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Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement.


Four years.

I will say that again in case you misread it.

Four years.

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... of my life you've stolen form me as I've stared at the screen and tapped the keys in endless rapture. You heartless monster. I think I love you.


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That’s not to say we haven’t been without our missteps. We’ve implemented a couple things imperfectly (Epic Archetypes and Enhancement Diversification come to mind), which caused a lot of headaches for us down the road. I can’t promise that we will never make mistakes, but I will say we will do our best to ensure that we don’t repeat them.

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I think, after all this time, post IOs, that I've come to like ED and understand why it had to be done. However, the way in which it was done should never, ever happen again.

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I can’t tell you how excited I am for our game’s future, and although we have some major announcements yet to be made, one of the things I can talk about is a feature that we are planning. Similar in concept to our character creator, it allows you, the players, to create missions and story arcs for your characters and others to participate in. You’ll be able to pick the map, villain group, and objectives, as well as write the dialog and any clues needed for the missions. When you are satisfied with it, you can upload it and have other players across all servers play it and rate it. Fame will come to the players whose stories rate the best overall. It is features like these that we never dreamed of including when we first shipped, but are excited to be able to offer players very soon.

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HOLY FRIGGIN [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS]!!! That's... that's... AWESOME!!!

I do have a bunch of questions though (but I'll stick to the 2 major ones):

1) Will players get actual rewards (xp, inf, salvage, recipes)?
2) If the content is accessed in-game (which should then answer "yes" to my 1st question), how will we do so?

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In the end I just want to send out a thanks to all of the players of City of Heroes and City of Villains. Everyone, from the veterans who have been with this game since it launched (and even earlier for some beta testers!) to the users who just subscribed last week, have made this the most fun game to work on in my seventeen years in the industry. I look forward to reviewing our accomplishments this time next year when we celebrate our 5th anniversary!

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QFT. As much as things/people in this game frustrate me from time to time, this is hands down the best MMORPG experience I've ever had. Thank you FREEM 15 for making a game I've loved "wasting" 4 years of my life on, and thank you CoV/H community, for the best MMORPG player-base I've had the privilege to run/chat (/argue) with.

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If you're not using your email at all, you can just ignore it and who cares how much spam is cluttering your inbox.

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Instinctual reaction to seeing any Red in the interface is that it is important. Even one email turns the option red, and it becomes distracting.

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Otay...

Meh like I've said, not against the idea of having a "turn all email off" function, just don't see it as anything resembling a high priority. The email spam is a bit annoying, but it's the RMT tells that just have to go.

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add an email off option for those who dont want any email.

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I don't really have a problem with this per se, but why?!?

If you're not using your email at all, you can just ignore it and who cares how much spam is cluttering your inbox.

Agreed. Even if some of my posts got axed (a first I think) as part of the offensive-off-topic purge, I think this thread is better off w/o the nonsense I'd responded to.

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My interpretation of your posts has been that people are not allowed to contribute to a discussion unless every word they type and the interpretation of their posts meets your approval.

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Not at all, but you should be very careful of what you type. While you may not have said "I believe that NCSoft employees have...." you did imply that they may have.

Go ask someone you know outside the forums (Mentor, Teacher, Boss, Parent), what they would think about the following:

"Are some of these insider traders from the accounting department with little businesses on the side? That might make sense to me considering they'd have access to the books right at their fingertips."

It might not be blatantly stated as an accusation, but it still is one.

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I'd have to agree with this sentiment. I read your initial post exactly the same way. At the very least you're casting aspersions on NCNC employees. That may not have been your intent, but that is certainly how your post reads.

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List of things you'd like to say to Hardcase:

READYGO!

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You [censored] [censored] why I oughta! [oh the language!] you, you [you kiss your mother with this mouth!?], [oh my...] your noise you [bleep] [censored] [for crying out loud...] [THINK OF THE CHILDREN!]. Verandi rocks, and you're over here mucking with our fun. The nerve.

Can't wait.

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<[u]LOL![u]|

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also BLUE WIRE! CUT THE BLUE WIRE!!!

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THERE IS NO BLUE WIRE!

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Oh crap.

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LIES!!!

There are only blue wires... because the devs hate red.

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Sigh...so even with this villain-heavy issue....

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lol So true, so true.

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I say, ah say, that's a joke son.

Boy's about as sharp as a bag of wet mice...

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also BLUE WIRE! CUT THE BLUE WIRE!!!

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THERE IS NO BLUE WIRE!

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Oh crap.

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LIES!!!

There are only blue wires... because the devs hate red.

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Remember, there was some announcement a while back that i12 would include the option to CLICK ON NAMES in the chat window to bring up more options. I bet petition will be one of these options. If not, it should be easy enough to add, theyve already laid the ground work.

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Good point. I'd completely forgotten about that. I suspect you're on the right track there.

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The way to wipe this out is to prevent any Level 1 (or perhaps Level 1-3) character from sending tells or emails to people that are not on their global friends' list. This will make it more difficult for the rank-and-file, level 1 spammer from blasting emails and tells out shortly after creating a new character.

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Takes less than 10 min to get to lvl 5-6 if you know what you're doing and have a little help from your friends. This will pretty much accomplish nothing.

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Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to be a jerk about it. I know it can be a pain to actually find some stuff. Just thought I would pre-empt some of the stuff you are likely to run into. Especially the "petition" thing, because it is sure to set off some people.

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Oh no, I didn't get you wrong at all. You were by no means a jerk about it. You stated clearly and addressed it in a rational means. I was glad to have your input. It would take an ungodly amount of time and energy to find all that info. And you saved me from a huge waste of time and headache posting it elsewhere. Thank you.

-BNH

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This recent outbreak of civility on the boards has got to stop!

GET WITH THE PROGRAM PEOPLE!!! This was a perfect opportunity for a prolonged flame war AND YOU BLEW IT!

Keep it up and the boards might just become a place more people want to visit. And we all know we don't want that.

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He's also excited about the addition of traditional RPG branching tree dialogue, something they didn't have in City of Heroes until this Issue and will now begin to use quite a bit.

"In this issue it's just the test bed for it, we got the tech late into the development process so we were not able to use it everywhere we wanted to," said Miller.

This allows them to put options into conversations or theoretically do things like present players with situations like which wire to cut when diffusing a bomb. It sounds simple, but it makes their options as mission designers much greater.

Miller could not - however - comment on whether they plan to go back over old content and backwards integrate this technology.

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ZOMG YAY

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What she said!

How exactly did this tidbit get buried in the back of a third-party interview? This is a serious potential paradigm shift.

-D

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As I believe the article alludes, the tech for this is only now coming to fruition, so it use in Issue 12 content is not likely to be heavy, nor, as I understand it, will Issue 12 involve heavy revamp of existing content making use of the new tech. So, from an Issue 12 perspective, it's a minor addition. It is pretty big for what we can do going forward, but that will most likely be a big bullet point for a future Issue when that work is undertaken.

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Understood. But, judging from the feedback here, and the excitement I've witnessed by my SG mates, the more this gets implemented, the better. This is a major, potentially game-altering feature if used correctly. This is exactly the kind of thing that can add huge amounts of re-playability to existing content. It warrants its own feature article/announcement in my opinion.

I think most of us understand that overhauling large amounts of the existing content is not a minor undertaking and is perhaps best handled in bits and pieces over time. But, I assure you, it would be time well spent.

As a suggestion, you might even want to set up a poll (it's been a while since you've done this, and it seems to generate player excitement) to see which story arcs or TFs people would most like to see get some retro-RP-branching-overhaul-love. Personally, this seems like a great time/reason to overhaul the Positron TF to me. Of course, to be be fair and address an existing imbalance, the red-side should get an all-new SF that incorporates the branching tech. Thus, both sides win... isn't that nice?!?





EDIT for lots of text and FIRST AFTER JULIE THE CRUISE DIRECTOR!!!

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Thing I am most interested in is the branching dialog tech.

It would be great if some missions (particularly villain side) allowed you to make some choices and see it effect the mission completion and contact dialog

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I fully expect to see this for new villain content. Unfortunately I expect that existing content will take time to be redone. Hopefully not to much time though, this is one of the problems on red side. The very static nature of the missions and that the player generally doesn't have any choices they can make. I expect that this could make red side more successfulf if they can go back and redo the missions.

I would love it if they could at least revisit one contact each issue. More than that would be delightful but if even one contact and their missions per issue could be fixed this would be good.

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I'm thinking this tech will be initially only implemented in the SoA story-lines. The whole "infiltrating Arachnos" element just screams for this...

Hopefully the feature will prove so popular, that they'll re-do major existing story arcs over time. Hey! How's about for I13 Posi's TF gets redone with this new tech and the villains get a brand-new TF using it?

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I wish there were some kind of checkbox that would auto-delete email from people that are not on my global or server friend list.

Lewis

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Add SG (and perhaps Coalition) list to that and you might be on to something.

Yes.

HOLY [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS]!!!

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He's [Positron] also excited about the addition of traditional RPG branching tree dialogue, something they didn't have in City of Heroes until this Issue and will now begin to use quite a bit.

"In this issue it's just the test bed for it, we got the tech late into the development process so we were not able to use it everywhere we wanted to," said Miller.

This allows them to put options into conversations or theoretically do things like present players with situations like which wire to cut when diffusing a bomb. It sounds simple, but it makes their options as mission designers much greater.

Miller could not - however - comment on whether they plan to go back over old content and backwards integrate this technology.

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Ok, quite simply put, this may be the most significant feature coming in I12, especially if they end up eventually going back and re-writing a bunch of the older arcs using this tech. We could see real consequences for failing certain missions, end-of-mission decisions that change the outcome of the mission (do you let the kidnap victim go, taking his/her bribe, or turn him/her in?) and real choices in mission selection ("Oh? If I don't fix this problem, you're telling me I'm going to regret it? Bring it!"), just to name a few ideas off of the top of my head.

I12 just keeps getting better and better....

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The only problem with using the /ignore_spammer command I see is the continuous use of nonsensical names used by most spammers, that makes it often impossible to correctly ignore. For the email that has been flooding our accounts specifically could the Dev's please add an in-game email address (per server) that we can forward the emails to (IE Email Petitions; Pinnacle Spammers; Virtue Petitions, etc). The player base can then easily forward the email along to the support team for their review/actions. Or add a button to the current in-game email structure to forward the email as a petition.

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I like this suggestion.

Also, haven't seen pr0n ads yet, nor heard about them from any other players. And in my SG, I'd be getting text messages about it as soon as it happened.

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As I mentioned in the original announcement, we have several improvements to the game coming in Issue 12 to address. While I don't have an exhaustive list of everything we are doing, it does include much easier ways to report abuse as well as ways to prevent abuse from the start (including limitations to Trial accounts).

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Julie, if you keep quoting/answering me, people are gonna start talking...

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The only problem with using the /ignore_spammer command I see is the continuous use of nonsensical names used by most spammers, that makes it often impossible to correctly ignore. For the email that has been flooding our accounts specifically could the Dev's please add an in-game email address (per server) that we can forward the emails to (IE Email Petitions; Pinnacle Spammers; Virtue Petitions, etc). The player base can then easily forward the email along to the support team for their review/actions. Or add a button to the current in-game email structure to forward the email as a petition.

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I like this suggestion.

Also, haven't seen pr0n ads yet, nor heard about them from any other players. And in my SG, I'd be getting text messages about it as soon as it happened.

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rofl i have never made any posts about leaving, ever I have however stated that i would never quit this game.

(not many games out there can top getting an awesome husband from)

i have however stated that champions online -prior to the more slots new announcement - *IS* going to be a game to wreckon with when it launches... because they have some stuff that sounds really nice.

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Hmmmm... it's possible that I may be confusing you with another forumite... I don't think so, but I was also pretty sure that there was a complete Perplex costume the other day, lol. Now the odds of me being wrong twice in one week are infinitesimal , but it could happen.

So... if I'm wrong, I'm sorry for poking fun at you.

Did you, or did you not, previously have an anime-ish female avatar with a big (babbling perhaps?) mouth? Cuz' that's the person I'm thinking of...

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618th after a Red Name!

Yay slots! Now to think of a way to explain to my wife why spending another $20 on the game is detrimental to my well-being.

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Think you may have forgotten a "not" or "-n't" in there somewhere, unless you have a really interesting dynamic in your relationship...

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hows about you think of my posts about that game as Passionate. Good or Bad or Doomeaque.
i just get passionate about the game, cuz i love this game.

more slots is something i have been downright begging for - for a really long time.. and tabbing the contacts.. this issue is getting better and better, now if they raise the inf cap and make a setting harder than invincable.. i might just die

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There's an influence cap?!? I wasn't even aware it existed... the fact that it's a problem to you is scary.

Also, I don't deny that your posts are passionate... but passionate does not preclude them from being overly/overwhelmingly negative. If I'm not mistaken, didn't you have a few "I'm leaving" posts too? Doesn't scream "I love this game".

But, be that as it may, I'm glad you're happy and excited. Welcome to my (current) world,

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im happy 99.9% of the time, people just read and interpret what i say to be negative.

its one of the perks with working from home.. i dont have any real stress.. so why would i ever be unhappy..


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Apparently 99.9% of the time I read your posts I'm seeing your 0.1%

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Ok, so it's not just me, lol. I waited to reply to this to see if anyone else had the same observations/impressions. After all, I'm sure there are many of P_P's posts I haven't read. The .01% ones just seem to pop up in the threads I frequent.

But hey, she's happy now!





[Let's see how long it lasts ]

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Yanno the end of Jay and Silent Bob strike back.. when they get peoples addys and hunt them down to kick their [censored]??

Yanno that part..

Well everyone who is whinning and crying and [censored] in this thread.. REALLY makes me wanna invest some loot and try and do it for realz

If you dont like it.. Leave

But srsly I have been freakin begging for more slots at just about any cost for over 2 years now..

Go the freak away if you dont like it..

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Who are you and what have you done with the real P_P?!?

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What are you talking about? She has been asking for more slots forever. I would be surprised if she wasn't totally ga-ga over more slots. And also rabid about protecting the ability to get more slots.

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But, but, but, but, but... she's happy!?! I can't recall ever seeing that.

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the additional slots are a dream come true - but they need to do something (even if its for just a limited time after the slots release) to make server transfers cheaper. I would love to consolodate the 5 servers i play just into the 2 main ones which i could with slots now - except then it is $10 per transfer which would total over $360 for me.

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Hmmm... perhaps a free server transfer with each free vet reward slot?

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Yanno the end of Jay and Silent Bob strike back.. when they get peoples addys and hunt them down to kick their [censored]??

Yanno that part..

Well everyone who is whinning and crying and [censored] in this thread.. REALLY makes me wanna invest some loot and try and do it for realz

If you dont like it.. Leave

But srsly I have been freakin begging for more slots at just about any cost for over 2 years now..

Go the freak away if you dont like it..

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Who are you and what have you done with the real P_P?!?