mmorpg.com previews issue 13
By
Carnifax,
Posted on: 2008-09-23 15:05 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
This was the nugget that jumped out for me:
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Once characters have accumulated the required amount of time for each Day Job, they are rewarded with the appropriate Day Job Badge and Title, increasing their earnings for that job. Multiple Badges can be combined to unlock Accolades and the ability to accumulate additional new rewards.
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New Accolades? 
Sounds like we can have multiple jobs too - all badges will be available 
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
So in the words of Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation, we get rewarded for not playing the game?
Still @Shadow Kitty
"I became Archvillain before Statesman nerfed himself!"
No, because in EVE your whole basis of learning skills is that you can learn one at a time, and it'll learn whether you're online, offline or even if your account isn't subbed. In CoH and WoW, it's more a little bonus for if you're offline for a bit at work, school, sleeping, whatever.
i'm looking forward to those Day Jobs (and badges) 
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i'm looking forward to those Day Jobs (and badges)
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As with the non-combat pets, I think some of my characters will really suit the job titles, whereas others will not be bothered at all.
(When I first saw the pets I wasn't that fussed, but by the time I got them I found both the my female toons wanted the cute little mechs (Milly (Sonic) has one called Mr D (named after Dobbie the House Elf), and Miss Atom called hers Izzy).)
What jumped out at me was...
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A new game system that allows players to earn tokens by completing Trials, Task Forces, Strike Forces, Raids, etc. The most challenging and time consuming tasks grant the most reward tokens, which can be redeemed throughout Hero and Villain zones for recipes, enhancements, salvage, costume pieces, badges, inspirations and other game items.
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...I like. But what I'm really betting on/hoping for is that Story Arcs - maybe even regular missions too - will grant tokens, just fewer of them.
So rather than having to commit X hours straight as a piece to a team for a shot at a rare recipe, i can just gradually save up enough tokens over the time I do have.
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
Nothing really new announced there.
Wonder if / when anything new for i13 will be announced? Turning out to be a long and rather boring wait so far after being promised so much awesomeness by the new expanded Dev team, I'm starting to wonder did they expand too fast and are now being slowed by trying to integrate the new people in?
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Nothing really new announced there.
Wonder if / when anything new for i13 will be announced? Turning out to be a long and rather boring wait so far after being promised so much awesomeness by the new expanded Dev team, I'm starting to wonder did they expand too fast and are now being slowed by trying to integrate the new people in?
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they will tell us more in time, they did first say tht, so what has been relased alrdy is only a little bit/half of i13 and more is to be told soon. alot ppl think what they have told us is everything, when its not
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Nothing really new announced there.
Wonder if / when anything new for i13 will be announced? Turning out to be a long and rather boring wait so far after being promised so much awesomeness by the new expanded Dev team, I'm starting to wonder did they expand too fast and are now being slowed by trying to integrate the new people in?
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they will tell us more in time, they did first say tht, so what has been relased alrdy is only a little bit/half of i13 and more is to be told soon. alot ppl think what they have told us is everything, when its not
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*hands End some extra vowels* 
I know that, they said that about 3 weeks ago and nada since.
Get a move on NCNC. These boards have been rather dead for a while now, we need something (other than "Hey hey, we're firing half the EU team!") to liven them up a bit.
There's also quite a few other, non-i13 things which still haven't materialized, notably the new boards and the other web features whose Option settings have in ingame for over 6 months for no reason now.
Really the web development team needs to get the finger out too.
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Nothing really new announced there.
Wonder if / when anything new for i13 will be announced? Turning out to be a long and rather boring wait so far after being promised so much awesomeness by the new expanded Dev team, I'm starting to wonder did they expand too fast and are now being slowed by trying to integrate the new people in?
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they will tell us more in time, they did first say tht, so what has been relased alrdy is only a little bit/half of i13 and more is to be told soon. alot ppl think what they have told us is everything, when its not
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*hands End some extra vowels*
I know that, they said that about 3 weeks ago and nada since.
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Weeellll, Castle said something last night:
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Can you drop us any hints at all as to what we should expect from Kheldians in the future after they've been looked-at by the Devs?
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Castle: None. I'm still on info lockdown regarding I13 changes.
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"There's also quite a few other, non-i13 things which still haven't materialized, notably the new boards and the other web features whose Option settings have in ingame for over 6 months for no reason now.
Really the web development team needs to get the finger out too."
Here here. Completely agree. Not in an evil 'oh for god's sake' way, but in a 'some kind of revelation would be nice, in regards to non-issue stuff.
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It does seem like a longer wait than normal, my hope is it means theres lots more to come
Hope tends to be all we have to go on, these days.
Don't get me wrong - the cyborg pack was a nice touch, and yes, I13 is coming - but there's sometimes more to an MMO than the game itself (and the forum, of course)
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"There's also quite a few other, non-i13 things which still haven't materialized, notably the new boards and the other web features whose Option settings have in ingame for over 6 months for no reason now.
Really the web development team needs to get the finger out too."
Here here. Completely agree. Not in an evil 'oh for god's sake' way, but in a 'some kind of revelation would be nice, in regards to non-issue stuff.
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The option settings have been in game IIRC since i3.
Going by a post Positron wrote 6 days ago it looks like Issue 13 has hit some bumps in the road and it's taking them a bit longer as expected to release some more info.
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Ok, we know.
We should have had said something more by now, about Issue 13. But
like all great architectural endeavors, Issue 13 is taking on a life of its own and were not quite ready to spill forth all the information.
So, just a quick note to say thanks for your patience, even though we know you may not really be patient. Trust us, its coming; were working on it and theres more great stuff coming (like you havent heard that before, but really, we mean it!)
Thanks!
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@True Metal
Co-leader of Callous Crew SG. Based on Union server.
It does make me chuckle (and this isnt aimed at anyone as Im just as bad) that we spend months saying we needed to be told something about the new issue and then when we get told something we say its not enough information and only weeks later were saying we need to know more.
Maybe we should not have been told anything in the first place and left to stew in our own speculation.
Could the recent mass amounts of reviews/interviews be part of the net advertising we'v heard we'r going to get?
@Damz Find me on the global channel Union Chat. One of the best "chat channels" ingame!
Not a massive amount of info, most of it's known, but a few nuggets I don't recognise in there, notably about badges for day jobs
MMORPG.com does issue 13
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