Questions to ask the Devs at HeroCon regarding Going Rogue

OneAboveAll · 10-19-2009 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Shadowe

I believe that Posi is on record for saying that they are putting in new low-level/tutorial content for Praetorian Earth... I would therefore be greatly surprised if it's restricted to 50s. (Any chance anyone can compile all the GR info from interviews and notifications in one place, so that we can reference them easily?)

There's a difference between switching sides and creating a new character. Posi said that for people rolling new characters in praetorian earth there is new starting content.

OneAboveAll · 10-19-2009 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Oliin

What exactly is giving you those impressions. Your 3 is possible I suppose, though they went to a fair amount of effort to give mirrors of any of the accolades that really provide any real positive power (+hp and the like). I'd imagine you could end up with both of the accolades, but only one copy of the powers myself.

As for the first one. It's actually probably a better question than an assumption really. I've always been under the impression that you could switch sides at any time in your character's career, but now that I think about it, I'm not really sure that it's ever been said either way.

"careful to have a villain version of all the hero badges and vice-versa"
"what you've earned will stay with you"
"will do the content just for those really hard to get badge rewards"

those three lines lead me to my assumption. I don't recall of any other badges besides accolades that give some type of reward....

i dont think you will be able to use em at the same time however...but when or if you decide to switch back and/or over you would have access to both.

regarding the 50 thing...

My first reason is that it's an expansion. Why would they release an expansion where you didnt have to play the original game first? Another reason is that Villains will not have access to hero epics and heroes will not have access to villain patrons. It would completely unbalance things.

"Youll become a heroic mastermind, youll be a villainous blaster. Keeping it simple is what the players want."

crimsonwings3689 · 10-19-2009 05:15 PM

To OneAboveAll:

I highly doubt that we will be restricted to carrying only 50's over for a couple reasons.

1. you're assuming that this is an expansion in the sense of WoW or any other game with a "paid for" expansion. There is no reason that I can see that restricts the majority of the content to the end of the level spectrum, as there isn't an increase in level cap as far as we know.

2. Being as how there will be starter areas for new characters, your theory would limit the new content to those who "give in and make a new character" or take over a 50, leaving all others out of luck.

3. Where would this leave characters sitting at or near 35? considering that the exp equivalent of levels 1-35 and 36-50 is about the same, a character would litterally have to grind the rest of the way up before trying out the new content they purchased, or let all 35 levels be in vain and reroll the character at level 1 just to experience Going Rogue. As far as we know, there is no level cap increase, so it's not logical to assume that all the areas will be level restricted.

No one is saying that you wouldn't have to "play the game first" because technically you've already got a taste of the game if you've gotten a character to 20+. (you're also forgetting that the majority of the players are vets of some measure, so technically the ratio of vets to newbs is very much in favor of the vets)

and as far as the hero epics and patron epics goes, read the OP and read my thoughts on it. it's likely that the villains who switch prior to doing the villain epic arcs and go full hero will automatically gain access to them. but we won't know for sure until someone asks about it at HeroCon.

Clave_Dark_5 · 10-19-2009 10:19 PM

Not to add fuel to a fire, but haven't the devs said that a large majority of accounts don't even have a 50? I can't imagine they'd create a whole expansion for only a small number of long-termers and then try to sell it in a new box on the shelf to attract new customers. "Don't worry new-comer! After you grind your way to 50, you can play the new material we've added in this box!"

MadHobbit · 10-20-2009 04:18 AM

i have a question, what about IOPs? or the COP? going to get them out? or are you hoping we will all forget about them and just think about the new shineys?
or what about recipe storage in bases?

any chance of adding a 2X Merit weekends? 2x weekend is not as fun anymore with the New SSK rules.

what about the calendar wallpapers you used to have ,they were great for planning on getting the invasion badges.

any plans on merging some of the low pop servers?(I know they willnot answer this one with other than a no or no comment)

will Going Rogue be out by christmas 2010?(ok joke)

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EU_Damz · 10-20-2009 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5

Not to add fuel to a fire, but haven't the devs said that a large majority of accounts don't even have a 50? I can't imagine they'd create a whole expansion for only a small number of long-termers and then try to sell it in a new box on the shelf to attract new customers. "Don't worry new-comer! After you grind your way to 50, you can play the new material we've added in this box!"

I think that the % of people with a level 50 has increased greatly since that was stated to be honest.

Im expecting content covering all ranges

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crimsonwings3689 · 10-20-2009 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5

Not to add fuel to a fire, but haven't the devs said that a large majority of accounts don't even have a 50? I can't imagine they'd create a whole expansion for only a small number of long-termers and then try to sell it in a new box on the shelf to attract new customers. "Don't worry new-comer! After you grind your way to 50, you can play the new material we've added in this box!"

haha, yeah, that was obviously pre-AE. The "AE babies" got 50's really quick with the constant farming going on. Now I know that the normal vets used AE to farm for a bit to test out new characters outside of the test server.(Kind of think that's ok, because after having made the first few 50's legit, they've almost earned the right to level a bit faster) but the AE babies were people who joined the game under the "I can level up stupidly fast in CoX!" and I couldn't help but laugh when they asked ridiculous questions like "how do I get to steel canyon?" or some equally simple place to get to.

So if any of the Ae babies are still around after not being able to go from 1-50 in 2-3 days, then there should be a much larger amount of accounts with 50's. Even so, you're right, they'll have a really hard time selling going rogue if they limit the content to end-game levels and newbie characters.

oneaboveall2 · 10-26-2009 03:14 PM

So my impressions were correct....except that the level at which you can start the switch from hero to villain is still being determined internally however it is not something you can do at any lvl.

Now my guess since it's not going to be 50....im going to guess its gonna be 32+ or 38+.

EU_Damz · 10-26-2009 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by oneaboveall2

So my impressions were correct....except that the level at which you can start the switch from hero to villain is still being determined internally however it is not something you can do at any lvl.

Now my guess since it's not going to be 50....im going to guess its gonna be 32+ or 38+.

Far far too high imo, somewhere in the teens/low 20's imo

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oneaboveall2 · 10-26-2009 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by EU_Damz

Far far too high imo, somewhere in the teens/low 20's imo

That is for sure not going to be the case. 1-20 is where all the new content will be.

Morbid Star · 10-26-2009 07:25 PM

so, where are the dev answers to the questions ???

Clave_Dark_5 · 10-27-2009 12:20 AM

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so, where are the dev answers to the questions ???

I was wondering that too. Maybe Nemesis scooped up everyone who attended and wiped their memories (or - worse yet - replaced them with fake memories).

Oliin · 10-27-2009 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by oneaboveall2

That is for sure not going to be the case. 1-20 is where all the new content will be.

Except for all the side switching content for everyone, the high-level content that's been announced for the game, and any as-yet unannounced content they're creating in the next 6+ months for the expansion.

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Morbid Star · 11-16-2009 06:52 AM

still waiting for the answers !!!