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Ok, so are there no Tux pants??
I hope I'm missing them, because pants/slacks just don't match... AT ALL.

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See how the slacks DO NOT match the tux if you choose any thing other than black? There NEEDS to be tux pants so they will share the same TEXTURE and MATCH!

that is all

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Exaggerate much? No, they don't match exactly....but, except on close inspection, the difference isn't very noticeable.

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Unless it turns into one of those details that just nag you.

It would be nice to have some pants with the same textures as the suit and tux jackets.

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Does my butt look big in this?

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Yes. We told you to lay off the pie.

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After having spoken tio him at the M&G, I have faith in The Sexy One.

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I reserve the right to harbor doubts until I get a) pointy ears back, b) the pirate shirt. That is all.

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So for meaningful new content, all we got was IOs. The rest was either recycled or very minor.

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You know, I had three quarters of a snarky, step by step refutation of this post, but I decided better of it. That one statement there is so amazingly out of touch with reality that you're obviously either deliberately attempting to be provocative, or want changes that are so far out of the mainstream as to make them absurd.

The game is not going to fundamentally change at this point in it's lifecycle, and it seems like that is the only thing that will satisfy you. All new content is going to use similar gameplay to what's come before; you've got the same designers using the same engine and tools to create content for (largely) the same group of players. You can't just expect that they're going to give you something that's totally alien to what's come before.

Even the one thing you allow as new, IO's, aren't really. We had rewards for defeating mobs, we had enhancements, we had costume pieces; how do IO's change any of that? It's just a recombination of existing game elements, isn't it?

I'm really curious to hear what, exactly, you would consider "new."

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Don't forget, Cambios is the person that was upset NCSoft wasn't keeping City of on the 125% uptime standards of the telecommunications industry. Basically comparing a video game to 911 (or equiv) service.

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Manticore, If I make it to your wedding, could you promise me that:

1) You will never make a deal with the devil to have the marriage annulled, and make everyone forget they know your secret identity;

2) You and SP will not invade Hell and get Shalice killed by that very same Devil with his killer halitosis;

3) You will not get kidnapped by Amazons and have your previously undiscovered son shot at the end after the rescue.

Cause you know...it's all been done. :P

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Does it count if he wakes up to find it was all a coma-induced dream?

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How do I select a target and use a power it, my ToHit attribute should not change? To show the real chance to hit the target with the attack chosen?

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Well, I and others have agitated in the past for a serious upgrade to the site and information available on it.

Now that they're NC2, and getting more people, we can only hope.

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I'm hoping so Bill. The Fansite Portal has languished in disuse for over 2 years now So many new and active fansites (like Red Tomax and CoH at Wikia) that should be added, while many unused links should be cleared out.

As a guy who runs and SG site, I would like my SG in there too. I also know how trivial it can be to add and remove hyperlinks on a web page

But that's just the tip of the iceberg IMHO.

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It might not be as trivial as you think - most places like this require a review of the site before linking to it to make sure it doesn't have porn, etc.

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Any comments to those who felt locked out of the fun?

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Stop crying?

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See, it's the neverending blatant trollish posts like this that ensure people from freedom and virtue continue being hostile to those of the other servers, ensuring they remain barren wastelands. Some people just can't empathize with others I guess, who just wanted to play their favourite guys and were having troubles with it, I guess

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At the same time, did you see the posts from people on Freedom? They were saying they should forcibly move the last five hundred people to start new characters/recent transfers to other servers. Rinse and repeat if more room is needed. Frankly, from the attitudes expressed by the majority of those who spoke here, I have no sympathy for them.

Although I do suspect Go_Sabres had a "Cry Moar" macro this weekend.

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We've had this bug where global chat channels would occasionally drop from the chat tab and you would have to re-add them... during Double XP Weekend, this was happening to me every 10-15 minutes. I would get some chat and then the globals would go silent... I'd check the tab, and sure enough they removed themselves AGAIN!

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If your channels go silent, don't look at the tabs via edit. Try sending a tell to the channel - I have noticed that if chat goes down, and you look at the tab, the tab realizes there is no chat and saves itself with out a chat channel in it - whereas if you let it come back without checking on it, it keeps the channel in the tab.

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when they've been doing free transfers to test for years.

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Ah yes, the free copy tool to test.

I wouldn't want that thing doing a transfer (which deletes the original) instead of just a copy with my characters. You?

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If server transfers FROM Freedom were free, who would go?

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Maybe transfers FROM Freedom should be decided by popular vote?

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Then all the non-farmers would get voted off, right? According to some here, anyway.

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I posted this in another thread, but am going to cross-post here...


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Petitioned for forum violation

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Did the Devs not say something about increasing the load capacity of the servers to compensate for this?

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Yes. We upgraded our server hardware as part of our re-investment plan for City of Heroes/Villains, but the fact of the matter is that we've actually hit a new capacity threshhold.

To be clear....There are more players on Freedom now than have ever played on that server. Ever.

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Because data mining didn't show that people were transferring characters to Freedom and creating new ones and no one could guess that DXP would encourage more people on other servers to create alt characters on Freedom.....

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Or the fact that other people will go and create DXP alts on non-freedom servers because they know they will level fast and their friends are there...

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hm...not very happy about this either, nothing else really to say but the devs screwed the pooch.

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Yeah - the devs screwing the pooch really sounds like :

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To be clear....There are more players on Freedom now than have ever played on that server. Ever.

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*rolleyes*

And people shouldn't blame server transfers - I started new characters after hearing about RO - if someone is invited by someone on freedom to try the game guess where chances are they are told where to make their character?

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I am one of those people that don't care about xp but do care about content.

Do we have any idea when/if missions that aren't story arcs will make it to flashback? A lots of the cool and unusual missions are offered to you after you complete a story arc.

I am glad about the xp smoothing, not glad about the xp boost.

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Anything can be made Flashback, but the "completed" star checks for A) Souvenir clue or B) the Badge. If we did missions that were not Story Arcs and not Badged, then they would never show complete.

That said, I have no problem doing this if you guys don't. Just let me know what missions you want on Ouroboros and I will do my best to get them there.

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Maybe have those missions have a unique symbol in the star coloum - say, ∞ - for the OCD. The symbol would always be there, of course - since as you say there is no way to mark completed for those kinds of missions.

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We have a "life at level" stat in seconds. This is how long a character spent at a particular level, logged in. While not a perfect indicator of levelling speed, it's an excellent starting point.

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Now I'm really curious what this stat looks like for level 50.

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You mean how long it took you to level to 50? When you level to fifty, go find a NPC whose name begins with the letter "M". They give you the total logged in time for that character since creation.

Probably not Sunday - but Good chance Monday I could give it a shot.

Depennds on Grandma (she's giving me her car, I could at least play chaffer for her )

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Sony > Microsoft. Always. Period. Done.

- Captain Amazing

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Enjoy your rootkit!

Oh, and Ratchet and Clank!

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To be fair, this was in the context of video games, not music. And I seriously doubt they would be stupid to do the rootkit thing again.

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Statements like "our plan is to release x new issues in '08".

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Actually, I had this question last night.

If any red names are still reading this, is the plan to still stick with three issues this year? Or will we see fewer formal "Issues" and more "in-betweeners"?

Things are looking good so far, but it would be nice to know the general release plan for 2008 for the Issue Roadmap.

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There's definitely more coming in 2008! But, as we started off saying, we're not quite ready to reveal those larger initiatives. So, for now, we stuck with highlighting what is coming in the shorter term.

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OY VEY! Quit teasing us already and give with the details

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Castle already told on Mog.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that we knew they were going to up the cap from 40 to 50 very early on. I kinda recall hearing about that back before I-1.

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Technically, I don't think the level cap was ever "raised." Levels 40-50 always existed "on paper" but just weren't finished in time for release. The intention was always for the game to have 50 levels, as I understand it. In fact, I'm pretty certain everyone knew that the very first expansion was going to be levels 40-50 for precisely that reason: it was always intended to be part of the game.

However, the design of the ultrarares suggests that they are operating on the assumption that level 50 is and will always be the "top of the game."

Anything is possible, but I think there isn't even a hint of work or thought going into a level 51.

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Original plan had 41-50 being i2 or even i3 - but that was because they expected people to go alt-crazy. It became i1 since they had a lot of people zoom through on one character.

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I think you are one of the few that actually likes soul transfer.

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I love soul transfer. If you absolutely need to change it for the people that don't like soul transfer, allow it to be castable while you are still alive. Probably won't find many people who would argue too much with that.

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i guess this is just a personal peeve, but i wish youd stop calling game updates 'free expansions'.

every pay to play online game updates and expands there game as it progresses through patches, these are not some unique 'free expansions' we are getting, they are simply patches and updates to the game just like every other paid mmo you can subscribe to.

i guess its just semantics, but calling them 'free expansions' makes me feel like you think you are talking to idiots who dont realize every single paid mmo has the exact same thing, but they just call them patches.

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I don't know of any pay-to-play MMOs that have introduced any classes for no extra charge.

I am not counting Guildwars, as it's model is pay once for the box and not to play. But Everquest doesn't give "patches" like this to their customers - not frequently, anyway. They have several boxes out. WoW is working on their second one (they plan to release a retail expansion every year most likely for the full 49.95 price) - and I have no clue what Linage and Lineage II are at.

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Yeah I missed the 'in real time', I think ym briain is addled today.

EG:
Sorry the win goes on. Did you not get the memo that suckage is no longer part of CoX ?

(aside from MOG) *ducks and runs*

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MoG continuing to suck is the only thing that grounds me in reality.

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You might want to avoid the Training Room in the near future, then.

[/ QUOTE ]MoG is getting improved huh? Does this mean Dark Armor can get a real tier 9 then to? *puppy dog eyes*

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Hey, I like my tier nine! Leave it alone!

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Now I have make amends with Positron damnit... Seems he saw the Light and is FINALLY getting away from Jack Emmert's oppressive ideas of "FUN" when it came to Character progression and build Customization. ...If Positron does the same thing to smooth out Salvage and Pool-C drops.... I promise I'll [u]never say another bad thing about him[u] for the rest of my villainous days. (Exluding "AGH!, put the Helmet back on!" of course )

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You DO know that Jack helped write the CoV Prima guide, right? The one that, mistake-ridden as it was, disclosed the full numbers to every single villain power set? Did you miss the Statesman post where he openly admits he was wrong about his reasoning for keeping the numbers vague? But no, everything you hate about the game exists for no reason other than the mad whims of Stateman's "vision".

Jack Emmert, boogeyman. I bet that looks awesome on a resume.

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Better than what this guy has on his resume.

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At a rough guess Pohsyb.


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And that means what to me exactly?

I can only guess Arcanaville has me confused with someone else or thinks I represent something I don't. Whatever...

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You said who is out of the box.

Pohsyb is the Dev in a Box (tm).

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Smoothing the XP Curve
One thing that we constantly examine is the rate of advancement in the game. In a future version, we intend to smooth out the leveling curve by changing how much experience is given out for defeating opponents. The intent is to smooth out the “bumps” where players typically get stuck leveling up their characters. Keep an eye on coming patch notes for specifics.


Real Numbers
As a general quality of life improvement we will be adding new functionality in a coming version of the game to display the “real” numbers behind your characters and their powers. This includes a user configurable display of important characteristics such as movement rate, regeneration rate, resistances and many more! Additionally, you will be able to see how those statistics are affected in real time by buffs and/or debuffs affecting your character.

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I think I just $#%& a brick....
*checks* ...Yep I did...

Now I have make amends with Positron damnit... Seems he saw the Light and is FINALLY getting away from Jack Emmert's oppressive ideas of "FUN" when it came to Character progression and build Customization. ...If Positron does the same thing to smooth out Salvage and Pool-C drops.... I promise I'll [u]never say another bad thing about him[u] for the rest of my villainous days. (Exluding "AGH!, put the Helmet back on!" of course )

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Um, at least since CoV beta they have been wanting to show us the real numbers - Castle (and I think even Geko, before he left) said the big issue was trying to show some of the stuff in ways it would be easy for us players to understand (KB/KU/KD being a big example).