Discussion: April Producer's Letter and Anniversary Address
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-04-28 09:00 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
"Growing up the tree." I know they will be adding more power paths besides the current 4 but that implied they will be adding something like Vary Rare+ slots. I know that's not what they probably intended but I do like the idea.
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Originally Posted by Jetpack
I'll hold judgement until we know about the small group/solo path.
Glad to hear it is being considered. Still. |
However, I can't help but fear the words "accessible" will end up meaning that "an easy option for solo players to group to do Incarnate systems" and the word "alternative" will equate to extremely long and time consuming path that will require some type of farming activity.
And offcourse the words "future issue" could mean anything from next issue to in ten issues time?
I'm not been negative just a realist maybe
I understand the biggest issue that have with introducing an alternative solo path is that they are concern that those players that do group will choose it over grouping with other. But for I20 they went way too far to avoid this, I hope they are more realistic in the future.
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I think the growing up the tree comment refers to unlocking the remaining 5 slots.
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Originally Posted by Hydrofoil_Zero
"Growing up the tree." I know they will be adding more power paths besides the current 4 but that implied they will be adding something like Vary Rare+ slots. I know that's not what they probably intended but I do like the idea.
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Could be. I like my idea better.
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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
I think the growing up the tree comment refers to unlocking the remaining 5 slots.
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They already said on the UStream chat that the Omega slot isn't the end of the Incarnate system, - there's stuff above and beyond it, so the tree is going to keep on growing 
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First, congrats on seven years of CoH. I can honestly say I've been around for pretty much all of it. 
Now that the back-patting is out of the way, can we have some Developer response to the 'Incarnate Awards' thread that's been stewing for several days now without any kind of developer input? Are you guys just reading the thread and not responding? Are you taking notes? What's going on?
From my own perspective, the lag's getting worse, the rewards haven't changed/improved, and more and more people are getting frustrated. Come on, guys, we're owed some kind of updated official response to that thread by now.
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This! I'd love to see some stuff in the Shadow Shard. It's one of my favorite collection of zones, and right now they're not very populated. There's so much Rularuu stuff that's hinted at, but not expanded. The Factory Cubes, the Garden of Memories, and the Ravager himself! Let's let some fully realized Incarnates challenge a tainted god!
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Originally Posted by concreteshift
Great news and all. I'm excited to see the new stuff.
One request, can we get Incarnate Trial content that is not related to Praetorian content? Maybe a more sinister dark fantasy bent like Rularuu?? Or challenging the ancient gods related to the Well. Something else? Beating up on the same robots gets old. |
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Covered nearly everything I wanted, with the exception of mentions of upcoming boosters. We can assume Bagpacks are coming, and maybe Steam Punk. But anything beyond that?
I'm going to guess the new zone will be sorta like a battle ground portal type area. Designed for people to organize the incarnate trials without tripping over other non-incarnate players.
The zone event? The Praetorian Invasion we'll be playing next month.
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Originally Posted by concreteshift
Great news and all. I'm excited to see the new stuff.
One request, can we get Incarnate Trial content that is not related to Praetorian content? Maybe a more sinister dark fantasy bent like Rularuu?? Or challenging the ancient gods related to the Well. Something else? Beating up on the same robots gets old. |
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I hope it is done in far less than a year, but at least the dev team seems aware of it now |
Originally Posted by Caulderone
Well, I'm glad for the acknowledgement of small-group and solo option desires for Incarnate progression. However, this doesn't say "is coming eventually", this says "looking into" and "considering".
That means, realistically, that this stuff isn't in the development cycle yet. That means it's well over a year out and away, if not more, as past info has shown us how long the development cycle is and can be (and we know there are multiple trials already in the pipe). This causes me a staggering reality check in my Wait and See mentality. |
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Fastest way to expand incarnte content: Add incarnte difficulty setting to all level 50 taskforces.
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Tisk. They need to record that and place it somewhere. I can never mate it to the showtime.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
They already said on the UStream chat that the Omega slot isn't the end of the Incarnate system, - there's stuff above and beyond it, so the tree is going to keep on growing
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Considering that would require altering most of not all related NPC groups in all the missions that is hardly the easiest way to do anything. The easiest way would be to revamp one of the old unused zones like boomtown and plop a large scale interdimensional breach right down the middle of it. Have Praetorian whatsits poring out of it. Maybe set up something like the mother ship raid for it.
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Originally Posted by Elfis_Presley
Fastest way to expand incarnte content: Add incarnte difficulty setting to all level 50 taskforces.
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They did - the official dev Q&A chats are always recorded.
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Originally Posted by Hydrofoil_Zero
Tisk. They need to record that and place it somewhere. I can never mate it to the showtime.
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Grate! Where???
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
They did - the official dev Q&A chats are always recorded.
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Link to it found here: paragonwiki.com/wiki/Seventh_Anniversary_Event
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Quote: Originally Posted by Elfis_Presley Fastest way to expand incarnte content: Add incarnte difficulty setting to all level 50 taskforces. |
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Originally Posted by Hydrofoil_Zero
Considering that would require altering most of not all related NPC groups in all the missions that is hardly the easiest way to do anything. The easiest way would be to revamp one of the old unused zones like boomtown and plop a large scale interdimensional breach right down the middle of it. Have Praetorian whatsits poring out of it. Maybe set up something like the mother ship raid for it.
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What might require some programming time is if they wanted to add a way for players to get the incarnate components. But that's another discussion.
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Yeah, but kind of a disappointing, short-changed way to do it.
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Originally Posted by Elfis_Presley
Fastest way to expand incarnte content: Add incarnte difficulty setting to all level 50 taskforces.
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They're focusing on Trials to bulk out the current Incarnate content - and it seems like they're planning to release Trials as they finish them, rather than only putting them in Issues.
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Originally Posted by Stormbird
Yeah, but kind of a disappointing, short-changed way to do it.
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Originally Posted by MechaDeuce
Now that the back-patting is out of the way, can we have some Developer response to the 'Incarnate Awards' thread that's been stewing for several days now without any kind of developer input? Are you guys just reading the thread and not responding? Are you taking notes? What's going on?
From my own perspective, the lag's getting worse, the rewards haven't changed/improved, and more and more people are getting frustrated. Come on, guys, we're owed some kind of updated official response to that thread by now. Regards, MechaDeuce |
^^^ This
Not to be an anniversary party pooper but I have friends unsubing pretty fast over this and Justice once again is loosing some fine players, from what I hear other servers are loosing people as well.
And there has been no response from a developer in almost 2 weeks and not even anything from OCR indicating that they care or are even reading the feedback in the past 9 days.
I am sure there are many that would rather current issues with incarnate content are addressed before we get anything new. It really should have been a priority but their silence speaks volumes to it not being so.
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The last time you promised this, we got 88-shard-cost conversion recipes. Forgive me if I withhold judgement on your ability to understand and address the concerns of small teams and soloers until I actually see a viable alternative.
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Originally Posted by Second Measure
We are looking into [options that are more accessible to solo players and small groups] for a future issue.
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Indeed, I agree
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Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
The last time you promised this, we got 88-shard-cost conversion recipes. Forgive me if I withhold judgement on your ability to understand and address the concerns of small teams and soloers until I actually see a viable alternative.
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I'll be honest, the Incarnate system is a dead duck to me at the moment. If the developers can come up with something more reasonable than the glacial rate of shard conversion, It may get me interested again.
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Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
The last time you promised this, we got 88-shard-cost conversion recipes. Forgive me if I withhold judgement on your ability to understand and address the concerns of small teams and soloers until I actually see a viable alternative.
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