The 2008 State of the Game
By
Achilles_Rex,
Posted on: 2008-01-10 24:06 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Arcanaville, I think the concern is that it'll be too focused on what's 'relevant to the character', rather than too early in the mathematical chain.
Knowing the benefit for Focused Fighting is +1.85 times modifier Defense Melee is actually fairly useful. It's not easy to put it into in-game terms, but it still tells you that it's more than twice as good at preventing Melee damage as Dodge is. Given that the whole issue with powers is knowing what they do in relation to each other, since you only have so many selections, this would get what people want.
What I'm concerned about would be that you don't know Focused Fighting does +1.85mod or +13.875% melee defense until they've already purchased the power, and possibly having to do the math in reverse if they've slotted it. I can honestly see that being done, especially given the emphasis on 'real-time'. While it would be a nice QoL thing, compared to finding out how powers work before you've irrevocably chosen them without loading up Mids or coh.redtomax would be a much, much more major thing.
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality. 
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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Wow...
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
[/ QUOTE ]MoG is getting improved huh? Does this mean Dark Armor can get a real tier 9 then to? *puppy dog eyes*
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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I bet you've been itching to say that. 
What's next? Account based storage? Offline supergroup invites?
What a day...
Be well, people of CoH.
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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Hell hath frozen over. @.@
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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Thud!
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Changes to MoG?
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What I'm concerned about would be that you don't know Focused Fighting does +1.85mod or +13.875% melee defense until they've already purchased the power
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One of my goals is to make certain that doesn't happen, and I am reasonably certain that it won't, at least eventually when all is said and done with the numbers changes.
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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I figured once the SoW change went in, it was only a matter of time.
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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Does the MoG fix coming now have something to do with the shiny new recharge code used in Strength of Will?
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Real numbers? Boo, city of spread sheets! :P
Seriously, all nice to hear (Even if real numbers do nothing for me).
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What's next? Account based storage? Offline supergroup invites?
What a day...
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A little ATI symbol alongside the Cryptic and NCSoft symbols in the login screen?
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Smoothing the XP Curve
One thing that we constantly examine is the rate of advancement in the game. In a future version, we intend to smooth out the leveling curve by changing how much experience is given out for defeating opponents. The intent is to smooth out the "bumps" where players typically get stuck leveling up their characters. Keep an eye on coming patch notes for specifics.
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This is excellent news, thanks very much. I enjoy the game and playing with all of my alts, but sometimes advancement comes so slowly that it drives me to cancel my account.
WofWCraft is very rarely better than CoH, but Blizzard did come through by speeding up leveling - on top of the already very nice "resting" xp bonus, which is hugely helpful with a load of alts. Here's hoping that CoH comes through again.
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Real Numbers
As a general quality of life improvement we will be adding new functionality in a coming version of the game to display the "real" numbers behind your characters and their powers. This includes a user configurable display of important characteristics such as movement rate, regeneration rate, resistances and many more! Additionally, you will be able to see how those statistics are affected in real time by buffs and/or debuffs affecting your character.
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I can't emphasize enough how much this f*@#&! rawks. Thank you so much. Please give players as much detailed information as you can.
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the above items
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please stop using "above" like this
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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Man, I can hear EG's boner from here.
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Man, I can hear EG's boner from here.
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he hasn't actually responded to this news yet.
I'm part excited and part worried.
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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The City of Heroes Community is a special one and I will always look fondly on my times arguing, discussing and playing with you all. Thanks and thanks to the developers for a special experience.
phew.
Oh good EG survived the shock.
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A MoG buff. Amazing.
How about Assualt Rifle?
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Smoothing the XP Curve
One thing that we constantly examine is the rate of advancement in the game. In a future version, we intend to smooth out the leveling curve by changing how much experience is given out for defeating opponents. The intent is to smooth out the bumps where players typically get stuck leveling up their characters. Keep an eye on coming patch notes for specifics.
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A few weeks back I quickly put together a spreadsheet using the XP leveling and even minion XP numbers up at ParagonWiki to answer the question about what is the half-way point in this game.
Yes I know it doesn't take into account mission bonuses, cranking up your difficulty as you get higher level, etc. but it was meant simply give an idea.
This shows what level you are when you arrested the listed % of even level minions.
% Total Minions - Level
5% - Level 16
10% - Level 21
15% - Level 25
20% - Level 28
25% - Level 30
30% - Level 32
35% - Level 34
40% - Level 36
45% - Level 37
50% - Level 38
55% - Level 39
60% - Level 40
65% - Level 42
70% - Level 43
75% - Level 44
80% - Level 45
85% - Level 46
90% - Level 47
95% - Level 48
100% - Level 50
It may look like irregularities but it's caused by it being slightly less than 2 levels worth of XP is equal to 5% of the total minions. That's why sometimes it's 2 levels, sometimes 1.
The reason for the feeling that leveling drops to a crawl is because we level so fast in the beginning, which is good, it lets us get a reasonable feel for the AT and powersets. 21 levels with the first 10%, 7 levels with the next 10% and then 2-4 levels for every 10% after that.
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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Ooops I crapped my pants!
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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.
EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?
(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*
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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.
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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.
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Don't worry regen...small tweak..... you know the rest 
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Moon Zone?
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