City Of Heroes Freedom Friday: 2/10/12 - Did You Know That CoH Is A Clone? Neither Did I!

And your comment is about as relevant as their answer. Since the question is about what will happen with future trials, what leads you to believe that making your statement about all current trials is a meaningful thing to say?

To repeat - how about actually answering the questions that were actually asked, then instead of evasive non-answers?

Thank god. It always irritates me when a minority of players seems insistent that the devs need to step in and manipulate prices on the player market just because they can't afford something.

Positron said in one of the Ustreams that he's opposed to this, because SGs are not intended to be solo content. So don't hold your breath.

And, yet, the answer we get when we ask for individual player housing is that we should make a solo SG and make a basic base if we want a private "house".

We add to SG bases as time allows. over the last 2 Issues we've made some decent QOL improvements (More easily manipulation of objects in the designer and increased nodes on the telepads) and we'll most likely do more as we're able to.

When it comes to bases we tread very lightly. It's a legacy system which takes a significant amount of time to reverse engineer any time we want to do *anything* to it. Because player bases are tied to it, and subsequenty a significant investment of your time, anything we do is going to be done in a methodical and cautious manner.

It's not on a schedule right now but it's a feature we know is wanted.

As Tunnel Rat has said both on Ustream and her all things art thread, she's investigated it. I don't know if she's scoped out the amount of time it would take or if it's been approved by production, however the FX team has done more than just nod gratuitously at it.

Stock Synapse answer every time he's on Ustream (he'll be there again this Wed): If it's within reason it will eventually be proliferated. It's just a matter of time.

We're adding new maps every issue, including a new cave map with Issue 21 and (I think) another in 22.

No.

No. We know people want it, however right now it poses to much of a risk from a customer service standpoint. It's very easily exploitable by RMT'rs and opens us up to untold amounts of fraud.

Yes, although I do not expect a fix in the immediate future.

The current Market interface doesn't support this. We do not have direct control over this. I imagine there's other concerns such as performance and how much real estate this would take up in the interface, but that's between our vendors and the graphic designers.

Don't forget you can always preview costume parts in the costume creator which will let you jump directly to it in the market if you don't own it. This feature was added in Issue 21 to accomodate players seeing items before they purchase them.

If you've seen how frequently we're putting out Power Sets these days, you know that the likelihood of this happening is probably better now than it has been in the past. We have some plans for defensive based secondaries/primaries, however I cannot say what AT's they're for at this point.

The devs spend a lot of time answering concerns and responding in the beta forums. This is the content they're currently working on and thus requires the most direct interaction. When they have time they answer questions in the non beta forums, but that is less frequent.

Keep in mind that I do a Ustream broadcast every week. Each Wednesday at 10:30 AM Pacific you can join us and ask your questions in real time as we usually have a developer stop by and chat for awhile. We always dedicate the last 15-20 minutes to Q&A and we rarely shy away from any questions, so long as they're asked in a respectful and non trollish manner. We also record and archive each episode, so as long as you don't mind sitting through a bit of tangenting, there's usually some decent information to glean from them on a weekly basis.

On a broader scope: If we can provide a more detailed answer, we will. If we can answer it, but only in general terms, we will. It's my belief that it's just as important to acknowledge a concern or a request as it is to provide a specific detail regarding it which is why we will always acknowledge a question as a known quantity when it's appropriate for us to do so.

Hey Z, nah it was a show about video game addiction. I wrote that at the start before they showed your wife and twins going through a scary birth deal.

I was VERY impressed by the way you stayed so calm on camera when talking about such a serious thing. Kinda put the online gaming with your buds into perspective.

Cheers on your 61 levels marathon man.

Wait, what? There's a third party contractor doing your online sales?

Ah then it was Second Skin.

I think it was Current TV that bought the rights for it and renamed it something much more sensational like "My Gaming Addiction". I was a bit disappointed at that because I felt the original title was more evocative and less tabloid-ish. C'est la vie.

No, we work with a vendor to build the Market Interface and implement the Paragon Market into the game. The actual "running of the store", i.e.; putting up items on a weekly basis, inventory, etc, etc is all done by the business team here at Paragon.

You forgot to mention them twiling their moustaches as they set the prices.

It's a given.

Zwill - thank you for replying...truth be told I didn't actually expect a reply - my hope was maybe someone who could go/does go to the UStream would maybe ask one of my questions (OK not the i22 one though). Regarding bases - yeah I know they are fragile and the designer who did them has not been around for ages...I guess I was just hoping more in game items that we see in missions would be ported in - something I know we have been asking for a long time. I see all these cool things in missions and I just imagine what I could do with them in my base. I wish I could attend a UStream, but like many people I work Mon-Fri 8A-5P, but I will gladly call off one Wednesday since you agreed to pay my salary that day (I deciphered your code and saw that you said that in your message, but don't worry I won't tell anyone how to decipher your code!)

So you read it here first people.... Issue 22 is going live on February 28th! (Hides decoder ring)

Originally Posted by Paladiamors I love you, I Burnt the Toast!

Obvious answer...watch at work! Who needs productivity! (The preceding is meant in a joking manner. Please do not lose your job because you were watching War Witch and I talk about donuts).

Ah, OK. I suppose if you ever hired your own 2D/UI coders who were fluent in Flash, you could do that work yourselves, eh?

Yeppers that was the show. I am a TOTALLY camera shy person, I find it interesting how comfortable the younger generation is in front of the camera. Cheers.

Well, to be fair, I was a Drama major in college.

And awwwwww...you called me the "younger generation"! How nice!

Zwill is not just blowing us off when he says this. There are bases out there that have tens of thousands of elements, and are incredibly complex. By this time base designers have cumulatively spent centuries editing these bases. Making changes to the software that cause "minor" changes to the way things plot or stack would result in thousands of hours of effort for base designers to rework their bases.

The hilarious part of this complaint is that there is already a price cap on the market.

You should fire them and get someone who knows what they're doing.

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

The fact that the buyer determines the price more than the seller is control enough. It's not the sellers that are inflating the prices, it's the buyers.

The other obvious answer: Most of the weekly Ustreams are recorded and are available for viewing at your leisure fairly soon after they're finished.

Yep I feel the same way. You know what is weird, their competition is more open on projects to their players than the ones on this game.