Issue 17 Overview


Acemace

 

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Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot View Post
Villains love dirt! Just lookit the Rogue Isles!
Exactly - Villains are dirty on the outside as well as the inside - which is why they need to kept separate from Heroes


@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

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Originally Posted by Moderator 08 View Post
While the quantity might not be to the level that some like, I'll tell you now the quality is very high.
Feel free to post detailed descriptions, so we can agree with you


@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
Do you not have a global name? Thats weird...you should have one.

Nothing can cross from hero to villain or vice-versa. It would get dirty.
So what you are saying is that in a database somewhere every enhancement, every inspiration, every recipe exists twice. Once as a heroic version once as a villainous version. This means that Vigilantes and Rogues can't trade between each other and their opposite number even if they are running missions with them.

So now that factions don't really matter because we can switch sides we still can't trade inspirations to revive a fallen teammate.


 

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Quality>Quantity.


to TO THE END!
Villains are those who dedicate their lives to causing mayhem. Villians are people from the planet Villia!

 

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Originally Posted by Starcloud View Post
One global name, 30 characters. Fifteen redside, fifteen blueside.

Could you walk us through the steps to mail from one character on my account to another character on my account?

For instance, say that I send an item from one of my characters to another character that could use the IO.
1. Logon RichHero
2. Send Awesomething to @Starchild
3. Note that you have new mail with Awesomething attached
4. Log off RichHero.
5. Log on PoorVillain.
6. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
7. Try to claim it greedy villain, go on I dare you.
8. No you cannot have item! You are villain!
9. Log on PoorHero.
10. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
11. Claim Awesomething.

I'm not going to go through all 30 characters.


"We all lose in the end, that is the intention" --Emanuel Lasker

 

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Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer View Post
Quality>Quantity.
Word up


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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon View Post
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

 

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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
1. Logon RichHero
2. Send Awesomething to @Starchild
3. Note that you have new. mail with Awesomething attached
4. Log off RichHero
5. Log on PoorVillain.
6. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
7. Try to claim it greedy villain, go on I dare you.
8. No you cannot have item! You are villain!
9. Log on PoorHero.
10. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
11. Claim Awesomething.
Sweet. So it is just like e-mailing yourself in any other program


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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
1. Logon RichHero
2. Send Awesomething to @Starchild
3. Note that you have new mail with Awesomething attached
4. Log off RichHero.
5. Log on PoorVillain.
6. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
7. Try to claim it greedy villain, go on I dare you.
8. No you cannot have item! You are villain!
9. Log on PoorHero.
10. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
11. Claim Awesomething.
He da man! *woop*


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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon View Post
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

 

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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
1. Logon RichHero
2. Send Awesomething to @Starchild
3. Note that you have new mail with Awesomething attached
4. Log off RichHero.
5. Log on PoorVillain.
6. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
7. Try to claim it greedy villain, go on I dare you.
8. No you cannot have item! You are villain!
9. Log on PoorHero.
10. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
11. Claim Awesomething.
OH!

Okay ... attachments are stored globally, but marked as being sent by a hero or villain, and only a character of the matching faction can claim them.

Why didn't ya say that in the first place?


Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."

 

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Originally Posted by Negami View Post
So what you are saying is that in a database somewhere every enhancement, every inspiration, every recipe exists twice. Once as a heroic version once as a villainous version. This means that Vigilantes and Rogues can't trade between each other and their opposite number even if they are running missions with them.

So now that factions don't really matter because we can switch sides we still can't trade inspirations to revive a fallen teammate.
It was mentioned in the Hero Con info for Going Rogue that we would be able to trade inspirations cross faction, soon.


 

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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
1. Logon RichHero
2. Send Awesomething to @Starchild
3. Note that you have new mail with Awesomething attached
4. Log off RichHero.
5. Log on PoorVillain.
6. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
7. Try to claim it greedy villain, go on I dare you.
8. No you cannot have item! You are villain!
9. Log on PoorHero.
10. Note you have Email with Awesomething attached.
11. Claim Awesomething.

I'm not going to go through all 30 characters.
this awesomething is it captain amzing awsome button?


 

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Originally Posted by Mikuruneko View Post
Question, then.

Currently our In-Game Email filtering options only allow us to limit emails to people on our per-character server Friends list and Supergroup members. With this change, will the filter be updated to limit based on Global Friends instead of each character's server Friends list, or at least give us the option to allow emails from anyone on our Global Friends list as well?
Yes, please let us know the answer to this. I currently can't use the filter because it's not possible for me to put all of my alts and all of my friends' alts on my Server friend list for every character I have. If it would check global friends, I'd be fine.


Please try my custom mission arcs!
Legacy of a Rogue (ID 459586, Entry for Dr. Aeon's Third Challenge)
Death for Dollars! (ID 1050)
Dr. Duplicate's Dastardly Dare (ID 1218)
Win the Past, Own the Future (ID 1429)

 

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So there STILL won't be giving wakeys (or any other inspiration) to your villain teammate, despite the fact that you need their help to save the world?


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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
Emails with attachments can only be sent to a Global name.

Valid attachments are Enhancements, Salvage, Recipes and Inspirations if they are tradeable (buyable on AH). One per email. Inf can be sent alongside item.
Oh, awesome. Now I can mail myself -KB IOs and such. Always annoys me when one of those drops on a character who has knockback protection, but I have a /fire scrapper who could really use it if I could only get it to them...


Having Vengeance and Fallout slotted for recharge means never having to say you're sorry.

 

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Originally Posted by Grouchybeast View Post
I remember at the anniversary party in Pocket D, Positron was very much against revamping old content
Actually, he wasn't - what he said was that right now they'd rather make new TFs and zones - that was before GR was announced, so he was in the difficult position of explaining why, at that moment, they were working on new stuff rather than revamping it, without being able to say it was because they were working on a new expansion for the game.
He could have said "right now we're working on a new boxed expansion with multiple zones, new TFs/missions, a new endgame system and the much reqyuested side-switching system, so and revamping of older content will have to wait till weƤre done with that first" - and then Pocket D would have been flooded with tears of joy - but because he wasn't allowed to mention GR, he just had to give a vague answer that "new stuff" was being worked on as a priority.


@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

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Originally Posted by ransim View Post
It was mentioned in the Hero Con info for Going Rogue that we would be able to trade inspirations cross faction, soon.
Don't remember that. Was that during the suggestions?


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Originally Posted by Zyphoid View Post
One more thing I wish it had. I would like to be able to switch characters w/o logging out.
They've mentioned they're looking into that - so be hopeful for the future


@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

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Demon summoning has WHIPS. Does anything else matter?

F T W


 

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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain View Post
Demon summoning has WHIPS. Does anything else matter?

F T W
Next step is to give them to scrappers


Types of Swords
My Portfolio

 

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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
The entire AH front-end was re-written.
Go Go Gadget pohsyb.


 

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Originally Posted by Zyphoid View Post
Next step is to give them to scrappers
And in correcting Perfect_Pain by pointing out that we don't have enough stuff yet, we've come full circle.


 

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Something's been eating at me since I read about that "Find the Last glowie" "feature"..

My only reasoning I can see DOING this means a harder mechanic is going to be implemented o.@ The main reason for hiding / randomizing clickies (Which is the only reason you can't find them right away, if they were static we'd /we do find them immediately from memory) is a method of time sinking and maintaining your userbase.
I must admit I've had to turn up my sound to find the clickies. But I was ok with that in the end, I knew how to tackle it.

What could they possibly be doing to make the length of completion on tasks longer? o.@

The same idea stems from making the level 20-Epic change. That was, if I understand the ideology correctly, a way of guaranteeing at least one full play through from "x" customers, which at the time were classified as "average-casual" ensuring at least two extra months of work. (granted now to get to fifty it takes what, a week of concentration?). If THAT is nowextinct, what will they be doing to help keep our interest / interest the fresh people just coming in?

Ultra mode is nice

The email change is a very inventive way to quell those complaining about gold spammers. o.0 My only issue is that with ever combative move the devs make, the spammers evolve and mutate around it. o.@

All in all some main concerns, but I'm excited still.

-C.A.


 

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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
. . .

Valid attachments are Enhancements, Salvage, Recipes and Inspirations if they are tradeable (buyable on AH). One per email. Inf can be sent alongside item.

Items with attachments cannot be deleted until attachment is claimed. They can be returned to sender.
Awesome great fantastic news. It is very frustrating when one character gets a purple recipe for a set that one of your other characters is slotting a set of.


IMO on i17 changes:

Ultra mode: looks good. shadows are nice, but the water reflections are truly top notch. I like playing with maxed out settings and it is nice to know my box will easily handle ultra mode.

Archetypes at lvl 20: meh. I don't think having one 50 is such a big deal, but more is better i guess.

In game email infl & recipes, etc: great news, i never thought i would see the day.

Animated tails: meh.

Posi TF changes: thank goodness that thing SUCKED.

New badges: NO !!! I still dont have 600 on my main (altitis). No new badges damn you.

Increased mish count to 7: very cool. Ty

AH recipes now show which salvage is needed: Awesome thank you !! Should reduce the amount of time i spend in the WW (time i hate) by a lot. Wanted this since day one of i9 and its nice to finally see it.

AE 20 new maps: cool.

AE pick indiv powers for custom critters: Great. I just hope it is clearly defined as to exactly what is the min to get full xp/infl/tickets.