The 2008 State of the Game
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Achilles_Rex,
Posted on: 2008-01-10 24:06 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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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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OMG, hell has finally froze over. Woohoo!
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Could we please for the love of... All I want for i12 is to turn down the freakin' volume on the portals in Portal corp., RV portal, etc. Sounds like a Freight Train running into a car wreck sinking a steamship! I could only imagine with headphones on... Seriously do we need to have the portal sound that LOUD I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO TYPE IN CAPS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT TO HEAR ME OVER THE NOISE THOSE AWFULL THINGS MAKE!
That is my only request. Thank you for time.
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OOOOOO THAT WOULD BE SOOOO NICE....oh what? oh sorry not standing by portal now.... 
OH HAPPY DAY!! Awesome year ahead WOOT!!!
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Could we please for the love of... All I want for i12 is to turn down the freakin' volume on the portals in Portal corp., RV portal, etc. Sounds like a Freight Train running into a car wreck sinking a steamship! I could only imagine with headphones on... Seriously do we need to have the portal sound that LOUD I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO TYPE IN CAPS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT TO HEAR ME OVER THE NOISE THOSE AWFULL THINGS MAKE!
That is my only request. Thank you for time.
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OOOOOO THAT WOULD BE SOOOO NICE....oh what? oh sorry not standing by portal now....
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Roger that. I always turn my volume off when I'm waiting around in there. I also face away from the portal, all the flashy lights practically knock me to the ground in epileptic fits.
HOLY MOLEY! Real numbers, real numbers, real numbers! This is the single biggest announcement for me as of now, no kidding! I am sooo happy this is going to be reality, and soon to boot!
Ahhhh too happy - can't contain the gleeeeee!
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I just move away from the portal. I mean, it is a giant super thingy gizmo after all.
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How about SUB-ACCOUNTS? You know, the only thing preventing me from starting a third account is Veteran Rewards. Yeah, I'm that addicted to the Nemesis Staff and Base TP.
-r0y
"Look how many pages of crap are in this thread already!" -r0y to all threads on these forums.
*stares at the announcement*
I came back to the game at just the right time it seems.
HELL. YEA.
Numbers will make me ever so happy.
*loves his numbers*
Oh! Also, is there any news on the rest of the weapon sets being able to get their Vanguard issued weapons?
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Nifty work, eager to see.
Also work on a way to move enhancements around without doing a whole respec please.
Why Blasters? Empathy Sucks.
So, you want to be Mental?
What the hell? Let's buff defenders.
Tactics are for those who do not have a big enough hammer. Wisdom is knowing how big your hammer is.
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I just move away from the portal. I mean, it is a giant super thingy gizmo after all.
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Sure, but, the audio of the portal plays while you are loading into the zone/mission or whatever.
I too mash my mute button when near these things.
Let me get this straight...
UniqueDragon returns.
CuppaJo returns.
LivingHellfire returns.
The Devs introduce an interface for the numbers into the game.
I thought all that Apocalypse talk was silly, but now I'm not so sure.
But I'll die happy, with numbers! 
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My dorky husband wants to know if our characters will actually be able to get married in some sort of a Valentines Chapel?
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....then comes the baby in the baby carriage! :O
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What? I hope this isn't the new way to generate new characters! I'm a character generating addict!
I'm in major agreement to helping the 35-40 range. Thats the main reason I don't play my Dark/Dark Defender much. FINALLY, 2 bars into level 39!!!
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Smoothing the XP Curve
Real Numbers
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WHOA.
Sweet.
Bout gorram time.
Awesome.
Be well, people of CoH.
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Real numbers - Long, long, long overdue. Make sure they are kept accurate though. When the history of keeping power text upto date with chnages isn't exactly good, this is key.
To me its better to have no numbers, than wrong numbers.
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In the past, this has been a major problem. This time around, I'm very confident that's much less likely to happen.
I'm guessing people will be pleased with this one.
Edit: see this part: "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." This implies something about where these numbers will be coming from: this is not a "Prima" thing that can be messed up by bad editing.
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Doesn't this imply an overhaul of the enhancement system? Or will this be separate?
Meaning if I'm about to slot an enhancement, will I see current value and future value on mouseover with an enhancement?
Be well, people of CoH.
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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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Apparently the divorce from Cryptic was the best thing that could have happened to this game?
Wow. Thanks folks.
This could have been in the planning before the divorce? Plans like this, I would imagine, are in the works for a long period of time. Software development, for any company, is not an "overnight" thing.
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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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I'll take that to mean next week. Which is awesome. Oh btw pls fix the performance shifter and efficacy adapter end mod IOs kthx bai.
Real Numbers! Woot!
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Thanks, guys.... Your hard work is much appreciated. I rarely see this much support for a game 3 years after its release! You guys are treating this game as if it got released 2 weeks ago! Thanks!
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76 characters and Twenty-four 50s later, I still love this game.
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Good going, Devs! As far as I'm concerned, you are hereby forgiven for Enhancement Diversity! (Toss in a configurable power tray and I'll even forgive the Controller nerfs that maimed Dark Dark Defenders.)
Please, make the configurable display have a simple way to choose Simple Mode (a la Advanced Graphics on/off).
I want my numbers, but I know people for whom the lack of complexity is a major draw of CoX.
(On the subject of Real Numbers, accuracy of: I betcha they're simply exposing the numbers they are using, rather than adding a system to figure them out for you. My guess is any number you see will be what you're getting.)
The robot revolt begins!
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Thanks, guys.... Your hard work is much appreciated. I rarely see this much support for a game 3 years after its release! You guys are treating this game as if it got released 2 weeks ago! Thanks!
MurderOne
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So true! Their commitment to the game has been nothing less than stellar!
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P.S. Lighthouse's corporate avatar is about as exciting as dish water. :P
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