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Does that mean that for those of us who have both(after release I mean), we won't actually need two different installations, as they're practically the same code?

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They are the same code. The way the devs have explained it, you start the game, pick your server, and then you see a big list of all you characters both heroes and villains. If you pick a hero, you're playing CoH. If you pick a villain, you're playing CoV.

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But what if you pick your nose?

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Personally, I suggested to them that if they DO put this in CoH, then instead of newspapers heroes could get a police scanner instead. And instead of brokers, you'd seek out the security chief of each zone who would give you the scanner frequency for the zone.

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That was my idea for unlimited level fifty content a while back. It was also my idea for making Blue Steel more than just a cop in a fancy suit.

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He already is, though. I mean, have you ever seen him run like a sissy little girl from danger? I think not!

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Wow, I didnt think they would really take that name suggestion. Glad they did of course, its great.

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While I would have preferred "Issue 6: Porky's revenge!", this works too.

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How about "Issue 6: City Under Siege".

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"Issue 6: The issue wherin JackZodiac says "[censored]".")

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CoV --> CoH QoL? And the introduction of CoV, of course. Seems like a ripoff to me, I love getting new content.

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Some of that QoL (that better be coming to CoH) is newspaper missions. I.e. a never-ending supply of missions for any of your characters. I'd say thats some pretty sweet content.

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I really hope they add the newspapers to CoH, since it's something many people have been asking for. I don't know if it will come in I6, but it would be very nice.

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Personally, I suggested to them that if they DO put this in CoH, then instead of newspapers heroes could get a police scanner instead. And instead of brokers, you'd seek out the security chief of each zone who would give you the scanner frequency for the zone.

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Wow, I didnt think they would really take that name suggestion. Glad they did of course, its great.

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While I would have preferred "Issue 6: Porky's revenge!", this works too.

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Seemingly, we lost sight of a basic principle of Design: players shouldn’t make uninformed choices.

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Too bad the entire concept of building characters is based on uninformed choices. The manual doesn't list all the effects of every power, it is not updated for every release. There is no place within the game to find out how much benefit you get from power A over power B, you don't tell us how much benefit we get from slotting a power. Uninformed choices seem to be the rule rather than the exception. What is the big deal about not releasing effect numbers? Let us have them.

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Because people get too caught up in the numbers and try to quantify their "fun" using those numbers. "Fun" cannot be boiled down into a math equation. We don't need the numbers. Better, clearer descriptions? Yes, that we DO need. But the numbers themselves are not necessary.

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Oh and if you have been testing this since march, why didn't you include this in your original post there bucko?

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Because as mentioned before, the post we got was originally intended for City of Villains *only*. CuppaJo cut and pasted that here so we could get a heads up. That does not automatically mean that Positron didn't plan to mention this in his post here if/when he made one.

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Ya know what? WHO CARES? Now that is just one less option for me. Now I won't need to put a End reduction in my powers. So If I can't use that for one of my slots, what do I put in it now? sigh. Here's an Idea... Scrap this ED thought.

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As a person who uses a 6 slotted Stamina AND Endurance Reduction enhancements in his powers, I can safely say that ER enhancements will still be usefull, as will Stamina. It just wont be as "essential" as some people feel it is now.

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With Enhancement Diversification comes a benefit for ALL City of Heroes powers.

Every power, across the board, is getting a 13.33% reduction in its Endurance cost.

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This is actually equal or slightly less than the lost amount of a 6-slotted Stamina.

Do you plan to likewise increase all damage, resistance and defense across the board too? To try and keep a bad idea afloat, even though we've got many, many points on why it is bad?

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A "bad idea" that people have yet to have a way to test. I'm skeptical too, but people really need to stop jumping the gun here and assuming its going to be a horrible game destroying nerf based on the numbers alone.

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With Enhancement Diversification comes a benefit for ALL City of Heroes powers.

Every power, across the board, is getting a 13.33% reduction in its Endurance cost.

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See this kills me why didnt he put that in his original notes. Not that by any means does this make me less angry at how the devs have handled this whole situation, but it would have soften the blow a tad bit.

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Because the original post was for the City of Villains forums and was just cut and pasted by CuppaJo?

Because it slipped his mind?

Because it was a recent change due to their internal testing?

Because he hates us and wants to drive us all away, thus depriving him of his income?

Because everything is the fault of the Japanese Yakuza who buy weather sattelites from the Ruskies and uses them to create hurricanes, natural disasters, Ale 8 One, and other horrible events?

Take your pick.

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Taking your suggestions into account, I've added Defense to the Power Pools to EVERY single damage type EXCEPT Psi. In other words, the Pools are no longer limited to Smashing and Lethal.

Frankly, my original idea didn't account for the fact that some pools would have been situationally more useful to certain Tanker and Scrapper builds...This change addresses the inequality.

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Really States? You had this planned all along?

I mean it wasn't because of a few rather number intensive posts popped up this morning on certain forums?

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Apparently you need to re-read what he said...

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The most I've seen of CCGs on the whole is...
"worse than horrible"
...in fact, the art might be the only thing I'd like.

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I'd recommend Heresy, then. (Not to be confused with the Horus Heresy, which I gather has something-or-other to do with Warhammer 40K.) I never made sense of the rules, but apparently it wasn't that tricky of a game. The card size apparently made it physically hard to play.

The artwork though... the artwork was fantastic, with lots of stuff by Brom and Bradstreet, and the card size helped show off the quality of their work.

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On a side note, I picked up the Battle for Prospero Battle Box (Two Warhammer 40k decks, Space Marines and Chaos Space Marines, in decorative plastic card boxes) from the Horus Heresy set a month or two ago. It's got some *good* art.

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Bah, easy schmeasy. We need to break him in fast he has big shoes to fill.

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You know what they say about big shoes.

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big socks?

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"Good LORD that guy has some big feet!"

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But... but... reducing the number of calculations done by the server would reduce processor use and thus server side lag.

Oh wait... that would be a good thing.

Here's why this won't happen... as much as it should:

There WOULD have to be massive power changes to the sets that are based on typed defense. Thus more free respecs. Oh wait, the code for free respecs is working pretty well... nevermind.

Let's fix this, devs. FIX it, not patch it. Change the power order to SR to make it more fair in the early levels. Dodge before Agile, Evasion before Lucky.

Give Ice Tanker dual positional defense AND typed damage resistance. Reduce Invul's dependance on Invincible and buff their dam-res.

Take another sweep an the blaster secondaries. There's still time to get rid of typed defense in CoV.....

There's still time to make this right.

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And your assuming that they won't do that. But it can and WILL take time to do. So stop acting like its an easy change that they can just flip a couple of switches and be done with.

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Well, the concept of changing the numbers on powersets effectively IS flipping a couple switches, or at least changing a few numbers in some code. Free respecs, SR, Ice, and Invuln changes are effectively as well.

It's only fixing blaster secondaries, which would require new animations and new balancing issues, that is anything more than flipping a switch.

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It's not that easy though, as everything would have to be rebalanced to take into account the new changes.

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But... but... reducing the number of calculations done by the server would reduce processor use and thus server side lag.

Oh wait... that would be a good thing.

Here's why this won't happen... as much as it should:

There WOULD have to be massive power changes to the sets that are based on typed defense. Thus more free respecs. Oh wait, the code for free respecs is working pretty well... nevermind.

Let's fix this, devs. FIX it, not patch it. Change the power order to SR to make it more fair in the early levels. Dodge before Agile, Evasion before Lucky.

Give Ice Tanker dual positional defense AND typed damage resistance. Reduce Invul's dependance on Invincible and buff their dam-res.

Take another sweep an the blaster secondaries. There's still time to get rid of typed defense in CoV.....

There's still time to make this right.

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And your assuming that they won't do that. But it can and WILL take time to do. So stop acting like its an easy change that they can just flip a couple of switches and be done with.

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Sure, there's still been nerfs, but I suspect they weren't as severe as they were going to be had the playerbase not caught the problems with the developers' test environment.


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I'll let you all take this where you will so I'll just point out that not a single thing changed after finding out their internal test server had a horrible bug on it.

Actually I take that back, they did end up nerfing MoG between that time and the Issue going Live.

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And yet just because the test enviroment when they did the initial tests was borked, does not mean that when they re-tested with a fixed enviroment Regen still wasn't bad.

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As for changing the way defense works...eek. That's not really an option. There's simply too many things that would break...It's just not do-able.

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It was changed before.

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And look what happened...

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Right, my point is that history shows its not hard to change, so I don't buy what Statesman is trying to sell in that statement.

Its simple. A hose on your car's engine spring a leak, do you patch it with a band-aid and forget it ever happend? Or do you replace the hose?

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But your assuming that this one change will be the only fix ever done for it. Personally, I'd patch the hose with a band-aid long enough for me to actually get a chance to replace the hose. And while it may not certainly be hard to change, it IS hard to change and do it *RIGHT*.

Plus, people are already upset because they "had" to make changes for I4 and I5. If the Dev team went and completly reworked defense, do you honestly think people are going to be happy about having to change their characters again?

Or Endless Ages.

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Most SGs are not going to base raid and risk losing their stuff they worked hard for.

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Maybe you should wait until you learn more about Base Raids to make that statement.


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I think many have said this, and it should be said again:
No one is paying 15 dollars a month to beta test for over a year. Get your sh*t straight or get out of the business, statesman.

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Unless your playing Everquest or Horizons.

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I'm glad that you're willing to admit this 'bug' nearly on your own, unlike the month or so where the change Innervating Field was completely shrugged off and those who showed you proof were called liars and worse, after which a half-truth or too slipped from CuppaJoe's mouth.

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They never said anyone was lying though. They said they were *MISTAKEN*. That is NOT the same as calling someone a liar.

And yes, I do appreciate the irony that they were mistaken about saying you guys were mistaken.

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*realizes Jackson Turner has mysteriously disappeared as well*

Hey, d'ya' think he and- nah! Couldn't be! Jackson's got glasses and a slick hair cut, there's no way!

See ya', Gil! We were glad to have you as long as we did!

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So does this mean Gilgamesh plans on making himself Pope-King of the earth?

...Man, that Gilgamesh is a d**k!

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...But will GilgaJean still be hanging around the bus stations?

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You bet--and full time now!

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WOO-HOO!

*Goes to find an ATM*

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And please, when my successor is officially announced, extend him all the warmth and support that I’ve been blessed with.

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Man, you must really hate him, don't you?

...But seriously, it will be a shame to see you good. Thanks for putting up with our crap, Gilg.

...But will GilgaJean still be hanging around the bus stations?

At least they are usuing "original" art instead of simply recycling stuff from the game. One of the things I hate the most with CCG's is when they lift images directly from shows.

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Ya know, that article said to call your local authorities... I think that was rather irresponsible.

Gil, you may be getting some nasty phonecalls from small-town police stations innundated with calls from drunken CoH'ers with hot tips as to Jackson's whereabouts.

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Yeah, god forbid the the police blame the drunken idiots.