New Year's Resolution or Pod People Invasion?
By
Alexio_DeAmore,
Posted on: 2006-01-11 18:25 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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He wasted MySpace!
In any event, here's yet another tragedy of the human condition.
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BWAHAHAHAHA!
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Poster: Arcanaville
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Its all very simple really. States rolled himself a new SR scrapper. Then he gave himself a jetpack to get around the Hollows. Then he decided he wanted some nifty throwing knives.
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Now he's approaching the twenties and noticing the bosses in Rugged missions hit kinda often...
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Okay, so the pod-people explanation probably makes more sense. Still, with *my* explanation, he might've accidentally missed the fortune teller mission and need flashback...
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I can't resist......
Think we can get him to play a Tanker 
[/ QUOTE ] That's crazy-talk,everyone knows the Devs don't play this game.....oh but maybe the pod people will 
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Why the sudden turnaround in Dev behaviour? 
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Yeah..I'm scared
He's getting us ready for ED part 2.
Still... as long as scrappers get lightning melee, (hit hard and fast. sounds scrapper-ish to me!) then i'll live through almost any change.
Dawnslayer on Virtue.
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To be honest, almost all of these things have been in development WAY before New Year's. We started working on the Defense change back in October. But we really needed to test things and make sure our solution actually worked. That's pretty much the way of things.
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Ya'll are rockin'. Don't let the nay-sayers convince you otherwise.
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NM: It was Revolution_Pr0/Backagain/Diva_Dauntless
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He was one of my faves. Miss him. 
He could be a clever monkey at times.
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NM: It was Revolution_Pr0/Backagain/Diva_Dauntless
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He was one of my faves. Miss him. He could be a clever monkey at times.
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ZOMG! He put me in his ignore list. OH NOES.
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Puffy was a king among trolls. No one has yet to come close to his level.
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Was?
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o.O
Is...
*throws memory dust at thread and runs away*
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...That's Talcum powder.
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Wait wait wait... someone was a bigger troll than the Icarus_Factor?!
While I agreed with some of the things he said, the manner in which he said it had all the finesse of a habanero burrito fart.
I would have to rate him top troll overall, and definitely most eloquent troll ever.
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He wasn't a troll...he was like an early Pilcrow...
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Speakin' o' Pilcrow... do you remember the "Sack of Pilcrow" phase?
I don't think I carry the gravitas to be threatening enough to people to get /ignored. 
He was probably daunted by your ability to unleash a barrage of pertinent posts in quick succession.
He and I would spar for days in a row and now I can't even recall why. About whether CoH was the worst grind ever probably.
/mock tear
/insincere regret
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Just an idea... maybe create a post that gets updated weekly, and put as a sticky on the Test Server forum, called "Soon..." which lists things like this that are in short or long term development?
It just could get updated once a week or so, or month, just to detail things that are in the pipe. Put a fat disclaimer on the top that they're coming soon. Could be one day, or 365 days, or more... but kind of like an actively in development listing?
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Oh you mean implement and update a new thread that works like their KNOWN ISSUES thread? What a great idea ... in theory....
... In practice, I've learned not to set the bar too high for this development team.
It's great they're working on stuff and all ... but there is still way too much that needs to be and should have been done a long time ago. Of all the CoV features introduced, for example, the biggest disappointment for me is the Base. After 60 days, the raids still aren't ready, bases cost too much, require too much of a sacrifice for the SG/VG to be worthwhile ... all for too little incentive. With the honeymoon all but over for CoV and numbers seemingly declining as a result, I can't imagine even a moderately-sized SG ever being really ready to base raid. Smaller groups will have even more trouble even completing the IOP trial; not to mention having trouble with numbers in defending their base weekly after it. So who's left? A few power groups maybe who play on average far more than the rest of the casual player base?
Unchecked, I see the entire base-raid concept encountering more problems as time goes on because of the cost, tedium, and population issues. With content trickling in at a rate of 4 times a year or less with this dev team, I can't see the current model appealing to die hard gamers for very much longer. That's ironic, considering the only folks that the model really serves is the hard core groups. This is just one example ... That's my take anyway.
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I don't think I carry the gravitas to be threatening enough to people to get /ignored. He was probably daunted by your ability to unleash a barrage of pertinent posts in quick succession.
He and I would spar for days in a row and now I can't even recall why. About whether CoH was the worst grind ever probably.
/mock tear
/insincere regret
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Heh. Of all the things that have ever bothered me in CoH, "endless grind" never came into consideration.
I simply do not understand the complaint.
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He wasn't a troll...he was like an early Pilcrow...
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He was a little like Pilcrow and Craban (in logic mode) crossbred...so yeah he was scary sometimes, lol.
::A giant spaceship sucks up the whole thread.. then spits out everyone in it as a zombie cat-girl::
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He wasn't a troll...he was like an early Pilcrow...
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He was a little like Pilcrow and Craban (in logic mode) crossbred...so yeah he was scary sometimes, lol.
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Besides, London was the King of Trolls.
I see London
I hear Rants
Smoke Grenade
Ain't got a chance
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Just an idea... maybe create a post that gets updated weekly, and put as a sticky on the Test Server forum, called "Soon..." which lists things like this that are in short or long term development?
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Good idea.. in theory.
In reality it would work out like this. The players see a change on the thread and one of two things is likely to occur.
1. Much [censored] and moaning done months and months before a change is even being considered truely being put in the game. We would hear complaining about nerfs when the devs are only "seeing what will happen" with no intention of putting it in the game.
2. "OMG! YOU PROMISED!" Something good shows up in the thread. Players rejoice, but months down the line it doesn't happen because of various technical issues and game limitations.. or just because it would be THAT hard to implement.
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People said the same thing when Turbine Entertainment did the same thing. There were people like yourself who foretold doom & gloom.
As it turned out, there was little of either. Turbine had several categories that they sorted things into and it was clearly stated that anything on there was subject to change and that as things moved into "next patch" status they became more reliable/likely to appear in-game. They still do this and it gives their palyerbase a roadmap of where things are heading and what's happening.
It works remarkably well. But then Cryptic will never know if it works for them until they try it. Given the lack of updates the "Known Issues" link gets, I'm not so certain it'll work here like it did for Turbine.
Virtue: multiple characters.
CoH/V: Woot! Maybe Fun is to be had once again.
Ack! RUN! Regen is glowing mean & green!
If it reduces you, it's a nerf.
If it buffs the mobs, it's challenge.
They are not the same.
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As much as I would LOVE to know about things ahead of time.. it probably is for the best considering how the boards react to these things. We can't seem to go about things in a clear and calm manner.. 
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YOU'RE A LIAR AND YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE!
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As much as I would LOVE to know about things ahead of time.. it probably is for the best considering how the boards react to these things. We can't seem to go about things in a clear and calm manner..
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YOU'RE A LIAR AND YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE!
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Gasp, a woman ruined a man's life.
Now I've seen everything.
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As much as I would LOVE to know about things ahead of time.. it probably is for the best considering how the boards react to these things. We can't seem to go about things in a clear and calm manner..
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YOU'RE A LIAR AND YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE!
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Gasp, a woman ruined a man's life.
Now I've seen everything.
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YOU'RE A LIAR AND YOU RUINED MY LIFE AGAIN!
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FOOLS!
The devs haven't been replaced by pod people.
This is obviously the work of reverse vampires.
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Nonono, the devs have been jerk-hacked and well be gone to the americans!!!!!!
(sorry 
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You charged me $50 bucks for... TALCUM POWDER?!?
You are so dead now.
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Ah, but admit it. Didn't it leave you with that fresh feeling?
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NM: It was Revolution_Pr0/Backagain/Diva_Dauntless
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He was one of my faves. Miss him. He could be a clever monkey at times.
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{Geeze}My favorite thread of his(?) was the "I'm leaving for this other game but this really isn't an 'I quit' post since I don't actually come out and say I'm leaving -- here, have some more advertising for the competing MMOG!" The game that trumped CoH was, naturally -- Matrix Online.{/Geeze}
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I would like to be the second to welcome the pod people.
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Trumpy! You can do stupid things!
Ahh... good ol' MST3K.
im soo lost with this thread. I looked over page 1..skipped to 5 and wow...I'm just sooo confused
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Happy birthday UpLink_Oot!!!
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"whats ur power that brings death and pain?"
If you set that conversation to music, ironically enough, the myspace.com emo kids would eat it up.
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Isn't that why "You're the Man Now, Dog" exists?
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