Skullfester

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Servers went live officially on 4th of Feb '05. But were in fact up and running the day before.

I wonder how many of the few who accessed the game a day early on live are still left?

I'm one.

I know some of the others have certainly left. But are there others still around? we should have a badge.

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And I'm another, my real 4 year anni comes on New Years Eve (beta) but have to wait til feb for the offical one, altho my passion for CoX has started to wane slightly in the past couple of months I'm still here and fighting strong. I gave WAR a try and found the reasons why I loved CoX so much, something about this game just doesn't let go!!!

Been here since Euro release..issue 3. And like many of you enjoyed a majority of the changes especailly new/revamped zones. Loads of things have changed mainly for the better as I'm struggling for the bad and plenty to discuss (old MoG vs new MoG?).

Love the Hess TF and happy I've been able to do it more than once, tried the Eden one and failed miserably, but still enjoyable but never, ever done a sewer trail and reallly wants to!

ED didn't really effect me cos I was thinking on the same lines as the current system and never really thought "ah 2 reds that'll double my damage" I just thought "surely 2 reds will just slightly increase my damage". I do remember in my very early days double slotting rest and run, for some reason I'd put a green in rest with a rec and a jump in run with a sprint which does make some kind of sense at least! I also remember picking a power pool power at lev 6 and not realising about Travel Powers (I came here from SWG so was expecting lots of walking...lots n lots, I even forced myself to do it when I first played, walking from zone to zone rather than use the trams) and by fluke had picked combat jumping allowing me to snap up super jump at 14, how excited I was and to think now due to temp powers I take that feeling for granted.

Think thats most of my stupid/newbie stuff out of the way!

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Ok im interested Want to see how theyr going to explain malta there though, now we have two future (present? man i hate time travel) enemy groups in the past (present?), wonder whos next . . . . . .

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Well Malta isn't that far from Rome as the Crow flies at least

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Rats someone beat me to it! I've just been to Malta and saw no sign of any gunslingers therefore I'm disappointed...I did however learn all about the Great Siege of 1565, stick that in a story arc!

I reckon it'llbe early December around the sametime dual blades and ouroboros came along last year, think that was either the first or second tuesday of the month...so I'm going with 9th December

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Bathory Erzsebet Magic Necro/Dark Mastermind I wanted to make a perfect sadistic villain. So I looked into history for advice. A vampire would be nice. And I came up with Elizabeth Bathory. That name was obviously taken. I met the guy who helped his friend make this toon, but never the toon itself.

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If you're on defiant that would be me, my Bathory creation came mainly from history, I was doing a presentation on serial killers at about the time of getting CoH, I saw the poster for CoV on the back of the map supplied with the game and thought "aww man I wanna make a villain!!". So I set about my evil plan by thinking of evil women in history my first thought was Myra Hindley which I reserved for a couple of months before my inner-self told me that was probably bit close to the born and and wouldn't be good taste to run about with a toon named after a fairly recent evil woman. So my brain clicked and whirled abit more and I remembered about dear old Elizabeth (or Erzsebet in Hungarian) who I'd mainly learnt about by over playing Atmosphere as a child. Her name has that many translations I'm surprised she hasn't turned up more!

When CoV went into beta I immediately made her a necro/poison MM which she stayed until the game went live...I also placeheld the name on Union...cos I'm nasty but that version has since been deleted!

I thought taxibots were a defiant thing, mainly cos thats where I started in the early days!

Removing the debt from the door critters might help (as far as I know the raiding zombies are like rading Rikti - they don't dish out debt) but like I said earlier it's still annoying and ill-mannered aswell as a form of harrasement.

it's not so much the debt/dying part that gets me its just the incredible lack of manners over something like a badge, lack of manners anywhere really gets my goat...and you don't want my goat, he eats everything!

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Yea had the samething happen to me in PI...was happily slashing away at a mob and then realised it was getting bigger and bigger but me being me decided i'd stay and fight it out..took quite a few down before being swamped.

I was in a bliss of ignorance thinking my diff level probably caused it before noticing a team running about clicking doors. Come on are cossies and badges really valuble that you have to rain on other people's parades? I did go move to another zone (a lil secret area with lots of doors that hardly anyone uses) but thats not the point. If you're ToT'ing then its your mob and your problem deal with it!!

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If you was on Defiant earlier you may have come across me and my team doing this. We did shout out about it on broadcast warning people tho.

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Nope you're blameless I was about at the sametiime (thanks for Zombie Apocalypse team). This was away from the carnage you were intending to create ;-) and was just a bunch of peoplerunning around like headless chickens wanting as many doors as they could

Yea had the samething happen to me in PI...was happily slashing away at a mob and then realised it was getting bigger and bigger but me being me decided i'd stay and fight it out..took quite a few down before being swamped.

I was in a bliss of ignorance thinking my diff level probably caused it before noticing a team running about clicking doors. Come on are cossies and badges really valuble that you have to rain on other people's parades? I did go move to another zone (a lil secret area with lots of doors that hardly anyone uses) but thats not the point. If you're ToT'ing then its your mob and your problem deal with it!!

Noticed the drops aren't too great, be nice if we got some salvage and a costume. Got 10 cossies and only 2 bits of salvage after about an hour of door knocking =(

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meh...

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Indeed!, there have been better feature update videos than that one!, that lacked the OoOoh factor™ in my opinion.

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Yea samehere, dunno if its cos I looked at the piccies of the different shield types or not. Pain dom just wasn't shown in a very good light...maybe its time for a break

Defiant Villains is murder for corrs...so why the heck did I start a new one on there?

Only pun type name I have is Stalking Dead my undead dark/wp stalker - shock horror!

Still proud of the hero version of the Clockwork King - Clockwork Queen, invented to battle the clockwork trouble.

Then there's my House of Cards group consisting of Mr Club, Mr Spade, Mistress Heart and Miss Diamond (or Club, Spade, Heart and Diamond to their friends)

Then names like Elizabeth Bathory, Chosen One and Enigma which I'm proud of cos of the amount of people that have alturnatives to these names and I get to brag about.

Oh and Trollslayer, cos he's small...ginger...and carries a rather large axe, which he's able to slay trolls with, without even having to play WAR!

Could be useful outside of PVP for say corruptors, I know that whilst making the journey to 50 with my fire/therm it can be a pain having a ton of team powers but having to solo. Therefore (as it's been mentioned) it's good to have the option to focus on the blasting side of corrs for solo'ing and switching to "team friendly mode" for teams, I'm sure there're are plenty of other builds this'll help out just corrs sprang to mind when I read it!

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I've not spent a cent - a friend pays for me

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Aren't those called Sugar Daddies?

I don't dare total the amount I've paid for CoX only cos I'm one of those people that think wow "£523.49" (that's made up but it probably won't be far off!) I could have bought myself xxxx (insert wanted item here) and forget about all the fun I've had!

Then again I've probably saved a heck of amount of money by playing CoX due to the fact that since I've started playing I've been thinking twice about buying new games, often leaving me to sit for awhile before purchasing them, other times just forgetting about them altogether. Mainly due to the fact a lil voice says to me "why spend £30 on a game you'll hardly play and when you do get round to playing it, it'll be £20 or less in the shops".

So thanks CoX for making me think for a change

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I'll try one more time.

Level 50 tank, level 50 mission, set to invulnerable. Mobs are 53/54
7 x level 1. Auto SK'd to one below mission level, level 49. They CANNOT be SK'd up to -1 mob level, as character levels cannot go that high.

They are getting XP for +4/+5 mobs. PL paradise.

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Is this what all this is about????

I thought I clearly covered this quite awhile back.

Permit me to try one more time. In the alternate worlds where the devs launch my proposed system, the xp would be capped.

The way xp is distributed would be altered for the new system. If my level ten is sked by a 50 against a level 53 he would recieve the same xp as if he were faceing a +1 in a normal unsked mission.
The maximum xp an sked player could get would be relative to a +1.
So imagine he were in a mission of his own fighting plus ones and he recieved 50 xp for "defeating" a +1 minion. He's then invited to a level 50 mission againsts 50 and 53s.
He beats a 50 minion. He recieves.. 50,xp. He beats a 53 minion. He recieves .. 50 xp.

This is because, to prevent that kind of abuse and to keep the sk in the spirit in which is was intented (friends teaming across the levels)the game would be set to only allow the same xp as plus one.

So, it woulkd be impossible to get the xp for +4 or +5 therefore it would NOT be Plers paradise.

And as for oner 50 dealing with a map of 8 spawn, using 7 sked level 10s or 20s, you have to be really really good to do that and not have an untold number of deaths to the lower level (training io) players. Most people are nowhere near that standard.

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Thus killing PL'ing altogether? And also (unless its with friends but even then...) making SK'ing pointless, why SK against foes which will be more difficult for the same xp? I'd rather go back to my low council and family mishes than do that!

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I'll try one more time.

Level 50 tank, level 50 mission, set to invulnerable. Mobs are 53/54
7 x level 1. Auto SK'd to one below mission level, level 49. They CANNOT be SK'd up to -1 mob level, as character levels cannot go that high.

They are getting XP for +4/+5 mobs. PL paradise.

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/agreed

I can't see any benefit (unless its to those that want to PL) of being able to SK multiple toons. The system thats in place now works, sure it pops up with a couple of annoyances but what system doesn't?

Someone discussed this idea ina team I was in last week and I scoffed...when asked why I replied with an answer pretty close to FFM's to which they replied "ah..yea".

so once again I scoff

/scoff

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It has been mentioned before (I know cos I've said it) but I'd still love water powers.

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I'd love this as well, but apparantly, the game engine, (again, I know), can't handle such effects. I cannot remember where, as my search-fu is terribly weak, but I think I remember Posi saying that the current "Energy Blast" set started off as water, but they couldn't replicate the effects.

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Ah yea remember that now, I swear my brain is slowly switching itself off now, especially thinking about it energy is pretty much water blastation with all the knockback etc...altho I still do like the idea of water control, sucking it from the critters or giving them too much along with water shields

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Hmmmm... what do you suppose that means? CoX2? Engine upgrade? New game?

Any thoughts?

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I get the feeling there's more to a secret identity than this, so they don't want to rule out doing it better in the future (be that in COX or a different game).

Secret identities have a whole raft of consequences in superhero terms that don't fit into "where you log out". I would hope that if they implemented Secret Identities they would have to be something you would need to maintain, build and nurture. You'd have to show up for work, stop people from finding out who you really are, take steps to prevent people who have found out from telling the world... who knows what else.

I just think it's too big a part of super hero culture for NCNC to blow the whole thing on an off line reward system.

Just my 2 inf.

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Keeping your identity secret is far too easy for stalkers tho...they just turn on hide

But yea the name is probably being kept for some massively secret agenda we're not allowed to know about. For some reason I thought Issue 13 might have a bit of a dark twist with it being 13 n all I guess my feelings got clouded

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The same thing was suggested last week, IIRC.

Cryptic stated that they considered this kind of option when creating the game, but rejected it because it meant that new players might select something which made it horribly difficult to play the game. Example: if you are Magic origin and select something which makes you more affected by fire attacks, your first 5 levels will be Hell; way too many Hellions. Equally, if you selected something that made you take more damage from Psionics, the last 10 levels will be a trial.

Essentially, requiring the players to know how the game works intimately when creating a character is against the spirit of the game (i.e. easy to pick up and play).

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Yea which is why I'd like the standalone "human" AT which means no change and a big flashy button next to it saying "beginners start here!!"...well maybe not the button but some text stating that or indeed an advanced players menu. I wouldn't like the resist/prone to numbers to be too much tho just like the idea of the toons origins to be taken into account. Certain powers would have be account for tho, being more prone to psionics isn't much fun afterall!

These have probably been discussed before but thought I'd throw them into the mix for the sake of doing so:

Toon Secondary Origins - I know affiliations have been mentioned before, such choosing your villain group in CoV or hero one in CoH. But what about what your toon actually is?? Everyones got a toon that's something and I just thought it would be cool to gain dis/advantages due to this. For example when creating a toon after picking your AT and origin you get a secondary origin list this could depend on what you chose for your origin or not. In this list you get things such as Robot, Monster, Thick Skin, Human, Alien, Undead etc etc and depending what you pick you gain certain changes in your base numbers. Robots for example could have a small natural resistance to toxic but be more suspectible to electricity or smashing powers (this is just a quick example). Undead could be resistant to Neg powers but prone to fire etc etc

If you don't want a small strength/weakness then just pick human and be the norm mr. average. Just think it'll be cool to actually be what you're supposed to be!

Powers - Gonna try and keep this brief...TRY! It has been mentioned before (I know cos I've said it) but I'd still love water powers, most probs this will suit blaster, defender, controller, dominator, corrupter ATs. What I have is mind is defo a def AT with a water secondary blast set with small squirts of water amassing to tidal waves and what not! Coupled with a water aiding prim with powers such as healing waters etc etc.

Also I quite like the idea of an insect powerset for MM's being able to summon swarms (tier 1), larger insects (tier 2) and some giant cockroach (or something) as the tier 3 pet.

And there we go...just throwing the ball out there and seeing if anyone fancies catching it

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Good point.

In that case, if we have shields:

Tanker Primary: Shields
Tanker Secondary: Broadsword

I think there may be a slight chance of getting Archery/Trick Arrow for Corruptors, at least I know a few people who'd love that.

MM's are always difficult ones to pick for... Maybe Cold or Thermal?

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Or Archery/TA for Dominators, always feel thats what my pure archer is without the cool dominating powers.

Yea totally agree with the OP which why I'm still here after 42 months (my brains too asleep to convert this into years...3 years and 6 months...it woke up). In this time I too have tried various MMORPG's and none hook me as much as CoX SWG when down the pan and was too much grind for me, WoW pretty much the same and just didn't like it, Lineage 2 left me lost and just plain bored and everything else I can't remember didn't do anything for me. I have just started playing GW again and quite enjoying it but think that'll whine in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to WAR but the samething will probably happen, I log in and go "oooh thats cool...thats nice" make a couple of toons and then get bored and go back to CoX.

It has since day 1 fitted me like a glove, even with the additions of PvP (Meh) and inventions (which I enjoy - to my own person shock). As I've said over and over again I just love the costume designer, powers and just the freedom of being able to make/do what I want. I can wear something that suits my toon and looks good rather than having to worry about it not being as good as another piece of equipment or whether or not it'll break in my next mission.

CoX FTW!

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But yes.. GhostRaptor.. could you give us a hint on when you can tell us? please? With Sugar on top.

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Before I leave the office

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And what time does one normally leave one's announcement-filled office?

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Normally? 6pm. Today? Depends on when the announcement is ready to go up .

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I think it's ready now.....Yep I just called it and it defo said it'll be ready now