I16 Closed Beta

It happens on Infinity too when us roleplayers are out and about (usually on friday and saturday nights)

It IS possible to satisfy you, right? I'm starting to have my doubts here.

Sure it is, overall issue 16 looks sweet. Could be better if they rolled back pvp to pre I13, but that'll never happen. (Least we can hope for maybe is an "I12" button for arena...)

I just think that releasing a whole lotta proliferated sets, which means a lot of new toons, and then having a double xp weekend "shortly" or "soon" after is stupid. Why do all the proliferating and work when a lot of people, not all, are going to blow through those levels quick as hell. It's only going to lead to more ******** when "Well I got some prolifs to 50, when can we have some more prolifs dawg?"

You could either push back the double xp weekend, or do something crazy like double up on how much Patrol XP you get. That way the toons you're not playing, since you're most likely playing your new shiney proliferated ones, will accumulate that **** up.

As far as Going Rogue, I'm not sure. Not until this new area is revealed anyways. The whole bit about being able to cross into zones is kinda cool, I guess. But in the end most people are going to end up at the MA doing those missions sooooo, yea. What most people are really going to buy Going Rogue for? The new powersets.

The majority of people will be paying just to get at Dual Pistols, and little else. Hell, I'm pretty damn certain they could throw up Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning as a sort of mini booster. Hell you could probably even make a booster out of EACH, charge like 10-15 bucks, and they would more than likely make some good cash off of that JUST because people want dual pistols so damn bad.


Also, when APB online comes out (if it's good) I will be satisfied then.

There are a few people I know over on the CO Boards I've been talking to that have been invited too, and haven't had an account active in as many as two years.

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Same. It's quite irritating actually. Someone I know quits regularly, and keeps getting closed beta invites. Which she likes, because she likes to know whether or not she'll want to resub for a few months due to the upcoming content.

Whereas I've not received one, evar. EVAR. Maybe I need to add more drama and quit at random intervals?

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I just canceled both of mine, so I'm expecting my invite aaaaaany minute now.


**looks at watch**


I'm waiting.

You do know there is no official RP server, right? And while Virtue is an unofficial RP server there ARE people on Virtue (Many People I might add) That opt not to RP but tolerate and even entertain to an extent those that do.

If you do decide to go to CO I won't bother asking you for your stuff. You'll be back in a month to reclaim it. That's a promise.

That's a rumor; no such community ever made it to Virtue! The RPers on Virtue don't even tolerate or entertain.

The way I understood it, you actually had to go to the NCSoft/CoH BOOTH, and then SIGN UP to be invited to the i16 beta while you were at ComicCon. Just going up there and talking to people wasn't enough, so if you didn't actually sign up, that's why you didn't get an invite.

Come on, BABs -- you like to be the guy at the party that turns down the stereo? I really don't understand the point of this post, and frankly, don't see any tags in what you quoted that were worthy of it (there is at least one since then that probably deserves getting Modsmacked).

I'm not sure what bothers me about BAB's response: The implication that certain features are withheld or get taken away because we, da playahs, are ... what? Undeserving? Uncouth? Unregimented? Or is it that some folks have taken a feature and used it in a way that wasn't intended: as a vehicle for expression and entertainment? Like others have said, the tags have proven to be one of the more entertaining aspects of this waaah-fest (including some in which I see the barbs pointed in my own direction).

[Note: I'm not advocating rule-breaking behavior, and welcome active Moderators; I guess I'm missing what I saw as satire or just plain hilarity in the thread tags that was violative, such that a Dev responded with an implied threat that tagging would be taken away from us.]

EDIT: BTW, still laughing at "giant pancakes" ...

The only reason they're having DXP shortly or soon after is because the last one blew up so handily, and it's certainly the right thing to do. You can't really have them go inventing a new mechanic (doubling patrol XP) when they already have one (plain old DXP) to use.

Personally, if ALL GR was was DP and Demons, I'd pass on it. DP is cool and all, but the entire reason *I* want GR is that I have characters who, from their very inception (since Jack hinted at GR back when CoV went live) were supposed to be Villains-turned-Heroes or Heroes-Turned-Villains. Purely for Story/RP reasons, THAT'S what I want to do. I'd go so far in fact to suggest that Demons and DP will be available "for free" as i17 (or i18 or whatever) content when GR releases, while the other stuff will be confined to having the pack. I highly doubt the "majority" wants DP and Demons and that's all. At least it's not the case with my friends and I, and any RPer I've spoken with on Virtue.

Read the rest of my posts in this thread.

1) I have no plans to go to CO, I said that IF CoH did something as stupid as a mega-server environment I MIGHT as WELL do that, because it's just the same to me at that point, as both games made stupid decisions.

2) I also mentioned a few posts down that there's no official RP server, so I covered that.

3) Trust me, I probably know more about CO than you do, and I agree with your assesment of it, I'll leave it at that.

As usual, I think someone missed the humor in BaBs post. He was being his ususal sardonic self, and making a comment that as soon as we all got nice shiney new forums, people starting doing evil, hateful (though perhaps funny) things with the new tagging feature, and that this is why we can't be given new things. As usual, all of BaBs posts have to be read with some degree of sarcastic dry humor in them, for me at least it's implied in everything he posts..that tends to help a bit. The point of his post was to make a joke.

I personally like "condescending sycophants" "dreams crushed", "nerdrage herders" and "overinflated entitlement" :P

I hope you're right about his intentions -- I enjoy BAB's board sarcasm also but probably just missed it this time.

Wait...what? I was at ComicCon and hung out at the NCSoft booth for quite a while; the only "sign-up" for anything I saw was for the Mission Architect 'Guest Author' program. And that was after I got quizzed about my chars/which servers I play on before I could get the costume code.

Are you thinking of last year's Hero-Con, maybe, where we did have to write down our login info and "sign up" to get into the i13/i14 betas?

ETA: Okay, I love the 'bab 4 president' tag!

As someone who was actually there, and not just speculating about what was there, ther was no such sign-up. No one at Comic Con is getting preferential treatment for closed beta. This is nothing more than unfounded scuttlebutt and secondhand here-say.

Ah, now see, that's useful. Rather more useful than doing it by hand.

Thank you.

It's almost always missed.

According to Ghost Falcon, this is true. No one who is participating in the closed beta test for I16 got in because of being at at Comicon.

Pardon my repost. I am glad to hear that exclusivity wasn't extended to those that attended comicon. However, I do have an issue with inclusitivioty not being extended to 60 month vets. I've been with the game since one month after it's launch, and it's been a heckuva ride since then! I've enjoyed it. But now we are about to embark on a new issue that really makes changes to how you start the game, and Veterans aren't a part of that? (or at least my beta invitation got lost in the mail?)

It is indeed missed!
If you'd do it more often, we wouldn't miss it so much!!

(And yeah... that pesky winky face is not a bad follow up to such posts... even though I hate doing it myself)

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Yeah I was at comic con, playing with I-16 and I definitely did NOT get into closed beta.