Lost Ninja

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I would like a plush Warwolve ...

[/ QUOTE ]

Heh - got one of them. My wife made it for me, along with a plushie Shivan.

[/ QUOTE ]
I want....

Plush Greater Devoured (Mentioned this quite a lot before...)

T-Shirts & Hoodies - With symbols, witty phrases or images. Preferably that have some context outside of a single game. So 'Stalkers do it from Behind' has some context and if anyone asks what a stalker is I can tell them... The current clothing merchandise is pretty [censored] with limited designs and limited appeal.

I'd add even more rewards, some of which would only be purchasable with significant prices... not like 51 tokens for sure as that would defeat the whole thing but make it doable for everyone, rather than just those who had the foresight and cash to start when the launched in the US.

While it is technically possible for an EU subscriber to get 51 months now... by the time they do another 51 months will have been added.

I've been playing since EU launch but due to one thing or another haven't actually been subscribed for that length of time, on one account currently just over 24 months and the other just over 12 months (though this account is older ). Having seen some of the later Vet rewards but knowing that I am unlikely to ever achieve these I wonder if it is possible to change the vet rewards making it easier for those of us who haven't been playing as long as others to still gain some of the rewards.

So I have two ideas:

1)Add Veterans Reward Tokens. This isn't instead of Vet rewards but you only get a token for an unclaimed vet reward. Then rate each Vet reward to its token value, unique things would cost more tokens, so a 51 month reward would cost more than a nine month reward. But not extremely so. Some rewards like respecs and costume slots could then be avoided if you don't need them and their tokens spent on something more rewarding.

2)Add veteran rewards when you buy the play-time rather than after you have spent the playtime. While it could be said that you could then refund the unplayed months to get stuff early, you'd only be able to play what you have paid for.

After looking at two different places for the booster packs last night it occurs to me that the logical place for these to be for sale is on the in-game sales thing.

Please add the cyborg, wedding and jet booster packs to the in-game shop.

[ QUOTE ]
My supergroup is boycotting this cyborg set and jetpack, or soon all funny stuff requires an extra payment.

[/ QUOTE ]
Thanks so much for that...

@OP
Gets my vote.
/signed

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Plus the PlayNC website is going to be down from 3pmish for maintenance.

[/ QUOTE ]

Hmm I wonder what that's for?

[/ QUOTE ]

Well that just kind of peeves me a lot, normally things in the EU work to an EU schedule unless it's a major Issue release which they need the devs onhand for so it kind of makes sense that they would wait.

Can't help but feeling the recent shakeup is also affecting this but that might just be my paranoid mind going into conspiracy theory mode <shrugs> and probably is.

[/ QUOTE ]

Servers in the EU work to an EU schedule.

But the EU Boards and Website servers are hosted in the US, for some bizarre reason. So we've to go by their timeframe.

Don't ask me why a company which constantly made a point of being seperated from its US counterpart, in the form of NCEU still had its servers in the US.

[/ QUOTE ]
Probably to avoid paying a 2nd license fee for the forum software.

@Thread...

Auras: Meh! Don't much like auras anyway and these seem a little awful.
Power: OMG! WANT!!! I love the look of this.
Costume: Apart from one or two things in the linked img list I think I can find uses for all of them, but then most of my characters are semi cyborg in some way.

CoT aren't evil... just misunderstood.

TBH The other two MMOs I play now and then EVE and WoW both have APIs that make management of different aspects much better.

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Obviously, that is the part that needs to be considered, should the idea be taken up by development. Not how 'small' the development times/costs will be.

[/ QUOTE ]

Sorry, but how much development time is taken up, and how the existing or new mechanisms for handling payments to NC can be used to get the money together from this system are exactly the kind of thing that needs to be considered when putting together a scheme like this.

Fundamentally, you are proposing a gimmick designed to provoke (and I'm using that world entirely neutrally) people into forking over money to a charity. You have to persuade a company which has just laid off a load of staff, that this is a great idea and will have publicity benefits, and will not cost them too much time and resource.

It's probably better to focus on one or two charities, because I think otherwise you're going to fall into the trap of it costing more to run the scheme than the charities actually receive from it.

It's all very well putting fluffy posts up saying "wouldn't it be great if we could support charity X in game," but if you want everyone to just say yes or no, then I'd suggest another forum. People who put successful suggestions here, tend to think it through and come up with a workable plan.

I'm sorry if you feel insulted, but as someone who works for a software company, you should know better than to make unthinking remarks about development costs. Everything has to be justified, even if it's for a charity.

[/ QUOTE ]
If an idea is good does it matter how much development time is taken up?

IMO adding a ribbon symbol to the list of symbols already in the game shouldn't be that hard or time consuming, but then I'm not a developer.

Charging the players to wear it is a good thing especially if the cost goes to a charity. DTWT is not the only gaming charity there is also IIRC Childs Play or something similar that could be the charity of choice. Hell a rotating or topical charity would be nice.

/signed

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
If you feel strongly enough about it maybe you can raise the the profile of the next similar event in your area?

[/ QUOTE ]

Thing is, men rarely ever do. Being ill is a terribly private thing. We don't have mental problems, we don't have odd pains, then we keel over into our wheatyflakes one morning with some heart condition that should have been diagnosed three years earlier.

Last thing men want to talk about is prostate cancer. I know I sure as hell don't, so I'm gonna stop now and go do some housework.

[/ QUOTE ]
I dream of getting testicular or prostate cancer.

But then I am ill in my head anyway. :'(

I think this is wrong in the best possible way. You shouldn't be encoruaging people to dress their avatars in pink... that after all is far to easy and lets face it as MaX says many already where pink. No lets go the whole hog and find out how many of us will be wearing pink on that day and donating to the cause.

That after all is sort of heroic.

Perhaps pictures afterwards as well?

[ QUOTE ]
And you really think a full team of lowbies with only one or two 50s in there are gonna stand up for very long in a 50s mission?

[/ QUOTE ]
I can clear lvl50 invincible missions @ 6x spawn with a pair of fire/kins, I don't doubt with the right mobs and the right build I could do it with an 8x spawn. If the SK was everyone else in the team, I would do I could PL six people at once rather than the current 2.

TBH for someone who often decries the lack of players I'm unsure why you want to be rid of a dynamic that helps people of different levels play together. If the is were WoW (or 99% of all other MMOs) if a friend starts playing a long time after you the only way to play together is to roll a new character. Worse is when the friend only plays an hour an evening and you would out level them quickly...

IMO SK & Exemplar are the two most important features of this game bar none, getting rid of them would be the worst thing possible!

And shouldn't this be in suggestions?

edit: Due to a really inaccurate thread title I did miss the point.

[ QUOTE ]
Scarlet, I'm not saying drop it at all. I'm saying improve it.

[/ QUOTE ]
You might have been better saying that you wanted to improve the system in the title then... as it stands it rather sounds like you want rid.

/signed for me... I just alt+tab atm to get them out :'(

You should just be able to switch off raidable bases!

My base will never be raided or contain items that will allow raids. Why the hell should I be penalized for something I will never do?

[ QUOTE ]
Depraiving Mumsie of the honours! How Cruel!

Enjoy your Cake Day!

[/ QUOTE ]
Probably 'cos she misses people out. :'(

Now though I wish I'd done a self congratulatory post myself.

[ QUOTE ]
...aaaaaanyway, hopefully everyone's seen ROCKJAW'S MOST RECENT BLOG POST! and will send them off in the traditional gamer nerd way.

By getting completely and utterly rata... shi-- ...Ratfaced.

Y'know, rather than online bickering about the Best Way™ to say goodbye.

[/ QUOTE ]
For some reason I am unable to reply to that blog post, however if someone might suggest setting up a donations pot on paypal I'd like to buy a drink for some needy ex-dev but there is no way I could get to Brighton (other end of country and all that). Could someone who can post in that blog please suggest it for me? (*Looks at Zortel*)

[ QUOTE ]
I think his point is (not explicit to you, but if you're asking... ) :
Sympathize with NCsoft EU people leaving losing their jobs because it was your choice to join with them in the first place.
Those who believe that it was better without them, why they are trolling among us?
Now it's a bad timing to suddenly switch views.

[/ QUOTE ]
Having been on the receiving end and losing a job I adored... sadly due to my own incompetence and not entirely like this situation, I have every sympathy with those either who have lost their jobs or have yet to here... something I had hope I had made clear much earlier in the thread.

My comment was actually intended to defuse an incipient argument that was about how something had been said more than what was said. Obviously I failed... again. :'(

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Bottom line is if the game had been released in EU with only official English language support, then the savings could have been spent on better/greater advertising, or just been saved. Instead NCSoft over extended themselves which has now resulted in job losses.

((Sorry if I misunderstood Praf's point, but that is what I think he's trying to say...))


[/ QUOTE ]

[ QUOTE ]
Nope, you have got it spot on.

[/ QUOTE ]

Having this kind of autopsy while people are sweating on their jobs is just bad taste, plain and simple.

you got any tact?

[/ QUOTE ]
You got a point? (I would say 'any point' but then that would be tactless. )

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
What would be the point in advertising in Greece? there is no greek localisation, no greek GMs, Greece has a tiny population anyway. Face it, you aint worth thier while.

[/ QUOTE ]



If you was trying to make a joke or been sarcastic, I am sorry but you failed to do so.


[/ QUOTE ]

No, I was pointing out a fact. The same is true for any Eurpean country. The only way they can target the EU as a market is to treat it as a single entity, which is rather scuppered by the different languages and media.

[/ QUOTE ]
Yes, we are the 1/6 of you, but then think again:
Germany and France have (individually) more population than UK.

[/ QUOTE ]
True but the fact that most of the support for EU CoH is in English is that English is the most widely spread spoken language, true more people speak Chinese, but mostly in China. In this thread alone I see a German, a Greek and MaX who I think is Finnish (Scandinavian certainly), we are all conversing in English.

And in France and German there are a lot of people who speak, read & write English. I'd be willing to bet that as many Germans and French who speak English enough to get by as there are people in the UK who do.

You obviously speak, read & write English, the only other Greek who plays that I know (Tainted Greek) is also an English speaker, I wonder how many of the other non UK people who play on the English language EU servers can speak English?

I for one understand a bit of Dutch, Italian and Spanish and I'm only an English speaker.


[/ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
(the rest of my post is offtopic)
You couldn't stop at the point where you were advertising that Germany and France support is better to be cut off, you had to go beyond that, eh? (unprovoked too!)
Greek people never asked or needed Greek localization, you came up with that artifact to diminish us more so you can conclude easier that we don't worth anyone's while.

It is you that does this, not NCsoft or any other company.
I gave you the opportunity to amend your action and you didn't take it.
Generally, you seem to enjoy degrading most of the people you meet in these boards (although I never expect you to do that to entire countries at once). I can't tell why you do that, but it does make you popular in ignore lists.

[/ QUOTE ]
His point IMO is right, the extra support needed in the EU has been something of a white elephant. The additional costs required to market and support the game in two languages that haven't seen a sensible return for that investment. That is not to mention running two vastly underpopulated servers or actually fixing them so that they work in other languages (FFM was right game was poorly designed for localisation).

Bottom line is if the game had been released in EU with only official English language support, then the savings could have been spent on better/greater advertising, or just been saved. Instead NCSoft over extended themselves which has now resulted in job losses.

((Sorry if I misunderstood Praf's point, but that is what I think he's trying to say...))

Edit: Hit submit and wanted to check I'd quoted right

[ QUOTE ]
I like the idea, I also like alpha's merit idea too
/singed both

[/ QUOTE ]
^This.

/signed.

I fit out with IOs from level 12, then respec at 27/32 for some of those back and upgrade to 30/35 IOs which last until I start my final slotting at 47+.

My first set of lvl15 IOs are crafted by a single character and most of the salvage will have been acquired by my characters up to that point so the cost isn't huge IMO (memorised recipes ftw).

Want to see either a SG or account recipe and invention store, preferably account based, of a decent size. The rest is fairly easy to manage, any SOs picked up at 50 go into the store and lowbie characters can flog them for inf.

[ QUOTE ]
A vet reward!

[/ QUOTE ]
Please no...

Well unless they change vet rewards so that its possible to get something soon. ATM to get good stuff I want I won't get them till 2011 or something stupid at the rate I'm going now, and thats my main account my other account 2030 or something.

All the time, and I farm with one pair of characters and pass that on to the ones I'm levelling. Never had anything against it.

[ QUOTE ]
The only thing that I can thnk of that could possibly come close to a fleet battle would have been old style Hammi and that has been changed. Maybe if enough people went to get an AV but then the server makes second instances of a map when too many people are on it, so cant see that becoming a problem, but am not really qualified to comment

[/ QUOTE ]
Or a zone event when the zone ends up as Atlas Park 1, Atlas Park 2.... etc. And during the last invasion event that happened to both Atlas Park and Peregrine Island when I was online (might have happened elsewhere too), this was on Defiant which is well known to have a low population, how would this be if everyone was lumped onto a single server? 10,000 people all sitting in AP, there'd be nothing left to kill after the first minute.

No shardless design with the current game is a bad idea.

What GrinningSpade said TBH, I do like the idea but it certainly shouldn't be limited to 50s. However it also shouldn't be like rep is now and easier for non-fifties to earn, that is just back to front IMO.