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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I'm allergic to hops. This is no way stops me from drinking beer.
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Originally Posted by Starsman
Hmmm... curious... would not a non-lethal hop allergy result in an even stronger punch from beer?
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Blocking access to those abilities for no reason other than "well, we think only raiders should be allowed the l33t gear!!!" was a moronic decision for this game. This game was never WoW and the devs shouldn't have tried to act like it was.
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Originally Posted by JayboH
I disagree, and the evidence shows that's not true. iTrials were run all day and all night and there was a vocal minority that just repeatedly whined about it, making it appear that way. I also think that anything in this game that encouraged teaming was a plus. The problem comes in when the anti-socialists that come to escape their real-life anxiety flock to the game and think they should have it tailored to their personality quirks. I'm glad the devs stood their ground on this issue and continued creating end game content based on teaming and leagues.
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The teaming in this game is what made me like it so much. Seems every other MMO HAS teaming available if you look fo rit, but it's mostly a soloish type game. This is one of the main reasons I didn't/don't really like GW2. I hate soloing...which is probably one reason I loved CoH so much - there was always the ability to team; made even easier with exemplaring and the super sk system. I loved the itrials....the league feeling was fun to me and felt very epic.. heroes/villains uniting together to achieve one goal (for varying reasons).
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Originally Posted by JayboH
I disagree, and the evidence shows that's not true. iTrials were run all day and all night and there was a vocal minority that just repeatedly whined about it, making it appear that way. I also think that anything in this game that encouraged teaming was a plus. The problem comes in when the anti-socialists that come to escape their real-life anxiety flock to the game and think they should have it tailored to their personality quirks. I'm glad the devs stood their ground on this issue and continued creating end game content based on teaming and leagues.
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Originally Posted by Paladiamors
I love you, I Burnt the Toast!
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Originally Posted by JayboH
Sean "Dr. Aeon" McCann confirmed today he is working on Star Trek Online over at Cryptic, at least according to his Twitter account.
Andy "Zwillinger" Belford is now at Electronic Arts. Fire Man (aka Bass Ackwards) is now at Trion Worlds. Phil "Synapse" Zeleski is working for Carbine Studios. Who else has said what they are doing? |
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Originally Posted by Starsman
I also disliked, btw, the fact that all incarnate abilities were homogenized across ATs.
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Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
The teaming in this game is what made me like it so much. Seems every other MMO HAS teaming available if you look fo rit, but it's mostly a soloish type game. This is one of the main reasons I didn't/don't really like GW2. I hate soloing...which is probably one reason I loved CoH so much - there was always the ability to team; made even easier with exemplaring and the super sk system. I loved the itrials....the league feeling was fun to me and felt very epic.. heroes/villains uniting together to achieve one goal (for varying reasons).
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
How cute.
Yup, the itrials were run all day and all night. Even more of a reason not to **** over the soloists over it. Too bad we had all the whining fanboys bawling their eyes out that fixing the solo path would lead to the itrials never being run by anyone. Again, it was nothing more than a case of self-centered ******* telling us all, "**** you, I got mine." Aside from that, you might want to read up on the difference between asocial and antisocial. |
As someone who enjoyed both soloing and teaming, I preferred more options. The game, for the most part, allowed me to both when I wanted to.
While some preferred to solo, and some preferred to team, more options would have been better for all. Just because you liked to play the game your way, doesn't mean the other perspective was wrong.
More options=better game.
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Originally Posted by PapaSlade
Rangle's right....this is fun.
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Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down
As someone who enjoyed both soloing and teaming, I preferred more options. The game, for the most part, allowed me to [do] both when I wanted to.
While some preferred to solo, and some preferred to team, more options would have been better for all. Just because you liked to play the game your way, doesn't mean the other perspective was wrong. More options=better game. |
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I'm allergic to hops. This is no way stops me from drinking beer.
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So I have cultivated appreciations for wines and vodka. (Not together, mind you.) 
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Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down
As someone who enjoyed both soloing and teaming, I preferred more options. The game, for the most part, allowed me to both when I wanted to.
While some preferred to solo, and some preferred to team, more options would have been better for all. Just because you liked to play the game your way, doesn't mean the other perspective was wrong. More options=better game. |
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Originally Posted by JohnRobey
Star Trek Online (per their forum) players look delighted to have a content dev join their MMO.
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Agreed. I would have rather seen abilities tailored to each AT.
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Originally Posted by Fire Man
Pretty sure Black Pebble moved on to being a horse-carriage driver.
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I'm gonna get the double -- the covetted FPARN and SPARN. With one post.
Newb.
Edit: damn, beat by less than a minute 
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Originally Posted by Black Pebble
True story. "Fire Man" got his name because he's the size of every Megaman/Rockman bad guy - 2 feet tall.
Oh and FPARN. |
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Whatcha sayin, man?!? That I'm a cheap date?
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| All it does is clog up my sinuses. I've gotten into the habit of popping allergy pills if I plan to do any serious drinking. |
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... which also helps me get drunk faster. Ok, yes, I'm a cheap date. |
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Originally Posted by Black Pebble
You weren't the only one.
Insert usual disclaimer here. |
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
If the itrials dried up with a fixed solo path, then that would show us that the majority only ran them to get the shinies and never enjoyed them in the first place.
In either case, you'd be proven to be the ****** you so love to be around here. |
I always said that any solo path *should* be slower. It's slower to solo everything else in this game.
The problem for me was the insane disparity between:
A: The difference in real time between soloing content to 50 and running with teams to 50
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B: The difference in real time between soloing DA for incarnate shinies and running itrials.
All I ever wanted was for B to be far closer to A.
Why rehash this now? I hope some of the devs are still reading these forums and I hope that they don't make the same mistake in future games they work on because I like, for the most part, what they did here and would be more than willing to check out their new projects.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I hope some of the devs are still reading these forums and I hope that they don't make the same mistake in future games they work on because I like, for the most part, what they did here and would be more than willing to check out their new projects.
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Originally Posted by corinna
And it looks like Zwillinger landed at EA, aka the dark side.
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| Rejoined really, but yessir. |