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Quote:Yep. Pre-purchase of something that isn't finished is inherently risky, because what you "bought" (i.e., reserved at full price) could change before it's done. If it changes, and those changes aren't acceptable, you have a right to cancel the purchase. The specifics of those rights vary from place to place, but once you have it in your hands your options diminish rapidly, especially since it's a low-priced mass-market consumer product and not, say, a custom-built house that you contracted for. If you got the product that was advertised at the time of retail release, which you did, and you didn't return it for a refund because it didn't match your pre-purchase expectations, which you didn't, then you are the proud owner of the product as released.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
So, if that was your reasoning for pre-purchasing GR you had ample opportunity to get a refund. Over a year after GR was released is a bit late to try to play that card.
You may well be disappointed about it, you may be angry or even enraged, but you were not the victim of fraud. (And by "you" I mean "the OP", not Texas Justice.)
Should Incarnate content be gated behind a subscription? Maybe; that's the company's choice. Do you have a right to Incarnate content without a subscription based on what you've bought before? No, of course not; but if you believe there's a legally-binding commitment by Paragon to provide it, then you certainly have the right to seek legal redress at your own expense. The lawyers wherever you live will be able to tell you if you have a leg to stand on. -
Quote:I haven't logged any of my rogues or vigilantes lately, so it isn't that. It's full heroes that I noticed it on, and full villains that I was switching from. Probably related to the switch in backgrounds from CoH to CoV color schemes based on the last character played.Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU
I thought that this bug cropped up if they were Rogue or Vigilante....
As SolarSentai said, it's just a display bug, but one that only seems to have appeared recently and which is just begging to cause confusion in new players. -
When switching characters, the zones are listed incorrectly after running a villain. For example, a hero who is actually in Atlas Park is reported as being on the Mercy Island map. This does not change the character's actual location, only the name that is reported on the selection screen. (I have not checked to see if a similar error occurs for villains in the list when switching after having played a hero. I have not checked to see if it matters whether you also change servers.)
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Quote:Yeah, these would make more sense if you actually had to face ambushes along the patrol route or if there was some other arc-related content that spawned at one of the phones. The way those are written implies that this will happen, but it never does. If instead you were told to 'patrol for Freak activity', and at some point along the route there was some actual Freak activity that mattered, something that might take you into a side mission or down a different branch, that could be cool.Originally Posted by Redlynne
No ... the thing that I object to are the "Patrol" missions that have you going around town to pick up the phone on these yellow callboxes FOR NO GOOD REASON.
On Virtue server, we call those chained "click a phone box" missions Pizza Runs. They literally serve no purpose other than to make you "run around" the zone ... ignoring everything in between the mission objectives. Heck, you don't even click on the callboxes and have your Contact give you "new instructions" or anything. It's just Click 'n' Run. They're just Travel Power Exercises ... and bad ones at that!
These might've been intended to get you to do some targeted street hunting, but they don't really serve that purpose. If you want to street hunt, you'll just street hunt. If you pick a mission you want to do a mission, preferably in an instance; any hunts or patrols will be dealt with as quickly as possible and with considerable grumbling. -
Quote:There are respecs granted with some veteran rewards. Although those cost real money in the form of subscription payments or other purchases from the store, they aren't something purchased per se.Originally Posted by DarkWalker
As for easily fixing the problem, how?
By planning the characters beforehand? ...
By paying real money for a respec? ...
By purchasing respec recipes? ...
By waiting for a free respec to be granted? ...
There are also 3 respec task forces per side which cost nothing and don't take too long to run through. Although that only gives you 3 respecs per character over 50 levels, over and above the freespecs which come out about every issue, and it sounds like you want to respec your characters every couple of levels. -
Quote:The "Planet Zeist" option. Something which should, in the name of all that's holy, kill a franchise, bury a stake in its chest, cut off its head, burn it, scatter the ashes, then lift off and nuke the ashes from orbit just to be sure.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
You *don't* say:
1. Hmm, it looks like Blue Steel's proving grounds were actually destroyed by the Rikti during the war. Hey, that gives me an idea: since we have to change Blue Steel's background anyway, wouldn't it be cool if he was an alien? And maybe its a planet where everyone is born with awesome martial arts abilities. It can be the planet of ultimate fighting! Blue Steel: strange visitor from the planet of ultimate fighting. That would be so awesome.
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Quote:I like Roy's arc a lot. It has varied gameplay, unique (or seldom-used) maps, a fun finale, and some idea that power has consequences. I try to run it whenever I have a character in that level range, like I do with Freakalympics and Keith Nance's arc. Wheel of Destruction, not so much; it's not terrible, but it could use some freshening up. There must be some other arcs in the 20s, but they aren't springing to mind right now, which suggests that they could be looked at for spicing up.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
Huh. People are really down on Roy Cooling. I'm normally pretty critical but I enjoyed Roy, primarily because his arc addressed part of the reality of living in a town where there are "haves" and "have-nots" and people begin to ask why those inequities exist.
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Depends on the situation. Usually I start with one seed; it might be an image of a little grinning girl with a big axe, it might be a theme concept (the sin of Envy), it might be a power combination, it might just be a terrible pun. Usually my characters fit into one of a few themes -- Virtue is my cow server, Liberty my sentai groups and P&P characters, Freedom my babes, etc. Sometimes there's a little research to flesh it out (e.g. Sin of Envy ended up getting colors and theme powers appropriate for Leviathan); usually though it comes down to tinkering in the character editor until everything clicks. Sometimes that ends in horrible fail, sometimes it works out better than expected. I'm still really happy with my SS/fire brute, Churrascaria; had no name until the very last minute, but he's a flaming wall of meat, and it works.
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Quote:I haven't seen any clarification of this, but I would turn the question around and ask if there are currently any account-wide cooldowns in the game? (I don't know of any, but I don't know every aspect of the game.)Originally Posted by enderbean
Did we ever get clarified if the 7-day timer is per arc or per character?
We do know that the game currently includes multiple forms of long single-character cooldowns; the weekly strike target cooldown, for example, is almost identical to this upcoming reward cooldown on signature arcs. I would be very surprised if this was _not_ an arc-per-character cooldown like the WST.
Edit: I have no idea how the WST cooldown is currently implemented in code, but the effect is to only get that reward once per week per character (per TF?) rather than once per week per TF.
Edit again: ...and it only just occurred to me that you might mean 'across all arcs for a single character' rather than 'across all characters in the account', which is an important distinction. Is it possible for a rogue/vigilante to get WST rewards twice by doing both the TF and the SF? If not, then I'm going to assume that we get the upgraded rewards once per character per week for doing any of the signature arcs, but only for the first (or first N, like tips.) Yeah, something that needs to fleshed out in detail by the devs. -
Wow, some cool ideas for Hamidon, Noble Savage. My thoughts:
1. ANIMATED CILIA - Could be really cool, whether they are occasionally grown or in constant evidence, especially if they're wiggly.
2. CELL DIVISION - Hmm, could provide a challenge, or could simply end up being annoying. Predictably, I am divided on this one.
3. SCROLLING SUB-SURFACE TEXTURES - Ooh, yes! It would give a stronger sense of what you're fighting -- and what you're IN.
4. DETAILED ORGANIC TEXTURES - Also an excellent idea. Capillary networks is one way to go, or it could be made to resemble firing neurons. Having something organic that moves intermittently would be awesome.
5. FLOATING DEBRIS/BODIES - On the one hand, I love this. It would be cool to see floating debris and bodies suspended within Hami as you wade into him to fight him. On the other hand, I see practical problems with it. For example, Gravity controllers and dominators would have to refrain from using Propel for fear of clogging up the area and obscuring Hami. I'm not sure how many other powers would contribute to clutter (trick arrow?), but if everything just hangs there, I could see people getting annoyed, even though it wouldn't affect targeting. Maybe if Hami actually digested the debris over time, or it just sank or was expelled eventually, that might mitigate the effect.
6. ADDITIONAL ORGANELLES - This could be really cool, but again, there could be the issue of clutter with this. As long as there aren't too many, and they are small-ish, and/or they are transparent/translucent, these could work.
7. CYTOPLASM BURSTS - I'd love to see that! Even though it will still take a good long time to take Hami down, seeing some kind of response to attacks will help make players feel like they're getting somewhere. Plus, squish!
I think it's important to make sure we can see what we're doing, while still conveying a sense of the creeping horror we are fighting. Ideally, there should be a sort of Colour Out of Space feel to Hami (and yes, I know, he's from Earth, not space), a kneejerk squick factor that leaves you with the impression that there are more horrific things about him that you can't quite perceive. The sounds used can help effect this, but I'm not sure whispers would really convey it -- actual words being used is too . . . human. The Hydra noises are very effective, but Hami's should be different from that too. Discordant sound, high-pitched and low, surging when Hami attacks . . . I wish I could come up with a way to adequately describe what I mean.
Adding in some kind of . . . subcutaneous subliminal images (not necessarily something as obvious as screaming faces, but something) to Hami's exterior or interior membranes could add to this, but it'll be important not to make him too busy-looking. Right now, Hami is cute and kind of pretty. I'm OK with him staying as-is, but having a creepy/scary Hami would be very cool.
PS: Hami's interior being swimmable would be great! Might have to add a Slow effect to convey the thickness of his, er, liquid, though. -
Ghost Widow is excellent, both the visual design and the backstory. Vanessa Devore is great -- creepy clown lady. *shudder* And I really like the Clockwork King. Something about the brain and googly eyes floating in the jar makes him disturbing yet hilarious (add in the possessive pedo aspect, and he's fully creepy).
I also really like Faathim the Kind and Rularuu the Ravager. I mean, you say 'floating giant in bejeweled sarong' and it doesn't sound intimidating, but in-game it totally is. -
Quote:Exactly. There's some understandable tension between wanting to keep your designs secret and the need to do good user-centered design if you want your product to be as successful as possible. Concept art is an ideal place to get feedback on proposed design changes from actual players with no connection to the development team. Partially-finished character models is the right place to make sure the design still hits the target.Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
The problem with that is that that comes very late in the development cycle, meaning if all the feedback you get is "I don't like it" you either have to waste all that time (and money) going back to the drawing board or ignore the feedback because you can't afford to do that. Certainly, most modern development lifecycles favour involvement of the user at earlier stages, through mockups, prototypes etc... rather than leaving the feedback until after the implementation phase.
It's really easy for developers to fall in love with their own ideas, it happens all the time. It's not easy to get used to continuous feedback, but it does help avoid the perception that the dev team has lost touch with their audience. -
Quote:According to Massively, today is the First Ward preview. However, it's not up in the official news feed yet.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Each week for the past several weeks there's been some big news or reveal regarding CoH.
It's Tuesday, a typical day for dropping info. Thrill me. -
Yeah, I was on a team last night where that happened to everybody off and on. It was fine inside the Eden trial and then it started lagging on a Ramiel arc.
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Hmm, possible power ideas:
Time in a Bottle -- chug it and suddenly you're way faster than everyone else
Time Sink -- open one on the floor and every enemy in the area is suddenly way slower than you
Time Vortex (or Time Tunnel?) -- targeted enemies will be sucked through and land wherever you place the portal
Time's Cruel Trick -- you can turn anyone you target into the New Year's Baby
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Alacrity
Occam
Titular
Ultimate
Wisdom
Indefatigable
. . . Derp?
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Quote:Those damn War Walkers. They always drink all the beer, too.Originally Posted by Jophiel
I suppose the developers could argue that, while Pocket D is friendly to being connected via private interdimensional portal, having the same thing to Praetoria is just inviting a bunch of Warwalkers to come in, rifle through your drawers, bust up your stuff and leave the refridgerator door open while you're not home.
Agreed -- that would be awesome.Quote:Originally Posted by BackFire
Add a Cimerora TP crystal to that wishlist!
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Quote:Actually, I'm more disappointed that no one posted this one:Originally Posted by DireAngelus
I can't believe nobody posted the "In the 80s" video yet...
"Eighties"
Well, 'til now.
Regarding an actual 1980's booster pack, I dunno -- only if we get a MacGuyver power, Electric Boogaloo dance emotes, a villain mish or SF where we kill the Breakfast Club, and maybe a Brazil power . . . though I'm not sure how an 'insanity as self defense' power would work in-game. -
Quote:Yes! Complete with a Waffle Badge, I hope. ^_^Originally Posted by Inazuma
Does this mean we're getting a Waffle Strike Target?
Dammit, now I want waffles.
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Quote:The Costume Slots window could have a drop-down added to it. Since it's already fairly wide, just have an arrow at the bottom similar to the ones at the tops of the power trays and inspirations -- click it to expand and the additional slots could be shown directly below the current ones without exceeding the screen capacity or necessitating smaller images or tabbing.Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Right now, we have the 5 slot window.
(This is not a rhetorical question) How would you go about designing the UI for more slots?
I'd say that the images in the window now are about as small as you'd want to go. So, I'd want to keep those costume images the same size. Would we need to scroll? Add a TAB? Page 1: 1-5 and Page 2: 6-10 (or whatever the numbers may be)
Whether additional slots are made available for free or for purchase, I'm all for the option becoming available. Though some of my toons barely use all 5 slots, most of them could easily use 10. I like to have one slot for special occasion/holiday outfits, but often I'll have enough costume ideas I want to use on a toon that I leave the holiday stuff by the wayside. To swap costumes using the Save Costume feature, you do still have to either spend the dough or use a free token.
Plus, the 'superheroes only have one iconic costume' concept doesn't take into account streetclothes or disguises.
I say if it's possible to add more costume slots, it should be done. It benefits those who want it and doesn't impact those who don't.
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Quote:On the off-chance you're serious, yes, Babbage spawns there. But the zone is a wasteland, almost nobody goes there unless badge hunting or for a few avoidable lowbie missions, so they only meet Babbage in the Synapse TF.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
There's a GM that spawns in Boomtown?
To be fair, though, people just don't seem to go to hazard zones for monsters anymore. Kraken spawned in Perez? Jurassik up in Crey's Folly? WTF is Adamastor? Nobody cares. Can't get even get teams for Lusca, and a few weeks ago I saw three copies of the Clockwork Paladin hanging out together in KR.
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Quote:I started out without a plan and got Cardiac for my rad/son, but looking up the tree I think what I'm going to want at the top level is musculature. So I have a notice and two incompatible commons for him at the moment. But I'm not in a hurry, I only have 4 toons at 50 so far (tank, scrapper, def, dom) and limited playing time.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
I've been using my BS/DA scrapper for most of the stuff I choose to run (so far the only of my 50s to get the Rare), but I have a Rad/Sonic Defender I'll grab if the team needs debuffs, even though I still have no idea what Alpha I'm going with on him. It's odd, he has a Notice of the Well, but he doesn't even have a common slotted yet.
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Quote:Such as... ? I really have no clue what content you could be talking about that would be gated by the Very Rare Alpha, unless it's something like trying to solo the Apex TF. (Which would be awesome, so GL!)Originally Posted by MunkiLord
A few percentage points can make the difference when trying to do something extremely difficult. edit: meaning personal goals that have nothing to do with teams.
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Quote:I like that idea a lot. I don't think those things have ever done anything I'm interested in, even when they worked. (They might work now, but I haven't clicked one in years, because hey, nothing of interest there if I do. Now if they told me personal stats like how long I've been online with this character instead of forcing me to chase down civilians with the right initials, then we'd really have something.)Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Again - Info Kiosks!
Remember those things that tell you who defeated the most of what in the zone and don't actually work? They're all over the place in City of Heroes, and there are a bunch of broken ones all over the Rogue Isles. I've always wanted to make the actually do something. Maybe even mark them on the map. -
Quote:What new challenges are you missing out on? Did they add some new missions or task forces that require a Very Rare Alpha? As far as I know, you'll have exactly the same content to play through with a Very Rare as you will with a Rare, Uncommon, or Common. You'll just be slightly less ueber when you do it. If a few percentage points difference in enhancement "force" you to sit on your hands for a week, I have no sympathy.Originally Posted by MunkiLord
The one week time limit is what I find irritating. Make it a day or two and I could deal with that. There are only two characters I am currently interested in playing currently, so now I have nothing I care to do except play the market for a week.
But if I was able to get my very rare this week, well then I would have a whole set of challenges I could go after over the next month.
But since I'm paying the same price either way, I don't really expect the company to give a damn that this is irritating.