Discussion: Announcing the City of Heroes Freedom VIP Head Start! September 13, 2011
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Posted on: 2011-09-09 24:19 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
I understand that a few people were able to solo AVs back in the days of SOs. Are you aware that Elite Bosses are supposed to be more powerful than a single player can handle and require grouping to defeat?
Have you seen the damage that fully Tier-4'd incarnates can put out? Have you seen how many people not only solo AVs, but solo the most difficult AVs and GMs and even solo entire task forces. Hell, some have solo'd the Lord Recluse Taskforce, including taking down over 8 AVs at once in that final battle. And anyone who solos the ITF is defeating not just Romulus but 4 AV-class nictus plus all the ambushes. I've seen 2-man Rikti Mothership raids including spawning and killing Ukon Grai. We already have teams of 4 people completing the Apex and Tin Mage taskforces, and teams of 2 completing the Lamda trial. Have you been on a Cathedral of Pain post i20? I've seen a single group of 6 pull it off. According to them it's easier because fewer people to screw up the timing. Is that not epic enough for you? Are you unable to project forward into time? With a few more incarnate slots people will be soloing the content that currently takes teams. Sure it takes 14 poorly or average built i20 characters to beat Siege and Nightstar. It'll only take 1 or 2 poorly built i23 characters and it already only takes 2 well built ones. Power is a progression. The leading edge is always were things are hardest. But even so, the best of the best are definitely getting more and more powerful and doing things that are more and more impressive. a team of two taking down marauder in the Lamda or a single villain taking out the whole freedom phalanx in the Lord Recluse Strike Force is a significant jump in power from previous issues. |
Last night I decided to start the process of getting my lvl. 50 elec/elec brute from rogue to straight up hero.
I chose a hero tip mission and went inside...
And the door was hot. It looked like there were Nemesis everywhere!
I waxed everyone relatively easily, and then, out of curiosity, I looked at my diff setting:
+2/x8
I was running some content earlier with a PuG and we needed a challenge and I forgot to change it.
And that brute is not all tier 4, but rather tier 3 incarnates.
The progression of those of us who remember how things were prior to enhancement diversification (slotting the heck out of something and how it all got "nerfed") and then to the IOs, then to Alpha slots and now the incarnates... We are becoming "super".
When the film The Watchmen came out, one critic stated that only one being was truly a "super hero" (Doctor Manhattan) and all the rest 'merely' heroes. Well, we ain't there yet, but we're much closer than we were issue 1.
For those asking about a preload - Download the beta client and patch that up fully, then on release day copy the files from it across to your live client and it should work. You'll have to delete the checksum file to make it reverify files and thus pick up the new stuff, but that should be all. Back up your current live files before doing so, just in case it doesn't work.
It's not a preload, obviously, but it'll let you get most of the I21 client before it goes live. Last minute patches don't tend to change much in terms of download size.
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I didn't have the energy to comb through all 11 pages to see if anyone commented on this but I noticed this in the CC Winners Form Exibit B
CANADIAN RESIDENTS NOT FROM QUEBEC! To claim your prize, you must be able to answer the following question correctly:
12 x 10 + 4 = (please provide answer)
I had a good laugh which was then followed by confusion. Is this a Canadian thing? Why is there a math bonus question on the Winners Form? Someone explain this to me please because I am amused/confused and need an "OHhhhhh, THATS why!" moment...for closure.
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I've been watching all of these posts, and not to derail the current conversation, but I haven't heard an answer to one of my biggest questions about the VIP Headstart.
How long AFTER the headstart, for free players to access the game? I have a whole batch of friends looking to check the game out, and I still don't have a date to give them on when it goes live for the general public.
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We don't know yet, Daio.
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Most Canadian provinces don't allow profiting from games of chance or gambling outside licensed casinos and provincial lotteries and other such exceptions. The maths question makes it a contest of combined chance and skill, which gets around that little niggle.|
Originally Posted by Struck
I had a good laugh which was then followed by confusion. Is this a Canadian thing? Why is there a math bonus question on the Winners Form? Someone explain this to me please because I am amused/confused and need an "OHhhhhh, THATS why!" moment...for closure.
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As for why a CC is classed as a game of chance, don't ask me.
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Yeah, it's a Canadian thing. There's a 'Sweepstakes' Law in Canada that prohibits luck-based contests and gambling. I believe the original form of the law is from about the same time as American Prohibition, but unlike Prohibition it wasn't repealed. It just got neutered by a clause that allows skill-based contents. Further futzing with the law has created the 'math question' as what is possibly both the silliest and yet the most entrenched legal loophole in Canada.
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Originally Posted by Struck
I didn't have the energy to comb through all 11 pages to see if anyone commented on this but I noticed this in the CC Winners Form Exibit B
CANADIAN RESIDENTS NOT FROM QUEBEC! To claim your prize, you must be able to answer the following question correctly: 12 x 10 + 4 = (please provide answer) I had a good laugh which was then followed by confusion. Is this a Canadian thing? Why is there a math bonus question on the Winners Form? Someone explain this to me please because I am amused/confused and need an "OHhhhhh, THATS why!" moment...for closure. |
Jut saw this posted. So I will not be taking off from the office for a half day tomorrow based on east coast time.
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Extended Live Server Publish- 9/13/11
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The Live European and North American City of Heroes servers will be offline for an extended publish on Tuesday, September 13, 2011.
Start Time: 4:00 a.m. PDT / 7:00 a.m. EDT / 12:00 p.m. BST / 13:00 CEST
Expected Duration: 9 hours
Expected Finish Time:1:00 p.m. PDT / 4:00 p.m. EDT / 9:00 p.m. BST / 22:00 CEST
This is for the implementation of Issue 21: convergence and patch notes will be posted after the downtime.
We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!
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Having read the entire thread myself, I would recommend against this course of action. I do not believe this will be as helpful as you're envisioning, unless you are also planning on hitting your forehead repeatedly with a hammer during the process.
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Originally Posted by Dark Sweater
I started composing an answer to refute specific points, then realised I have no idea who is arguing for what general idea, and I'd have to go back over the thread to try to reconstruct this.
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I intend to stay a subscriber, and that will be enough winning for me.
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Originally Posted by Cerulean_Shadow
No one can "win" this argument, because it's unwinnable. If you want to stay a subscriber (and I do) then stay a subscriber; if you don't, well, then don't.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Okay, so NOW I have a deadline for my trailer...
*dashes back out to continue work on her trailer* Need the four gamer food groups: caffeine, chocolate, fat, and salt. Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
And YAY FREEDOM/I21!!!
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Sure, the devs are supposed to listen to their customers, mister business 101 out there. And if I decide to start suggesting that the devs change the game from being about superheroes and supervillains to being about clowns that is my right as well, and technically Paragon Studios is supposed to pay attention to me. But I hope strongly that they assume a meth-head somehow managed to hack into my forum account and make paper airplanes out of my posts, because I hope they recognize stupid when they see it. I assume they will recognize futile just as accurately.
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How does the launcher work for this? If I just open the launcher and go off to work, does it check for updates every now and then, or does it check ONLY when first opened?
Wonder why they always do the matinence at 7 est?
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Because they're on the West Coast, and they probably don't want to get up any earlier than 4 in the morning |
Originally Posted by Thany144
Wonder why they always do the matinence at 7 est?
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Because that is 5 in Texas. Also it has the least impact on their customer base. I'll assume that the majority of subscribers are Eastern, and at work at that time.
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Originally Posted by Thany144
Wonder why they always do the matinence at 7 est?
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Dang ........ Oh well I work 7 to 3 anyway lol just have to waif a hour or two lol
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Because they're on the West Coast, and they probably don't want to get up any earlier than 4 in the morning
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Because that law is a federal law covering sweepstakes in Canada.
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Originally Posted by Struck
I didn't have the energy to comb through all 11 pages to see if anyone commented on this but I noticed this in the CC Winners Form Exibit B
CANADIAN RESIDENTS NOT FROM QUEBEC! To claim your prize, you must be able to answer the following question correctly: 12 x 10 + 4 = (please provide answer) I had a good laugh which was then followed by confusion. Is this a Canadian thing? Why is there a math bonus question on the Winners Form? Someone explain this to me please because I am amused/confused and need an "OHhhhhh, THATS why!" moment...for closure. |
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Thanks! I've been busy the last couple of days and missed your reply with the directions. I'll do that tonight!
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Huh, I never saw Issen's reply to my directions before.
Anyway: I can verify it does work because that's how I got my live directory updated in 3 minutes the last time we had beta testing. Slap the piggs over, tell the Launcher to repair my live installation, good to go! |
Apologies if this has been asked & answered before:
When will I see the Exalted server in my list of available servers?
NCSoft, Please reconsider your decision to close down CoH. It has an extremely loyal following and enjoys a great amount of free support from the larger community.
I invite everybody to add the above image to your signature as a petition to reverse NCSoft's decision.
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Pretty much depends on how much "on schedule" they stick with the 9 hour maintenance period.|
Originally Posted by Fortress_NA
Apologies if this has been asked & answered before:
When will I see the Exalted server in my list of available servers? |
There isn't going to be set time down to the hour, minute and second.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
Pretty much depends on how much "on schedule" they stick with the 9 hour maintenance period.
There isn't going to be set time down to the hour, minute and second. |
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I know that. |
Originally Posted by Lothic
Pretty much depends on how much "on schedule" they stick with the 9 hour maintenance period.
There isn't going to be set time down to the hour, minute and second. |
But there can still be an "announced" time that, barring unforseen issues, it should become available for logging in.Right now, I have *no* idea when it might happen. 5 minutes from now? 23:55 EST on the 13th? Somewhere in between?
I'm at work now, and need to know if I should plan to take my lunch break to run home and try to get my toon's names before they all get snapped up.
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Was it clarified how these work? Do I have to select six characters to transfer at once, or could I, say, use the first three to move three characters to Exalted in order to participate in the festivities there, then later use the final three to return them to their home server?|
Originally Posted by Avatea
And for the first week ONLY, you'll be able to get:
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10joy
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I do believe it's 6 "transfer tokens"
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Originally Posted by Tenjoy
Was it clarified how these work? Do I have to select six characters to transfer at once, or could I, say, use the first three to move three characters to Exalted in order to participate in the festivities there, then later use the final three to return them to their home server?
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The Beta is full of bugs?
How can that be?!
They don't plan on providing access to free players to a)Cut down on data overheads for people not paying for the game and b)To prevent people who have no reason to accept a ban from posting spam.
If you post <insert link to pancake enlargement> currently and get a ban you have wasted at least $15, plus whatever amount of previously paid fees. If you haven't paid anything for the game but gain access to the forums you get to post anything you want including <insert link to pancake enlargement> without the devs being able to punish you.
A section where premium players can post and chat with VIP players would be a good idea (IMO). A section just for premium players where VIPs cannot post is stupid. Yes some VIPs will slap premiums down, most won't and they would be the best people to help newbies among the premiums.