TerraDraconis

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Without being overly negative, what possible downsides does this deal have?

* Some staff may be unwilling or unable to move to the new office.
* NC Soft bigwigs may usurp more creative control than is healthy for the long-run of the game.
* A true sequel may be released, making upkeep and new content for the original a lower priority.

Anybody else think of anything? Will my purely hypothetical guesses be debunked?

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I think a sequel is basically inevitable now. But I don't think the original game will be given lower priority.

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Exactly, EQ and EQ2 come to mind. EQ is still going strong.

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The entire current team of COH/COV has signed on with NCsoft and we will be continuing our schedule of 3 free issues per year, as well as some other great goodies as we grow the team and IP.

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Ah, if I'm following this, NCSoft bought the rights to COX from Cryptic and offered to set up the current COX team in Northern California to continue development. And if I'm reading what your saying, the current team did choose to take the offer and move from Cryptic to the new unnamed studio?

I hope we hear more about this, such moves are always a bit nerve wracking for everyone from the staff to the customers.

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The second one was a Warshade with the 36 month Vet badge. We came out of the first mission of the TF and he speaks up in chat "So is that all there is to the TF?" <chills down the spine> I had to send a tell to the team leader (friend of mine) and ask if I'd read that right. No, we reply, that was the first of many. Someone asks "You've been playing for three years and you've never done a TF?" "Oh I have, but it's been a while." Uh-hunh, right.



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I've been playing since 2 weeks after the game launched. I've never finished a single TF. I have done 1 trial in that time.

Lets see I've started 1 positron, 3 TV's and that is pretty much it. The teams all broke up before finishing the TF's.

I do finally have a 50 so I have a warshade and peacebringer. Now I'll grant you that yes I know what is involved in a TF so you wouldn't hear me saying after the first mission something that daft. But in 3.5 years I've never finished even 1 TF.

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Ummmm . . . so what? I've been playing CoH since Beta and I don't always take the Fitness pool. Honestly, for one, it IS overrated in a lot of instances. For two, I can Endurance Reduction I/O, even at level 12 with level 15s, and work just fine. even on my own claws/dark scrapper.

This does not equal to an "Ebay Account".



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Out of alot of characters most of mine don't take or need fitness. That even applies to my mid 20's broadsword scrapper. I was surprised, I had expected to need to /respec him at 20 with a freespec to add it but I honestly haven't needed fitness once I started slotting SO's and now IO's.

So lack of the fitness pool doesn't indicate anything about the skill or lack of skill of a particular player.

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Whats this thread for?

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Dark_one to complain about how unfair it is that he isn't in beta because he never bothers to login to test.

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So actually playing on test more than once in a great while is a silly reason for being invited to closed beta? Giving concise, useful bug reports about what you encounter in the test server is a silly reason to beta test the game? Would you give someone a backstage pass to a concert if the person never bought one of their CD's or merchandise, if you had the choice to give it to someone else who would appreciate it?

Sorry. You have to show you want it before they give it to you. Asking nicely isn't good enough.

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None of which are the crap I'm talking about and none of which seem to have any bearing on who is selected for beta.

If "showing you want it" means having paid for X months ahead of time, then fine, that's how it seems to work.

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Sure it does, Lighthouse mentioned one of the selection factors was logging onto test recently. So from the two criteria he listed I expect it went something like this.

1. select a group from previous beta tests.
2. select additional players from the group of people who had recently logged onto test.

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Selection to be included in the closed beta test of Issue 11 is pretty straightforward. We have selected testers who were helpful with previous closed betas and also included accounts who had recently logged into the Training Room.



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Anyone else see the "Catch-22" in the above-mentioned quote?

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That you needed to login/play on test some in the couple of months?

Lighthouse stated in the first post what they are currently using to select closed beta testers.

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Well, let me put it this way:

If PWNZ goes away, every poster will probably go on a rampage with the express purpose of getting themselves banned. Read: not pleasant for the mods.

I doubt the forum will be going away.

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In the real world thats akin to blackmail

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I wasn't making a threat or something, that's just what would naturally happen.

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Then that speaks volumes about people posting there and is in itself a good reason for the forum to go away.

If the posters are that childish and undiciplined that they would think a rampage good then yes banning is the correct response.

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Notice how /signed and "yes" aren't on that list?
So they support one form of fluff but ban another?
That borders on hypocracy.

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... "borders on" ...? That's like saying Moscow "borders on" Russia ...! It is hypocrisy.

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Actually looking at the way Ex phrased it I expect taht /signed and yes are also on the mod list.

Note update for I11.

Thwaps GFN hard in an attempt to stun him.

No bringing other things into a fun thread. Just sit there and be stunned now....

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Hmm, don't think we've ever seen a pic of _Castle_...

<edited due to massive brain fartage>

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And if I can at all help it, you never will! Muahaha!

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That sounds like a challenge to Ex Libris. Better keep an eye out for her.

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It has been rather sparce of late. Maybe our topics aren't interesting enough to draw Dev attention.

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Quite is usually a sign the devs are working hard on something. In this case I suspect preparations for I11 beta.

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Someone asks "You've been playing for three years and you've never done a TF?"

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Me... I've been on 3 failed respect trials not because I wanted the respect just because I got invited, 1 successful cavern of trancendance and about 3 missions into a positron before it broke up. Thats in 3 years 3 months.

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Okay. In my year and a half I haven't done many myself... But after three years you know what a Task Force is, right? Therein lies the give-away.

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Well yes I will confess to knowing what a TF is, I'll even admit I wouldn't mind doing some. It is just that I usually get the invite to them about 10 minutes before I have to log off for the night.

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Someone asks "You've been playing for three years and you've never done a TF?"

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Me... I've been on 3 failed respect trials not because I wanted the respect just because I got invited, 1 successful cavern of trancendance and about 3 missions into a positron before it broke up. Thats in 3 years 3 months.

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Will characters under level 35 be able to enjoy this content or do we have to run for stores when the aliens attack Atlas?

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Yes the invading Rikti use the giant monster code so they adjust to whomever is fighting them. This means that even a low level character has a chance to contribute and participate in a fight.

Additionally during an invasion debt is turned off in the zone so even if you die repeatedly you will not have to suffer debt for it.

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Hopefully the return of the 5th (and hopefully the Reichsman as well) is still in the cards.

Regardless, Issue 10 is a winner!

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Oh I exepect that their return is but I'm glad they made I10 the Rikti not the 5th. The rikti make a more belivable group to co-operatively fight than does the 5th. I can see both sides fighting them but I can't see them unifying Heroes and Villains to fight together against them.

Oh cool, you inspired me to look again and I just realized that is my mastermind Delgardo front and center at the Mercy Island Hospital at 39 seconds. That is him standing just behind and to the right of his triage beacon. Those are his caltrops out there and his troops are to his immediate right. One of them shooting straight into the camera. Whoo hoo.

Anyway for those interested that is the level 18 Merc/Traps MM I was testing the invasion with.

Oh even more cool and he is there again at 48 seconds.

I was happy with this video before but this is nifty seeing myself in it.

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Is it just me or only "Fan Boy" Types excited over the i10 expansion?

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If you've ever read any of the large number of posts wherein I am highly critical of a number of decisions the devs have made you'll quickly come to the conclusion that I am not a dev "fan boy."

And I am excited about Issue 10.

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Pardon me I'm going to roll over on the floor and laugh at the concept of PF as a fan boy....

Yes they must con at least green to you. And I can confirm that the lowest level I've seen invention salvage start dropping was level 3 from a +1 lieutenant.

Ack, to be clear that is slotted in the same power. You can have two different powers slotted with the devistations set.

No, if you already have a Devistation: Acc/Dam slotted then you can't slot a second Devistation:Acc/Dam. But you could slot a Mako's Bite:Acc/Dam.

Actually you can slot the set more than 5 times but the set bonuses only stack 5 times so your better off using a different set after the 5th one.

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Ok, let me see if I have this right. If I want to memorize the 25 - 30 range Accuracy Enhancements. I need to make 5 of the level 25 and 5 of the level 30? Do I need to make 10 of both? And that will give me the badge and memorize both Accuracy and To Hit Buffs for that level range?


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Yes your reading that correctly, though checking Paragon Wiki I see that the 25 - 30 Lt. Colonel badge takes 18 recipes to learn. So you need to craft 8 level 25 and 8 level 30 Accuracy or To Hit Buff IOs. You can actually mix and match the two types of IOs to count for the badge.