This is vaguely reassuring...

DCUO's character creator is total ****. I really like CO's creator through its the next step in terms of creators and I hope CoX takes a page or two from it.

Well thats not going to stop us saying it!

and it's shiny box will provide excellent graphics but strange design choices. much fail, I sense

Looks like someone bought the party pack...

But surely it'd be worth the money just to make a screenshot of a cyborg hawk-person with fairy wings, a wolf tail, steampunk armor, a pink diaper and the playing card aura using /e airguitar on a tiny floating rock in the Shadow Shard just to show that this game allows players to do things other games don't?

Must . .. . . . make!

All that and no mention of the classic?

For Shame!

I think advantages and disadvantages relative to CoX are mostly irrelevant to that game. It will succeed or fail based on its internal merits. If it had the same mount of content that CoX has now that would help, and not having it hurts, but I think that would be true whether CoX existed or not.

Therer seems to be both a quantitative absolute minimum and qualitative relative minimum amount of content that a launching title has to have to succeed. The quantitative minimum is the minimum necessary to prevent leveling gaps given all possible reasonable modes of leveling, as the game defines its normal gameplay to be. That is a deal breaker if it is not there. The qualitative minimum is a subjective level of content that allows the average player - itself a fuzzy target - to not repetitively run the current content into the ground between launch day and when the next content update arrives. There's no way to launch with as much content as an established game like WoW or CoX has had seven years to build up. But there is a minimum you have to reach to prevent player complaints about it from reaching a critical mass.

i'd say it tells the ladies all they need to know.

"Eeeey BooBoo, that guy's stealing the mayor's picanic basket!"

I hope that new Super Booster (judging by the eagle) is coming with some bird-based chest emblems.







Also on the topic of CoH vs. other superhero MMOs, if you look on the 2nd competitor's forums, they seem to really want CoH to fail. Thought that was interesting.

Well realistically all companies want their competitors to fail (although most are not so blase to say it out loud). I'm sure the Paragon Studios team sacrifice a chicken every so often to try and ensure the failure of their competitors (and by sacrifice I mean eat for dinner).

I wonder if the 2nd competitor's forum auto-logs people out spontaneously and without warning or mercy.

Yeah, I mean, I know my statement was a "well duh" statement. I guess what I'm seeing is they're (the community anyway) almost grasping for staws trying to find reasons to support their beliefs (read: wishes) that our game is dying. Maybe I'm just biased, but it seems like when our community "knocks" one of the other it's more..."logical" I guess.

For example, I made a comment how our servers have been in the yellow or better for the most part since GR launched, and the response I got was something to the effect of "while it's possible there's more players, it's more likely the devs scaled the server's maximum load back to cope with losing players, thus making it appear as though there are more players than before" (paraphrased). Seriously? Remind me, who's going F2P because they're hemorrhaging subscribers again?

Wouldn't know, I don't post there enough.

Yeah. I think people are looking at the 60 years of content like they'll beable to go through it ingame. There's no promise to that, and seeing as how the game is setup, I don't see how it could.

Are you going to play a game where you literally have the same face as everyone else of your characters chosen gender?

only have three heights to choose from?

no body slider controls at all?

That seems really worth it just to not have mitten hands, painted on faces and no goat legs.

The CC is severely limited in games that are not CoH.

It's called Confirmation Bias. Fans of anything tend to believe that the object of their fandom is better than the equivalents and will accentuate the negative attributes of the other while minimizing their own.

There's nothing wrong with that, but the knocking of other games that goes on here isn't inherently more logical, it just seems that way because we're pre-disposed to view it that way. The server load issue is a great example, both theories are perfectly feasible but only NCSoft employees know which one is true and so other people will tend to believe the one that supports their bias.

Lrn2bsocial

Personally, I've come to suspect that they re-adjusted how the server screen displays server load so that it shows relative load even when not overloaded. A while back they upgraded the servers, and for quite some time after that almost always they just showed as single green dots which doesn't give you that much information. So I think they re-adusted it so now you can see which servers have the heavier load; that both gives the players more information and makes the game look busier (I recall a lot of people ignoring the server upgrade and using the all-green-dots server screen to claim the game was dying. Again.)

In other superhero games, yeah....

I've got to admit, though, I was rather jealous of APB. (Well, aside from how textures became a mess of pixels after being applied to things, even if they weren't scaled.)

Made graffiti look odd, at times, as well as some car designs.

Aion's got - or had - some good character creation and animation as well (which you then lose under the "go g3t l335 g34rz" grind.)

See my Guides and Tutorials

One can be social without participating in the endgame content. Some, like myself, enjoy leveling characters more than playing level 50 characters.

True, but GG was replying to me, and I'm not social. Raids and TFs are too painful for my introvertedness to deal with. If the end game stuff was all solo friendly, I'd be doing it, but it's not, so I'll stick to the fun leveling stuff.