Bloomin' 'eck...things changed a fair bit, eh?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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wait GG that looks like you a little bit ...Is there something you're not telling us ?
"Gameplay is the where the game really shines."
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I'm not the only one who wears boots, gloves and a star pattern |
Originally Posted by PureAmerican
wait GG that looks like you a little bit ...Is there something you're not telling us ?
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
I'll try to put up the whole article, thats only about 1/4 of it.
*points to sig, guide to the old trailer* >.>
... which has links to the appropriate vids, dev diaries and such too.
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possibly trainable abilities not inherent to your character's natural powers? stealth, grappling hook, that sort of thing. |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I wonder what the skills were?
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Come to think of it, it might also have been an early form of the pool powers. Trainable leadership, medical aid, etc.
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Once or twice a year, I re-read *all* of the dev diaries from those days (I have them saved on my hard drive). I keep trying to put those diaries into the context of what I know of the evolution of the game, and every year I learn a little bit more about how the game works, and how it probably got to this point, and I get a little more out of those diaries than I did the last time I read them. As a student of game design, I find the evolution of this game, because I have more access to its design than any other, fascinating even if also sometimes disturbing.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
*points to sig, guide to the old trailer* >.>
... which has links to the appropriate vids, dev diaries and such too. |
Anyway, today's omfg quote of the day comes from Rick Daken in part seven of the original Cryptic Design Journal:
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And so we have a system where, when you attack someone, the better you hit them, the more damage you'll do. Instead of rolling a die when you hit someone with a club and causing 1 to 6 hit points of damage no matter how close you came to missing, each attack in City of Heroes has a table associated with it. So, instead of rolling a number between 1 and 6, you roll to hit, trying to score less than your skill plus its governing attribute (for example, club + strength). How far below your target number you roll is then indexed to the damage table for your weapon. Thus, the better you hit, the more damage you do. There's a little more to it than that (lots of modifiers and so forth) but you hopefully get the idea. Admittedly though, I quickly turned most of the rules stuff over to my cohort, Jack. He's got a head for numbers and balancing and such. |
Ok, enough fun with that. To GoldenGirl: notice the word "skill" in the passage above. I believe that at least part of the original Alpha design of the game had skills in the sense of percent chance to accomplish something. In particular, weapon skills or attack skills would be the base chance to execute an attack - what we would today call base chance to hit.
In the hypothetical non-combat portions of City of Heroes which to the best of my knowledge never really saw the light of day (but which kept getting indirectly referenced as the SSOCS after launch), other skills would have involved a base chance to do something else: base chance to hack a computer, base chance to find a clue, base chance to pick a lock, etc. That sort of thing.
That's my best guess based on all available evidence, anyway. It seems logical given Rick Daken's comments about the inspiration for the original CoH rules system and game design.
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No fair! She has THREE colors on her tights top!
At first I thought the list of abilities said 'Heavy Limes' and 'Light Limes'.
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Jack was nerfing even in alpha? |
Originally Posted by flashrains
No fair! She has THREE colors on her tights top!
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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You're being a bit harsh there - I think he meant that on Jack's home planet he had those abilities, not here on Earth.|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Ok, enough fun with that.
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To GoldenGirl: notice the word "skill" in the passage above. I believe that at least part of the original Alpha design of the game had skills in the sense of percent chance to accomplish something. In particular, weapon skills or attack skills would be the base chance to execute an attack - what we would today call base chance to hit. In the hypothetical non-combat portions of City of Heroes which to the best of my knowledge never really saw the light of day (but which kept getting indirectly referenced as the SSOCS after launch), other skills would have involved a base chance to do something else: base chance to hack a computer, base chance to find a clue, base chance to pick a lock, etc. That sort of thing. That's my best guess based on all available evidence, anyway. It seems logical given Rick Daken's comments about the inspiration for the original CoH rules system and game design. |
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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That was my first thought... "I want to be able to do patterns on tops like that!" Wait, where's that thread David started...
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Originally Posted by flashrains
No fair! She has THREE colors on her tights top!
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Dude. I want 150 points in Flort.
Evil is a maze of deceit and the cheese it hides is never worth the running.
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I just want Flort, is that too much to ask?
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Originally Posted by MDanger
Dude. I want 150 points in Flort.
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Gravity Control, Healing, and Invulnerability! What a character!
Playstation 3 - XBox 360 - Wii - PSP
Remember kids, crack is whack!
Samuel_Tow: Your avatar is... I think I like it
"Kill too many civilians?" Dang! What happened to that?
"Samual_Tow - Be disappointed all you want, people. You just don't appreciate the miracles that are taking place here."
Oh, and...
What a freakin' hideous UI the game had at that stage. Yeesh.
Playstation 3 - XBox 360 - Wii - PSP
Remember kids, crack is whack!
Samuel_Tow: Your avatar is... I think I like it
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Originally Posted by Demobot
At first I thought the list of abilities said 'Heavy Limes' and 'Light Limes'.
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That's in the "martini" skill set I presume?
Thelonious Monk
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Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Gravity Control, Healing, and Invulnerability! What a character!
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Sounds a boring concept to me
Could you imagine how slow it would be to level?
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I just want that top with the Captain America midriff
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I'm gonna' hate myself in the morning for agreeing with GG, but I agree with this completely, having actually gone out of my way to get screenshots and make the same statement before. I want that stance, either as part of some new system for customizing our running and jumping animations, or at the very least as a stance emote. Seriously, this is not half bad.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I'd like that to be one of the new stance emotes.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I dug this up looking thru my old Wizard Magazines and thought it would be a good laugh for people. It's actually what made me say "woah that looks cool"
November 2001
lol I want light limbs !