TerraDraconis

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FREE SALLY FREE SALLY!

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With purchase of one Tibet.

I'll just assume the OP got some H3AL3R H8 and ranted about that. Makes for a satisfying assumption anyway.

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You're right. Perhaps I should have said "Just like they said City of Heroes and City of Villains would remain separate games" instead.

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Actually they were always considered one game with 2 separate subscriptions by the devs. COV was even called and expanshalone by the devs indicating that it was both and expansion and that you could play just it as a subscription game.

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Thanks for the answers, all.
I've been eagerly awaiting this since I've heard about it. I hope it takes the form of some trial that I can take my main through. It would also be nice if Incarnates have some reasonable chances to solo AVs and giant monsters.

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Well-built ordinary toons can already solo AVs and some giant monsters.

I have a feeling the devs are never going to make them obviously overpowered. They've already said that the level cap will never be raised.

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They also said there would never be power customization or side switching

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Um, no. Power customization, for instance, was a wishlist item that they didn't have the time or resources to do (without cutting off any other updates for a year or so) back when they had just the 15 folks or so.

We've had it from Castle (as I recall) that they won't raise the cap, but give alternate ways to improve high level characters. Level cap raising is just more number-chasing (while breaking other things or seriously devaluing them - see Titan Shard enhancement.)

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Correct. As a matter of fact if you look closely at COV they started to try and do power customization while developing COV and backed off when they realized just how much resources it would take. You can spot the fact that they dabbled in the idea when you look at powers such as electric armor. Sometimes the red lightning that crawls across you is grey instead of red indicating that they did the animation in greyscale then colored it on the player end.

The problem was that it would have taken so much time and resources to reanimate all of the powers they couldn't do it at the time. NC/NC now Paragon Studios hired a huge extra number of staff and it is clear that one of the early tasks they set them on was reanimating every power rendered in greyscale. This was probably a good way to learn the animation system as well as get this work done.

So power customization was never something the devs didn't want to do. Instead it was something they simply didn't have the time or manpower to do before now. Side switching was also actively pursued from COV beta until techical issues in Issue 7 side lined it. during that period the actively talked about it and discussed their plans to introduce it.

Now Incarnates have never been more than a pipe dream. Beyond mentioning them in an interview they only exist as an explanation for Statesman and Lord Recluse.

Hell players can't even agree what an incarnate would consist of. And if the players can't agree what makes you think the devs can agree how to do them. Frankly they are one of the last things I want to see released. I want to see the Corolax and Blood of the Black Stream both of which are listed EATs that have never been delivered before I want to see an "incarnate" EAT.

The whole thing is just pretty much massive fun. I'm sorry it isn't fun for you.

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Heh, I'm afraid that yours is one of the avatar's I have to hit escape to stop the animation from playing. Thankfully IE and Firefox both will suspend playing animated gif's when you hit the escape key.


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And today I learnt something useful

Thanks.

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No problem and sorry about your avatar. I think it the speed it moves. seeing it out of the edge of my eye when I'm trying to read is distracting. The basic avatar is cool. Having it going while I'm trying to read was sadly distracting. Which is a shame. That is why I tend to us the esc key rather than blocking avatars though. I can still see the cool avatar's and stop them then so they aren't distracting.

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First off, your Avatar is extremely irritating.
Maybe that's the point.
It is so annoying that I had to cover it up in order to read your post. I won't be doing this again if I come across this same Avatar again.


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Mozilla add on - "Adblock Plus." Right click image, add to filter - no more avatar. Something similar probably exists for IE. Far more fine-grained than the built in "block entire site." You can block a specific image, specific directory (which would be the specific user in this case, as well,) etc.

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Why is he complaining about that avatar anyway? It's mine that everyone seems to complain about.

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Heh, I'm afraid that yours is one of the avatar's I have to hit escape to stop the animation from playing. Thankfully IE and Firefox both will suspend playing animated gif's when you hit the escape key.

Oh by the way it isn't that your avatar is horrible or anything but something about the movement just bothers me and so I wind up using the escape key.

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Go ahead and link us a local theater where you're not paying less than $9-10 for normal adult tickets that isn't a 2nd-run theater.

I'd like to move there, if that reflects general prices.

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Local Theater in town.


Admission Prices

General Admission - $8.50
Children - $6.50
(3 - 11)

Senior Citizens - $6.50
(62 and over)

Bargain Matinees - $6.50
(all shows starting before 6:00 pm daily)

Copied it right off of their website. And this is in California.

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nah I mean, now you don't even need a team to farm, AE or not.

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Good this means the farms don't have to collect a team of sidekicks to farm. They can do it solo. It will reduce the farming actually as a lot of "farmers" will run solo to maximize what they get.

What you mean you can't sneak up behind someone with a large sword the size cloud carries?

I think I remember a dev answer of No. They shelved it forever.

Of course that could be like they shelved power customization and switching sides. Two things we will never see in the game.

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voilaitons? Do I even want to know what a voilaiton is? On reflection I'm pretty certain I don't.

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You're lucky. I had an aneurysm and died when I read "reguatlaitons of consuimer rights".

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I was trying to ignore that I saw that the Voilaitons are going to be beging NC Soft. I think I could completely drunk by making a drinking game and taking a shot of Irish Mist every once for every spelling error in that sig.

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I hesitate to guess how many shots you'd have to drink if you tried that with one of his complete posts.

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I predict that anyone attempting that would either pass out or be dead by the end of the post.

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voilaitons? Do I even want to know what a voilaiton is? On reflection I'm pretty certain I don't.

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You're lucky. I had an aneurysm and died when I read "reguatlaitons of consuimer rights".

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I was trying to ignore that I saw that the Voilaitons are going to be beging NC Soft. I think I could completely drunk by making a drinking game and taking a shot of Irish Mist every once for every spelling error in that sig.

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i like CoX

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COX is awesome with IO's for your ED.

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How about powerset color customization? Or a morality system?

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You know maybe they should add a couple of new power sets too. Perhaps pistols and demon summoning. Nah ... on reflection why would they do a crazy thing like that.

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Who?

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Pikabko

<ul type="square">[*]Was upset his petitions about the fact that Elite Bosses, which are only to spawn in TFs, kept spawning in his missions, were closed without being fixed.[*]Stated that since he paid them money every month, was entitled to order NCSoft and it's staff around.[*]Accused NCSoft of needing to take English lessons despite the fact the least of HIS (pikabko's) problems was being unable to find the Enter/Return key.[*]Required several levels of translations.[*]Had at least one person remark "I didn't realize stupid was a communicable disease"[*]Liked to cross- or multi-post[*]Never once responded to those who responded to him.[*]Almost forgot this one - apparently believed one should be able to make all their basic living expenses for the month in mere days or something. Mentioned he should not have to pay to play since he already had/has to for his house, computer, internet connection, and the game account.[/list]
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You forgot that:

He changed his forum name to voidaccount.

He claimed in his Sig that:

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I am voiding my account due to reguatlaitons of consuimer rights. Voilaitons of sevel charges is beging made against NC soft

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And finally all but one of his 57 posts have been deleted. The only one remaining is from 2007. You can still read his sig there.

I think Ron White had pikabko/voidaccount in mind when he said, "You can't fix stupid."

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voilaitons? Do I even want to know what a voilaiton is? On reflection I'm pretty certain I don't.

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When the same situation came about because of the winter lords, they changed it in a skinny minute. They really need to remove the capacity to make all boss or all Lt. instances. I am sure that would take a big bite out of the level 1-50 in 8 hours trade we have so abundantly now. This will really wreck the game for incoming players, just as the OP said. Did these die hard defenders of the current situation not see this coming. It will be happening all over. Level 1-50, then....."I'm bored with these AE missions. I quit this game." AE is all they know. They get sucked into AE from day one by the agressive recruiters in AP and figure that is the game.

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Actually they didn't. It took a very very long time for them to react to and do something about the winter lords.

It will let you see a view of what positron is looking at that very moment. The positron in Steel Canyon.

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Frak me. Another AE Doom thread?!

IBTD +1

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No if you had bothered to read it you would realize it wasn't a doom thread.

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I did read it. It's another "ZOMG fraking AE PLing... blah blah blah."

One of a gazillion threads of AE DOOOOM.

Start your own normal team, avoid AE and AE noobs, and carry on.

IBTD +2

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Nope that isn't what this thread is about. That tells me you didn't bother to actually read it. ::snort:: hoist by your own biases I see.

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I'm sorry, but I don't get people like that. Don't they read? Didn't they do the tutorial that explained how contacts work, how enhancements and combining enhancements work, and all that?

If they didn't, then it's on their own heads; the MA has nothing to do with that. The normal content is not hidden. If one does the tutorial, it's all pretty obvious.

There comes a point when personal responsibility and taking the time to actually see what the game does comes into play.

And do we really need yet another thread on this topic? What's wrong with the other "New player experience" thread that is already hashing over just this?

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They see the endless broadcasts in Atlas for teams forming and join them. Getting sucked into AE farms where they level fast and have no clue how the game works. ::sigh::

Best solution isn't removing the AE but instead removing it from Atlas, Galaxy, Kings row, Mercy, and Port Oaks. And having the auto contact to the AE bumped up to happen around level 15 - 20. That way those who want to can still make their way to an AE to play but it doesn't automatically suck new players in until they have learned there is more to the game.

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Making the low level missions less crappy would help, too.

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I have no clue what your talking about. I regularly do the low level missions on every character.

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Frak me. Another AE Doom thread?!

IBTD +1

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No if you had bothered to read it you would realize it wasn't a doom thread.

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Are you serious? He was six 2 days ago...and he's posting pics of a 50 he made in two days?

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Umm, hello..... It isn't hard to level 1 - 50 in a just a few days running AE PL missions. he wouldn't even have needed to know what was happening to do it.

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How about if you don't do IO's at all, and use the game like it was initially designed? The game can be much more challenging then.

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No no they want more challenging. I propose they remove all of their enhancements and run on the highest difficulty. That should be more challenging.

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AE buildings out of Atlas, Galaxy and King's Row, yesterday.

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To say I'm shocked is an understatement. But I'm shocked to say I completely 100% absolutely agree with Bad_Influence.