Positron

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Croatoa... a place where myth and fantasy still live...

So does this mean we might get a few more European mythological costume options, huh huh does it

devil's advocate -Pogo

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The only thing I want is the whiches hat. Come on, we need those...realy.

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Yeah, we really do...

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New zone – Croatoa. Supposedly leaked photos indicate that it is a city zone with the third university (two are under construction on live right now). The level range is 25-35. According to a member of the forums who has supposedly seen it, the zone is HUGE. There is no definite information on this, so consider the above educated speculation. This zone will include new missions, contacts, TFs, etc. following the example set by Striga Isle.

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There is a vicious rumor going around that this zone has been pulled from I5...anybody confirm or deny this?

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The zone is still in Issue 5 (it's the bulk of issue 5, as Striga was for issue 3). The University is still in Croatoa, but alas the Skills System tied to it is not (its currently undergoing a redesign). So to clear up: Skills pulled from Issue 5. Croatoa is not.

21/21... Yeah, Commander Courage was a decision point for me...

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So I was on with my SG on Champion a while ago, and we were doing the Positron TF. At one point, we were ambush right in front of Positron and Valkyrie. So here's all these guys shooting at us, trying to kill us, and Mr. Bigshot "I got my armor upgraded" and Ms. "I have this fancy spear that none of you can get!" are just kinda standing there watching.

THANKS A LOT, LEGENDARY HEROES!

Seriously, though, it would be cool if the trainers got some sort of automated power similar to the police drones. There's just something wrong about the eight most famous heroes in all of Paragon city standing there watching you get pounded on.

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All that crap is grey to me, no XP.

There was a very difficult to track down bug in Transference and its interaction with Endurance Drain Resisting powers.

Thanks to FlyingCodeMonkey and the others in this thread it has been found and fixed. I have no idea when this will make it to the Live servers.

Thanks again guys.

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This is nice but what about a badge for all of us who lived and died during that year not just showed up for the party. A badge for your biggest supporters that have been here through the beta, paid and played all year, even upgraded to the DVD Edition. Or will we have to wait to buy City of Villians also before that ever happens?

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Not handing out Torches and Pitchforks here, but when I first saw the badge I thought it was for veterans too. What's wrong with a veteran badge?

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Absolutely nothing is wrong with any sort of Veteran reward.

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Actually looking at the wording of such a badge... I would expect issue 4 to go live at the beginning of may. That way we have the entire month to log on and get the badge.

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Funny thing about wording... it can be changed. Remember this badge is only on the Training Room right now.

I wanted to take time this morning and wish all the players of City of Heroes a very happy Anniversary.

CoH was officially launched on April 28th, 2004, and it has been a long, strange year ever since.

I hope that we have delivered each and every one of you some memorable moments of fun at some point in these past 12 months, and that many of you have made some new friends through City of Heroes. I know I have enjoyed teaming with you (in secret of course) this past year.

Its continues to be a pleasure working on an MMO, and one based on comic books at that. I hope that you all continue to enjoy the fruits of our labors, and with everything I see about City of Villains, I have no doubt you will.

I'd like to extend thanks to the Art team for keeping the bar high and never compromising, and the Programming team for consistently implementing the crazy new systems we in design come up with for each new Expansion.

Most of all I would like to thank the players, the die-hards and the casual. Without you, there would be no Paragon City.

The badge will be given to every character that logs in after Issue 4 goes live, thru May 30th, 2005. Plenty of time for you to get it on all your characters.

It is NOT a Veteran reward badge. You can make a character on May 30th this year and they will get the badge.

Although I have never been to burning man, I did name my dog Tron when I was a kid.

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If only there were in-game voice tracks.

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Localization would have become a LOT more expensive.

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Hey Positron, I was just wondering... when you're testing the Arena, do you get to control the actual Positron, with powers and all?

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Nah, I usually just play whatever archetype needs testing that day. I generally play Defenders or Blasters though.

Currently the Weight Classes are as such:

Strawweight-(Level 1 to 4)
Flyweight-(5 to 9)
Bantamweight-(10 to 14)
Featherweight-(15 to 19)
Lightweight-(20 to 24)
Welterweight-(25 to 29)
Middleweight-(30 to 34)
Cruiserweight-(35 to 39)
Heavyweight-(40 to 44)
Super Heavyweight-(45 to 50)

Currently, if you set up a match with the "No Travel Powers" ground rule then:

Your ground speed is capped at Sprint speed.

Your jump height is capped at slightly above normal jump height.

No beneficial teleportation (Teleport, Recall Friend, Warshade/Dwarf 'port, etc.). Wormhole and Teleport Foe still work.

No flight.

You -still- recieve any of the other benefits those powers give you, like Combat Jumping and Hover add to your defense. You can toggle them on for the defense bonus, but you won't get the movement power.

Things that were put into powers as side effects to counter certain game-created condiitions (off the top of my head, the stealth inherent in Super Speed) are NOT given to you in the Arena. If you want any stealth in PvP, you need to be using a stealth-based power.

Of course, this is all subject to change.

Problem with this is that most players won't think they are Confused.

They will think they are the victim of a bug or some sort of exploit.

Letting the player know when they are Confused is the easiest way to prevent Customer Service from recieving tons of false bug and exploit tickets.

We tried to implement a system where we can let the player know they are Confused, but give them the opportunity to "act normally", just occassionally changing their actions server side. Once Issue 4 hits test, try it out and give us your feedback.

Done.

While we're at it we also support multi-team matches (like 4 teams of 2 Heroes each all duking it out).

This technically isn't possible with our engine. It would have to be a huge animated texture refreshing at 20+ frames per second.

We did think of it, but the engineers' eyeballs popped out of their sockets when we suggested it.

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Can we watch heroes battle it out in the arena, a sort of public spectacle if you will? I'd love to just log in and watch people duke it out so to speak.

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(NOTE: Any or all of the following information may change by the time this makes it to Training Room or the Live servers).

Yes... to an extent.

You will be able to view the events in "Observer Mode", either when they are running, or if you are defeated and players on your side are still running around.

Observer Mode is cool. You look like a floating camera and can move around the arena map, watching the action.

Now, of course, some of you are right to point out that such a system is ripe for abuse... you can scout out enemy positions for your buddies and the like.

Thats why we made these Observer cameras targetable and easily destroyable. This is a very cool feature that adds another dimension to gameplay.

This tries to give everyone what they want. Voyeurs get to observe, defeated players get to still watch the action, "spies" can try to gather intel on opposing teams, and at the same time, opposing teams can shut down those spies easily if they so wish.

Again, this is all being tested, and may make it to the Live servers in a different manner than described here.

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8) Non-CoH note... Zookeeper is also the name of an old arcade game. In that game, the levels involving a monkey has him throwing coconuts at you... He's holding your girlfriend hostage and you must save her.

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One of my all-time favorites.

Yes

We already implemented Time Travel...

Wait, we haven't yet? What year is this? 2004! Oh... um, ignore me.

You should find that the Cape and other "protect object" missions are now completable, whereas last week a bug existed that made them FAR harder than intended.

VIP Badge does nothing.

It isn't an Accomplishment, so I couldn't put it there.
It isn't an Achievement, so I couldn't put it there.
It has nothing to do with Exploration, so I couldn't put it there.
It has nothing to do with History, so I couldn't put it there.

That left Accolade. I couldn't give it an effect, or the playerbase would be upset that we are "charging money to give some Heroes an advantage over others", and rightly so.

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Anyone know why there isn't a Praetorian version of Blue Steel?

Wouldn't it be easy to make an evil, "opposite" villain of him called something like Red Iron?

Insignificant I know, but it bothers me

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Blue Steel is not a member of the Freedom Phalanx, nor is he one of their sidekicks.

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There aren't status bars for the Halloween badges. I would imagine that this is because you would be stuck with them if you don't finish before the event is over.

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Bingo