OneAboveAll

Originally Posted by Castle

We had well over 1000 questions. Part of the group started with oldest questions, part of the group started in the middle and part of the group started with the newest questions.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Well, I didn't expect it to be a "Can do multiple times a day" thing.

That said, "A week's worth of work" for who - someone playing 2 hours a week, or someone doing 10 hours a day on a team of 8?

Originally Posted by Black Pebble

Hello everybody,

I am the silent Black Pebble, otherwise known as the new North Americanbrand manager for City of Heroes.

I’ve been playing City of Heroes since 2004. I remember when my Fire/Rad controller had 12 fire imps. I remember how cool it was to get the chance to meet Positron on the test server, so I could finally whine about how much I hated Electric Manipulation on my Energy Blaster. One of my favorite memories was the first time I got to see the CoT temple map, which was the most breath-taking instance I had ever seen.

Sometimes, I would log in just to fly all the way to the top of the invisible skyline, then drop, and try to turn on fly before I splatted. I’ve played a lot of other MMO’s, but none of them have ever given me the same thrill that flying in CoH has. And nothing is better at making you feel overpowered than clicking Nova and seeing 20 mobs lying at your feet. No other game has managed to capture that feeling of freedom, power or uniqueness.

It’s been almost six years, and the game still inspires the same sense of excitement in me.

There is still one adventure left for me and it would be to face my most fearsome nemesis – all of you.

Some of you may already have painted an image of me in your minds. I can reassure you that I do not have a cat (I am allergic to them), I do not wear suits to work, and although I could lose a few pounds, I am in pretty good shape.


My hope is that by getting a red name on the board, I can show you that I am a fan and I will listen to you. Perhaps we can even have some interesting, new discussions.

I cannot promise you my undivided attention sadly, as I have many diabolical marketing schemes to inflict on the teeming masses. However, I will do my best to listen to all of you, and answer what questions I can. And although you may not see my direct hand in things, you will soon see the fruits of my devious plans very, very soon.

As a heads up, if you ask me questions about powers, art, distribution, retail, stories, billing, Latin, sales, bugs, dairy products, accounting, singing, costumes, anything that happened from 2004-2009, conventions, PvP, design, or algebra, not only will I not be able to answer them, but I’ll feel pretty bad about myself. I can only answer questions that directly involve my job.

So what do I do? Long story short, I try my best to make sure that everyone knows what a great game City of Heroes/Villains is and that we never forget that our most important part of our game is you – the players. I don’t program, I don’t draw and I don’t write great stories. You already know all of those people. I kind of do everything else. The one thing I can promise you is that I will do my best to earn your respect.

That is all I have for now.

See you again soon,

- Guy without a cool signature, avatar or costume.

Originally Posted by SkeetSkeet

It's equally naive to talk about a stalker's risk/benefit purely in terms of damage output.

The very area you suggest--evading a kill--is an area where stalkers are arguably the strongest AT in the game and can't simply be overlooked when talking overall pvp balance.

The very reason that stalkers were nerfed to begin with was that it was unreasonable for a single AT to simultaneously enjoy the extremes of being at/near the top in killing potential and at/near the top of evading defeat.

A change that gives them more in offensive potency should also increase the attendant risk.

Originally Posted by Xanatos

BOBC only has 4 active D6ers. I'm sure they could use some of the late signups.

Originally Posted by Supermax

The one I was thinking of is D I V I N E. That's the stalker's name. Is that not this Divine from the forums? I was sure it was.

Originally Posted by Supermax

Sounds like a case of mistaken identity.

Divine, meet Conflict, one of the top players left on Freedom.

Con, meet Divine, one of the best oldschool stalkers in the game.

Originally Posted by Oliin

What exactly is giving you those impressions. Your 3 is possible I suppose, though they went to a fair amount of effort to give mirrors of any of the accolades that really provide any real positive power (+hp and the like). I'd imagine you could end up with both of the accolades, but only one copy of the powers myself.

As for the first one. It's actually probably a better question than an assumption really. I've always been under the impression that you could switch sides at any time in your character's career, but now that I think about it, I'm not really sure that it's ever been said either way.

Originally Posted by Shadowe

I believe that Posi is on record for saying that they are putting in new low-level/tutorial content for Praetorian Earth... I would therefore be greatly surprised if it's restricted to 50s. (Any chance anyone can compile all the GR info from interviews and notifications in one place, so that we can reference them easily?)