Hyperstrike

So you're saying that you're going to toss the carrots to people who DON'T care instead?

The people you're ACTUALLY tossing it to are those who care enough (about getting free stuff at least) and have more resources in terms of free time than a great many of your players.

I have the luxury of participating in the forums during the work day because the forums are very asynchronous. I can do it during downtime, or while in the middle of something else.

I have no hope of competing against someone with no job or other responsibilities who can afford to burn a day refreshing the page umpty-bajillion times a minute.

Coming back and telling us it's going to be EXCLUSIVE to said medium or going to market-speak (see: ESSENTIALLY LYING) about how that "maybe some day" it'll be put up on the market or someplace else (see: probably never) just ticks people off.

This argument comes up over and over again. The answers are always the same and always reeking of bovine excrement.

I'm sorry if you find that hostile or rude.

I do care about this game. And I care enough that I'm NOT going to sugar-coat an honest opinion just so you don't feel bad.


Also, if your market interface isn't working how you want, what is holding it up?

I mean, it's only been what? 8 months?

As Zwill said. It's about "driving traffic" to these alternate venues.

My question about it is, if they have to "drive" people to these venues, exactly what does that say about the value of the venue to their customer base.

Sure, it MIGHT make it look "bustling" to people outside the community for a while. A very SHORT while. But you've essentially built yourself a little Potemkin Village.

Now Zwill's going to dig his heels in on this. I guarantee.

See?

About the only way we could REASONABLY send a credible "**** no" would be if people avoided these silly promotions entirely.

But, that won't happen. Because there's always going to be a group of people who GOTTA have their freebie "bling".

So Zwill's going to burn a lot of time trying to capture new membership in these various venues. The problem is, that Paragon simply doesn't generate that much new information that outsiders might find "interesting". All that's happening is they're churning their current playerbase and trying to move them around to these ancillary sites for no reason.

So the account either goes underutilized leading to "Under Contstruction (for the past 10 years)" syndrome or it devolves into a bunch of pointless updates just to say that there's activity. Like my humorous example of "In the bathroom. Taking a dump. Jeeze this is a brick! OOF!"

Basically, Zwill and Paragon haven't taken full advantage of the venues they ALREADY have NOW. Flailing around wildly with the twits and facepalmers accomplishes nothing but further dilution of Paragon's small information stream.

Their Facebook promotion was a joke. Facebook got not one iota of real information out of me (didn't even get my real IP/location/machine). So both they and Paragon got a net nothing from me (and likely a lot of other users who simply created throwaway accounts).

This is going to be no different.

If there are people like me who're willing to jump through five machines and in and out of TOR a couple times to fake this sort of thing what is that saying?

That their product is desirable, but their hamfisted attempts to cattle-prod us into these other social marketing venues of dubious worth (that we are militantly avoiding or bypassing) are most definitely NOT welcome.

If they want to give away free stuff on these sites that everyone else can buy on the forums? Cool. More power to them.

But this crap with exclusivity needs to stop. And I don't mean with *nudge*nudge*wink*wink* vague blatherings about how these things might someday show up on the market...maybe.

Paragon is free to handle their business however they want.
But at some point, they're going to realize that certain marketing antics are going to leave the players free to tell them to **** off and exit the game.

I'll have to place a couple to be sure. But I believe they're inactive pieces.

Cool. Thanks for the link.

Maybe I missed it. But was the bug where it was awarding to a maximum of 16 players fixed yet?

Base batteries are "raid" items. They effectively kept devices going in case primary power to the base was destroyed.

Now? They're just eye candy and nothing more.

Yes. When talking about builds with people, try to establish if the build is one of the following:

• Leveling build: Powers and slots taken in an organic, level-up fashion
• Exemping build: Powers and slots taken in a fashion to wind up with a build whose stats "decay" gracefully as it exemps.
• Finalized build: A build with powers and slots taken to yield maximum performance at level 50.

It's kind of important. Because some exemping and finalized builds are damn problematic if you try to use them as a template for leveling up on.

This is CoH!
*Kicks someone into the pit of despair*
Impossible just takes longer.

Sorry but there's no such thing as "impossible". Or perfect security on a running computer.
It's possible your system has been compromised by malware, or someone installed a keylogger.


Others have already given you the proper steps to take (contact support, check later screens in case your playerslot.txt file is corrupted, etc).

Because I made one offhand comment and had you jump down my throat assuming my knowledge on the subject was somehow limited and that I wasn't 100% "technically" correct in how I said what I said. Big effing deal. It's a gaming message board, not one of my friggin' business classes in college.

Oh please. You're the one that decided you wanted to *fight* about this.

Have fun shadow boxing kiddo.

I'm not necessarily against DRM.
I'm against LOUSY DRM. And most of the DRM schemes in use today are terrible. They treat paying customers like criminals and don't actually inconvenience the real criminals all that much.

No. Not saying it is. Just trying to get clarification if it's being chosen for:

• Defense
• Mobility
• Concept
• Because someone still thinks it's a prereq.

Hate to say it, but you started it. You're just ticked because I beat you with experience.

But the original message I replied to talked about sending adverts to your customers.

Paragon doesn't do mass snail-mailings.
They BETTER not be fax bombing.
They're not doing premium text messages either.

They're really buying ads (in the traditional "marquee" on websites.
And while the articles on the game itself could be considered advertising, it isn't a "push" media (we're back to the "sending") portion of what I was replying to.
Nor are Twitter, Facebook, the dev chats. Any of their web presence. It's all marketing to existing customers and hoping to Tim Berners-Lee that someone who ISN'T stumbles across it, and decides to maybe check it out.

Besides that, my (day job) company's primary income is from Customer Relations Managment software support. And while I'm their network admin, I'm probably at LEAST as familiar with the precepts of marketing and various ways to "touch" prospective and existing customers as you are. Possibly even moreso.

How much CPU does it use if you have it start up only to start the game and shut down once the game is launched?

10% for a couple seconds vs 1% all day long? Pfft.

Accept the fact that, below Incarnates, you will NOT be capped against a single opponent. Just won't happen.

But, remember that you're Invuln. With Invincibility, as you jump into progressively bigger groups, your defense shoots up

In short:



Barrier is a biggie. It'll sit there and drive defenses into "Yeah. Go ahead and debuff me schmuck-boy!" range. It also kicks your resists into the stratosphere. So it's a good response if the debuffs start landing hot and heavy.

However, Ageless Radial buffs your endurance, recharge and spikes your debuff resistance.

No. You're basically quintupling your endurance consumption for an extra half percent. If you're fighting more than 2 enemies in non-incarnate content, it won't make a lick of difference.

You're also giving up some of the immobilization protection that's built into CJ.

Honestly, that last build looks COMPLETELY playable and should be an absolute monster.

I'm willing to bet that my NCLauncher uses less CPU and memory than Steam does.

Why? Because I use it for its primary purpose. Starting up and patching CoH. Nothing more. Once the game launches, NCLauncher shuts down.

As for features. All I want is something that can start up CoH and patch it when it needs patching. Preferably with minimum hassle. The NCLauncher does this in spades.

What do I need Steam for?



And they're all MMOs. Expecting them to be EA with their 60 trillion sports titles (and the occasional spare "something else" they haven't had a chance to screw up and kill yet) is ludicrous. That's not comparing apples and oranges. That's comparing apples and Buicks.

That's because the Store in the launcher is only an elaborate link to start or log into your NCSoft account.

Honestly, I think that's a bit harsh, and you REALLY didn't need to go there. Those "stone-faced, soulless" people are willing to continue supporting an 8 year old MMO that isn't pulling 800 pound gorilla subscriber numbers. Why? Because they think they can (and do) turn a decent profit on it anyhoo. If this were EA or Microsoft, the game would have been dead 4-6 years ago.

Because sending automated e-mails out to people who aren't your current customers is classified as "spam".

Wow. Old school like the old school. ED means that, after certain enhancement values, additional enhancements of that type give progressively less value. Usually the first two SOs worth give almost full enhancement. You've already been given the link to it, and it's fairly straightforward (though getting your mind around it initially is sometimes tough).

The long and short is, taking more than 3 of any type of single-aspect enhancement (like a Single Origin or common IO) is almost a complete waste of a slot.
Basically, if you want decent accuracy early on, slot lots of accuracy and some endurance reduction. Damage will come in time.

Later on, 1 Acc (2 if you're REALLY fanatical about making sure you hit things). 2-3 damage, and think about some Endurance Reduction and Recharge Reduction.

So, if you're 6-slotting a damage power:

Acc
Acc
Dam
Dam
EndRed
Rech

Nice accurate power (so you don't waste endurance missing) that hits for "okay" damage, uses less endurance and is up more often.

Or

Acc
Dam
Dam
Dam
EndRed
Rech

Power with OK accuracy (you still miss occasionally) that's pretty much maxed for damage enhancement and still uses less endurance and recharges more frequently.


One thing to remember, Fitness is now an inherent. So you get Swift, Hurdle, Health and Stamina regardless with a respec. This gives you the ability to take additional powers (even if you don't really slot them) to "round out" your build a bit more.

As for Fly. Fly, by default is pretty much giving you maximum flight speed right out of the gate. So throwing a Fly enhancement in there does almost nothing. It's pretty spiffy as a specialty IO mule though. Like a Knockback reduction or Slow resist from one of the universal travel sets. Or a Stealth IO from the Freebird set so you can fly around invisible.

As for hover, what are you looking for with the power? Are you looking for maximum hover speed? Or maximum defense?

Are you even going to USE Hover? If not, just take Fly. You no longer need Hover or Air Superiority as a prereq.

Yeah. But he's ALSO been locking GUIDE/HOWTO posts as well. Threads that are SUPPOSED to stay open as "living document" threads.

"Dumb" doesn't even begin to describe that sort of thing.