City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Mothership arrival: imminent

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-01-12 11:09 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
So far, the only attacks seem to have been on Guardian and Virtue.
I was expecting an announcement at 3 minutes to the hour like the last two, but maybe it's lunchtime at Paragon Studios. If there's nothing more in the next hour, then, I'd guess that's all she wrote, at least for today.

K5K - The Killbot 5000
A Spanner In The Works Part One, ArcID: 336662, A Spanner In The Works Part Two, ArcID: 336665, Enter Japes, ArcID: 96001
In The Darkness Creeping, ArcID: 347709, When Dimensions Collide, ArcID: 412416.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Killbot_5000 View Post
I was expecting an announcement at 3 minutes to the hour like the last two, but maybe it's lunchtime at Paragon Studios. If there's nothing more in the next hour, then, I'd guess that's all she wrote, at least for today.
"Today" has still got a way to run over here

@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano View Post
correct me if I'm wrong but weren't none of the EU servers 'scanned' an only Virtue and one other US server?

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
So far, the only attacks seem to have been on Guardian and Virtue.
Sceptical that the attacks may be enjoyed more by the PS/NC staff taking part than the playerbase.

Imminent rikti-based happenings have been built up enough that it can't fail to be anti-climactic if it ends up little more than a few staff-attended invasions that, as a player, you need to be lucky to catch. And standard non-staffed invasions wouldn't really add anything.

Heck, after such a relative drought of permanent dev-created content (as in TF/SFs and arcs) for more than a year a longish build up for anything short of great news re: GR or another issue on the horizon would probably be anticlimatic.

By my mohawk shall ye know me!
my toons
Funny: Ee-Ai-Ee-Ai-Oh! #3662 * The foul-mouthed Handyman! #1076 * City of Norms #132944
Serious: To Save A Single World (#83744) * Marketing Opportunity (#83747)

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic View Post
Can someone refresh my memory again about why we aren't taking the battle to the Rikti Homeworld?

Yeah, I know the garbage that the Freedom Phalanx has spewed in regards to this, but how many times are we going to let them attack the City before we put at stop to it at the source?

Let's make it clear that we are ready to take the battle to their Homeworld and see how much they like seeing their civilians attacked!
It takes time, money and lots of scientists to craft a surprise attack on an alien homeworld...at least it did in X-Com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX0Cm3N_n6k)

@Texarkana
@Thexder

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave View Post

Heck, after such a relative drought of permanent dev-created content (as in TF/SFs and arcs) for more than a year a longish build up for anything short of great news re: GR or another issue on the horizon would probably be anticlimatic.
Yup, and I suspect that is what is going to happen.

 

Posted

By the way, for the weeping Euros, Avatea said:

"Threats come and go though so don't worry if you've missed out on this (and this is relevant world-wide)."

So you'll get your turn

@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic View Post
Can someone refresh my memory again about why we aren't taking the battle to the Rikti Homeworld?

Yeah, I know the garbage that the Freedom Phalanx has spewed in regards to this, but how many times are we going to let them attack the City before we put at stop to it at the source?

Let's make it clear that we are ready to take the battle to their Homeworld and see how much they like seeing their civilians attacked!
Real answer: Our victory was sealing off their homeworld from us. If we breach it they will swarm us like locust.

Fake answer: We don't have a pimped out mothership and would be the laughing stock of the multiverse if we showed up in Positrons Delorian.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
"Today" has still got a way to run over here
And here too, except it's Friday already, yay! Just got a feeling that now they'll be datamining and examining the aftermath of the events on Virtue and Guardian to see what they've learnt. Avatea's announcement definately means that there will be more, of 'this', sometime, on different servers.

K5K - The Killbot 5000
A Spanner In The Works Part One, ArcID: 336662, A Spanner In The Works Part Two, ArcID: 336665, Enter Japes, ArcID: 96001
In The Darkness Creeping, ArcID: 347709, When Dimensions Collide, ArcID: 412416.

 

Posted

Although looking at Avatea's posts on the Virtue/Freedom attacks:

Quote:
Attention Virtue Heroes & Villains, the Rikti have broken through in unprecedented numbers in various parts of Paragon city and the Rogue Isles. I fear without fierce resistance they may be on the verge of establishing a new beachhead. Please join in resisting this alien menace!
Quote:
Attention Guardian Heroes & Villains, our Virtue population has bravely fought off a massive Rikti invasion but they are now at your doors in both Paragon city and the Rogue Isles! Join us to make sure Guardian doesn't become a new Rikti World!
Admittedly it's only a stupid optimism and the lines about the rikti establishing a beachhead and them possibly making Guardian a new rikti world but what if...

Rikti invasions that have lasting server-specific zonal effects.

Yeah overly optimistic - but lasting zonal effects dependant upon players actions have been a recurring 'wishlist' item for years...

Curse my faint glimmer of optimism.

By my mohawk shall ye know me!
my toons
Funny: Ee-Ai-Ee-Ai-Oh! #3662 * The foul-mouthed Handyman! #1076 * City of Norms #132944
Serious: To Save A Single World (#83744) * Marketing Opportunity (#83747)

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave View Post
Admittedly it's only a stupid optimism and the lines about the rikti establishing a beachhead and them possibly making Guardian a new rikti world
That's server-merge talk

@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
That's server-merge talk
Server merges may lead to server list merges, so bring it on!

[CENTER]Euro side: [B]@Orion Star[/B] & [B]@Orions Star[/B][/CENTER]

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
That's server-merge talk
All this "special" Rikti invasion stuff has sounded like server-merge talk to me. After all, the last time a mothership showed up, the server on which it appeared shut down, right?

"Bombarding the CoH/V fora with verbosity since January, 2006"

Djinniman, level 50 inv/fire tanker, on Victory
-and 40 others on various servers

A CoH Comic: Kid Eros in "One Light"

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Avatea View Post
Villains to Nerva and Heroes to Peregrine Island! Time is running out!
Aren't Nerva and PI the homes of the portals to the shadow shards?

Or are other portals also used?

If not - any significance?

By my mohawk shall ye know me!
my toons
Funny: Ee-Ai-Ee-Ai-Oh! #3662 * The foul-mouthed Handyman! #1076 * City of Norms #132944
Serious: To Save A Single World (#83744) * Marketing Opportunity (#83747)

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Olantern View Post
All this "special" Rikti invasion stuff has sounded like server-merge talk to me. After all, the last time a mothership showed up, the server on which it appeared shut down, right?
Well yeah... but it eventually became the Freedom server IIRC. Take that as you will

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Calash View Post
Fake answer: We don't have a pimped out mothership and would be the laughing stock of the multiverse if we showed up in Positrons Delorian.
Well then we hitch a ride in Back Alley Brawler's car. Do I have to think of everything?

Click here to find all the All Things Art Threads!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Obsidius View Post
Well yeah... but it eventually became the Freedom server IIRC. Take that as you will
You're not implying that the population of Freedom are mutants with only a passing link to humankind, are you?

@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Killbot_5000 View Post
Are you? *cracks knuckles ... someone elses knuckles*
Not at all - Freedom server is fun, entertaining and family-friendly.









Like a trip to the zoo

@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Twittering_CoH_OCR
I'm afraid Europe won't be spared! Don't rejoice just yet though, what's coming may mean annihilation!
Oh please be server list merge...

Although cynically I think it's more likely that Europe will face annihilation as they rename the 'EU server list' to be known as the 'non-US server list'.

EDIT: Or maybe NC is closing down any sales/marketing function that remains in the EU offices.

By my mohawk shall ye know me!
my toons
Funny: Ee-Ai-Ee-Ai-Oh! #3662 * The foul-mouthed Handyman! #1076 * City of Norms #132944
Serious: To Save A Single World (#83744) * Marketing Opportunity (#83747)

 

Posted

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I find all this is be pretty underwhelming. Perhaps I'm alone in this line of thinking, but I feel as if the devs are merely placating us. I would really enjoy some new information about this game without all the silly updates from Twitter.

It's been 4 months since I16 and I really don't think it's too much to ask for an update already.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Clouded View Post
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I find all this is be pretty underwhelming. Perhaps I'm alone in this line of thinking, but I feel as if the devs are merely placating us. I would really enjoy some new information about this game without all the silly updates from Twitter.

It's been 4 months since I16 and I really don't think it's too much to ask for an update already.
Agreed.

There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Clouded View Post
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I find all this is be pretty underwhelming. Perhaps I'm alone in this line of thinking, but I feel as if the devs are merely placating us. I would really enjoy some new information about this game without all the silly updates from Twitter.

It's been 4 months since I16 and I really don't think it's too much to ask for an update already.
Quote:
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
Agreed.
::throws in another wet blanket::

If what happened on Virtue is indicative of what this whole thread has been hyping count me in as incredibly let down.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lightslinger View Post
::throws in another wet blanket::

If what happened on Virtue is indicative of what this whole thread has been hyping count me in as incredibly let down.

Same here.

Types of Swords
My Portfolio