has even more
04-28-2009 18:27:19 [Local] Sunblushed Horizon: how is that an imporvment
04-28-2009 18:27:51 [Local] Positron: I think the old PVP system was severly flawed, and the new one is still flawed, but far less so.


* On boosters:
04-28-2009 18:39:22 [Local] Golden Girl1: Positron, which is the next booster pack scheduled for release?
04-28-2009 18:39:36 [Local] Positron: Superscience
04-28-2009 18:40:08 [Local] Positron: and Dr. Jekyll-costume change emotes

04-28-2009 18:25:35 [Local] Brutax: Positron, it's possible to give us more monster cossie like shark face, wolf tails, tentacle arm...
04-28-2009 18:25:50 [Local] Positron: Sounds like a Mutant booster, Brutax

04-28-2009 18:40:34 [Local] Zortel: Speaking of Dr. Jekyll, any chance of costume changes involving height change, or even from Male to Huge and such?
04-28-2009 18:40:50 [Local] Positron: Hmm Zor... that is an... interesting... idea...


* They're coming.. they're coming!
04-28-2009 18:45:47 [Local] Duex Elfling: we likley to see any more in game invasions?
04-28-2009 18:46:03 [Local] Positron: DE: Yes


* On Facing the competition:
04-28-2009 18:49:18 [Local] Phantom Blue2: Hey Matt, what do you think CoX will have that is going to challenge CO/DCUO?
04-28-2009 18:50:45 [Local] Positron: Phantom: I think CO and DC have to challenge US. We have 5 years of content and systems. And villains.


* on Combined CoH/CoV Markets:
04-28-2009 18:51:58 [Local] Positron: Combined Markets: Maybe, farrr in the future... when the datamines don't have a HUGE discrepency in available inf on either side.
04-28-2009 18:52:55 [Local] Positron: If people are willing to pay 200m on heroside, and you cant afford 60m villainside, you definitely cant afford 200m
04-28-2009 18:53:53 [Local] Judgement Dave: i sth ediscrepency in INF earned to date or in rate of INF earning... the former could be addressed by a 1-time boost, the latter by adjusting rewards on 1 side....
04-28-2009 18:54:31 [Local] Positron: My brain just broke trying to figure out how to make rewards on one side work diff than the other

Any heads up on the zone yet GR?
Pocket D I take it?

Since I already missed the event due to the GREAT time planning by the gms, nobody even knew anything was going on.

Its not that rock.
Its the fact they keep promising stuff and not living up to it.
If they didnt promise us these then we couldnt wait and keep waiting for it.
If you say you are going to do something then you should do it.

wow.

I knew I was being a bit harsh maybe, but I didnt expect there to be so many people fed up with the current state of the game.
Its a shame really, the game isnt what I loved anymore.
Its boring, repeatitive, and the only thing I do these anymore is log in, fly around a little, and log off again.
Im sorry but I am not going to pay my 11.99 for this.

The developers have failed to live up to there promises for a while now, and as multiple other persons have also stated in this chat, enough is enough.

Thats what I wanted to know, thanks.

I didnt post this in the main anniversary thread because its pretty large already, anyway, I was wondering, the news post is saying something about special appearances on the test server...

Is this something for only the US AGAIN?
or will the europeans actually get something to for a change?