Tales from NYC Meet & Greet?
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Posted on: 2010-10-08 19:37 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I ascertain that it means 750k characters logged in during the first month of GR.|
Originally Posted by Lolblaws
If it mattered then it would matter. The 750K number is fluff. Feel free to attempt to ascertain anything of value from it though.
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Which corroborates the high server loads I observed.
So lots of people were playing the game.
Not sure why you're unhappy with a company for tooting its own horn during a promotional panel, but there seem to be a number of low post count malcontents going out of their way to rain on the parade lately. Are y'all in a club or something?
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I counter their low post counts with my LOWER post count and find all this info on I19 AWESOME!
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I ascertain that it means 750k characters logged in during the first month of GR.
Which corroborates the high server loads I observed. So lots of people were playing the game. Not sure why you're unhappy with a company for tooting its own horn during a promotional panel, but there seem to be a number of low post count malcontents going out of their way to rain on the parade lately. Are y'all in a club or something? |
Something I've not heard mentioned yet is if Primal Earth people can enter Praetoria at any level, or if only 20+ avatars will be able to get in.
Form what they've said so far, it sounds like it'll be 1-50 - although 20+ would also make sense to match the level Praetorians can go to Primal Earth.
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Not surprised by this at all. The process of starting a Praetorian doesn't require you to make an immediate "moral decision." Simple as that, IMO.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
.5% more Resistance than Loyalist? Curse you, Resistance!
Also, it's amazing how close that's cut.  |
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Technically, you don't actually have to make a genuine one until 20 |
Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker
Not surprised by this at all. The process of starting a Praetorian doesn't require you to make an immediate "moral decision." Simple as that, IMO.
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nuuu the video parts are only 2/4 ...
Thanks for uploading -- I'll watch the other two in the morning
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Well, I don't do this often, but...|
Originally Posted by james_joyce
...and the villain one has to do with finding out what exactly the Leviathan is and what its power source is.
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Squee!!!
Gonna give new meaning to THIS toon's background, I can tell you!
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STO - Holodeck - @Captain_Thiraas
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Well, I think its partially that and partially that you don't have to choose a side and its content exclusively. I'm curious to know how many of which AT went to which side, you know? So, pick a Praetorian, go whichever way you want with any AT, and end up wherever you want. Also, both factions have paths that can have appeal to players regardless of them wanting to have a good guy or bad guy.|
Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
If CoH/V had been released at the same time, I'd bet you cash money the split would be a lot closer.
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Simply put, I know players who didn't roll villain AT's because they don't want to play the villain content - either they didn't like it, or didn't want to play a villain.
I19 looks like it might be amazing. It has been a long time since we've had a good issue with lots of stuff (this might be i12 calibre - the best issue IMO during my time here).
I am also glad to see they are looking at new mission play styles like the zone event. We have so many arcs and missions where the play style/mechanic is the same, we really don't need anything added to them. It's nice to get some new ones (arcs, radios, papers etc) but I would prefer something new and original for playstyle/mechanics. Continuing to evolve the game is critical and I think War Witch might be thinking the same.
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Issue_19 updated with panel info.
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Not to mention the roaring and huge tentacle that waves around just over the treetops outside of the sonic fence in Nova Praetoria. It startled me the first time I saw it heh.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Tyrant's bio on the GR website mentions the Hamdion having tentacles and claws, so the Praetorian Hamidon = tentacles idea has been around since even before the GR closed beta.
You can also see a propaganda poster in some of the Praetorian office maps showing a huge tentacled monster outside the sonic fence. |
Well, I'm amazed by how much they keep adding to this game, with what appears to be even less staff now!
I'm confused by one thing though, this logging out to character list......is this something new? I thought we could do this already?
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Nope. As it stands, we either log out to the desktop or to the login screen. The ability to log to the character list has been talked about for some time, though, so you're probably thinking about that.|
Originally Posted by Coin
Well, I'm amazed by how much they keep adding to this game, with what appears to be even less staff now!
I'm confused by one thing though, this logging out to character list......is this something new? I thought we could do this already? |
And while they're down by 9 people, they still have a staff of like 60 or 70. Much better than the 14 or 15 prior to the NCSoft buyout.
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
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Well, according to dev comments, they wanted to implement side-switching with the Issue that followed CoV. But either the proposed system didn't work out, or there weren't enough resources to do it then, or something else happened. Either way, it was on the to-do list way back then; it just wasn't realized until GR.
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Originally Posted by Psyte
Well, I think its partially that and partially that you don't have to choose a side and its content exclusively. I'm curious to know how many of which AT went to which side, you know? So, pick a Praetorian, go whichever way you want with any AT, and end up wherever you want. Also, both factions have paths that can have appeal to players regardless of them wanting to have a good guy or bad guy.
Simply put, I know players who didn't roll villain AT's because they don't want to play the villain content - either they didn't like it, or didn't want to play a villain. |
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
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It has been smart of the Devs to create more CoOP content in the meantime, since I don't see any truly villainous content coming any time soon.
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Originally Posted by Psyte
Well, I think its partially that and partially that you don't have to choose a side and its content exclusively. I'm curious to know how many of which AT went to which side, you know? So, pick a Praetorian, go whichever way you want with any AT, and end up wherever you want. Also, both factions have paths that can have appeal to players regardless of them wanting to have a good guy or bad guy.
Simply put, I know players who didn't roll villain AT's because they don't want to play the villain content - either they didn't like it, or didn't want to play a villain. |
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Well, define "truly villainous". Several of the Praetorian arcs are quite nasty. And what about all those villain Tip and Morality missions? And there's a new villain arc coming with I 19. If none of those count, then what does something have to be to count as "truly villainous"?
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Originally Posted by Anti_Proton
It has been smart of the Devs to create more CoOP content in the meantime, since I don't see any truly villainous content coming any time soon.
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Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth
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Originally Posted by james_joyce
Since the video is taking so long to upload (and it's even worse because part 1 is just fluff and review, so you really have to wait for parts 2-4), here are the slides (after the fluffy review slides):
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I wish I could have had access to this when I made my Incarnate video. Ouro in ruins? A Mender sending you back? THAT would have been awesome.
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Where was this?|
Originally Posted by _Cai_
Not to mention the roaring and huge tentacle that waves around just over the treetops outside of the sonic fence in Nova Praetoria. It startled me the first time I saw it heh.
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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!)
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!)
I just wanted to add that the panel was really fun. I went to the Con with a friend who doesn't play and now he is seriously considering picking up the game so I guess it did its job.
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Obviously the technology that the Rikti used to draw him into our dimension damaged him in a way that he has so far been unable to recover from.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I'm not sure how something that weak could terrorize a whole world
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"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
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Ah hell. Just make it so that we can buy unlimited amount of character slots for a server. |
Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution
The biggest qol improvement I'd like to see is a new full sheet of character slots. I'd pay the $120 (well 80 since I have 4), just so I could stop deleting 50's.
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Okay, watching the videos War Witch did say "closed beta" starts next week and not open beta. So we jumped the gun on that.
Well shucks.
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Doesn't any of the naughty stuff in Praetoria count? |
Originally Posted by Anti_Proton
I don't see any truly villainous content coming any time soon.
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@Golden Girl
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You can also see a propaganda poster in some of the Praetorian office maps showing a huge tentacled monster outside the sonic fence.
edit: "NO REALLY GUYS THERE WERE LIKE THESE GREEN THINGS THAT KEPT HEALING HIM AND I COULDN'T EVEN HIT THE BLUE ONES"