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Crazy Issue 20 Theories

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By Afterimage,
Posted on: 2010-09-16 11:13 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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NEW class!!! And sorry to say this but if DR comes to PvE I might be done for good.
DR coming to PvE would be a good reason for a serious NDA.

It would also be a good reason for Castle to hire a large number of 24/7 security guards wielding lightsabres and proton packs (they'd need the latter since the insanely horrified players would keep attacking even after they had physically died).

It would also be a good reason for War Witch to look for work...


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Maybe they've made a deal with a comic company (most likely a small one), and they're going to start bringing in said company's world and characters?

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Hasn't anyone considered the possibility that someone's just really, really worried about proprietary information leaking out? This is what drives so much of the business world, after all: the fear of being sued over something. I find that much more likely than the possibility that i120 itself is so unique that it requires special treatment. I expect signed NDA's for all these closed betas from now on.

If it isn't that, it's probably something along the lines of diminishing returns in PvE. I imagine this wouldn't be the Great Nerf of Doom everyone considers it to be, but even if it's handled perfectly, it'd be such a public relations disaster that I'm not sure the game could survive the sudden drop in subscriptions.

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Maybe they've made a deal with a comic company (most likely a small one), and they're going to start bringing in said company's world and characters?
Crazy. So crazy it's not unpossible.

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Hasn't anyone considered the possibility that someone's just really, really worried about proprietary information leaking out? This is what drives so much of the business world, after all: the fear of being sued over something. I find that much more likely than the possibility that i120 itself is so unique that it requires special treatment. I expect signed NDA's for all these closed betas from now on.

If it isn't that, it's probably something along the lines of diminishing returns in PvE. I imagine this wouldn't be the Great Nerf of Doom everyone considers it to be, but even if it's handled perfectly, it'd be such a public relations disaster that I'm not sure the game could survive the sudden drop in subscriptions.
Not very crazy at all. Are you sure this is the right thread for this sort of pragmatism? Besides, using an NDA to simply delay revealing PvE DR would be a bit silly, the fecal hurricane would simply hit that much harder later on.

No, it's because they're introducing a new system where the players of defeated characters can take control of randomly selected NPCs in missions with xp bonuses for defeating other players.

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DR coming to PvE would be a good reason for a serious NDA.
What's everyone got against Dan Rather???

 

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What's everyone got against Dan Rather???
I thought they were talking about Dark_Respite. "Upset about Dark_Respite coming to PvE? Wha? I mean, I know she spends most of her time online making her vids... and time doing PvE means less time making vids or writing superhero romances, but cut her a break. If she wants to toss around some NPC's occasionally, why should we deny her?"

 

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What's everyone got against Dan Rather???
<flashes back to the 80's> Ah yes if only we had the time and place to answer that one...i wish i still had my "Rather Biased" bumper sticker

 

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4) Additional client versions to tap into that massive Amiga market my coworker *swears* is out there.
As a former employee of one of the neo-Amiga companies of the early part of the last decade, this got me to laugh. Thanks/

 

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NEW class!!! And sorry to say this but if DR comes to PvE I might be done for good.
I have several in-game friends who are eying an upcoming game whose name incorporates both a version of the word "devil" and the number three, very very closely.

Implement DR, and ensure that I join them there when it gets released. Seriously. I have been in this game what feels like forever, and I love it. But I will not tolerate PvE DR; promise.

 

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This never changed. Teleport doesn't work in pvp so that's out. Fly is too slow to pursue anyone and is tactically a poor option. There are too many ways to disable it, from webnades to immobilizes or attacks with -fly.

Super Speed was pretty much always the standard and still is. Since i13, slows do pretty much nothing, it is the best option. Super Jump offers some vertical mobility and allows speeders to get close enough to fliers to ground them and make them helpless. It is not as much a necessity.
This bothers me, as my main PvP toon *is* a teleporter. My main toon, who has most of the PvP badges despite being built for PvE, is a flier.

 

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Finally get to go inside the Bowling alley to play.

I hear them in there!

 

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I've thought long and hard about this and I've come to the following conclusion:

We'll get what we're given and bloody well like it whether we wanted it or not!


"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
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I still really hope that I20 brings nipples and fingers to character models!
I'd buy that for a dollar.

 

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NEW class!!! And sorry to say this but if DR comes to PvE I might be done for good.
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I thought they were talking about Dark_Respite. "Upset about Dark_Respite coming to PvE? Wha? I mean, I know she spends most of her time online making her vids... and time doing PvE means less time making vids or writing superhero romances, but cut her a break. If she wants to toss around some NPC's occasionally, why should we deny her?"
*bampf*

No no no.

DR = Diminishing Returns
D_R = moi

Note the underscore - one reason why I emphatically told Niviene during the forum migration to leave it alone.

As for crazy Issue 20 theories, I have my own stupid wishlist that have very little to do with gameplay, and everything to do with making videos, so I will not mention them here.

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I still really hope that I20 brings nipples and fingers to character models!
Only the fingers are really needed - nipples should be left until our avatars are just about perfect

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I've thought long and hard about this and I've come to the following conclusion:

We'll get what we're given and bloody well like it whether we wanted it or not!
Well, you don't have to like what the devs add to the game - that's what the "cancel account" option is for

@Golden Girl

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As for crazy Issue 20 theories, I have my own stupid wishlist that have very little to do with gameplay, and everything to do with making videos, so I will not mention them here.
OK, now I'm curious. What non-gameplay features would like in your game?

 

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OK, now I'm curious. What non-gameplay features would like in your game?
Map customization, being able to assign custom powers to existing NPC models, improved demorecord features, access to the dev tool for cutscenes, stuff like that. But that's coz I'm weird.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)

 

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Map customization, being able to assign custom powers to existing NPC models, improved demorecord features, access to the dev tool for cutscenes, stuff like that. But that's coz I'm weird.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Weird... or just desiring the tools to do things that most players don't even dabble in at all?

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the recent news of new MMOs going F2P, when i20 will probably go live , got me thinking.....



edit; added a ''when'' before i20

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the recent news of new MMOs going F2P, i20 will probably go live , got me thinking.....
I thought of this last week, too, but I'm having trouble seeing how a new pricing model would affect testing. Maybe to ensure that "free" accounts only get access to the bare bones of the game, whatever that's determined to be?

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I still really hope that I20 brings nipples and fingers to character models!
Only if a Nipple Tweaking power is also added.

Melee, of course. Cannot be used on self.

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Maybe to ensure that "free" accounts only get access to the bare bones of the game, whatever that's determined to be?
Brawl, Sprint, and Rest. Oh, and the inherent Fitness pool.

 

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I thought of this last week, too, but I'm having trouble seeing how a new pricing model would affect testing. Maybe to ensure that "free" accounts only get access to the bare bones of the game, whatever that's determined to be?

Pretty much this.

I mean when the hobbit game went free to play, they had a free to play beta... which yeah you'd think they could of skipped on since everything was already made.

Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.