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IMDB.com doesn`t mention Uwe Boll as a director in any of those movies. And Uwe Boll messed up what could have been some pretty good movies. Sorry for the off-topic.

It depends on what playing at the edge means. If the profit over time on trying to work both markets is same or lower as the profit you could make by working one market in the same time then I guess no one would bother. We still don`t know how long the transition will take, how many arcs and what sort of arcs will that mean.
Switching means morality. While being grey you will probably have drops from your native side.
Going rogue bring in a transition process with the adequate details for a proper switch. Badge and accolade changes and renaming since most of them have a similar one on the other side.
In the end it will be Evil and Good. In the process of changing sides you have full access to your native side as well to the opposite side, and you will only be alowed to trade at your native side.
In Praetoria you start as a pretorian and eventually you will choose a side. Since the new user experience will be revamped I would suspect that as a Praetorian that did not choose a side you will have access to a Praetorian exclusive market. I also suspect there will be a new way of enhancing level 1-20 praetorian characters closely related to the way of making your level 50`s more powerfull. Considering that after level 20 you will have to somehow leave Praetoria and go to one of the sides you have already chosen and have access to already known enhancements and recipes means that the system of enhancing your lvl 1-20 will still keep a minimum of 6 slots but maybe different enhancement types.
So my best guess at the new Praetorian stuff is that :
1. You spend the first 20 levels as a Praetorian in Praetoria.
2. Your powers will have the same slotting system for enhancing
3. New enhancement types different from what we have already.
4. Level 50`s might gain new slots for specific praetorian enhancements or have access to other things to bring more power in already existing powers.

All I said is that the spiffy new kewl and brand new thingies Going Rogue will mostly be about are over rated, at least from my point of view. That if the video that I quoted in my first post is showing the best Going Rogue has to offer (Ultra graphics, Praetoria and 2 new powersets).
I don`t think I`m being unreasonable saying that I`m not impress based on what I have seen. I did try to explain why and lots of people don`t agree. Thats ok, doesn`t matter that much. To me it matters that GR is a payed expansion and I can make a very big list with already existing stuff that could have been improved/fixed. If I would have heard Positron saying that there will be base raids , new customization improvements and other stuff I already mentioned I would have said Great, just what I wanted. Giving me something I`ll never use like super graphics just makes me say "meh".
If it makes any of you feel any better, I am sorry for not following the herd spirit on this one. But i`m optimistic.

Where are these things announced ?

I might bring some hate onto myself by saying this but sadly this is not how game developing works. There is no list in any of their offices with what players ask on the forums.

Not whining, just saying that what they presented so far as the upcoming expansion set for CoX for me is not that much and I have tried to explain why. Personal opinion, no one has to agree.

I agree with that. But they don`t add a lot. They add some feeling and thats about it.
In the history of gaming there were a few games that ... made history. Games like Diablo (the whole series), Counter-Strike, Civilization, Starcraft, Warcraft brought milions of gamers all together in multiplayer games due to gameplay and defiantely NOT graphics.
I will say this again : THE GRAPHICS ARE GREAT! maybe not the best on the market BUT THEY ARE GREAT!
I am dissapointed. WHY ? Look at the game now and think about the improvements that it needs in various aspects. Look at The Power Suggestion Box , at Custom Weapon Request Thread and at Jay's Costume Request Thread . I expected to see something like : Going Rogue is coming next summer and we`ll make the game better by giving you a better pvp system, adding new travel powers, taking customization another step further by adding this and that (and theres a ton of things in those threads), new task force systems where you don`t have to spend 6 hours at level 12 wanting to smash your computer sometimes or where you don`t have to spend 30 minutes of continuous blasting a villain. And many more improvements that you have been asking for.
Instead we all knew before HeroCon that Positron said he was surprised at how much he was allowed by the marketing department to reveal about GR. And all I saw was Oh look we got a new and shiny zone. How much time can you walk around and look at your reflection ? Are we all narcissists ?
I will be impressed even more by the whole new graphic system after I hear what beta players have to say about the graphic lag and their system. Remember you need at least 30 frames per second and I am very curious about the systems that can handle that. Laptop wise you will probably need an Alienware laptop to play it.
Yes its not needed , the game is still playable without it. The DVD will probably cost a minimum of 30 USD. Up until now I will pay that money for what ? 2 powersets and a new zone ? THAT does not impress me. Even with the revamp of the first 20 levels.
This is something else I always wanted and will enjoy.
The bottom line is that this is a payed expansion and if they make a huge fuss about it I expect to have huge things to pay for. Because even tough it looks great in terms of graphics I am not going to buy it just so I can spend another few hundred dollars upgrading to a better laptop, considering that my monthly fee goes towards NCSoft for me playing and not flying around the city every day when I log on.

So pretty much, the word of the day in terms of graphics update is "Reflection". WHICH in order to enjoy at a reasonable level in any modern game requires a massive combo of GPU,CPU and RAM. Basically you need a high-end computer. Otherwise it will cause graphic lag. Yes its eye candy, everybody loves it. But ask yourself how many players play the game now with the graphic settings turned to minimum. And how many players play it on a laptop ? A lot. In my opinion it is a very nice feature but definitely not a needed one and even more not one that will add to gameplay.
Dynamic Shadows. THIS is what actually made me open this thread. Seeing the crowd going all WHOAAAAA.
First of all, dynamic shadows were first implemented in a game as a gameplay feature in 2004 (Thief: Deadly Shadows). In this game, I couldn`t care less about them. But they`re as old as CoX itself.
For me , all this graphic update is not something that I wanted or expected and definitely not a reason to buy/pre-order the game. I do admit it is a major graphic improvement for the game itself and I am also very curious how much a laptop will cost at the moment of release with the recommended specs (which are not released yes as far as I know)

I love it and I don`t. Looks amazing but feels stupid. To be honest to me it feels (like most other scrapper sets) like an action oriented set. I mean you have 2 pistols and you`re in a battle. It needs to feel like you`re constantly firing at something and not waiting for a power to recharge and stuff. Great animations, but unless you can queue power after power and make it fire continuously, to me would look a bit weird.

So, as we already knew theres a bunch of story arcs with a lot of dialoque about morality and you take AT`s from one side to another. Cool.
Also we have a revamp of the first 20 levels in terms of gameplay. And 50`s will become even more powerful. Stuff worth waiting for.

I expected more. Well maybe its the preliminary news and they weren`t allowed to say that many things. But I expected gameplay, innovations towards teaming, task forces, more goals for solo players, new mission types and other things to keep you playing through the content and make you forget what power leveling means.
I`m still expecting this before being fully disappointed and moving towards another game. Yes the first 20 levels being revamp is good (supposably, because we don`t know what that means exactly), but that leaves us with 50 more levels of the same TF's, mission maps and goals.
I know most of you don`t agree with my but this is just my humble opinion about Going Rogue and what I expected to hear about it.

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So unlike other players you are and will be loyal to this game. Right?

Do you know what else is important ? Proper looking tattered clothing. Burned clothes and other stuff like that.

You will understand it after you will end a 5 year old relationship or marriage.