Psychic Guardian

It's just the person in the thread below him's signature banner. Apparently it's hosted on an unsafe site. But I'm pretty sure it's harmless to forumgoers, unless you click his signature link and go wandering around that site.

Shh no they didn't, it was still possible in bases. I'll have to look again.

Omega probably won't be out til next november or later, and I'd bet money no issue through then will be lacking at least some trickle of incarnate stuff. Realistically we won't get anything else until they're "done" with existing incarnate stuff.....and that abomination that won't go away and keeps getting bigger called Praetoria either. DopplegangerTech=win. Ebil dimension constantly trying to invade ours where they're all born inherently stronger than our dimension's inhabitants; lame.

Yes. As I and others expected this "hybrid business model" is being handled in extremely poor taste. It's not that they needed it because the game was dying, but the changes production and management are making because we switched to it is killing off players.

lolVIP. The "hybrid" model since it launched has seemed to be "VIPs go sit in the corner and be quiet we already have your money. Stay out of the way while we try to impress the noobs into becoming VIPs so they can join you in the corner and we work on the next round." Since this model launched all of these disaster-patches have hit because they were rushing something out the door to bring them back into the MMO spotlight for a sec with new content to reel in a couple more free players before a new competing MMO launches and they grab those players instead. Dumming down of trials(which I did like seeing) was done because new players(the minors likely) are unwilling to learn strategy and couldn't handle the challenge before. And of course bugs being rushed live, and more on live being backburnered while they continue creating small(albeit sometimes incredibly cool) items to drop into the Market to get a few extra bucks off everybody. Cuz ya know; bug fixes get a smile, Market trinkets get money. So to hell with the fixes .

Edit: Freedom's launch is reminding me of the AE Launch. CoH has such a spotlight on them all that matters is public image from the outside, it doesn't matter if actual players get new bugs, from the outside it's new "content". Like the incredi-fail where anyone who said something bad about AE in 2009 had their thread/post deleted, because AE was an innovation we overhyped, and we couldn't have the competitors lol'ing at us as it backfired and caused the Devs more longterm(still ongoing) trouble than it's intended purpose could have ever been worth.(I actually tried to make a semi-honest AE mission this week. Couldn't use the flame emblem unlocked on my account from Empyrean Michael, no other incarnate unlocks either. Those were what? June? C'mon, no binary aura on custom NPCs in a virtual reality setting that's a crime. And no powercustomization(colors) for the customs either. If you want people to use it properly give it features capable of more than crude farm XP.)

Edit2: And the reason the "hybrid business model" is scaring away VIPs so fast is mostly because "hybrid" means more money opportunities, giving the business suits more input on the game's development. Yesterday's publish which was clearly released due to a gun in our Lead Dev's face is proof of what happens when you let the business managers anywhere near the people who actually sculpt the game. Coh was better off flatrate with those guys hogtied in a corner leaving Paragon Studios free to do their job unobstructed.

It was probably those changes to the base editor that broke the defensive items .

That's the best suggestion for keeping this bug as a feature i've seen stated in the thread so far.(I personally don't see the draw, with coh being a math based accuracy/damage game not movement, but it seems to be a hit with a lot of people)

Another good idea. I know an Issue focused on bases is in the works, I hope these two guys' ideas are considered and implemented in that issue. I've toured some great, heavily decorated bases, and the random barren areas(doorways) takes away from the overall capability to create fluent design.

Oh and DEs becoming as difficult to destroy as the planet as a whole? Who let the noob tinker with all the NPC rank classifications(Devoire) and spawn limitations?

This actually happened to someone on my server earlier this week. So that's One bad thing that happened today that likely wasn't a result of what I will now always refer to as the disaster-patch .

LOL Eldorado is right. I was literally refreshing the server status page today waiting for CoH to come back up because I was dying to make a new alt, it patched, I saw the driver complaint stupidity was added to the patch and logged into the boards to send a PM (never got a reply Zwill ), saw this thread, and haven't logged in. I saw the mess the UI bug made on beta....that's why we all reported it....weeks ago on beta. It doesn't even just shuffle your current stuff around, it opens and closes windows etc. Lots of people have stated they aren't logging in until bug x is fixed, I doubt there'd be an uproar over a possible rollback.

I'm up for one, this patch was nothing short of a disaster. And it's not even like the showstopping bugs were a surprise that popped up when the build was migrated to Live, they've been on beta for a month and reported and you guys(Devs in general not Zwill lol) just moved them to live anyway . And honestly it's not like the publish came with a bunch of great content we'd be losing for a few days from the rollback(zones, trials, new incarnate power types(not branches)), I'm sure nobody would cry about the AE stealthNerf being rolled back for the weekend Lol.

Edit: My point was all of these bugs were reported, people wouldn't be asking for a rollback if these bugs weren't knowingly migrated to live on purpose in the first place. I can't think of any new content that isn't broken that was important enough to push live today and drag all the bugs with it....unless the devs are gonna blame it all on wanting the ambushes fixed nao, but did MARTy really have tell them about that for them to realize it was being used? Ambushes have been being (ab)used for years....

Ymean it already isn't on your server ? Since they started tearing down AE and curbing it's XP and this and that and the other thing only farmers are persistent enough to actually press on and adapt, most people who wanted to tell a story with AE that I heard of gave up on it years ago.

When they were hyping AE they were saying they were the first to allow players to create missions, I guess all that hype is what kept from them admitting it was a complete disaster and just yanking AE out altogether. It'd have at least given them time to stop staring at things like MARTy and trying to hunt out way to repeatedly nerf it if they had just hit the delete key over it back when it launched and failed, and actually focus on something that made the players happy instead of finding little tweaks to upset them every couple releases.

Zwill someone in Player Help noticed it this afternoon, in the form of his KB setbonus appearing to be lacking; http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=277836

I luckily have 2 50s that survived the betaserver wipe from earlier this year. I did try and copy someone else over and was aggravated I couldn't, but I hadn't thought of it as a reason for lack of beta testers. But yes, that's definitely a reason. I know I personally don't level anything on Test or Beta. I know I'm not personally interested in leveling in an environment where transfers are one way, and the server is subject to wipe at any given time, and if I fall in love with the toon I'll be starting it over from lv1 on live.

Winter you forgot them widening the range of their spammy lil Update your drivers or die death ray . My PC is from 2007, yes it's a piece of crap with old drivers. No I don't need to be reminded 3 different ways everytime I try to open the *********** game . And encouraging uneducated people to tinker with drivers and ruin their PCs for non-noticeable improvements is poor taste. Also the change to the the badges tab. Last I saw on beta the Collect button just launched a devcreated PopMenu. Players can make those(hell I've made some of those)......the old one looked more professional.

It's not Paragon Studios it's the Producer people. Devs=child-spirited fun-loving people who happen to be capable of making games. Producers=Washington-equivalent heartless suits with schedules and releasedates.

Lead Dev: "21.5 isn't ready yet. We are NOT putting TPN live this week."
Producer: "Ok. Pull TPN, put it live. This week. What? You only patch on tuesdays and it's wednesday? ugh fine. Do it tomorrow. Oh all the other bugs you didn't fix yet will end up live too? Work faster on the next beta."

Yes, CoH has taught me that is how producers of MMOs work .

It was not unexpected. It's been on beta for weeks, likely since the first day of alpha testing, then closed beta, I know it certainly was when I went into open beta.
I told you, it's the evil higher ups with their schedules and disregard for the actual content
Between the bugs, TPN being pulled, and that statement it's clear paragon studios didn't want this live today, NC did.

Now look at the mess you made suits, this is what happens when you rush them.

lol.

Good. Maybe then they'll stop ignoring it and do something about it .

The past year or so they've had to have devs login to beta to get people to install it and actually do the betatesting.....ignoring game-breaking bugs like this that have been /bugged since the first day of closed beta and then PUSHING THEM LIVE is not the way to make betatesters feel important .

Yup it sucks. But it was done to prevent 50s from hitting Barrier before zoning into an exemping arc, etc. Like how MM pets die when zoning/starting TF whatever, to prevent them from becoming "overpowered" .

It's a superhero game, there should be no such thing as "overpowered"

/This.

I might spent $5-$10 of points for a single set of purples or PVPs when they come out(Yes, when).

I understand these are guineapig models to test the pricing and actual revenue from the items(time to see how many who cried for it will actually pay for it now that it's here)......but how come everytime Paragon tests something the test-dummy items are subpar? It offsets the point of the test, because they're below-standard items. If you wanna see how well rares will sell at their current price, list the LotG or Numina set with their procs. THAT will give you a good idea of how well rares will do. But things like that lv20 melee set I hadn't even remembered hearing of before, or the mako's that go for like 5mil as recipes at lv50? lol. Of course the numbers sold will be pathetic .

Yup this changed a few issues ago. 19ish maybe? You can now change it as often as you like, once you've unlocked them(15 for the first column, 25 for the second). I took my main PG from hero to villain and watched his title get stripped when the morality mission was completed, but going to an Arbiter(trainer) allowed me to set a villain title. You might want to petition your instance, because you should now be able to change your title to a Hero one.

They changed the name/location of the loginscreen file during beta. If you reconvert your image it should implement fine on live .

And OMG Henri! That one you did of your character is stunning. Was that done in a 3D designing environment?

If you haven't used it since i7, but did use it back then it's important if you haven't heard, to hear that it was changed . The Mag50 Afraid has been removed, the enemies will now stand in the patch and Burn to death properly . Since they no longer run immediately, that means it's damage is much more effective because they won't be leaving it's range. (Unlike Bonfire, where it's damage(without mez control) is irrelevant because they dont stand there for the duration).

Also
Does that imply that the patch/rain/toggle chance-to-fire timer for procs is 10seconds? I've been using a lot of procs on a recent toon and I can't remember(Chance for +Rech going into Hurricane for example).

I knew this was the reason. For all the people who screamed "I have X characters and I don't want to play with noobs/kids/X I shouldn't have to pay more to get away from it because you changed the game".

I also realized another reason the devs want people on Exalted; Dropping Sub. If you move all your alts to exalted then decide you want to drop VIP you'd have to move your characters to a different server and lose your SG/Friends/etc all over again, "locking" you into staying VIP once you've labeled Exhaled home ebil Freedom Marketeers .

Yes I believe she does. The SG access is a reward for filling a tier of the table. Even though she has enough to do it I think the system requires she actually allocate them and fill the tier to gain the benefits.

This! Or a character slot . I actually came to the forum to suggest that window today, and here it is. They're the same value in points, same general amount of uselessness to certain people, etc.

It should be possible, with the same method as the login screen. I actually realized I have the skyblue, villainred and praetorian gold versions, and trying to replace the current red one with the skyblue was going to be my next project. I'm not sure how it will look though, the costume category buttons, and rotational/previous/next buttons will all be the same(unless those are replaced manually too).