Hyperstrike

You're laboring under the misapprehension that people ARE asking for this. They're NOT. Some of this stuff can be completed in a few days by relentless grinding of the trials. Great, fine and wonderful for those that want to do it that way.

But those that don't wish to grind trials, or are simply unable/unwilling to play them (for whatever reason) are being given a alternate system that kicks up the time necessary to generate similar rewards by an order of magnitude or more.

Do the math from Bill's original post. See how long and expensive it'd be to unlock each of the 4 tiers simply by relying on random shard drops.

Then tell me it's a load of crap.

And how much Inf did you burn in the shard-to-thread and thread-to-exp conversion? Is it realistic to tell someone to save up for 7+ months, then spend a few hundred million?

What'd be nice would be a series of missions (like Tips) that'd generate an Astral or two every day you ran the set of missions, then would generate an Empyrean at the end of an arc with an "alignment mission" type finishing mission. That and random thread drops here and there. Or better yet, if the missions are multi-objective, thread drops for completing the objectives.

It'd be SLOWER than relentlessly grinding trials, but not "a few days vs 7-12 months" slower.

You obviously aren't reading so good.

The people doing it in days are those GRINDING TRIALS.

Not everyone wants or is able to GRIND TRIALS.

Those NOT GRINDING TRIALS are given an arbitrary system that ramps up the time necessary to generate the same results from days or weeks to months or years.

And I'm not even going to do the "well you aren't the intended player" and "don't play them then" and "You don't NEED them" arguments the favor of calling them "disingenuous". They're outright, blindly, boneheadedly missing the entire blithering point.

Crawled out from under the wrong bridge this morning eh?

What you're overlooking is the fact that the trials (which not everyone can participate in due to time constraints, or the fact that they're viewed as "not fun", or that their computers simply aren't capable of dealing with the problems that the League system causes, inducing crashes) are GUARANTEED rewards. "Do A and you WILL get B".

Shard drops are "If you do A, maybe you'll get B, which, after you grind enough of them, can be converted to C, which, after you grind enough of them, can be converted to D, which, after you accumulate enough, can be converted to the desired E"

Simply because YOU happen to fall into the demographic best suited for grinding out incarnate rewards doesn't give you the right to be a richard to those who aren't Tony. So please, try to keep it tucked back a bit.

You're right. You aren't seeing the problem here.

Nobody is saying they want rewards "quickly". What they're saying is they want a reward path that doesn't involve standing around 60+% of the time doing NOTHING simply to grind raids over and over and over again.

Right now the difference in speed between people who mish regularly is those who raid their brains out is not "slow vs fast". It's not even "glacial vs fast". It's "Brownian motion has stopped vs moderate". We're talking several days (if you raid straight through a session) vs several weeks (if you limit your raiding to one of each per day) vs months/years by converting shards.

And at every turn, we're being bashed in the face with alternate currencies. Why? Because they don't want someone to have all of the rewards on Day 1? Whoops! They have them on Day 2!


But it isn't. I'm glad you like it.

Again, you're missing the point. This isn't a "we want everything NAO!" rant. The thing is, if people just shut up about this, and stop providing negative feedback on the devs choices, sooner or later someone is going to convince themselves that there is no problem. This is about being the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. If you don't ASK, you don't GET.

Yes, but in the pre-50 portion of the game, you have lots and lots of choices as to which enemies you're going to bash, and which storylines you're going to work through. Post-50, your choices have narrowed down to three raids and no mission arcs.

Considering we have people with 1000+ badges, there are hundreds of costume pieces, 95% which people who've never payed for a booster would have STILL have access to

Nobody's asking for the stuff "today". At least nobody who is arguing rationally. They merely want a reduction in the disparity of "days" vs "years".

As to the rest of your argument and your comparison to real life. Some people are here to play a game. Not have a second job.

You don't "need" to level beyond L1 to play the game either. You can go into your settings in the tutorial and shut off XP earnings. XP earning in this game is entirely optional as well.

If they want to bring more trials, great. But I'd like other incarnate content out there for people who have better things to do than sit around for an hour with their thumb up their *** while the league captain gets enough players together to play a 30 minute trial.

Right now, the only solo content for Incarnates (which is about personal progression) is the Alpha unlock.

The Tin Mage and Apex have been reworked so that they award threads or Astrals.

And the conversion rate of Shards to threads is dreadfully slow (though no longer as punitive as it once was).

The fact that a game of the breadth that CoH has is now funneled down into a single raiding path for reasonably paced progression is just shameful, and I hope the devs attempt to work on SOMETHING that'll allow reasonable progression times for solo or single team players.

No. Because a card's performance in 3DMark or Heaven bear little relation to ACTUAL game performance in CoH, Crysis2, F.E.A.R. 3, etc. What's more, since those benchmarks are static, they can be gamed quite easily via driver and display controller tweaks. Playing the same graphics engine in a game, using the same "map", same settings, etc would yield different results. Simply because it isn't running the prepackaged demo.

Google Wikipanion and the first link takes you to their website.
From there, go to the download page. The free versions are there.

Not sure of who your provider is, but if you plan on using your phone for mobile internet (and don't want to pay the premium "wireless hotspot" fee), I'd recommend EasyTether.

Plug your phone into your computer, it sets up as an Ethernet connection and voila! Free version doesn't work on https sites or for gaming. But the $10 paid version does.

What you're seeing at higher resolutions is more a function of the greater memory space. Pick up a pair of 580's with 3GB of memory and the performance picture is a bit different.

Note: In actual games. I honestly don't give a damn what "Benchmark X" tells me. Since I don't play benchmarks.

DAMN ****ING SKIPPY! (I agree, strongly...)

You've never seen a six-year-old headbutt a linebacker in the crotch have you. VERY short fight.

Agreed.

Just give it a rest already will ya?

Simply because you're too stupid to understand the vagaries of the search feature doesn't mean we need to hear about it every couple months.

Not to put too fine a point on it but:





Any questions?

*Villain* No! Please! Just toss me into the factory full of gasoline soaked, running chainsaws with a suitcase nuke shoved, sideways, up my *** and set it off please!

I'm one of them. So...

To be sure, I'm not lapping this up though. I'm very cautious about this. My gut is telling me that this is a Bad Thing™ (considering the size of my gut, it's a miracle I can hear anything above the roar). But I like the game and I like the devs. They've, mostly, done a bang-up job with the game. So I'm inclined to give them a chance to change my mind (such as there is of it).

Okay. Coming to the thread late, but this got a belly laugh from me.


You can tell someone that, somewhere, a game is going Free To Play. And it's all right. It's all "part of the plan."

But then you tell them that City of Heroes is going Free To Play. And suddenly everyone loses their mind!

Mostly because direct confrontation would lead to insane amounts of destruction (see Numenor). Therefore, Sauron's various "peers" (Gandalf, Saruman, etc) sought ways to work against him without direct confrontation.

Notice that the simple removal of Sauron's power with the destruction of The One Ring touched off an eruption of Orodruin and annihilated everything inside Mordor.

{Gandalf} Frodo. Go get me my staff.
{Frodo} Which one Gandalf?
{Gandalf} The one that says BAD MUTHA ****** on it...

Well...yeah...

Death by a thousand (okay, maybe ten thousand...ALL RIGHT! A MILLION!) fists to the face.