Goliath Bird Eater

Why hello there!

surprise!

To answer this specifically: we know that growth can't be a power; we cannot pick up items from the environment and use them as weapons; we cannot run or climb up walls; and water powers, while workable in theory, would necessitate raising the system requirements for the game if implemented the way the devs would like, and it's not worth it for one powerset.

I'm sure there are others, but these are the only examples I know of off the top of my head where developer commentary, either direct or second-hand, has flat-out said they cannot be done in the game as it currently stands (water powers being the exception).

Yeah ... too bad they learned to serpentine when near the guard towers.

And you know damn well that we have some of those folks running around here.

Or people deciding to buy the other new shiny - the one with the really pretty characters and all the wings - as opposed to CoH. Who knows? As I said, it's not as earth-shattering as the graph would seemingly indicate upon first glance. Especially since the data shows that there have consistently been between 5,000 and 7500 new copies of CoH sold per quarter for the past 3 years. Still not nearly as informative as subscriber info, though.

You're a good man, NoPants, but this graph needs a little work.

First of all, it's not labeled. For those wondering, this is the number of copies of CoH sold per quarter. Second, the graph makes things seem much more severe than what the numbers really indicate. The highest number of copies sold per quarter on this chart is shy of 7500, in the 3rd quarter of 2006. The lowest sold per quarter is somewhere in the neighborhood of 5300, in the 4th quarter of 2007. While there has been a drop in the number of copies sold since the 2nd quarter of this year, and the 3rd quarter sales for this year are on the low end of quarterly sales over the past 3 years, it's actually only a drop of around 1200. Not really DOOOOOOM-worthy. Also, we have no way of knowing how many of those sales were new players and how many were current players buying additional accounts.

Now, if we could still see subscription numbers, we'd have a much better barometer of the game's health.

Since it came from HeroCon, I can only assume that this was said by a dev. Sorry for being the dude who pees in your Corn Flakes.

This.

Beating up Nazi super-soldiers is a lot more satisfying than beating up Italian human-alien symbiotes.

Satanic_Hamster's a good poster; he really seems to care. About what, I have no idea.

"Nothing! Absolutely nothing!"

For the record, the Greater Mystic Aspect appears as a random GM, not just Eochai. It's also labeled as the Mystic Aspect when targeted. I've defeated it as Jurrasik, Jack in Irons, The Kraken, and Eochai.

Of course, Eochai still spawns in the zones as part of the regular Halloween event. So I understand there could be some confusion and suggest maybe adding something to the event description letting players know that the Mystic Aspect can take on many forms.



Ditto. Well, I sometimes get a little lag if the number of players and critters around a banner reaches critical mass. Aside from that, though ...

I'm all for anything that eliminates "Ding-Dong-Ditch"