Discussion: State of the Game Address

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Wooooo! My first time being the first after a red name!

edit, after reading post: The Column shall rise again!

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Ok I seriously need to say this....

What makes you so special on posting first after a dev? Tell me. I don't get this phenomena. I made a thread about a month ago on this but eventually it got derailed too far by some people so it was locked. But yet this keeps happening and mods don't seem to care.

Yeah, I can just not read it, but its a little hard when its right after a dev. You wasted your time to post "Weee, I'm so special I posted first after a dev! I want a cookie!" then went back and edited saying "Oh...after reading it, here's something to contribute to what was posted" (not exact quotes but still damn close).


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And I seriously need to agree with that. It's GOT to be one of the most annoying current Trends.

'First!' posts just Gotta Go.

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This is the first post after an anti-first post post - does that make this post a special post, or is it just a normal post that thinks it's a special post?

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'First!' posts just Gotta Go.

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They sure do. My first experience with them was on the pre-beta SWG boards. They were annoying then too.

Who is Reichsman?? What happened wtih Hero 1 in the first place??

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I'm not of the doomsaying crowd...

but, the state of the game address felt like usual political fluff than substance.

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Wait...when has it not? It's not like they're going to come out and say "Well I think we're doing a pretty good job keeping you all giving us money, we've got a ton of new stuff on the horizon, now that we've hooked the loot crowd and the PvPers are starting to calm down, we're heading straight into an Issue that's guaranteed to make the story-driven folks pay us for at least another 9 months, and finally give people a new reason to play a character past level 38."

I've been here for every Issue and it's hilarious to me to see the same patterns over and over again. If I were the Devs I would have some posts printed out and hanging on my wall.

"What's going to happen when World of Warcraft comes out? We're gonna keep people around then?" - Issue 4
"What's gonna happen when the Marvel MMO comes out, we gonna keep people around then?" - Issue 9

I think you're doing a fine job Los Gatos crew. You make your mistakes like anyone else but I'm still having fun, with three characters waiting at ten to enjoy inventions from the ground up and four characters at 32-34 waiting for Issue 10 to give them new content to blow through!

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I don't get why you quoted me...

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An old friend returns as an enemy

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My guess is Hero 1 comes back changed/corrupted by the Rikti.
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Gosh where could you possibly have gotten that crazy idea from?!

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That was an honest-to-goodness guess.

Seriously.

I had stopped following the comic and had NO idea about the upcoming storyline/last issue.

Seriously!

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Who is Reichsman?? What happened wtih Hero 1 in the first place??

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God Lordy... Don't you people read anything they tell you in the game? They tell you all about Hero 1 when you do the cape mission.

Wiki article on Hero 1
Wiki article on Reichsman

I was lucky to be invited in the 2nd round of i9 closed-Beta testing. It was fun, and can be addictive if you 'like' the auction houses.

I'm going to be very cranky in the first few weeks of release with all the extra lag/crashes, and broadcasts for help on inventions.... but that's inevitable with any new content.

States Taskforce is a nice addition, and lots of players on test were ecstatic about it - so thanks for adding that devs

Hooray for adding the greenline to Skyway and to Founders Falls!

Hooray for adding a shop to Kings Row! (next to the train!)

As for inventions.... the temp powers? They are a fun addition, I like them.

Costume parts? This I am very upset about. Any player who is focused on costumes (like me) could go from level 1 to 50 and NEVER see a costume recipe drop. Ever. So for my alts wanting the butterfly wings, expect /e grief a LOT. I anticipate lots of venting from the public. I don't mind having to earn it, but I hope the chance for it to drop the recipe is increased! (or give us some other way to work on earning it - not just luck of the draw!).

Invention enhancements? HOT topic. Some of my alts (eg brutes/tanks/scraps) will be loving their IOs with the extra buffs (+10% regen bonus? yes please!). Others such as my defenders will get sweet stuff all out of IOs, "if" they can use them at all.... eg - the aoe IOs are useless if you aoe does no damage! And controller/dominator IO sets are craptacular in comparison to SOs, so I can see some of my alts will not even bother wasting time on IOs until that changes.

Auction Houses - this will be a blessing AND a major pain in the rump.
Thumbs up for giving me a place to sell my loot, thats nice.
Buying stuff is incredibly time consuming however, especially as there is NO OFFICIAL GUIDE (hint hint devs!) for players. So far there is only some guides posted by players buried deep in the forums, and I would prefer to rely on a "official" guide. We need a "idiots guide to using the auction house", and also a "idiots guide to what the different IO sets do".
I would prefer to be able to read this info seperately, rather than ingame with all the screens, windows, team chat, global chat, tells, invites, crashes.... a guide would save me many headaches and allow me to use the auction house FASTER.

The biggest nuisance is going to be time spent on game play vs the auctionhouse vortex. I'm already dreading it.
Pre-i9, players would only stop to bio/grab drink/train/sell ens at regular shops.
Post i9, players will be sucked into the auction house after every mish or 2, trying to make room in their IO salvage/recipe trays, trying to craft, buying stuff,..... and this can take a long time, especially if you are new to inventions, which can be half of every team you play with.
I feel this will create a rift in players and team styles as to how it is managed (not everyone wants to wait half an hour while the new guy struggles at auction for 30 minutes). So we will spend less time in missions and time lost at auction.

My point? Devs - if you can make the auction house any more efficient, user friendly, please do so - and PLEASE add some user guides for it, and on the invention types for various builds (eg - detail each different IO set. Please.)

My last concern - "i9 Lagfest Zones". That is, any zone with the auction house (eg Talos & Steel Canyon) is going to be a pain to be in. Players will try to farm in those zones, as they will be close for fast selling then back to farming with least time lost and no zoning needed. So there will be an increase of players in those zones (and more lag). Steel Canyon in particular as it also has the university crafting tables. I'm not sure how to fix this - other than add the auction houses to all the city zones, or kill that lag dragon once and for all.

I do look forward to the i9 content - I just hope all the bugs from test were sorted out & that it runs smoothly (fingers crossed).

Best wishes.

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I'm not of the doomsaying crowd...

but, the state of the game address felt like usual political fluff than substance.

that is all.

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Not just fluff, no offense Lighthouse, but fluff from the press sectary. We can't even get it from the dev's themselves.

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I am disappointed that neither Statesman nor Positron felt they had the time to create a State of the Game address marking the third anniversary of their game. To me it is an indication of how important this game is to them.

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Yes - too busy working to make sure I9 is as good as it can be

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Then one shouldn't call it a "State of" address. It's entertaining that the company won't even go through the motions of posting Lighthouse's press release under Positron's name to prop up a polite fiction.

*chuckle*

When's MUO coming out?

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I don't see the next couple of issues taking nearly as long as I9 did.

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You shouldn't set up false expectations based mostly on unbridled optimism.

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Ok if Hero1 comes back as a villian is he gonna take our capes away

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I think the real question is, why does Hero 1's memorial keep moving? I've seen it in Perez, Galaxy, Atlas, and Skyway. Does it also have it's own pocket dimension?

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No, the Memorial is Rikti Hero 1's spaceship that moves where it wants to

I demand (nicely) that issue 10 have a new scrapper set, and Fifth Column Awesomeness... and a trenchcoat suit.

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An old friend returns as an enemy

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My guess is Hero 1 comes back changed/corrupted by the Rikti.
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Please. :] It'd make for a wonderful story arc.

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Wooooo! My first time being the first after a red name!

edit, after reading post: The Column shall rise again!

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Ok I seriously need to say this....

What makes you so special on posting first after a dev? Tell me. I don't get this phenomena. I made a thread about a month ago on this but eventually it got derailed too far by some people so it was locked. But yet this keeps happening and mods don't seem to care.

Yeah, I can just not read it, but its a little hard when its right after a dev. You wasted your time to post "Weee, I'm so special I posted first after a dev! I want a cookie!" then went back and edited saying "Oh...after reading it, here's something to contribute to what was posted" (not exact quotes but still damn close).


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And I seriously need to agree with that. It's GOT to be one of the most annoying current Trends.

'First!' posts just Gotta Go.

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This is the first post after an anti-first post post - does that make this post a special post, or is it just a normal post that thinks it's a special post?

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no, its just an excuse to pad postcounts.

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no, its just an excuse to pad postcounts.

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Personally, I think post padding is an art. For example, you can post a thread with something incorrect, so that when someone calls you on it you can post about correcting it.

Or better yet, chime in to say someone's signature is listing a Blaster as level 51.

but that would be a waste of time wouldnt it?

btw, i got so much debt getting to 50 (back when you could REALLY rack up debt) i figured i earned the extra lvl!

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i'm so badass (pve) that i SEEM like i'm 51

what were we talking about?

I just wanted to say that I played this game years ago and stopped playing to play World of Warcraft (oh I know, the dreaded name) with some friends.

After getting bored with that, I came back and this game is totally different - in the best way possible!

I'm excited to get back into the game and I just wanted to say that the developers are doing an excellent job.

Patch 10 has been exciting too. The only problem we've had so far is the LAG from so many people being in one place at once lol but it's a good start. I'm digging it!

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I just wanted to say that I played this game years ago and stopped playing to play World of Warcraft (oh I know, the dreaded name) with some friends.

After getting bored with that, I came back and this game is totally different - in the best way possible!

I'm excited to get back into the game and I just wanted to say that the developers are doing an excellent job.

Patch 10 has been exciting too. The only problem we've had so far is the LAG from so many people being in one place at once lol but it's a good start. I'm digging it!

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I agree with this post to the T. (What exactly does to the T mean?) I left COH.. played several other MMO's and came back. The game feels completely different.. it has so much more depth.. and I am having a great time playing again. Nothing is more exhilerating to me then having my own pack of shambling zombies with projectile vomit.. they crack me up everytime they attack. I feel sorry for my enemy's.

Cheers to the COX Dev Team! Keep it real!