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Alphane,
Posted on: 2008-08-13 10:39 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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The announcement of the new (optional) graphics upgrade will also be out just after i14 in the spring so things will be looking very good indeed.
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I presume this is conjecture and idle speculation on your part? I've seen nothing about this but it would certainly be welcome.
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@Miss Chief
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The announcement of the new (optional) graphics upgrade will also be out just after i14 in the spring so things will be looking very good indeed.
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What? 
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The announcement of the new (optional) graphics upgrade will also be out just after i14 in the spring so things will be looking very good indeed.
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What?
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Yes, to both, it is all wild speculation, but I do think my original predictions (in a post a while back) won't be far off and I am now wondering if a graphics upgrade will come along at the end of next year (but announced around the time CO and DCO are starting to become more real) as it will give the game a longer life span and a fighting chance in 2010 and 2011.
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But how many of these are returning players who will leave at the end of that month? I bet theres more of them than people joining.
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I did a highly unscientific survey by accident yesterday. I was looking at people's profiles while standing around in the CH in Steel Canyon. Of course, one of the things in there is your badges and a lot of the characters in the CH had no Verteran Badges. We aren't talking level 10-20 characters here either.
This says to me:
1. Yeah, they may have made levelling a little easy. If vet badges had been around originally, I'd have had quite a few before I got my first 50.
2. There are plenty of new players about. Real new players, not returning ones.
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1. Yeah, they may have made levelling a little easy. If vet badges had been around originally, I'd have had quite a few before I got my first 50.
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From what I know you are pretty much a casual player and you don't team except for IC reasons and with buddies, that slows down your levelling considerably. I don't think the game got any easier from back when War Crow was levelling to 50, actually it's gotten harder since we have ED.
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2. There are plenty of new players about. Real new players, not returning ones.
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I certainly hope so. 
PS: I would have about 6 months of vet badges before I would have gotten Shadowplay to 50
Shadowplay - Scrapper DM/DA SL 50
Doctor Storm- Brute SS/Elec SL 50
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You're absolutely right about my levelling, though I think spending most of the evening roleplaying rather than levelling had more to do with the slowness of my levelling than not teaming.
However, levelling has got easier since Crow hit 50. They changed the XP curves, and put in things like the AV/EB swap system. They added radio missions, which let you have a travel power many levels earlier than the usual mechanism.
Seems like levelling in the 35-40 range is just as awesomely boring, tedious, and slow as it ever was, mind you. 
(As an aside, it took me about 15 months to get Crow to 50, but that did include a break when he hit 38 and totally ran out of missions until Warburg saved him. It took me about 4 months to hit level cap in LotRO and about 3 to do it in WoW, though that was influenced by my being unemployed. While people complain about the easy levelling in CoH, it's not half as easy as a lot of other MMOs.)
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Really? Want a list of observations I made that have come true? It's really pretty big you know.
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WANT!
That said, some of you folks are being a bit abusive to our boy here. That's a road to fail.
I think most of us are still waiting on that list with great anticipation. Lionsbane might very well be our new prophet of doom!
Or just one of those little old men in a scruffy jacket with a wooden plackard around their necks that says "THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH" in beg red letters.
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Or just one of those little old men in a scruffy jacket with a wooden plackard around their necks that says "THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH" in beg red letters.
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They only need to be right once, you know.
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Or just one of those little old men in a scruffy jacket with a wooden plackard around their necks that says "THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH" in beg red letters.
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They only need to be right once, you know.
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True, but rarely do they get to say "I told you so."
Also: Girl Genius Rules! 
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sure, but them actually being right is up there with spontaneously growing a second head
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Also: Girl Genius Rules!
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Yes, yes she does. Buck Godot's pretty good too. And "New What's New"
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I think most of us are still waiting on that list with great anticipation. Lionsbane might very well be our new prophet of doom!
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I just deleted a reply to you. Judging by your posts youre fairly young and I shouldn't be scathing toward you. Sorry.
Don't get into a flap. It's only my opinion and I'm thick
Arc 56763 Lord Anarchys heaven
2 mission arc. Bring friends cause Lord Anarchy means business...
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It's more to do with intelligent posters.
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So anyone who disagrees with you is unintellegent? Good way to make friends.
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By that I mean people who can read what is actually written
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You mean in exactly the way that you can't?
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it is hard for me to think I can have a meaningful conversation with you.
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It's hard for you to have a meaningful conversation with anyone.
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You clearly dont have a clue about what i'm saying in the first place.
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Yup, I think that goes for most of us.
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But those who are not disegenious on these boards know I could have.
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Who? Name one.
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it brings out the little people who try to give themselves a name by popping at me.
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I don't think popping at you would get anyone a name, unless you can get a name for shooting fish in a barrel.
It's funny though.
I really should do something about this signature.
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Or just one of those little old men in a scruffy jacket with a wooden plackard around their necks that says "THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH" in beg red letters.
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They only need to be right once, you know.
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Just curious Lief. I have time for you and am wondering if you think im a doomsayer?
And when, in all this, I stated the game is doomed? That is what a doomsayer is isnt it?
Don't get into a flap. It's only my opinion and I'm thick
Arc 56763 Lord Anarchys heaven
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you do imply that if the dev's don't follow your plan and do X, Y and Z the game is doomed, so yes, your are a doom sayer in that sense.
Yes, you deleted it as I was replying to it. And your new reply is as condescending as any I have seen on these boards.
I still want to see this list of yours. I am not sniping at you to make a name for myself. I have no need to make a name for myself. I would like you to save me the effort of going through all your posts to find all these predictions you have made that have come true. As you said about Neko, I can't quite bring myself to dredge through all your posts to find the gems. That much vitriol will turn an off day even worse.
So, please, put up or shut up, as the saying goes.
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This is a final warning for this thread: any further personal posts will be dealt with rapidly.
Just lock it, GR. Please.
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Seems like levelling in the 35-40 range is just as awesomely boring, tedious, and slow as it ever was, mind you.
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But that's where most of their effort has been directed recently - the RWZ and the Midnighters/Cimerora give you plenty of things to do at 35.
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Seems like levelling in the 35-40 range is just as awesomely boring, tedious, and slow as it ever was, mind you.
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But that's where most of their effort has been directed recently - the RWZ and the Midnighters/Cimerora give you plenty of things to do at 35.
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Yeah, but those sodding legionaries are a PAIN! Especially the ruddy surgeons! 
@FloatingFatMan
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Seems like levelling in the 35-40 range is just as awesomely boring, tedious, and slow as it ever was, mind you.
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But that's where most of their effort has been directed recently - the RWZ and the Midnighters/Cimerora give you plenty of things to do at 35.
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Interesting point. Equally interesting that my character in that range has been directed to neither. (And Cimerora doesn't count, it's got, what, a TF, a small arc and some repeatables?)
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Seems like levelling in the 35-40 range is just as awesomely boring, tedious, and slow as it ever was, mind you.
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But that's where most of their effort has been directed recently - the RWZ and the Midnighters/Cimerora give you plenty of things to do at 35.
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Well there's not much to do in Cimerora but the RWZ is certainly a breath of fresh air. Can't wait to get my MM to 35 to hit it.
What I'd like to see (and I've been saying it for yonks but the rest of this thread depresses me so I'll try and salvage it) is a 20-35 co-op zone. I think it'd work wonders villain-side in getting teams and keeping the villain numbers up. I know two of my mates loved villains but gave up playing as it was hard to get a team in the 20s and 30s.
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what i miss?
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Not much, I think
As for I13 - I'm sure it'll have so much stuff in it, that there'll be something to interest every single player.
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Thats what everyone in the company that knows whats in issue 13 have been hinting at really, its not that often that they get this excited and im pretty sure they all know by now what we the players want/expect of them.
They would never in a million years let us hype up this issue so much if they had the slighest disbelief that it wont live up to expectations.
I fully expect this issue to be the turning point in the game.
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