MoldyLunchboxx

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I met someone last night that said they have played CoH before. They got the AE box and played for a month or so and said they got tired of the MA stuff and then quit.

A new player didnt even know that there was a BUNCH of normal content out there for them to enjoy! They didnt know anything but AE. And, they got burned out fast on it.

That is damn sad. After hearing that person say that, I now believe something needs to be done about new people that come into the game. They need to know about their contacts and the normal content that is there. Not just AE.

Before I didnt care, but after talking to them I believe something needs to change. I didn't think it was this bad.
Maybe we need to once in a while broadcast in atlas that there is normal content out there for them to enjoy.


After I explained to them what they missed, they got interested again and will be coming back.

P.S. Don't know how well I said what I wanted to. I am VERY tired.

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I hear AION, NCSoft's new MMORPG is supposed to be really cool. You should check out the High Definition videos of it. (If you check it on youtube, make sure you click the small "HD" in the bottom right hand corner before you start it)

That is what I'll be moving into once my subscription runs out.

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Welcome back.

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The website for AION:http://www.aiononline.com/us/

The Youtube video showing classes or "Archetypes": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8E2IFbwO3w


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Is PlayNC a kids' company now, or what? Why was that logo so playful at the beginning of the vid?

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I'm not sure why it is like that, but it is very enjoyable to watch that, do you not agree?

omg. It was Mr. Sword who necro bumped this [censored] from last year.

Really?

I totally want to Necro Bump something, too...

I'll do it later.

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NOTICE TO ALL SUPER POWERED BEINGS:

CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM OMEGA TEAM:
OPERATIVE--AJAX

Be advised. Incoming attack inevitable! Evacuation orders for all civilians. Call all available Super Powered Beings. Rikti Alien Invasion NOW!!

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name:
Global Contact:
Level of Classification:
Origin:
Super Rank & Super Group:

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Are you trollin our forums?

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1. 'I need to find somewhere else to live'

We were street-sweeping in Boomtown (This was Issue #1), a large 8 man group. One of the members goes AFK, whilst the rest of us continue to fight on. Suddenly he comes back...

Player: Sorry guys I gotta go...
Player: I beat up my sister, and now I'm being kicked out of the house and need to find somewhere else to live. Seeya guys.
Us: Err... okay. Bye.

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I need a permanent replacement for myself on team Chibbles and Bits with Weatherwoman and Chibi Lime. Real life issues are interrupting my time online and I will not be able to continue this season.

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Why is it I continue to run into gamers who have never heard of CoH? Actually seems like almost every gamer I meet has never heard of it, whether they are interestested in the type of game or not.

Somehow the word just isn't getting out on this game.

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I don't know why I'm still introducing gamers to CoH either. I'm about to stop. I have yet to see a commercial advertising this game. WoW has tons of them. I'm thinking of giving AION a try next. It looks like it has potential.

The team I'm supposed to go against tonight gets changed up like 30 minutes before the rescheduled fight. Pie-ro's two teammates were kicked from the team.

NinjaVamypre and Plyxx are now the new members of Love The Turtles.

Do you actually want to fight us or do you would rather I just give you the win verbally?

lol

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In another thread like this, someone had heard "AFK - cat's on fire."

That has to be the best one yet.

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They probably heard it from me. I've used it. True story. I have 2 deaf cats - one with long hair and one with short hair. The long haired one decided to get up on the end table near the computer where I had some candles lit. He walks past them, flicking his tail back and forth, and lit it on fire. Then he stands there, looking at me, oblivious to the fact that his tail is now engulfed in flame, and even more oblivious to my screaming at him in panic while frantically typing "AFK - cat's on fire" during a TF (I think it was a Posi).

Long story short - he's fine. No permanent damage other than his tail didn't look so pretty for a few weeks and a smell that lingered in the house (and my nose) for longer than I would have liked it to.

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You typed afk?

I would have just taken care of the cat right away :O Emergency afk


Actually, I wouldn't have. I hate cats. My dog on the other hand...

You will enjoy it! Make sure it is in HD! :P

That is the game I'll be moving to.

Free? I usually do not go to bars for reasons other than getting drunk. The last time I watched tv at a bar, it was karaoke night and behind the singer was a tv with news about someone being chased on the Bay Bridge in maryland with 100 ounces of cocaine in his vehicle.

omg! Sports bars have this PPV [censored]?

I'm going to the beach today.


"OMG MOLDY ACTUALLY LEFT THE GAME?!"

Yea... Well, last time I went to the beach my arc slot got banned.

Just a tip, stop using the Dreck maps and start using Grandville Beach. It is much more fun.

"The Dreck Map has more XP though!"

So? The Dreck map gets really boring after a while. With the Grandville beach, you can keep entertained.

Also, I should add that the map says very few defendable objects/ bosses can be placed when actually very many can be placed. Just make defendable objects/bosses and keep adding more until is says there is an error. For example, if a map says you can only add 8 defendable objects, try adding 14. I'll bet it will work Once you do that, start up with the ambushes. Keep adding one by one until you get a map filled up. It is worth it. Believe me.

This is my lesson in creating a good Parietal Cell map in order to get those PvP IOs I'm hording.

Do I have to pay to watch it? I have basic cable. It goes up to 22 channels, 20 is spanish 95 is where only the simpsons come on, 98 and 99 are the christion/catholic channels which I only watch when I'm really drunk because they say funny things

UFC is "real". It is expected to see blood in the first 30 seconds of the fight.

Check out these funeral games:
http://www.edstephan.org/Renault/fun.html

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I'm pretty sure another MMO has her distracted from this one. I'll be distracted too once AION comes out. What is the Dee playing these days?

The website for AION:http://www.aiononline.com/us/

The Youtube video showing classes or "Archetypes": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8E2IFbwO3w

Warning: If you don't press the "HD" button in the bottom right corner to make it red, the video will be horrible in graphics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBfLOZ2CjQ

This is TWIXT's opponent.

All they have to do is move AE to a high level hazard Zone such as Rikti War Zone and remove all the low level ones. Problem solved. Half your time is spent doing pre i14 content and the other half is in AE. Everyone wins.

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Today, the GM I dealt with (regarding a bugged mission) clearly had English as a second language. Lots of very weird sentence constructions, like "have a pleasurable game play" and "it is currently under investigation of Developers".

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This.

I usually see them not say anything at all except the copy and pasted hello and goodbye that they are required to say. When they DO talk back, it is with poor typing skills and grammar.

...Most of the time...

I was just talking about you! :P

Lady Dee! It's OoBe! I've missed your wild rants of sex and you calling me a tampon ; ; It has been lonely without you.

"Why are the super heroes hitting the policewoman in the face, mommy?"

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Mrs. Moo wanted to play a new scrapper this evening, so I rolled up a cold defender that I'd had an idea for. We went through the tutorial and then went to Atlas Park, simply for ease of travel to various locations. Usually we'd go to Galaxy to avoid the zone spam.

As we leveled to 5 (in a level pact), I heard several things that really bothered me. Most them would go in the farming thread, but a couple things really stood out:

"Looking for a team to fight enemies that hit back!"

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"Aren't there any people here my level to team with? Where do I need to go to team with people under level 5?"

Before issue 14, the new player experience hadn't really changed since issue 5. Atlas was a hangout spot and a spot for newbies to get teams. The zone chatter was stupid, but zone chatter in most MMOs is stupid. For the most part, a new player could treat Atlas Park, and to a lesser extent, Galaxy City, as an extension of the tutorial and begin learning how to play the game.

With AE in Atlas and Galaxy, there is very suddenly a mix of experienced players with high level characters, experienced players with new characters, and inexperienced players with new characters. The inexperience players get thrust into activities the more experienced players are doing via AE missions.

A frequent groupmate told me yesterday he was grouping with a level 6 Kheld in King's Row doing newspaper missions. The Kheld was a new player. He'd started less than two weeks before. He was ecstatic to learn that there were other zones in the game and other stuff to do other than AE missions. He didn't know what a Taskforce or a Safeguard mission were.

This guy got really shortchanged by his new player experience. He fell in with a group of high-level players who power-leveled him to 50. His initial impression of the game is that you go into the Atlas AE bulding and never come out.


What changes should we make to avoid this kind of bad NPE?

I'd like to avoid debate topics here that should go into the farming thread. I want to exclusively focus on what steps can, should, and should not be taken to make Atlas and Galaxy more friendly and more conducive to hooking and landing new players.

If you were going to change things about the zones, what would you do?

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Make AE in 35+ zones only? Perhaps Rikti War Zone only? Like really, I understand that it is nice, but there is OTHER content and it would be nice to see people start the game actually doing it instead of skipping it right from the start.

I saw a level 50 ask in broadcast the other day, "How do I get a mission?" ... This punk obviously never left Atlas.

5 stars, dude! Cool post, OP!