Discussion: Gamezone and Powerset Proliferation

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New powersets being added should not be part of the in-game canon. What if my plant controller existed before I12? Powersets being added is OOC, not IC. Don't blur the lines.

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So what made your hero decide to be a hero now instead of issue 1?

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Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement.

An exclusive broadcast recounts a massive explosion and the details behind it from none other than Dr. Brainstorm! Read the fiction behind one of the most anticipated features of Issue 12: Midnight Hour, the next free expansion to City of Heroes and City of Villains!

Click here to read the full article.

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I thought we were supposed to be getting actual information today.

Play around with your flavour stuff if you must, but if you say you're going to provide information on a date, provide the information. Today's article tells us nothing about I12. Separating the information from the flavour text as was done today is both annoying, and cheaply manipulative of your playerbase in my opinion.

Saying that you will provide more information about I12 today, and failing to actually provide any information about concrete in-game facts today simply degrades the value of NCSoft's word, and erodes player faith and goodwill for no good reason.

This could have been handled so much better by announcing that the real information would come tomorrow, and presenting today's bit of flavour text as a bonus article. That way it would have seemed like a cool extra, instead of a cheap bait and switch tactic.

As it was handled today, you may as well have posted "Your Princess is in Another Castle" and left it at that.

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New powersets being added should not be part of the in-game canon. What if my plant controller existed before I12? Powersets being added is OOC, not IC. Don't blur the lines.

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Perhaps a more rational approach to a roleplaying game coming up with an easily ignorable story would be to... ignore it? Really, nothing is stopping you from making a plant controller that has been around since before I12. You don't need to follow the CoX story to the letter to play this game.

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New powersets being added should not be part of the in-game canon. What if my plant controller existed before I12? Powersets being added is OOC, not IC. Don't blur the lines.

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Perhaps a more rational approach to a roleplaying game coming up with an easily ignorable story would be to... ignore it? Really, nothing is stopping you from making a plant controller that has been around since before I12. You don't need to follow the CoX story to the letter to play this game.

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Yeah, I really wouldnt be at all concerned about any of the fluff in the article ever showing up in the game. And if its not in the game, or say, one of the novels, its hardly canon.

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Heroes
Dysmal
Lumynous
Sam Steele
Pluck
Wile
Slagheap
Pressure Wave
Rhiannon Bel
Verified
Stellaric
Syd Mallorn

Villains
Jotunheim Skald
Saer Maen
Jen Corbae
Illuminance
Venator Arawn
Taiga Dryad
Tarranos

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Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement.

An exclusive broadcast recounts a massive explosion and the details behind it from none other than Dr. Brainstorm! Read the fiction behind one of the most anticipated features of Issue 12: Midnight Hour, the next free expansion to City of Heroes and City of Villains!

Click here to read the full article.

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I thought we were supposed to be getting actual information today.

Play around with your flavour stuff if you must, but if you say you're going to provide information on a date, provide the information. Today's article tells us nothing about I12. Separating the information from the flavour text as was done today is both annoying, and cheaply manipulative of your playerbase in my opinion.

Saying that you will provide more information about I12 today, and failing to actually provide any information about concrete in-game facts today simply degrades the value of NCSoft's word, and erodes player faith and goodwill for no good reason.

This could have been handled so much better by announcing that the real information would come tomorrow, and presenting today's bit of flavour text as a bonus article. That way it would have seemed like a cool extra, instead of a cheap bait and switch tactic.

As it was handled today, you may as well have posted "Your Princess is in Another Castle" and left it at that.

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I can swear they said maybe a bit later than thursday.

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That's NcSoft's version of a RickRoll.

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No, this is.

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Heh, never seen that one before!

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bad form marketing.. bad form

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Woo hoo!

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You forgot "It's timed, you can't drop off the TF AND you have to be level 50."


(If there was a badge, I'd consider doing it...)

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i love the fact that we get a story to explain things, i care not to RP saying "oh i just found out i can do this", as im a hero #5518454541845 and this are my powers, remember evolution (for those not closed minded freaks), maybe some low level villians couln't hack it and whent to paragon to live normal lives, got married had kids and voila new hero power set. maybe yes??

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If Dr. Brainstorm appeared in the game, I wonder what his Strike Force would be like...

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Permadeath for all characters who attempt it and fail. And, of course, the good Doctor would turn out to be a robot duplicate anyway.

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Actually, I expect him to turn out to be Bunsen Honeydew in disguise. Most of Dr. Brainstorm's research seems to come straight out of Muppet Labs.

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I tink people are ignoring the big issue here...

Are we gettign bandages in the "heads" section of the costume creator now?

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Do you ever actually meet/see/whatever Doc Brainstorm in the game? Or is he just in the comics/cinematics/etc?

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite (I don't often play villainside so I wouldn't necessarily know if he was there)

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Lighthouse said:

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Just to keep you up on the schedule, our next batch 'o Issue 12 details has slid out a little to be later next week (more likely Thursday the 27th).



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More likely /= will be. For those who are getting their knickers in a twist over waiting till Friday for real info, this is the only "promise" that was made about when you'd get info this week, and it's hardly binding. Sorry you have no sense of humor.

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If Dr. Brainstorm appeared in the game, I wonder what his Strike Force would be like...

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"Just one more mission...."

"Just one more mission...."

"Just one more mission...."

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LMAO.........

you FINALLY get to the end and you get blow'd up in his lab from an expirement gone wrong.

That would rock!!

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"I'm not scared of anyone or anything Angie. Isn't that the way life should be?"
Jack Hawksmoor, The Authority.

I think we are all overlooking an important point here.

Do we get shattered glasses and scorch marks in the costume creator?

Because I want those.

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"The gaping maw of your mind is filled with layered circles upon circles of bloody razors, I am finding."
- Twoflower

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I think we are all overlooking an important point here.

Do we get shattered glasses and scorch marks in the costume creator?

Because I want those.

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Only if they come with the hair-standing-on-end hairstyle and the obligatory trailing clouds of smoke (although I guess you could use an aura for that).

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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I am now really excited about tomorrow. I just hope it is in the morning, and not the long, grueling wait that today was

As far as marketing goes, they really are ingenious at string us along, and I bet they were laughing all day long, and still are after it (the tidbit) was released. Tell you, it is like being a kid and waiting for Christmas morning, to see what Santa is bringing. I did not think I could be more excited than I was about DB and WP, but you win Devs....I am.

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If Dr. Brainstorm appeared in the game, I wonder what his Strike Force would be like...

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Permadeath for all characters who attempt it and fail. And, of course, the good Doctor would turn out to be a robot duplicate anyway.

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Actually, I expect him to turn out to be Bunsen Honeydew in disguise. Most of Dr. Brainstorm's research seems to come straight out of Muppet Labs.

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Does this make Castle Beaker?

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Heroes
Dysmal
Lumynous
Sam Steele
Pluck
Wile
Slagheap
Pressure Wave
Rhiannon Bel
Verified
Stellaric
Syd Mallorn

Villains
Jotunheim Skald
Saer Maen
Jen Corbae
Illuminance
Venator Arawn
Taiga Dryad
Tarranos

I suppose it will be nice to know what powers are gonna be shared, but to be honest I'm kinda like....meh. I like to see screenshots and videos. It will be nice to be able to start planning what, if any, new heroes/villains I will want to role. I just feel like the whole power sharing thing is correcting a mistake. We should of had this freedom of choice from the get go, so while I'm happy it is finally happening, it's just hard to get to excited. I'd really like to see some new info on some of the NEW content from the upcoming issue.

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So... nothing useful in the article at all. Pointless.

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Essentially yes; for gamer's anyway

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Which would be people who play games - such as City of Heroes - and presumably the sort of people who would be visiting a site called Gamezone.

So... utterly pointless.

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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound

*points at the Devs* that was Mean, Vindictive and Generally Not a Nice thing to do to us.

and I applaud you for doing it.

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Dag Yo, why you got to be all frontin Dr. Brainstorm!

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Now I know how Dorthy felt when the Wizard of Oz told her to come back tomorrow. >.<


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I can't read the words "Come back tomorrow" without thinking of Oz, the Great and Powerful. After seeing that at the end, I looked at it again and imagined the whole thing read in Oz's voice.

Also, now I really need to make a Flying Monkey character. Off to recommend that Jay put a fez in the hat selections . . .

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What about the Webpage that displays everyones charcter stats and info? Is that ever really coming? Can we get an update on that tommorw?

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