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Jack was able to 'direct' the early CoH into the AT class system. He took the various departments who were all working on their pet systems and directed them towards a goal.
CoH is the result of that goal. I do believe that is why Rick left as he wasn't able to get a 'direction' going for CoH.

The man made his share of mistakes and many are more than willing to state them.

I don't think that Jack or even Cryptic is solely responsible for the Dev's downgraded numbers after CoV launch. It seems to be a by-product of post game launching. In order for something like that to happen, NCSoft would have had to agree in or even dictate the reduction in staffing. This was most likely based on the sales numbers and projected cost vs revenue gain of CoV. Had it been a super hit, they would have kept up a larger staff to support it.

Since we have all seen the 'support' CoV has gotten since launch, we know where the dollars come from 'majority wise'.
I somehow doubt that Jack alone caused that or wanted to cut staff.

I would easily believe that Jack took what he could and put that staff to work on the latest cryptic game engine and then MUO ... etc etc etc.

For good or worse, Jack did help to launch CoH, for that.. I consider it a good endeavour on his and Cryptics part.

Seems I'm a socializer.

There goes my plans for world conquest!

Welcome aboard the sub-game of CoH, the "Boards".

Here.. there be insanity lurking around every corner!
Of course, if we could get Thor's Assasin to stop standing by the corners..... that might solve that particular problem

Anyone know why he is always standing there?
I walked by him the other day and he sort of sashayed over and asked if I was looking for a good time??
Hmm I wonder what that was all about

Anyway ... welcome to the boards!

PS: T_A knows I'm kidding, he doesn't lurk, he stands there proudly haha.

Welcome back (again), stick around this time.. Issue 16 is shaping up to be a good issue!

I horde them as do most

I actually sort of hate having to break one out.
Most of the time they sit there and I forget I have them though, so my 'hate' doesn't come up too much

Well A_C,
It's very hard to come up with something of value for advice to give you. You have already gotten great advice from everyone else.

I will give my adivce in the form of not education, but life.

Games are a distraction for sure, however, you will soon be facing off against far more addictive and potentially dangerous distractions.

Stay the course my friend. You have always come across as someone with a head on your shoulders.
Do not lose you head in the coming years!

I will don my parental suit for a second here.

Stay away from the drugs, the gambling, the booze and mix smartly and with adherence to saftey and respect with the opposite sex.

Don't let any of those distractions pull you away from the reason for being there.

Have fun, but have *smart* fun!

Learn my friend, learn well and it will serve you throughout the rest of your life.
Learn poorly and it will haunt you throughout the rest of your life.

That is not a preaching to you A_C, it is my sincerest desire that you live to your fullest potential without any downfalls or pitfalls along the way.

Seen you around re-activation weekends my friend!

I would greatly agree that Michelle (Dark_Respite) should get an invitation to the closed beta.

She has done great work for community relations with her videos. Also the panel she held on 'how to'.

Thanks Manoa!

Once I read the post they all popped back into my little brain!

Fellow Justicites....
I have lost my mind... AND.... the location of the one, two possibly three known well used websites for storing of them.

In short, I can't remember the names of the sites that are recommended for holding small pics for avatars.

Could be highly stressed at work, could be busy end of month/beginning of month paperwork, or could be that I'm just getting too old.

Soo.. pony up all, what places do we use so I can go and retrieve mine.


Thanks!

The forgetful one!

Based on the announcement alone, I would say that it would be one wave of 60 + month vets.

Now, they may shortly announce that they find a way to split that into waves, but I am not sure how they would do that.
Perhaps:
Users who never unsubscribed at all
63 month vets
60 month vets
etc

That might give them a chance at waves *if* they find they need waves at all for that part.
I am hoping there are still many many 60 + month vets out there.

Yeah, not too bad, other than the color. I liked the other blue much better.

Wellll.....
Now that we have gotten *that* out of the way, let the fun begin!

I swear if you kids don't stop asking that. I will put over this internets and turn us all back around and head home!

Don't tell me you have to stop to use the bathroom, I told you to go before we left!

We will get there when we get there!

*famous lines that will never die*

Well we are not really *here*, but more of a *all around* type thing, but we know what you mean

Makes you wonder who will be the one getting the last post in on the old forums??

I wonder if the Forum people would actually keep track of that last post and sort of make it the first new post on the new boards.

Could be fun for the sake of idiocy I suppose

Welcome back!

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I hope this works; I've never done a photobucket public album before.

Operation Unlimited Justice photos, courtesy of Sapphire!

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Wow I'm in three of those shots!
Nice pics btw!

Bill,
Even by that description, wouldn't they provide content to 50 as a neutral?
If they do push you out at 10 (as your example), then there are no 'neutral' story lines out there.

That is to say, no story lines expressly for a neutral person.

I would hope that since it is a paid expansion, that it is completely on level with CoV.

Yes CoV was advertised as a stand alone game and has quite a bit in there. I do believe that everyone has always felt that CoV was just an expansion and today, Paragon doesn't even treat it like that


I would be seriously disappointed if Rogue is simply story lines such as we had for the Khelds and Veats.
That type of story is not befitting what Paragon Studios can produce for a paid expansion.

To me, two new power types, side switching mechanics,etc and Khelds/Veats degree of stories does not a expansion make.

I think we will be pleased with the stories that come out of Rogue from Paragon.

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Outback, welcome to the game.

Your analysis is true for those that play as your analysis has shown.

I prefer these 5 ATs to play like this:

Everyone dives in at once killing everything.
Race to next spawn.
Repeat.

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If you're a tank, dive in and kill things.
If you're a scrapper, try to beat the tank to the next spawn so you can kill things.
If you're a blaster, shoot the enemies before the tank and the scrapper kill them.
If you're a defender, buff your teammates and then kill things.
If you're a controller, lock things down and laugh as your pets kill them.

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Spacenut....
I laughed when I read what you wrote.
It is sooo very very true of CoH.
Happens to also be the playstyle of a few of my buddies and I when we are teamed up.
Death is but a laughing point and debt has no meaning.

When we play together, we are there for the good time to be had.

To say that perhaps once, twice... hell whenever possible one of us will target the debuff/buff stations in the tech map in hopes of nailing one of our buddies is an understatement.

To say that perhaps.. if you're resting you *might* have a mob OR three trained on you would only mean one thing. You rested too long!

To have one person go one way, two others go another way and then the first person coming running past both others laughing on the mic... welllll.... that just means the two should immediately turn and fire with everything they have!

City of Heroes...
It's not just a game, it's an adventure!

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What kind of Gift basket do you want?

I swear to all that is awesome this is the best thing ever. Its like tied with S*X

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Gift Baskets are nice, but I'm fat enough already, thank you. No need to send anything, really!

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So, thats code for ...
one of these...

Say no more!

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Pain,
If you're going to send them a gift basket from that site.....

Since they are "the best Dev's evah", I think you should send them Perfect Pains' Gift to Paragon Studios

Just my two cents on it haha.

Glad you are enjoying what I16 will bring.

Welcome Back to the game.

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Adding a silly note to this fun thread.

Beginning rampant baseless speculation...

What if when there is only one server out there, they still gave you all your slots from all servers.

A person could go buggy simply trying to find the character they wanted to play that session haha.

End of rampant baseless speculation.