I sold most of my purples (I had to choose between saving my PvP IOs or Purples, I just didn't have enough toons to hold them both when copying characters). But I can give you some inf.
Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.
Kinda NOT giving my stuff away until mid November.
I have faith in the game will be saved !
In a pinch, you can copy it to the beta server where you can buy ios for free and emp merits are just 1 inf. After iod and T4d to the gills, head to rwz and solo a pylon 
In fact about 4 players took down the mship shields and started planting bombs.
Thanks for the help everyone! I'm pretty much enough of the way there now that I should be able to do the rest without a problem!
Thanks again!
Sooparyan
Cant remember which of the old guard in my stable have the purples. I did buy a set of heta. that I havent applied to anyone that I dont think can even be traded.
At this point my characters will die as they were with everything intact.
Although it crossed my mind to go ahead and sell off the ones that are already gone in their storyline but then I thought, what the hell would I do with the inf? Already have hundreds of millions that I have nothing to do with so just decided to let it all go down with the game.
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Even if it is, won't be worth playing after so many have left, including the talent behind it.
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Originally Posted by rsi
Kinda NOT giving my stuff away until mid November.
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(shrug) I think they'll come back (the players). As for the devs, we had very few of the original personnel. Staff turnover isn't a huge big deal.
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Even if it is, won't be worth playing after so many have left, including the talent behind it.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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Depends on how well the code had been documented. Parachuting in a new Dev team, even for just routine maintenance, is NEVER trivial. Anyone in the business of software knows this.
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(shrug) I think they'll come back (the players). As for the devs, we had very few of the original personnel. Staff turnover isn't a huge big deal.
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Originally Posted by CyberGlitch
Depends on how well the code had been documented. Parachuting in a new Dev team, even for just routine maintenance, is NEVER trivial. Anyone in the business of software knows this.
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Originally Posted by mauk2
Evil_Legacy became one of my favorite posters with two words.
"Kick Rocks." I laffed so hard. Never change, E_L! |
Since it's Paragon's General Manager that's handling the negotiations with NC Soft, I don't know why people are starting to assume that "saving" the game would somehow involve NOT re-hiring as much of the previous dev team as possible. I doubt they wouldn't jump at the chance.
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Depedshow many have moved on already with new jobs. I'm sure they are very talented people and with that talent, means there is a demand for that talent. I doubt many of the dev team will have to sit in the unemployment line for a long period of time. The down side is many, by the time negotiations are over, probably may have found another job elsewhere. I'm sure they believe that negos. will go well and think the game can be saved but when it boils down to the reality of having to feed yourself and or family, sometimes sitting around waiting for the unknown is not possible. Some may drop what ever new job they have and run back to work on COX if negos work well, some may not.
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Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
Since it's Paragon's General Manager that's handling the negotiations with NC Soft, I don't know why people are starting to assume that "saving" the game would somehow involve NOT re-hiring as much of the previous dev team as possible. I doubt they wouldn't jump at the chance.
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Evil_Legacy became one of my favorite posters with two words.
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Same/better salary? Same/better benefits? Doubtful in either case as the "saved" COH will likely be run on a shoestring budget and a skeleton crew. And let's not forget the confidentiality and non-competes in place with the old employer will need to be removed to even allow for this. Then you are talking about everyone moving to a brand-new, high risk startup likely without any benefits program in place at all.|
Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
Since it's Paragon's General Manager that's handling the negotiations with NC Soft, I don't know why people are starting to assume that "saving" the game would somehow involve NOT re-hiring as much of the previous dev team as possible. I doubt they wouldn't jump at the chance.
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"Great Community" isn't enough. Even if the negotiations are successful, building a newco on the ashes of the old is a high risk maneuver. Doing it without the devs that know the code is all but impossible. And how many players are willing to pay $30/month to keep playing if that's the new price point to keep the game stable and prosperous.
Goodwill may be nice, but the entire subscriber base only managed to scrape up enough dough to pay for a couple of dinners. What if we have to pay for the developer salaries via higher gaming fees? Think everyone will go along? What about the inevitable cost-saving measures like reduced server availability, reduction in new content releases, forced server consolidation, etc? People always ALWAYS react negatively to change at first. What few subscribers remain after the reboot aren't likely going enjoy the reality that while Paragon may yet live, the city maintenance crew is going to be spread mighty thin, the taxes will be higher and any new things like power sets, content and fixes will take forever to manifest, if ever at all.
Not to mention that there it is likely that all player-created content (including all characters) won't be so easy to migrate to the rebooted version of CoH. A handful may have used the extract tool (assuming the new version allows importation), but most players could return to an empty character roster. You think that's going to be welcomed? I've seen nothing to indicate a solid plan for game continuity....sacrifices will be made and some (most?) players aren't going to like the personal sacrifice this will entail.
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I am in the business of software. I didn't say it was trivial. I said it wasn't a huge big deal. There's a bit of range between those two extremes.
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Depends on how well the code had been documented. Parachuting in a new Dev team, even for just routine maintenance, is NEVER trivial. Anyone in the business of software knows this.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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Either you're deliberately spouting BS or you have no clue. The *GOAL* was to raise $1000 within a few days. That $1000 figure was reached in about 3 hours, before the staff at Titan Networks even had time to get the web tracking update working and they had to shut it down to avoid overshooting by too much.|
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Goodwill may be nice, but the entire subscriber base only managed to scrape up enough dough to pay for a couple of dinners.
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So, the success of that effort was amazing, rather than some sort of disappointment.
Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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I don't know where you're from where around eighty meals is "a couple", but it sure ain't anywhere I know of. And we "only" managed to scrape it together in "only" three hours - heck, there was almost $200 in donations before it was even announced because some sneaky people were watching the recent changes page on the wiki.
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Goodwill may be nice, but the entire subscriber base only managed to scrape up enough dough to pay for a couple of dinners.
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Paragon Wiki: http://www.paragonwiki.com
City Info Terminal: http://cit.cohtitan.com
Mids Hero Designer: http://www.cohplanner.com
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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.
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Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
Since it's Paragon's General Manager that's handling the negotiations with NC Soft, I don't know why people are starting to assume that "saving" the game would somehow involve NOT re-hiring as much of the previous dev team as possible. I doubt they wouldn't jump at the chance.
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1. Which will pay better
2. Benefits whether medical or 401K
3. Who the new COH Owners/Investors would be and would they want the old staff back or seek newer talent at possibly cheaper salaries?
4. Overall stability and long term future of new owners/investors.
5. Any NDA/No Competition clauses
While some may love to come back, certain practicalities may prevent them.
Note the words "as possible" in the phrase "re-hiring as much of the previous dev team as possible"
So many people seem to be assuming that "as much of the previous dev team as possible" (and I stress those words for emphasis this time) is zero, and that the General Manager of (what was) Paragon would, after going through all the trouble to pry the IP out of NC Soft's hands, just go and grab a bunch of random people off the street to be Paragon II rather than reforming the studio as it was (or as close to it as possible).
I don't claim they'll be able to get everyone back - heck, I know a few have been snatched up already - but that doesn't meant they'll get nobody back.
There are values that lie between 0 and 100%, is what I'm saying.
My thread was jacked! Jacked, I say!
I think you owe me rent?
Or at least a kiss?
Flirty wink?
A handshake?
Anyone have a set of Armageddon's, Apocalypse and Ragnarok that they just don't need?
I would love to fully IO out my first 50 and I just don't have the time left (I think, to grind them out and get my hybrid), but I would love to see him fully done and do some serious SMASHing.
I thought I would have had all the time in the world to do so, but due to the impending DOOM, I do not.
My global is @sooparyan
Though i am not expecting this to come to fruition, I thought I would at least ask.
Enjoy the time we have left, it's precious and I'm still pretty sad it's coming to an end.
Thanks
Sooparyan