SwellGuy

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I'm just fooling around

Seriously, though - I can't wait for Going Rogue, when I will hopefully get BIGGER PISTOLS for my Blaster. I know Zombra is somewhere right now, laughing at me, but I do!

Originally Posted by beyeajus74018

we can color our powers now.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Well, he was a permanent fixture on tyrant's wall before then - although he was still pretty inert

Originally Posted by Nitra

for the record there are plenty of people that have level 50 toons that have never gotten pled and still have no clue how to play their toon.

Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay

More people need to give Marcian props.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

They pretty much hit the nail on the head, except for that hilarious part about the "marked lack of whining".


=P

Originally Posted by Postagulous

I used to beta test for PS2 games. It sucked. Twisted Metal Black Online was OK. But ugh, most games blow and even fun ones you feel you're doing work, because you are, under some misguided idea that getting to play the next Ratchet and Clank [which I missed out on] six months early while it's buggy as hell will be fun.

But this may be totally different.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Atlas Park is the heart and soul of the whole game

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I wonder if enough Western themed avatars being created would cause the devs to make a Western themed zone?

Originally Posted by Drugfree Boy

Is Champions Online really still around?

Originally Posted by Chuckers

Has anyone gotten Mikey The Ear as their Broker in Port Oakes lately? I think I got him once since the villains started and in the 30 or so villains I have created since, I always get Drea the Hook.

For some reason, I HATE Drea.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Jack wasn't opposed to respec per se. He believed in limited, infrequent respec because he believed respecification had the potential to dilute the value of the character into being just a container of powers that could be shuffled around. He wasn't wrong on that account. However, with the strength of the costume editor, character identification became much more strongly associated with character appearance than with character ability, something that was difficult to foresee in City of Heroes playerbase evolution.

The problem I think is that we have a range of powers options, starting with archetype selection, ranging through powerset selection, power selection, and then slot allocation, and then enhancement slotting. Making the invariant threshold slot allocation was too far down the tree: it left only enhancement slotting as the method for "playing around" with a build.

Ironically, the original concept for City of Heroes was that what we call the powerset was supposed to be our *powers* and what we call powers was supposed to be variations of that single power. So my power would be "Fire Blast" and things like Fireball and Flares would just be different "skills" I would learn in terms of how to use Fire Blast. Under that conceptualization, powers should really have been more easy to swap around at the beginning of time, because they are really just "tricks" to using the one true power: Fire Blast.

In this sort of game, you have to decide which decisions are more or less permanent and which are optional and reversible, because some decisions should have permanent consequences, and some should have temporary consequences that the player should be able to react to by changing things. That balances those two game play avenues. In retrospect, Jack had the right idea in general but went too extreme with it.

And once again, even this decision had a possible way out: if enhancements were stronger and more diverse, so that their decision weight could counter-balance archetype, powerset, power, and slot allocation decisions, then this could still have been reasonable. But that would require an even stronger invention system than we have now, and the game launched without crafting.

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

People don't usually farm AE for stuff, they farm it for levels. And you can't get purples no matter where you farm when you're level 5.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

The problem with Jack is two-fold.

One the one hand, a lot of people felt that he lied to them. I never quite understood how and why, as apparently I missed something, but that was a large part of it. There was something about how he promised no more major changes shortly before instituting ED that had people in a furor, but I'm not as easily excitable, so I honestly don't know. There's a LOT of that.

Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn

Come to Pinnacle!







Bring beer.

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

One PlayNC store purchase per credit card per day. So you either need to give it a different credit card, or wait until tomorrow.