The 2008 State of the Game
By
Achilles_Rex,
Posted on: 2008-01-10 24:06 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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The fact that we'll be getting these things prior to i12 is completely awesome. It's things like this that remind me of why I have kept my subscription to the City of franchise.
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Yes, they could easily have bundled all this up with I12 and gotten away with a thinner issue that way. I'm glad they didn't.
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Fixing up the leveling curve will be very nice since so many of my alts are in the 25-35 range. Although I wonder what the devs have in mind... Like, if they were gonna lower the actual needed XP/Level, that could cause some people who are like, 39.9 to level up to 40 and maybe half a bar's XP. I can see many people loving that.
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We'll have more details when that patch goes to public testing on the Training Room, but as I understand it, we won't be changing the actual xp needed per level. That would have the kind of repercussions you speak of where someone could just level without doing anything. Rather, I believe it has to do with increasing common ways that people get XP in the level ranges the team is targeting (defeating critters, for example).
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Yipeeeeee! Easier time leveling via Street Sweeping!
/em Leaps onto LH!
/em screams in his ear
YIIIIIIPEEEEEEE!!!!! REAL NUMBERS TOOOOOO!!!!!
=^_^= <---- Had too much sugar and caffiene just before reading teh announcement.
Thanks for the info Lighthouse. Sounds like my DB/Regen Scrapper will get over that lvl 38 hump.
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Wait...
In-game numbers? Another Double XP weekend? CORRECTED XP CURVE!?
best. birthday. EVER!!!
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Hahahaha! Happy birthday!
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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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Best thing ever.
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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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... NEW best thing ever.
OMG. Lighthouse. Devs. You are finally going to do this.
I may cry. I'm that happy.
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/QFT and QFE
This is wonderful news. The game has gotten better and better with each update and I am truly looking forward to what is yet to come.
Congrats to you all! 
Shard Warrior - 50 MA/Regen/BM Scrapper
Founding Member and Leader : Shadow-Force
Co-Leader: Council of Heroes
"Whatever evils come this way... we will be there to stop them."
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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.
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 think I just $#%& a brick....
*checks* ...Yep I did...
Now I have make amends with Positron damnit... Seems he saw the Light and is FINALLY getting away from Jack Emmert's oppressive ideas of "FUN" when it came to Character progression and build Customization. ...If Positron does the same thing to smooth out Salvage and Pool-C drops.... I promise I'll [u]never say another bad thing about him[u] for the rest of my villainous days. (Exluding "AGH!, put the Helmet back on!" of course 
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ALL I WANT IS DOUBLE XP!!! With the wife gone home for the weekend {crosses fingesr}
Cooooooool.......
...anyhow, can we get Dual Pistols now, please?
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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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Thank you.
CoH Codex : Demo Models/FX/MOVs : Demo Info
Arc 111022: "Doctor Geist and the Scientific Method"
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Any sort of timeline for Beta with the XP curve and Real numbers? Or should I assume it will be Soon (tm)
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As outlined above, all of the things discussed are:
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... short term initiatives to share:
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So, they are all stuff you will see soon, and definitely before we kick up into talking about Issue 12 and the medium to longer term stuff. Hopefully that helps to frame the time lines.
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We need hard dates, man! *shakes Lighthouse's collar*
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*chucks a few stale dates, followed by an orange.*
Real numbers sounds like the bomb.
But I wonder if Masterminds will be able get number on their pets. Right now pet damage isn't even reported to the chat channels, something that really frosts me.
Also, it would be nice to see any Real Number also in a chat channel (Combat, maybe) so the data miners can go at it.
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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 heard the reptile. Go and fix MoG so we can all watch EG lose all touch with reality before our very eyes.
But it's MY sadistic mechanical monster and I'm here to make sure it knows it. - Girl Genius
List of Invention Guides
For me, this post makes me think about how much the Development Team really brings to the game experience - the content updates, power fixes, now sets, and above all, the community interaction. COH/V has grown by leaps and bounds over the last years... and a lot of what makes the game so darn good is being hooked on having a responsive, interested and player-friendly team behind the scenes. Thinking back on things like DAOC, Anarchy Online and others (and of course some Blizzard online games) - I couldn't go back, I've been spoiled.
This, also, is from someone who works in communications / CorporateSpeak. It's so nice to see a well-run, well-done comms effort. =)
It is critical that you pay attention at this time.
Gaming in Limited Times
Guide to Plant/Ice Doms
Smoothing the XP Curve
Real Numbers
Highlighting the two biggies for me. I've been an advocate of showing the actual numbers since the game was in beta. It took a long time but I'm glad to see it's finally coming.
I've also long thought the game had too much of a curve at certain points for leveling. Hopefully the smoothing of that curve will get more players to, well, keep playing.
All in all, some very nice improvements coming to CoH/V.
P.S. Lighthouse's corporate avatar is about as exciting as dish water. :P
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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 heard the reptile. Go and fix MoG so we can all watch EG lose all touch with reality before our very eyes.
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Think that's the best reason to fix it I've ever seen.
But still I fear and still I dare not laugh at the madman!
One man's "meh" is another man's "zomg". - Leatherneck
Procrastination meter coming soon.
Umm Lighthouse? How could you suck all of the bad things out of the game like this? What will people complain about now?
I love the sound of these upcoming improvements.
But it's MY sadistic mechanical monster and I'm here to make sure it knows it. - Girl Genius
List of Invention Guides
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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 heard the reptile. Go and fix MoG so we can all watch EG lose all touch with reality before our very eyes.
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/QFT.
Seeing EG pass out from the shock of a MoG buff would be soooo worth it.
=. .=
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Yes, they could easily have bundled all this up with I12 and gotten away with a thinner issue that way. I'm glad they didn't.
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I'm a bit curious about that, actually. As you say, they could easily have held this off until I12 and no one would have complained. I wonder how much the change to NCNC figures into this?
Still, even my cynicism is no match for the humble glory of Actual Numbers, so I can only assume it is because they love us customers that much. And perhaps they don't want to distract us from the wonderful ponies in I12. Life is good. 8-)
-D
Darkonne: Pinnacle's (unofficially) mighty Dark Miasma/Radiation Blast enthusiast!
Be sure to check out this mighty Arc:
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Rather, I believe it has to do with increasing common ways that people get XP in the level ranges the team is targeting (defeating critters, for example).
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So something along the lines of 'since you're level 39 and you probably have no missions left, we'll give you a bonus to the XP you get from defeating badguys so that street sweeping will be more efficient'?
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Umm Lighthouse? How could you suck all of the bad things out of the game like this? What will people complain about now?
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LOL! Classic.
Shard Warrior - 50 MA/Regen/BM Scrapper
Founding Member and Leader : Shadow-Force
Co-Leader: Council of Heroes
"Whatever evils come this way... we will be there to stop them."
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And the hits just keep on coming.
You guys should be careful with all this amazing improvement.
What if the games collapses in on itself from the sheer amount of Win, like a star collapsing??
Then we'd have like... a Winhole, sucking in all information on the internets...
I'm just sayin.
Good stuff, good stuff... looking forward to this year.
Phantom Rose: Ill / Kin / Psi
Soleau: Ice / Icy / Ice / Core: Ice / Fire / Pyre / Wind / Eclipse / Flare / Corona
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Rather, I believe it has to do with increasing common ways that people get XP in the level ranges the team is targeting (defeating critters, for example).
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So something along the lines of 'since you're level 39 and you probably have no missions left, we'll give you a bonus to the XP you get from defeating badguys so that street sweeping will be more efficient'?
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It's probably addressing the discrepancies in those "Number of even-conned minions needed to level" charts. It's been a while since I looked at one, but as I recall a few levels required much larger increases than their preceeding level.
-D
Darkonne: Pinnacle's (unofficially) mighty Dark Miasma/Radiation Blast enthusiast!
Be sure to check out this mighty Arc:
#161865 - Aeon's Nemesis
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I am truly loving what I'm reading about this. The Vault is very interesting and I can see it come to great use, although I do see this as a soft blow to the Hero Corps website and Longbow websites that are used for bios. I'm sure the Vault won't let us have the great kind of bios that the two sites allow, but if it means I can put all my alts onto one link, that searches out the global of @Cellanoid, well, w00t to that.
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What soft blow? CityVault just shows you in game stuff. The stuff that players can add is severely limited. The sites you mentioned allow a LOT of stuff that players can add to their characters.
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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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Best thing ever.
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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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... NEW best thing ever.
OMG. Lighthouse. Devs. You are finally going to do this.
I may cry. I'm that happy.
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Ditto all this....except the stalker-esque crying part.
P.S. First after LH! w00t!
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