Anything new in the market this Tuesday?
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Posted on: 2012-04-10 12:18 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I was going to come out of luking to post this request so THANK YOU Zortel for asking this.|
Originally Posted by Zortel
Thank you. It's crazy when 48 slots just isn't enough, but each time a new power set comes out I get a concept for them, and sometimes get concepts for older power sets. If I'm lucky I can revamp an old, old character for a new set (Like turning my Dark/Dark Defender into a Dark/Dark Controller).
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I would also like to ask Zwil if he could suggest to the devs maybe making the character slots autogenerate when you completly unlock a page. e.g. I have just unlocked my final slot on page 4, a new page of locked slots opens, repeat to infinity if we spend the coin.
thanks
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Oh. Okay. I guess you showed all of us, then.
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Originally Posted by Natsuki
Congratulations, sale lost due to poor communication and antics in regards to the staff melee and not being transparent from the beginning. I have lost interest in this set and will be passing on it. Good day sir.
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/signed. Please forward this suggestion straight to the Devs.|
Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
This could be solved by changing the character select screen so that instead of pages of names, all your characters are displayed in the form of a costume contest under the statue of atlas and you select the one you want to play by clicking on it there. I'm not a programmer but I think this would be trivial to implement.
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Make sure all the characters are doing random emotes while waiting for you to pick, too.
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*Expletiv--wait, what?|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will all be pleased to know that Staff Fighting is coming next Tuesday.
GOOD MORNING.  |
Good to hear it's finally comin' out!
I can...hold...out...for a...week...erk...
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If staff fighting had come out on or even just closer to the stalker revamp I would've bought it instantly.
Though they held off on it past the stalker changes and DXP and now I've got a stalker up to 45, a TW/EA scrapper psuedo-stalker at 35, I don't really have the urge to do another new character until I get the stalker to fifty and thrown through DA to see if a more survivable AT makes it more palatable (oh look, more soft control immune EBs with two shot kill ranged attacks).
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I'm sure the other names are already on my ignore list for trying to level me 1-50 in 20 minutes and give me 25BN inf.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Aha! So you ARE marketing!
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Calling Aracnaville. |
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I'm sure that there's some sort of programmer logic behind it that involves math or something.
Math is hard. |
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Dude, last week they gave us a Liger vanity pet.|
Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU
Nice one Devs, probably THE most boring weekly release so far. |
It really doesn't get more "meh" than that, if you ask me.
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
I'm not a programmer but I think this would be trivial to implement.
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"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
Eh. Not particularly feeling interested in Staff now. Maybe I set myself up with way too big an expectation, but given what I've know about the set and how long I've known about it, combined with how long it's taken to show up just depresses me and leaves a sour taste in my mouth about the entire process. It won't impact overall sales in any manner I'm sure, but I'm not exactly interested in paying for it now. Oh well.
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There was a time when if I had read this announcement, I would have went "SQUEEEE!!!"|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will all be pleased to know that Staff Fighting is coming next Tuesday.
GOOD MORNING. |
Now, the only response I can muster is "FINALLY!!!"
This dragging of feet on this powerset has actually lessened my enthusiasm for the set's release, I'm sorry to say. Will I get it? Yes, but probably after the big rush occurs, so maybe a month after release. It's now become a "I'll get it if nothing else I am interested in releases" purchase instead of a "HAVE NAO!!" purchase. The points I have saved for this set will sit a bit longer after release.
Ashes to ashes,
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Then you need new whips. All the tools exist in game:|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I'm not a programmer either, but I imagine some of our programmers are gnashing their teeth at this statement
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1)Take Atlas Park/Cap au Diable/Nova Praetoris maps and use them as backgrounds;
2)Seed your characters in a kind of visual turnstile, the tech exists in the costume creator with the left/right arrows;
3)Use a zoom tool to approach/decrease distance to characters.
So...yeah, probably a few weeks tops and I'm sure the programmers have SOME free time...
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will all be pleased to know that Staff Fighting is coming next Tuesday.
GOOD MORNING. |
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Next Tuesday is like tomorrow. He didn't give a date so as long as it comes out on a Tuesday he's safe.
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~ There is a sweet spot between being exposed to a set on test and slowly losing interest in it as time goes on. I think the time to release staff exceeded that time for me. I was *really* excited for it, but now my enthusiasm has waned. That's probably something you'll want to get metrics on. Everyone probably has a different time scale before interest wanes, but my instinct tells me that the time to release staff after the players were exposed to it probably hurt excitement over the set.
~ I would suggest having a schedule where you release new market items every *two* weeks instead of the current schedule of once per week. I understand the desire to have a consistent schedule, but now that I have a handle on the speed at which you develop new items I think the weekly schedule and the frustrations of weak releases is actually hurting the excitement on release day more than the weekly schedule is helping.
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Thanks for the heads up on Staff Fighting; will be saving my points and doing some server shuffling to prep up. 
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Very cool!
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will all be pleased to know that Staff Fighting is coming next Tuesday.
GOOD MORNING. |
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OMG. Setting up an entirely new 3D screen with multiple avatars that map to each of your characters, where none of those characters are loaded yet because you haven't entered the server? And dynamically modifying the layout to deal with the people who have 30 alts on one server? Do you have any idea how *long* that would take to implement. Soooooo much time. Ugh. I can't even imagine scoping that out.
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
This could be solved by changing the character select screen so that instead of pages of names, all your characters are displayed in the form of a costume contest under the statue of atlas and you select the one you want to play by clicking on it there. I'm not a programmer but I think this would be trivial to implement.
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Moonlighter
50s include MA/SD, MA/SR, DP/Elec, Claw/Inv, Kat/Dark, Kat/Fire, Spine/Regen, Dark/SD
First Arc: Tequila Sunrise, #168563
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second best returning player advice I got, right behind hey, try typing '/ah' the next time you log in. =P|
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Search is definitely the way to go. I think I recommended it to Nethergoat in his returning player thread last week because any other way is just too slow.
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I'ma gobble up some of those discount server slots.
More slots would be ridiculously useful right now, and even if I re-sub it's something you can never have enough of.
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I don't even know what to say to this. The system you are proposing would be ridiculously time intensive in any graphical client-server environment I have ever worked on.
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Originally Posted by Neuronia
Then you need new whips. All the tools exist in game:
1)Take Atlas Park/Cap au Diable/Nova Praetoris maps and use them as backgrounds; 2)Seed your characters in a kind of visual turnstile, the tech exists in the costume creator with the left/right arrows; 3)Use a zoom tool to approach/decrease distance to characters. So...yeah, probably a few weeks tops and I'm sure the programmers have SOME free time... |
Moonlighter
50s include MA/SD, MA/SR, DP/Elec, Claw/Inv, Kat/Dark, Kat/Fire, Spine/Regen, Dark/SD
First Arc: Tequila Sunrise, #168563
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A few weeks tops?|
Originally Posted by Neuronia
Then you need new whips. All the tools exist in game:
1)Take Atlas Park/Cap au Diable/Nova Praetoris maps and use them as backgrounds; 2)Seed your characters in a kind of visual turnstile, the tech exists in the costume creator with the left/right arrows; 3)Use a zoom tool to approach/decrease distance to characters. So...yeah, probably a few weeks tops and I'm sure the programmers have SOME free time... |
Have you ever done game design and production? You're off by months.
My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
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I just about pulled the trigger back then with 4 slots still available and had asked myself the same question. Glad I waited. Got another 5 so I'm set on slots for awhile now. |
Originally Posted by Hopeling
Me, two weeks ago: I should buy some character slots while they're 25% off. Who knows when they'll go on sale again? *buys slots*
This week: character slots 50% off, previously purchased slots not even filled yet. *facepalm* |
Just waiting for storage sales now.
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Yes, those hours between 1 am and 8 am are being wasted on sleep. |
Originally Posted by Neuronia
So...yeah, probably a few weeks tops and I'm sure the programmers have SOME free time...
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(Snarkiness aside, Engineering time is almost always tight and in high demand.)
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
...We will, of course, have items featured next week that compliment Staff Fighting.
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I have an issue with Staff Fighting, but that's because the powers team is married to the idea that stalkers MUST all have the same four powers, when I'd be fine without build up.
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