Any of the devs have previous MMORPG experience?
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All_Mixed_Up,
Posted on: 2007-02-02 16:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
lol. Nope, I don't work for NCSoft or Cryptic(although NCSoft has my resume(hint, hint, 
) Currently, I work for the US military as a contractor. Was just being a bit nostalgic.
Yes, I did just register. Usually I just lurk 
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lol. Nope, I don't work for NCSoft or Cryptic(although NCSoft has my resume(hint, hint, ) Currently, I work for the US military as a contractor. Was just being a bit nostalgic.
Yes, I did just register. Usually I just lurk
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Good thing you got dragged out of lurk mode. Welcome to the nut house!
Pull up a chair, start a thread.
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lol. Nope, I don't work for NCSoft or Cryptic(although NCSoft has my resume(hint, hint, ) Currently, I work for the US military as a contractor. Was just being a bit nostalgic.
Yes, I did just register. Usually I just lurk
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Oh cool, my mistake though
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Oh cool, my mistake though
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NP at all. Was kinda cool to be "elected" to work on these servers
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Oh man...let me see...
I've played:
- Earth and Beyond
WW
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ProGen forevah!
The day they sunsetted that game I was there. *tear*
I have played Meridian 59, mountains of Yserbius (sierra network), EQ, NWN and COx.
I didnt have the money to play a bunch of different ones (kids, house, etc), but I can see some massive improvements that likely came from irritations developed via playing.
For instance, meridian 59 - you start out standing around in gangs hoping for one fricking rat. Nowhere in COx do I see lots of people standing around hoping for one spawn of something. Even when max population, lots more mobs in streets than players. Also, even the weakest critter in COx looks more danagerous than a small rodent.
EQ - Should be called evertrip. Running everywhere, takes forever to go between zones. In COx, generally only have to run through half a zone, then take a train. After level 14, the longest trip is pretty short compared to going anywhere in EQ.
All in all, lots of nice gameplay decisions in COx. People harp on the negative, often forget the positive. Nothing's perfect, but love the fast pace of COx.
Just need to fix travel suppression with some other way of preventing jousting, and we would be gold with dueling flyers and SSers in PVP zones.
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Coming from the FPS side of things, I was fine with the latest incarnations of Unreal, Half Life, etc. Family life was full of interruptions (still is, to a lesser extent), so I didn't want to get tied into online "commitments".
My sister dragged me into Uru, and I fell for the gorgeous scenery. The online portion was, however, quite disappointing (and short-lived).
Then, she showed me CoH. I took one look at what she was doing and thought, "yeah, if I needed something to suck all my spare time out like a raw egg." I told her I had too many things I wanted to do with my time as it was. So, she bought my son a copy. After watching him work with it for a while, I thought I'd give it a try...
A year later, and my new girlfriend is cracking CoH widow jokes already. 
"Player First / Villain Second" - Dr_Hetero
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My sister dragged me into Uru, and I fell for the gorgeous scenery. The online portion was, however, quite disappointing (and short-lived).
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Although they have now revived the on-line portion of the UrU project (probably hired better server engineers) and it is back in Beta.
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mountains of Yserbius (sierra network)
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Wasn't it 'Shadows of Ysrebius?'
Earlier poster...
Air Warrior! Dear lord, the amount of time and $$$ I sank into that game. I could play at 300bps for $6 an hour or 1200bps for $12.99 an hour back on Compuserve, then had to cover the phone bill on top of that. Between IoK and AW, I had some huge Compuserve bills.
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Sheesh, the devs sure are lurking tonight.
Quick! Someone see if they can trick them into revealing more I9 and Inventions info!
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Soon (TM)
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Instead of working on I9 or even posting info on I9, why don't you get everyone there working on FIXING the crashing since I8? Even if you have to make the animators serve as coffee runners for the programmers staying late at night trying to figure out what's causing the crashing and ACTUALLY FIXING IT, I think it would be a much more important to do this instead of release I9 which will add an new assortment of really bad bugs(just a guess given the bug filled releases of the last few updates). It's not only a 2% of people crashing problem. When 6 of the 8 people on your team all are crashing in missions and different zones it's not just a few people with crappy computers. You send a broadcast out and everyone is complaining about it. You read the forums, the same deal. Go back to I7 and people who weren't crashing then are now crashing in I8.
The PR on the crash bug has been nonexistant. It's like denial on the fact it exists or isn't important. We've had more posts today from the devs, power people, and board managers on what MMOG's they play then on the status of this bug which has been going on since I8 was released. Priorities are way off maybe? Even cable companies refund money for down service. Maybe Cryptic needs to start doing this since the last few months of the game crashing, being knocked out of teams, having to reform teams 4-5 times to complete one missions, etc, has really not been worth the $15 a month. Fix the problem already... Don't release I9 until you fix THIS problem before you get set to introduce a new batch of them. Thanks...
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Instead of working on I9 or even posting info on I9, why don't you get everyone there working on FIXING the crashing since I8?
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Psst. Why don't you try taking a look at what's been on test for the last week or so.
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Improved Game Stability, including correcting an issue with capes that could lead to a client crash.
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Instead of working on I9 or even posting info on I9, why don't you get everyone there working on FIXING the crashing since I8?
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Psst. Why don't you try taking a look at what's been on test for the last week or so.
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Improved Game Stability, including correcting an issue with capes that could lead to a client crash.
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The cape fix crash? So I've heard.. If that's it and it actually works, yay.. I've been reading some posts that's it's still happening in there though. Since I've been more interested in playing on the live servers where things actually count, then if this is a working patch that fixes the problem it should have been made live like.. Yesterday.. 2months to fix this kind of major problem is unacceptable.
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Instead of working on I9 or even posting info on I9, why don't you get everyone there working on FIXING the crashing since I8?
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Psst. Why don't you try taking a look at what's been on test for the last week or so.
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Improved Game Stability, including correcting an issue with capes that could lead to a client crash.
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The cape fix crash? So I've heard.. If that's it and it actually works, yay.. I've been reading some posts that's it's still happening in there though. Since I've been more interested in playing on the live servers where things actually count, then if this is a working patch that fixes the problem it should have been made live like.. Yesterday.. 2months to fix this kind of major problem is unacceptable.
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I'm not having any problems, and I don't know anyone who is. Just because it's a big issue to You, doesn't mean it's everyone elses only priority and the dev team should drop everything to focus on it. Either have some patience, or upgrade your own equipment. I have 3 different computers running the game, no crashes on any of them.
Amazing none of the devs played CounterStrike thought I'm not sure many people think of that one...
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i'm surprised to see so many devs playing WoW... aren't they the enemy?
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... at GenCon (1995, I think?) I was by the NCSoft/Cryptic booth when the door to their private area opened, and i got a glimpse inside.
It was only for a few moments because somebody was just getting more flyers out of a box, but there was a couple of NCSoft booth workers in there on computers.
They were playing WoW.
-np
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I'm not having any problems, and I don't know anyone who is. Just because it's a big issue to You, doesn't mean it's everyone elses only priority and the dev team should drop everything to focus on it. Either have some patience, or upgrade your own equipment. I have 3 different computers running the game, no crashes on any of them.
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Just judging on the number of threads about it in the Tech Issues section of the forums, it is a problem. And it's fairly widespread.
Just because you aren't crashing doesn't mean no one else is. Also, I don't think a costume option is the only problem.
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I'm not having any problems, and I don't know anyone who is. Just because it's a big issue to You, doesn't mean it's everyone elses only priority and the dev team should drop everything to focus on it. Either have some patience, or upgrade your own equipment. I have 3 different computers running the game, no crashes on any of them.
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There could be no issue any larger for someone than crashing because that means not playing. That is bigger than any other bug.
Some people are crashing a lot. Some are crashing more than they used to (I am up to 1 a night from 1 month or less). I am running at 2 GB RAM, on dual 3 GHz P4s yadda yadda yadda.
Be glad you are not experiencing trouble. don't dump on those less fortunate. I am just glad it is about once a night which I can reduce by remembering to turn off my antivirus.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Instead of working on I9 or even posting info on I9, why don't you get everyone there working on FIXING the crashing since I8?
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Psst. Why don't you try taking a look at what's been on test for the last week or so.
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Improved Game Stability, including correcting an issue with capes that could lead to a client crash.
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The cape fix crash? So I've heard.. If that's it and it actually works, yay.. I've been reading some posts that's it's still happening in there though. Since I've been more interested in playing on the live servers where things actually count, then if this is a working patch that fixes the problem it should have been made live like.. Yesterday.. 2months to fix this kind of major problem is unacceptable.
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I'm not having any problems, and I don't know anyone who is. Just because it's a big issue to You, doesn't mean it's everyone elses only priority and the dev team should drop everything to focus on it. Either have some patience, or upgrade your own equipment. I have 3 different computers running the game, no crashes on any of them.
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As I said... When 6 of the 8 members of your team crash, not all have crappy computers that need upgrading with memory or graphic cards, when you ask in broadcast how many people are having the same problem and MANY reply YES, you log onto the forums and see it's not just you are you're unlucky team of 8 that loses 6 and you end up having to refill it with new people who ALSO crash, it's not MY problem and my problem alone. It's affecting a much larger player base. Try asking people in broadcast if they're crashing. Maybe since you're not crashing you don't notice it. But once you asked, I'm sure you'll be introduced to lots of people crashing. Peace.
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Amazing none of the devs played CounterStrike thought I'm not sure many people think of that one...
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I don't think anyone classifies CS as either the MM or RP in MMORPG. It's normally classified as an FPS.
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mountains of Yserbius (sierra network)
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Wasn't it 'Shadows of Ysrebius?'
Earlier poster...
Air Warrior! Dear lord, the amount of time and $$$ I sank into that game. I could play at 300bps for $6 an hour or 1200bps for $12.99 an hour back on Compuserve, then had to cover the phone bill on top of that. Between IoK and AW, I had some huge Compuserve bills.
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I resemble that remark. I dropped hundreds of dollars (as a 10 yr old kid making like $3-4/hr) playing on Compuserve. I laugh now when people whine about $15/mo MMO fees. When *I* was a kid...
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i'm surprised to see so many devs playing WoW... aren't they the enemy?
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... at GenCon (1995, I think?) I was by the NCSoft/Cryptic booth when the door to their private area opened, and i got a glimpse inside.
It was only for a few moments because somebody was just getting more flyers out of a box, but there was a couple of NCSoft booth workers in there on computers.
They were playing WoW.
-np
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Clearly the devs have a time machine! Use it to get us Issue 9 faster!
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Formerly known as YFNDBA
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mountains of Yserbius (sierra network)
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Wasn't it 'Shadows of Ysrebius?'
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Wow. I totally forgot about that game. I don't really remember anything about it anymore other than that I played though. And there was a dungeon...gonna have to do some wikigooglesearchamification-ing.
Guides: Dark Armor and IOs | SS/DA | Crabbing | Fortunata
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I'm not having any problems, and I don't know anyone who is. Just because it's a big issue to You, doesn't mean it's everyone elses only priority and the dev team should drop everything to focus on it. Either have some patience, or upgrade your own equipment. I have 3 different computers running the game, no crashes on any of them.
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There could be no issue any larger for someone than crashing because that means not playing. That is bigger than any other bug.
Some people are crashing a lot. Some are crashing more than they used to (I am up to 1 a night from 1 month or less). I am running at 2 GB RAM, on dual 3 GHz P4s yadda yadda yadda.
Be glad you are not experiencing trouble. don't dump on those less fortunate. I am just glad it is about once a night which I can reduce by remembering to turn off my antivirus.
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I crashed multiple times last night along with most of the other other people on the continuously rebuilt with new people team. We'd save spots for a few minutes, some would come back and we'd reinv and some were just like "screw this" and logged. I think it's a bigger problems than capes. I did notice something though that seemed to make the problem happen more for me. Some missions we'd go into would drop your toggles upon entering them. I'm talking about even turning off your sprint type toggles. Whenever I went into these missions where I had to turn on my toggles again upon entering the missions I and everyone else on the team crashed more. Then of course we'd exit the mission and start heading to the next mission we'd have people crash while traveling so.. I don't know what the exact recipe is to crash but obviously the people supposedly working to fix it don't know either. Hopefully this patch on test clears up the problem. I'm just a bit annoyed it's taken two months to hopefully fix and it's sort have been treated like a hush hush things with the devs. Reminds me of when someone was able to get admin rights or whatever and logon as a redname in game and reset the servers. Cryptics response pretty much didn't even respond to what actually was happened but more or less was like "No one's information(other than their own obviously) was breeched". Was all done not really addressing what happened because I guess no one likes bad reality PR like hackers getting into the game or constant game crashes... Here we get a simple tiny patch note that gives us a hint at a fix to a major problem but we have a more elaborate one about a snipe animation... Hate to be a threadjacker, but sometimes you need to do it to remove the blinders from the horses.
Wow, I'm surprised a dev played Earth and Beyond. Bonus points if you played a Jenquai Explorer (on Orion!), WW.