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Okay, then quit having an inferiority complex (read: I'm not calling you inferior, but quite the other way around). These are the only answers you're going to get. If a dev wanted to answer your question, they would have already. The only response plausible is Mod8 posting "All good answers... nice job boys and girls, really, but all of them are wrong. Thread locked."

This is my own speculation, this is not truth, grain of salt, people:

/conspiracy_nutjob_mode 1

But perhaps the people who got into Dual Pistols closed beta are the loyalty program customers, and that theoretically since the Going Rogue expansion has Dual Pistols (people who have not preordered GR do not get them until they get preorder, or until they get it upon release, so this is still true), the terms of the program are therefore met and everyone who are in Betas going forward would be Loyalty players who did their job in Dual Pistols CB, Veterans, and Family/Friends only going forward. This way, people who are not useful in feedback are pulled out of the pool early and the devs get the people they need covering the important parts.

And let me reinforce that I am not trying to "deride" you in a single sentence: I was in that Closed Beta. I'm not in this one, don't expect to be in any others. If I'm calling your beta feedback useless, I would commit myself to the same qualification. You and I got a taste, the rest of the new hotness is not for us.

/conspiracy_nutjob_mode 0

Again, my own speculation. It's flawed as heck, (would discourage loyalty programs in the future, harkens back to the "Days of Emmert": say one thing and deliver something else, and I'm a little nuts myself, not to mention this would be really frakkin' mean) but let's face it:

Go to any MMO forum and tell me there's no correlation between the current socioeconomic conditions and the negative feedback right now. (Not saying forums are rainbows and lollypops, but as Roger from American Dad put it... "Everyone's ****ed right now. These are weird times.") People are just jerks right now, to each other, to companies, to the government, and vice versa all around.

It comes with the territory. Have a drink and sit back.

War Witch said in an interview that Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning are a part of GR Preorder but are NOT the only new powersets coming in Going Rogue. No further details were given... guessing it'll remain a surprise until the GR beta comes later this year. Speculation is anywhere from Electric Control (rumored to be post I17), to another dose of Power Proliferation.

No specific date for release is available, probably won't be until we're within three months of July itself. Before July 4th would be extremely wise considering the playerbase... the only three day weekend in Summer if it's anything like the last two years, reduced box office sales, gas prices rising after May prohibiting casual travel, hot and stuck at home = BANK.

Source: http://www.massiveonlinegamer.com/ne...at-going-rogue

This interview is fairly recent. Maybe they didn't plan on that at the time of HeroCon?

True... Even with the extra patches, 2 or 3 at 10-40 MB a piece is better than 5 totalling over a GB.

If you never get into the beta, you can still update your test client anyway. Use BillZBubba's Test Guide to copy the test client as a backup, then copy it in place of your in-game install to speed up the process once UM goes live. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...illzbubba+test

The only difference between the test client and live is that the test client gets more patches in a more fragmented state. If you download all of them and wait for the test client to go live with it's current version, there's no difference between the two.

Splitting hairs... it's something this community does well.

My turn: One of the reasons you don't get all 1024 MB out of a hard drive gigabyte is the formatting. The File Access Table (in Windows... MAC and Linux use a different setup, but the purpose and end result is the same) uses up a small percentage of each and every GB of your HDD Space for it's index. Otherwise, a hard drive would have to spin from the inside out to find your data (Nerds, remember the days of the Commodore 64/TRS 80 and the cassette tape drive? They sucked as "state of the art", even then.) Mathematics aside, it doesn't matter what an exact GB is or isn't, you'll only enjoy 99% of it.

Considering Bill's quote, and that you're running a GTX versus a GTS, I'd say yes. The chipset would need to be checked... what's the model and part number of your card? (If it's a G92, then a definite yes. If it's a G90, it would use it, but at the reduced settings.)

Positron's shopping guide may be of use to you. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=200245 Bearing the following in mind:

-- Processor isn't king anymore, but is still a significant factor.
-- Memory (Capacity, Timing, Speed), Bus Speed (MT's per second), and Hard Drive Speed/Connection (SATA is faster than older PATA, and will greatly reduce load times/swap file seek times) are also bottlenecks to look at.
-- Laptops equipped with these models of video cards will always be slightly slower than their desktop counterparts for two reasons: voltage is overall less available than the desktop, and heat dissipation. They will work and work well, but not the same as your desktop with the same card.

Yeah, there's that, but the problem of late is a bit more complicated than "push out tha n00bs".

I think the general fatigue is showing in the playerbase such that people are tired of meeting new folks with exception for players that are really competant right off the bat, unique personalities, etc... those who are interesting will never find a problem with finding friends, but not everyone is. Being nice or mature isn't enough anymore. Most groups I find just want to keep the circles they have left. Not saying it's right or it's wrong, it's just what's happening.

For example: If everyone knows somebody in the game and they say "I have a problem with X", there's a genuine dialog. And understandably so, they put in the time, they deserve to be heard. However, if nobody knows who someone is (say me, for example) and I ask about the same problem, using the same verbiage, I get responses telling me to "love it or leave it", "quit whining and play", "tl;dr" even if it's one sentence long or I'm simply ignored. I don't have to act out; there's plenty out there with more vet badges or a higher post count who will do it for me.

I didn't have such an issue with problem X, nor was I that upset with it to begin with, that I was considering quitting over it. But the kneejerk reaction is enough for me not to ask the community anything to begin with. And the less people I associate with... well, you can guess where I'm leading.

If the problem is me, then don't worry, my subscription ends tomorrow and it's a problem that will solve itself. I will return for Going Rogue, but if I run through the content and come back to the same point, I'll make an even harder decision. I love this game. I wouldn't have paid $300 to have a broadband radio antenna installed at my house in the middle of Farmtown America if I didn't like playing it. I want to find a group who likes it too, but the distrust of strangers is becoming more and more of a problem for me. Sure, nobody here owes me anything. But then again, neither do I owe anyone.

/QQ off

But my little rant is a bit off topic. Developers can't do anything to fix this problem, so I'd offer the following:

-- I keep reading about AE exploit after exploit being made, the exploit getting patched, then people who made the mission/used them complain and stop playing it except for those interesting in writing stories. I remember reading before the Mission Architect that there would be no XP in missions, and I was fine with that, but since the cat is out of the bag, eliminating XP from AE missions would do more harm than good.

But let's face it, there's no secret which group the devs side with: drop XP rewards in the AE 25% across the board for levels 1-25, and 50% from 26-50 so that regular gameplay is more or equally useful for levelling than the Mission Architect is no matter how the combinations are made. (You can always write an easy mission. Even if you do, playing a regular one provides more benefit XP wise.) This way there's still incentive to play Architect Missions (influence unaffected, tickets still let you buy stuff you can't get directly any other way), and power-levelling is contained with no further concern.

I don't expect many people to take favor with this suggestion, since it's a nerf... but I'm making it all the same.

-- I use a laptop computer that I dock at home, and the at-home monitor I use is a different resolution than my laptop LCD, and what's more: a different aspect ratio. I would like the ability to change video options outside of "in-game" before I launch the client, so I don't have to start the client, go to 800x600 mode, sign in, change the resolution, sign out, sign in again, restore the Window Locations of my HUD items*, and then play. If I make bad choices the client won't support, fine, kick me into 800x600, but if I know what I'm doing, this would save 5 minutes of playtime per day for me.

-- On that asterisked note, the game only saves ONE preset of Window Locations for whatever resolution you're on. I find myself having to shuffle windows between monitors of different Aspect Ratios. While I don't expect the game to automatically try to handle this, I hope in the future that more than one preset file is available, or a file that recognizes presets made at one resolution and keeps it separate from another one of a different resolution.

-- Costumes: there are way too many similar belts. Your choices are basically leather, studded, or spikey. (With a few exceptions.) Make animated ones (power belt with rotating light/pattern effects, belts that have moving clamps or gears when you use a travel power, moving tails are a great move forward, BTW), ones for body-type specific use (female only: flowers, rings, lace, etc., enormous only: tire radial, duct tape, airline cables, boat chain, etc.)