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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven View Post
    I hate that "sexualized females" is called that. I am a fan of this game... but Penny is no kind of service I want (nor was Desdemona).

    Love when a term like that is just fraught with an exclusionary subtext.
    What about Maelstrom? He's easy on the eye for both genders
  2. Ideally, CoH would operate in a serverless environment, but if that's not possible, the cross-server teaming offers the biggest scope for lettign everyone team with everyone else.
  3. Yeah, the storytelling's been on a steep upward curve since I17 and the clone/doppelganger arcs -all the new little bits of tech they've added has let them create way more dynamic stories than the older content - especially the launch content.
    The latest bit of tech is the new temporay power bar, which is used in a I23 to let the player play as a well known NPC, only instead of the way it was done in I22, where you didn't have any powers while doing it, the new tech now lets the game still gray out your normal powrs, but gives you a selection of powers that belong to the NPC instead.
  4. The 2 non-English servers will stay "dead" if they keep the language message beside their names on the server list - that will put off any non-French and non-Germans from even trying them out.
    The server names don't need to change, the he language messages beside them do.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Alpha-Six View Post
    i would lock this thread and bury deep deep in the archives where it would never be seen again!
    It should be preserved as a warning to future generations
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by dugfromthearth View Post
    this is Golden Girl's fault btw
    although to be fair she did want steam horses

    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=179324
    That's stretching it a bit
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    The reply, from my perspective, was closer to 50/50.
    "Maybe" is still negative when someone asks for something
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    We're seeing it as a Studio tomorrow morning, so if the devs come back with some craaaaazy ideas, you'll know why.
    I demand Chair Fighting/Mastery
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Seen the movie, but didn't see much that we haven't already got somewhere in the game first.

    Alien invasion? Check.
    Hot chicks in tight outfits? Check.
    Spaceships that blow up if attacked? Check.
    Characters that don't get along until the big fight? Check.
    Characters that switch sides? Check.
    Nukes? Check.
    Bombs? Check.
    Copyright ripoff characters? Check.
    Civilians that run around but never die? Check.
    An AV/GM that gets defeated? Check.
    Destructible environment? Check.
    Base? Check.
    Base Raids? Check.

    So what exactly do you think we don't have?

    Aside from

    Bruce Banner showing up on a scooter.
    Hulk sucker punching Thor (PvP) during the invasion.
    Loki being thrashed like a rag doll
    and actual buildings blowing up instead of just cars and stuff.
    We also have Penny Yin, which puts us miles ahead.
  10. This request was bright up at the Player Summit, and got a negative reply.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Meta_Genesis View Post
    Sick of slutted out Penny so ill go 2!
    And what exactly is "slutty" about her outfit?
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Megajoule View Post
    a couple of issues ago, it was the Bettie Page lookalike with a whip that they were shoving in our faces. Now it's Penny, replacing one character whose "costume" amounted to lingerie with the paramilitary version of same.
    You've got a pretty weird idea of what counts as lingerie
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Laevateinn View Post
    If you wanted to make Rikti invasions more like the movies, here's an idea - have a ground battle and an air battle. Rikti are teleporting in and heroes fight them off on the ground, but they're getting bombed all over the place and taking heavy damage. So a squad of flyers has to get up there and kill some dropships. The more dropships the flyers kill the fewer bombs fall on everyone else.
    Well, we can kinda do that now - but it needs a lot of people to help take down the dropships

    Currently, the invasions are designed in favor of small teams - there's just one objective that scales to the number of people fighting - adding multiple objectives would require there to be a larger number of players around to complete the event successfully - for example, if the event needed players to take out Rikti bombs at the same time as fighting off the invaders, instead of it being in 2 separate phases like it is now, along with taking own a set number of dropships and going up to a Rikti mothership floating over the zone to knock out its troop teleporters, then the event would be more dynamic, but it'd also need 2 or more teams to complete it successfully.

    Here's an example of a multi-objective Battalion invasion event that'd be dynamic, using only tech that already exists in the game, but would still be unfair to small teams - it's split into 4 parts, all of them happening at once, and affecting each other - they scale to the number of players invovled, but still require several players at each objective.

    1 - Shivan meteorites land in the zone, spawning Shivans - the meteorites need to be destroyed to keep the Shivan numbers down, or they'll appear during the other 3 objectives to reinforce the Battalion.

    2 - Siren's Call style hotspots appear at intervals across the zone, featuring Vanguard troops fighting the Battalion - failing to win enough hotspots give the Battalion a footing in the zone, and they use it to reinforce the Shivan meteroites and the guards on their starships.

    3 - A Vanguard NPC appears in the zone who can teleport heroes into a Battalion starship to disrupt their attacks and defeat their commander - clicking the NPC brings up a text window where you can decline to go, or agree to be tp'ed - agreeing to go sends you to an instanced map inside one of the starships, similar to the way the Winter Realm used to work, only with no lock-out timer on entering. Disrupting the Battalion on their ship reduces the amount they can deploy at the hotspots and meteorites.

    4 - Several Shivan/Battalion Giant Monsters roaming the zone - not just spawning and waiting, but moving around, similar to the way the Paladin moves through Kings Row. If the GMs aren't defeated, they'll turn up at the other 3 objectives.

    The Battalion are an Incarnate race, so the event also gives Incarnate rewards to any Incarnates taking part, and lasts 20-25 minutes - completeing 1 objective in that time gives you common salvage, completing 2 gives you uncommon salvage, completing 3 gives you rare salvage, and completing all 4 gives you very rare salvage.
    A Incarnate Trial objective window would be present to let everyone know the situation with the 4 objetives, so that the players could divide their numbers to balance them out.

    It's a multi-objective event that's suitable for the scale of the Coming Storm, with falling meteorites, pitched battles, rampaging monsters and swashbuckling attacks on enemy starships - amnd it allows players to choose pobjectves to suit what they prefer doing - they can stand and fight at the meteroites, chase GMs and hotspots across the zone, or hop onto an instanced map if they prefer missions to zone events, or if their computer can't handle the action in the zone - everyone would still be working together - but unlike the current invasion events, the whole thing is totally unfair to smaller teams.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    One would assume it has to some degree. On the other hand Marvel may look at it as an evolution in their business model towards being more "electronic/movie" based than "comic" based in the coming future. Same thing happened when telegraphs used to be the primary form of long distance communication and eventually things like telephones took over. Once everyone accepted telephones the telegraph was eventually phased out.

    I'm not saying that folks like Marvel are going to instantly stop making comic books tomorrow. I'm just saying that they'll probably be making their primary money from movies (and by extension electronic forms of media) instead of paper-based comic books in the years ahead.
    I think the big test for them will be the inevitable need to eventually repalce actors - like will they go the WB/DC route of obsessively rebooting each hero franchise when there's achnage of actor or director/producer, or will they follow the James Bond model and simply hire a replacement actor who'll carry on in the role as if nothing's changed?
    Comicbook readers accpet different artists drawing the same heroes in different ways, and if enough movie goers can be led to do the same, then Marvel could actually create a multi-decade movie universe, where there could be, say, 4 actors who've played Thor, but the events in the moves they were in are all part of one continuity.
    Like I think it'd be totally awesome if the Avengers assembled in 2022, and the characters were still the same people who took part in their 2012 adventure.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nericus View Post
    Current projections now show that this weekend the Avengers should surpass the $500 million mark (world wide) and keep on going.
    If it does turn out to be the hit of the year, it might just let Disney pretend that John Carter never happened

    Also related to that, it seems that Disney have had the sense to buy Marvel and just let them get on with it, instead of trying to add their own style to the brand.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Easily_Noobed View Post
    So waitaminute, if I have the set do I lose it when i23 comes?
    No

    The devs are cruel and heartless monsters, but they're not insane
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by _Klaw_ View Post
    How about a specific female set with tier 1 attack 'Hair flick to the eye'?
    That would require moving hair for our avatars

    Also, in a vaguely realted topic, doesn't the whole team get caputred on the Barracuda SF? And how exactly does it play out?
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven View Post
    I sure hope there was, cuz that doesn't sound very interesting...
    Well, Hawkeye's showing quite a bit of skin and some muscles, Captain America's outfit is quite tight across his chest, and Thor fills out his costume pretty well - and if it's your kind of thing, the Hulk is also working it
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Psychoti View Post
    Also, if my chain mail is that tight you are going to see a bulge. It's gonna happen.
    The men of Paragon City are paying their own silent tribute to their fallen leader.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Moonlighter View Post
    ~ Masks with geometry, with a variety of face patterns. Both a smooth porcelain looking mask, and a metal looking one like Doctor Doom, but changed to avoid copyright issues.
    Maybe a Nemesis faceplate?
  21. He might have been trying to mislead us about where his current HQ is located.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SinisterDirge View Post
    Who's the ewok?
    Shadow Hunter.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Redlynne View Post
    Please give "ample warning" before Celestial Armor is removed from the Tier 9 VIP Rewards and everything should be okay.
    This whole thread is ample warning